It's snowing......

Qian Qian sat on the city wall, looking at the fluttering snowflakes, this was her second winter in Qincheng. In the past two years, Qian Qian has grown into an excellent general with piles of corpses.

When she arrived in Qincheng at the beginning of that year, Jin Haiying, the guard general of Qincheng, looked down on Qian Qian, the princess from the capital, but she didn't dare to offend her, so she gave her a nominal rank of general, but in fact, she had no military power.

Ling Chenqing and Xia Yueran's situation was not much better than Qian Qian. Although the Ling family is a family of military generals, the pass where the Ling family is stationed all the year round is not Qincheng, but Yanggu Pass, which is hundreds of miles away from Qincheng.

The Ling family did not go to Yanggu Pass but came to Qincheng, which in itself was easy to make people suspicious. The guards of Qincheng are local people, and it is inevitable that they will wonder if the Ling family in the capital sent someone over at this time, and whether they intended to extend their hands to her territory, so after Ling Chenqing arrived in Qincheng, he was squeezed out more than Qian Qian or even more seriously.

And Xia Yueran, the people of Qincheng think that she is just Qian Qian's guard and entourage.

Therefore, in the first few months of arriving in Qincheng, the people and horses in Qian Qian's hands were still the guards and the Ling family's personal guards that she brought. However, although they were idle, Qian Qian, Ling Lingqing, and Xia Yueran still did not relax themselves. Qian Qian, with her own personal guards, arrived at the school on time early every morning to participate in training with ordinary soldiers.

The border was bitterly cold, frost began to form at the end of August, and the winter of that year came very early, when everyone in the barracks was waiting to see the performance of the princess of the capital, Qian Qian still appeared in the middle of the school field every morning.

"I said it," Qian Qian emphasized slightly proudly when chatting with 7788 when he was idle: "The biggest advantage of me is that I can endure!" ”

The persistence in training allowed Qian Qian and them to gain the first batch of local friends, including Su Kui, a partial general whom General Jin admired very much.

Su Kui is an excellent general, she is very talented in combat command, and her skills are also good. It's probably because she's a technical talent, and she's interested in all new tactics and techniques.

Since Qian Qian came to the school field for training every day, Su Kui watched with great interest how this group of sugar soldiers from the capital tossed around on the school field.

Yes! Qian Qian and the others were called sugar soldiers by the border generals, who melted when they licked and shattered when they fell.

There are not many "sugar soldiers", but there is no day of relaxed training, Qian Qian often divides them into two groups, and she leads the team separately with Xia Yueran and Ling Chenqing to do confrontation exercises. And Su Kui came to watch every once in a while, until one day, she suddenly saw the doorway.

"The Hun cavalry is mostly a phalanx, why don't you put a cone formation or a fish through the formation." Su Kui directly found Qian Qian and raised his own questions.

"The Hun cavalry is very fast!" Qian Qian gestured to his two groups of "sugar soldiers": "I have observed two Hun attacks. We broke through their phalanx with a cone formation, and they generally did not fight, but ran reflexively. The Huns do have an advantage over us in cavalry, they can run and turn around and attack with bows and arrows, and if we pursue them into the attack range, the losses will be very large. The tactics of the Xiongnu are very typical kite tactics. ”

"Kite tactics?" Su Kui chewed on this fresh term repeatedly in her mouth, and after a while, she excitedly grabbed Qian Qian: "Then tell me specifically, what's going on with your horns......"

In this way, Su Kui became Qian Qian's first friend in Qincheng. Jin Haiying didn't want Su Kui to get too close to Qian Qian, but Su Kui told the general: "No matter what the purpose of the people in the capital is, the Huns always have to fight, it is obvious that the five princesses are not sugar soldiers, they can use them!" ”

"But the sword has no eyes, if the five princesses are harmed, we are afraid that we will be implicated!" Jin Haiying was still a little hesitant.

"She originally came to the battlefield to experience," Su Kui was very upright: "For our border pass, what is more important than fighting the Huns?" If the five princesses have enough skills, they will naturally be able to protect their own safety. Now it seems that she is not a straw bag, she may be a good warrior after training, but the first few battles are a big deal, and my close protection observation is that the empress sent her to guard the border, what's wrong with letting her go to the battlefield! ”

There's nothing wrong with that! Jin Haiying is as good as a stream. In this way, Qian Qian and the others finally got the opportunity to experience on the battlefield.

War is not the same as murder. In Qincheng, Qian Qian really saw what real cruelty was. At the end of the first battle she participated in, Qian Qian couldn't help crying at the pile of corpses that were piled up, unable to distinguish whether it was his own people or the remains of the enemy.

Comradeship is probably one of the easiest friendships to develop! When Qian Qian took her sugar man soldiers, mixed with the local soldiers, and fought side by side; As they wrapped up in their cloaks and sat back to back with the local soldiers to keep warm; When they rode horses against the oncoming wind and snow, and supported each other with the local soldiers on a difficult march, a subtle feeling that only belonged to the comrades-in-arms slowly grew between the sugar people in the capital and the defenders of Qincheng.

In this way, little by little, Qian Qian, Ling Lingqing, and Xia Yueran became warriors recognized by the people of Qincheng. But what really established Qian Qian's status as a general was the siege of the city last winter.

It was Qian Qian's first winter in Qincheng, and sure enough, as Ling Guijun expected, there was a problem with the food and salary sent by the military department to Qincheng, and it was delayed.

Fortunately, Qian Qian and the others had already expected this problem, and all the way to Qincheng, Qian Qian collected a lot of low-cost coarse cloth and old cotton wool out of his own pocket, and bought them along the way, accumulating almost dozens of cars. Because it was a particularly worthless, Qian Qian only left a few guards, plus a temporarily hired woman, and pulled these coarse cotton wool to Qincheng slowly and safely all the way.

Qian Qian personally escorted nearly 200 truckloads of unhulled cheap coarse grains purchased on the road and transported them to Qincheng together. When he first arrived in Qincheng, because of these broken things, the guards of Qincheng laughed at Qian Qian a lot behind their backs. But the people from the capital didn't care, and Ling Chenqing cheekily asked General Jin for a place to store these worthless things, and these things were placed there like this, as if they were completely useless, until the winter came.

The cold winter of that year came very early, and the winter salary of the military department was delayed, and General Jin was in a hurry and almost went to the wall. At this time, Su Kui came to her: "General, do you remember that Vice General Ling once asked you for a piece of land to build a warehouse?" ”

"That's right!" Jin Haiying slapped her hands: "Those rags of the five princesses!" ”

Su Kui smiled: "How can the general not know that those tattered things are now treasures!" I heard that the Five Princesses were recruiting the families of the soldiers to do needlework, and many of the soldiers' husbands went to her to get coarse cloth and old cotton wool to make cloaks, and a cotton cloak could be made in one night, and the Five Princesses gave three copper coins for wages, although the money was not much, but it was easy to earn, and everyone was happy! ”