Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 421 How to Build a Granary

Sometimes the war between man and man is secondary, and the war between man and nature is the key to the whole war, just as it was not the Tsarist Russian army that destroyed the 60 troops of the Napoleon Empire, but the severe winter of Russia.

He said it was easy, but Wang Hou’s food transportation journey was not easy. It was not difficult to sail across the Bohai Sea from Lianjiao, but it was really difficult for him to be reliable. The fleet traveled north along the coastline of Hebei in later generations. After searching for more than 100 kilometers, there was even a brief talk about two ships hitting a rock and sinking, which made Wang Hou's heart ache. It was only a hundred miles north of Jieshi Mountain, about the Qinhuangdao City of later generations. A suitable landing port has been found.

But even if the boat finally stops, it's not just leaving the food behind, it's looking for a robbery!Today's Liaodong and Liaoxi counties are not the time when the Han Dynasty has the final say. The Dong Zhuo Rebellion ended the authority of the Han Huan Xiaowei. The three counties Wuhuan II had 10,000+ households, dozens of tribes, and Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang brought them to the north. The more than [-] Youzhou residents are currently headed by Wuhuan Khan Tadun.

Wuhuan’s nomadic peoples who live in pursuit of water and grass, once they find a food storage point, if there is no strong barrier, the hungry and cold tribes in the cold winter will swarm like jackals smelling carrion without even giving orders. surrounded to rob.

Before unloading the food from the ship, it is necessary to firmly build a stronghold.

Fortunately, it was the twelfth lunar month of winter, and the extremely malleable ice and snow provided Wang Hou with a lot of convenience. After a small number of troops landed, they used the wood they brought to build a trestle for landing on the beach, followed by a reserve brigade of 5000 people. Again, he rushed ashore with a bucket and shovel and drank the northwest wind, "playing" with snow foam in the ice and snow.

Fortunately, Rizhao produced tools!With a hoe, even if it thaws and freezes first, the hard sticky snow layer has piled up on the shore, the hoe refined from the iron ore of Mount Tai can easily dig it up, and then the reserve soldiers wear big cotton gloves to pack the snow. Put it in the basket and drag it back to the beach.

If you cast it with soil, you have to beat it with a roller. After the soil is solidified, you can make it into a compound soil. You can use snow blocks to form a frame. After pouring, the piercing knife wind blows, and within a few minutes, a layer of ice is frozen. Under the interlayer of snow on the outside and ice on the inside, in less than three days, the ice wall with a height of more than three meters, a wall of more than 1000 meters in circumference The Sea Rectangular Fortress has begun to take shape, and the wall thickness has reached a full three meters, enough for several rows of infantry to have fun and fight on it.

On the top of the wall, there were hundreds of hard-working reserve infantry who were still begging for Wang Hou's whining, constantly transporting snow blocks into the city from the gap left, and transporting these snow blocks from the slope built with snow in the village. The construction materials with frozen hands were transported to the wall, and the remaining reserve soldiers started to build tents in the stockade. After all, guarding the granary cannot live on the boat, and in the extremely cold weather, if you fall asleep in the ice and snow, you will sleep here forever. Wearing it in the wild without sufficient insulation and heating is courting death.

The winter in western Liaoning is really too cold. In the first three days, I worked for half a day and went back to the boat to cook for half an hour. Otherwise, everyone would freeze to death. Now it’s just a little more convenient to put up a tent. The reservists who took the wood from the ship to build the base of the granary did two rounds of work, but they still had to get into the tent to roast their bodies.

Even wearing the big cotton gloves and big cotton hats uniformly distributed by Qingzhou, there are still a lot of frostbite, if not for these, fingers may freeze off!It's no wonder that Cao Cheng and the countryside have endless military advances, but they dare not continue to march north in winter anyway. He is not as rich as Wang Hou, with 20 soldiers and more than [-] people. Going north, without Wuhuan to fight, nature can directly turn the entire army into ice sculptures.

Standing on the icy wall with three layers of cashmere cushions under his feet, his feet are still freezing cold, watching his subordinates continue to build up the snow wall, but Wang Hou stomped his feet dissatisfied. It is a unique building material, but its service life is flawed. The lunar calendar is nearly one month longer than the Gregorian calendar. In the end of February and the beginning of March in the next year, when the ice and snow melt, the snow village will not be able to maintain it. According to the ancient The speed of the war, Mr. Cao, who set off from No End in February, may not arrive here until mid-March or even April.

That is to say!Before the ice and snow melted, another layer of internal barriers had to be built!
"Master! Look!"

Just as Wang Hou was still thinking about how to place the building blocks, the Detachment Army Zhuge Ying next to him yelled and slapped forward like a lark. Wang Hou's heart tightened when he heard this, and he also moved forward suddenly. Picked up the binoculars.

Looking at these two eyes, he couldn't help raising his brows hastily. In the center of the telescope circle, at the edge of the white snow field, three nomads in old sheepskin coats put their hands on their foreheads and watched him. , and had to admire the eyesight and vigilance of these people, Wang Hou just raised the binoculars and didn't look at it a few times. It seemed that they had already noticed it, and turned around leading the horse. , not flustered, jogged and ran back.

The Wuhuan people finally found out!
"Do you want to chase it?"

The little face was also flushed from the cold, and she had been crazy with Wang Hou for a long time. Zhuge Ying, who was originally restless, turned into a militant. After getting down, the red face under the big hat looked at Wang Hou excitedly, and the girl asked eagerly.

However, he put down the binoculars heavily, and suddenly sucked out the big snot that had frozen out, but Wang Hou shook his head deeply.

Even though the Liaoxi Corridor is almost all large plains, the plains also have ups and downs. The bumps are swamps, and no one knows where the rivers are. This area is also a real strange place for the Qingzhou Army. If you can't catch up with people, you may get lost and never come back when your own people go!There are few soldiers in Qingzhou, and the battle line is too long. The soldiers gathered here are only two regiments plus a hundred or so of his own soldiers. There is really no need to take this risk.

"I don't know how long these Wuhuan people have been lurking nearby. Maybe we just discovered it today. It's useless to chase them! Send someone to tell Lu He that his brigade's rest is over early, and order him to quickly install defenses on the outside of the fortress, so as to protect them." Prevent barbarian raids!"

"In addition, send someone to notify the logistics team that the distribution of shortbread and Daocheng spirits will be increased by one-third, but the working hours of the Daocheng Reserve Brigade will also be increased by an hour. The food must be unloaded from the ship in these few days!"

"My concubine knows!"

A little bit disappointed, but Zhuge Ying responded obediently with her fists clasped, then briskly flew down the wall of the village, grabbed a guy who was yelling in the middle of the village with ease, and yelled, level by level, Soon, the Qingzhou reserve soldiers working below seemed to double their speed, and their movements became faster and more hasty.

Wang Hou himself breathed a sigh of relief, and once again looked into the distance with his binoculars, and after a few glances, he ordered again to the sergeants under his command who were building the crenel.

"You! Yes! Just you, build two more watchtowers for this seat at the four corners!"

"be quick!"

(End of this chapter)