Chapter 969 Resurrection
Southwest.
A wisp of beacon smoke rises, straight into the sky.
Zheng Enyang's face suddenly became serious. He stroked his forehead and watched carefully.
"Master, the beacon fire in the southwest, the southern barbarians are invading!"
Huo Changyan Shizhu, who was about to go downstairs to kill a pig, stopped, turned around, and looked around at the fortress.
"Damn it, it's true, five wisps of black smoke, at least five thousand thieves have invaded, which really makes me think, these sons of a **** want to destroy our crops."
"What should I do?" Zheng Enyang asked.
"Raise the beacon smoke first, and then ring the alarm bell." Old Yan gritted his teeth, "Soldiers come to block, water comes and soil floods it. Since these barbarians want to grab food, then we will fight with him. Damn, these food We got tired and shed several layers of skin, and got countless calluses on our hands. Now that we have finally matured and are about to harvest, they want to grab the ready-made?"
"Fuck the fuck."
Old Yan picked up the iron chisel and struck the alarm bell fiercely, while Zheng Enyang skillfully lit the beacon fire.
Under the watchtower, a group of barbarian soldiers were chasing pigs. The head of the fire said that the pigs were slaughtered today, and several pigs were killed in advance to prepare for harvesting.
The pig is raised by itself, a **** pig.
One head weighed no less than two hundred catties, very fat.
The pigs will be killed later, and the good pork will be kept first, but the offal pigs, pig heads and feet must be eaten first, and everyone is very excited to eat meat.
The daily food in the bunker is not bad. Anyway, the food, salt and pickles are full, but when it comes to meat and fish, they can’t be eaten openly.
The castle has its own farmland, and also raises pigs, cattle, chickens and ducks, but after all, the number is limited, and it is rare to be able to eat a meal of meat.
When driving the pigs, everyone was very active, and even those who were resting came to join in the fun.
Those pigs felt as if they were facing a great enemy, feeling that their time was approaching, they were struggling for the last time, running here and there, trying to break out of the encirclement and flee for their lives, but they couldn't escape.
was in a mess when suddenly the alarm bells sounded.
All the people couldn't help but looked up to the top of the watchtower, and they were all surprised to see the black beacon smoke billowing up.
"The thieves are here, ready to fight!"
Huo Chang Yan Shizhu ran down the ten-zhang watchtower in one breath, and shouted at the people who were still surrounding the pig, "Drive the pig back and lock it up."
"Zhao Laosan, quickly take two riders and go to the southwest to investigate. If you find a barbarian, report it immediately!"
"Fourth Chang, take a few people with you right away, and call back all the people working in the field."
"Wang Lao Liu, go and organize Yu Dingye in the village, take up spears, bows and arrows, prepare for battle and obey orders."
"Liu Laoqi, take your archers to the watchtower and prepare."
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A series of commands are issued.
The camp centered on the watchtower immediately became chaotic. The armor warehouse was opened, and a crowd of people lined up to receive weapons and armor.
Fortunately, this is not the first time the barbarians have come. Although everyone was a little confused, they didn't panic. While carrying hoes, they still didn't forget the bows, arrows and spears they carried with them.
The children also heard the call and drove the cows and pigs to the village.
The native soldiers in Tunzhong took their weapons and quickly climbed up the earthen wall of Tunzhuang. Yu Ding also gathered in the large drying ground in Tunzhong.
Women, children, and the elderly are all gathered together and temporarily staying in the barracks. If barbarians invade the fort, they will be evacuated to a safer watchtower.
Not far away, on the watchtower of Yacheng in Shibeng County, the beacon smoke was finally lit.
Light cavalry galloped out of the city, heading southwest.
Zheng Enyang was still standing on the top of the ten-zhang watchtower. He hadn't seen the shadow of the barbarians yet, but beacon smoke rose from one watchtower after another.
Qingqi scouts riding one after another, galloped out of the watchtowers.
Looking at this scene, he didn't even have any waves.
About half an hour later.
Qingqi came from Shibeng City, and brought orders from Colonel Liu to order each watchtower to send a team of soldiers to reinforce the county and strengthen the defense.
Old Yan sent fifty barbarian soldiers to reinforce the county.
The initial panic was gone in the camp.
"Just wait like this?"
Old Yan chewed betel nuts, thought for a while, "The grain outside the mother's house is already cooked, we can't wait for the barbarians to come and grab it. I think the servants of the organization will go to the fields to collect grain now."
A town soldier also suggested, "I think men, women and children should all go there, just cut off the ears of rice, and then carry the young and strong to the shore, and drive them back to the village to dry."
To harvest rice normally, it is necessary to drain the water in the paddy field in advance, then cut the rice in the field, thresh it in the field, or even raise dust, and finally bag it and transport it back to dry the water, and finally carry out dust removal and ash removal again, etc. Then it can be stored in the warehouse.
The threshed rice stalks need to be bundled and dried in the sun. After they are dried, they are bundled and picked up and piled up at home. They can be used as good hay for livestock to spend the winter. They can also be used to weave straw rope bags, or even bedding, Very useful.
But now the thieves are coming to grab the grain, so I can only cut the ears of rice back as quickly as possible.
Old Yan sighed.
There are 50 hectares of farmland, which is 5,000 mu of land. Under normal circumstances, it will take ten days and a half months to harvest. Now I am in a hurry, and it will not be possible in a while. But it's a little bit to be able to charge a little.
Never let the barbarians **** it away.
"It's good to leave a few old ones on the watchtower. The thieves won't come so fast. We are on the edge of the county town." Lao Yan said, he simply took off his armor and hung up Put the waist knife on your body, and then start arranging for the robbery.
All men, women and children went to the ground to **** them up.
The young and strong are responsible for picking the harvested ears of rice from the field to the roadside, and then the older men will drive them back to the village on a bullock cart, while the women and children are in charge of harvesting in the field.
Old Yan glanced at the pigsty over there.
"Slaughter those few pigs. It will take a lot of effort to harvest them and prevent them from being barbaric. How can it be done without oil and water."
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Tonghai City.
Cheng Chumo just came back from Guangzhou not long ago. During this time, he has been busy recruiting troops and expanding the navy.
Expanded Tonghai town soldiers, increased barbarian soldiers near the city and side, and united soldiers in all states. Along several important lines of communication, the bunker tactics continued, and new towers were erected one after another.
The fortresses of Tonghai Prefecture have increased from the initial five to the current eight, and a chain of four vertical and three horizontal bunkers has been established with bunkers.
Tonghai Mansion's control is constantly increasing. Since Heman crossed the river, he has fought intermittently for more than a year, but it has not affected the strength of Tonghai.
On the contrary, these repeated battles have made the Tong Navy stronger and stronger, and even its control over the barbarians has become stronger and stronger.
Tong navy occupies the urban and rural areas, and barbarians occupy the mountainous areas, but the important lines of communication are all controlled by Cheng Chumo.
The newly-built Yajun of the Governor's Mansion has just returned from the suppression of the barbarians in the mountains, and the record is very rich.
This newly-built dental army has a strength of one thousand, but it is an elite gathering of the whole army. In addition to the 1,000 regular soldiers, Cheng Chumo also added 2,000 soldiers by recruiting the children of Tong Haijun for his bravery, and then transferred 5,000 soldiers from the barbarian regiment training.
In fact, this dental army has a strength of 8,000.
Niu Jianhu's Nanyang navy transported a large amount of equipment for him from Guangzhou, and Cheng Chumo immediately used them to equip this tooth soldier.
Cheng Chumo has high expectations for this army, and the treatment is also very good.
His original intention for building this dental army is also very simple, that is, to build a mobile elite force. The original system of fortresses and watchtowers remains unchanged, and the focus is still on defense, with each guarding one side and guarding the lines of communication.
And his newly-built dental army took the initiative to attack.
Five days ago, Cheng Chumo personally led this 8,000-strong army out of Shangguan and into Yuxi. They marched for four days, and on the fifth day they reached a barbarian camp in Yuxi Mountain.
This camp was originally a stockade for the Heman people. After Xicuan gave Yuxi to the Tonghai Governor's Mansion, these people refused to pay money and food, and sent strong men to greet them after crossing the river, and even provided them with money and food. , camp, and even sent his children to accompany him to attack and plunder.
Cheng Chumo has long disliked them.
This time, they ran for hundreds of miles in five days, broke through the camps in one fell swoop, killed hundreds of people in one battle, and captured a lot of people.
Adding up the front and back, thousands of thieves were beheaded, more than 5,000 people were captured, and many livestock, pigs and cattle were captured.
Victorious in the first battle, morale is booming.
Along the way, they returned victoriously, with the heads of barbarians stuck on the tips of the spears of the Ya army, leading pigs and cattle, and pulling barbarian captives, it was very lively.
Back to Tonghai City, they slaughtered pigs and cattle to reward the soldiers, and then rewarded them for their merits.
The victory of this battle further strengthened Cheng Chumo's determination to carefully build this tooth army. When he went to Guangzhou, he wanted Duke Wei to allow him to gather strength and fight the barbarians. But Wei Gong refused, but finally gave him an idea, it was this Yajun.
Create a small but fine mobile force to sweep up the raids and rebels.
The harvest in the first battle was so great, which further proved Wei Gong's brilliance.
"Captain!"
"Military intelligence report!"
A yamen soldier delivered a letter of military information, Cheng Chumo opened it, glanced at it, and snorted coldly.
"These damned savages really came to this trick again. Seeing that the rice is ripe and harvesting soon, they began to rush out of the mountains to grab the grain."
This is not a rare thing. Last year, when crossing the river with Man, it was picked before the summer harvest. At the beginning, Tonghai Mansion was caught off guard. A lot of food was harvested, and those that could not be taken away were directly burned and trampled.
During the autumn harvest, Heman repeated the old plan again, but this time, Tong Haijun had already taken precautions, and the loss was not big.
Unexpectedly, the summer harvest is coming soon, and He Man will do it again.
"Fights are raging all over the place, and they are all starting to defend and fight fiercely, while stepping up their efforts to seize them."
Cheng Chu nodded silently.
Just defending is not enough. After all, Heman is here to grab food and not to attack the city.
In the past, they used the advantage of bunkers to control the traffic lines to attack the barbarians, and did not fight them head-on.
Cheng Chumo plans to change his tactics this time.
With the 8,000 carefully built tooth army and such an elite mobile force, he no longer needs to be passively beaten.
"Bring me a map!"
Cheng Chumo planned to pick a suitable battlefield and give the barbarian a ruthless blow!
(end of this chapter)