Chapter 479: A Copy of Yugong Yishan
Zhang Kai finally felt a little relaxed these days, because he had basically solved the equipment of the Qin Water Army. He would have completed it under his supervision in about a month, and then sent it to Nanhai County and Jiujiang County. The war was never what Zhang Kai wanted to see, but he had already understood that there was no war in this world, only the difference between active or passive.
Ying Gao summoned him again in a hurry, which surprised him again. He thought to himself, could the Huns have spoken out again and wanted him to build armor for the Huns?
But this time, when Ying Gaoyi saw Zhang Kai, he directly told his purpose straight to the point.
"If you want to flatten a mountain, you may make any equipment you may be able to make faster than manpower, and the equipment will be very convenient to transport."
Just such a short sentence made Zhang Kai feel stunned for a moment, because for him, the amount of information in this sentence was really quite large.
"I wonder where you want to transport such an instrument?" After thinking for a while, there was still a little chaos in my open head. I don't know what Ying Gao means.
"Do you know that I sent Lu Jia to a barren land before. It took him nearly half a year to get to that place. Although the journey is clear now, the distance is not close. Therefore, I require that the object moves with the speed of the march, and it is necessary to get there within two months. Moreover, it is blocked by a number of mountains. According to Lu Jia, he will organize people to dig a thinner place in the mountain range at this time, but I think it will be very difficult for those thousand people. In addition, the climate in the barren land is harsh, so I thought of you."
After Ying Gao's explanation, Zhang Kai finally knew how important the burden on his shoulders was. In the past, if Ying Gao gave Zhang Kai any task, Zhang Kai could basically have ideas immediately. For example, before, Ying Gao handed over the work of designing and manufacturing naval armor to Zhang Kai, he almost knew the direction at that time, and the rest was just perfection.
But this time, the first time I opened my mind, I was full of question marks, and I didn’t know how to do it at all.
"Your Majesty, please give me three days. In three days, I will come here to tell you how to set up this thing. If Zhang Kai still cannot make any achievements in this matter after three days, Zhang Kai is willing to leave Xianyang!"
Seeing Zhang Kai making harsh words, Ying Gao could only nod slightly and put him back first. He knew that Zhang Kai also needed inspiration at this time. All he could do was believe him temporarily. Ying Gao believed that if Zhang Kai could really create something, no matter how bad it was, it would be better than a thousand people who moved the mountain together.
After opening his hands, Ying Gao looked in his hall with his hands behind his back at the Qin terrain map that had just been re-drawn based on the map sent back by Lu Jia a few days ago. The map ratio of this era is not as small as that of later generations, so the expanded map has occupied a large area of that large wall, and even the continuous mountains where Lu Jia is located at this time have been outlined.
In Ying Gao's eyes, this huge map is his chessboard. Now he is playing a chess game that is about tenth. He cannot enter the game himself, so he can only put the right people and things in the right position and wait for his results.
This feeling made Ying Gao think of several strategy games he often liked to play when he was in school in the future. However, the game failed at that time, and at least he could not start over. Now, every decision he made will be accompanied by the life and death of many people. He cannot decide for granted anything, nor can he try it repeatedly like in the game. In many cases, there is only one opportunity, and if you miss it, there will be no more, or you have to pay a heavy price for missing it.
Now this attempt to attack the Mauryan Dynasty is a chance for Ying Gao. If he can win a big victory, even if Ying Gao seized the opportunity brought to him by history, let the Qin flags be inserted into places that he had never seen before, and the descendants of Yan and Huang will no longer be in a corner. This is what he can do for future generations in this era.
But if he did not seize this opportunity, not only would the hundreds of thousands of troops suffer heavy casualties, but the territory of the Qin Dynasty would be known by other alien races hundreds of years in advance. In this way, good things turned into bad things. If there were later generations, Ying Gao would also become a sinner in the history of later generations, just like the First Emperor and Emperor Yang of Sui. Even though they had their own original intentions and foresight, many of their ideas and practices were not to be allowed by their own times.
Ying Gao still has a lot of confidence to solve the problem of a series of mountains, perhaps the best craftsman in the entire Qin Dynasty, and the wisdom of his men.
This seems to have nothing to do with him, but Ying Gao thought of Zhang Kai, who was forgiving Zhang Liang to fight against Qin for the first time. He thought that talents like Zhang Kai were all his layouts, and then he used them one by one on his chessboard at this time, and finally achieved his victory in this chess game in this era.
Three days later, almost at the same time, he opened to Ying Gao's hall. Looking at his red eyes, Ying Gao knew that this guy must have not slept much in the past three days and had been studying this matter.
When he saw Ying Gao, the first sentence he said was not to tell Ying Gao how his research was going, but to ask in a muffled voice: "I wonder if I can go to the mountain range to take a look?"
After hearing this, Ying Gao was stunned. Zhang Kai was about to go to the mountain range. Ying Gao really didn't expect it, but he shook his head very happily, and then said to Zhang Kai: "Don't think about this anymore. There is a barren land. You can't create anything there. And if there is any demand there, who can take charge in Xianyang City if you go?"
Zhang Kai was a little dissatisfied when Ying Gao refused, but he was about to say something, but Ying Gao continued to speak: "Look at me, this entire battle was initiated by me, but am I still here at this time? As the head of my skilled craftsman in Daqin, you actually have the same role as me in your field. If you really have ideas, your manpower and material resources will naturally be dispatched by you. What's the use of going to that desolate place in person except to increase the risk of death?"
Ying Gao's tone was obviously scolding Zhang Kai, but after Zhang Kai heard it, a warm current emerged in his heart, especially Ying Gao would actually compare himself. If it were someone else, he would have been kneeling on the ground all of a sudden, but Zhang Kai, straightforwardly, did not think of such a move at the first time, but stood there blankly, carefully pondering the other meanings of Ying Gao's words.
After thinking for a long time, Zhang Kai finally seemed to have decided something. He looked up at Ying Gao again, with a very firm look.
"Your Majesty, Zhang Kai thought of a method in the past three days, but if you want to reach what you said, it is difficult to transport. After discussing with the people under my command, I decided to dismantle it after doing it, and then transport it to the mountains by carriage. I think it can meet the requirements of the Lord. However, after arriving there, Lu Jia and the others were afraid that it would be difficult to reassemble the object. Zhang Kai wanted to go there in person. He heard what the Lord said before, Zhang Kai dared not disobey it. This time, he stepped up the production of one or two such objects and sent several skilled craftsmen to escort it. If he found any problems there, he would return it to the Pegasus. Zhang Kai would transform it in Xianyang City. Although it might delay the Lord for a little time, Zhang Kai guaranteed that the speed would be several times faster than that of those thousand people at the same time."
After Zhang Kai finished speaking, Ying Gao couldn't help but nodded secretly, thinking that this was like something, but he was very interested in the way Zhang Kai thought of in these three days.
"What kind of object is this, please listen."
"Do you know the stone thrower?"
"Stone thrower? That object can be quite large. Even if you can set it to be disassembled, it is very troublesome to transport it. Besides, this stone thrower requires more than 200 people to exert force together to release it. There are probably less than a thousand people near the mountains at this time."
Ying Gao had heard of the stone thrower. It was actually a template for the catapult cart in later generations. However, in this era, because of the inconvenience of this object and the attribute of launching hundreds of people at a time, it rarely appears in wars. Only in some battles to defend the city, some soldiers would launch catapult carts in the city. A huge stone was thrown out and smashed and rolled. I don’t know how many people could be killed.
But as Ying Gao said, unless this thing can achieve fully automatic launch, it will be useless in the matter of smashing mountains.
"Zhang Kai will naturally make a certain transformation of the stone throwing cart. Two can be built in less than ten days. You will check it out again at that time!"
Although Zhang Kai kept it a secret in this matter, Ying Gao felt some expectation through his confident expression.
Of course, Zhang Kai knew that what Ying Gao needed the most was time, so when he went to Xianyang Palace to meet Ying Gao, the manufacturing of these objects had already begun.
More than ten days later, at the gate of Xianyang City, dozens of carriages were escorted out of the city under a team of people. The one who sent them out of the city was Zhang Kai. Seeing his achievements leaving Xianyang City, his eyes were full of excitement. He looked at a small hill outside Xianyang City. A few days ago, it was there that he let Ying Gao see his achievements with his own eyes. The facts did prove that this achievement did not disappoint him.
According to Ying Gao, although the mountains in the barren land are very likely to be much harder than the hills outside Xianyang City, it is certain that this is definitely much better than Lu Jia and Yugong moving mountains with a thousand people.
While the equipment was on the way, Han Xin and 20,000 people were training at the first contact point for a while and set off to the second contact point. When they left, the first contact point was already full of supplies and other things.
According to the oral order from Ying Gao when Han Xin passed by Bashu, the two counties of Bashu each had 200 families and moved to the first contact point. The conditions were of course the same as the immigration policy issued before. However, for the people of Bashu, although this barren land was not very far from their hometown Bashu, why not do it?
At this time, there were no more than a thousand people following Lu Jia to move mountains while sitting under the mountains. That was because after receiving Ying Gao's order, Lu Jia drew out two hundred Xiongnu cavalry, one hundred Qin cavalry and dozens of craftsmen to open up the road in the direction of the Xiongnu.
Lu Jia also knew that even if there was no other way, he could only rely on Yugong to move mountains to solve the problem. One hundred thousand people would definitely work faster than one thousand people, right? So the most urgent task is to quickly open up the road between this place and the Huns. Anyway, most of the territory there would definitely be the Huns. Let them come here early, of course, it would be better than anything else.
Everything was going on in an orderly manner, but what Ying Gao didn't know was that Sharishuga, the ruler of the Mauryan Dynasty, who had long become his target, was very similar to Ying Gao's behavior at this time, but his central idea was different.
After listening to Xu Fu's description of the woman in the Qin Dynasty, Sharishuga's yearning for this mysterious dynasty was out of control. He wanted to make this dynasty completely surrender to his feet through killing and conquest.
Sharishuga once asked his generals if they could build some large warships and carry the elephant cavalry unique to the Mauryan Dynasty into ships to transport them to Daqin. The reason was that Xu Fu said that the cavalry of Daqin was all horses and did not ride elephants. This made Sharishuga have a kind of situation. Once the elephants arrived on the land of Daqin, they might directly scare the Qin army. One hundred elephants ran in the territory of Daqin and Daqin surrendered directly.
So when the general told Sharishuga that the Mauryan dynasty did not have such a large warship, and even the existing warships had basically not moved for decades. Whether this mission can be carried out is two different things, let alone pulling an elephant.
After Shari Saucya almost cut off the head of his general because of this incident, the matter finally came to an end, but Xu Fu was hurriedly summoned into the palace by him.
Chapter completed!