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The painting of this castle is also weird, with uneven inside and outside, like a pineapple that has been cut open, and the irregular sides are marked with the length and distance of Arabic numerals. This is clearly an engineering drawing!

"Bastion!"

Looking at this picture, and then looking at the busy fields below, Mao Jue couldn't help pinching his chin and thinking deeply.

Chapter 61. High cast walls

There are many people and strength, and the visitors from Xinzhou are indeed tenacious. At the end of July, the moon valley north of Iron Mountain, Jialuo Peak, the ancient military camp and other health fortresses, the original [-] mu of farmland, once again Rejuvenated, the corn planted first has grown to the length of the calf, and the potatoes planted later are also green with leaves like palms.

However, Zhao Cheng, Tian Tao and the others hoped that the Zhongjian Nu would attack and harass him again, but the situation that they beat Mao Jue to a disgraced face did not appear. , The Xianglan Banner withdrew into the city, as if it had already satisfied the results of this year's battle, and waited for this year's autumn harvest with peace of mind, which made several local tyrants sigh Mao Jue's shit luck.

The seventh month of the lunar calendar is almost the sixth month of later generations. Even if winter comes much faster in this era, seven, eight, nine, and ten plus half a month of November will almost allow Tieshan Town to complete a harvest. , what needs to be done now is to wait patiently.

Mao Jue's 800 troops were also divided into five pieces by him, and they were stationed in five strongholds including Yuegu. To be honest, even if the rebel army with five people including Tian Tao and He Momo was defeated, in fact The combat effectiveness of these troops has not improved much, Mao Jue's 2000 soldiers can really fight, and the remaining 500 or so cavalry have a little combat effectiveness, and the remaining infantry is free. They were no match for Jianzhou's [-] men, and they didn't need to be all cavalry. Mao Jue could be beaten to the ground with two hundred and eight banner cavalry.

However, if he dared to take the lead alone and take over the defense of the entire north, Mao Jue naturally had his guard of honor, which was the foresight of the upcoming major events.

The busy farming work has come to an end, and the rest of watering and fertilizing is similar to raising vegetables, and it can be handled by the women and the elderly in the village.A while ago, slavery raids were established, coupled with the famine in Tieshan, the old, weak, sick and disabled were brutally eliminated. In this era when men are scarce, and with the soldiers under his command, the population of about 8000 is still alive. There were more than [-] men in their prime, between sixteen and fifty, all of whom were conscripted by Mao Jue.

Although the northern part of the Korean Kingdom is full of hills and rugged terrain, the large plains suitable for farming paddy fields are almost all in the south, and the climate is relatively dry and cold, but the mountains also have the benefits of the mountains. More than 80.00% of the mineral resources of the peninsula are here, and more The wonderful thing is that there are many volcanoes here.

Just near Mount Garao, there is an extinct volcano with tens of thousands of tons of volcanic ash.

A huge roar resounded on the Iron Mountain. Buckets of black powder were buried in the crevices of the stones. The tens of meters of fuse burned to the end. Although there was no detonator of later generations, the powerful explosion still seemed to explode. In this way, thousands of catties of limestone fell down.

Tieshan was in short supply of food, but the resources of coal and iron were so abundant that they could be wasted. After the explosion, thousands of strong men pushed wheelbarrows, loaded with heavy limestones, and returned to the Garao Guardhouse, and immediately put these stones into In a clay blast furnace made of yellow mud, like a termite nest, the flame of the coal burning in the furnace reaches a white flame level of about [-] degrees. Under the scorching heat, large pieces of limestone quickly peel off and shatter. .

At the other end, the earth blast furnace that had been turned off was knocked down, and the burnt quicklime inside was scooped out by sweaty shirtless men. It was transported by cart after cart, and joined together with these things.

The huge stone rollers were pulled hard by several bullocks, which made the path up the mountain wider and stronger. Beside the road, countless wheelbarrows streamed up the mountain with mixed powder. In the ruins of the labor camp, the pineapple-shaped castle that Adelaine drew a while ago has taken a rough shape. The whole fortress is not big, only about two hundred meters long and one hundred and twenty-three meters wide. It's about the size of a big stadium, but the city wall is like a dog chewing on it, stretching and shrinking, so there is no flat place.

However, the speed of this city casting can be called astonishing. In the battle of Dalinghe, Zu Dashou led more than 1 troops and more than 2 mules and horsemen to rush to repair Dalinghe City. Afterwards, Golden Emperor Taiji dispatched troops on July 25. For more than half a year, Dalinghe City, which was only two or three times larger than Jialuofeng, was not repaired by Zu Dashou, and Jialuobao, which had been painting Mao Jue for five days, was not completed. In three days, it has been more than one meter wide, and it is three to four meters wide, enough to run a truck.

More than a dozen large pits were steaming hot, and two kinds of powder from the mountain were poured into them, followed by water, and an astonishing heat came from the face, so hot that the nearby strong men had to work shirtless. I used a big wooden stick to stir it desperately, and stirred most of the mud in the sinkhole into a gray paste, then threw the silt and gravel into it, and then stirred it evenly.

Like cooking porridge.

There is a shelf on the edge, there is really no steel bar, and the several meters long beams that have been treated with anti-corrosion are inserted into the city wall like a flagpole. centimeters, and then the unicycles and unicycles were poured down from the top with a whimper, and the car was piled up to a height of more than one meter.

This is the second day.

You can't fight, but you can command and dispatch. Fatty Su is an absolute veteran. His steamed bun face is like a boiled crab shell. Well, the wooden sandwich wall at the other end must have been built similarly. There has never been a time when the underground workers waited for the empty pit, the stirring men waited for the empty sandwich wall, or the carpenters waited for the muddle.

According to this speed, the first Liaodong Mao Jue City can be completed in less than five days. No wonder Yuan Chonghuan wanted to take down Mao Wenlong and replace him with a small one. Wait until it's done, I believe that after the Jialaofeng Castle is repaired, Jiannu will be able to give Jiannu a big surprise next year.

Relying on the strong fortress to deal a heavy blow to the Eight Banners, Mao Jue's strategy is really similar to Yuan Chonghuan's.

Of course, the ability to have such a fast construction speed depends on the same cheating later objects.

“Roman cement!!!”

As for Mao Jue's copying of her works, she even moved the location of the castle by more than 700 meters to the east, deviated from the towering Garau Peak, and the design of the building on a mountain pass guarding the road but a slightly short hill was plagiarized. Adele Na was not surprised at all.

On the contrary, looking at the big hot pits that were full of steam, the girl was shocked beyond measure. After following Mao Jue up the mountain, the girl had already screamed and ran to the edge of the pit, pouring hot water vapor from her small face. , I was about to suffer from heatstroke, and just now I ran back unbelievably, and surrounded Mao Jue curiously like a puppy.

"It's definitely Roman cement! I saw it last time I was in Holland watching the Dutch fight the Spaniards! How do you have the recipe?"

This thing has been around for thousands of years. The engineers of the Roman Empire used this thing to build the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Arc de Triomphe in Pompey Square, and the Great Baths. However, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, this thing However, it was quickly lost. It was not until the fall of Constantinople and the demise of the Byzantine Empire that a large number of Greek scholars fled back with the "Ten Books on Architecture". Only then did half of the barbaric German barbarians in the Middle Ages know that there was such a thing. .

But even so, this thing showed its prominence on the battlefield. In the recent years of the Dutch War of Independence, the Spanish army and mercenaries defeated the Dutch insurgents time and time again. time and time again these lowland savages rose to their feet, so much so that the Spanish commandant howled.

"God, any escalation of a battle here can create or destroy a country elsewhere, but here it can only wipe them in the mud!"

This impression hasn't faded yet. In the East, which this girl thinks is backward, barbaric, and ignorant, she sees concrete technology that is not even used in her hometown, the Holy Roman Empire. No wonder this girl saw the Pope holding a book. "The Analects of Confucius" is like a sermon, and a pair of beautiful lake-blue almond winking eyes are staring round in surprise.

It's a pity, just like she hid a lot of secrets, for some reason, Mao Jue, who had a face like a bitter melon, only loosened his shoulders.

"God told me."

When a lady also swears, the foreign girl slave obviously swears something bad in her native language, and then yells angrily again.

"As a gentleman, how can you treat a lady like this!"

"Don't forget your identity, who gave you the guts to yell at the young master! Could it be that our Mao family has no family law?"

Su Yi, who has been sour for a while now, took this opportunity to yell out, one sentence really yelled at Adelaina like a drowned puppy, drooping her little head, indeed, no matter what her previous status was, In Daming, she was just a maid whom Mao Jue played with freely.

She taught the "little one" in a very "big woman" manner, but immediately Su Yi put on a bitter face, turned around and pulled Mao Jue's sleeve, begging tenderly.

"Master, what's the matter with you, can you talk to Su Yi about something that doesn't go your way, if it's really not possible, you can put on Su Yi a few times to calm down, don't get angry!!!"

No matter how entangled Mao Jue was, he couldn't help being amused by the attitude of this dear girl. He pinched her fleshy little face and tugged, before nodding with a helpless smile on Su Yi's bitter face.

"Okay, I'll tell you to let you help your young master's staff!"

The expression on his face became mysterious, Mao Jue shook his head in confusion, and gesticulated with the fan in his hand, and came slowly under Su Yi's dizziness.

"Your young master, I know a secret. If I don't tell Yuan Chonghuan, he will die, and the death will be miserable!"

Looking at Su Yi's cute big eyes, Mao Jue asked solemnly.

"Say, young master, should I tell him?"

Chapter 62. Recruiting relatives

It is estimated that the whole world has betrayed Mao Jue, and Su Yi will not betray him either!

Flashing her long eyelashes, the girl snorted angrily, "Of course I didn't tell this guy, but she dared to murder our master, causing the young master to worry so much, he died, he deserved it!"

"The most capable general in the empire, Yuan Chonghuan?"

Shaking her small fist, Su Yi just finished expressing her attitude angrily. I didn't expect that there was a Yuan fan here, still with the attitude of a cold and arrogant young lady. Adelaine folded her arms and pointed her pointed chin in appreciation. .

"The servant girl has heard a lot about General Yuan in Yangzhou. When most of the Ming generals were defeated by these northern barbarians, only this General Yuan can correctly understand the enemy and us, and bring great benefits to the empire. Victory, as if he were the only general who could stand against the barbarians of the north!"

"He? The only general? Just a big talker who is good at bragging! If he hadn't fooled the emperor with his big talk, he would still be squatting and fishing in Guangzhou!"

I really didn't expect that Adelaine, whose eyes were above her head, could have such a high opinion of Yuan Chonghuan, Mao Jue immediately snorted in disdain.

"That's right, what is he, Yuan Manzi? Can he be a general in his weak years? It has to be our young master!"

Not only did the master and servant not suppress the limelight of this foreign girl, but it made the irritating mysterious smile on her face even more intense.

"The young master cares about General Yuan?"

"I care about him?"

Mao Jue immediately turned his head away in disdain, but what he said was indeed a bit false.