After a killing stick and temporarily killing all the people with two hearts, Zhao Yun was finally able to put the business on the agenda.

Although the use of monks to "persuade" has a better effect than the current method, Zhao Yun is worried about whether these effects can be maintained if something happens to him in the future, and if there is a case, how will Wu Xiaoya and them deal with themselves at that time, so he still chooses the most old-fashioned method.

With the addition of Zhao Yun's servant army, the number of people who can fight in the entire cottage has reached more than 600 people, although Wu Xiaoya is a bandit, but because of the materials provided by Zhao Yun, the people and horses of Shifoshan no longer robbed the surrounding area during this period of time after being dispersed, and then absorbed people from all walks of life, but protected the territory and brought stability to the area. This has brought Wu Xiaoya a lot of prestige, and Wu Xiaoya can now be regarded as a person with a good name in the Anhui territory.

The war in the west has begun to burn to southern Anhui, and although it is received, there are constantly local organizations that resist the direct army in the base camp of the Hui army. Refugees from Anqing, Chizhou, and Tongling began to flee into Wuhu and Xuancheng.

With Wu Xiaoya's prestige here, some small groups of refugees came to join one after another. There were also some small bandits who fled from the north (south of the Yangtze River), who were suppressed by the Jiangsu overseers, and also fled here in a scattered manner, and were "persuaded" by the monks and incorporated into the servant army.

The entire cottage finally eliminated the old, weak, women and children, and the number of soldiers capable of fighting grew to a thousand people.

The Chinese people have always had the psychology of being the head of the chicken rather than the tail of the phoenix, which makes the people keen to engage in small groups within the country, pulling the mountain, and various trends of thought are constantly emerging at this time, this kind of atmosphere is no exception even in the bandit den, there are two masters who have been stable for less than two days, and they started to pull the alliance again, and they were immediately cleaned up by the monks of the Zhao Yun faction, not moving you, it does not mean that you are connived, as long as you do something that should not be done, deal with it immediately. There are only two people in the current Shifoshan Village, Zhao Yun and Wu Xiaoya, and the number of the two is six or four, Wu Liu, Zhao Si.

The matter of co-optation, after a week, finally came to an end. This week, Zhao Yun asked this group of mountain bandits to adapt the guards, eat and drink well, and fill them with big fish and meat every day.

The ration of three roast chickens and one leg of mutton a day made this group of guards full on the first day and tired of eating for a week.

In order to consume their vigorous energy and don't make trouble, Zhao Yun gave them a new instruction to dig fortifications!

The wooden walls, wooden fences, and guard towers of the cottage have all been arranged by Zhao Yun. But some of the trenching work was still not done. So these original mountain bandits, the current guards, were all gathered.

The guards were all sturdy young men, and after distributing a batch of axes, double saws, and hemp ropes, they began to scatter and start felling.

These logs were not cut indiscriminately, but were directed by a few old people from Shifo Mountain, and some large trees close to the wooden walls were cut down.

A deep ditch was dug in front of the wooden wall as a ditch, and then a trap was dug up, an iron stick was inserted, and an iron clamp was laid out.

At the same time, they sent people to start making horse rejections and digging up cat ear holes, which were all defensive aspects. In order to meet the needs of the large population in the cottage, the construction of new aqueducts, vegetable cellars, and cellars began.

A scarface whispered to "Bad Shui Ma", "Second master, why do you want to cut so much wood?" I have to dig out all the roots of the tree, isn't there nothing to do? ”

"Bad water hemp" shook his head slightly, looked around and saw that there were "his own people" around him, and then whispered: "Digging tree roots is to lay a solid foundation, and then build arrow towers and stone walls on them, otherwise the foundation will be unstable." ”

"What? Build an arrow tower? Scarface and a few of the "bad water hemp" henchmen nearby quietly gathered around in surprise, and discussed with each other, "Second master, what's going on, is there going to be a fortress here?" Why build arrow towers and stone walls? ”

"Stupid! For defense, of course! Have you ever seen a cottage attack with a stone wall, it is estimated that this will be a warehouse of the Zhao Dong family in the future! "Bad water hemp" said helplessly, "The current big boss wants to help us wash his name, and he is no longer doing his old job!" ”

"Second master, I think it's better for us to do our old job, how easy it is! It's like now that there is wine and meat every day, but every day is tiring and tiring. Scarface whispered.

"Bad Water Ma" suddenly sank like water, and said sharply, "If you want to die, don't pull me!" After saying that, he didn't look back and went to direct the people to do the work.

In the past few days, Zhao Yun has cleaned up the entire Shifo Mountain, although several masters like "Bad Water Hemp" have not been cleaned up, but their subordinates have also been disrupted and incorporated into various construction teams, so several masters have learned to be people with their tails between their legs, and they are still discussing this topic at this time.

After a week of intense construction, the cottage has changed greatly, the building has a new look, and people eat and sleep well. Seeing that their nutritional supplements were almost complete, Zhao Yun was about to let them start their activities.

"Master Wu, I should call you Captain Wu in the future." Zhao Yun arched his hand and congratulated Wu Xiaoya.

Wu Xiaoya also arched her hands, learning from the dart master in the city to bow to the master's house, and bowed to Zhao Yun, "Hehe, then I should also call you Boss Zhao!" ”

Zhao Yun saw Wu Xiaoya bowing, and also replied with a "Hehe, polite!" ”

"Huh! Sister, are you here to worship the church? Wu Zhuangzhuang happened to enter the house at this time and encountered this "accidental" scene, as soon as Wu Xiaoya heard her brother say this, her face immediately turned crimson, picked up the teacup on the table in the room and threw it over.

"Hehehe!" What can Zhao Yun say when he sees this situation? Interpretation? Then it's better not to explain! I can only smirk.

Ten minutes later

Finally, seeing that Zhao Yun's face was about to cramp with a smile, Wu Xiaoya let Zhao Yun go, and asked in a pretentious gesture, "Boss Zhao, you said that you have something to find me?" ”

"Oh!" Zhao Yun rubbed his face that was already cramping, "You know that I am mainly engaged in food and part-time in arms, let's talk about your equipment first!" ”

Due to Zhao Yun's original consideration of the loyalty of this team, he only provided outdated weapons such as old-fashioned rifles and bird guns that had been smoothed out of rifling. Now that this team is going to serve itself, it is natural to equip it with some good things.

"Not counting the big knives and spears, we now have four hundred and twenty-one large bird guns, one hundred and thirty small bird guns, at least less than fifty rifles, and more than 100 large poles and earthen cannons are all made in Zhoucun." Wu Xiaoya said like a few treasures.

"We're starting today to train the cohort and break them all up and mix them up. You go and let everyone be careful, and teach the queue first, so that it doesn't look like a rabble. The two of us went to test the power of the big lifting bar and the earth cannon. ”

On the hundred-zhang high cliff in the back mountain, Zhao Yun was facing a line of various earth cannons.

There are twelve-pound Napoleonic cannons on the estate, there are powerful Qing Dynasty cannons that were bought with money, and brand-new iron-core wooden cannons.

Before the two principals of the cottage came, the artillery in the cottage had already been busy. Wipe the gun, this is not to wipe the gun body, but to stuff the gun chamber with a dry mop and clean the gun chamber.

Seeing that they took a fist-sized, round iron ball in their hands, and looked at it over and over, Zhao Yun didn't find anything special about this thing except that it was similar to a ball.

"Let's put one on!" Wu Xiaoya was also impatient, as if it was not a cannon, but a firecracker during the New Year.

The first to come on the field was the iron-core wood-hulled cannon, which was homemade so it was safe, and these artillerymen knew best. As for the artillery of the Qing Dynasty, even if Zhao Yun paid for them to try, then they would hide far away, this is a quality problem.

"Tom!" There was a puff of white smoke, accompanied by a loud bang, and there was an additional fist-sized hole in the wooden target fifty meters opposite the cannon.

"That's the end of it?" After waiting for a long time, he didn't see the smoke of the shell explosion, nor did he hear the loud sound of the explosion, Zhao Yun was puzzled to see that the surrounding artillerymen had stepped forward to reposition the cannon body, and began to stuff the cannon chamber with a water-soaked mop to clean up the remaining gunpowder remaining in the barrel after the fire had just been fired.

"Hey!" His ears were shocked just now, and now he doesn't speak loudly, and he really can't hear it, Zhao Yun roared to an artillery soldier beside him.

"Boss Zhao, what's the matter with you?" As soon as the artilleryman saw that the owner was looking for him, he immediately stopped what he was doing.

"I said, this cannon is finished just now?"

"Yes! Don't you see there's an extra hole in that target? ”

"That's it!?"

"Yes, it's over!"

"Didn't it explode?"

"That's how this shell is, it doesn't explode!"

"Gaba!" Zhao Yun's jaw almost dropped, and this power can still be called a "cannon"! The range of fireworks in later generations is longer than it, and the projectiles of those fireworks are larger than it, and they will "explode"!

Looking at a bamboo basket not far behind him, there were several iron balls of similar shapes. Zhao Yun was speechless for a while, no wonder Wu Xiaoya had a sense of excitement about setting off fireworks!

Judging from the distance of fifty meters, the power of this guy is not as good, and the range of Zhoucun is only thirty meters. That's at least a dozen slices, twenty or thirty iron eggs! It's up to a shotgun.

Seeing Zhao Yun looking at the earthen cannon thoughtfully, Wu Xiaoya said with a fluttering eyebrow: "Boss Zhao, you see that this is our homemade cannon, how powerful it is!" A single shot can hit all enemies in a straight line. ”

"Great! It's really big! Zhao Yun was speechless, watching the second cannon be fired again, but this time the shell did not hit the target, but deviated to the right at least 35 degrees, and hit a big rock, nearly 100 catties of big rock smashed.