There must be brave men under the heavy reward, and there must be civilian men under the money. As expected, the news spread, and more than 2,000 laborers were recruited in a few days.
Although more than half of them are common people in Xuanming Prefecture, some of them have suspicious identities. What's more, there are many people from northern Xinjiang tribes, including the Xianhe tribe...
Baili doesn't care about this. As long as you dare to come, I will use it. I won't check your identity. I will only register your head, which means you can make up your name as you like.
In order to dispel their concerns and encourage their enthusiasm for work, Baili even declared in public that it doesn't matter if you were robbers, gangsters, murderers, or even prisoners of Zhou Dynasty, I will still take care of the food and give you the money.
After the work is done, you can leave as you please, stay as you wish, it's all about freedom, that's all!
He is the county magistrate. This is called official no-joking. Once he says it, he cannot change it.
But there is a section where you are not allowed to leave until the work is done. Otherwise, it will be tantamount to teasing the officer and must be severely punished. It cannot be said that the officer did not predict what he said.
Chen Ping and others are really disapproving. There must be bandits, robbers and murderers among these people. No need to ask, but no matter how you say, they are still from our Zhou Dynasty, but do you dare to stay with those people from the Xinghe tribe?
If they don't protect everything, they are all spies! What if they cause sabotage?
Baili said what else can be done? Anyone who dares to damage the city wall project will be charged with a serious crime and will be beheaded directly, so I don't think they dare.
The strong men are building the city wall, while the old, disabled, women and children who have nothing to do are also idle. They all go out to pick up cow dung and sheep dung. Except for what is enough for their own homes for the winter, the rest can be sold to the county government. We Purchase them all, the more the merrier.
Xuanming is surrounded by grassland for hundreds of miles with very few trees, so people usually use dried cow dung and sheep dung for cooking and heating in the winter. In fact, many people on the grassland now burn sheep dung during the winter. brick.
Chen Xiaohu's five hundred soldiers were not idle either. They took turns going out of the city to hunt... day and night.
There are many wild animals here, including fat roe deer, hares, yellow sheep, sand doves, flying dragons... There is no animal protection law yet, so these are gifts from nature and proper game.
Chen Ping and the others seldom went hunting because they had few horses and no weapons, bows and arrows, so their income from traps and traps was quite limited.
When these prey are caught, they are immediately cut open and skinned, and then a layer of coarse salt is rubbed on the meat, and it is dried in a ventilated place. Now is the season of clear autumn air, which is perfect for drying this kind of air-dried meat.
It was difficult to preserve the water and other things, so they were sent directly to the city wall to improve the food for the workers.
When Chen Xiaohu and the others went out hunting for the first time, they frightened the soldiers. They thought they were going to attack them, so they immediately got fully armed and prepared!
Unexpectedly, the Yanyun soldiers, who were as strong as the wind, did not come towards them at all, but towards those unlucky yellow sheep, roe deer and hares.
The backbone of Chen Xiaohu's command not only have the background of the Knight Cavalry Guard, but also the brothers of the Yulin Guard. All of these guys have superb archery skills. No matter what kind of prey they shoot, they must be brought down with one arrow!
In just a few days, all the grassland creatures within ten miles were killed and forced to move north. Chen Xiaohu and the others naturally refused to let go and chased them all the way. As a result, their hunting ground became closer and closer to the Xinghe tribe... …
Recently, the soldiers can hear the unrestrained laughter of Yanyun soldiers!
The most annoying thing is that when these guys are hunting, they go around beating gongs, drums and setting off firecrackers! It’s okay if you make such a big noise during the day, but in the middle of the night you are still trying to prevent people from sleeping.
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The main reason is that I don't dare to sleep. Who the hell knows if they will come over and kill me all at once? I can only wait for danger and be frightened three times throughout the night.
Chen Xiaohu and others only dispatched more than a hundred people each time. Although the scale was small and the number of people was small, there were not many soldiers stationed here.
There are only more than 500 people in total, and including those who herd cattle and cut grass, there are only more than 2,000 people. The problem is that these herdsmen do not know how to fight, but they have to protect them, so the number of troops is quite insufficient.
So even though he was very angry, he did not dare to take the initiative to provoke. Firstly, his strength did not allow it, and secondly, he really had no name. After all, this was Yan Yun's territory...
"Damn it, these grandsons really can pretend to be grandsons." Ouyang Yunyi expressed deep contempt for Jian Bingbing.
Aren't you really awesome? You went to attack our Xuanming City before, but now you're pretending to be cowardly when you see our soldiers coming?
You are so cowardly, how can you bear it even after all this trouble!
Damn it, my hero is useless. I want to attack their camp single-handedly, but Brother Baili won't let me. I'm really worried to death!
"Haha, Brother Baili looks good, but he's actually quite bad." Ren Pijiang said with a smile, "He's waiting for these thugs to knock down all the grass and tie up the straw bundles before going.
Grab ready-made ones.”
"How did you know?" Ouyang Yunyi was stunned, "Did Brother Baili tell you?"
"Does this need to be said?" Ren Pijiang was also surprised, "Isn't this obvious?"
"Are you smart?" Ouyang Yunyi said, "Does that mean we will start a war with them soon?"
"I guess it's about the same in the next few days." Ren Bijiang said, "Li Tanhua said there will definitely be an autumn rain this month. I guess we have to transport all the hay back before it rains, otherwise it will become moldy if it gets wet.
Have you not seen those raincloths piled up on the school grounds in the city? They are intended to cover the haystacks."
"Hmph, how can a monk like Li Tanhua know how to read the sky?" Ouyang Yunyi sneered.
"Any general who leads troops knows a little bit about weather conditions. A general as powerful as Li Tanhua is naturally very good at it," Ren Bijiang said.
"He's so awesome!" Ouyang Yunyi said.
"He is still very powerful. Brother Baili is also very powerful and very strategic..." Ren Pijiang said.
"Why don't you kill these bastards quickly? Xiaohu and the others don't need to do anything. Xiao Ye and I can take care of it, and you can just pick up the heads." Ouyang Yunyi's hands were itchy for a long time, and he was eager for a fight.
A mere few hundred people may not be enough for us brothers to kill.
"Haha, you are wrong again. Brother Baili will fight a few battles with them, but he will not kill them." Ren Pijiang laughed.
"Can you speak human language? I'm begging you!" Ouyang Yunyi said anxiously, "Is it still a war if we don't kill people?"
"As a soldier goes, the top priority is to attack the heart, and the bottom priority is to attack the city. To put it simply, we need to use both kindness and power, soft and hard, to make them fearful and convinced," Ren Pijiang explained.
"I don't understand what you all think." Ouyang Yunyi felt that a war is a war, and killing people is killing people, regardless of whether they obey or not, it would be much easier to kill them all.
As long as Brother Baili gives these 500 people to Xiao Ye and me, we two brothers can defeat the entire Penghe tribe. Do you believe it or not?
It is said that Li Tanhua's gang went on a rampage in northern Xinjiang with only a few hundred people.