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In the past 20 days or so since Li Mingyuan inspected Pasu Fengdu, compared with the previous period, the appearance of Pasu Fengdu has undergone many changes.

The simple wooden houses and wooden sheds were full of resettled retired soldiers, and the potholed dirt roads were paved with sand and gravel.

A planned resettlement compound is surrounded by a ring of tree branches, separated from the land of the surrounding neighbors.

In the open space outside the migrant settlement, more than 2,000 retired soldiers were divided into more than 40 queues, armed with muskets, broadswords, and other weapons to conduct tactical drills.

The three-in-one armed system of the field army, the garrison army, the reserve militia unit, and the Rio Gran do Sul means that after the soldier retires, he also has to perform military duties in the garrison army and the reserve militia.

The garrison is equipped with a certain number of regular weapons, while the reserve militia is armed with old-fashioned muskets and cold weapons such as broadswords and spears that have been eliminated by the field army.

According to the regulations, the garrison forces will hold a concentrated training session every 10 days, and the reserve militia will conduct intensive training for three days in January, but some time ago, the construction work of Pasufengdu was urgent, and the militia, which is mainly composed of garrison troops and retired soldiers, who are under construction, have no time for training, so the centralized training has been postponed until the construction task is completed.

A one-armed man with a short thick black beard walked back and forth in the training procession, correcting the soldier's mistakes from time to time.

At noon, the winter Pasu Fengdu was still warm, and the faces of the Chinese soldiers who had been trained for a morning were oozing Han water, He Yanliang raised his right arm and looked at the position of the sun on his forehead, the strong sunlight shone on his eyes for a while, and he lowered his head to adapt for a while, He Yanliang summoned an officer and announced a temporary rest.

There were five or six hundred young women standing outside the training ground, and after the training unit was disbanded, the women waiting on the side walked into the training ground with simple wooden dishes and chopsticks, making a noise and greeting each other.

He Yanliang walked to the periphery of the training ground, and when he was about to walk forward, he heard a familiar cry, turned to look, and a woman in her twenties walked towards him with a slightly pregnant belly.

"Stand still, I'll go by myself." He Yanliang responded loudly, and his feet sped up to return to the woman's side.

"Tell you that you don't have to send the food in person, why are you still here, you now have the seeds of the Lao He family in your stomach, what if something goes wrong!"

"Ni, yesterday cloth...... of pheasants, sent to Nebu. The woman said intermittently in the Chinese she had just learned.

"I know, listen to me next time, don't run around, I'll eat when I want to eat."

Seeing his wife's aggrieved appearance, He Yanliang couldn't bear to criticize, and said with a gentle face: "You are pregnant, eat more meat to replenish your body." As he spoke, he put the meat in his bowl in the woman's wooden bowl.

"Cooperative." The woman replied in non-standard Chinese.

Eating with his wife, He Yanliang felt very satisfied.

His wife was not introduced by Headquarters, but was picked up while in Paraguay.

At that time, He Yanliang led a small army along the river to investigate the situation, and when he passed through a Paraguayan village, there were only more than 100 elderly women left in the whole village, because of the lack of food for a long time, the surviving Paraguayans were weak and even incapacitated.

He Yanliang participated in the Chinese uprising and killed many people, but the people he killed were hostile soldiers and soldiers who oppressed the Chinese, looking at the more than 100 desperate old and weak women in front of him, He Yanliang decided to leave some food for the Paraguayans.

Distributing food and a few wild animals he caught on the way to the Paraguayans, He Yanliang was about to leave when he was grabbed by a pair of hands and legs.

He still remembers that a woman with stray hair and a thin body pulled his leg and didn't let go, and kept saying words that he couldn't understand, the words of the Paraguayan woman couldn't understand, but he could understand the strong desire to survive in the woman's eyes.

Looking at the eyes of the strange woman at his feet, He Yanliang was moved, and he took it upon himself to bring the Paraguayan woman back to the barracks, at that time, the Chinese Independent Army had just entered the territory of Paraguay not long ago, Li Mingyuan had not yet had the idea of absorbing Paraguayan women, so He Yanliang was punished, but the Paraguayan women he brought back were allowed to stay and be placed in the logistics unit of the main force of the field army.

More than half a year has passed since the rescue of the Paraguayan woman. The woman she rescued at the beginning has also become her wife, and now she has a child.

The rescued Paraguayan woman is a descendant of white Spanish and Indians, her original name is unknown and no longer used, and now the name used is He Yanliang asked the scholars in the army to take it, and her name is He Xiaolan, an ordinary Han woman name.

It was learned from his wife that she had a child who died of illness during the war, and that her husband had joined the army a year after their marriage and died in a battle on the front line.

All her relatives died in the war, He Xiaolan lost her support, if she hadn't met He Yanliang, she should have starved to death in the village where she lived, but He Yanliang's arrival aroused her desire to survive, and she seized the only chance in front of her to fight for a chance to live, she succeeded, He Yanliang took her back and saved her life.

War does not belong to women and children, because of the war, ordinary people are displaced, life is precarious, at this time women just want a chance to live, whether this opportunity is given by Paraguayans or Chinese, as long as they can live, they have no right to choose, they can only passively accept.

In the last years of the dynasty, foreign invasions, even the Han women who admired loyalty and unyielding were robbed of millions by the grassland barbarians, but how many Han women who fell into the hands of the Hu people chose to save their names and commit suicide, and most of them still lived voluntarily or involuntarily.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, Cai Wenji was plundered, the ethnic minorities in the late Jin Dynasty went south, and the Anshi Rebellion looted hundreds of thousands of Han women. Become the main force of the younger generation of Hu people.

If this is the case for women of civilized nations, can we expect Paraguayan women who do not have a clear national concept to do better?

After eating the lunch that was delivered, watching his wife leave, and about half an hour before the start of the afternoon training, He Yanliang left the place where he ate and walked under a dense Sumu tree nearby.

Not long after Zhao Yangang came to Su Mu Tree, he saw He Yanliang coming over and said with a smile, "General He doesn't go to train his soldiers, how can he be in the mood to come here?" ”

"Sir, don't make fun of it, I want to ask Mr. if there is any task from above, and I should arrange manpower to prepare in advance."

He Yanliang smiled and sat beside Zhao Yan, "Don't hide it, sir, I used to suppress bandits in Hexi County (St. Mary), and after the mission, I took the initiative to ask for orders to go to Pasu Fengdu, in order not to complete the task assigned by the prince and return to the field army as soon as possible, but you see that it has been nearly ten days since the completion of the matter of Pasu Fengdu, and there has been no movement in Xinjing (Port Alegre), so I can only ask you for help." ”

Zhao Yan looked at He Yanliang and said curiously, "The Brazilians have recognized the land we occupied, and made the prince a Duke of Rio Gran do Sul, the big war will not be fought, and the brothers finally don't have to fight hard, isn't it good to live a peaceful life?"

If you also marry a wife, it won't be long before you can have a child, and you will honestly be a local army commander in the garrison, and it is not better to accompany your wife and children than to go to the field army? ”

"It's really good to be with his wife and children, but Lao He doesn't want to pass like this for the rest of his life."

He Yanliang shook his head and said, "A manly husband should make meritorious contributions on the battlefield and create a rich and powerful country for our brothers, wives and children, as for accompanying his wife and children, when Lao He can't go to the battlefield, he will naturally stay at home with his wife and children." ”

"It's admirable that General He thinks like this."

"Hehe, it's all from the world, and I remember a few words after listening to it a lot." He Yanliang sneered.

"General He wants to return to the field army, and it just so happens that I have good news for you here."

Zhao Yan said, took out a piece of paper with a large seal on it, and said: "Three days ago, a conflict broke out between Paraguay and Argentina in the Misiones area, and in view of the continuous deterioration of the local situation and the insufficient defense strength of the National Defense Forces in the San Pedro area, the 1st Mixed Brigade is hereby ordered to go to the conflict area to station.

He Yanliang, the former commander of the First Garrison Brigade, fulfilled his duties loyally, exterminated the bandits in Hexi County, completed the construction task of Pasu Fengdu on time, trained the troops, was a steady person, and performed meritorious service, and was awarded the post of deputy brigade commander of the First Mixed Brigade by Lieutenant Colonel He Yanliang, and concurrently served as the commander of the First Regiment of the First Mixed Brigade. ”

"He Yanliang obeys!" He Yanliang stood up suddenly, and took the letter of confession from Zhao Yan's hand with a serious expression.

"General He, congratulations on getting what you wanted."

Zhao Yan stood and said, "General Wang led the 1st Mixed Brigade to set off this morning and arrive at Pasu Fengdu in the afternoon, I came here to inform you to go back and get ready, after the 1st Mixed Brigade arrives, you will have to leave with them, and while there is still some time, go back and say goodbye to your wife." ”

"And what about the garrison and militia here?"

"You don't have to worry about the soldiers, the Xinjing side has been arranged, and there will be a new officer to take over after you leave."

"That's good." He Yanliang and his soldiers stayed for a long time, and suddenly left, feeling a little reluctant.

Before leaving, he briefly explained the reason to the soldiers, and He Yanliang quickly left the training ground and walked home.