The next day, Shang Yi gathered in Tangzhen, Jiang Yiqu, Bao Tonggang, You Hongliang, Wang Xin, Zhou Qi, Wu Hansheng and others, and began to make arrangements to defend the mountain village.
The first thing is to inquire about the movements of the bandits. Shang Yi sent Zhou Qi, Wu Hansheng, Cheng Jin and Cheng Gang into two groups and went to Anqing Village and Shitan Village respectively to inquire about the movements of the bandits. Because according to the
According to the information we received earlier, these two towns are the targets of this group of robbers.
Then Shang Yi began to discuss the village guards with everyone.
This small village is located in a valley. The entire valley is pear-shaped, with a small mouth and a big belly. It is almost surrounded by mountains on all sides. There is only a mountain road four or five meters wide leading into the valley, and there are cliffs more than ten feet high on both sides.
The area in the valley is quite large, with a radius of several miles. There is a small lake in the middle left of the valley. The village is located behind the small lake, occupying only a small part of the valley. There are about six or seven hundred meters from the village entrance to the valley entrance.
In order to prevent wild beasts from attacking the village, the villagers also built an earthen wall at the entrance of the village. From one side of the mountain wall to the edge of the lake, it is almost more than 20 meters long, which can isolate the village from the outside world.
The earthen wall is more than three meters high and is trapezoidal. The bottom is about two meters thick and the top is about one meter thick. There is an opening more than three meters wide in the middle, with a rough wood as the frame and a wooden fence as the door. It leads to the mountain road into the valley.
On both sides of the mountain road outside the village are dozens of acres of fields that the villagers have reclaimed voluntarily, growing some grains and vegetables to make themselves self-sufficient. However, it is now the end of September, and the crops in the fields have matured and been harvested.
Only wait until spring begins before re-sowing.
Overall, the terrain of this village is very good, and it can be said that it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. This is also an important reason why Shang Yi is sure to save the village. When Shang Yi asked everyone to express their opinions, Zhou Shaohuan first advocated building a wall at the entrance of the valley.
Defend and keep the robbers out of the valley. This opinion was also agreed by Jiang Yiqu, Bao Tonggang, You Hongliang and others. Only Tang Zhen remained silent.
At this time, Shang Yi said: "According to Shaohuan's method, we can indeed keep the robbers out of the valley, but this also limits our own hands and feet, making it difficult to attack the robbers."
Jiang Yiqu frowned and said: "Why should we attack the bandits? These people are rogues and will not stay in one place for too long. As long as they guard the mouth of the valley, if they cannot attack them in ten days at most, they will leave on their own.
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Shang Yi shook his head and said: "The robbers will come again after they leave. Keeping them will always be a future trouble for the village. And with this group of robbers outside, no one will dare to leave the valley again in the future."
After everyone listened, they also felt that what Shang Yi said was reasonable. You Hongliang said: "Then what do you think we should do?"
Shang Yi said: "Eliminate this group of bandits. Only by completely eliminating this group of bandits can our village avoid future troubles forever."
Jiang Yiqu, Bao Tonggang, You Hongliang and others couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. From their point of view, it would be good to save the village and eliminate all the bandits. They didn't even think about it.
Shang Yi continued: "We can first introduce the bandits into the valley, then block the entrance of the valley, and then guard the village. In this way, the bandits cannot advance or retreat, and we can completely eliminate this group of bandits in the valley."
.However, this may increase the casualties in our village, but this is the best way to avoid future troubles."
Jiang Yiqu, Bao Tonggang, You Hongliang and others looked at each other for a few times and remained silent. At this time, Tang Zhen said: "What do you think? I agree with Shang Yi's method."
Zhou Shaohuan first said: "I also agree, Brother Shang is much more thoughtful than me."
Jiang Yiqu bit it and said: "Okay, let's do it according to Shang Yi's opinion."
After the plan was decided, everyone immediately started making preparations.
First, Shang Yi arranged for people to build a wooden platform within the village wall so that people could climb up the wall to defend. At the same time, he dug a village protection river outside the village wall, which was more than four meters wide and about one meter deep. Sharpened rough wood was then introduced into the lake and the village gate was reinforced.
The biggest weakness of the entire village is the area along the lake, which is almost 40 meters away without any covering measures. The lake shore is only more than one meter above the lake. If the bandits attack from the water, it will obviously be easier than attacking the village entrance directly. And now the wall is being built. It was too late. They could only cut down the trees and build them into square horses, blocking all the lakeside areas. Fortunately, there was nothing else in the mountains and there were plenty of big trees. The villagers immediately divided into two groups, one group cut down the trees, and the other group went to Shang Yi's house. Under the guidance of Zhaju Ma Mucha.
In addition, how to block the entrance of the valley is also a key construction task. Only by blocking the entrance of the valley can the escape route of the bandits be cut off and the goal of completely eliminating the bandits is achieved. The best way is to prepare some rough wood and large rocks on the cliff at the entrance of the valley. , waiting for the robbers to enter the valley, put down the thick wood and big rocks, and blocked the entrance of the valley.
But the mountain walls are more than ten feet high. Although there are many vines attached to them and there are large areas of exposed rock, it is not easy to climb up the mountain walls. But this is not difficult for Shang Yi, and he travels to this era with him Among the items he brought was an ejection flying claw with a fifteen-meter-long steel cable, which was a sharp tool for rock climbing. With the help of the flying claw, Shang Yi easily climbed up the cliff, then found a big tree and tied the rope. , put it on the ground, and pulled up more than 20 people.
Everyone came from the cliff to the entrance of the valley, cut down a lot of trees, and temporarily placed them on the cliff at the entrance of the valley. Because the place where the rope was tied led to the village, the rope could still be left on the cliff as a tool for future rock climbing.
Shang Yi then arranged for people to make some simple guard weapons.
At dusk, the two groups of spies sent out came back to report that Anqing Village had been burned, killed, and looted by bandits, and that the bandits were heading towards Shitan Village. Some of the villagers also moved here from these two villages. When they heard about it, they all gritted their teeth. Shang Yi had nothing to do about it. It would be good to be able to save his own village now. Other villages could only let them seek their own blessings.
Shitan Village is more than 20 miles away from here. Shang Yi estimated that it will take at least three days for the bandits to come here. He also urged the villagers to work quickly. After the villagers learned about the fate of the two villages, , and also know that the danger is imminent, so they are more willing to do things.
While Shang Yi directed the villagers to build fortifications, he also trained the villagers' fighting skills. At the same time, Shang Yi uniformly distributed the weapons to each team. The whole team must use the same weapon so that the spears can reach the village wall and the shore. For border guards, those with swords stay in the village and wait for the robbers to enter the village, and then engage in hand-to-hand combat. The training is also based on their respective responsibilities, and the content is also different. Those with spears practice stabbing and poking; those with knives practice chopping and chopping.
However, most of the villagers in this village are hunters, and they are quite agile. Many of them can do a few tricks and learn them quickly. Especially the few of them in Tang Town, although they are all about forty years old, they can do a few tricks with just one move.
One move is actually very precise, which is obviously the result of several years of hard work. At this time, everyone also acted as a coach.
There are only thirty outside townspeople, all of whom are farmers and know nothing. They are also the people who are trained by Shang Yi. Although they only have these few days, they can't teach anything, but they are still sharpening their guns in the field, which is not pleasant.
Light. Anyway, as much as you can learn is better than nothing.
The time was passed in such a tense and busy manner. The training ended at noon that day, and everyone else also called it a day. Zhou Shaohuan, Tong Daniu, Xu Jin, Cheng Gang, Duan Peng and other young people also practiced martial arts with Shang Yi.
, so they all gathered together to eat. Two girls, Ye Yaoqi and Tang Juan, carried a bucket of rice to them.
Several other people burst into laughter immediately, because they all knew that Tang Juan and Zhou Shaohuan were an unmarried couple. Tang Juan was so ashamed that she didn't even dare to raise her head when serving rice to Zhou Shaohuan. But Ye Yaoyao was much more generous and handed the bowl with the rice to him.
Shang Yi laughed and scolded the other young men for not being able to find wives in the future.
Several people were chatting and laughing while eating. Because they had all seen Shang Yi playing nunchaku that day, and the moves were beautiful and novel, so everyone wanted to learn it.
Shang Yi smiled. Of course he could understand this feeling. Because when he first saw Bruce Lee dancing the nunchucks on TV, he was extremely envious and wished he could learn it right away. Although it was more than three hundred years later.
Things, but the nature of young people is basically the same. So Shang Yi took out the nunchaku from the lining of his clothes, held it with only one hand, played with a few sticks, and said with a smile: "Which of you wants to
Try it."
Zhou Shaohuan was the first to say: "I'll come, I'll come."
He took the nunchaku from Shang Yi and started swinging it like Shang Yi did that day. But before he could swing it twice, there was a "pop" sound, and the head of the stick hit him on the forehead, causing pain.
Zhou Shaohuan grinned. Several other teenagers also took it one by one and took turns to try it out. The results were all the same, and everyone got hit several times. It made Ye Yaoyao and Tang Juan giggle.
Shang Yi took the nunchaku from Cheng Jin and said with a smile: "Look at it clearly." As he said this, he waved his hand seemingly carelessly, and saw that the head of the stick was twisting and turning several times for some unknown reason.
, and finally he was pinched under his right armpit. Several teenagers cheered.
Then Shang Yi slowed down again, shook his right hand again, pulled out the stick head from his armpit, and swung it a few times with a "woo woo woo" sound, so that everyone could clearly see the movements of his hand and the momentum of the stick head.
Then the stick head was returned to the armpit and clamped. Then Shang Yi did it several times at different speeds, so that everyone could remember it. He also gave them the nunchaku to practice.
But it seems easier to practice than practice. After Shang Yi changed hands with the very docile and obedient stick, he immediately became dishonest. Several teenagers took turns to try it out, and everyone got hit several times. In the end, only Zhou Shaohuan and Duan Peng were the slow ones.
After getting it right twice, he finally put the head of the stick back under his arm and clamped it. The worst sufferer was Tong Daniu. He was the biggest, taller than Shang Yi, but he was also the least flexible and received the most beatings.
After they all played for a while, Shang Yi said: "What I taught you just now is just a simple movement. It is not easy to practice nunchaku well. I have practiced for almost ten years before I got to this point. I don't have time to elaborate now."
I'll leave it to you. After defeating the robbers, each of you can also shoot a nunchaku, and I will slowly hand them over to you."
At this moment, Zhou Qi hurried over and said: "Shang Yi, the robbers are coming to our village."
Shang Yi stood up in a hurry and said, "Let's go and have a look."