On the city walls, a cold wind from the north blows, which indicates that the next cold winter is coming. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Choosing this time period is just the right time to take advantage of the lack of green and yellow to deal a serious blow to the logistics of the barbarians.

Having made a plan to attack the barbarians this time, Niu Ben and Lu Fei led 2,000 cavalry to attack into the grassland in two ways, while Luo Xin stayed in Cangzhou City to deal with the barbarian cavalry who might come to attack and prevent the construction of a new city wall.

Seeing the figures of Niu Ben and the others disappear into the sky, Xiao Ming's expression was complicated, this is the time to really test Niu Ben and Lu Fei, and it is also unknown whether these soldiers can come back this time.

"Zhan Xingchang, let's start digging a trench." Xiao Ming commanded.

In Xiao Ming's plan, this time it was divided into two parts, the first of which was to send cavalry to fight guerrillas on the grassland, so that the barbarian cavalry was exhausted and had no time to take care of Cangzhou City.

The second is to dig a trench on the outside of Xinchengqiang, arrange catapults and throw gunpowder canisters to defend against barbarian attacks.

This time, Zhan Xingchang brought more than 10,000 professional slaves in charge of construction, and he invested a lot of money to hire local people, and now there are 30,000 people involved in the construction of the new city wall.

The slaves who were professionally responsible for the construction of the walls would be responsible for the construction of the walls, while the common people would be responsible for transporting materials and digging trenches on the perimeter, which would not require technical skills.

When the order was given, Zhan Xingchang immediately commanded the people to go out of the city and dug a coherent deep ditch within 500 meters of the new city wall.

The Cangzhou army, on the other hand, placed 200 trebuchets in the city on the platform reserved in the trench, and threw gunpowder canisters at the barbarians who rushed into the trench.

Now that the gunpowder tank in Cangzhou City is well prepared, and there is artillery support at the head of the city, if the barbarians want to break through this barrier, they will have to pay a great price.

The people in the city carried hoes, shovels and other tools out of the city, and Zhan Xingchang also went to arrange them, while Xiao Ming led the slave craftsmen to dig the foundation of the new city wall.

Like the old wall, the new wall is 500 meters long, and more than 10,000 craftsmen are distributed in a position of 500 meters, and almost 20 craftsmen can be allocated for every meter.

Without modern machinery, Xiao Ming can only make up for it with manpower.

The wall was repaired twenty meters high and eight meters wide, and every 10 meters within a range of 500 meters there would be a battery protruding six meters forward, each of which was large enough to install six guns, which could shoot not only at the enemy on the outside, but also at the enemy who climbed the wall.

In this way, the artillery mounted on the fort alone was enough to hold three hundred guns, and this did not include the artillery between the battlements and the artillery in the mezzanine of the city walls.

If this fortress-style wall were built, it would be equivalent to a huge sail warship between two mountains.

"Dig!"

A loud trumpet sounded, and the slave craftsmen immediately began to dig in groups of twenty, this time only the foundation of the city wall was five meters deep, and if the barbarians wanted to blow up the city wall, they had to dig it.

Tens of thousands of people were busy, but Xiao Ming was not idle, he shuttled among the slave craftsmen, carefully checking the excavation of the foundation.

Unlike modern excavators, which can dig a five-meter deep trench in half an hour, twenty people are responsible for a one-meter foundation, and from morning to night, this one-meter wide, eight-meter-long, and five-meter-deep foundation is completed.

As the sun set in the evening, tens of thousands of people withdrew to the city, and the trench excavation was completed.

At this time, Xiao Ming couldn't help but sigh, in ancient times when there were no modern machinery, it was really the strength of the population, and the population was always the first resource.

"Your Highness, according to the experience of the lower officials these days, the cavalry of the barbarians will generally arrive on the third day." Zhan Xingchang went up to the city wall, with worry in his eyes.

The frequent harassment of the barbarians seriously affected his plans, which annoyed him greatly.

It is precisely because of this that Xiao Ming personally arrived in Cangzhou this time, and he also made a great determination to continue to promote this plan even if he started another war with the barbarians.

The black night gradually covered the grassland, and Xiao Ming said: "I only hope that Niu Ben and Lu Fei will not disappoint this king." ”

Zhan Xingchang nodded when he heard this, this time he sent Niu Ben and Lu Fei to take the barbarians by surprise and disrupt the barbarians' attack plan.

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In the vast grassland, there are only a few cold stars in the sky, and there is no trace of moonlight, since he and Niu Ben divided their troops into two ways, Lu Fei led the cavalry to search for barbarian tribes on the grassland.

The effort paid off, and when night fell, he saw a bonfire lit not far away through his binoculars.

"How many of you come with me and see how many people there are in this tribe?" Lu Fei said.

The named soldier answered, tiptoeing with Lu Fei to grope around the bonfire.

Although the land of Youzhou was garrisoned by the Blood Wolf Tribe, according to the customs of the barbarians, the Blood Wolf Tribe was formed by the condensation of many small tribes, and these small tribes would get their own pastures for grazing.

At this time, it was pitch black on the grassland, and it was impossible to see anyone outside the bonfire.

When Lu Fei approached the barbarian tribe with his soldiers, he was not noticed by anyone.

Around the campfire, the barbarians were roasting cattle and sheep, laughing and drinking wine and eating meat.

"Damn, these barbarians have a really good life, they eat meat and drink wine every day, and they are much happier than Lao Tzu." Lu Fei shook his nose, and the smell of meat made him drool a little.

"Captain, look at this brute bag, there are more than five hundred, it seems that this is a small tribe, there are only more than a thousand people in it, what are you waiting for, just grab the meat and eat it."

The soldier who followed behind Lu Fei said that his name was Lei Ming, and it was the Youzhou soldier who asked Xiao Ming about the Guanning Iron Cavalry in the last Cangzhou battle.

After that, he was incorporated into the cavalry, and the group of soldiers led by Lu Fei were all Youzhou people, which was the Guanning Iron Cavalry that Xiao Ming wanted to establish.

"Hehe, this is to my taste, go, go back, since His Highness asked us to fight guerrilla warfare, let's give him a night attack." Lu Fei said.

Thunder nodded bloodthirstily, this was once their homeland, and no one knew better than them the pain of their homeland being occupied by foreign enemies, so they hated the barbarians more than anyone else.

With the soldiers to find out the situation, Lu Fei and the others secretly turned back.

"Captain, do you want to attack now?" Someone asked.

"Hit a fart, of course wait until midnight when they are all asleep, remember, this time we don't ride horses, but sneak over, and when the time comes, we will kill me when we enter the tent, and leave no one behind." Lu Fei said.

"Yes." The soldiers said in muffled voices.

Lu Fei glanced at the bonfire in the distance again, and gently touched the telescope on his body, this time he was able to discover this tribe in advance, and he was not discovered by this tribe because of this telescope.

(To be continued.) )