Because of the fear of the attack of the officers and soldiers, on the first day of the promulgation of the new mountain regulations, the more than 100 villagers who were ready to earn work were all taken down the mountain by Tang Xidong to build a wall.

Tang Xidong took everyone down the mountain. At the foot of the hill next to the official road, the measurements began, and then the drawings were drawn, and the rest was left to the masons and the young man.

Excavation of foundations, transportation of strips and masonry, mixing of triple soil.

A team of one or two hundred people, dry in full swing, in the afternoon, the foundation pit will be excavated, the semicircular foundation pit will enclose a small half of Luoliang Mountain, after all, it is too big, it is impossible to enclose it all, fortunately, there is a deep ditch in the east, the slope is steep, do not worry that someone can steal up the mountain, the west is a forest, when the time comes, make more traps in the forest, dig a deep ditch, you can block the enemy.

If it really doesn't work, they will set fire to the forest, and whoever dares to enter will let them taste the taste of "provoking fire and burning".

Once cultivated, it is enough to block thousands of incoming enemies.

In one day, half of the walls were built.

The hundred-zhang long wall, the inner and outer walls are made of huge strips of stone, and the middle is a brick and stone structure.

The foundation of the city wall is three zhang wide, the top of the wall is one and a half zhang wide, and the planned height is four zhang.

The walled gate is made into a semicircular arch, and a small urn city is made behind the walled gate.

It is still more than four zhang away from the official road.

Once cultivated, it is enough to block thousands of incoming enemies.

In front of the gate, a number of trenches were dug, and sharp wooden thorns were buried at the bottom of the ditch.

If the enemy attacks, it can play a good role in disrupting the rhythm of the enemy's attack, delaying the enemy's attack intensity, and when the situation in front of the enemy is that often just skipping the first trench, it may be planted directly into the next trench.

Of course, such a trench can only stop the enemy for a short time, but it is enough for the cottage.

Tang Xidong also designed a large crossbow arrow, as long as the crossbow arrow is placed on the city wall, it will inevitably make the enemy pay a heavy price at that time.

It took two days and one night to build the entire wall.

As soon as the tall and long city wall was built, the whole cottage became different, and everyone's hearts became stable.

The officers and soldiers expected by Tang Xidong have not yet appeared, and their reaction seems to be a little slow.

But either way, it's a good thing for cottages.

Every day, the number of people joining the cottage is increasing, and on the third day, Tang Xidong rewarded the people who had worked hard in the past two days with outstanding performance, and each person was rewarded with ten catties of grain, so the mood of the hard-working people rose a lot.

By the third day, half of the population of the cottage had been mobilized.

The city wall has been built, and Tang Xidong arranged for the garrison team to guard the city wall in shifts to prevent the enemy from appearing.

The rest of the people were divided into labor to start the construction of greenhouses and the sanitation of cottages.

Tang Xidong has already planned the sanitation renovation in his heart, first of all, to build a large bathhouse shared by the cottage.

There was no waterproof method, so the bath pool could not be made, so Tang Xidong moved out the shower of the later generation, first built two rows of large houses, separated men and women, and then asked the carpenter to hollow out the trunk and seal it together.

Take a brick platform next to the house and build a high platform as high as the roof, and then build a small house on the high platform, and row up a row of stoves and a large pool, when the time comes, the stove boils hot water, and then the hot water is poured into the pool, and the hot water can flow with the wooden pipes to the lower bathhouse.

In addition to the hot water pipe, there is also a cold water pipe. After the two pipes are discharged into the house, they flow into a large sink suspended from the roof, where they are mixed with hot and cold to become warm water, and then the sink is chiseled into tiny holes to resemble a shower.

After the bathhouse is built, everyone has to take a warm bath every day after work.

The idea of a bathhouse is very good, but it consumes a lot of water every time.

Therefore, the problem of taking water from cottages is once again in front of us.

In addition to public baths and public toilets, there are also wooden versions of manual drum washing machines, and clothes should be washed and changed frequently.

With the manual washing machine, washing clothes in winter is no longer afraid of freezing, and there is a fire kang at home, which is also convenient for drying clothes.

Personal hygiene is solved, and all that remains is the cottage environment, centralized garbage ponds, and the expansion of public toilets must also be made.

In addition, Tang Xidong also planned to carry out a major cleaning of each house, using ready-made white lime to remove dampness, tamping it with Panax notoginseng soil, and then laying bluestone slabs, which is to prevent rats and insects from wreaking havoc in the house.

In Tang Xidong's memory, he always remembered that in this era, there seemed to be a large-scale spread of plague, although he didn't know the specific time, but there was nothing wrong with preparing early.

All this, Tang Xidong explained to Liu Lianqing and the craftsmen very clearly, this work is not in a hurry, so take your time, and the least people are assigned.

Deng Dahu led the people to start the construction of terraced greenhouses, or according to the method of Tang Xidong, starting from the second terrace.

After Tang Xidong was busy with the city wall, he began to go to the blacksmith shop and instructed the blacksmith to try to create an iron version of the crossbow and the city crossbow.

Tang Xidong does not need to personally supervise the other work, but what the blacksmith wants to do is indeed Tang Xidong needs to personally supervise and guide.

Because advanced weapons are also related to the ability of the cottage to defend it.

The most powerful weapons in this era are firecrackers and artillery, but Tang Xidong himself doesn't know these things, he only knows the crossbow guns that he has transformed.

The advantage of the repeater gun is that there is no need to worry about exploding, and it is simple, if the iron version can be greatly improved in power, range, and accuracy, then Tang Xidong believes that it is definitely better than the fire gun, and it saves time and effort.

Think about it, if you can form a crossbow gun team, everyone is familiar with using and practicing accuracy, then it is an armed force that cannot be ignored in this era, and it can protect itself in the chaotic era.

Disassembling his repeater gun, Tang Xidong took out each part and gave the old blacksmith a detailed introduction to the size of the parts, the connection between the parts, the practice of gears, the position of the tendon fixing, the pulling principle of the trigger and the internal components, the strength and accuracy of the tendon ejection......

Tang Xidong knew that this was water mill kung fu, and he knew how to make a crossbow gun, but he didn't know how to make iron, so he could only let the blacksmith ponder it first.

Make a sample first, then find the problem, and then continue to improve, after all, it is a very complex process, so you still need to explore it slowly.

Fortunately, there was no need to build a barrel, because it was not fired by gunpowder, so Tang Xidong planned to use a wooden barrel if the iron version of the repeater gun could be made.

In addition to the repeating crossbow gun made by the blacksmith, Tang Xidong also designed a crossbow to defend the city.

The crossbow he designed to defend the city is very similar to a ladder, with corresponding grooves carved on both sides of the main rod of the ladder, and a short wooden stick that can be rotated in the middle of the middle crossbar, one end of the wooden stick is engraved with a groove that can jam the tendon of the ox, and a barrel parallel to the main rod on both sides is added in the middle of the ladder.

Two sturdy wooden sticks are fixed at both ends of the ox tendons, and a pair of specially shaped ladders become a pair of crossbows to defend the city.

When firing, the ladder is stuck between the battlements, and then the ox tendon is stuck on the wooden trough that can be rotated on the middle crossbar, and then two people stand on both sides of the ladder respectively, one person takes a wooden stick and sticks it on the groove carved out of the main rod of the ladder in front of it, and then smashes the buckle that is stuck on the end of the wooden stick on the crossbar, and the huge ejection of the ox tendon can hit the crossbow arrow placed in the barrel, and the crossbow arrow can be shot down the barrel to the city.

After the crossbow arrow is fired, the tendon is fixed to the next section of the crossbar according to the procedure of the previous shot, and the wooden sticks on both sides are also stuck on the groove of the next section, and it can be fired again.

This kind of city defense crossbow is easy to make, and with a little training, it can shoot multiple crossbow arrows in a short period of time.

It's just that the accuracy of the crossbow bolt is not easy to control.

After the experiment, Tang Xidong found that the ladder should not be too long or too short, preferably between three and five sections.

As for the aiming angle, the person who fired the fire needs to hold on to the ladder and adjust the angle.

Even so, after it is built, it is not small, and the launch speed is extremely fast.

After robbing the Kang family caravan, the cottage obtained a large number of weapons, and Tang Xidong did not take a fancy to the dozen or so Kang family furniture purchased firearms, but more than 70 bows and arrows.

With these bows and arrows, Tang Xidong had a large amount of ox tendon to make weapons.