Great city.

Yang Dashuai held a telescope on the mound surrounded by reeds and looked into the battlefield in the distance.

This small city that was the first to revolt against him was now the fortress of the Red Turban Army, because it was the protruding part of the Red Turban Army's control area to the south and into the hinterland of the North Zhili. The distance from here to south is almost the same as that of the capital. To the southwest, you can avoid the tributaries of the Daqing River system that block the cavalry, and then rush to Zhending City in one breath to bring everything to the north Zhili into two.

"Master, you will be fertile land from now on!"

Yang Hu looked at the endless grassland behind him in surprise.

His home is here.

The place he was looking at was the original Deshengdian, but because of the construction of the embankment on the south bank of the Daqing River in the north, the wetland swamp has become a grassland.

"It's useless. Our repairs here cannot stop floods during the flood season."

Yang Feng said.

To completely turn Wen'anwa into a fertile land, what is needed is the construction of the entire Daqing River system. At this time, there were indeed embankments in all prefectures and counties along the route, but they eventually became a thousand-mile long embankment until the Jiaqing period.

In fact, various water conservancy construction has been underway in Shuntian Prefecture over the years.

The Lugou River embankment has also been completed. The fork originally in Xiayuankou, Gu'an, was blocked. The fork originally came out of Nanyuan and entered Fenghe River was blocked. In the end, only the middle road from Lugou Bridge to Triangle Diandian was left, and then the embankment was used to confine it to a stable river channel. Originally, those river channels began to be reclaimed as fertile fields, and even Nanyuan had almost been reclaimed, and they were planting high-yield rice using the water-rich environment in the capital.

Daqing River comes from Baoding...

Baoding County is either Baoding Prefecture or the border of the Daqing River between Bazhou and Wen'an.

Then from there, it all the way to Jinghai, and a long dam was built. In the end, the water of the Daqing River would not leak south from the Yuanjiakou area.

So Deshengdian began to turn into a grassland.

But if the Hutuo River in Hejianfu is flooded in the upper reaches of the Hutuo River, it will eventually flow into this depression.

Moreover, because the Lugou River carries a large amount of silt and is pouring into the triangle deposits, the lake will gradually silt. Therefore, the two major rivers of the Machang, which is equipped with Tianjin flood discharge, have been dug up by this time. In the future, the excess floods of the two major water systems of the Daqing River and Lugou River will become irrigation in the Tianjin reclamation area.

Even in Yongping Prefecture, the Luan River is being transformed.

Although it is extremely difficult to build a dam and it also affects shipping, it is still possible to build a few water diversion channels.

It can be said that under the militia system, the entire Shuntian Yongping Prefectures are repairing water conservancy, clearing land, and introducing new crops...

Four hundred thousand acres of land have been reclaimed in Tianjin alone.

Relying on horse factories to reduce river alkali irrigation, it is becoming a vast rice field, and rice and wheat are planted twice a year.

After all, there is silt that has been deposited for tens of thousands of years, and as the final gathering place of half of the Northern Zhili and Shuntianfu Rivers, there will be no drought there.

If there were drought there, the entire north would be almost thousands of miles away.

The northern plan that Yang Feng could achieve has been completed in the past few years. This land that used to require the entire empire to transport grain to feed is now actually self-sufficient. The reason why the grain transportation is needed is just because it has to transport grain to the Xuanfu and the Great Wall generals. Although Yongping Shuntian can be self-sufficient, it does not mean that there is enough surplus grain. In fact, a large part of the reason for being self-sufficient is that the number of idle people in the capital has dropped sharply. After all, it would be good that the court officials could have one-fifth of them left at this time.

The eunuchs and maids in the palace also dropped sharply to more than 3,000 points.

The huge families of nobles who were originally in the capital were gradually starting to make a living.

The consumption capacity of wealthy families and prominent people has gradually dissipated those who originally served them.

Even the women in the Third Academy of the Jiaofangsi had dispersed. They had been forced to be distributed to their subordinate officers by General Yang a long time ago. Anyway, the military salary of those officers was enough to support them.

In the end, the population of the capital in the current capital dropped sharply to two-thirds of the past.

But what has been reduced was all those who needed surplus grain to feed in the past. In this way, coupled with the sharp increase in grain output, we can naturally be self-sufficient. At least so far, Yang Feng has truly fulfilled his promise to those who follow him to make them live in food and clothing. They have even begun to have surplus money to consume. After all, various construction will bring them additional income at this time. As for the price, of course, the gold and silver accumulated in the palace have basically been spread.

Now the capital city needs to transport silver from the south.

Fortunately, there is plenty of silver in the south.

The militia who finally achieved food and clothing are also fighting for their happy lives.

The big city in the distance was filled with smoke and the cannons were thunder. The enemy troops besieged this city and the guardians of the city were storming with cannons. They had been bombarding like this for many days, but the enemy's artillery fire never really threatened the outer wall of the big city.

They are also focusing on the triangular turret.

But this kind of triangular turret is a huge rammed earth platform surrounded by blue bricks. Even if the solid shells of heavy artillery smash the bricks outside, it will only cause some rammed earth inside to collapse. However, the entire platform is more than 50 meters thick. Moreover, because it is not high, the collapsed rammed earth will continue to protect it. The cannons on the turrets are all on the sinking cannon positions. The defenders are in the tunnels and are connected to the city. Unless they are completely bombarded with countless shells, they will not be able to solve it.

The rest is to use soldiers to attack upwards, but the problem is that the triangular turret itself is protected by the firepower of the two corner towers on the left and right and the city wall behind.

Soldiers attack?

The result was that countless heavy artillery, francs, turtledove guns and other concentrated fires behind them.

Even if it is useless to rush up with fire, because the defenders will quickly retreat to the tunnel, and then leave behind the enemy troops that captured the artillery, facing the condescending fire of countless guns and cannons behind.

Moreover, the cannons on the turret are locked in semicircular orbits.

They can shoot forward fans, but they cannot turn their heads and shoot at the city walls.

In short, tens of thousands of returnees and new troops have been besieging the city for many days, but no triangular fort has been resolved yet.

I guess they want to open this city and have no hope if they don’t siege for a year or two.

In fact, this is the norm in siege battles...

The same is true for Europeans at this time. Otherwise, Spain would be exhausted by the unlucky people in the Netherlands. Any fortress would require several times the army and consume countless shells. Such a protracted tough gnawing would be like a simple rammed Saturn Fort, and it would be hopeless to blast it open without firing tens of thousands of heavy artillery shells.

Tens of thousands of shells.

The lifespan of cannons these days is only a few hundred rounds.

In other words, even if the Spanish king has money, he can't withstand such bottomless pit-like consumption!

Almost all decent towns in the Netherlands are star-cast.

Now, the return group and the new army are not facing Star Fort here, but they are actually similar to Star Fort.

"Master, I found that dog thing. He is in the Xidaying, where the new army is trained."

Yang Biao came over on a horse and said with excitement.

"Walk!"

Yang Feng said without hesitation.

Then he jumped into the chariot...

He still has to rely on combat chariots, and has evolved into armored combat chariots.

The eight-horse chariot was not big, just like the ancient chariot, but weighed two tons, mainly expensive teak, and then carburized steel plate, a layer of carburized forged steel, a layer of teak, and the same carburized forged steel, and the innermost was a lining similar to silk soft armor. In fact, except for the much different thickness, it was very similar to the iron-wood composite armor of the early iron-clad ships. Anyway, the test result was that the Red Cannon hit directly outside a hundred steps, but it was broken down but not penetrated.

But there are only front and sides.

And only half of the sides are this, and there are ordinary teak boards at the back.

Marshal Yang didn't need to drive specifically, he could drive himself. This chariot with protection capabilities was definitely greater than that of Doubao, and he rushed straight to the enemy in the cavalry guards.

He was not only followed by his guard battalion, but also the cavalry assistant under Sun Lin's original subordinate. Sun Lin only took a few confidants, mainly involved in the corruption of the officers who participated in the embezzlement with him. He was very clear that his subordinates were loyal to the general, but he actually ran away secretly.

Now Yang Feng also has to bring his troops to deal with him.

This area is a real big plain, and it is already early winter. The sudden drop in temperature yesterday made the wilderness that was originally wetland frozen into hard frozen soil, enough to withstand the weight of a two-ton chariot. Eight white horses were running wildly in front, and the special flag on the chariot was flying in the wind. Above the special sign on the red flag, the golden five-pointed star shows the arrival of the commander...

The roars of defenders immediately sounded on the walls of the big city.

The enemy troops who were still attacking looked at the sudden appearance of cavalry.

But then they all discovered that this cavalry with almost one association did not attack them, but rushed straight to the barracks behind them.

The cavalry who formed a formation to protect their regiments rushed towards Yang Feng immediately, and the infantry who also formed a formation to wait for attack also began to return to defense to the military camp. Some of their cannons then turned to the gun ports and began to bombard the cavalry, but the shells on the city wall also roared and fell down.

Yang Feng stood in the distance on the chariot and ignored these under the siege of the coach.

The cavalry around him quickly completed his protection, and even some of the cavalry rushed toward him. The torrent of the cavalry was like a flood pouring in the wilderness, crashing into the enemy's barracks at an extremely fast speed. All the cavalry, like their general, ignored the shells flying from the flanks, ignored the cavalry that crashed into their own, and rushed forward. Just when they arrived at the periphery of the barracks, they could already see the chaos of the defenders inside, Yang picked up a meteor hammer from under their feet...

Uh, grenade.

Then he ignited the fuse.

"Yang came to clean up the portal. If you don't want to die, hand over Sun Lin!"

He yelled.

Then he threw the thing into the military camp ahead.
Chapter completed!