Chapter 92 Set fire to Dafeichuan

Huaergou Iron and Steel Workshop, Ma Mengming followed Chen Ying to Huaergou, he looked at the hot construction scene in front of him, Ma Mengming was in a trance. Huaergou is a place he hasn't been to before. The land here is barren and sparsely populated, not to mention growing crops, even weeds are scarce, not only are there no Han people cultivating here, but even herdsmen do not come here to graze.

Originally, there was no road in Huaergou, but in front of me, the road has changed greatly to a six-zhang wide, with frequent vehicles and countless people of all ethnic groups who are working intensively. The wooden hammers and the round stone mills worked alternately, pressing the paved road surface as smooth as a mirror, and Ma Mengming secretly smacked his tongue in his heart, even the imperial roads in Gaochang City may not have this level.

In front of it is a post station for changing horses, and next to the post station, there are rows of houses, the texture of these houses is very strange, different from the thatched houses and adobe houses in the mainland, the walls are blue-gray, and they feel hard and cool to the touch. On the side of the road, a tall wooden drum device was connected to a millstone by a strange mechanism, and two or three donkeys pulled the millstone and kept turning, and the drum also rotated, and there was a scraping sound of metal rubbing against the inner wall inside, and the shaft of the barrel was a wooden stick wrapped in an iron page in a key part, and the shaft did not rotate with the drum when it turned. There was a pile of firewood under the barrel, and the flames were still far from the barrel, but the heat could be seen with the naked eye wrapping the barrel.

Ma Mengming looked at it for a while, only to see that one side of the barrel was suddenly opened, and the young people immediately rushed forward to shovel a wooden shovel to remove a thing from the drum, which was gray and black viscous, and there seemed to be smiling particles mixed in when looking closely, and in an instant the things in the barrel had been cleaned by the people, and the chassis was resealed, and two people in the distance came with a bucket of small slag and stones.

With a pungent smell in his nose, Ma Mengming asked curiously: "Dadu Hu, this stone grease water can also be used to pave roads?" ”

"It's not stone grease water, I call it asphalt, it's just the residue of stone grease water refining, and it's the best way to pave the road!" Chen Ying laughed dumbly when he heard this.

Since the discovery of iron ore and coal mines in Huaergou, Chen Ying accidentally discovered a large amount of crude oil in Heihaizi, southwest of Jinman County. In fact, Chen Ying did not know that after a few years, the crude oil and coal would spontaneously combust and form a burning mountain.

However, Chen Ying naturally will not give up this unexpected material. Crude oil is simply distilled to obtain light gasoline or diesel, which is used to incinerate the enemy, much more powerful than fierce fire oil and so-called Greek fire. Because the crude oil in the Black Sea has been exposed to the air for too long, the amount of oil in it is not too large, but when refining, the residue of crude oil - bitumen is very large.

In addition, Chen Ying mixed the residue of steelmaking with small stones and asphalt to pave the asphalt road for later generations. In this way, the speed of road construction is much faster, the people in front of them flatten the ground, then roll and compact it with stone rollers, and finally pave it with asphalt and stones, sprinkle fine sand, and after the rolling of the stone rollers, it is completed.

With the volume of road transportation in this era, I am afraid that it will take tens or hundreds of years without renovation.

Since there is no special road in the Western Regions, the more people walk, it becomes the road. Therefore, the Western Regions are notoriously easy to attack and difficult to defend, as long as they cross the upper Shule, lower Shule, and Geluo Ridge valleys of the Green Mountains, there are almost no strategic places in the Western Regions to defend.

But Chen Ying built this kind of road is different, once people are used to walking this kind of road, accustomed to using four-wheeled carriages to transport materials, then in the future, Chen Ying can set up cards on the road stuck points, and can also effectively defend!

When he arrived at the steel mill in Huaergou, Ma Mengming was stunned. A city has risen from the ground. And this city is bigger than most of the cities in the Western Regions. To take the simplest example, the ancient city of Loulan, which is a famous ancient city in the Western Regions, covers an area of about 120,000 square meters, about the area of 16 standard football fields.

However, this city is at least three times the size of Loulan City.

Now there is no battle to fight, these energetic soldiers were captured by Chen Ying, the mining of mines, the steelmaking of steel, the construction of cities, the strength of many people, and gratifying results.

After Chen Ying arrived at Huaergou, he immediately ordered: "The whole army is assembled!" ”

The war drums of "dong dong ......" sounded, and all the soldiers heard the order, hurriedly stopped the work at hand, quickly returned to the barracks, put on armor and knives, and returned to the school to assemble.

The fastest response actually arrived at the school at the time of a pillar of incense.

"The morale is high, and the military spirit is available!" Ma Mengming looked at such an efficient army build-up and had a new understanding of this elite under Chen Ying.

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "No, no! Have you noticed. These rapidly assembled troops are the men and horses of the Cao Department in the Nine Divisions of Zhaowu? ”

"Well, so what?" Ma Mengming asked puzzledly, "What's wrong with them?" ”

Chen Ying smiled slightly and said, "Why are they running so fast?" ”

Ma Mengming said: "Probably because General Cao Dan trained his troops properly, he wants to make meritorious contributions, right?" ”

Chen Ying said solemnly: "Maybe there is a reason for this, but this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that they are escaping a kind of torture, a torture that is ten times more painful than the enemy's desperate efforts on the battlefield, at least I see Cao Dan's son Cao Yaqian like this." ”

"Escaping a torture?" Ma Mengming said suspiciously: "A kind of torture that is worse than going to the battlefield? What? ”

"It's just learning Tang Yan." Chen Ying smiled: "Haven't you noticed that Tang Yan is very difficult for them to learn?" I see that although Cao Yaqian didn't dare to show too obvious in the past few days, the look she accidentally revealed was like sawing her neck with a knife. ”

In fact, it is precisely because of learning Tang Yan, whether it is farming, reclamation, even if it is fighting, fighting with the enemy, it is more exciting for these Anxi soldiers than learning Tang Yan.

Ma Mengming was a little dumbfounded when he heard it, maybe it was because he was in contact with him since he was a child, or maybe he himself was a genius in human language, so he didn't think Tang Yan was difficult to learn.

But after listening to Chen Ying's words, he felt that there was some truth.

In about a quarter of an hour, the whole army was assembled. The Modao Army, the Xiao Cavalry Army, the Shooting Army and the Hebei New Army, all of them formed a neat phalanx in Zhichongfu. As for the cavalry, after the same was dismantled, only 50,000 horses remained. The array is tight, the spears are like a forest, and the horizontal knives are like a wall.

Chen Ying inspected the Anxi troops, and a sense of pride arose in his heart. He asked, "Do you know why you are gathered?" ”

The 100,000-strong army was silent, and the needles on the school field could be heard. In fact, except for the generals in the front, no ordinary soldier could hear what Chen Ying said.

"Because the Tubo people went down the mountain, while our brothers left Liangzhou, they rushed to Liangzhou to kill, and burned and looted in the five states of Sha, He, Melon, Gan, and Su! Dare to brazenly invade Datang, this is clearly not in the eyes of our brothers, they are bold enough to come and kick our field! ”

The generals in front of the queue listened to Chen Ying, just like the underworld bosses boosting their morale before the fight, and their facial muscles twitched slightly. It's a shameless thing to be approached by the Tubo people to kick the field, and those damn Tubo people are slapping them in the face!

However, Chen Ying said with a fluttering eyebrow: "It's good, it's good, most of the people are worried that there is no coolie to build roads in the Western Regions, so they will come to the door." These Tibetan people, you have to give the hands that most of them are protected, don't kill them all, I still have to keep them, and reclaim more land for us, build more roads, whose land is reclaimed? Of course, brothers. If you reclaim an extra ten acres of land, you will also have an extra income, so that you, your family, can all have no worries about food and clothing, even if you are killed in battle and injured, your children can live a prosperous life with this inheritance. There will be no shortage of your achievements! ”

Hearing that there were many feats in battle, these soldiers became short of breath. Originally, they were the Anxi Army, and the Liangzhou Governor's Mansion was not their defense area, but they were all excited when they heard that Chen Ying was going to use these prisoners of war to reclaim the land for them and liberate them from this heavy labor.

"The old rule, a reward for killing an enemy is five times, a seriously injured person is given ten times for medicine, and a dead one is given twenty times!" Chen Yingdao: "Capturing an enemy will be counted as a decapitation!" ”

The soldiers raised their arms and shouted: "Most of the capital protects the mighty, and most of the capital protects the victory!" ”

Chen Ying said again: "Now I order, the Shooting Army, the Hebei New Army, and the Modao Army stay and guard the camp!" The others will immediately take all the equipment and set off, let's go and make a fortune! ”

Hearing that the various departments began to prepare, only Duan Zhigan opened his mouth, wanting to say that he would take the Hebei New Army to practice his hands, but Chen Ying's order had been issued, and the military order was not child's play, so he had to give up for the sake of Chen Ying's authority. He looked at Chen Ying blankly, hoping that he could give himself a chance to make meritorious contributions.

Chen Ying looked at Duan Zhi and said, "Let Ma join the army and explain to you, why did you stay!" ”

Ma Mengming thought for a while and said, "Dadu Hu, is it because of Murong Fuyun?" ”

"That's right, the Koji father and son are thieves, they colluded with Murong Fuyun, and they didn't hold back their fart!" Chen Ying looked at these high-spirited servant soldiers, pointed at them and said: "If it is not my race, its heart will be different, their hearts are not with us, it is not easy to judge now, but this needs time to test, now we take them to Liangzhou, you will guard the Western Regions for me, especially the newly cultivated 750,000 acres of land, you can guard it for me, don't let them burn it to this capital!" ”

Chen Ying said this, Duan Zhigan would be stupid if he didn't understand it anymore.

As Chen Ying said, it is now impossible to determine whether the more than 50,000 servant troops of various tribes in the Western Regions are truly loyal to the Tang Dynasty, but as long as they follow Chen Ying to Liangzhou, with the combat effectiveness of the cavalry army, even if they have bad intentions, they will not be able to take advantage.

However, staying in the Western Regions is different, they can secretly do a lot of good actions!

After arranging all these matters, Chen Ying and Xun Xiang, who had just arrived in Jinman, said: "I know your hard work, but presumably, you also understand the significance of the original formation of the Beiwei Army, and the Tubo people return to the plateau, there are only two roads, one is to go from Gerimu to Tanggula Mountain, and then to Amdo, to Nagqu!" As far as Ben Dadu Hu knew, this Tibetan army was not the Ru of Nagqu, so they had to retreat back to the snow field by another way. ”

As he spoke, Chen Ying pointed out from the map: "They will go from Shancheng (Xining) through Linfan City (Huangzhong Duoba) to Suirong City (south of Huangyuan County), along Qiangshui (Huangshui Nanyuan Yaoshui River) through Shibaocheng (Huangyuan Shicheng Mountain), Chiling (Riyue Mountain), Yuchichuan (Daochuan River) to Moliyi (Gonghe Dongba), and through Dafeichuan (Gonghe Cheji Grassland), your goal is here!" ”

"Dafeichuan?" Liu Tong tried to ask.

"Yes, it's Da Fei Chuan!" Chen Yingdao: "I want you to carry the army to Dafeichuan in advance, lurk, we will fight the victory with the Tubo people, at least two months later, by that time, the grassland of Dafeichuan will also begin to yellow, if you find that the Tubo army is defeated, you will set fire to Dafeichuan, cut off the way back from Tubo, and the capital will protect the Tubo horses and horses not to return!" ”