There are more than a dozen large pots simmering braised pork.
The barrel is filled with rice.
The regiment training, guard soldiers, strong men and all military households, regardless of adults, children, or the elderly, each had a stainless steel basin and wolfed down the food.
Yang Fan bought all the pigs from the military households.
Only when you are full can you have enough physical strength to cope with the subsequent battle.
After working hard all night last night, everyone was exhausted.
After eating, everyone, except for dozens of sentries on guard, fell down tiredly and fell asleep.
Yang Fan asked the carpenters he brought this time to remove the windows of the south gate tower and replace them with hardwood shutter-type sloping windows that were newly finished. In this way, you can observe the situation outside and prevent arrows from shooting through the window.
Yang Fan sat on the tower and took a nap for a while. He was a little nervous and couldn't sleep, so he got up to settle accounts.
This time it was really a waste of money. So far, on an average per person, each regiment has spent thirty taels of silver on training, including clothing, food, meat, weapons, ammunition, uniforms, tools, settling family members, building houses, etc. . Adding in the miscellaneous expenses and the pension money that had been set aside in advance, one hundred thousand taels of silver were gone.
Yang Fan can only hope that the budget of 30 million soft sister coins can finish this battle.
It turns out that raising an army is so expensive, and the little money I have will not last long.
Fortunately, the basic equipment is already there, so the subsequent maintenance costs are not that much.
After this battle, the elite will be left behind, and the rest will be quickly eliminated and let them work in factories.
Up to now, I have not generated any income here, and I am doing it all with money and losses.
We must generate income here as soon as possible to break even.
Monkey must be made to increase efforts to negotiate more catering cooperation.
In addition to iron ore, soap is also on the agenda.
The subsequent construction of Xinghe Castle, the construction of the reservoir dam, and the reconstruction of farmland on the rocky beach will require a large number of refugees. There is no construction machinery and they will all be carried on people's backs and shoulders. It is estimated that at least 100,000 laborers will be needed.
If the leftover food is not enough, the only option is to buy grain.
This is a huge expense.
If there is not enough food, we have to buy food locally. The price of food here will rise too high, and if we buy in bulk, there will be no market. There will be no large quantities of food to buy on the market.
Those big families who control food are hoarding and releasing little by little to maintain high prices. If you buy in large quantities, the prices will skyrocket soon.
If you can't buy food for yourself, the next best thing is to harm the people.
Only when the rocky beach is developed can our food problem be solved.
If that doesn't work, we can only deliver modern food.
Yang Fan was frowning and worried when he heard the sound of war drums coming from the distance.
The terrain outside the south gate is the most open and most suitable for fighting.
In the distance, a group of people in tattered clothes, holding knives and guns, formed a loose formation and walked towards the stockade in a disorderly manner.
It looked like there were more than a thousand people,
There was a big drum mounted on the bullock cart behind, and two shirtless men were beating hard.
Many cavalry appeared one after another behind this team.
There were also five or six cavalry on each wing.
Each cavalry unit consists of twenty or thirty men.
Yang Fan suddenly regretted not bringing a telescope. It's hard to see clearly from the tower. The tower is too short. It's just a six-meter-high city gate base, a lonely little house, less than twenty square meters. It was also in tatters and leaking air everywhere.
Apparently, there were about 500 cavalrymen, and they looked at these ragged infantrymen from three sides. Prevent them from escaping.
It seems that these random people are the bandits who disappeared before.
Jiannu wanted to use the bandits to rush into the formation first and try out the situation here.
It just so happens that I also want to meet you and see how good the slaves are.
"Donkey Dan, ring the bell and call people up. Assemble"
As the melodious bell rang, the sleeping people quickly woke up, jumped up, and stood in line with their equipment.
"Besides shields, is there anything else that can block arrows?" Yang Fan asked.
"Yes, it's a big pot lid. It's made of elm wood. It's three feet in diameter. It can block arrows."
"How many are there?"
"Every house has them, at least more than three hundred."
"Bring them all and hand them over to the Shangzi camp. The shields are also gathered here. Mobilize more than fifty archers to the south wall to prepare to support the Shangzi camp."
"The regiment went up to the camp and followed me out of the city to fight against the bandits. General Wang Qi and General Zhang Qi led all the strong men and adults up to the wall, and each of them fired a magic gun. Divide the officers and soldiers, and one person is responsible for twenty people. A section of wall. The next camp is on standby as a reserve team."
Mo Zui and Donkey Dan helped Yang Fan put on Baihu's fish scale armor. Yang Fan gave orders while putting on the armor.
Yang Fan led the regiment out of the city and set up a horizontal formation outside the south gate.
In the upper camp, there are a hundred people in a row and five people in depth.
"If the front row retreats without orders, the back row will kill them," Yang Fan ordered loudly.
The back row supervises the front row.
Alingbao did not expect that hundreds of households in this guardhouse would dare to come out to fight. It was a bit unexpected, but it was just an accident. In his opinion, the result would not change.
It seems that a lot of reinforcements came last night, maybe 500 people.
Alinbao signaled to Su Hetai.
"Attack all, and kill the family members of those who dare to escape." Su Hetai rushed forward and issued the order.
There were more than a dozen bandit leaders with bitter expressions on their faces. Looking across from them, they looked like trained camp soldiers, not those lousy guard soldiers. The queue was neat and timid. But goddamn Jian Nu is holding the battle from behind, and his family members are all controlled by Jian Nu.
Su Hetai led fifty cavalrymen, suppressing more than a thousand bandits, and slowly walked to the opposite side of Xinghe Tuanlian and stood fifty paces away.
Zhao Shuigan stood in the first row. It was his first time on the battlefield. He swallowed nervously and found that his mouth was dry and there was no foam at all, and his legs were shaking a little. However, he knew that if he turned around and ran, the row of people behind him would attack him at any time. Take a stab.
This is emphasized every day during training.
Mo Zui shouted loudly: "You nnd, don't shake your legs, just hold the gun straight for me."
The soldiers in the front row immediately raised their guns hard, but their legs were still shaking.
"Everyone checked the fire certificates and blew them all. If anyone's fire certificate is extinguished, he will be beaten with a military stick." Mo Zhui continued to curse.
Su Hetai looked at the weaklings across from him and shook his head gently. It turned out that these were the ones who came last night, and they worked well. Forget about fighting, you can see how nervous they all are. It is estimated that they will be dispersed with a single charge, and I can enter the village for lunch at noon.
"Blow the trumpet and attack." Su Hetai ordered.
Woo! Woo! The desolate horn blows.
The cavalry used their spears to drive the bandits forward.
A few who cowered were stabbed to death with spears. Screaming, he fell to the ground and twitched.
The one-eyed dragon Wei Dahu roared, "Brothers, all charge at me."
A dozen other heads of various families also roared and rushed forward.
At one time, more than a thousand bandits and bandits rushed up in a chaotic manner, holding swords and guns.
These are all old thieves who have killed people and seen blood. They all look ferocious, have strange looks, and are menacing. They look very scary when they charge forward.
"Ah!" Some soldiers panicked and dropped their sharp guns on the ground.
Fortunately, Zhang Gada had a sharp eye when selecting team leaders and selected the most courageous people.
He said that if a soldier is raging, a general will be raging in a nest.
Whoever is bold and ruthless will be made an officer.
Soldiers are created by fighting.
Wu Changshao slapped him in the face, "Ning Laoqi, pick up the fucking gun for me. If you have diarrhea, I will chop you with a knife."
Ning Laoqi was so frightened that he quickly picked up the gun and put it away tremblingly.
Donkey Dan yelled: "Take off the tip of the gun and prepare the fire stick. Level the muzzle of the gun."
The officers and soldiers of the Shangzi camp were in a hurry, pulling out the gun heads, some throwing them on the ground, some carrying them in their arms, all forgetting the requirements of the training.
"You are not allowed to fire a gun without an order, and you are not allowed to shoot and hit the military stick without permission." Mo Zhui shouted loudly.
Soon, as a concurrent military judge, he discovered that talking was no different than farting.
"Bang", there was a gunshot. Someone was scared and fired first.
"I'm so angry," he said with anger.
When the beating is over, the bastard who fired first must be found out and given a good beating with a military stick.
Fifty steps, seventy-five meters, even a bird cannon can hit it.
Do you want to go to heaven?
boom! boom! Suddenly there was a burst of gunfire.
There was a shooter, followed by a large group of people who also opened fire.
People have a herd effect, and more people follow suit and fire.
