291. Camping
When the traversers led by Yang Qianyu arrived at the camp outside Breitnia City, they happened to meet Li Xiang and Sun Xiaoyu who were greeted at the main gate of the camp.
"Good work, old Yang." Li Xiang stepped forward and patted Yang Qianyu on the shoulder, and asked with concern: "Have you been safe all the way?" ”
"We avoided densely populated villages and towns as much as possible along the way, and there should have been no exposure." Yang Qianyu replied while moving his waist and legs - if he said that he didn't ride a horse for two consecutive days, it would be a lie, although he would not wear his hips and hips because of the current physique of the traversers, but the uncomfortable feeling could not be eliminated.
"That's good." Seeing that Yang Qianyu replied that the road was safe, Li Xiang nodded and looked at the camp.
On this trip, the identity of the traversers is Kasha? The mercenary team hired by Count Leopold, so their camp is naturally the garrison area of the Prairly troops under Kashya. The area of this garrison area is about 7,000 square meters, which is enough to squeeze four or five hundred people with all kinds of baggage. There were more than 300 troops under the command of Kashya, and it was more than enough to be stationed here. Of course, if the alchemy soldiers who have crossed the crowd are also stationed here, it will be difficult to say.
Yang Qianyu and the others brought out a total of 400 alchemy soldiers this time (on average, each crossing can command twelve or thirteen), including 120 archers, 120 shield soldiers, 100 spearmen, and 60 sword soldiers. Obviously, the area currently reserved for the crossing group to camp in the camp seems to be insufficient.
"Oh, Mr. Fu Bin. There are so many of you here, and it's hard for us to do that. "The Leopold family is in charge of contacting the Regulus family, a scrivener in his forties (a civil official, similar to a secretary or assistant)—this person is familiar with the Travelers, who had previously been in contact with and offered all kinds of supplies and trade when they had settled at Camp Rog in Harrudale County—and his face was full of embarrassment." Now only this open space can still be camped, but there are enough more than 100 people to be stationed here, and you really have no place to squeeze in the extra 300 people. ”
"Ah, it doesn't matter." Fu Bin looked at the campsite reserved for them by the Leopold family and nodded with satisfaction. "I think there's enough space for us to be stationed."
"What? Enough? You're not kidding, are you? The scrivener's eyes widened in disbelief when he heard this, "This is to make 400 people squeeze into a camp of 100 people, how can this be squeezed." ”
"Don't worry, no problem." Fu Bin replied with a smile, then turned to Zhang Boyin, Zhao Bin, Lu Yuan and several other companions who were traveling behind him and ordered: "Arrange for them to camp - it's not too early, let them rest directly after camping." ”
Zhang Boyin and the others, who were following Fu Bin, nodded, and then saw them turn to the hundreds of subordinates (alchemy soldiers) standing in line in the open space, and they didn't see any verbal orders, just waved their hands in unison, and hundreds of alchemy soldiers immediately dispersed, took out tarpaulins and connectable metal poles from their backpacks and began to set up tents.
A few minutes later, twenty-five large camping tents were erected.
The scrivener was surprised to find that these soldiers of the Xuanyuan family not only built tents very quickly, but also built their tents very skillfully, not to mention that the rows of tents were aligned in a line whether they looked horizontally or vertically, and even all the corners of the tents could be of the same length? It's like the same person set it up? And after the tent was set up, all the soldiers of the Xuanyuan family entered the tent. In a few moments, except for a few dozen heavily armed soldiers who came out of the tent and scattered around as patrol posts, the rest of the soldiers were in the tent and no one came out.
"How's it going, Mr. Scrivener?" Fu Bin turned his head to look at the scrivener with a surprised face. "The campsite you provided us with was more than enough."
"Ah, this ......," the scrivener opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say. After an awkward cold for a while, I finally found another topic. "Then since your department has set up camp, then I will wait for the Earl to return to the camp and return to her. In addition, the materials previously allocated to your ministry are now stored in the baggage storage area of the camp, and your ministry is requested to send someone to receive them in time. ”
"Okay, I got it." Fu Bin replied politely: "I'll arrange someone to receive it tomorrow - it's already late today, and we have to rest in a hurry, so I won't send you away." Good night. ”
"Ah...... Good night. Seeing that Fu Bin's tone had the meaning of sending off guests, and it was indeed not early now, the scrivener also took the opportunity to leave the camping area where he crossed the crowd and returned to the camp where he was camping.
"Huh-" Fu Bin breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the other party leave. "Finally got this uncle away."
Zhang Boyin and others, who were with Fu Bin, also had a relieved expression.
"Fortunately, the uncle of the clerk did not enter the tent curiously." Lu Yuan wiped his forehead, sideways let go of the curtain of the tent closest to them, and lifted the curtain to take a look inside—only to see that in the tent, more than twenty alchemy soldiers were all sitting cross-legged on the ground, motionless like sculptures.
If it weren't for the fact that they had to disguise their puppet identities as alchemy soldiers, there would have been no need for the traversers to purchase so many large camping tents, as long as they could buy a few for the traversers to live in.
That's right, in this camp of twenty-five tents arranged in a 5×5 specification, except for the nine tents in the central area for the traversers, the sixteen tents on the periphery are for the alchemy soldiers.
This kind of large tent is a camping tent for many people, each tent is seven meters long, five meters wide, and more than two meters high, which can be shared by 10 to 12 people (covering an area of 35 square meters, with an average area of about 3 square meters per person), and if you squeeze it, 15 people are barely (more than 2 square meters per person). There are a total of thirty-two people in the crossing team, and if they are divided into nine tents, there are only four or five people living in each tent, which is more than enough. However, if sixteen tents were divided among four hundred alchemy soldiers, each tent would have to accommodate at least twenty-five people (less than 1.5 square meters per person). With twenty-five people squeezed into such a tent, it is not difficult to imagine how crowded it is, and at most the people in it will have space to sit cross-legged, and it is simply a luxury to lie down. If ordinary people live in such a crowded tent, let alone have a good rest, it is a miracle that they can not toss themselves to the exhaustion.
Fortunately, the alchemist soldiers who live in these tents are not flesh-and-blood real people, but puppets with a life-like form, and the puppets are not picky about their environment.
After settling the camp of the alchemy soldiers, the traversers also entered their own tents and began to rest. There are nine tents in the camp for resting during the crossing, of which five are for girls and four for boys.
That's right, that's how it is divided.
There were thirty-two people in the crowd, of whom nineteen were men and thirteen were women. If we count four to five people in a tent, it seems that the boys with a larger number should have more tents than the girls. Of course, this is the conclusion of rational calculations. In fact, it would be impossible to make arrangements in this regard according to rational and reasonable calculations.
As for the reason? Need you say more?