Chapter 39: The explosion of Liao Songtong
"Dad, do you think we can divide the fields?" said a person who looked like a child.
He is not young anymore, he is already fifteen years old.
His name is Zhang Zongde. It can be seen from this name that his parents definitely read books. Yes, his father's generation was an official of the Yuan Dynasty. When the Ming Dynasty went north, his father followed the remnant army of the Yuan Dynasty and pushed into the northeast. He even followed Naha to the city of Shenyang.
But that's just a flashback.
The days to come will become increasingly difficult. The Zhang family is originally one family. But it was dead, it was scattered, and he was the only one left.
He is now living with an old Mongolian leader, who is from Naha Chu's old department. No, it should be a minister of the Muhuali family. The Muhuali family is a Mongolian noble. They have their own fiefdom and their own army. There are five armies in their army. They have followed the Muhuali family since the Muhuali period. At their peak, there were tens of thousands of Han troops under their command. . It can be said that the Muhuali family has only been around for more than a hundred years, but it has thirteen princes. As for other princes, they are countless.
Naha even retreated to the northeast after finding out why he was able to fight and lose repeatedly. There are also five people who will never leave. Even more than ten years later, the descendants of the five tribes scattered in various places visited the family head. However, the Muhuali family at that time was no longer led by Nahachu and his son today.
The old Mongolian man said, "I think Mr. He is a man of faith. However, I don't divide the land. My family has followed the family for generations, and this time I will probably follow the family to Nanjing."
This is also a difficult problem faced by He Xi.
Naha Chu has left. But without people from the Muhuali family, it is almost impossible to command these five troops. Moreover, although these five troops only have 20,000 to 30,000 troops, which is no longer as prosperous as today, they are all elite soldiers. They are not as good as the Ming army, but they are also the first-class army among the Yuan Ting army.
Therefore, Naha sent his other son, Ha Cibuhua, to stay here to assist He Xi in his transfer.
In addition to these core people and family members, other people gathered include Han people, Jurchens and other tribes. All very well arranged. He Xi declared that after the completion of the project, all the land would be given to the people. Not to mention that food and grass are never withheld on the construction site, which has convinced these people.
In this era, people's requirements are very small, as long as they can live and have enough to eat, no matter what.
It's just that these tens of thousands of core people are indeed difficult to arrange. If we don't break up the arrangement, if something happens in the future and the Muhuali family rises to the top and shouts, it is very likely that they will rebel.
But what does it mean to break up the arrangement and let Naha go out there?
A single move affects the whole body.
Naha's appearance may not be a big deal in itself. However, many of the benefits now provided by Naha are not provided to Naha, but to the monarchs and ministers of the Yuan Dynasty on the grassland. Let them see that surrendering to Ming Dynasty is beneficial.
Perhaps only He Xi worked tirelessly to bring Mobei under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, but more people in the Ming Dynasty, and even Zhu Yuanzhang before He Xi arrived, all they wanted was for Mobei to surrender and the two countries to stop fighting. Of course, this surrender must at least go to the imperial title.
Thereby declaring the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty.
If Naha's surrender can shake the hearts of the monarchs and ministers of Beiyuan, then no amount of threats will be too much.
Therefore, any matter related to Naha must be treated with caution.
Zhao Zongde said: "Dad, how old are you? All your sons and grandsons are dead, and what do you want? Why don't you follow me? I will support you in the future. Anyway, your family leader also surrendered. You may not be his. A retainer."
Father Mongolia's eyes were very complicated. It is difficult to express such complex emotions in writing. He just sighed softly and said, "You don't understand."
In fact, he doesn't understand either. When he was young, he followed Naha, fought in the south and north under the command of Prime Minister Tuotuo, fought against the Red Scarf Army, and various rebel armies. He was also a brave general. It can be said that he personally experienced the collapse of the Yuan Empire. When he was young, the imperial court was very powerful. He didn't even know what happened. How did Yuan Ting get to this point?
He didn't even know how he became a subject of the Ming Dynasty. You must know that he had fought against the Ming Dynasty many times in his life, and many of his old friends were killed by the Ming Dynasty. His sons and grandsons also died in the battle with Akito.
If he were ten years younger, he would definitely not be like this.
But now he is old and can no longer ride a horse. There is no spirit left. I just want to wait to die.
But it is still difficult to understand the fate of his life.
In the era, ordinary people cannot clearly see the era, nor can they clearly see themselves.
Zhao Zongde is different. Although his parents have died and his clan has dispersed, he is still a young man. For Yuan and Ming, I don’t care too much at all. He was just happy to start working on the construction site these days, using the kind of iron tools that could make swords and swords. Can eat enough. This was something he hadn't felt in years.
For this treatment, he is willing to do anything.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way." Suddenly someone came over on horseback and said, "Don't rest here, go over there, step back ten feet, step back ten feet."
Zhao Zongde could only support Father Meng, holding the tool, and stepped back far away, not knowing whether it was ten feet away. At this time, a group of people came over.
Zhao Zongde stood on tiptoes, trying to see clearly who was inside. He was grabbed by Father Meng. He whispered: "Don't spy on noble people, be careful to behead them."
Zhao Zongde immediately did not dare to move, but his eyes were still trying to see through the crowd to see who was coming.
He came just in time. The craftsman group headed by Ge Tiangong is introducing the plan to He Xi. Ge Tiangong said: "We have seen it. The soil here is very thick and there is no stone underneath. So we dug a tunnel. There were more than 200 steps in total. We filled it with gunpowder. We prepared the fuse and prepared to detonate. .Blow this place to pieces."
He Xi used tens of thousands of kilograms of gunpowder this time. If it were not for preparation for the Northern Expedition, Liaodong would not have such a large amount of gunpowder. He Xi stuffed them all in one go to meet the deadline.
He Xi said, "I've checked everything. Is there any problem? For example, if the lead is broken, or it stops exploding halfway through the explosion?"
Ge Tiangong said; "We have discussed it, but we can't guarantee that there will be no problems. After all, this is the first time we have done something so big. But even if there are problems, they can be solved. But what is the effect? But we don't dare to guarantee."
He Xi nodded and expressed understanding.
As far as blasting skills are concerned, they have made rapid progress in recent years. The reason is very simple. Mining needs. Also because of the technical support from the School of Engineering and Science. It would be ridiculous to say that the School of Engineering and Science was the same as the Polytechnic University of later generations. But the School of Engineering and Science, as He Xi pointed out, has mastered experimental verification, mathematical analysis and other means. There are already ways to continually improve technology.
In terms of blasting skills, this is the most needed for mining. Therefore, a lot of investment has been made in this area.
But blasting to open a mine involves blasting rocks. This is soil, and blasting does not require how big the blast is at one time. There is even an intention to control the scale to prevent accidents such as landslides, which may cause casualties. Now this time it will be a one-time explosion.
Because of the segmented blasting, it is safe to do so. But after each blasting, the blasting field must be cleaned and then blasted again, which is too slow.
He Xi didn't have that much time, so he could only use this radical method.
He Xi nodded and said, "Let's get started."
Ge Tiangong nodded and asked a guard to walk over with a torch. The guard walked several hundred meters, lit the torch, threw it aside, and ran back like crazy. Although Ge Tiangong promised that enough time had been left, no one dared to bet on whether what Ge Tiangong said was right or wrong.
The guard tried his best and ran to He Xi's side. I was out of breath for a while.
No movement has been seen over there.
Even the guard himself was worried that something was wrong. There was only a muffled sound of thunder. Although there was a continuous muffled thunder sound, the earth shook uncontrollably, smoke and dust flew up, and for a moment it felt like the sky was blocked and the sun was blocked. Flying sand shot out like hailstones and hit He Xi's face, burning and painful.
There were even some clods of soil hitting others.
For a moment, He Xi felt that they had not retreated far enough.
