26 The First Fire Companion (1)

He Mulan knew that she was dreaming, or rather, she was quickly experiencing Mulan.

So, even though it was painful, she closed her eyes tightly and endured this qiē without a trace of thought.

Unlike most people think, Mulan's experience in the army was not glamorous from the beginning.

Since she was a child, Mulan has shown a kind of strength that is different from ordinary people, this kind of strange talent that can be said to be "heaven-send" for Xianbei people, but it is regrettable that it appeared in Mulan, who is a woman.

When she was still three or four years old, she could easily pick up her sister who was four years older than herself, and this strength became more and more obvious as she grew up, so that the attitude of the whole Hua family towards Mulan was very different.

Her sister was a little afraid of her, and she didn't dare to go too far by arguing with her about anything since she was a child. Her father was a typical Xianbei soldier and thought that this was the best gift from God to him, so from the time Mulan was able to ride a horse, he began to exercise her riding and archery ability and teach her the skills of fighting in the army, just to teach her a skill.

And Mulan's mother, Yuan, silently asked someone to buy back a loom.

"I'm going to learn this from tomorrow?" Mulan looked at the loom in surprise, "How is this possible!" How thin this line is! I'm going to break it if I'm not careful! "

What she said is not an exaggeration at all, let her chop wood and chop trees, but pick up the shuttle and bury her head between the looms?

Does her family have that much money to buy her thread?

"I bought the loom just so that you don't break the thread." The flower mother rarely showed a very strict expression.

"You're getting stronger and stronger, and you don't have a number in your hands. I washed the dishes the day before yesterday and broke a few more bowls at home. The kung fu of the Han family girl weaving cloth is the skill of controlling the eyesight, hand power and finger power, and in the future, you will weave me a cloth for two hours every day, when you can weave a cloth, and when to go horseback! "

In this way, the powerful Mulan, in order not to cause trouble because of her strength, while learning the martial arts to maximize her strength, while learning to control her own strength to the smallest weaving, in such a day after day, gradually grew into a big girl.

A girl who can ride a horse and shoot arrows, and weave cloth to feed chickens.

Her life has been ordinary and unusual, until "I saw the army last night, and the Khan ordered the army. There are twelve volumes of military books, and the scrolls have the name of the master."

Mulan's younger brother is only 10 years old, and her father is meeting the "up to 45, down to 16" conscription age required by the military sticker. But he has a wound on his leg, and he can't even walk because of the pain in winter, and dragging such a body to fight is undoubtedly self-defeating.

In a military family where the Xianbei people have been in the army for generations, it is a shame not to have a son. That means that your family's glorious inheritance will soon be cut off, your military position will be stripped away, your fields will be taken back, you will start paying taxes, and you will start working in the fields all day like the Han people in exchange for a little food.

Hua Arc is very lucky, his family already has a son;

He was unfortunate because he had not waited for his son to grow up and become a talent, and he was going to join the army again.

Watching her father go to his death was an extremely painful thing for young Mulan.

She knew she was different from a young age, but she didn't know why God gave her so much strength.

At that moment, she knew.

Because "Grandpa has no eldest son, Mulan has no eldest brother". Therefore, she wants to be grandpa's "eldest son" and younger brother's "eldest brother".

Otherwise, why did God give her this ability early?

Hua Mulan finally took the leather armor and weapons handed down by her father, went to the bazaar in Huaishuo to buy horses and riding equipment, and rushed to the military camp under Montenegro a year before the Khan demanded that she must arrive at the barracks.

The most terrible thing is not the war, but the fact that you are not ready and the war begins.

Hua's father, who has experienced countless wars, knows the truth well, and would rather his daughter endure a little more hardship and go to the barracks as soon as possible, rather than let her die temporarily.

"You have to always remember that you are a woman. So, you can't be out of line, you can't be too brave, you can't show your great strength. You just need to survive." Father Hua's voice still seemed to linger in her ears. As soon as you get a chance, you get a little injured or find a chance to move to the rear. When the Khan wins, you will want to unload your armor and return to the field. You're coming back......"

"Give me back alive!".

Because of the promise of "coming back alive", Mulan's path to joining the army did not start with a blockbuster at the beginning.

Like all the children of Xianbei military households, she stupidly held her armor and led her horse, and was assigned to a battalion called "Black Four" and became a recruit.

Life in the army is undoubtedly very hard, but for the gifted Mulan, it is unexpectedly easy.

The drills day and night, and the Rouran people who come to harass her from time to time, have not caused her great trouble.

The most difficult thing is to have to maintain the terrible secret of being a woman, and also have the great ability to not be able to be expressed in the pain.

Can you understand the joke that your teammates are stripped naked and lying on their chests at the end of the training session, and you have to endure the slimy feeling on your body, pretending that you hate the dirt on the ground and have to go back to the camp to lie down?

Can you understand the feeling that a person who can score 100 points must endure only maintaining a passing score, and then see other children silently look at their 60-point test papers after receiving a hundred compliments? .

[,! Before that, even Mulan didn't know that she was such a stoic person.

Little by little, she got used to it

Gradually, Mulan witnessed more and more battles, and slowly understood why Grandpa asked her not to show her head.

She had seen too many young men who were naturally brave, or eager for merit, die at the hands of the Rouran. The more capable people are put to use, whether it is to probe the military situation, or to attack the enemy camp at night, or to resist the attack of the Rouran people, these people who have always been looked up to in the army have been sifted over and over again by the Rouran people like a sieve, leaving only the real elite.

As for the ones left on the sieve.

…… And who remembers?

She's also going home and not being left on the sieve.

The Rouran people violated Da Wei as if it were their own back garden. In a fortress like Montenegro, which is often harassed, Mulan has only been in Montenegro for half a year, and she has already experienced countless battles large and small.

Due to deliberately concealing her strength, Mulan does not show outstanding talent in martial arts, but her riding skills are indeed very good, which is a physical instinct that is difficult to hide.

So she was assigned to the "Black Four" where she was, which was the new barracks that had not yet been assigned a specific camp, and where the Great Wei trained and cultivated the military households who had pinned their hopes on the army.

They are looking forward to seeing these recruits play well in future battles.

For a long time, Mulan's "fire companion" was alive and well, and even complained in the middle of the night while picking her feet that she had gone to guard the grain and grass again today, and was not sent to chase down the "creeping" people who emitted a foul smell on their bodies.

Before she could feel the shyness of women and men in the same room, she was already snoring, grinding her teeth, picking her feet, and hiding in the quilt in the middle of the night without a trace of reverie.

The barracks are such a nasty place.

Fire companions are also annoying.

The military system of the Northern Wei Dynasty was that ten people were one "fire", cooking and eating in the same stove, but whenever they went to war, they advanced and retreated together.

Because he learned to cook at home, and he was the oldest cavalryman in this "fire", Shan Zhiqi was appointed as the fire chief in charge of cooking and chores, and every day in front of the leading brother, he told the fire companions about food, clothing, housing and transportation.

He is also a descendant of the Xianbei military household, from the Adan clan, which is a very common surname in the northern town of Wuchuan.

The ancestors of the Ashan clan have been serving as soldiers for generations, and once the Xianbei nobles or leaders are recruited, they have to enlist in the army to fight. The children of the Ashan family do nothing but fight, and they have been learning to hold knives and guns since they were born, and once the most suitable man for war in the family dies in battle, it often represents the decline of a family.

When Shan Zhiqi received the report from the military post to the camp in Montenegro, he was already twenty-five years old. He has a four-year-old son at home. His eldest brother died in battle years ago, so now it's his turn to be the man in this room who continues to be a soldier.

There are more men than women in Xianbei, especially in the six towns in the north, it is common for Xianbei men to be singles when they are twenty years old. Shan Zhiqi's "glorious resume" with a wife and children has stimulated a lot of fire companions, which is even more enviable than him becoming a fire chief.

In the eyes of this "older" and "experienced" fire chief, Mulan is a very strange and unsociable fire partner.

He was not enthusiastic about the daily mounted archery training and platoon training tables, and even though he knew that these would help him survive on the battlefield in the future, he often acted like he was in the sky.

He offered to sleep in the most corner of the tent. There was a crack in the place, and there was a perennial wind, and no one in the same fire wanted to go there and sleep on the ground, but he didn't seem to think that he slept for two or three months.

He was a good horseman, but he was reluctant to race with his fellow soldiers; His martial arts seem to be poor, but he is not like other Xianbei soldiers who are tired like dead pigs when they return to the camp after training, and their snoring is earth-shattering.

He rarely even speaks to them and rarely speaks to other people. In addition to the necessary training every day, Mulan has always been silent and preoccupied.

The fire companions of the same fire are actually very envious of Mulan.

They are all Xianbei people, and they can only speak Xianbei dialect, and only a few can speak a little bit of Chinese such as "what is my name?" But this Mulan's mother is Han, and he is proficient in both Xianbei and Chinese.

In the army of the Great Wei, the military advisors, counselors, clerks, military doctors and logistics officials in the rear were all Han Chinese, and most of the soldiers who charged into battle were behind the Xianbei soldiers and military households of various ethnic groups. Therefore, there are also a large number of interpreters in the army, who are responsible for translating languages for both sides.

In the early days of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the biggest drawback in the army was not the lack of warriors who dared to die, but because of the barrier of language, sometimes there would be unclear command and chaotic management.

Here, a string-controlling cavalry who is proficient in both Xianbei and Chinese, but all skills are not bad, and they climb very quickly, not to mention that Mulan can also write some simple Chinese characters.

The Xianbei people have no words. They have a natural awe for those who can write.

Shan Zhiqi knew that Mulan must have hidden some of his skills, but he didn't ask much.

After the military family who came to serve as a soldier in the army, who did not have a story or two in their home? Even he himself has a belly of past.

Mulan is reluctant to say, there must be a reason for him.

Shan Zhiqi has been considerate and does not ask until that day......

One day, a pillar of wind suddenly appeared in the distance of the camp of Montenegro, and it ran across the grassland. [,! Wrapped in withered grass, dust, and all sorts of strange things, like a spinning black pillar, it rose up to the sky and darkened the sun.

The sudden storm in the desert was terrifying, and the endless wind blew as if the whole world could be swept into it. The Montenegrin camp was built at the foot of the Montenegrin mountains, and even so, on days when the wind came, all the soldiers had to put away their tents, and were shouted by the captains to carry everything they could to take shelter in a safer place.

In such weather, the dust and sand raised by the wind turned the sky gray and yellow, and the sun became dull. Even the most courageous warriors can only walk with their heads down and their faces covered.

At this time, the world is no longer a mortal world, and you have to listen to the wind to give orders.

Shan Zhiqi, the burning man, was ordered to assist in carrying the tent of the "Black Four". This group of unlucky guys did hard work that other battalions couldn't avoid, and even Mulan, a thin body like a gust of wind that could blow away, had to carry things with them to the designated place on such a windy day.

A few of Shan Zhiqi's other fire companions had already carried away a lot of things with the shouting of "hey, hey, hey", while he and Mulan stayed behind to continue dismantling the tent.

Gala la ......

The wind ran through the empty camp and began to shake the wooden pillar in front of Edan Zhiqi for no reason.

The wooden pillar thicker than a human head suddenly fell down, and Shan Zhiqi, who turned back sluggishly when he heard the sound, only saw the huge wooden pillar that was getting closer and closer and had smashed down towards him at a very fast speed.

'I'm done.'

Ah Dan Zhiqi trembled violently.

At this time, he was squatting on the ground and untying the rope, and it was definitely too late to get up and turn around and run.

Fear numbled his legs to the point that he couldn't move, his face was as white as white paper, and he could only close his eyes weakly.

The expected pain did not come.

He opened his eyes tremblingly.

What an incredible scene he saw!

Mulan, who is thin and long, supports the giant tree with both hands in the strong wind that seems to tear her body apart.

The pillar, which needed to be erected by many wrestlers in the army, tilted out at a frightening angle as if it would crush his body at any moment.

Mulan just lifted the giant tree with both hands and opened her mouth.

The sound of his shouting reaching his ears through the wind reached his ears.

"What are you doing stupidly! Run! "