Chapter 13: The Last Light in the Wilderness
"Quick! Call Xu Ku to me. It really made him guess. ”
A note two fingers wide shook with the palm of his hand, and cold sweat trickled down his forehead.
"Forget it, I'll go find him myself."
Wiping a handful of sweat, Chai Bancheng got up violently. In a hurry, he flipped over the wooden bench behind him, and there was a sound in the tent.
Qin Huai, who was napping, was awakened, and only saw a back in a hazy way.
Why are you so anxious?
Propping up the stool, his gaze just fixed on the note.
Qin Huai was stunned and sighed for a long time.
"If the prime minister is here, he won't let the mountains come here."
In the col by Wanliutang, a simple water village has been erected, half by the mountain rock and half into the water.
The three-foot-wide log formed a plank road, and next to it were five fishing boats that had been repaired, and the rest were also neatly stacked on the shore, ready to work overnight.
More than a dozen pine oil torches shine brightly, and busy figures are interspersed with each other. The tent material painted with simple camouflage cloth was slowly dragged to the top of the village.
From dismantling to sewing, there are special people in charge.
It has been more than two hours since he came over from Wei Hongluan's tent, and no one has shouted tired.
This is the effect of dried corn rice and bijin soup.
Xu Ku commanded Hu Xiaodao and several private soldiers to smash the boulders that were dug up one by one, while calculating the progress in his mind.
At this time tomorrow, the displaced people should be able to move to the water village to hide.
"Brother Xu, Brother Xu." Chai Bancheng's voice came from the back mountain pass.
"Brothers, the crushed stone is sharper, pick it up separately and pile it up, I'll be of great use for a while. If you can, polish the bottom corners. ”
Dropping this sentence, Xu Ku greeted Chai Bancheng.
"Owner, if it goes well, we will be able to move tomorrow." Xu said bitterly.
"Moving...... I think my head is moving. The Wild Dog Cavalry has set up camp fifty miles away, and is about to attack Old Bear Ridge. ”
Chai Bancheng was frightened.
Xu Ku is also in his heart.
Good spirits do not work badly. The morning's speculation has now come true.
Compared with the two refugee camps that Su Mu said before, the meaning of this old bear ridge is different.
Lao Xiongling's power in this hundred miles is one of the best, and the number of displaced people gathered is more than ten times more than that of this Wanquan Mountain.
It is said that when he left the city, he carried a lot of baggage, and all of them became hard currency in the wilderness. Most of the corn in Chai Bancheng came from here.
"How does the proprietor know?" Xu asked hurriedly.
Being able to surround the old bear ridge shows that the barbarian cavalry has been gathered into a whole.
The offensive after that will only be faster.
"There was a literate man in the team sent to the south to collect grain, and he carried the letter with a pigeon. Fortunately, the cubs were clever, and the brute dog jumped into the mud pond on the side of the road when he was outdated, and then he picked up his life. He Yuchun answered.
"I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep tonight, and the owner will give me a full meal and call everyone to withdraw and move overnight." Xu said bitterly.
"If you cancel the account, you will cancel the account, how can you still add food? This time, there was no grain in the south, and the remaining bottom of the reservoir would last for another two days. Chai Bancheng frowned puzzled.
"I'm afraid I won't have the strength to train if I don't eat."
"It was supposed to be five days. Wild dogs are fast, we have to be faster. ”
"Training?"
……
"I really didn't expect the prime minister to be popular."
Xu Ku saw Wei Hongluan holding a thick needle, and quickly sewed the cut rags of fabric and thumb-thick hemp rope together, and exclaimed.
"In the past three years, I have often sewn and mended, and I am familiar with it, which is nothing. But you, really hope that this slingling will stop the brutes? ”
Wei Hongluan said with some concern.
"How dare a small one have that luxury. I am afraid that if we don't give some weapons to the homeless people, some people will flee as soon as they see it, and their morale will be broken. ”
"This piece of cloth can hold three cobblestones. If the wild dog comes, let the homeless people hide on the slope and throw it condescendingly, without special teaching. ”
"Serious guy, we'll have to wait until the knife is done." Xu said bitterly.
Shun Xu looked hard, and at the far end of the water village, Hu Xiaodao was holding his nose tightly.
On the pyre in front of him, a large cauldron was bubbling, and the breath of evil pigtails overflowed far away.
"Brother Ku, this is all burning eyebrows, you still have the heart to cook!" Hu Xiaodao muttered.
Xu Ku was a little embarrassed, he was really cooking.
A mixture of clay, turtle droppings, dead grass and cotton wool to be exact.
In the case of local materials, it was the best adhesive he could think of.
Qin Huai, who was helping to stir next to him, turned green. Compared with this, the stench of Chuzhou Prison is simply the fragrance of the field.
After a long time, he felt that the stirring was becoming more and more difficult, and Qin Huai's eyes lit up.
"It's sticky, it's sticky. The little proprietor really has a way. ”
"It's a fluke. Remove from the pot, take the stones and oars. Xu Ku commanded.
When several fishermen heard this, they put the thirty extra oars they had beaten before on the edge of the pot, and dug a groove two fingers wide on the edge of the oars as Xu Ku instructed.
Xu Ku personally inserted the sharp and hard stone chips into the grooves, scooped the slurry in the pot and glued them well, and dried them.
Not long after, a four-circle "paddle knife" filled with sharp stone chips was made.
The peculiar shape, at least at this time, is the first time I have seen it. Displaced people and private soldiers surrounded the clearing, and curiosity was aroused.
This looks like wood and stone, but can it be better than iron?
"Hetou, try your might."
He Yuchun raised the slurry knife and slashed at the wooden stake, and in the click, the wooden stake shattered. The crowd of onlookers exclaimed.
"God, little boss, what kind of blade is this? Okay, okay. ”
He Yuchun shouted excitedly.
Daluan has extremely strict control over gold and iron casting.
The iron swords and iron swords of the private soldiers against the swords of the regular army will curl the blade or even break if they are knocked out.
I didn't expect Xu Ku to be so whimsical, and he made such a guy from local materials, and the gap where he collided with the stake was very hideous.
"It's okay to call it a paddle knife, and you need to have the strength to swing the knife."
Su Mu also raised his eyebrows, the surprise Xu Ku gave today was really not small.
Camouflage, slings, this is again a paddle knife.
In fact, this paddle knife, whose real name is Macquait, is the saber of the most elite jaguar warrior in the Aztecs. Xu Ku has seen the introduction in detail in his previous life.
Shaped like a ship's oar, inlaid with obsidian, and glued with turtle dung. The lethality is huge in actual combat. The disadvantage is also obvious, that is, it is too heavy and consumes physical strength.
The texture of the stone of Wanquan Mountain is much worse than that of obsidian, but the oar handle after Xu Ku's improvement is more than half a person's height, and with the help of inertia when swinging, the momentum sinks vigorously, making up for the lack of arm strength alone.
Chai Bancheng took the opportunity to say loudly: "Everyone takes turns to test the knife, and those who can wield the oar knife will be incorporated into the Chai family's private soldiers." Two taels per month, three acres of fertile land, and the official is equipped with a soldier's mother-in-law. ”
"I'm coming!"
"I'll do it too!"
"Give it a try!"
The status of the Chai family's private soldiers is not low, and they have Yintian and official treatment, and those who try the knife are full of energy.
In the end, there were a total of twelve people who could wield oars and knives, and they were taken aside by He Yuchun to form alone. The rest of the people went to the side to practice throwing stones.
The shouts and crashes often pierced the sleepless night of the Ten Thousand Willow Pond.
But Xu Ku was idle here.
"Xu Ku, the homeless people look at you differently." Wei Hongluan said softly.
"Under the nest, just survive. If you don't fight hard, you die. The small one just gives a desperate chance. There were only two of them, and they didn't bother to pretend.
"Outside of Chuzhou, it is the limit to be able to pull such a team."
Wei Hongluan could see the situation clearly, and his tone was a little gloomy.
"If I am strong and strong......"
"The prime minister doesn't have to think so."
Xu Ku gave Wei Hongluan a coat given by Chai Bancheng.
"The little one once heard a custom to talk about it with the prime minister. The right to relieve boredom. ”
"Legend has it that when a southern woman chooses a husband, she will line up in a row and light a light in front of her."
"The men who are courting each other walk by the head of the line, and the woman keeps the lamp if she thinks she likes, and if she doesn't like it, she turns it out."
"When a man finishes walking, as long as there is a light that is not extinguished, he will stay with the woman for the rest of his life."
"Today, it is only a lamp left in the wilderness. Even if it's the last one. ”
Seeing Wei Hongluan raise her eyes, Xu Ku gently hugged her waist.
"In this vast world, one day it will be as the prime minister wishes."