September 18, the first year of the Second Emperor of the Great Qin Dynasty.
The severe winter has arrived, but Chen County, Dang County and other places on the north bank of the Huai River are in a lively scene.
Even on a cold winter night, the red fire still reflected the sky on the north bank of the Huai River like day. The thick white fog that rose up enveloped the entire north bank of the Huai River into a dreamlike place.
Two days ago, under the order of Hu Hai, more than 100,000 surrendered soldiers of Chu in Shouchun left Shouchun and crossed the Huai River and were transferred to two Qin army camps on the north bank of the Huai River in batches.
The White Tiger Army, which had just crossed the Huai River and arrived in Shouchun for less than three days, returned to the north bank of the Huai River again. The more than 100,000 Chu soldiers who had been captured after Xiang Liang crossing the river, and nearly 90,000 White Tiger Army became the guards.
Local troops of 100,000 surrendered Chu army soldiers.
The nearly 300,000 surrendered soldiers of the Chu army gathered together will be reorganized into a huge construction corps. They will hurry to the Chenjun and Dang, which have become a ruined place before the first snow falls.
On the grounds of the two counties, clean up the two counties and the few county towns, build simple houses that are enough to live in hundreds of thousands of people, clean up the bodies that can be seen everywhere on the grounds of the two counties, and let dozens of people who are about to return to their hometown.
The people of ten thousand two counties can survive this winter safely.
Because the five major legions used a large number of new weapons such as armor, crossbow machines, etc., they arranged at least hundreds of Shangfang craftsmen to accompany the army in each legion. After all, although these new weapons have been finalized,
In terms of structure, it is much more expensive and complex than the crossbows and armor used by the Qin army in the past. Once damaged, specialized people must be required to repair it.
Among the two armies of the White Tiger Army and the Qinglong Army, there were nearly 800 Shangfang craftsmen who followed the army to fight. As the Chu land was basically pacified, they also played a new role.
Whether it is building a house or cleaning up the ruins in the cities of the two counties to repair the city walls, it requires professional iron tools to look at. Otherwise, the 300,000 surrendered soldiers of the Chu army could only dig the frozen and stiff land with their hands.
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With Hu Hai's edict, these nearly 800 Shangfang craftsmen changed from military to civilians. Fortunately, the tools in the hoe are extremely simple. There are also simple drawings transported by Hu Hai.
There was no difficulty in casting these craftsmen in Shangfang.
All the weapons and armor weapons confiscated by the Chu army, Shangfang craftsmen built a simple melting iron furnace on the north bank of the Huai River. They put the confiscated Chu army weapons into the melting furnace and then melted them into shovels, hoes, etc.
Such things were used by these surrendered soldiers of the Chu army.
In addition to these iron smelting furnaces, there are more than a thousand brick kilns appearing on the northern bank of the Huaihe River. These brick kilns fire various bricks and tiles as materials for building city walls and houses.
These brick and tile kilns were also an experiment by Hu Hai. If the fired bricks were durable and wear-resistant enough, then obviously, the difficulties faced by Hu Hai's idea of preparing to transform the entire Daqin road would be great
reduce.
Simple cement is obviously impossible to use on roads that cost thousands or even tens of thousands of miles. Not to mention the viscosity of cement that appeared in Daqin and whether it can withstand long-term wind and sun exposure, just transportation and firing are a problem.
If a simple brick kiln is built everywhere and the road with a moderately sized brick and stone is directly built, not only will the process be much simpler, but the speed will also be greatly accelerated. Once a certain road surface is damaged, new brick and stone can be replaced directly. In this way,
Whether it is maintained or built, it will be much more convenient.
At the same time, hundreds of thousands of people from Dang County, which were captured by Xiang Liang and plundered back to Jiujiang, began to register in Shouchun, preparing to return to their hometown. More than 100,000 young and strong people will be the first to return.
The people on the north bank of the Huai River.
With these more than 100,000 people, plus nearly 300,000 surrendered soldiers of the Chu army, basically the reconstruction of Chen County and Dang County will not be short of manpower.
Countless materials, grains and cold-resistant clothing from various parts of Guanzhong continued to follow the old path of Wei and Han, and thousands of selected officials at all levels were also walking along the way. Shortly after these officials left Xianyang, the Zheng State and the Three Kingdoms of Millet Management
More than a hundred people of water workers also left Xianyang and began to move south.
As the harsh winter comes, many water systems of the Qin Dynasty have entered a dry season, and the same is true for the Huaihe River.
The hundreds of water workers, led by Zheng, the historian of millet, and dozens of architects from the Mohist family, left Xianyang and moved south. It was Hu Hai's decree. The hundreds of water workers were going to complete it in the next few months.
The thing is to discuss choosing one or two places suitable for building bridges on the Huai River, and building one or two bridges across the Huai River that connects Chu and the hinterland of the Central Plains on the Huai River.
If one or two bridges connecting the two banks of the Huai River can be really built on the Huai River, it will be the most magnificent and great construction miracle in Chinese history and even world history. It can also greatly promote the Chu area in the Central Plains.
Even the exchanges between the barbarians of the Baiyue and the Baiyue promoted the rule of the Qin Dynasty.
Of course, this is just Hu Hai's idea. Whether a bridge can be built on the Huai River under the current conditions still needs to be investigated and demonstrated by hydraulic workers such as Zheng State.
However, hundreds of hydraulic workers and Mohist architects went south, in addition to exploring the feasibility of building bridges on the Huai River, there is another thing that is to use the Huai River as the experimental object to study and rectify river channels and other things.
The remediation of the Huai River was just the beginning, and it only allowed the Qin water workers such as Zheng State to accumulate experience. With enough technical reserves, Hu Hai will begin to remediate and repair two rivers that almost run through the entire land of China, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.
Of course, the geographical environment and governance difficulty of the two major rivers of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River are far greater than that of the Huai River. If the Huai River is not enough to accumulate experience and technology for Zheng Guo and others, then it doesn’t matter. There are countless places in the entire Huai River, like the Huai River, or not?
Let’s talk about the small river water network, Hu Hai still has time to wait.
But everything has a beginning.
After the short panic at the beginning, the nearly 300,000 captured Chu soldiers gradually felt relieved and no longer worried that the Qin army would kill them as they did when they dealt with the Zhao soldiers.
As for Xiong Xin, Xiang Liang, Zhaotong, Wu Rui and other large and small officials of the Chu State were all imprisoned in Shouchun, with Weng Zhong guarding him, waiting for the arrival of Hu Hai, the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty.
The strict military discipline of the Qin army, as well as the Chu State including King Xiong Xin and General Xiang Liang, still survived, which made the somewhat restless Chu land gradually recover and everything was looking at Hu Hai.
Develop in the direction.
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In the severe winter, the water levels in many sections of the lower part of the Huai River had dropped to the lowest point, revealing dark and brown shoals. A burst of sounds of horse hooves came from afar, and finally stopped on a shoal.
This is within Guangling County, Donghai County (near Yangzhou, Jiangsu in later generations).
Looking at the shallow Huai River, which was only a few dozen meters wide, with broken armor and disheveled hair, Xiang Yu, who almost became a bloody man, turned over and dismounted, ran to the bank of the river in a few steps and buried his head in the river and drank it hard.
The same was true for hundreds of wounded Chu cavalry in the downstream of Xiang Yu.
From the battle of 100,000 troops three days ago but did not disintegrate everywhere, to the present, there are only less than a hundred people left under Xiang Yu's 10,000 Jiangdong Iron Cavalry. In the past three days, Xiang Yu's 10,000 Iron Cavalry has basically not eaten a good meal.
Have a good sleep.
The East China Sea and other places that could have galloped freely now seem to be able to encounter the Qin army everywhere, and it seems that the Qin army is everywhere.
On September 16th, Xiang Yu led the Jiangdong Iron Cavalry, who had less than 10,000 people, to rush out of the seemingly airtight encirclement packaged by Han Xin, which was actually extremely empty, and went straight to Guangling, preparing to cross the Huai River from Guangling to return to Kuaiji.
The county, after all, the former land of Jiangdong is the old nest of the Xiang clan. When the future of Shouchun is uncertain, it seems that Kuaiji is temporarily safe.
After easily breaking through the false encirclement created by Han Xin with a 100,000 army, Xiang Yu already knew that he was trapped. In fact, the Qin army was only tens of thousands more than the army under his command. There was not a single Chu army.
The power of war.
However, the defeat was like a mountain of defeat, and on the chaotic battlefield, the morale of the Chu soldiers who were surrounded by the Qin army had declined to the extreme, and Xiang Yu could no longer regroup and urge the army to fight again.
If Zhang Liang had not escaped first or was he so pessimistic about Chu Xiang's ending, maybe Xiang Yu and the 100,000 Chu troops still had a glimmer of hope. After all, Zhang Liang was in the rear to coordinate the army, and the Chu army's scout was in Han Xin.
The army was discovered four weeks ago.
As long as you respond in advance and find out the reality of the Qin army, the Chu army will give up some soldiers and escape from the entanglement with Feng Jie's army, and you will be able to easily break through Han Xin's empty encirclement. However, Zhang Liang's escape caused Xiang Yu's 90,000 army to fall into a group of headless dragons.
At the realm. Xiang Yu himself led ten thousand Jiangdong cavalry to charge in person. There was no master general even if the scout discovered that the Qin army appeared, he could not respond in time because they had no rights and no prestige.
After breaking out of the encirclement, Xiang Yu never hated anyone as much as he is today. Zhang Liang's betrayal not only led to the defeat of the Chu army, but also stabbed Xiang Yu again in the heart of the scarred Xiang Yu.
However, Xiang Yu's resentment lasted only for a moment, because Wang Qiao's 10,000 cavalry soldiers had already been tightly wrapped around like maggots on his bones. After a chase, the sacrificial camp, which was full of morale, was raising energy and raising morale.
The cavalry fought against Xiang Yu, Jiangdong Iron Cavalry who was eager to leave the battlefield. With Xiang Yu, Long Ji, and Ying Bu, three fierce generals, Xiang Yu's 10,000 Jiang Iron Cavalry broke through the blockade of the cavalry in Cai Shi Camp, and was in a panic.
get away.
The 10,000 cavalry soldiers under Wang Qiao lost nearly 3,000 people.
Compared with the losses, the arrogant cavalry of the Caishi Camp was at a disadvantage. However, it aroused the competitive spirit of the cavalry of the Caishi Camp, and bit Xiang Yu, which had less than 5,000 remaining people and followed the south.
, pursue it relentlessly.
The two sides fought along the road from Xutai to Guangling and fought and stopped and left behind the corpses of soldiers who were entangled all the way. Among them were the cavalry of the talented soldiers and the iron cavalry of the Jiangdong. By the next day, on September 17, they rushed to help Han Xin and Feng.
Xu Chuang also led tens of thousands of Qinglong Army light cavalry to arrive and followed the battle route between the two armies.
Facing the Qinglong Army Light Cavalry equipped with tens of thousands of dragon spirits and tigers with saddles, stirrups and horseshoes, if Xu Chuang had not galloped for days and needed rest, and the Chu army was defeated, Xiang Yu would not have been able to go to Guangling at all.
However, listening to the roar of horse hooves getting closer and closer in the distance, looking at the water of the Huai River rolling eastward and the hundreds of cavalrymen around them with almost no human form, Xiang Yu knew that he was
It's impossible to leave anymore.
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