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"Come here, call a team of scouts to go to Yancheng, ask His Highness to dispatch a batch of shovels, and at the same time convey the detected information to His Highness. Read," Chang Wei said.

After just a little thought, he came up with a way to deal with it.

After a while, a group of cavalry rode northward. In more than two days, they arrived at Yancheng.

"The Japanese people are quite capable." Tan Ma told the situation in Pingyuan City in detail, and Zhao Xu snorted coldly.

Judging from this situation, the Japanese still learned something from the Westerners.

But to him, even so, the Japanese were just doing their own thing in front of him.

The experience and knowledge he has are not comparable to those of the Japanese and Westerners in this world.

Like the current situation in Pingyuan City, in the military academy, he had already given examples of tactics to the generals.

In some ancient wars, in order to suppress the soldiers on the enemy's city walls, the attacking party would build earthen platforms.

This kind of earth platform is a sloping earth mound, and the earth mound is as high as the opponent's city wall.

In this way, archers can stand on the earth platform and shoot arrows at the opponent's city wall to suppress the opponent's firepower.

After all, attacking from the bottom up is very disadvantageous.

Chang Wei asked him to mobilize the shovel, probably because he wanted to use this method.

However, he only replaced the archers with field artillery.

As long as this earthen platform is built, the artillery can fire at the Qi artillery on the plain city wall through the earthen platform, thereby destroying their artillery.

"Feng'er, go and call Zou Rong, the minister of the Ministry of Industry." Zhao Xu said after thinking of something.

Chang Wei's method is certainly correct, but he doesn't understand architecture.

The artillery is heavy, and if the earth platform is not compacted, it can collapse after several shellings.

However, if the earth platform with a height of more than ten meters is tamped, it will take several months and greatly extend the time of siege, which will be detrimental to the war.

He had just received news from Xu Ke that Han Zheng had sent envoys to the Xie family, Wu State, and Nanliang respectively.

This is a dangerous sign.

After the Jinling Rebellion, the connections between powerful clans were basically severed, and now Qi is trying to restore this connection.

Even if it was a slap on the butt, he could figure out what Han Zheng wanted to do.

If the powerful clans unite again under the mediation of Qi State, it will bring him a lot of trouble.

To make matters worse, if they form a coalition to attack Yanzhou, the situation will be even worse.

At this time, it was particularly important to occupy three cities with the Jin River as the boundary to prevent the war from burning into Yanzhou.

Therefore, he wanted to capture these three cities as soon as possible while trying to avoid unnecessary sacrifice of soldiers.

Within a matter of seconds, Zou Rong arrived at the palace.

Since the title of Gong Cao and Gong Cao was removed and replaced by the title of Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Zou Rong has been in a state of excitement.

Even when he arrived in the study room, he still had a faint smile on his face.

He bowed and saluted Zhao Xu, and said, "Zou Rong, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, is here to see His Highness."

Zhao Xu nodded slightly. After the completion of the two major projects of the Bastion and the Yanguan External Wall, Zou Rong has been responsible for Yanzhou's major infrastructure, supervising the construction of roads, bridges and other facilities. His life is much easier than before.

"I have an important task for you. You should immediately dispatch a group of capable officials to Pingyuan City to help with the regular construction of concrete aerial forts."

While talking, he drew a few strokes on the drawing and showed it to Zou Rong.

Upon hearing the words "Pingyuan City", Zou Rong's expression immediately became serious.

He naturally knew that Pingyuan City was at war.

So he carefully looked at the building on the drawing and nodded, "This thing is very easy. Your Highness, just leave it to me."

Zhao Xu absolutely believed that Zou Rong was not bragging. After all, compared to the outer walls of the bastion and Yanguan, this building was simply too simple.

In fact, the building he gave Zou Rong was a contemporary two-story building.

The only structure is a few columns and a flat floor.

The columns supported the plane, and the plane was used to house the artillery pieces.

Then extend a slope from the small building to the ground to pull the artillery upward.

As for the materials of this building, he planned to use a small amount of steel bars, and then asked Zong Zou Rong to use some strong bamboo instead.

After all, this is not a long-lasting building and can be discarded after being used once.

After explaining the matter, he gave Zou Rong a few more instructions and asked Zou Rong to organize the craftsmen to go to Pingyuan City as soon as possible.

Zou Rong returned to the government office and immediately asked the officials to summon the skilled craftsmen who participated in the construction of the bastion and the outer wall of Yanguan.

Have them prepare tools and materials immediately.

Three days later, a team of three thousand craftsmen marched toward Pingyuan City.

Because they were walking, they walked for nearly four days before arriving at Pingyuan City.

Seeing Chang Wei, Zou Rong told him Zhao Xu's thoughts.

"Your Highness is still thoughtful." Chang Wei sighed with emotion.

Then he felt a sense of defeat, thinking that he might never be able to surpass King Yan in this life.

There is a difference between the Yanzhou army being handed over to King Yan and being handed over to him.

Then, with a look of joy on his face, he returned to reality.

This time, with the help of the Ministry of Industry, he can build aerial forts one by one.

So, he took Zou Rong from the east of Pingyuan City to the west of Pingyuan City, and pointed out eight locations for Zou Rong to build aerial forts.

After agreeing with Chang Wei, Zou Rong convened civil servants to discuss and assign tasks to them.

Soon, some officials began to lead the craftsmen to dig the foundation.

Other craftsmen cut down trees and made them into planks one by one.

After the foundation is dug, they will assemble the planks into a wooden trough and pour concrete into it.

In this way, the aerial turret has a solid foundation, and the rest just needs to be piled on top.

Looking at the busy scene in front of him, Chang Wei grinned.

Turning his eyes in the direction of Ping Ping Cheng, a sharp light flashed in his eyes.

According to Zou Rong, concrete can solidify in seven days, so it only takes more than half a month to build a two-story aerial fort.

When the time comes, he will let Han Qi know what artillery is.

But before that, he didn't want to be idle.

Although they cannot attack in a large scale immediately, they can always create a little trouble for them and allow Qi soldiers to hide in

Thinking of this makes my heart tremble.

He said to Qin Shan: "Organize a skirmish attack."

"Yes, General." Qin Shan responded.

Flintlock guns don't have accurate heads, but rifled guns do.

So after equipping themselves with rifled guns, in addition to their normal formations, they also began to train skirmisher lines.

In this way, during a line duel, the paratroopers can disrupt the opponent's queue, and can even sneak attack the opponent's artillery position, causing an unexpected blow to the enemy.

Turning to the lieutenant beside him, he relayed Chang Wei's order.

Not long after, the skirmisher line, which had been composed of 300 people, moved towards Pingyuan City.