Datang New Order

Although the winter military rations in Bailang Mountain can last until the beginning of spring, the consumption of dried meat and fish has caused the inventory to drop at a rapid rate.For this reason, when Feng Dao set the value of exchange work points for dried meat and fish, the comparison price was quite high, which was unbearable for ordinary people, so as to ensure the supply of soldiers in the former battalion.Feng Dao also tried his best to organize the people to dig ice nets for fish in Xuanshui, and search for wild animals in the mountains, but the replenishment amount was far behind the consumption amount.Especially after the heavy snow fell on White Wolf Mountain, it became more and more difficult to find traces of wild animals.

For other troops, the lack of meat supply is not a big problem, and it is not bad to have food these days.But the reality of the lack of meat in the White Wolf Mountain Army Village made Li Chengzhong very distressed, because he could not effectively implement the physical training subjects in the training plan.The role of physical fitness has not been fully valued in the military of this era, but Li Chengzhong is very aware of the importance of physical fitness for combat.He imagined relying on cross-country running, weight-bearing running, mountain running and other training to equip the soldiers of the former battalion with combat endurance.But where do soldiers who rely on food for food and clothing all day long have the nutrition and physical strength to carry out these trainings?

Li Chengzhong started training for cross-country running on mountain roads in the morning, but he couldn't continue after only three days.After the morning run, the soldiers generally felt dizzy. In addition to being unable to carry out the training in the morning, the training in the afternoon was also very ineffective.Therefore, Li Chengzhong had no choice but to stop this kind of training. Under the condition that nutrition has not kept up, physical training is pure self-torture.

This situation continued until the end of the second year of Acting.Since the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the ancients had activities of worshiping gods and ancestors at the beginning and end of the year. After that, this kind of activity took on the meaning of exorcising evil spirits, and added the meaning of going through the long cold winter and ushering in the warmth of spring. Looking forward to the sowing season.Therefore, with the gradual arrival of New Year's Eve, the White Wolf Mountain Army Village began preparations for the first day.

This kind of preparation was spontaneously initiated by the common people. They worked harder and spared almost all their spare time to earn work points, plus the previously accumulated work points, to exchange for more food and cloth in the warehouse.This also resulted in the rapid consumption of grain and dried meat in the warehouse.Old craftsman Zhang led the craftsmen to the back mountain to cut down some bamboo poles, and then went to cave walls and latrines to scrape soil salt to make saltpeter, then added some carbon powder, and stuffed them into hollow bamboo poles to make firecrackers.Feng Dao also used his spare time to draw some door paintings and write a lot of peach charms, but there are no peach trees in Bailang Mountain, so he had to use other tree species instead, and wrote some auspicious words and sentences on the felled wood chips to fill the peach tree. "Peach charm".

The cheerful preparations of the common people also began to gradually affect the soldiers in the front battalion. Everyone was counting the days, and even they were a little absent-minded during the training.Li Chengzhong simply announced that there will be a one-day holiday on New Year's Eve, and a bonfire party will be held at the military school grounds in the evening, and the military and civilians will have fun together.Seeing the warm cheers from the soldiers, Li Chengzhong became overwhelmed, so he simply made a wish to extend the holiday until the third day of the Lunar New Year. During this period, regardless of the common people and soldiers, all the food will be distributed by the army camp, and no work points will be charged!

Li Chengzhong acted as the hands-off shopkeeper, and pushed the bonfire event to Feng Dao for preparations. He was relieved, but when Feng Dao came to find him, he realized how unreliable his promise was.

"Xuanjie is so magnanimous, even last year's [-]th, a total of four days of rest!" Feng Dao said with a dark face.

"Everyone has been tense all winter, and it's time to relax. It's the so-called combination of work and rest." Li Chengzhong didn't think there was anything wrong with him.

"How much food will be consumed for the bonfire event? How much dried meat and fish? After four days of rest, no one in the military camp will do anything. No one will catch fish, no one will hunt, and no one will go to the mountains to pick wild vegetables. The food in the warehouse will be larger than usual. It consumes [-]% to [-]% more! What's more, how to distribute it? Taking one person as an example, earning work points in normal times can be exchanged for [-]% or [-]% of food. What kind of distribution is appropriate for the New Year? Instead, the people complained and criticized!" Feng Dao pointed out the crux of the problem without delay. …,

"This..." Li Chengzhong was speechless to Feng Dao's question, but he didn't want to change his decision. Apart from the issue of prestige, he always felt that a few days off was really appropriate.It's just that the question Feng Dao raised was indeed very realistic, and it gave Li Chengzhong a headache.

"That's it for this time, but next time we have to be more cautious." Feng Dao also knew that once Li Chengzhong's order was announced, it would be impossible to take it back. If it was really taken back, the army would be encouraged I don't know how far I will fall when I get up.Therefore, he had no choice but to accept the reality, but hoped that through his words, Li Chengzhong would be more thoughtful when making decisions in the future.

Li Chengzhong said something harsh, but he also knew in his heart that what Feng Dao said was reasonable.In fact, the root of all the problems was the lack of food in the White Wolf Mountain Army Village. After thinking about it, Li Chengzhong decided to take the time to go back to Pingzhou to see if he could persuade Zhou Zhiyu to escort the soldiers into the mountain again.However, he also understands that this idea is difficult to realize, and it is really difficult for Zhou Zhiyu to let the army go out again in the ice and snow.

The change of circumstances came from a simple field training.This is the fifth training for the scout team by the new instructor Xie Li, and it is also the first field team training.In two days, it will be New Year's Eve, so this is also the last riding and shooting training for the scout team of Guanghua's two-year-old camp.

According to Xie Li's concept, riding and archery training can only be practiced well in actual combat in the wild. After several trainings in the cottage, he set his sights on the grassland outside Bailang Mountain.The so-called actual combat is not a real actual combat, but a preparation for hunting on the grassland. During the hunting, you need to avoid the pursuit of the Khitan Pinbu rangers, hunt the animals that come out to look for food on the grassland, and learn how to fight in the icy and snowy grassland. overnight.Li Chengzhong called this training "experiential" teaching, and repeatedly ordered the scout team to strictly follow the instructor's teaching, especially the team officer Wang Dalang, not to act on his own and contradict the instructor during the training.Of course, he did not forget to secretly tell Wang Dalang to beware of the instructor Jie Li absconding secretly.

The scouts came out from the trail behind the mountain. The Khitans were not familiar with this trail, and their focus was on the mountain pass right in front of them.But even so, Xie Li still carefully checked everything around him along the way.In slightly blunt Chinese, he told everyone how to save horsepower, how long it takes to get off the horse and rest, and what is the maximum distance that the horse can run fast...

He personally demonstrated and taught the scouts one by one how to judge the enemy's patrol distance from the horse manure left on the ground, how to estimate the number and equipment of the enemy based on the number and depth of horseshoe marks, and he also taught everyone how to lie on the grass. Listen to the movement from afar...

At night, he instructed everyone to surround the horses in a circle and try to shade the light of the bonfire to the minimum. He told everyone how to make the horses lie down, so that people and horses rely on body heat to survive the cold night……

Xie Li did not "probably abscond secretly" as Li Chengzhong said. This Khitan man has one of the characteristics of a grassland man-he keeps his promises.Since he promised to stay and train the soldiers of the front battalion, he took this promise more seriously than a mountain, and he performed conscientiously throughout the field training process, without thinking about escaping at all.Therefore, Wang Dalang's careful marking became useless, so he also earnestly commanded the scout team to complete each training requirement in the solution.There was no conflict or dispute between the two sides during the training process, and the response process went very smoothly.

The real dispute was not in training, but at noon the next day.

The thing is this: Xie Li found traces of wolves. Through the observation of the paw prints, the number of wolves in this pack is about seven to eight. Judging from the wolf dung, the wolves are in a state of hunger and should come out to look for food. .So the scout team, led by Xie Li, tracked down the pack of wild wolves. …,

The wolves headed northeast, and the scouts failed to catch up with the wolves, but found a Khitan camp along the trail of the wolves.The camp was not big, with dozens of large leather tents scattered on the pastures for miles around, and some Han slaves captured by the Khitans could be seen mowing the grass in the distance.Beside each big tent is a simple fence made of branches, and each fence houses a large herd of cattle, sheep and horses.

The scout team lying in the distance immediately became jealous, and Wang Dalang wanted to lead people to rush up.His order was forcibly stopped by Xie Li, so the two had a dispute.The dispute ended with Xie Li's blunt sentence "Now is the training period, all training requirements and actions must be obeyed by me". The result of the dispute was that Wang Dalang obeyed Xie Li's order, and the scout team returned to Bailang Mountain.

Xie Li's obvious reason for withdrawing troops was "the enemy's situation is unknown." According to his explanation, this is a winter camp where the Ministry of Industry raises livestock. According to common sense, there should be many Khitan warriors guarding it. Exactly how many Khitan warriors there are, it is a very dangerous thing to attack the camp with twenty insufficiently trained scouts.In fact, secretly, no matter what the reason, Xie Li really didn't want to attack this camp.Although he has now become an instructor of the Han army in Bailang Mountain, he only teaches the Han soldiers during training, at least he doesn't have to consider the issue of fighting with his own people.And to help the Han people to deal with the Khitan people naked on the battlefield, he really couldn't get over that hurdle in his heart.

All the way back, Xie Li and Wang Dalang didn't say a word to each other.Xie Li felt ashamed and did not dare to face Wang Dalang; Wang Dalang was dissatisfied, and the more he looked at Xie Li, the more angry he became. He decided to report the whole incident to Li Chengzhong immediately after returning to Bailang Mountain, and he would add a vicious sentence: "Non-my family, its heart must be different!"