Chapter Forty-Eight: Waiting Doubts
These tenants who were selected to stay, the people in the family are in the village or in the earthen enclosure, once one day when the thieves come to attack, the men of these tenants will definitely not be able to slip away at any time, their families are still there, even if they are for their families, they will not succeed if they don't play with their lives, otherwise, the village will be broken by the thieves, and their families will definitely be harmed, so from this point of view, Liu Wei has really done a good job.
After these tenants were elected, they were assigned to the village by Liu Wei to resettle, for their housing, it is very simple, ordinary earthen houses and wooden houses are not laborious, but they are also relatively labor-intensive, and after the winter, the warmth effect is very poor.
Therefore, Liu Wei made it simple because of the ugliness, let them dig some soil nests, and the excavated soil was piled directly next to the soil nests, forming a circle of low walls, on which the sticks that had not even been cut off were used as beams, and the branches were used as rafters, and thick straw was laid, leaving a pora as a chimney for ventilation, and then pasted mud on it, although it was very simple, but the warmth in winter was still quite good.
The poor people don't have much clothes, and there are not many cotton clothes to keep out the cold in winter, so they live in earthen dens, at least they don't freeze to death and don't hurt people.
Although the conditions are simple enough, they are quite satisfied with these people who have eaten this meal, at least they now have shelter from the wind and rain, and they don't have to be displaced anymore.
More than half of these sheltered tenants are refugees who have fled from Liaodong and are struggling to survive here, and now they can be accommodated here, with work and food, and for them, even compared to the previous ones in Liaodong, it is a paradise.
So of course, Liu Wei was treated as a good person by these people, and everyone who stayed was grateful to Liu Wei, respected him quite respectfully, and worked very hard.
But Liu Wei looked at the outside of the village, those refugees who gathered here and refused to disperse, but he felt very bad in his heart, these people finally gathered here, for the sea wolf, it was a rare human resource, but at the moment he couldn't collect these people, and then transfer them out.
Because so far, Denglai and other places have not been completely chaotic, although many people have eaten this meal and have not eaten, but now if they want to deceive them, the time has not yet come, and at this time they will begin to collect them and transfer them, which will definitely attract the attention of the government.
Therefore, although there are many hungry people gathered near Xishan Village, he does not dare to act rashly, so he can only try to accept more people to stay here in the name of recruiting tenants first, but the number cannot be too much.
But he always felt pity to see these hungry people disperse like this, but seeing that the wall and earthen fence had been gradually completed, it seemed that there was no reason to continue to keep these people.
Liu didn't think about it, and couldn't think of a very good way, so he had to let people outside the village, continue to set up a cauldron to boil some porridge, and supply two meals a day, only thin and dry, people who are willing to stay and rely on his soup to survive can maintain their lives first, but if they are not satisfied with people who only drink gruel twice a day, then they can only let them disperse first.
Just when Liu Bu was having a headache about this matter, a person younger than him quietly walked behind him and said to him: "Outside Liu Yuan, there is news from Guanning, saying that Jiannu sent troops south again, and the Jiannu army surrounded Dalinghe City, and Zu Dashuai was surrounded in Dalinghe City, and news also came back from Dengzhou City, saying that Lord Sun, the governor of Denglai, first sent the sailor to the sea and tried to go to Guanning to help, but a few days ago, the sea was windy, and the sailor fleet failed to arrive, so he had to return to Dengzhou Water City.
Now Lord Sun has sent the old general of Liaodong, and the current general Kong Youde led eight hundred Liaodong elite cavalry to Dalinghe City by land to help, but I don't know if Jiannu can enter the customs again this time!
I really don't understand, our lord is far away in Fujian, why can he expect that there will be chaos here in Denglai! But we've been here for so long, and we haven't seen anything major happen! ”
After Liu He heard this, his heart suddenly moved, and he suddenly remembered that before he set off from Fujian, Yu Xiaotian personally summoned these people, and had specifically instructed them to be careful here, and pay special attention to the old Dongjiang Department on the Denglai side, which seemed to have specifically mentioned Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others.
And at that time, Yu Xiaotian seemed to have specifically mentioned that if he didn't get these people, he would become the trigger for this Denglai chaos, but some time ago, these old departments of the Dongjiang River were basically nested in Dengzhou City and didn't go out much.
Therefore, although the relationship between the old Dongjiang Department and these Liaodong people and Shandong generals was tense, it was limited to small-scale conflicts and frictions, and Sun Yuanhua was on top of it, but nothing major happened.
But this time Jiannu went south again and attacked Dalinghe City, Sun Yuanhua finally began to mobilize the official army, and this time it was Kong Youde, the old general of the Dongjiang River, who was sent to lead the army to fight.
Now as a member of the sea wolf, the sea wolf people treat Yu Xiaotian as a god, they blindly believe almost everything Yu Xiaotian says, and few people will question Yu Xiaotian's arrangement.
This time they were suddenly sent to the area of Denglai, although they didn't know exactly what Yu Xiaotian wanted them to do, but since they wanted them to come, it would definitely be useful, and they wouldn't let them spend so much money in vain here.
Yu Xiaotian said at the time that Denglai would cause a big mess if he didn't get it right this year, and let them come here first to pave the way for the next possible action.
Thinking of this, Liu Yi turned to look at the young man who came to report to him, and said with a solemn face: "Xiao Wu, don't doubt the purpose of the lord, since the lord asked us to come over in advance, we will never be untargeted!"
Let's just do our job well, you personally go to Dengzhou Mansion, keep an eye on the situation over there, and once something happens, report back quickly!
For some reason, I have a hunch that if I can't get it right, it's really as the lord expected, this time in Denglai and other places, if I don't get it right, there will really be a big mess! ”
This young man, known as Xiao Wu, blushed, and quickly explained: "How dare the little one doubt the arrangement of the lord, I just feel that we have been here for so long, and nothing big has happened, so I feel a little anxious!"
Since the lieutenant said so, the little one will immediately go to the Dengzhou Mansion to keep an eye on it! If something happens, send someone back to report it immediately! ”
"Go ahead! You go down and ask Li Fu to pass by the way! I've got something to look for him! Remember, don't call me a lieutenant here in the future, just call me a foreign officer or a master! Otherwise, if someone listens to it, it will cause trouble! Liu Wei waved his hand.
Xiao Wuyi listened, quickly nodded and agreed, turned around and walked down the village wall quickly, after a while, a sturdy, dark complexion, a little short and thick man, quickly walked up from under the village wall.
Liu Yi looked at the surroundings and saw that there were no idle people around, they were all his own people who came from the sea wolf's side, so he raised his hand to stop this man who was five short and three thick from saluting him, and asked directly: "Futong, don't be polite, this is not in Fujian, pay more attention in the future!" ”
This Li Futong used to salute Liu Wei, but after hearing it, he quickly stopped his habit, and said with a dry smile: "People say that we are stupid to be soldiers, but this is not a habit, I almost forgot it again!" ”
"I asked you to come here to ask you how the weapons are prepared right now!" Liu Wei didn't say anything more, and asked him directly.
Li Futong hurriedly replied: "I came here this time, and I brought a platoon, a total of fifty brothers, and fifty wolf's tooth rifles were transported along with the ship, all of which were made of stainless steel newly allocated by the logistics department!"
In addition, there were 400 spear heads that were brought with the ship, but they were not equipped with gun shafts, so we had to match them here and use them ourselves.
In addition to the spear head, there are also 200 standard one-handed knives, 200 standard rattan cards, 50 sets of cloth bag armor, 50 bows, 20 crossbows, and five boxes of arrows, about 10,000, but we need to match the arrow shaft ourselves! However, with the ship sent a hand-cranked round bar machine and an animal-powered circular saw, as long as you want to do it, you can do it immediately!
By the way, I also brought two twelve-pounder cannons this time, and a hundred shells, twenty of which were flowering shells and eighty solid rounds, and as for the shotguns, I didn't bring them, but if necessary, I could use any stone! The power at close range is not small, but it was not unpacked, for fear of being seen, so it was stored in the mansion first! ”
Liu He touched the beard on his chin, shook his head and said: "Swords and guns are secondary, the current number should be enough, bows and arrows are okay, but there are too few rifles and cannons!" If there is a big fuss, with these fifty rifles, even if two twelve-pounder guns are added, I am afraid that there will be no more people! The place we have to guard is too wide, in addition to this Xishan Village, there is also the soil fence of Yangma Island, there are not enough people! ”
Li Futong was the platoon commander of the infantry platoon sent by Lin Yiyang with the ship this time, and he was a second lieutenant, one level lower than Liu Yi, and he was sent over this time to be responsible for consolidating the defense of Xishan Village and Yangma Island here under the leadership of Liu Wei.
Hearing Liu's different worries, Li Futong seemed a little unimpressed, and said: "In my opinion, it's almost over, let's bring more than a dozen brothers you brought over before, there are more than 60 good players, more than 60 wolf tooth rifles, even if there are hundreds of thieves, they can't stand us for a few rounds of salvos, not to mention that there are two twelve-pounder cannons, which one dares to come to us for trouble?"
As long as they dare to come, we dare to say, let them come vertically and go out horizontally! Hey! ”