In the early morning, more than 20,000 residents of the valley, excluding the elderly, weak, women and children, and more than 12,000 young and strong people set out together to cut down trees and quarry stones in various parts of the mountain to prepare for the construction of the city.

The mountain is rich in bluestone, which has a hard texture and countless century-old giant trees, which are excellent materials for construction. People use the rivers in the mountains to set up huge rafts and transport stones and timber to a hidden valley not far from the mountain pass.

Dian Wei led a group of blacksmiths to also go all out, mining iron ore and gold ore day and night, and making axes, chisels, shovels, shovels and other tools.

The women who did not participate in the work in the valley were organized by Gao Gao'er to deliver food and water to the men, and the whole mountain presented a scene of construction in full swing.

According to the proposal of Cheng Yu and Jia Xu, in order to avoid the leakage of news as much as possible and gain enough time for construction, the stone and wood used in the construction were collected by manpower in the early stage and secretly hoarded near the mountain pass. After the materials were sufficient, the whole valley was dispatched to complete the construction of the outer city in the shortest possible time, and then slowly built the facilities and the inner city in the city.

More than 10 days later, the convoys that had gone out to buy grain arrived near Heihu Mountain one after another, and in order to prevent the leakage of secrets as much as possible, all the convoys stopped at a distance of ten miles from the mountain, and after repatriating the accompanying escorts and chariots and horses, they were escorted back to the mountain by the trapped camp and the soldiers of the newly formed Banyu Battalion. Everywhere along the way, whether it is the original inhabitants of the mountains and the barbarians of Banyu, they all cheered when they saw the mighty grain team, and they were grateful to Nanying in their hearts, and they couldn't help but be more enthusiastic about devoting themselves to the construction wave, and the progress of the project was greatly improved.

Nanying and Zao Zhuo stood on the top of a mountain, looking at the crowd of people working back and forth like ants in the mountains, and they both had the pride and ambition to do everything in the world.

Nanying was curious: "Brother Zaoyi, how did these large pieces of bluestone build the city wall?" ”

Zao Yi smiled: "At present, mixing lime with glutinous rice juice is a good binder, which can effectively build up the stones!" ”

Nanying was dumbfounded: "What? Is it necessary to build such a huge and long city wall with glutinous rice juice? ”

Then he shook his head and said, "No! What a waste! Saving is glorious, wasting is shameful! We're going to find another adhesive! You know, how many people can be fed by so much glutinous rice! ”

Zao only smiled bitterly: "This is not easy to say! People have been building cities in this way for thousands of years, and no better way has been come up with it! ”

Nan Ying closed his eyes and thought hard, turned over all the records in the history books he remembered in his heart, and suddenly his eyes lit up and said: "It seems that there is a plant called knotweed, boiling out the juice, and then mixing fine sand and lime, it can become an excellent binder!" ”

Zao Yi was stunned and said, "Knotweed? I haven't heard of it! What does it look like? ”

Nanying smiled secretly, this seems to be a formula that someone has tested after thousands of years, and it is normal for no one to know about this knotweed now, but it seems that this knotweed is only born in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which is now Yangzhou, but I am afraid that someone will have to send someone to find it.

He casually introduced a few words to the jujube only about the appearance and growth place of knotweed, and sighed: "Alas! I'm afraid there is no such grass in this Liangzhou area! ”

But seeing Zao's body, he shook and said, "That's not right! ”

Nanying said in surprise: "What's wrong! ”

Zao Yi was stunned and said, "You said that there is no such grass in Liangzhou!" But I seem to have seen the grass you mentioned recently! ”

Nanying jumped up and said, "What! Have you seen it lately? Is it after you get to the valley? ”

Zao Yi also frowned and thought bitterly: "It must be!" But where did I see it? Let me think about it! ”

After a while, his eyes suddenly lit up and said, "I remembered!" It's in a wooden house of a barbarian! ”

followed and ignored Nan Ying, turned around and ran away, leaving Nan Ying alone on the spot like a fool, and said in disbelief: "Ban Yu barbarian? ”

An hour later, Zao only returned sweating profusely, followed by a barbarian, who raised a plant in his hand and shouted: "Lord! Look if it's this grass! ”

Nanying took a look, and sure enough, it was knotweed, and his heart couldn't help but tremble, and he said continuously: "Not bad, not bad!" It's knotweed! Attaboy! How do you find it! ”

Zao Yi pulled the barbarian behind him and smiled: "Let him say it!" That's what I saw at his house! ”

The barbarian bowed down and said, "Lord! Most of our people like to eat spicy, and this grass can be boiled out of spicy water, so we like it very much! Many people have this kind of grass! ”

Nanying said in ecstasy: "So, there is also this grass nearby?" ”

The man was stunned and said, "Yes! We used to live in the mountains, but there are so many! It's less than a hundred miles away! ”

Nanying laughed and slapped him on the shoulder, until he bared his teeth in pain before he said, "You kid has done a great job!" What tribe are you from? Go back and let your boss reward you! ”

The man couldn't help but be stupid and said on the spot: "Sending the lord a piece of grass can be regarded as a great achievement!" ”

Nanying turned his head to Zao Yi and said, "You know what to do now, right?" ”

Zao only smiled and said, "Don't worry, lord! Let's do it now! ”

So saying, he pulled the barbarian and went.

"Sir! Sir! A barrage of chanting was heard.

Nanying followed the sound and looked, only to see Fang Yue rushing towards the top of the mountain like flying.

He ran behind Nanying and gasped a few times before saying, "Sir! Gao Feng is back! ”

Nan Ying didn't look back, and said casually: "Oh! What's the big deal with him coming back? Let him hurry up and put the grain in the granary! Mr. Jia, didn't they build a lot of granaries? ”

A hint of gloom flashed on Fang Yue's face and said, "They came back empty-handed!" Grain was robbed on the way! ”

Nanying turned around like a whirlwind and said angrily: "What did you say! ”

Gao Feng led the five brothers and knelt down in front of Nanying in shame.

Nan Ying glanced at Gao Shun and the others who had just arrived, and said with a gloomy face: "Tell me!" What the hell is going on? ”

Gao Feng raised his head and said, "Chief, valley master!" The subordinates were ordered to buy grain in Luoyang, and the journey was quite smooth. After arriving in Luoyang, he soon found Mr. Li Rui, and with his full help, he purchased 120,000 stone of grain at a low price, and hired hundreds of warriors to transport the grain back together! ”

Nanying couldn't help but say angrily: "Then how did you lose the grain?" 120,000 stones! Tens of thousands of monthly rations! ”

Gao Feng lowered his head and said: "It's a dereliction of duty on the part of his subordinates!" We returned to the mountain pass, twenty miles away, and for the sake of caution, fearing that the secrets of the mountain would leak out, I sent back the guards and coachmen. After they traveled far away, they just wanted to send someone to the valley to deliver a letter and let the brothers come to answer them, but unexpectedly, unexpectedly, ......."

Gao Shun said in a deep voice: "Did someone rush out immediately and rob the grain?" ”

Gao Feng was stunned and said: "The valley master is like a god!" Exactly! All I could hear was a loud shout, and four or five hundred bandits poured out of the woods in the distance! Kill us! ”

Everyone lost their voices in unison: "Four or five hundred! ”

Gao Feng said ashamedly: "Only more, no less!" I was so shocked that I knew that I could not protect the grain, so I immediately ordered to abandon the grain cart and retreat all, and the thieves did not chase after me, but hijacked the grain cart by themselves! ”

Nan Ying took a deep breath, pulled Gao Feng up from the ground and said, "Ah Feng! You're doing the right thing! I'm wrong about you! If I did, I would have given up on the grain truck immediately! It is important to know that food is important, but brothers must not sacrifice it in vain! ”

Gao Feng said with tears in his eyes: "Chief Xie Yuanyou! ”

Nanying smiled: "Okay! In this case, the six of you can still come back unscathed, not only do you have no fault, but you have merit! What happened after that? You've been with me for so long, you should know what to do! ”

Gao Feng's chest straightened up and said, "Yes! Sir! I ordered the other five brothers to lurk in a hidden place, and I followed those bandits from a distance alone, and followed them for seventy or eighty miles in a row, only to see them escorting the grain cart to Chencang Mountain! ”

Nanying laughed and said, "Good! You didn't disappoint me! As long as you find their lair, you don't have to worry about them being able to fly to the sky! ”

Gao Shun frowned and said, "Chen Cangshan? That's a hundred miles away! Those bandits must have discovered Ah Feng and them a long time ago, but seeing that there were many people in the grain team, they didn't dare to start, so they just followed them all the way. Later, Ah Feng sent back those guards, and he fell into their hands, so he immediately took the food! ”

Nan Ying suddenly sneered and asked, "Big brother! How many fighters are available in the valley right now? ”

Gao Shun groaned: "There are more than 200 people trapped in the camp, and now there are more than 150 people in the valley, and there are 800 soldiers in the Ban Yu battalion!" ”

"Good!" A cold light flashed in Nanying's eyes, "Brother Lao continues to sit in the mountains, and I will order a hundred camps and five hundred camps to go to Chencang Mountain!" ”

He said calmly: "Only Lao Tzu has ever robbed others, but today he was robbed at the door of his house!" If you don't collect some interest and come back, will you and my brother still have the face to mix here in the future? ”

Nan Ying looked at a cottage a thousand steps away with an expressionless face, and behind him, Jia Xu, Dian Wei, Pu Hu, and Gao Feng rode horses in a row. Then there were 600 soldiers lined up neatly, 100 soldiers of the camp with bows and crossbows in front, and 500 soldiers of the battalion in the back, all of them holding thick wooden shields in their left hands and large swords in their right hands.

Nanying turned his head to look at the hundreds of warriors, and with a strong confidence in his eyes, he shouted, "Brothers! Look at this cottage in front of you! Are you afraid? ”

Everyone looked at him with reverence, although the old brothers in the camp were full of confidence in him, and the soldiers of the Ban Yu camp were also enthusiastic, they had come to Black Tiger Mountain for a while, and they had heard from the people in the camp that the deeds of Nanying killing the tigers that day, plus the day before yesterday, I heard that Nanying had scattered all his wealth to buy food to feed them, and his admiration for Nanying had reached an amazing height.

With such a leader here, what is there to worry about? Everyone looked back at Nanying with a determined gaze, and no one showed fear on their faces.

Nanying couldn't help but look up to the sky and smiled: "Sure enough, they are all good men!" You deserve to be my good brothers! Hum! A gang of bandits even dared to pluck the feathers on the tiger's head! Snatching Lao Tzu's food, they want our brothers and sisters and children to starve to death! Brothers! What do you say you are going to do? ”

All the warriors shouted angrily with a pair of blood-red eyes: "Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

The sound shook the mountains and forests, and the birds flew in fright.

Above the cottage, all the bandits already knew that something was wrong, and they ran around shouting and shouting, stationed everywhere.

A broad-faced man in his forties and a scarred man in his thirties stood side by side on the wall, and they were moved together when they saw Nanying and the others so vigorous.

The broad-faced man sighed: "Second child! How am I right? How can a person who can buy more than 100,000 stones of grain at a time be idle? So soon, a large group of people will come to ask for the guilt! ”

The scarred man sneered, "There are a lot of them? Are we few? What about killing? Don't think we'll spit out the fat that reaches our mouths! ”

The broad-faced man shook his head and said, "Second brother! Look at their battle, we are definitely no match for them, so let's give them back the grain! I don't think they had any hands to break down before, so they wouldn't have persecuted them too much! ”

The scar man said angrily: "What did you say! Do you know how much this food is worth? You're too cowardly, aren't you? ”

The broad-faced man also said angrily: "I'm not cowardly! I'm just afraid that you will bring ruin to the cottage! ”

The scar man laughed angrily: "Okay! Then I will take 300 brothers out and kill them without leaving a single piece of armor!" See what else you have to say! ”

The broad-faced man was shocked and angry: "What nonsense are you talking about! Do you want to send three hundred brothers to death in vain! ”

As he spoke, he grabbed the big man with the scar.

The scarred man looked fierce, and said coldly: "Let go!" You coward! You're no longer worthy of being a copycat boss! ”

Suddenly shook off the big man with an open face and went proudly.

Nanying looked at the high morale of the soldiers, and was thinking about how to attack the cottage next, when he suddenly heard the gate of the cottage slowly open in a series of "squeaks", and hundreds of thieves shouted and rushed out of the gate, and couldn't help but be ecstatic in their hearts, these stupid thieves actually took the initiative to give up the deep ditch and high fortress, and rushed out to die.

He slowly raised his right hand, and Gao Feng immediately shouted, "Trapped in the camp!" Bow and crossbow ready! ”

One hundred trapped camp brothers took two steps forward, followed the change of formation, divided into two horizontal rows, 50 archers in front, 50 crossbowmen in the back, and the expressionless ones pulled the strings and arrows together.

Since Zhang Xian came to Heihu Mountain, under the strict order of Nanying, he rushed to make bows and crossbows day and night, and has now made nearly 100 strong crossbows and arrows. In order to succeed in the first battle this time, Nanying actually brought all the old and new bows and crossbows.

The bandits were still under the leadership of the scarred man, shouting and swarming up, chaotic and without formation.

The broad-faced man looked at the wall clearly, and said in a lost voice: "Oh no! ”

Nan Ying watched as the rabble was still pouring in, completely unaware of the impending death, and a cruel smile appeared on his lips.

His raised right hand waved lightly twice.

Gao Feng shouted wildly: "Trapped in the camp!" Crossbow two rounds of rapid shooting! ”

The archers in the front row loosened their strings in unison, followed by two steps back and reloaded their arrows.

Dozens of bandits who rushed to the front fell down one after another, and before they could react, the crossbowmen in the back row had already taken two steps forward and released the next row of life-urging arrows, and dozens of bandits screamed and fell.

When the crossbowmen had released their arrows and retreated to their original places, the archers had already drawn their bows and arrows, stepped two steps, and were ready to release their arrows.

The broad-faced man on the wall couldn't help but change his face, he closed his eyes in pain, but he clearly understood in his heart that the three hundred brothers were finished.

The big man with the scar waved the big knife in his hand wildly, knocked a few arrows, and couldn't help but be shocked, and regretted it in his heart, who are these people! It turned out to be so well trained.

After four rounds of sharp arrows, half of the three hundred bandits had fallen, and there were still more than 100 bandits screaming for death without fear of death.

The Scar Man who led the team couldn't help but have a glimmer of hope in his heart, they were already very close, and they were about to rush in front of the enemy's crossbow archers, and at that time, these crossbow archers were not allowed to be slaughtered by themselves.

Nanying's right hand is withdrawn, and his left hand is stretched out.

Gao Feng shouted: "Trapped in the camp!" Withdraw! ”

At the same time, Pu Hu also shouted: "Ban Yu Camp! Rush! ”

The five hundred soldiers of the battalion raised their shields at the same time, protecting them in front of them, blocking the comrades who had retreated neatly from the camp, and let out an earth-shattering roar from their mouths, and rushed up together, although they were not trained by the Southern Eagle for many days like the trapped camp, but they were born brave warriors, and the giant shield charge was their specialty against the enemy.

In a series of violent collisions, the thieves who rushed in front all spurted blood from their mouths and flew backwards, crushing the group of thieves behind them. The snow-bright big chopping knife slashed out at the same time, bringing up a tent of blood rain.

The scarred man finally changed color and roared: "Retreat!" Hurry back! ”

The broad-faced man was crumbling, weakly reaching out to support the wall, as if he had a nightmare, looking at the scene in front of him in disbelief.

Only sixteen of the three hundred bandits escaped, and only a few of the enemy on the opposite side were slightly wounded, but they still stood in battle with an indifferent face, cheering and shouting along with the others.

Hearing only the sound of "dangchang", a thief on the wall of the wall fell to the ground with a long knife in his hand, and he was stunned, and the other bandits in the cottage also showed a look of fear.

Seeing that the opportunity could not be missed, Nanying nodded slightly to Dian Wei, and Dian Wei suddenly shouted: "Brothers! Attack with me! ”

led Pu Hu and the five hundred battalion soldiers to rush up frantically.

Jia Xu and Nan Ying looked at each other and smiled, this victory or defeat has been decided.

Suddenly, a sudden change arose, only to hear the sound of "whew", a black shadow flew out of the cottage, sharply from small to large, it turned out to be a large stone of hundreds of catties, whistling and spinning and smashing down to the top of the heads of the soldiers of the Banyu Battalion.

Jia Xu and Nan Ying's smiles froze, Jia Xu changed his previous calm and calm, and shouted with a pale face: "Trebuchet? That's impossible! ”