diskusbooks Chapter 187: Attack on the 5th Mine
Chapter 187: Attack on the 5th Mine
There are 3,000 workers in the Wugou Mine, with each team consisting of 800 people, divided into digging, transportation, sorting...
Therefore, Lu Yihou has considerable power.
But the people under him can basically be divided into three types.
The people who were digging were basically prisoners of war and prisoners. These people had a characteristic: they were extremely patient in order to survive, and they would not hesitate to betray others. Their work was also the hardest.
Lu Yihou would definitely not let his people do this.
Handling, also called transportation.
In this era, mining means giving your life underground.
All transportation is done by manpower.
They carry bamboo baskets on their backs and carry out the collected ore one basket at a time. This is also the job that requires the most labor.
The composition of these people is similar to the previous ones, but they are required to perform well to be assigned, and their food benefits are also higher than others.
Lu Yihou's men could not escape the status of captives, so they could only linger in this position.
The last step is color sorting.
It is also one of the most basic sorting operations for iron ore. These people are basically experienced people, and there may even be local people mixed in.
Leaders like Lu Yihou can work here and will also have special approval indicators to work here.
He was particularly happy when he met someone from the Lu family today who delivered the news.
"Did the master bring me a letter?"
"The head of the family asked us to look for you. It took a lot of effort to find out that you were in the mine and not dead. When we first learned that you were in the coal mine, it took several months for our brothers to find out that you were gone."
"Damn it, you're too inefficient."
Lu Yihou cursed inwardly, but since there were other people around, he had to suppress his displeasure and continued to ask, "If you have anything to say, hurry up and say it."
"Master Lu means to seize the opportunity to escape! Or rebel!"
"If they rebel, I will bite them with my teeth!" Lu Yihou complained in his heart again, but his expression remained unchanged.
"Okay, I get it. Go back to your own team first and don't let anyone see any clues."
When the visitor saw that Lu Yihou was trying to drive him away, he thought about it and decided to hold back what he wanted to say and left quietly.
"What are these people thinking? I have less than a hundred people in Xiaolongshan, the iron mine. Fighting against the thousands of defenders here, isn't this courting death?"
Lu Yihou thought about it and felt that a riot was still unrealistic, so he did not discuss with anyone what to do next.
"Beep, beep~" Someone was blowing a bamboo whistle, ordering the resting miners to assemble.
"We're going to give you some weapons today to prevent any trouble. Not all of them, but we'll target specific individuals with good performance."
As a result, the transport team was given a batch of whistle sticks for self-defense.
The mines here in Wugou are really complicated, and most of the captives are from the Xiongnu and other places, accounting for half of the three thousand people.
Lu Yihou was also given a whistle stick and was the self-defense captain of their team.
"The boss is the boss, he is the boss in everything he does."
"Go and gather those who have been issued whistles. I want to give them a lecture."
He ignored the flatterer and ordered people to be gathered together.
Among these people who moved there, 30% were from Xiaolongshan, another 30% were younger brothers whom he had established relationships with and conquered after he arrived, and most of the others were Huns.
"The stick is in your hands. If there is anything you don't understand in the future, we will put it on the table. Don't use tricks behind your back."
Those who had been bullied by Lu Yihou in the past seemed to understand something. They looked at each other and smiled smugly on their faces.
At noon, everyone was lining up to eat when suddenly tens of thousands of people surrounded them and started fighting with the officers and soldiers from Dingzhou.
"Report..."
Several soldiers guarding the periphery suddenly came running back, their horses' hooves stepping into the food shop where the miners were waiting to eat, raising clouds of dust.
"Some northern barbarians attacked our base. There are about 30,000 of them."
"Ten thousand versus thirty thousand." Upon hearing the announcement, the iron mine security captain suddenly stood up and asked, "What do you want us to do?"
"The governor asked us to send some men over there to form a battle array with shields. We have too few shield soldiers. Also, see if there are any archers."
The security captain looked at the people queuing up to eat without showing any emotion and shouted, "Those who have been given a whistle stick, take a bun to the warehouse. Someone will tell you what to do.
Also, are there any archers? We need these people. If you don't die this time, we will grant you a special pardon later."
Many people in the crowd were foreigners from the grasslands. They could not understand what the captain said, so someone translated for them.
After a while, someone raised his hand and said, "I am from Goguryeo. I was captured and forced to serve as a soldier and became a prisoner of war. I can help you."
The implication is that you are willing to be an archer.
Once someone took the lead, others followed suit. Soon, more than a hundred people came out and joined the ranks of archers.
The soldiers who arrived took these people away. Before leaving, the captain asked them to take some food with them.
Among those who went to the warehouse was Lu Yihou. When he got there, he found out that he was going to pick up large wooden boards, which were used to load ore when sorting iron ore.
A handle and a hand guard are nailed on the wooden board, and this is a simple shield.
As soon as he got the shield, Lu Yihou knew what he would face next.
When leaving the warehouse, I met people sent by the Lu family.
"Are we going to help fend off the cavalry with these sticks?"
"No fear." Lu Yihou turned around and looked at the people coming in and out one after another, his face full of determination.
After so many years of fighting, although these people are bandits who rob and loot, when facing real death, they are afraid, but they are not overly afraid of life and death.
"It's just to stop the Huns' cavalry. I can catch their spears with my bare hands." Lu Yihou gritted his teeth, picked up the heavy wooden shield, and headed outside the warehouse to gather.
"Don't worry, everyone. We have spearmen behind you. You are the shields, and we have spears, bows, crossbows, and arrows behind you."
"Raise your shield to protect the men behind you, and also to achieve merit and regain your freedom."
"I'd like to go with you!"
Someone in the team shouted slogans, but I don’t know if he was a shill.
The team was led by soldiers from Dingzhou, who simply taught them how to use wooden sticks to support wooden shields so that they would not be easily hit by war horses.
"march!"
At the sound of a command, the army of more than 2,000 people, full of heroic spirit, followed the soldiers and marched forward in a hurry.
The biting cold wind could not blow away the fighting spirit.
After walking only a mile or two, someone came and took away some of the shield soldiers and archers.
"Pass the order down, large shields in formation, archers in the rear, spears on shields, hold on!"
There were generals shouting in the team, and the crowd was constantly changing.
Two thousand men were distributed with wooden shields, and those holding spears helped to hold up the wooden shields, which were then placed on the ground and propped up with wooden sticks.
"Brother, lean your back against the shield and I'll hold it up for you. The warhorse will be able to hold it up if it steps on you."
He didn't tell me about the weight of the warhorse, but he thought the wooden stick could probably hold it up.
There was a dark mass coming from the front.
The cold wind changed its direction, and the sound of horse hooves made the ground tremble.
Lu Yihou held the shield with his backhand and supported it with one shoulder. Another spearman extended half of his spear, knelt on one knee in a bow stance, held the spear in his hand, and looked forward.