In addition to training, hundreds of people were also organized by Yang Yingqi to participate in various jobs, which were roughly divided into three categories: making weapons, building grass sheds, and finding fuel.

To Yang Yingqi's relief, the coal they found was not only enough to supply wrought iron, but also enough to ensure heating this winter. Yang Yingqi and a potter named Wang Dahui studied for a long time, and finally built a stove that could be used for heating, and at the same time made honeycomb coal. When Zhi Yanchong led the people to build all the grass sheds, the reserves of honeycomb coal were almost gone.

The first bitter cold of the winter did not pose any threat to the healthy people of the valley, but it sent away the few remaining patients of the plague who were still alive - in fact, the disease had subsided, but their bodily functions were severely damaged in the fight against the disease. After burying that compatriot in the light snow, Yang Yingqi knew that unless the Khitans made a bad heart, this would be the last person they would bury.

After the honeycomb coal was made, the standard of living in the valley also improved greatly. The women used the simplest stoves and clay pots to make the grains as delicious as possible. Ouyang Shi contributed two northern pearls from his personal collection and exchanged them for a batch of linen cloth through the Khitan soldiers. More than half of the more than 20 women know how to tailor, and one of them, Gu's sister-in-law, is proficient in this way. They gathered up all the surplus garments in the valley and made a new batch of them together with the linen cloth. With this batch of new clothes, hundreds of people can go out of the hut when the weather is good, and hide next to the stove to keep warm if the weather is bad.

Zhi Yanchong's martial arts are getting better and better, and Ouyang Shi and Aluman, who already have considerable strength, have also improved. Yang Kaiyuan's martial arts foundation is the worst, so he has made the fastest progress, and after practicing for a few months, his fighting and archery skills are already above the level.

And Yang Yingqi is only "twelve or thirteen years old", and he doesn't have the natural brute strength like Aruban, so he just practiced some Zaji's kung fu. However, after Zhang Laoyu made him a light crossbow, he also became interested, and under the guidance of Di Yu, he practiced his eyesight very well.

In the past few months, while Di Yu Zheyanchong was conducting martial arts training for 500 people, Yang Yingqi also conducted literary training for these people.

Among these 500 people, there are more than 60 who can read and write, more than 10 percent. Among them, there was even a man named Hu Mao who passed the imperial examination of the Liao State. Yang Yingqi picked out fifty of the more clever ones, and called them every day after martial arts training and work, and taught them some simple arithmetic and writing - in fact, these people were originally literate and arithmetic, and Yang Yingqi came to help them sort them out, and at the same time taught them some new things, such as the Indian numeracy method of 1234, and secondly, to teach them how to teach others. These people already have some foundation, and what Yang Yingqi teaches is not difficult, so they accept it quickly.

Then, he asked Zhi Yanchong to put these fifty people in each team. Over the past few months, hundreds of people in the valley have basically recognized simple words and some calculation methods.

In his free time, he would gather everyone to listen to Yang Yingqi's story--the best entertainment in the valley. Yang Yingqi told the story of the Han heroes who were shocking all over the world, and he also asked all people with different surnames to report their names, and almost all of them had great ancestors! Many people became excited when they listened to it, and the numbness on their faces became less and less like a day.

Looking at all this, Di Yu and the others had a higher and higher evaluation of Yang Yingqi in their hearts, and even Ouyang Shi was quite convinced, because although Yang Yingqi was younger than him, his knowledge was higher than him-the two talked about some overseas experiences, and Ouyang Shi had never even heard of some things that Yang Yingqi said. The people in the valley also respected this "prodigy" and no longer treated him as an ordinary child.

Half a month before the Spring Festival, the weather became very good, and a deputy captain named Chen Ah Monkey actually climbed to the highest peak in the valley - although this peak is the highest, the side facing the valley is the most gentle, so Chen Ah Monkey can climb up. He found a stone at the top of the peak, tied the straw rope at the edges and corners, and connected Zhi Yanchong with Ouyang Shi and Di Yu. At this time, Di Yu's body had basically recovered, and his martial arts strength had also recovered by six or seven percent. He looked around at the peak, but after reading it, he couldn't help but shake his head, looking very disappointed, it turned out that the peak he was on was a cliff on the other side, and he couldn't go down at all.

Ouyang Shi pointed to the mountain in the southwest and said, "The side of that mountain facing the outside of the valley seems to be very gentle, if you can climb that mountain, there is a great possibility of going out!" ”

Di Yu said: "But the side of the mountain facing the valley is very steep, and ordinary people are afraid that they will not be able to go up. As he spoke, he looked at Chen Ahou.

Chen Ah Monkey understood and said: "I have climbed that mountain, and I can only go up halfway, and there is a particularly steep section in the middle!" Smooth as a mirror, straight as a city wall, you can't get through. ”

Ouyang Shi listened to Chen Ahou's description and pointed, "Is that the place?" ”

Chen Monkey said: "That's right. ”

Ouyang Shi said: "The starting point of that cliff, it seems that there is a platform to land on, well, maybe you can think of a way in that place." ”

After a few people came down, they told Yang Yingqi about the situation, and Yang Yingqi ran to the southwest mountain to look at it for a long time, and then asked Chen Ahou to climb the platform and then pull himself up with a rope. He looked at the cliff about ten zhang up close, and said in his heart: "If someone helps me on this platform, even I can get up, then the others will have no problem." As for this cliff, the soil is not very hard...... "asked Chen Ahou: "If there are a few fulcrums, can you climb up?" ”

Chen Monkey said: "It depends on whether the fulcrum is strong or not." ”

Yang Yingqi and Zhang Laoyu discussed for a long time, and it took nine full days to build a waist crossbow. The crossbow is a kind of infantry crossbow with great single ejection power, the crossbowman sits on the ground when firing, kicks the bow forward with both feet, and pulls the string and stretches the bow with the hook rope tied to the waist, because of the use of the combined force of the waist and the legs, so the ejection force is extremely strong.

After practicing a few times, Orihiko climbed up to the platform with his crossbow and fired a special iron arrow at the cliff, but it was not deep enough. I threw the rope up and wrapped it around and pulled it twice, and found that it was impossible to bear the weight of a person.

The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and the weather suddenly turns cold and snows. A serf named Zhou Sheng was good at watching the weather break the sky, and ran to Zhiyan Chong to say that the weather might get very cold, and it was likely to snow heavily, so it was best to be prepared.

Yang Yingqi had an idea after hearing this, and scavenged the only relevant materials in the valley, made a dozen water bags that did not leak much, and made a number of special iron arrows—these arrows had thin wings, like a fan.

Orihiko rushed to aim the arrows and shoot them, nailing them to the cliff in a vertical line. The thin wings were a bit of a trick, so the arrows were driven deeper than the last time. According to Yang Yingqi's idea, Zhi Yanchong also shot the arrows connected to the water bag and nailed them to each winged iron arrow. The water bags hung right on the wings of the iron arrows. It's just that these arrows are shallower to enter the wall because they carry water bags, and they shake a little in the wind, so I don't know what to do.

Chen Ahou stood next to him and said: "These arrows with water bags are afraid that they will fall down as soon as they are pulled, if I am allowed to climb these arrows, I will say nothing!" ”

Fortunately, Zhi Yanchong didn't mean this, and he didn't explain it to Chen Ahou, so he went down after finishing this matter.

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