The two of them returned to the Liuyan, and Fan Deng's face was flushed and he was extremely excited.
At this time, more than 200 people were busy in the camp, responsible for drying the food, fodder and other items collected in the past two days, for the rest of the way to eat and use.
Fan Deng shouted repeatedly, not having to take care of food and fodder, but instead went to the landfill under Liuyan, leveled the land, and expanded the area available for building a new camp as soon as possible.
The Juliuyan itself is a supporting project of Zhaofu Canal. It consists of a natural embankment on the south bank of the Bingshui River and several artificial embankments, which are quite large. However, after the flood, the artificial embankments on the north and east sides were all broken, and the natural embankments were also washed away by torrents, and the edges collapsed severely. By this time, it had become a soil platform with high protrusions above the flat ground.
The camp occupied by Fan Deng and others at this time accounted for about one-quarter of the entire land platform. If the King of Wei personally raised the army here, the land platform would definitely be completely used by the King of Wei, but Fan Deng and others could not have no place to go, so it is a top priority to set up a new camp at this time.
Below the Jiliuyan, about two miles southeast, there was a camp where the civil servants were originally located. At this time, the camp was completely washed away by floods, and there were several muddy swamps around.
Further south of this camp, there is a huge reed marsh. Earlier, Ren Hui and others attacked Jiliuyan, and then the Tibetan soldiers here. After the flood, the reed marsh was originally lodged in groups, but at this time it had recovered slowly.
Deng Fan directed the soldiers to cut down reeds, weaving them into four or five feet wide, covering them layer by layer on the ground, forming a foundation suitable for camping. Until the afternoon, he suddenly remembered that he had to prepare firewood for the King of Wei army to cook. So he transferred more people to cut down more reeds and piled them up on the high ground to dry them.
In order to cut reeds, he laid the extra reeds wide in the reed marsh, forming several roads.
The soldiers in the camp were in a mess at this time, and they were busy for several hours. But the soldiers had no complaints and worked hard.
Zhou Tai was almost unable to stand it and advised him that the logistics affairs of the King of Wei army were responsible for the specialized officials. You are just a Du uncle who is more than 700 levels across the King of Wei, and even if you make contributions, you will not be able to reach the eyes of the King of Wei. Maybe you don’t have to be so attentive?
Unexpectedly, Deng Fan said seriously: "The King of Wei will come here tomorrow. What is this? What kind of honor? Even if Fan is brave, he will not be able to repay. It is the duty of the minister to do these little and little things in front of him in advance."
This made Zhou Tai feel ashamed to cover his face.
He sighed, "I know Fan Du Bo's loyalty!"
After admiring, he made up his mind to recommend this talent buried in his subordinates to his superior Liu Ye to give him a better future.
In mid-September, the day was short and the night was long. After the Shen period, the sky became darker and darker. Deng Fan called his subordinates again and lit a whole row of huge fires on the Jiliuyan to illuminate the busy companions below.
This idea is good, but the amount of firewood dried was not enough. Many soldiers directly took the reeds that had been cut for a while and threw them into the fire. Because the reeds were not dry, there was a lot of smoke. Sometimes the reeds thrown into the fire were burning, and bubbles were still sizzling at the tail exposed.
The flames rose, the smoke drifted with the wind, rolling towards the camp at the downwind.
Some soldiers immediately felt choking, so they found the officer responsible for making the fire and asked to extinguish a few fire heads. Some soldiers also felt that this smoke was very effective in driving away mosquitoes, flies, poisonous insects, and after the fire head was extinguished, they had to hold a pine and bright torch to work at home, which was even more troublesome. They also suggested that a few more fires be created.
At this time, Deng Fan was on the north side of the embankment, accompanying Zhoutai to explore the road that was circling from Lumen Mountain, and was preparing to arrange personnel to reinforce it as soon as possible, so he did not care about the disputes between these people.
So the soldiers clamored, making the officers responsible for making fire anxious.
This officer was a capable man who stayed in Jiliuyan with Deng Fan. He was named Zheng Gao, and he was also an old member of the Lei family in Lujiang. He was originally a subordinate of Ding Li and Ding Feng, and later transferred to Deng Tong to serve. In his early years, Lei Yuan attacked Cao's army's granary in Runan, and Zheng Gao was responsible for guiding the way and made great contributions.
After Deng Tong's death, Zheng Gao became Deng Fan's right-hand man because of his profound experience and extensive knowledge. In recent years, he has been promoted to Sima.
But he was on the Liuyan and thought that he was a Du uncle. At this time, the camp gathered in the camp, all of whom were companions who had survived the disaster. People's hearts were floating in the end. Unlike in normal army, superiors could kill and kill subordinates. Since someone was making trouble, he sometimes watered and put out a few fires, and sometimes ignited them again. It was not until the end that Zhoutai and Van Deng noticed that the fire was extinguished and rushed over to investigate that he calmed down.
Three miles away from Jiliuyan, it is a hidden location.
Luo Ayanning and several companions are here.
Previously, the Jiaozhou army was broken into pieces and repeatedly disturbed the Cao army to the south, forcing the Cao army to continuously divide the troops to drive them away to ensure the safety of the Qingshui River. In this way, although the Cao army was scattered, the Jiaozhou army scouts who were moving around the Qingshui River had a much greater chance of encountering the Cao army. For several days, many casualties were killed or injured.
However, the more at this time, the more important it is to master the trends on the battlefield. The Jiaozhou Army continued to send out scouts, and the one who could shoulder the heavy responsibility at this time must be the extremely smart and decisive and capable of taking on the strong man in the Jiaozhou Army.
Luo Ayanning is one of them.
Luo Ke, who was born in the barbarian tribe on the Lianshui River, had previously lurked with Qu Chang Huang Xiaoshi and captured the first-class officer of the Cao army's marching Sima. Unfortunately, Huang Xiaoshi had already died in battle at this time. Luo Ayanning, Luo Ke and others set out for the sergeant again, and always felt that there was a fire that could not be suppressed in their hearts.
With this anger, Luo Ayanning deliberately dived closer to the Jiliuyan. However, his nervous sneaking consumed a lot of energy. At this moment, his whole body was soaked in Han water. Although he had arrived at the hidden location for a while, he was still breathing rapidly.
However, he controlled the breathing sound very well, and the sound was very low, and the airflow that stirred only blew the leaves blocking in front of him.
He narrowed his eyes and looked into the direction of Jiliuyan. In the Caojun camp there, there were fires shining, as if stars were close to the ground, appearing and disappearing.
This law of ignition and appearance is very familiar to Luo Ayanning.
Luo Ayanning was different from ordinary barbarians. He had ambition and ideas. He wanted to make a career in the army with sincerity. Therefore, he remembered the orders, flags, whistles, drums and horns in the generals clearly. And the order of the fires in front of him was exactly in line with the rules.
The floating clouds in the sky move, and the moonlight sometimes falls, and sometimes is covered.
When the fire stopped changing, the crescent moon had risen to the top. Luo Ayanning took out the bone whistle tied around his waist.
Because he repeatedly clenched and loosened, the bone whistle was warm and sweaty in his palm. This bone whistle was a tribal specialty west of Jiaozhi County, which claimed to be the remains of the Lou Kingdom. It was taken from the wing bones of a certain bird of prey. Its sharp sound could be very far away at night, and the sound quality was very similar to the chirping of birds. If it were not prepared for it, it would be difficult to distinguish it.
Luo Ayanning repeated the law of the fire extinguishing. If it were the words of the Chinese, it was just a few short sentences that were not related. Luo Ayanning didn't know the secret, but he could confirm that this must be extremely important. This is the news that General Lei had been waiting for.
He took a deep breath, puffed up his chest, put the bone whistle on his lips, and blew it hard.
The sound as light as a crane's cry vibrates the air and spreads from afar.
After blowing it, Luo Ayanning held the bone whistle again in his hand and listened with his ears. In the distant night, another whistle followed; then there seemed to be a third one further away, as if the sleeping cranes were frightened by beasts, whistling one after another.
The whistle was very far away, and at a distance, many people saw the light of the fire directly. There were many Cao troops outside Dengsai, and countless bonfire lights at night were like stars, but those who were interested could always find what they were waiting for.
In Dengsai's military camp, Zhou Cang and Li Zhen rushed to the tent where Guan Yu was resting.
"Mr. Jun, look! Look!"
Chapter completed!