The officials and gentry were still worried, so they sent a letter to General Tang Shen in Qiongshan to see if he could be mobilized to suppress the bandits. 【Read full text】
The harassment tactics that Liu Jinshi had high hopes for did not receive the support of the generals of the brave groups in each village. The local warriors were not willing to fight. Everyone heard that the local warriors in Huangjiazhai were defeated despite being outnumbered and ambushed, and their morale was even lower.
Wu Daling threatened and made a wish, but the heroes from each family still refused to go. They also had an idea: when this group of people came ashore, they didn't see them robbing, killing and burning houses. Even if they wanted to build roads and attack the city, they would still be attacking. What does the county seat have to do with them? What if I go to fight myself, but instead anger the pirates and invite revenge? The families of the rural heroes are all in the countryside, and they are not as able to hide in the city as the gentlemen. I was forced to go but reluctantly, so I turned around far away and came back. As for the league leaders of each village, as long as their family property is not located near the county seat, they are not very enthusiastic about this. Xiangyong is either a fellow villager or a long-term tenant farmer of his own family. Who will be allowed to plant the land if he loses his life in a war? Lingao was in short supply of labor, so he did not seriously supervise the local warriors to fight.
The frequent appearance of rural warriors along the construction site attracted the attention of the scouts sent out. Since the beach camp has been formed, the military team members do not need too many guards. In addition to retaining a three-person observation post under Lingao County, the other members have been assigned to guard the road construction site.
Along the road section, a lookout tower was built every 3 kilometers on the road construction section, and each tower was guarded by a lookout post equipped with high-power telescopes and walkie-talkies. Below the tower is a simple fortification built by the security team, with an earthen wall as high as one person and a barbed wire fence surrounding the outside. There are four-wheel drive agricultural vehicles and motorcycles in the fortification, as well as a 2-watt silicon radio station. Motorcycles are usually used to patrol back and forth between various points along the construction site. Once an enemy attack is found somewhere, agricultural vehicles are used as fast delivery tools to transport warrior reinforcements.
It is not enough to have soldiers, the masses must also be mobilized. The construction team was equipped with a batch of SKS rifles and ammunition. Ensure that there are 4-5 armed workers in addition to 1 military group guard at each work point. In the event of a sudden attack, the operating point can protect itself.
"Once you are attacked, don't move around and fire on the spot after reporting. Do you understand?" He Ming told the person in charge of each point on the construction site, "The mobile team will arrive within five minutes. If other points are attacked, you only need to Just report it in time.”
In this way, the small group of Xiangyong who came to conduct reconnaissance could not even approach the construction site during the day. As soon as any suspicious person approached, they would immediately report it to the construction site headquarters, which would dispatch patrolling off-road motorcycles to check. The guards didn't even need to shoot, the roar of the motorcycle was enough to make the other party flee. On a whim, the team members driving the motorcycles could even chase them very far away until the opponent ran out of strength and fell, and then captured them. If Bei Wei hadn't been worried that they would be ambushed by the enemy and strictly prohibited them from pursuing them, they would have captured a few more. indivual. During the interrogation, he was unable to understand the language and couldn't ask anything. I used the radio to call Xiong Buyou to be the translator. Fortunately, the Lingao dialect has not changed much over the past few hundred years. After a lot of trouble, I finally understood that they were ordered to conduct reconnaissance. Other than that, it was the same old story with an eighty-year-old mother. , with words such as an eight-year-old son begging for his life.
From the prisoners' mouths, the travelers generally knew that they thought they were building roads. The county town was already in a panic, preparing for them to attack the city day and night. The executive committee was a little surprised that road construction can make people scared. It was originally expected that the city would be somewhat prepared to expel them, but obviously the Ming Dynasty officials and gentry in high places were more afraid of them. This first-hand information gave the Executive Committee great confidence.
Because the number of prisoners was too small, they originally planned to let them go altogether, but the Executive Committee believed that this was an opportunity and could be used as a practice for the large-scale acceptance of the use of local labor in the future. All were left behind.
The "Ling Ling" sound of the alarm clock woke Wu De from his sleep. When he looked at the clock, it read 9 o'clock in the morning.
I didn't go to bed until 4 a.m. last night, and now I can barely open my eyes. However, I came to ancient times not for a vacation, but to "make a living." If I continued to sleep, I might not even be able to eat by then.
As the commander of the fishing boat detachment, Wu De could have slept on a fishing boat with better conditions, but the military team was currently short of manpower, and people from the naval system also had to go into battle, so he had no choice but to come ashore.
He has been in the army for many years and was born into a fisherman's family. Although he worked in the city after changing his career, his rich experience gave him a lot of life experience. He felt that the tent erected by the executive committee was too small and too crowded. They discussed with the medical team and found an open space in the woods near them to clear it. They went to the lumberyard to find about 10 long wooden sticks less than 3 meters long. One end was tied with a rope and the other end was stretched out and inserted into the mud. , cover the four sides with oilcloth, leaving an opening for entry and exit, and then cover the outside of the oilcloth with reeds. The prototype of an Indian-type tent has appeared in front of everyone. Then dig drainage ditches around it and spread it in the tent. With sand and plant ashes, a decent nest appeared. The environment here is good along the river and close to the sea, and you can also watch his four fishing boats.
In order to save fuel, two of the four ships in the fishing fleet are kept ready for dispatch, and the other two ships are temporarily mothballed. One boat is used for fishing. The fish and shrimp resources in Longhao Bay are very rich, and edible seaweeds such as kelp can also be caught. Wu Nanhai has been running around on the fishing boat recently, taking pictures when he sees the things caught, and keeping a small notebook to record them.
The other ship is used as a backup, and a team of people is always on board, ready to respond to attacks from the sea at any time.
This guy got up and took an aluminum pot with a pot of plant ash to the river, rubbed his face, broke off a young willow root and chewed it up to use as a toothbrush, and rubbed his teeth at the same time. He was working the night shift yesterday to build a watchtower, and he didn't use a sleeping bag at night. I'm already feeling sore, my nose is stuffed up, and my head hurts a little.
You won't catch a cold, right? A bad thought came to mind.
I touched my forehead and there seemed to be no heat, which was fine. I folded a few willow sticks, peeled off the bark, threw it into my mouth and chewed it. Willow bark is rich in salicylic acid. Although it is irritating to the stomach, it is indeed very effective in treating headaches and brain fever.
When I came to the bathing beach by the river, I took off my clothes and got into the water. I was too tired yesterday and didn't take a shower at all. With the current sanitary conditions, if I don't take a shower frequently, I will get skin diseases. This pure natural open-air bathhouse is another livelihood project completed by the construction team on D+1 - a shallow sandy bottom river bay was selected near the mouth of the river, an interception net was hung at the mouth of the bay, and the debris inside was cleaned The river bank was covered with silt and sand dug from the beach. It was originally used to make a screen tent or something, but later it was too troublesome and was not built. Every day at 5 or 6 o'clock when work begins, the scene of a group of men naked and causing chaos inside is a spectacular sight. Because Wu De was on duty in shifts, he had no chance to join in the fun. It is said that men taking a bath naked can enhance each other's relationship, so he had to take a bath with Comrade Ma and the others at any time.
The water in the morning was a little cold, and Wu De couldn't help shivering. After getting my body and head wet, I washed my head and body with the soap I brought. After taking a shower, wash your underwear and socks with plant ash - this is a very important hygiene issue! He couldn't bear to use more soap. Although making soap was not an advanced craft, looking at the current chaotic situation, no soap factory would be put into operation in the short term. The clothes were wrung out and hung to dry on the tree next to the tent.
The camp's canteen is open 24 hours a day, and he has no interest in joining in the fun. Besides, there is nothing worth eating in the cafeteria, just some seafood: kelp soup, boiled squid, boiled shellfish, boiled prawns, boiled crabs... basically all boiled seafood, which everyone was very excited about at first. I was interested in it. I even had a quarrel over the size of the crabs. After eating them for three or four days, I felt a little scared. Last night, someone cooked a pot of instant noodles, which actually attracted many people to watch with salivation - I don’t want to eat seafood. Eating instant noodles is really a one-time thing.
Wu De didn't care about eating seafood, but he despised the cooking guys in the cafeteria for messing around and ruining the good food. He went directly to a bay outside the camp. The rocks on the shore were densely covered with oysters and barnacles. What a good thing... He took out his knife and soon pried off a few dozen. He didn't take more. These shellfish were close to The water smells really bad. If you eat it, you will suffer from diarrhea. Even if you live next to the infirmary, you can't take such a risk. Just sit directly on the reef, pry open the shells three times, and eat all the meat and soup. It's so fresh. Compared with these by the farmed guys, it's much inferior.
Returning to the shack, I took out my underwear from my backpack and put it on - I wore this because there would be some women on the beach, otherwise I really wanted to be naked and get fucked faster. There is no water in the thermos cup. I have been boiling water myself for the past few days. The condensate water supplied from the machine through pipes from the ship has an indescribable smell. Fortunately, there are some tea leaves that can be pressed. A few days ago, the canteen started to provide water. The 24-hour boiling water boiler is Wu De's favorite service, but the smell of bleaching powder in the water is a bit strong.
After brewing a cup of strong tea in the kitchen, I feel a lot more comfortable - I don't know if tea is not produced during the high season. Even if tea is not produced, the agricultural team of such a basic crop should have considered it, right?
"Zhao Tou, how about the latest product from our catering office?" Gang Toujun brought a dark thing.
"What's this?"
"Smoked fish, this is top-quality fish. I smoked it all night yesterday. It must taste good."
It was hard to refuse the kindness, so I had to accept it. The fish meat had been smoked overnight, and almost all the moisture and oil had been smoked dry. It was dark outside and felt hard to the touch. It looked very scary.
The fish meat looks scary, and it’s even scarier to eat. This so-called smoked fish was smoked directly on the shelf without being salted. I don’t know what the smoked wood is. When you eat it, it is no different from the willow you just chewed. It is just a hot tea that has just been brewed. He reluctantly swallowed it.
After eating the fish, I took a few sips of tea to suppress the urge to vomit.
"Why, does it taste good?"
"Brother, what did you do in the past?" Wu De asked with difficulty.
"I'm a bioengineering student. My name is Hu Yicheng." This former lumberjack was good at animal dissection, so he sneaked into the cafeteria to continue practicing his dissection skills.
