NFBE Chapter 313: The Journey to Find Nitrate
Chapter 313: The Journey to Find Nitrate
The group passed by the foot of a steep mountain. Jiang Yue and Ling Yunxiao were at the front, looking around at the rocks in front of them.
Finally, Jiang Yue looked at a rock wall covered with white frost and stopped.
Ling Yunxiao and the others stopped and saw Jiang Yue touching the wall with her hand to check the white frost.
He followed and checked, "But saltpeter?"
Jiang Yue: "Yes, it's saltpeter."
After saying this, Jiang Wuni also nodded.
The soldiers behind him began to check the rocks.
"Disperse and collect!" Ling Yunxiao ordered.
Because of the urgent need, he did not forget to add,
"Boost!"
The soldiers followed the order and checked the appearance of the saltpeter. They had a general idea of what it was and finally began to disperse and search along the mountain wall.
At this moment, the Xuanwu Army took advantage of Jiang Yue's previous rock climbing training.
During the dispersion, Jiang Yue used a dagger and other tools to collect materials with his left hand.
At noon, everyone had a simple lunch, brought their own dry food, and continued working in the afternoon.
This collection took most of the day.
By dusk, a lot of saltpeter had been collected, but it was still far from being useful.
Therefore, Ling Yunxiao ordered all the generals to find shelter on the spot and continue the attack tomorrow.
Jiang Yue fully agreed. This place was originally Xining's land, and saltpeter was hard to come by.
"General, we will provide for our own dinner. We can hunt some wild game in the mountains and leave some soldiers who don't want to hunt to guard the saltpeter and horses."
"Okay." As a general, Ling Yunxiao's spirit is always in a state of high tension. Today he is relaxed and has no reason to refuse.
Life in the camp was really monotonous. When the soldiers heard that they could go hunting, they became more excited than each other. No one wanted to stay behind to watch over the camp. In the end, everyone pushed each other, and only three people were left.
The troops were scattered.
Singh looked around for a hunting partner, but he didn't know any of them. The only one he had met before, Jiang Yue, was walking in a corner of the forest with her sister.
The general kept to himself.
The Xuanwu Army went in groups of three or five, with Lin Guo and Mu Heng following them, and Senior Brother Wu accompanying them.
She wanted to go hunting with Jiang Yue, but the relationship between the two was always a bit awkward. After all, they had met poorly.
Finally, she walked towards Feng Jinrong, who also kept to himself.
"Let's go hunting together."
"If you want to follow me, I'll follow you." Feng Jinrong replied calmly, which made Singer feel a little embarrassed.
In Xining, she is a princess, but in Donglin, what is she?
Apart from being used by Jiang Yue, who would take her seriously?
Soon, she put this discomfort aside.
Jiang Yue carried a bow and arrow, and walked side by side with the fifth sister.
Not long after we started walking, we saw a shadow moving ahead.
Jiang Yue bent her bow and drew her arrow. The arrow flew out and hit a fat wild rabbit.
Her archery skills made Jiang Wuni very envious.
However, seeing that Xiaoliu's palm was bleeding from the bow,
She said nothing, first checked and rebandaged Jiang Yue.
She said:
"Xiao Liu, teach me archery."
"Okay." Jiang Yue has been cultivating her sisters since they were young, helping them to make progress together, in the fields of literature, medicine, business, and martial arts. As long as the sisters want to know something, she will do her best and teach them seriously.
She turned around and handed the bow and arrow to Jiang Wuni, stood behind her, and began to teach her personally.
"See the tree trunk ahead? Use that as the bull's eye."
"Shoulders down... three points in one."
Jiang Wuni did as she was told, bending the bow and aiming according to the details taught by Jiang Yue, and she learned very seriously.
The last arrow was shot and missed the target by a wide margin, causing low laughter from the scattered soldiers around him.
After several cycles, it is of course impossible to master everything in one night.
Jiang Wuni found the key points and wanted to train herself, "Xiao Liu, the injury on your right hand hasn't healed yet, take a rest first."
Jiang Yue nodded and began to hunt in a circle.
There was too much noise nearby, and the prey was scared away by the sound of the arrows.
Jiang Yue walked a little further away.
After turning a corner and searching for a long time, she finally found a wild deer.
Then he shot out with the dagger in his left hand, and the deer fell to the ground.
At the moment the wild deer died, Xue Ning and Wu Fei released the arrows in their hands, trotted over, and sighed.
"Deputy General Jiang, you are lucky." Xue Wen was drooling as he looked at the fat wild deer.
"We don't have a stove, so how should we eat?" Wu Fei had already thought of a hundred ways to eat it.
"Of course I roasted it and ate it." Jiang Yue pulled out the deer dagger.
Finally, Xue Wen carried the wild deer on his shoulders.
Wu Fei: "It's getting late, let's go."
"Yes." Jiang Yue went to look for the fifth sister first.
As he got closer, he saw the Fifth Sister's arrow piercing the wood. He thought to himself, the Fifth Sister had only practiced for half an hour.
Beside him, Singh and Feng Jinrong, who had been sitting in a row since some unknown time, looked helpless.
Jiang Yue didn't know that her fifth sister almost made the two of them sitting ducks.
Ling Yunxiao was also sitting not far away, waiting for Jiang Yue and others.
There was also a wild deer lying beside him, as well as some miscellaneous prey.
After returning together, the soldiers gained a lot, among which the five senior brothers gained the most.
Jiang Yue thought to herself that this place was truly a treasure land, with mountains, water, saltpeter and hunting.
Probably, it’s because there aren’t often people here.
...Up the stream, the soldiers were busy.
Busy killing chickens and rabbits, having a lot of fun.
At night, the few pheasants and rabbits, as well as the only two wild deer, were roasted on the grill.
The food was crispy and tender inside, and bursting with flavor. The soldiers ate it with gusto.
Only Jiang Yue, while eating the barbecue, stared at the dry firewood that had been burned black, and never stopped thinking about her own things in her mind.
...In the hot summer, under the night sky,
The Xuanwu soldiers, who had been tired all day, did not forget to wash in the stream to get rid of their tiredness.
Jiang Yue calmed down, found a spring, washed her hands and face in the gurgling water, and finally took off her shoes and socks and soaked her feet. It was so comfortable.
When he looked up one last time, he found that his fifth sister and the other two were sitting downstream of the spring, looking at him with stiff faces.
Then they spit out the water in their mouths at the same time.
She was... embarrassed.
Seeing this scene, Ling Yunxiao couldn't help but laugh.
Finally, he sat down next to Jiang Yue.
"Why don't you join the soldiers?"
Jiang Yue smiled and shook her head, "The spring water here is still the most comfortable."
Ling Yunxiao followed Jiang Yue's gaze and looked towards the stream not far away.
Isn't this the same source?
"Do you want all the soldiers to drink your foot washing water?"
Only then did he realize that compared to the other soldiers, Jiang Yue was a clean person.
Jiang Yue smiled stiffly and had already retracted his foot.
Suddenly, there was lightning and thunder in the night sky.
The sky was not kind, and the summer rain came suddenly, which made the originally hot day cooler.
The soldiers tried to hide from the rain but couldn't find a place to stay.
Jiang Yue looked up at the sky. This rain came at a really bad time.
The sky became gloomy, covered with dark clouds, and then raindrops as big as beans poured down.
After the rain, the mountain road became even more muddy and slippery, which was really difficult to walk on.
Ling Yunxiao looked at Jiang Yue and said, "When I was hunting just now, I found a cave. We can stay here tonight."