Chapter 252: Lonely

On the city wall, the cold wind from the north blew in gusts, which heralded the coming of the next cold winter.
Choosing this time period can take advantage of the lack of green and yellow to severely hit the barbarian's logistics.
Making a plan to harass the barbarians this time, Niu Ben and Lu Fei led two thousand cavalry troops into the grassland. Luo Xin stayed in Cangzhou City to deal with the barbarian cavalry who might come to attack and prevent the construction of a new wall.
Watching Niu Ben and the others disappear into the sky, Xiao Ming's expression was complicated. This was the time to really test Niu Ben and Lu Fei. Whether these soldiers could come back this time is still unknown.
"Zhan Xingchang, start digging trenches." Xiao Ming ordered.
In Xiao Ming's plan, this time was divided into two parts. The first part was to send cavalry to fight guerrillas on the grassland, leaving the barbarian cavalry exhausted and unable to take care of Cangzhou City.
The second is to dig wide trenches outside the new city, and arrange slings to throw gunpowder cans to defend against barbarians.
This time, Zhan Xingchang brought more than 10,000 professionally responsible for construction slaves, and he invested a lot of money in hiring local people. Now there are 30,000 people participating in the construction of the new city wall.
The slaves who are professionally responsible for construction will be responsible for the construction of the city wall, and these people are responsible for transporting materials and digging trenches on the periphery, these folks who do not need technical content.
The order was issued, and Zhan Xingchang immediately directed the people out of the city, dug a continuous deep trench within 500 meters from the new city wall.
The Cangzhou Army installed the two hundred trebuchets in the city on a platform reserved in the trench, and at that time projected gunpowder cans against the brutal soldiers rushing into the trench.
Now that Cangzhou City has sufficient preparations for gunpowder cans, and the city has artillery support, if the barbarians want to break through this barrier, they must pay a great price.
The people in the city carried hoes, shovels and other tools out of the city, and Zhan Xingchang followed suit, while Xiao Ming led slave craftsmen to dig the foundation of the new city wall.
Like the old city wall, the new city wall has a total length of 500 meters, and more than 10,000 craftsmen are distributed at 500 meters. Almost 20 craftsmen can be allocated per meter.
Without modern machinery, Xiao Ming could only make up for it with manpower.
The repair of the city wall is 20 meters high and 8 meters wide. Within a range of 500 meters, there will be a fort protruding six meters forward every ten meters. Each fort has a large area, enough to mount six artillery. , The six artillery can not only shoot at the enemy outside, but also at the enemy climbing the city wall.
In this way, only the artillery installed on the turret is enough to hold three hundred artillery, and this does not include the artillery between the battlements and the artillery on the mezzanine wall.
If this fortress-style city wall is built, it is basically equivalent to a huge sailing warship lying between two big mountains.
"Excavation!"
A loud chant sounded, and the slave craftsmen immediately started digging in groups of twenty. This time only the foundation of the wall was five meters deep. If the barbarians wanted to blow up the wall, they had to dig it.
Tens of thousands of people were busy, and Xiao Ming didn't take time off. He shuttled among the slave craftsmen, carefully checking the excavation of the foundation.
Unlike a modern excavator that can dig a five-meter deep trench in half an hour, twenty people are responsible for a one-meter foundation. From morning to night, this one-meter-wide, eight-meter-long, and five-meter-deep foundation is completed. .
When the sunset fell in the evening, tens of thousands of people stopped work and withdrew to the city. At this time, the trench excavation outside was also completed.
At this time, Xiao Ming couldn't help sighing that in ancient times without modern machinery, there was indeed a lot of people and power, and this population was always the first resource.
"His Royal Highness, based on the experience of the lower officials these days, the barbarian cavalry will usually arrive on the third day." Zhan Xingchang went up the city wall with worry in his eyes.
The frequent harassment of the barbarians seriously affected his plan, which annoyed him very much.
It is precisely because of this that Xiao Ming personally arrived in Cangzhou this time and made a big determination to continue to advance this plan even if the war with the barbarians goes on again.
The black night gradually enveloped the grassland, Xiao Ming said: "I only hope that Niu Ben and Lu Fei will not let this king down."
Zhan Xingchang nodded when he heard the words. This time, Niu Ben and Lu Fei were sent to catch the Barbarian by surprise and disrupt the Barbarian's harassment 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 are separated, Lu Fei led the cavalry to search for the barbarian tribes on the grassland.
The effort paid off. When night fell, he saw a bonfire lit up not far away through the telescope.
"You few come with me to see how many people are in this tribe?" Lu Fei said.
The named soldier answered, and followed Lu Fei to the campfire.
Although the land of Youzhou is stationed by the blood wolf tribe, according to the customs of the barbarians, the blood wolf tribe is agglomerated by many small tribes, which will get their own pastures to graze.
At this time, the grassland was pitch black, and no one could be seen outside the campfire.
When Lu Fei approached the barbarian tribe with his soldiers, no one was spotted.
Around the campfire, these barbarians were roasting cattle and sheep, laughing and drinking and eating meat.
"His mother, these barbarians have a really good day, eating meat and drinking every day, they are much happier than Lao Tzu." Lu Fei shook his nose, and the smell of meat made him drool a little.
"Lieutenant, look at this man bag, there are more than five hundred. It seems that this is a small tribe with only a thousand people in it. What are you waiting for? Just grab the meat and eat it."
He told the soldier behind Lu Fei that his name was Lei Ming, and it was the Youzhou soldier who asked Xiao Ming when Xiao Ming mentioned Guan Ning's iron cavalry during the last Cangzhou battle.
After that, he was incorporated into the cavalry. The soldiers that Lu Fei led were all from Youzhou, and it was the Guanning cavalry that Xiao Ming wanted to build. UU reading www.uukanshu.com
"Hey, it's to my taste, go, go back, since your Highness lets us fight guerrilla warfare, let's give him a night attack." Lu Fei said.
Thunder and bloodthirsty nodded. This was once their hometown. No one knew the pain of their hometown being occupied by foreign enemies better than them, so their hatred of the barbarians surpassed anyone.
Taking the soldiers to figure out the situation, Lu Fei and others surreptitiously turned back.
"Lieutenant, will you attack now?" someone asked.
"Assault, of course, we have to wait until midnight when they are all asleep. Remember, this time we are not riding a horse, but sneaking over. When the time comes, we will kill me when we enter the tent, leaving no one behind." Lu Fei Said.
"Yes." The soldiers said in a suppressed voice.
Lu Fei looked at the bonfire in the distance again, and lightly touched the telescope on his body. This time he could spot the tribe in advance, but the tribe was not discovered by the telescope.
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