Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Hou Xianglin immediately folded his fingers and lowered his head to think about it, and then pondered for a moment before he raised his head and responded to everyone:

"Ladies and gentlemen, Xin'an City is four kilometers long, and the trench must be dug wide and deep enough to block the attacking crowd, but if you do it like this, the amount of work will be a bit large, at present, we are full of calculations, at most there will be more than 20 days of work, even if the naturalized battalion and the soldiers of the garrison go to dig the trench together, according to the existing tools and means, I am afraid it will be difficult to complete it in an all-round way......"

"How much can you dig?"

Lao Ba looked at Hou Xianglin and asked with a concerned expression, the latter lowered his head and thought about it and said:

"Well, the wooden wall of Xicheng is near the sea, and it is an alluvial fan of tidal flats, the soil in that area is soft, and the labor force of the three thousand naturalized battalions is assigned to divide and cooperate, dig a ditch to carry soil, and dig a trench two meters deep and five meters wide and one kilometer long in ten days, but the soil outside the southwest wooden wall is much tighter, if you go all out, within twenty days, the trench can barely be completed two-thirds, but it can only be like this, the question is what to do outside the wooden wall of Dongcheng?"

"Recruit laborers, the Duchess's side and the Loka tribe can support our laborers, right?"

Wei Hong's eyes lit up and he proposed.

"Of course you can, but, so laborious, even if the project is completed, the effect will be reduced, you think about it, such a huge project, it is impossible to keep it completely secret, the enemy will definitely know, the other party only needs to cut down wood and build a wooden platoon, a five-meter-wide trench, and pave it to pass, at that time, won't we waste our energy?"

Lao Wang interjected beside him.

Everyone was silent for a while, and the atmosphere in the conference room became very quiet, and several people sighed in unison.

At this time, Hou Xianglin smiled and said to everyone:

"Don't sigh, as the saying goes, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, don't forget, when the rainy season comes, there will be at least more than 20 days, and there is still time to prepare, I have an overall plan, please listen quietly."

When Hou Xianglin said this, he raised his hand, raised three heels, and said:

"First of all, a while ago, we planted wooden stakes on the ground 100 meters outside the city, and this work must continue, the area must be expanded, and the density must be increased.

Second, due to labor and tool limitations, we obviously don't have enough time to dig a trench, but we can dig a hole secretly! After the pit is dug, it is covered with a straw mat - digging up the finished glyph, making it like a maze, and the enemy has to run around when attacking, regardless of whether the attacker can detect it or not, it can have the effect of blocking the enemy's attack.

Digging a pit is not only much smaller, but also can be concealed construction, the groundwater level here is very high, the two-meter-deep pit is absolutely out of the groundwater water, if people fall into it will be very embarrassed, and it is difficult to climb up, even if it climbs up, it also greatly delays the enemy's offensive momentum, if the bottom of the pit is inserted with a sharp pile, it is more enough for the attacker to drink a pot. ”

Hou Xianglin stopped when he said this, and everyone nodded when they heard it, and then Yue Chu asked:

"Brother Hou, what about the third point?"

Hou Xianglin was stunned for a moment, thought about it and responded:

"Well, that's what I thought of......"

Next to the old Ba Hehe Yile said:

"Xiao Hou is like this, put up three fingers, only say two things, this third point, let me add."

Lao Ba said and raised two fingers to the brothers who couldn't help laughing:

This third point is four words: strong wall clear!

First of all, outside the city, it is necessary to set fire to the artemisia grass that is more than half a person tall outside the wooden wall, which has been burned before, and now it has grown back, so it is necessary to continue to burn.

In addition, even the nearby jungle should be burned as much as possible!

Ladies and gentlemen, the enemy's tens of thousands of troops are gathered, and all kinds of supplies are inevitably needed, and the nearby jungle is the source of supply for these soldiers, so we must do everything we can to cut down trees as much as possible, and burn them if we can't cut them!

At the very least, keep the nearby jungle free of wild animals, put pressure on the enemy who uses gathering and hunting as their main means of supply, and by the way, make the open space outside Xin'an City a little more open!

Okay, this is outside the city, but what about inside the city? ”

Lao Ba was already talking at this time:

"Except for the combatants, the rest of the people will be transferred to the city of Dili, including the labor force of the naturalization camp and the naturalization village, although we know that these people do not hate us, because we do not abuse these people on a daily basis, but after all, the trade labor force is not a free people, and if it is not managed well, or if there is an emergency, it will definitely cause us trouble, so it is better to transfer it in advance.

I revealed this to Pimont a while ago, and Pimont has no opinion on this, but we are responsible for the daily supply, and he can be responsible for placing him.

Now there are a large number of vacant barracks in the east and west forts of Dili City, which can temporarily accommodate these people, so that we don't have to be distracted and divide our forces to manage and suppress these people. ”

Lao Ba's words made everyone's emotions rise, and everyone immediately said that if the strong walls of Xin'an City were cleared like this, our pressure would be much less, and at least we could give it a go.

Lao Ba's words made everyone's emotions rise, and everyone immediately said that if the strong walls of Xin'an City were cleared like this, our pressure would be much less, and at least we could give it a go.

As soon as Lao Ba's speech ended, there was a gentle knock on the door of the conference room, and then Chen Jiujin's voice:

"Report to the Governor, there is a telegram in the communications room."

Xiao Pingguo immediately went over to open the door and went to the communication room next door with Chen Jiujin, where there were two students who graduated from Zhuyuan, and they were Xiao Fei's correspondents who specially trained Xin'an City.

After a while, Xiao Pingguo came back with several telegrams in his hand, it seemed that the telegram was quite long, Wei Hong and they stepped forward together, and Xiao Pingguo only said one sentence to his brothers:

"This is the new code telegram."

The new code telegram was a password that Xiao Fei had recently devised to use for radio communication between traversers - I heard that this was suggested by Sun Lao after he returned to the Red Mansion.

The reason is very simple, many of today's radio communicators are students who graduated from Zhuyuan and Sunflower, although everyone regards these children as their own, but, because they come from different eras, for the traversers, there are some things that cannot be said clearly, and some words are inconvenient to say, so as not to appear as described by Sun Lao: "Create inexplicable frightening ...... for these children"

Therefore, it is necessary to have a new set of passwords specifically used for communication between traversers, of course, this kind of password is not only exclusive to the secrecy of the traversers, but also easy to translate, after all, everyone is not a cryptographic professional.

So Xiao Fei made such a password - the password of "Xinhua Dictionary", because each word in the dictionary corresponds to the number of pages and the order of the ranks and columns of the dictionary, so the other party's message only needs to send a series of numbers, and the receiver can quickly translate the content of the telegram as long as there is a "Xinhua Dictionary".

Obviously, this way of translating telegrams is simple and clear, even if the translator only has the education level of primary school students, he can receive it smoothly, not to mention that the lowest education level in this group of travelers is also the first year of high school in the old world, and this kind of short-cover version of the "Xinhua Dictionary" used by junior high school students in the old world has 200 small copies in the stationery counter of the supermarket, simplified, and the printing quality is very average, and it is not used at all in the new world.

Practice has proved that everyone is very accepting of this small and easy to collect codebook, so it took a long time to this "Xinhua Dictionary" password, of course, this is a later story.