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The vast desert, the dead sea of sand.

An army of 100,000 soldiers and 200,000 cattle (mainly horses, but also more than 30,000 camels) was moving slowly.

Position of the Chinese army.

Yue Fei walked forward and looked forward with a clairvoyant mirror.

Ahead, there is still an endless sky of yellow sand.

Putting down the clairvoyant mirror, Yue Fei asked Li Yanguang on the side: "How long will it take to get out of this desert?" ”

Li Yanguang replied very firmly: "Soon, if you don't delay things, the vanguard should be able to reach the oasis in front tomorrow morning." ”

When Yue Fei heard this, he turned his head and asked Wang De, the deputy marshal on the other side: "How is the attrition of the troops?" ”

Wang De replied: "More than two hundred." ”

Yue Fei said: "Take care of them, and then tell them that when they arrive at the oasis in front, they will be fine." ”

Wang Dedao: "I have already told them and made an exception and allowed them to ride camels. ”

Wang De's tone changed, and he said: "I didn't expect that this desert is so powerful, and there are so many non-combat attrition among the elite soldiers screened from the millions of troops!" ”

Ma Kuo said: "This is enough, if it weren't for the soldiers we brought, with good physical fitness, it would never be possible to reduce only more than 200 people, it is estimated that we Han people will have to adapt for a while before we can conquer the desert." ”

Li Yanguang said: "Not only Han people, but also those of us who grew up on the grassland, we also have to go through the baptism of the desert to become true warriors." ”

After a pause, Li Yanguang said again: "This desert is actually quite small, out of this desert, the desert in front of it is called big, and there is the biggest test of our trip." ”

Worried, Yue Fei, who was strict in governing the army, treated him for the crime of disturbing the morale of the army, Li Yanguang said again: "However, as long as we are well prepared and bring enough water, the desert in front is actually not difficult to conquer. ”

Wang Dedao: "It's really remote here, but if you can really get hundreds of thousands of good horses in Kedun City, it's not worth the trip." ”

Ma Kuo continued: "Horses and other things are still secondary, we mainly have to recover the North Liaoning Road Recruitment Division, and we must subdue the grassland kingdoms and tribes in the vicinity and completely control there." ”

Wang Sheng said: "How to completely control there?" Is it necessary to build a railway in the middle of this desert to get there? ”

Ma Kuo said: "Why not? ”

After a pause, Ma Kuo said: "It's easier to build a railway in this desert than to build a railway in those mountains, right?" ”

Wang Sheng retorted: "It is difficult to build a railway in the mountains, but after it is completed, there will be no worries, and if you build a railway in this desert, you will face the danger of the railway being flooded by a sandstorm at any time, what should you do then?" ”

Ma Kuo said: "I heard from the officials that you can build some high-standing sand barriers, geogrids, dig sand ditches, build sand retaining walls, plant branch sand barriers and sand and stones, etc., and you can also raise the railway high, of course, the most important thing is to send people to maintain it regularly." ”

Wang Sheng's eyes widened and said, "The official family really wants to build a railway in this desert!" ”

Ma Kuodao: "It is very likely, it is said that the Ministry of Railways has begun to plan this matter, by the way, among the people around King Liao, there are two people from the Ministry of Railways, and they seem to have come to inspect the construction of the railway." ”

Sun Ge, the transfer envoy with the army, said: "I don't understand, why did the official family go to such great lengths to build a railway here? The place where the birds don't in the North Liaoning Road Recruitment Division is worth our big and medium effort? ”

Ma Kuo said: "The official said that there are very rich copper resources here, as well as coal and oil. ”

Sun Ge said: "Oil? Is it the weird water that makes the train run? ”

Ma Kuo said: "Yes, it is the raw material of that strange water, the official said, the resources here of the North Liaoning Road Recruitment Division are abundant, beyond our imagination, so this can not only become the boundary of our big school, but also carry out large-scale development here." ”

Yue Fei said: "Okay, don't think about it, the premise of all this must be that we can recover the North Liaoning Road Recruitment Division and recover the surrounding forces there, otherwise, everything is not to be discussed, so what we should think about most now is how to do this, instead of being ambitious." ”

As soon as Yue Fei said this, everyone closed their mouths.

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At the same time, at the instigation of Dazhong, the Tatar tribe launched a fierce attack on the border areas of the Dajin Kingdom.

Coincidentally, after learning that Wanyan Wu had died and that the Dajin Kingdom was headed by a sixteen or seventeen-year-old hairy boy, the Mongolian Ministry also began to increase the offensive of the decisive battle with the Jin army, and repelled the Jin Wushu, which had previously had an advantage, and the two sides showed an equal score.

Not only the Tatar and Mongol tribes, but even the Kereh tribes and the Naiman tribes were also a little ready to move, and they had the intention of taking advantage of the fire to loot, and even the Wangu tribe, which had always been loyal to the Dajin Kingdom, showed signs of rebellion.

As soon as Wan Yan Kang ascended the throne, the situation became so grim, which would undoubtedly make the Jin people doubt Wan Yan Kang's ruling ability, and then make Wan Yan Kang's rule show signs of instability.

Speaking of which, although the Jurchens founded the country and swallowed the huge Daliao Empire, the Dajin Kingdom still could not break away from the form of the grassland kingdom.

And the emperor of the Dajin Kingdom is actually the Great Khan of the steppe.

The emperor of the Dajin Kingdom unified the large and small steppe tribes, although these small tribes also belonged to the Dajin Kingdom, but they actually only followed their original tribal leaders, so the Dajin Kingdom was actually composed of various tribes, and the relationship between them was not a subordinate relationship, but a partnership relationship.

The emperor of the Daejin Kingdom could form a central treasury derived from the war by monopolizing the distribution of the spoils of war.

Therefore, as long as the emperor of the Dajin Kingdom continues to be able to obtain the spoils of war by fighting, the Dajin Kingdom can continue to be sustained through this kind of central finance—just like the Wanyan Agu War period.

But this requires that the emperor of the Dajin Kingdom must be very capable of fighting, once the emperor of the Dajin Kingdom cannot obtain the spoils of war through war, the financial logic of the entire Dajin Kingdom will not exist, and the Dajin Kingdom will also face disintegration.

Therefore, for the north, the first requirement for the emperor/khan who can unify the steppe is that he must be particularly able to fight, which is very different from the Central Plains Empire in the south.

The Emperor/Great Khan of the North must often lead troops out to fight, and if you can't lead troops to plunder the spoils of war, no one will go out with you, so the heir to the north must not be a young man without prestige.

Moreover, there are frequent wars in the steppe, and it is possible that when the Great Khan died, his children were still minors, or the prestige of his subordinates had not yet been intimidated, at this time, it was generally the brother of the Great Khan to succeed to the throne, which was the succession relationship between the brother and the brother of the steppe.

This kind of "brother to brother" inheritance relationship will bring a very serious problem, and after the eldest brother and the second brother have been the Great Khan, and after they have both died, who should succeed to the throne/khanate next is a big problem, and the second generation of children and nephews feel that they are eligible to inherit the throne/khan, because their fathers have been emperors/khans, so at this time, there will be a split and a civil war.

And now Dajin is facing such a serious problem.

In the face of Wanyan Kang's "incompetence", Wanyan Zongpan, Wanyan Zongjun, and Wanyan Chang not only unscrupulously controlled the government, but also began to plot to seize Wanyan Kang's throne, and then support Wanyan Zongpan as the emperor......

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PS: In the past two days, due to some special reasons, I can't comment, so I didn't reply to the question of whether the Dazhong railway was repaired too quickly mentioned by a brother two days ago.

Here is a brief explanation to you.

I base my assumption on the assumption that the United States built more than 200,000 kilometers of railroads in the decade from 1880 to 1890 (20,619 kilometers in 1887).

In addition, some of the data in my book is true, such as the 505-kilometer Chengdu-Chongqing railway, which took two years to build and mobilized more than 100,000 people.

In my book, the protagonist started to build the railway from the third year of Datong to the fourth year of the railway, which lasted more than six years, mobilized the personnel and resources of the whole country, and built less than 30,000 kilometers of railway.

Personally, I don't think this figure is an exaggeration.

Of course, if you study it carefully, it is difficult to say, after all, many areas are high and deep, and it is really difficult to repair, and it cannot be explained by simple numbers.