Nurhaci wanted to lead the Ming army to attack Sarhu, and Zhu Youxiao also wanted to lead Jiannu to attack Shenyang. This is all wishful thinking, and neither side can realize it according to the current situation.
Zhu Youxiao, Xiong Tingbi, and Wei Zhongxian simultaneously selected the Tieling Plain to build a fortress in the middle of the road.
With the support of maps provided by local people, they chose to build a small fortress-style city at the three-way intersection of the Tieling Plain to compress Houjin's living space, forcing Nurhaci to attack Tieling, and use the fortress to consume Houjin's effective strength.
He summoned technicians involved in the reconstruction of the capital's old city to plan the future Tieling City Fortress. The topographic map of Tieling had already been drawn, and the new city was planned to be east of the turn of the Liao River at the intersection of several rivers.
Not far to the west is a county-level city under Tieling in later generations. There are a large number of coal fields there. Although the reserves cannot be compared with Fushun not far to the southeast, it is closer to the grassland. After mining, it can be sold to the Mongols through the Liao River. .
In the future, Tieling can be stabilized and coal mining can provide heating for Liaodong.
The hills surrounding the key plain are all limestone mountains, and the quarried bluestone can be easily processed into raw stone. Zhu Youxiao planned to use bluestone instead of city bricks in the new Tieling City, with stone walls built inside and outside, and rammed earth in the middle.
Of course, coal mines in the west also need to be mined. There is also limestone there. Last winter, the Han people there were asked to dig coal and burn lime. It would be useful to store it.
The wooden components of the city gate tower, turrets, and living roof panels began to be made in the mountainous area in the autumn. The wood was cut last winter and has dried.
People who fled from Kaiyuan and Tieling in the Tieling Mountains have been living in villages like the aborigines in the mountainous areas, making a living by farming and hunting. Before Zhou Yuji's scout team discovered it last winter, the Shenyang garrison personally protected the mountain residents.
At the beginning of autumn, Zhu Youxiao first sent people to Tieling to complete the project. The soldiers and civilians got off the battle together and divided into seventeen teams to retreat to the Tieling Plain area. We surrounded the city at the widest point of the plain in the north of the old city, with an eight-meter-high area seven meters apart. Polygon.
The Four Banners scouts saw the exploding rocks flying all over the sky from a distance, and thought the Ming army was using small cannons to hit our people.
Even the steps of using gunpowder to blast mountains to quarry, and masons to process rough stones into rough stones; as well as paving roads with snow in winter, and then using snow sledges to transport stones and other materials; the hoisting octopods and fixed pulleys were all sketched out. Then leave it to the experts for refinement.
The planned Tieling City is a small, octagonal bastion based on the terrain. Xiong Tingbi plans to complete the city gates, piers, turrets and walls in one winter.
There was no big plume of green smoke coming out of this place, and the old slave was feeling strange. Suddenly, rocks rolled in the distance from the camera, and a huge stream of gravel flew diagonally into the sky. Then there was a loud noise that shook the heavens and the earth. .
The soldiers who built the city also had to work in winter. Of course, the food had to be improved, and the wages of the migrant workers could also be high.
The old slave took the Zhenghuang Banner guards and hurriedly came from Fushun Pass to observe. He stood at a low place and observed for a while with my smuggled monocular telescope.
The old slave stumbled and almost fell down. Fortunately, my precious "Thousand Eyes" fell down the grass slope and managed to survive. When the old slave picked up the "Thousand Eyes" and looked around again, he found that not many people had returned to the explosion site. The soldiers and civilians set up tents and set up sentries before they finished digging into the mountains and blasting rocks. The roar of cannons rang out on the seven slopes of the plain. The mountain skin was slowly peeled off, and the debris was dumped outside the ravine.
The city wall is relatively low, only 7 feet or 7 feet. The lower part of the city wall is narrower. There are no two narrow and wide stone staircases at the corresponding positions of the turrets, piers and city gates on the inner wall, and there are no stone barriers on the inside of the stone staircases. The city wall
The lower crenels are all made of stone.
Zhu Youxiao is a very sloppy person. He usually acts randomly and easily wastes money. If he starts such a small battle, it will lead to a decisive battle.
A small number of residents are planned as row houses with backyards.
That means building regular houses. Do we want to take back Tieling and fight you to the death?
It’s bad!
Of course, I had to bite the bullet and build it.
It is a medium-sized fortress-style city, mainly for war and future conquest, construction of the Northeast and grasslands. Whether there are residents at this time, the buildings in the city will be built beforehand.
The old slave stepped back and searched sloppily, and found that there were only about 8,000 soldiers on the right and left of Qiwai, and there were not even a few hundred migrant workers among them. He took a step back and observed that there were not more than a dozen groups. After counting again, there were seventeen groups in total, which was enough for the Ming army.
Ten thousand migrant workers.
Nowadays, there are no people who can use gunpowder but there is a shortage of gunpowder. In the Ming Dynasty, those people used it to blow up mountains. It was a waste of natural resources! In fact, the gunpowder used to open mountains was low-quality.
Tieling was not originally an area occupied by the former Jin Dynasty, and the sound of cannon fire had already alerted the scouts patrolling in the distance.
I understood that it was using gunpowder to break open mountains and blast rocks. Unexpectedly, Amin captured hundreds of low-lying bird gun soldiers in the latter period, and he captured many bird gun soldiers in the small battle of Sarhu two years later. The frightened scouts quickly reported to Nurhachi. Such urgent military information should not be reported to higher levels.
In the summer, Xiong Tingbi sent personnel from the Ministry of Industry to Shenyang with several shipments of supplies and city building plans. As for how to operate, Zhu Youxiao made his own arrangements, delaying the recruitment of masons, carpenters, and strong workers in the distance to dig mountains, quarry, and build cities.
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No one here measures the dimensions, pulls wires and spreads lime, uses poles to hang big colorful flags, drives wooden stakes everywhere, and finishes digging trenches before pulling down the wires.
Xiong Tingbi's later generations of industrial upgrading plans usually only have a few hundred or even a thousand pages in the planning document for a project. Now, if there is no computer, we just use charcoal to outline the outline, and then assign people to complete it.
Each side of the new city is seven meters long, and the whole factory is seventy-seven meters long. There are no urn city gates in the middle of the eight sides, and protruding turrets are set up at the octagonal corners, all designed in a bastion style that protrudes into the inside; there are eight turrets and city gates each.
The pier protrudes eight feet.
I found that no one was clearing gravel in the nearest quarry area to the east, and there was only one person in the other quarry area. I squatted forward and turned around and ran away. I didn't chase this person, but watched him leave.
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I haven't piled the soil while building the stone wall yet. In winter, the stone wall will be dry-paved with lime and fine sand, and it will quickly absorb water and solidify. I am attaching a sketch.
That's right! There must be no use in blowing up the mountains. Then I searched everywhere, and soon I discovered something strange under the main traffic road in the plain:
There are no warehouses in the seventeen bastions, and the bastion walls are all stone walls. The bastions are equipped with French cannons; there are no French cannons and tiger crouching cannons under the city walls, and two rotatable cannons are installed under the piers of each city wall.
Small cannon with copper body and iron core.
It is planned to complete the construction of the first phase of city gates, turrets, piers and walls this winter, so that there will be a circle of seventeen bastions and seventeen piers, each of which can accommodate several visitors.
The firepower points form a crossfire.
The flakes, which are about one foot thick, were quarried out. The flakes were uniformly thin and thick. It looked like they were not experts in mining. The quarrying areas they chose were all wrong. There were only two quarrying areas where bad stones were found and then moved to different places. The cotton coats, cotton hats, cotton shoes, and cotton gloves for winter construction have not yet been processed by the Ministry of Industry; chisels, steel drills, crowbars, hemp ropes, picks, draft handles, hammers, shovels, etc. for quarrying
For items, we will arrange for the Ministry of Industry to purchase them.