Section 86 Garrison (II)
The next day, as soon as the sky began to brighten, the camp began to curl with smoke, and the fireworks lit by nearly 10,000 fires mixed with the water vapor coming down from the high mountains, especially the light of the east reflected in the snow-capped mountains behind the glow and water mist together, quite a cloudy fairyland feeling.
It's not a desert spectacle, nor is it a sight to be seen in the Plains of Sylvan.
The people who came out of the tent greedily looked at the surrounding scenery for a while, sighed a few words with their companions around them, and began a busy day, no one will be lazy at this time, and the experience along the way has long taught them not to forget discipline at any time, not only the threat of the blue-eyed devil, but also for the better survival of this group.
You must know that there is no living soil for otaku in this land in this era, and idle or lazy guys can only be excluded or abandoned.
The only exception is the children in the camp, they don't have to take on their share of responsibilities for the time being, but the first thing they do when they wake up is to take care of their personal matters, and then line up to run around the camp, their giggling and laughing is infectious, and soon the children of other families follow them - this is almost a daily routine, the little ones of three or five years old can't keep up with the big children, so they can only form a team alone, waving their little arms with their little legs hehehaha.
This form of exercise that has become a routine can only come from Lao Luo's handwriting, he doesn't want these former orphans to be pampered like those proud little emperors in later generations, and in the future, these orphans will become the carriers of Lao Luo's dissemination of his thoughts, and some guys who have become proud and arrogant because of spoiling can't do this.
Also following Lao Luo's instructions were the soldiers of the various battalions, who, like later generations, had to run, wield knives, and shoot arrows every morning, instead of going out every three or five days as in the military camps of this era.
Li Ji is not a lazy girl who has nothing to do, she slowly watched a group of little guys running and frolicking behind the children, and walked to Lao Luo, who was boxing on the dirt slope, and looked at this man's firmness and calmness with some distraction.
"The third brother is really idle, you are not tired every morning?" When Li Ji said this, Lao Luo had already begun to close his fists and calm his breathing.
"How can you not be tired? But once you slack off, you probably won't be able to do it forever. After the activity, Lao Luo felt very comfortable, his body was slightly hot, and the muscles and bones that had become stiff in the past few days seemed to be loosened, and the surrounding landscape was as beautiful as a fairyland, which was much more comfortable than the dirt of the city and the smoke of the battlefield in the later generations.
Lao Luo's words were not difficult to understand, and Li Ji did not continue the topic, because she knew that what this man insisted on was something that no one could change, and she didn't want to change anything, and this man she met from Constantinople did much better than she expected.
"The scenery here is so beautiful, will my hometown be the same as here?" Li Ji asked a little blankly, the delicacy at the foot of the snow-capped mountain that is different from the desert and grassland made her a little overwhelmed, and she couldn't help but think of the future because she didn't notice this because she was busy the first day.
"Over there, I don't know yet, but it's man-made, someone is doing it with heart, what other difficulties can it be?" Lao Luo's words are old-fashioned, but they represent his confidence.
"Hmm!" Li Ji didn't sigh again, but responded definitely.
The two of them finished their morning activities together, just like an old couple for many years.
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El Hesyn and Lady Annalia, who were also early risers, found Lao Luo.
"Bartol, Lady Anna and I went to see the buildings, and the remaining text on them says that this place is called Alexandria Eschate, which means the farthest Alexandria!" Elhesian excitedly shouted at Lao Luo, that it was the same as when he was in Athens.
"Al is right, when I was younger, I seem to have seen a record of Alexander establishing a city in the easternmost part of his footprints......" Lady Analia also has the same expression as Al, although she is usually very elegant, but being able to reach the place where her ancestors have stopped always makes people feel the glory of their ancestors, isn't it?
"Oh! It's good, you two really made a great discovery, so the next few houses will be repaired to you? How is it? Lao Luo also remembered where he seemed to have seen such a record, and when he first arrived the day before yesterday, he also used his mental power to feel the difference here, it seems that there are still many secrets in this city that are abandoned, but now is not the time to explore the secrets.
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After breakfast, everything started to work.
First of all, a large number of civilians gathered in teams, cut weeds with scythes, dug up mounds with shovels, and transported them outside the city by four-wheeled carts, and the earth was not used for civil construction in the city—old earth was a big avoidance, especially in such a place where there was a rumored curse. Of course, the huge amount of earth will not be transported out, and some clean earth will be piled up and built into a high platform inside the city, which will be used to house large trebuchets or set up guard towers. In addition, there are special people to collect the bones scattered on the ground or in the mound, and classify them with some large pottery urns.
Outside the city, in the northern part of the forest, some people have built an altar, and all the pottery urns that collect the bones have been brought here, and this place will become a cemetery for the dead, whether the owners of the bones are the former owners of the city or the invaders who attack the city, will sleep here, and if they have spirits, they will continue to witness the rise and fall of the city to the south.
The power of numbers, especially the well-organized crowds, was quickly unveiled by the busyness of tens of thousands of people, despite the lack of power machinery of later generations.
The ruins were completely torn down, leaving only the stone foundation, and then the commoner elder Doune and a few craftsmen who built the city began to draw lines on the ground with white stone powder, planning streets, drainage canals, housing homesteads, school camps, and public activity venues and ...... Toilets and garbage dumps, there are no water drains, because for the time being you can't make clay pipes, and you can't make elevated nullahs, because there aren't so many stones...... Therefore, for a short period of time, the water in the city still needs to reach the lake three kilometers away.
Ark went into the woods with most of the scout camp, and the hunting figures were handed over to them, which was a rare pastime for those who were good at bow and knife hunters, yes, just a pastime, and the hunted beasts were only a pastime compared to the quick-witted humans.
Cheng Shouru also took 3,000 people into the forest, the mountains here are full of tall trees, many of them are at least thirty or fifty meters high, because Lao Luo does not agree with their cutting in patches, so the 3,000 people must be dispersed and thinned. The trees were cut down under the operation of the two-meter-long two-man logging saw, and with the shout of "the tree fell" rippled in the mountains, they collapsed violently, and then the branches were removed, the main trunk was cut off, and the trunk slipped down the ramp to the base of the mountain, and dozens of people waiting outside the forest would work together, put them on two four-wheeled carts, jam them with special pins, and the horses began to run, and the trunks of the branches and leaves reached the interior of the city, and a special person would break them with a two-operated band saw......
After the stone foundation was cleaned, Dounne began to lead people to build woodcut flutes, this kind of construction is actually very simple, after the wooden frame is done (the wood does not need to be dried and dried, anyway, it is only a short stay, and there is no hope of settling here for a long time), only the broken logs need to be joined together by mortise and tenon, but this simple process requires a lot of patience and a pair of skillful hands, which is much more difficult than the technical aspects of nails and wooden screws...... After the wall is done, the wood of the roof is hoisted up with a simple lifting tool with a belt combined with one-way wheels, which is also an assembly of tenon and tenon structure, the gap between the wood on the wall needs to be sealed with clay and moss, and the gap in the roof needs to be glued with animal skin and gum (at this time, there is no linoleum paper and plastic sheeting, and there is no asbestos tile and color steel plate and the like), this is a careful job, at this time the woman who can only help cook and deliver water can play...... Of course, there is also a large group of children who always want to reach out and join in the fun.
One of the walls of the woodcarved flute is inlaid with a flue carved out of logs, and a low ondol is placed inside. The ondol is made of stone and thin stone slabs, and the binder is a mixture of lime and sand, which is not difficult to use, and the materials are very easy to find.
The interior of the wooden flute can accommodate at least 10 people, and the ondol, which also serves as a cooking and heating function, can protect the people living in it from the severe cold of winter. This alone solves the problem of living, the rest is just the ancillary function of the whole city, with the progress of time, the whole city repair project is progressing very rapidly, a piece of woodcut flute is built, the pavement of the street has also begun to be paved, the material is selected from the nearby quarryed stone, no need to carve and chisel regularly, as long as the road surface can be laid dry and neat is enough, the purpose is only to prevent the mud caused by the winter snowmelt.
At the same time, a large number of stables and wooden fences were built on the northeast side of the city, and a simple wall was built with rammed earth outside. The stables were built in the wood-carved way, but the rammed earth fence was the heaviest work, but fortunately there were wide four-wheeled carriages and a large number of livestock, and the earth and transportation were not a problem, the only thing required was the strength to dig and the strength to ram the earth.
The gap in the city wall has long been filled, and it looks no different from other places, but the interior is a space for hiding soldiers, this kind of thing belongs to the last safe backup facility in Lao Luo's opinion, he will not defend the city and others to attack, and he will not even let the enemy of the brigade close to his urban population range.
Concealed observation posts were built at several passes, even in the style of anti-cannon holes seen by Lao Luo's later generations, which were much stronger than the towering wooden guard towers of the ancient rites in this era and season.
On the twelfth day of the project, Li Zheng, who had gone to Samarkand, returned with a convoy of hundreds of carts.
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