Tang Xidong didn't sleep all night, but he was nervous and didn't feel sleepy, and returned to the room to think about the next training plan.

At the end of the day, Tang Xidong rang the old bell, so a cup of tea, basically arrived, waited for half a moment, and finally the two people were wearing clothes while running, Tang Xidong was not embarrassed, if he wanted a person to understand the preciousness of breathing, then pinch his neck, but if he pinched too tightly, he might strangle him, and he would have to relax one by one.

It's just that the three squads that didn't defend the village or succeeded in stealing the village last night were kicked out, and each of them was young.

In the end, Tang Xidong praised Li Shangquan in public, and rewarded him with 30 catties of food, Li Shangquan, who was in his twenties, was directly grateful to kneel in public, Tang Xidong hurriedly helped, and after being told by others, Tang Xidong knew that Li Shangquan had not yet married, because there was an old father who was paralyzed in bed and an old mother who could not see his eyes.

is a man who values affection and righteousness, Tang Xidong values him more and more, and appoints Li Shangquan as the deputy captain of the guard team in public, only below him.

In addition, Tang Xidong also discovered the problem of the cottage, but he still did not consider the matter comprehensively, ignoring the old, weak, sick and disabled of the cottage, Tang Xidong took this point to heart, and prepared to go down and then go to Liu Lianqing to solve it.

In the morning, Huang Laosan, the carpenter leader, sent more than 120 crossbow guns that worked overtime to make them, of course, some were good and some were bad, and the quality was uneven.

Looking at the crossbow guns piled on the ground, as well as the basket of short arrows, everyone in the garrison team showed hungry wolf-like eyes, everyone had seen the power of this mysterious weapon, and they had long been eager to try it.

"This weapon was created by me myself, named the crossbow gun, the power of which everyone has seen, I won't say more, this is the weapon that everyone will get their hands on in the future, I hope you don't just want to be novel, you must train well, and strive to be worthy of its prestige."

After Tang Xidong's brief introduction, he took one and started to demonstrate and explain in public, from loading arrows, to winding, aiming, and finally exciting.

Then let everyone take turns to try to complete it completely, looking at each one like children playing with toys, Tang Xidong's face sank.

"What do you think it's a toy, you can play if you want to, and let go if you don't want to? Let me tell you that it is not just a weapon, it is alive and spiritual, and only by relying on it can you keep your family, young and old, wives and children from being bullied by the enemy, so that you yourself will not die under the enemy's knife, and forget how those people in the cottage died some time ago? Forgot that bloody scene? Do you want to be like them, with your head on the ground? Do you also want to leave your family to join the underworld? ”

Looking at Tang Xidong's angry roar, the guards lowered their heads one by one.

"I have familiarized you with it so that you can stay alive when the enemy is attacking, and you can go home after defeating the enemy and drink a bowl of hot porridge served by your parents, wives and children, so that you can continue to be with your loved ones. Only before the war comes, treat it as your relatives, as your friends, practice it well, master it, shoot faster, shoot more accurately, can you live and continue to live a good life. ”

After this reprimand, everyone's attitude changed, and they began to seriously familiarize themselves with and practice.

Short arrows were shot out one by one, and targets were shot again and again.

The guarding team is changing, and it is making progress in the direction that Tang Xidong envisioned.

The drills of the garrison were orderly, but the news of the caravan was unknown.

Tang Xidong suddenly felt like a blind bird, with no understanding of potential enemy movements, so he could only run around.

So Tang Xidong, who realized the problem, found Liu Lianqing, and after discussing, he set up a patrol team, which was led by Liu Dagou, the owner of Sanzhai, and was lowered down the mountain and scattered around Pingyang Mansion for intelligence collection, focusing on discovering the traces of the caravan in advance on the official road.

After the information that came back every day was summarized, it was handed over to Tang Xidong for analysis.

Tang Xidong still pulled the guard team to practice hard, the standing posture gradually corrected little by little, the weight-bearing long-distance running gradually increased the mileage, and the crossbow gun gradually became available to everyone, so the consumption of short arrows increased, and the drill of guarding the village and stealing the village gradually became a real battle between the teams, so almost everyone in the guard team had a blue nose and swollen face.

After the garrison team mobilized a part of the young and strong, the remaining manual work of coal mining and kiln burning was handed over to other people who still had the strength of the cottage, but after all, it was not a long-term thing, and these people were not physically strong, so the progress slowed down.

Tang Xidong felt that the cottage manpower was really in short supply, but unfortunately there was no food, even if he went down the mountain to recruit people up the mountain, he couldn't afford to raise it.

Such a situation made Tang Xidong feel a little contradictory, and his heart became urgent about robbing the Kang family's caravan.

At first, it was entrusted by Liu Lianqing, but now even he secretly longs for it.

In the boring waiting, the construction of Luoliang Mountain Cottage is also slowly progressing.

The progress of the teenagers is very fast, and the fire kang has covered about half of the cottage's homes.

The black coal dug out of the coal kiln was also piled up in the yard and was almost unloadable.

Since there is black coal, there is also a lot of fire kang, and Tang Xidong is ready to make briquettes.

It's the easiest thing to do.

The coal is crushed, mixed with soil, watered, and then left to dry.

Because he did not consider that the inner wall of the furnace was made into a circle, Tang Xidong asked the women to cut the slime into squares, put them on the yard one by one, and drill two holes like a layer of squares to facilitate the furnace.

The drill of the garrison team continued to progress, and according to the training methods of later generations, the 120 young men, although they still had the characteristics of old peasants, had obviously made great progress in discipline and the use of repeater guns.

Nowadays, fixed-point shooting has basically reached the accuracy of seventy or eighty percent within fifty paces, but it is a pity that the range of the wooden version of the repeater is too close, but it can only be done like this first.

Tang Xidong pushed Li Shangquan out and took the young men to train every day, these people were still thinking about whether they had made any big moves recently, and now they will only blindly obey the training orders.

After stabilizing the accuracy of fixed-point shooting, Tang Xidong asked people to build an activity field for mobile shooting training.

The training ground is very simple, a cart stands a handle, and then let the young man push it forward at a certain speed in the field, the young man's body is hidden behind the cart and the handle to prevent being shot down by short arrows, once the target is shot ten arrows, immediately replace the plank.

The intensity of training has been high, and the consumption of food has also accelerated rapidly.

Liu Lianqing couldn't hold back her face recently, and always showed an urgent look.

But the caravan of the Kang family did not come, so they could only wait silently.