Chapter 125: Conspiracy
"Many people are willing to go, but they don't know what to do. [No pop-up novel website] is afraid that there is fraud." Liu Bin said, "Food and accommodation are free, and they also teach how to read and write. This is great."
This is no different than men going out to work as laborers or soldiers, working hard in exchange for money, it is obvious to everyone.
If you are a monster, there is no pie in the sky. People also understand this truth. What's more, sending your own flesh and blood to a strange place cannot be persuaded by casually advocating how good the school conditions are and how promising the children are.
So far, only four children have been taken in in the village, one of whom is a real orphan, and the others whose families are too poor to raise them.
"Let them go to Fangcaodi and have a look." Liu Bin said, "They will definitely be willing to go and see..."
Liu Dazhu snorted: "You really don't know how expensive firewood and rice are. If one family is sent to Lingao, it will cost more than thirty people. Even if they are allowed to walk, will it cost money to eat, drink and live along the way? Besides, whether they are willing or not Going?"
"How to do it?"
Wang Wu said: "Director Dong said in class: The first thing to do in rural work is to gain the trust of the people, and the second thing is to gain the trust of the people. People are still doubtful about us, so we are spending a lot of effort on this for the time being, so as not to let people lose their trust. Make people suspicious.”
Liu Dazhu said: "I don't think there is any need to be verbose. Aren't we going to send young people? Let's talk to Captain Liu about sending young people to each household."
Wang Wuyi was stunned and said: "This is really new. If you do this, the people will be scared to death."
While they were talking, in the trees outside the camp, several people were watching the lights in the camp.
Zhaopu Village is a desolate mountain village with no large public buildings - and there are no wealthy people such as landlords in the village. The houses are all made of bamboo walls and thatched roofs, which not only cannot accommodate extra people, but is also very unsanitary. The task force certainly tried to avoid that.
They lived in a camp they built themselves.
Barricades, barbed wire, trenches and watchtowers. There are all the facilities that a standard field camp should have, but they are only very specific.
The work team and the guard platoon live in standard Army tents. These dark green coarse cloth tents painted with persimmon paint are available in large, medium, small and three sizes. There are also special functional tents, which are complete in variety and easy to use.
The lanterns and torches on the earthen base were brightly illuminated, and those in the bushes could see the entire camp clearly. But again, the lighting makes the area around the camp inaccessible.
"The security is very tight." Gou Er said disappointedly.
Xin Nari said: "The Kun Thief's camp is always very tightly guarded. If you try to steal the camp and rob the village, I'm afraid you won't be able to do it."
The best way to deal with this kind of enemy who has formed a stronghold is to attack with fire: shoot a lot of rockets, wait for the camp to be set on fire, and then take advantage of the chaos to attack. But that was in the past. Gou Er and Xin Na were both people who had fought against the elders and knew that traditional methods were not very effective against the thieves. Their guns can shoot much farther than bows and arrows. As soon as the archers start shooting, they will be shot away. It is even more impossible to send people to approach and set fire to them. No one wants to crawl across an open field with a tinder in a bright light - it's just a waste of time.
"I have counted, there are more than 30 Kun thieves. They all have blunderbuss." Xin Nari whispered, "We may not be their opponents even if we bring all of us here."
Bandits have little military literacy and can fight with ease, but they are not easy to persevere once they encounter determined resistance. They will collapse after a slight setback. It is difficult to expect them to fight with all their strength.
Gou Xunli gritted his teeth and looked at it for a long time, feeling unwilling to accept it, but he knew that Xin Nari was right. Although there are only about thirty people in this camp, it is a walnut that they cannot bite.
"A snake can't survive without a head," Gou Xunli said fiercely, "They can't just huddle in the camp all day long. You have clearly seen their faces."
They laid in wait for several days, but could never find a suitable opportunity to strike. The work team basically operates in the village, and sometimes wanders around the village. Each time it goes out for activities, there are at least five people, all of whom are fully armed. And never far from camp.
No matter where we take action, if there is any movement and the thieves in the camp come out to reinforce, we will not be able to gain favor.
"Doesn't that mean there's no other way?" Hu Lanyan said disappointedly.
"I have a way, but it requires internal support." Gou Xunli said, "It requires spending some money."
Hu Lanyan couldn't help but feel a little nauseous when he heard that he had to spend money before things were done. Bandits don't like doing things that don't yield real money.
"Brothers, let's forget about provoking the thief - if I don't destroy him, he will destroy me. It's just a business that costs money and has no income. It's really a loss."
Gou Xunli said: "Brother, the thief is the one who wants us to eat."
Without the guy who eats, even if he is rich in the world, he will be cheap to others. Hu Lanyan sighed: "I understand this. How much money will it cost?"
"Not much, just give me ten taels first."
Gou Xunli first used a few taels of silver to quickly bribe a villager in Zhaopu Village, asking him to pay attention to the movements of the thief at all times. The two parties met outside the village in the evening. Gou Xunli is interested in hearing about any trivial things.
What Gou Xunli wanted to find out was the activity pattern of the Kun Thief Task Force and look for opportunities to take advantage of it.
Gou Xunli's eyes lit up when he heard that the work team's vegetables were purchased from the village every day.
"Who did you buy the food from?"
The next day the camp started having meals as normal at noon.
Rice is being cooked in the army pot, and the unique aroma of brown rice permeates the somewhat humid air. Next to it is a pot with "mixed soup" boiling in it.
The comprehensive soup is made from the No. 11 ration in the grassland rations - "soup cubes". According to the requirements of the doctrine, the troops can add "safe food" that can be collected locally into the soup: including poultry meat and aquatic products. , poultry, eggs and vegetables. Especially for vegetables, Chuan Chuan Group's dehydrated dried vegetable manufacturing technology is not up to standard. As for the production batch of glass cans, it is very small and cannot be distributed to front-line troops. The main problem with grassland rations is that they are high in calories, but the intake of vitamins is insufficient and must be supplemented with vegetables collected locally.
The first batch of soldiers to eat formed a queue. They took out the galvanized iron lunch boxes from their backpacks and talked and laughed while waiting to share the food.
According to Fu Bojun's food rules: if you have enough food, you can eat as much as you can. There is only one spoonful of mixed soup.
"There are eggs in it today." Someone saw plumeria floating on it.
"It's been a long time since I've had meat."
"This place is so poor that we can't even buy a chicken or duck."
The soldiers were talking as if they had forgotten that not long ago they were similar to the villagers here.
A soldier sat down and took a bite, frowning: "What is it, so bitter?"
"It's bitter melon." Another soldier picked up a green melon slice from his soup.
"Can this thing make soup?"
"If anyone is not satisfied, he can refuse to eat." Huo Toujun said arrogantly, "I don't have enough here."
Complaints are complaints, but you still have to eat.
After lunch, the work team sent several people to the village to continue work. Most of the soldiers returned to the camp to engage in political studies - the temperature was high in the afternoon, and physical activities were generally not arranged.
Wang Wu and Liu Dazhu are still writing reports - their cultural level is not high, and writing reports is very difficult. Not only do they write slowly, but they also need to think for a long time to express correctly. The lunch that was brought to the table had completely lost its heat.
Suddenly a corporal ran in: "It's bad, everyone is sick."
Wang Wu and Liu Dazhu were shocked. Liu Dazhu, who was dying of Sha in the summer, said: "Let's go and have a look."
More than a dozen people had fallen down on the roads and open spaces between the tents in the camp. Some were vomiting heavily, some were holding their stomachs and moaning with pale faces, and some were unable to move, and their bodies were still twitching from time to time. Wang Wu smelled a foul smell. He felt that several people had diarrhea and had no time to go to the toilet.
"Where's the hygienist?"
"hygienist"
The corporal shouted to find someone, and after a while he helped the hygienist who was holding his belly over. It looked like he was sick too.
Liu Dazhu said anxiously: "Hurry up and give everyone medicine. Where is your medicine box? What medicine should you take? I'll get it."
"It's useless... this... this isn't Sha." The hygienist looked miserable and panted, "We ate unclean things..."
"Tell those who haven't eaten to stop eating and throw them all away." Liu Dazhu gave the order while caring at the same time, "Call everyone back, and we will put on stretchers and send them to Danzhou as soon as possible."
But they could no longer leave. Twenty-one of the thirty-five people had severe symptoms, and the rest also had symptoms of abdominal pain and diarrhea. Only five or six people who were completely fine had not eaten. Even if the work team abandoned the camp and retreated, there wouldn't be so many people to carry the stretcher.
"Ask the villagers for help," Liu Bin said. "The road is not easy to walk on. It takes at least four people to lift the stretcher."
Liu Dazhu nodded: "I'll go find someone right now."
As he spoke, he left the camp and went to the village alone - and never came back.
Wang Wu was returning to the tent and busy packing his document bag when he suddenly remembered the noise outside, and a rapid "Emergency Return" drum sounded. Liu Dazhu was startled: This is a signal that the enemy is coming.
The corporal rushed in again and said: "There are many people coming outside with knives and guns."
Wang Wu walked out of the tent and climbed up the earth embankment to take a look. In the surrounding trees and on the top of the mountain, there were shadowy figures shaking. The swords and guns flashed from time to time in the sun.
It was obvious that this group had bad intentions. They were slowly approaching using the bushes and grass.
"This is a big deal." Wang Wu said a saying he learned from the Australians. "Everyone who can move must get on the embankment."
In order to delay time, he picked up the tin propaganda loudspeaker and shouted loudly: "We are the Australian team from Lingao. We are here to deliver medicines to the local people. We have no ill will towards the people of Danzhou. Who are you?" a! ~!
