Storms come and go quickly, and this kind of unpredictable weather is common in the Indochina Peninsula, where there is abundant rainfall.

The soldiers and civilians of the fleet were finally able to get out of the dreary cabin and breathe the fresh air washed by the heavy rain, especially the prisoners of labor reform, it was as if they were celebrating the New Year, and they became cheering.

"It's worthy of being poisoned by the caste system! The caste system is really a good thing and must be maintained! ”

Cao Xuan sighed, led the civil and military forces and the tiger and leopard, and began to inspect the port.

"Tong Tong Tong Tong ......"

The prisoners were in full swing, and soon they began to sweat profusely, and many of the men simply took off their rain-soaked shirts and cut down trees shirtless.

Even children with scythes cut down small trees and shrubs.

"Croaking ......"

There was a whole shout in the crowd, and only to see that the surrounding prisoners hurriedly dispersed, leaving only one person who was cutting down the tree to stand, and after confirming that he could not hit others, the young prisoner began to swing his axe again, and several axes went down to cut on the trunk of the tree that was already a big gap.

"Squeak, squeak!"

The tree, which had stood for decades surrounded by one person, could no longer stand on its feet, and let out a final moan before throwing itself to the ground.

"Boom la la ......"

The branches of the big tree smashed down a large number of the branches of the surrounding trees, and then fell to the ground, and the young man who cut the tree saw that he was unscathed, and began to pray.

"It's too ......"

Cao Xing doesn't know how to describe this way of cutting trees:

"Call the soldiers to come over, and then call the newly formed Eight Banner Soldiers! Teach these Nanban how to cut down trees, they can't pull them with ropes, this big tree fell down, and they didn't die on the battlefield, nor did they die on the boat, but they were stoned to death by the big tree, how unjust is this! ”

20,000 soldiers and eight banners joined the logging team and took over the command, leading this group of Funan people and Zhan people how to cut down trees more safely.

The officers and men of the naval division continued to stay on the ship, and 10,000 regular soldiers took over the task of guarding, standing in the outermost forest to patrol the depths.

At this time, Xie Lang, who accompanied him, played a huge role, and there was a battalion of the Xiaotian Army that had been expanded and led by Xie Lang himself.

The five hundred soldiers of the first battalion of the Xiaotian Army are not many compared to the number of seven or eight hundred people in the first battalion, but one thing is that each battalion is equipped with two good companions - military dogs.

Thousands of the best military dogs of the Chu army patrolled under the command of his master, shuttling between the jungles from time to time, and they suffocated in the cabin, running wild while ensuring the search mission, and from time to time taking out hares, roe deer, etc.

The most powerful is Xie Lang's blood wolf, which is not only the most powerful, but also found a wild boar, leaving a group of dog brothers to contain the wild boar, and then found his owner with great intelligence.

"Gyugyu~"

The wild boars in the jungle screamed again and again, the wild boars that were not afraid of the sky and the earth, and even the tigers dared to face them, died under the cooperation of Xie Lang's divine arm bow and the divine arm crossbows of the Chu army soldiers and military dogs.

"Haha......"

In the laughter, Xie Lang led the group to carry a wild boar weighing hundreds of pounds out of the forest, the soldiers and civilians along the way were eager to see through, Cao Xing heard the sound of everyone swallowing saliva from a long distance, and even he felt that the spit secretion in his mouth was a little faster.

It's been a while since I've eaten fresh meat!

Cao Xing sighed in his heart, people have walked towards Xie Lang who is facing him.

"Lord, this wild boar is strong, at least five hundred catties!"

One Han Jin is equal to 230 grams in later generations, and this wild boar looks similar, Cao Xing, who has some massive hunting experience, nodded and praised:

"Good! That's a great start! Command! The Xiaotian army is all dispatched, and then 3,000 archers are sent to cooperate, hunt more game and come back, women and children don't cut down trees, hand over all the trees to men, and collect more wild vegetables and fruits!

Add dinner tonight! Those who have worked much faster will select a thousand people to eat meat together! ”

"No!"

The herald pulled up the interpreter and began to walk through the crowd of labor prisoners, shouting loudly in the Zhanren language Funan: "Stew meat in a big pot at night, and a thousand people will eat quickly!" Eat meat in a big bowl with your lord! ”

"Oh~Oh~"

The prisoners let out the sound of ghosts crying wolves, and the axes in their hands were wielding tigers and tigers, as if they were equipped with electric motors.

"Whoa~"

One by one, the big trees fell quickly, and a large area of open space was cleared, leaving a stump of trees, and the young labor prisoner who cut down one tree on the ground cut down several more, and when he was about to cut down the sixth big tree.

A group of Chu soldiers walked towards him in the crowd, and the young labor prisoners hurriedly knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and spoke in stiff Chinese:

"Meet the master!"

The leader of the Chu army was a middle-aged man, and he wore a military uniform but no armor, but just circled the tree that the young labor prisoner was going to cut down, gestured back and forth, and waved his hand before speaking:

"That's it, tie the strip of red cloth!"

After the strip of red cloth was tied, the leading middle-aged man began to walk to other places, leaving a sentence:

"Go and cut down one, this one tree is kept, and all the trees with red cloth strips can't be cut down!"

The two Eight Banners soldiers hurriedly came out to translate, one spoke Zhanren and the other spoke Funan, and only after making sure that the young man understood did they leave to chase after him.

There are dozens of such teams as middle-aged people, who walk through the lumber yards, sometimes ringing down large trees, and when the other trees have been cut down, these trees with red cloth strips are highlighted.

All the teams tied with cloth strips would be together, pointing at the big trees that remained, this scene attracted Cao Xing's attention, and when he saw who the other party was, Cao Xuan hurriedly looked at these big trees that remained.

I saw that these big trees were many in a line and very straight.

Under the command of these men, the Eight Banners began to clear the branches of the trees that had been left behind, and the prisoners were also stopped from cutting down trees, that is, clearing existing trees, and many of them were replaced with saws.

Cao Xing watched quietly, and soon the logs with branches and leaves removed were formed, and then they were nailed together by pieces of processed wooden planks to form raft-like wooden rows.

Here, some people began to draw lines on the ground, and instructed people to start digging ditches along the lines, and the ditches connecting the major reserved trees were dug out by the soldiers and civilians who were stimulated by eating meat.

The ditch was only two feet deep and was stopped, and one by one the commanders shouted loudly.

"Put the rafts into the ditch, and put all the rafts into the ditch!"

"No, no! There is a plank side facing inward! ”

"Yes, that's right!"

"Pull! Pull it up with a rope! Hard! ”