Flags were fluttering, and the prisoner team headed north along the post road.
Everywhere I go, no matter how big or small the town is, the streets are deserted.
This expedition to Nanfeng was very secretive. To ensure the surprise, ordinary people including the four southern counties knew nothing about it before and after the expedition.
However, half a month ago, the army broke through Huchou Pass. When Yuan Xingwen went to the imperial capital to report the success, he specifically asked for military orders to be publicized along the way.
Then the people knew that the south had won a great victory.
Ren Ning led the prison car and drove slowly to the imperial capital. Before that, a fast horse also sent the news of Nan Feng's destruction to the imperial capital.
More than forty years is not a long time, and the people in the south still have more or less painful memories of the attacks by the Nanfeng people.
At this time, when they heard the prison car passing by, everyone was as happy as the New Year and ran out to see what was going on.
"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 your grandfather hadn't made me crawl into a mud hole, I would have survived..."
As he spoke, he pointed at the flags in front of the team, "Remember these flags and the soldiers, they helped us avenge ourselves."
"Gou Nanfeng, go to hell!"
The men's children smashed the prison car with rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs before looking up.
In front of the long prisoner queue, six bright flags were flying 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 big 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.
When Li Hebai saw something was wrong, he quickly sent someone over to promote it.
The common people pondered 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 relax his vigilance. In addition to checking the situation of the convoy every morning, noon and evening, he also sent Lei Er, Xiao Gang and others to the front and surrounding areas to investigate the situation.
The days passed like this day by day.
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, so why not get a pair of combination pulleys?
In the past, whether in the Yankui 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 of them had carried heavy baggage on a large scale.
Therefore, Ren Ning does not have much need for lifting.
During the siege of Nanfeng Capital this time, he saw with his own eyes the tremendous effect and power of various heavy siege equipment, and he couldn't help but feel excited.
It’s just that everything in the world has advantages and disadvantages.
These instruments also have obvious shortcomings, that is, they are too heavy. 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 risk their lives by climbing the ladder.
There are not many cattle and horses here in the south, and almost all the 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 using 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.
After all, time is money. The food and grass consumed by hundreds of thousands of horses every day is still terrible.
Ren Ning saw it and wanted to help.
But later on, he was busy fighting wars, surveying the terrain, sneaking into the city to work as a spy, and writing battle reports every day, and he never found time to spare.
No wonder most scientists or inventors are otakus.
Ren Ning complained silently.
If scientists and inventors did not have a stable environment and were always busy on the battlefield, either killing or being killed, many useful things would not be created until centuries later.
With this thought in mind, Ren Ning found a car and sat down to start drawing the pulley combination.
He just kept drawing and then stopped.
When it comes to pulleys, iron comes to mind.
More than three months have passed, and we still 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 horses like to eat and fed them to Zhui Feng.
"The disaster in Qingshi County was very serious. Most of the mines were destroyed, and the miners could hardly climb out. 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!"
Hanging out with the soldiers of the Starfall Legion every day, 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 kind of 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."
"That's true." Lei Er nodded, his face suddenly became very strange.
"But according to the information I heard, the second prince's disaster relief work seems to have been quite beautiful. He was even awarded the title of Prince Jin after returning to the imperial capital."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Ren Ning looked up to the north in astonishment.
He still had some impressions of the third prince Chen Xiuzhu, the King of Qi, but he knew nothing about the second prince Chen Xiulan, or the King of 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 is indeed 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 have gained a lot of knowledge after traveling all over the country, but 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.
All the way east from the Yankuo Fortress, he saw too much the hardships of the people and the 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 can be done, it will be done."
"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 carry siege equipment in the military, and it can be used to carry caravan goods in the civilian world. I guarantee that it will be absolutely useful."
When it came to the caravan, Xiao Gang suddenly became interested.
The Gu Family Caravan is one of the few profitable properties under Zhongyong Bo Mansion.
"Yes!" 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.