After sending the intercessor, it was already approaching dusk, and Lao Luo was in no mood to write, Stan was leading a few logistics personnel to prepare dinner, and Lao ** was taking Alki to patrol the camp.

Since arriving at the camp in this part of the Sylvan Plain, Lao Luo has not stopped perfecting the defense of the camp for seven or eight consecutive days, and more than 100 soldiers and the working Qarluq slaves have the task of building the camp every day, and even the cowardly Geshulie has played his role - raising horses. From the beginning of the area of more than ten acres, to now the outer layer of the village has expanded to 100 acres. The horses and caravans were properly housed, and they could not be expected to run laps in the camp, but it was possible to build some stables out of wood. Camels are cold and drought resistant, and the horses bought by Smyrna are also suitable for the climate of the Northland, not to mention that the Hercules horses are originally from the north, and the black clouds are very comfortable here.

The surrounding area is all wasteland, and there is no need to occupy arable land, but the camp has been expanded for many days, except for the tent area in the center, the other perimeters have been dug into ravines, full of traps, spears, stabs, lassoes, and horse bars. Because of the experience brought by Lao Luo from later generations, many ideas that did not exist in this era have also been used, what throwing rods, what horse leg pits, what four-legged nails are thistles, what crude oil fire points, with the sailing ropes that Lao Luo bought in Athens, can play an unexpected role. So there is no need to worry about the lack of manpower to watch the big camp, as long as there is one warrior during the day, you can guard a large area of the perimeter, as for the night, even the soldiers who have repaired the camp themselves do not want to stay in this border, because there are big traps and small traps on the side, and every morning the soldiers can pick up prey such as rabbits or boars from the border of this camp.

This is a fortified city without walls.

Lao Luo watched all this with satisfaction, he dared to say that even if a thousand people came to besiege him, if there were no siege equipment, plus a long-term siege, he would only die in this place. The question is a long-term siege, how can Lao Luo be an honest defender? So for those who offended Lao Luo, this can only be an unsolvable problem.

The beast pen ordered to be built in the afternoon had already been completed, and it was even better than Lao Luo expected. There is a square pit of nearly one meter on the ground, with an area of about four hundred square meters, and there is a deeper pit for people to excrete in the pit, and the rest of the place is used for rest, there are no tents, anyway, the clothes on the prisoners are still there, and there is no need to worry about freezing them to death in the early spring season. It is surrounded by a one-and-a-half-meter-high thorn wood fence, which is also wrapped with dry thorn vines, and the ground on the periphery is sprinkled with a lot of crude oil with a pungent smell, and even on top of many fences, and a little further away are two four-meter-high arrow towers, as long as each occupies one person, there is no need to worry about the escape of the captives.

When Lao Luo made his rounds, he only found that the Georgian captives in the animal pen were crowded together, even that Samtz was no exception, and the arrogance of the afternoon had long been lost in the mud.

Everything is in order, not to mention the warriors, even the Qarluq slaves have begun to gradually retract, not for anything else, just three meals a day is enough for them to work hard, you must know that even if the Qarluqs occupy the Seven Rivers Valley, not everyone can have enough to eat, like Sumi Philo and Muniqi, who have long been frightened by the ferocious killing, even if they have the idea of fleeing, the others have no intention of resisting, what can the two of them do?

After inspecting the camp, it was dark, and the dinner party was still a bonfire barbecue, plus a variety of meat porridge, which could fully satisfy the big appetite of the soldiers. As for the children in the camp, each of them ate with a crooked belly, and the feeling of skin and bones on their faces was completely gone, replaced by ruddy faces, and if it weren't for the fact that they were still very thin, it would be impossible to see that they had ever lived on the streets.

After talking about the trivial matters on Lao Luo's side, let's talk about the inside of the Tang camp. Nowadays, the Tang camp is very sensitive, the decline of the Sylvan royal family, the local security control is not very effective, there are always Turkic bandits or mountain people in the west, that is, Caucasian barbarians, looting everywhere, this kind of turbulent place, the slightest wind and grass has the effect of wind and noise.

Therefore, this night in the Tang camp was very lively, and what happened during the day in Lao Luo's camp spread all over the house, and even the poor families were discussing the day's affairs.

Wu Tie's family is also one of them, Wu Tie, who is from a poor family, listened to rumors on the road during the day, and when he ate at night, he held the big name and said to the grandmother of the family: "Grandpa, I heard during the day that the people in that camp arrested the green-eyed Georgians who were messing around in the city all day. ”

Wu Tie's father was in the same posture as his son, "I've heard about it, I also watched it at the city gate, and it is said that people passing by there came back in the afternoon and said that those people killed a lot of the green-eyed thief's men." ”

Wu Tie's old lady was a little worried, "Why are there so many things in these years, it won't involve our craftsman battalion, right?" ”

"I don't know, but I don't think so." Wu Tie's father is also a craftsman, and of course he knows that the defense of the city he lives in is not bad.

"That's good, that's good, Buddha bless! Hurry up and eat! Although Islam is prevalent in this land, the Tang people still have many beliefs that have retained their homeland, and Wu Tie's wife is like this.

Not far away, in a commoner's tavern, a group of craftsmen who had worked were chatting.

"Did you hear that Samtz, who was messing around the city all day, was caught by a strongman outside the city?"

"I've known for a long time, that green-eyed guy hasn't done anything good since he came to us, and he deserves it!"

"But Samtz is said to be very promising, and he is still the son of some kind of prince, and if that gang of strong men provokes others, won't we suffer from the disaster of pond fish?"

"Shut up, Hao San, you are as timid as a mother-in-law! What strongman, robbing your field? Or did you take your mother-in-law? If you want me to say that people are doing a good job, bullying them to the door, who will you beat if you don't beat him? ”

"Well said! In the afternoon, I happened to pass by there, and looked at it from a distance, but I really didn't dare to approach, and when I came out, there were only a dozen or twenty people, all riding tall horses, and there were nearly a hundred of Samtz's men, who were either killed or captured. ”

"Is it really that powerful?"

"That's still false, when did I say something big?"

"Well, according to your Pingsi, this group of people is really powerful, I don't know where they come from?"

"I heard that he came back from the west with the second master of the Li family and the uncle of the Zhang family, and the leader is said to be from our Tang Dynasty, and the people in the camp are said to be men who can run horses on their arms."

"Isn't the second master of the Li family the one who advocates returning to his homeland? You say, will they be ...... too?"

"Maybe, it's useless for us to say this, if we had fought for ourselves, we would have gone back to our homeland long ago, where would we stay in this bullshit place and be bullied!"

"That's right, but these people are all craftsmen, where can we compare to the martial arts of those who are the generals?"

"What's so great about the men of the gate? Isn't it two shoulders and one head? ”

"That's it, isn't it just drawing a knife and slashing people? Bears who don't have the courage only know how to complain about others! ”

"Alas, to put it bluntly, we don't have to fight ourselves, otherwise wouldn't we have gone back with Gao Dashuai two hundred years ago? Don't talk about it, drink, drink! ”

“……”

Zhang Nuo was driven out of Lao Luo's camp, and Miram, who was originally with him, left the camp directly, and he couldn't scream. The anger in his heart was still in his heart, and he had to go back to his home with the guards. He felt like a whipped horse, and the fire was smoldering. At the end of the dinner, the people of the Zhang family gathered to meet, and he had the opportunity to vent the depression in his chest: "Grandpa, the eldest brother said that Luo Kaixian is a military ruffian and a tyrant, and our family has nothing to do with him." ”

"Xiao Wu, the gentleman endures his anger, don't rush and use the quilt." The ancestor of the Zhang family is Shen, who is more than ten years younger than Li Tan, and he is also a person who is too old, but he should be his name, he has been cautious all his life, and he is a ruthless character. The fifth grandson of his own family was sulking at Luo Kaixian, and he, the head of the family, naturally knew it, but it didn't mean that he would immediately get angry and take people to find Lao Luo's bad luck, he Zhang Shenke was never that kind of character.

"Xiao Wu sat down, Grandpa is right, the Zhang family has always used the strategy of attacking the heart to kill unscrupulous people. You would be humiliating yourself if you went directly to intercede for the Georgians in the afternoon. "The second generation of the Zhang family who is currently speaking, Zhang Nuo's father Zhang Kuang, is also an old guy who is over the age of six, but what he said is much more clear than Zhang Shen. To put it bluntly, it is the trick behind the scenes, and killing unscrupulous people is actually just gaining the right to speak, and whoever is attacked is an unscrupulous person.

Of course, Zhang Lu was also present, but he always waited for the elders to speak before he had the opportunity to speak, which was the rule of the Zhang family. The words of the two elders in the family, he didn't dare to comment on right or wrong, but according to the news from the Li family, he couldn't help but say, "Grandpa, Grandpa, it's been seven days since Luo Jia Saburo arrived, I guess he doesn't want to wait any longer, according to the news from the Li family, Siniang said that in another half a month, he Luo Sanlang will set off to the east directly." ”

"What?" Zhang Kuang's eyes widened, "Didn't you say that he expects my artisan battalion to go back with him?" ”

"Grandpa, I once said that he is expecting, not necessarily relying on us." Zhang Lu said with a wry smile, the reason why he hasn't been to Lao Luo for so long to reply is not because the family feels that they can't let an outsider kid have the right to speak for everyone. It's been seven or eight days to discuss, it's not that people are impatient, and if they don't have any accurate words, they simply won't take you to play.

What to do? The Zhang family began to ponder, the people in the craftsman camp have long lost their spirit, and they can't even say that they are united, Luo Kaixian brought a road, and this road can indeed be walked with hard work, and many people are also willing to do so, but the drawings provided by the other party are missing details, which look good, but there are no perfect details for a while, and they can't bear it for a while, is it really to put everyone's lives in the hands of the other party for the East Return Road?