The morale of the Tang Army officers who have updated the equipment has been greatly improved, the new equipment is much stronger than the old equipment in terms of lethality and defensive capabilities, the combat power of the officers and men of the Beiting Army has been upgraded by a grade, the equipment rate of the new equipment has reached 100 percent, every officer of the Beiting Army has a suit of armor, and the previous equipment rate is only 60 percent. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In November of the eleventh year of Tianbao, the Great Food Country was unable to govern due to the serious illness of the Caliph Abbasid, his younger brother and uncle were secretly fighting for power and profit, and the two sides were inextricably fighting, so the Great Food Country had no time to expand outward, after the news was thoroughly confirmed, Zhao Ziliang played to the emperor, recommended Dugu Jun as the deputy protector, recommended Gao Shi as the judge of the Metropolitan Protectorate, recommended Xuanyi as the envoy of soldiers and horses, and Fugu Huaien as the deputy envoy of soldiers and horses. Xuan Wu and others commanded 10,000 troops to go north to Henglus, and the military garrison of the place under the jurisdiction of the Taixi Protectorate was responsible for the remaining 10,000 veterans of the Beiting Army, 10,000 new troops, and the original 12,000 Sogdian troops.

On the eighth day of November, Zhao Ziliang's army set off for the north.

After the army crossed the **** in the north of the city where Samad was built, Zhao Ziliang stopped his horse, turned his head and said to Dugu Jun, Gao Shi, Xuanyi and Fugu Huaien who saw them off: "Just send it here!" The military and political affairs of the Taixi Protectorate will be handed over to you, and the 10,000 newly recruited soldiers must step up their training, and in addition to tactical skills, they should especially strengthen the ideological education of these newly recruited local soldiers, and do not treat these local soldiers differently from the veterans of Beiting, which will only cause contradictions. If there is anything to do, send a fast horse or a flying pigeon to Henglus City, and the relocation of the Beiting Ruling Office may start in the early spring of next year, and all the relocation will be completed by August next year, during which I will stay in Hengrus City to preside over the expansion of the city! I hope you will do your best! ”

Everyone hurriedly clasped their hands and saluted: "Don't worry, we don't dare to slack off for a moment!" ”

"Go back, don't send it again!" After Zhao Ziliang finished speaking, he waved his hand and shouted: "Order, the army will set off and advance at a regular speed!" ”

"Walk slowly, have a good trip!" Dugu Jun, Gao Shi, Xuanyi, and the servant Gu Huaien and others waved and shouted.

Watching Zhao Ziliang's army go away, Dugu Jun said to Gao Shi, Xuanyi, Fugu Huaien and others: "Everyone, this is the first time we are really in charge of the ruling side, and we are still governing this strange Sogdian land. ”

Gao Shi said with a smile: "Lord Dugu doesn't have to be like this, didn't the marshal already arrange the ruling strategy before leaving, we just need to govern according to this strategy, and there will be no big deal!" ”

Fugu Huaien shouted: "If you are afraid of a bird, whoever dares to make trouble will kill whom, I see who dares to make trouble!" ”

Dugu Jun shook his head and said, "General Servant Bone, some things can be solved without killing, don't act recklessly!" ”

At the end of November, Zhao Ziliang led the army back to Henglus City, and Chu Ge led the officials of the city out of the city to greet him. From afar, Zhao Ziliang rode on horseback and saw the outline of a city about ten miles long and wide standing on the bank of the Henglus River, the city wall has not been completely completed, but the outline has been basically formed, this is Chu Ge's achievements in the past six months.

There are still more than ten miles away from Henglus City, Chu Ge brought people to greet him, and all the generals and officials dismounted and saluted in unison: "Welcome the commander back to Henglus City."

Zhao Ziliang raised his hand and smiled: "Get up, get on the horse, let's talk while walking!" ”

"No!"

The marching speed of the army slowed down, and the generals and officials were talking in front, and Zhao Ziliang asked: "Chu Ge, according to the current progress, how long do you think it will take for the city wall to be completed?" ”

Chu Ge replied, "It can be completed in less than three months!" ”

"Oh?" Zhao Ziliang was a little surprised when he heard this, and asked, "Don't you want three months?" Looking at the construction of the city wall, you have spent more than half a year now, and I think there is still more than half of the remaining project, right? How can you do it in just three months? ”

Chu Ge said with a smile: "Jieshuai doesn't know, you see that the bricks and stones used in this city wall are all fired by kilns, and the cement ash that binds the masonry needs to be fired!" In the past six months, we have built two large kilns, one to burn bricks and stones, one to burn cement ash, the craftsmen who build kilns, make bricks and burn cement ash are all captured from Tingzhou and Xilin, it is said that these craftsmen followed the festival marshal to Hexi, Hedong and Mobei, they know how to make bricks and kilns, and burn cement ash, so I sent someone to Tingzhou to send a letter, and then Wang Can sent people to send these craftsmen, don't you say, the fired bricks and stones are very strong and durable, and the cement ash is blended as a binder, The walls are stronger than those made of other materials! ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said, "Well, that's good!" You can think that the craftsmen from Tingzhou and Xilin Shou are going to build the city, and they are doing the right thing! This Henglus City is to be used as a new place in Beiting, the city should occupy a larger area, the city wall should be built tall and thicker, according to this area, although it is not as good as Chang'an City, but it is several times larger than Tingzhou, Qiuzi and Samad to build the city, the city wall should also be built as tall and thick as possible, but do not exceed Chang'an City, so as not to be criticized! ”

"Understood!" Chu Ge agreed.

When he arrived near the city wall, Chu Ge pointed to the boom-shaped utensils made of long wood on the side of the city wall and introduced: "Jieshuai, you look at the boom used to save effort, you can hang the fired bricks and stones on the city wall after loading them in baskets, without using a lot of manpower to carry them, as long as a few people can operate them!" And these working masons, who were not masons before, but were herdsmen and farmers before the walls were built, and in the past few months, they have learned and practiced, and all of them have changed from herdsmen and farmers to skilled masons who build the walls! ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said, "Okay!" ”

The army was stationed outside the city, and the Tang army originally stationed here was camped separately, Zhao Ziliang and the accompanying officials and colonels rode around the city wall around the city and walked around, checked the progress and quality of the city wall construction, the moat has already been dug outside the city wall, but the junction of the moat and the Henglus River has not been chiseled, so there is only a layer of shallow water in the moat, and the soil excavated from the moat is all filled into the city wall or used to burn masonry, so the inside of the city wall is not hollow, but filled with mud, In this way, the walls were made stronger, and although the project was huge, the entire project required more than 30,000 people, most of whom were prisoners of food.

Watching the construction along the way under the city wall being built, Zhao Ziliang pointed to the big food captives who were doing coolies up and down the city wall and asked, "How are these big food captives in mood?" How can I watch them work slowly, and they all look like they are going to die? ”

Chu Ge smiled bitterly: "Jie Shuai, they are prisoners, not ordinary people serving forced labor, it is impossible to expect them to work hard!" That's it, we still killed a lot of thorns in a row to make them sell a little strength! ”

Zhao Ziliang shook his head and said: "Your method is not right, if you want to control them well, you can't let them hug each other, you must find a way to divide them and let them scatter, so that they will be afraid of us and work hard!" Now that they are in a group, they are resisting you everywhere, and if you are not going to kill them all, then you can't do anything about them, our purpose is not to kill them all, but to get them to work! ”

After listening to Zhao Ziliang's words, Chu Ge thought for a moment and nodded: "Jie Shuai's words, the last general understands!" ”

After looking around the city walls, the people entered the city, and the old city was surrounded in the whole new city, located on the westernmost side of the new city, near the edge of the desert in the west, and only a small part of it, most of the new city was close to the Henglus River, and after passing through the old city, it entered the new city.

Today's new city is still a wasteland, only in the middle of the new city erected a wide, majestic courtyard-style building, the gate is quite magnificent, there are two mighty stone lions at the door, and there is no plaque on the eaves.

Everyone dismounted at the gate, and the four soldiers standing guard at the gate saw it and bowed down on one knee with a spear, Chu Ge introduced to Zhao Ziliang: "Jieshuai, this is the newly built Jiedu Embassy, the houses of other yamen can not be built for the time being, but the Jiedu Embassy is the first to be built, which was started with the city wall, it has been built for more than two months, and now only some soldiers live in it and are responsible for safety."

"Good! This yard is well repaired, good! Zhao Ziliang looked up, pointed to both sides of the gate and said: "Don't hang the plaque on the eaves, hang the sign of the Beiting Jiedu Embassy on the left, and hang the sign of the Beiting Duhu Mansion on the right, hang it vertically!" I saw that the yard was big enough, and there were many houses, so I simply set up the Terracotta Embassy here, and added a sign of the Terracotta Embassy on the left, and it was convenient for the military and political yamen to be gathered together to deal with official business! ”

Chu Ge promised: "Okay, someone will be arranged to do it later!" Jie Shuai, go in, the house is all cleaned up! ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and walked in, and the others followed into the mansion one after another.

Entering this new festival embassy mansion, as Chu Ge said, this place has been all built, the decoration has been completed, some decorations, furnishings are well arranged, the pavilions and attics inside have completed the painting, decoration and finishing work, the whole festival degree makes the house very clean and tidy, there is no trace of dust and dust, here is close to the desert, the wind and sand are big, there is a lot of dust, and there is no little dust in this house, it can be seen that the cleaning is very diligent. (To be continued.) )