Chapter 577: Qing Dynasty Time-Travel Spirit Spring System (28)

Over this year, the female soldiers of the Elite Camp underwent intensive training through the bitter cold of the deepest winter, collectively practicing the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden Technique to the third level. Their mounted archery reached an average rating of A, and they all achieved excellent marks in military theory examinations. In terms of killing enemies on horseback, individual combat, the use of firearms, military reconnaissance, and how to break out, save themselves, and counter-kill if they were ever captured by the enemy, it could be said that there was nothing left to teach them in theory; the only thing they needed now was actual combat.

The female soldiers of the Medical Camp and the Logistics Camp, after a year of study and practice, also achieved very gratifying results—

The former learned first aid, pharmacy, decocting medicine, and how to suture wounds for wounded soldiers under harsh conditions; the latter went from learning to mastery, having already custom-made multiple sets of four-season military uniforms, multiple sets of bedding, and marching packs for all the female soldiers. Their nutritious meals also far exceeded the requirements of the military camp kitchen, and their internal affairs organization left the representatives of the Capital Battalion Eight Banners, who had come to visit out of curiosity, dumbfounded.

Compared to the discipline, efficiency, and skills of the female soldiers, the soldiers of the Capital Battalion Eight Banners suddenly felt that their usual training was too lax.

Before the visit, they were still mocking the female soldiers for overestimating their own abilities, but after the visit, all the Eight Banners soldiers were silent.

Not to mention the medical and logistics work, which few of them knew how to do, but even in the only thing they were good at—combat—not a single one of them could beat the female soldiers, and the best result was only a draw.

What kind of peerless, miraculous technique was Haiyin Gege of the Fourth Beile Mansion teaching? Could they learn it?

Xie Yang laughed after hearing this: "Sorry! This technique is passed down to women, not men."

"……"

Since they are already this formidable, why keep them locked up on the Farm! Hurry and take them to the border to show them off!

Let those restless rebellious tribes see for themselves that the Great Qing's Women's Army can beat them until they doubt their own lives! Not to mention the regular army!

Thus, the Women's Legion organized by Xie Yang finally received Kangxi's approval.

However, it was not just them setting out on the expedition, but also eight thousand Capital Battalion Eight Banners soldiers led by Shisi Ye.

Before the army set out, Xie Yang was called over in turns by Kangxi, Defei, Si Ye, Si Fujin, and Li Shi to have a talk.

The women all had red eyes.

Defei: "What is your Imperial Grandfather thinking, actually sending you to lead troops into battle. You are only how old, still a young girl, it is really..."

On this matter, she was truly extremely angry with the Emperor.

Could it be that the Ministry of War really had no one else to use? They actually sent a little girl who would only be thirteen at the New Year to the front lines!

It made it so that even if she wanted to stop her youngest son, she couldn't.

In previous years, she could still use the excuse "You are still young, leading troops into battle is not your turn yet" to stall him, but how could she persuade him now?

It was as if only her, Defei's, two sons needed to step up and contribute!

Venting her anger, Defei stubbornly refused to give Lao Kang a pleasant look for over a month.

The more she was like this, the more Kangxi flipped her tablet, going to sit in her palace almost every day.

Of course, it was mainly because he was thinking of the tea in Defei's palace. Upon learning it was a filial offering from that girl of the Fourth's house, he said sourly: "That girl, why didn't she think of sending some to Me. It's a pity I even rewarded her with an Imperial Token."

Lao Kang gave her a jade token that read "As if I were here in person." Besides that, what other elders gave were either gold notes or silver notes.

Among them, Defei gave the most, which converted to about eighty thousand taels of Silver.

If she gave this much to her granddaughter, then how much did she give to Shisi Ye, the youngest son she had pampered in her palm since he was small?

Xie Yang couldn't help but be curious, so she quietly asked Shisi Ye: "Fourteenth Uncle, how much private Silver did Grandma give you?"

Shisi Ye held up a palm with a slightly smug look.

"Fifty thousand taels?"

"How could there be that much, five thousand!"

"……"

Xie Yang closed her mouth tightly and didn't say another word.

Shisi Ye, however, thought she was shocked that five thousand taels was too much, and waved his hand grandly: "Don't worry, when you are short of Silver later, just come to Fourteenth Uncle to ask for it."

"Then this niece thanks Fourteenth Uncle in advance."

"Easy, easy."

"……"

However, Xie Yang thought about it afterward; Shisi Ye didn't need to pay for military rations out of his own pocket. The five thousand taels Defei gave him were purely his private money; if he were frugal, he could spend not a single tael of Silver.

But she couldn't; the Women's Legion she organized out of her own pocket had not yet received strong support from the Ministry of War, and there were still many voices of opposition in the court. It was already good that they could allocate military rations according to the standard of local militia, and she had to find a way to subsidize the rest herself.

No wonder the elders were scrambling to stuff her with silver notes.

Fortunately, the various Health Pills she cooperated on with her Ninth Uncle, such as the Slimming Pill, Whitening Pill, Fertility Pill, and Nourishing Pill, were very popular. Every time they were released, they were sold out, and their fame had spread throughout the country, so the dividends were naturally quite substantial.

With this relatively stable source of income, Xie Yang was not very worried about the expenses of the Women's Legion.

Now she was more troubled by those six pots of Immortal Grass.

The growth period of the Immortal Grass was truly slow; from sowing to flowering and seeding, it took at least three years at the fastest.

Right now, they were at most mature plants, which could be used to refine Rejuvenation Pills, but she had originally wanted to collect the seeds before refining the medicine, so that there would be seeds on hand to continue cultivation later.

How could Si Ye not see her hesitation? He said: "Leave them in the mansion, Father will send someone to watch them for you."

Xie Yang thought about it, and this was the only way. She couldn't very well take six pots of flowers and plants with her to the front lines to kill enemies, could she?

It was just that this way, she would have to prepare more Plant Nutrient Solution made with the Spirit Spring; after all, she didn't know when she would return after leaving.

Li Shi shed tears several times because of this.

But if crying were useful, Li Shi would have cried until her tears ran dry to stop Xie Yang the moment she proposed organizing the Women's Legion.

Although she knew crying was useless, she still couldn't help but shed tears.

While shedding tears, she didn't skimp on preparing marching supplies.

"Mother doesn't understand what things are needed for joining the army and fighting, but anyway, take everything that can be taken; it's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it."

Xie Yang hugged her: "Mother, take care of yourself!"

She then gave her some pills added with the Level Four Spirit Spring: "Mother, keep these pills well. I have already given some to Grandma, Father, and the Primary Mother. These are for you to keep on your person. If the younger brothers have any headaches or fevers, don't be stingy. When you run out, have Father write me a letter, and I will have someone bring more."

"So many, they won't be used up in a year or a half," Li Shi said with feigned annoyance. "Don't tell Mother you are going for as long as a year?"

"……"

Once on the front lines, a year was considered short.

But she decided not to say this, lest she make her cowardly mother cry again.

Upon learning that the eldest daughter of Si Ye's house had organized a Women's Legion and was setting out for the Northwest with the Capital Battalion Eight Banners, Bafujin was so shocked that her jaw almost dislocated.

Does the Great Qing have female soldiers? Surely not, right?

Isn't this daughter of Yongzheng the future Heshuo Huaike Princess?

Combining history with the scripts she had read, the Heshuo Huaike Princess was frail and sickly, which is why she did not marry far away into the grasslands, but instead married Nala Xingde; a few years after the marriage, it seems she died young from illness at only twenty-something years old.

Yet now she is actually traveling far to the battlefield to fight the enemy? This is too fantastical!

And what about Shisi Ye, wasn't it only in the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi that he led troops on an expedition with the title of Great General Who Pacifies Distant Lands? How has it been moved up by so many years?

Is she transmigrated into history or a novel? How is it completely different from the history she knows!

Then who exactly is the one who eventually inherits the throne and becomes emperor? Are the strategies she devised to assist Ba Ye in contending for that position even useful? So bald-headed from stress!

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