As soon as it was dawn the next day, Li Xiao asked An Qian to take people to inform him and gather the people of the whole castle in the school field. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Fellow villagers, fathers. Li summoned everyone, and he really had something important to tell him. Li Xiao stood on a high platform and loudly preached to the silent people on the school grounds.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that the Tartars are invading and the military situation is urgent, this officer is ordered to garrison and defend this Jinjiazhuang Fort, and he needs the great assistance of your fellow villagers and elders. Everyone should know that only by keeping this Jinjiazhuang Fort can we save the lives and property of everyone in the fort. Therefore, the officer decided that the people of the whole fort will be uniformly deployed and arranged by our army. But all those who are assigned tasks must work hard to do a good job, and they must not be slack or lazy. If anyone violates the military orders of the officer, he will be punished with a military stick and beheaded on the spot. Did you hear me? ”

"Hear me!"

Hearing the untidy but loud replies of the people in front of him, Li Xiao had a smile on his face, and he said loudly: "Very good! Li is very happy that everyone can understand the hard work of this official. Now, the official and Lord Anqian will work together to assign each person's tasks. ”

Li Xiao's first arrangement was to select the 75 adult males from the civilian households from among the people, organize them into reserve auxiliaries, and live in the barracks. Starting today, Tian Wei, the commander of General Commander A, will select and send soldiers as instructors, starting from the most basic standing posture and conducting drills every day to master some basic military skills as soon as possible.

Then, Li Xiao asked Zu Wan'er to go to those women by herself, and select thirty people who were quick with hands and feet to enter the medical hall to learn medical knowledge.

Next, Li Xiao selected more than 30 old men who were still in good shape, and more than 50 strong women who were in good health, and added them to the logistics team, which was managed by the logistics captain Chen Monkey. Li Xiao planned to let these people, under the escort of the cavalry, find out about the external security, and then go out of the fort to dig coal in the border mountains and carry water from the hot spring river to ensure the supply of basic raw materials for daily life in the fort. After all, the existing coal blocks in the fort and the two semi-dry wells alone could not meet the lives of the soldiers and civilians in the fort.

After this group of people was selected, among the remaining people, Li Xiao selected those who still had the ability to work, and asked them to carry out a general cleaning on the spot under the leadership of An Qian, and clean up all the buildings on the entire street, and all the garbage all over the streets and alleys.

In the end, the remaining more than 100 old, weak and young people who did not have any ability to work, Li Xiao let them go home by themselves, just don't add to the chaos.

Li Xiao decided to let his own army take responsibility and take Du Shaoru's troops to do a good job in the sanitation of the entire barracks.

The reason why Li Xiao pays so much attention to hygiene is actually because he has no choice but to suffer.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the level and conditions of medical care were very different from those of modern society. Now that the weather is hot, there is an influx of soldiers and soldiers in Jinjiazhuang Fort, and if the plague is caused by poor sanitary conditions, the consequences will be catastrophic. In that situation, Li Xiaoke really had nothing to do, so he could only sit and wait for death.

Compared with other preventive measures, hygiene and frequent bathing are the most costly but extremely effective preventive measures.

According to Li Xiao's original idea, it was to build a public bathhouse to ensure military and civilian hygiene, just like Chifeng Fort in Shandong. It's just that considering the difficulty of using water here, and it is impossible for him to stay here for a long time, Li Xiao finally gave up this idea.

Now Li Xiao demanded that the sergeants in these barracks should take a bath every day, even if they can't take a shower because of the shortage of water, they should insist on taking a bath with water every day to ensure personal hygiene.

As for the people, Li Xiao has explained to An Qian that he wants him to lead the sergeants to preach to the people every day, everyone must take a bath and clean every day, and at the same time, he must be the same as the soldiers, whether he is untying his big hands or small hands, he must relieve his hands in the toilet, and he is not allowed to defecate in the fort. Considering that these people in the north do not necessarily have the habit of taking a bath every day and having to relieve their hands in the toilet. Li Xiao stressed to An Qian that he should send people to patrol and supervise every day, and if anyone is found to refuse to take a bath and do not urinate in the toilet, corresponding punishment measures can be taken to forcibly correct it.

An Qian was a little unimpressed by Li Xiao's arrangement at first, and even thought that Li Xiao was making a big fuss in his heart. But seeing Li Xiao's solemn expression, he didn't dare to rebel, so he could only agree and promise Li Xiao to do a good job.

With the issuance of these military orders by Li Xiao, the fort began to show a hot scene.

Barracks, streets, and houses are all busy cleaning and tidying up. The large piles of garbage that had accumulated over the years were swept out and piled up in an open area in the fort, ready to be pulled outside the fort by horse-drawn carts and thrown away.

The Flying Harrier rode out from inside and outside the fort at this time, and soon they sent back the information that no trace of the enemy was found within a few miles of the fort. Next, the four-wheeled carriage driven by the auxiliary soldiers of the logistics team followed the selected 30 old men and 50 healthy women, brought buckets and goods, and went out of the fort together to carry water to the Tangquan River. The logistics team went out of the fort to transport water, and Tian Wei personally led all the Xuanhu to ride forward to protect them.

The main purpose of this water transportation is to rinse with water in time after the cleaning is completed, and then distribute the stored water for everyone to wash and drink.

Thirty women with nimble hands and feet selected by Zu Wan'er went to the infirmary to learn nursing skills. When these women entered the medical hall, they were a little inexplicably shy and restrained at first, but they saw that Zu Wan'er and the group of guys were skillfully nursing those Du Shaoru soldiers who were beaten with military sticks yesterday, and they gradually let go, and began to listen attentively to Chen Mazi and Zu Wan'er's explanation of the key points of nursing.

Seeing that everything was already going on in an orderly manner, Li Xiao went to watch the more than 480 people Du Shaoru's department, as well as the 75 men newly selected from the private households, all of them standing in a mixed formation and training in a military posture.

Li Xiaojun's training method, which was completely different from other Ming troops, made Du Shaoru's soldiers complain. The 75 men who were elected from the households were all even pale, and several fainted.

In fact, compared to Li Xiaojun's training, Li Xiao considered that they were just ordinary auxiliaries, and in the absence of meat supplements, he had ordered those instructors in his own army to lower their training requirements, but he didn't expect that there were still people who couldn't hold on.

It's just that Li Xiaojun didn't quit if he couldn't endure hardship.

The recruits who fainted were carried to a shady place to rest, rested, and then continued training.

By the end of the afternoon, all the cleaning had been completed. Looking at the mountains of garbage in the open area and the flies buzzing around the garbage, all the people felt in their hearts that the fort city where they had lived was actually so dirty.

Soon, the garbage, which was filled with more than a dozen four-wheeled carriages, was dragged away by the logistics team a few miles outside the fort. The soldiers and civilians in the fort began to wash all the streets and buildings that had been swept clean with water.

Finally, when it was close to dusk, the entire Jinjiazhuang Fort began to become new. The clean-cleaned buildings and stone-paved streets, the remaining droplets of water shimmer in a charming golden glow in the setting sun.

Everyone saw the fruits of their labor in front of them, and their faces were full of joy, and everyone seemed to feel that from this day on, the ruined Xiaoserkin Jiazhuang seemed to be beginning to regain its vitality and vitality.

In the next three days, the work in the fort was still carried out in a very orderly manner.

The castle is clean, and An Qian arranges people to clean and maintain it every day. Due to the supervision of the fort soldiers, the people began to accept the lifestyle of daily bathing, and no one was found to defecate in the streets.

In addition to transporting water to the inside and outside of the fort, the logistics team also transported a large number of coal blocks, amounting to seven or eight hundred tons, from the open-pit coal seam on the border mountain, which was supplied to the daily life of the soldiers and civilians in the fort and the repair and construction of the blacksmith shop.

Those women who followed Chen Mazi and Zu Wan'er to learn nursing knowledge began to become more and more proficient in their movements.

And Du Shaoru's soldiers and civilian male recruits, their military posture training is also rough, at least they can persevere, and there is no fainting of soldiers. And during the daily training break and before dinner in the evening, Li Xiao's supervisors would loudly preach to them Li Xiaojun's rules and regulations, and with such a large-intensity brainwashing education, everyone gradually memorized these rules and regulations, and imperceptibly accepted them.

Except for Du Shaoru, who was held in solitary confinement, he cursed Li Xiao every day, everyone in the fort had more and more feelings of awe and respect for Li Xiao, the commander.

Faced with the increasingly orderly order in the fort, Li Xiao suddenly had an illusion, as if he had come to this remote border fort, the war and fighting were far away from him, and living a peaceful life was the main tone.

As for the shortage of food, Li Xiao decided that in a few days, he would personally lead the team to Xiaobaiyang Fort to meet Du Shi, the commander of the Longmen Guard, so that he could get some food from him.

Li Xiao often thinks that if he comes to the aid this time, he may only spend it so peacefully.

This delusion was completely shattered on the morning of the fourth day.