Chapter 1059: Test Deterrence
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The two military cities built by the Han army in Lishui were one located in Liren Fort two miles away from Guangxin County, and the other one was only a mile from Guangxin County. At the entrance of Mihe, the two military cities were not big, with a circumference of about ten miles, which was equivalent to a small county town.
The Han army first started to build the military city of Lirenbao, quarrying, logging and transporting ships, which saved a lot of effort. In just ten days, the military city of Lirenbao had laid a foundation, while the Mihe Military City was a little slower, and thousands of Han soldiers were preparing wood and building kilns for burning bricks.
That afternoon, the soldiers of the Qianhan Army were busy on the construction site east of Mihekou. They had cut down thousands of large woods and built five brick kilns. Dozens of craftsmen were firing the first furnace of bricks. In the open space not far away, more than a thousand soldiers were making bricks with wooden molds.
Suddenly, a harsh alarm bell came from the viewing tower in the distance, 'Dang! Dang! Dang!' The bell was very fast, and all the soldiers stopped their work, stood up and looked into the distance. At this time, the captain Li Qian urged the horse to come and waved and shouted: "If there is an enemy situation, retreat immediately!"
Thousands of soldiers and several craftsmen left their work and rushed to the Lishui River. A warship was moored on the Lishui River, all of which were five-stone warships. This was also the small water volume in winter. In summer, both Lingqu and Lishui River could drive Thousandstone warships.
Everyone rushed into the water without waiting for the warship to dock, and climbed onto the boat with wet bodies. The warship loaded more than ten people. Several soldiers supported the boat with long poles, and warships drove away from the shore and headed towards the center of the Lishui River.
Soon, the 10,000 troops led by Guan Yu rushed to Mihe Army City, and Chen Dao led 8,000 reinforcements to Guangxin County. Guan Yu ordered Chen Dao to lead 6,000 people to defend the city, and he himself led 10,000 soldiers to fight against the two military cities built by the Han army.
At this time, all the Han army had evacuated, and only more than twenty craftsmen who rushed to the lodge to collect things had no time to escape and were caught by the Jiaozhou army.
Guan Yu rode a horse to inspect the planned military city address. Judging from the scope of the military city, the circumference was at least ten miles, which surprised him secretly. You should know that most of the county towns in Jiaozhou were only about ten miles, which means that the Han army was going to build two new county towns on the south bank of Lishui. This is undoubtedly the logistics location for the Han army to attack Cangwu County and even the entire Jiaozhou.
"Father, what should I do here?" Guan Ping urged him to come forward and asked immediately.
Guan Yu snorted coldly, "Destroy all!"
He pointed at the twenty craftsmen again, "Each person whips ten whips and takes them back to Guangxin County!"
The Han army's viewing tower collapsed in the distance, five brick kilns and tens of thousands of bricks were also destroyed, several large woods were thrown into the river by soldiers, and the wood would naturally flow to Guangxin County, and the bases of the city walls that had been dug were all filled. More than 20 craftsmen were tied to big trees and beaten, making shrill screams.
After only five whips, Guan Ping asked the soldiers to stop beating and took these craftsmen back to the county town. After about an hour, the military city site at Mihekou was destroyed. Guan Yu led 10,000 troops to continue to go northwest along the Lishui River.
Chapter completed!