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Chapter 8 Construction
In the early morning of Yangjia Village, due to the gradual fall of autumn, there is a thick layer of frost on the thatched huts.Yangjiacun, which was under the rule of Hou Jin, welcomed Master Wang at this time.

A group of Musketeers poured into Yangjia Village. The weapons in their hands were unprecedented for the villagers who were used to seeing swords and spears.What surprised the villagers even more was that this group of soldiers had a good military discipline, and they did not grab food or disturb the people.

"General Chu, I am Yang Tongxin, the village head of Yangjia Village. Looking forward to the stars and the moon is the army that has waited for the imperial court! We have been oppressed by the Jin people, and we can't wait to drive away those wild wolves!" an elderly man said. Leaning on a moth-eaten crutch, the patriarch of the patriarch said angrily, "Look, general, those bastards came to our village yesterday to grab food and took away the old man's copper crutch. Just use it!"

Seeing the old man's anger, Chu Yun felt sorry for the common people.He really couldn't bear to tell the old man that the court had given up on them.

"Don't worry, the imperial court will soon send a large army to take back Liaonan. Let's explore the terrain for the army first." Chu Yun comforted, "By the way, our army encountered a group of post-gold bandits who were robbing food on the road, so Take their food and grass. There are no other villages nearby, and nine out of ten are your village's food, why don't you go and check it, and then take the food home."

"General, aren't you joking? Return the food to us?" Yang Tongxin's eyes were about to drop in surprise.

He has lived most of his life, and he has never seen an army that returns food to the common people.Regardless of the Houjin or the imperial court, when will the robbed food and grass come back?
"I, Chu Yun, keep my word, old man, don't worry!" Chu Yun said, "However, we want to borrow some wood and a few shovels from your village to beat up the group of golden dogs. I don't know if the old man agrees. ?”

"Okay! If the general is short of manpower, our village is happy to serve the general!" Yang Tongxin was overjoyed, and his white eyebrows were about to fall out of laughter.

Perhaps it was because Chu Yun underestimated the hatred of the people in southern Liaoning towards Jin Bing. Hundreds of members of the Yang clan, men, women and children, all came out with their families to help Chu Yun build the fortifications.

Chu Yun, who came from later generations, knows how important fortifications are to a modern and ancient war, and can even determine the outcome of a war.

Just now Artest rushed to Wanghai Fort in the east of Jinzhou with five hundred gold soldiers.There were originally 300 Jin soldiers stationed there, responsible for monitoring Dongjiang Town across the sea.But at this time, the golden soldiers of Wanghai Fort were scared out of their wits.

Nearly half of the Wanghaibao team that went to the countryside to collect grain was ambushed by Chu Yun.Now there are only more than 100 people in Wanghaibao.

"Master Qian, you are finally here!" The master of Wanghai Castle wiped his nose and tears on Gang Atai's body.These days, he was constantly worried, for fear that the elusive Ming army would storm Fort Wanghai and cut him into pieces.

"Useless stuff!" Gang Artest kicked the timid little Castle Master away.

"It's the incompetence of the subordinates that allowed the bandits in Dongjiang Town to go deep, and they robbed all the food. Please forgive Mr. Qian, blah blah..." The master of Wanghai Castle wiped his tears vigorously, and a big man was crying.

"Quickly explain where Jun is now, I don't have that much time to talk nonsense with you!" Gang Artai said in disgust.

If it wasn't for the owner of the castle who bullied the people and collected food so hard, A-Tai would have killed him long ago.

"According to the investigation of our spies, the Ming army is now in Yangjia Village, which is less than ten miles away from Wanghai Fort, and they have been wandering around our Wanghai Fort recently, and they seem to be planning on our Wanghai Fort." The owner of Wanghai Fort said tremblingly.

Just now Artai rolled his eyes and frowned: "If the Ming army wanted to attack Wanghai Fort, they would have launched a fierce attack a long time ago, why bother to procrastinate here on purpose. I guess their purpose is probably to wait for my arrival. Which general in Dongjiang Town is so confident?"

"Could it be that Mao Wenlong, the leader of the bandit, personally led the troops here? Could there be thousands of Dongjiang soldiers ambushing us?" the master of Wanghai Fort murmured.

"Ma Balazi, I don't even count the number of people on the other side..." Just now Artest had nothing to say to the cowardly lord, so he turned his head and said to the adjutant, "Find some people with good skills to go to Yang Investigate around the village, and don't let the Ming army find out."

Chu Yun didn't know that Gang Atai sent someone to investigate, but he knew that Gang Atai would find a way to get his information, just as Chu Yun also got the information that Gang Atai led troops to Wanghai Fort.

"There are probably hundreds of Houjin soldiers. I saw them enter Wanghai Fort with my own eyes. As for whether there will be any reinforcements behind, it is not clear yet, but I have left a few shrewd men on the main roads. If there are reinforcements in Jinzhou Come here, we will arrive as soon as possible." Chang Yi reported to Chu Yun.

"Very good! Let's speed up the construction of the fortifications. The Golden Soldiers will arrive in less than half a day!" Chu Yun urged his men to dig trenches.

In addition to the trenches, Chu Yun also used wood and stones piled up in front of the trenches as shelters and obstacles.In this era, there are no terrible heavy artillery and tanks, so the trenches don't need to be dug too deep, barely enough to hide.

"My lord, what is the use of us digging this trench? We have this Western musket, just hit it directly!" Mrs. Yang personally held a shovel and vigorously dug the soil out of the trench.

The deeper you go, the thicker the soil and the more difficult it is to dig.

Even a veteran like Mrs. Yang felt the pain of digging a hole.

"This thing is very practical, and you will find out after the battle." Before the appearance of machine guns, the cavalry still had a certain deterrent effect on muskets. Chu Yun had to find a way to prevent the golden cavalry from exerting their power.

"Since my lord said so, I, Lao Yang, will consider continuing to dig. But my lord, our brigade has made a lot of contributions, can you consider giving us another hundred rifles? Although our brigade won the drill and got a hundred rifles , but there are still a hundred brothers using old weapons..." Mrs. Yang was nagging Chu Yun while digging a hole.

Fuck, this guy is really addicted to using a rifle.Chu Yun's face twitched, did he really think he was an arms dealer? Rifles and ammunition were piled up with a lot of money!

"If you win this battle, I will give you rifles, but you may not have a hundred rifles." Chu Yun had no choice but to make a big deal for Mrs. Yang.

"Okay! Boss, it would be great if we had the General Cannon. It is said that General Yuan Chonghuan used the General Cannon to defeat Hou Jin in Ningyuan's great victory. If we also have a few General Cannon, we can go to Jinzhou City." Yang Said too reluctantly.

Chu Yun thought to himself, do you think I don't want cannons?Civilization is not enough!And even if you have a cannon, do you need to transport it?What's more, the supply of shells is a bottomless pit.

When Chu Yun and Yang Tai worked hard to build the fortification, Gang Atai finally got Chu Yun's information.According to intelligence, there is a Ming army of nearly 200 people entrenched near Yangjiacun and piled up fortifications.

can fight!Just now Artest thought that the Ming army had thousands of people, only now did he realize that there were only two hundred.Five hundred against two hundred, the timid Ming army will definitely run away!

(End of this chapter)