The northern barbarians generally do not start wars in the spring, because at this time the cattle and sheep are about to lay their cubs, and it is a busy time. However, this winter, there were several heavy snowfalls on the grassland, and many cattle and sheep froze to death, and the northern barbarians suffered heavy losses and had to come to loot.

"Thanks to the snow." Dingbei Hou looked at the map in the big tent, and lightly said to the people on the left and right, "If they were blocked in the depths of the grassland, if they came a year ago, the epidemic was not over at that time, and the situation was really hard to say." ”

Standing on his left is Yin Jun, the prince of Dingbei Hou, and on his right is Shen Shu. The two cousins were dressed in military uniforms, standing in the big tent and looking heroic.

"There were quite a few of them this time." Yin Jun had just retreated from the battlefield, and the first wave of tentative attacks of the Northern Barbarians was repelled by him, and he seemed to still have an iron and bloody aura on his body, "It seems that the losses are heavy enough, and if you can't grab something, you won't stop." ”

After so many years of fighting, the people of the northwest border pass also have a set of ways to deal with these northern barbarians, the people outside the city can withdraw to the city, and those who can't be withdrawn will drill the mountains and forests, as for the grain, chickens and ducks at home can be taken away anyway, they will be taken away, and those who can't be taken away will simply rush to the mountains and forests, and they will not be left behind by the northern barbarians.

Therefore, the Northern Barbarians have gained very little along the way, which leads to them facing a real tough battle - rather than starving to death, the Northern Barbarians feel that it is better to die in battle, if they can fight into the city, then they will have everything.

"Over there in Qingzhou City, your brothers have to go over to one."

Duzhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou is an iron triangle, Yanzhou City is behind, and the city wall is deep and the easiest to defend, as long as the two cities of Duqing in front of each other can be defended, Yanzhou City is generally fine. Among the two, Qingzhou City is the smallest, but this year, the epidemic in Duzhou City is more serious, so it is almost the same in comparison.

"I'll go!" Yin Jun said immediately. He is the prince of the Marquis of Dingbei, the future Marquis of Dingbei, of course, where the danger goes, so that he can establish prestige in the army and subdue the generals in the future.

Dingbei Hou originally planned to do the same: "You set off early tomorrow morning with your troops and horses." Hu Chong's defense of the city on the Qingzhou side is a good one, plus your soldiers and horses, it should be enough. "Hu Chong is a veteran in the Northwest Army, and his ability to charge into battle is average, but when it comes to defending the city, he has a hundred ideas, and he can defend the city like a turtle shell, and even Dingbei Hou has to admit that he is slightly inferior.

"Zhengming, you go back to Yanzhou City." Dingbei Hou knocked on the map, "This time the Northern Barbarians are menacing, and it can't be done in three days or five days." Now is the time when there is no harvest, although they have no food and grass, but we are also difficult. This matter of overseer will be handed over to you, and there shall be no loss. ”

Shen Shu did not object. Charging into battle is of course a great opportunity to make meritorious contributions, but it has always been the Dingbei Hou Mansion that has always controlled the Northwest Army, and he is only the nephew of the Dingbei Hou, and he should not be in a hurry. Moreover, the matter of supervising the transportation of grain and grass seems to be always going back and forth in the rear, which is very unpleasant, but in fact it is not easy to do. Especially now that the Northern Barbarians are extremely short of grain, it is very likely that they will rob the grain transportation team halfway, which makes it even more necessary to be careful, and be able to fight when necessary. Shen Shu has a certain prestige in the army and has a valuable status, so he is the most suitable candidate.

"Master Hou!" A pro-soldier trotted in, causing Dingbei Hou to frown: "Who allowed you to come in!" ”

The big tent of the Chinese army is not something that anyone can enter and exit. Even if it is the personal soldiers of the Marquis of Dingbei, they cannot trespass without a summons, especially when the Marquis of Dingbei is discussing a battle strategy.

The pro-soldiers naturally knew the rules, and when they entered the big tent, they fell to their knees: "Subordinates should be damned!" But—the princess of the county is here! ”

"I'm going to get the five army sticks, and next time, I'll break one of your legs." The Marquis of Dingbei first attacked this pro-soldier according to military discipline before asking, "Who did you say is coming?" "Let's hope he misheard.

"It's the princess of the county." The soldier lowered his head to the ground, "And with the ambulance team." "He served Dingbei Hou closely, and naturally knew that the princess of the county had asked Dingbei Hou before, but Dingbei Hou meant to let her stay in Yanzhou City and not come over - fundamentally speaking, Dingbei Hou still didn't believe that a group of women and wounded soldiers could be of any use, and the so-called exercises were as messy as child's play, and even his nephew couldn't stand it, let alone let him approve it.

Who knew that this princess of the county was not an obedient woman at all, and the Marquis of Dingbei walked on the front foot, and she followed on the back foot. There are still a lot of people in the team, in addition to an ambulance team of more than 100 people and military doctors, there are also more than a dozen Langzhong who came voluntarily from the northwest, and they also brought several truckloads of medicinal herbs and white cloths, as well as spirits and lime.

"Now the city knows about it......" The head of the pro-soldier was buried even lower. If the princess of the county came alone, the Hou Ye could still quietly send people back, but now it's good, everyone has seen the team enter the city, and it won't work if you want her to go back.

"Zhengming-" Dingbei Hou frowned, he was really a little annoyed for the first time, "This is just nonsense!" Go, tell her to go back, don't make trouble! "He is an uncle, so he can't really scold his nephew and daughter-in-law, so he can only ask his nephew to teach his daughter-in-law a lesson.

Shen Shu coughed dryly: "Uncle, don't be angry, I'll go and take a look first." ”

"Go, go, go!" Dingbei Hou waved his hand impatiently, "It's just a matter of making trouble on weekdays, but now that the war is coming, there must be no women in the army, she really doesn't look good at this time!" "Even if it is a great contribution to the entire Northwest, military discipline is still military discipline, no exception, otherwise how will this soldier be brought in the future? Not to mention the princess of the county, even the queen can't come! Of course, the queen is pampered, and even if she wants to come, she can't invite a place like the battlefield.

Thinking like this, Dingbei Hou's attitude softened a little: "I also know that she is kind, but at this time, there is no room for child's play." "After all, it is really rare to be able to think about the Northwest Army everywhere like the Jiang family, and to run to the front line with all the hard work and danger. With this heart, he can't coldly reject people thousands of miles away.

"Yes." Shen Shu agreed, and smiled at Beihou, "I'll take a look." ”

Compared with Dingbei Hou, Shen Shu certainly knows Taohua better and knows that she is not a reckless person. In fact, when she was in the capital, Taohua was not very keen on treating diseases, especially for those dignitaries and nobles, and what she was really active in was actually when she was treating the epidemic in Lantian and Luonan counties.

However, this time in the northwest, Taohua is really active, not only making new drugs along the way, introducing the method of planting pox, and now also proposing to establish an ambulance team. Shen Shu could feel that this was completely different from before, Taohua was really enthusiastic about these things, partly because of him, and partly because of his sense of responsibility to the people in the northwest and even the world, no matter which part, Shen Shu didn't want to fight and pour cold water at all.

Therefore, Shen Shu did not intend to persuade Taohua to go back as Dingbeihou said. He was sure that if Taohua was not sure, she would not have brought such a large group of people here, she was not here to make a name!

The people brought by Taohua did not enter the barracks, but stayed in the post station first. When Shen Shu passed, Taohua was instructing Fifteen: "Find a spacious place near the city gate and put up the tent." The tent does not have to be too large, and the space is mainly reserved for the smooth passage of the wounded. In addition, we went to requisition the surrounding houses, and we paid them money to vacate the houses, disinfect them first, and prepare them for wards. ”

Fifteen is quite tricky. At that time, Taohua sent someone to ask Dingbeihou if she could go to Duzhou City with her, but Dingbeihou refused, and Fifteen knew that Dingbeihou did not want her and her nursing team to go to the position. To be honest, I don't think this nursing team is a good thing, so it's better not to go ahead and cause trouble.

However, the Hou Ye left on the front foot, and the princess ordered people to pack up and set off on the back foot. Fifteen persuaded two sentences to no avail, so I had to follow along, and beat the drum in my heart along the way - although the prince protected the princess, but this was a war after all, and at this time, the Hou Ye would never allow anyone to disobey the arrangement.

Now the princess is coming with great fanfare, and as soon as she enters the city, she is ready to set up tents and requisition houses, which is simply going to make a fuss. Fifteen really don't know if he should do what the princess told him now, in case he finishes it here, and the Hou Ye orders to stop it, where will the princess's face go?

"Momoka." Shen Shu stepped into the door, and fifteen suddenly seemed to be amnesty, and quickly slipped out of the air, standing under the porch and breathing a sigh of relief.

However, before he could finish his breath, he was patted by someone, and Dieyi came around from behind, wearing a small jacket with narrow sleeves and tight jackets, and only pants with a skirt on his head, and was staring at him: "Didn't the princess ask you to find a place to set up a tent, why are you still standing here?" ”

"The prince is here." Fifteen Chong pouted in the house and sighed, "It must be the Hou Ye who asked the prince to persuade the princess to go back, where else are you looking for?" Also, what kind of clothes are you wearing, and what do you look like? "The little girl is dressed like this, like Dieyi, how can she wear a skirt outside.

Dieyi said indifferently: "This is what the princess said, if there is really a war, we all have to go out of the city to carry people, isn't it asking for trouble if we stumble in a skirt?" ”

Fifteen looked down, only to find that the pants worn by Dieyi were not the same as the wide-legged pants worn by ordinary women, and the sheepskin boots on her feet were specially thickened, which looked like they were specially made: "You guys are going out of the city to carry people?" ”

Is it because his ears don't work well or what? If he remembers correctly, a big girl like Dieyi doesn't do those dirty and tiring rough jobs on weekdays, so she is somewhat squeamish with the deputy miss, and now she says that she wants to go out of the city to carry people, and it will be the kind of "person" who is blurred after being injured, is this possible?

Dieyi was proud: "Of course! What does the princess train us to do? "She threw up as soon as she entered the quarantine zone, and now that she thinks about it, it's so useless. This time I followed the princess to the front line, and I must not embarrass the princess!

"You really can—" Fifteen didn't know what to say, "You're not afraid?" ”

Dieyi straightened her chest again: "Are you afraid when you fight?" ”

That's a really hard question to answer. Are you afraid? That must be a little scary. After all, who is not afraid of death? Who wants to die? But is it useful to be afraid? The city and family are behind them, if you are afraid, if you retreat, the northern barbarians will seize your land and kill your relatives and friends, so even if you are afraid, you can't be afraid!

"You're really different from before...... "Fifteen looked Dieyi up and down. Just as sergeants can't be afraid of war, these people of the ambulance team can't be afraid either? He really never thought that Dieyi would become such a person one day, is it because of the princess? If the princess can change the butterfly clothes - fifteen suddenly felt that he should go to find a place, and the ambulance team trained by the princess may really be going into battle.

"Of course we're going to fight." In the room, Taohua smiled at Shen Shu, "Otherwise, what am I going to do here?" "Although she has no surgical equipment, no antibiotics, and no blood transfusions, since the war has started, she should do her best to save one of them.

"Then call someone to do it." Shen Shu's clothes were unresolved, "Uncle asked me to supervise the transportation of grain and grass, I'm afraid I can't accompany you here more." However, I will make it clear to my uncle before I leave, and let you do your own thing. ”

Taohua was mentally prepared when she came, and even guessed that Dingbei Hou would not come herself, but would let Shen Shulai persuade her to go back. But what she didn't expect was that Shen Shu didn't persuade her at all, and only agreed after hearing her say a word.

"Are you really—so relieved?" Just believe in her like that?

Shen Shu turned around and walked out: "The military situation is urgent, I can't accompany you more." He turned back to the door and smiled at her, "I have always been at ease when you do things." It's just that you have to take care of yourself. ”

The house of the post station is also low, and the lighting is naturally not good, only the doors and windows are a little sunny. Shen Shu stood at the door, his long figure almost reaching the door frame, and the sunlight that came in from there was blocked by him, painting him with a bright gold rim.

Taohua raised her eyes to look, and Shen Shu's eyes were brighter than the sun in the brilliant gold, which made her involuntarily smile as well: "I'll be careful, and you have to take care too." ”

The news that Princess Anjun brought a nursing team to Duzhou City to participate in the war spread far and wide, and soon spread throughout Duzhou City. Despite the presence of the Northern Barbarian Army outside the city, some people couldn't contain their curiosity and ran to see the excitement and brought back fresh news.

"The princess has set up a number of tents in the open space on the other side of the east gate, and is carrying tables into them."

"There are many women in those nursing teams, and some wounded soldiers, who are limping when they walk, can they really go to war?"

"I requisitioned a lot of houses in the neighborhood, and sprayed wine and lime - hey, that wine is all burned knives, what a pity, if it were used to drink......"

"I saw a couple of military doctors, all carrying strange medicine boxes on their bodies, painted white, with a red cross drawn in the middle, saying it was a cross, but it didn't look like it. And those in the nursing team, they also have a tie around their waists, and they also draw such a cross on their heads. It is said that everyone who does this will draw this sign, and when he is injured in a war, he can see this and seek medical treatment. ”

"Could it be that you have all done it?"

"There are a lot of Langzhong, too. Most of them should be Langzhong in Yanzhou City, and we also have those in Duzhou City, hey - just the few Langzhong who had pox a few days ago, I watched them all go to the princess. ”

Because no child was infected with smallpox after the pox, Lang Zhong, who performed the pox in Duzhou City, was very respected. Lang Zhong from other places left after being planted with pox, and the local Lang Zhong became the object of everyone's gratitude, and no one knew it.

Since the pox doctor is respected, the princess of Anjun, who proposed the method of pox, is naturally even more respectful: "Since it is the nursing team led by the princess, it must be right." ”

The few idlers who gossiped at the beginning were fiercely refuted: "The wine is brought to you to drink, it is better to splash it." ”

"That's it! The princess is here to save people, do you think it's the same as you? With this kind of time to gossip, why don't you go into battle to fight the northern barbarians? Even if you go to repair the city wall, it's good. ”

No matter where you go, there are always some idle people, but in the northwest, such people are particularly unpopular, and they are naturally scolded for being discouraged. However, thanks to their love of wandering and talking, the princess's nursing team soon became familiar to everyone.

At this time, the Marquis of Dingbei was angry at the fifteenth in the big tent: "That's what your prince said? "Stinky boy, tell him to go and get his daughter-in-law back to Yanzhou City, but he said that he supported his daughter-in-law and let his uncle leave it alone. If the stinky boy is in front of you, you must drag it over and hit a few military sticks!

"That's what the prince said." Fifteen felt that he might as well follow the prince to transport grain like the first day of junior high school, it was really terrible to be sandwiched between the prince and the princess here. However, the princess resolutely refused to let him go to war again, saying that his blood clot was still not suitable for "strenuous exercise". The prince is now obedient to the princess, and with just this sentence, he circled him to the princess.

"What exactly does she want to do?" Dingbei Hou turned around in the big tent a few times and asked with a calm breath. After the initial annoyance passed, he calmed down a bit. The nephew is not a foolish person, he is dizzy for the sake of beauty, and he even dares to joke about things like war. And Jiang Shi has done so much in the northwest, it doesn't seem to be a disproportionate, although this nursing team is really a bit funny, but- let's ask first.

"The princess said, everything doesn't have to be worried about the Hou Ye, usually we don't do anything, just wait for the battle to rescue the wounded, in fact, it is no different from the military doctor."

"Really?" Dingbei Hou was skeptical. After such a big battle, it's no different from a military doctor? When he's a fool to coax?

Fifteen scratched his head: "Master Hou, that's what the princess said." ”

"And what is she doing now?" Dingbei Hou asked suspiciously again.

"Bring the Langzhong together to teach. Also, let the nursing team practice positioning. Speaking of which, Fifteen admired the princess a little, seeing that the war was imminent, there was a lot of discussion about the nursing team outside, and she could still ignore all the discussions and arrange the course as usual.

Dingbei Hou smacked his lips and had nothing to say. Mount Tai will collapse in front of the same color, this is the style of the general. If this is a general who is so calm, he has to look up, but this is a woman, let him say what?

"That's it, I can't control her." If you want to talk about managing your nephew and daughter-in-law, you have to be in charge of Mrs. Beihou to be justified, he is always an uncle who is not good at saying too much, "As long as she doesn't make trouble for me, I can't take care of her now." Moreover, once the battle starts, I will call the military doctor or Langzhong, but she will not allow it. ”

Fifteen lowered his head: "The princess said that when the war really starts, the Hou Ye will not need to worry about the military doctor." "The princess is really good, she didn't even expect the Hou Ye to say this.

Dingbei Hou stared at him for a while, and waved his hand: "Get out!" Do whatever you have to do, don't bother me here! ”

Fifteen quickly slipped away. When I returned to the place where the nursing team was encamped, I heard the sound of footsteps inside, but no one spoke. When he went in to take a look, he saw that the nursing team was in groups of three, two carrying some stretcher made by the princess, and one carrying a medicine bag on his back, going in and out of the tent.

It's time to practice moving again. Fifteen looked at it for a while, only to feel dazzled by these people, and couldn't see any clues, so he had to go to the tent in the middle to look for Taohua.

But the tent in the middle was full of people. Ding Langzhong, who has only completely disappeared from the bruises on his face in the past few days, is in high spirits, gesturing with a knife. Fifteen poked his head and saw a piglet that had just been disemboweled, and there were some strange-shaped knives and needles next to it.

Dieyi had just withdrawn from the nursing team in position, her face was still red, and she said after seeing fifteen: "Hou Ye agreed?" ”

Fifteen nodded and pointed to those who were still walking: "Can it be done?" The prince made a promise in front of the marquis, and the princess's words were also spoken, I think this battle will be a matter of the next few days, and when the time comes, it will be-"

"Phew!" Dieyi smacked him lightly, "What are you talking about?" The princess said that as long as she does her best when the time comes, even if she can save one more person, it will be good. ”

"Yes, yes, of course that's the truth......" Fifteen agreed, but he was even more worried in his heart, he believed that the princess would do her best, but sometimes, doing her best does not mean that she will be recognized by others. Now he really hopes that the Beiban will attack more slowly and give the princess's nursing team a little more time to practice.

However, as the saying goes, the good does not lead to the bad spirit, and the more you are afraid of something, the more something will come. Fifteen's fears were confirmed in the middle of the night—the horn sounded throughout the city, and the Northern Barbarians attacked.

Fifteen were men who had entered the barracks, and even when they were asleep, they were very alert, and when they heard the movement, they put their clothes in order in a moment, and ran out of the house with their knives.

To his surprise, he thought that the nursing team would get up in the middle of the night without chaos, but in fact, although these people were not as fast as him, they were not chaotic, and they all came out after a while. The wounded soldiers were better to say, after all, they were trained people in the battalion, and those women were also very orderly and neat, which really surprised Fifteen.

The lights were already lit up in the camp by this time, and fifteen looked in the not-so-bright light, and found that the women were dressed in the same clothes as they had worn that day, and that they wore only trousers and no skirts, which indeed saved a formality, and made them more unrestrained in their walking.

But at this time, it was impossible for him to take a closer look at other people's pants, Taohua came out of the house with a medicine box on his back, and said in a deep voice: "All ready, each in place, our work is about to begin!" ”