Chapter 275: Pray

The residential area is a distance of 200 meters from the entrance of the cave to the cave. This distance belongs to the area where sunlight can be shined. On days when sunlight is shining, you can see at least three hours of sunlight every day, so this place is planned as a residential area.

There are now 860 New Army female soldiers under Li Yeling, 120 Red Flag Guard, and about 20 others were arranged by him to inquire about information inside and outside the Iron Town. There are 80 armed police, as well as eighteen boys and thirty girls who were ordered to report to the new army but were late or did not go for various reasons. These people are now working as hard laborers with the armed police and sleeping together at night. When they came, Xiao Kun said secretly that the girls were almost beaten one by one last night, and the shrill crying lasted almost all night.

In his words, there seemed to be a vague intention of expelling the girls from pleading. After all, these girls and him were both from An Qiwai. They were classmates, or senior sisters and sisters before, and they all knew each other. Now they saw that they were in such a state of decline, and they felt sorry for them. However, Li Yeling had no sympathy for these people in his heart, and he was indecisive. If he ended up like this today, who would be blamed? So he replied lukewarmly, and Xiao Kun didn't dare to say it again.

The subordinates had a total of 1,000 people. Although they could live in bungalows, according to the actual situation, Li Yeling decided to build a fighting tower.

The so-called fighting martial arts tower is a combination similar to the ancient Chinese pagoda and the Western castle church tower. This fighting martial arts tower is a spire with a round body. The entire tower is not layered from the outside, but it is layered inside. The tower is tall and thin, and from a distance, it looks like a sharpened pencil.

In Li Yeling's vision, this fighting tower is about fifteen meters high and has a diameter of about five meters, and is divided into five floors. Each floor is three meters high, one floor is a large room, with stairs up and down outside the room. Each floor has a large fireplace and brazier, and it faces the side of the cave entrance, so that the residents inside can safely survive the cold winter. The cave is a place where wind and air gathering is not cold in winter and not hot in summer. With these equipment, it is enough. And opening the window to the entrance of the cave can also make the room full of sunlight.

The construction of the fighting martial arts tower takes into account two aspects: living area and practicality.

The area of ​​a fighting martial arts tower covers an area of ​​3.14*(5*5), about twenty square meters and twenty square meters. If a bungalow is built, only four people can live. After the fighting martial arts tower is built, a fighting martial arts tower can live in twenty people, which is still very wide. The land area in the cave now looks very wide, because there are few people, and the number of people will definitely increase significantly in the future. If a bungalow is built, the capacity of this cave castle is less than 10,000 people, but if it is built in the fighting martial arts tower, it can accommodate four times more people.

Not to mention the defensiveness, Li Yeling planned to use large stones or giant city bricks to build the exterior wall of the fighting tower. The thickness of the wall can reach half a meter and is extremely strong. Ordinary small mortars cannot be blown up. This inspiration actually originated from Li Yeling's experience on the battlefield of Taierzhuang. In that battle against the earth siege, the Japanese used a few barns to cause great casualties to the National Army. Li Yeling firmly remembered this.

When the enemy troops came to the city, they had even broken through the outside walls and broke into the cave, and then closed the gate of the fighting tower and immediately turned into independent battle fortresses. The windows used for lighting in the room immediately changed to shooting holes. During wartime, the fighting towers on the outside can even be used as gun towers. The distance from the slope is only more than 100 meters, and the bottom of the slope is only 500 meters. Even in the Steel Town, although it is more than 3,000 meters away from the cave, for some cannons with a long range, three thousand meters is not a distance at all.

This is also a plan of Li Yeling. When this mountain castle is fully built, some large-caliber cannons will be placed here, overlooking the entire Steel Town, shocking the other two forces, and sending them a message: You should keep the door closed and bite the dog, be honest, don’t make me think, otherwise you will be killed with one shot!

These fighting towers are the most important link of this cave castle. The fighting towers are distributed in a scattered manner in this area, and the distance between them will be relatively far, which reserves space for newcomers to join in the future. In fact, with the number of people under Li Yeling's current subordinates, more than fifty fighting towers are enough to dress up everyone.

Of course, according to the old method, the residential areas of the New Army were separated from the Red Flag Guard.

Among these fighting towers, the middle one is also the one with the best lighting location, which is Li Yeling's residence. His residence will no longer be in the form of a small courtyard. In that case, what will happen in his own courtyard be the only thing he will do is to be seen by others?

The residence he planned himself was also a fighting martial arts tower, but the exterior wall was thicker, with a larger diameter, a larger area and a larger height. The fighting martial arts tower would reach twenty meters in diameter and about twenty-five meters in height. It was very spacious inside and the layers inside became flexible. At the bottom was the hall, with an area of ​​about three hundred square meters. After completion, some more important ceremonies will be held inside, and it is also a banquet hall. Above the hall is a small living room, where Li Yeling will handle official duties, and Zhai Nanyan's office is also inside. The two can also perform an affair in the office-_-!

On the side of the small living room is a lounge. It can be imagined that after the team expands, there will definitely be many people waiting for Li Yeling to meet. This is the situation on the second floor. On the third floor, there are several bedrooms, including Peanuts and Zhai Nanyan, and there are two rooms. On this floor, there are kitchen, bathrooms and bathrooms. On the upper floor, the highest point of the entire fighting tower, which is also the soul. A quiet room is built on it. The quiet room is large and occupies the entire first floor space. On the upper roof, eight huge windows are opened.

This is the best place for practice. At a height of 25 meters, it is the highest point of the entire residential area. The noisy sound below cannot reach here at all, so it is very quiet. During the day, especially at noon, the scorching sun will shine here through the windows, and at night, abundant water vapor from the underground river will also pour in here, making the practice effect excellent.

After Li Yeling built this mountain castle, he would practice hard for a while and vigorously improve his own strength. When practicing at this location of the Fighting Martial Arts Tower, the abundant water vapor is no less than that of being on the underground river, and it is also convenient.

These are the residential areas, and behind the residential areas are the schools - doctor training locations, warehouses, etc. The area here covers the largest area, but Li Yeling has no plans for them yet, because he has a very thin family background and there is really no urgent need for buildings outside of a school.

Because he is in the cave and has poor lighting, this area is illuminated day and night, and there is also darkness. As for the source of electricity for the lighting, Li Yeling initially decided to use generator diesel to generate electricity. As for the future, he already had an idea in his mind.

This is the overall plan of Li Yeling's cave castle. As for the cave flowing with underground rivers inside, Li Yeling doesn't plan to waste it. It is located in the water vein in the mountains. I don't know how deep it is, and the water volume is extremely abundant. Li Yeling plans to build a culvert to lure the water out of the inside, and the domestic water will be taken out from it. At the end of the culvert, a drop of about three meters will be arranged, and the subsequent section will become an open channel. This is an inclined land of domestic waste. They will flow down from the waterfall with the water flow and pour into the abyss.

In this way, the entire cave castle is planned.

After finishing this step, Li Yeling exchanged a drawing board and then reached out to write and draw. Soon, the idea just now turned into a three-dimensional model, which was vividly revealed on the paper. It was extremely intuitive, even if people who don’t understand architecture saw it, they could clearly understand what this means.

This is what Li Yeling intends to show to the future chief architect, that is, Xiao Kun, yes, or the foreman.

Building a castle is a big project, especially there are many trivial tasks. I have said before that Li Yeling has some big projects, such as placing giant stone slabs and carrying large woods and big stones, with him, such as the scene of tens of thousands of people dragging a big wood during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui. However, some relatively trivial tasks, such as building a fighting tower and laying stones on it piece by piece, must not be expected to do such work, and he can't finish it even if he is exhausted!

There are only eighty armed police officers and forty-eight former male and female students on the mountain. Such heavy work can make these people exhausted even if they can't finish it.

Li Yeling equipped them with a large number of machines. These machines are indeed very effective, but there are some work that must be done by hand and no machine can be replaced.

Although it has been reduced a lot from the previous plan, it is still very large. At present, this little manpower is simply insufficient to use. Li Yeling roughly estimated that at least more than one thousand manpower is required.

Therefore, Li Yeling's next plan is to obtain a large amount of cheap and even free labor.

This problem is a bit difficult, but there is no solution yet. Li Yeling already has a draft in his mind, and only execution is left.

Seeing that it was getting late, Li Yeling called Xiao Kun over and assigned him the work these people would do tomorrow.

Logically speaking, the internal ground of the cave is leveled, and you should start cleaning up the cave walls and tops of the cave. However, this is a high-altitude operation and is still a bit difficult now. The plan Li Yeling arranged for them tomorrow is to clean up the stone platform in front of the cave. The stone platform is about 100 meters long and wide, with an area of ​​more than 10,000 square meters. It is not particularly large, and it is not very rugged. With more than 80 people, this task can be achieved easily with the help of machines.

Called Xiao Kun, Li Yeling gave a few instructions, and then said, "I won't come tomorrow. This is all about tomorrow's tasks. You see, but you must complete them, do you understand?"

Xiao Kun said seriously: "I will definitely complete the task."

Li Yeling smiled and said, "You foreman will suffer in the future. When you wait tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, you will have more and more people under your command!"

"What?" Xiao Kun's eyes lit up: "Are you new staff?"

Li Yeling looked to the south and the snow had already stopped. Although the sky was still gloomy today, the air quality was still good and the transparency was excellent. Standing on the stone platform, the view was excellent. It was more than 100 meters higher than Steel Town. From here, you can not only have a bird's eye view of the entire Steel Town, but also see the wasteland more than ten kilometers away. At this height, if it is a sunny day, it is not a problem to see thirty kilometers away.

The wasteland is vast and boundless, Li Yeling said lightly: "Not yet, but it's too soon!"

After returning from the cave, I saw Zhai Nanyan standing there at the door of the yard from afar, stretching her neck to look here. Seeing that Li Yeling was back, the little girl cheered, turned around and ran into the yard, shouting: "I'm back, I'm back!"

Li Yeling was a little surprised. What happened today? After entering the courtyard, he saw Yan Qingyuan standing under the steps waiting for him, with a gentle smile on his face, and Peanut was also standing next to her, smiling on his face. Zhai Nanyan hid behind Yan Qingyuan and made a playful face at him.

Li Yeling was a little confused and smiled: "What's wrong? Is this a big battle today?"

Yan Qingyuan stepped forward and sorted out the slightly messy collar for him. The gentleness between his eyebrows made Li Yeling's heart tremble. She said softly: "You are so busy now that you don't even remember what day it is!"

"What day..." Li Yeling scratched his head a little, but after thinking about it, he still couldn't remember: "What day?"

Yan Qingyuan shook his head helplessly and said with a smile: "I'm your birthday today! My birthday!"

Li Yeling suddenly realized.

He never had the habit of celebrating his birthday. At his age, he didn't pay much attention to this kind of thing. His family didn't pay attention to it at all. Later, after the decline of his family, life was difficult and suffering, and even eating a full meal became a problem, let alone celebrating his birthday. Later, after getting along with Xiaoer, it was a little bit of change, but there was no money at that time. Every time Li Yeling's birthday, the two of them basically went out to have a meal, and that was considered a matter of time.

The birthdays of two people are warm and dull.

For him, birthday has always been a very distant word. Speaking of which, except for the years when Hao Xiaoer was together, he has never celebrated his birthday seriously. And these days, he has been so busy that he has forgotten it.

And she still remembers that, besides her, who else would remember her birthday in this world? Was she who was far away in Jindong Province? Did those two years of warmth and happiness, those two years of life and death, just like fireworks, fleeting and dissipating in the night sky?

Sometimes, Li Yeling really feels that she is a bastard. Qingyuan in front of her doesn’t know how to cherish it, and she is still thinking of other women at this moment.

Thinking of this, Li Yeling suddenly felt a little sore in her heart. Looking at Yan Qingyuan's smiling face, he gently poked his head and kissed her forehead: "Qingyuan, thank you!"

Qingyuan's face turned red immediately, like a frightened little rabbit. He immediately jumped back and stuttered: "What are you doing?"

Due to her background and acquired education, she is a very conservative girl. Although it is not the first time she has kissed Li Yeling, in front of peanuts, especially the true Zhai Nanyan, Li Yeling's intimacy still makes him feel a little uncomfortable.

Li Yeling smiled and said, "It's okay, go and enter the house!"

"Oh!" Yan Qingyuan nodded obediently, turned around and saw Peanut's thrilling fat face. She was both ashamed and angry, and knocked on his bald head hard: "What are you looking at! The flower monk that no one wants!"

After that, I ran to the house first.

Peanut's eyes were filled with tears, his hands were folded, and he sighed: "Sit in Anran's home, disaster comes from heaven, I am a monk, I am injustice..."

Li Yeling laughed a long time, held peanuts' shoulders, winked at Zhai Nanyan, and hugged peanuts in.

Zhai Nanyan was also shocked when she saw the scene just now. She thought that Li Yeling and Yan Qingyuan were sleeping together, so she had naturally had skin to go on a blind date, but she didn't expect that the two of them had developed to this point! Thinking about herself again, Zhai Nanyan suddenly bit her lips, but she felt a little dissatisfied: Humph, this bastard, let him get started so quickly, it's really...

Her heart was ruthless, but her eyes narrowed, revealing unconcealed joy.

After entering the room, Li Yeling saw a big cake on the table, three-layered and very large, almost occupying the entire table. There were nineteen candles inserted on it, which meant that Li Yeling was already nineteen years old.

Li Yeling smiled and said, "Where did this cake come from?"

Yan Qingyuan said: "Where else can it come from? Just exchange it."

Li Yeling felt a little distressed: "What are you doing when you exchange some for this thing? Was it a waste!"

Yan Qingyuan said, "Okay, okay, hurry up! We are almost starving to death when blowing candles. If we hadn't been waiting for you, we would have eaten by ourselves."

Next is blowing candles, then dividing cakes, and starting a meal. As for singing birthday songs, Yan Qingyuan can't do it, and Li Yeling also feels numb.

The lights are shining, the outside of the house is biting cold and the wind is cold, but the inside of the house is as warm as spring.

Only one's own people attend a dinner. There are laughter and joy during the meal, fighting and making noise, dull but warm.

Zhai Nanyan smiled and watched quietly, feeling a little dazed. At this moment, she only had joy and peace in her heart, no longer had the worries and sorrows of the past, no hostility and jealousy towards Yan Qingyuan, and no thought of competing for favor and jealousy. At this moment, her heart was calm and peaceful, just like that, she smiled and looked lightly.

"If I hadn't seen the nineteen candles on the cake, who would have believed that he was nineteen! The young hero, the dragon among people, was talking about him!" Zhai Nanyan's eyes were still focused on Li Yeling: "To be honest, he is two years younger than me! Humph, I'll ask him to call him sister in the future, at least in the bed!"

Thinking of this, she remembered the incident in bed that day.

"It's so embarrassing. I couldn't control it for a while. I actually called him 'Dad'. Oh, what happened in the future? He wouldn't think I'm an Oedipus! That's all!" Zhai Nanyan suddenly became entangled in her heart.

In fact, Zhong Zhai Nanyan is not a father-obite, but she has been particularly attached to her father since she was a child. People often say that her daughter was her father's lover in her previous life, which is vividly reflected in her. However, she is just a simple attachment to her father, and there is no sexual desire between men and women.

Until she met Li Yeling, his strength, his coldness, and his deep warmth all made her intoxicated, and she was immersed in it and could not extricate herself. She admired him, attached, admired him, and loved him like a heat, and what was even more bizarre was that he could indeed bring her a father-like feeling, a sense of security as stable as a mountain. Finally, when Li Yeling brought her to a crazy climax, all these emotions were perfectly integrated and mixed with her feelings for her father, so she couldn't help but have what happened that day.

My birthday has passed, and I have to live my life.

During the military training early the next morning, Li Yeling announced the task this time, and called on Chu Qinglan to take a hundred people to go out to carry out the task with him.

When it comes to solving the labor problem, Li Yeling thought of a way to capture refugees on the wasteland. First of all, it is unimaginable in the Iron Town. Now, the slaves who were originally regarded as burdens and could only be used as coolies have become scarce commodities. With Li Yeling's support, Xu Shouyi expanded his army on a large scale, and the targets of the expansion of the army were these former slaves. They were cheap, obedient, and could beat and scold them. The most important thing is that they could just eat and don't have to pay any salary!

Xu Shouyi's actions obviously stimulated Lin Hongda. According to the information from Zheng Quan's report, Lin Hongda also started to expand his army.

So in the current situation, Li Yeling in Iron Town cannot get qualified slaves at all. If he speaks, Xu Shouyi will definitely give it to it, but he will only give it to the elderly, weak, sick and disabled. What does Li Yeling want them to do? What he wants is a strong labor who can do rough work, tiring and hard work.

Therefore, we can only go to the wasteland to arrest refugees without our conscience.

Li Yeling made a lot of effort to overcome the guilt in his heart. Because he was roughly a former refugee in the wasteland, he knew the suffering of refugees: he had no food and clothing, endured hunger and cold, allowed others to bully him, and was homeless...

He was interested in bullying the strong, but bullying the weak was actually quite interested... Later, he thought about it. The voices of people were inevitably bumpy, so how could so many people die? These refugees wandered aimlessly on the wasteland. Not only were they affected and hungry, but their lives were also in danger. They might be killed by zombies and monsters at any time. It would be better to come here to work hard work. At least they could eat enough and sleep in a warm house. As long as they survived for a while, they could get rid of their slave status and be stored as soldiers by themselves.

There is also a difficulty.

If hunting zombies is a cool job and a huge test of physical ability, then catching refugees in the wasteland is a huge level of mental ability.

Li Yeling is now inspecting the new officers of the new army one by one, especially those with higher positions. They can stand out from these many people. Not to mention their own technical and tactical skills, the focus of the investigation is psychological quality. Last time, Zhang Lan cooperated with Qu Wenli to investigate the armed police district, he already knew the performance of this thin girl, who was cruel and ruthless, and was also decisive in doing things.

This confirms Li Yeling's guess. She was indeed pretending to be obedient and weak in front of her. But there is nothing to say. Everyone is like this, isn't she the same? She is different in front of different people.

The target of this inspection is Chu Qinglan.
To be continued...