Chapter 167: Chapter 167 Huajiabao Preparation
Hua Zichen returned home, and the entire Hua family suddenly had a backbone. The news of the Hua family caravan gradually spread in the village. The important members of the family already knew that the family caravan was following the red wolf pack and had now arrived in Jinzhou City.
Huajiabao began to prepare defense materials, some construction in the village stopped, and the affiliated villages began to prepare to enter Huajiabao for refuge. Every time these small and medium-sized affiliated villages entered the county town or the big village for refuge, it was a challenge.
Entering Huajiabao means that they have to go to war, that they have no income, and that the whole family has to spend money on food and accommodation in Huajiabao.
All small and medium-sized villages are also very worried about entering Huajia. Hua Zijie has heard that a village with hundreds of people has rented a yard in the past few days.
As Huajiabao becomes more and more prosperous, the rental fee of the yard is also constantly increasing. Those ordinary people working in Huajiabao can barely make a living by working for Huajiabao while relying on the little land in the village.
"Third brother, please sit down!" Hua Zichen had rested for a night and looked much better. He saw Hua Zijie coming to his house to find him and said.
"Fifth brother, the wheat harvest is over, a total of 10,246 stones. Our 60 acres of land has a higher yield than other people's 200 acres of land. The effect of this spiritual field is too great!" Hua Zijie said in amazement.
Hua Zichen had never heard of such a high wheat yield. He poured tea for Hua Zijie and the two talked about the wolf disaster.
"Have you found out where the red wolf is now? Have you calculated whether we have a chance to harvest the grain?" Hua Zichen said.
"We sent someone to Linzi City to inquire yesterday. The person who inquired just now came back and said that the red wolf has almost reached Yuling Pass, and it is about eight and a half days away from our Huajiabao. And Xu Hua looked at the wheat in the villages outside Huajiabao and found that it would take at least fifteen days to harvest it. In this way, the wheat in the affiliated villages will not be harvested this year, and they will have a hard time this winter." Hua Zijie replied.
This is troublesome. Huajiabao has nearly 2,000 people. With the small and medium-sized villages attached, the population exceeds 5,000. 5,000 people is not a small number. Many counties in Qi State do not have 5,000 people.
The Han family has only more than 3,000 people in Guang County. So the Hua family has surpassed the Han family and become the largest force in Guang County. However, if the villages outside Huajiabao have no harvest this year, the Hua family cannot survive without tens of thousands of stones of grain.
"I'll ask Kai'er for his opinion tonight! Maybe he can find a way." Hua Zichen thought for a while and said.
Huajiabao harvested the grain early, which made all the attached villages jealous. After the wheat harvest, the spiritual fields were quickly repaired. Xu Hua was already repairing the spiritual fields and preparing to cultivate this year's spiritual rice seedlings. After becoming a farmer, he has a deeper understanding of plants and is more adept at growing spiritual rice.
At night, Hua Zichen entered the [Family Secret Space] to meet Hua Kai. Hua Zichen told Hua Kai about the wheat in the village outside Huajiabao. Unexpectedly, Hua Kai really had a solution.
"Let the affiliated villages start harvesting wheat straw tomorrow. Now the wheat grains in the affiliated villages have just grown ears, which is the best time to make green fodder. We will harvest all the wheat according to the wheat price, and add a small amount of alfalfa to ferment it according to the method I taught last time. This year we brought back more than 4,000 horses, and the winter feed consumption is a huge number."
The problem was solved so easily. Hua Kai also told Hua Zichen that he still had more than 40,000 stones of grain in the [Baoguang Glazed Bottle]. The grain shops in Guang County should not be closed, and limited purchases should be made every day.
Hua Zichen listened to Hua Kai's instructions and asked Hua Zijie to tell the affiliated villages outside the village about the harvest of green wheat the next day. When all the affiliated villages heard the news, their first reaction was that Huajiabao was afraid that they would not be able to survive this year and was sending them grain.
Huajiabao began to organize villagers to start harvesting green wheat that had not yet fully grown into ears, one village at a time. The price of each acre varied from 800 bone coins to 1,500 bone coins depending on the growth of the wheat, which was almost catching up with the value of the wheat after harvest.
Carts of green wheat were pulled back to Huajiabao, and several wine brewing masters led hundreds of villagers to crush and add ingredients and bundle them into blocks. After pressing them with ordinary wood frames, they were used in the newly dug pit next to the stable. The green grass needed to be buried here for a week before it could be used after fermentation.
Everything in Huajiabao was in intense and orderly preparation. On September 26, all the villagers from the affiliated villages outside Huajiabao had moved into Huajiabao, and all construction projects in Huajiabao had stopped. The village began to become unusually lively, and children playing could be seen everywhere on the streets. This year, the affiliated villages received wheat income, and they had money to live in Huajiabao.
On October 1st, a village guard told Hua Zijie that red wolves appeared outside the village. He came to the gate tower and saw the thin bodies of red wolves in the distance. It was hard to imagine that they could cause heavy losses to the entire grassland. It took less than half a day from the discovery of the red wolves to the dense red wolves outside Huajiabao. Those red wolves looked up at the ten-meter-high wall of Huajiabao, and they didn't know what to think. In the evening, the red wolf pack began to attack. The Huajiabao village guard team has been divided into three teams to take turns to defend. Each village guard team brought 500 villagers to the outer wall to prevent any accidents. Everyone saw countless red wolves rushing to the base of the wall, as if they wanted to rely on their thin bodies to knock down the wall. Everyone stood on the wall and watched quietly. As time went by, the red wolves outside the wall piled up higher and higher, but they were still far away from being able to climb the wall. The characteristic of the Central Plains compared to the grasslands is the city walls. The opponents of the grassland tribes in winter are only wolves, while the Central Plains countries face all kinds of wild beasts. At this time, the advantages of the city walls come into play.
From morning to night, the red wolf pack seems to be boundless. Looking down from the city gate tower, the dense red wolves are like floods rushing from afar, but they can't get past the obstacle of the city wall. The teacher of Huajiabao School even came to the city wall to teach students, so that everyone can experience the atmosphere of defending the city, which is completely different from the fear of the grassland tribes towards the red wolves.
On the second day, the bodies of the red wolves piled up more than 6 meters high. Some red wolves finally climbed up the wall and were killed by the village protection team. Here, even an ordinary villager in the Yunqi realm can easily defend the several-meter-wide city wall.
Hua Zichen stayed on the city wall and looked at the red wolf pack in the distance. He just heard a few special wolf howls but didn't find where the other party was. Red wolves have appeared many times in the historical records of the Central Plains countries, but most of them just broke through some villages outside the city, and rarely broke through the county town.
"Fifth Master! The logs and firewood are ready. Do you want to clear the red wolves outside the city wall now?" A member of the village protection team came to Hua Zichen and asked.
Hua Zichen naturally became the person in charge of the wolf disaster defense of Huajiabao when he returned home. Everyone felt confident when they saw him standing on the city wall in silver armor.
"No need for now. Try to use less fire attack before it's a critical moment. Send as many villagers as possible to defend on the city wall, and the village protection team will stay inside the city wall to rest. This time the village defense will take about 17 days to pass." Hua Zichen said standing on the city wall.
The people who originally disdained the red wolves under the city became cautious at this time. If the red wolves can attack continuously for 17 days, then everything is just the beginning. When the red wolves can easily jump onto the city wall through the corpses of their companions, the battle will really come.
In the afternoon, people began to get injured on the city wall. The bodies of the red wolves outside the city were more than nine meters high. Looking at the red wolves that kept rushing over, everyone began to feel more and more pressure. At this time, some villagers in Huajiabao finally lifted a thick rolling log from the village. The rolling log was thrown from the city wall and rolled along the bodies of the red wolves to the distance. Many red wolves were crushed to death along the way.
Each rolling log could cause dozens or hundreds of red wolves to be injured or killed. The pressure on the city wall suddenly became much lighter. As the sky got darker, more and more red wolves began to climb the city wall. The bodies of the red wolves had crossed the parapet. There were shouts of killing everywhere on the city wall. Many members of the village protection team had climbed the city wall. Some red wolves began to jump over the city wall and into the city wall. Everyone knew the horror of the red wolf at this moment.
"Everyone, throw firewood!"
"Throw firewood!"
For a while, many villagers holding firewood appeared on the city wall. They went to the city wall and threw a bundle of dry firewood out of the city wall with all their strength. This firewood could also slightly resist the footsteps of the red wolf.
Soon, tens of thousands of bundles of dry firewood were thrown out of the city wall. Hua Zichen saw that it was almost done and asked the village protection team to carry out hundreds of cylinders of kerosene (animal and plant fats) and sprinkle them all outside the city wall.
Several rockets flew out of the city wall, and slowly the kerosene and firewood outside the city wall were ignited. The crazy red wolves screamed when they were burned, and when the rolling logs in the distance were slowly ignited, the entire Huajiabao became a sea of fire.
At this time, let alone the red wolf attack, the villagers of Huajiabao who stayed on the city wall also felt very hot. Everyone had to retreat from the city wall and be on guard inside the city wall, waiting for all the kerosene, rolling logs and red wolf bodies outside the city wall to be burned together. This wait took a day.
The red wolves were not really stupid. They saw that there were fires all around Huajiabao, and they would not be stupid enough to rush into the sea of fire and die meaninglessly. So the red wolf army continued to move south until the morning of the third day, when the fire outside the city wall of Huajiabao was extinguished, and then the red wolves continued to attack.
Fire attack is the most critical magic weapon for Central Plains cities to deal with red wolves. Humans also rely on fire attack to consume the number of red wolves little by little and eliminate them little by little.
Huajiabao has gradually mastered the rhythm of the red wolf's attack. The village has stored enough rolling logs, dry firewood and kerosene early on. Everyone has gradually become familiar with when to start rolling logs and when to use fire attack.
Gradually, the village dares to let some children over 12 years old climb the city wall to fight. Although Huajiabao now has only 4 Qi training realms, there are more than 100 people in the Qi dynamic realm. With all these personnel scattered in various corners of the city wall, Huajiabao is more calm in the face of the wolf disaster.