The guard recognized her, bowed down and said, "The general is having dinner, please wait a moment Miss Xia, and I'll go and pass it on." ”

"No need," Xia Qingyun called the guards, "Don't disturb the general, I'll wait outside the tent and wait until I've finished eating before going in." ”

Smoke was rising from every household in Beixi Village, and the soldiers were already sitting in the open space outside the tents and starting to eat.

Xia Qingyun guessed that this should be because the army was marching and fighting, and avoiding the use of fire in the dark would attract the attention of the enemy, so it was necessary to settle dinner before it was dark.

Curious about what they were eating, she went to the nearest tent to take a look.

The soldier on duty took a vigilant step, his saber at his waist and ready to strike. Seeing that it was Xia Qingyun, he took his posture and nodded at her with a smile.

Xia Qingyun walked to the stove.

White rice, a soup and a dish, there are a lot of slices of meat in the dish, exuding bursts of fragrance, which is very tempting to the appetite.

The soldier in charge of the meal recognized the girl who distributed the artemisia soup to them and greeted her with a smile.

Xia Qingyun smiled: "Your food is not bad!" ”

"Who's to say it isn't!" The soldier said proudly: "To say that in the military camp of this Great Qi Kingdom, the meal of the Zhenyuan Army is the only one!" If you look at the meat slices, they are ordinary people's homes, and they can't eat them for a while! However, the reputation of our Zhenyuan Army is not in this meal, every soldier here can be ten with one, and he is a tiger on the battlefield! You say, can a tiger not eat meat? ”

Xia Qingyun chuckled and asked curiously, "Is this what General Zhenyuan eats too?" ”

At the mention of the general, the soldier's face showed a look of great reverence, "Of course! The general and we had a meal in a pot! The entire Great Qi Country, just such a Zhenyuan general! ”

At this moment, the soldiers who had finished eating came over one after another, and the dishes and chopsticks in their hands were neatly stacked aside.

She noticed that everyone's bowl was clean, there was not a single leftover, and the bowl was bright as if it had just been washed, and she couldn't help but praise it secretly.

Back in front of the military tent, a middle-aged soldier was carrying a plate of food out of it, sighing as he walked: "Alas, I only ate a little more, how good is the injury if I go on like this!" ”

Xia Qingyun glanced at the tray, and sure enough, it was the same as the food in the cauldron, but more than half of it was left unfinished.

"Miss Xia, the general invites you in." The guards raised the curtain for her.

The furnishings in the military tent are very simple.

In the middle of the room was a large wooden table with a candlestick lit, surrounded by several wooden chairs, and a large black chair resting on the back of the chair.

Next to it lay two square cabinets on the ground, and beyond that was a narrow camp bed with neat coarse cloth bedding stacked on top of each other.

General Zhenyuan was dressed in a black suit, wearing black armor, his figure was tall and thin, and he still wore the blue-veined silver mask on his face.

"Folk girl Xia Qingyun see." She saluted.

"No need to be polite. Miss Xia, please be seated. ”

Xia Qingyun took out the book fold and said straight to the point: "I have read the general's plan, which explains in detail the necessity of reclamation and garrisoning, and the allocation and arrangement of personnel are also very specific, but in the eyes of the people, there are still some inconsiderate points that need to be improved. ”

"Oh?" General Zhenyuan was slightly stunned, "Girl, please speak up." ”

"General Mingjian."

"First, cantonment is a long-term war readiness, which is different from ordinary camping. Although it is convenient to build a simple house, it is not conducive to long-term development in the future. ”

"Second, the general wants to leave 500 soldiers to reclaim, but Beixi Village is a mountainous area, and there is not too much idle land, so it is necessary to open up wasteland on the mountain for farming. Farm tools, like weapons, are also necessary. ”

"Third, considering the long-term development in the future, not only farm tools, other living materials, and even soldiers will need a lot of money to start a family in the future, and it is far from enough to rely on the current military salary."

"Fourth, the soldiers of the cantonment are mainly prepared for war, and they do not need to go to the battlefield often, so there is no need to leave too many elites."

"Fifth, leisure leads to trouble. No matter how strict military discipline is, after a long time, it is inevitable that there will be more incidents. ”

"Sixth, of course, the Xia family can assist in the management of reclamation at present, but if the name is not right, it will not be good, and there will be inconvenience in the future."

"If these problems are not solved, it will be difficult to implement the plan to reclaim and garrison the frontiers."

She finished speaking in one breath and looked at the general calmly.

"You, are you asking me for money and power?" General Zhenyuan pressed the fold of the book with one hand, and his voice was hoarse and low,

Xia Qingyun lowered her eyes, and her long eyelashes reflected a graceful arc on her face.

She chuckled and said, "You don't have to have money." The right must be had! ”

General Zhenyuan slowly moved back, leaned back in his chair, and folded his arms.

Xia Qingyun wanted to reach out and take off the silver mask to see what kind of face and what kind of expression was hidden behind it.

After a long time, General Zhenyuan spoke: "Okay! Money, you out. Right, I'll give! ”

As he spoke, he took out something from his arms, put it on the table and pushed it in front of Xia Qingyun.

"This is, Tiger Talisman?"

Xia Qingyun was a little surprised.

Originally, she only wanted the management of the reclamation, but she didn't expect it to be a tiger talisman that could mobilize the army!

"Not bad!" He said coldly: "With this tiger talisman, you can mobilize up to three thousand town troops. However, if there is no justifiable reason, public use is private, according to military discipline, it should be beheaded! ”

Xia Qingyun stared at the dark tiger talisman and was silent.

Seeing her hesitation, General Zhenyuan seemed a little displeased, and reached out to retrieve the tiger talisman.

At this moment, Xia Qingyun also suddenly reached out to take the tiger talisman.

Her hand happened to cover General Zhenyuan's protruding knuckles, and she felt that his hand was unusually cold.

What's even more weird is that the two of them were stunned at the same time, and neither of them took their hands away.

Sensing the movement of the fingers under the palm, Xia Qingyun's face turned red, and he quickly retracted his hand.

She seemed to be able to see the corners of the mouth of the man opposite under the silver mask.

"Didn't the general regret it?" Xia Qingyun asked with some embarrassment.

"How can a great husband not be true to his word!"

General Zhenyuan's slender fingers tapped on the table, and pushed the tiger talisman forward again before he withdrew his hand.

Seeing Xia Qingyun put away the tiger talisman, his tone softened slightly, and asked, "As you said, how should the reclamation plan be perfected?" ”

Xia Qingyun walked around the table, stood beside General Zhenyuan, and took the pen and paper on the table.

Slender and graceful fingers hold the barrel of the pen, quickly and vividly sketch a map, drawing and explaining at the same time.

"According to the general's deployment, you can build a fort at the two passes in the northeast and southeast, close to the mountain but not against the mountain, you can attack if you advance, and you can defend when you retreat."

"Tunpu is made of local materials and quarries rocks. There is a stone wall outside the fort, and the arrow tower and the battlement can be built on the wall. The internal alleys are connected, and the households are connected, which is suitable for living and keeping. ”

"Along the Tunpu upwards, terraces are cultivated along the mountain, rice is planted at the lowest, tea trees are planted at the highest, and legumes and vegetables can be planted between the tea trees."

Xia Qingyun spoke smoothly and eloquently, sometimes frowning, and sometimes smiling, her long black hair draped down, hanging down on her chest, swaying with the swing of her body.

Beneath the silver mask, those dark eyes didn't look at the picture on the paper at all, but stared intently at the side of her face, and finally, for a long time, rested on her cute little pale pink earlobe.

Unconsciously, the distance between the two people is getting closer and closer.

Even through the mask, you can smell the faint, vague fragrance emanating from her body.

"What does the general think?"

After Xia Qingyun finished speaking, he straightened up and leaned back, his shoulder hitting the chest of General Zhenyuan behind him.

The general gasped, and his body trembled slightly.

"Ah, I'm sorry!" Xia Qingyun hurriedly supported him, "What's wrong with you?" Is the injury still not healed? ”

"It doesn't matter." General Zhenyuan waved his hand and sat down on the chair next to him.

The moment he lowered his head, Xia Qingyun clearly saw that in the gap between the mask and collar, a dark red bumpy scar was revealed, which seemed to have just fallen off.

General Zhenyuan took the drawings on the table and added a few strokes to them.

"The stone wall of the northeast tunpu can be extended to the gentle slope where the Xia family is now."

Putting down the pen, he continued: "This time, I will leave a thousand soldiers to reclaim the land, and I will hand it over to you for command." In this way, it can not only hold the southeast pass, but also provide stable logistics supplies for the Zhenyuan army on the border of the East China Sea. When the war was tight, it only took a day for a rapid march to reach support. ”

Xia Qingyun said: "The people's girls are lonely and unheard, don't you know that the East China Sea border is so rampant? ”

General Zhenyuan said: "In the past, it was just a small stream of rogues, waiting for an opportunity to intrude. Since the beginning of this year, the Japanese have built 100-person ships, plundered the passing merchant ships of our Daqi on a large scale many times, and even landed in the coastal areas to burn, kill and loot. ”

He slammed his fist on the table and said angrily: "It's bearable, it's unbearable!" It's hateful that our Zhenyuan army came from the southwest inland and was not good at naval warfare. The Japanese were extremely cunning, and boarded the ship to return at the slightest disturbance, so although they were encircled and suppressed several times, they achieved little success. ”

"So the general is here to reclaim the land, intending to take advantage of the barrier of the mountain to recuperate and attack it unprepared?"

"That's exactly what I mean."

Xia Qingyun frowned, "General, can you let the people take a look at the map of the East China Sea Frontier?" ”

"This" the general hesitated.

Xia Qingyun secretly blamed himself for being abrupt, the coastal defense map was the secret of the military aircraft, how could he show it at will.

She was about to speak, when the general shouted, "Someone! ”

A man in black in a brass mask entered.

General Zhenyuan instructed: "Get the map of the East China Sea." ”

"Yes!" The man in black walked to the large cabinet, bent down and lifted the top of the cabinet, and took out a scroll.

Xia Qingyun suddenly felt in her heart, it turned out that General Zhenyuan didn't show her, but she was injured and couldn't bend over.

The man in black spread the map on the table, took the paperweight and pressed it to the four corners, and silently withdrew from the tent.

The map is very detailed, and the distance between the mountains and the sea in the town is carefully marked.

Xia Qingyun looked at it for a long time and asked: "The coastline of the East China Sea is so long, and there are many sheltered harbors, why don't you build a few more big ships and military ports to consolidate coastal defense?" ”