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Chapter 7
Outside Xujia Village, dozens of bonfires were blazing, and thousands of refugees gathered around the bonfires. Although they had already had enough food and drink, the pain of their homes being destroyed not long ago and their relatives being killed was still lingering, and even the future was uncertain.

Li Si sensed this very clearly, after all these thousands of refugees are his foundation for the future.

So he temporarily thought of a way.

"Chen Qing, the 4th-level chief arrester, is enlisted as an out-of-field military commander, and the junior official position is team leader. The maximum command limit is 50 people."

It doesn't matter whether Chen Qing is eligible to be expropriated or not. For this reason, Li Si lost 200 points of popular support. This...

"Set up the supply battalion, with Chen Qing as the leader."

Li Si then recruited 500 new recruits from the refugees to join Chen Qing's subordinates, and then asked Chen Qing to go to the refugee camp to select young and strong women, hire 10 people at one go, take care of the food every day, and have [-] copper coins a day , This treatment is very meager, but it can make the refugees stop thinking about it, at least they can get ahead.

And these five hundred young and healthy women are the backbone of the other five hundred old and weak. When they are stable, they are all stable.

This is the standard work-for-relief. Li Si only needs to pay 5000 coppers per day plus food worth 5000 coppers to stabilize them.

According to the currency exchange standard of the Yan Kingdom, one gold coin can be exchanged for ten silver coins, and one silver coin can be exchanged for ten copper plates, so it is only a consumption of 100 gold.

Then, Li Si ordered Captain Zhao Shan to go to Xujia Village tomorrow. Xishan Town hired craftsmen, especially carpenters, blacksmiths, masons, cobblers, and stonemasons.

It is agreed in advance that the employment period is one year. As for what will happen after one year, we will talk about it at that time. Anyway, His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince is reasonable, and he is reasonable in real money.

In addition, Li Si also asked Zhao Shan to prepare to buy a large amount of pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, etc. These meats can be dried and eaten, and even the internal organs are not spared. The whole army, including refugees, In part, this is to alleviate night blindness.

In the end, he also drew the blueprint of the wheelbarrow overnight, and prepared to let the recruited blacksmiths and carpenters to study and build it.

After making arrangements for tomorrow, Li Si ordered the eunuch Sun Jin to wake him up at dawn, and then fell into a dream.

Nothing happened all night, when he woke up the next day, the first thing he did was to ask Sun Jin to find two hunters from Xujia Village, each of whom was paid one gold, and asked them to cross Luming Mountain and take old man Lu Zixin The token went to Lucheng to report the letter.

That's right, this time is very important. With the foot strength of two hunters, they can reach Lucheng in four hours, which should be around two o'clock in the afternoon.

After the Lucheng Lu family got the news, even if they wanted to discuss it, they had to gather soldiers and set off in an hour at the earliest.

As for the possibility that the Lu family in Lucheng would dismiss this, it does not exist.

Even the old man Lu Zixin can see that he, the fourth prince, is a rare commodity, not to mention the high-level members of the Lucheng Lu family, so he will definitely send troops, but since he has to pass through Luming Mountain, it is impossible to send cavalry, only infantry .

Then when these heavily armed infantry marched for four or five hours, passed through Luming Mountain, and arrived here at midnight, tired and hungry, but also the most relaxed time, after all, they had already passed through the most easily ambushed place. The Luming Mountain is gone.

In the beginning, Li Si really wanted to ambush this Lu family's elite soldiers in Luming Mountain, but first, Luming Mountain has lush vegetation and a lot of poisonous insects and snakes, which is not conducive to ambush.

Secondly, with the strength of Lu's elite soldiers, they can escape by taking advantage of the terrain. As long as dozens of people escape, Li Si's follow-up plan will not be fun.

Therefore, it would be easier to let this Lu family's elite soldiers come over and set up an ambush in Xujia Village.

"Mr. Lu, why don't you take a good rest in the room?"

When Li Si had breakfast, dealt with all the affairs, and was wandering in Xujia Village, he saw the old man Lu Zixin, who was very sluggish yesterday, was able to walk to the village entrance today with the support of a peasant woman, looking like a husband. Looking at Luming Mountain, what kind of perseverance is this.

"I pay my respects to Your Highness, Your Highness will take care of you. Your injury has been stabilized."

The old man tremblingly wanted to salute, but he was quickly stopped by Li Si, and he called someone to move a wooden pier with a soft bedding on it, and then he personally helped the old man to sit down, but unfortunately there was no historian here, otherwise the fourth prince respected The story of the teacher's emphasis on Taoism may be written in the Four Character Classic.

"Your Highness, I'm terrified."

"Hey, don't worry, the weather is clear today and the sun is just right. The lonely king and Mr. Lu are here to chat and enjoy the sun. It is a great blessing in life! I think the soldiers and horses of Lucheng Jiedu should have already set off .”

Li Si casually chatted about the daily life, talking about delicious food and fun in Lucheng, what anecdotes and wild anecdotes there are, and celebrities in the market, anyway, from morning to noon, he can transform himself into half a Lucheng native .

Seeing that the old man's face turned pale, he let him go back to rest.

But the old man must be very anxious. After all, if the letter was delivered yesterday afternoon, Lucheng's army should have arrived early this morning, or at noon today. There must be no mistake?
After lunch, Li Si first enlisted Wang Chu, the captain of the 4th-level swordsman, then recruited a 4th-level chief escort Huang Yu, and finally recruited the 4th-level chief arrester Xu Guan, and appointed three people as team leaders. Form the Swordsman Battalion, Scout Battalion and Garrison Battalion.

In addition to the original 24 swordsman captains in the swordsman camp, he recruited 26 more swordsman captains, making up 50 people.

As for the scout battalion, count the [-] head escorts and the [-] troopers, and use them all as scouts.

The garrison camp is a prisoner-of-war camp. Count the remaining 19 chief arresters, and then recruit 31 arresters to form a garrison camp. They are responsible for daily security and resolving disputes. Those chief arresters are best at this.

In the future, Li Si's team will become bigger and bigger, with all kinds of people, and disputes are inevitable. You can't rely on him to handle all these matters. The garrison is the police team.

"Wang Chu, you take the swordsman battalion to train recruits."

"Xu Guan, you guard the camp to supervise prisoners of war, hire civilians to work, and at the same time investigate illegal activities. You have the right to make decisions about ordinary civil matters."

"Zhao Shan, Huang Yu, each of you will bring your troops and five thousand pieces of gold, and set off immediately to buy grain at Huangzhuangji and recruit craftsmen. If the town government obstructs you, you will be killed without mercy."

The town of Huangzhuangji is located twenty miles north of Xishan Town, but it is more prosperous than Xishan Town because there is an official road passing through it.

If Li Si and the others hadn't lost their way yesterday, they should have gone straight to Lucheng from this official road.

And these two towns also have town halls and post stations, and there are even fifty archers in Huangzhuangji.

So yesterday he didn't go to this more prosperous town, until now, he felt that Lucheng had received a letter from the old man, so he asked Zhao Shan and Huang Yu to buy food and grass.

This place is more than 40 miles away from Huangzhuangji. When Zhao Shan and Huang Yu arrive, it should be half a day later. Even if their wanton purchase of grain will be reported by Lu's people, but because this matter is not important , then Lucheng Lushi should get the news tomorrow morning.

But by that time, the battle on Li Si's side had already ended, and the next step could be started.

After taking a nap at noon and waking up feeling comfortable, Li Si asked someone to lead the mount and rode the horse by himself. His predecessor couldn't bear hardships, and he had to ride a car when he went out to play, and he couldn't ride a horse anymore, so he had to study hard now.

Fortunately, the mount was docile enough, and with the hard work of the past two days, he was able to ride very well.

At the pass on the eastern mountain ridge, more than 1000 young and strong women, plus captives, are building a simple wall. In short, they cut down trees, dug a deep pit and buried half of it, forming two rows, with soil compacted in the middle.

The project is very simple and the number of people is sufficient, so a prototype was built in one morning.

The wall of this village rises from the mountain, and the place where the giant tree needs to be buried is only a 30-meter-wide pass. In other areas, only the soil needs to be excavated, and a four- to five-meter-high cliff can be dug out, which can extend hundreds of meters.

This basically ensures that if the Black Tooth King's pursuers arrive, they will not be able to pass through. If they want to attack by force, they will have to pay a certain price. They can only detour around Xishan Town, if they have a guide who is familiar with this place.

However, if they detour around Xishan Town, Li Sida can then retreat into Luming Mountain, relying on the mountain, constantly weakening the strength of the pursuers, and then defeating them in one fell swoop.

All in all, whether it is annihilating Lucheng Lu's army or dealing with the Black Tooth King's pursuers, they are all Li Si's goals for training troops in the early days. Troubled times are about to begin, and he doesn't have a strong armed force in his hands. Just kidding me.

(End of this chapter)