Chapter 95 Battery 1

There is a busy scene on Heping Island at the mouth of Chicken Cage Bay. When Yu Xiaotian arrived here, there were many small boats and large boats going back and forth between the island and the shore, transporting various materials back and forth.

A temporary wharf has been built in the east of Peace Island for unloading goods. Many people are busy on the island, shouting horns to unload some building materials from the ship, and then transport them to the fort under construction with an ox cart for their use.

The island has even built a special road for this purpose. The road is paved with gravel and some slag, and crushed with stones, which makes it much easier to transport materials.

Some masons simply mine stone on the island, which is directly used for the construction of forts to reduce the cost of transportation.

In order to make the logs harvested on land strong and durable and not easy to rot, they are baked and burned on the fire before being transported. First, they can force out the moisture of the wood so that they are not easy to deform after use. Second, some worms and insects in the wood can be baked at high temperature. Eggs or termites burn to death, so that they will not be blamed in the fort later, and a carbonized layer will be formed on the surface, making it less prone to decay.

After all, there are too many rainy days in the area of Chickenlong Bay on Taiwan Island, and the air here is also very humid. If you don't make these preparations in advance, it won't take long after the fort is built.

However, in order for the turret to be stronger and used for a longer time, the weighing structure of the main body is built with more stones to reduce the use of wood and make it more durable.

When Yu Xiaotian led the fleet to arrive here, the fort here had begun to take shape. A hexagonal multi-edged fort had been established and initially entered the final stage.

Yu Xiaotian didn't wait for the ship to be stable, so he flew from the boat to the trestle, and did not talk much nonsense with the blackhead who came to meet him. He said directly, "As you walk, let's see how the fort is building first!"

Blackheads have also been used to Yu Xiaotian's style of handling things. They waved to his men to start unloading the ship and arrange food and accommodation for the new immigrants. In addition, more than 200 Chen Jiu's men who will be brought by Xiaotian also find a place to settle them first and send people to take care of them to avoid trouble.

And the guards, led by Liu Wang, protected Yu Xiaotian and let the black head lead the way to the fort.

"How are you doing here these days? What's the big deal?" Yu Xiaotian strode towards the fort and asked the black head.

Blackhead immediately replied, "No big happened, but a group of thieves passed by here, trying to get some money from us and grab some people!"

But they were found by us early. Before they started, I took people out to kill them. They killed more than a dozen people and caught more than 20 people. The remaining 20 people ran fast and were not caught by me!

These 20 prisoners were sent by me to pick stones and cut wood! Grandma doesn't look who we are, but dares to come here to make trouble! Hey hey!

In addition, when I sent a ship out to patrol, I met several merchant ships, made two tickets, grabbed two boats, and got a batch of things. First, I stored them in the Wanzi stockade. When I go back, I can take them away.

By the way, five days ago, a group of local natives also ran out of the mountain forest and tried to grab things in our camp. I was unfavorable and almost let them win!

They killed six of our people and robbed a cooking woman, but they also killed more than a dozen of us and arrested seven or eight! Please punish the big head!"

Yu Xiaotian listened as he walked and nodded, "You are really careless! But as an example, in general, you did a good job! The prize still needs to be awarded! But when dealing with the natives, remember that if people don't offend me, I won't offend them. Since this tribe dares to provoke us, it can't forgive them!

I brought you 30 soldiers this time, and 20 new twent-guns to strengthen your guards here.

More than 200 Chen Jiu's men are used as hard laborers first. Whoever does a good job will be promoted to be a foreman. A year later, if they can perform well, they can get rid of their status as prisoners of war and transfer to the reserve camp for training! Later, you can work on the ship or enter the barracks!

If you have a good performance, you can directly transfer to become our personnel, but if someone wants to make trouble here, you know how to deal with it! Those who should not be soft should never be soft. Let them understand a truth and follow me. Those who are obedient have meat to eat, and disobedient people have boards to eat! What makes trouble is to find death!

After these people give it to you, find me the tribe that attacked our camp and let them understand by thunder that they can be friends with us, but if they want to be enemies with us, they will be destroyed!"

The black head repeatedly said that he had written down Yu Xiaotian's order, accompanied Yu Xiaotian and walked, and quickly came to the construction site of the fort.

After approaching, Yu Xiaotian found that the size of the fort was slightly smaller than he thought, but there was still no problem with 50 to 100 guards. The height has now reached two feet, but there is no sign of capping.

Most of the main body of the wall is made of stone mined on the spot. The combination of the stone is bonded with lime mixed with yellow mud commonly used by craftsmen.

Yu Xiaotian reached out and touched the seams between the stones. Some seams were well made. The gaps were very small, but many of the cracks in the stones were relatively large. They looked rough workmanship, and Yu Xiaotian was somewhat disappointed with this.

At this time, the foreman who presided over the construction of the fort here rushed over and saw Yu Xiaotian observing the stone seams of the fort, so he quickly accompanied him with a smiling face and said, "This seam is indeed a little rough! I hope the head of the house will forgive me! It's just that among those who came, there are really no good masons. The stones are of different sizes, and there is no time to grind them. In order to rush to work, we have to use them, so the seams are not easy to make, and we can only fill them with gray sand, but please rest assured that this wall is no problem! It's secure!"

Yu Xiaotian did not struggle too much about this matter, because he knows very well who has been sent here. There are no masons, but they are also some rough-worked masons. Most of the stone mining materials are ordinary people, and it is good to extract the stone.

And the construction period he required is also short. The craftsmen here are limited, so they can only use these irregularly shaped stones to build walls. It is already their best to achieve this step.

What's more, the fort he wants can't pursue too high. As long as he has enough defense, it's okay. He didn't think that he must make this fort into a boutique project. He has no time, no energy, and no spare money to throw it on beauty.

So he nodded to agree with the foreman's statement and began to observe the fort carefully.

The fort covers an area of more than one mu, that is, thousands of square meters. The structure is indeed the structure in the form of a fenugment he wanted. It belongs to the structure of stone and wood, and a small amount of plaster is used in some places.

In terms of shape, this fort has a combination of Chinese and Western architecture. It has some characteristics of Western architecture and Chinese architecture. Who let him conceived such a fort? Craftsmen have never seen the fort built by real Western countries, so they can only give full play to their imagination to build this fort.

Therefore, the appearance of the fort built seems a little strange, which makes Yu Xiaotian a little disappointed, but he is not too entangled in this regard. At present, what he pursues is pragmatism. As long as it can be used, beauty is secondary, so he doesn't even ask a craftsman to do the necessary decoration, saving waves. Time-consuming.

So this fort looks rustic, and the whole is blue-gray. In addition, the carbonized blackened wood on the surface in some places is exposed, which is even more ugly.

Yu Xiaotian walked into the fort, and many people were working on the fort. Seeing the foreman carefully accompanying Yu Xiaotian into the fort, they quickly stopped their work and saluted Yu Xiaotian.

"It's not too polite. Hurry up and work! It's too hot. Finish early and rest early! Blackhead!" Yu Xiaotian waved his hand and said.

"My subordinates are!"

"How is the food and accommodation arrangements of the craftsmen?" Yu Xiaotian asked the blackhead.

Blackhead quickly bowed his head and replied, "I dare not neglect it. Try to arrange it well. This can be said by Liu Jiangtou himself!"

The foreman quickly said with a smiling face, "Thank you for your concern. The black leader is really good to the little ones. He is full every day and gives enough water to drink. The shed is also ready, so that the big guy has a place to sleep and can take a bath in the sea! Give the little ones meat every now and then, and this day is more moist than when the little ones were on land!"

Yu Xiaotian nodded and said, "You are tired. Naturally, you should do this! If you are not satisfied, just tell me. As long as I can do it, I will try my best to do it for you!

Blackhead, these craftsmen do physical work. They must let them eat well, and eat cleanly and drink cleanly. Don't let them get sick for this, otherwise I will definitely not spare you!"

"Yes, my subordinates! Be sure to remember the orders of the great masters!" The black head nodded.

And Liu Jiangtou quickly bowed to Yu Xiaotian again.

Yu Xiaotian stopped talking nonsense and let Liu Jiang take him around the inside of the fort to watch the structural layout of the inside of the fort.

This battery is basically designed according to his idea. A large water cellar is arranged to be excavated at the bottom to store water, which can ensure that there will be no shortage of fresh water for two months, and this cellar is also specially built. The rainwater collection channel can be stored in the water cellar only by rain, and even there is no need to go to the shore to transport fresh water. Once the water cellar is full, it can be drained directly, and there will be no flooding of the Seventh Army.

Yu Xiaotian praised the design. In this way, it saves a lot of manpower and material resources and saves a lot of time to transport fresh water. If it is besieged, close to the rain, it is basically impossible to cut off water here, which also ensures the needs of fresh water for the insiders of the battery. It's a very good design.