Chapter 341: Building the Pass
Seeing the location where her hand pointed, the young master couldn't help but lit up: "Yes, if a city block is set up here, the area ahead is full of mountains and steep ridges and narrow terrain. No matter how many soldiers there are, it is useless, so you can only fill it up one by one."
Yes, everyone agrees with Queen Dou's plan. This is the most suitable countermeasure at present. After all, Hancheng County is only 900 young and strong. In addition, this young master's 600 troupe and the 500 subordinates sent by Liu Hongji, if you want to fight against the 100,000 rebels, it is simply a fat meat delivered to your door. I am afraid that it is not enough to fill the gaps between the other party's teeth.
After making the decision, I began to arrange and ordered that the three thousand young and strong people, two hundred carriages gathered and stood on standby. In addition, people rushed to bricks and cement stones, and the two hundred carriages were to be filled.
We strive to rush to the vicinity of the place before dusk today, and then start construction and construction. In addition, I recruited Han Xiong and ordered this guy to pull up 560 people from the First Battalion in the name of long-distance exercises, rush here and camp there, and send more scouts to guard against the rebels in the north.
Han Xiong also knew that the matter was of great importance, so he immediately took the order and left. There were nearly two hundred troops under my master's command in the first battalion. As long as they were cautious enough, I believe nothing would happen.
And I want to rush over, what makes me speechless is that except for Tang Jian and Yang Shidao, two literati who don’t like fighting, everyone else has to follow me to go shopping. Of course, Li Yuanji, Xiao Wu, and my sister were ordered to stay by me. After all, if my mother wakes up, she can’t even see a figure, which is hard to explain.
I don't want my mother to come here, and I have to worry about my safety.
So, I led a hundred plots, as well as more than a hundred plots of the Li family, the Li brothers and sisters, together with Queen Dou, and of course, Liu Hongji, who was rubbing his hands, rushed to the northwest. I followed the valley where I raised horses for more than ten miles, and then turned to the northwest.
Compared with the cement roads paved by me, these old roads really seem a bit concave. Fortunately, it has not rained during this period, otherwise, the road would be even more muddy and difficult to walk.
Even if I rode a horse, I started walking from the cement road to the northwest and walked for about an hour before I arrived at the canyon. At this moment, the canyon was filled with tranquility. The bright summer sun made the jungle and shrubs in the canyon look so dense that only occasionally in the gap can you see the blue-gray color of the mountain.
The narrowest part of this canyon about a mile long canyon allows at most two carriages to pass, and the widest part is only five or six feet wide. Moreover, the canyon is in an inverted ladder shape, and this shape is indeed very suitable for building passes.
"It's a pity that this canyon is too narrow, it is only suitable for defense, not for ambushing." I rode my horse with me to the northwest exit of the canyon. There was a flat valley, and the mountain seemed much smoother. You can see this road paved with loess, and directly crossed the mountain and extended forward. Queen Dou held the horse's head and looked back at the valley, and couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
"It's okay. As long as you can defend it, I believe that the court will not watch the tens of thousands of rebels wandering under Chang'an's noses." I smiled and said.
"Young master, the young man has already gone to investigate. There is only the west side around, about seven miles away from here. There is a small road that can be accessed, but the road is relatively narrow, and at most it can pass through infantry and riding, and the vehicles cannot walk." Zheng Chen hurried back and reported the latest news to me.
"Clog the other side with rocks, and then leave people to guard it. Don't make any mistakes." This young master nodded. It's okay. Although there are not many fields in Hancheng County, he is very lucky because these mountains are barriers.
There are only two roads in and out, so it is really easy to defend like this.
More than a dozen troops were sent as scouts to make them go to investigate, and our group stayed in the open area outside the canyon. After waiting for about half an hour, Han Xiong and his group finally arrived.
They first took a carriage to the end of the cement road, and then started walking, which saved at least about an hour. After all, there were about fifteen miles from the county town to the cement road. If you want to walk, you would not have to finish it in less than two hours.
From there, it was only about ten miles to the canyon. Although these ten miles were difficult to walk, our horseback speed was not much faster than trotting.
When Han Xiong saw that we were here first, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He called the militias of that battalion to rest for a quarter of an hour before rushing over to inquire about the situation. Well, there is no situation for the moment, and there is no situation for now, this is definitely the best situation.
Since everyone has arrived and it is fine now, my young master Yu Qian ordered the soldiers to start cutting down the wood inside the canyon, peeling off the branches, and making it a horse-resisting horse, all of which were placed at the entrance of the canyon about twenty feet wide.
I didn't expect that this young master would be so frustrated that I got the approval of Queen Dou, thinking that this young master was to prevent patients from happening, and indeed he is one of the few wise and intelligent people in the world. Seeing his mother praise this young master's future fiancé, Li Yaoguang's smile on her face was so sweet that she could melt the honey.
This young master quickly said a few humility. Soon, more than 500 people, plus the one hundred people under my master, and Queen Dou also asked her family's troops to help. In a short while, the entrance of the canyon, which was about twenty feet wide, was erected with horses.
Although these horse-rejecting horses are very rough, it is better to have something to stop them than to have nothing to stop them. At this time, I finally received the news that the young and strong teams who came to repair the pass had already arrived at the entrance of the canyon.
Because the road is difficult to move, I can only let the young and strong people carry the bricks, stones and cements toward the entrance of the canyon. This made me feel a little annoyed. Why not build the road here? It is really difficult to rely on manpower alone.
Fortunately, there are enough people, and the people of Hancheng County and those refugees heard the news that there was a large number of rebels in Yan'an County, staring at the South. Maybe they might rush to Hancheng. The refugees who finally lived a peaceful life were the deepest feelings.
In the end, more than 5,000 young and strong refugees, and more than 2,000 Hancheng County people came to help with their own voluntary duties. This young master couldn't persuade them even if they went to persuade them. Moreover, the common people and refugees were very real. In a word, they finally lived a peaceful life, but they didn't want such a life to be ruined by the rebels.
As for the people of Hancheng County, their lives have also been much better because of the arrival of this young master, and they naturally have to maintain the peace of their homes. Two hundred trucks are transporting back and forth quickly on the cement road. Nearly 10,000 young and strong are like countless hardworking ants, moving densely and quickly.
Bags of cement and bricks and stones gradually piled up like mountains at the location where they were preparing to design the pass. The craftsmen who rushed over led a group of young and strong people to cut off the trees at that location, then began to stir up the cement mortar and start building them.
"It must be at least four meters high and four meters wide. A archway with at least one meter and two meter wide to pass by at least two carriages. After all, this is not a one-time use. Then the two wings extend forward and form a semi-arc. In this way, once the enemy approaches, they will be besieged on three sides." The young master took the topographic map drawn just now and explained it with the craftsman in charge of the head.
This is the narrowest place, and at most two carriages can be accommodated below. Although the carriages can be passed, the road is too rugged and even horses cannot walk too fast. This pass is not just a pass, not to mention a bridge. Well, from a distance, it must be like a Zhaozhou Bridge with a bridge arch.
In this way, there is no need for too much brick and stone and cement. However, I still ask those young and strong men to look for enough stones nearby. After the pass is repaired, the door hole below must be blocked tightly first. I don’t want to watch the rebels climb through the door hole.
Now I really don’t have time to greet people. However, Queen Dou and the others were tactful, just stood quietly by the side, appreciating my master’s command here as if he was determined. Well, I had designed a low-rent house, and the request of this master from Datongpu was approved by these senior craftsmen.
The sky gradually became darker, but here, there were bright lights everywhere, and torches shone in the darkness, as bright as the stars in the sky. Especially on the construction site, a torch was erected high, illuminating the lights under the city wall being built.
"It is fast enough to use this cement brick and stone to build a city wall. Moreover, more than 10,000 young and strong people, building a city pass in such a narrow place seems so orderly and not congested at all. Nephew, it seems that this is your ability, right?" About a hundred steps away from the construction of the pass, on a raised platform on the mountain on the left, Queen Dou, who had just finished a simple dinner, looked over there and couldn't help but sigh.
This young master determined that the location of the pass was at the end of the canyon. In this way, the empty territory here would be enough to keep tens of thousands of young and strong people busy. And if there were really rebels attacking, they would not have more than a thousand people every time they entered the canyon. However, we are afraid that the pass could carry one thousand militia defenses alone, and this open space would be able to be filled with tens or 20,000 reserve troops.
Chapter completed!