"There are 560 households in our 100 households." Liu Shujing, who had just recovered from a serious illness, stood in front of the official hall of the 100 households with a stick. In front of him were a large group of silent and angry young and middle-aged men, as well as some elderly men in their fifties and sixties. Their faces were gloomy and silent, both anger and unconcealed fear and worry.

Young and middle-aged people only have the determination to fight to the death and have the confidence to defeat the enemy. The elderly will most likely think of the Zhangzhou bloody case, and Chen Yutai's harassment and murder of Xinghua Army and Fuzhou Prefecture for so many years. For more than ten years, the government can only let Chen Yutai be arrogant. The family was destroyed by Qishan stolen. I don't know how many Fujianese people were. After pursuing the past, young and strong men feel that they are now powerful and supported, while the elderly are filled with various worries. This is not a mistake. After being old, it is always easy to go pessimistic to consider things.

But even the most pessimistic person has to admit that the Nan'an Marquis Mansion has much greater power than outsiders imagine.

Liu Shujing continued: "Each family has a strong man who holds a bow and arrow, with a snare, and no snare. If there is no snare, you can bring a small knife and a snare. Half an hour later, we set out from the entrance of the village to the front of the official road near the beach. You must remember the big flags of our Baihu. These have been practiced many times before. Everyone stood in line according to their own small flags, followed the general flag and Baihu flag, and finally formed a formation under the Baihu flag. At that time, the archer and the long snare hands and sword players have their own teams. You have to record it. You will practice this every day in the past few days, and don't care about the next ones in advance."

Many young and strong men nodded. Liu Baihu coughed a few times, and a flush appeared on his face.

The weather on the island is getting hotter and hotter, and the plague is gradually expanding. However, since the water source used is all clear water, there are many medical officials in the Marquis Mansion of Nan'an, and they advocate that everyone drink the purified water that is filtered and then boiled. At the same time, the Marquis Mansion bought tens of thousands of tents in Fujian and Zhejiang. Each household has at least two patterned tents. In addition, each household is equipped with smoked mosquito grass. Every evening, the whole of Nan'an to Huaxi and the salt field is full of green smoke rising everywhere.

Even so, there are still many people who are infected. The large-scale development in winter and spring was too rapid before. There are always uncleared shrubs and small ponds near the newly built mansions. Mosquitoes increase significantly by early summer. In addition, there are mice. The hotter the weather, the virus spreads more and more rapidly. Medical officer Chen Changnian takes people everywhere to preside over epidemic prevention work every day to reduce hidden dangers and suppress infected people within a controllable range. However, inevitably, more and more people in isolation centers are still.

Later, due to concerns about cross-infection in the isolation center, the Nan'an Marquis Mansion had to build two large hospitals in two other places, which were actually mainly isolated people who were infected.

Somewhat dark humor is that more and more doctors are infected.

In many cases, early infection patients can relieve the condition through pills or decoctions, but many people actually rely on their own physical condition.

Liu Shujing was one of them. He had a recurrent fever and vomited when he was severe. But he finally survived and several people were admitted to the hospital with him died. When Liu Shujing saw someone being carried out for burning, he became more and more persistent in his heart, and finally he successfully walked out.

When Liu Shujing announced the order, each small flag and the general flag burst into noisy responses. The young and strong men had already carried bows or arrows or swords. They were originally in the hunting club or bow and arrow club.

The Marquis' Mansion not only did not prohibit people from forming associations, but also encouraged them to form associations.

Nan'an

The Hou Mansion has been purchasing excellent weapons from all over the past few months. The weapons eliminated by the army, including the original weapons of the Xiang army, were gradually distributed to various communities of hundreds of households.

Liu Shujing looked at the official hall. In fact, if his family gathered all the men from fifteen to fifty, there would be more than a thousand men, every family would be like this.

But teenagers and the elderly are not very useful. They will blindly thrive. The elderly have no experience and their energy and physical strength are declining.

More than 500 young and strong men were summoned under the Baihu Military Banners, and they formed eleven general flags. Liu Shujing was responsible for promoting all subordinates. The security officers and criminal officials who were usually in Baihu became the left and right deputy general flags, each leading several general flags, responsible for commanding the two sides of the Baihu.

Among the more than 500 people, archers accounted for the majority, which was also due to the tradition of Wei people who valued bows and arrows. Liu Shujing woven more than 300 archers, and Liu Shujing woven them into six general flags, but did not mix them with slingers and sword players.

No one was wearing armor, dozens of people wore iron helmets on their heads, and most of them wore cowboys or folded scarves. However, no matter what, everyone held the weapons in their hands tightly, and there was no look of fear in the young and strong man.

The army will face the enemy head-on, which is something that the Hou Mansion has confirmed. If the Nan'an Hou Mansion's army does not avoid war, it is very likely that the enemy will land near Huaxi Port.

This area has a flat beach, a fully equipped port, and is originally relatively wide and gentle, with deep water and no reefs, and there are mountains on both sides to cover typhoons, so this is a natural good harbor.

In another time and space, when the pirates brought more than 10,000 immigrants to cultivate Taiwan, they first established the foundation of ten villages here, used the streams that went out to sea to develop land around the streams, and built a port here. This place was originally a pretty good place.

From the beach, there are mountains on both sides, the sea and sky are pure blue. Not far into the road, there is a large plain area, which is also the largest plain area in the Dongfan, where dozens of streams of different sizes flow through it.

When the enemy landed here, they could soon spread along the sides, and they could see the port official road and the island official road. Further ahead are several large buildings, which are factory buildings such as brick kiln factories. To the south is the salt field, and to the north is the area where the Nan'an Houfu Villa is located.

This place with a radius of dozens of miles is a large building complex, and upstream the river is a large factory area.

Just look down on a high place and a nearby hilly hill, a large area of ​​farmland, a scattered village of Baihu Village, and factories built by the stream, all of these will fall into your eyes.

It is hard to imagine that the pirates will not be moved. They are unlikely to put tens of thousands of people on the boat and wander around everywhere. The biggest possibility of the battle will break out at the Huaxi Port.

The government army has built some fortifications near Huaxi. There are two castles within three miles of the port area and two nearby the official roads inside.

The four castles are about ten meters high and are more than a hundred steps around, and can accommodate more than one hundred people. The four castles have bed crossbows and divine arm bows, and the number is not large.

The crossbow requires several people to pull it, and the arrow shot is equivalent to a short spear, which can penetrate the heavy armored human body within three hundred steps, and its strength remains strong. If it is within two hundred steps, it is not a problem to shoot through several people.

On the battle formation, when the sound of the crossbow sounded, it was also the time when the enemy was most nervous.

The four castles, two beaches near the shore, one in the south and one in the north, form a simple chain.

At this time, the Houfu Cunting Room issued another order to organize the hundreds of households into a group, arrange the array from the official road around the island to the north and south castles, set up deer antlers, dig trenches, and erect dozens of arrow towers to prepare for the extraordinary situation.

Of course, the government army will fight hard, but if the battle is unfavorable, it can retreat to the fortifications and confront the hostilities.

In this battle, the Nan'an Marquis' Mansion will use every bit of its power under its control. In addition to the hundreds of households who formed a team, some men were assigned tasks. They set up supply points not far from the battlefield, some became auxiliary fire soldiers, and some were auxiliary luggage soldiers. Some were auxiliary medical soldiers, and each had its own tasks. They would carry the wounded soldiers to medical tents to assist the fire soldiers to cook, carry food and supplies, and transport all the required supplies with the luggage soldiers.

"In addition to men, the cardinal room has set up temporary shelter points at several castles on the border." Liu Shujing said to everyone: "The elderly, women and children of each family can go there to hide."

Someone said: "The government troops lined up by the sea, and we were setting up a formation near the official road, as well as military forts, trenches, arrow towers, and deer antlers. Why ask people to hide on the side of the security line?"

Along the outer periphery of the island's official road, crossing the last farmland area and canal area, there is a guard point for the indigenous people, and there will be castles as support, arrow towers and trenches as auxiliary facilities along the way.

As trade with indigenous peoples unfolded, the conflict between the two sides slowed down and their vigilance was also reduced a lot. The current arrangement of the Marquis’ Mansion is obviously not to rely on sentinel guards, castles, and arrow towers, but to move the women and children to the mountains at the most dangerous moment.

The pirates came from afar and were not very clear about the situation in the East Vanguard, nor would they take the risk of going deep into the mountains to fight the natives. Most of the women and children hide from the mountains, and there will definitely be risks. No one knows what kind of changes the natives will make in such an environment.

If the real government army is defeated, the women and children will hide deep in the hills and deep in the mountains, which is much safer than staying.

This did not mean that some people opposed Xu Zixian, believing that arranging the retreat of the elderly, women and children in advance would make the soldiers ahead without a firm fighting spirit.

Xu Zixian was furious when he heard this. Of course, it would be better to win. Xu Zixian also thought that the chance of winning was greater, but once he lost, tens of thousands of elderly women and children would be given to pirates to kill and harm?

Many people are afraid of rumors and pre-evacuation plans, but Xu Zi is determined to do so first.

All arrangements are almost transparent. The use of tyrants, the arrangements of women, children and elderly people, including their safety when hiding in the mountains, will arrange some infantry and guards to protect them, and there will be baggage soldiers to follow them, bringing food, medical officers and medicinal materials to go deep into the mountains to hide. If the war is unfavorable, the army may be broken into pieces and launching guerrilla warfare with pirates everywhere under the leadership of officers at all levels. Generally speaking, in the era of cold weapons, the army will collapse and it will be completely finished. It is impossible to gather together and fight again in a short time, but Xu Zixian has full confidence in the soldiers in the palace.

Where can their homes be here and their relatives be here?

Liu Shujing didn't talk much in detail, and the matter was basically arranged in such a way, so there was no need to say more.

His body was still a little sour, but at this time, the role of the officials of the households was to show that the officials of the households who were in office were familiar with everyone, including the strong men and small banner officials of each household, and the general banner officials.

Amid the passionate sound of the bronze horn, more than 500 selected men gathered together and began to gather into a torrent under the guidance of various flags, and walked out of the village with the banners of hundreds of households.

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