Chapter 223 Auxiliary Soldiers (1)
"Uncle, they are cleaning the battlefield. Do we want to hit it?" Thunder looked at the busy soldiers under the city wall in the distance and suggested to Tang Feng.
"It's useless. Before we rushed to the city gate, they could run into the city gate. And they also buried our own bodies. They would wait until reinforcements come." Tang Feng shook his head and said.
"Oh, uncle, do you see if they will evacuate?" asked Meng Lei.
"I don't know, but it's better to evacuate so that we can easily obtain the city." Tang Feng said with his eyes narrowed.
"Well, it's just a pity for those craftsmen, but it doesn't matter. The craftsmen in our tribe are also very good." Meng Lei said casually.
"Haha, in addition to being excellent hunters, we Shanyue people are also excellent carpenters. Let the soldiers cut down trees. We need to form a camp." Tang Feng smiled.
"Yes." Thunder took the order.
While they were talking, Wenjin City was busy.
After counting, the number of carriages in Wenjin City surprised Cons. There were thousands of cars. Almost a little wealthy family had one carriage, and dozens of them had more money. It seems that the wealth of the imperial people cannot be underestimated.
With these thousands of carriages, it is much easier to migrate the people. However, the people's behavior later made Cons and others frown.
These people knew that this city would sooner or later fall into the hands of bandits, and almost even the door frame wanted to be taken away, and every family was filled with a lot of items.
Cons had to form a special force to carry out the task of reducing burdens. Each family could only have a few pieces of clothing, money, and dry food for January, and nothing else could be carried. Although the people were not satisfied, they obeyed the orders under the persuasion of the troops' coercion and temptation.
Let me talk about it here. When preparing for the people to move, Cons first added a killing order to the strong men: "Those who leave the team without authorization will be killed! The family will stay to defend the city!"
After this order, the strong men who were unwilling to separate from their family and were a little ready to move were so scared that they dared not move. In addition, the secret guards hidden in the army said, "Only we stay and intercept the bandits, the families can leave safely." The strong men also accepted their fate.
If the morale of the army is stable, what big waves can the people make? And although everyone is not satisfied with throwing away so many things, they also understand that this is for themselves to evacuate lightly and for their own good. So at most, no one complains or pity comes out as a thorn.
At the beginning, the rich families used their own carriages to ensure that they would not drag down the speed of the team, and they were desperately moving their belongings to the carriages. Not to mention the rich people with a warehouse of gold and silver, even the small rich families moved all their belongings on the carriages, but their family was walking on the ground.
Seeing this, Cons could only summon these wealthy families and ask them: "Do you think it is safer to walk together with tens of thousands of people, or is it safer to walk alone with you carriages?" There is no need to think about this question, of course, it is safer to walk together with everyone, at least there is more courage.
Many wealthy families were smart people and knew what Cons was going to say immediately, but the ordinary items such as door frames and other people were valuable goods, and a large part of them were food and other supplies.
However, everyone soon figured out which is important, money or life. Besides, they were willing to abandon the grain fields outside the city, and they could also carry cash. Since this is the case, why do they care about this grain? They were transported to the provincial capital for sale? Isn’t that just being laughed at?
And there is nothing to be a pity for the residence. The wealthy families have houses in the provincial capital, and they will not have no place to settle down. Anyway, the shops are there, and gold coins are still rolling. As for the fields, when the Imperial Army fights back, isn’t the fields their own?
Since they were willing to give up, the smart wealthy families immediately expressed their efforts to defend the city and donated a batch of food, clothing, medicine and other supplies, and also said that their residences would be used by the troops.
Anyway, these things that cannot be taken away will be ruined by the bandits sooner or later. Since this is the case, it would be better to sell personal favors and enjoy them for your own soldiers.
The children and nephews of these rich people were not in the city, they all enjoyed their fortunes in the provincial capital, so they could leave as soon as they were. And the ordinary wealthy families were unhappy because their nephews were recruited.
They originally wanted to bribe Cons and let their nephews leave, but Cons said, "By the way, I think there are not enough strong men guarding the city. I plan to enlist male men aged twelve to sixty to join the army." Their face changed drastically, and they retreated with tears as the pull of other rich people.
As for the necessary supplies to defend the city, Cons would not be polite, thank you for accepting it.
If it weren't for my own shortness of money, I'd probably have offered to pay for these supplies. I didn't expect these wealthy families to be so generous.
As for where Cons’ money went? He brought 100,000 gold coins this time, and used 20,000 yuan in the United Nations food and money, and tens of thousands of yuan in the salary. The rest, including the wealth collected from the United Nations inventory, was used to buy domestic animals fed by the people.
For the poor people, these domestic animals are equivalent to family members. They would rather take the domestic animals away when they walk by themselves. Cons had no choice but to spend money to buy them. The people's hearts were changing. When they saw the yellow gold coins, the meat in the hearts of these people was immediately sold out by their owners.
After finishing the work of the marshalling people, they began to worry about safety on the road.
With the mentality of being cautious and no big mistake, Cons allocated a thousand soldiers who had experienced bloody battles and joined the troops of the two thousand frail men, and was under the jurisdiction of Weijie.
Although the city defense lacks this thousand force, the sense of security in the hearts of the people when they see these soldiers with murderous auras all over their bodies rises sharply.
At the same time, Cons also invested a lot, and drew a small team from the few cavalry to escort them all the way. With these cavalry, the migration team could detect the situation from afar.
Of course, the remaining cavalry were sent out to monitor the movements of the bandits. When they noticed that the bandits sent half of their men into the forest to cut down trees, Cons gave the order and the gate leading to the provincial capital slowly opened.
As soon as the city gate opened, more than a dozen cavalrymen who fought for the vanguard rushed out quickly, followed by five hundred fully armed soldiers opening the way, and then men and strong women gathered on top of the carriages, old and young, lined up to leave the city in the order of the blocks in the city.
At the end were five hundred strong men and more than ten cavalrymen to escort the formation, while the other two thousand strong men were concentrated on both sides of the center of the team to escort.
The soldiers in the city were all crowded on this wall watching their relatives leave. Everyone was speechless. No one knew if they had the chance to reunite with their family, but the safe departure of their family could at least give them some comfort, at least without worries.
Among them, the old blacksmiths in the city were recruited. There was nothing we could do about this. They needed their guidance to mould arrows and repair weapons. As for the apprentices of the young blacksmiths and the blacksmiths, they were recruited long ago.
The people on Cons left the city, and the soldiers who logged wood from Shanyue also came back. But what was strange was that they did not immediately create siege equipment such as ladders, but instead made fences to surround Shanyue's camp. Judging from their appearance, they were afraid of sneak attacks in the city.
Because the people of Shanyue logged wood in the mountains and forests, they inevitably stood high and looked far, so it was natural that a large number of people evacuated in Wenjin City.
The thunder in this report was not cared about. To be honest, they occupied the imperial territory only for the land. The people on the land did not care about it. Apart from using it as slaves, they were sold. It can only be regarded as extra money and not the main target of the battle.
Thunder inadvertently told Tang Feng that this was told. Tang Feng looked at the soldiers still on the city tower and couldn't help but sigh. The other party evacuated the people but left the troops behind, which shows that they were preparing to fight to the death. It seems that the losses in the next siege will be huge.
When night began to fall, countless torches emerged from the mountains and forests in batches and then gathered in the Shanyue Camp.
Okor, who was looking at this scene on the city wall, couldn't help but remind Cons: "Brother, the reinforcements of the bandits are here."
"It's not the main force, it's all a team of about a hundred people. It should be the Shanyue people scattered in the nearby mountains and forests." Cons concluded.
Okor thought about it and felt that the main activity gathering place of the Shanyue people was thousands of kilometers away from here, and there was no such quick arrival. No matter how many small bandits came, it would be useless, so he calmed down and invited Cons to go down for dinner.
"How are the soldiers' reactions?" Cons asked as he walked.
Okor was stunned when he heard this, not sure if he was asking himself.
He looked around and found that apart from his silent article, he seemed to have a higher status. He hurriedly said, "Under the boast of the soldiers who participated in the battle, the soldiers were full of optimistic attitude and their morale was also very exciting. In addition, they were treated with good wine and meat, some soldiers actually thought that fighting every day was good enough."
Speaking of this, Okor couldn't help laughing.
Cons nodded with a smile. The soldiers' food is better now than the imperial guards, and there is nothing we can do about it. The wealthy families left behind a large amount of food, wine, livestock and other supplies, and each household had several livestock purchased. Such a good wine and meat meal was enough to supply these nearly 20,000 soldiers for several months.
Neither Cons nor his men considered saving some money. Anyway, after the training, either the security division came to rescue him or break through the encirclement and leave, and these supplies were not their own. At that time, either sent him to others or burn him. Since this is the case, it would be better to be cheaper for yourself.
"Transfer these guys who think the war is wonderful into one team and let them participate in the second and third rounds of battles." Cons suddenly gave such an order.
Okol was obviously stunned. Could it be that Cons wanted to crack down on the fantasies of these soldiers? Are you afraid that they would not know the horror of war? But it would be good to let these ignorant guys understand the cruelty of war. Okol, who had this idea, nodded immediately to take the order.
The next day, the Shanyue soldiers did not launch an attack. In addition to continuing to cut down trees, they were teams of dozens or hundreds of people, emerging from the mountains and forests into the Shanyue camp.
"So far, how many Shanyue people have entered the enemy camp?" Cons asked the officer guarding the city tower.
"There are thirty-four shares at night. According to the torch, each share is about thirty-forty. Until dawn, there are fifty-six shares, nearly 100 people per share." The officer replied immediately.
"Well, that is to say, the other party has increased by about six or seven thousand people?" Cons said.
"Yes, sir, fortunately, I sent the people out yesterday, otherwise they would have drawn out three thousand people to attack the people, and we really don't know what to do." The officer was Cons' personal guard and he was not so restrictive in his words.
"Well, that's true. After all, we cannot guarantee that these recruits can compete with each other in the field. If the people are attacked and flee in panic, we may lose our morale and flee the team to find their relatives." Cons nodded and said.
"Sir, what should we do now? Just watch the other party increase the number of people like this?" Looking at the bandits who were still appearing, the officer's face was a little serious.
"We can only wait for the enemy to attack the city now. We rely on the city to not only train soldiers, but also the most favorable guarantee. If we were in the wild, I would probably not have the confidence to defeat the Shanyue soldiers.
"Besides, 20,000 of us are enough to withstand the fierce attack of 100,000 Shanyue soldiers. Pass these words out and let the soldiers train with peace of mind." Cons said.
"Yes." As a confidant officer, of course, he received the order and acted.
In the Shanyue Camp, Thunder was watching these tycoons happily.
It's wonderful. Without spending any benefits, there are so many strong men in vain. Moreover, these strong men have their own weapons. At that time, they can just send them to the battlefield. However, these guys did not bring food and were ready to eat as a big family.
But there was no way. For the sake of the mountain regiment, they had to be responsible for the food. Now they had to send people to hunt and store the food in advance, so as not to increase or decrease the number of strong men in the future and not be enough to consume.
Meng Lei knew the name of his tribe very well, and it was impossible for the tribe members within a radius of hundreds of miles to send strong men to help fight. Although his tribe is also quite powerful, when will the Shanyue people be afraid of the powerful? They all came from the famous sign of the Shanyue Group.
Hehe, relying on this signboard, I saved myself a lot of trouble. When their strong men are finished, they will annex the small tribes, so that their tribe will grow much stronger immediately.
Chapter completed!