"I don't worry about you, uncle!"
Zhao Rui was barking in his heart, wishing he could catch Li Gan and beat him violently, but he could only continue to put on a bitter look on his face, hoping that his master would look back.
However, Mr. Zhao Er left very simply.
Leaving Zhao Rui to guard Jiannan Mansion was indeed Zhao Bingzhen's temporary idea. To be precise, after Li Gan spoke, Zhao Bingzhen discovered that Zhao Rui was indeed a very suitable candidate.
Moreover, Zhao Rui has been by his side, so it's time to take charge of his own affairs.
This opportunity is just right now.
As a result, Zhao Rui was tricked by his master.
But in fact, Zhao Rui's initial judgment was not wrong. Zhao Bingzhen initially planned to trick Li Gan and teach Li Gan a lesson.
But no one expected that although Li Gan didn't notice that Zhao Bingzhen was going to dig a hole, he was extremely lucky to get out of the hole.
"Why does it have to be me!"
Zhao Rui has been depressed about this for many days.
He really didn't want to be alone.
There are endless things to do every day. How smart does he have to be to make himself so busy? I remember that back then, he stayed with his master and dealt with some business dealings every day. The rest of the time was spent eating, drinking, and playing around.
But now, he has become the controller of the whole country.
Civilians are looking for him, and the military is looking for him...
Even if he is a mule, he still has time to rest.
But when I get to him, I just work like a cow and a horse every day!
"Master, you must find someone to replace me as soon as possible!"
After Zhao Bingzhen and Li Gan left Jiannan Mansion, Zhao Rui was busy praying to God every day, praying that his master would soon find out how uncomfortable life was without him around, and then he would find someone to come. Replace him and he will be free.
Unfortunately, it backfired.
Li Gan successfully fulfilled his promise and showed with practical actions that he could really take good care of Mr. Zhao Er.
It's not even much worse than when Zhao Rui was with Zhao Bingzhen.
When it comes to taking care of people, Li Gan is obviously self-taught, and he is naturally gifted with relevant skill points.
Zhao Bingzhen, who was living a very comfortable life, had forgotten about Zhao Rui, who was still working as a cow in Jiannan Mansion. Well, at least in the short term, he would not think of this young apprentice.
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Xiangyi Prefecture, Linyao City.
Xu Laosan received a secret letter from Xu Laoer. After receiving the secret letter, Xu Laosan felt that his second brother was playing a little too big at the moment.
Destroying Guancheng and letting the barbarians enter Xiangyi Prefecture is indeed a good strategy.
But the problem is that if something goes wrong, none of them can bear the consequences.
"To do it or not to do it?"
Xu Laosan fell into deep thought.
Savages are so cruel, he knows this. If the savages are kept in Longxi Mansion, temporary stability can be guaranteed.
But as my second brother said in his letter, if the savages choose to go into the mountains in order to survive, and then accidentally find a detour into Xiangyi Prefecture or Qifeng Prefecture, then if they want to completely eliminate these savages, But it’s too difficult.
Like now, setting up a pocket formation, letting the savages in, and gathering them to annihilate them is indeed a very good way.
But here's the problem.
When you let the savages in, you have to make sure that no savages can escape.
Such a strategy is undoubtedly very risky.
"Mom, if you don't want to give up your child, you can't trap the wolf. If you're afraid of the wolf in front of you and the tiger in the back, what can you do?"
"Fight!"
After Xu Laosan hesitated for a while, he finally made a decision.
As long as you are fully prepared, unless these savages can escape to the sky, they will die as many as they come.
Xu Laosan immediately ordered the recruitment of civilian workers, the kind of recruitment that starts with wages.
He wanted to dig a circular trench outside Haoguan in the shortest possible time to block the way for the savages coming from Haoguan, and build towering city walls in the mountains and forests on both sides of Haoguan to cut off any possibility of the savages escaping into the mountains and forests. .
The moment Haoguan is destroyed, it will become a real death barrier, with no way in but no way out.
As Xu Laosan's decree was conveyed, a large number of civilians gathered.
It was already winter and the ground had already frozen, which made the excavation of the trenches very slow.
However, there are always more solutions than difficulties.
After discovering that digging downwards from the ground was too slow, Xu Laosan simply asked people to dig holes directly and start digging from the ground.
The soil on the surface was frozen, but the soil underground was not frozen, and the excavation work went smoothly.
At the same time, fire-burning objects were piled on the ground, sprinkled with fire oil, ignited, and roasted with fire, causing the ground to thaw.
Unfortunately, Xu Laosan's research on gunpowder was not progressing fast enough.
Otherwise, as long as gunpowder is buried in the dug hole, the excavation of the trench project can be completed in the shortest time.
But even though it was time-consuming and laborious, Xu Laosan still achieved a miracle.
In less than a month, a trench more than ten miles long and one foot deep and one foot wide was completed.
In order to make it more difficult for the savages to fall into the trench and crawl up, the edges of the trench were poured with water to form ice.
Before the trenches were built, walled fortresses on the mountains were also built.
A large number of soldiers entered behind the trenches and garrisoned the city wall fortress, fully armed with bows and arrows, crossbows, eight-oxen crossbows, and even trebuchets.
When everything was ready, they were suddenly attacked by savages.
Not the savage that Xu Laoer made people pretend to be, but the real savage.
However, the defenders in Haoguan didn't know all this. They thought it was the raid Xu Laoer had agreed with them.
Therefore, when the barbarians attacked the city, the defenders of Haoguan abandoned the city and fled.
Then, the entire Haoguan turned into a sea of fire.
In the snow outside Haoguan, Xu Laoer and Fubao saw the flames rising from Haoguan, and their eyes widened. The savage really wanted to break through Haoguan.
"Little sister, what should I do?"
Xu Laoer has not received the news from Xu Laosan at this moment, so naturally he doesn't know that everything is ready in Haoguanli.
On the other side of the trench in Haoguan, Xu Laosan saw a fire burning in Haoguan, and immediately asked people to light the beacon smoke.
Not receiving a letter from his second brother meant that Haoguan was really attacked by savages.
The soldiers who had withdrawn from Haoguan were all terrified when they knew that they had really been attacked by savages.
Fortunately, they received the notice early in the morning and chose to evacuate immediately. Otherwise, they would attack the enemy unpreparedly, thinking that the person coming was one of their own, and the result could be imagined.
After the savages occupied Haoguan, they directly destroyed Haoguan.
Then, the crazy savages roared and ran barefoot in the snow. They desperately needed to find food. (End of chapter)