When Wang Yong and the others returned to the cottage from Long Island, they saw Cao Blacksmith standing on a rice mill in the open space of the cottage, pointing and spitting everywhere.

There were hundreds of people in a large circle outside, all of whom were old and weak 'women' and children of the cottage, who would be listening to Blacksmith Cao with relish.

"At that time, I saw that the Haikou was attacking the village in a hurry, and hurriedly led the brothers of the ironworks to help. It would be an old danger, and a crossbow arrow almost 'shot' my old Cao. ”

As soon as he said this, someone next to him exposed him, "Uncle Cao, Haikou doesn't have any bows and crossbows, is it good!" ”

Blacksmith Cao's old face flushed: "I'm just exaggerating, okay, old man, I'm not afraid of danger." Saying that, Blacksmith Cao continued to talk about how wise he was, and immediately recognized the sea dog who was the second leader of Haikou.

Then he thought that the carpenter's 'bed' crossbow was rough, and he didn't shoot far, so he added a cow tendon, and after aiming at the thief's head, he immediately made a decision, and just 'shot' the thief's head with one arrow!

At this time, someone came to expose the old man: "Uncle Cao, you are a blind cat who ran into a dead mouse and took shit luck!" The crowd laughed.

Lao Cao was exposed by others in a row, and suddenly his face couldn't hold back, "Go and go, I don't want to listen to it, I don't want to tell you about it, if there is no soft steel made by my Lao Cao, this 'bed' crossbow is not so powerful!" ”

At this time, Wang Yong stepped forward and said to Cao Blacksmith with a smile: "This time, Mr. Cao is not afraid of swords, and personally goes into battle to kill thieves, so that the cottage is safe, Wang Yong has to thank Mr. ”

"Lao Cao, good job! In the past, we thought you would strike iron, but I didn't expect you to be a hero! Cheng Chong next to him also opened his mouth to praise.

As soon as Blacksmith Cao saw Wang Yong and the others just now, he knew that they must have seen the performance they were boasting about just now, and their faces were a little embarrassed.

However, when he heard the praise of Wang Yong and Cheng Chong, he suddenly got up again and looked at the crowd with his eyes. That means that blind people can see it, and see that Lao Cao is a capable person without us!

Although the battle has been completed, there are still a lot of things to deal with in the follow-up, Wang Yong first came to the medical school in the cottage, where a large number of wounded have been dealt with, and several seriously injured people are under the care of some Taoist children.

The main reason for this cottage is that there were a number of dead and injured when the Haikou attacked the village at the beginning, and at that time, several apprentices of Liu Qing and Chen Fuzi and other major doctors all went to Muping with Wang Yong to prepare for the war, and the wounded made people panic for a while.

Fortunately, because of his advanced age, Liu Qing was still left behind by Wang Yong, although he asked for his life to go to Muping.

At that time, the first batch of injured people were sent here, and the medical students who stayed behind were suddenly distracted, relying on Liu Qing to treat the seriously injured while instructing more than a dozen apprentices to bandage the other wounded.

However, there are still not enough nursing staff, but fortunately, several 'female' teachers from the 'women' hall are more calm and lead a group of 'female' students to help here.

Although these 'female' students began to be in a hurry, after all, the young people quickly adapted to the atmosphere and quickly joined the ranks of saving lives and helping the wounded.

Wang Yong and the others entered the courtyard as they spoke, and at this time most of the injured had been sent to various houses to recuperate, and only a very small number of seriously injured people were inconvenient to move, so they directly set up a few tents for them in the courtyard.

In the largest room, more than 20 wounded people with milder wounds had basically recovered and were joking with each other, and seemed to be in a relatively stable mood.

Several young 'women' were examining their wounds one by one, but Wang Yong found that one of them was very familiar: "Xue Ying? Why are you here?"

It turned out that Cheng Xueying also came to help with everyone that day, although she was very afraid of the wounds on the wounded at first; But seeing their painful appearance, they quickly calmed down and helped with bandaging.

More than a dozen seriously injured people finally died, and I was very sad in my heart, and began to regret that I had pestered Wang Ze before, and insisted on squeezing into the School of Science instead of entering the medical school.

If I had studied medicine at the time, I would have been able to help treat these uncles and brothers who were injured defending the cottage!

When Cheng Chong heard that the 'girl' was no longer studying with Wang Ze, he was so anxious that he was about to reprimand him with a glare, but he was stopped by Wang Yong, "Second brother, don't worry, and listen to what Ying'er says!" ”

Cheng Xueying told what she thought in her heart, Wang Yong stared at her and asked, "Ying'er, have you already made up your mind?" If you have made up your mind, I will go to Daochang Liu and personally beg him to take you as an apprentice. ”

Cheng Xueying bit her lips and said, "Father, Daoist Liu is old after all, Ying'er begs that one of the Daoists can take Ying'er as an apprentice." ”

Wang Yong thought about it, and it was indeed the case, so he said: "In this case, after I have asked Chen Daochang and others, I will talk back to you!" ”

Then Wang Yong and others visited all the wounded one by one, and then went to visit Liu Qing.

This time, Old Daoist Liu was tired, after all, he was an old man in his nineties, although he looked very healthy, he was only seventy years old. But this time, Chen Duan and several other apprentices were not there, and the apprentices who stayed in the cottage were too young to be of much use, so they could only deal with some minor injuries.

The more than 60 seriously injured were all managed by the old Taoist elder himself, and most of them relied on the old Taoist chief to survive. Wang Yong, Cheng Chong and others were very 'excited' about this, because the hundreds of people left behind in the cottage were all Wang Yong's father's old department, and they were already relatives who had accumulated feelings from generation to generation.

As soon as I entered Liu Qing's small courtyard, the courtyard was quiet, and there were two eleven or twelve-year-old 'female' Taoist children cooking porridge in the stove room, but it was Liu Qing's apprentice who was cooking for the old man.

The elderly now do not eat meat every day, and their staple food is porridge.

Seeing Wang Yong and the others enter the courtyard lightly, the two 'female' boys came out to salute everyone. Wang Yong and the others hurriedly returned the salute, and Wang Yong asked, "How is the old immortal now?" ”

The two 'girl' children said softly: "The patriarch has been asleep for three hours, and the two of us are preparing his favorite red date and mixed bean porridge for the patriarch, do you want the two of us to call the patriarch up?" ”

Wang Yong hurriedly waved his hand to stop the two and said, "Don't alarm the old man, let him continue to rest!" ”

Just as he was about to go out of the 'door', the big 'door' of the main hall opened, "Since Ziying and Zixia are here, why don't you wake me up?" "It turned out that Liu Qingqing came.

"Dao Chief, don't blame, I'm afraid that Dao Chang has saved a lot of 'sex' lives, injured 'spirits' and tired minds, and needs a lot of rest!" Wang Yong and the others hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"Alas~~~~, this time is also a catastrophe in the cottage, as a subordinate of Lang Jun, how can he watch from the sidelines!" Liu Qing also sighed.

The loss of the cottage this time is indeed not small, more than 40 people died in the cottage alone, and then more than 10 people were seriously injured and died, which is the loss of more than 60 people. In addition, more than 50 people have been seriously injured, although they have been cured, but they are afraid that they will not be able to do heavy work in the future.

The losses on Mu Ping's side were even heavier, with more than 300 young people killed in the battle alone, and more than 400 people were lost in total due to the death of their wounds one after another.

That night, Wang Yong, Cheng Chong, Zhu Rui, Lu Wen, Zheng Kui and Wang Ze also attended the aftermath meeting.

"Great Commander, this time it is just the brothers and families who died in the war, the pension is thicker, one pound of gold per family, plus the money and food given every year for the next twenty years, it is also a large amount!" Lu Wen was the first to speak.

"The gold must be guaranteed to be distributed to every brother's house, and they will fight to the death for us, and we cannot be sorry for them!" Cheng Chong said in a rough voice.

Lu Wen has always been very helpless about this rough man, "Second Commander, I didn't say that I didn't follow the law, but we don't have so much money and food at the moment, you can't just give one part of it, and the other part is waiting for nothing, right?" ”

Then he said to Wang Yong: "At present, it is best for us to distribute these gold on a monthly or quarterly basis." Although the gold production in Houshan is not much, it has an output of dozens of taels every month. Moreover, Qu Liulang found a big mine at the junction of Changguang and Donglai in the past, but because it was too far away from us, it was not mined for safety reasons! ”

At this time, Wang Ze also vaguely remembered that there was a gold mine in Yantai, Shandong in later generations, which could be called a big gold mine in China anyway, but I don't remember the name, but this shows that there must be a lot of gold mines nearby.

"Father, the child has something to say!" So Wang Ze spoke, "No matter how much gold there is, there is not enough force, just like a child holding gold in the city." Although we have suffered a lot of losses this time, we have lost many uncles and brothers, but we have also gained thousands of young men who have experienced the battle. ”

Wang Ze ignored Zheng Kui's curious gaze next to him and continued: "These people have fought with us, and they can easily be absorbed into our team. In this way, at least 2,000 people were formed first, and with the original escort of the cottage, there were 3,000 people. If there is such a group of people, who would dare to provoke us except the officials and soldiers? At that point, it's safe for us to mine those gold mines. ”

In the end, Wang Yong decided to reorganize the armed forces of the cottage first, with a total of more than 800 people, all of whom were equipped with 'fine' knives made by the workshop.

The 300 cavalry led by Cheng Chong will not increase the number of men for the time being, but everyone should be encouraged to practice riding at ordinary times, so that as long as there are horses, a cavalry battalion can be pulled.

The ironclad army led by Zhou Tong during the war was officially established, and after the replenishment, there were a total of one hundred and twenty people, in addition to the iron armor on the body, they were also ready to replace the knife in their hands with a one-zhang long horse sword, but now Cao Blacksmith only made a sample, and the others will take some time.

At the same time, the distribution of pensions for the families of the martyrs is also being carried out, and according to the wishes of each person, it is not ambiguous if they have to receive all the pensions now, and the gold is not enough to compensate for the use of cloth, money, grain, and even cattle and sheep.

If it is received on a quarterly basis, it will be given according to the original amount of overflow, and there will be 20 acres of land to distribute in the future.

Over the past few days, except for less than 20 percent of the martyrs' families, who have requested that they receive all pensions now, most of the others will receive them on a quarterly basis.

Although a lot of money and food were paid at once, the money and food of the cottage began to be urgent again, but with the complete destruction of the Long Island Haikou Bandits, the trade route to Liaodong was truly opened.

The occupation of the Long Island Islands, coupled with a series of islands in the Wuhu Sea in the north, formed a line of strongholds on the sea, which was enough for the cottages to monopolize the maritime trade between the Bohai Sea region of Northern Qi and the Liaodong region.

Moreover, some of these islands have flat ground, which can be reclaimed for some arable land to grow food, and some are convenient for grazing.

The most wonderful thing is that He Liang sold the scorpion on Daqin Island to the Southern Dynasty, and I heard that it was rumored in the Southern Dynasty that this scorpion was a big 'medicine' with a good effect, so it was very popular.

Long Island and all the islands in the north combined, enough to settle twenty or thirty thousand people, and the island does not have to worry about the siege of the official army, so it can be regarded as one more way to advance and retreat.