Chapter 1008 The enemy is also building a city
In May and February of the fifth year of Tianxuan, the Mughal Empire's invading troops frequently attacked and harassed Yancheng and Maocheng, which were under construction in Yihou Territory, Qu Mao was made to lose his temper.
In response to the harassment of the Mughal Empire's invading troops, Qu Mao had to ask heroes such as Mo Yangqiao, Yan Liang, and Wen Chou to lead the fourth-tier crusaders and fourth-tier guards to fight against the northern walls of the two towns under construction. In addition, erect a shield wall for defense.
The other heroes led the cavalry and also patrolled and defended. The fifth-tier court guards and fifth-tier heavy cavalry had not disarmed for at least half a day.
Qu Mao and Su Yan stayed at the construction site of Yan City. Facing the insignificant tactics of the Mughal Empire's invading troops, they had to suspend all the projects except the granary, material warehouse and medical room under construction. Craftsmen and soldiers all invested in the construction of the city wall.
Now the building is no longer just a single north city wall, but the city walls around Yancheng are being built. Not only that, Qu Mao also sent people to Maocheng to make the same transformation at the Maocheng construction site.
Only when the four walls are built, even if there is nothing in the city, can the third-tier swordsman troops and the second-tier archers troops play a role in dealing with the invasion of the Mughal Empire, otherwise only the fourth-tier crusaders can be used. Fight against the invasion of the Mughal Empire with the fourth-tier guards.
Su Qiaoer has returned to the Holy Land, and Suramar has also returned to King Moner's City to receive fortification craftsmen dispatched from other independent territories.
However, after Qu Mao and Su Yan made adjustments on the Yancheng construction site, all craftsmen and soldiers are using on-duty construction and actual construction to simultaneously build the city wall of Yancheng. The city wall was built.
Qu Mao also made it clear to Su Yan that for the subsequent construction of the other ten towns, you can build the first-tier city walls first, and then choose to upgrade to the fifth-tier city walls step by step. Although the time will be doubled, the first-tier city walls After the construction is completed, the third-tier swordsman and the second-tier archer can stand on the city wall and play a defensive role.
According to the situation monitored by the Army and the Imperial Guard, the Mughal Empire's invasion forces are currently concentrated near the construction sites of Yancheng and Maocheng, and no large numbers of Mughal Empire invasion forces have been found in other areas, so Qu Mao wants Sura to Ma directly took the craftsmen who rushed to help from other independent territories to a hundred kilometers west of Port Moner to build another town.
Before the Mughal Empire’s invading forces react, they should be able to build the first-order city walls of the newly built towns.
On the evening of May 2nd in the fifth year of Tianxuan, when the sun was about to set over the horizon of the grassland, intelligence personnel from the Ministry of Intelligence finally arrived at the construction site of Yancheng, and got into the zero-level residence where Qu Mao was.
Qu Mao asked: "Today, the Maocheng construction site and the Yancheng construction site were harassed 14 times in total by small groups of Mughal Empire invasion forces, which gave me a headache.
Now, in the base camp of the Mughal Empire invasion force, what are they doing, does your intelligence department know? "
The intelligence officer bowed his hands and said: "My lord, according to the intelligence reported by the hidden intelligence personnel over there: the Mughal Empire invasion force not only harassed our army from time to time to build the city, but also about three kilometers behind the Mughal Empire invasion force base camp. They are also building a city.
Because there are mountains on both sides of the city building site, it is more convenient to get stones, and the rear of the Mughal Empire supported hundreds of thousands of civilians to help build the city, so their progress in building the city is much faster than our Maocheng and Yancheng construction progress.
According to the observation of the intelligence personnel lurking there, the towns built by the Mughal Empire may be larger than our Maocheng and Yancheng. The front of the base of the city wall is about 3 kilometers wide and the depth is about 5 kilometers deep.
Qu Mao frowned, and immediately spread out the map.
Su Yan on one side hurriedly said: "My lord, my subordinates think it's impossible. We can use the combination of on-duty construction and actual construction in building the city, and the efficiency must be very high.
The Mughal Empire’s invading troops could only use realistic construction to build cities, and the scale of the towns they built was larger than the towns we built. How could it be faster than us?
Even if there are mountains on both sides of the town they built, they still need to mine building materials and build the city by themselves. Even if they invest hundreds of thousands of people to build the city, the subordinates think that their progress in building the city must not be as good as that of Maocheng and Yancheng.
Now that Maocheng and Yancheng have changed their strategies, we only need to build the four walls, and the follow-up buildings can be arranged and constructed in the city. We can directly use the resources and gold coins in the material warehouse of the lord of the Holy Land's hut, and even transport materials into the city. . "
Qu Mao nodded and said: "That's the reason. The only reason why the intelligence personnel feel that the progress over there is faster may be that the Mughal Empire has been harassing us to build the city, but there is no one on their side."
After answering Su Yan, Qu Mao turned his head to look at the intelligence officer again, and asked, "Is there any other intelligence from the Mughal Empire?"
The intelligence officer bowed his hands again and said: "My lord, it is an inevitable trend for the Mughal Empire to increase its troops to the border, but the intelligence personnel have not yet figured out when the large-scale increase will occur.
Because the emperor of the Mughal Empire has issued a call-up order, requiring the affiliated kingdoms, principalities, and marquises to organize troops according to their respective levels and go to the border of the Marquis of Moner in preparation for a full-scale invasion of the Marquis of Moner. "
Qu Mao nodded, and said: "You intelligence personnel have worked hard, go back and continue to collect intelligence, and keep in touch with here regularly, so I won't take up too much of your time."
When the intelligence personnel exited the zero-level residence where Qu Mao lived, Su Yan said, "My lord, it seems that the construction of the other 10 towns is about to be accelerated."
Qu Mao nodded, and said: "The order to inform Suramar to go 100 kilometers west of Moner Port to quietly build a first-order city wall to enclose the town has been issued?"
Su Yan said: "My lord, the messenger has been sent out."
Qu Mao said: "Since the Mughal Empire is recruiting troops from affiliated forces, it obviously doesn't want to confront us.
Summon Su Buqing, Mo Yangqiao, Jia Kui and other heroes of the army, we need to discuss the military response.
The invasion forces of the Mughal Empire have been harassing our city, and I would like to pay back to them once. I don’t want to cause much damage to them, but it is not rude to come and go.
At least affect their progress in building the city, and eliminate some of them while minimizing the loss of our soldiers. "
Su Yan said: "Yes, my lord, the subordinates have informed the heroes to come to the meeting."
(end of this chapter)