Once the plan to build a new city was confirmed, it was quickly carried out.
Like all cities in this era, Yang Fan's new city is also divided into inner and outer cities.
The new city is a 3,000-meter-square city with a total area of 9 square kilometers. The inner city is 1,000 meters square and covers an area of 1 square kilometer. The outer city is 8 square kilometers.
There are eight gates in the outer city and four gates in the inner city.
There are two gates on each side of the outer city, symmetrically distributed. The roads inside the gate divide the city into a tic-shaped shape. The center is the inner city, surrounded by eight areas of the same size as the inner city, each of which is one square kilometer.
Yang Fan will have different plans for these areas.
Building a city wall in this era was a big project. It required mixing loess with lime and steaming it in a steamer. In this way, the insect eggs hidden in it were killed.
Otherwise, once these eggs hatch, they will make holes in the rammed soil. Over time, the rammed soil will be filled with hundreds of holes. Adding lime will also prevent mice from chewing. As long as such rammed soil is repaired from time to time, many
It can last for hundreds or even thousands of years.
The steamed Sanhe soil is also mixed with egg white and glutinous rice juice and cold boiled water. Then it is clamped with boards and tamped with heavy stone hammers.
This kind of rammed earth city wall is very dense, hard and elastic. It is not easy to destroy.
Then the earth city was covered with bricks to prevent rainwater from eroding the rammed earth wall and prevent wear and tear from human walking.
Although such a city wall is durable, its disadvantage is that it is a waste of manpower and is expensive to build.
Yang Fan would never build a city wall like this. It was too slow and could not be built within three years.
Yang Fan has enough cement, gravel, and steel bars.
It doesn't require too many people, just pour the concrete directly, cover it with a straw mat, sprinkle some water if necessary, and dry it in the shade for three or four days before it solidifies.
high speed.
And it doesn’t need to be built as thick as a rammed earth city wall, just two meters thick. Without high explosives, relying on black powder, you can’t break even one meter thick concrete, not to mention two meters thick concrete.
The slaves have gone crazy collectively, and they can't even chew it with their teeth.
In order to stabilize the bottom two meters, the top can only be one meter. The place is too narrow and the people above cannot move.
Yang Fan had no intention of arranging people to guard the city wall. Yang Fan directly poured the city wall to a height of 10 meters, and the top was a ten-centimeter round top. It was slippery and impossible to hold.
Even if the slaves climbed up with a ladder, it would be useless. The ten-centimeter round top could not support anyone. If he fell down, he would be killed if he wore armor, and no one would be disabled. If he did not wear armor, his arms and legs would be broken, and his combat effectiveness would be directly lost.
Such a high wall, you have to fall down even if you climb it.
In the Ming Dynasty city walls, as long as you climb up, you can fight on top, then fight down the horse path and open the city gate.
Yang Fan has no chance here. There is no one guarding the city wall, so he can climb on it casually. The smoothness of the cement wall is terrifying, and there is no way to use it.
So how to attack the enemy when defending the city?
Yang Fan's design is to build a rectangular watchtower every fifty meters, half of which is inside the city wall, and the other half stretches out of the city wall like a horse face. The height is one level higher than the city wall.
The lower two floors are made of stone and concrete bases. The upper three floors are watchtowers with shooting holes. You can shoot from the front and left and right sides.
These watchtowers were used as military dormitories and weapons warehouses in peacetime and as fortresses in wartime.
A total of 240 watchtowers were built in the entire outer city. Yang Fan planned. Each fort can accommodate 100 people, which is a squadron.
The entire outer city was reserved for military camps for the future.
After the location was planned, in order not to affect the construction of the dam and the flushing of farmland, Yang Fan sent people to various places to recruit another 50,000 refugees as a labor force.
There are four walls in the outer city, each with 10,000 people. The inner city has a total of 10,000 people. After this recruitment, Yang Fan's current resources have basically reached their limit. They can no longer expand.
After the city wall is built, a fifty-meter-wide moat will be dug on the east and west sides from the lake to the foot of the mountain, thus completely blocking the road leading to Jizhou.
If Jiannu wanted to get there, he either had to capture the city, or he had to brave the dense fire and artillery fire from the north and south of the city and walk three kilometers to get there.
A month has passed since the platform was called, and Yuan Chonghuan has yet to go to Liaodong to take up his post.
At this time, Yuan Chonghuan regretted speaking nonsense to the emperor.
Five years after returning to the Liao Dynasty, Yuan Chonghuan laughed bitterly. He didn't believe it himself.
He never left, just to see if he could figure out a way to extend the time of this matter.
It's a pity that nothing major has happened recently and everything has been calm.
He also had no room for action.
The longer the delay is, the more inappropriate it becomes. After a month of delay, it really can’t be delayed any longer.
After thinking over and over again, he wrote a memorial to the emperor, talked about a lot of his worries, and finally asked vaguely if he could be given some grace.
After the memorial was sent, Yuan Chonghuan waited anxiously for the emperor's reply.
Chongzhen was having dinner with the queen and the two concubines. Recently, Xinghe Supermarket has become more and more prosperous. Last month, it actually distributed a bonus of fifty thousand taels of silver, which made the queen smile from ear to ear.
The emperor made an exception and served a dish of steamed seabass. He was enjoying the meal when Yuan Chonghuan's memorial came up.
Chongzhen opened it and took a look, and his nose was almost crooked with anger. Who is this person? He wants to go back on the promise he made.
At that time, you said it yourself, in front of all the civil and military officials, to restore the Liao Dynasty in five years. I agreed to all the conditions you asked for, and now you come to ask for grace. What do you think I am doing here?
Is it a vegetable market? There are also price bargainers.
Seeing that the emperor suddenly lost his mood to eat, the three concubines did not dare to speak.
Chongzhen was so angry that he couldn't take a bite. However, considering the interest of his three beloved concubines, he excused himself from having to deal with important matters and went to Xinuang Pavilion.
Concubine Yuan looked at the Queen and Concubine Tian, and whispered: "Your Majesty is rarely happy today. Why did you get angry after reading a memorial?"
Empress Zhou chuckled and said: "The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics. Let's continue eating. The seabass won't taste good when it's cold."
The two of them were a little disappointed when the queen didn't talk to each other at all, so they had to continue eating.
Chongzhen sat on the throne and waited for a long time before calming down. He warned himself not to act out of emotion.
Military and state affairs cannot be tossed back and forth, otherwise there will be no prestige of the imperial court. I can only comfort Yuan Chonghuan with kind words and don't worry.
You are worried that the ministers of the imperial court are restricting you unnecessarily. I trust you. I will not listen to slander.
Chongzhen felt very tired, and he had to coax him in turn. Finally, he changed his mind and asked him to go to Liaodong to take up his post immediately, without any further delay.
After Yuan Chonghuan received the emperor's reply, his mouth felt bitter. However, he no longer had any reason to stay in the capital, so he had to hit the road immediately.
After three days of walking on the road, a shocking news came.
There was a mutiny in Ningyuan City. The reason was very simple. There was no military pay for six months, so the soldiers mutinied. The commander-in-chief and the governor were detained.
Yuan Chonghuan immediately realized that he could no longer leave and must return to Beijing.
Because the mutiny was due to payment arrears, it seems that to solve the payment arrears, then money must be paid. The problem is that he has no money now.
If you don't have money, go talk to the rebels and see if they can reason with you.
Yuan Chonghuan immediately thought that His Majesty had promised to give him enough military pay, and he immediately prepared to go to His Majesty to ask for money. Then he took the military pay to quell the mutiny.
The situation is urgent. It would be terrible if the mutinous soldiers defected to the Jian slaves.