Chapter 87: Use things in a hurry
Xu Wufu listened to Xu Wuji's proposal to make preparations to reinforce the Huaiyuan military camp now. He pondered for a while and was still a little hesitant.
He looked up at Xu Bosong and Xu Zhongyu and asked them what they thought:
"Uncle San and Uncle Wu, what do you think?"
"Is it necessary to reinforce the Huaiyuan military camp, to fight the thief army? How can this be done? Another thing is that the military camp is only so small, how can it be defended? I heard that all the families are retreating from Huaiyuan!" Xu Zhongyu asked worriedly, "Knowing that the military camp cannot be defended, we can't really provoke those thieves!"
Xu Bosong also shook his head, feeling that he should not provoke thieves.
"If we can't pull Xu Huai back, Xu's idiot is inseparable from the relationship. If we don't respond actively, it's no longer a matter of whether we will cause trouble! And Pan Chenghu has already joined Hutou Village, and he will not forget the hatred of Xiemashan being taken away,"
At this time, Su Laochang didn't think he was a foreigner, and said,
"As for the military camp, it may not be able to defend it. You think Deng Gui, who was a martial artist, had extraordinary courage and knowledge, defeated the thieves of Pan Chenghu's troops, such as cutting melons and chopping vegetables. More importantly, we should not forget that there is a person like Wang Bing, a military and political expert in the military camp. As long as Deng Gui is smart enough, he will not be able to contact the prefectures and counties at this time. It is in accordance with the rules to ask Wang Bing, the best army to come forward to preside over the defense, and the thief army may not be able to get it in Huaiyuan."
Liu Qiong'er's beautiful eyes were slightly restrained. Xu Wuji was born in a military army and had a strong personality. It is normal to weigh the pros and cons and advocate actively responding. Why is Su Laochang not conservative now?
But no matter what, they have the same position on this point,
Seeing that Xu Wujiang's father-in-law and Xu Wuji both supported active response, the pressure on his shoulders was much less, and he said in a deep voice:
"If the military camp does not defend, the generals of the bandit army will be in great difficulty. Even if the Yuhuangling can be defended, one or two thousand people will be seriously injured. If you dare not provoke the thief and disturb the enemy's subordinates, Xiema Mountain can take it with all its strength, but the village needs to allocate enough good horses and armor!"
"You think beautifully, good horses and armor are everywhere, how can you give it to Xiema Mountain? If you let you do anything wrong, no one can restrict you?" Xu Wuli did not give Xu Wujiang a good look and suggested to Xu Wufu, "There can be a horse and infantry of about 60 people in Xiema Mountain, but with this number, you can't give it more good horses and armor; Dazhai will also have a horse and infantry, with a limit of 120 people..."
Xu Wujiang did not compete with Xu Wuji, and added Jinshagou Village in Xiemashan. Now he can form more mobile troops of 60 people. After all, the mountain village needs people to guard it.
Xu Wufu also felt that what Xu Wuji said was reasonable. If he used all his limited military armor and good horse resources to support Xu Wujiang to form mobile troops in Xiema Mountain and let him gallop in Tongbai Mountain and call the wind and rain, it would be difficult to control him in the future.
Even in the construction of mobile troops, Dazhai must maintain an absolute advantage.
"I think it's done as Lao Wu said. Three teams of sixty-person teams of horses and infantry were formed on both sides. Xiemashan 1, Dazhai 2, Liang horses, and livestock and horses all live half of each. Now Dazhai can only collect 100 good horses, but the leather armor can be used as well as possible..." Xu Wufu was the person in Xu's conversation after all, and he finally weighed the pros and cons and ended the fierce debate.
The bandits of Laoyatan broke into the street market in the afternoon, which also prompted Zhou Jianxiong and others' stubborn families to finally agree to evacuate Huaiyuan first, discussing the matter with Xu Wuliang, Xu Wukun, Liu Qionger, Zhou Jianxiong, Wu Liangsheng and others, and their families, moved to Jinshagou Village overnight.
As a result, more than a hundred people were from Ding Zhuang and the youngest women and children in Jinshagou Village.
There are mostly steep slopes and dangerous valleys near Jinshagou Village, and the slopes that can be reclaimed are extremely limited. However, there are many wild tung trees in the mountains, which can collect tung oil seeds, wild tea and herbs.
There is no need to think about prey. A five or six-mile mountain can support wolf, deer, roe, deer and other prey. Xu Wukun, Xu Wuliang and others can hunt them in three or five days.
In addition to the forest resources in the mountains for mining, the most important thing at present is the golden sand in the stream.
Whatever you really want to do, money and food are really squandering.
After attacking Xiema Mountain, Jinshagou Village received 2,000 stagnant of money, but in the past ten days, it was squandered like water. A small path for mules and horses was built in Jinshagou Village and Shituling New Village. The village reinforced the walls, built thirty or forty row houses, reclaimed thirty or forty acres of vegetable fields, built blacksmith houses, built wooden cellars, and brick cellars.
Considering that the storm is about to begin and the thief army is rampant, the people who originally settled in the low hills on both sides of the Huai River will go to the more dangerous mountains and fields to avoid bandits, and there will be no shortage of manpower at that time, so the most important task in the early stage is to hoard grain and other supplies.
Dazhai was hoarding grain and fodder in a crazily place, and Jinshagou carried it on his back and forth at any cost. He transported thousands of bags of grain over. Whether Jinshagou Village could grow rapidly in the next bandit crisis is the foundation.
Zhou Jianxiong, Wu Liangsheng, and Yin Peng took their family into Jinshagou Village. Although it was still simple, I heard that when they settled here, each family first gave two to three bags of food according to Dingkou, and they were all happy.
In terms of personnel arrangement, thirty young and strong young people were also single-handedly pulled out.
Yin Peng stayed in the military camp with Xu Huai, led by Zhou Jianxiong and Han Qi, and formed a team of horse and infantry with Xu Wukun. Most of them learned fists, feet, sticks and sticks with Xu Wuliang. Some of them, like Han Qi, were wrapped in grass in Shangliu Village by Pan Chenghu's flank, and they also had a martial foundation.
These people can't master cavalry battles for a while, but if they practice infantry siege and kill tactics, they can marche and dismount.
The remaining ten young and strong men, led by Wu Liangsheng, followed Xu Wuliang and Zhai Mazi as the defensive infantry training in Jinshagou Village. At the same time, they also built blacksmith houses to create weapons, arrow clusters, etc.; as for armor, they are no longer extravagant, it is too labor-intensive to use hand-made time.
The remaining family members had seventy or eighty people. In addition to logging wood, charcoal, burning blue bricks, sorting out land, building houses, ponds and other miscellaneous tasks, they also specially selected forty people to occupy a limited valley where people could settle down, and used the chute method to collect sand and gold.
After deducting the daily food and wages of forty people, the daily gold obtained may be worth four or five jin of money, but this trick is long-lasting, and the additional 200 or 300 liang of Jinshagou Village can continue to maintain its livelihood.
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Although Tongbai Mountain belongs to Biyang County, Tangzhou, it is 300 miles in length and has a wide area. It takes nearly 140 miles from Huaiyuan to Yushan Post and then from Yushan Post to Biyang City, which is almost as wide as the span of two to three counties in the plain area.
In addition to the main lineage of the Nanbeiling Mountains, Tongbai Mountain has many livable hills, and since the founding of the dynasty, the population has been widely thriving. This also determines that a key place like Yushan Post has been established, which is easy to form a more prosperous town.
Yushan Post and Huaiyuan cannot be compared.
Except for the postmaster who led 11 or 12 veteran soldiers to garrison here to welcome and see him off, Yushan Post did not have any officials like the officials in charge; and in matters such as public security and bandit prevention, they were still under the control of the Huaiyuan Inspection Department. However, as one of the most important nodes of Tongbai Mountain Road, there are two or three hundred families, grain shops, wooden shops, oil shops, blacksmith shops, porcelain shops, book and paper shops, tailings shops, horse shops, etc., which are spread along the streets, and are also quite prosperous.
Every ten days, people from nearby villages would come to the market, which was even more crowded and extremely lively.
Yushan Post was too important, and Zheng Hui was worried. After confirming the next combat plan of the Sanzhai Alliance, he and Dong Qifeng rushed to Yushan Post in the early morning.
A team of horses slowly approached Yushan Post in the morning light.
I saw that the pond at the east end of Yushan Yichang Street was filled with corpses discarded overnight. The long street was fired and there was almost no intact house. There were wisps of smoke rising from the broken walls. However, some people in the cavalry were unable to bear it:
"The Prime Minister may not be willing to see this situation!"
"From now on, even if there is no outsider here, you will not mention this word again!" Zheng Hui said with a calm face and warned the guy who was talking nonsense, "And I will report everything that happened here as it is. Don't speculate on yourself!"
Dong Qifeng also turned around and glared at the man, asking him to keep his mouth under control.
They move forward slowly.
The only well-preserved nearby is the Inn Fence Courtyard, located in the west of Chang Street.
Gao Xiangzhong's troops were driving away the people who had not had time to escape and transported the plundered goods into the yard.
Although Gao Xiangzhong's troops seized Yushan Post and did everything in Yushan traitors and looting, the courtyard was orderly and several checkpoints were strictly checked.
Judging from the situation in front of him, Zheng Hui also knew that Gao Xiangzhong's troops plundered, mainly because he released the hostility that had been held in his troops for many years, but he did not indulge in the scattered state. He secretly felt that the stubborn bandits who survived in the depths of Tongbai Mountain over the years still had certain military qualities.
This situation was better than he had expected. At least he could feel at ease to let Gao Xiangzhong guard Yushan and block the troops who might have been sent from Tangzhou and Biyang to suppress the troops.
When Dong Qifeng was about to meet Gao Xiangzhong under the name of Chen Zixiao, two cavalry rushed from the east. When the two cavalry entered the Yushan Posthouse, they saw that there were their people. Zheng Hui frowned slightly and stood in the middle of the tunnel waiting for the two men to come.
One of these two riders was Zheng Hui who arranged for the eyeliner to lurk in Huaiyuan directly.
Six elite horse thieves in Laoyatan were surrounded and killed, which boosted the morale of the military soldiers in the military camp. Deng Gui also decided to defend the Huaiyuan military camp, and then strengthened the control of the two wings of the military camp and the street market. The spy found an opportunity to sneak away from Huaiyuan after nightfall, but he rushed to Mopanling without seeing Zheng Hui, so he rushed to Yushan Post.
"Is it the Xu general?" Zheng Hui did not expect that the hearts of the Huaiyuan soldiers and the people did not collapse as he expected. Guo Junzong, the old Yatan, led his troops to attack the Huaiyuan market, but suffered a small loss in the hands of a reckless general who they liked.
This reckless general named Xu Huai was seen by Dong Qifeng after following the Tang family caravan, and his brain was a little problem; and Zheng Hui also heard Pan Chenghu say that he was brave and reckless in front of Lutai Village.
To be honest, the thieves in Laoyatan were careless and underestimated the enemy. They were killed and intercepted by this rash guy. This was not a shocking thing.
The question is why did the Xu family, the rash guy, just rightly not in Lutaizhai or Xiemashan, but appeared in Huaiyuan at that time?
The Chushan Yasha Fox really saw through him, so that he could cast such a son at a critical moment?
Chapter completed!