Chapter 563 Unexpected
"No, Su Gaiwen is very clear about their advantages. He suffered the loss of siege twice. If they really dare to come for the third time, it would not be just right for us, but I am afraid that he would not have the courage." Li Dedao.
The construction of Sentinel City is very fast, with most of the cement and bricks and stones used for firing bricks. Everyone is digging holes in three days. The foundation of the city wall is very important, and a small number of iron marks are added.
Why use iron is because this can reduce the thickness of the city wall and make the city wall stable, increasing the firmness and reducing the investment in materials.
The plan of Sentinel City is to accommodate 50,000 people, which is a very pure military city. It will be used to station troops in the future. Except for the city walls that are a major project, there are basically barracks and warehouses inside.
Stones are indispensable to the city walls. In order to increase the strength, the outermost periphery of the city walls is made of stones. The parts of the city are relatively simple, reinforced ladders made of bricks.
Su Gaiwen's spies watched from afar every day, and the vanguards ignored these people. The obvious meaning was to let you see that a city would be built here.
In more than a month, spring plowing began. Not only did the Bingcheng reclaim a large area of land, but also the land farming was planned for the purpose of satisfying the self-sufficiency of the Bingcheng in the future.
The ploughing field is well located, and patrol posts are set up on the main roads around it. Whenever there is any situation, you can contact it with wolf smoke. There are also patrol cavalry in normal times. Safety may not be really guaranteed, but it is certain that you can release the signal of your thoughts as soon as possible.
Su Gaiwen has been watching the vanguard's city build up in more than a month. A large amount of materials and manpower ensure the efficiency of the project. For them, such a construction progress was something they would never dream of.
The city is about to be completed, and Su Gaiwen can only watch it and cannot do anything. He sends troops to attack them now, and now there is not enough troops, and even if there are enough troops, they do not have such courage.
"General, it may be too late if we don't send troops." Several subordinates reminded.
Su Gaiwen also knew that he had more worries than anyone else, but what could he do.
"Bring the news back to the capital, mobilize 50,000 troops to garrison here. Since they are building the city at the foot of the mountain, then we will build the city at this cliff barrier."
Su Gaiwen's words immediately surprised the generals. Is it really possible to build a city on the mountain? Can they bear the manpower and material resources?
But since the general said so, they could only obey the orders, and the Goryeo people, who were indiscriminate, began to build city walls.
The scout of the vanguard soldier immediately passed the news back after seeing it. Li De and others now knew that the Goryeo people were building the city wall here. After studying the Goryeo people's intentions, Li Jing said: "Grandmaster, if the Goryeo people's city wall is successfully built, this road will probably be completely blocked. It is almost impossible to attack, but the advantage is that they can't get through either."
"What are the benefits? I have blocked my own path. It seems like there is a way in front of me, but can they block the entire border?" Li Dedao.
"Grandmaster, why didn't the Goryeo help us? The purpose of our Sentinel City is to keep an eye on them. Now, we can save a lot of troops, but it's a pity that the materials we have already invested." He Bida said.
"It's not a pity at all. The construction of the Sentinel City is just a little related to preventing the Goryeo people. What's important is that we need such an outpost that can provide garrisons, store grain, and reclaim land and develop agriculture after migrating people. In this cycle, the northern Liaoning area will sooner or later develop into a prefecture city like Youzhou." Li Dedao.
He Bida thought about it and it was true. He thought it was worthy of being the governor's strategy. It was really a good way to take action step by step, and it was effective in governing these empty lands.
Li De never thought of such a reaction. He suddenly felt that Su Gaiwen was really a rare talent, although the current situation seemed to be beneficial to the vanguard.
In fact, if he were Su Gavin, he would have issued an order to build a strong man. It would be better to build a wall than to use personnel to garrison, which makes people unable to easily or even impossible to cross.
Leave most of the manpower to do more.
Although the troops of the Goryeo united the first two times defeated the Sui army, they also had a lot of manpower and material resources. Even if they were captured, they were limited after all. Having more soldiers and armor could not avoid the fundamental problem of insufficient national strength.
Now that we see that the vanguard soldiers are impossible to leave, they are now passive in the construction of the military city, so it is really decisive to have such a solution.
"Su Gaiwen is difficult to deal with. Since they have built walls, our sentry city is relatively safer, but we must not take it lightly." Li De instructed.
During the period of reclaiming the fields, only the necessary number of horses was left, and the others were all put into production. In a year, the Sixteen Prefectures of Youji recruited a lot of troops.
Some of them were added to the barracks, and some were that veterans who were old or injured were transferred back to the city and were all placed in the work of defense within the city.
According to statistics, there are 10,000 retired veterans, all of whom have been injured or have ages meet the standards. Not to mention sixty years old, they are different in the future. Now they are middle-aged and are equivalent to those of the elderly in future generations.
Li De forced the soldiers who had been seriously injured and reached forty-five years old to retire, and there were many retired people in the escort regiments of several of them.
They are all veterans who have been through life and death. After Li De's plan was implemented in Li De's plan, these veterans who have made military achievements were all working at the yamen, and their lives were as simple as possible.
Not only did there be a plan for retirement and resettlement work in Youzhou City, but also considered blind dates for soldiers who had not started their own families. After the spring plowing, Li Shimin was taking care of these things. The entire Sui State heard that as long as a woman was willing to marry into the Sixteen Prefectures of Youji, the land distribution would be the same.
If you marry a vanguard, then you will directly allocate the reclaimed land and have a lot of benefits, and you will not pay attention to remarriage. There are not many rules and regulations in the government orders of Youzhou City.
Many people bring news about life in Youzhou City to their relatives with letters. Many people don’t believe it after seeing it. They encourage business to set up stalls in the market without having to charge taxes.
The Pioneer Army never levied any cap tax. Only the fixed harvest of the land that was divided in three years before the property was purchased at a low price, and they were all profitable.
In two years, even fake news disappeared, but the actual situation was different. This news not only did not disappear but spread more and more widely.
Many people yearn for living in Youzhou, and the number of business people's business is continuing to grow this year.
Chapter completed!