Chapter 10 Expansion
The new Chengshan Village is under construction, according to Liu Chen's plan is to build a fortress, the top of the sub-mountain is distributed in a fan shape, with a radius of more than 200 meters, and the Chengshan Village is expected to accommodate more than 2,000 people. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the outermost part, a wooden wall three meters high and two meters thick is built with rocks, mud and wooden piles, on which three adults can walk side by side, and the top of the wooden wall is sharpened with a knife, and a gap is set every three steps, where archers can shoot the enemy, and the wooden wall is nearly three hundred meters long, and there are almost two hundred such openings.
The gates of the village will also be made of wood, but there are thousands of pounds of boulders behind them, which can be used to block the gate if the enemy attacks.
It took more than 500 people four days to get a rough scale for this wooden wall, and it still needs to be processed slowly.
At this moment, in Chengshan Village, there are more than 500 soldiers and village names, less than 600, almost all of them work together, and there are 10,000 catties of grain as confidence, and they are not short of grain and grass for the time being.
However, Liu Chen knew that only these people could not resist thousands of Dongying warriors, so Liu Chen wanted to expand his power, he asked Meng Tian and Meng Yi to do this, and let Meng Tian lead some people to the surrounding villages to recruit troops, if all those villages could be merged into Chengshan Village, it would be the best way, which was also the main way to alleviate the shortage of manpower today.
And Meng Yi took two squads of soldiers to Yaxi County, two hundred miles away, to buy grain, grass and iron ore, although 10,000 catties of grain is a lot, but if there is no supplement, more than 500 people, it can only eat for more than a month, so it needs to be purchased, and secondly, to develop the power and expand the team, naturally weapons and equipment are indispensable.
In just three days, Meng Tian recruited more than 200 soldiers one after another, most of these people were soldiers of the former Chengshan Landscape Division, so they had some foundation, Liu Chen was very happy about this, and what was even more pleasing was that there were three villages merged, which made the population of Chengshan Village rise to more than 1,700 people at once, of which the scale of the Chengshan Army also reached more than 600 people.
With so much manpower, it took only ten days to build the wooden wall, and wooden houses were built on the hillside behind it for people to live in, and the weather was good these days, otherwise it would have been troublesome if it rained for a few days.
Meng Yi spent five days, used up 2,000 taels of silver, bought 1,000 stone of grain, and more than 800 catties of iron ore, so that Chengshan Village had a relatively solid foundation, Liu Chen waved his hand, leaving the old and weak women and children to continue to build Chengshan Village, and the other more than 600 soldiers began to train.
More than 600 people are not too much, not too little, Liu Chen organized these people into five squadrons, each squadron of 120 people, of which Li Xin commanded a squadron, is the 600 people carefully selected strong men, they are wearing 60 pounds of foot armor, armed with standard horizontal knives and three meters long iron guns, is a heavy infantry squadron.
Meng Tian and Meng Yi each commanded a squadron, mainly for surprise attacks, wearing fifteen-pound chain mail, to form a light infantry squadron.
Ding Fu commanded a squadron, all of which used horn bows as their main weapons, equipped with short swords, and formed a team of archers.
Chen Ying, the former captain of Liu Chen's personal army, led a squadron to form a sailor squadron and was responsible for two warships.
In the end, there were exactly twenty-seven warriors left, Liu Chen accepted them as personal soldiers, and the leader of the team was also a name that Liu Chen had heard in his previous life, called Luan Bu, holding a spear, Liu Chen had tried it, Luan Bu could go through ten moves under Liu Chen, you must know that Liu Chen is a great master of the martial arts master realm, such as Meng Tian and Meng Yi, the two brothers joined forces, and they were only defeated in three rounds, Luan Bu was able to fight to ten rounds, and the end was a great one.
After the reorganization of the army, Liu Chen began training, just like the training methods of the Huaxia army in the previous life, such as walking in unison, turning left and right, etc., in order to achieve the purpose of ordering and prohibiting and moving in a uniform manner, and the second is to teach these soldiers military physical boxing, Liu Chen, as a martial arts master, knows a lot of martial arts, but it is undeniable that the military physical boxing of the Huaxia Kingdom in the previous life is definitely the first-class first choice for soldiers.
Liu Chen's training, Meng Tian and the others were very surprised, because they had never tried it, and carried it out with a skeptical attitude, but after a few days, they found obvious results, the most prominent thing is that the soldiers were able to do a uniform spear thrust and horizontal knife out of the body, which was undoubtedly shocking to Meng Tian and others, who were born in the army, because those who can do this cannot be called elite, since then, no one doubts Liu Chen's training.
Time passes, a month has passed in the blink of an eye, Chengshan Village is basically completed, behind the wooden wall is a village that can accommodate more than 2,000 people and nearly 3,000 people, and in front is a military camp, where Liu Chen takes the soldiers to live and train on weekdays.
The wooden bridges on both sides of the spout have been scaled, the frame has been formed, and what is lacking is the laying of planks and fixation, which will take some time, but now it can withstand the weight of ten people.
In view of this, Liu Chen asked Meng Yi to lead his squadron to the high ground on the right to station, and at the same time to open up the wasteland on the right, he planned to establish a village on the high and low on the right, so that one left and one right could expand the territory of residence.
Speaking of which, I have to say that in the past month, many nearby villages have known the existence of Chengshan Village, and also know that Chengshan Village is fighting against the Dongying people, so there are many strong people who come to meet each other, and the Chengshan army has jumped to the scale of 900 people, and the population of the entire Chengshan Village is nearly 3,000, it is precisely because of this that Liu Chen is ready to build a new village on the high ground on the right.
There are more than 900 people, Liu Chen did not rashly expand the squadron, it is still five squadrons, but the number of each squadron has increased, Meng Tian and Meng Yi's squadrons have 180 people each, Li Xin's heavy infantry squadron has 150 people, Ding Fu's archers have as many as 300 people, Chen Ying's sailor squadron also has 150 people, and even Liu Chen's personal army has reached the scale of 50 people.
On this day, Liu Chen rubbed his temples on both sides with a headache in his camp tent, because he found that the food was not enough to eat, and the equipment was almost saturated, and the development of Chengshan Village had reached a bottleneck, five thousand taels of silver, but now there were less than one thousand taels left, and the grain was only more than three hundred stones, which was only enough for the entire population to live for ten days, Liu Chen was a little worried in his heart.
"Hey, I don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, I saw it on TV in my previous life, and I was very proud to lead my subordinates, but in fact, I have to worry about so much." Liu Chen was a little helpless, there was no problem in fighting, even if he led the troops to fight, Liu Chen was confident that there would not be much of a problem, but in terms of logistics, Liu Chen was really a little out of line.
"Lord Commander, Old Man Xu Mu is here." Outside the camp tent, Luan Bu, the captain of the pro-soldiers, told the truth.
"Please come in, old man." Liu Chen spoke, then stood up and walked towards the door curtain.
"Lord Commander, the old man is polite here!" Before Liu Chen walked to the door curtain, the door curtain had been lifted, and I saw the old man Xu Muxu clasping his fists towards Liu Chen energetically and said.
For Xu Mu, Liu Chen still has great respect, because Xu Mu can be regarded as the oldest one here, and he is proficient in iron, and now almost all the weapons and equipment in the Chengshan Army are created by the old man Xu Mu and his subordinates.
"How is Old Man Xu doing recently?" Liu Chen asked with a smile.
Hearing this, Xu Mu laughed and said: "Very good, too good, since the invasion of the Dongying people three years ago, I have never been so happy as this month!" ”
Xu Mu is not telling a lie, in the past three years, he trembled every day, for fear that there would be Dongying people to rob, but now, Chengshan Village has grown and developed, and the Chengshan army has nearly 1,000 people, which can be said to be the most powerful force in this 100-mile radius, without too many worries, how can Xu Mu be very good?