Huangfusong did not have the elite troops of the Northern Army to rely on, so he failed to attack the city, so he pretended to retreat. The army did not show up for ten days. Waiting for the Yellow Turbans to relax their guard in the city, they suddenly attacked the city on the night of the 25th. The two armies fought fiercely all night, and the Yellow Turbans died in the battle.
Thirty thousand people, Zhang Liang died in the rebellion.
More than 50,000 Yellow Turbans retreated westward and were surrounded by Huangfu Song's army. All of them were killed.
When Liu Xiang received the news, it was already the first day of November and he was in Yuguan.
Yuguan had been attacked for more than ten days, and he was really worried, so he rushed over to have a look.
At this time, Gongsun Zan was yelling and cursing under the wall, because there was a row of Gongsun's relatives hanging at the top of the wall, and he had no choice but to curse.
More than 50,000 troops from Liaodong County, Xuantu County and the Liaodong vassal state spent more than two months building a road along the sea and arrived at the foot of Yuguan City. Lelang County did not send troops, which surprised Liu Xiang
The expectation is too far away to know the specific information, and it is really impossible to judge.
The Liaoxi Corridor outside the pass is surrounded by mountains in the north and the sea in the south. The open space is only three or four miles wide. Soldiers and horses from three counties are camped along the mountains. The military camps stretch for ten miles, like a bunch of refugees fleeing famine.
When he saw these soldiers and horses, he breathed a sigh of relief. Only four or five thousand county soldiers were fully equipped with war equipment. The other 40,000 to 50,000 people were just civilians who were pulled up and driven with spears.
He went into battle and was extremely war-weary.
These people were sallow, skinny, and skinny from hunger. They were far inferior to the civilians who built the city in Yuguan. After building the city for several months, they could eat enough meals. Instead, they developed a body of tendon meat, and their energy and spirit were much stronger than those outside the pass. This made Liu
Xiang was very happy.
At the beginning, he left more than a million stones of food, just because he was afraid of starving to death. It seems that the food was not eaten in vain, and no one dared to reach out. The city gates were built tall and strong, which was a labor of love.
The enemy attacked for more than ten days, but the defensive buildings at the pass were not damaged at all and were still standing tall, which was very good.
Of course, the Gongsun clan also made great contributions. Everyone sees this and is very grateful for their contribution.
The 8,000 soldiers and horses stationed at Yuguan were enough to deal with the enemy, not to mention the 30,000 civilians who assisted in defending the city, and the 4,000 barbarians on standby in the rear. Liu Xiang was completely relieved.
"Ziming, thank you for your hard work. With you here, I feel relieved."
Yan Rou chuckled and said: "My lord is at ease, but there is still one breath left. I will protect Yuguan. I heard that my lord led the troops to annihilate the fifth battalion of the Northern Army. I am really happy and congratulated. My lord's reputation will surely be resounding throughout the world. From now on, no one will be able to defeat him."
People dare to look sideways."
Liu Xiang said with emotion: "I think back then, you and I were from humble backgrounds, but now we have a foundation, and you are also a big official in the border area. We need to work hard to govern in the future. Ziming, you and I will work together and we will never be together."
burden."
"I would like to follow my lord Jiwei."
"The Huwuhuan School Lieutenant Division will recruit another thousand Huqi to fill the vacancy, and your brother will be assigned to the Yueqi camp."
Yan Rou smiled happily: "It is his blessing to be able to follow the lord's side. He also participated in a shocking battle. This boy's luck is really good."
After saying a few thoughtful words to Yan Rou, building up a relationship, and giving him a set of cold-forged fish scale armor and a high-quality Hexi war horse, he didn't stay any longer and hurried away with Su Wei.
He is going to Haiyang.
Iron ore was discovered more than ten miles east of Haiyang County, and coal mines were discovered twenty miles southeast of Tuyin County on the east bank of Fengshui. The county seat of Haiyang is right in the middle of the two places.
Liu Xiang knew that there was iron and coal in Tangshan in later generations. In July, he sent a prospecting team to look for minerals around Tuyin. After searching for nearly four months, he finally got good news. He also knew that Jundu Mountain had coal, copper and gold, but it was a pity that
The area has not yet been fully occupied, so I dare not send anyone there. There is silver in the north of Yuyang County, and the prospectors have been looking for it for a long time, but they are still wandering around in the mountains.
The prospecting technology of the Eastern Han Dynasty was not much better than luck. Therefore, the discovery of two mineral deposits in succession this time was a stroke of luck.
God, daddy does love me.
The general supervisor has sent more manpower to dig mines in these two places. Liu Xiang wants to build a steelmaking plant in Haiyang, not to make iron, but to make steel directly.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was blast furnace ironmaking technology. The fuel was charcoal, but the temperature was not high enough to make steel directly. Now that coal is available, is coke steelmaking still far behind?
Both coke and charcoal have gone through the process of retorting, which can increase the heat when burned. Don't think about the modern process, it is simply useless. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, you still had to use earthen methods, either stewed in cave dwellings or buried with soil. That's what charcoal did
Made.
It is wasteful, inefficient, pollutes the environment, and has many disadvantages. But what we need to solve now is whether there are any problems. First, we will start from zero to one. Later, through the accumulation of technology, we will solve the problems from one to two, three, four, five and six. Things will be one.
Each piece is done one by one, and the skills must be accumulated step by step.
Build a coal plant and coking workshop on the shore of Fengshui, and build a small town with a circumference of two miles on the bank of Rushui, three miles south of Haiyang County. Specially build steel-making workshops and corresponding weapons and armor workshops.
Iron ore and coke will be transported here to make steel, and then directly build war tools.
Liu Xiang is looking forward to the arrival of craftsmen who know water drainage technology. Firstly, it can improve the efficiency of steel-making blast furnaces. Secondly, he wants to try to make hydraulic forging hammers. With this, a lot of manpower can be saved, crushing ore and forging metals will be improved.
efficiency.
The production of weapons and armor will increase greatly, especially cold-forged armor, which requires a lot of time to forge.
There is a certain degree of difficulty in hydraulic hammer forging. In fact, there was water hammer technology in the Han Dynasty. The principle is similar, but the water hammer in the Han Dynasty was not strong enough and could only be used to pound rice. Liu Xiang wanted to try out the water drainage technology to see if there was any way to improve the hydraulic power.
As long as this problem is solved, the production of weapons and armor can be raised to a higher level.
he knows
^0^Building dams on rivers and increasing the flow rate can increase hydraulic power, but I don’t know exactly how to do it. I told the craftsmen several times that Liu Xiang couldn’t understand it, and they couldn’t understand it, so he pinned his hope on understanding.
As for the water drainage technology craftsmen, I hope that Nanyang will go smoothly.
The city was named Hainan, which means the south of Haiyang City. The inner part of the city was called the Hainan Arsenal. After it was built, two thousand soldiers and horses were recruited to guard the place and it came under the jurisdiction of the city.
After making requests and suggestions to the craftsmen and leaving behind a record of documents, he had to set off again. Now was not the time to wait for scientific research at the rear. He could only hope that the craftsmen of the Han Dynasty would give him a satisfactory answer.
Starting from Haiyang, Liu Xiang worked hard and inspected the workshops in Yuyang and the fields of fox slaves. Failure to show up for a long time would cause problems. In the early stages of starting a business, he could not slack off.
I visited Zhen Yi's family in Yuyang. I said it was rude to not come in, but in fact I just wanted to see Zhen Jiang, but unfortunately I couldn't do it. Zhen Yi's second son Zhen Yan hosted a banquet in honor of the thirteen-year-old Zhen Yan.
There was no shortage of them, and they were extremely respectful, but Liu Xiang was not happy.
If he is not happy, no one else will be happy either.
Therefore, Zhen Yi's family had to move to Zhuo County.
Zhuo County is a good place. The general office of the General Mansion will be moved there. As a guest, Zhen Yi will also work there in the future, so they have to move.
Regardless of whether others believe it or not, this is the reason.
The General's Mansion will definitely have to be moved, and the administrative seat will indeed be changed to Zhuoxian County. The territory is too large, and Yuyang County is too remote and is not suitable for use as the administrative seat anymore.
Liu Xiang didn't have time to wait for their slow move, so he accelerated southward first.
We didn't meet in person in the end, which was a bit regretful.
The next destination was Lu County. He wanted to visit Cui Yi. When he went to Yuguan, he was in a hurry and had to travel at night. He had no time to visit Cui Yi who was recovering from his injuries. If he didn't go on the return trip, it would be a bit unreasonable.
Cui Yi has been recovering from his injury for two months, and I don’t know how his recovery is going.
There is still a problem to be solved near Lu County. Tian Yu has been detained. His mother will not let him go out and will not accept funding from the Anping Army. Liu Xiang wants to take a look.
It’s not that you have to bring your children to join the army and have a good relationship. It’s okay to defect to them when they grow up. Just leave them alone. What if they fly away?
In history, Tian Yu followed Liu Bei when he was very young. However, he left because he had to support his mother. Liu Bei had nothing to do. The big man governed the country with filial piety, and preventing others from fulfilling their filial piety would harm their reputation, so he let him go.
You can't learn this from Liu Bei.
Still need to make amends.
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