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Under the scorching sun, tens of thousands of students sweated profusely, shouting trumpets to raise the city wall several feet higher, and a sudden rainstorm washed away beyond recognition in half an hour. After the rain, the moat was three feet of water, the mound was muddy, and a rain delayed the construction period for four or five days.

The first process of rammed earth for the wall is to sieve the soil into a fine powder and steam it with brown rice in a certain proportion to ensure that there is enough adhesion to build the wall to be strong and durable.

There are five cadets on each side of the wooden frame, using ropes to pull the wooden stakes with a thick bowl of nearly a zhang, constantly stirring in the steaming iron pot, the black soldier uniforms have already dyed the dust yellow, sweat on the face of the furrows, without opening the mouth to speak, you can't distinguish men and women, let alone recognize people.

The fire was blazing under the iron pot, and the soldiers who added firewood dragged the trunk of the tree with difficulty, and the military uniforms let the sweat drench, and let the firewood dry, and the soot and dust were wrapped around the body like light armor.

When the soil was steamed, the squad leader raised the small flag, and some students ran over, regardless of the scorching heat, shoveled into the improvised cart, and the steamed soil students lay on the ground horizontally, seizing the time to recover their strength.

"Your Highness, take a break. ”

The student soldiers who shoveled the soil knew that the persuasion was ineffective, but they still couldn't help but speak out, transporting the soil, steaming the soil, drying, grinding, and sending the soil, each of the five teams had their own division of labor, and only in the interval between the handover of materials could they take the opportunity to rest for a while, but there were always exceptions, and the imperial county lord never stopped.

"I'm fine!" Mei Ying lifted the shovel and poured the soil into the cart, glaring at the students who ordered to rest: "Don't get up!" The resting students are used to seeing this scene, and the officers who have been whipped with leather whips can only smile bitterly and obey, and no one dares to disobey the order.

The iron pot was replaced with new soil, and the resting cadets got up again.

Motivation can muster up a momentary motivation, but it is difficult to maintain long-term enthusiasm, when the bitterness and tiredness reach the limit of human endurance, the only thing that can support is the will. The noble county lord, the thin woman, and the student soldier who has never rested, the three are all one, and Mei Ying uses actions instead of words and wishes to maintain the belief that tens of thousands of students insist on hard work.

"Do more work—"

"Less bloodshed—"

The heaviest way of life is rammed earth, on the wall, hundreds of pounds of stone rammer, in the sound of the trumpet to lift up and smash down, the foot high soil rammed into an inch thick, a block of the city wall will be so inch by inch high.

"Rest for a while—" Another layer was rammed, the inspector raised his banner and shouted, and the cadet, who was only wearing shorts, threw away the rope and ran to drink water and rest.

The craftsman threw out a few copper coins casually, the apprentice of the inspection of the work erected a steel drill, a person raised the hammer, a hammer smashed down the steel drill into the soil, after the craftsman wrote down the scale, the apprentice went to the other copper coins to land, each rammed out a layer to randomly select five points to inspect the work, a failure to rework.

"Change the version!"

The craftsman put away the record book, spit out two words with satisfaction, the inspection was qualified, the students at the head of the wall jumped down with cheers, and the next layer was the turn of the students who loaded the soil under the wall to carry the rammer.

"Uncle, you know the bottom, where are we in line?" Taking advantage of the gap between the board changes, the inspector smiled and stammered the craftsman, in exchange for a sneer and two white eyes, and the apprentices who inspected the work were even more angry: "Give you a thorough bottom, let us take the military stick, think beautiful!"

"After being injured, you lost your temper and went to war, don't blame the brothers for not taking care of you. ”

The apprentices who inspected the work did not accept this at all: "Pull it down, and you are not in the standard team, how can you take care of it?" Hehe, dare to threaten the inspection, and someone is going to the military justice department to rest again. ”

"Hey, hey, ask casually, if you don't say it, there's no need to hurt me with a military stick. The inspector was busy laughing and said good things: "Brother, I am the inspector anyway, and it is a small matter to be beaten by the military stick, and it is a big loss of personnel, so don't report it." ”

The old craftsman looked around and whispered: "Don't make any noise, let me tell you, yesterday someone colluded with the craftsmen to hide and play tricks, and several heads were hanging in front of the camp gate to show the public." ”

"What bastard has lived enough to do this!"

"Gone. The old craftsman stared at the student soldier and patted the inspector on the shoulder before leaving: "Child, don't be lazy, do you know where the corpses of several people went? Alas, let the law enforcement team ram into the city wall, it is really broken." ”

dared to collude to cheat, and it was not a pity for a few people to die, but the cruel punishment method made the students frightened and chilled.

When the news reached Mei Ying's ears, she was stunned and trembling in place, cutting off her head to show the public, Hu Li had reported it, and she also specially confessed, and afterwards she had to remember to sew the body and head together and bury it alive, never imagined that the old fox was so inhumane.

Eating and resting at the construction site while working, Mei Ying held back her anger until the end of the evening, wiped her face and asked the secret guard to summon Hu Li, the old fox avoided it under the pretext of leading the troops to patrol the camp, and asked the secret guard to bring back the letter, Mei Ying sat behind the table after seeing it.

"The city has been built for more than two months, and the great work is about to be completed, and the soldiers are extremely tired, and there is no lack of complaints in the army, and they would rather die under the enemy's sword than die of exhaustion at the head of the city. Another report: A legion pestered the witch soldiers in a bloody battle, and Hua Yue and other six patrol elite soldiers stayed in the desert to intercept and kill the mercenary transport team. ”

The city-building army was led by Hu Li, Mei Ying and her escort battalion insisted on receiving the same task as the other battalions, the nobles' hands were all calloused, and many people were now sick to work, and no one complained about being tired, so that Mei Ying was deeply moved by her loyalty, but she didn't expect the soldiers to complain in private, if the situation was not serious, the old fox would never respond with cruel punishment.

"County Lord, I've heard about it too, and I can't blame the Legion Commander. Ling Huqing came in with a bucket of water, poured the water into the wooden basin, half persuaded and half forced, and helped Mei Ying take a bath and wipe her body.

"The commander of the three armies will undoubtedly inspire morale and fighting spirit, but building a city is different from charging into battle, the capital crime is good to suffer from the living crime, which lasts for more than two months, the tired soldiers will inevitably complain, and the children of the nobles are even more unbearable, but no one dares to expose it in front of you. ”

Mei Ying sat in the wooden basin, rubbing the dirt on her body with her hands, since she was a child, how could she have suffered such a hardship, except for being able to sleep lazily on a rainy day, she has been working for more than two months, and her physical strength is seriously overdrawn, if it weren't for the success of Qi refining, she would have been tired and collapsed.

"Qing'er, I understand the reason, one more and one less me, it will not have much impact on the progress of the city construction, but if you want to patrol on horseback in gorgeous clothes, seeing that you are tired and tired, I can't bear to do it, only by working with everyone, I won't be cranky." ”

In order to dissuade Mei Ying from going to the construction site, Hu Li, Ling Huqing and others thought of many methods.

pushed over the complicated military affairs, worked during the day, reviewed official documents by candlelight at night, and did bad things with good intentions, which made her more tired, and it was difficult to change at the beginning, Mei Ying had more homework at night. rushed to help her finish the work, and she would run to help others, and she would not get rest. Hu Li once carried out a big sign of royal prestige, saying that she had lost the identity of the county lord, Mei Ying's answer was even more straightforward, then treat me as the student sentry commander, the corps commander patrols every night with a big knife, how can the sentry commander be lazy, the lazy county lord really embarrasses the royal family.

"As long as there is a soldier alive, the officer cannot abdicate the responsibility of command. Ling Huqing turned out Gao Yuan's words again, and persuaded Mei Ying while helping her get dressed: "You are the commander of the three armies, and going to the construction site to work like a soldier is tantamount to giving up the command and dereliction of duty." ”

"That's why I appointed the Legion Commander as the Commander-in-Chief of the Fortification from the beginning. After taking a shower, her whole body was much more relaxed, Mei Ying got dressed and said with a smile: "Don't preach, you don't do less than me." Speaking of business, the punishment of the corps commander is too cruel, how to ease the emotions of the cadets, blindly punish the law, I am afraid that it will cause chaos. ”

Ling Huqing called in and asked him to carry out the dirty water and pour it out, and after he packed up the tent, he pulled Mei Ying to lie on the bed.

"The old fox deliberately acted as a villain and let the county lord end the battle, just to maintain the morale of the army. Of course, the deceased deserved it, but the county lord might as well be extrajudicial and give the bereavement silver twice to the descendants of the craftsmen. ”

Mei Ying pondered for a while and shook her head: "Qing'er, using power and trickery to win people's hearts can deceive people for a while, but not forever, after people see through it, it is not only unprofitable but harmful." Ling Huqing closed his eyes and didn't squeak, everyone rammed into the city wall, and then dug it out for burial, which would seriously damage the prestige of Commander Hu Li.

"You will soon order the personal guards not to go to the construction site from tomorrow onwards, and to patrol all places with me, and then you must be clearly clothed. ”

Ling Huqing's eyes widened: "The clothes and armor are distinct?" At the critical moment of building the city, the county lord no longer goes to the construction site, what will the soldiers think, and finally they can't hold it anymore? Mei Ying saw that her eyes kept rolling, and she couldn't help but laugh and quipped: "Don't you understand?" Giggles, I finally stumped you once. ”

The next day, the women's guards wore armor and held guns, held high the banner of the county lord, crossed the trenches, passed through the steaming fields, ran past the walled walls, and patrolled back and forth on the construction site.

"The county lord is here, brothers work hard!"

"Whoever dares to be lazy, be careful that Lao Tzu beats him to death!"

"Don't let the county lord and the female soldiers laugh, work quickly!"

The riders of the women's guard team smiled like flowers, and surrounded the workshop where the county lord Mei Ying walked and stopped, and the factory where he had stayed, the excited look hung on his face for a long time, and the officer's shouting was even louder: "Brothers, if you are tired and tired, what are you afraid of, the county lord will remember our merits." In a flash, the officer shouted with a blue face: "Lao Tzu's face is all lost, no one wants to rest today, double the training after dinner!"

"Captain, why did the county lord suddenly patrol the construction site?" a student asked in a low voice, and the young captain kicked over: "Work more and talk less." Seeing that there were no idlers from other teams around, he hurriedly pulled up his brothers: "If the county lord doesn't come to inspect, who can stop the regiment commander from killing!" The students nodded in agreement, in the final analysis, the county lord was generous and benevolent, and the military law was ruthless and inconvenient to stop, but in disguise stopped the military law team from indiscriminately using torture.

The conversation at another construction site came to a different conclusion: "The work is almost done, and the county lord inspects at this time to see with his own eyes the strength of each battalion, so that he can be rewarded for meritorious deeds in the future." Brothers, don't take off your skin, but you are pulling behind when you see that you are about to receive the reward, grit your teeth, and you can win by persevering. ”

"Seeing that the long knives of the pro-guard team are not there, if you don't want to die, you will work harder, and strive to be transferred to the guard battalion in the future. County Lord Guard, this title alone is enough for you to enjoy Qingfu for a few lifetimes, what is this hardship at the moment. ”

Tens of thousands of apprentices built the city in two places, and there were only a few hundred workshops, and the scholars discussed all kinds of things, but the result was the same: when the county lord inspected, those who worked hard would definitely have great benefits in the future, and as for being lazy, wait for the regiment commander to smash into the city wall to speed up the progress.

"The county lord has finally grown up, and knows when and where to be, so the old man should do less to kill. Hu Li listened to the report of the pro-soldier and had a plan in his heart, and was extremely satisfied with Mei Ying's disposition, and he was not in vain to be a villain, and scolded again in a blink of an eye: "Li Zihui, this kid will either be a traitor or a strong general in the future, and he can come up with such a bad trick for lack of morality." ”

Yu Wenjie rushed back to the grassland, the king's will soon spread throughout the camp, rewarding the real job, the apprentices couldn't keep their mouths together, and the officers laughed out loud, and they became imperial officers without leaving the standard camp, and when they arrived in the army, they were at least one level higher than the cadets who graduated at the same time, so why worry about not having a bright future.

On the grassland, two earthen cities rise from the ground, on the day of closing, Hu Lifang threw down the steel drill from the wall, shouted that the city was completed, and the students who had been waiting for a long time couldn't wait to open the dam, and introduced the water of the Qinghe River into the moat, Duguying, the lord of Qinghui, led the female soldiers who were carefully dressed in each battalion, and sang and danced at the head of the city with the sound of gongs and drums that shook the sky. (To be continued.) )