Chapter 46: A tall building rises from the ground, Liu Bei is stunned!
Compared to others, what is Ji Hao's biggest advantage?

It’s not his unrivaled martial arts, because even someone as strong as Xiang Yu couldn’t accomplish anything. It’s not his foresight into the world, because even if you know about some talents, you can’t recruit them. Under the butterfly effect, the future has also changed.

The plot advantage will be evened out sooner or later!
Ji Hao’s greatest advantage is the technological expertise recorded in “The Art of Slaying Dragons”.

For example, the cement that had a complete industrial production line: he himself didn't know how much the output of that thing had reached, he only knew that in three years, the entire Qingzhou was surrounded by it.

There are even as many six-story residential buildings as in modern cities.

There is still surplus production.

With extremely low production costs, you can completely build a "high-strength" building wherever you capture it, especially when attacking some strong cities, you can directly surround the city!
For example, this Langya City.

It was built in the southern part of Langya County, near Xia Pi. When Liu Bei retreated there, it was almost equivalent to giving up most of Langya County, and Ji Hao was equivalent to taking most of Langya County.

There is no fortress to defend in the wild farmland.

But Ji Hao is not.

"Here, and here, build two irrigation canals on the flat ground, five meters high and three meters wide, using reinforced concrete, and surround that half of Langya County!" Ji Hao pointed at the sand table and said, "Then in Langya City, we will build a new city ten miles away on the opposite side, with the city walls on both sides connected to the irrigation canals. It must be repaired in the shortest possible time!"

Qingzhou has been developing for so many years, and there is not much else but a lot of people.

Other things are not great, but the infrastructure is great.

"As for us, what we need to do now is to prevent the enemy from causing trouble. I will lead an army of 10,000, Zilong and Mengde will each lead an army of 10,000, and patrol day and night in three shifts!" Ji Hao added: "Although it is highly likely that Liu Bei will not attack in the short term, it is important to be cautious when marching and fighting, and we must not be careless!"

Upon hearing this, the two of them nodded in agreement.

But in his heart, he couldn't help but complain: "You are so steady, Liu Bei and the others must be furious!"

……

On the other hand, after retreating to Langya County, Liu Bei was not idle either.

"Fengxian, you must lead your troops to Dongguan County as soon as possible and guard the various fortresses. Make sure to stop Ji Hao in Langya." Liu Bei said: "As for the highway, please take your troops to guard Donghai County to prevent them from raiding along the coast!"

There are three places where Xuzhou borders Qingzhou, namely Langya, Dongguan and Donghai.

Among them, although Donghai County is the provincial capital and borders Qingzhou, its shape is long and narrow, with only one end in the East China Sea, and the other end behind Langya County, close to Yanzhou and Yuzhou.

It was not easy to attack, Yuan Shu only needed to defend the coast.

Dongguan is sandwiched between Qingzhou and Yanzhou, making it easier to lose and difficult to garrison. Since Langya County is right on the main march route, Dongguan became a "broken chicken head" and is completely disconnected from other places in Xuzhou.

Instead, it looks more like Yanzhou's territory.

Therefore, Liu Bei arranged for Lu Bu, the governor of Yanzhou, to garrison there.

As for himself, as long as he could cut off Ji Hao's advance route in Langya City and prevent him from attacking Dipi, a strategic point in Xuzhou, it would not matter if he lost most of Langya County in the wild.

As long as Ji Hao withdraws his troops, he can take it back.

"Okay, I will lead my troops to defend Dongguan now!" Lu Bu nodded.

And Yuan Shu did not refuse.

He took Generals Sun Ce and Ji Ling with him to the eastern coastal area of ​​Donghai County to defend the city.

"Go and investigate where Ji Hao is going to attack!" Liu Bei gave another order.

He asked the two men to split up their forces, in fact, he also had the idea of ​​luring Ji Hao to attack one of them, and then he would go around and attack Ji Hao from behind.

He is not afraid even if Ji Hao does not attack him. He can defend Langya City and consume Ji Hao.

However, after the scouts made some inquiries, they came back to report: "My lord, the enemy has no intention of attacking Dongguan and Donghai. They have set up camp ten miles ahead of us and seem to want to fight a decisive battle!"

In response, Liu Bei sneered.

"There is only a plain ahead, not even a mountain. How can we build a camp?"

He thought Ji Hao was just pretending to make him relax his vigilance so that he could attack and capture Langya City. He didn't care and just asked his men to reinforce the city and be on guard.

However, after being on guard for a whole day and a night, there was still no sign of the enemy attacking the city, and not even a single spy coming to investigate, which made Liu Bei very confused.

"What are they going to do?"

"My lord, they are building a lot of buildings, it seems... they are going to build a city?" the spy said uncertainly.

Liu Bei was stunned on the spot.

Build a city?

What a joke!
We are at war, brother. You are building a city on your own. Don’t you think I am a nobody?
"Ji Hao is not that stupid. He must be pretending to build a city to lure me to attack. I can't be fooled by him!" Liu Bei thought he had seen through Ji Hao's trick and said with a smile.

Jia Xu always felt something was wrong about this, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong.

Ji Hao couldn't really be building a city, right?
The construction of a city usually takes several years, and for a city that covers half of Langya County, it would probably take tens of thousands of people a whole year to build the city walls alone. Could he sustain that with enough food and grass?
"Something's wrong. It's really wrong!" Jia Xu was puzzled.

Liu Bei thought he had seen through Ji Hao, so he held the city firmly, trained his soldiers, and reinforced Langya City, hoping to engage in a war of attrition with Ji Hao.

But soon, the news from the scouts made him confused: on the third day, the scouts said that Ji Hao had dug a pit several meters deep, which made him conclude that the other party was setting a trap.

But on the fifth day, he got the news that Ji Hao had filled the pit with stones.

It is said that it is the foundation.

"Are you kidding me? Building a city without digging a moat? He dug such a deep foundation, how high does he want to build the city?"

On the eighth day, the scouts came to report again, saying that Ji Hao had planned two "irrigation canals" on both sides of Langya County, close to Donghai County and Dongguan County, and was sending people to build them.

Liu Bei became even more confused.

On the tenth day, Ji Hao used wooden boards to support the ground and began to irrigate the cement.

The strange construction method confused Liu Bei, and he was more convinced that he was plotting something. He ordered, "Let's keep our troops in place and waste time with him until he gets impatient and attacks the city, and then we can counterattack!"

Still don't ask.

But on the fifteenth day, the scaffolding was several feet high, and he gradually felt that something was wrong.

The cost is too high, isn't it?
On the twentieth day, the support had even reached five zhang, and was still being raised. On the thirtieth day, the "walls" on both sides were still only five zhang, but the support for the city gate had been raised to ten zhang.

It is only about 30 meters high, twice as high as the city gate of Hulao Pass.

"No, the structure is so high, are they really going to build a city?" Liu Bei reacted, but found it even more unbelievable.

Because this is unrealistic.

Ancient cities were built using rice paste and huge stones, and just transporting them was a problem.

Not to mention the financial costs and labor.

Totally impossible.

After that, for another five days, the other party did not make any move, as if it had quieted down.

But on the morning of the thirty-sixth day, when Liu Bei stood on the top of the city wall of Langya City and took a look, he was stunned for a moment: the support was dismantled by the other party overnight, and a ten-foot-high city gate tower appeared on the official road ten miles outside the gate of Langya City!

Facing Langya City.

On the left and right sides, there are two high walls that seem to have no end, five meters high.

Looking from afar, it looks like a long dragon, stretching and undulating.

"How is this possible? He actually built a city in just one month?"

(End of this chapter)