In front of the Don Army.
Liang Jiang scolded there with a dry mouth, but Li Chao and his eight chief managers gathered around to look at a map.
"Six hundred miles from north to south, one hundred miles from east to west, are all such plains fertile and good?"
"Well, it's pretty much the same, there's a small amount of saline, sandy, and the rest is good."
"The land is still watered" "Irrigated silt, meadow soil, saline soil, lake soil, and sandy soil, among which the cooked soil layer of irrigated silt and meadow soil is very thick, at least more than three feet deep, and many even reach five feet deep, and this kind of soil accounts for about eighty percent of the six hundred miles of plain."
A sound of inhalation.
Yu Chi Laohei used to be a blacksmith, but he also farmed.
And Shan Xiongxin, Cheng Biting Jin, and Su Dingfang are even big landlords, and they are quite familiar with the land.
They are no strangers to irrigated silt and meadow soil, which is the most suitable soil for cultivation.
They knew exactly what it meant by a layer of cooked soil three to five feet deep.
This means that this is the best fertile soil that can be called a place of ointment, and chopsticks can sprout.
In such a land, whether it is wheat or millet or even rice and beans, there is no problem.
Even if it is the simplest extensive cultivation, you can still have a harvest if you sow the seeds and leave them alone.
The Guanzhong Plain used to be so fertile, but now the Guanzhong Plain is not as good as it used to be.
They didn't expect that there would be such a good place in the West.
Eighty percent of this kind of good land is simply a piece of gold.
"There is plenty of light and heat here, the weather is good, the temperature is good, and what you grow grows."
Li Chao also sighed.
"But didn't I hear that there is little rain and drought here, there is no rain, and no good crops are grown" Cheng Yanjin squatted on the ground, looked at the map and asked Li Chao.
"It's true that there is less rain and more drought here than in the Guanzhong Plain, but you can also see that there is green everywhere here.
Although there is little rain and many droughts, the water of the Yellow River can be diverted here, and there is also a lot of groundwater.
Whether it is digging a ditch to divert yellow water, or digging a well to get water, it is very convenient.
The land here is all watered.
Li Chao explained.
"Watering the Ground" Even Xue Wanche, who was born in Jiangmen, couldn't help but be surprised, there was no way, the three words of watering the ground were too important.
Even in the Guanzhong Plain, there is not much water to irrigate the land.
There is no comparison between watered land and sloping dry land.
The price of a piece of irrigated land with sufficient water sources may be several times that of the same local dry land, or even ten times different.
In terms of output, there is no comparison.
The hillside is dryland, there is a lack of water, it is difficult to dig wells to get water, and the weather is better and there are many harvests, once there is drought and little rain, it may be that there is no harvest, and even the seeds have to be compensated.
And watering the land, that is drought and flood to ensure harvest.
Whatever you like, it is not a problem to produce two or three stones per mu.
As Li Chao said, rice can even be grown here.
The demand for water for rice is huge, and even rice can be grown, so there will be a shortage Real water watering the ground, can make people drool with envy.
The Yellow River enters from the Black Mountain Gorge in Xitao, exits from the Mahuang Ditch in the north of the Daokan of Shizui Mountain, and winds for a full 800 miles from south to north.
With this Yellow River, Xitao is actually an 800-mile Qinchuan River, and even the water volume of the Yellow River is much higher than that of the Weihe River, which can provide more irrigation water.
Li Chao also discovered an important fact.
That is the 400 mm contour line in later China, that is, the dividing line between semi-arid and semi-humid areas, which was still north of Xitao at this time, and moved much northward compared to the line in later times.
Or rather, the line hasn't moved as much from the north to the south at this time.
In later generations, the division of that dividing line was exactly along the line of the Great Wall, that is, along the line of Helan Mountain in the Yinshan Mountains of the Great Xing'an Mountains, and this line created the boundary between pastoral and agricultural areas.
Now, this line is not in Helan Mountain, but also in the north, which makes the climate of the Xitao Plain not the more serious semi-arid and rainless climate in later generations, but still relatively humid and more suitable for agricultural planting.
The ecology here is not so fragile, and the water resources are still relatively abundant, just by the lakes scattered throughout the plains.
Since the Qin Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty continued to immigrate to this place, to develop and reclaim the wasteland, they made full use of the water resources of the Yellow River, excavated the Yellow River canal, Qin Canal, Han Canal, Guanglu Canal, Seven-level Canal, Shangshu Canal, Yushi Canal, etc., many channels are still preserved and still in use.
"Hanqu, more than 50,000 acres of irrigated fields."
"Thin bone law canal, irrigation more than 100,000 acres."
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"Yushi Canal, irrigated more than 200,000 acres."
"Guanglu Canal, irrigation more than 100,000 acres."
"Special canals, irrigated more than 60,000 acres."
Every time Li Chao said a word, a group of captains in charge exclaimed, and Luo Shixin even counted them there one by one, and when Li Chao finished reporting, he exclaimed, "There are more than 700,000 acres of land in the irrigation area, oh my God."
A group of managers also exclaimed, 700,000 acres of land, and it is all watered, it is amazing to think about it, there may not be so much watered land in the Guanzhong Plain now.
If such a watered land is harvested at three stones per mu a year, doesn't it mean that just such a Lingzhou Plain can at least harvest more than 2 million stone of grain a year And that's not even counting the other fields that don't have canals, which are much more abundant and have no canals, and can be cultivated just as well, but with lower yields.
Shan Xiongxin is also wrenching his fingers.
"Each soldier needs one and a half stones a month, and eighteen stones of food a year. 50,000 soldiers, 900,000 stone of grain a year, if you count war horses, pack horses, etc., only more than 1 million stone of grain a year, God, we only need to cultivate these watered land, wouldn't we be self-sufficient, we don't need to transport grain from Guanzhong again, we still have a million stone grain left."
The results of such calculations made everyone excited.
After laying Lingzhou, then with such a fertile land of hundreds of thousands of acres, they will be able to cultivate and defend the fields and be self-sufficient.
Only when you have food in your hands can you not panic.
If 50,000 soldiers had to rely entirely on transporting food from Guanzhong, it would be quite troublesome.
And only one Lingzhou can make them self-sufficient, and there is a lot of surplus, so it will be quite easy for them to try to take the rest of the states.
Without the pain of grain and grass transshipment, they can grasp the initiative at any time.
"If we build more canals, then we can irrigate more land, and if we can open the rest of the good land, it will not be a problem to add another two million acres of irrigated land."
Although Li Chao said that this may be larger, it is not so easy to dig ditches, and the current irrigation canals have been started since Qin, and it has taken so many years to have the current scale, and the total length of the canals is thousands of miles.
There is now this large area of irrigated area.
However, even if you can't build too many new channels for a while, many of the original Qin and Han channels have been silted up and abandoned, and they are dredged again, but they don't require too much work, and it's much easier than digging a new one.
There is no problem in repairing these channels and increasing the irrigation area by 3.5 million mu.
This is another million more grain production capacity.
More than a dozen trunk canals, dozens of branch canals, which can ensure that this place becomes a granary.
"A million acres of watered land, my good man.
We have 50,000 soldiers and horses, and everyone can share 20 acres. ” "50,000 soldiers will not only be in Lingzhou, there are other eight states waiting to be recovered, not to mention that there is a larger plain and fertile soil in Dongtao, even in other Yansui prefectures, there are still a lot of river valleys, and there is also a lot of land."
"One Lingzhou is already enough for our 50,000 soldiers and horses to defend."
"Boss, the Liang army is going to attack" A lieutenant reported loudly, interrupting the reverie of Li Chao and the general managers.
Only then did everyone come back to their senses and talked for a long time, these millions of acres of watered land, all the are still in the hands of Liang Shidu.
"It's just in time, Chief, let me go to battle, destroy them, and recapture thousands of acres of fertile land," Shan Xiongxin shouted excitedly.
"Destroy them and regain thousands of acres of fertile land" Li Chao slowly put away the map, and then looked up at the sky, well, the sun is already setting in the west, and it is not early.
"Shoot the position, let them charge, let's just defend and not attack."
"Boss, the Liang people have already attacked, what are we waiting for."
"Wait for them to frustrate their spirits" Although Li Chao came from afar, he took the initiative to fight.
But it doesn't mean that he is in a hurry to start fighting, and when to fight, and how to fight, are all very particular.
Although the Liang army had 50,000, the 20,000 soldiers led by Li Chao were not afraid.
As long as he holds the position, the Liang army has nowhere to start.
Trumpets sounded, and war drums thundered.
The Liang army finally got impatient to wait and took the initiative to attack, with thousands of Jihu cavalry as the vanguard.
Liang Shidu awarded heavy rewards.
"Kill one Tang soldier, reward ten silk horses, capture Li Chao alive, and seal the founding marquis" After Wei Chi Gongcheng bit Jin Ba's commander got the military order that he was only allowed to defend and not attack, he was a little helpless and returned to the battle to supervise the battle.
"It's all put in and then open the crossbow and release the arrows, we must let these straight thieves compensate us for our strength" "Listen, sixty steps to send a crossbow, thirty steps to release arrows."
Thousands of Jihu pioneers are approaching.
"Damn, why are you running so slowly, these miscellaneous beards don't have enough to eat, they run like a girl riding a donkey."
Cheng Yanjin shouted dissatisfiedly, put down the binoculars, and he also cheered up these enemy horses, "Hurry up, hurry up." ” The soldiers of the Tang Army were all holding crossbows and bows, and for this elite army of soldiers, who already had a bow, the best way to greet the miscellaneous soldiers was to fire ten thousand arrows.
Give them a rain of crossbows and arrows first, and then use a shield and a gun to do it.
Su Dingfang held up the horse lance, rode on the horse, galloped in front of the formation, and shouted loudly, "All cheer up, the chief manager has spoken, destroyed the Liang thief, recovered Lingwu, and each person shared twenty acres of high-quality water to water the land."
It is all real water irrigation for drought and flood harvest, and one acre is more than ten acres in your home. ” Hearing that the Liang division was destroyed, he would be able to get 20 acres of water to irrigate the land for drought and flood protection, and the 20,000 Tang troops roared.
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"Kill Liang Shidu" "Divide the water and water the ground" Thousands of miscellaneous cavalry kept their speed and did not exert their full strength.
Seeing that there were only a hundred steps left from the Tang army, a battle cry that sounded like a burst broke out in front of the Tang army, and the forward of the Zahu soldiers simply began to turn their horses' heads and run to both sides.
Liang Shidu was bragging to Ashina Simo, saying that the Tang army formation was in front of him, and he saw a magical scene.
His thousands of miscellaneous forwards actually turned around and ran away when they were 100 paces away from the Tang Army Ran Liang Shidu was dumbfounded, and Ashina Simo was smiling brightly on the side t1706231537: