Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 339
One command.

On the east bank of the Liao River, the three cities and seven forts controlled by Luo Cheng became busy up and down, slaughtering pigs and sheep everywhere.

The movement here also quickly spread to the ears of Goguryeo people in Xincheng, Liaodong, Buyeo and other surrounding cities.When the Goguryeo people heard that Luo Cheng had killed pigs and sheep, they were secretly startled, and hurriedly ordered to strengthen their guard.

Especially Yang Wanchun from Xincheng, whose arm was cut off last time, almost lost his life.After returning home, the fever continued, and it was hard to save his life. It will take a long time before he regains some vitality.But after that battle, he never dared to go out of the new city to regain lost ground.

Every day, he just asked his subordinates to train soldiers and horses and straighten their weapons, fearing that Luo Cheng would send troops to attack.

This day, he heard that Luo Cheng was controlling all the cities to slaughter pigs and sheep. He immediately judged that Luo Cheng must be preparing to attack the city.Before the siege, slaughtering pigs and sheep, sharing wine and eating meat is a common way to reward and motivate soldiers.

Yang Wanchun was very anxious. After the last World War I, the Xincheng area was crippled.And Yuan Jiantu was captured, and he forcibly took over the new city. Although this incident caused a huge controversy in the court of the Goguryeo king, at least there were the king and the king's protection force to protect him, and the son of Moli Zhiyuan Taizuo lost his army and lost his general. Lost the city, so in the end he was allowed to take over as the new city lord.

After the king appointed him as the lord of the city, he asked Liaodong, Fuyu and other cities to deploy troops and horses to support the defense of the new city, and even proposed a battle plan to recover the lost land of Xuantu and other cities. Annihilate, regain lost ground.

The plan was good, and Yang Wanchun was willing to implement it, but the Liaodong and Fuyu cities refused to send troops over.

Especially Yuan Gai Suwen, the lord of Liaodong City, he is the eldest brother of Yuan Jiantu and the son of Yuan Taizuo.

Yang Wanchun knew that although the king of the court suppressed Yuan Tae-joo and succeeded in making him the lord of the new city, Yuan Tae-joo was not reconciled, and Yuan Tae-joo, who actually held the military and political power in the north of Goguryeo, used This method responds to the will of the king.

Without reinforcements, Xincheng would still only have those 7000 troops.

He could only select the young and strong from the people in the city, let them supplement the army, and intensify their training.But the training of these recruits was too short, and he didn't know how long he could last if the Sui army were to attack.

"Quickly, ask the cities for help!"

"Urgent report to Pyongyang, saying that the Sui army is going to attack the new city on a large scale. There are few soldiers in the new city, and I am afraid that it will not be able to defend it. Please tell the king not to send troops to reinforce it. Also, Liaodong and Fuyu are unwilling to send troops to support. Please ask the king to send the Royal Guards to come forward. Come for reinforcements, the soldiers in the east are hopeless."

In order to boost the morale of the army, Yang Wanchun gritted his teeth and ordered the slaughter of pigs and sheep, and then rewarded the soldiers in the city, just so that when Luo Cheng came, these recruits could work hard.

They just waited for several days, but there was still no sign of Luo Cheng sending troops.

But the scouts sent out reported every day that the Zhucheng Fortress controlled by Luo Cheng was still slaughtering pigs and sheep every day, and the sound was amazing, and the sound was rebellious, and the slaughter was continuous every day, and the number was astonishing.

Now Yang Wanchun really doesn't understand.

This Luo Cheng kills pigs and sheep every day, what is he doing?

"Could it be that these Sui troops are about to withdraw?"

Yang Wanchun gave this subordinate a blank look. The Sui Army's million troops had already arrived in western Liaoning. How could Luo Cheng, who had occupied three cities and seven forts at this time, withdraw?
"I don't understand, keep staring." Yang Wanchun could only say so.

Xuan Dou City.

A group of generals and academies of the Fifth Left Army were sitting in the room where the ground dragon was burned. Everyone sat in order of position, one seat for each person.

After a while, there were trays of food brought by the auxiliary soldiers.

But the generals looked at the items on the plate in front of them, but they were a little dazed.

It is not roasted lamb, nor fried pork chops, nor stewed donkey meat, nor boiled river fish.

Cunxiao picked up a handful of fluffy things with his chopsticks, "What is this?"

"Try it, you can eat it." Luo Cheng said.

The fourth child got some into his mouth, but after chewing a few times, he spit it out, "Can this thing be eaten? It's fishy and smelly, and it's tasteless to chew. It tastes like chewing wax. It's very similar to chewing a mess of hemp."

The other officers also tried it and shook their heads.

"Too bad to eat."

Luo Cheng also picked up some meat floss from the plate in front of him, chewed it in his mouth, and finally swallowed it.

"The taste is really not very good, but after all, this is not a famous banquet dish, it's just dry food for the march. And in order to hurry up, I tried to simplify the process and shorten the time, so the taste is not good, but this thing is real meat floss , the ones in front of you are still made of beef, which is considered the best among meat floss."

"It's not worthwhile to kill such a good cow and end up with this thing." The fourth child complained.

"What do you know, no matter how good the cow is, we can't keep driving the cow to Pyongyang. No matter how delicious the beef is, we can't carry the beef away. But you only need a small handful of the unpalatable meat floss in front of you. A full day's stomach, filled with a sheepskin bag or a cow's bladder, is enough for you to eat for several months, you say, isn't this stuff bad? No matter how bad it tastes, it's not better than when you are hungry, but Can't even find grass roots?"

"Is it really so miraculous?" The fourth child didn't believe it.

"When have I ever lied to you? Today I will invite you all to have a meal of meat floss and this fried rice and fried noodles. The amount of each item is not much, but it is definitely enough to keep you full for a day. After eating, you can try it without eating for a day." Try it and see if it works."

After listening, the youngest Siye nodded, "If it really has such an effect, then even if this meat floss tastes as bad as dog shit, it is definitely a good thing."

Usually, a soldier can carry at most several days of dry food with him, and the rest of the food is carried and transported by the auxiliary soldiers.If this meat floss is really so good, wouldn't it be amazing that a soldier who carried the meat floss that was originally loaded with dry food for three days could manage it for 30 days.

So, all the generals stared at the meat floss in front of them with bright eyes, and ate them one by one. The way they ate was sacred, as if they were not eating, but doing something noble.

Luo Cheng himself was eating too.

He was complaining in his heart as he ate it, the production was too rough and unpalatable, the taste was bad, and the taste was even worse. If it was normal, he wouldn’t even want to eat it if he gave it to him. What kind of stuff, it even smells like fur , also mixed with a little cow dung smell.

But seeing how hard everyone was eating, he didn't want to eat it, so he had to bite the bullet and eat it.

It seems that next time, we have to find a way to improve this meat floss.

But the fried rice and fried noodles won unanimous praise and praise from the generals who suffered from the floss.

"This is what people eat. What kind of thing was that just now?" the fourth child said helplessly.

In the end, everyone laughed and felt that the words spoke from their hearts.

"However, if the meat floss is really that effective, even if it is shit, I must take it with me, and as much as possible." The fourth child did not forget to add at the end.

When fighting, it doesn't matter whether it's delicious or not, some food is the best. Some armies in history even ate human flesh when they were short of food.Especially during the period when the Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms were in chaos, many Hu troops even directly regarded people as two-legged sheep.

No matter how unpalatable this meat floss is, how can it be more disgusting than human flesh?
No matter how unpalatable meat is, it is still meat. Eating meat is more nutritious than eating soil and drinking water.

(End of this chapter)