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Luo Zhixue led his own people to repair the weapons. Although the quality of the repaired weapons was not very good, and there was no way to do a too complicated process, he still solved the urgent need.
This made Sun Chengli and everyone else very satisfied.
Sun Chengli took a repaired waist knife and looked left and right, and tried to slash at the wooden pile several times. After finding that the blade was neither curled nor bent, he said: "Well, as expected of Mr. Luo, he can even repair weapons." Understand."
Luo Zhixue gently shook his folding fan: "The general has given me the reward. It's just a trivial matter to make iron."
Sun Chengli said: "Mr. Luo is too humble. Weapons are of great importance. It will be of great use for brothers to have weapons at hand."
As he said that, Sun Chengli looked at the dozen or so repaired waist knives or spearheads beside him and said: "With these weapons, plus the weapons we had in reserve before, it will be more convenient for us to recruit manpower in the future."
"It's still a little early. After a period of time and the family affairs are settled, we will start recruiting people. We don't need too many people at first, just thirty or fifty people."
As he said that, Sun Chengli looked at Luo Zhixue again: "When the time comes, the first group of people will give half of the manpower to Mr. Luo's baggage camp and set up the frame of the baggage camp first."
When Luo Zhixue heard this, his eyes lit up.
Although they had decided before that they would cultivate their health and recuperate in Funiu Mountain and recruit troops to accumulate strength.
But this is the first time that Sun Chengli has clearly stated his position. It seems that Sun Chengli has already raised the official schedule to expand the scale of recruiting troops, and he has also made it clear that half of the people will be assigned to the supply camp for the first recruitment.
This shows that Sun Chengli has not forgotten his promise to Luo Zhixue.
After Luo Zhixue helped him seize the throne, Sun Chengli promised Luo Zhixue to rebuild the supply camp, either to win over him or to reward him.
However, he continued to flee on the road, and then he came to Funiu Mountain and was busy with other things, so the recruitment of troops was suspended. Even Luo Zhixue's supply camp was still empty, with only Luo Zhixue and his relatives. Four soldiers.
Now after hearing what Sun Chengli said, Luo Zhixue immediately said: "General, don't worry, my subordinates will definitely work hard to help the general manage the supply camp well."
Sun Chengli nodded slightly.
Sun Chengli still values Luo Zhixue very much. Through this period of contact, he has determined that Luo Zhixue is a talent, and he is a talent worthy of his attention and wooing.
He is confident that with Luo Zhixue's assistance, his rebellion can surpass Li Tonglin's before, and even reach a higher level.
As an ideal rebel leader, Sun Chengli would not treat his subordinates badly, let alone go back on his word easily.
Since he had promised Luo Zhixue to rebuild the supply camp before, he would implement it.
Otherwise, how can he be a big boss in the future, and how can he convince his subordinates to work with him?
You must know that what they are doing is rebellion, and they are working with their heads in their belts.
If the people under him are not sincere, Sun Chengli will not be able to secure his position as the big boss.
Someone has to carry the sedan chair, right?
Otherwise, relying on his grandson alone, even if the gods come down to earth, they won't be able to accomplish much.
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Although Sun Chengli has officially decided to recruit troops, it is not now, but some time later.
During this period of time, they still had to continue to be busy. First, they worked for several days to repair the barracks, and then Luo Zhixue took the prisoners of war to start repairing the fortress walls and peripheral checkpoints.
Relatively speaking, in fact, the wall is not important. After discussion with Sun Chengli and Luo Zhixue, they felt that the necessity of the wall was not too great, because by the time the enemy reached the wall, they had already entered Sanshui Village. .
And Sun Chengli and the others would not allow this to happen.
In order to protect Sanshui Village, they must block the enemy at the outer checkpoints.
If they cannot be stopped, Sun Chengli and the others will not foolishly continue to trap the beast in Sanshui Village, but will choose to retreat directly.
Therefore, compared with the village wall, they paid more attention to the peripheral checkpoints, especially the checkpoints guarding the east entrance and exit.
After Luo Zhixue and Sun Chengli visited several times in person, they finally decided to build a checkpoint in a slender canyon about five miles away from Sanshui Village.
This place is not far from Sanshui Village, only five miles away.
At the same time, this place is the only way in and out of the east. In addition to the path in the canyon, there are high mountains and forests on both sides, and the mountains and forests are very dense. Let alone a large army, even a small group of people want to go directly. It is very difficult to cross over the mountain.
Because of the terrain, this place is particularly suitable for blocking and defending. Just building a wall in the canyon is enough to keep the enemy out.
And because the canyon is very long and slender, the narrowest part is only a few dozen meters wide. Even if the enemy attacks in large numbers, they will not be able to deploy a large number of troops.
In the end, even if it was forcibly breached by the enemy with absolutely superior strength, it would still leave enough reaction time for the people in Sanshui Village to evacuate.
After deciding to build the checkpoint here, Luo Zhixue mobilized more than 40 prisoners of war to start building the checkpoint under the supervision of guards, and named it Wuli Pass.
The construction of Wuliguan is actually very simple. It only needs to build a wall of about 80 meters, with about 40 walls at the bottom, and the two sides extend along the slightly gentle mountainside on both sides of the canyon until they reach the cliff.
At the same time, several arrow towers will be built.
Because of the realistic conditions, the wall was only repaired with a large number of trees, supplemented by local stones and soil.
To put it bluntly, it is actually just a wooden fence.
However, even so, it is enough to withstand ordinary enemy forces.
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As time passed, two months later, Luo Zhixue arrived at Wuliguan again.
This place has changed a lot!
The mountains on both sides are still the same, but in the middle of the canyon there is an additional wall about three meters high and about eighty meters long.
The bottom of the village wall is piled up with stones and soil, with wooden stakes erected on top, and the wooden stakes are connected with thinner wooden branches.
At the top of the wall, there is a top passage set up with wooden shelves for people to stand on.
There is a village gate in the middle of the village wall. There is no gate tower above the village gate, but there are arrow towers made of the same bamboo and wood on each side.
There is also an arrow tower on each side slightly further away.
The four arrow towers are connected together, enough to fully cover the entire canyon.
Behind the wall, there are several wooden houses, which are the barracks of the soldiers stationed here.
There are additional sentry towers built on the mountains on both sides of Wuliguan.
The whole Wuliguan is primitive and crude!
However, there are still a lot of military defense functions. In Sun Chengli's words: Even if hundreds of people attack, we can stop it.
The hundreds of people Sun Chengcheng mentioned did not refer to ordinary bandits, but to those regular army recruits in the official army.
As for the ordinary thieves, there is a high probability that they will not be able to reach Wuli Pass, because Sun Chengli and the others have also set up hidden sentries in the outer areas.
Once the enemy is discovered, if they are just ordinary bandits, they will ambush them on their way into the mountain or simply forcibly drive them away.
These five miles pass are actually prepared for powerful enemies.
After Luo Zhixue inspected Wuli Pass, he chatted with Lin Dongsheng and others who were already stationed here, expressed condolences to the garrison here on behalf of Sun Chengli, and left a batch of food and baggage before taking An Yongduo and others. Leave.
When leaving Wuliguan and walking back, An Yongduo, who was following Luo Zhixue, hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't help but stepped forward and asked: "Sir, I heard from Wang Xiazi that we will be recruiting people in the next few days. , and when the time comes, our supply camp will also be able to allocate manpower?"
Luo Zhixue looked back at him. He didn't need to guess what was going on in this man's mind. It was just that he was about to recruit troops, and the supply camp was about to be allocated manpower, so An Yongduo and the others had some time with Luo Zhixue. The soldiers also started to think about it.
This supply camp needs to increase its manpower. Even if it adds twenty or thirty people, there will still be positions for several small bosses, regardless of whether they are called commanders or sentry officers.
As a result, An Yongduo and the other soldiers could no longer sit still.
People are all ambitious. They followed Luo Zhixue as soldiers and stayed in front of Luo Zhixue for so long, just to get along better.
Now, if I could be a small official and manage a few people under my command, wouldn't it be much more satisfying?
Luo Zhixue did not hide anything and said immediately: "Yes, during the military meeting yesterday, the general had already decided to recruit troops. Our supply camp will have a quota of thirty people for this batch of recruits."
With that said, Luo Zhixue glanced at An Yongduo again: "This time we recruit soldiers who are all descendants of mountain people who don't know anything. By then, there will be a lot of things to do in terms of training and management!"
"I can't do so many things by myself. When the time comes, it will be up to you to do it."
"It's not easy to train them into an army. I don't know how much worry I have to worry about later."
"You should think about it more these days. If you don't understand, go to Blind Man Wang and the others to learn more."
In fact, there was no need for An Yong to say anything more. Luo Zhixue had already made up his mind to ask An Yong and the four of them to help him manage the new recruits in the supply camp.
There was no way, he only had four soldiers in total, and besides them, Luo Zhixue, there was no one else available.
After listening to Luo Zhixue's words, An Yongduo immediately beamed with joy: "Sir, you can rest assured. In fact, we have already asked Blind Wang and the others for advice in the past few days."
"Although we were just small soldiers before, we have never eaten pork and have seen pigs running. How did the officials train us in the past? We will train the newcomers like this later."
Luo Zhixue nodded slightly and said no more.
I was also thinking about recruiting new people this time.
