In the early spring, Qin Shishi led his team of hunters to familiarize themselves with the terrain along the surroundings of Shiguantun, drawing simple shapes on paper, and practicing the fire guns of these hunters; Or, when they go to a remote mountain valley, they have to throw a sky-shattering thunderbolt from each of them to adapt to the new equipment in their hands.

Of course, everyone quickly mastered the use of the crossbow, and even some Orions played more vigorously than him, it is estimated that it will not take a few days, and Qin Dazui can only stare at it.

As for walking in the mountains and tracing animal traces, Qin Shishi sadly found that these hunters who live in the mountains all the year round are not as careful as others in some places.

Warning the hunters to stay away from the seemingly harmless vine grass, Qin Shi and his party lurked in the barren grassland southeast of Shiguantun; Although the green grass has just sprouted, the dead grass that has grown over the years is enough to hide their shape.

The hunters scattered their ranks and looked at the road in front of them, which was the only main road leading from Shiguantun to the Gravel Fort.

The north and southeast directions of Shiguantun are the focus of their surveillance, and the kid who is following the team today is a new recruit who has verified the iron sentry.

The short Wang Shengyi is a kid who was brought to Shiguantun by his distant uncle Wang Dali, not very old but with a pair of slippery eyes, people know at a glance that this is not a fuel-efficient lamp, but he was still picked by Yang Tianshou.

Three personal guard heralds, two stayed in the stone fort to rotate the sentry, and Wang Shengyi, who was drawn by lot, carried a set of iron whistle earmillations, and was carried down the mountain by Qin Shi.

Wang Shengyi carried a revolver in his arms, twenty rounds of projectiles, and a small burden on his body, which contained water bags and dry food; His main task in the team is to maintain contact with the mountains.

This is most of the day, when the night is about to come, Shang Wu, who is squatting on a high place, quietly slides down the meadow, makes a few turns in the two-foot-high grass, and slips to Qin Shishi's side, "Brother Qin, a horse team is coming, it's a caravan from the gravel fort,"

Qin Shi, who was leaning against the small tree to recuperate, grabbed the fire gun beside him, got up and patted Wang Shengyi, who was still looking around, "Boy, let's go, let's go and have a look, and by the way, try your thousand-mile sound thing,"

"Is the iron whistle understandable," Wang Shengyi argued dissatisfiedly, along the way, he didn't know how many times he was laughed at by this little flag with a big mouth.

However, in the private school, when the husband gave lectures to the three of them, he emphasized many times that he would strictly keep secrets, and that he could only speak to the outside world at best, and that nothing else was allowed to be revealed.

If the secret is accidentally revealed, a new face will definitely appear among the strong laborers digging charcoal in the coal pit, and the punishment of at least half a year's hard work is already light.

Wang Shengyi, who earned rations for a few days in the stone coal pit, could not withstand the torment, but was still sent to a private school by Wang Dali, and in less than three months, he became a sergeant again.

On the undulating dirt road, more than a dozen pack horses, eight longboard double mule carts, escorted by more than a dozen guards with waist knives and handcuffs, hurried to Shiguantun, and first held a pennant on the horse, and at a glance it was known that it was the caravan of the Huang family.

Qin Shishi, who was lying in the valley, put down the monocular in his hand, twisted his face to look at the distance from Tunli, and whispered to Wang Shengyi, "Report to Shibao, the Huang family's caravan will arrive at the foot of the mountain in half an hour, with eighteen guards, sixteen pack horses, eight mule carts, and most of the grain,"

"Oh," Wang Shengyi hurriedly took out a small paper notebook from his arms, looked at the whistle with a red face under Qin Shi's sneering gaze, and after writing them down one by one, he carefully took out a cloth bag.

Putting on the earthy yellow earmuffs, Wang Shengyi put the iron whistle in his mouth, and blew it again and again in the direction of the stone castle, after a while, and repeated the blowing.

Seeing this kid blowing the whistle vigorously and silently, Qin Shishi and Shang Wu couldn't help but run to the side and laughed, but Wang Shengyi rolled his eyes angrily.

Wang Shengyi squinted at Qin Shishi, and secretly swore that next time he would never look at the whistle book again, and he would blow the whistle when he picked it up, which was the kind of master that Mr. said.

After blowing it three times in a row, Wang Shengyi carefully packed up the whistle book, "Brother Qin, Shibao has been informed, let's wait for a reply before continuing to inspect,"

"Well," Qin Shi restrained his smile, looked at Wang Shengyi's serious face seriously, and then looked at the almost invisible stone castle in the distance, "I said, you kid won't fool Lao Tzu, right?"

On the fortress wall of the mill stone fort, sitting on the platform in the corner, the herald Liu Tianguo was chatting with a sergeant who was on guard, but the earmuffs on his ears made the sergeant already giggle and laugh for a while, but he didn't dare to take off this laughing thing, so he could only wait for his partner Zhao Wending to change shifts.

"Si, Si," a slight voice suddenly came from the earbuds, which made Liu Tianguo, who was already a little annoyed, calm down immediately, took a piece of yellow straw paper beside him, pinched the charcoal pen sharpened from charcoal, lowered his head and silently wrote down a row of vertical roads of different lengths, and no longer paid attention to the sergeant.

After remembering the whistle coming from afar, Liu Tianguo took off his earmuffs, glared at the sergeant, ran down the fort wall quickly, and went straight to the hundred households.

On the stone bench outside the hundred households, Xiao Ye drank bitter coarse tea, waiting with hope for Liu Tianguo to look at the whistle book, and after a while, the kid lying on the stone table raised his head, "Lord Baihu, it is the news from Wang Shengyi, the Huang family caravan arrived at the foot of the mountain in half an hour, eighteen guards, sixteen pack horses, eight mule carts, and most of the grain,"

"They are now five miles away from Shiguantun next to the mountain road, waiting for the order of the hundred households," Liu Tianguo's words were enough to make Xiao Ye secretly happy.

Wang Shengyi also said that No. 6 Xiaoqi laughed at him," the last sentence of the complaint made Xiao Ye squirt out a sip of tea and laugh loudly, "This Qin Dazui, I'll clean him up when I come back, and see if he dares to look down on the herald of his own official,"

With an iron whistle, earmuffs, and a whistle book, once this kind of letter whistle is used, Xiao Ye can already imagine that the same news as the Beacon Pier relay can even be quickly transmitted back to the stone fort from the grassland.

In less than a cup of tea, Wang Shengyi, who had a snort on his face, received a whistle from the hundred households, "Qin Xiaoqi official, the hundred households have an order, let you go to Shiguan Canyon to inspect and send someone to fight wild boars back,"

Putting away the whistle book with a smile, Wang Shengyi patted Qin Dazui's shoulder, "I didn't say a few, but Baihu said it, go back and clean you up,"

Qin Shishi blinked his eyes curtly, where would he have thought that such a distance would be able to smoothly contact Shibao, it seems that this whistle is really usable.

Didi blew the Qin stone that gathered the suona, and while beckoning his subordinates to assemble, he hugged Wang Shengyi's shoulder, and with the ridiculous attitude just now, he was very stammered with this inconspicuous herald.

There's no way, people are not under their subordinates, they can't be taken care of by him, and they can still use whistles to sue hundreds of households, which is really ruthless.

By the time the hunter team passed through the rubble ruins, there were already three fat hares hanging from Shangwu's waist, and the arrows fired by the crossbow were killed by one arrow in the hands of the hunters. Unfortunately, they did not see the shadow of the wild boar.

According to the appointed time, Wang Shengyi contacted the mountain once, and was told to camp on the spot, and supplies would be delivered tomorrow morning, so he could only set up a single tent and everyone took turns to sleep for a while.

Mill Stone Fort, before dark, the Huang family caravan went up the stone mountain, this time, the Huang family brought 800 stone of grain to the shop, ten barrels of fierce fire oil (that is, oil and crude oil).

There was no shortage of food Xiao Ye for the time being, but he also accepted five hundred stones, but he had already heard of the fierce fire oil, and after signing the order for Huang Deshan happily, he was pulled into the stone castle by his personal guards.

"It seems that my big brother Huang is still quite attentive," looking at the barrels of fierce fire oil under his feet, Xiao Ye calmed down a little resentment.

What he didn't know was that Huang Changzu also received bad news, in order to let Xiao Sandi save his life, he even brought some military oil, and did his best.

Now the largest amount of digging and mining in the coal pit every day can be 20,000 catties, no matter how much can not be dug up, the quarry is tired to death every day is only 10,000 catties, barely out of five poles of fire, not enough for stone grinding at all.

Rao is like this, as the largest basic raw material of yellow plaster, charcoal has been kept in mind by the shopkeepers of the two Huangtian families.

That night, two large baskets of earth-colored fruit cores were poured into the stone grinding eye, Xiao Ye couldn't see a pattern flashing, so he didn't care, he vaguely knew the effect of this fruit core.

The slow expansion of the lower stone platform of the stone mill is definitely related to this pit, which is much more pronounced than the low iron ore.

The stone grinding eye has become two feet thick, and the wooden barrel of fierce fire oil is only one and a half feet thick, just saving the need to endure the fishy smell, Xiao Ye waved his hand, and ten wooden barrels with 500 catties of fierce fire oil were carried by the guards and smoothly sent into the grinding eye.

Before he sent someone to pull the coal, Xiao Ye suddenly found that the faint blue light at the button of the grinding disc had lit up, and he couldn't help but be secretly stunned: Could it be that the fierce fire oil is the same as the coal, or even the black kernel?

Whether he guessed right or not, no one knew, but it was clear that there was no shiny pattern on the stone grinding disc to indicate that there was not enough raw material.

Commanding the guards to search and scrape, Xiao Ye threw more than a dozen tin wine pots into the grinding eye, and after pouring the stones of the wheelbarrow a few times, he took out two individual tents from the wide box.

There are also piles of yellow plaster powder that gushed out from between the upper and lower plates, and the guards consciously bagged and sent them to the warehouse; Lack of raw materials, Xiao Ye shook his head helplessly, and had to continue to take out the protective clothing.

Late at night, Xiao Liuzi took a few guards, pulled two pack horses, found Qin Shi, who was camping on the gravel beach at the foot of the mountain, and handed over two individual tents and some supplies to him.

"Big mouth, there is an order from a hundred households, you follow the top of the Shiguan Canyon and pull out two monitoring posts to the north, and the interval must be able to echo the stone fort, it seems that the Tartars should come,"

Seeing that there was another herald of one and a half children, Qin Shi nodded with a headache, took the three hares and handed them to Xiao Liuzi, and set off with torches overnight.

Above the canyon leading from Shiguan to the grassland, there are rugged and difficult cliffs, but fortunately, these hunters can climb and walk quite neatly, and with two stumbling heralds, it is not too difficult to walk.

Under a stone wall among the thorns above the canyon, Qin Shi found a leeward stone pit, leaving Shang Wu and two old hunters, as well as the herald Liu Tianguo.

"It's more than four miles away from Shiguantun, you just stay here, watch the trail below, and report to the hundred households immediately if there is a situation, you don't have to notify me,"

Putting down a single soldier tent and some supplies, Qin Shi led the remaining six hunters, and the herald Wang Shengyi, carrying a heavy backpack, moved forward for more than three miles, and looked at the mountain road in the canyon below.

Three tents were erected, leaving the men to watch the canyon below, while the others hid in the tents to rest; The mountain breeze here is blowing so much that people can't open their eyes, so let's take turns watching.

Before dawn, Zhao Wending, a herald waiting on the fort wall, finally received a whistle from Liu Tianguo, and the two monitoring points on the canyon outside Shiguan were already in place, and the dry food in their hands could last for three days, but it was difficult to drink water.

"Having trouble drinking water? Tell Qin Dazui that there is a water purification collector in that backpack, and if you don't use it, you will be thirsty," Xiao Ye scolded angrily, ignored Zhao Wending, and went back to the room angrily.

Xiao Liuzi saw that Zhao Wending was in a daze, and hurriedly stepped forward and patted his head, "Go, hurry up and reply to the letter, that idiot with a big mouth, the hundred households themselves are reluctant to use the things given to him, he doesn't look at it, he really deserves to be scolded,"

At the top of the canyon, the other hunters got into the tent to recuperate, and Qin Shi sat behind the boulder with a fire gun, and was stupid in front of two empty water bags of about ten catties; In the tent next to him, Wang Shengyi, who was beside him, shook his head, and then reached out and pressed the ear tips on his left ear tightly.

"Hundred household orders, backpacks, water, idiots," confirmed the news received again, Wang Shengyi directly covered his stomach with a smile, hurriedly picked up the iron whistle, and after replying, he turned his face to look at Qin Xiaoqi in depression.

Although he couldn't see Qin Xiaoqi's face clearly, Wang Shengyi knew that the few words he said just now should have been heard, "Haha, Brother Qin, Baihu said you were a fool,"

Sticking his head out of the tent, Wang Shengyi said loudly; In the other tents, there was another low laugh.

"I'm grass, nonsense, what about the other two words," Qin Shishi, whose eyes widened at the boss, asked urgently, he didn't believe that the hundred households would leave them here for three days, and they couldn't find a drop of water here.

"Rucksack, water, Brother Qin, if you turn over the rucksack again, there should be water in it," Wang Shengyi didn't have to think about it, and said directly.

"How can there be water, Lao Tzu has turned it over several times, projectiles, medicine belts, flatbread, oh, and fire sickles, all that is left is this small bucket, and I can't drink a few sips of water here," Qin Shi took out a calf-thick iron cylinder from his backpack and felt it cold in his hand.

"Open it and take a look, Baihu won't lie to you," At the instigation of Wang Shengyi, Qin Shi opened the lid of the barrel and poured out something like an oil umbrella cloth.

Pulling open the umbrella cloth without a handle, the two simply unfolded it directly, looked inside and out for a while, and couldn't see anything unusual; Just when Qin Shi threw down the umbrella cloth in frustration, Wang Shengyi, who was sharp-eyed, suddenly found that there were dots of fine water droplets on the inside of the umbrella cloth.

"Brother Qin, there is water, there is water," his sharp voice also alarmed the hunters in the tent, and everyone came out one after another, huddled together to look at the huge umbrella cloth.

Wang Shengyi, who is very clever, beckoned two young hunters, and the three of them found a relatively flat stone slope depression, where the wind could not blow, and after the umbrella cloth was fully opened, they saw a hole in the center of the umbrella cloth.

In the cold wind, under the gray light, several people watched as dense water droplets condensed on the umbrella cloth, rolling down along the slender keel towards the hole, "Quick, take the water bag," Qin Shi, whose eyes had already protruded, hurriedly shouted.

Less than two pillars of incense, ten catties of water bags, actually filled with condensation, carefully tasted two mouthfuls, Qin Shi grinned and smirked, calmly ordered all the hunters, line up to wash their faces, go back to the tent to rest; Tonight, he's going to be by the umbrella.

He made up his mind that when everyone's water bags were full, he would wash his feet properly and wash them beautifully.

In this dry place where there is no running water, there is a steady stream of pure water, although the water flow is too small, but it is constantly flowing, the hunters who are determined to be in the army, the older ones drink enough water, go back to the tent to sleep.

The young Orion, together with Qin Shi, stood in the depression, staring at the thin stream of water without getting tired of it.

Condescendingly guarding the canyon and mountain road under their feet, with plenty of drinking water, both Qin Shi and the hunters have reason to believe that if the Tartars dare to emerge from the canyon, they can tear off a layer of Tartar's skin alive with the fire guns and earth-shaking thunder in their hands.

"Oh, it's really refreshing," the young hunters and Wang Shengyi, after washing their faces, laughed and took off their leather boots, exposing their stinky feet in front of Xiaoqi's eyes, they also wanted to wash their feet on the mountain, and went back to boast.