Chapter 48 Doubts in Waiting

The whole family of the selected tenants are in the village or in the enclosure. Once the bandits come one day, it is impossible for these men of the tenants to slip away at any time. Their families are still there. Even if they are for their families, they will not play their lives. Otherwise, the stockade will be broken by the bandits, and their families will definitely be harmed, so from this perspective, LiuDi did a good job.

After these tenants were selected, they were assigned to the earth enclosures and villages by Liu. For their housing, it is very simple. Although ordinary earthen houses and wooden houses are not laborious, they are relatively labor-consuming. At the same time, after winter, the heating effect is very poor.

So Liu Di was simple because he was humble. He asked them to dig some soil nests, dug out the soil, and piled them directly next to the soil nests, forming a low wall, using tree sticks that had not even been cut off the bark as beams, branches as rafters, thick straw, leaving a hole for ventilation in the chimney, and then pasting mud on it, although It's very simple, but it's quite warm in winter. If you burn a little firewood in the house, the nest will be very warm.

Poor people don't have many clothes, and there are not many cotton clothes to protect against the cold in winter. They live in a nest, at least they won't freeze to death and won't hurt people.

Although such conditions are simple enough, they are still quite satisfied with these people who have eaten this meal. At least they now have a shelter from the wind and rain, so they don't have to worry about it anymore.

More than half of these sheltered tenants are refugees who have escaped from Liaodong and barely struggled to survive here. Now they can be admitted here, with work and food. For them, even compared with Liaodong before, it is a paradise.

So LiuDi is of course regarded as a kind person by these people. Everyone who stayed behind is grateful to LiuDi. He is quite respectful to him and works very hard.

However, LiuDi looked at the outside of the stockade. The refugees who gathered here and refused to disperse felt very uncomfortable. These people finally gathered here, which is a rare human resource for the sea wolf, but at present, he can't gather these people together and then transport them out.

Because so far, Denglai and other places have not been completely chaotic. Although many people have eaten this meal, it is not yet time to deceive them. In addition, at this time, they will start to collect them and transfer them, which will definitely attract the attention of the government. People with intentions will not find that he is careful. Bad, maybe it will expose his purpose in advance.

So although there are many hungry people gathered near Xishan Village now, he does not dare to act rashly. He can only try his best to recruit tenants and accommodate more people to stay here, but the number cannot be too large.

But he always felt sorry to see these hungry people disperse like this, but it seemed that there was no way to keep these people as the wall and the earthen had been gradually completed.

Liu didn't think about it and couldn't think of a good way, so he had to let people continue to set up a big pot to cook some porridge outside the stockade and serve two meals a day. Only those who are not dry and are willing to stay and rely on him to give porridge can maintain their lives first, but if they are not satisfied, they can only drink two meals a day. The porridge people can only disperse them first.

Just when Liu was worried about this matter, a man younger than him quietly walked behind him and said to him, "Outside from Liu, there was news from Guan Ning that Jiannu sent troops to the south again. Jiannu's army surrounded Dalinghe City, and Marshal Zu was surrounded. In Dalinghe City, news was also sent back from Dengzhou City, saying that Lord Sun, the governor of Denglai, first sent a sailor to sea and tried to go to Guanning to help. However, a few days ago, due to the strong wind at sea, the sailor's fleet could not arrive, so he had to return to Dengzhou Water City.

Now Lord Sun has sent old generals in Liaodong, and the current general Kong Youde led 800 Liaodong elite horses to Daling River City to help, but I don't know if Jiannu can enter the customs again this time!

I really don't understand why our lord is far away in Fujian, so he can expect that there will be chaos in Denglai! But we have been here for so long, but nothing big has happened!"

After listening to this, his heart suddenly moved. He suddenly remembered that before he set out from Fujian, Yu Xiaotian personally summoned them and once specifically told them to be careful here, paying special attention to the old part of Dongjiang on the side of Denglai, which seemed to specifically mention Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, etc. People.

And at that time, Yu Xiaotian seemed to have specifically mentioned that these people would become the introduction of this Denglai chaos, but some time ago, these old parts of the Dongjiang River were basically nestled in Dengzhou City and did not go out much.

Therefore, although the relationship between the old part of Dongjiang and these Liaodong people and Shandong soldiers is tense, it is also limited to small-scale conflicts and frictions. Sun Yuanhua is on it, and nothing big has happened.

But this time Jiannu went south again and attacked Dalinghe City. Sun Yuanhua finally began to mobilize officers and soldiers, and this time it was Kong Youde, the old general of Dongjiang, who led the army to fight. Is it possible that Xiaozhen has the ability to know everything. Can you expect this?

Nowadays, as a member of the sea wolf, the sea wolf members treat Yu Xiaotian as a god. They blindly believe almost what Yu Xiaotian said, and few people will question Yu Xiaotian's arrangement.

This time, they were suddenly sent to the Denglai area. Although they didn't know what Yu Xiaotian wanted them to do, since they were asked to come, it would definitely be useful and would not let them spend so much money here.

Yu Xiaotian said at that time that Denglai would make a big mess this year, and let them come here first to pave the way for the next possible action.

Thinking of this, LiuDi turned around and looked at the young man who came to report to him and said solemnly, "Xiao Wu, don't doubt the purpose of the master. Since the master asked us to come in advance, it will never be aimless!

Let's just do a good job of our work. You can go to Dengzhou Prefecture in person and keep an eye on the situation there. Once something happens, return it quickly!

I don't know why, I have a hunch that it's really going to be a big mess in Denglai and other places this time!"

This young man, known as Xiaowu, blushed and quickly explained, "How dare you doubt the master's arrangement? I just feel that nothing big has happened since we have been here for so long, and I feel a little anxious!

Since the lieutenant said so, the little one immediately went to Dengzhou Prefecture to stare at it! As soon as something happens, send someone back to report it immediately!"

"Go! By the way, please ask Li Fu to come through! I have something to ask him! Remember, don't call me a lieutenant here in the future, just call me a member or a master! Otherwise, if you are heard, it will cause trouble!" LiuDi waved his hand.

Hearing this, Xiao Wuyi quickly nodded and agreed. He turned around and quickly walked down the Zhuang wall. After a while, a strong man with a dark face and a little short and thick walked up from under the Zhuang wall quickly.

Liu Di looked at that there were no idle people around him. They were all his own people who came from the sea wolf, so he raised his hand to stop this short and thick man from salute him and asked directly, "Futong, don't be polite. This is not on our land in Fujian. Pay more attention to the future!"

Li Futong used to have the habit of salute Liu differently. After listening to it, he quickly stopped his habit and said with a dry smile, "People say that we are stupid to be soldiers. We are all used to it and almost forgot it again!"

"I asked you to come here to ask you how our weapons are ready at the moment!" LiuDi didn't say anything more and asked him directly.

Li Futong quickly replied, "I came here this time and brought a platoon with a total of 50 brothers. Fifty wolf tooth rifles were transported with the ship, all of which were made of the latest fine steel issued by the logistics department!

In addition, there are 400 long gun heads brought with the ship, but there is no gun barrel. If we need to match the gun barrel here, we can use it.

In addition to the head of the gun, there are also 200 standard one-handed knives, 200 sets of standard rattan cards, 50 sets of cloth bags, 50 bows, 20 crossbows, and five boxes of arrow clusters, about 10,000, but we have to match our own arrow poles! However, as the ship sent a hand-cranked round rod machine and a animal-powered circular saw, as long as you want to do it, you can do it immediately!

By the way, this time I also brought two 12-pound guns and 100 shells, including 20 flowering bombs and 80 solid bullets. As for the shotguns, they were not brought, but if necessary, any stones can be used! The close-range power is not small, but it didn't open the box. For fear of being seen, it first existed in the mansion!"

Liu didn't touch his beard and shook his head and said, "The knife and gun are secondary. At present, this number should be enough. Bows and arrows are okay, but there are too few rifles and cannons! Once it's a big deal, I'm afraid I can't stand many people with these 50 rifles, even if two 12-pounder guns are added! The place we want to guard is really too wide. In addition to this Xishan Village, there is also the encirclement of Yangma Island. There are not enough manpower!"

Li Futong is the platoon leader of the infantry platoon sent by Lin Yiyang with the ship this time. He is a second lieutenant with a lower rank than Liu. This time, he was sent here to consolidate the defense of Xishan Village and Yangma Island under the leadership of Liu.

After listening to Liu's worries, Li Futong seemed to be a little disapproving and said, "In my opinion, it's almost done. Let's bring more than a dozen brothers you brought here, a total of more than 60 good hands and more than 60 wolf-tooth rifles. Even if there are hundreds of local thieves, they can't stand our several rounds of shooting, more What's more, there are two 12-pounder guns. Which one dares to come to our trouble?

As long as they dare to come, we dare to say, let them come upright and go out horizontally! Hey hey!"