"I'm afraid it will take another three to four days to fully build! My soldiers and I are not masons after all, although this fort has been built, but it does not look very beautiful, the walls are bare inside and out, and they are glued with mud, if it rains, the soil between the stones is easy to weathered and lost, and the walls will collapse! ”

Zhao Junsheng stopped his chopsticks, thought for a while and said: "Nowadays, the conditions are limited, and we can only use local materials, if you want to be beautiful and extend the service life of the wall, it is not impossible." You can order the soldiers to erect wood in the fort as a support frame, and people stand on the support frame to paint the wall with a layer of mud, which can not only make the wall more beautiful, but also play a protective role in the wall! ”

Hua Mulan's eyes lit up when she heard this: "Brother Junsheng, this method is good!" ”

Zhao Junsheng hid a steamed cake in his arms, and after eating another steamed cake, he looked at the fortress on the hill, and said: "If I were to supervise the construction of this burst, I would not use stone as the main material for the wall!" ”

"Don't use stone as the main material for the wall?" Hua Mulan was puzzled, turned her head to look at Zhao Junsheng and asked, "What will Brother Junsheng use as the main material for the wall?" ”

Zhao Junsheng drank the last mouthful of millet porridge, put down the dishes and chopsticks and said: "First use a large amount of wood to build a hollow frame of the wall, take a large amount of soil and pour it into the frame, let the soldiers use wood to tamp the soil poured into the frame, the tighter the soil is tamped, the better, and then evenly sprinkle the water after tamping it once, so that the soil sinks, so that the gap between the soil will be further narrowed, and the wall will become further solid and solid. The impact of the stone projectile on it can only leave potholes, and the damage to the wall is not great! After the spring of next year, build a layer of bricks on both sides of the inner and outer sides of the wall, and lay bricks on the top of the wall to protect the wall! ”

"With our current conditions, the viscosity of using stone to build a wall and using soil as a binder is too weak, and it is easy to be lost by water when it rains, causing the stone to fall off the wall! And after this kind of wall is hit by the stone projectile of the trebuchet, the stone can easily explode! Of course, this fortress is more than enough to defend against the Rouran cavalry, they will not attack the city, nor will they build and use siege equipment such as trebuchets, if it is used to defend against Liu Song in the south, they must not build a fortress with such a wall! If you must build, replace the adhesive with a stronger sticky one! ”

Hua Mulan learned a lot of useful knowledge from Zhao Junsheng's words, and drew inferences from them in her heart.

Zhao Junsheng grabbed a few handfuls of snow on the ground, scrubbed the dishes and chopsticks, got up and walked to the side of the war horse, took off the bow and arrow, put it on his back, and prepared to go out with Lu Xuanbo.

Seeing this, Mulan immediately ran over and asked, "Brother Junsheng, if it's too late today, what are you going to do?" ”

"You need to eat meat, your soldiers also need to eat meat, while the sky is not yet dark, I will go out to see if I can catch some prey, you are not tired from working during the day, rest early after patrolling!" After Zhao Junsheng finished speaking, he greeted Lu Xuanbo, and the two walked towards the mountains and forests in the distance together.

Hua Mulan was worried that Zhao Junsheng and Lu Xuanbo were not familiar with the terrain here and would get lost, so she immediately called Hua Hai and ordered: "Arrange night vigilance and patrols, patrol the camp on time, and light the beacon fire as soon as something happens, I'm worried that they will get lost, follow over and have a look!" ”

Huahai promised: "Miss, don't worry, I will keep an eye on it!" ”

Hua Mulan immediately returned to the camp tent to get her sword, and with a bow and arrows on her back, she chased in the direction where Zhao Junsheng and Lu Xuanbo were.

The mountain forest is not very far from the location where Mulan and others built the fort, only more than two miles away, and when Zhao Junsheng and Lu Xuanbo walked to the foot of the mountain, Mulan had already caught up from behind.

"Didn't I tell you to rest earlier? How can you be disobedient? Zhao Junsheng heard the voice coming from behind him, glanced back and said.

Hua Mulan gasped slightly: "This is out of our control area, and there are often Rouran cavalry haunting, I don't worry about you, so come and take a look, so you can take care of each other!" ”

Everyone is here, and Zhao Junsheng can't say anything, as long as he takes her into the mountains and forests.

The snow in the mountains and forests was still relatively thick, and the boots creaked on them, and Zhao Junsheng and others walked a while in the mountains and forests and found some footprints, but at this time the sky was about to darken.

Hua Mulan said to Zhao Junsheng: "Brother Junsheng, if the color has darkened today, most of the prey has returned to the nest, even if there are wild beasts at this time, our eyes can't see clearly, and it is difficult to hunt!" ”

Zhao Junsheng stopped at a beast footprint that stretched into the distance, he thought for a while and said to Mulan and Lu Xuanbo: "Now there is only a stupid way, let's dig a trap and wait for work!" Just now, we came all the way and encountered three beast footprints that stretched far away, and this one has four paths, so we dug a trap in the middle of each of these four footprints! ”

Lu Xuanbo was an assassin before, and he was not familiar with the methods of hunters, so he asked loudly: "How to dig!" ”

Zhao Junsheng stomped his feet: "Just dig one here!" ”

"Good!" Lu Xuanbo agreed, first cut the snow covering the ground to reveal the ice, he pulled out his sword and slashed downward, slashing more than a dozen swords in a row, but only left some sword marks on the ice, basically no damage to the ice.

Hua Mulan saw that Lu Xuanbo didn't have much force to slash with his sword, so she pulled out her sword and said, "I'll come!" ”

A series of sword shadows flashed, the ice was chopped and ice slag flew everywhere, more than twenty swords were chopped, and Mulan only cut a small pit, and there was no dirt to be seen at all.

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand to signal Mulan to step aside, he pulled out a long knife and used internal force to slash down the ice like lightning, the originally solid ice layer was cut like tofu, and the blade fell into the ice, Zhao Junsheng easily pulled it out, and slashed it again, still like chopping tofu, he cut seven or eight knives in a row, and the ice was cut into pieces of ice.

Lu Xuanbo and Hua Mulan were shocked when they saw this scene, they had never seen someone who could cut the ice with a sword so easily, was it a divine weapon in Zhao Junsheng's hand, or was his strength beyond their imagination?

"Look at what? Are you stupid? Move ice cubes! Zhao Junsheng said as he put the knife into the sheath, bent down and moved the pieces of ice away and threw them into the distance.

Hua Mulan and Lu Xuanbo put away their shocked expressions and worked together to help.

The ice layer of one zhang square was all dug up, revealing the soil, the soil was not frozen, and there were a large number of rotten leaves in the soil in the forest, which was very soft, and Zhao Junsheng and the others easily dug out more than one person deep.

Zhao Junsheng took out the steamed cake in his arms, broke off a piece of crumbled crumbs and sprinkled it in the deep pit, which was supported by some slender dead branches, and then spread some rotten leaves on it, and finally spread a thin layer of white snow.

Hua Mulan also used to hunt a lot, but she usually shot with a bow and arrow, and never dug a trap, she expressed doubts about Zhao Junsheng's way of digging traps and hunting: "What kind of prey do you want to hunt when you dig such a big pit?" Will it work? ”

"Give it a try!"

Next, Zhao Junsheng took Hua Mulan and Lu Xuanbo to dig three traps, each trap was inverted with wooden stake spikes, the traps were large and small, the bottom of the pit was sprinkled with some crumbs of steamed cakes, and the snowflake layer covering it left a few small holes, so that the taste of food could be released.

"That's it, let's go back and come back tomorrow morning!"

The trio called it a day and returned to the camp in the dark.

Early the next morning, Hua Mulan took her soldiers to do morning exercises, and the same was true for Zhao Junsheng's side, and there were only more than 20 people he brought.

Hua Mulan commanded the soldiers to train for half an hour of assassination, parrying and other combat actions, and used half an hour to practice archery, and the arrows used in the practice were used many times, and the tail feathers fell off.

Zhao Junsheng and his soldiers first ran around the camp for thirty laps, everyone was hot, and then conducted half an hour of queue training, and spent half an hour training on assassination and parrying.

However, Zhao Junsheng's assassination and parrying training for the soldiers was different, all the soldiers under Mulan practiced uniformly, while Zhao Junsheng's soldiers had a clear division of labor, the sword and shield men were responsible for blocking and chopping, while the spearmen were only responsible for assassination, and the crossbowmen practiced archery.

After the morning exercise, the soldiers on both sides had their own meals.

After breakfast, Mulan's soldiers continued to build a fortress under the leadership of the soldiers, and Zhao Junsheng asked the soldiers to continue to practice basic combat moves and pay attention to cooperation.

"Let's go, let's go look at the trap we set last night and see if any stupid prey has fallen into the trap!" Zhao Junsheng beckoned Hua Mulan and Lu Xuanbo to go to the mountains and forests together.

They came to the first trap and found that there was a hole in the trap, and the snow that was about to be laid on the trap fell to the bottom of the pit.

"Brother Junsheng, what's the matter? Is there prey? Mulan asked, standing next to her.

"There is a big fat rabbit, it looks like it weighs a few pounds!" Zhao Junsheng said as he got up and lifted the camouflage on the trap, stretched down with his spear and knocked it to death and picked it up.

Continuing to sprinkle some steamed cake crumbs inside the trap to restore the camouflage covered, the three of them rushed to the next trap.

The second trap has been breached, and inside the pit lies a roe deer that has been pierced by the spikes of a stake.

The third trap has not changed at all, and no beast prey has ever appeared.

Zhao Junsheng and the others did not move this trap, they came to the fourth trap, which is also the last trap, the camouflage on the one-foot square trap is all gone, a big black wild boar lying in it has long been dead, this guy's body has been penetrated into a sieve by the stake spikes, and the stake spikes at the bottom of the pit have all been destroyed before it died.

This big guy has five hundred pounds, Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan jumped into the pit and worked together to get it up, and Lu Xuanbo came to drag it to the camp.

The appearance of this big wild boar caused a sensation in the camp, whether it was the soldiers under Hua Mulan or the baggage soldiers under Zhao Junsheng, they all cheered loudly, this big wild boar was enough for them to eat for a long time.

Hua Mulan waved her hand and ordered: "Work hard, add food at noon, everyone has meat to eat!" ”

All the soldiers jumped up and shouted, "Okay, add food!" ”

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