The eighth day of the seventh month of the first year of Great Qin II!

For the rare drought that occurred in various parts of Guanzhong, Hu Hai knew!

However, he is not in Xianyang now, and he is beyond the reach of the whip, even if he has the heart, he is powerless.

If he indiscriminately commanded remotely without knowing the actual situation of the drought in Guanzhong, it would interfere with the drought-fighting actions of Li Si and others, who are now in Xianyang and are in charge of managing the actual situation, so Hu Hai simply sent a message to Wei Yu to tell Li Si to fight the drought with all his might!

Hu Hai finally decided to stay in Chengwu County and take a gamble!

I don't know why, Hu Hai always has a feeling that Meng Tian, who is far away from him, will even come before Han Xin!

This has nothing to do with trusting Meng Tian and Han Xin, it's just Hu Hai's natural belief in Meng Tian! That's why Hu Hai didn't mention anything about how he was going to be late in the letter to Meng Tian, but he clearly pointed out in the letter sent to Han Xin that he would come to collect his body if he was late!

He believes that Meng Tian will arrive! No matter how hot it is!

Therefore, Hu Hai chose to continue to gamble in Chengwu County!

The blazing sun will sprinkle the scorching sun unscrupulously!

Today, maybe Xiang Liang's army will rush to Chengwu County!

Although the sun is like fire, the entire Chengwu County, regardless of men, women, and children, is still staring at Lie Yue in full swing, because His Majesty the Emperor of Great Qin is with them!

The people of the entire Chengwu County for 30 miles have been gathered in the small Chengwu County, and now there are nearly 90,000 people gathered in the Chengwu County, plus the army of 16,000 people in Huhai, the Chengwu County is overcrowded at the moment.

However, such a large number of people also made Hu Hai a little more confident in holding Chengwu County until Meng Tian and Han Xin arrived!

I just don't know, after this battle, how many of these more than 100,000 people will be left!?

Under the command of the craftsmen accompanying the army, the men were either shouting trumpets to strengthen the weak areas of the four walls of Chengwu County, or demolishing the beams, bricks and stones, preparing for rolling stones, sasswood, gold juice and other things to defend the city!

All the copper and iron utensils in Chengwu County, including those collected by Weng Zhong and others, were gathered in just one night, and dozens of simple iron-making stoves with a height of one or two zhang rose in the center of the county, and the blazing furnace fire reflected each other with the scorching sun in the sky!

Thousands of adult men, shirtless, under the command of the craftsmen who accompany the army, craft improvised weapons and crossbow arrows!

More than 6,000 old Qin people and more than 8,000 people from Chengwu County who enlisted on the emergency front line of arms, plus more than 2,000 middle-aged men who later enlisted, at this moment the Huhai army has exceeded 30,000 people!

Hu Hai went north with the equipment to escort the pro-army. What's more, it also burned a part of it in the old road of Heze! It can only be temporarily crafted to arm these Great Qin soldiers who have enlisted in the line of fire!

However, at least a dozen of the dozens of improvised iron-making furnaces are constantly forging the proposed crossbow arrows!

Naturally, this crossbow arrow could not be compared to the refined crossbow arrows that were now equipped with Great Qin's soldiers, but it was obviously enough to shoot those shirtless Baiyue barbarians and the unarmored Xiang Liang rabble!

The elderly, weak, women and children are mainly engaged in logistics, delivering water and carrying people who have fainted due to dehydration due to hot weather for treatment!

At the city gate, there are constantly Great Qin scouts coming in and out!

The distance of the Qin army's scouts has been extended to fifty miles away from Chengwu County, and in such a hot weather, it is necessary to keep the route of the possible arrival of Xiang Liang's army in the south of Chengwu County at all times, and every Great Qin scout is basically dehydrated and fainted immediately after returning to the city!

Hu Hai did not escape the heat in the county government, of course, there is no way to escape the heat with the simple facilities of the county government!

Hu Hai, dressed in a small coat and with his sleeves rolled up, ignored everyone's opposition and pulled the improvised improvised bellows next to the hottest iron-making furnace!

In the hundreds of years of history from the time Great Qin became a vassal state to the establishment of the Great Qin Empire, in addition to the fact that the First Emperor, who had just succeeded to the throne of Qin, personally participated in the construction of the Zheng State Canal barefoot, the young Emperor Great Qin II once again set a record!

The scorching sun was scorching Hu Hai's head and face and bare arms, the hot steam in the iron-making furnace in front of him kept steaming, and the scorching sun was exposed to the back on his back, and in less than a moment, Hu Hai's whole person was like being fished out of the water!

The sweat-soaked white coat was dried again in a few moments, then soaked again, and then dried again...... This is not Hu Hai putting on a show!

He is the Emperor of Great Qin, even if he doesn't do anything, if he wants to come to the entire Chengwu County, including the entire Great Qin, the whole world, no one will say anything! However, Hu Hai felt that he should do it!

Not to mention that he dragged the tens of thousands of people in the small Chengwu County into an avoidable military disaster for his own plan, of course, even if Xiang Liang didn't slaughter the city, ordinary soldiers and bandits were indispensable!

However, at least, now the tens of thousands of people in Chengwu County are unknowingly tied to the chariot of the Great Qin Rebellion because of themselves! And it's likely that the city will be destroyed!

Hu Hai couldn't let himself watch countless people work for a person who led the military disaster here and directly faced Xiang Liang's hundreds of thousands of troops! But I am at ease!

Perhaps, Hu Hai is not very suitable for this troubled world now!

I can't treat everyone in the whole world as a pawn that can be discarded and sacrificed at will for the sake of this country!

Unscrupulous and ruthless have always been the only magic weapon for the survival of the superiors! Especially in these troubled times! The kindness of a woman will lead herself or the whole world into a place of no return!

However, Hu Hai rejected himself from the bottom of his heart and became such a person!

Stepping on the peak of thousands of corpses is naturally considered a success! However, unifying the world while minimizing the casualties of some ordinary innocent people is more suitable for Hu Hai's own heart!

Xing, the people are bitter! Death, the people suffer!

Who says it's the immutable truth of the world?

Although the people are already very bitter because of the chaotic situation in Great Qin, Hu Hai thinks that this is what he must do when he comes to this magnificent Great Qin!

Hu Hai believes that whether it is a heinous, bloody bad guy or a hypocrite with a flamboyant belly, there will be a pure land in everyone's heart!

Maybe it's family affection, maybe it's love, or friendship!

No one is bad enough to pus inside out!

It's good to be worthy of your own heart!

This is Hu Hai's simple and stubborn psychology now, and it can even be said to be ridiculous!

Although it was very difficult to work in the heat of nearly 40 degrees, His Majesty the noble Emperor had already personally taken the lead in working by the hottest and most tired iron-making furnace, and the entire Chengwu County was enveloped by the sound of loud trumpets!

Of course, not everyone in Chengwu County is working!

The only ones who can rest are the more than 30,000 soldiers!

They will fight on the front line after the arrival of Xiang Liang's army, and naturally need to maintain strong physical strength!

Yesterday, the Xuanwu army, which had almost collapsed, and the remaining more than 1,300 people, together with Xiahou Ying and Fan Xu's 6,000 Great Qin Spirits, returned to Chengwu County in the second half of the night!

Of the last remaining more than 30,000 hundred Yue barbarians under Xiang Yu's command, less than a few hundred escaped, and the rest were all killed by the Xuanwu army and the six thousand Great Qin Elite Cavalry who were chasing and killed. In the entire Xiang Yu camp, within a radius of twenty miles, the corpses of the fallen Baiyue barbarians can now be seen everywhere!

The Xuanwu army lost more than 600 people, and almost none were injured! The six thousand Great Qin Jingqi were injured only because they fell from their horses, but none of them died!

Xiang Yu, Yingbu, Long Ji and others never found a trace!

In the end, it was Xiahou Ying and Fan Xu who personally investigated and found traces of more than 100 people escaping through the extinguished fire area on the back mountain! I think Xiang Yu and the others escaped from here after Long Xuan and the others withdrew!

But none of the soldiers who rested in the camp had peace of mind! Whether it is the elite of Daqin, who has followed Hu Hai all the way to the north and the east, and already knows something about the young emperor, or the 16,000 people of Chengwu County who have enlisted in the line of fire, they all know that when they are resting in the big tent to escape the scorching heat, the tens of thousands of people in Chengwu County, whether they are old and weak, women and children, are working under the Lieyue, and the second emperor of Daqin is also working with his own bellows against the Lieyue!

The volcano seems to be containing, waiting for the moment when it erupts and shocks the world!

Yu Ji is also in the logistics army of the old and weak women and children, but now a white cloak covered with a gauze curtain not only covers her from the scorching sun, but also covers her appearance with a country and a city!

The wide cloak also obscures her graceful figure! Under the cloak, Yu Ji's beautiful eyes always swept over the young emperor who was soaked in a small coat again, his face was flushed, but he was still concentrating on pulling the bellows!

He must be thirsty, right!?

Seeing Hu Hai's chapped lips, Yu Ji's heart trembled!

"Take a break and drink your saliva, Your Majesty!"

Long Xuan and Chen Youguang have secretly come over and begged Yu Ji several times, asking Yu Ji to persuade the emperor not to do this again! You must know that in such a scorching weather, there are no less than 20 middle-aged men with bellows who have passed out!

And the emperor has been pulling the bellows for almost half an hour now!

In fact, you don't need to hear the voice, just from the familiar and faint fragrance from the side Hu Hai knows who is coming!

Long Xuan, who had been guarding Hu Hai's side and was ready to take over in rotation at any time, saw that the emperor finally stopped, and hurriedly took the bellows wooden pole pulled by Hu Hai and pulled it up with all his might!

Hu Hai didn't care about Long Xuan's movements, wiped the sweat on his head with his rolled up sleeves, took the clay pot filled with water handed over by Yu Ji and poured it up with his head "gurgling"!

The cool well water entered his throat, which suddenly made Hu Hai's already dry and smoking throat feel much better!

After drinking the water in the small clay pot in one go, Hu Hai touched a handful of water stains on his mouth, and opened his mouth to say, "Happy!" I'm dying of thirst! ”

Yu Ji, who was wearing a cloak, did not speak, and looked at Hu Hai quietly with a pair of beautiful eyes!

Hu Hai looked around in surprise, then touched his face with his hand, looked at Yu Ji and said blankly, "Is there something wrong with me?" ”

(To be continued)