Not to mention the preparation of the Song army, outside Taiyuan City, the Chifeng army was already in full swing. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After the previous battle, the city wall was basically completely destroyed by artillery and the battle between the two, and it was no longer able to restore its previous city defense function. It is simply that half of the current Red Phoenix Army has been firearmed, and under the rule of that infinitely powerful artillery, the city wall is categorically unable to play the effectiveness of cold weapons.

Therefore, Xiao Feng directly used the remains of the original city wall as the line of defense, and began to dig trenches and build fortresses, in order to lower and block them when the next wave of Mongolian troops attacked.

At this moment, thousands of soldiers were working around the walls, digging trenches, and building those bricks and stones, filling them with earth to form a fortress.

This fortress is not large, three zhang long, one zhang wide, and three zhang high, with openings of more than three feet on three sides, and the top is made of square wood and covered with dozens of centimeters of earth, a fortress is enough to hold more than thirty soldiers, just enough for a team to be stationed in it, and there are also reserves such as stoves, food, and fresh water, which are enough for soldiers to get a moment of rest in it.

Such forts were about every 100 zhang of distance, and in the middle of the forts were trenches six feet deep, crisscrossed by trenches, and connected to each fortress, enough to ensure that soldiers could move quickly from one trench to another, so that they would not be exposed and shot by the Mongol cavalry.

They are scattered outside Taiyuan City, like the stars and the moon, protecting Taiyuan City in the rear.

Looking at the fortress all over the land from afar, Shi Tianze was silent, waiting for the report of the soldiers under his command. After a while, the historian had already led a group of cavalry back to the front of the battle in despair.

Shi Tianze glanced at the group of soldiers with gray faces and blood on their bodies, and his voice was full of helplessness: "Have you failed again?"

"Yes, the fortress built by the Red Phoenix Army is too hard for our hand cannons to break. Moreover, the opponent only acts within the trenches, and if they see someone attacking, they will immediately hide in the trenches, and unless our weapons break into ten zhang of each other, they will not be able to cause effective damage to the opponent at all. Lowering his head, Shi Ji felt that the fighting spirit in his heart had been completely wiped out, and only a remnant body remained, waiting for everyone to ridicule him.

With a turn of his eyes, Shi Tianze stared at Zhong Wei again and asked, "Isn't the siege cannon also good?"

Zhong Wei was also extremely annoyed: "I tried! But after the siege cannon only destroyed a few fortresses, it was quickly destroyed by the other party with the same firearms, if the soldiers were not evacuated in time, otherwise even I would have died." ”

"Is it because the fortress is too evacuated?" staring at the distance, Shi Tianze felt powerless.

If it is said that the siege cannon is naturally infinitely powerful, the city wall of more than ten zhang long will be completely destroyed with just one shot, and these fortresses built by the Red Phoenix Army at this time will naturally not be able to resist. However, outside the city of Taiyuan, this fortress is too distant, and there are more than 100 zhang of each other, and if you destroy one, other fortresses will find it, and then mobilize troops to start attacking the place where the artillery is.

Moreover, there are as many as hundreds of such fortresses outside Taiyuan City, and they are layered on top of each other to form a defense system with a depth of one mile and a width of three miles, completely protecting the entire Taiyuan City behind them, so that Mongolia cannot break through the defense at all, and then attack the base behind it.

If you want to enter Taiyuan City as before, you must break through this layer of fortresses.

How many soldiers had to be sacrificed in this, Shi Tianze really didn't dare to imagine.

He stared at it for a long time, and finally turned into a sigh: "It seems that this Red Phoenix Army is really not to be underestimated, and it is definitely not an opponent that can be defeated in a short time." It seems that the stalemate can only continue like this!" "Facing this army composed of firearms, Shi Tianze experienced frustration for the first time, that the combat style was completely different from the opponent he had encountered before, and even the combat style was completely different from that of any army in the world today, which already made him feel extremely frightened.

So Xiao Feng, what kind of character is it?

For this girl, Shi Tianze has already risen a strange emotion, and wants to see what kind of person this girl raises?

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Winter weather is always cold, a few days ago the continuous snow covered the whole land, but under the continuous sunlight, the vast snow field that covered the sky and the sun began to melt, and the melting snow turned into a gurgling spring, along the mountain, along the ditch, began to gather in the fields.

At the turn of winter and spring, in the wilderness, the peasants were busy in the fields.

The wheat planted in autumn is already grown, and in order for it to survive the winter, it is necessary to cover the soil and insulate it. If it is covered too early, the wheat will be covered yellow, and if it is covered too late, it is easy to freeze the leaves, resulting in a decrease in grain production. And in order to ensure that the wheat gets enough water, it also needs to be winter irrigated. This winter irrigation also needs to be careful, and if it is not handled well, it will also make the seedlings frostbitten.

The world is full of knowledge, and the practice of human feelings is all articles.

It seems that this matter of agriculture and mulberry has always been the foundation of society, Xiao Feng naturally did not dare to slack off, and after completing the garrison of Taiyuan City, he began to clarify the governance of officials and rectify agriculture.

And in this endless countryside, those peasants are bent on their backs, probably because they are carrying the country, their backs are always bent, no matter what, they have to focus on everything in front of them, waving the bamboo rakes in their hands to pick up the soil and cover the wheat seedlings, each time carefully and carefully, lest something is not done well, so that the wheat yield will be reduced.

On the other side, others are carrying shovels made of iron, digging fields and repairing ditches at the ridges.

Water is needed for watering wheat, water is needed for rice cultivation, and a lot of water is needed to ensure the normal growth of the farmers, and in order to ensure that the wheat grows smoothly when winter passes and spring approaches, they are working hard to dig aqueducts here to ensure that more grain can be harvested the next year.

On the Fenshui River, which traverses the entire plain, a merchant ship more than ten zhang long is sailing on it, and there are five people standing on it, one of whom is Najiang Wanli.

Looking at all this, Jiang Wanli was in a trance, and he felt as if he had returned to the Jiangnan area.

The same serenity, the same tranquility, makes people almost forget the war that took place here more than a month ago!

He looked at the scene in front of him, couldn't help but doubt, and opened his mouth to ask: "This is Taiyuan?" Before coming, he had imagined the scene here, with flags in the sky and continuous wars, but everything in front of him broke his reverie, but with a bit of idyllic leisure.

"That's right, the city in the distance is Taiyuan City!"

Jiang Li pointed to the capital city in the distance and replied slowly, and the three of them, Wu Qing, Tie Xin, and Xue Leng, were also tall and tall, and they separated to protect this Jiang Master from the Southern Dynasty in the center.

They were originally generals of the Song Dynasty, and they were ordered by Meng Hui to escort Jia She's here, and then temporarily stayed in the Chifeng Army for various reasons to help, and now this Jiang Wanli came with a new order, and they had no choice but to break away from the Chifeng Army and rejoin the Song Army.

Now, a few people are fulfilling their duty of guarding.

Looking into the distance, Jiang Wanli pointed to the peasants who were working in the fields: "Mongolia is just outside the city of Taiyuan, aren't they afraid?" Just a rough estimate, he knew that there were thousands of people working in the farmland in front of him.

And the continuous farmland in front of you is enough for tens of thousands of hectares, if the dealer grows smoothly, then to meet the food needs of Taiyuan City, it should be no problem.

Jiang Li introduced: "It is said that the Mongolian army has been driven out by the Red Feng Army, stationed in Xinzhou, which is one hundred and twenty miles away from Taiyuan City, although they invade day and night, but the Red Phoenix Army is naturally not afraid of resistance, and even if there are scattered cavalry breaking here, they are not afraid." Because the Red Phoenix Army stipulated that all the people under their rule were required to carry bows and crossbows and weapons, and whenever they rested, they would gather together for training, saying that it was their duty to defend the homeland and defend the land! Therefore, if anyone invaded this place, they could fight against it themselves without the Red Phoenix Army coming. ”

As if in response to what he said, on the mountain range not far away, a column of cavalry of about a dozen people did not know where to break into this place, and when they saw the people here, they immediately rode their horses and prepared to fight. However, the peasants dropped their shovels early, but took their bows and crossbows from the side, and immediately planted the cavalry to the ground under the rain of arrows, and they were no longer as fierce as before.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Wanli couldn't help but admire: "Okay! Good person, everyone has the responsibility to defend the land." If everyone in the Great Song Dynasty has this heart, then how can Mongolia bully us and others?" Thinking of the chaos in the DPRK and China, he couldn't help but feel helpless.

The great Song Dynasty had a vast territory and tens of millions of people, but under the Mongol invasion, he couldn't even fulfill the responsibility of defending the territory, how could he be happy in comparison?

While a few people were talking, they had already come to Taiyuan City.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Jiang Wanli was suspicious again: "There is no city wall?"

In front of me, the city wall that should have been majestic has disappeared, and in its place are several abrupt fortresses, and dozens of open bridges between the fortresses lead to the city, and the people on them are busy transporting what they have harvested from the fields into the city, and everything is in order.

However, this scene made Jiang Wanli even more difficult.

"That's right! In order to defend against the Mongol army and build a defensive fortress, all the walls here have been demolished. Jiang Li said.

In order to build a fortress complex that was strong enough to resist the Mongol army, a large amount of masonry was needed, but it was impossible to raise so much masonry in a hurry, so Xiao Feng had to tear down all the southern walls that did not have to face the Mongols, and the bricks and stones were transported to the north to build a fortress, otherwise how could it be completed in such a short time?

"Demolished?"

Jiang Wanli was surprised.

In his concept, although this city wall has the purpose of city defense, but most of it is to facilitate the officials to govern the people under their command, just imagine that only need to send people to guard the city gate, then the people have to register and make a register if they want to enter, and it is easy to find it in the future.

But this Xiao Feng demolished this city wall?

He really couldn't understand what the woman was doing.

Jiang Li shook his head, also feeling a little strange: "That's right, it's demolished!" Since he met Xiao Feng ten years ago, he already knew that this woman had a broad mind and had never been disciplined, but every time she followed her ideas, she was able to achieve her goal, so he didn't care much about this matter.

"Okay, then can you tell me where I was able to meet that commander?" Although he was surprised, Jiang Wanli thought that he was a very well-educated scholar, and immediately hid his surprise.

Jiang Li replied a little helplessly: "I don't know this very well. Why don't I ask for you?"

In the few months that he has been in this Chifeng Army, he knows that Xiao Feng is not the kind of person who sits and waits to be killed, as a commander, she has always liked to collect all kinds of books, such as the Hundred Schools of Thought, Historical Records, and Country Novels, and she will read them whenever she has time.

On the other hand, Xiao Feng also likes to patrol around, or go to a residential house to observe the people's situation, or go to the barracks to check the armaments and equipment, and occasionally he will suddenly appear to deter those small people who are making trouble.

Jiang Wanli shook his head lightly, immediately stepped down from the merchant ship, stepped on the bridge, and began to walk towards Taiyuan City: "No need, let's take a walk in Taiyuan City now." ”

Seeing this, the other four also hurried to follow, so as not to be left behind.

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On the edge of the Fen River, a dry dock of about 30 zhang has been dug out, and in this dry dock, there is a car and boat of about 10 zhang, and some craftsmen are busy on the car and boat, installing things such as cannons and other things hoisted by gantry cranes on the side of the ship on both sides, in addition to them, they will also nail the iron plate with the thickness of a thumb forged by iron smelting to the paddle wheel, so as to ensure that this critical part will not be damaged by shelling.

Since the Battle of Yushe City, the Red Phoenix Army has captured several Mongolian naval ships, and after the occupation of Taiyuan City, the merchant ships under the jurisdiction of the Lie Jiao Gang have also been brought under the command of the Red Phoenix Army.

It can be said that at present, there are 20 large ships of more than 10 zhang and a carrying capacity of up to 300 stones, and there are more than 100 small boats of various types under the command of the Red Feng Army, which can be regarded as a force.

It was precisely for this reason that Xiao Feng came up with the idea of transforming these warships so that they could carry fierce weapons such as the Capture Cannon, so that they could use the water conservancy advantages of the Fen River to quickly maneuver, and then effectively attack those enemies who dared to offend his Red Feng Army.

Now, in this Taiyuan city, she has gathered all the craftsmen who are good at carpentry in the city, and set up a special shipyard to prepare to build a gunboat in the true sense.

And the gunboat named "Canglong" in front of him is loaded with two captives and ten tiger squat cannons, carrying more than 70 people on it, and equipped with 30 guns.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Xiao Feng felt a little regretful: "Alas, if only I could get the steam engine out." It's a pity that with current technology, it is impossible to forge suitable steel and make a boiler that can withstand high pressure. Forget it, being able to put artillery on board is already a feat. And those things that have not yet been resolved will be left to be resolved later. ”

If she had a steam engine, then she would be able to drive straight into Xinzhou and attack Xinzhou directly, instead of burying her head in farming in this Taiyuan City. (To be continued.) )