Mulan picked up the water in the basin and carefully rubbed her body up and down.
At Camp Montenegro, water is a very precious resource. Most of the water is transported by ox carts and horse-drawn carts from the river not far away, except for the water used for cooking. Taking a shower is a luxury.
At the beginning, Hua Mulan was very uncomfortable. There was a well in her yard, and fetching water was never difficult for such a powerful girl, so she was still a person who loved cleanliness.
But after arriving in the army, it became an extravagant idea to go to take a shower and take a bath when you were sweating after the training. The fire chief allocates limited water resources to cooking before doing anything else.
When she, Adan Zhiqi, Moweier and the others were still in the black camp, there used to be a basin of water for everyone to wash together, first to wash their faces, then to wash their feet, and when it was her turn, it became muddy water. I can only sleep with the sticky feeling in my feet.
In this sense, the promotion of generals with miscellaneous names after the increase in military service makes life much more comfortable than before. At least there won't be a fire boss pointing at your nose and scolding you after you secretly wipe yourself with water.
While Mulan was taking a bath, she thought about something, and sighed when she felt comfortable.
Until the reckless boy crashed into the tent again.
Hua Mulan casually pulled the sweat towel on the side of the basin, wrapped herself up, and continued to soak in the basin.
Chen Jie knew the quirks of his main general, so he didn't dare to go too close, and his eyes narrowed while holding a pile of pamphlets and smiling.
"General Hua, we were praised by General Wang. Even General Xia praised us for our performance in the last half month."
In addition to the number of kills, any general actually cares about the number of combat attrition. It is not a matter of a day or two for a recruit to grow into a soldier who can fight in formation. Everywhere is fighting, and it is not easy to replenish soldiers on the front line.
Therefore, Xia Hong will pay attention to the fact that it is normal that no one in Hua Mulan's team died.
Mulan wasn't surprised by this, so she wasn't as overjoyed as Chen Jie.
"Understood, you go out, put the booklet on the outside, you also go out..." She looked at Chen Jie with a slightly injured expression, and had the urge to hold her forehead. "You know it's very cold when you lift the tent? I'm about to get up, how can I blow the wind?"
Chen Jie said "Oh" and quickly backed out.
It was just that he was slightly taken aback when he saw the curve wrapped in a cloth towel before going out, his face full of pride.
Others say that General Hua's figure is thinner than other generals, so they should really come and see!
Look at the sturdy muscles of General Hua!
The chest muscles are almost catching up with the well-developed bald-haired strong men recognized by the military!
Chen Jie touched his chest.
He is thin and small, and no matter how much he practices, he can't make his clothes protrude from the outline of his muscles like most Xianbei people.
Look at General Hua, who can't even cover up with a cloth towel...
People who are thin are thin and have muscles!
***
Since His Majesty issued the military order to prepare the army and prepare to go to Rouran in the new year, the Rouran people have been tempted more and more, and they are not as harassed as before and leave, which makes Xia Hong begin to doubt the army. There are spies of the Rouran people, or the Rouran people are no longer interested in beheading people to earn military merit as before, but have turned into capturing the leaders of more than a centurion to spy on the military situation.
The Rouran people are contemptuously called "crawly" by the Xianbei people. Xia Hong's conclusion is like someone who said "The cabbage caterpillar also grows a human brain", and was dismissed as nonsense by many people.
The General Zhenjun of the Central Army has some vague beliefs, but in order to stabilize the morale of the army, he has not given any substantive support. Therefore, Xia Hong could only turn to the idea of proving the conclusion by himself.
Xia Hong was born as a general, but he later returned to the Great Wei because he guarded the north for generations. He is one of the few high-ranking generals in the army who has both Xianbei and Han blood.
But sometimes, just being well-connected doesn't help.
He was not from the Xianbei Thirty-six nobles, which made him unable to find allies many times. The forces of the Han people in the army are mostly responsible for logistics and internal affairs, which can only make his subordinates more timely in terms of supplies. In the battle situation, the number of Han generals is very small.
So he ordered Hua Mulan and several other generals to be credited, and asked them to pay attention to Rouran's movements.
"Recently, the squishy people have attacked more and more times, and most of them are just besieging and not attacking, waiting for our rescue. I am worried that they have other goals. You are all the leaders of the right army who are best at fighting. If you encounter such a situation , must be cautious."
Xia Hong was a little worried about this.
"There are more and more newspapers coming from Beijing recently. I know that you are all literate. After reading these things, you must burn them and don't carry them with you. Evacuate immediately if something goes wrong, in case you are captured..."
He glanced around his subordinates.
Most of them showed disapproval. They looked down on Rouran from the bottom of their hearts, and they didn't think they would be captured.
Only Hua Mulan and Su Hejun were listening carefully.
Xia Hong's worries grew even stronger.
"In case of being captured, just give some false information. As for the number of the three armies, you might as well exaggerate the figure. It is best for you to confirm the statement in private. Don't you say there are 50,000, he said there are 70,000..."
"My lord, do you think we might be captured?"
Su Hejun has always been known for his quick mind and careful observation, otherwise he would not have been sent to the army by Tuoba Tao.
"I don't understand at the end. If you think we will be captured, you won't be allowed to fight for a while."
"It's not that easy. Your Majesty has been away from Pingcheng for several days. I want to come to Heishan City at least half a month, and at most in January. Before that, we have to make sure that no creepy army will suddenly appear near Montenegro, and we often go out to inspect. necessary."
Xia Hong frowned.
"It's just that several centurions in Bai Ying went missing before. Some of the recruits in Bai Ying said that they were dismembered by Crimson, and some said that they were trampled into flesh by Crimson's horse..."
This kind of thing is very common in the military, and there are too many reasons for not finding a corpse.
"I'm worried that there is a conspiracy over there, but even if it is a conspiracy, we can't suspend the camp. Crawly people probably think about this, so they attack frequently."
"I want you to pay attention to each other's troops and horses, especially Hua Mulan..."
When Hua Mulan heard her name, she immediately said in awe: "The end is here!"
"You are the general guard of the right army. When the forward strikes, you must be careful not to let them go deep alone. If you can't stop it, give up the rescue immediately and come back to rescue the soldiers."
Xia Hong rubbed his palms, which was his usual action when thinking.
"I don't want to see any generals above the centurion captured, so you have to be vigilant, understand!"
"Yes!"
"I will understand at the end!"
A group of miscellaneous generals left the battalion, confused about the commander's orders. As for Hua Mulan, she does what the general says, and she seldom thinks about tactics and tactics.
The real generals will not go into battle without authorization, they are all elites, and they are not lacking in these small military exploits. The military is also a world of distinct ranks. If a general with a miscellaneous name wants to have a big promotion, he will either really stage a big drama to turn the tide, or he will serve a senior general in the military.
Neither path is easy.
"Now there is a huge military merit in front of us, do you want it?"
So when Su Hejun said this sentence to a group of confused generals with such a confident smile, most of them showed an interested expression.
"I know you're a jerk! What, want to have a big fight?"
"We don't have 3,000 people together, how can we have great military exploits..."
"You speak first."
Hua Mulan scratched her face and felt that it should have nothing to do with herself, so she wanted to go back and "implement" General Xia's mission spirit with her soldiers first.
"Mulan, don't leave yet!" Su Hejun hurriedly called out.
"Huh? But military merit or something, it's not that the fewer people, the better..."
"I need you very much!" Su Hejun said eagerly, "Our plan needs you very much!"
"… "
Hua Mulan was silent for a while, and finally stopped.
"Thank you, brother!" Su Hejun smiled heartily.
Somewhere in a remote military tent.
"...So, the key point of this strategy is that it must be very similar..." After Su Hejun finished speaking his thoughts, he looked at Hua Mulan with a smile.
"Mulan, your archery skills are the key to us. If you can hit a hundred and fifty paces away..."
"One hundred and eighty steps."
Mulan thought for a while and suddenly opened her mouth.
"Huh? What did you say?"
"If Wu Li is willing to lend me his iron bow, I can hit the target 180 steps away." Hua Mulan also felt that Su Hejun's plan was very bold. "But I think it's a bit reckless to put such an important key on my side."
"That's right, Hua Mulan is indeed an unstoppable warrior..." The speaker was a miscellaneous general of the Right Army, the same general who once made Mulan hungry.
"But the wave of people under her is really bad. To have them hold out until we are surrounded..."
"Qiyili!" Su Hejun shouted displeasedly: "What are you talking about! If everyone doesn't agree, there is no need to do this trap again. If you don't believe in your own people, then How can we cooperate at times? I can't bear the responsibility of cheating on my own people!"
"I'm just telling the truth..." Qi Yili obediently shut his mouth in Su Hejun's eyes. "Forget it, when my mouth stinks, what I said just now is a fart!"
Only then did Su Hejun calm down.
Qi Yili was not afraid of Hua Mulan, but this young man who was always smiling.
There are rumors in the army that this young general has a background in the court, and it is very likely that the descendants of some noble family hid in the military camp because of the family struggle.
Especially the speed of his promotion is even more eye-catching than Hua Mulan.
He was the one who proposed this strategy today. If it were someone else, I'm afraid many people would turn around and leave.
"So, if I find that the situation is wrong, I will send my personal soldiers to contact you. Every time I go to battle, at least three teams of us must be close by. The team is always on call…”
Su Hejun smiled.
"Whether you can catch a big fish depends on your cooperation."—
seven days later.
A meadow in the north of Montenegro.
The team led by Hua Mulan observed the movement in the distance from the far mound, and the war horses were muzzled to ensure that there would be no sound.
"How many?"
Mulan asked the scout who had just sneaked back.
"About a thousand."
The few scouts replied with pale faces.
There is a chasing forward army in the right army and encountered an ambush. A thousand Rouran people are not terrible, but if only three hundred people meet a thousand Rouran people, it will be a disaster.
"Get ready to ride."
"General Hua, we only have 500 people, should we send some people back to the army to rescue the soldiers first?" Chen Jie clenched Ma Leng in his hand, "There's something wrong with this situation, what are those Rouran people waiting for?"
Wouldn't it be just waiting to come to rescue the soldiers and catch them all in one sweep
If they rush forward, they might fall into the enemy's trap.
"Someone has already gone to rescue the soldiers." Hua Mulan dropped a sentence that confused Chen Jie, got on her horse, put her quiver behind her back, and reached out to stroke the horse's side.
The iron tire bow was hanging within her reach.
Seeing that Mulan made the first move, everyone immediately mounted the horse, carried the arrow behind her back, and hung the bow by her hand.
All of them can ride and shoot, and they are very skilled in riding and shooting under what Mulan can call the harsh training, at least not under the majority of soldiers.
Mulan didn't tell anyone about Su Hejun's plan. If it was her subordinates who were captured, they would probably reveal the news to Rouran, and they would be the ones who caught the turtle in the urn.
"Our purpose is to try to make those scruffy people chaotic as much as possible. The more chaotic the better." She raised the volume slightly. "No matter what happens, don't retreat! Hold them until more and more Rouran people come over!"
"General, how can we hold back with so few of us!"
A centurion cried out in panic.
"Besides, shouldn't we have to withdraw after we successfully saved people?"
They've always done this before!
Mulan sighed in her heart.
Although her "absolutely can't die" made her subordinates cherish life more than other soldiers, but as Di Yefei mocked, maybe she was too kind and too smooth, and even made them forget that they came here to the end. for what.
"I am the commander!"
Mulan aroused murderous aura and glared at the centurion who spoke.
"When you need to direct how to do it!"
The centurion shut his mouth and lowered his head in the sympathetic eyes of the others.
Chen Jie used horse lances, and it was not easy to switch between long weapons and bows and arrows quickly, so he and many knights who used spears and spears were always in charge of guarding when shooting arrows in Paoze.
Mulan is a general who doesn't like to charge, unless necessary, he prefers to suppress opponents from a distance. Chen Jie has been longing for his long lance to drink blood for a long time, and now that there is a possibility of a war, he immediately shows an excited expression.
war!
"Fight with me!"
Mulan gave a long drink, and the knights grabbed their horses and ran.
The five hundred cavalry is an extraordinary army, which came in from the side and hit the Rouran people who were surrounded by the lonely army by surprise.
Amidst the smoke and dust, Hua Mulan's subordinates either armed with long bows or mounted horizontal spears, rushing towards them on horseback. The bows and arrows were shot with chi chi, and those who were invincible were invincible.
The Rouran soldiers on the outermost perimeter were unprepared, and they did not expect that the ten bajiu of this army were all those who were in control right away. For a time, more than a hundred people did not retreat into the formation in time, and they were all shot to death on the spot by the Hua Army.
“*…%￥—)*&…%!”
From the Rouran army, there was a loud shout in the Hun language.
found it!
What Mulan was waiting for was the one who spoke!
Her ultra-long-range shooting was her trump card. Hua Mulan drew the iron bow like a full moon, and shot the dysprosium arrow that had been prepared between her fingers.
The booming arrow is the favorite arrow of generals who are good at shooting. Its sound will guide other shooters to shoot in the same direction.
How fast is Hua Mulan's arrow, everyone only heard a short sound, and the person who gave the order in the distance immediately fell off the horse.
Along with Mulan's arrows, there were also the sharp arrows of hundreds of string knights under her command.
After the enemy general fell, there was indeed a commotion, and hundreds of shooters on Hua Mulan's side also caught Rouran by surprise.
But the power of riding and shooting can't last long, and after two rounds of riding and shooting, the distance is finally narrowed.
Most of the Rouran people shaved their hair, with a braid hanging from the back of their heads, or their upper bodies, or they wore animal skins and leather armor. When the Wei army was drawing arrows, they immediately separated a group of people and quickly approached.
Mulan's goal has been achieved, and the elite army led by Su Hejun is also struggling to kill her. All that's left is to wait for the opportunity.
"Change weapons after one round, and prepare to rush. Chen Jie, bring the A and B teams forward!"
"Yes!"
Most of the Wei army are well-armed soldiers. Because they have fought more against the Rouran people, they have become accustomed to their strange outfits. Unless they are new soldiers, it is difficult to have a fearful heart.
Chen Jie was finally able to let go and rush to kill, and suddenly he stepped out like a tiger, and under the cover of the arrows of his teammates behind him, he roared away with the forward team.
I saw these two teams of more than 100 people, each with hideous faces. After shooting the enemy from the rear, they quickly crossed the horse at random, slashed their heads with their weapons, and threw them into the cloth bags beside the horses. On their belts, after a while, they were dyed into bloody people, and some people had more than ten heads hanging on their waists.
The Rouran people have seen many warriors, but such a ferocious team is rarely seen. I am afraid that the soldiers who have been underestimating Hua Mulan and her subordinates will be shocked when they see it.
Hua Mulan and Chen Jie bought time for the teammates in the rear, and immediately put on the weapons in hand, and led the rest to charge.
Team B is mostly spearmen, with spears and spears in the front, followed by Huajun soldiers with various weapons. Rouran's army was clamoring loudly, and the sound of long horns continued one after another. Obviously, there was a new backbone in the army.
At this time, Hua Mulan was already charging forward with a long knife. Under her command, beheading a head was no different from cutting a watermelon. There were Chen Jie and other personal guards and deputy generals with long weapons on the side. .
After a while, Hua Mulan got closer again. When she saw the new person giving orders, she immediately dropped the long knife in her hand and pulled out her bow. She bent the bow and took an arrow. Immediately knocked off the horse.
Before Hua Mulan went to battle, the arrows were smeared with highly poisonous poison.
In a rush to kill, the Rouran people immediately fell to the death of hundreds of people, all of them were piled up into a small hill. The rest of the Rouran people saw that they lost two generals in a row.
"General Hua is coming so fast!" Su Hejun's men rushed out, and there were only half of the more than 200 people left. Even so, he still smiled and shouted loudly in Chinese:
"After another half an hour, I understand the Xiongnu language, and the leader has already sent someone to find his leader!"
This is to bully Rouran and not many people can understand Chinese.
Of course, only a few of the Northern Wei army could understand it.
Chen Jie was one of those few.
He turned around in disbelief, and saw his general shout in Chinese:
"When will our people come?"
"General Xia will be here in no time!"
Su Hejun rode out and held four hands with Hua Mulan.
Goodbye to the record here, he happily said: "I didn't expect you to kill hundreds of people with only you, and even two enemy generals. Send more powerful characters!"
Mulan shook her head.
"It used to be fast and slow, and odds were used to win. Now that they are prepared, they can't say whether they can drag on for half an hour."
She looked behind Yan Su and Jun.
What he brought were the elites of the right army, and the elite soldiers assigned to him by General Xia were used as bait in this battle, and more than a hundred people died.
Mulan couldn't bear it.
She looked at the subordinates behind her again, almost all of them were bathed in blood. After a round of rushing, they calmed down no matter how hot the blood was. Some people were afraid that they had already thought about how to retreat.
After all, many times she is not the kind of general who hits hard.
After a while, the sound of horse hooves and war drums came from a distance, and the veterans in the army knew whether it was a friendly army or an enemy army when they heard the sound of horse hooves.
At least three thousand.
Or the cavalry in the Rouran army.
"General Hua, please let the last commander cut off the queen!"
Chen Jie held the long lance and handed over his orders.
He felt that he had finally found the value of existence.
Not rubbing smelly socks, not washing clothes, not wiping back...
This is what he yearns for-the fate that can be handed over to someone, and can be handed over to someone's back.
"No one needs to stop."
Hua Mulan sneered.
"This time, we are the pioneers."
The author has something to say: no surprise, there is one more.
Ah, it is really refreshing to go back to work and typing faster.
small theater:
People who are thin are thin and have muscles!
A few days later, in addition to the "giant Mulan", there were rumors that Hua Mulan was actually full of tendons...