I want to be emperor

Chapter 24 Wuliguan

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Luo Zhixue took his own people to repair the weapon. Although the quality of the repaired weapon was not good, and there was no way to do too complicated procedures, it finally solved the urgent need.

This made Sun Chengli and everyone else feel very satisfied.

Sun Chengli took a repaired waist knife and looked left and right, and tried to slash at the wooden pile a few times, but found that there was no curling or bending of the blade, and he said: "Okay, as expected of Mr. Luo, he can't even repair the weapon. Understand."

Luo Zhixue shook his folding fan lightly: "The general is overwhelmed, and making iron is nothing but a trivial matter."

Sun Chengli said: "Mr. Luo is too modest. Weapons are of great importance. Brothers have weapons at hand, which will be of great use."

Then, Sun Chengli looked at the more than ten waist knives or spearheads that had been repaired beside him and said: "With these weapons, plus the weapons we had in reserve before, it will be more convenient for us to recruit people in the future."

"It's still early. After a while, we'll start recruiting people after the family affairs are settled. We don't need too many people at first. Just recruit 50 people first."

With that said, Sun Chengli looked at Luo Zhixue again: "When the time comes, the first batch of people will first give half of the manpower to Mr. Luo's supply camp, and first set up the shelves of the supply camp."

Luo Zhixue's eyes lit up when he heard this.

Although they had made up their minds before that they would cultivate their health and rest in Funiu Mountain, recruiting troops and buying horses to accumulate strength.

But this is the first time that Sun Jiancheng has made a clear statement. It seems that Sun Jiancheng has raised the official schedule of recruiting and expanding the scale, and he has made it clear that half of the first recruits will be assigned to the supply camp.

This shows that Sun Chengli has not forgotten his promise to Luo Zhixue.

After Luo Zhixue helped him seize the throne, Sun Chengli wanted to win him over or reward him, but he promised Luo Zhixue to rebuild the supply camp.

It's just that he continued to flee on the road, and then he came to Funiu Mountain and was busy with other things, so the recruitment of soldiers and horses was suspended. Even the supply camp with Luo Zhixue is still empty, only Luo Zhixue and his relatives There are four soldiers.

Now, after hearing what Sun Chengli said, Luo Zhixue immediately said: "Don't worry, General, when the time comes, the subordinates will work hard to help the General manage the supply camp well."

Sun Chengli nodded slightly.

Sun Jiancheng still valued Luo Zhixue very much. Through the contact during this period of time, he has already determined that Luo Zhixue is a talent, and a talent worthy of his attention and win over.

He is confident that with Luo Zhixue's assistance, his rebellious cause can surpass that of Li Tonglin before him, and even reach a higher level.

As an anti-thief leader with ideals, Sun Chengli would naturally not treat his confidantes badly, let alone go back on his word easily.

Since Luo Zhixue had promised to rebuild the supply camp earlier, he would implement it.

Otherwise, how can he be the big boss in the future, and how can he convince his subordinates to follow him.

You must know that what they are doing is rebellion, and they are doing business with their heads pinned to their waistbands.

If the people under his command were not sincere, Sun Chengli would not be able to secure his position as the leader.

The flowery sedan chair has to be carried by someone.

Otherwise, relying on his grandson alone to form a person, even if a god descends to earth alone, he can't do much.

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Although Sun Chengli has officially decided to recruit troops, but it is not now, but after a while.

During this period of time, they still had to keep busy. First, they worked for several days to repair the barracks, and then Luo Zhixue led the prisoners to repair the wall and the surrounding checkpoints.

Relatively speaking, the wall is actually not important. After discussing with Luo Zhixue and the others, Sun Jiancheng and Luo Zhixue felt that the need for the wall was not too great, because by the time the enemy got under the wall, they would have already entered Sanshui Village .

In this case, Sun Chengli and the others would not allow it to happen.

In order to protect Sanshui Village, they must keep the enemy at the outer checkpoints.

If they can't stop it, Sun Chengli and the others will not continue to trap Sanshui Village foolishly, but will choose to retreat directly.

Therefore, compared with the Walled Wall, they paid more attention to the peripheral checkpoints, especially the checkpoints that guarded the eastern passageway.

Luo Zhixue, Sun Chengli and the others visited several times in person, and finally decided to build a checkpoint in a narrow 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 also the only way to enter and exit the east. Except for the small road in the canyon, there are high mountains and forests on both sides, and the forests are very dense. Let alone let the army pass, even small-scale people want to go directly It is very difficult to cross the mountain.

Because of the terrain, this place is especially suitable for setting up a card for defense. It only needs to build a wall in the canyon to keep the enemy out.

And because the canyon is very slender, the narrowest place is actually only tens of meters wide, and even if the enemy attacks aggressively, 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 an absolutely superior force, it would still be able to leave enough time for the people in Sanshui Village to react and evacuate.

After deciding to build a checkpoint here, Luo Zhixue mobilized more than 40 prisoners of war to start building the checkpoint under the supervision of the guards, and named it Wuliguan.

The construction of Wuliguan is actually very simple. It only needs to build a wall of about 80 meters, with about 40 fields at the bottom, and the two sides extend up along the slightly gentle mountainsides on both sides of the canyon to the cliff.

At the same time, several archery towers will be built.

Because of the realistic conditions, the wall of this village is 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 resist ordinary enemies.

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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 extra wall about three meters high and about 80 meters long.

The bottom of the wall is a pile of stones and soil, with wooden stakes erected on top of it, and the wooden stakes are connected with thinner wooden branches.

On the top of the wall, there is a top passage built on wooden shelves for people to stand on.

In the middle of the wall of the village, there is a gate of the village. There is no gate tower above the gate of the village, but there are arrow towers made of the same bamboo and wood on each side.

On both sides a little farther away, there is an arrow tower on each side.

The four arrow towers are connected together, enough to fully cover the entire canyon.

And behind the wall of the village, there are several wooden houses, which are the barracks of the soldiers stationed here.

On the high mountains on both sides of Wuliguan, there are additional sentry towers.

The whole Wuliguan is primitive and simple!
But there are a lot of military defense functions that should be there. In Sun Jiancheng's words: even if there are hundreds of people attacking, we can block it.

The hundreds of people Sun Jiancheng mentioned did not refer to ordinary thieves, but to those regular army recruits in the official army.

As for 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 secret sentries in further peripheral places.

Once the enemy is found, if it is just an ordinary rogue, then they will directly ambush them on the way into the mountain or simply drive them out forcibly.

This Wuli Pass is actually prepared for a strong enemy.

After Luo Zhixue inspected Wuliguan, he had a chat with Lin Dongsheng and others who had already been stationed here, expressed condolences to the troops stationed here on behalf of Sun Chengli, and left a batch of food supplies before taking Ernst and others leave.

When leaving Wuliguan and walking back, An Yong, who was following Luo Zhixue, hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't help but stepped forward and asked: "Sir, I heard from Blind Wang that we are going to recruit people in the next few days." , and when the time comes, our supply battalion will also be allocated manpower?"

Luo Zhixue glanced back at him, he didn't need to guess what this man was thinking, it was just that he was about to recruit troops, and the supply battalion was going to be distributed, so Ernst and Young had a few more of them to follow Luo Zhixue for some time His own soldiers are also thinking about it.

This supply battalion needs to increase its manpower, even if it increases by 30 to [-] people, there will still be a few small boss positions, it doesn't matter whether it is called Shichang or sentinel at that time.

In this way, An Yongduo and the others could not sit still.

Humans are all ambitious, they followed Luo Zhixue's side as soldiers, and for so long, they just wanted to get along better.

If I could be a small official now, wouldn't it be much more enjoyable to manage a few people under my command.

Luo Zhixue didn't hide anything either, and immediately said: "That's right, during the military meeting yesterday, the general had already decided to recruit troops. This batch of recruits will have a quota of 30 people in our supply battalion."

As he said that, Luo Zhixue took another look at An Yong: "This time we recruit soldiers who are all mountain people's children, who don't understand anything. By then, there will be a lot of things, whether it's training or management!"

"There are so many things that I can't do by myself, and I still need a few of you to do it."

"It's not easy to train them into an army, and I don't know how much work I have to worry about later."

"You guys have to think about it these few days. If you don't understand, go to Wang Blind and the others to learn more."

In fact, Ernst and Young didn't need to say anything, Luo Zhixue had already made up his mind to ask Ernst and Young to have the four of them help him manage the recruits in the supply camp.

There was no other way, there were only four personal soldiers under his command, and besides them, Luo Zhixue, there was no other manpower available.

After hearing Luo Zhixue's words, An Yongduo immediately showed 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 soldiers before, we have seen pigs run before we eat pork. How did those officials and lords drill us in the past? Let's just train those newcomers like this when we turn back."

Luo Zhixue nodded slightly, but did not speak again.

I also thought about this new recruiting matter in my heart.

(End of this chapter)