In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an (219), that is, in early February of the seventh year of Chenhe, the Chenhe army went down to Ireland with lightning speed, and then went down to Edinburgh City three days later, completely destroying the republican and religious forces of Quart.

In the second half of the year, with Lu Dazhi as the commander of the navy and Huang Jie as the commander of the 6th Army, they attacked from two directions, and by 20 February, the army had blocked the British Channel, uprooted the three major ports, and the 6th Army was approaching Yorktown, an important town in the northern part of the Republic of Paloster.

The city of York was founded in 71 AD as a fortress built by the Romans to defend against the Celts, and the city was surrounded by medieval walls. It has a five-kilometre-long square wall.

The loss of York would mean the fall of the northern part of the Paloster Kingdom.

Paloster convened an emergency military meeting and rushed the entire northern army to Yorktown, and by the time the Yellow Shot arrived on 20 February, 100,000 troops had been assembled, of which 20,000 were police officers.

Faced with the stone-built castle, Huang Jian pondered and meditated, but could not think of a solution to it.

"Yuan didn't leave any strategy, but how can we break this city?" Huang Jie asked several of his generals, including Lu Yang, Cheng Shi and Sun Shao.

Sun Shao said: "Our army has captured several cities with a surprise attack strategy, all of which are under the condition that the enemy is defenseless. But now in the face of the fortified city, our Chenhe army did not bring large siege weapons, there were no fortress artillery vehicles, no long-range artillery, only some mortars, the firing range was only four or five hundred meters, if it was a hard attack, I am afraid that it would lose soldiers. ”

Huang Zhu nodded and said, "That's what I'm worried about. The opponent has artillery, the range of which is already higher than that of mortars, and the range of our rifles is on par with that of our rifles. ”

When Huang Jian said this, the others also knew the difficulty, and they all shook their heads and said nothing.

"Good! Speaking of this for today, you will first go back to the camp to rest, and tomorrow morning at nine o'clock the military meeting will be held, and you will go back and think about it, and see what feasible measures can be made to break through this strong fortress. ”

However, he said that Cheng Zhi returned to the barracks in a depressed manner and held a military meeting within the regiment.

"Everyone! A military meeting was held today, and the commander had a word, if anyone can come up with a strategy to break the enemy and not damage the officers and men of our army, he will apply for a gold medal from Yuan! ”

Behind him hung a huge topographic map of York City and the surrounding towns.

Needless to say, the gold medal is such a terrifying thing, basically the gold medal has been obtained, and now in the Chenhe Army, at least the chief of staff or deputy commander level, this kind of person is at least the rank of lieutenant general.

Cheng Zhi looked at the three battalion commanders under him, as well as several deputy battalion commanders and staff officers, with a look of hope in his eyes.

He also hopes to have this credit.

But he was disappointed.

Everyone was whispering and discussing the horror of this gold medal, except for one person, but this person did not give an opinion, but looked at the map behind him in a daze, as if he was a demon.

This person's name is Deng Ai, the commander of the first battalion, and the word is carried by the sergeant!

Cheng Zhi didn't know how fierce Deng Ai was, which was why Yang Xi didn't come to York City.

Paloster himself does not come to York City, Yang Xi does not use, one of them, and more importantly, Yang Xi needs the growth of a general, and this person is Deng Ai.

Step by step, he can't afford to wait.

He needed to release this person's energy in advance.

Let's talk about Deng Ai now.

Deng Ai is thirty-two at this time, which is very young, but his talent is not in his age.

Deng Ai's most terrifying record was to resist the famous general Jiang Weili of Shu for many years, and finally took advantage of the main force of the two armies to lead the division to surprise the troops, carry out a large depth and detour, bypass the frontal defense of the Shu army, and directly attack the Shu capital Chengdu, creating a famous surprise attack in the history of Chinese warfare, defeating Shu and Zhuge Liang for decades.

Later, in the first year of Tang Suzong, Jiang Shang, the founder of the Western Zhou Dynasty, was posthumously crowned as the king of Wucheng, and the edict ordered the capital and various states to set up Taigong Temple, and Zhang Liang, Han Xin, Bai Qi and other seventy-two famous ministers of the past dynasties and famous generals enjoyed Jiang Shang on both sides. Later, after the addition and deletion of the king, there were sixty-four left, called "sixty-four generals of Wucheng Wang Temple", and Deng Ai was in the right column.

These sixty-four generals can have a big background, the original seventy-two uncut people, the first gear is Zhang Liang alone, the second gear has Guan Zhong, Sun Wu, Le Yi, Zhuge Liang, Li Tao and westward, Tian Suitho, Fan Li, Han Xin, Li Jing, Guo Ziyi and eastward.

In the third gear, there is the name of Deng Ai, Bai Qi, Sun Bin, Lian Po, Li Mu, Zhou Bo, Li Guang, Huo Quzhi, Huangfu Song, Zhang Fei, Lu Meng and others are in the same row as Deng Ai.

As for Wu Qi, Tian Dan, Zhao Hao, Wang Qian, Peng Yue, Zhou Yafu, Wei Qing, Zhang Liao, Guan Yu, Zhou Yu, 6 Xun and others were all ranked in the fourth gear.

Of course, this stall is very inappropriate, and judging from the historical materials of later generations, it is basically not recognized. But Deng Aineng is among them, and the ranking is not low, and after being reduced to 64 people, he is still among them, which shows his strength.

Let's say that Deng Ai carefully studied the map of York City, and in the past few days, Deng Ai habitually surveyed the terrain, so gradually, two big rivers slowly flashed from his mind.

The city of York was built at the confluence of the rivers Forth and Uss, on the banks of the rivers Uss.

The River Forth is one of the bigger rivers!

"Captain! I have a plan to take York City with my army! Suddenly, the whispering crowd in the field was awakened by Deng Ai.

"You say!" Cheng Zhi was a little excited.

"Flooding the city, a plan to exhaust the soldiers, this is a serial plan!"

"Flooded city? I've thought about this, but you know, York City is located on flat land, and there are two rivers dredging, and there is an underwater system like Chenhe City, which is very convenient for drainage, how to flood? ”

Everyone has thought of this plan, in the early years when Cao Cao was flooded, some people had already thought about that war case.

Deng Ai said: "Regiment Commander, the flooding of York City is not to flood it for two or three months, in fact, my Chenhe Army only needs to flood York City for one day, and only need the big water to flow through the city, then this matter will be done." As for the drainage problem, it can be blocked at the drainage outlet of the Wusi River, when the water enters the city, it wants to flow out, which is not as strong as the upstream water, and the mountains and seas are overwhelming! ”

"What's the use of drowning it for a day?" Cheng asked again.

"The city of York was able to hold back the army of our Chenhe River, not because of its walls, not because of its large number of people, but because of the artillery and muskets in its city. However, all the power of its weapons is gunpowder, if the water overflows the city wall, its gunpowder will inevitably be soaked, at least it will be damp, and its artillery will be dumb, and our Chenhe army can drive straight into it at that time, and there will be no hindrance! After a day of soaking, I still have a tired plan, and I can easily take the city! ”

After hearing the great joy, Cheng Zhi immediately led Deng Ai to the headquarters of Huang Shot.

After discussing with several regimental generals, Huang Jie decided to take Deng Ai's plan, and Deng Ai suggested that the nearby people should not be raised, so Huang Jie ordered people to capture 30,000 strong men, and chose a favorable location to dig the river bank overnight. He also ordered sandbags to be brought in to block the Yorktown drain.

On 25 February, the crucial battle of Great Britain began. At the same time, thousands of kilometers of railway tracks stretching from the Western Regions to Daxianbei County were also opened to traffic.

The Western Liao Railway, which cost 500,000 troops and hundreds of thousands of people, finally opened the main artery from the Western Regions to Liaohe City.

This road was built in October of the fifth year of Chenhe, that is, in the golden autumn of the 22nd year of Jian'an, starting from the city of the Great Western Regions of the Tarim Basin in the west, to the Daxianbei County of Liaoshui in the east, spanning a straight line distance of 4,000 kilometers, and there are more than 300 intermediate stations.

This is the miracle of Chenhedu, such a long railroad track, even walking, it takes ten months to walk from beginning to end, but millions of manpower plus thousands of trucks, tractors at the same time, after all, it only took a year and a half to complete the project.

This road cost one-third of the annual fiscal revenue of the Chenhe Kingdom, but the significance it brought is difficult to estimate in monetary terms.

(End of chapter)