Chapter 12 Food Problem
Looking at the drastically changed Beifeng Village, Guo Hao burst into tears, even though he had only been away for a few days.
But the bitterness of this cannot be told to outsiders. He dared not go offline for too long in the wild, and he basically survived these days with his life.
The villager who was on guard at the entrance of the village rang the bell early to inform the news of Guo Hao's return. Old Guang and a few villagers came to greet him.
"Village chief, you are finally back. The village is in big trouble!" Old Guang handed Guo Hao a bamboo slip.
"What's wrong?" Guo Hao took the bamboo slips and read them while arranging for the villagers to stay overnight with the guide.
"This is real?"
"It's absolutely true, Village Chief!"
"I understand. Mr. Guang, please arrange for these villagers to build the buildings first. I will figure out the rest." Guo Hao handed all the construction drawings in his hand to Mr. Guang.
"Yes, Village Chief, I will arrange it right away."
After receiving the blueprint, Mr. Guang immediately started to act without saying a word. It was obvious that he was enjoying the process of developing the village bit by bit.
Guo Hao returned to his house and placed the bamboo slips in front of him.
He didn't expect that during the time he was away, there were more than a thousand people in the village. Including the original villagers, there are now more than two thousand people in Beifeng Village.
In order to accommodate these people, Mr. Guang expanded the village several times according to Guo Hao's previous layout. Now it looks like a small town.
The influx of a large number of refugees was supposed to be a good thing, but who would have thought that the number would be so huge.
Beifeng Village's already tight financial situation fell even further. Old Guang used all the money in the village to buy food, and with the hunters running to the mountains to hunt day and night, it was barely enough to supply the entire village's consumption.
During the autumn and winter, food is already in short supply, not to mention the increasing number of refugees, with new ones arriving every day.
The stock in the warehouse is decreasing every day, and a food shortage is imminent. When the time comes, the refugees will be hungry and will inevitably cause trouble, which will be a real problem.
"It's the food problem again." Guo Hao couldn't remember how many times he had solved this problem.
He was not a farming type of player, and it was autumn and winter, so he could not think of any good way to solve the problem.
Although the drawings brought back included a series of food buildings such as pig farms, sheep farms, and chicken farms.
However, these new buildings require manpower and time, and it will take at least a month to build them from scratch.
Even with these buildings, it would take about half a year to fully realize production, which would not be of any help to Beifeng Village's current crisis.
Guo Hao silently calculated the village's food surplus and estimated that famine would occur in about ten days. Even if the lowest level of food , fifteen days would be the limit.
With a sigh, Guo Hao picked up Tuanzi who was struggling at his feet and took out the [Premium Pet Pill] from his backpack .
Tuanzi was too young to be kept around, so Guo Hao left him in the village. Someone brought him food every day, and without anyone to supervise him, he became even rounder.
Guo Hao thought, although it was a pet's medicine, Tuanzi should be able to eat it too.
Before Guo Hao could do anything, Tuanzi snatched it away and ate it.
"No one's competing with you for it, why are you in such a hurry?" Guo Hao scolded with a smile, and rubbed the dumpling fiercely a few times.
Tuanzi rolled off Guo Hao with a groan, then lay comfortably in his own nest.
"Rob?" Guo Hao looked at Tuanzi and thought of a way.
"Rob!" After thinking it over, Guo Hao had no other choice but to resort to this last resort.
Whether this method could succeed really depended on God's will. Even he could not guarantee that he could rescue enough food to survive the winter within fifteen days.
Guo Hao made up his mind to go out and rob food. He gathered the labor of the whole village to start building a [Cavalry Barracks]. Fortunately, he captured the war horses of the Hu people last time, otherwise he would not even have the capital to go out and plunder.
[Cavalry Barracks, basic building, a place to train cavalry, troop training effect +1, training chief: Guo Fei, currently can train: archer cavalry. ]
The cavalry barracks was extremely effective, directly transforming the 72 young and strong men selected by Guo Hao into archers. Although their martial arts values ranged from 5 to 19, at least riding and shooting arrows were not a problem.
After informing Mr. Guang of the plan, Guo Hao set off quickly with his troops. Time waits for no one, and he dared not gamble with the lives of the villagers.
[Troops]: Archer Cavalry (Strength 5-19)
【Number of people】: 72
Morale: 75
【Features】: Accurate, horseback archery.
In order to prevent other dangers from happening in the village, he specially left behind two young and strong men who had followed him at the beginning in the village to protect the safety of the village.
With two archers who can move freely, plus a dozen young and strong men, it is basically no problem to deal with ordinary small thieves and wild beasts.
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The sky looks like an inverted deep sea, the clouds roll like waves, and towering mountains dot the endless wilderness.
On the wilderness, 73 cavalrymen galloped on their horses.
"Herod~"
The warhorse snorted and its hooves dug marks on the ground, but it was firmly controlled by the knight on horseback.
Guo Hao looked at the 72 cavalrymen around him, who were as silent as a statue. It seemed like a futile move for him to lead the cavalrymen with incomplete weapons to plunder.
But he had no other choice. He only brought five days' worth of food. If he failed, all would be lost.
His target was very clear, which was the small tribe of the Hu people.
Generally, a small tribe has a population of no more than 500 people. As long as he takes the enemy by surprise, he still has a chance of winning.
It was not until dusk that Guo Hao and his troops finally found a small Qiang tribe.
Guo Hao did not immediately lead his troops to attack. Instead, he found a relatively secluded place to rest and wait for the opportunity to come.
Guo Hao chose a very good location, which happened to be a small hill. On the one hand, it was convenient for observation, and on the other hand, it could conceal his body.
Perhaps it was because the Qiang people of this tribe had been living in peace for too long. Guo Hao and his party lay dormant in the wilderness for a whole day, but the Qiang people did not discover anything.
At night, Guo Hao went there alone and carefully observed the layout of the tribe.
The layout of the Qiang tribe had no rules at all. From Guo Hao's perspective, a fire would be enough to completely destroy the tribe.
But that was not Guo Hao's purpose. He came to steal food. If he set the fire, he could get rid of the Qiang people, but the food would be lost. Moreover, if the cattle and sheep escaped, it would be difficult to gather them again.
Guo Hao was very patient. He crawled back to the place where the cavalry was resting.
Facing the gazes of all the soldiers, Guo Hao nodded.
"I have figured out the tribe's layout. We will launch the attack tomorrow night!"
Nothing happened that night. On the second night, Guo Hao and the soldiers finished their dry rations and waited for the night to fall completely.
Fortunately, Guo Hao had selected the 72 cavalrymen before setting out, and none of them had night blindness, which was why he decided to launch a night attack.
