In Luodu City,

With the rumbling of cannons, the firearms of Luoshui have been fired for more than ten days. The old and new corpses under the three Tianjin bridges have been blocked by the pier and cannot be washed away by the rapid river water.

It had just rained, and the strong smell of blood, fireworks, and rotten stench in the air were slightly diluted.

In Xingyifang near Luoshui, there is the right Wugu garrison, one of the twelve guards.

Many bare-armed soldiers were gathering around a large well with a square and wide mouth that had just been cleared out from the ruins. They scooped water from the big bucket with helmets or other utensils, and then poured it on their heads and faces to cool down and dissipate heat.

However, the one that just started to be fired from the well was still clear, but the water lifting was too much, and the water line in the well fell rapidly, it inevitably became a little turbid and had a light smell, but most people didn't care.

It was not until the sink where the animals were poured out and the splashes of water suddenly floated up some swollen and white objects that were soaked in water, so that a certain team standing beside them changed color.

"Stop..."

"There is a problem in the water..."

"Don't drink..."

"Dump it all for me..."

After a while, a corpse in the well was tied up and sank with stones. The rotten and swollen body was no longer visible, and it was salvaged. Then the bulging gray-white body surface was pierced by the hook and exploded.

The stench and filth that splashed in an instant suddenly made the vomiting sounds connected into a large area on the spot, all of whom had drunk the well water for the sake of coolness.

The team generals who discovered this did not dare to neglect or neglect, and several people reported it layer by layer on the spot. Two days later, the Shuaisi really took it seriously and summoned people to check the city yards in various places, and then they discovered it;

As the saying goes, some corrupt bodies buried under the ground were found and salvaged in some ponds and river alleys in the south of the city.

In some open-air water sources, many human and animal feces were even dumped, causing these important water sources to be polluted to varying degrees.

This was obviously caused by those Northern Army before retreating, so I don’t know how many days it has been contaminated. What’s worse is that most of the rivers and alleys in the south of the city have also been silted and turned into stagnant waters that smelled and deteriorated, which is not some accident.

Of course, most of the cooks in the army still boiled the water, but some soldiers who were greedy for trouble and the animals who had a huge demand for drinking water did not have this kind of luck.

After these days of brewing, the symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting have accumulated a considerable number without realizing it. However, most of them are regarded as some simple common summer symptoms such as being unacceptable, or heatstroke or cuckling, without paying attention to it.

In addition, there are too many people who died in the battlefield, so many of them could not be cleaned up at all. They could only be piled up from the battlefield, transported outside the city to bury, or simply abandoned in the ruins and completely ignored.

And this hot and high-temperature climate has undoubtedly become a kind of accomplice to fuel the fire.

Therefore, the ubiquitous buzzing mosquitoes and flies have long become the most common and common scene in the Luodu battlefield.

On the ruins of Baima Temple in northeast Luodu, the exhausted and dusty Huaidong Army finally returned to its original starting point with the help of the Henan Expeditionary Army, who had re-connected.

Then before he could breathe a sigh of relief, Feng Juanqi was brought to him by the envoy of the Central Army Commander and the ambassador of Henan Expedition Army Wei Chen, who had been waiting for a long time, under the banner of reward and reunion.

Of course, there is always some hint and some inside and outside reminder between various words of praise and praise; the contributions and gains of the Huaidong Army in this battle are naturally unquestionable, but it is obviously indispensable. The Shuaisi’s strategy behind the scenes, and the support and creation opportunities of the Henan Expeditionary Army;

In addition, I hope that this military horse will be included in the unified allocation of the commander-in-chief, so that more and better achievements will be made in the great cause of the country's northern expedition;

This also includes private contact and testing of the chief assistant, including Feng Jueqi, such as promised that he would have a better future and opportunity, such as the various prospects of Shuai Si's solemn recommendation to recommend him a better background, even forming an army alone in the future, or guarding a place.

And all this is enough for him to lead the troops under his command, under the coordination and arrangement of Shuai Si, to play more and more useful.

This also made Feng Juanqi feel a little tired and annoyed, but he had to deal with it in vain; because, according to the command of the general of Zhen, you don’t care about the great reputation of vain, but you must get the real benefits and benefits.

But then Feng Juanqi received an order, which surprised him a little. However, the Huaidong Commander had already decided to return the troops from the outsiders, including him...

In Huaidong,

During the day and night work, the frequency of heatstrokes of more than a dozen prisoners was at the cost of overwork. The June, filled with rain and heat, quickly passed, and the July, which was full of fire, had already passed.

The regular judge of the Yingtian field and the judge of the households, Yu Yunwen, was inspecting the preparations before the autumn harvest.

He was appointed as the judge of the field in the six departments of the magistrate, responsible for agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry. He is now supplementing the final field data for a long report "On the Pros and Cons of Field Camping".

But what he saw and heard was mentioned the most and cared about the most was undoubtedly the pot mule machine (steam machine) that had just emerged in various parts of Huaidong.

This pot and mule machine is an almost omnipotent good thing in agricultural production. It can lift water to resist drought and plow the soil, sifter grains, pound rice, grind noodles and press oil, and even serve as a power for forging and building iron tools and tools.

Such a machine can match the daily results of hundreds of strong laborers. Compared with the output efficiency of traditional animal power or Shixin hydraulic machinery, it is many times higher than that of unknown.

The rice that comes out of spring is white and crystal white. The wheat flour is ground into snow and is likable. No matter how many thousands or tens of thousands of pounds, it is poured in with the teleportation machine. After a while, it is completely disposable.

Even if the forage and wheat straw were processed, the rumbling was as fast as thunder, and then the fluffy and fine sludge and foam quickly piled into a hill in the dump.

Then, on the old canal, there were also figures of marine pots and mules squirting and smoke. All of this consumed nothing more than cheap coal and water, as well as the need for several simple training to take care of, and timely add water to fill coal and replace spare parts.

Although, in the regular notification called Internal Reference, this thing still fails from time to time, and accidents such as the pipe bursting, steam leakage, and scalding and man-operating, the convenience brought by this thing can be almost ignored.

Because he could already foresee that with such machinery that can operate anywhere without relying on river water and animal power, it can effectively reduce a lot of consumption and waste, thereby liberating more manpower and other resources.

In fact, he also heard that in the construction of Huaidong, some places have begun to try to use this large-scale equipment powered by pot and mule machines; for digging mountains and digging soil in large-scale earthwork projects; high and low lifting and track transport of mines; and even the development and dredging of water and sand in rivers.

It is said that the next plan and goal of the R&D Institute led by the chief craftsman Chen Yue is to reduce these machines more accurately and appear in the fields. For example, the output of this machinery is used to replace animal power to plow and turn the fields, and even replace people to harvest and sow seeds.

Although all this sounds ridiculous and full of nonsense, he is used to seeing the rapid development of Huaidong under the personal inquiries and leadership of the general; he does not doubt that these ideas will be realized on the land of Huaidong in a long or short time.

In fact, you haven't seen that the animal cargo tracks that were originally used in the five major coastal port areas under Huaidong have now gradually extended along the plains to their respective prefectures and prefectures, and are also a back and forth multi-track line.

Along with these iron-wood tracks, there are also thick wooden poles erected along the way, and they are no longer limited to the edge of the track, and even the main roads connecting Yidu, the provincial capitals are also there;

In addition, the Zhenfufu Prefecture has recently rectified the inns and inns along the road, carried out so-called scientific planning and established the so-called police station.
Chapter completed!