Chapter 288: Serial Fortress, Serial Defense!
"Boy, are you going to rebuild Shuofang City with cement?" Hearing Zhang Yi say this, Niu Jinda's brows couldn't help frowning, and after thinking about it for a while, he spoke: "The weight of Shuo Fang is naturally not to be missed!" But.... Let's not talk about whether we can get so many materials to burn your cement, the most important thing is that Shuofang City is too big, we only have more than 7,000 people in our hands, and we still need some people to defend and transport grain, and the rest of the people will definitely not exceed 4,000 people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
These 4,000 old men originally wanted to send 500 people for your current use, and the rest of them simply repaired the wall of the north gate, after all, the garbage heap over there was a trouble. Yesterday, Xue Wanqian found the old man, saying that if he didn't deal with it urgently, he might be worried about the plague!
Once the plague breaks out, the consequences are unimaginable! ”
Niu Jinda's meaning is very clear, it is not that he is unwilling to send more people to burn cement, but that he does not have extra manpower in his hands. As he said, Shuofang City must have a certain number of soldiers patrolling and walking out to act as scouts. Not only that, but the management of the city and the defense of the city all require manpower.
Moreover, it is necessary to divide a part of the grain to be transported, and it is necessary to send another part of the sergeants to escort it, and this manpower has gone to a large part, and the remaining four thousand usable people seem to be the result of careful calculation.
However, even the remaining 4,000 people still need to solve the problem of garbage, as well as repair the wall of the north gate to prevent the plague caused by the decay of garbage and the collapse of the wall of the north gate due to the lack of foundation stones after the garbage is removed.
Obviously, these two tasks need to be carried out together, so 3,500 people to deal with this matter is really not much!
"It's not going to be rebuilt!" Zhang Yi shook his head, a smile appeared on his face, and he patted his chest with confidence. He said resolutely: "But I'm going to put on a coat for Shuofang City!" ”
As he spoke, Zhang Yi pointed to the wall of Shuofang City and said: "I want to know more than the general, although this Shuofang City is said to be a city with thick walls, it is only made of rammed earth after all, and it has been dilapidated with hundreds of years of wind and rain, and the fracture of the north gate is the result of wind and sand erosion!" ”
"Not bad! That's what I'm worried about too! Xue Wanqian also sighed and said: "In recent years, in fact, the walls of Shuofang City have broken in no less than fifteen places during the time I have been defending Shuofang, and in the end, it has this appearance after being renovated!"
The north gate is so big and so large that I have to treat it as a garbage counterpart......"
"Hey, it's because there are too few people!" Niu Jinda also understood Xue Wanren's approach very well, and affirmed at the moment: "It is your credit that the two thousand people can defend Shuofang without losing it!" What does a big man's mother-in-law look like? Although there is something wrong with this garbage piled up at the north gate, but fortunately, our luck is not bad, and nothing unacceptable happened, so you don't have to blame yourself! ”
"Boy, do you want to rebuild the city or just repair it?" Niu Jinda looked at Zhang Yi again, because he didn't understand what Zhang Yi meant after talking for a long time, so he asked again.
"It's naturally impossible to build a new one!" Zhang Yi said: "Not to mention that we don't have enough manpower, and the firing of cement, bricks, sand and gravel are also big problems, so it is impossible to rebuild on the original foundation, but the kid wants to put on a new dress for Shuofang City, I don't know what the general wants?" ”
While speaking, Zhang Yi gestured: "As we said and saw, although the walls of Shuofang City are broken, the materials used in the first establishment of Shuofang City are very sufficient, and the quality is also very high, so it can become a lion on the edge of this grassland!" However, although it was strong back then, with the invasion of time, it is now like a weathered old man, although he has a foundation, he is old!
In the past two days, I have also observed everywhere, out of the north gate, the south gate, the east gate and even the west gate of the city wall actually have a certain degree of damage, such as cracking is countless, according to the current situation to defend against the Turks of the large-scale attack is undoubtedly very difficult! So what I wanted to do was to put red bricks on the outside of the wall, and pour cement on him to put on such a coat!
For the concrete formed after the cement has solidified, everyone must know very well how strong it is, so that we can save a lot of time, and also strengthen the city, isn't it killing two birds with one stone? ”
"Good! He's a smart baby! Niu Jinda's eyes lit up suddenly, because Zhang Yi's idea made him find a way to save effort and effort, but he still said: "But how to deal with the garbage at the North Gate is also a problem!" ”
"Yes, chestnut, the garbage at the north gate is also a big problem, you can smell the smell from afar, why don't we deal with the garbage first?" Tang Peng is undoubtedly the most afraid of death, it is still unknown whether Shuofang City will be attacked, but if the garbage is not disposed of, there will definitely be a plague, and he doesn't want to die here.
Hearing the worries of the two, Zhang Yi was speechless for a while.
If the truth depends on the army, then that's really the end of the game.
As the later Taizu said, the people's army cannot be separated from the masses, once it is separated from the support of the masses, then both the army and the court are more rootless duckweed.
Zhang Yi felt that this sentence was very correct, and he didn't understand why Niu Jinda and these bigwigs hadn't considered these people or businessmen in Shuofang City.
You must know that Shuofang, as the mouth of the Hetao, can't help but be a strategic place, and on the contrary, it is also a link linking the people of the Datang He grassland!
Here, almost more than seventy percent of the grasslands such as salt, iron, hemp... and other living resources are traded through this place and thus dispersed. That is to say, the safety of Shuofang City also represents the interests of everyone in the entire Shuofang City, since they are all a community of interests, why can't they pay a little labor if they can share the dividends brought by Datang?
At that moment, Zhang Yi said: "Didn't you think that there were people in Shuofang City in addition to the army?" The completion of the renovation of Shuofang City is also equally important to them, and the people who want to be here are probably not just ordinary people, right? ”
"That's right! Why didn't I think of this? "Xue Wanqian only thinks that he really has a lot of brains, as Zhang Yi said, although there are not enough soldiers, there are still a lot of businessmen and people in the city!"