After hastily burying her grandparents and parents with the only money she had left, the girl carried her young brother on her back and rode a fast horse, and under the constant pursuit of the enemy, she fled to a small town about 200 miles away from her hometown.

Although this town is not far from the state capital where her hometown is located, because it belongs to Ji Heng, the king of Chu, her family's enemies dare not reach out at all.

This girl came to the town, and she did all the dirty work to feed her younger brother, but even so, the money she could earn was still very limited.

In desperation, the girl had no choice but to find a way to survive in other more prosperous places.

After much travel, the girl took her younger brother, who was not yet ten years old, into the barracks at the age of fourteen.

Her younger brother was too young, and of course Yan Huaiyu would not treat him as an ordinary soldier, so as soon as the child entered the barracks, Yan Huaiyu sent him to the room to help with chores.

As for this Liu Shanshan girl, she is strong in martial arts, she can fight at least ten ordinary soldiers by herself, and she is down-to-earth and straightforward, Yan Huaiyu thinks she is a good seedling, so she not only allowed her to be a soldier, but also directly promoted her to a small flag commander, and let her manage the other ten female soldiers in the battalion.

This time, He Shuning and Mu Qingyun came over, and Yan Huaiyu arranged for Liu Shanshan to take them to familiarize themselves with the military camp.

Liu Shanshan is a very conscientious and responsible person, since Yan Huaiyu handed over Mu Qingyun and He Shuning to her for temporary care, Liu Shanshan made up her mind to follow from beginning to end.

No, when she heard the girl with her small flag say that there were two new girls living in the empty military tent, Liu Shanshan immediately put down what she was doing and ran over.

She first helped Mu Qingyun pack up the military tent, and then offered to take them around the barracks.

The three of them also came out of the camp tent because of this, but this time, Liu Shanshan was stunned because she saw Yan Nanxiao, and then she almost fell out of a five-body camp tent and threw herself to the ground.

Mu Qingyun briefly told Ji Yongan and He Shuning about their next itinerary, and then sent the two brothers away.

Ji Yongan, who originally wanted to seize every opportunity to get along with his sweetheart more, looked depressed, and he asked Yan Nanxiao, "Why did Uncle Yan divide our four senior sisters and brothers into two groups so quickly?" ”

Yan Nanxiao shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, "You have to ask my father about this." ”

The corners of Ji Yongan's mouth twitched slightly, "Then why don't we go now?" ”

Yan Nanxiao had no opinion, but he felt that Ji Yongan would definitely not dare to ask this in front of his father.

Sure enough, after Ji Yongan arrived at Yan Huaiyu's military tent, he didn't mention Mu Qingyun and He Shuning at all.

Yan Nanxiao felt a trace of regret in his heart - in fact, he didn't want to part ways with He Shuning so soon.

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Life in the barracks was simple but regular, He Shuning and his family woke up to the sound of the horn every day, trained with other soldiers in the sound of the horn, went to eat in the room in the sound of the horn, and fell asleep in the sound of the horn.

The four of them are better than everyone in the barracks, so there is no problem in keeping up with the training, and the only thing that they are not used to is probably the cooking skills of the master chef who can only be described as "poor".

In addition to being able to eat anything, eat more if it's delicious, eat less if it's not delicious, He Shuning, who is not picky at all, and the other three have begun to miss the various delicacies they have eaten in a few days.

Yan Nanxiao had thought about opening a small stove for everyone, but the problem was that a small soldier like them didn't even have a teapot for boiling water in the military tent where he lived, he just wanted to open a small stove for four people, including himself, and he had nowhere to show his good skills.

In the end, the four of them came to a conclusion, that is, if they want to get rid of the current dilemma of eating "big pot rice", they can only hope that the battle will start as soon as possible, and then they will make great achievements as soon as possible, so as to obtain a status promotion.

Only when they have a high status can they have the opportunity to enjoy special treatment in all aspects.

They don't ask for anything else, as long as they can have a place to open a small stove occasionally, they can be satisfied with the status quo for the time being.

When they were expecting the battle to start as soon as possible, none of the four of them expected that the battle would start that night as soon as possible.

On the second watch of the night, the soldiers who were sleeping in the military tent would be woken up by the sound of the horn, and when they urgently assembled and stood in front of the stage at a simple point that had been temporarily erected, Yan Huaiyu on the platform told them that they would set off overnight in a quarter of an hour and cross the river to attack the Zhou army station.

Many people were puzzled by the order of their own general, but the conduct of the soldiers made them neither question nor make a noise, and the people lined up, led by their superiors, either on horseback or on foot, all the way to the big boat by the river at full speed.

He Shuning and the others were now ordinary soldiers without any positions, and they took the initiative to ask Ying to be the striker, so Yan Huaiyu arranged for them to be among the first batch of teams to board the ship and go to the other side - although he was actually unwilling to do this in his heart.

Ji Yongan is the eldest son of the prince of Chu, Yan Nanxiao is his only son, He Shuning and Mu Qingyun are both little girls, Yan Huaiyu actually wants them to follow him, because in this way their safety can be guaranteed to the greatest extent.

But at the same time, he is also an elder and a senior official who will respect other people's opinions, since Ji Yongan and they insist on being a pioneer, no matter how worried Yan Huaiyu is, no matter how reluctant he is, reason still makes him choose to agree.

So Ji Yongan's senior sister and brother went to the other shore by boat as a "death squad" with nearly a thousand other soldiers.

Although today's Great Zhou is full of twilight, Empress Dowager Zhang and her party have always maintained a high degree of vigilance against Ji Heng.

The Great Zhou military camp, which is across the river from Dachu, has all the best armaments that the Great Zhou can come up with.

The officers and soldiers of the Great Zhou who were in charge of garrisoning were all elite and strong generals, they were not as loosely disciplined and negligent as the remaining armies of the Great Zhou, and the ones sent by the Empress Dowager Zhang to compete with the Great Chu were all tiger and wolf divisions.

Because of this, the high-level leaders of Dachu, including Ji Heng, are actually ready to take human lives to fill in and win by quantity.

However, things on the battlefield are often not satisfactory, just when Yan Huaiyu and other generals who were responsible for leading troops across the river to attack the city were already mentally prepared to lose their troops and lose their generals, something happened on the battlefield that they did not expect.

Ji Yongan, Mu Qingyun, He Shuning, and Yan Nanxiao, who were incorporated into the vanguard as ordinary soldiers, actually used the ship as a shield and rushed to the gate of the county where the enemy army was located.

Yan Huaiyu, who was the first to receive the news, was even more surprised than him when he witnessed He Shuning picking up the boat and running all the way to the enemy formation.