Chapter 69: Entering the Salt Village

Since Wu Wenfan provided information about Wenjiazhuang, the northern latitude of the military group took people to Wenjiazhuang once, Wenjiazhuang was not originally called Wenjiazhuang, but called Wu'an Village, which is the southernmost village where the Wu Dynasty and Annan meet. Because they often have to face disputes with Annam over water and land, it is common for them to have team battles, so their strength is relatively strong. But what is surprising is that when An Yuncheng attacked Dongfang Port this time, Wenjiazhuang did not send any villagers to participate in the war, but only symbolically captured more than 20 Annan refugees in the village and sent them over to do coolies. These more than 20 homeless people did not understand the language and were not familiar with Wu'an Village, so Shen Bin looked through the interrogation records at that time, and there were not many records about Wu'an Village. This time, Beiwei took He Yayun, Wu Yong and Yuan Zhenli to carefully survey and map in Wu'an Village, and drew several maps, including contour maps, topographic maps, and detailed photographs with digital cameras and quadcopters. At this time, a group of members of the military team, as well as Yang Minghuan and Du Yande of the executive committee, were present, and the projector hanging in the middle of the room was projecting the photos taken on the whiteboard.

"Wu'an Village is located six kilometers southwest of An Yun City, and legend has it that it was the southernmost village of the Wu Dynasty, which was built on flat land and carved out of the jungle. There was no high ground nearby, and there were no woods within five kilometers of the village, so it was easy for the attackers to see the actual forces involved. According to reconnaissance, the village has a water source inside and a high wall on the outside, and the perimeter cannot be destroyed without siege weapons. "North latitude switches to the next picture." As you can see, the outer wall of this village is about four meters high and is made of earth, and if you want to take down this village, you have to destroy the walls and the defenses on the walls. ”

"Can you use the militia to break down the barrier?" Du Yande naturally remembered to let the militia come forward.

"No." North latitude pointed to the picture. "The wall is only about four meters high, and there is no threat compared to firearms on the ground, and it is enough to block the wall with five or six halves and eighty-one, and then let the demolition team come forward and place the blasting tools."

"Yes." Li Jieqi nodded and said, "After accurate shooting cover here, the wall can be blocked, and after blasting below, I can break through, and I need to know how to deal with Wenjiazhuang...... Also called the captives of Wu'an Village. Will they all be taken out or will they be dealt with according to the existing captive policy? ”

"Wen Dahu has done a lot of bad things in Anyun, and the local people have been resentful of him for a long time." Yang Minghuan looked at the information and said, "When the village is broken, you need to make sure that no one can escape from other directions, and you must ensure that everyone in Wu'an Village is caught." ”

"It's not difficult." North latitude pointed again on the whiteboard. "We have sniper rifles, attacking each other from the north, west and south, and then attacking the east wall. If the opponent jumps over the wall and escapes, they will be killed under the wall to create a shock and prevent them from feeling like they can escape. The main force of the east wall will first carry out propaganda, and if the opponent resists stubbornly, it is enough to attack with all his strength and break the city directly. ”

"That's a certainty." Du Yande laughed. "These big families are basically vested interests, and they naturally have to protect their rights and interests to the death, even if you let them leave with their treasures and grain, they will not be willing, let alone let them surrender unconditionally."

"So how many people will go to this offensive operation?" Yang Minghuan asked the military team.

Xiao Mingwei looked at the plan and explained: "This operation is arranged in this way, the military team dispatched ten people, and the north, west and south sides first set up an ambush, and then carried out shock shooting. The militia dispatched 100 men, carrying five or six halves and explosives, and explosives to prepare for the attack on the wall. The naturalized militia put in three hundred people, who would serve as logistics, transport supplies, and clean up the battlefield after the war. In addition, there will be a receiving team from the Planning Commission and an arms assessment team from the industrial group. ”

"Where's the medical team?"

"The medical team will send a surgical team to assist, and Comrade Li Jieqi suggested that we go to the Yancun issue first, and I am sure that Yancun also has enough manpower to participate and can better cooperate with our actions."

Li Jieqi raised his hand to interrupt Xiao Mingwei's introduction. "The distance from Dongfang Port to Wu'an Village is 16 kilometers, and if we follow the official road, we should have to walk 20 kilometers. So you need a small vehicle......" he paused, "horses are fine, but there are too few of us who can ride horses." Not to mention whether you can be vigilant during the ride and face possible battles, at least you must be able to ride safely on horseback, right? ”

"Even horseback riding is a problem??" Yang Minghuan asked a little curiously.

"Yes," Li Jieqi nodded and said, "Riding a horse has never been an easy task, not to mention controlling the horse, we don't even have a suitable saddle now, without a saddle pedal, we can't just do any drastic movements on the horse, it will fall off." The Roman Empire was very strong in terms of infantry for so long, but the cavalry was terrible because there were no horses and saddles. ”

"I don't know about that." Yang Minghuan shook his head again and again, he didn't know this allusion at all.

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At this time, the road construction team encountered Yancun without accident, and the people of Yancun were frightened and dispersed by this group of people who came from nowhere. Yang Muqin and a few militiamen didn't take much effort to go around the entire Yan Village, and there were only more than 30 households left in this Yan Village, with a total of less than 100 people, most of whom were old and weak. According to Wu Wenfan, there are also large numbers of salt dings who have fled between the jungles. They tried to look for it, but found nothing, and finally found the village chief with a broken leg in a large house in the middle of the village. Because this group of people came very suddenly, the people fled in all directions before they could sound the gong and sound the alarm, and the village chief, whose leg was broken by Wen Dahu, did not have time to move at all.

Tian Feihu, who found the village chief, didn't say a word, and checked his body, this village chief has been tortured every day since he was caught in Wenjiazhuang to the point that he broke his leg, and his broken leg was not connected after being ransomed by the villagers more than ten days ago, and the whole village couldn't afford to pay for a doctor, so he had to keep it going. The village chief's broken leg was already festering in many places, and his body was already showing signs of fever, and if he didn't deal with it quickly, he would probably die due to complications.

Seeing this situation, the naturalized migrant workers and the two elders were so angry that they couldn't do it, this is simply a disregard for human life! Even if you owe money, you can't just take someone else to death. Not long after, the two villagers who had sneaked back to the village to see if the "pirates" had gone were caught by the militia of the road construction team, and then taken to the village chief's house.

The two villagers, both young men of twenty-three or fourteen years old, were stunned when they were brought in and saw Tian Feihu treating the village chief. What kind of pirate is this? Instead of burning, killing and looting, but treating people? However, this did not affect their fear of "pirates", and without saying a word, they kowtowed like pounding garlic, and all of them said that there were eighty old mothers and three-month-old nursing children.

"I'll go! Unexpectedly, from this time on, the status of a poor peasant has been so popular! Tian Feihu stuffed a sulfonamide tablet into the village chief's mouth and asked the village chief to eat it. This is an anti-inflammatory drug that prevents inflammation. At this time, the village chief also knew that these people were not here to rob, and hurriedly thanked him.

It turned out that a month ago, Wen Dahu brought 200 villagers to this salt village, saying that the Americans entrusted Wenjiazhuang to let the salt village pay the reward, and finally searched the last 20 stones of salt in the salt village after a smash, and also drove away the salt dealers who came to buy salt from Guangdong Province. After discovering that the village was trying to sell salt privately to foreign traders, they took the village chief and several elderly people away. After scraping together enough ten stones of salt, the village chief was released, and his legs and feet had already been broken by this time.

"Isn't selling salt to him the same as selling it to a salt seller?" Tian Feihu was a little curious about this matter, in his memory, salt was not a scarce material, it seemed to be bought in any supermarket.

"Eun Gong, you don't know!" The village chief said angrily, "In the third year of the Apocalypse, one stone of salt could still be sold for seven taels, and when the earthquake occurred in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, one stone of salt was already ten taels. Nowadays, the price of a stone of salt is still eight taels or three yuan, but the purchase price of Wen Dahu for me is three taels, and after he transports it back to the salt shop in Anyun City, he will mix sand in it, and the selling price is nine taels. The people of An Yun couldn't, so they could only buy his salt at a high price. Some hawkers sell some salt privately, and once he is caught, he will not only rob all the money and goods, but also break his legs and feet. As for the foreign merchants, if they have money, they will rob it, and those who have the power will drive it away. Even if we put out the salt, he never paid cash, but said to pay for the salt he paid, which was only more than 100 stones a year, and all the salt in my salt village in the past two years was robbed by them, and said that we didn't even pay off the interest, so how can we live! ”

"Bastard!" Yang Muqin was very irritable, slapped on the table, and actually knocked down the not very sturdy table, "Such a bastard actually used such a despicable method to suck the blood of the common people, it's so shameless!" ”

"Yes! Oh, yes! The village chief's leg was just picked up by Tian Feihu, and it was still very painful, but it was already much better than before, seeing Yang Muqin's angry appearance, he hurriedly said to him, "We have a difficult life, and we have been exploited by Wen Dahu in every way, and at this time, there are American pirates attacking, and these pirates even ask Wen Dahu to find us to collect rewards, which still makes people not live!" Speaking of this, the village chief couldn't help but pause, he just remembered that he didn't know the origin of these benefactors, and hurriedly asked. I don't know where the few beneficians came from? ”

"We are ...... of the U.S. Army road construction team," Yang Muqin couldn't help but say with some embarrassment, and a frightened expression immediately appeared on the village chief's face in his eyes.