Chapter 19 Preparation

Back in the fort, the morning exercise was almost over. The two trained with everyone, and when the training was over, Su Ren left the flag owner and all the small flags behind.

Hearing that Su Ren actually said that he wanted to kill the Japanese Invaders, everyone was very surprised, even if it was Jinshanwei Town, there were 5,000 elite soldiers in it, and they did not take the initiative to kill the Japanese Invaders.

"The people who landed this time are all small groups of Japanese pirates, they definitely don't dare to take the initiative to attack our Erwei Fort, we can only go to the village outside the fort to ambush them, or start to do it when they land." When Cao Chunrui heard that he was going to kill the Japanese Kou, he didn't have the slightest fear in his heart, only excitement.

And most of the small flags are like this when they hear it, they have a deep enmity with the Japanese pirates, and those who have not experienced the attacks of the Japanese pirates cannot understand it. Dare to attack that is an attitude, even if they lose a lot of money at that time, it is worth it to kill the Japanese Kou.

"I think we still started to do it on the seaside, if the Japanese invaders landed, they would all kill and plunder, burn down the houses, and all the villages outside the fort would have to be transferred to the fort, and our salt works would also be destroyed." Su Zhe said at this time.

The others nodded when they heard this.

"Eighth brother, what do you think?" Su Ren looked at Su Ming, he knew that this time he mainly had to rely on his younger brother to deal with the Japanese Invaders.

"I think we should evacuate the villages outside the fort to the fort as soon as possible.

Tell everyone that you don't need to bring anything else except necessary clothes, and if the house is damaged, we will compensate the villages.

When everyone leaves, big brother, you choose 20 people, mainly practice how to entangle the Japanese invaders, don't let them get close to the villages, give me a horse, and leave the rest to me. Su Ming said.

"You tell me what you think." When everyone heard Su Ming's unreliable arrangement, they thought that Su Ren would be very angry, but they didn't want Su Ren to continue to ask.

"The work of the salt works cannot be stopped, and after we retreated from the six villages outside the city, we arranged for personnel to patrol the shore day and night, and reported back as soon as we found that the Japanese invaders appeared.

Big brother, after you wait for the Japanese to come ashore, take someone to stop them and not let them enter the village, and I will go to the place where the Japanese stop the boat to see if there are any people left on the boat.

Kill those they left behind, and I will come back to your aid, and kill all those they have come ashore. Su Ming said what he thought.

The eyes of the others widened when they heard this, and Su Ming said that the Wako was as simple as a child, as if he could easily deal with the Wako as long as he arrived.

"Let the thirteenth brother follow you! Today, I will let the six villages in the fort begin to withdraw to the fort. We'll send some clever people to the salt factory later, and make sure we'll know about it as soon as the pirates land. Su Ren said.

Although everyone didn't understand why Su Ren and Su Ming brothers had such confidence, everyone still followed Su Ren's instructions and began to notify the six villages outside the fort and arrange tasks for the families in the fort, and the breath of a big battle began to flutter in the sky above Erwei Castle.

The actual battle plan began to be carried out under the auspices of Su Ming, and the total operation was divided into three parts.

The first is the reconnaissance part, in which the three small flags of the Weizhuang Institute take turns to wait on the east coast for 12 o'clock a day, and report to the salt factory in time when they discover the enemy's traces.

The second part is the salt field, which is in charge of Su Qingping, who told Su Ming after knowing the location of the Japanese invaders, and then he stopped everyone in the salt field from retreating, and at the same time led several soldiers to monitor the movements of the Japanese invaders on horseback, and passed the news to Erweibao.

The third part is that the two Weibao dispatched elites, mainly relying on shields and bows and arrows, not to let the Japanese invaders destroy the villages outside the fort, if the number of enemies exceeds ten, then the battle plan is canceled, everyone goes back to the second Weibao to defend, waiting for the support of Jinshanwei.

Su Ming felt that the ten would-be robbers were too conservative, but they couldn't be tough on the eldest brother, and he was afraid that the eldest brother would directly cancel the battle plan, so he didn't say anything.

After the mission is issued, Su Ming and Su Zhe will go to the salt field from today onwards, and they will not be able to come back until the combat mission is canceled. Only two of the nine war horses of Erweibao were left to carry the message, and the rest were all placed in the salt works.

Everyone's tasks were arranged, and the fort was also preparing for the Japanese to attack the fort, Su Ren arranged for people to make arrows, carry stones to defend Erwei Fort, and he took the 23 most elite personnel selected to start practicing the battle formation seriously.

The five pairs of cloth armor that are rarely taken out are worn on the five people with the strongest force, and the others mainly practice the coordination of shields and arrows, and the sound of shouting and killing in the training ground behind the fort began to spread throughout Erwei Castle, and the people from the six villages outside the second fort also entered the fort one after another, and all the young men practiced Dengbao defense.

Su Ming and Su Ren rode out of Erwei Castle, and they saw that the earthen furnace outside the fort for burning cement still did not stop. When they came to the salt field, the fifth brother had already prepared a room for them, and except for the two teams of Xiaoqi who were resting, the rest of the manor was no different from usual.

People are optimistic about the horses, Su Ming came to the two salt pans that had been made yesterday, and saw someone pouring water on the cement that had dried, this salt pan will take at least two days to use, and the effect of the new salt pan can basically be seen this month.

Su Ming was bored in the salt pan, watching everyone busy, and he thought in his mind how to design the second salt pan to work best.

In the southern part of the new salt pans there is a salt pan area, which is his main salt producing area, the largest of the four salt pans is 12 acres, and the smallest is 5 acres. Su Ming planned to level all the wasteland in the west of the four salt pans, and then build a salt pan with an area of more than 50 acres, and bring the salt water from the four salt pans over.

The amount of work is a bit large, and the amount of cement consumed is also a lot, but after this large salt field is set in these four salt fields, there will be no need for any transformation of this salt field in the future, and the salt output of their salt field will be significantly improved.

After a busy afternoon, the location of the second newly renovated salt pan has been determined, and Su Qingping has assigned the task of leveling this area to a small banner, who will lead more than 30 workers to complete the work within half a month, so that the cement they make can almost keep up.

Sleep in a small house in the courtyard of the Yanchang Farm at night, this house is already the best in the courtyard, the dilapidated stone and soil walls are a little leaky, originally this house had to live several workers, but now the two brothers Su Ming and Su Zhe live.

Su Ming saw that the thirteenth brother had been a little absent-minded today, and he knew that the other party was very worried about his plan, but the battle had not yet been fought, and no one dared to say anything discouraged.

Su Ming didn't want to explain, he lay on the bed and thought about the possible battles in the next few days, he only had a pistol, and the Japanese had bows and arrows, and the effective range might be closer than his pistol, and it was still dangerous for him to rely on a pistol alone.

However, Su Ming knew that as long as the enemy did not kill him with one blow, relying on the resilience of the sculpture in the sea of consciousness, he would always be able to recover, so the steel helmet and body armor on the sculpture were his best choice.

Last time, he left 15 taels of silver and didn't use it, but this time the eldest brother gave 10 taels of silver Su Ming didn't have flowers and kept it on his body, he heard the snoring of the thirteenth brother next to him, and he entered the 34411 coast guard ship in the Sea of Consciousness.

Back in Erweibao, Su Ming rarely paid attention to the coast guard ship in the sea of consciousness, he saw that the pistol bullet on his sculpture waist was about to be full, took out five and put them back in reality, took out the ten taels of silver that he had been carrying on his body and absorbed them, and saw that the top of the coast guard ship showed that his silver was 24 taels, indicating that the purity of this silver was about ninety percent, which was good.

The steel helmet and body armor are both 20 taels of silver, considering that the steel helmet cannot be replaced at this time, and the protective effect of the body armor and the armor is almost the same, and the probability of the enemy's arrow hitting his body is smaller than that of hitting the head, Su Ming finally chose to activate the steel helmet.

Nothing happened after the night, and in the middle of the night, Su Ming heard them report to the fifth brother, but everyone got up the next morning and continued to work.

After waiting in the salt field for two days, in the morning, another group of displaced people came from the north, there were about ten people, including women and children, Su Ming and Su Qingping stepped forward to ask for news.

"Master Jun, we belong to Zhu Jingwei Yao's family, we have been attacked by the Japanese Invaders, and several villages have been broken by the Wolves, thanks to our fast running, otherwise we will die under the Japanese Invaders' swords.

Have mercy on us, we can work, just give us a bite to eat, and when the widows are gone, we will leave. "The leader is a middle-aged man over 30 years old, it seems that he has also practiced martial arts, their village has been breached, and they fled here instead of going to the guardhouse, and they must have been cut off their household registration when they went back, and it is not easy to restore their identity in the future.

"Are you sure the other party is a wolf? Two are not ordinary pirates? Su Qingping asked, there is a big difference.

It is likely that pirates are traders who trade along the coast, and generally only steal things and leave. However, the Japanese are pirates from the Japanese country, they do all kinds of evil, they are dedicated to killing people for pleasure, and their combat effectiveness is also the strongest.

"Keep your head down, looped legs! There is absolutely no mistake, they will kill people when they enter the village, even children. Alright, we managed to escape here. A woman in her twenties held her child and said to Su Qingping.

Su Qingping looked up at Su Ming, there was only so much that the other party could know, and just as he was about to drive these people away, Su Ren spoke.

"Zhu Jingwei is hundreds of miles away from us, and at least sixty miles away from the seaside, when was your village attacked by the Japanese invaders?" Su Ming looked at the man in the lead and asked.

"April 2nd, noon the day before yesterday." The man returned.

"How many are the Wokos?" Su Ming continued to ask.

"I don't know, we ran out when we heard someone shouting in the village, we originally wanted to go to our Yaojiabao, but we met Japanese robbers on the way, so we had to flee south!" The man replied.

"Jinshanwei Town said that there are hundreds of Japanese robbers this time, and it will definitely not be too many. It is already very good that they can kill Zhu Jingwei, and it is unlikely that they will break through the guard, and the Japanese are also afraid of the elite of Jinshanwei Town, or the elite of Jinshanwei has already been dispatched.

The Japanese have now begun to retreat, and their main force should not dare to come to our Jinshanwei again, and if they come, it will only be a small unit, and the time should be today or tomorrow. Su Ming analyzed.

"I asked people to increase patrols, and all three small flags were sent out... Let's go! It's like you've never been to us. Su Qingping began to drive away the displaced people.

However, the displaced people seemed to have been broken by the Japanese invaders, they knelt on the ground and begged bitterly, and some salt workers were about to come forward and beat them, but Su Ming stopped them when he saw this.

"Since they don't want to leave, let's stay and dig the salt pans! It just so happens that we have been short of workers lately. Su Ming saw that among the 12 people in this group, there were 5 young and strong, and he thought that Erweibao had not been short of food recently, and the sooner the Yantian was transformed, the better it would be for him, so he said.

"Thank you! Thank you! Let's kowtow to you! The leader saw Su Ming talking, and the people kept kowtowing to Su Ming, and Su Qingping could only let people take them to the village courtyard first.