After Zhang Xiaowu was ordered to return to the Epidemic Village, he began to organize manpower to start building cave dwellings. The original Epidemic Village had an area of just over three acres. If a round death camp was built, the area would be expanded to 20 acres, which is almost equivalent to five and a half acres of the original Epidemic Village.
This not only takes a long time, but also requires energy, financial resources, and the supply of manpower and material resources. But now what the Dead Soldiers Camp has in abundance is time and lacks things to do, so he measured the surrounding land and began to ask the soldiers to dig out
"Moat" comes.
It is said to be a "moat", but in fact it is just a deep ditch, about one foot deep and one foot wide. The extra sand and soil are used to build the city walls.
Some soldiers in the death camp were unwilling to work, so Zhang Xiaowu once again told everyone with three heads that they would die sooner or later. If you want to die quickly, don't work. Now everyone was silent, even Shen Lindong, the only one who could take the lead.
He didn't dare to speak anymore. Shen Lindong could also see that as long as he dared to take the lead in opposing, he would be the first to die. As the saying goes, killing the chicken to scare the monkeys.
Although Shen Lindong did not want to be promoted to an official position by a yellow-haired boy, he was not a fool, so how could he take the lead in opposing it at this time? Moreover, Shen Lindong had a large number of followers, so he did not have to do any hard work himself, but people kept coming up to encourage him to take the lead in causing trouble.
, were all coldly rejected by him.
The front and central teams of the Death Soldiers Camp took turns to supervise. There were only more than 600 people working, and they only dug a shallow foot of thickness in one day. Zhang Xiaowu then ordered that all the grass in the circle be burned.
He did as he was told, but the flames around the epidemic village soared into the sky and almost set the epidemic village on fire. Fortunately, everyone reacted in time and put out the fire that was burning towards the epidemic village.
Someone then spread a message in the army, saying that Zhang Xiaowu had angered the gods. After hearing this, Zhang Xiaowu remained silent, leaving Hu Sanwan to find out who was spreading the rumor.
In the next few days, Zhang Xiaowu fully supervised the digging of trenches and the construction of earthen walls in the death camp. The trenches were expanded from one foot deep and two feet wide to one foot deep and one foot wide, and the earthen wall was built one foot high. Looking from a distance, where is the epidemic village?
It was the original epidemic village where sick prisoners were kept. The death camp only left a one-foot-wide passage in the direction of Mucheng, and there were deep ditches in the area. It was impossible to fall in or even climb out.
During the Battle of Tucheng, Zhang Xiaowu was used to seeing the terror of the Wuhuan people's rain of arrows and stone bullets piercing the sky. Therefore, at the beginning of the construction, he tried every means to build bunkers, in addition to building wall stacks on the earth walls.
In addition, he also set up some tunnels in different places on the ground to avoid arrow rain and stone bullets.
Regarding the hardness of the earth wall, he asked people to add sand and gravel to the soil during the construction, and also saved some rice porridge for construction. Although it was of little use, the earth wall was built day by day, and the soldiers camped with dead soldiers.
The officers and soldiers couldn't help but feel excited and proud when they looked at the barracks they had built. Even Shen Lindong, who had always been unconvinced by Zhang Xiaowu, told people privately that he had never thought that the construction of the death camp could be so fast. Everyone almost relied on manpower to build the barracks in one place.
The initial prototype of the death camp was built within the month.
After the outer ditch and earth wall were completed, Zhang Xiaowu ordered everyone to cut firewood and move it back to the epidemic village, without rushing to build barracks. Everyone was puzzled, and when enough firewood was piled up, they saw him digging out the earth and piling it into the gable.
, and then taught everyone to dig gables to build cave dwellings. They did not need to burn bricks to build houses, they only needed to dig out enough
If the cave dwelling is large enough, everyone can live in the cave dwelling. However, most of the Central Plains soldiers had never seen a cave dwelling and felt as if they were living in a tomb, so they all resisted a lot. Zhang Xiaowu forcibly suppressed them, dug the cave dwellings, and burned them inside.
After it was hard and dry, Huang Sheng and Huang Qi were asked to hire craftsmen to build the doors and windows.
Huang Sheng and Huang Qi had been here several times and saw that the soldiers in the Dead Soldiers Camp were busy building it, so they did not interfere. It was not until the Dead Soldiers Camp was initially built that they came over to inspect it.
He only saw rows of cave dwellings built on the mountain-like gables. He couldn't help but concentrate for a long time. Huang Sheng called Zhang Xiaowu and said: "Zhang Dutou, our Han army has never seen such a dilapidated barracks. This - this -
Is this not a tomb? Can it be strong if you live in it?"
Zhang Xiaowu was almost angry to death. He had finally built a cave barracks that was both warm and strong. How could it be called a tomb? He immediately said: "Master Xiaowei, you can rest assured. Although the cave soil is piled up manually, it is still
Before construction
I have sent people to build a strong base and pounded the cave with stones and stone strips, so that the cave will never collapse." He then took them to the back of the cave, which was a row of relatively small rooms. There were only walls inside.
Outside the cave is the "flint" piled at the door.
Zhang Xiaowu then introduced that this is a "fire room". After the flint is burned, the thick smoke with heat flows along the flue through the warm wall, and then the smoke is discharged to the top and floats away through the chimney. Once the toxic smoke cannot be discharged, it will only
If you stay in the fire room, you can open the lid above the fire room to exhaust the smoke, and you will never enter the cave and choke the soldiers.
Huang Sheng, uncle and nephew could not understand, so Zhang Xiaowu asked his men to heat up a cave. After waiting for an hour, the cave was already too hot to stay. Several people left the cave dripping with sweat. Huang Qi was surprised and said: "It's so warm... ah
Warm...ah warm...ah warm."
Huang Sheng still said: "It's good, but it's just too ugly, like a tomb."
Huang Qi also said: "Isn't this a... a... grave?"
Everyone tried not to laugh. After all, it was Zhang Xiaowu's hard work. In fact, everyone thought that this cave dwelling with a flat bottom was no different from a tomb, except that the inside was dug a little larger.
Huang Sheng usually did not stay in the epidemic village, so he no longer cared about the construction of the epidemic village. He also knew that last year, more than 300 soldiers and servants of the Sixth Regiment froze to death because they were not used to the cold in the northern part of the Great Wall.
Tuan even spent half the winter stuck in the house, refusing to go out or exercise.
Huang Sheng left some money and asked Zhang Xiaowu to hire craftsmen in the city to repair the doors and windows of the cave dwelling. After entering the death camp, the craftsmen in the city were frightened by the "graves" and repaired the doors and windows with great suspicion, and then spread the story back to
Within the city.
It was passed down by word of mouth, and it was a joke at first. Later, when the storyteller learned about it, it happened that the people in Mucheng were a little tired of Zhang Xiaowu's story. After all, there was no copyright awareness in this era - let alone this era, even modern people
Not having much awareness of copyright, he went to pirated novel websites to read even free books without voting for rewards, which made many writers angry and protested - so the storyteller turned his head and immediately made up a story about ghosts and gods.
It is said that three hundred years ago, there was great chaos in the Central Plains. In the late Tang Dynasty, the people were in dire straits and the kings were fighting. A general named Zhang Xiaowu was ordered by Emperor Li of Heaven to enter the northern part of the Great Wall to search for the ruins of the Holy City of Roland and to find the strongest martial arts of the Roland people. After this Zhang Xiaowu entered the tomb
He studied martial arts but became obsessed with it and became a ghost general.
Three hundred years later, Zhang Xiaowu, who had changed dynasties, was found by tomb robbers. He never expected that the world would change drastically at this time, but he always kept in mind the belief of expelling the dog barbarians, so he became the guard of Tucheng. This story was named by the storyteller
"The Prequel of Ghost General Zhang Xiaowu" immediately became very popular and became a favorite story. Many people expressed their enthusiasm for the fantasy and ethereal story of Ghost General, which made the storyteller earn a lot of money.