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After all, in the coming days, this city wall still needs to do a lot of things, and it has to go through many tests, not only to resist the beast tide, but also to resist all kinds of harsh and changeable weather.
It is even necessary to verify many of Li Hongshen's ideas on this city wall, experiment and explore suitable technology applications, and an offensive and defensive mode suitable for Li Hongshen's territory.
Now Li Hongshen is building the city wall according to the suggestion given in the textbook. It is ten meters high from the ground and eight meters wide. There are four gates in the east, west, south, north, and each gate has a tower.
This height is just right for newcomers, because if they are shorter, they may be able to jump up directly when encountering some wild beasts, which will not be able to defend against the tide of beasts.
If it is higher, it will take more resources, manpower and time, and it is not so easy for newcomers to build it.
There are eight corners of the city wall, and there is a tower behind each corner, which is where the caster is located, so that the caster can take care of the front lines on both sides, and can cooperate with another caster if necessary. Enemies on the walls form a strangle.
In the middle of each straight side of the city wall, there is a turnback staircase, which allows the soldiers in the city to quickly climb the city wall for defense.
As for the materials of the city wall, due to technical limitations, Li Hongshen chose the simplest method, that is, manual stacking.
First draw a rough urban area, and then use rammed earth as the foundation for the entire ground, and lay the ground of the entire city level.
Then excavation was carried out in the area of the city wall, and a trench nearly five meters deep was dug, from which the city wall began to be built.
At the bottom, rammed earth and mud bricks are used as the foundation, and Dahuang iron wood, which can be regarded as a spiritual plant, is inserted in the middle as the skeleton. The joints of the iron wood are not only fixed with mortise and tenon structures, but also injected with fish glue for bonding.
Then, layer by layer, mud bricks were rammed to form an earthen city wall. This ramming technique was completed entirely with the help of many war pets.
Whether it is pandas, fighting wolves, or tigers and crocodiles, they are all used as labor force to step on the mud bricks over and over again, and then drag the heavy stone rollers and roll them many times until the gaps in the soil are removed. Make it as hard as a stone.
Then pound the glutinous rice that was traded from the Elite Club and given by Li Fuzhen into rice slurry, and mix egg white, lime, river sand, and clay to make glutinous rice mortar. This glutinous rice mortar is better than the cement that Li Hongshen previously prepared. use.
It can allow the city to exist for thousands of years without being damaged, and the gaps filled with it are insect-proof and moth-proof, and it has the function of earthquake resistance when combined with mud bricks.
After the earth wall was completed, Li Hongshen piled stone bricks made of huge stones on the surface. The thickness of the stone brick layer reached an astonishing one meter, which can play a very good protective effect.
Finally, stone slabs were laid on the aisles of the city wall, defensive equipment was erected, and the tower was built, so that the city wall was completely completed.
Chapter 90 The Heart of the City
Three years later, with the completion of the city wall, Li Hongshen and others gradually gained a firm foothold in the Wanli Plain.
When the main city was completed, Li Hongshen also faced a test. He said that he would face the impact of the beast horde in three days.
This is a trial mechanism about the main city. The reason why the main city is called the main city is that when the main city is established, the lord will place the altar in the center of the main city.
And convert the altar from the tribal mode to the city mode, and the altar will become the heart of the city, which is no less important than the heart of the lord to a certain extent.
The transformation of the altar into the heart of the city has many wonderful functions. The most basic one is that it will cover the entire city with an energy circuit, so that the energy concentration of the city can be increased, and it can also provide the most basic energy supply.
Of course, this is an active choice. It is entirely voluntary. The lord can also build the main city without converting the altar, but he will lag behind those who pass the main city test.
This time Li Hongshen and Li Fuzhen decided to complete Li Hongshen's main city first after discussing with Li Fuzhen, and then proceed to Li Fuzhen's after passing the trial. After all, the lured beast hordes existed around them.
After Li Hongshen passed, there would inevitably be a lot of vacancies in the surrounding herd, so that the difficulty of transforming the city's heart would be reduced a lot.
This time Li Hongshen did not give priority to borrowing Li Fuzhen's power, but let her warriors and casters wait in the city, and if there was an emergency, they would climb the city wall to help.
When everything was ready, Li Hongshen came to the center of the city, the square in front of the City Lord's Mansion.
The altar moved from Fengqi Valley was unfolded, and then the conversion of the city lord's heart began. The lord's heart automatically floated out of Li Hongshen's body, circled the altar for three and a half weeks, and smashed the altar in an instant.
The fragments burned in mid-air, slowly turning into many light spots, including gold, silver, purple, and red and green.
Strips of light spread out from the heart of the lord, and under the traction of the light, the light spots began to condense, and finally a spar appeared.
After the spar appeared, it immediately fell down, and finally melted into the ground of the square like a drop of water.
Then the lord's heart was suspended in mid-air, facing the place where the spar fell, a beam of light rose from below, together with the lord's heart.
Immediately after that, lines appeared on the ground, spreading outwards, wrapping the nearest Juling trees and monuments first, passing through streets and houses.
Finally, he climbed to the outermost wall of the city, then plunged into the ground and returned to the center of the city.
Slowly, the lines climbed up the rock in mid-air along the beam of light. When it was about to approach the heart of the lord, the beam of light began to shrink, and the lines began to close together, finally forming a crystal column.
In the end, the heart of the lord floated out of the crystal pillar, and the color became a little dim. The original aura seemed to have been worn away and became foggy.
Li Hongshen watched the lord's heart dangling back into his body, and felt a little distressed. In order to empower the main city, the lord's space seemed to be consumed a lot, and the original very strong energy concentration also decreased a lot.
This is the price that needs to be paid to build a main city, which is why the indigenous tribes in the endless wilderness also have altars, and some large tribes have built larger cities, but they still cannot be called the main city.
Because the natives don't have the heart of the lord, after being empowered by the heart of the lord, facing the main city of the lord will be like facing the entire space of the lord.
Now Li Hongshen can be regarded as an official lord, but before Li Hongshen checked the information of the main city, there were many roars of beasts and the sound of galloping in the distance.
Li Hongshen's expression remained the same as before, and he was not surprised at all. When the beam of light rose up before, he had already sensed a wave in the shape of a wave, sweeping away like the periphery.
It should be the wave that caused the herd to attack, but even if Li Hongshen knew and sensed this wave in advance, he would have no way to deal with it. If he could handle it, those seniors would have done it long ago, and he was still needed there.
This fluctuation will be strengthened or weakened according to the main city of the lord. The brothers in the elite association once told him that building the main city on the Million Miles Plain is how bold the people are and how productive the land is.
No matter how big the main city is, there will be corresponding fluctuations, and how many herds will be attracted in the end.
Calculating now, it should be felt by the group of beasts who are closest, and the sound is not very far away, but Li Hongshen has already made detailed arrangements for this, Ma Wu and others have already been in place, waiting for the group of beasts to come. arrival.
Li Hongshen took a deep look at Li Fuzhen, who was a little worried beside him, and smiled helplessly,
"Don't worry, trust me, it's fine, isn't there still you?"
"Really, I told you before that don't build such a big main city, and take it step by step. We are not in a hurry."
"You, it's true that the emperor is not in a hurry, and the eunuch is in a hurry.
I'm going step by step now, it's not like I haven't calculated it before, and you took a look at it at the time, why are you worried now. "
"Bah, bah, bah, you are the eunuch, and you still want to be the emperor, so let's talk about the lord first, I mean I care about you, do you understand?"
"Understood, I must understand, my wife, you are the best, if you are worried, go to the front and guard, I will check the city information first."
"Okay, hurry up, I'll go first."
Seeing that Li Hongshen was still unhurried, Li Fuzhen also said that it was nothing, she just liked to worry about it, especially at this critical time.
When Li Hongshen watched Li Fuzhen lead the people towards the city gate, he shook his head with a smile. At that time, when the construction was underway, it was necessary to make extra efforts. It was she who said that the bigger the better, now that it was finished, she was worried. She was the one who said it was too big, huh, woman.
Li Hongshen walked to the crystal pillar protruding from the ground, put his palm on it, closed his eyes slightly, called the data template in the heart of the lord, and loaded it into the main city.
"Name: Hongcheng"
"Area: 8.6 square kilometers"
"Population: 15010"