Steel Dynasty - Chapter 255

[Chapter 255: The enemy advances and we retreat]

The golden sunshine covered the withered yellow grass, and the white frost in the morning indicated that another cold winter was coming soon.

Guduo and Kuha traveled day and night. Two days later, they saw the bloody wolf flag, which was where the copper tent of Chagatai, the leader of the flag, was located.

In the Golden Horde system, only khans can live in gold tents, Taijis can live in silver tents, and the banner leaders of each tribe can only live in copper tents. The status of the Golden Horde can be distinguished based on the color of the tents.

Looking at the bloody wolf riders in the camp, Kuha whipped his horse and quickly headed towards the copper tent of Chagatai.

“Flag leader, please avenge me.”

After entering the bronze tent, Kuha saw Chagatai sitting upright and immediately knelt down and cried.

At this time, Guduo also walked in. He glanced at the people in the room. These were the banner chiefs of various tribes. He said: “Master Banner, all the Keqing tribe and the Kuha tribe have been slaughtered.”

Chagatai With a gloomy look, he said: “The two of them also said that they encountered the army of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and the tribe suffered heavy losses.”

“Is it really the army of the Great Chongqing Kingdom?” Gu Duo’s expression was gloomy.

“They are wearing silver full-body armor. It is unmistakable.” A flag leader said: “They suddenly launched an attack on our tribe when we were heading to Cangzhou City. The people in the tribe were unable to resist at all, and they did not distinguish between men, women, and seniors. Young, they kill everyone they see and burn the tribes after they kill them. They don’t spare our cattle, sheep and horses.”

Chagatai slammed the table angrily and said, “Why didn’t you find out about them in advance? With eyes like eagles, why are you unable to fight back at all?”

The three flag commanders lowered their heads, “We didn’t expect the army of Dayu to enter the grassland, so we didn’t send any scouts to patrol outside the tribe.”

“Humph .

, you underestimated the enemy too much, now you immediately notify all the tribes and send out scouts to patrol the grassland day and night, and you must find the cavalry of Dayu Kingdom for me,” Chagatai said angrily.

Kuha’s heart was full of hatred at this time, and he said: “Flag leader, please give me two thousand more elite soldiers, and I will definitely come back to meet the flag leader with their heads!”

Chagatai nodded and said, “You and Gu Duo goes to patrol the south. You two go to the east, you two go to the west. You must find them. These untouchables from the Great Chongqing dare to kill our noble people of the Golden Horde. We must make them pay the price. “

I will eat their meat.” Kuha looked crazy.

Chagatai stood up at this time and immediately asked the guards in front of him to blow the horn, and the rumble of horse hooves was immediately heard in the camp.

Ten thousand blood wolf cavalry gathered on the grassland.

After Chagatai allocated 2,000 men to Kuha, he also assigned some soldiers to other flag commanders, and he led 5,000 men to the vast grassland.

At this time, they could no longer take care of Cangzhou City, because the Chongqing cavalry that penetrated deep into the grassland made it difficult for them to sleep and eat, so they had to send a large number of cavalry to search and hunt on the grassland.

But even so, looking for the army of Dayu in the vast grassland was like looking for a needle in a haystack. At the same time, this abnormal movement was quickly discovered by Lu Fei and Niu Ben.

Somewhere in the grassland, Lei Ming returned with the cavalry who went out to explore the road.

After dismounting, Lei Ming put away the telescope and said to Lu Fei, who was repairing in front of a river: “Colonel, more and more barbarian scouts are patrolling. If this continues, we will probably be discovered soon.

” At that time, another group of cavalry exploring the road came back and said: “Captain, we found that there are two thousand barbarians coming from the north.” More

than half a month has passed since they set off from Cangzhou City, and the pair of them slept in the open air. , it was very hard, and at the same time, although we had a great advantage during each attack, some soldiers were still injured.

Dozens of people were now injured, severely slowing the march.

In the past half month, Lu Fei and his men had successively attacked three tribes, and now as these tribes have stepped up their vigilance, it will be difficult for them to find another chance.

“Retreat to Cangzhou City immediately.” Lu Fei pondered for a moment and said.

They had a strict plan for entering the grassland this time. When they set out, Xiao Ming said that once the barbarians started to round them up, they would withdraw immediately.

After all, their purpose this time was to harass and buy time for the construction of the city wall in Cangzhou City, and they could not be reluctant to fight.

“Go back now?” Lei Ming was a little reluctant.

Lu Fei nodded and said firmly, “You cannot disobey His Highness’s orders. Have you forgotten what His Highness said? When the enemy advances, we retreat, let’s go!”

After that, Lu Fei got on his horse and led the soldiers to drive the stolen horses to Cangzhou. Go to the city.

At the same time, Niu Ben also chose to retreat to Cangzhou City. Based on his experience, if he continued to advance alone, he would only be surrounded and annihilated.

Now they all relied on the advantage of the telescope to avoid the barbarians. If they were bitten by the barbarian cavalry, they would not be able to escape at all.

After all, the barbarians’ horseback skills are much better than these cavalry who have only been trained for more than a year.

Cangzhou City.

It has been more than ten days since the last harassment by the barbarian cavalry. Currently, the foundation concrete of the new city wall outside the city is being poured.

At this time, tens of thousands of slaves were busy in an area that spread for 500 meters. They were constantly transporting materials such as stones, sand, cement, and water from inside the city to outside the city.

The waiting craftsman took a shovel and mixed these materials in a ratio of 1:0.43:1.25:2.91. This is the C30 strength concrete of later generations. Concrete of this strength will basically be used to build high-strength walls.

After mixing, slaves pushed wheelbarrows to transport the concrete down the slope to the base of the foundation, and then used shovels to pour the concrete into the already supported wooden formwork.

Among these wooden formwork are ground beams tied with steel bars. Each ground beam is one meter thick. There are seven or eight vertical and horizontal ground beams in the entire foundation.

Because the ground beams with sufficient strength will prevent the future city wall from sinking or tilting.

This city wall will be the key to resisting barbarians in the future. Xiao Ming does not want to create a shoddy project at such a critical moment, so the design of this city wall must be rigorous.

Supervising the pouring situation on the foundation, Xiao Ming felt a little more at ease. Once the foundation was poured, the barbarians could no longer destroy it. The concrete solidified quickly, and the wooden formwork could be removed basically in a week.

“Your Highness, I didn’t expect that architecture is also a subject of knowledge. I have learned a lot in the past two days.” Zhan Xingchang said excitedly.

Xiao Ming smiled and said: “Of course, otherwise I would not come here in person. If you come, the city wall will definitely be finished. Moreover, these craftsmen have only built brick-concrete structures before and have never had any experience in concrete construction. This time I am here.” It is also to train these craftsmen. From now on, these craftsmen will be Qingzhou’s exclusive construction camp?”

Zhan Xingchang said with a smile. “This is a good name.”

(End of this chapter)