Frontier Army Warrior

Chapter 454: Bandits Attack Camp

Liang Shuisheng led more than a thousand villagers and rushed to the front of the canal.

Seeing the canal filled with injured villagers, his eyes burned red with anger.

If an older villager had not held him back, he would have waved his hand and let everyone rush forward to fight.

The older villager was the village chief of the neighboring village, Wangjiabu.

He quietly signaled Liang Shuisheng to take a closer look at the situation around him.

Liang Shuisheng looked around and felt a chill in his heart.

Seeing that soldiers with bows and arrows were standing everywhere, they were all looking at them quietly.

There were soldiers holding swords and guns nearby, waiting leisurely for them to take action.

The noisy crowd gradually quieted down, staring with angry eyes, waiting for Liang Shuisheng to speak.

Lin Feng waited for a while and saw that the angry crowd gradually calmed down.

I felt a little disappointed.

He rounded up these injured villagers here, hoping to get the excited villagers to take action.

What I fear least is being unreasonable and taking direct action.

We have several thousand soldiers, so it will be easy to capture them. We are still short of migrant workers on the construction site.

Unexpectedly, he had miscalculated. He had miscalculated the villagers' anger and also miscalculated the placement of the soldiers around them.

We should not use force openly to calm the villagers down.

Liang Shuisheng calmed down for a moment, stepped forward and shouted loudly.

"Who did this? Someone come out and take charge."

Cheng Liang still acted as the person in charge and came close to Liang Shuisheng.

"What's your name? What's your identity?"

"My name is Liang Shuisheng, the head of Liangjiabu Village. These injured people are all from my village. What is your identity?"

Cheng Liang raised his hand and pointed at the canal: "I'm in charge of the construction here. These people attacked the construction site last night and were caught by the guards. Is there any problem?"

"A sneak attack? You're really good at talking! They're from our village, fishermen. They came here to fish at night. You injured them, so you need to give an explanation."

Liang Shuisheng is not stupid either. Since he can't take action, he has to seize the opportunity.

Cheng Liang laughed. "They're night fishermen. Look at what they're doing: shovels, iron rods, crowbars, knives, and sticks... I've never seen them use such tools for fishing."

The village chief of Wangjiabu shouted, "Even if they wanted to steal some rocks, the local authorities will punish them. Why did they injure people like this?"

Cheng Liang nodded: "Stealing stones? On a dark and windy night, hundreds of people came here armed with weapons to steal stones?"

As he spoke, he glanced at the villagers.

"Excuse me, how much do you need rocks at home? Do you all make a living from rocks?"

"Anyway, they didn't come here to kill anyone. Now that someone is hurt, you have to take responsibility."

"How do I know they're not here to kill people? Have they notified us?"

"With so many troops like you, how dare they come and kill people?"

"Knowing that we have so many troops, you still dare to come here armed in the dark and seek death?"

Lin Feng smiled secretly in his heart. He really made the right choice by asking Cheng Liang to go and negotiate.

With just one word, he refuted the other party to the point of being at a loss of his composure.

When the villagers saw the two village chiefs being humiliated, they immediately started to clamor.

"We hurt people, so you have to pay for it."

"Why do we care? If you hurt someone, you have to pay compensation."

"Let them pay."

"Compensate!"

"Or fill up their ditches."

"..."

The crowd began to shout.

Cheng Liang shut up. He had no way of explaining himself to so many people. Of course, there was no need to explain himself.

Lin Feng didn't say anything. As long as it didn't delay his project, he let them shout here.

As they were shouting, the sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance.

Dai Zhixing led a group of officials and soldiers and rushed over.

Seeing officials coming, the crowd became excited again, holding various weapons in their hands and shouting loudly.

Dai Zhixing was overwhelmed when he saw it from a distance.

This is fucking a mass incident. I wonder if anyone from the government will come to deal with it.

He gritted his teeth and urged his horse to come closer. After dismounting, he asked the villagers to make way.

He brought two officials with him and squeezed to the front.

He glanced around and asked, "Who's in charge here?"

Just as he was about to scold them, he suddenly saw the ditch full of injured villagers lying there, not knowing whether they were dead or alive. He gasped.

Damn, isn’t that too cruel?

Why are you still being held here? If you don’t treat your injuries, you’re going to die.

Isn't this going to intensify the conflict?

Cheng Liang looked him over and asked, "Who are you?"

"Oh, Dai Zhixing, the magistrate of Bin County, are you the one in charge?"

Cheng Liang nodded.

Dai Zhixing stepped forward and said, "I heard that General Lin Fenglin is here. I wonder if I could meet him?"

Cheng Liang shook his head: "General Lin is busy and has no time."

Dai Zhixing raised his hand and pointed at the canal: "How do you explain this?"

"Bandits attacked the camp."

"what?"

Dai Zhixing paused and rolled his eyes.

"They are clearly villagers from nearby, how could they be bandits attacking the camp?"

"It's dark and windy, and there's no word 'villagers' written on their faces. How can we tell them apart?"

"But how can you, the Qingshui Army, hurt people at will?"

"The Tartars are wreaking havoc, bandits are rampant, and the Qingshui Army is here to rescue you from Yinzhou. How can we rescue you from this dire situation without killing people?"

"this..."

Dai Zhixing was also confused.

Under the current circumstances, the Qingshui Army has a large number of troops, and it is obvious that attacking them to capture people would be courting death.

As for reasoning, the other party doesn't have any major loopholes.

There was no choice, Dai Zhixing turned around and looked at the dark crowd.

"Everyone from all over the place is here, you guys have to give an explanation, right?"

"I've already said it, what else do you want to say?"

Cheng Liang looked at him coldly.

Seeing this, Liang Shuisheng started shouting immediately.

"My dear parents, you have to make a decision for us poor people..."

Countless villagers followed suit and began to shout: "Please ask our parents to make the decision for us..."

Dai Zhixing looked embarrassed. You guys don’t have eyes or ears? How can I make a decision for you in this situation?

Lin Feng saw from afar that the situation had come to a standstill and the villagers were not taking any action.

I turned around and went to the construction site out of boredom.

He needs to solve the problem of water seepage in the canal.

Without cement and waterproofing measures, how can we prevent water seepage in the canal?

The two water conservancy experts were also confused. They had never heard of building a canal requiring a separate anti-seepage project.

Lin Feng had already surveyed the soil here. After digging half a foot deep, he found that it was all raw soil.

Water seepage is inevitable. For a canal of this length, a large amount of water will be lost just by seepage.

I thought about it for a long time, but couldn't figure out how to prevent water leakage.

The only thing that can be used now is cement mortar.

Lin Feng gathered several technicians and found a relatively open place.

"Everyone, let's build a lime kiln here. How about using lime, clay, and fine sand to make a mortar? How about compacting the bottom and walls of the canal with the mortar?"

Seeing everyone's confused faces, Lin Feng smiled and waved his hands.

"Let's think about whether this method is feasible."

All the technicians frowned in thought, some were scratching on the ground and muttering to themselves.

Lin Feng was very satisfied with their appearance.

When it comes to technical issues, we must be serious and persistent.

He was not in a hurry and waited for the technicians' conclusion.

No longer pay attention to the bickering over there.