Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 969
southwest.

A ray of beacon smoke rises and goes straight into the sky.

Zheng Enyang's expression turned serious all of a sudden, he stroked his forehead and watched carefully.

"Master, the beacon fire in the southwest, the southern barbarians are invading!"

Huo Chang Yan Shizhu, who was about to go downstairs to kill the pig, stopped, turned around, and went to the fortress to look at it.

"Damn it, it's true, five wisps of black smoke, at least five thousand thieves have invaded, which really makes me say right, these sons of bitches want to destroy our crops."

"What should I do?" Zheng Enyang asked.

"Raise the beacon smoke first, and then ring the alarm bell." Old Yan gritted his teeth, "Soldiers come to block, water comes and soil floods it. Since these barbarians want to grab food, then we will fight him. Damn, the food is We got tired and shed several layers of skin, and got countless calluses on our hands. Now that we have finally matured and are about to harvest, they want to grab the ready-made?"

"Fuck it."

Lao Yan picked up the iron chisel and struck the alarm bell fiercely, while Zheng Enyang skillfully lit the beacon fire.

Under the watchtower, a group of barbarian soldiers were chasing pigs. The head of the fire said that they would kill pigs today and kill several pigs in advance to prepare for harvesting.

The pigs are raised by themselves, big black pigs.

One head weighed no less than two hundred catties, very fat.

The pigs will be slaughtered later, and the good pork will be kept first, but the offal pigs, pig heads and feet must be eaten first, and everyone is very excited to eat meat.

The usual food in the bunker is not bad, anyway, the food, salt and pickles are full, but when it comes to meat and fish, they can't be eaten openly.

The fort has its own farmland, and also raises pigs, cattle, chickens and ducks, but the number is limited after all, and it is rare to be able to eat a meal of meat.

Everyone was very active when driving the pigs, and even those who were resting came to join in the fun.

Those few pigs seemed to be facing a big enemy, feeling that their time was approaching, they were struggling for the last time, running here and there, trying to break out of the encirclement and escape for their lives, but they couldn't escape.

In the chaos, suddenly the alarm bells rang.

All the people couldn't help but looked up to the top of the watchtower, and they were all surprised to see the black beacon smoke billowing up.

"The thieves are here, ready to fight!"

Huo Chang Yan Shizhu ran down the ten-zhang watchtower in one breath, and shouted at the people who were still surrounding the pig, "Drive the pig back and lock it up."

"Zhao Laosan, hurry up and take two riders and go to the southwest to investigate. If you find a barbarian thief, report it immediately!"

"Chang Laosi, take a few people with you immediately and call back all the people working in the field."

"Wang Laoliu, go and organize Yu Dingye in the village, take up spears, bows and arrows, prepare for battle and obey orders."

"Liu Laoqi, you take the archers up to the watchtower to prepare."

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A series of commands are issued.

The camp centered on the watchtowers immediately became chaotic, the armor warehouse was opened, and a crowd of people lined up to receive weapons and armor, and the garrison outside the village also hurriedly retreated.

Fortunately, this was not the first time the barbarians came. Although everyone was a little confused, they didn't panic. While carrying hoes, they still didn't forget the bows, arrows and spears they carried with them.

The children also heard the call and drove the cattle and pigs to the village.

The native soldiers in the village took up their weapons and quickly climbed up the earthen wall of the village, and Yu Ding also gathered in the large drying ground in the village.

Women, children, and the elderly are gathered together and temporarily stay in the barracks. In case the barbarians invade the fort, they will be evacuated to a safer watchtower.

Not far away, on the watchtower of Yacheng in Shibeng County, the beacon smoke was finally lit.

Light cavalry galloped out of the city, heading southwest.

Zheng Enyang was still standing on the top of the ten-zhang watchtower. He hadn't seen the shadow of the barbarians yet, but beacon smoke rose from one watchtower after another.

Qingqi scouts, riding one after another, galloped out of the watchtowers one by one.

Looking at this scene, he even has no waves.

About half an hour later.

Qingqi came from Shibeng City, and brought orders from Colonel Liu to send a team of soldiers from each watchtower to reinforce the county town and strengthen the defense.

Lao Yan sent fifty barbarian soldiers to reinforce the county.

The initial panic was gone in the camp.

"Just wait like this?"

Old Yan chewed the betel nuts and thought for a while, "The grain outside the mother's house is already cooked. We can't wait for the barbarians to come and grab it. I think the servants of the organization will go to the fields to harvest the grain now."

A town soldier also suggested, "I think men, women and children can go there, just cut off the ears of rice, and then carry them ashore on their shoulders, and drive them back to the village to dry."

To harvest rice normally, it is necessary to drain the water in the paddy field in advance, then cut the rice in the field, thresh it in the field, or even raise dust, and finally bag it and transport it back to dry the water, and finally carry out dust removal and ash removal again, etc. Then it can be stored in the warehouse.

The threshed rice stalks need to be bundled and dried in the sun. After they are dried, they are bundled and picked up and piled up at home. They can be used as good hay for livestock to spend the winter. They can also be used to weave straw rope bags, or even bedding, Very useful.

But now the thieves are coming to grab the grain, so they can only cut the ears of rice back as quickly as possible.

Zheng Enyang said to Lao Yan, "Master, you are watching the thieves' movements in the watchtower, and I will take people out to snatch them up."

Old Yan sighed.

There are fifty hectares of farmland, which is five thousand mu of land. Under normal circumstances, it will take ten and a half months to harvest. Now that we are in a hurry, how will it be in a while.But it's a little bit to be able to charge a little.

We can't let the barbarians snatch it away.

"It's good to leave a few old ones on the watchtower. The thieves won't come so fast. We are on the edge of the county town." Lao Yan said, he simply took off his armor and hung up Put the waist knife on your body, and then start arranging for the robbery.

All men, women and children went to the ground to snatch up the harvest.

The young and strong are responsible for picking the harvested ears of rice from the field to the roadside, and then the older men will drive them back to the village on bullock carts, while the women and children are in charge of harvesting in the field.

Lao Yan glanced at the pigsty over there.

"Slaughter those few pigs. It takes a lot of energy to snatch them up and guard against brutality. How can it be done without oil and water?"

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Tonghai City.

Not long after Cheng Chumo came back from Guangzhou, he has been busy recruiting troops and expanding the navy during this time.

The troops in Tonghai Town were expanded, the barbarians near the city and side were increased, and all the prefectures trained more united soldiers. Along several important lines of communication, the bunker tactics continued, and new towers were erected one after another.

The fortresses of Tonghai Mansion have increased from the initial five to the current eight, and a chain of four vertical and three horizontal bunkers has been established with bunkers.

The control of Tonghai Mansion is constantly increasing. Since He Man crossed the river, he has been fighting intermittently for more than a year, but it has not affected the strength of Tonghai Mansion.

On the contrary, these repeated battles have made the Tong Navy stronger and stronger, and even its control over the barbarians has become stronger and stronger.

The Tong Navy occupies the urban and rural areas, and the barbarians occupy the mountainous areas, but the important lines of communication are all controlled by Cheng Chumo.

The newly-built Ya Army of the Governor's Mansion has just returned from the suppression of barbarians in the mountains, and its record is very rich.

This new tooth army has a strength of 2000 soldiers, but it is a collection of elites from the whole army.In addition to the [-] regular soldiers, Cheng Chumo also recruited the children of Tong Haijun for righteous bravery, adding another [-] people, and then transferred [-] people from the barbarian regiment training.

In fact, this dental army has a strength of [-].

Niu Jianhu's Nanyang Navy shipped a large amount of equipment for him from Guangzhou, and Cheng Chumo immediately used them to equip this tooth soldier.

Cheng Chumo has great expectations for this tooth army, and the treatment is also very good.

His original intention of building this tooth soldier is also very simple, that is to build a mobile elite force, the original system of fortresses and watchtowers remains unchanged, and the focus is still on defense, with each guarding one side and guarding the lines of communication.

And his newly built tooth army took the initiative to attack.

Five days ago, Cheng Chumo personally led this 8000-strong army out of Shangguan and into Yuxi. They marched for four days, and on the fifth day they reached a barbarian camp in Yuxi Mountain.

This camp was originally a stockade for the Heman people. After Xicuan gave Yuxi to the Tonghai Governor's Mansion, these people refused to pay money and food, and sent strong men to greet them after crossing the river, and even provided them with money and food. , camp, and even sent his children to accompany him to attack and plunder.

Cheng Chumo had long disliked them.

This time, he ran for hundreds of miles in five days, broke through the barracks in one fell swoop, killed hundreds in one battle, and captured a lot of people. Then he chased the defeated bandits, and wiped out more than a dozen bandits' barbarian villages one after another.

Together, thousands of thieves were beheaded, more than [-] prisoners were captured, and many livestock, pigs, and cattle were captured.

The first battle was won, and the morale was greatly improved.

Along the way, they returned victoriously, with the heads of barbarians stuck on the tips of the spears of the Ya army, leading pigs and cattle, and pulling barbarian captives, it was very lively.

Back in Tonghai City, he slaughtered pigs and cattle to reward the soldiers, and then rewarded them for their meritorious deeds.

The victory of this battle further strengthened Cheng Chumo's determination to carefully build this tooth army.When he went to Guangzhou, he wanted Duke Wei to allow him to gather strength and fight the barbarians.But Wei Gong refused, but finally gave him an idea, it was this Yajun.

Create a small but fine mobile force to sweep up the raids and rebels.

Such a big harvest in the first battle has further proved Wei Gong's brilliance.

"The Governor!"

"Military emergency report!"

A private soldier in the yamen sent a letter of military information, Cheng Chumo opened it, glanced at it, and snorted coldly.

"These damned savages really did this again. Seeing that the rice is ripe and harvesting soon, they began to rush out of the mountains to grab the grain."

This is not uncommon. Last year, crossing the river with Man was picked before the summer harvest. At the beginning, Tonghai Mansion was caught off guard. A lot of food was harvested, and those that could not be taken away were directly burned and trampled.

During the autumn harvest, Heman repeated the old plan again, but this time, Tong Haijun had already taken precautions, and the loss was not big.

Unexpectedly, the summer harvest is coming soon, and Heman will do it again.

"Wars are raging all over the place, and they are all starting to defend and savagely, while stepping up their efforts to collect them."

Cheng Chu nodded silently.

Defense alone is not enough. After all, Heman is here to grab food and not to attack the city. He can't defend in the city. If he leaves the city and leaves the castle, the advantage of the navy will be weakened a lot.

In the past, they used the advantages of the bunkers to control the traffic lines to attack the barbarians instead of fighting them head-on.

Cheng Chumo planned to change his tactics this time.

With eight thousand carefully crafted teeth army, with such an elite mobile force, he no longer needs to be passively beaten.

"Bring a map!"

Cheng Chumo planned to pick a suitable battlefield and give the barbarian a ruthless blow!
(End of this chapter)