The plan to build a new city was quickly carried out once it was confirmed.
Like all cities in this era, Yang Fan's new city is also divided into inner and outer cities.
The new city is a city three thousand meters square, with a total of nine square kilometers. Among them, the inner city is one thousand meters square and covers an area of one square kilometer. The outer city covers eight square kilometers.
There are eight gates in the outer city and four gates in the inner city.
There are two gates on each side of the outer city, symmetrically distributed. The roads inside the gate divide the city into a tic-shaped shape. The center is the inner city, surrounded by eight areas of the same size as the inner city, each one square kilometers.
Yang Fan will have different plans for these areas.
Building a city wall in this era was a big project. It required mixing loess with lime and steaming it in a steamer. In this way, the insect eggs hidden in it were killed.
Otherwise, once these eggs hatch, they will make holes in the rammed soil. Over time, the rammed soil will create thousands of holes. Adding lime also prevents mice from biting. Such rammed earth, as long as it is repaired from time to time, can last for hundreds or even thousands of years.
To the steamed Sanhe soil, add egg white and glutinous rice juice, and mix with cold boiling water. Then it was clamped with boards and rammed with heavy stone hammers.
This kind of rammed earth city wall is very dense, hard and elastic at the same time. Not easily destroyed.
Then the earth city was covered with bricks to prevent rainwater from eroding the rammed earth wall and wear and tear due to human walking.
Although such a city wall is durable, its disadvantage is that it is a waste of manpower and is expensive to build.
Yang Fan would never build a city wall like this. It was too slow and could not be built at all within three years.
Yang Fan has enough cement, gravel, and steel bars.
It doesn’t require too many people, just pour the concrete directly, cover it with a straw mat, sprinkle some water if necessary, and dry it in the shade for three or four days before it solidifies.
high speed.
And it doesn’t need to be built as thick as a rammed earth city wall, just two meters thick. Without high explosives, you can't break through even one meter of concrete, not to mention two meters of concrete with black powder.
The Jian slaves have gone crazy collectively, and they can't even chew it with their teeth.
In order to stabilize the bottom two meters, the top can only be one meter. The place is too narrow and the people above cannot move.
Yang Fan had no intention of arranging people to guard the city wall. Yang Fan directly poured the city wall to a height of 10 meters. The top was a ten-centimeter round top, which was slippery and impossible to hold.
Even if the slaves climbed up with a ladder, it would be useless. The ten-centimeter round top could not support anyone. If he fell down and wore armor, he would be killed directly without being crippled. Even if you don't wear armor, you will have to break your arms and legs, and you will directly lose your combat effectiveness.
Such a high wall, you have to fall down even if you climb it.
On the city walls of the Ming Dynasty, as long as you climb up, you can fight on top, and then fight down from the horse path to open the city gate.
Yang Fan has no chance here. There is no one guarding the city wall, so he can climb it casually. The smoothness of the cement wall was eerie and there was no way to rely on it.
How to attack the enemy when defending the city?
Yang Fan's design is to build a rectangular watchtower every fifty meters, half of which is inside the city wall, and the other half sticking out of the city wall like a horse's face. The height is one level higher than the city wall.
The lower two floors have stone and concrete plinths. The upper three floors are watchtowers with shooting holes. Can shoot to the front and to the left and right sides.
These watchtowers were usually used as military dormitories and weapons warehouses. It is a fortress in wartime.
A total of 240 watchtowers were built throughout the outer city. Yang Fan's plan. Each fort can accommodate one hundred people, which is a squadron.
The entire outer city has reserved military camps for 24,000 people for the future.
After the location was planned, in order not to affect the construction of the dam and the flushing of farmland, Yang Fan sent people to various places to recruit another 50,000 refugees as a labor force.
There are four walls in the outer city, each with ten thousand people. There are ten thousand people in the inner city. After this recruitment, Yang Fan's current resources have basically reached their limit. It cannot expand any further.
After the city wall is built, a fifty-meter-wide moat will be dug on the east and west sides from the lake to the foot of the mountain, which will completely block the road leading to Jizhou.
If Jiannu wanted to get there, he had to either capture the city or walk three kilometers from the north and south of the city despite the dense firecrackers and artillery fire.
A month has passed since the platform was called, and Yuan Chonghuan has yet to go to Liaodong to take up his post.
At this time, Yuan Chonghuan regretted talking nonsense to the emperor.
Five years after returning to the Liao Dynasty, Yuan Chonghuan smiled bitterly. I don’t even believe it myself.
He never left, just to see if he could figure out a way to extend the time of this matter.
It's a pity that nothing major has happened recently, and everything has been calm.
He also had no room for action.
The longer the delay was, the more inappropriate it became. After a month of delay, it really couldn't be delayed any longer.
After thinking over and over again, he wrote a memorial to the emperor, talked about a lot of his worries, and finally asked vaguely if he could give himself some time.
After the memorial was submitted, Yuan Chonghuan waited anxiously for the emperor's reply.
Chongzhen was having dinner with the queen and two concubines. Recently, Xinghe Supermarket has become more and more prosperous. Last month, it actually distributed fifty thousand taels of silver in dividends, which made the Queen smile from ear to ear.
The emperor made an exception and served a dish of steamed seabass. He was enjoying the meal when Yuan Chonghuan's memorial came up.
When Chongzhen opened it and took a look, his nose almost became crooked with anger. Who is this person? He wants to go back on the promise he made.
At that time, you said it yourself in front of all the civil and military officials to restore Liao in five years. I agreed to all the conditions you asked for, and now you come to ask for grace. What do you think I am doing here?
Is it a vegetable market? There are also price bargainers.
Seeing that the emperor suddenly lost his mood to eat, the three concubines did not dare to speak.
Chongzhen was so full that he couldn't take another bite. However, considering the interests of the three beloved concubines, they declined to deal with important matters. Went to Xinuang Pavilion.
Concubine Yuan looked at the Queen and Concubine Tian, and whispered: "Your Majesty is rarely happy today. Why did you get angry just after reading a memorial?"
Empress Zhou chuckled and said, "The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics. Let's continue eating. The seabass won't taste good when it's cold."
The two of them were a little disappointed when the queen didn't talk to each other at all, so they had to continue eating.
Chongzhen sat on the throne and waited for a long time before calming down. He warned himself not to act on impulse.
Military and state affairs cannot be tossed back and forth, otherwise there will be no prestige of the court. I can only comfort Yuan Chonghuan with kind words, don't worry.
You are worried that the ministers of the imperial court are restricting you unnecessarily. I trust you. I will not listen to slander.
Chongzhen felt very tired, and he had to coax him in turn. Finally, he changed his mind and asked him to go to Liaodong to take up his post immediately without any further delay.
After Yuan Chonghuan received the emperor's reply, his mouth felt bitter. However, he no longer had any reason to stay in the capital, so he had to hit the road immediately.
After three days of walking on the road, a shocking news came.
There was a mutiny in Ningyuan City. The reason was very simple. The soldiers had no pay for six months and the soldiers mutinied. The commander-in-chief and the governor were detained.
Yuan Chonghuan immediately realized that he could no longer leave. Must return to Beijing.
Because the mutiny was due to payment arrears, it seems that to solve the payment arrears, money must be paid. The problem is that he has no money now.
If you don't have money, go talk to the rebels and see if they can reason with you.
Yuan Chonghuan immediately thought that His Majesty had promised to give him enough military pay, and he was immediately ready to go to His Majesty to ask for money. Then he took military pay to quell the mutiny.
The situation was urgent. It would be terrible if the mutinous soldiers defected to the Jian slaves.
