Chapter 57 The Arrival of Reinforcements

For these refugees, Liu and others divide them into several levels. Young men with working ability are placed separately. Each person is given a red wooden card. With this wooden card, they can receive meals from their special cauldron, three meals a day, one dry and two thin. In addition, there are vegetable cakes to supplement, which Some people have relatively sufficient food, which can ensure their physical fitness, let them do some heavy work in the earthen, or receive military training. If necessary, they should also help maintain order and suppress the ** in the earthen.

As for those who have a weak labor force but have certain skills, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, or horses, tailors, etc., they receive black wooden cards. The quality of food is slightly inferior to that of red cards. Two meals a day, one meal a day is rare and one dry. The amount of food is relatively large. At least it is not a problem to eat half full, but usually In Tuweizi or Xishan Village, it is not too much labor that consumes physical energy.

The third class is some women or old people with a certain amount of labor force, who are given yellow wooden cards. These people are responsible for taking care of some fires, or washing and cooking, or sewing and mending, doing some work within their ability. It is also two meals a day, one dry and one thin, and the quality of food is slightly inferior to black cards.

The fourth class is some people who basically have a weak labor force, which does not include children and teenagers, but are mostly old and weak. These people basically do not need to work. Of course, the quality of food is also the worst. Two meals a day are rare, and the food is limited to almost enough to sustain their lives and provide a basic heat supply. Not to starve to death.

Of course, there is also a kind of teenagers and children, both men and women, as long as they are over three years old, are concentrated in the cleanest nests. After entering the earth enclosure, these children will be handed over to some special personnel for management and nurturing. Everyone will be asked to wash them first and give new ones. Clothes and meals are the best. Two dry meals and one porridge, or three thick rice porridge with cakes, and even some meat. It can be said that the treatment is very good.

Most of these poor children come from poor families. I don't think they have eaten so well in their lives. With the quality of such food, even those strong laborers feel a little jealous. I can't figure out why Liu Dashan is so good to these children. Obviously, they can't work, but why do they still feed them so well. Some people without children will have some slander.

However, Liu did not care about the comments of these people and did so according to the requirements given by the headquarters. Although they cut off the contact between them and their parents, those refugees saw that their children could get such good care and such good food, and even some people taught them to read. In addition In addition to gratitude, I dare not complain about anything. After all, they can't take such good care of these children after following them. They are very grateful to Liu Dashan.

At first, some people were worried that these children would be completely taken away from them, so they were a little worried, but Liu Dashan promised them that as long as the winter passed, they would be transported to Fujian in the south for resettlement. When their conditions were better, the children would be returned to them. , which was raised by themselves to appease these refugees.

In a word, there are many people under Master Liu in this Xishan Village who seem to be good at doing these things. Although thousands of people have been stuffed into the earth enclosure in a short time, these people have managed these thousands of refugees in an orderly manner, which is admirable.

However, with the passage of time, news came from Dengzhou. After recuperation in Dengzhou City for a while, the rebels finally began to take action again. Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng sent a lot of men to lead some non-core rebel members to go to the surrounding counties, attack counties and large villages, and plunder them. Property and food to meet their needs.

The rebels also know that although they have obtained a batch of food in Dengzhou City, this batch of food is not too much. It is far from enough to feed so many rebels, which can support them for two or three months at most, but this time they made such a big deal that they must not be able to solve it in a short time.

So Kong Youde and other traitors began to have another idea. First, they should continue to make four strategies to raise more food. Second, they should lay more territory and get bigger cards. In the future, once the court comforts them, they can also have more room for bargaining.

In this way, the situation in Denglai and other places and the whole northern Shandong region became tense again, which made Liu Didi a little worried again, and strengthened the defense force of Xishan Village and Yangma Island.

He pulled out hundreds of young and strong men from the refugees in the encirclement, began to train them, and trained two companies of villagers and assigned them with weapons. Among these villagers, some of them used to be hunters. They had some kung fu and knew how to use bows. They were good at shooting, so they were promoted and became archers, and sent them strong bows and hard, so that they had strong combat effectiveness.

In addition, among these refugees, they are also Tibetan dragons and crouching tigers, among which there are more than a dozen former Shandong soldiers. Some of these Shandong soldiers are fugitives, and some of them have escaped from Dengzhou. These people don't want to fall into the rebels, so they sneaked into the refugees, ran here, and mixed into the enclosure, but they were soon by Liu Different men came out.

These people were detained alone and carefully interrogated. Not to mention that they really found the details of the two rebels, they directly killed and threw out the enclosure.

The remaining Shandong soldiers were not a big problem. They said that they had no malice, but they didn't want to defect to the rebels, but there was no place to go, so they rushed here confusedly. However, the county was not allowed to enter, and they did not have anything to confirm their identity, so they became refugees and mixed in in order to survive. Surrounded by soil.

Now they are all alone. Their families are either trapped in Dengzhou City or single. They can't go anywhere. They can only stay and follow Liu differently.

Several of these people were from cavalry. Although they were a little older, their bodies were not bad. After being taken out to try, they found that they really had some kung fu and their riding skills were also quite good, so they were left behind and temporarily put into the scouts.

LiuDi also got dozens of horses in this area, pulled out some horses that could be used as fighting horses and handed them over to the scout team, and the rest were used as horses. He also made more than a dozen big cars to form a transport team to go out for activities or purchase things.

During this period, he often sent two or three shifts of people with dozens of strong villagers to go out to shelter children and some young women who were hungry on the roadside. As long as they were not dead, he could almost save them by feeding them with a few bites of food and pouring some hot water. Come back, and then pull it back into the earthen with a cart.

In this way, I also picked up a lot of people. Now I send them out for a walk almost every day. When I am lucky, I can pick up dozens of young women or children in a day, which is also a good harvest.

Just as the rebels in Dengzhou began to go out of the city again to attack and plunder. Liu Di was worried about this matter all day, one day in early February, someone suddenly rushed back to Xishan Village and reported a good news to him that a team of about 500 people appeared in the southeast of Mouping County. About 30 miles away from the county, we are looking for the location of Xishan Village and coming this way.

It happened that in the morning, Liu sent a team to pick up 100 young women in the village of a trafficker over there. They accidentally heard the news. At that time, they were scared enough to think that a group of strong people had stared at Xishan Village and wanted to come to Xishan Village to fight the autumn wind. They quickly asked the two horse-riding scouts. Go and find out.

As a result, after observing for a while, the two scouts immediately found that the team was not a group of strong people, but their sea wolves. It was more than ten days ago, because the sea area of Shidao Bay was frozen by the sea and had nothing to do. They were ordered to withdraw from Shidao Bay and come to Mouping County, Ninghai Prefecture to reinforce Liu Fu. The same two companies.

On the way, these people did not walk fast because they carried dozens of carts full of all kinds of food and ammunition. They were disturbed by nearly ten horse thieves along the way. These horse thieves stared at the goods and food contained in their carts and tried to kill them, but they were all repulsed. Many horse thieves were killed and dozens of horses were captured.

So they walked for more than ten days before they reached Muping County, but they didn't know the specific location of Xishan Village. When they arrived here, they sent people to inquire about the road along the way. They happened to meet the team sent by LiuDi to buy women, so they walked towards Xishan Village together.

A scout came back to report the news first. LiuDi was almost happy as soon as he heard it. He was worried that there were not enough people. At this time, the master sent him two companies. It is said that there is another company, and he will come over later. Now he doesn't have to worry about anything.

Although so many people come here, they will definitely attract the attention of the Haining state government and may even make them have some doubts. However, even if the Haining state government has some doubts, it is estimated that it will not dare to take the initiative to go out of the city to trouble him. If not, it will show his goodwill and ask him to help defend Mouping County. What about the city?

So now he can't care about too much else. Let's strengthen his strength first. Otherwise, everything is empty. As long as he can stand firmly here, even if the government of Ninghai Prefecture is unhappy, there is nothing he can do. As long as he doesn't mess up, officials are not willing to provoke people like him.

So he quickly packed up and welcomed out of Xishan Village. Before dark, a large convoy of people appeared on the road east of Xishan Village and would be together with Liu.

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