Huang Xigon replied: "The volume of sea transportation is much greater than that of river transportation, and our largest flying clipper has reached more than 1,000 tons, and the transportation volume of one ship is equal to dozens of canal boats. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info And the clipper ship is extremely fast, from the Yangtze River estuary of Shanghai loading and departure, even if it is a slow sailing, it only takes five days and five nights to arrive. The Cao Yun ship from Yangzhou to Beijing will take more than 10 days at the earliest, and more than a month at the slower. Calculate it this way, how much manpower and material resources can be saved by sea, and how much silver can be saved every year? ”

"In this way, the towns on both sides of the canal will be deserted!" Wu Sangui sighed.

"Towns will not be deserted, even if they are deserted, they are abandoned in the towns south of Xuzhou. To the north of Xuzhou, the Jinpu Railway will run parallel to the canal, and the prince's Caoyun Governor's Yamen can be changed to a railway yamen. Huang Xigon said.

The weather is getting colder, but Xiaguan, to the west of Nanjing, is bustling with activity, which is the construction site of the railway ferry.

The Huai River and the Yellow River cut off the north-south traffic of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway, while the Yangtze River cut off the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, that is, the connection between the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway and the Tianjin-Pudong Railway. Once the Tianjin-Pudong Railway and the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway are connected, it will become the new Beijing-Shanghai Railway.

The feasibility plan for a railway ferry is to first be tested between Nanjing and Pukou, and once the construction of the train ferry is completed, the sea trials and crossing tests will be completed, and new train ferries will be built and placed on both sides of the Huai River, so that the trains can cross the Huai River and connect the north and south traffic.

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Thousands of miles away, in the desert of southern Xinjiang in winter, the temperature difference between day and night here is very large, in summer, the temperature in the desert can be as high as 38 degrees during the day, and only a dozen degrees at night; In winter, the temperature can reach more than 10 degrees or even more than 20 degrees during the day, and can drop below minus 20 degrees at night. However, in the oasis area along the Tarim River, the temperature difference between day and night is not so large, with the temperature during the day being about three degrees Celsius and the night temperature being about minus seven degrees.

In winter, the meadows of the oasis turn yellow, and the poplar trees turn yellowish-brown. The color of the oasis became the same as that of the surrounding sand dunes, and there was no difference except for the blue river flowing through the middle.

As for snowfall? Desert areas rarely snowfall, and if they are covered with thick snow in winter, they will not form deserts, but large grasslands and forests.

In the vast desert, there was a shout of killing, and the vanguard of the loyal battalion and the Dzungar coalition army had already engaged the Turkic cavalry of the Yarkand Khanate. Gunfire roared in the desert, and the Turkic scout cavalry who came out to reconnoiter were knocked off their horses one after another by the Mongol scout cavalry, and only a few Turks were left to report the news.

"The initiative on the battlefield is already in our hands, and spying on military intelligence and intelligence transmission are firmly in our hands. Now the Turkic scout cavalry is coming and dying! Galdan said proudly to Li Laiheng.

Grasping the initiative on the battlefield and completely shielding the opponent's intelligence, this was not only due to the superb riding skills of the Mongol cavalry, but also to a batch of breech-loading rifled guns that Li Guangdi gave to Galdan, with this weapon, the Mongol cavalry was like a tiger, and suppressed the Turkic cavalry so that they did not dare to approach the Mongols at all.

"Fifty miles ahead, there is Yarkand City!" Riding a tall Arabian horse, Apak and Zhuo triumphantly said to Galdan and Lee Lai Heng, who assisted them.

"Good!" Galdan nodded, "Order the three armies, speed up the march, and be sure to arrive at Yarkand City ten miles below and camp before it gets dark today!" In this way, the army will be able to enter the enemy city early tomorrow morning. ”

A mixed formation of tens of thousands of camels and horses galloped along the oasis on the edge of the desert, and before it was dark, the loyal battalion and the Mongol coalition arrived in a withered yellow oasis ten miles away from the city of Yarkand. With Galdan's order, the Mongols jumped off their horses and camels.

The auxiliaries who marched with the coalition forces also jumped off their camels, and it was their task to set up camp. Under the supervision of the Mongols, these auxiliaries, wearing little white hats and black or blue-gray clothes, unloaded logs and tents from the backs of camels, and worked hard with various tools in their hands. The white-hat auxiliaries dug into the ground, drove stakes, nailed wooden fences into the ground, and set up tents within a ring of wooden fences.

"Why don't you dig a trench?" Galdan asked puzzledly, "If there were no trenches, once the Turks came at night to attack our army's camp, they rushed in. ”

Li Laiheng laughed and said, "If the Turks are hiding in Yecheng City and don't come out, won't it add trouble to our siege?" If they dare to sneak up at night, that's fine, we're in ambush for them! ”

"Will the Turks be fooled?" Galdan asked.

Li Laiheng sneered: "The Turks were originally regarded as lions in the Western Regions, but it's a pity that after they believed in the Heavenly Fang Sect, they became more and more incompetent from then on!" If the Heavenly Sect is really so magical, why did your Mongol Empire sweep through the Western Regions back then, whether it was the Great Cannibals or the Turks, they all became your subordinates? ”

Galdan also laughed: "The Turks are not as good as the big cannibals!" However, the Turks in the west, that is, the Lumi people, have the blood of our Mongols, and they can still fight, and it is said that they have all fought to Europe. The Turks here are not to be feared at all, we just need to destroy them. ”

The loyal battalion and the Mongols set up camp, and the Turkic scout cavalry came to spy on the army. They did not dare to approach the Mongols during the day, and after dark, the Turks took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain and observed from a distance outside the Mongol camp, and they found that the Mongol camp did not dig a trench!

The Turkic scout cavalry hurriedly returned to the city of Yarkand, ten miles away, and reported the situation to the Khan's king Ismayel.

To tell the truth, since the belief in the Heavenly Sect, the IQ of the Turks has indeed been lowered, and it can be seen from the weakness of Turkey that this barbaric religion is ****, clamoring to kill all the infidels all day long. The once powerful Great Food Empire, trampled by the Mongol Empire, the Turkish Empire and Westerners in turn, is as honest as a dog. Later, because of the Second World War, the old imperialist countries such as Britain and France weakened, and the cannibals became independent one after another, but they were ravaged by a small Israel. In the end, there is no other ability than to engage in human bombing.

Hearing that the Mongols were empty of defenses, the Turkic general Babai Ibraim was overjoyed: "This is a good opportunity! After the Mongols entered the territory of our country, the road went smoothly, and they relaxed their guard! The last general can lead his troops out of the city and attack the Mongol camp at night! Victory or defeat is here! ”

"Good!" Ismaye said, "This king has allocated you 5,000 cavalry, and you take advantage of the darkness to go out of the city and sneak attack, and give this king a peaceful Mongol camp!" ”