Hearing the letter from the village, Jin Feng's heart skipped a beat and asked, "Something happened in the village?"
"No," Monkey quickly shook his head: "His Majesty is just worried about our situation, so he asked Xiaoyu to write and ask."
Now that the airship cannot be used and the carrier pigeons are blocked by the party's falcons, communication has returned to the time when the cavalry used to send messages, and the number of messages has also dropped sharply.
In order to prevent the Ninth Princess from worrying, Jin Feng had not sent anyone to Xihewan to send battle reports. The Ninth Princess did not know what the situation of Jin Feng and the others was.
Now that we have successfully arrived at Zhuangzhuanggou, we are temporarily safe, and it is time to report to our families that we are safe.
Jin Feng thought for a moment and said, "Let Brother Liang find someone to write a battle report and send it back."
"Yes!" The monkey jumped off the stone and went down the mountain from the path.
"I don't want to take the good road, but I have to walk through the pile of rocks!" Jin Feng said, looking at the monkey's back.
"Can you call me monkey?" Zuo Feifei also laughed: "There are only wrong names, not wrong nicknames!"
It was said to be a path, but in fact it was just a pile of rocks. The monkey was jumping around on the pile of rocks and disappeared around a huge boulder.
But his appearance also successfully broke the awkwardness between Jin Feng and Zuo Feifei.
The two of them walked down the hill talking and laughing, and came to a pond in the valley of the southern section of Zhuangzhuang Valley.
This was the former main mining area. After the miners left, it was occupied by bandits and became a bandit den.
Later, Dang Xiang often came here to harass, and the bandits could no longer survive, so the place became a wasteland.
However, the stone houses that the miners and bandits left here are still there, and most importantly, there are several ponds of different sizes in the valley.
This is a pit formed by open-pit mining. When there is a lot of rain in summer, it will gather in the pit and form a pond over time.
Perhaps due to minerals, these ponds are all blue and crystal clear. Looking from the top of the mountain, they look like gems embedded in the desert.
In fact, there are many places on the border that are suitable for defense. It was precisely because of these ponds that Jin Feng finally chose this camp.
There are many deserts in the northwest, so it is not easy to find places with water. These ponds are quite large and are enough for the daily drinking water needs of the Shu army.
What surprised Jin Feng even more was that he originally thought that the water in the mines had to be filtered before drinking, but the guide said that the water in these ponds could be drank directly.
Moreover, the bandits used this place as their lair and even put fish fry in it.
When Jin Feng heard about this, he went to the pond to take a look and found a lot of fish in the mine.
Perhaps because it is inaccessible and no one fishes, the fish in the mine are quite small and they come in groups.
There are fish in the mine, which means there is no problem with the water, and even the filtering step is omitted.
There is a row of stone houses on the edge of the largest pond, where the original mine managers and bandit leaders lived.
The female workers cleaned up the stone house, and it became the temporary residence of Jin Feng, Zhang Liang and other high-level officials.
Qing Mulan and Alan came out of one of the stone houses. When they saw Zuo Feifei and Jin Feng, they shouted to them: "Don't look away, come to dinner, everyone is waiting for you, sir!"
"Didn't I tell you, eat when the food is ready, what are you waiting for me to do?" Jin Feng said with a smile.
"You are sir. If you don't come, who among them would dare to use chopsticks?"
Qing Mulan glanced at Jin Feng, then took Zuo Feifei's arm: "Feifei, I asked you to call the husband for dinner, why did you stay there for so long?"
Jin Feng touched his nose and followed towards the largest stone house.
Although Jin Feng said many times that he didn't have to wait for him to eat, Zhang Liang insisted on waiting every time.
Zhang Liang insisted that even if Qing Mulan wanted to eat in advance, there was nothing he could do.
This largest stone house was built by bandits. There is also a stone tablet at the door, with the three characters "Juyi Hall" engraved on it.
The word "righteousness" in it looked awkward to Jin Feng. After taking a closer look, he discovered that it turned out that the traditional Chinese character "righteousness" had more strokes. The bandits who originally carved the word might have carved it wrong at first, and later changed it to connected characters, so
It looks a little awkward.
Seeing this stone tablet, Jin Feng couldn't help but think of the stupid gangsters in Master Xing's "Westward Journey" and couldn't help but laugh to himself!
"Sir, why are you laughing?" Qing Mulan asked curiously.
"Nothing, let's go eat." Jin Feng waved his hand and followed into the stone house.www.81zw.????m
This stone house is the largest room around. It is now not only a dining room for high-level generals, but also a temporary combat command room.
There is a dining table on the east side of the house, a war sand table on the west side, and the map has been hung on the wall with the best lighting.
Zhang Liang, Hou Hou, Da Zhuang, Chen Fengzhi and other generals were already waiting at the dinner table. When they saw Jin Feng coming in, they all stood up.
"I'm afraid everyone has to stay here for a while. Don't be so formal and just be casual."
Jin Feng waved his hand and motioned for everyone to sit down.
The food on the table is very simple, a basin of broth, a basket of steamed buns, and two plates of pickles, that's all.
Zuo Feifei poured a bowl of broth for Jin Feng and handed it over a steamed bun.
When Jin Feng moved his chopsticks, others picked up their chopsticks, and the atmosphere became lively.
Especially Chen Fengzhi and Da Zhuang, each drank soup louder than the other.
Jin Feng broke off a piece of steamed bun and threw it into his rice bowl, then turned to look at Zhang Liang: "Brother Liang, did the monkey tell you about the battle report?"
"Said," Zhang Liang put down his chopsticks: "The battle report has been written a long time ago. After the monkey told me just now, he sent someone back."
"That's okay," Jin Feng nodded: "Also notify the logistics team and send more coal. We estimate that we will have to stay here for a while and we can't freeze the brothers!"
Jin Feng planned to build Zhuangzhuanggou into a base and rely on it to fight a protracted war with the party members.
Although the mine is warmer than the tent, it is still very cold.
The best way to keep warm is to burn a stove.
The northwest border was desolate, but coal resources were abundant. After the escort captured Xizhou, Jin Feng immediately arranged for people to come over to search for coal mines, and found one in the barren mountains more than a hundred miles away from Brass Valley.
Although it is only a small mine and its overall scale is not large, the advantage is that it is a shallow mine and is easy to mine.
Many of the bandits captured by the bodyguards during the raids on local tycoons and the landowners and gentry who were found guilty but not worthy of death were sent to the small coal mine to dig coal. Now there are some
reserve.
The logistics team now has bicycles, making transportation more convenient.
"Don't worry, sir, I have arranged for the logistics team to deliver coal as soon as possible, and the craftsmen who repair the kang have also been found. The two largest mines can light fires tonight!" Zhang Liang replied.
"Brother Liang is very reliable in his work," Jin Feng praised, but still reminded: "When burning coal in a cave, you must ensure that there are no air leaks in the flue. In addition, arrange more people on duty. If you find anything wrong, you must immediately
Shout people out!"
The mine is airtight, so gas poisoning would be a problem.