Flags were fluttering, and the prisoner team headed north along the post road.
Whenever you go to any town, no matter how big or small, the streets are deserted.
This expedition to Nanfeng was very secretive. In order to ensure the suddenness, ordinary people including the four southern counties knew nothing about it before and after the expedition.
But half a month ago, the army broke through Huchou Pass.
When Yuan Xingwen went to the imperial capital to deliver the news of victory, he specifically asked for military orders to be publicized along the way. Then the people knew that a great victory had been won in the south.
Ren Ning led the prison car slowly all the way to the imperial capital. Before that, the news of Nanfeng's annihilation had been sent to the imperial capital by fast horses.
More than forty years is not a long time, and the people in the south still have more or less painful memories of the Nanfeng people. At this time, when they heard the prison car passing by, everyone was so happy that they ran out to watch.
"Children, you must see clearly the Nanfeng people in the prison car." A middle-aged man wiped his tears and told the next generation about the past.
"More than forty years ago, people from Nanfeng led troops through our small town, killing, burning and looting everywhere. The people suffered a lot. Your grandparents and grandparents died under their butcher knives. If it hadn't been for your grandfather at that time. I crawled into a mud hole and luckily survived..."
As he spoke, he pointed at the flags in front of the team, "Remember these flags, they avenged us."
"Gou Nanfeng, go to hell!"
Several of the man's children smashed the prison van with rotten leaves, rotten eggs, and then looked up.
In front of the long prison line, six flags fluttered in the wind.
"Starfall Legion!" someone exclaimed.
Among the six flags, the bright red flag in the center is familiar to all Yunchui people.
The other five sides are very unfamiliar. After all, they are all embroidered with large characters of flying dragons and phoenixes. It can be said that they have no characteristics.
Ordinary people hardly know the words and have no idea what they mean.
Therefore, many people forget about it after seeing it, and in the end they only remember the pattern of one sword blocking the falling star.
Li Hebai saw something was wrong and quickly sent someone over to promote it.
The common people wondered for a long time before they realized that Zhennanguan and the four southern counties had contributed to the battle against Nanfeng.
Going north, the road was not peaceful.
But unless the people from Nanfeng went north to rob prisoners, no one would take a long look at such a team.
So the journey was as calm as water.
But Ren Ning knew the importance of the prisoners in the team and did not dare to let down his guard. In addition to checking the status of the convoy every morning, noon and evening, Lei Er, Xiao Gang and others were also sent to the front to scout the situation.
The days passed like this.
However, the distance from Zhennanguan to the Imperial Capital is thousands of miles away. At the current speed of the convoy, it will take at least more than two months to travel.
On this day, Ren Ning was silently summarizing the lessons and experiences of this expedition to Nanfeng.
Suddenly his heart moved.
If you have nothing to do, you have nothing to do anyway. Why don't you get a pair of pulleys out?
In the past, whether he was in the Yankuo Fortress or the Yingshan Camp in Guangxin, Ren Ning was either a light cavalry, or temporarily became an infantry in order to adapt to the mountains of Nanfeng. Neither carried baggage on a large scale.
Therefore, Ren Ning does not have much lifting needs.
In this siege of Nanfeng Capital, he saw with his own eyes the tremendous role and power of various heavy siege equipment.
It’s just that everything in the world has advantages and disadvantages.
These devices also have a huge disadvantage, that is, they are too heavy, and both transportation and assembly are time-consuming and laborious.
For example, when we raided Huchou Pass, Zhennan Pass was clearly behind us, but if the soldiers wanted to attack the city, most of them had to climb the ladder with their lives.
There are not many cattle and horses here in the south, and almost all baggage depends on manpower for loading, unloading, transportation and assembly.
A three-and-a-half-foot-tall city climbing vehicle requires the help of hundreds of people to move it with only levers, and the speed is as slow as a snail.
If Zhennanguan had lifting equipment, these siege equipment could be transported to Song Dingcheng faster and assembled in time, then the campaign against Nanfeng would probably have ended long ago.
Time is money, and the amount of food and grass consumed by hundreds of thousands of horses every day is still terrible.
Ren Ning was interested in helping at that time.
But later on, I was busy fighting battles, surveying the terrain, sneaking into the city to work as spies, or writing battle reports every day, and I never had time to spare.
No wonder most scientists or inventors are otakus.
He complained silently.
If they had been busy on the battlefield, either killing or being killed, many useful things would have been created centuries later.
With this thought, Ren Ning found a car and sat down to start drawing the pulley combination.
He just continued to draw and then stopped.
When it comes to pulleys, think of iron.
More than two months have passed, and I don’t know what happened to Qingshi County where the earthquake occurred.
It has the largest iron ore resources in Yunchui.
"Lei Er Xiao Gang, I have a task for you."
Ren Ning summoned two people and asked them to go to the city ahead to inquire and see if anyone or caravans knew about the current situation in Qingshi County.
More than an hour later, the two men ran back on horseback.
"General, we have heard about the news about Qingshi County." Lei Er took some snacks that Ma loves to eat and fed Zhui Feng, "The disaster in Qingshi County was very serious. Most of the mines were destroyed, and the miners could hardly climb out. And It was not until the end of the first year that the imperial capital decided to let the second prince Chen Xiulan lead a team to provide disaster relief."
Snapped!
Xiao Gang next to him punched his palm heavily.
"Those idiots in Xingji City!"
He hangs out with the soldiers of the Starfall Legion every day, and he has long lost the conversation and manners of a swinger in the imperial capital.
"There was an earthquake in Qingshi County at the end of December last year, but it took a month before we set out to provide disaster relief. What disaster was caused by this relief?"
Xiao Gang's face was full of indignation: "The victims are short of food and clothing. By the time they arrive in a month, they will all have died of hunger or cold."
Lei Er nodded, his expression equally ugly.
"But according to the information I heard, the second prince's disaster relief work seems to have been very good. He was even awarded the title of King Jin after returning to the imperial capital."
Ren Ning raised his head and looked north.
He still had some impressions of the third prince Chen Xiuzhu, also known as King Qi, but he knew nothing about the second prince Chen Xiulan or King Jin.
This imperial capital...
Ren Ning shook his head silently.
No wonder the general decided to kill King Nan Feng before the prison team arrived at the imperial capital. It seemed necessary.
Lei Er complained for a while and his eyes fell on the paper in front of Ren Ning.
"General, what is this?" he asked curiously.
"This is called a pulley combination." Ren Ning introduced the use of this thing in detail.
Lei Er and the two of them had traveled all over the country and had a lot of experience. They were still a little confused when Ren Ning said this.
"Such a few things can easily lift thousands or even pounds of weight?" Xiao Gang wondered, "Is it true?"
Lei Er laughed.
Going east from the Yancheng Fortress, he saw too many people's hardships and hardships in the world, and he loved and hated the imperial capital. However, knowing that he was powerless to change, his temper came and went quickly.
"The general's head is different from ours. If he says it will work, it will work."
"What's the use of this thing?" Xiao Gang was a little confused.
Usually nothing seems to weigh tens of thousands of kilograms...
As he spoke, he suddenly thought of the siege equipment outside Song Ding City, and his eyes widened.
"Just as you thought." Ren Ning smiled and nodded, "This combination pulley has many uses. It can be used to transport siege equipment in the military, and it can be used to transport caravan goods in the civil sector. I guarantee that it will be absolutely useful."
Speaking of the caravan, Xiao Gang suddenly became interested.
The Gu Family Caravan is one of the few profitable properties under Zhongyong Bo Mansion.
"That's right!" He slapped his head suddenly.
"Half a year has passed in a flash, and it is now early March. Gu Shengnan and the others should have returned to Yunchui. I wonder where they are now?"
If the east-west route is still dangerous and difficult to travel, then let the Gu family caravan switch to the north-south route and transport rubber products to Guangxin County.
