I want to be emperor

Chapter 20 Eliminate hidden dangers
Sanshui Village is small in scale. Judging from the existing houses and even the ruins of the houses, it was estimated that there were only about [-] or [-] households of mountain people in the past, but now these mountain people have long since disappeared.

The remaining houses are all thatched wooden houses, and many of them are not well preserved. One of the largest and best-preserved ones belongs to Sun Li.

Among the remaining houses, there are a few slightly larger ones, and the ones that are better preserved are divided up by Luo Zhixue, Lin Dongsheng, Wang Dazhuang, Xu He and others.

As for the ordinary soldiers, naturally they could only huddle together in some dilapidated thatched huts.

Under the housing shortage, Luo Zhixue was able to occupy a well-preserved house, which naturally explained his status in the rebel army.

Not to mention second only to Sun Chengli, but at least comparable to Lin Dongsheng, Wang Dazhuang, and Xu He, the three generals of the three armies.

However, Luo Zhixue would naturally be satisfied with the current dilapidated thatched hut, and did not want to see such a large group of people crowded in the dilapidated thatched wooden hut.

So early the next morning, Luo Zhixue began to arrange manpower to start repairing the barracks, at least it should be able to shelter from the wind and rain.

In addition to building the barracks, Luo Zhixue was more concerned about building the wall and the outer checkpoints!
A little bit of damage to the barracks is at best a bit of suffering, but there are no solid walls and checkpoints guarding the main roads outside. Once a not bad and curious enemy comes to the door, it will be fatal.

In order to better build a stable wall and peripheral checkpoints, and build defensive facilities, Luo Zhixue arranged for the repairs of the barracks, and then took An Yong to wander around Sanshui Village.

The original village of Sanshui Village was not large in scale, and there was no plan for the houses in the east and the west, but in order to guard against thieves or wild animals from outside, the mountain people lived in a relatively concentrated way in the past.

On the periphery of a group of scattered thatched wooden houses, there is a simple wooden fence that is not more than one meter high, and the repair is very dilapidated, and some places have even fallen over. With branches.

Even if this kind of wooden fence is well preserved, it can only prevent some wild animals from entering. It has no practical military defense function at all. Even if it can't stop the thieves, they will pass by just by flipping it over...

And now the dilapidated wooden fence is even more unusable.

Beyond the wooden fence is a piece of farmland that was originally reclaimed by the mountain people. The geographical conditions of this piece of farmland are quite good, and it is basically around the streams in the valley.

Moreover, there is not only one stream in this place, but two small streams flow in one after another. Finally, the three small streams converge into a small river at the entrance of the village, which is about three to four meters wide.

And those farmlands are basically around these three streams. In the past, the mountain people still built dams and ditches on the small rivers, and used the river water for irrigation.

Standing at the entrance of the village and looking out, Luo Zhixue could also understand why this place was called Sanshui Village, and why there used to be mountain people gathered here.

With these three streams flowing down from the mountain, it is enough to provide irrigation and domestic water for the surrounding farmland. As long as you are willing to put in enough effort, the food harvested in this small valley is enough to feed hundreds of people, and this place is located in the deep mountains. No government came over to collect taxes from them.

So although life in the mountains will be more difficult, it is still possible to ask for a living.

It's just that those mountain folks in the past met Fandilong and his group unluckily.

After Fandilong and the others ran over, they directly burned, killed and looted, so that the mountain people in the village died and fled. Except for a few young women who were left behind for fun, there was no one left.

But what's interesting is that although the original mountain people are gone, the land reclaimed by those mountain people has not been abandoned, but is continued to be cultivated by the thieves like Dilong.

It seems that those thieves have plans to operate here for a long time, otherwise they would not continue to farm.

In this way, Sun Chengli, Luo Zhixue and the others were at a disadvantage. At least they didn't see a large piece of abandoned land after they came, and they could continue to cultivate it later.

Luo Zhixue reckoned that as long as he organized manpower to cultivate and improved the water conservancy facilities, as long as he was not too unlucky to encounter natural disasters later, the land in Sanshui Village would be enough to provide them with enough rations.

Looking at this piece of farmland, Luo Zhixue felt that it was even more necessary to build checkpoints on the periphery.

Because in this way, the enemy can be kept out of the village gate, and these farmlands and the food crops on the farmlands can be protected.

With this in mind, Luo Zhixue continued to walk out with Er Yongduo.

The place where Sanshui Village is located is actually a small valley in Funiu Mountain. There are big mountains in the southeast, northwest, but there is a valley in the south where the terrain is relatively low. Luo Zhixue reckoned that it was possible to go all the way south, and finally join the streams in other mountains, all the way south to Nanzhao County or east to Lushan County.

However, even if there is a valley in the south for the stream to flow out, this does not mean that the terrain in the south is easy to walk. In fact, on the contrary, the terrain in the south is more difficult to walk.

Maybe a road along the river can be opened in the future, but right now, the road in that place is impassable.

The only road that connects Sanshui Village to the outside world is a winding trail created by the mountain villagers themselves. Generally speaking, you can climb over this group of mountains all the way to the east and reach the nearby hilly area with relatively gentle terrain. outside contact.

In the past, the mountain people communicated with the outside world through this mountain road they opened up by themselves. Fan Dilong and the others also followed this road when they entered the mountain, and Luo Zhixue and the others still came in along this small road.

As for other directions, there is no way to go. Even some hills seem to be relatively flat and passable, but the problem is that there is no way.

Unless a road is forcibly carved out of the weeds and forests, otherwise, the only way to enter and exit Shanshui Village is from the east.

In this way, Luo Zhixue paid special attention to this channel.

As long as this passage is guarded, the enemy can be kept out.

Similarly, in order to prevent the enemy from blocking this road and trapping them directly inside, Luo Zhixue felt that it was necessary to explore a usable path in other directions so that he could escape at a critical moment.

Luo Zhixue led An Yongduo all the way out. First, he walked along the east path for a while, and selected several dangerous places as candidates for setting up checkpoints. He also chose several places with good views and easy concealment to build Security checkpoint.

After walking around for a long time, it was already mid-afternoon when Luo Zhixue came back. After a hungry meal, he went to find Sun Chengli with the survey results of the morning.

After arriving, Sun Jiancheng's confidant sentinel Wang Xiazi said that Sun Jiancheng was seeing Lin Dongsheng, so Luo Zhixue didn't go in directly, but asked Wang Xiazi to report, while he waited outside.

Soon, Sun Chengli's voice came from inside: "Brother Luo is back, you must be tired from the investigation all the way!"

As soon as Sun Chengli's voice fell, Luo Zhixue saw Sun Chengli's figure also came out from inside, with a little joy on his face, and Lin Dongsheng followed behind him.

After striding out, Sun Chengli said with a smile on his face: "Come on, come in and drink tea!"

Luo Zhixue said: "The general is smiling, it looks like something good is going on!"

As Luo Zhixue said, he glanced at Lin Dongsheng behind Sun Jiancheng, and immediately said: "Brother Lin went to hunt down Dilong yesterday, and now he's back, he must have taken down Dilong!"

Sun Chengli laughed: "Sure enough, I can't hide it from you, Brother Luo..."

At this time, Lin Dongsheng also stepped forward sideways and said: "It's all thanks to the great general's blessing. Although the earth-turning dragon walked over the mountains to the west at first, but there are deep mountains and dense forests there, they can't stay in it all the time." let's go."

"If they want to escape, they still have to go to the mountain path in the end, otherwise they won't be able to get out for ten days and a half months!"

"So I just took people and waited on the mountain road. No, I did wait for them at noon."

"We killed seven or eight people with arrows on the spot, and Dilong also died on the spot, and the rest also knelt down."

Luo Zhixue said: "This is very good, so we don't have to worry about these people going back and forth, or even playing tricks of attracting revenge from outsiders."

Although Luo Zhixue didn't think that the Earth-diving Dragon would cause any disturbance after it escaped, it was always a hidden danger.

What if Fandilong is particularly capable of tossing around, and after running out, he persuaded the leader of a certain bandit army to capture Sanshui Village in Funiu Mountain. This Funiu Mountain is not bad, and it is very suitable for settling down. Luo Zhixue and the others can take a fancy to it. If you understand the situation of Funiu Mountain, maybe you will follow it.

There will inevitably be a fight at that time.

Or after Fan Dilong ran out, with the revenge mentality that I am unlucky and you are also unlucky, it is not a good thing to directly disclose the news to the officers and soldiers that a group of elite bandits came from Funiu Mountain.

Those officers and soldiers didn't care much about ordinary thieves, but they were quite interested in a group of elite anti-thief cavalry with a large number of mules and horses, well-equipped weapons, and even a lot of armor.

Back then there were many thieves who were active in the direction of Henan Prefecture and Ruzhou, but why did Zuo Liangyu and Chen Zhibang chase after Li Tonglin and the others?

Wasn't it because Li Tonglin and the others had elite cavalry of over a hundred at that time, which attracted the attention of the officers and soldiers.

If it was replaced by hundreds of rogue bandits, Zuo Liangyu would send troops to encircle and suppress them, but he would definitely not send many batches of elite cavalry to pursue them for half a month, and even contacted Chen Zhibang to encircle and suppress them in the end.

After all, there are a lot of thieves these days, usually hundreds of thieves, the officers and soldiers don't take them seriously, and they don't bother to pay attention to them.

It's just small-scale refugees, and they can't cause any disturbances, they can't make trouble, and they don't have the ability to chase the endless stream of thieves around.

It would be easier and easier to wait for the refugees to gather themselves and kill them in another wave.

However, this situation is not true for the elite backbone of the bandit army.

People's officers and soldiers are not stupid, and they also know that these elite backbones in the bandit army are the key points. If you can kill hundreds of elite backbones in the bandit army, it will be more helpful to encircle and suppress than killing tens of thousands of ordinary rogues. bandit army.

Not to mention that Luo Zhixue's group had a fight with Chen Zhibang's cavalry not long ago. Chen Zhibang still remembers them vividly.

If Chen Zhibang knew that the bandit Jingqi who had fought with him a while ago was hiding in Funiu Mountain, he might send troops to attack again.

So now it is still necessary to keep a low profile and block the news as much as possible.

Be it Sun Chengli or Luo Zhixue, they are still counting on staying here for a period of time to build up strength.

Now that Dilong and the others have been completely kept, it can be regarded as eliminating hidden dangers.

At least in a short period of time, there is no need to worry too much about letting the outside world know: a group of unusual rebels have come to Sanshui Village, Funiu Mountain!

(End of this chapter)