Before leaving Zhang's Mansion, Ding Li asked the doctors who were guarding the shift about the situation, and after several doctors repeatedly assured Ding Li, Ding Li, who was relieved, said goodbye to a few people. Ding Li wanted to go to thank Old Man Zhang Kuang and Uncle Xiang again in person, but the people in the mansion told Ding Li that Zhang Kuang left late last night, and Uncle Xiang didn't return to the house at all.

In this way, Ding Li had no choice but to leave Zhang's Mansion to find Yang Hongwen, but the subordinates of Yang's Mansion also said that Yang Hongwen's father and son had not returned to the house for two days, but they knew that Yang Ru's news had been staying in Jiedu Mansion, and Yang Hongwen's specific whereabouts were unknown, after all, Yang Hongwen was responsible for more matters at the moment, and most of them were related to military affairs, so the subordinates in these mansions naturally had no way to know.

When no one could be found, Ding Li returned directly to Ding's mansion, Qin Mo and the others who were brought by Saidgad last night didn't dare to sleep much at all, and they also got up as soon as it was dawn and waited for Ding Li's order at any time.

instructed Saidgard to choose a time to take Liu Sheng back to the house according to the situation, and told Wang Die about it again, and then said goodbye to Saidigad, and left Dingfu in a hurry with Qin Mo and others, rushed out of Guangzhou City, and ran directly to Giethoorn Town.

Giethoorn Town, the Southern Navy barracks, after a period of time, the barracks of the Southern Navy have also undergone earth-shaking changes, the surrounding is no longer a wooden fence fence surrounded by wood, but a camp wall with rammed earth piled up more than a zhang, and under the leadership of Xu Hong, who is in charge of logistics, continue to thicken and heighten, just looking at the posture of building the camp wall, Xu Hong just wants to build the barracks of the Southern Navy into a small village and town, or even a small fortress.

The South China Navy has also undergone a qualitative change after a period of training, and perhaps the incident that occurred outside the south gate of Guangzhou last night has been used as a driving force, and the officers and men on duty and patrolling outside the camp gate today are not tired at all after staying up all night, but are in high spirits.

The construction of fortifications outside the camp wall had already begun, and when Ding Li arrived with Qin Mo and the others, the time of the Southern Navy had just passed. At present, there are only two gates in the barracks, east and west, while the east camp gate is the larger main gate, and the smaller west camp gate is directly opposite the town of Giethoorn.

A team of 50 people, four consecutive teams of the South China Navy lined up in a neat queue under the leadership of their respective teams and left the Dongying Gate, and then the four teams started the day's tasks with their respective subordinates in accordance with the tasks they had just received in the military tent.

The two squads are responsible for the heightening and thickening of the camp wall on the east side of the barracks, with the east camp gate as the boundary, and the two squads are each responsible for half of it. The other two squads continued to expand the fortifications on the outside of the camp wall, trapping the horse pit, and a deep pit needed outside the main camp wall, according to Xu Hong's explanation, perhaps the southern navy will develop and grow in the future, and maybe this military camp will develop into a fortress, so the deep pit outside the Dongying gate may also become a moat in the future.

Ding Li didn't worry too much about interfering in these military affairs, and even after seeing that everyone seemed to want to thicken and heighten the camp wall infinitely, Ding Li was indifferent, but Xu Hong had also mentioned this matter to Ding Li before, and he actually analyzed to Ding Li that the Southern Navy was currently in internal and external troubles, and everything must be looked at in the long run.

It is precisely because of this that everything that has appeared at present, the daily compulsory courses of all the officers and men of the Southern Navy, continue to build camp walls, build more fortifications, and build all the equipment that may be used in defensive warfare, including bows, rolling logs, fierce fire oil, horses, and even barrels of thistles.

With Xu Hong's order, four horse traps have been dug out of the Dongying Gate alone, and the fifth horse trap that is now underway is already a hundred meters away from the camp gate. Of course, some people also raised questions during the period, but since Xu Hong followed Ding Li into the Southern Navy, he was fully responsible for the logistics work, and no one dared Xu Hong to argue more about this kind of military affairs related to the whole army, not to mention that in fact, this compulsory course was much better than the boring training in the school field.

More importantly, Ding Li strongly supported Xu Hong's proposal, Ding Li remembered that a genius military strategist in history had proposed to build a high wall and accumulate grain, and at the same time, he suddenly began to deeply admire Xu Hong's vision.

If building a high wall is nothing to the Southern Navy, then it is even easier to accumulate grain, the Southern Navy not only has the Jiedu Mansion to allocate grain and grass, but also the huge backstage support of the Nanhai Gang and the Zhang Chamber of Commerce, the Southern Navy will transport a large amount of grain into the barracks every day for hoarding.

Including in terms of ordnance, Xu Hong, who has followed Ding Li for a long time, seems to have finally learned Ding Li's generosity, from the sloppy scholar who picked and searched and searched and finally turned into a wealthy 'local tyrant', under the temptation of Xu Hong's many inquiries and heavy money, he added a team to the logistics of the Southern Navy in a short period of time, and almost all the talented craftsmen within a radius of 100 miles were recruited by Xu Hong, and under the generous treatment, these people were also happy.

Of course, military equipment is naturally not capable of those ordinary craftsmen, and there are some Mr. Nan Guo who want to mix in it and fill up the numbers, but Xu Hong is not so easy to fool, don't look at his generosity when recruiting talents, but when testing and verifying the skills of craftsmen, there is no sand in the eyes, and it is an iron rooster that does not pull out a hair, and a pair of fiery eyes will show those Mr. Nan Guo in their original form, and they fled from the barracks with a disgraced face.

Bed crossbow, this kind of lethal but expensive and cumbersome weapon, obviously Jiedu Mansion will not be equipped with the Southern Navy, not to mention, the Southern Navy is now a foreign army, and the current Gao Zhucheng has caused rumors, if Jiedu Mansion transfers a batch of bed crossbows from the armory for the Southern Navy, plus the incident of just raising troops to Guangzhou Mansion, I am afraid that the next day there will be news of the Southern Navy's rebellion spread throughout the territory of Guangzhou Mansion.

However, if the Jiedu Mansion does not give, it does not mean that the Southern Navy cannot have it, and in this regard, Ding Li also raised his hands in favor, the Southern Navy does not steal or rob, it is always possible to build a bed crossbow by himself, even if someone makes a big fuss about this matter, it is very easy for the Jiedu Mansion to suppress it, after all, the strength of the Southern Navy is developed by itself.

Just after Ding Li passed through the traps outside the barracks and entered the Dongying Gate, he happened to bump into Xu Hong, who was full of excitement and turned back three times, but even so, Xu Hong didn't notice Ding Li, who had already entered the barracks, and still had a special smile on his face as if he had picked up a box of gold, and he kept shouting behind him step by step.

"Hurry up, hurry up! Hurry up and try it, this guy is not light, and I will be useful later! Xu Hong didn't ride a horse, and rushed to the camp gate step by step, until the figure of Ding Li on horseback darkened the light around Xu Hong, Xu Hong found that he was one step away from Ding Li.

"What is this for? Why are you going? Dig for gold? Ding Li looked puzzled, looking at the smile on Xu Hong's face, Ding Li was really wondering if the other party encountered a golden mountain when he brought the Southern Navy back last night.

"Brother Li, you're back!" Xu Hong nodded again and again, with an excited face, but then reacted to Ding Li's question, and hurriedly shook his head to explain: "No, it's not!" It's not digging for gold! But it's pretty much the same! It's so much better than digging for gold! ”

Looking at Ding Li and Qin Mo and the others behind him with blank faces, Xu Hong turned sideways and pointed to the bed crossbow that was pushed on the car behind him, and explained with a proud smile: "See? Bed crossbow! Bed crossbow!! Our own bed crossbow in the Southern Navy! ”

"Bed crossbow?!" The biggest reaction was not Ding Li, but Qin Mo behind Ding Li, who exclaimed in surprise with a surprised face, and jumped off the horse at the same time, perhaps because he was too excited in his heart, when he rushed to the bed crossbow behind Xu Hong, Qin Mo's steps were a little staggering, and it seemed that he would fall down at any time.

Ding Li, who reacted immediately, also hurriedly gave up his mount and jumped to the ground, and rushed over following Qin Mo's footsteps, while Xu Hong was proud, slowly pacing the official steps, and followed behind Ding Li.

Crossbows are particularly forbidden among the people, and bed crossbows, which are dozens of times more powerful, if they are searched for private ownership, the fate is basically needless to say. However, the bed crossbow is not affordable for ordinary people, the cost is extremely expensive, just the special crossbow arrows used in the bed crossbow, even if it is the lowest quality of pure wooden poles, one is worth a meal for ordinary people, if it is a high-quality fine iron casting, shoot out a crossbow arrow, enough for ordinary people for more than half a month of daily life expenses.

And the bed crossbow is too large and bulky, and the average person has no extra space to store it, plus the catastrophe that the bed crossbow may bring to themselves, there are almost few people who use the bed crossbow as a collection, after all, no one wants to joke with their own life or even the life of the whole family.

And Qin Mo, who was the most excited, was the only one present who had seen the power of the bed crossbow, and even Ding Li had only seen the collectibles quietly placed in the corner in the arsenal on Zhang Mingzhi's mansion.

The bed crossbow has a range of at least three hundred paces, and can reach up to nearly four hundred paces depending on how well the bed crossbow is made and the quality of the crossbow arrows used. In the era of pure cold weapon warfare, a bed crossbow with a range of more than a mile can definitely be called a mass killing weapon, and even in some cases, it can become the key to whether a war can be won.

Qin Mo once saw the bed crossbow of the Tang army on the battlefield, that was in a siege battle in Fujian, Qin Mo personally experienced it, the bed crossbow of the Tang army at the head of the city, at a distance of more than a mile, a fine iron crossbow arrow launched by the bed crossbow actually strung the three enemies together as easily as a sugar gourd, and even at the end, a cluster of arrows that plunged into the ground was several inches deep.

Ding Li has not experienced the power of the bed crossbow, but Ding Li can fully imagine it, and Ding Li still remembers that more than 100 years later, there was a great battle known as the Battle of Lanyuan, and the Central Plains army used the power of the bed crossbow to successfully resist and even defeat the invasion of foreign enemies.