"There are 560 of our 100 households." Liu Shujing, who had just recovered from a serious illness, stood in front of the Hundred Households Hall with a cane, and in front of him was a large group of silent and angry young men, as well as some elderly men in their fifties and sixties, their faces gloomy and silent, with both anger and unconcealed fear and worry.

Young adults only have anger and determination to fight to the death, and they also have the confidence to defeat the enemy, while the elderly will most likely think of the Zhangzhou bloody case, as well as Chen Yutai's harassment and cruelty to the Xinghua Army and Fuzhou Mansion for so many years, and for more than ten years, the government can only let Chen Yutai be arrogant, and the Fujian people who were robbed by Qishan do not know how many. When you get old, it's always easy to think about things in a pessimistic direction.

But even the most pessimistic people have to admit that the power of Nan'an Hou Mansion is far greater than outsiders imagine.

Liu Shujing continued: "Each family has a strong man, holding a bow and arrow, holding a bow, not a knife, if there is no knife, you can bring a knife, bow and arrow, half an hour later, we set off from the entrance of the village, to the front of the official road near the beach. You have to remember the banner of our hundred households, which have been rehearsed many times before, each person stands in line according to his own small flag, follows the general flag, walks with the hundred household flag, and finally ranks under the banner of the hundred households. When the time comes, the archers and the long-term players, the knife players, each have their own sides, and they will have to be scored, and they will have to practice like this every day in the past few days, and they will not care about it in advance. ”

Many young men all nodded, Liu Baihu coughed a few times, and a flush appeared on his face.

The weather on the island is getting hotter and hotter, and the plague is gradually showing signs of expansion, but because the water source used is clean water, there are many medical officers in Nan'an Houfu, advocating that everyone drink filtered and then boiled clean water, and at the same time, Houfu bought tens of thousands of tents in Fujian and Zhejiang, each household is guaranteed to have at least two tents, and each family is rationed with smoked mosquito grass, every evening, the whole Nan'an to Huaxi, and then to the salt field, everywhere is the green smoke rising up.

Even so, there are still a lot of people infected with the epidemic, the previous large-scale development in the winter and spring is too rapid, there are always uncleaned shrubs and small ponds near the newly built mansions, mosquitoes increase greatly by the beginning of summer, in addition to rats, the hotter the weather, the more rapid the spread of the virus seems to be, the medical officer Chen Changnian has been taking people everywhere every day to preside over the epidemic prevention work, reduce hidden dangers, and suppress the infected people within a controllable range, but inevitably, there are still more and more people in the isolation center.

Later, due to the fear of cross-infection in the isolation center, Nan'anhou Mansion had to build two large hospitals in two other places, in fact, it was mainly to isolate the infected people separately.

Somewhat darkly humorous, there are also more and more doctors who are infected.

In many cases, patients with early infection can be relieved by treatment with pills or decoctions, but many people are basically relying on their own constitution.

Liu Shujing is one of them, he has a repeated fever, and when it is serious, he will vomit when he drinks medicine, but he finally survived, and several people who were admitted to the hospital with him died.

When Liu Shujing announced the order, every small flag and general flag erupted into a noisy echo of echoes, and the young men were already carrying bows and arrows or knives, and they were originally in the hunting club or bow and arrow club.

The Hou government not only did not prohibit people from forming associations, but on the contrary, they always encouraged people to do so.

In the past few months, the Nan'an Hou Mansion has been purchasing sophisticated weapons from all over the world, and the weapons eliminated by the army, including the weapons of the original Xiang Army, have been gradually distributed to the various societies of each hundred households.

Liu Shujing looked at the official hall, his 100 households actually had more than 1,000 men from fifteen to fifty men gathered, and every 100 households would be almost the same.

But the juveniles and the elderly are not very useful, the juveniles will blindly rush with blood, the old people are inexperienced, and their energy and physical strength are attenuated.

There are more than 500 young and strong men who were called to the 100 households under the military flag, organized into 11 general flags, Liu Shujing is responsible for promoting all his subordinates, and the security officers and criminal officers who are usually in the 100 households become the deputy hundred households on the left and right, each receiving several general flags, and is responsible for commanding the flanks and wings of the hundred households.

Among the more than 500 people, the archers accounted for the majority, which is also the result of the Wei people's tradition of heavy bows and arrows, more than 300 archers, Liu Shujing organized them into six general banners, and did not mix with the hands and sword players.

All of them had no armor, dozens of them wore iron helmets on their heads, and most of them wore hoods or folded scarves, but in any case, everyone held their weapons tightly, and no young man showed a look of timidity.

The army will meet the enemy head-on, this is something that the Hou Mansion proclamation has already determined, if the government army of the Hou Mansion of Nan'an does not avoid the battle, it is very likely that the enemy army will come ashore from the vicinity of Huaxi Port.

This area has a flat beach, a well-equipped harbor, and is originally relatively wide, gentle, with deep water and no reefs, and mountains on both sides to shelter typhoons, so this is a natural harbor.

In another time and space, when the pirates brought more than 10,000 immigrants to settle and develop Taiwan, it was here that they first established the Shizhai foundation, used the streams to the sea, developed land around the streams, and built a port here, which was originally a pretty good place.

From the beach, there are mountains on both sides, the sea and the sky are pure blue, and a short distance into the interior is a large plain area, which is also the largest plain area in the Eastern Domain, where dozens of streams of various sizes flow through.

The enemy landed here, and soon spread out on both sides, and you could see the official road of the port and the official road around the island, and further ahead were several large buildings, which were factory buildings such as brick kilns, and to the south was the salt factory, and to the north was the area where the annex of the Nan'anhou Mansion was located.

In this area of dozens of miles, there are large buildings and factories up the river.

As long as you look out over the nearby hills and hills, you will see a large area of farmland, a hundred villages scattered in the farmland, and a factory built by the stream.

It's hard to imagine that the pirates will not be impressed, they are unlikely to put tens of thousands of people on their ships anymore and wander around, and the most likely battle will break out in the port of Huaxi.

The government army has already built some fortifications near Huaxi, and there are two castles within three miles of the port area, and two more near the official road in the interior.

The four castles are about ten meters high, more than 100 steps around, can accommodate more than 100 people, and the four castles have bed crossbows and divine arm bows, and the number is not much.

The bed crossbow needs to be pulled by several people, and the arrow shot is equivalent to a short spear, which can penetrate the heavily armored human body within 300 steps, and the strength is not weakened, if it is within 200 steps, it is not a problem to shoot through several people.

In the battle formation, when the sound of the bed crossbow sounds, it is also the time when the enemy's spirit is the most nervous.

Four castles, two near the beach, one south and one north, form a simple chain.

At this time, the cardinal room of the Hou Mansion ordered that each hundred households be organized into a unit, and lined up at the official road around the island to the north and south castles, set up antlers, dig trenches, and erect dozens of arrow towers in preparation for the emergency.

Of course, the government army will fight, but if the battle is unfavorable, it can retreat to the fortifications and confront the enemy.

In this battle, the Nan'an Hou Mansion will use every cent of its own strength, in addition to the hundreds of households formed into a team, there are also some men who are assigned tasks, they set up supply points not far from the battlefield, some become fire auxiliaries, some are auxiliary soldiers, some are medical auxiliaries, each has a dispatch task, they will carry the wounded soldiers to the medical tents, assist the firefighters to cook on the fire, carry food and supplies, and will also transport all the necessary materials together with the soldiers.

"In addition to the men, the cardinal's room has set up temporary shelters in several castles along the border." Liu Shujing said to everyone: "The elderly, women and children of all families can go there to hide. ”

Someone said: "The government army is arrayed on the seaside, and we are waiting to set up a formation near the official road, as well as military forts, trenches, arrow towers, and antlers, so why should we ask people to hide on the side of the garrison?" ”

Along the perimeter of the official road around the island, past the last farmland area and the aqueduct area, there is a guard point for the natives, along the way there will be a castle as a support, arrow towers, moats as auxiliary facilities as a cordon.

With the development of trade with the natives, the conflict between the two sides has eased, and the vigilance of each other has been reduced a lot, and the current arrangement of the Hou Mansion is obviously not to rely on those sentinels and guards, or castles and arrow towers, but to move the women and children to the mountains at the most dangerous moment.

The pirates came from afar, and they were not very clear about the situation in the Eastern Domain, and they would not risk going deep into the mountains to fight with the natives again, and most of the women and children hiding in the mountains would definitely still be at risk, and no one knew what kind of changes would occur to the natives in such an environment.

If the army of the real government is defeated, the women and children will hide in the depths of the hills, the depths of the mountains, and it will be much safer than staying.

This is not explicitly stated, some people expressed opposition to Xu Zixian, believing that arranging the retreat of the elderly, women and children in advance would make the soldiers in front of them have no firm will to fight.

Xu Zixian was furious when he heard this, of course it is good to win, Xu Zixian also thinks that the chance of winning is greater, but once he loses, tens of thousands of old people, women and children will be let go of the pirates to kill the scourge?

Many people are afraid of rumors and advance evacuation plans, but Xu Zixian is determined to do so.

All the arrangements are almost transparent, the use of strong men, the arrangements of women, children and the elderly, including their safety when they take refuge in the mountains, will arrange a part of the infantry and garrisons to protect, and there are soldiers to follow, with food, medical officers and medicinal herbs, deep into the mountains to hide, if the war is unfavorable, the army may be broken into pieces, under the leadership of officers at all levels to carry out guerrilla warfare with pirates everywhere, generally speaking, in the era of cold weapons, the army collapses and is completely finished, it is impossible to gather in a short time to fight again, But Xu Zixian had full confidence in the government soldiers.

Their homes are here, their relatives are here, where can they go?

Liu Shujing didn't talk about it in detail, things are roughly arranged like this, there is no need to say more.

His body is still a little sour, but at this time, the role of the hundred household officials is reflected, and the hundred household officials who have been in office for a long time know everyone well, including the strong men and small flag officials of each household, and the chief flag officials.

In the passionate sound of brass trumpets, more than 500 selected strong men gathered and began to merge into a torrent under the guidance of various flags, and walked out of the village with the banners of hundreds of households.

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Something happened today, sorry for being late.