Because there is another rebel army stationed in Sihui County not far away, the general in charge of the army is two orders higher than the general Wang Pan in rank, and there is also a team of rebels in Shixiang Town who is responsible for daily expropriation affairs; Therefore, after the brigade commander Deng Cun went to the county seat to pay a visit, the rest of the people were obviously much more relaxed than in other places because they were in the sphere of influence of friendly forces.

This mood even infected Zhou Huai'an, who was the most deputy in charge of the camp, and put down most of the chores and continued to wander and visit this market town with a few followers.

Because it is the location of the once prosperous Fuyi, it seems that it has been expropriated and included by the rebel army several times, but the foundation of one of the few large market towns in the local area still remains, and the various facilities are still quite complete and complete.

However, the most processed in the local area is mainly sandalwood, which is used to worship and worship the gods and Buddhas, that is, the burning incense used for smoking and dyeing; It was only because the trade routes by sea and land had been cut off, and the local consumer market had shrunk seriously due to the direct or indirect impact of the rebels after the capture of Guangzhou;

Therefore, not only have the corresponding workshops and shops been suspended for a long time and the craftsmen have been scattered, but there has also been a backlog of many incense-making raw materials in the local government and private warehouses, because they can neither be eaten as food nor can be used directly in the city, and different degrees of decay and mildew have begun to occur when no one cares about them.

So for Zhou Huai'an, these things are almost the result of picking them up in vain, as long as they negotiate and take care of the neighboring rebels who guard the city customs and tax offices, they can go in and carry and select them at will; The only thing to worry about is that the additional capacity that can be provided in the Sentinel Squad is obviously not enough, and there needs to be a targeted trade-off.

Therefore, he even found some accessories such as realgar and sulfur and camphor, mint and other bulk materials here.

As for the manpower needed for further processing, after the rapid decline of the local incense industry, there are large groups of people who are unemployed at home and lack a livelihood or are struggling to make ends meet; Except for some who have families or have a homeland, there are a lot of young craftsmen who are attracted by the abundance of food, and there are a lot of people to choose from.

After temporarily obtaining the local incense-making technology, labor and raw materials, the products he was looking forward to such as mosquito coils, mugwort paste and cool oil, as well as subsequent related external medicines, began to be settled.

Don't underestimate these little things that will not matter in later generations, according to some of the experiences left by later generations when they walked in Africa, it is also very useful to place them in this Lingnan land, where there are many barbaric plagues and long-term exile of political prisoners.

It's just that on the way back to arrange the transportation of the last batch of inventory, there was a sudden unexpected situation.

Zhou Huai'an suddenly heard a bump in the distance, but it was a figure dressed as a local volunteer soldier, who flew into the street from the broken door panel and dust of a closed shop, but he couldn't get up again.

Then two more stumbling figures escaped, and then they were kicked over one after another by the people who chased them out, and they were kicked to the ground.

At this time, several local rebels who stayed nearby were able to reflect on it, and they drew their swords and shouted angrily and rushed forward as a siege.

I saw that the man who came out from behind suddenly accelerated under his rule, and he rushed into the arms of one of the nearest volunteer soldiers; Then the other party seemed to be hammered head-on, and immediately flew out with a muffled grunt and fell on the opposite wall, and slowly slid down like a sticker.

Then, with lightning speed, he slapped the slash from another melee rebel, twisting his elbow into some kind of reverse bending and falling to the ground.

The other party swung his palm like a knife between the staggered leaps, and as long as he slashed at the person, it naturally brought out a subtle sound of some kind of air trembling, and almost no enemy was killed and defeated; And in the field of vision of normal people, only a series of chaotic trajectories are left; If it weren't for Zhou Huai'an, who also opened the auxiliary vision with low energy consumption, there would be no way to even capture the specific movements and postures of the other party.

In the blink of an eye, he divided these loosely surrounded rebel soldiers by two, broke them and put them to the ground one after another, and threw all kinds of weapons to the ground. However, before he could turn around and pat the dust on his body, he was entangled by a new wave of howling rebels who rushed in, and they fought fiercely again.

This is Zhou Huai'an couldn't help but release his scanning function, and suddenly found something; Although it looks plain on the outside, the opponent's vital signs are much stronger than those of ordinary people, and compared to most of the people around them under the bioscan, it is simply a huge difference between a flame and an iron furnace.

And those rebel soldiers who were knocked to the ground, their vital signs quickly faded and disappeared, it seemed that although the opponent was barehanded, he was sharp and ruthless, basically aiming to make the target lose his combat effectiveness or lose his life; If you use the right weapons, I'm afraid that the lethality and combat effectiveness will be improved.

However, he could clearly feel that after several outbursts of the other party, the corresponding vital signs had also become much dimmer and weakened, which couldn't help but make him feel at ease, sure enough, any ability and skill had to pay a corresponding price, and he couldn't get out of the basic category of the law of conservation of energy.

He couldn't help but give the other party a sign and a note of response, after all, this was the first time Zhou Huai'an had seen something similar to martial arts in this world; It's just that the other party also seemed to feel something, and glanced around blankly, and was already in a shout and chase, after knocking down and overturning several pursuers again, he jumped over the wall and completely disappeared within Zhou Huai'an's perception range.

And Zhou Huai'an also recalled and evaluated a little, the opponent's battle process and corresponding performance, the opponent's force level is probably able to deal with more than a dozen armed soldiers at the same time, relying on the power of a short burst to break each of them;

However, when encountering more armed soldiers gathered together, it is inevitable that they will be tied up in a struggle and a tug-of-war. And when the number exceeds forty or fifty, even if the opponent is in full bloom and has a bonus in weapons, he is only afraid that if he temporarily avoids or flees in the wilderness, he will not be trapped or dragged to death.

However, if the opponent has a relatively sophisticated long-range attack method such as a bow and crossbow, and relies on the high and high terrain to maneuver with it, there is still a chance to defeat or drag down or scare away this half of the rebel army.

Through this chance situation, in addition to feeling some kind of personal faint threat, Zhou Huai'an also felt that a certain side of this world that is unknown to most people is opening a small corner for himself, and after he came to this world, he was finally not so boring and unattractive.

This can be regarded as a person and master of the rivers and lakes in this era, so I don't know what level of existence the other party belongs to in the level of personal force in this era. After all, the flying sword in the Tang legend in the later generations took the head of the person, or it was a magical allusion and joke that flew hundreds of miles overnight, but it was familiar to the people for a long time.

However, the first thing that came to his mind was to strengthen the guards around him, especially if he could not directly increase the number of people, he could take advantage of the interests of the public and private interests, and equip them with a few more powerful bows and arrows, and it would be better if he could get a crossbow;

You must know that according to the "Li Weigong's Question to Taizong" circulated in later generations, the army of the Tang Dynasty was equipped with a high proportion of crossbows, which is also known as a historical record. As long as you practice more, even if you encounter this kind of personal force, you will have enough ability to deter and expel you.

Therefore, he thought of doing whatever he wanted, and couldn't wait to take the five guards including Lao Guan and turn around and return to the time when the sentry food team was heavy

Because he remembered that among the dozens of mountain people and hunters recruited a few days ago, there seemed to be someone who would make a medicine crossbow, which was a relatively out-of-the-way thing that could also be used as a kind of supplement to self-defense strength, just as the so-called "use poison to make up" when the range and lethality were not enough.

"Who's going to dispense a medicine crossbow. Come out and talk."

In front of a group of new soldiers who stayed in the station to receive management and drills, the deputy Lao Guan of the team declared loudly

"The deputy has been dispatched."

Immediately, with the identity and promise of Zhou Huai'an's deputy battalion manager and the preparation of the sentry food team, it was easy for two of the new soldiers from the hunters to volunteer to donate their own private recipes, but Zhou Huai'an soon discovered that the poison of the medicinal crossbows used by these hunters was just a paralyzing component of some kind of plant, and it was used to deal with some large and fierce beasts.

However, because it was not convenient to keep and carry around for a long time, they did not have a ready-made product and needed to remix it; Therefore, several of the main ingredients need to be grabbed and concocted at the pharmacy.

Fortunately, Shixiang Town is a big town, although it has been depressed, but because of the former business and travel thoroughfare, as a pharmacy, the things in the pharmacy are still more complete than other places; Soon, several main medicines such as strychnine, grass aconitum and wild hemp seeds were found in different pharmacies;

Then, under Zhou Huai'an's interesting watching, with the help of ready-made tools such as the grinding wheel and pounding in the last shop, they were processed on the spot. When the older hunter solemnly used the gray goo extracted and refined to dye and dry several large bundles of arrowheads brought from the station, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Now, it can last for at least half a month."

"As long as you don't get caught in the rain or water,"

"Even if you get it again in a month, it doesn't hurt."

"If you can break the skin for half a point, even the larger boar will have a chance to fall down."

Zhou Huai'an nodded reluctantly, as a common problem of typical plant extract products, under the volatilization and oxidative degradation of the natural environment, this is the extent.

And before leaving with these finished products, in order to prevent the escaped one from lurking around and in the vicinity, and causing any accidents, he once again used some physical energy to launch a routine scan;

However, it was this time that the scanning function activated to the limit made him make other discoveries that were quite unexpected.