Chapter 558
Finished! It's completely finished! I thought that Yun Hao would wear small shoes for himself, but I didn't expect the double flip-flops to come directly. Deprived of military rights, he was driven to work on construction projects.
Chusri knew that his career was almost over.
Yun Hao is a cautious person, counting on him to be tolerant and generous, it is better to expect the sow to go up the tree. How can people not bow their heads under the low eaves.
On the title and official position, it is still the emperor's favor. A hundred Chushili can't catch up with one Yun Hao!
"No!" For the new position of the engineering captain, Qiu Shili could only pinch his nose and admit it. Unexpectedly, after eating sand in the Western Regions for several years, now I have such an errand.
Yun Hao didn't care about Qiu Shili's loneliness, and not sweeping him out of the house was already for the sake of his previous face. Most likely, Chushili didn't want this face. Being swept out of the house by Yun Hao seems to be a good way out. At least when you return to Chang'an, you will be protected by Li Ke. I heard that His Majesty the Emperor now trusts the eldest prince very much.
The prancing horse entered Loulan City, in fact, Loulan City is not big. In its heyday, Loulan City had a population of only 20,000 or 30,000. In this ghost place in the Western Regions, if you have two or three thousand soldiers and horses, you can be the king and hegemon. In such a place as Loulan, it is also known as the Seven Little Powers of the Western Regions, and once reigned as the king and hegemon in the Western Regions. But all this has become history, and now Loulan has become a standard military city.
The reason why Yun Hao chose Loulan as the garrison of the army was because the geographical location of Loulan was quite good.
Loulan is located in the northwest corner of Lop Nur, just a few miles away from the Peacock River. In the ghost of the Western Regions, water is actually the most important resource. The southwest passes through the end, the fine, the detainment, the Khotan, the north through the Cheshi, the northwest through Yanqi, the east when the white dragon pile, through Dunhuang, choking the Silk Road.
As long as he holds the line of Loulan, Yun Hao can keep the Persian army out of the Tang Dynasty.
The imperial court appointed Yun Hao as the general of the expedition to the west, in order to defeat the great food and blood shame. If Yun Hao let the big cannibal sneak into the Tang Domain to burn and loot, then he, the general of the expedition to the west, would have no second way to go except to commit suicide and apologize.
Yun Hao brought an army of 50,000, plus the remnants of Qiu Shili's Beiting army. There is also Qiao Shiwang's Anxi Army, and Yun Hao has almost 100,000 troops under him. And that's not even counting the servant army of the people of the Western Regions.
However, Yun Hao still knew about the Battle of Hengros in history, and he was not at ease with these foreign armies. Therefore, he did not levy the Western Regions Servant Army on a large scale. Rather, it is a sign of a small amount of essence, and the selection of people is the best of the best. 20,000 people were carefully selected, and these people were better than the Tang Army in terms of physical fitness.
"This won't work! Loulan City is too small! After entering Loulan City through the low doorway, Yun Hao began to complain.
There is no one in the city except for the Tang Dynasty soldiers, and the blood stains on some walls are still clearly visible, and the flies may be a specialty of the grassland, whether it is now or in the future, they are buzzing around people and flying around, and they can't drive away, which is very annoying.
Yun Hao himself has a slight habit of cleanliness, and when he saw the messy city, the messy market, and the messy people, his heart suddenly became irritable.
Loulan City is indeed a small city, with 20,000 or 30,000 people living in it. The sudden influx of 100,000 troops was not an ordinary test here. Although there are many armies here, Zuo Wuwei must be the master here.
As a descendant, Zuo Wuwei was personally formulated by Yun Hao in terms of rules and regulations and daily training.
The first thing Yun Hao did when he entered the city was to announce that Loulan City would be expanded outward for seven miles. The city of three miles and the Guo of seven miles are also in line with the habits of the Central Plains. With this expansion, Loulan City is closer to the Peacock River. The city wall of the northern city is only two or three miles away from the Peacock River.
The railroad was not built, and there was no large amount of material to be transported. Yun Hao could only wait in Loulan City first, but Yun Hao was not idle these days.
Now that there is a boss with a habit of cleanliness, it is basically impossible for Loulan City to maintain a dirty and messy urban style.
Public latrines began to appear in the city, and each latrine was enough for more than a dozen people at the same time. It was sprinkled with quicklime, and it looked a little creepy. The streets are full of patrols with red armbands, as long as there are people who defecate in the open. will be caught, beaten with a baton. became toilet caretakers, and as long as they caught the next one, they could be honorably laid off.
There are also dozens of wells in the city, and bathing has become a hot topic in the whole city, if you run around the city unkempt, there will be strong soldiers to bathe for you, their only tool is a few bamboo brushes, and the people who are bathed will secretly swear in their hearts after letting out a pig-like howl, they will not find those animals to bathe themselves in this life.
Mountains of garbage are transported to a large pit outside the city, burned and buried deep underground. As for whether it will be excavated by archaeological team members thousands of years later, this is not in Yun Hao's consideration.
All the blisters in the city were filled. Don't miss a single thing!
The academy has developed a lot of medicinal powders, which are mixed with steamed bread and sesame oil. There are more dead rats on the streets!
I don't know what kind of rat is in this desert, Yun Hao saw that there were more than a hundred and so mouses. It is hard to imagine how many rats exist in the underground kingdom of Loulan City. The people of Loulan did not die of the plague, and it was definitely their god who blessed them.
The vigorous rodent extermination campaign was in full swing, and the flooding, smoke and fire were all used. Even Yun Hao has dozens of lynxes, cats are too dangerous in Loulan, and if one is not good, it is likely that the mouse will not bite him to death.
Every day in the southwest corner of Loulan City, thick smoke will come out. I didn't know and thought it was wolf smoke, but in fact, it was all kinds of garbage transported out of Loulan City the day before.
Without stagnant water, there will be a lot fewer mosquitoes. Without garbage, there will be far fewer flies. If the food is well controlled, there will be a lot fewer rats.
In just two months, Loulan City is quietly changing. There are a lot fewer mosquitoes and a lot fewer flies. There are no more rats on the street that dare to come out for a walk in broad daylight, and as for cockroaches, they are too violent. Trying to eradicate them is definitely a long-term process.
Along with flies, mosquitoes, rats, cockroaches, and dirty sloppy soldiers.
They were taken to the barracks outside the city by the whole team, stripped naked and soaked in oil barrels. Their armor was buried in the sand, leaving only a small piece on the outside. Light a small fire on the side, and soon you can hear a dense "crackling" sound.
After a week of such baptism, the lice were almost completely eradicated.
In the barracks outside the city, tents were used to set up temporary bathrooms. The soldiers were forced to take a bath once a day.
After a month, just find out who has lice on them. Grab one and whip it.
Under the teaching of whips, military sticks. The soldiers in Loulan City are estimated to be the cleanest soldiers in the whole Tang Dynasty. Now I know that I can't use my hands to catch it when I eat!
Lee Dao-yan is a good brother, after waiting for two months. The railway from Yumen Pass to Loulan was finally opened, and in just two months, 3,000 of the 5,000 Tibetan prisoners of war remained. In other words, they were almost half dead.
This road can be said to be paved with the flesh and blood of the Tubo people, but Yun Hao doesn't care. What he cares about is the mountains of materials piled up at Yumen Pass and transported to Loulan as soon as possible. Especially cement, steel and other building materials. Qiu Shili has been idle for a long time, and he, the leader of the engineering team, should enter the job role as soon as possible.
The transport capacity of the railway is indeed unparalleled, since the opening of the railway. Countless building materials were transported to Loulan, and the wealth of the Tang Dynasty made this army far away in the Western Regions not lack anything.
Qiu Shili's brains were about to collapse, and he wanted to pry open the heads of these Tibetans to see if they were full of dung.
It was very difficult to teach these bastards how to use cement and steel bars, but fortunately there were Goryeo craftsmen. These people went on the road a lot, and they did technical work such as building walls, and all the heavy physical labor was done by the Tibetan people.
The walls were rising rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, with 20,000 Tibetan captives, plus conscripted Goryeo captives, and the servant army of the Western Regions. A full seventy or eighty thousand people are busy working on the city walls of Loulan.
At this time, Sheng Yanshi began to rectify the ranks of the Tang Army.
After Li Er knew that Yun Hao needed manpower to build the city, 20,000 cannibal captives came to Yun Hao's command. At this time, the number of people who built Loulan City reached 100,000. If there is no railway behind him, feeding 200,000 people is a big problem.
After Qiao Shiwang came, the Tang Army began to reorganize on a large scale.
Yun Hao didn't care what the Beiting Army or the Anxi Army were, he reorganized according to Zuo Wuwei's standards. All the team leaders were served by Zuo Wuwei's soldiers. This army got a new name, the Western Expeditionary Army. This was raised by Li Er himself, and even the military flag was written by Li Er himself, and it was mailed to the army by airship.
The first is to unify the guys in their hands, and the strong crossbow is almost one in one hand. Bows and arrows are only available to a few elite cavalrymen, except for Mo swordsmen. There's going to be a crossbow!
Every seven days, there will be an assessment. At a distance of 300 paces, there is a 1:1 ratio of the half-length portrait target, and if all three arrows hit the chest or head. Congratulations, in the next seven days. You can eat meat, as well as vegetables that are rare in the desert. On top of that, there are canned fruits in glass bottles for snacks.
If only two arrows are on target, then you can only eat steamed buns and meat for the next seven days, and don't even think about canned food.
If a crossbow arrow hits the target, then you can only eat steamed buns and pickles for the next seven days. Meat? It's for the thugs, and you don't have to eat. What the? You still want canned food, get out!
Of course, if you don't hit the target. Congratulations, the next seven days. You only have salty salt water and steamed buns! Of course, saltwater also has to have a nice name. It is called the little white dragon crossing the river, which is actually a big pot of salty salt water with two bean sprouts floating in it.
In order to eat a bite of meat, the soldiers went crazy. Work overtime to practice archery skills, and your stomach will urge you without being supervised. People who drink seven days of salty bitter little white dragon across the river will also grit their teeth. At least make sure you have pickles to eat!
This is still infantry, and the three people who operate the eight-ox crossbow are a little miserable. Because their target is 800 paces away. Eight hundred steps ......! At this distance, a one-to-one humanoid target is a small black dot the size of a matchstick.
However, because of the huge lethality of the eight-bull crossbow, as long as the crossbow arrow hits the target, it will be considered a hit. There is no such thing as hitting the nail on the head!
The Modao battalion and cavalry couldn't help but gloat a little when they saw the brothers working so hard. But soon they won't be happy, because they have to start training. The intensity of the training is not too high, and the big guy can easily fool around.
But when it comes to the seventh day of assessment, it's time to die. Randomly assigned to a one-on-one fight, the winner of good wine and good food. Those who lose will not only suffer from the five military sticks. For seven days, there was no meat to eat. I can only dare to nibble on steamed pickles!
Between fighting their comrades and being beaten, everyone made the right choice. After all, the original troops were scattered, and everyone came from all over the world. No need to talk about human feelings!
However, with the increase in communication, the irrepressible thing of human affection began to show its power. There was even a fake fight, and then when eating, stealing meat to lose the robe was wonderful.
In short, Loulan City began a vigorous large-scale military training activity. In just a few months, the results have been remarkable.
After exhausting countless people, Chushili finally got the city walls on scale before winter came. It's not that Yun Hao wears small shoes for Qiu Shili, but after winter comes, there will be bubbles after the cement solidifies, which will seriously affect the strength.
As the first heavy snow fell, the entire city of Loulan began to stop. All the work was completely stopped, and the people and prisoners of war were pulled back to Datang by stuffy tank train. I don't know if Li Er let them continue to work, or dig a pit and bury it.
Heavy snow was falling, turning the earth into a white expanse. The Peacock River has become a belt of ice that stretches across the snowfields. From time to time, trains transported supplies to Loulan City, the newly built Loulan Outer City. Following the example of Chang'an, many markets were built, but there were no civilians living in them, all of them were soldiers.
When the army is idle, it is prone to big problems, and the biggest problems are alcoholism and gambling. I don't know where these bastards got their wine, but it's been banned again and again.
It's no wonder that more than 100,000 old men gather in this place where birds don't. Look at the female camels, they are all fucking double eyelids. There have even been incidents of male-on-man sexual harassment!
Yun Hao stood at the head of the city, looking into the distance, he now very much hoped that the Great Cannibal would take advantage of this opportunity to fight. I really want to!