Danyang, here is Qu Xie's fiefdom.

At this time, the matter of Qu Xie being cut off to only one head has not yet been transmitted, and the entire Danyang can be said to be up and down, jubilant.

Because in less than a month, Qu Yanji will give birth, which means that the Qu family is about to reach the peak of power, and even under the operation of two or three generations, it is possible to replace the Xiong family as the royal family!

"Has there been any news from Yingdu recently?"

"Not yet, why are you in a hurry, hasn't it only been three or four days since the last messenger came? ”

"Am I excited? ”

"What's the noise outside, so noisy?"

"It seems to say that there is a plague that has appeared recently, which can turn normal people into living corpses, and those living corpses are good at eating human flesh and blood, and then ...... Then ......"

"It's good to eat people's flesh, and then you can't kill it?"

"yes, how do you know?"

"I've heard about it in my family before, but I haven't been able to contag ......it at that time."

"It's not good news this time. A third person walked over and joined the two men in the discussion.

"Why isn't that good news?" the two asked in unison.

The third person explained: "Because of the presence of living corpses, the chief of the castle guard of each city has the absolute power to order the nobles in the city to repair the fortifications. If it wasn't for something wrong with Qu Yanji's belly, then something happened to the King of Chu. ”

"That's right...... This order looks like it is preparing a way back for himself, so that the entire Chu State will be divided, even if the throne is not in the Qu clan and the others are there, the Qu clan will have the strength to compete. ”

The third person continued: "In fact, it is very likely that the cooperative Xiong Sheng will go back on his word, after all, even if the King of Chu has an accident, he will kill him directly." But Xiong Sheng is not an easy commodity to deal with. ”

"With so much to offer, this is a good opportunity anyway. Then Yingdu's order, we will build it, and when the time comes, it doesn't matter whether it attacks the living corpse or Xiong Shengchu King's army, just block it together. ”

"That's right, it's just to build, not only to build, but also to fence off the farmland and be ready to fight a protracted war!"

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Ye Di, which is not far from Danyang, Ye Gong Shen Zhuliang also received the same news.

But Ye Gong could see at a glance that this absurd edict, which seemed to be issued by Xiong Sheng and Qu Xie, was actually full of the shadow of Xiong Zhang, the king of Chu.

"Only he would do such a crazy, desperate, yet confident thing......"

Ye Gongchang sighed, feeling that the edict in his hand was not written on it as "violators take their homes as slaves", but all of them were the word "domineering".

"As long as you can survive the disaster of living corpses in three months, even if you stand on your own, I will definitely beat you all in the end anyway. ”

If the King of Chu was here, he would definitely wave the fist in his hand and say something similar.

Thinking of this, Ye Gong stroked his beard and couldn't help laughing, but after laughing for a while, he couldn't laugh anymore.

"Plague of the living corpses...... It looks like it's really tricky. ”

Ye Gong sat up straight, called the scholar, and began to prepare for the defense of Ye Di and Cai Di.

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"To let us nobles do such a thing?"

"Is there any mistake, is Yizhi-sama confused?"

"How can we scholars pick up such rough farm tools with their hands?"

"No, I can't accept that we're doing something shitty. ”

"The servants and guards in our family have already been handed over to Lord Yizhi, why do we have to do it ourselves?!"

Several richly dressed middle-aged men kept protesting against a soldier in fine armor.

"Violators, take your home and become a slave!" the soldier took out the silk edict in his hand and said, "This is an order from the direction of Yingdu." After being demoted to a slave, this kind of thing is also done, and it has to be done horizontally and vertically anyway, but one will be raided, and the other will not be raided. Several nobles, this kind of thing should be able to weigh up. ”

Several nobles were stunned, let out a long sigh, and picked up the farm tools beside the soldiers as if they were resigned to their fate.

The moment the public loser class and Kumanaka entered Jumu-eup, Jumu's original peaceful life was shattered.

All the people in the whole Jumuyi were mobilized, whether they were commoners who farmed the land or nobles who pretended to be nobles, everyone was willingly or unwillingly pulled to the edge of Jumuyi, and cut down the circle of forest around the farmland.

As for the destruction of the environment or something, let's talk about this problem when humans can survive the zombie plague.

It is worth mentioning that, perhaps because they had foreseen the approaching danger, the animals in the forest had already fled this land of right and wrong.

In fact, this is a good thing, at least it can save a group of manpower who specialize in guarding against wild beasts.

Naturally, the trees that were cut down would not be wasted by burning wood directly, but would have become tall wooden walls that stood in front of the fields.

The wooden wall is three meters high, divided into two layers, the front and back, with about half a meter in between, filled with a large amount of earth and some rubble from the river.

On the inside, there are also some pieces of wood that are supported diagonally, forming a triangular structure, which is unusually strong, except for the twelve people who pass through, and the wooden wall encloses all the farmland around Jumuyi.

In addition to the wooden wall, there are three layers of trenches three meters deep and two meters wide, forming the first line of defense in front of the wooden wall. The excavated soil was directly filled into the middle of the wooden wall, reinforcing the wooden wall.

Although this seems to be a huge amount of work, it actually took only five days to complete.

In the entire Jumuyi, counting the displaced people who were admitted in, there were a total of 20,000 civilians.

There was at least one young man in every household, and there were already 20,000 young men, and in addition to the 2,000 who became soldiers and the 1,000 disciples of the public losers, there were also more than 17,000 young men.

This is just the number of commoners, plus the seven or eight nobles who originally lived in Jumuyi, the total of zero and zero is definitely more than enough for 20,000 young people.

In addition, there were many quite strong women who helped carry the earth, about 5,000 people.

At least 25,000 men were involved in the construction of a defensive line that surrounded the fertile fields in and around it.

This level of infrastructure is really too small for the industrious ancient Chinese.

After all, the Great Wall was not built on top of the mountains one after another, and there was no need to carry any large rocks, but wood and soil made of local materials.

"What exactly do Qu Xie and Xiong Sheng want to do?"

On the wooden wall, Xiong Gongzhong and his teacher, Gong Chuan class, were inspecting the defense line and talking.

It was from the palace of the king of Chu that they issued an order in their hands, and this order was passed on by the knights to the various cities of the Chu state.

At this time, they didn't know that this order was actually not issued by Qu Xie and Xiong Sheng, but the King of Chu in their hearts.

The wooden wall was not spacious, but it was very strong, and in the mud, some lime water was mixed in, and a section of wooden wall more than half a meter wide and ten meters long was more than enough to withstand three groups of soldiers.

Every other section of the wooden wall, there is a bucket of fire oil and a bundle of firewood, which is the most direct and effective way to deal with zombies known at present.

As for the salt water that Ouyang said, after a few encounters, it was naturally put aside.

Salt water does slow down the loss of action, but it is not very effective in actual combat, and is more suitable for skirmishes and street fights than defensive battles.

"I don't know, they often give strange orders. For example, in the first two months, the order to kill the firstborn livestock in the family, and the purchase of a large amount of charcoal, which made the price of charcoal rise. Although this time it is not in accordance with the rules, and it is still a policy to disrupt the country, but ......"

The public squad looked at the layers of trenches, and said, "But this order can indeed effectively allow each city to organize a defense project against the corpse tide. ”

This is a truth, those cities closest to them have seen many nobles and their men digging deep moats and building high walls.

"Heh, for these three months, they will definitely do their best to run their city like an iron bucket. But the purpose of their fortification of the city wall is mostly to fight against the army of the royal capital, right?" Xiong Zhong said, his tone full of mockery.

In fact, everyone understands that these cities are more or less self-reliant.

Cities that do not intend to stand on their own are most likely already prepared for which great nobles they will be loyal to next.

He thought of the messenger who had just returned, missing an ear, and a nameless anger burned in his heart.

Pengcheng City Guard, damn the thief! His right hand clenched unconsciously, and he hammered the wooden wall hard.

Pengcheng City Shou, Jingyang, the patriarch of the Jing clan, came to Jumu two days ago, and planned to openly support Xiongzhong.

As a result, after receiving the order, he immediately changed his face, and after running back to Pengcheng in a hurry, he directly stated that he only accepted orders from Yingdu.

As for "allied" and "supported" with Xiongzhong, it means that there is no such thing at all.

Seeing that he had the opportunity to compete for the entire Chu State, he immediately changed his face, which was really disgusting!

"We don't really have time to take care of more cities now, and we're exhausted by just one square wooden town. The public loser class comforted,

"We simply don't have the energy and manpower to take over another city, and we can't mobilize the commoners and nobles inside to build such a magnificent defense.

When they are separated from each other, the burden of defending the city is much less. Presumably, the issuance of such an edict by Yingdu must also have such considerations. ”

"Forget it, leave them alone for now. Xiong Zhong took a long breath of relief from the stuffiness in his chest and asked, "Teacher, has there been any news of those monsters lately?"