Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 827 Military Order
Liu Xiaosan picked up another big piece of chicken and started chewing like a hungry tiger.

Beside him, the fellow teenagers who came from Pindenburg together, all of them ate in the same manner. Facing the large plate of white chicken with golden skin, each of them rolled up their sleeves and ate with gleaming eyes.

At this time, I even completely forgot about the exhaustion during training, and I don't remember being scolded by the coaches, or even having bruises on my body when I was whipped.

"too delicious."

Liu Xiaosan almost cried when he ate, and his family also raised a lot of chickens, but basically only hens were raised at home, and the hens were used to lay eggs, and the eggs were brought to the market to exchange for salt, tea, needlework Yes, a hen can be raised for several years, and when it stops laying eggs, it is generally reluctant to eat it and sells it instead.

Since coming to Annan, Liu Xiaosan has never suffered from hunger. The whole grains and rice at home can keep him full every day, and he can often eat some salted fish and seaweed, small miscellaneous fish in mountain streams, etc., but there are still too few big meat and big meat. up.

Chinese New Year is to eat a bowl of pork, chicken is not available.

What's more, the plate of chicken in front of him is really delicious, tender and juicy, he can't wait to eat it with his tongue.

A whole chicken weighed at least four to five catties, and it filled a large plate, but ten of them ate it up in no time.

Everyone is full of ideas.

At this time, someone came over with a wooden bucket and a spoon in one hand, walked to their table, glanced at the empty plates on the table, and was stunned.

"Is it finished?"

Liu Xiaosan wiped his mouth in embarrassment, "Well, it's so delicious."

"Bangchui, this white chicken must be eaten with dipping water to be delicious." The cook looked at the empty plate, and then looked at the dipping material in his bucket. Eat up the chicken.

Everyone was a little embarrassed, but they didn't expect to be served with dipping water.

Zhao Lao Er smiled and handed over a wooden bowl, "It's the same to eat now."

The cook was stunned for a moment, and still scooped a spoonful of dipping water on the table. In fact, the dipping water was also very simple, just salt, ginger, garlic, and green onion, plus some vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, and some pepper, and finally added I bought the same common weed in the south, Polygonum spicosa, and some mint.

Add some bone broth and mix it, it's very simple.

The taste is very strong, and it is still very good for dipping boiled chicken.

Looking at the bowl of colorful dipping sauce, Zhao Lao Er was a little curious, so he picked it up and prepared to drink it.

The cook quickly stopped.

"Bangchui, this thing has a strong taste, salty, spicy and a little sour, how can it be eaten like this, it is eaten with some vegetables."

Liu Xiaosan and the others glared at the second child. Everyone has never eaten it, so you eat it alone?
Zhao Laoer smiled awkwardly, and gave a little to each of the group at the same table.

Looking at the empty white chicken plate on the table, there is nothing to dip it in after eating it all.

Today is the first day for these middle-aged men to go to Zhennan Pass, so after the inspection, the higher-ups gave rewards. Each group of ten people will have a chicken, two fish, two catties of pork, and a duck reward. .

This reward is still very generous, anyway, Liu Xiaosan and the rest of the immigrant youths from Pindenburg used to have a hard life in the Central Plains, otherwise they would not have left their homes to come to Tiannan.

Abandoning the ancestral graves is unfilial, if it is not a last resort, who would dare to do so.

The first white-cut chicken was eaten by them.

"Don't eat it dry, there will be white chopped duck in a while, you dip the duck in it, there is no dipping sauce, the white chopped duck is a bit fishy, ​​and the white sliced ​​​​meat also needs to be dipped to be delicious."

The cook shook his chubby head, looking at these immature faces, in fact, he didn't mean much to ridicule them, they were all immigrants from the south of the Central Plains, they were called Hakka by the Xidong Man in Annan.

A group of people who live in a foreign country are naturally close.

Liu Xiaosan dipped some chopsticks into the water and put it in his mouth. He immediately felt a mixture of sweet, sour, bitter and spicy. "It's delicious."

The other teenagers also tried it one after another, and they all felt that the taste was complex and very good.

When the cook came again, he brought a large plate of white-cut duck. The cooking method of this white-cut duck was similar to that of white-cut chicken. Although it seemed simple, it was actually a test of skill.

Especially the well-cooked white-cut duck is also a test of knife skill when cutting. If the knife skill is not good, even a well-cooked chicken and duck will be chopped to pieces. But with a good knife skill, it can be evenly sized and Neatly placed, very beautiful.

"You don't need to fight, you can eat enough today." The fat guy smiled and put a neatly arranged duck on the table. He just picked the biggest one on purpose. This duck must weigh at least six or seven catties. Heavy, full of a large plate.

"Thank you, Uncle." Liu Xiaosan remembers his father's confession, to be polite and sweet on the outside.

"Try it."

I picked up a large piece of duck meat, put it in the dipping sauce, swirled it around, and then eagerly put it into my mouth.

"It's delicious, wow, it's so delicious." Zhao's second son over there has already expressed his opinion first.

Someone saw Zhao Laoer stretching out his chopsticks to pick up the duck leg again, and immediately stood up and said, "Zhao Laoer, you are too shameless, you just caught a duck leg, and now you are picking it up again, a duck only has a few legs ? No, let's divide this plate of ducks before eating, otherwise, the second Zhao will eat half of it by himself in a while."

"That's right, the old boy ate the most white-cut chicken just now, he ate two more pieces than me!"

Everyone was very dissatisfied with Zhao Laoer.

The fat guy stood there watching with a smile, thinking it was very interesting.

Zhao Laoer shouted, "If you have a quick hand, you can't have a slow hand. You blame me for being slow."

But his objection was useless. In the end, everyone agreed to eat after scoring, so Liu Xiaosan was in charge of dividing the meat, one piece for you and one piece for each person.

In fact, a large plate of boiled duck doesn’t cost much, so if you get three or four yuan per person, you’ll be gone.

Luckily, Liu Xiaosan's food was fairly fair, with the same quantity and the same size, fat and thinness. Everyone had no objections, so they happily continued to eat with dipping sauce.

Boiled Chicken, Boiled Duck, and another Boiled Meat.

Three hard dishes with full portions were served, and every time Liu Xiaosan and his group had to be responsible for dividing them before eating, everyone devoured them hungrily, and the fat guy even added an extra dipping sauce for each of them.

After the three hard dishes, the fat cook served them a boiled dish. The leaf vegetables, shredded taro, yam cubes, etc. were boiled in the soup of boiled duck, chicken, and meat. The vegetable soup was fresh and delicious. meaty.

Each person has a large pot, so there is no need to divide or grab it.

But these teenagers drank it up after three or two gulps.

He is really a half-child, and he eats the poor.

"The steamed buns are here!"

The steamed white flour steamed buns are fluffy and soft, with a sweet taste. The steamed buns are as big as a rice bowl, and you can eat as much as you want.

The teenagers each grabbed two with each hand, and Zhao Lao Er still wanted to catch them.

"Don't rob, don't bully, take as much as you can eat, if you don't have enough, you can ask for more, but don't take too much to waste, otherwise you will be beaten with army sticks."

Zhao Laoer didn't think so, "I've eaten."

Although the big white noodle steamed buns have no fillings, they are still very good when served with millet porridge.

One reward, a whole ten dishes.

At the end of the meal, Liu Xiaosan and the others had to loosen their belts and rest there with their bellies open.

"These guys are really edible."

A group of guys sighed there, not only Liu Xiaosan's table can eat, but in fact everyone can eat the same. There are not only young and strong men in the camp, but also middle-aged and middle-aged boys.

He is at the age of being able to eat. Zhao Laoer ate five big steamed buns, which is not enough. There is a Xiangyong who is as thin as a bamboo pole, and he actually ate eight steamed buns in one go. The important thing is that this guy still has a little more. I didn't eat less, I ate a lot of chicken, duck and fish, and I drank two large bowls of vegetable soup and bone soup. It was like a bottomless pit.

"It's good if you can eat, and you can fight if you can eat." The fat guy said with a smile.Although most of the men in the village are very thin, these people are actually the main labor force in the family. They work hard every day, so they have a very strong consumption capacity.On the contrary, fat people with fat in their stomachs like the fat guy actually taste far worse than them.

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After a sumptuous meal, what greeted Liu Xiaosan and the others was days of training. Although they camped at Zhennan Pass for training, the military regulations were so strict that they couldn't even leave the camp gate.

Even when not training, you can only stay in the tents of the brigade in the camp and move around. It is strictly forbidden to run around in the camp. .

This kind of life is extremely boring. A group of energetic young men are also devoid of the energy to practice every day. Fortunately, the food is good. Although they don’t eat hard dishes like chicken and duck for nothing, they are basically full of rice every day. There will be broth, fish soup, and there will always be some minced meat or fish in the soup.

Not to mention, because they are stationed in the military camp under Zhennan Pass, the salt in the dishes is good and plentiful, so you don’t need to eat light food to be weak, and fresh vegetables are enough, so you don’t need to cook vinegar cloth or salty dried vegetables to eat.

Train when you wake up, eat when you are tired from training, and sleep after eating.

day after day.

In the blink of an eye, half a month passed.

Early in the morning, the sound of the emergency horn woke up the teenagers. After half a month of polishing, they did not panic, and began to get up and fold their quilts and put on their equipment well-trained.In normal training, there is often such training, and everyone has adapted to it when they make mistakes and are scolded and beaten.

Arriving at the school within the stipulated time, I thought it was just another training session, but who knew that this time it was actually an appointment.

Liu Xiaosan's battalion was jointly organized with several other battalions, a total of 500 people, and got the task of going to Gaoping Fort.

Niu Jianhu of the South China Sea Navy sent troops from Jiaozhou, marched northward along the Jinjiang River, entered the hinterland of Juding, and then came east. At present, he has successfully joined forces with the Wu'an Prefecture defenders of Gaopingbao in Pingmengzhai, a hundred miles northwest of Gaoping.

The task of Liu Xiaosan and his 500 people is to escort a batch of food, grass and military equipment to Pingmeng village, take charge of defending Pingmeng, and assist Gaopingbao and Niu Jianhu in the next round of offensive.

They are planning to attack Ande Prefecture (Napo Ande Town). If Ande Prefecture recovers, the retreat of Judingman on the right will be cut off.

If Longzhou is also successfully won, the barbarians from Longzhou to Andezhou will be surrounded.

From Zhennanguan to Gaopingbao Pingmengzhai, it is a full 320 miles. The waterway only reaches Qixi. The Qixi land road can enter the Pinger River Valley and go up to Pingmeng along the river. You can also go directly to Gaoping by land for 150 miles. .

But no matter which route, it is not close.

Military orders are like mountains.

The battalion began to distribute weapons and equipment and dry food.

Liu Xiaosan and the others also went to each camp to collect personal equipment. When he came, he only brought a simple knife from home, and when he arrived at the Zhennanguan camp, he added a horizontal knife.

At this time, when I came to Cangcao's joining the army, I found that there were too many essentials.

One spear, one horizontal knife, one short knife, one hard bow, thirty arrows, three spare bowstrings, and one round shield.Each person is also equipped with three leather thongs, which are used to capture prisoners.

In addition, each group also allocated several pack horses for them to carry food and grass for equipment.

Each person carried five days of dry food with him, and the group had to carry hundreds of days' worth of rations.Others such as horse urns, medicine bags, salt bags, flints, whetstones, blankets, quilts, felts, hemp sandals, straw sandals, water bags...

And each team of 50 people has to carry five tents, five cooking pots, and even sickles for grabbing crops, hardware toolboxes, carpentry toolboxes, etc.

Liu Xiaosan and the others were dazzled. Although the soldiers said that compared with the equipment of the Tang Dynasty's regular government soldiers, these simple and excessive, but Liu Xiaosan and the others still think that the equipment is too much and too complicated.

A group of pack horses is equipped with four packs, and each team is equipped with another pack team.

"How much? The standard allocation of our soldiers in the Tang Dynasty is that each group will bring six pack horses, and the imperial court will make up four more for each group when they go out. In fact, it is equivalent to a group of ten soldiers with one pack horse for each person. The riding horses prepared are not counted. The team level, brigade level, regiment level, battalion level, and their own transport teams and convoys. The officers and cavalry also have their own mounts, and the cavalry even has horses... "

There are also more and more refined equipment for each arm.

For example, for a spearman, he will be equipped with a rifle for the main battle, a spear, at least three horizontal knives, a soft and hard bow, and many other equipment.

And if you are a crossbowman, you need to be equipped with a crossbow, a hard bow, a soft bow, and a horizontal knife. There are more than a hundred crossbow nails and arrows alone.

Not to mention the government soldiers, who are generally equipped with armor, from leather armor to iron armor, basically have armor.

For example, Liu Xiaosan and the others, because they are not even counted as brave men, they are only temporarily recruited middle-aged men, at most they can be regarded as civilian husbands, but because they want to go to the front line to defend the city to help in the battle, so this time Wu'an Prefecture opened the treasury and distributed weapons , It was also issued according to the standard of auxiliary soldiers in wartime.

There is basically no armor, but there are guaranteed to be swords, guns, bows and shields. Whether it is a spearman, a swordsman or an archer, everyone is guaranteed to have one sword, guns, bow and shield first. An archer has an extra bow or a crossbow.

The other equipment is more reduced than that of Fubing, but basically it is quite sufficient, even the pack horses are matched by a group of four.

Tents, blankets, shoes, etc. are also available.

These are all the equipment of the Governor's Mansion. If they are used up, they must be returned, and if they are damaged, they must be recorded. They are temporarily loaned to them.

There is no armor, but each person has a helmet.

"I'll give you one day to prepare. Tomorrow morning, I will prepare meals at the fourth watch and set off at the fifth watch."

"You are limited to arrive at Pingmeng Village within seven days."

(End of this chapter)