Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 617 Competing in the Central Plains (76)

Autumn of the 619th year of Yan State ([-])
This year

Li Shimin defeated the main force of the Qin State in Qianshuiyuan, and then pursued the victory, and the Qin State perished.

Feng Ang defeated Lin Shihong and occupied the whole territory of Lingnan.

Li Mi was arrogant and arrogant, and was defeated by Wang Shichong. He fled to Chang'an in a hurry and defected to Li Yuan of the Tang Dynasty.

Wang Shichong announced to join the [Huaxia Alliance] and sent [-] troops to assist Yanming and punish Liu Wuzhou.

The ogre king Zhu Can looted Nanyang and other places. Since the granaries of the Sui Empire had been opened by rebels to feed the people, Zhu Can could not grab the granaries in the local area, so he ate the flesh of the people directly. And invented a hundred ways to eat meat.

Liu Wuzhou went south and captured the Jinyang area of ​​Tang State.

The rest of the princes are also intriguing and vying for each other, which is very exciting.

These little brothers of the Eastern Turks were very disunity and often fought with each other, so when the [Huaxia Alliance] arrived at Jingxing Pass, the main force of Liu Wuzhou was still fighting Li Yuanji near Jinyang, leaving only [-] recruits to garrison Jingxing Pass in an attempt to rely on The mountains and rivers are dangerous, blocking the Allied forces.

With the addition of Wang Shichong, the number of allied forces reached an astonishing ninety-nine thousand.

Jingxing Pass

Five hundred Yanjun drove a carriage and dragged three cannons and hundreds of iron bullets/solid bullets.

"What is this?"

Luo Cheng, the son of Luo Yi, looked at Yan Guo Cannon with curiosity in his eyes.

The main force of the princes had to stay at home to guard against their lairs, so they sent their sons or generals to join the battle with some troops, and Luo Yi sent his son Luo Cheng to join the battle.

Luo grew up handsome, wearing white clothes, armor and robes, riding a white horse, holding a silver gun, wearing a silver crown, with beautiful features, white teeth and red lips, and a face like powder.

He once fought eighty people alone, charged into battle alone, and defeated eighty bandits and bandits.

"This is the king's cannon, under one shot, the sound is like thunder, shaking the ground, just like the king! Hence the name king's cannon!"

Yan Ming explained, and then asked the soldiers to manipulate the King Cannon to shock Jingxing with a small artillery, and also to show the allies the strength of Yan.

The black gun barrel was aimed at Jingxing Pass, and solid iron bullets and gunpowder were loaded into the pipe.

Since it was also the first time that Yan State used artillery in actual combat, it had only been tested several times in the training ground before, so there was no complete theoretical system for the use of artillery, and there was almost no experience. Everything was accumulated from scratch.

Yan State is currently using the King Cannon as a large firecracker, and because the smelting technology is not enough, many of the iron cannons made before were blown up, so Yan State used bronze again, although the power is somewhat reduced, but increased security.

Gada... Gada...

boom!
There was a loud noise that almost deafened the surrounding Allied soldiers.

Iron solid bullets bombarded the tower of Jingxingguan, smashing through the tower. An officer was decapitated by the solid bullet, turned into a headless corpse, and fell to the ground to die.

"This……"

Everyone was surprised. This power is similar to that of a catapult. The key point is that it is so small that it can be directly pulled by a horse-drawn cart. It does not need dozens of people to push it like a catapult.

The only drawback is that iron bullets are much more expensive than stones.

"Can't it be filled with stones?" Luo Cheng asked.

"Yes, but there are risks." The Yan soldier who manipulated the King Cannon shook his head and replied.

However, Jingxing Pass is worthy of being a strong fortress. After the Yan Guo artillery used up all the iron bullets, it still failed to blow down Jingxing Pass. It just caused many cracks to appear on the wall of Jingxing Pass.

One month after the camp was set up, the second batch of solid bullets was shipped from the mainland of Yan State. There were more than 400 solid bullets. There were not only [-] iron bullets, but also [-] carefully polished stone bullets.

Seeing those stone bullets, the soldiers of Yan State trembled a little. Although these stone bullets are cheap, they have a higher probability of accidents, which can easily injure or even kill the gunner.

"If there are a hundred of these artifacts and they are pulled around by horse-drawn carts, how can there be a strong city in the world?" Luo Cheng saw the prospect of artillery at a glance, although at present, its power is not as powerful as that of catapults. The difference, but the flexibility is much better than the catapult.

After another two days and two nights of continuous bombardment, a piece of Jingxing Pass's city wall finally collapsed, creating a gap that could accommodate four or five people to charge.

"attack!"

"kill!"

Following Yan Ming's command, the Allied soldiers rushed into the gap of Jingxing Pass.

There were only [-] defenders at Jingxing Pass, and they were all recruits. Under the attack of the Allied soldiers, they quickly fled.

After occupying Jingxing Pass, the Allied forces continued to march towards Shiai County, Taiyuan County, preparing to take down Shiai County as a place for the army to station and rest.

From Jingxing to Jinyang, there is a straight road. This straight road was built during the Qin Dynasty, and then it was gradually abandoned. Later, Yang Jian built a large-scale construction project to restore this straight road.

The so-called straight road is not so magical, it is just a gravel road, many stones are filled in the mud, and a drainage ditch is dug on both sides of the road to prevent rainwater from damaging the road. The grass is cleared and that's it.

To be honest, this kind of road may be an important imperial passage in the Central Plains, but it is really similar to a country road in the country of Yan, which is undergoing major infrastructure construction almost every year.

In the country of Yan, even in the countryside, roads of the "Qin Zhidao" standard are used, and stone roads are used around the city. If it is a large city like Yandu, or a military base like the old capital, even The road was paved with volcanic ash.

Yan State, which occupies a large number of overseas islands, has a steady stream of volcanic ash. A large amount of volcanic ash is used to pave roads, build bridges, build defense facilities, houses, and even fertilize. It can be described as the treasure of Yan State.

Yan Guo has proved with his own practical actions that not only the land that can be farmed is called good land in the world, even a deserted island with only volcanoes and nothing else is also very valuable. The volcanic ash provided alone has many uses, Not to mention the more precious sulfur.

The state of Yan State in the past few hundred years has been an infrastructure madman, consuming a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and building countless infrastructure overseas. These are the real wealth of Yan State.

Population and money, these superficial things, have never been the real wealth of Yan State. The real wealth of Yan State is the streets, cities, bridges, and houses.

Population is such a thing, as long as you really want to grow, it is easy to grow, so you don't have to care about the population at all.

The reason why the population is not deliberately increased is simply because it is unnecessary and uneconomical, and everything goes with the flow.

Population growth is only a means, land reclamation and development is the goal, and the original development plan of the Yan Kingdom cannot be disrupted just to increase the population.

For the Yan Kingdom, it is actually very simple to increase the population. Give the people more land, follow the example of the Central Plains, and implement the land equalization system. The population will soon increase rapidly, at least to 1000 million.

However, the State of Yan would not do this, because the family of the State of Yan really didn't care about the size of the population. The purchase of population was just to allow these people to open up wasteland, not to feed them.

What's the point of raising 1000 million people?Will there be more rebels?Like the Central Plains, are there rebels everywhere?Can't kill them all?
Land reclamation, development, and infrastructure construction are the goals of the Yan State, and population growth is only a means. For the Yan State, the cart cannot be put before the horse!

(End of this chapter)