After breakfast, in the reluctant command of Feng's mother, Chen Lilan, Su Su, and Xiao Hairpin saluted Feng's mother and left the Feng family's courtyard, and followed Feng Jian to the place where the carriage outside the courtyard stopped.

Cheng Yousheng ran to Feng Jian and whispered: "Just now Zhou Donkey sent someone to report that he and his soldiers have arrived at the gate of the village according to the order, and asked when to leave!" ”

Feng Jian nodded and said, "Have all the herbal specialties I asked Sun Fang to ship by their mutual aid association have been prepared?" ”

"Everything has been prepared, and the villain has asked Fan Li and Bao Feng to escort these materials to the gate of the village to meet Zhou Donkey's people."

"Okay, the snow has just melted, and I'm afraid the more than sixty miles of mountain roads are not easy to walk! Let's get the three girls on board first. Feng Jian said and turned around and asked Chen Lilan and Su Su to enter the carriage in turn.

This time he went to Pingdu City and planned to establish a trading house in the city, and he had already wanted Pan Zhaoying to take the lead as the shopkeeper of this trading house.

When he walked to the carriage, he saw Pan Zhaoying acting as the handlebar of the carriage, holding a horse whip in his hand and bowing his body to meet Feng Jian and the others.

Feng Jian smiled: "The fat man came to be a coachman in person, isn't it a bit condescending!" ”

Pan Zhaoying grinned when she heard this: "It is my duty to serve the commander and the three young ladies as my fat man, and I can't ask for it!" The commander is making fun of the villain again! ”

As he spoke, he bowed down to Chen Lilan and the others: "It's cold outside, the villain has already lit a charcoal fire in the carriage, and the three young ladies don't have to worry about the cold in the carriage along the way." ”

Feng Jiang looked at Pan Zhaoying appreciatively, Pan Zhaoying was indeed flexible and sociable, and he could see that the three women were valued by him. Therefore, flattery comes as soon as you open your mouth, and it is easy to arouse the favor of others!

Leave the business affairs of Huluyan to him to take charge of. Perhaps the most correct decision at this stage, it is also likely to bring a huge surprise to yourself in the future.

Feng Jian then checked his own supplies as usual. Darts are life-saving creatures, and they are usually hidden in hidden places on their bodies.

Holding a Japanese knife in his hand, this knife was Jiang San'er's personal weapon, Jiang San'er failed to rebel and was killed, and this knife fell into Feng Jian's hand.

The blade of this sword is curved and narrow, and its appearance is very similar to that of a modern Japanese saber, with a raised line on the side of the blade, and the two sides gradually thin. Obviously, the focus of this knife is to focus on cutting, and it is suitable for large-scale equipment of military battalion sword and shield soldiers as standard blades.

A few days ago, Feng Jian also discussed with Zhang Dalai of the Huluyan Military Research Institute, and Zhang Dalai told Feng Jian that this kind of sword Qi Jiguang and Qi Shaobao's Qi family army looked at the equipment decades ago.

This knife is light and sharp, making it suitable for sword and shield soldiers who hold a knife in one hand and a shield in the other. The only drawback is that this kind of knife needs to refine a large amount of impurities from the blade, so it is time-consuming to make a Japanese knife.

In this era, there was no more advanced means to refine the impurities in iron, and it could only be hammered by hand over and over again. Feng Jian thought of the means of steelmaking by the soil method in later generations, and felt that it was still feasible to build a small smelting furnace with the soil method.

Feng Jian found that the loess mud mixed with rice milk was not inferior to cement products in terms of hardness and tightness. It is completely possible to build a small refining furnace by soil method to speed up the refining of iron.

When the problem of the small refining furnace was solved, Feng Jian planned to let Zhang Dalai's military research institute make a large number of such swords. In the future, this style of sword was used as the standard blade of the sword and shield soldiers of the earthquake mountain battalion.

Feng Jian shook his head and shifted his thoughts to his eyes. looked at Cheng Yousheng. The boy was found to be holding a waist knife in his right hand and a horsewhip in his left hand. He wears a thick half-length leather robe with a belt around his waist to protect him from the cold, a pair of patched cotton pants and a pair of dogskin boots underneath.

Feng Jian took the horsewhip handed over by Cheng Yousheng and said with a smile: "Look at your kid's outfit, you really look like a dog!" ”

Cheng Yousheng touched his head, bared his teeth and said: "The villain is a dog beside you, the commander, who is specially released to bite you!" ”

Feng Jian was full of excitement, he still hasn't applied to this era, people have a natural and conscious slave and inferior mentality for powerful people.

Feng Jian hurriedly bypassed this topic and waved his hand to Cheng Yousheng: "Tell Pan Fatzi that we are leaving!" As he spoke, he turned over and stepped on the head of the war horse to lead the way.

Cheng Yousheng touched his head and secretly said that what he said was from the bottom of his heart! How the commander seems to be unwilling!

Seeing that Feng Jian was about to set off on horseback, he hurriedly greeted Pan Zhaoying, and stepped on his horse to escort around the carriage.

Pan Zhaoying drove the car, waved the horsewhip, and with a "bang", the carriage began to follow Feng Jian and slowly drove towards the gate of the village.

Walking along the smooth rocky road in the village, there are many villagers watching along the way.

Many Zhuang people know that the commander rescued the daughter of the governor of Pingdu City! Today, he was going to send him home, so he watched on both sides of the street, hoping to see the daughter of the Zhizhou family.

Cheng Yousheng rode to the front of the carriage and shouted to drive away the crowd watching the excitement in order to let the carriage pass smoothly, and Chen Lilan couldn't show up for people to watch.

The carriage traveled to the gate of the village, only to see Zhou Donkey with his one hundred and eight soldiers standing at the gate of the village, although the soldiers were dressed in a variety of ways, but the awe-inspiring and solemn momentum naturally burst out, making ordinary villagers tremble.

On the side of the soldiers, Fan Li and Bao Feng stayed on one side escorting more than ten carts of medicinal herbs and native products, and the people who drove the cars were all handlebar-type selected by the mutual aid association, and these people were squatting next to the carriage wheels, smoking cigarette bags and pots waiting for the order to leave.

After Feng Jian and his entourage converged with the soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion of the Zhaimen Brigade, they ordered Zhou Donkey to lead the team to open the way, and the team was full of people and went towards the outside of the village.

On the way down the mountain, Cheng Yousheng, as the sentinel of the whole team, rode a horse to explore the surrounding situation, and reported the surrounding situation to Feng Jian from time to time.

The mountain road was rugged, and the carriage bumped all the way to the foot of the mountain, and never encountered the bandits who robbed the road.

This mountain road is controlled in the hands of Huluyan, so it is normal not to encounter bandits, and it starts from the station of the earthquake mountain camp, which is the plain area, I don't know what will happen!

Generally, when the New Year is approaching, most of the bandits will not go out to rob, and most of them have retracted to their nests to prepare for the New Year. Therefore, it may not be possible to encounter unexpected situations!

A group of more than 100 people took more than an hour to reach the foot of Chashan Mountain. Walk further. It is the camp of the Zhenshan Camp that has not yet been built in Huluyan.

Zhou Donkey will lead most of the soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion to stay at the Zhenshan Battalion station, waiting for Feng Jian to return from Pingdu City. During this period, the soldiers of Zhou Donkey's Zhenshan Battalion happened to supervise the newly discovered coal mining.

Far away, you can see that the new camp of the earthquake mountain camp is surrounded by a thick circle of tree walls. Inside the tree wall, you can't see anything from the outside. Access to the new station of the Earthquake Mountain Camp is only through the wide camp gate.

At this time, the two soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion standing guard at the gate of the camp were vigilantly watching the team coming from afar. Cheng Yousheng rode to the sentry on duty, handed over his waist card for the sentry to inspect, and then explained the situation to the two sentry.

The two sentries immediately opened the gate of the camp and put the soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion in the Zhenshan Battalion station, stationed here were a sentry soldiers in Mashan under Huang Fuchun, the second division of the Zhenshan Battalion.

After entering the new station of Zhenshan Camp, Feng Jian saw that the pine forest, which was originally covered with dense pine forests, had now become a huge open field, and many villagers were building rows of wooden houses on this open land.

There were also many farmers gathered on the side of the open field. With the shovel and hoe in his hand, he pried it on the ground, and saw baskets of black charcoal being loaded and transported to one place and piled up.

Feng Jian ordered Zhou Donkey to select two squads of 24 soldiers and hand them over to Cheng Yousheng for temporary command, while the rest of the soldiers stayed at the Zhenshan camp to wait for Feng Jian and others to return, and at the same time cooperated with the soldiers of the Mashan outpost to supervise the coal collection at the new battalion station.

Then he led two teams of Zhenshan battalion soldiers to escort Chen Lilan's master and servant on the return journey non-stop.

It is about 50 miles from the new military camp of Zhenshan Camp to Pingdu City, but the road below the mountain is relatively flat, and the carriage is no longer violently bumpy. Sitting in the carriage, the three daughters whose faces were pale from the bumps could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Feng Jian and his entourage of more than 20 people, and a team of more than 10 carriages marched towards the city along the road, which naturally attracted the attention of some well-intentioned people along the way. After most people weigh it, they give up the idea of non-separation.

Feng Jian rode in front of the team, and had already found those people who were probing their brains along the way. also knew that these people had bad intentions, so they had already ordered the two teams of soldiers of the Earthquake Mountain Battalion to prepare for battle.

Deal with some thieves who only know how to rush forward to kill. The soldiers of the Earthquake Mountain Battalion were not afraid at all.

The three women in the carriage also observed the prying eyes of ill-intentioned people around them, and their mood naturally became nervous and anxious. They all looked around to find Feng Jian, as if as long as they were by Feng Jian's side, they themselves would not be harmed.

Feng Jian didn't have time to understand the mood of the three now, so he ordered Fan Li and Bao Feng to guard next to the carriage, and the two teams of Zhenshan Battalion soldiers guarded the front and rear, so that Pan Zhaoying drove the carriage to follow the team and speed up.

At noon, the whole team walked in the cold wind for nearly an hour and a half, and although there were constant snoops around, no thieves came to harass them.

Cheng Yousheng acted as the team's sentry today, riding back and forth to listen to and reconnoiter the surrounding situation, so as to detect abnormalities and remind them in time. His opinion is that there are indeed ill-intentioned people around him, but he does not have enough power to threaten his group, so he has been hesitant to wait and see.

At this time, Cheng Yousheng was walking slowly to Feng Jian and reported: "Commander, the villain has just discovered that there is a market town two miles ahead, which is close to Xiaohuakou Mountain, so it is called Xiaohuakou Zhangjiaji, which is a large gathering of households in the nearby ten miles and eight villages. Today is the 25th day of the lunar month, and people come and go very lively. The villain inquired and learned that after passing here, twenty miles further forward is the state city. ”

Feng Jian thought for a moment and ordered: "The team can't stop here, Cheng Zi, you bring some silver taels to the market to buy some food and come back, everyone can eat some food on the road to satisfy their hunger, and when Miss Chen is sent home safely, this commander invites the brothers of the Zhenshan Camp to eat and drink as they like." ”

When the surrounding Zhenshan Battalion soldiers heard Feng Jian promise to be able to eat and drink as much as they wanted after entering the city, they suddenly became emotional, in the eyes of these Zhenshan Battalion soldiers, the delicious food was the commander's best reward for them. (To be continued......)