Sanshui Village is not large in scale. Judging from the existing houses and even the ruins of the houses, it was estimated that there were only about 20 or 30 households of mountain residents in the past, but now these mountain residents have long disappeared.

The remaining houses are all thatched wooden houses, and many of them are not well preserved. One of the largest and best preserved houses is owned by Sun Chengli.

There are a few larger and better-preserved houses among the remaining ones, which were divided among Luo Zhixue, Lin Dongsheng, Wang Dazhuang, Xu He and others.

As for ordinary soldiers, naturally they can only live in a few shabby thatched huts with many people crowded together.

Despite the housing shortage, Luo Zhixue was still able to occupy a well-preserved house, which naturally illustrates his status among the rebels.

Not to mention second only to Sun Chengcheng, but at least he is on par with Lin Dongsheng, Wang Dazhuang, and Xu He, the three generals of the three armies.

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

So early the next morning, Luo Zhixue began to arrange manpower to repair the barracks, so that they could be protected from wind and rain.

In addition to building barracks, Luo Zhixue is more concerned about building village walls and peripheral checkpoints!

If the barracks are broken down, you will suffer a little pain at most, but without strong walls and peripheral checkpoints to guard the main roads, it will be fatal if a curious enemy comes knocking on the door.

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

The original village of Sanshui Village was not large in scale, with one house in the east and one in the west. There was no planning. However, in order to prevent outside thieves or wild beasts, the mountain people in the past lived in relatively concentrated areas.

Outside a group of scattered thatched wooden houses, there is a simple wooden fence that is only one meter high. It is very shabby and has even fallen over in some places. The original materials used are not all big trees, but tree trunks.

Carrying branches.

Even if this kind of wooden fence is well preserved, it can only prevent some wild beasts from entering. It has no actual military defense function at all. Even if it cannot stop thieves, people can just flip through it...

And now the dilapidated wooden fence is even more unusable.

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

Moreover, there is not one stream here, but two small streams that merge in one after another. Finally, the three small streams merge into a small river at the entrance of the village, which is about three or four meters wide.

Those farmlands basically surround these three streams. In the past, mountain people still built dams and ditches on the rivers and used river water for irrigation.

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

With these three streams flowing down from the mountains, they are enough to provide irrigation and domestic water for the surrounding farmland. As long as they are willing to put in enough effort, the food harvested in this small valley is enough to feed hundreds of people. Moreover, this place is located deep in the mountains. It is estimated that

No government came to collect taxes from them.

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

It's just that those mountain people in the past were unlucky enough to encounter the Earth-turning Dragon group.

After Dilong and others came 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 for fun, no one was left.<

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But what's interesting is that although the original mountain people are no longer there, the land reclaimed by those mountain people has not been abandoned, but has been continued to be cultivated by the land-turning dragons and bandits.

It seems that those bandits plan to operate here for a long time, otherwise they will not continue farming.

In this way, Sun Chengli and Luo Zhi learned from them. At least they didn't see a large area of ​​abandoned land after arriving, and they could continue to cultivate from now on.

Luo Zhixue estimated that as long as he organized the manpower for farming and improved the water conservancy facilities, as long as he was not unlucky and encountered a natural disaster, the land in Sanshui Village would be enough to provide enough food for them.
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Looking at this farmland, Luo Zhixue felt that it was more necessary to build checkpoints on the periphery.

Because only in this way can we keep enemies outside the village gates and protect these farmlands and the food crops on them.

With this idea in mind, Luo Zhixue took An Yongduo and continued walking out.

The place where Sanshui Village is located is actually a small valley in the Funiu Mountains. There are mountains in the four directions, southeast and northwest, but there is a valley in the south with relatively low terrain, so the stream can flow south, but I don’t know where it will end up.

Luo Zhixue estimated that it would be possible to go all the way south, and eventually merge with streams in other mountains, and go all the way south to Nanzhao County or east to Lushan County.

However, even if there are valleys in the south for streams 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. There are not even roads, and there is only a mountain forest that is simply inaccessible.

Maybe we can open a road along the river in the future, but right now, the road there is impassable.

The only road connecting Sanshui Village to the outside world is a winding trail opened by the mountain residents. Generally speaking, you can go all the way east over these mountains and reach the nearby hilly areas with relatively gentle terrain.

External contacts.

In the past, the mountain people communicated with the outside world through this mountain road that they created by themselves. When Dilong and others came into the mountain, they also followed this road, and Luo Zhixue and others came in along this path.
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As for other directions, there is no road at all. Even some hills seem to be relatively gentle and passable, but the problem is that there is no road.

Unless a road is forcibly cut through the weeds and woods, the only way to enter and exit Shanshui Village is through the east road.

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

As long as you guard this passage, you can keep the enemy out.

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

Luo Zhixue took An Yongduo all the way out. First, he walked along the east path for a while and selected several dangerous places as options for setting up checkpoints. He also selected a few places with good views and easy concealment.

Establish a warning checkpoint.

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

After arriving, Sun Chengli's confidant Wang Xiazi said that Sun Chengli was meeting Lin Dongsheng, so Luo Zhixue did not go in directly, but asked Wang Xiazi to report while he waited outside.

Soon, Sun Chengcheng's voice came from inside: "Brother Luo is back. You must be tired from the survey all the way!"

As soon as Sun Chengcheng's voice fell, Luo Zhixue saw Sun Chengcheng's figure coming out of it, with a little joy on his face, and Lin Dongsheng followed behind him.

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

Luo Zhixue said: "The general is smiling, it looks like he is up to something good!"

As he spoke, Luo Zhixue glanced at Lin Dongsheng behind Sun Chengcheng, and immediately said: "Brother Lin went to chase the Earth-turning Dragon yesterday, and now that he is back, he must have captured the Earth-turning Dragon!"

Sun Chengcheng laughed: "I really can't hide it from you, Brother Luo..."

At this time, Lin Dongsheng also took a step forward and said: "It's all thanks to the blessing of the general. Although the earth-turning dragon initially walked over the mountains to the west, there are deep mountains and dense forests over there, so they can't stay there all the time.

Let’s go.”

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

"So I simply took the people and waited on the mountain road. No, I actually had them waiting at noon."

"We killed seven or eight people with arrows on the spot. The earth-turning dragon also died on the spot, and the remaining few also knelt down."

Luo Zhixue said: "This is very good, so you don't have to worry about these people coming back again, or even playing tricks to lure outsiders for revenge."

Although Luo Zhixue doesn't think that the Earth-turning Dragon will cause any trouble after escaping, it is still a hidden danger.

What if the earth-turning dragon is particularly good at tossing, and after running out, he persuaded the leader of a certain bandit army to capture Sanshui Village in Funiu Mountain. Funiu Mountain is quite good, and it is very suitable for settling down. Luo Zhixue and the others can take a fancy to other bandit armies.

If you understand the situation in Funiu Mountain, you might be able to keep an eye on it.

There will inevitably be a fight.

Or maybe after the earth-turning dragon ran out, in line with the revenge mentality of me being unlucky and you being unlucky, he directly revealed the news to the officers and soldiers that a group of elite thieves had come to Funiu Mountain. It would not be a good thing.

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.

There were many bandits active in Henan Prefecture and Ruzhou at the beginning, but why did Zuo Liangyu and Chen Zhibang chase Li Tonglin and fight them?

It wasn't because Li Tonglin and others had over a hundred elite cavalry at that time that they attracted the attention of the officers and soldiers.

If this were replaced by an army of hundreds of homeless thieves, Zuo Liangyu would send troops to encircle and suppress them, but he would never send multiple groups of elite cavalry to pursue them for more than half a month. In the end, they even contacted Chen Zhibang to join in the encirclement and suppression.

After all, there are so many rogues these days, and the officers and soldiers don't take them seriously, and they don't bother to pay attention to the rogues who usually number in the hundreds.

They are just small-scale refugees who cannot cause any trouble or commit crimes. They do not have the ability to chase the endless stream of homeless thieves everywhere.

It would be easier and less troublesome to wait for the refugees to gather themselves and then kill them in one wave.

However, this situation does not hold true for the elite backbone of the thief army.

The officers and soldiers are not stupid. They also know that these elite backbones in the bandit army are the key point. If they can kill hundreds of elite backbones in the bandit army, it will be more helpful in encirclement and suppression than killing thousands or tens of thousands of ordinary bandits.

Thief Army.

Not to mention that Luo Zhixue and his gang had a fight with Chen Zhibang’s cavalry not long ago, and Chen Zhibang still remembers them fresh.

If Chen Zhibang knew that the elite cavalry of the rebel army that had a fight with him some time ago was now hiding in Funiu Mountain, he might send troops to attack again.

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

Both Sun Chengli and Luo Zhixue still hope to recuperate here for a period of time in order to accumulate strength.

Now that the Earth-turning Dragon and the others have been completely retained, the hidden danger can be considered eliminated.
Chapter completed!