A temporary camping site six kilometers east of Taiping City, where the advance team of the Oriental Port Foreign Legion and Army Artillery was stationed, totaling more than 290 people. There are more than a dozen small wooden houses standing in the campsite, all of which are low, but without exception have a chimney at the top, which is emitting smoke.

These wooden houses were originally used by the Foreign Legion, but because of the error and omission in the loading order, a considerable part of the substructure of the temporary houses was also thrown out of the Qingdao base, and what was brought out was basically the superstructure of the temporary houses, and such errors and omissions were not discovered until Taiyuan planned to camp for a day, so it must have taken a long time to go back to pick them up, so before the return of the convoy, they could only use the upper half of the temporary houses to camp. The problem now is that the soldiers are not very tall, but the height of these houses is still too low for the quick-set bunk beds to be spread out in the houses, let alone put something in them.

However, as long as you want to do something, there are always more ways than difficulties, Zhan Jie proposed a solution, that is, to rebuild according to the common local style of the nest, first use excavation tools to dig a deep pit in the ground with the same area as the standard temporary house, and then build the upper half of the temporary house on the deep pit, and then tamp it with soil next to it to block the cold wind and rain. Since the houses are all made to the same specifications, the deep pits below can be dug to the same specifications. In charge of the planning of the construction of the camp are several staff officers of the Foreign Legion, who have just finished training from the staff special training team, in which they have received a lot of professional staff training, such as a series of trainings in army logistics planning, camp configuration and weapon allocation, the construction of such a temporary camp is not a problem for their profession at all.

First of all, the layout of the camp is very reasonable, and the earth and gravel wall is built about one meter above the ground by using the terrain to build a mud and gravel wall that is about one meter above the ground. The ground in the camp area has been excavated, and drainage ditches have been dug according to the undulations of the terrain to prevent losses caused by extreme weather such as sudden heavy rains. Although both Hong Jie and Yang Muqin were too slow to spend time and manpower digging drainage ditches on the ground, they only complained and did not stop such construction, such designs were printed in books and manuals, and if they said no, then it would be equivalent to questioning the Senate, which would cause adverse effects, not to mention that having rules to follow was not a bad thing; The houses in the camp are spread out according to the central command center, and the distance between the houses is about six meters to ensure that in the event of a fire, the company camp will not be burned. The weapons were carried by the soldiers, and the ammunition depot was set up fifty meters east of the headquarters, which was not safe at all, but if the ammunition depot really exploded, it would be difficult to leave a living mouth even if it was a hundred meters, and everyone was not at ease about deploying the ammunition depot outside the camp, so it was better to simply put it in the camp and keep it under strict supervision. The artillery was also placed in the camp at the moment, fifty meters west of the headquarters, in a zigzag formation, and covered with a canopy to prevent snow and rain from affecting the artillery itself, even in bad weather.

At this moment, there are only three rhinoceros carts left in the camp, and the other vehicles have returned to Qingdao according to the original route to pick up the second batch of personnel and supplies. However, the dozens of women who had just been rescued from Tuoyangkun were left in the camp because they did not have time to register and undergo a physical examination.

"Name," asked the soldier in charge of the inventory, feebly, and a woman sat in front of him. The woman didn't seem to take him seriously at all, just looking at the furnishings of the house with a chatter about the soldier. "What about your head? The tall, thin, white-looking one. Why isn't he with you? ”

How did the soldier know who she was talking about? Just gave her a blank look, "Name!" The woman was not discouraged at all, and continued to chirp, "Your steamed buns taste good, what do you put in them?" How can there be a sweet smell? And that soup, it's so delicious! I smell the fragrance from three or four feet away, how do you do it? ”

The voice of the "name......" questioning was so weak that the occasional passer-by could not understand who was asking whom. Do you sell your firecrackers? If you sell it, how much will it cost? How thick are your clothes? How is this one different from yours? ”

The questioning soldier finally couldn't stand it anymore, stood up and walked up to her, "This young lady, please pay attention, we just rescued you from the fire pit, can you respect us a little?" Tell us what we want to know first, and we will tell you little by little what you want to know. ”

"Really?" The woman finally let out a sigh, "I thought you weren't going to say anything about it. My name is Shen Yunying, a native of Changxiang Village, Guali Town, Zhaodong, Xiaoshan. ”

"Xiaoshan?" The soldier was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly ran back to his seat to record, "Where is Xiaoshan?" ”

"Where is Xiaoshan, you don't know? You're still not from our martial arts, are you? Shen Yunying couldn't help laughing, and continued without waiting for the soldier to speak, "Xiaoshan is in Hangzhou, and Changxiang Village is a village in the south of Hangwu Mountain, surrounded by mountains and rivers. We have small rivers everywhere, and every summer and autumn you can directly catch fish and shrimp in the river, and crabs, but they are all delicious things, by the way, how does your fish taste different from the fish we have there? Aren't they all salted? ”

The soldier didn't pay any attention to her, just lowered his head and recorded what she said on the paper, and after a while he raised his head and asked, "How did Li in Guali Town write it?" ”

Shen Yunying was stunned, "I said so much, you don't even know what I'm talking about?" Somewhat frustrated, he leaned over and looked at the form that the soldier was filling out, "Why don't I write it, your handwriting is so ugly!" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand.

Naturally, the soldier couldn't ask for it, and hurriedly handed over the pencil. Shen Yunying's father's name is Shen Zhixu, a martial artist, and as the only child in the family, she has naturally always been praised as the pearl of her palm. There is a saying that Shen Zhixu can practice martial arts, mainly because he has a lot of financial resources in his family, although he is not a rich party, but he also does not have to worry about food and clothing, so Shen Yunying has practiced his skills since he was a child, and he can also have financial resources to study, not only reading the scriptures and history is stronger than memory, but also can ride a horse and shoot arrows.

At the end of 1628, Shen Zhixu served as the garrison of Puxian County, Shanxi, and she followed her father to this Shanxi to serve her father. At the end of last year, the rebel army forcibly crossed the Yellow River and hit near Pu County, Shen Zhixu went out of the city to meet the enemy, but unexpectedly was exploited by the rebel army, Wang Zi's rebel army not only captured Pu County, but also left Shen Yunying and many other men, women and children who remained in the city to be captured together, and were incorporated into the rebel army and driven to Taiping. Shen Yunying is beautiful and has an outstanding figure, so she was selected from the cannon fodder and arranged in Tuoyangkun's "harem". However, because Shen Yunying was favored by her parents since she was a child, she did not bind her feet when she was young, and when she grew up, she was very resistant to foot binding, so she gave birth to a pair of heavenly feet, and she was not loved in front of these dirt buns in Tuoyangkun, and it is because of this that she has not been violated until she was rescued by the special investigation team.

Shen Yunying, who took the pencil, couldn't help but be stunned, she is also a person who is familiar with poetry and books, although writing is not a big deal, but it is also a role that is confident in writing like a god, but what is going on with this pen? The pen has a barrel like a brush, but it seems to be made entirely of wood, and there is a carbon core inside it, which is cut out by a knife and poked in front of it. Look at the words written in front of the soldier, it is exactly written by this carbon core, she is used to writing with a brush, when has she ever written this kind of hard pen again? I didn't know how to write for a while.

Before she could start writing, she was stunned again when she saw the small characters printed between the words written by the soldier and the table, these words must be Chinese characters, but she didn't know most of them, occasionally a few of them did, they were still simplified words in the book, could it be that these people were too lazy to do so? Even writing has to be simplified like this? She couldn't help but ask about the words one by one, and sure enough, as she thought, they were indeed simplified. She grabbed the charcoal pen in her hand like a snake and wrote a few words crookedly. The soldier laughed out loud, "I thought you were writing well?" It turned out to be worse than mine......"

Shen Yunying couldn't help but be a little annoyed, but after looking closely, she couldn't get angry, her words were indeed not as good as the words written by the soldier, and she was about to defend herself, when the door was pushed open, several soldiers in the same costume looked inside, and saw that there was no officer there, so she hurriedly walked in and carefully closed the door, "How is it?" Have you finished remembering? What's the name of this chick? "It's so pretty, she's not a local, is she?" "That's it...... Shall I take a look? ”

The soldier who spoke didn't wait for the registered soldier to speak, so he took the registration paper from Shen Yunying's hand, "Shen Yunying, female, Xiaoshan, ...... Guali Town, Shaodong, Zhejiang."

"Zhejiang? So far? How did you get caught here? "Shao Dong? Isn't Shaodong from Hunan? How did it become Zhejiang? Didn't you write Zhaodong as Shao Dong? "Hahaha, don't you believe that you will be allowed to practice more calligraphy during cultural education?" The soldiers chatted with each other as they joked. Their words made Shen Yunying feel more and more surprised, this group of people must be a group of soldiers, and they should still be the lowest-level characters, but they are all literate, and they know where they are, saying that Shao Dong also knows that Shao Dong is in Hunan, and they can even guess that Shao Dong is from Zhaodong, who made a mistake. So it can only mean one thing, these soldiers have a very superb understanding of the Wu Kingdom, you must know that even if they are ordinary generals of the Wu Kingdom, they may not be able to know what province a place like Zhaodong is in. She suddenly felt that the group of soldiers in front of her was probably not inferior to ordinary private school students in terms of knowledge, right? Why should a group of soldiers who fought in a war know so much knowledge? Do you know how to read? Such people can be used as soldiers to fight, so don't the people in this place know how to read and write?

Shen Yunying was still in a daze, but she heard a loud shout at the door, "Hello chief!" The soldiers in the room were in a hurry, hurriedly putting the documents they had just fought for back in their places, and one by one they stood upright with their heads upright, their eyes looking straight ahead.

The door quickly opened, and a slightly familiar voice rang out, "Yo! What's the room full of people? Have a meeting? A large group of people from a big girl's family are surrounded by you, and you are not afraid that people will be embarrassed? Give me the ball!" Yang Muqin walked in as he spoke, blasting out all the uninvited soldiers, he pulled the door and counted down to the soldiers who were hurrying out, "You guys, let you rest and don't want to rest one by one, let me tell you, if you don't rest today, don't rest tomorrow, give me a five-kilometer armed cross-country!"

One by one, the soldiers cried out, "Ah! Five kilometers!" Gear up!" Chief, we didn't mean to, we just came to see!" Five kilometers is a long way! I'm going to have to eat a lot more tomorrow!"

"I'm not afraid to eat!" Yang Muqin said with a smile, "Don't worry, Zuo Liangyu has sent us 10,000 stone of grain, which is definitely enough to eat, and you can add food tomorrow!" Let you have a good time, lest you have nothing to do here to peek at the big girl!"

"We're here to see it openly!" Before the soldier who spoke could speak, he was lightly kicked on the ass by Yang Muqin, "Roll the ball!" Pound up all the nonsense!"

In the midst of laughter, Yang Muqin closed the door, and only him, Shen Yunying, and the soldiers who were in charge of recording were left in the room. He picked up the record form and looked at it, "Shen Yunying, the name is very good, and the voice is also very good, it's a pity ......"

"What a pity?" Shen Yunying was tricked by him, and involuntarily asked, Yang Muqin said with a smile, "It's a pity that I'm married." ”

Shen Yunying couldn't help but feel red all of a sudden, and she was busy covering her mouth, but her eyes were still staring at this strange person who was "teasing" herself, "Who are you?" What are you doing here? ”

"We are from the Chinese army, and the purpose of coming here is to quell the Shaanxi and Jin rebellions and strive to strangle the rebellion in this area," Yang Muqin said and paused, and then asked, "I saw that you speak a set of routines, and you can write, and your movements are fast and accurate, so you must have a little kung fu in your hands, right?" As he spoke, he glanced at Shen Yunying's feet, "Well, you haven't wrapped your feet, eldest lady, right?" ”

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