Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 637 Dumb Little Secret
The reason why he didn't leave was that Cheng Yaojin saw the soldiers of the original Xuanjia army.

Zhang Shigui camped here for training, when he heard that Cheng Yaojin had arrived, he went out to greet him in person.

"Old Zhang, you are very proud of your life here." Cheng Yaojin cheerfully gave Zhang Shigui a bear hug.

Zhang Shigui had a bitter look on his face: "How about we change."

"Why, not happy?"

"It's not unhappy, but the saint wants to expand the Xuanjia Army to 7000 people, into two armies. Each army has two battalions, and each battalion has 500 people. That's all. Pulling the tune, I finally picked enough people, and then trained for a period of time, but was dissatisfied by the saint."

The bitterness on Zhang Shigui's face is not fake, Cheng Yaojin noticed Liu Mu but made excuses to slip away.

Cheng Yaojin stretched out his hand and grabbed Liu Mu: "Dumb, I guess it's your fault."

"It has nothing to do with Prince Liu. The Xuanjia Army lost all three battles with the Qingheyu training camp. The saints are dissatisfied. Let us move here to step up training. There will be a match at the end of the year. If we lose again..." Zhang Shigui said solemnly He sighed, obviously feeling a lot of pressure.

Cheng Yaojin suddenly came to his senses: "It's still Dumb's fault."

"Why?" Liu Mu's voice raised an octave.

Zhang Shigui also said: "It's because I'm not as skilled as others, so I can't let Concubine Liu pretend to give way, it's even more inappropriate."

"No!" Cheng Yaojin laughed cheerfully.

"Why?" Zhang Shigui said in his heart, could it be that there is something really weird about it.

Liu Mu was about to run away again, but Cheng Yaojin held him back again.Then Cheng Yaojin said to Zhang Shigui: "You pick soldiers from the government soldiers, don't you know that these government soldiers in Chang'an have already been picked by this stupid."

"I know, but it's okay?" Zhang Shigui is an honest person, he didn't feel anything wrong.

Liu Mu had already recruited troops before the Xuanjia Army expanded its army, which is not considered a robbery.

Cheng Yaojin asked with a smile: "Then do you know where he picked the soldiers for the second time?"

Zhang Shigui shook his head. Although he knew that Liumu's training camp had increased by more than 1 people, he didn't know where these soldiers came from.

Cheng Yaojin laughed loudly: "You are really an honest person. Do you know about the frontier and guard changing defenses?"

"I know that in the new year when the saint ascended the throne, he ordered the replacement of some frontier soldiers who have been guarding the frontier for a long time, as well as the guards who have been guarding several important places for a long time."

"He selected 8000 veterans from these veterans, and then had to compete and screen again. In the end, he left 1000 to [-] people. He didn't let go of the remaining six people. They all got them to Laizhou and continued their training. Now Maybe some people already have something to do." After Cheng Yaojin finished speaking, he looked at Liu Mu with a smile: "Is there any such thing."

"Yes." Liu Mu admitted generously.

Cheng Yaojin turned his head and looked at Zhang Shigui: "Tell me, you can beat his so-called recruits?"

"Well, that's true. However, I still haven't trained my soldiers well, and the equipment will not take advantage of me." Zhang Shigui is still speaking well for Liu Mu.

"Dumb, tell yourself, did you take advantage of it?"

Cheng Yaojin is not bullying Liu Mu, but he and Zhang Shigui have also fought side by side, in terms of friendship, he is going to level the bowl of water.

Liu Mu sighed slightly: "General Zhang was not defeated in the source of troops, nor in the equipment, but in the logistics."

"What do you mean?" Zhang Shigui and Cheng Yaojin asked in unison.

"You follow me." Liu Mu led the two into the house, and at the same time shouted to his guards: "Bring the basket on the horse's back."

To Cheng Yaojin and Zhang Shigui's surprise, Liumu's guards outside the house were still guarding the door to keep people away.

What can be in a small basket?
Inside the house, Liu Mu opened the small basket, and there was a linen backpack first.

"This backpack is very ingeniously designed. It can carry a lot of things, and it won't affect the march. It's a small thing, but it's not a problem to carry five or ten catties more than General Zhang's."

Zhang Shigui understood that carrying five catties more for marching and fighting naturally has the advantage of carrying five catties more.This needs no explanation.

Liu Mu took out the items in the basket one by one.

"This thing is a ration set for individual soldiers. It is divided into hard dry rations for individual soldiers, vegetable packs, meat packs, sugar packs, soup packs, water packs, and fruit packs."

Both Zhang Shigui and Cheng Yaojin didn't understand, they only saw a bunch of things they didn't understand.

Only then did Liu Mu introduce them one by one.

"Let's talk about this hard dry food first. Don't look at such a small piece. You have to eat as dry as you want in your mouth, as hard as you want. This piece is only three or two. Ordinary men work in the fields. There is such a piece. It can cover a meal."

High in calories and high in fat.

This thing is far inferior to the calories of China's individual military rations in the modern age of later generations, but it is not bad compared to the military rations of small countries.

Liumu uses lard, yam powder, rice flour, and flour.I don't know how long I tortured the cooks in Huayuan County, and I don't know how much money I spent. It took nearly a year to successfully trial-produce compressed cakes.

When this thing was finally formed, it was pressed with several thousand kilograms of boulders, and then it was sawed with a saw, and it could not be cut with a knife.

"Then there is the vegetable bag, which is dehydrated dried vegetable powder, for swallowing, regardless of whether it is delicious or not."

"This is a meat bun, which contains dried mutton and dried pork, all of which are marinated dried meat."

"This is a sugar bag, ginger candy, ginger candy with salt. Next is a soup bag. If possible, boil some hot water and drink hot soup. It contains lard, dried vegetables, salted onions, etc. , I don’t know the details, but it’s still drinkable.”

The next thing Liu Mu picked up was the water bag.

"It's called malted milk extract, which is made from milk powder, sugar, wheat flour, etc. It's sweet."

"In the end, this is preserved fruit, which is also pickled. It must have added salt and brown sugar."

The weight of these things is more than five taels, and Liu Mu put another piece of hard dry food: "These are enough food for a soldier for a day. And eating these, compared with General Zhang's ordinary corn cakes, Tang Qin cakes, etc. , the stamina is at least twice as high, at least."

"Is there such a thing?" Cheng Yaojin was very skeptical.

Liu Mu smiled: "If that's the case, we won't leave today. Anyway, the matter of ordnance is not urgent. Tomorrow, I will ask General Zhang to choose two teams, one with his original rations and the other with mine. March quickly, From here to Sanyuan after a fight, I will run with a full set of equipment on my two legs."

"Try." Zhang Shigui already believed in his heart, but he still wanted to see the result with his own eyes.

Cheng Yaojin said: "It's only a hundred miles to Sanyuan, it's too close."

"Then run back and forth to Xuanyuan Mausoleum, it may take three days."

"Wait, Lao Cheng also wants to see the results. Arrange a reliable captain to lead the team, and no one is allowed to play tricks on the road. Lao Cheng wants to see real things." Cheng Yaojin was really moved.

(End of this chapter)