Chapter 21: The Marauder Emerges
At a meeting in the castle lord's palace, it was agreed that while maintaining a state of defense, the development of industry and agriculture began. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
All kinds of experts who everyone thought were useless in the past are now useful, Sun Jingjing began to recruit these talents inside and outside the ancient city, and Zhao Wu, who was originally in charge of urban development, will also select two teams for construction.
The ancient city is located at the junction of three provinces, although there is no electricity now, and there are not enough water conservancy resources around, but there are a large number of coal mines in the vicinity before the end of the world, and the steam engine power device brought back by Li Nan and others needs coal, and many things can be repaired and made by themselves with enough power.
The ancient city ruled by the stick king has blocked countless mutant creature attacks in a few years, although many ancient city people died in the battle, but there are no mutant creature groups that can threaten the ancient city within a radius of dozens of miles, which provides great convenience for the search team members who are looking for the former coal mine.
A piece of wasteland was reclaimed in the ancient city, and the seeds of corn and sweet potatoes brought back were planted with Li Nan, both of which were carefully selected by Li Nan, and both had the characteristics of relatively high yield and did not pursue soil.
Li Nan has no specific projects in charge of the city for the time being, but recently the ancient city has developed, and there are many more people who eat, so he takes Bai Ying and Zhang Ba's more than ten hunting teams out every day to hunt mutant insects and animals to get food.
On this day, Li Nan's hunting team found a mutant pig the size of a car more than thirty miles away from the ancient city, and everyone who had not eaten pork for a long time was ignited, but the thick skin of the mutant pig blocked most of the spears and bullets, and ran into the jungle with injuries.
Lao Zhao, the leader of this hunting team, didn't want to lose such a fat prey, so a team of one hundred and fifty people, every fifteen people, formed a team to enter the jungle to search for the whereabouts of the mutant pigs.
Li Nan was afraid that there would be danger in the depths of the jungle, so he took Bai Ying to follow the team that searched along the edge of the jungle, and after walking for more than ten miles, Li Nan suddenly stopped and twitched his nose.
Bai Ying saw Li Nan standing still, and hurriedly asked, "Uncle, what's wrong?" ”
"I smelled smoke and it seemed like someone was barbecuing food nearby."
Bai Ying thought about it and said, "The mineral search team didn't come in this direction, and the people of the hunting team won't stop to bake food, could it be the remnants of the chaotic people?" ”
"I don't know who it is, but it's better to be careful." Li Nan called out to the rest of the team, "Everyone stop, there are strangers nearby." ”
Chen Li, the captain of the team, was one of Zhang Ba's henchmen, he knew the relationship between Li Nan and the Sun family, so he hurriedly ran to Li Nan's side and asked, "Brother Nan, what did you find?" ”
"Everyone search carefully, I think there are strangers nearby, let's not show up until we know their intentions."
Although Chen Li's body is relatively strong, he doesn't have Li Nan's strengthened body, so he doesn't smell anything, but he heard Zhang Ba say that Li Nan is not a simple person, so he said: "Everything is up to Brother Nan." ”
Li Nan slowly moved forward in the direction of the wind, and the others followed carefully, and after walking for a while, everyone else also smelled the smell, and everyone looked at Li Nan with admiration, and was convinced by this leader.
Getting closer, he could gradually hear the voice of someone talking, and Li Nan whispered to the people behind him: "Everyone wait in place, Chen Li and I will go to investigate, Bai Ying, you also stay here." ”
The team members said that they heard it, Li Nan sneaked forward with Chen Li more carefully, Li Nan's skills needless to say, Chen Li was also the leader of the hunting team, and the two came to the vicinity of the stranger without making any sound.
More than 20 fires were burning, and there were more than a dozen people sitting in front of each fire, these people, more men and women, all wearing uniform camouflage uniforms, most of them were eating meat, only a few people in officer clothes had wine bottles in their hands, eating and drinking, and there were five military trucks and three off-road vehicles equipped with machine guns parked near the road.
Among the few people who were drinking, a man said, "Big brother, our equipment may not be able to defeat that ancient city, I heard that they have artillery." ”
The man known as the eldest brother said: "Mad dog, you will kill women if you are, who said that we are going to conquer the ancient city, we will take care of the city, or will I take care of it." ”
Another sturdy man asked, "Then big brother, what do you mean, just say it, and we will all do it." ”
The officer's eldest brother said: "First of all, we still have to deceive the city, and if we fail, we will use the trick we used to make Hancheng succumb." ”
"What does the eldest brother mean is that we still choke their gates like we did against Hancheng and don't let people in and out?"
"Of course, if the deception fails, we can't force the siege. But we are outside the city, the number of soldiers they go out of the city is small, we will destroy them, they send out more soldiers, we will run, the people in their city can't keep cowering in the city, I believe they don't have so much food, it won't take a few days, they will obediently send tribute, hahaha. ”
The mad dog and the strong man hurriedly said: "The eldest brother is really tall, fortunately, he followed the eldest brother when he was in prison, and now he can live a good life." ”
The officer's eldest brother said with a sigh: "I originally thought that I would die in prison in this life, but I didn't expect that God would open his eyes and the world would change greatly, and this would be the day when our brothers would come out." ”
Mad Dog smiled evilly, "I really miss those female prison guards, it's delicious." ”
The eldest brother slapped the mad dog on the head, "Don't think about it, go and pull the boy who reported the news over, and I'll ask him about the strength and firepower in the city, don't capsize in the gutter, don't forget how the prison king deals with losers." ”
Hearing the name of the prison king, both the strong man and the mad dog trembled uncontrollably, and the mad dog said no more, took a wounded man tied to the car, and kicked him down in front of the officer's eldest brother.
"Big brother wants to ask you, say it well, if you dare to lie, I will cut a wound on your body and tie it to a tree, I dare to guarantee that you will not survive a day."
The man who fell to the ground kowtowed repeatedly, "Don't dare, I don't dare to deceive a few masters." ”
The eldest brother in the officer's uniform threw the leftover bones in his hand to him, "Tell me about the things in the city." ”
The scarred man was obviously hungry for a long time, grabbed the meat and bones and gnawed them, and the bones creaked, and when he saw him eating the bones, the mad dog stepped forward and kicked him a few times, "Say it quickly." ”
"I said, I said, there are more than 20,000 residents in the city, about 3,000 soldiers, more than 1,000 people go out to hunt during the day every day, and those who can't hunt will go to the forest to dig edible plants, and they have a lot of weapons and ammunition during the Anti-Japanese War."
After listening to the man's words, Mad Dog said with some worry: "Big brother, they have too many soldiers, as long as a tenth of them deal with us, it will be very dangerous." ”
"Bullshit, if you don't take some risks, how can you get benefits, we don't have much fuel and ammunition, how can we explain to the prison king if we don't make this ticket. They are numerous, but what are we afraid of in the shadows? If they are unprepared, we will rush in and tell our brothers to finish their rest and then go to the ancient city to plunder. ”
Li Nan, who was hiding on the side, knew that he couldn't hear anything anymore, and gently touched Chen Li, and the two slowly retreated back to find the hunting team waiting in place.
Li Nan said to everyone: "Let's quickly retreat and tell the city lord the news, these people are organized marauders, and it will be dangerous if they rush into the ancient city." ”
Nearly forty miles away, before Li Nan and the others arrived, the marauders' convoy had already arrived outside the south gate of the ancient city.
The sentry on the wall pointed his gun downwards and asked alarmedly, "Who are you?" ”
Mad Dog took down more than thirty beautiful women tied with ropes and gagged from the back of the military vehicle, and replied with a smile: "We are going around to trade caravans, specializing in the sale of female slaves, Brother Bing, see if there is a suitable one here." ”
Mad Dog lifted the chins of several women one by one, "This turned out to be a TV host, and he has a good mouth." This turned out to be a policeman, have you ever tasted the smell of police flowers? If you like whichever you like, just say it, and I'll give you a discount. ”
The sentry was indeed a little tempted to see these good-looking women, but he still remembered the order of Sun Xiuxiu, the commander of the city defense, "You and these women can come in, but these cars can't enter." ”
Mad Dog nodded and said, "Yes, I'll take these women in." ”