Laying down Shanhuang Village, from the perspective of geographical location and surrounding environment, Shancun has solved the largest military point in the south of Gutian, although there are still a number of strongholds to the north from this road, which is not a concern in terms of strength and scale; At the same time, Shanhuang Village is located in the middle of a rare large piece of flat land in the mountainous area west of Vinh Phuc County (I really don't want to use the word plain or basin to describe it, there are still a few mountains in the middle of this flat land), more than 10 square kilometers of open flat land and abundant water not only make the fertile land here 10,000 acres rich in grain production, but also the main area of population gathering. More importantly, the characteristics of the geographical environment make the defender have no danger to defend, and the army in the mountain village can not only give full play to the advantage of direct firepower, but also reduce the difficulty of transporting the logistics of the baggage.

Therefore, in the following days, the combat units will take platoons and even squads as combat units, with Shanhuang Village as the center, and fight in several directions, especially in the east and south. This kind of combat is actually more like the reception of force, Deng Shifeng does not force the team to go out to eat the population of the villages along the way to the bridgehead and Shanhuang Village and send personnel to manage it, most of these villages are actually under the control of Shanhuang Village in advance, and the team used to tell these villagers - the original boss is hanging, and now you have a new boss, listen to the new boss, don't make trouble, there is food and drink, you have your good words!

Deng Shifeng also did this out of helplessness, after all, there are still too few management talents trained in mountain villages, so he can only put a limited number of management personnel in a few large villages and bridgeheads that are protected by military armed personnel, and then gradually radiate out with these places as the center.

And for a new boss, these natural villages at the bottom did not show any excesses, for these people to change which boss is the same to pay food and pump, the only difference is that the difference is to pump more and pay less, if you change to a boss who exploits them less, they will definitely not have any reluctance, loyalty is such a thing, for people who are struggling at the bottom are like politicians.

It is precisely because of this that when the small detachments came to the scattered villages, they did not encounter any resistance, and when it was announced that they would be exempted from partial grain collection this year, the villagers immediately cheered and welcomed the new boss, which made a good start for the following census and table registration.

Of course, not everyone likes the new boss, some of the low-level landlords or big households who are deeply involved in the original local official forces have expressed a faint uncooperative attitude, and Deng Shifeng is not worried about these people, and after they send people to determine the information that their original boss was shot and killed, these people will soon be divided, and the more pragmatic and speculative ones will immediately show favor to the new boss, and want to continue to carry the ...... Hehe, Deng Shifeng likes to have these cats and dogs jumping out to make negative examples to suppress and make a model!!

As for where the grain money paid by these people ended up flowing, dear, it is nearly 1,800 kilometers away from the Yanjing Imperial City in a straight line, and the phrase that the emperor is far away from the mountain is the greatest embodiment here, and the vast majority of the villagers in the mountains don't know who the emperor is, and even many people haven't even seen the county officials, they just care if they can eat and dress themselves, as for whose name they belong to now...... They don't care so much!

Due to the large amount of land and population that Shanhuang Village can control, after three days of preliminary survey, Deng Shifeng found that it had far exceeded his original expectations, and the scattered troops and the various good news that were continuously sent to him made it impossible for him to concentrate his troops to continue to go north, and he had already reported statistics of more than 4,000 people and nearly 10,000 acres of fields, as well as the grain harvest that was just ready to be paid this year, so that the staff who followed could only turn around, and the materials and population information were sent to the mountain villages in the rear, so that Qin Er and Lao Sun Tou were so excited that they couldn't sleep.

In addition to the harvest of population and materials, another good news for the industrial development and military development of the mountain village is that more than ten kilometers east of Shanhuang Village, the search team sent out successfully found a small copper mine explained by Deng Shifeng, the output of this small copper mine is not high, and the search team found that there have been people secretly mining here, but under the appeasement of the big stick of armed strength and the sweet dates that continue to be retained, this copper mine was quickly controlled, and even harvested more than a ton of blister copper mined and refined in the middle of this year. The shortage of copper materials, which restricts the industrial and military development of mountain villages, has been greatly alleviated at once.

(Note: Baidu shows that Yongfu County produces copper, and ancient data also shows that Yongfu produced copper very early, but it has not been able to find a specific location, and even which township can not be obtained, and there is a location called copper mine ditch on the map, so you can only guess the substitute)

In various happy and troubled states, Deng Shifeng could only let Luo Dan lead an infantry platoon with an artillery squad and a baggage team of 20 people to go all the way north first, and uproot several military strongholds along the way to the north.

It's just that the only drawback caused by this slow advance is that the enemy in the north has more and more preparations, and the news from the forward advance team that the resistance of the troops is getting bigger and bigger, and the other side has temporarily summoned more and more men and horses, although most of them will soon collapse under the shelling and platoon of guns, but the more such things also make Deng Shifeng increase the reinforcement of the advancing troops in the north, and send two infantry squads and more than a dozen melee rapid-fire weapons to reinforce the past; Such a small number of people should not play a role in fighting too much, but I didn't expect that it was this batch of reinforcements that allowed the vanguard led by Luo Dan to withstand the biggest counterattack since they came out of the mountain.

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In the army that has not yet been named in the mountain village, the main combat force currently has six platoons, one of which remains in the mountain village and one is stationed in the bridgehead to protect the supply line, and there is also an artillery platoon in the remaining four platoons. However, since there is the word main force, it means that there are combat units inferior to the main force, most of these people are militia and militia guards, in order to ensure this expedition, more than 100 militia members and militia members to assist in the battle, these people are certainly not as effective as formal soldiers, but it is more than enough for them to transport and guard the baggage and garrison on the spot. Of course, the managers referred to in the ranks are actually included in the militia and the militia......

On this day, the second platoon responsible for continuing the northward mission was repairing in a small fort, and it took a lot of effort for the team to just lay down this small fort yesterday, and the artillery and platoon guns were taking turns to fight, not only collapsing a big gap in the fort, but also killing and wounding more than 100 people.

The other party's attitude of fighting to the death made Luo Dan very curious about why this small fort that was easy to attack and difficult to defend could make the other party so desperate, and after interrogating and searching for Luo Dan, they realized that this small fort is located at the fork of an official road, and it belongs to the key place from the geographical point of view, and because of this period of time, the autumn harvest was collected and temporarily hoarded here, ready to be transferred to the pockets of Gutian and various officials...... These two articles alone are enough to make people make up their minds to fight without their lives......

It was precisely because of the large amount of materials stored in this small fort, as well as the lack of attack power caused by the current lack of troops, that Luo Dan did not continue to advance but planned to repair here for two days, and this repair finally avoided the team from falling into a field encounter with a huge disparity between the enemy and our forces.

In the morning, the reinforcements and supplies sent by Deng Shifeng from the rear had just arrived, and Luo Dan had just finished signing the receipt and delivery order, and the rapid whistle of the sentry was heard from the lookout post built of wood.

"Hiss......"

Even if Luo Dan, who climbed up to the lookout post, could clearly see a large black shadow surging in the distance without a telescope, the effect of causing such a black head could only show that there were too many people on the other side, and Luo Dan, who could not estimate the number of enemies, yelled below:

"All on alert, enemy attack!!"

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