After Zhang Xiaowu returned to the plague village, he began to organize people to start building the cave, the area of the original plague village was only more than three acres, and if it was built into a circular dead soldier camp, the area would be expanded to twenty acres, which was almost equivalent to five and a half original plague villages. This will not only take a long time, but also require the supply of energy, financial resources, and human and material resources. But now the dead soldiers' camp has more time, and what is lacking is things to do, so he measured the land around the area and began to ask the soldiers to dig a "moat".

It is said to be a "moat", but in fact it is just a deep ditch, about one zhang deep and one zhang wide, and the extra sand and soil are all built on the city earthen wall.

Some soldiers in the Dead Battalion were reluctant to work, so Zhang Xiaowu once again told everyone with three heads that sooner or later he would die, and if he wanted to die quickly, he should not work. Now everyone has no voice, even Shen Lindong, the only one who can take the lead, doesn't dare to speak, Shen Lindong can also see that as long as he dares to take the lead in opposition, he will be the first to die, which is the so-called killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys.

Although Shen Lindong is unwilling to be an official by a yellow-haired boy, and he is not a fool, how can he take the lead in opposing at this time, and Shen Lindong has a large number of followers, and he doesn't need to do any tiring work himself, but people keep coming forward to encourage him to take the lead in making trouble, but he coldly refused.

The front capital team and the middle capital team of the dead battalion took turns to supervise, and there were only more than 600 people working on the work, and they only dug a shallow foot thick at the end of the day. Zhang Xiaowu then ordered all the grass in the circle to be burned, and everyone did so, but the fire around the epidemic village was so bright that the epidemic village was almost set on fire, but fortunately, everyone reacted in time to extinguish the fire that burned to the epidemic village.

Someone spread a message in the army, saying that Zhang Xiaowu had angered the gods and clouds, but Zhang Xiaowu was silent after hearing it, and Hu Sanwan asked who was spreading rumors.

In the following days, Zhang Xiaowu fully supervised the dead soldiers' battalion to dig a trench and repair the earthen wall, the trench was expanded from one foot deep and two feet wide to one zhang deep and one zhang wide, and the earthen wall was also built one zhang high. The camp of the dead soldiers only left a passage one zhang wide in the direction of the wooden city, and it was full of deep ditches, and it was impossible to climb out if you fell into it.

In the battle of Tucheng, Zhang Xiaowu was accustomed to the horror of the Wuhuan people's rain of arrows and stone bullets, so at the beginning of construction, he tried his best to build a bunker, in addition to building battlements on the earthen wall, he also set up some tunnels in different places on the ground to avoid the rain of arrows and stone bullets.

For the hardness of the earthen wall, he asked people to add sand and gravel to the soil when they were built, and also saved some rice porridge for construction, although it was not very useful, but the earthen wall was built day by day, and the officers and soldiers of the dead battalion looked at the barracks they had built, and they couldn't help but be excited and proud. Even Shen Lindong, who has always been unconvinced by Zhang Xiaowu, privately told people that he never thought that the construction of the Dead Soldier Camp could be so fast, and everyone almost relied on manpower to build the initial prototype of the Dead Soldier Camp within a month.

After the completion of the outer deep ditch and earthen wall, Zhang Xiaowu ordered everyone to chop wood and move back to the epidemic village, and there was no hurry to build barracks. Everyone has been puzzled, and when the firewood is piled up enough, they see that he is digging and piling up the gable outside, and then teaching everyone to dig the gable to build a cave, they don't need to burn bricks to build a house, they only need to dig a large enough cave, and everyone can live in the cave. However, most of the soldiers in the Central Plains had never seen a cave, and they felt as if they were living in a tomb, and they resisted a lot one by one. Zhang Xiaowu forcibly suppressed it, dug the cave and burned it hard, and only after it was dried did he ask Huang Sheng and Huang Qi to hire craftsmen to build doors and windows.

Huang Sheng and Huang Qi had been here a few times, and when they saw that the soldiers of the Dead Soldiers Battalion were building lively, they did not interfere until the Dead Soldiers Camp was initially built, and then they came over to inspect.

I only saw rows of caves built on the gable wall like a mountain, and I couldn't help but concentrate for a long time, Huang Sheng called Zhang Xiaowu and said: "Zhang Dutou, my Han army has never seen such a dilapidated barracks, this-this-I'm afraid this is not a grave?" Can you be strong by living in it? ”

Zhang Xiaowu was almost angry to death, he finally built the barracks when the cave was built, which was both warm and strong, how could it be called a grave? He immediately said: "Your Excellency, you can rest assured, although the soil in the cave was piled up by hand, I had sent people to build it hard before it was built, and I smashed it hard with stones and stone bars in the cave, and the cave will never collapse." Then he led them to the back of the cave, where there was a row of smaller rooms, and in which, in addition to the holes in the walls, were the "flints" piled up at the door.

Zhang Xiaowu then introduced this as a "fire room", after the flint is burned, the smoke with heat carries down the flue through the warm wall, and then exhausts the smoke to the top and drifts away through the chimney. And once the poisonous smoke can't be discharged, it will only stay in the fire room, and the top of the fire room can be lifted to exhaust the smoke, and it will never enter the cave to choke the soldiers.

Huang Sheng's uncle and nephew couldn't understand, Zhang Xiaowu let his subordinates live, heated a cave, and waited for an hour, the cave was already so hot that they couldn't stay, and several people left the cave sweating, Huang Qi was surprised: "It's so warm...... Ah......h Ah......h Ah, warm. ”

Huang Sheng still said: "It's good, it's good, it's just too ugly, like a grave." ”

Huang Qi also said: "I'm afraid it's not a ...... Piece...... A grave, right? ”

Everyone couldn't help but laugh, after all, it was Zhang Xiaowu's hard work, in fact, everyone thought that this flat-bottomed cave was no different from the tomb, but it was dug a little bigger.

He also knew that last year, because he did not adapt to the cold in Saibei, more than 300 soldiers and soldiers of the Sixth Regiment were frozen to death, and the Sixth Regiment was trapped in the house for half the winter and refused to go out and exercise.

Huang Sheng left some money for Zhang Xiaowu to hire craftsmen in the city to build the doors and windows of the cave, and the craftsmen in the city were also startled by the "grave" after entering the camp of the dead, and repaired the doors and windows very suspiciously, and then passed the story back to the city.

Word of mouth, first it was a joke, and then the storyteller learned about it, and it happened that the people of Mucheng were a little tired of Zhang Xiaowu's story. After all, there is no copyright awareness in this era - let alone this era, even modern people have no copyright awareness, even if it is a free book, they go to pirated novel websites to read books without voting for rewards, and many writers are so angry that they protest - so the storyteller turned his head and immediately made up a story of ghosts and gods.

According to legend, three hundred years ago, the Central Plains was in turmoil, and in the later period of the Tiantang Empire, the people were bored and the kings were fighting, and a general named Zhang Xiaowu was ordered by the Emperor Li of Heaven to enter the northern part of the country to find the ruins of the Roland Holy City to find the strongest martial arts of the Roland people.

Three hundred years later, Zhang Xiaowu, who had changed the dynasty, was found by tomb thieves, and he never expected that the world had changed greatly at this time, but he always remembered the belief in expelling the dogs, so he became the defender of Tucheng. This story was named "The Prequel of the Ghost General Zhang Xiaowu" by the storyteller, and it was immediately very popular, and it became a good story for a while, and they all expressed 120,000 enthusiasm for the fantasy and ethereal story of the ghost general, which made the storyteller earn a lot of money.