I ignored old man Jiang and other common people, not to mention the excitement in my heart because I had found a good job with high wages.
Not long after that, more than a dozen people joined in with working tools, including two carpenters, all of whom became temporary laborers for Hu Biao and the others.
Yu Hanfeng, a rookie, temporarily acted as a construction worker.
Looking at a sketch drawn by Huang Yizhi, he began to direct the people to take their own working tools and get busy outside Suifeng Dun.
Regarding this time, Hu Biao and others plan to hire fifty laborers at one time. This decision is actually the result of careful consideration after a group of netizens discussed it.
Suifeng Dun, which originally covered an area of five to six hundred square meters, looked like a small earthen castle.
On the three-meter-high earth platform, there is not only a circle of earth walls a little over one meter, but also some rooms and warehouses repaired with bricks and earth; in general, the defense power is not bad.
But since it was attacked by passing Tatars more than a month ago.
It has been damaged to a certain extent, and many places are almost useless.
What's more, Hu Biao and the others are facing a battle of unknown intensity in five days, so they naturally want to try their best to strengthen the defenses at Suifeng Dun in the limited time.
If possible, it is best to strengthen it into an iron barrel defense formation with no blind spots.
There are many specific enhancement plans, such as:
First, dig out some of the silt at the bottom of the trench that has long dried up outside Suifeng Dun and transport it away.
The trench, which was originally only less than two meters deep and more than one meter wide, must be at least three meters deep and two meters wide, making it impossible for the Tatars to climb the wall directly.
Install some sharpened wooden sticks at the bottom, and it is best to bring water from the river two miles away to fill the trench.
Otherwise, the Tatars used their weapons to easily dig out some leverage points for climbing up this earthen city wall.
Even more ferocious, the Tatars can dig down a section of the earth wall for you.
Secondly, the Tatars' riding and shooting skills are very powerful, and they pose a great threat to the defenders in terrain like Suifeng Dun.
Often when they move quickly on horseback, the arrows they shoot can accurately hit the target; on the contrary, they who are on the defensive side have difficulty shooting these moving targets due to their archery skills.
Therefore, they prepared to dig dense horse traps on the ground within 150 meters around Suifeng Dun.
There is no need to dig too big or too deep. A bowl-sized hole with a depth of twenty to thirty centimeters is enough. It is enough for a galloping horse to break its anklets and throw away the knight in front of it.
If a fight really breaks out, if the Tatars dare to rush over in a swarm to play horseback shooting, they won't be able to kill these bastards.
Third, in just five days, there is probably no way to paste a layer of green bricks on the four- to five-meter-high earthen wall of Suifeng Dun to make it stronger.
There is no way to raise the height of the entire Suifeng Mound formed from the earth.
However, everyone agreed that it doesn't matter if the height cannot be increased in a short time, but some defensive facilities such as archery towers should be completely installed.
In addition to the type of watchtower that is erected directly on the top of the pier to increase the height, some watchtowers that extend out of the earthen wall can also be installed.
To be more precise, they are wooden platforms that extend out.
The shelves around the platform can be covered with some PLA military coats or quilts.
Because netizens clearly remember that in the drama they watched, many of our soldiers charged while holding water-watered quilts, and even the Japanese's crooked machine guns were unable to penetrate them.
Even if the plot in the drama is not believable, then if they lower the standards severely, there should be no problem in blocking the heavy arrows of the Tatars, right?
Think about it, once a fight breaks out, they will hide in an arrow tower that can defend themselves against the sharp arrows of the Tatars.
The sharp arrows of the Tatars could not penetrate military coats and quilts at all. Instead, they quietly used bows and arrows, or fired blunderbuss, and as long as they hit, they would achieve results.
That feeling must be wonderful.
Fourth, Yang Dongli and the others went to Loess Fort. Of course, they had received Hu Biao's instructions before setting off to get as many cannons back as possible.
Even the red-coat cannons and general cannons are probably not affordable. For example, the famous French cannon, it is best to get some small cannons like this.
But Hu Biao was not sure whether this kind of small cannon could be obtained.
Therefore, these relatively traditional defense facilities, such as traditional door-blocking carts and trebuchets, naturally have to be installed and set up one by one.
It's just that the above ideas are good, but there are also some difficulties in them.
With Hu Biao and his team's few twenty-something manpower, and their weak physical labor capabilities, even if they didn't train or sleep, they still wouldn't be able to finish the above-mentioned astonishing workload.
Fortunately, the copper coins seized from the Tatars probably did not weigh more than a hundred kilograms.
At this time, the Chongzhen Tongbao is considered to be of the best quality. The Xiaoping coins inside weigh only 3 grams, and one that can be used as five copper coins weighs 3.7 grams when used as five coins.
After a little calculation, this big bag of copper coins could probably contain 20,000 to 30,000 coins.
I don’t know which Tatars got such a bunch of stuff from the cellar of a wealthy landlord.
As for the use direction of this pile of copper coins, except for Lang Qing, who had done some research in this area, he poked his butt in it for a long time and came up with one or two hundred ones that were said to be of some value and planned to take them back.
The rest is said to have no value at all in taking it back.
It's just used to hire some people to help complete their above ideas.
After careful calculation by Hu Biao and others, they concluded that fifty people would work for four days, and the wages would be enough to basically consume the pile of copper coins.
Why do we only plan to work for four days when we clearly have five days left?
It was the last day when many netizens were worried that those Tatars didn’t know when they would attack; if they came early, wouldn’t these people be in trouble?
In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, they only need to work for four days.
After all, Suifeng Dun is not big, and there are four days of busy work, which is enough to complete the above preparations...
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At the end of the hour, that is, at early noon, Suifeng Fort began to provide the promised lunch to the hired laborers.
In this process, Old Man Jiang received unexpected surprises one after another.
Based on his experience of living for most of his life, let alone seeing such a thing, he has never heard of such a good thing.
Grandpa Tian! What they had for lunch was actually large white-flour steamed buns. The steamed buns were as big as a fist and each person had as many as five hands and feet. There was also a bowl of pork bone soup.
It was said to be bone soup, but Old Man Jiang could clearly see that there was a thick layer of oil floating on top of each bowl of soup; there were even a lot of fat slices and winter melon in it.
I took a sip of it and the taste was so delicious that my heart went up to my chest.
In the past, they only worked for Jiang Dashan, the richest man in the village, and they only had a few cereals. There was no soup, but cold water was enough.
If you want to eat white flour steamed buns, you can still make them at home during the Chinese New Year.
"All of these soldiers are good men, but they don't know how to save money in life. No matter how rich they are, they can't stand such a bad behavior."
The old man Jiang who muttered this sentence snatched a white-flour steamed bun from the hand of his young son who was full of oil next to him, and put it into his arms along with the two steamed buns in his own hand.
This is something I plan to take home at night and feed to my children at home.
At the same time, he also gave up the idea of promising his second daughter to the military man named "Yu" before eating again.
Mainly before eating, he finally learned about the feats of these Suifengdun soldiers.
Yesterday, I actually took the initiative to attack, killed many Tatars, and brought back a lot of money, cattle, horses, and silk cloth. I heard some time ago that there was also a reward from the Holy Emperor.
I thought that this military man named Yu had a decent appearance, and he was polite, nice and polite in speech.
More importantly, because he should be able to get a lot of money, Old Man Jiang had this idea; he promised his second daughter to the other party.
After all, although his second daughter's appearance is just average, she has a strong body and is ready to bear a son. The military man named Yu must be very willing to do so.
Originally, he was thinking of asking someone to talk about this marriage.
Unfortunately, seeing the behavior of these people, Old Man Jiang immediately retracted all his thoughts.
These soldiers are too prodigal. They can't use their money so randomly. Why don't they save it and buy a few acres of good paddy fields to live on...
At the same time, Yu Hanfeng, who was also eating big steamed buns and broth, suddenly sneezed loudly without any warning.
Originally, he wanted to take a look around to see if anyone was secretly speaking ill of him again.
Just at this moment, Hu Biao, their desperate commander, said in his ears, "Yu Hanfeng, Corn, are you here? Come here quickly."
This 26-year-old single man immediately forgot about such a trivial matter and ran towards Hu Biao.
I have no idea what I have missed without even realizing it.
