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In the early morning, a soft and subtle ray of sunlight spilled into his eyes, and Li Yuanqing instinctively opened his eyes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Beside him, Liu Qiao and Shu Murong were like two kittens, curled up, close to him, looking for warmth.

A soft smile appeared on the corner of Li Yuanqing's mouth, and he got up slowly, for fear of alarming the two girls who were still sleeping.

It's so cold here.

Especially at night, even if there is a tent and even if there is a bonfire, it makes people feel as if they are sleeping in a deep ice cave that does not see the light of day.

However, Li Yuanqing's mind was far beyond ordinary people, and he simply moved his hands and feet to let the blood circulate in his body again, and he already felt a lot better.

Beside it, most of the firewood in the brazier had been burned, occasionally making a slight noise, and a faint light of fire was flickering back and forth.

Li Yuanqing estimated that the temperature inside the tent was about five or six degrees, and outside the tent, I am afraid it would be at least minus 20 degrees.

Even if Li Yuanqing is well prepared, he and his sons still need to do a lot to survive this long and cold northland winter.

After taking the wine jug from the small wooden table next to him and taking a sip of strong wine to rinse his mouth, Li Yuanqing just wanted to go out to inspect the camp, but he saw Shu Murong leaning over to Liu Qiao's side, and most of the deerskin quilt on his body slipped off.

Li Yuanqing smiled, walked over gently, carefully helped her cover the quilt, and helped Liu Qiao cover the quilt.

In such an environment, it is no longer realistic to use ordinary household quilts to keep warm just like in the old home on Changsheng Island.

One is that the quilt is not very convenient to carry, and the second is that the quilt is easy to be frozen, and once frozen, there is no way to bake it with fire, and people can not sleep with a frozen ice quilt.

Fortunately, more than a dozen tunbao were ordered one after another, and in terms of materials, Li Yuanqing and the Changsheng Battalion were well stocked.

At this time, the best substitute is all kinds of animal skins.

Whether it is deerskin, wild boar skin, wolf skin, tiger skin, or even dog skin, the effect is much better than that of a quilt.

Frozen hides can be used as quilts as long as they are lightly baked.

Among them, the softest deerskin is the best.

At this time, even though Li Yuanqing's movements were already very gentle, perhaps because he had lost the most familiar warm embrace, Liu Qiao still woke up and opened his big eyes at dusk.

As soon as she saw that Li Yuanqing had already gotten up, she was busy struggling to get up and said, "Master, the maid is here to serve you." ”

Li Yuanqing smiled, "Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year. Sleep more. I'll ask them to cook you some good food. ”

Liu Qiaoqiao's face flushed, but her heart was as sweet as eating honey, but she still struggled to get up, "Master, the servant serves you and dresses." ”

With that, she hurriedly came to Li Yuanqing and helped Li Yuanqing tidy up his clothes.

Li Yuanqing took advantage of the situation to hold her slender waist and said with a smile: "Qiao'er, these days, you have worked hard." ”

Liu Qiao was stunned for a moment, but his eyes were a little red, and he hurriedly said: "Being able to serve the master is a blessing that the servant has cultivated for several lifetimes." ”

Li Yuanqing patted her shoulder gently, "Okay." You sleep a little longer. I went to inspect the camp. We'll have dinner later. ”

"Hmm." Liu Qiao nodded obediently and looked at Li Yuanqing with anticipation.

Li Yuanqing smiled, just wanted to leave, Shu Murong was also awakened, she still didn't understand in a little fog, and instinctively said coquettishly: "Master, the servant is here to serve you." ”

Li Yuanqing glanced at Liu Qiao and said with a smile: "You two rest here, master is gone." ”

Shu Murong came back to her senses at this time.

She got up late again, and couldn't help but feel a little annoyed with herself, and was taken advantage of by Liu Qiao, why was she so sleepy?

But remembering last night......

Shu Murong's pretty face couldn't help but blush, the hardships of many days were finally not in vain, she finally got what she wanted most, and it was twice, but I didn't know ......

Shu Murong's little hand secretly touched her soft and flat lower abdomen, her heart was suddenly full of anticipation, and her mood couldn't help but get better, and she smiled and said to Liu Qiao beside her: "Sister Qiao'er, the maid will go and get hot water for you to wash your face." ”

As he spoke, he ran out of the tent happily.

Liu Qiaoxiu's eyebrows frowned slightly, this fox, how did she feel a little different today?

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In the camp, Li Yuanqing had already inspected half a circle and came to the city.

At this time, although the sky was still relatively clear, the sun was showing its head, but the wind was much stronger than yesterday, and the thick clouds in the north, which were deep and bottomless, were slowly and rapidly gathering overhead at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye.

After many days of experience here, Li Yuanqing has already felt some rules, and the beautiful but annoying heavy snow is probably coming again.

Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, the breakfast of the firefighters is very rich, Li Yuanqing also gave Xu Heizi an order, after breakfast, each soldier distributed half a tael of gold money, which can be regarded as a new year, and the door is happy.

As for Shu Luohuan's side, each person also has two dollars of broken gold, so that these minions can also have a good year.

At this time, Li Yuanqing still had about seven or eight thousand taels of gold in his hand, half of which were gold bars, and half of which were gold fragments, as for the silver, Li Yuanqing did not carry it, but buried it all in the various forts he conquered, and it was not too late to go back and get it when the fleet came over one day.

Xu Heizi is the commander of the 3,000th Corps and Li Yuanqing's henchman, but he doesn't take on too many actual combat tasks, to some extent, he is more like Li Yuanqing's marching butler, just like Shang Lao Liu's position when he was on Changsheng Island.

The Changsheng Battalion has developed to the present, and Li Yuanqing has also discovered that the military system of the Ming army is imperfect in many aspects.

Especially for the longevity camp, to a large extent, reform is urgent.

But Li Yuanqing was still a general of the Ming Dynasty at this time, and the imperial court was still covered with a head overhead.

Although Wei Liang, the supervising army, did not come with him during this difficult journey, Li Yuanqing's autonomy still had to be affected somewhat.

However, as the saying goes, 'there is a policy at the top, and there is a countermeasure at the bottom'.

To change the name and clarify the specific functions of the officers, for Li Yuanqing, the problem is not too big, but it will take some time and energy.

"General."

At this time, Kong Youde and Shunzi walked quickly to Li Yuanqing's side, and the two were the officers on duty last night.

Li Yuanqing nodded to the two, "Did Houjin make any moves last night?" ”

Kong Youde hurriedly said: "Back to the general, the Tartars didn't make too many moves. They are not on a stable footing, and it was very windy last night, so they must have felt uncomfortable. ”

Shunzi said: "General, I told Brother Kong just now that today, there may be a storm. In terms of Tartars, we don't have to worry too much, but we have to guard against this storm. We just asked the minions under Shu Luohuan's command to inquire carefully, and they estimated that this storm would last for more than ten days. ”

Li Yuanqing nodded, his brows furrowed tightly.

In later generations, although he often complained about the weather forecast that was not very accurate, at this time, Li Yuanqing missed that thing very much.

At the very least, they can make people form an accurate judgment on the macro trend.

But at this point, everything depends on experience.

Li Yuanqing looked at the Houjin camp, which was about two and a half miles away.

At this time, the visibility is very good, and from a distance, there is a white expanse everywhere, and all kinds of flags in the Houjin camp are fluttering in the wind.

They also followed the example of the Immortal Camp, using the snow wall to build fortifications, and set up the camp tent behind the snow wall, stretching for miles.

Except for a few watchtowers where you may see a human figure, there is no human shadow at all in other places.

It can be seen that they should have also foreseen the arrival of the storm, and they will never dare to attack rashly.

"You should keep an eye on it here, especially the sons and daughters who eat and keep warm, and you must not be slacking off in the slightest." Li Yuanqing said coldly to the two.

"Yes." The two hurriedly saluted respectfully.

Li Yuanqing nodded and left the city quickly.

The storm was coming, and he had to check if he had enough firewood.

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The situation was urgent, and it was too late to eat Liu Qiao's breakfast, so Li Yuanqing took Niu Gensheng and dozens of personal soldiers and hurriedly came to the north gate of the small city.

Xu Heizi had already been guarding here, and was directing nearly a thousand Tartar minions to carry firewood to the city, and when he saw Li Yuanqing coming, he hurriedly came over and saluted: "General." ”

Li Yuanqing nodded, his expression was a little solemn, "How is the situation?" ”

Xu Heizi said: "General, these days, our people have been chopping firewood here, and the current state is okay, and the firewood reserve can last for about half a month." But the trees outside the north gate are about to be cut down, and if there is a real storm, we will have to go further and cut them down. ”

Li Yuanqing nodded, "Wait for the red envelope first, let Huang Guoshan and Li Sansheng also come over to chop firewood, and strive to store more firewood before the storm comes!" ”

"Yes!"

With Li Yuanqing's military order issued, soon, Huang Guoshan and Li Sansheng's department also rushed to the north gate and began to collect and cut firewood.

The firewood in the old forest, in addition to the big trees, there are also a lot of rotten branches under the trees, plus the trees here are mostly coniferous forests, and the wood is very oily, even if it is wet, but Li Yuanqing is not short of fire sources here, and it can be used.

With the addition of more than 1,000 sons and daughters of Huang Guoshan and Li Sansheng, the efficiency here has accelerated a lot.

But just after noon, the sky suddenly changed color, and the cold north wind almost exceeded the eight or nine levels, which almost knocked people down, mixed with dense snow flakes, and almost swallowed the whole world.

Wind and snow.

This is what ordinary people often call white-haired wind.

But here, the snow flakes are almost bigger than soybean particles, cold and hard, and even more terrifying than the white-haired wind.

Li Yuanqing hurriedly ordered all the men to withdraw, closed the city gate, and everyone retreated to the camp to rest.

Even the fierce hunting dogs, at this time, did not dare to openly rebel against God's authority, and all retracted into their cages, gathering in groups to keep warm.

Li Yuanqing braved the wind and snow to check the herds of war horses and mules and horses not far away, as well as the condition of the hay pile, and saw that there was no major problem, so he returned to his camp to rest.

In such a state, even with the help of the ice nest stove outside, the fire could not be burned.

Whether it was cooking or boiling water, they had to be evacuated to the tent.

Fortunately, Li Yuanqing and Xu Heizi were both prescient, and they were well prepared in all aspects, and everything could be maintained for the time being.

It's just that Li Yuanqing and the sons of the Changsheng Camp have been camping here for a few days, and all the materials are very complete, but in the Houjin camp opposite, they only have one day to camp after all, and Du Du still picked something to fight with Li Yuanqing, and their preparations are far from being so sufficient.

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