Xu Wufu listened to Xu Wuqi's suggestion that preparations should be made now to reinforce the Huaiyuan military camp. He pondered for a long time and still hesitated.
He looked up at Xu Bosong and Xu Zhongyu and asked them what they thought:
"Third uncle, fifth uncle, what do you think?"
"If we reinforce the Huaiyuan military camp, we have to fight the rebels in the field. How can this be done? Furthermore, the military camp has so few manpower, how can we hold it? I heard that every family has withdrawn their manpower from Huaiyuan!
"Xu Zhongyu asked worriedly, "We know that the military stronghold cannot be defended, but we can't really provoke those strong thieves!"
Xu Bosong also shook his head, feeling that he should not provoke the strong thieves.
"If we can't get that idiot Xu Huai back, the Xu family will be inseparable. We can't deal with it actively. It's no longer something we can't mess with! And Pan Chenghu has surrendered to Hutou Village, and he will not forget Xiema Mountain
The hatred of being taken away,"
Su Laochang did not think that he was a foreigner at this time and said,
"As for the military stronghold, it may not be impossible to defend it. You may think that Deng Gui was born in the military, and his courage and insight were extraordinary. He defeated Pan Chenghu's thieves like cutting melons and vegetables. The more important point is that we must not forget that there are still people in the military stronghold.
There is a man like Wang Zhen who is good at both military and political affairs. As long as Deng Gui is smart enough, he cannot contact the prefectures and counties at this time. It is only in line with the rules to ask Wang Zhen to come forward to take charge of the defense, and the rebel army may not be able to fight in Huaiyuan.
good."
Liu Qiong'er's beautiful eyes were slightly narrowed. Xu Wuqi was born in the military and has a strong personality. It is normal to weigh the pros and cons and advocate a proactive response. Why is Su Laochang not conservative now?
But no matter what, their positions are consistent on this point.
When Xu Wujiang saw that his father-in-law and Xu Wuqi both supported the active response, the pressure on his shoulders was much less, and he said in a deep voice:
"If the military stronghold is not defended, the rebel army will be in great difficulty. Even if Yuhuangling can be defended by then, one or two thousand people will be injured and killed, and the vitality will be severely damaged. If you dare not provoke the strong thieves and disturb the enemy's rear,
Xiema Mountain can take on the task alone, but Dazhai needs to allocate us enough good horses and soldiers!"
"You have a beautiful idea. There is no shortage of good horses and soldiers. How can you give them all to Xiemashan? When the time comes, if you are allowed to do whatever you want, no one can restrain you?" Xu Wuqi didn't give Xu Wujiang a good look.
Wu Fu suggested, "You can form a horse infantry force of about 60 people at Xiema Mountain, but within this number, you cannot give more good horses or armor; Dazhai also needs to form a horse infantry force.
Limited to one hundred and twenty people..."
Xu Wujiang did not compete with Xu Wuqi. Xiema Mountain was added to Jinshagou Village. Now, no matter how many more sixty-man mobile troops can be formed, the village still needs to be guarded.
However, Xu Wufu also felt that what Xu Wuqi said was reasonable. If the limited resources of soldiers and horses were used to support Xu Wujiang in setting up mobile troops and horses in Xiema Mountain, and allowed him to gallop in Tongbai Mountain and call the wind and rain, what would happen in the future?
It's really hard to control him.
Even in the construction of mobile troops and horses, Dazhai must maintain its absolute advantage.
"I think we will do what Lao Wu said first. A total of three teams of 60 horse infantry teams will be formed on both sides. Xiemashan 1st, Dazhai 2nd, good horses, livestock and horses will be divided in half. Now Dazhai can also
We can gather a hundred good horses, but we can match them with leather and armor as much as possible..." Xu Wufu was the person who spoke to the Xu family after all, and it was ultimately up to him to weigh the pros and cons and end this heated debate with the final word.
The Laoyatan thieves broke into the market in the afternoon, which prompted Zhou Jianxiong and others' stubborn family members to finally agree to evacuate Huaiyuan together. Xu Wuliang, Xu Wukun and Liu Qiong'er moved Zhou Jianxiong, Wu Liangsheng and their families overnight
Go to Jinshagou Village.
As a result, the number of adults, women and children in Jinshagou Village exceeds a hundred.
There are many steep slopes and ravines near Jinsha Gouzhai, and the slope land that can be cultivated is extremely limited. However, there are many wild tung trees in the mountains, where tung oil seeds, wild tea and herbal medicines can be collected.
There is no need to think about prey. A mountain range stretching for five to six miles can only support wolves, deer, roe deer and other prey. Xu Wukun and Xu Wuliang can hunt them all in three to five days.
In addition to the forest resources in the mountains that can be mined, the most important thing currently is the gold sand that can be mined in the streams.
If you really want to do something, money and food will be wasted like water.
After the raid on Xiema Mountain, Jinshagouzhai received two thousand guan of money, but it was all squandered in ten days. A trail for mules and horses was built in Jinshagouzhai and Shituoling Xinzhai, and the village was reinforced.
We built 30 to 40 new row houses, reclaimed 30 to 40 acres of vegetable land, built a blacksmith house, wooden cellar, and brick cellar.
Considering that the storm is about to break out and the bandits are rampant, the people who originally settled in the low hilly areas on both sides of the Huai River will go to the mountains with more dangerous terrain to escape the bandits. There will not be a shortage of manpower by then, so the most important work in the early stage is
Or hoarding food and other supplies.
Dazhai was hoarding grain like crazy, and Jinshagou Village was carrying thousands of bags of grain regardless of the cost. This is the basis for whether Jinshagou Village can grow rapidly in the coming banditry.
Zhou Jianxiong, Wu Liangsheng, and Yin Peng took their families into Jinshagou Village. Although the place was still simple, they were all very happy when they heard that when they settled here, each family would be given two or three bags of grain at Dingkou.
In terms of manpower arrangements, thirty young and middle-aged students were also drawn out.
Yin Peng followed Xu Huailiu in the military camp. Twenty people, led by Zhou Jianxiong and Han Qi, followed Xu Wukun to form a team of horse infantry. Most of them had learned fists, feet and sticks from Xu Wuliang, and some of them, like Han Qi, were
In Shangliuzhai, Pan Chenghu threatened to wrap up Luo Cao, and he also had a foundation in martial arts.
These people cannot master cavalry fighting in a short time, but if they practice infantry encirclement and killing tactics, they can mount their horses to march and dismount their horses to fight.
The remaining ten young men, headed by Wu Liangsheng, followed Xu Wuliang and Zhai Mazi as the defensive infantry of Jinshagou Village. At the same time, they also set up a blacksmith house to make weapons, arrow clusters, etc.; as for armor, there is no need to think about it now.
Yes, it is too time-consuming and manual.
There are still seventy or eighty people left in the family. In addition to cutting wood, burning charcoal, making bricks, clearing the land, building houses, ponds and other chores, there are also forty people specially selected to occupy the limited valley land that can accommodate people.
Placer gold is collected using the chute method.
After deducting the daily food and labor wages for forty people, the net placer gold gained every day may only be worth four or five guan. However, this thing has a steady stream of water. It is guaranteed that if there are two to three hundred more dings in Jinshagouzhai, it will be enough.
Maintain a steady stream of livelihood.
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Although Tongbai Mountain belongs to Biyang County in Tangzhou, it is three hundred miles across and covers a very wide area. From Huaiyuan to Yushanyi, and then from Yushanyi to Biyang City, the total distance is nearly 140 miles, which is almost the same as the plain area.
It spans two to three counties.
In addition to the main North and South Ridges, Tongbai Mountain has many livable hills. Since the founding of the dynasty, the population has multiplied and densely populated. This also determines that an important place like Yushanyi, with the establishment of official institutions, can easily form a relatively prosperous place.
Town port.
Yushanyi and Huaiyuan cannot be compared.
Except for the Yi Cheng who led eleven or two veterans of the Xiang soldiers to be stationed here to welcome and send off, Yushan Yi did not have any officials like the town supervisors in charge; and matters such as public security and bandit prevention were still under the supervision of the Huaiyuan Inspection Department.
Control. However, as one of the most important nodes on Tongbai Mountain Road, there are two to three hundred households gathered here, including grain stores, carpentry shops, oil shops, blacksmith shops, porcelain shops, book and paper shops, tailoring shops, horse-breaking shops, etc.
Dozens of shops, large and small, are spread out along the street, which is also quite prosperous.
And every ten days, people from nearby villages come to attend the market, and it is even more crowded and extremely lively.
Yushan Post was so important that Zheng Hui couldn't worry about it. After confirming the next battle plan of the Three Villages Allied Forces, he and Dong Qifeng rushed to Yushan Post early in the morning.
A group of horses slowly approached Yushan Post in the morning light.
I saw that the pond at the east end of Yushan Yichang Street was filled with corpses that had been discarded overnight. In the long street that had been set on fire, there was almost no intact house, and there were still wisps of smoke rising from the broken walls.
Even though there were some people in the cavalry who couldn’t bear it:
"The Prime Minister may not want to see this situation!"
"From now on, even if there are no outsiders around, you are not allowed to mention this word again!" Zheng Hui said with a serious face, warning the guy who talked nonsense, "And I will report everything that happened here truthfully, so don't be reckless.
You’re guessing!”
Dong Qifeng also turned around and glared at the man, telling him to shut up.
They moved forward slowly.
The only well-preserved thing nearby is the Yizhan Yard, located at the west end of the long street.
Gao Xiangzhong's troops were driving away the people who had not had time to escape and transporting cartloads of looted materials into the enclosure.
Although the Yushan Post was captured and Gao Xiang's Zhongzong troops committed all sorts of rapes, prostitutions, and plunders in Yushan, the order in the courtyard was orderly, and the orders of Zheng Hui and his party were strictly checked at several checkpoints.
Looking at the situation in front of him, Zheng Hui also knew that Gao Xiangzhong's robbery was mainly to release the hostility that had been suppressed for many years in the hearts of his troops, but he did not indulge to the point of being disorganized. He secretly felt that he had survived in the depths of Tongbai Mountain all these years.
The stubborn bandits who came down still had certain military qualities.
This situation was better than what he had foreseen. At least he could rest assured that Gao Xiang would be loyal to Yushan and block the troops that might be sent from Tangzhou and Biyang to suppress the attack.
When Zheng Hui and Dong Qifeng were about to go to see Gao Xiangzhong under the guise of Chen Zixiao, two cavalrymen came quickly from the east. When the two cavalrymen entered the courtyard of Yushan Post and saw their people, Zheng Hui
He frowned slightly and stood in the aisle waiting for the two people to come over.
One of these two riders is the spy who Zheng Hui directly arranged to lurk in Huaiyuan.
Six elite horse thieves were rounded up and killed in Laoyatan, which boosted the morale of the soldiers in the military stronghold. It also made Deng Gui decide to stick to the Huaiyuan military stronghold, and then strengthened his control over the two wings of the military stronghold and the market. The informant found the opportunity only after nightfall.
He quietly left Huaiyuan, but when he arrived at Mopanling, he didn't see Zheng Hui, so he rushed to Yushan Station.
"Is it that reckless general of the Xu family?" Zheng Hui did not expect that the hearts of the Huaiyuan soldiers and the people would not collapse as he expected. However, Guo Junpan of Laoyatan led his troops to raid the Huaiyuan market, but they fell in love with a man they took a fancy to.
The quick-eyed fool took a loss from the snack in his hand.
Dong Qifeng had seen this reckless general named Xu Huai when he followed the Tang family's caravan, but he had some mental problems. Zheng Hui had also heard from Pan Chenghu that he was brave and reckless in front of Lutai Village.
To be honest, the thieves in Laoyatan were careless and underestimated the enemy. It was not that shocking that this reckless guy killed three people and intercepted three others.
The question is, why did the Xu family, such a fool, appear in Huaiyuan at that time when he was not in Lutai Village or Xiema Mountain?
Chushan Yaksha Fox really saw him through, so he could make such a move at a critical moment?
