Although the decision was made, the political commissar was not too anxious, because they had to build their own barracks first, survey the surrounding terrain, and place sentries.
But what Feng Li and the others didn't expect was that the next day they received an order from General Zheng Yuan, commander of the Yunnan Prefecture Military Region.
"We are going to fight. Although I don't know how His Highness learned the news so quickly, His Highness's order has come. General Zheng Yuan has led 10,000 troops to this place, and 10,000 troops will arrive later. "
"So the rest of us have to temporarily clear out the camps where the follow-up army will be stationed. However, your previous instructions can also continue to be implemented. One of His Highness's orders is that the people must be settled. A batch of supplies will arrive in Pu'er County later. ." Feng Li called Wang Meng directly and said.
"I understand, then leave the task to me. As for the camp, it can be easily solved. There are large open spaces around here. These open spaces can temporarily station troops, and it is impossible for more than 20,000 troops to be stationed here. They will be dispatched in batches." Wang Meng said.
"Then I'll be in charge of the camp and leave the rest to you."
"OK."
After separating from Feng Li, Wang Meng directly found Amula.
"Captain Amula, please gather the villagers together. I have something to say." Wang Meng said.
"Okay." Amula agreed directly.
Soon more than 400 villagers gathered together. Wang Meng stood directly on a big rock in the middle and said loudly: "Fellow villagers, I know that you are very sad to encounter such a disaster, because our home is gone."
"But we are here, so don't worry, everyone. His Highness has always taught us that the army of the Tang Dynasty exists to protect the people. So, it doesn't matter if our home is gone, our home can be rebuilt! As long as we are here!"
"So I discussed it with our captain. Later we will build two tents for each of your families, near your original houses! But this is not the point. The point is that we will send out a thousand tents later. The soldiers helped everyone cut down bamboo and wood, and then called in the engineering troops from the army to help everyone rebuild their homes as quickly as possible!"
"Besides, it doesn't matter if the crops are destroyed and the food is gone. Because there will be a lot of food delivered here later. I assure you here that as long as we soldiers have something to eat, no one will go hungry. !”
"So, please believe in us, believe in our Tang army, and believe in His Highness!" Wang Meng said loudly.
Wang Meng's words stunned all the people. The reason why they were very sad before was because they never thought that the court would help them and the army would help them cut down wood and bamboo and rebuild their homes.
This was something they had never dared to think about, but now, Wang Meng's words were like a heavy hammer hitting each of their hearts.
At this time, Amula stood up and said loudly: "Everyone, the political commissar Wang is right. Your Highness has never given up on us, so we can't give up either. If the house is gone, we can rebuild it, and if the food is gone, we can rebuild it." If the chickens, ducks and pigs are gone, you can raise them again! As long as we are around!"
"So, let's all cheer up now and follow Political Commissar Wang and these soldiers to rebuild our homes, okay!"
"Okay!" The people around him couldn't help shouting.
"Okay, then let's start from today!" Wang Meng also laughed and said loudly.
A thousand soldiers accompanied the adult villagers and began to cut down the surrounding trees and bamboos. Compared with the villagers, Wang Meng and the others had more complete tools, such as hacksaws.
Compared to axes, these hacksaws don't bring down trees and bamboo too quickly.
Wang Meng and the others have more than thirty hacksaw blades two fingers wide and one meter long, with a rectangular wooden frame. The trees felled by these hands and hacksaws alone in one day are probably enough to build houses for dozens of families.
It only takes two or three days to cut down more than a hundred households, but it seems that these trees need to be continuously sawn into planks, or more thin logs can be used to directly build houses.
But these all need to wait until the wood is completely dry.
Drying is also possible, but they don't know the drying technology. There may be only a few such craftsmen in the engineering troops of the entire military region, and they all come from Chang'an.
There was a lot of movement in the Tang Dynasty, but for this era, the enemy might not know about any further movement until it was their turn. However, as the news of this incident entered the state of first-level combat readiness, the entire Yunnan Prefecture and several other prefectures including Guangdong and Guangxi's army entered a state of first-level combat readiness. Then, as the caravans transporting logistics supplies and commercial firms such as Tang Chuliang began to temporarily hire people to transport food and other logistics The supplies quickly spread throughout the southern barbarian land.
It is difficult for you to know what these mountain people were thinking, but the mountain people in this period did not have so many twists and turns, and their thoughts were relatively simple. They just knew that there were so many armies in the Tang Dynasty. , What is the reason for such a big fight?
It's to avenge the five mountain people! It was because five mountain people were killed by tribes from the enemy country.
It's that simple! To dispatch 50,000 elite troops for five mountain people may cost millions of dollars, but His Highness doesn't care. No matter how much it costs, His Highness will order revenge for these five mountain people.
As for why His Highness gave the order, these ordinary mountain people didn't know this at all, and they couldn't think of that. They just knew that His Highness had done so many things for them and it was enough!
They just knew that Datang was willing to do so much for them, and that was enough!
In this case, there is nothing to hesitate about. Countless mountain people came out spontaneously to help deliver supplies without any monthly payment.
If the various yamen hadn't said they wouldn't hire them if they didn't want the monthly payment, I guess they would never have taken the money.
But even so, other common people who have nothing to do can take the initiative to widen official roads. Wherever official roads can be widened, they should be widened. Wherever official roads cannot be widened, try to make the roads smoother!
His Highness is avenging them, and as mountain people themselves, shouldn't they contribute? They may not be able to do much, but they will not hold back the Tang army.
As the news continued to spread throughout Yunnan and Guizhou, many tribes in the mountains who had not yet come down the mountain made the decision to go down. They had been tempted before, but now, they know such a thing and such news. What else is there to hesitate about? !
