Zhu Qizhe stood on a broken city wall, raised his telescope and slowly scanned around, his face full of thought.

It is called Yichuan, also known as Yique. It was originally a county town, but it was abandoned during the Song Dynasty.

As for the reason, it is probably because the location here is too embarrassing. It is sandwiched between Ruzhou and Luoyang, and is stuck on the dividing line between Luoyang Prefecture and Ruzhou. If a county is established, there will be a dispute over the ownership.

In fact, the terrain here is quite good. There are continuous mountains on both sides of the city, and there is a large river next to it. It is the most suitable to use it as a pass.

Zhu Qizhe put down his telescope and ordered two secret guards to spread the maps near Ruzhou and Luoyang in front of him and take a closer look. Then he turned around and asked, "How far is this from Luoyang City?"

Ning Choudan said without hesitation: "It's about sixty miles."

Zhu Qidiao then asked again: "How is the situation in the front gantry gate?"

Ning Choudan still said without hesitation: "Longmen Pass has also been abandoned, which is similar to the situation here."

Zhu Qizhuo thought about it, then pointed to the Dahe beside him and asked, "How far is this Luoyang section of Yihe from the city wall?"

Ning Choudan still said without hesitation: "The Yi River is about three miles away from the Luoyang city wall."

Zhu Qizhuo nodded slightly, thought for a while, and then said to Song Yingxing beside him: "Chang Geng, transfer some people from Yunyang Shipyard to build a small shipyard here, which can be built approximately ten wheels every month."

The Yi River is a tributary of the Yellow River, and there is also a large natural reservoir upstream. The water flow is still relatively abundant at this moment, so it is basically no problem for the wheels to drive on it.

Song Yingxing looked at the nearby river bank carefully, thought about it again, and then asked, "Prince, where is this shipyard built?"

Zhu Qizhuo said without hesitation: "It's built outside the East City Gate."

Immediately afterwards, he pointed to the map and ordered: "Keep, Wenxiu, you will lead your subordinates to guard Lushan, Baofeng and Jiaxian. I don't care how you allocate your subordinates. In short, you cannot let the officers and soldiers and rebels enter Ruzhou from the south."

In fact, the south of Ruzhou is relatively open. Lushan, Baofeng and Jiaxian are all located on the edge of the Hebei Plain, which is quite troublesome to defend.

Fortunately, it is basically unlikely that the officers and soldiers and the rebels will rush over from the south, at least it is unlikely that this time.

Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu bowed without hesitation: "I will obey the order."

Zhu Qizhe nodded slightly and ordered: "Dingguo, Nengqi, you will lead your subordinates to guard Ruzhou, Yiyang and Yichuan. At this time, Ruzhou and Yiyang do not need to send too many troops. You should first concentrate your subordinates to repair Yichuan County."

Li Dingguo and Aineng heard this and bowed without hesitation: "I will obey the order."

With Zhu Qizhu's order, most of the troops under Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi began to gather in Yichuan and repair the original city wall. Song Yingxing also mobilized hundreds of skilled craftsmen to start building shipyards and docks outside the east gate of Yichuan County.

This repair of the city wall is actually much simpler than restoring a house. Because the structure of the house is complex, once it collapses, repairing is even more troublesome than rebuilding it. The city wall is different. To put it bluntly, the city wall is just a wall, but it is just thicker.

After the city wall collapses, it will not be pushed to reconstruction. If there are gaps, it will be done if it is filled. If it is broken, it will be done if it is repaired. The general city wall structure is so simple. As long as the top is flat, the complete set of arrows and city gate towers will be almost done.

Yichuan County was not big, and Ainengqi's subordinates were basically children of craftsmen, so the repair speed was quite fast. In less than a month, the city wall, which was originally bumpy and chewed by a dog, was basically filled up. Just repair the above arrows and city gate towers and other things.

As for the shipyard and docks under Song Yingxing's responsibility, the construction speed is not slow, because Zhuqiuzi's requirement is only to build ten wheel boats in a month. He only needs to dig two waterways and build two docks. The wharf does not need to be too large. It is almost the same if he can dock ten wheel boats at the same time.

The construction speed on his side was also quite fast. In less than a month, the dock, waterway and dock were initially completed, and after some repairs, it was almost time to start building the wheel boat.

When Zhu Qizhe came to patrol again, he was quite satisfied with the progress everywhere. However, he was still a little worried when he saw the location of the shipyard and the dock.

After all, it is very likely that this place will be attacked by Li Zicheng. If Li Zicheng leads his army to siege the city, the shipyard and the dock will not be able to take it into consideration.

At this moment, that guy has become a bandit. He only destroys and does not care about construction. If he can't capture it for a long time, he may be angry and burns the shipyard and dock.

Although the shipyards and docks here are not that important now, they are very important once they attack the Yellow River Basin. If they are burned in vain, it would be a pity.

He thought for a while and ordered Li Dingguo and Ainengqi to extend the city wall outside the east gate, build a bulge similar to a urn and wrap the shipyard and dock in. In this way, even if the rebels attack, the shipyard and dock will not be destroyed.

The reason why he restored Yichuan County at this time was mainly to facilitate the rapid transport of the goods robbed from the Fu Palace.

At this moment, Li Zicheng's troops were almost expanded to 100,000. It was obviously unrealistic for him to run to grab Luoyang City with people. Moreover, even if he could win, he could not grab it.

He could not take down Luoyang City first, kill King Fu, and then rob the Fu Palace. If someone found out later, he would have to be drowned by the saliva of the people in the world.

Moreover, Luoyang is strangling the passage between Henan and Shaanxi. Li Zicheng wants to seize Henan, Shaanxi and Shanxi founding the country, and Luoyang must be taken. If he steals Luoyang, he will not fight with him!

Therefore, he could not compete with Li Zicheng for Luoyang. He could only use the secret guards in Luoyang City and the secret guards hidden beside Li Zicheng to try to grab more valuable things from the Fu Palace, and then run away if he snatched them.

If this plan is perfectly successful, Yichuan is very important, because it is only about 60 miles away from Luoyang City, and the water transportation is quite convenient.

Once Li Zicheng conquered Luoyang City, he only needed to order people to take advantage of the chaos to grab the things and then quickly transport them onto the ship. Within an hour, he could transport them to Yichuan by water.

By then, even if Li Zicheng finds out, it will be too late to chase after him.

Of course, Li Zicheng is likely to be angry and lead his army to attack Yichuan.

Therefore, he must do a good job in Yichuan's defense in advance.

A county town, with nearly 20,000 troops under Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi, plus muskets and grenades, it should be no problem to withstand the attack of more than 100,000 rebels.

However, it is safer to bring a cannon over.

Anyway, he has already started to rebel now, and the cannon will be exposed when it is exposed. Whoever has the affair will try the power of the cannon!
Chapter completed!