"But we have all the big players involved in the state and the sea pirates, and Chenjiazhuang is too far behind those big players. How could they raise such a large number of pirates?" Le Zhi couldn't believe it.

The big players who can raise pirates to serve themselves must have millions of assets, and they cannot raise too much, because they are easy to eat their owners.

I have never heard of any pirates outside the Guangzhou Bay that can beat 400 county soldiers on land.

"The pirates were very well equipped, including catapults, crossbows, and a lot of tinder oil. The pirate soldiers were also wearing iron armor and equipped with giant iron-clad wooden shields." Le Zhi could not convince himself: "With this power in Chenjiazhuang, will I be bullied by a small county lieutenant?"

With such excellent equipment, if you say that the giant bandits are humble, you have to be regarded as a traitor.

"Have you bullied him?" Wang Si's words were very slap in the face and were very practical.

Le Zhi reflected on it. If Wang Si guessed that it was true, the deaths of more than one hundred village villagers would be fake. The food and grass lost in the port would return to Chen Xun's pocket, and at most it would sink a small part into the sea. Even if he had been stationed outside Chenjiazhuang, he would not have caused any substantial losses to Chen Xun.

"This, this, this..." Le Zhi was dumbfounded and couldn't believe it.

"It's incredible, right?" Wang Si secretly praised his intelligence, and then preached to Le Zhi: "But the facts are so incredible. In those years I have been in Hebei, I have seen many such things, and there are even more incredible things than this. What's the point of offering pirates? I personally play them everywhere."

"Those big players can't do anything." Wang Si expressed his contempt: "Where do you think they can become big players? They get money? They eat human flesh and drink human blood. Squeeze a little here, knock a little over there, and grab some elsewhere."

“How many are really good?”

"..." Le Zhi is still digesting.

"Murder and set fire to the golden belt, build bridges and pave the road without corpses." Wang Si continued to speculate: "I can guarantee that all the villagers of Chenjiazhuang know about these things, but you don't know how they fooled you."

"I'm going to kill them!" Le Zhi was already convinced and gritted his teeth in anger.

"Just rely on you? What are you going to fight them? Recruit 400 county soldiers to die?" Wang Si despised him again.

"What should I do?" Le Zhi asked.

"This matter should be discussed for a long time. According to you, those pirates have catapults, bed crossbows, and iron armor, which is not simple." Wang Si also knew that Chenjiazhuang could not take it alone: ​​"Tomorrow you will go to Zhizhou, and we will say that..."

"good!"

*******

"By this standard, the project volume is too large." Chen Lu looked at the drawings in his hand and disagreed with Chen Xun's suggestion.

The village wall shown on the drawings is divided into two sides. The inner wall is one zhang high (3.2 meters) and five feet wide (1.6 meters) and the outer wall is one zhang high (4.8 meters) and two feet wide (0.64 meters) and there are perforations on the outer wall. The inner wall does not have a female wall (the low wall inside the city wall). The thickness of the inner and outer walls reaches seven feet.

In addition to the main body of the village wall, an enemy platform that is ten feet square (forts, large city-defense weapons are installed), and there are steps on the left and right of the enemy platform (the slope of the city wall is small, and you can push a cart and ride a horse on the wall), and a nest pavilion twenty feet (hiding a military cave, storing weapons, allowing the soldiers guarding the city to rest, on duty, protecting against rain and wind, and houses on the city wall.), there are corner towers around the corner gates, and all the gates of the village wall have city towers, on both sides of the city tower, on both sides of the corner tower, and behind the enemy platform are arrow towers (part-time watchtower towers).

"It's okay to have a larger project volume, it's safe." Chen Xun replied.

"You are not a village wall, you are clearly a city wall. The city walls in Dongguan County are not as complete as you." Chen Lu retorted.

"That's all I said. The wall of Dongguan County is nearly three meters high and two meters wide. How can I compare to the wall of this village I designed?" Of course, Chen Xun would not admit that he was building it towards the city wall.

"Okay, then why do you set up a urn behind the city gate tower?" Chen Lu asked.

"Of course it's increasing defense." Chen Xun couldn't deny it.

The urn city is one of the main defensive facilities of cities in this era, which can strengthen the defense of the city gates. A round or square gate guard city is generally built outside the city gates.

Generally, if there is a urn city or pass, the siege army would rather attack from the city wall than attack the city gate.

When the siege army enters the city, it has to bear the enemy from all sides. The enemy is still on a high place, which is very, very disadvantageous.

Chen Xun's choice to build the urn on the inside of the city gate is an exception, mainly because he doesn't want to be too eye-catching.

"According to your construction method, it will not be built in three to five years." Chen Lu said helplessly.

"Let's go step by step, look at the plan I gave you. First build the outer part and build a brick wall that is 100 meters high." Chen Xun pointed to the text part in the plan: "When the outer brick wall is built, then build the inner side, fill the soil between the brick walls on both sides and tamp it."

Seeing that Chen Lu was still a little hesitant, Chen Xun could only continue to persuade:

"There are more and more people in the village, so we have to find something for them. We can buy cheap food from Li Chao and Ma Yi, so that the villagers of the village can have nothing to do when they have enough food, and they will cause trouble."

"And if the village wall is built, Chenjiazhuang's protective ability will also increase greatly. If pirates really come from the sea in the future, they will only be bleeding when they encounter the village wall."

"Okay, it's all you pay for it, I'll listen to you." Chen Lu replied.

With the Chen family's long-range attack ability, no pirate dared to come and find fault. Both of them understood that Chen Xun was guarding against enemies from the land.

The entire Chenjiazhuang wall has one mile length and a total length of four mile.

Five feet are steps and three hundred steps are miles. The length of one mile is equivalent to 480 meters. Excluding the area occupied by the village wall, the area in the village is about 220,000 square meters. According to the area of ​​one household covering an area of ​​three meters, the roads, wells, markets, ancestral halls, temples, squares, east courtyards and west courtyards cover the area, and the remaining area is almost enough for a thousand households to live in.

The south courtyard was built this time, and the south courtyard was marked outside the side wall. It was mainly because when the South courtyard was built, in order not to affect the village people, it was built too remote. It was three miles away from the main body of Chenjiazhuang, and even if you want to frame it, you can't get it in.

"Dig a tunnel between the South Courtyard and Chenjiazhuang to connect two places. If there is really a war, the people from the South Courtyard can escape into the wall of the village through the tunnel." Chen Xun added.

"Digging tunnels here? What are you thinking? How to waterproof?" Chen Lu was shocked.

You should know that Chenjiazhuang is close to the sea, with a very shallow groundwater level. It is possible to get out of water by digging a little hole. With current technical capabilities, it is impossible to dig a tunnel.

"I can't think about it carefully." Chen Xun really didn't expect this. He just thought of the tunnel warfare, and a flash of inspiration was about connecting the South Courtyard and Chenjiazhuang, without considering the geographical environment.

"Build a corridor and you can communicate with two places." Chen Lu suggested, after all, Chen Xun is also trying to be more thorough.

"Okay, then build a corridor." Chen Xun nodded in agreement.
Chapter completed!