Wanli 1592

Chapter 532 Li Rusong's Doubts
After night fell, Xiao Ruxun sent people to strictly guard the pass to prevent the Mongols from attacking at night. On the other hand, he asked the soldiers in the army to cook enough hot food for the soldiers.

These days, the defense of the city is difficult and flustered, and there are many escaped soldiers. The defense of the entire Zijing Pass appears to be very disorderly. Li Chengliang has limited energy, and Chai Guozhu is busy with defense, and does not pay much attention to the food of the soldiers, which leads to a serious food problem for the army.

Some troops can eat hot food in time, some troops can only eat cold food, and some troops can't even eat food. People cook for them, the soldiers suffer from hunger and hunger, and their fighting will is extremely low.

As soon as Xiao Ruxun came, he caught up with the problem of eating. The Zhennan Army has the establishment of the Huotou Army. Secondly, the soldiers of the Zhennan Army were also asked by Xiao Ruxun to learn some basic knowledge of the army's field cooking, so as to avoid special circumstances. When I was in the army, no one knew how to cook.

Washing rice and cooking rice is something that every soldier in the Zhennan Army knows, and as long as they have a big pot, they can cook vegetables. The marching meals of the Ming army are usually baked pancakes with a little salted vegetables, and they stop and set up camp. Naturally, there will be fire-headed troops preparing hot meals and hot dishes, and the soldiers can eat a little better.

Soldiers are really bitter. They usually only have vegetable porridge to eat when they stay in the camp. They eat dried wolves on the march. They don’t see much meat and oil all year round. Sometimes when the conditions are good, the Huotou army will get a piece of lard for cooking Wipe it in the pot and get some salted vegetables with oil and water.

When the conditions are bad and there is no oil and water, you can deal with it with a piece of salted vegetables, a piece of pickled radish and pickled cabbage, and you can go down after a meal. Anyway, throughout the entire dynasty, the soldiers’ military rations were very simple, basically there was no meat to eat , You may not even be able to eat dry rice, and eating porridge and salted vegetables is the norm.

This time, Xiao Ruxun's battle was highly valued by the emperor, and the officials at the bottom did not dare to be negligent, so they opened the warehouse and prepared enough rations and supplies for Xiao Ruxun's march. Now the food is enough for the soldiers to eat. Naturally, Xiao Ruxun will not treat the soldiers badly. Don't let them eat dry food.

It doesn’t count if you have dry rice, but you also need to have side meals. Usually, salt vegetables are used to deal with it, and the salty taste is good enough. Put it in a big pot to fry until fragrant, and then cook a broth for the soldiers to drink, that can still be done.

That is, conditional restrictions, otherwise Xiao Ruxun would really like to give the soldiers here more of the fried pancakes that were produced in North Korea and the current Zhennan Army’s marching rations, and take them on the road to eat. There are still quite enough, but the number of Huotoujun is not enough, and there is no time to do it.

The pancakes are very popular among the soldiers. They are oily, salty and durable. They are very filling and not too hard to swallow. They are very suitable for soldiers when it is inconvenient to set up a camp when they are marching. I can handle it with ordinary pancakes.

A steaming hot dinner made the soldiers shivering from the severe cold finally feel the long-lost warmth.

They roasted together by the fire, ate hot dry rice and fried salt vegetables with oil, and could also drink meat-flavored soup. This kind of food is the food and treatment that all soldiers dream of. Sometimes they dare not even dream of it. I can eat such good military rations.

Over the years, armaments have become more and more slack, and the treatment of soldiers has become worse and worse. It is normal to not have enough food and clothing to keep warm. The warriors who fought in the past are almost turning into bears now, but can the soldiers themselves be blamed?

How can soldiers win the battle if they don't even feed dry food and salted vegetables?
Throughout the time when the Central Plains dynasty was strong, there was never a shortage of military rations for soldiers. If they were full, full of energy, and high in fighting will, they would naturally win more battles.

At the end of the dynasty, the armaments were slack, and the soldiers could not get enough rations for a long time. If they didn't have enough food, they would not have enough fighting power and will to fight. one.

Now that soldiers can eat enough, sleep soundly, and wake up refreshed in the morning, their will to fight will naturally increase.

Xiao Ruxun walked among the soldiers to inspect the situation when the soldiers were eating, squatted down from time to time and asked the soldiers if they were fed and warm, and if they did enough gestures, the soldiers were often moved to the point of tears Express your gratitude to Xiao Ruxun.

Li Rusong, who was inspecting the army with Xiao Ruxun, saw Xiao Ruxun caring so much for some soldiers he didn't know, and soldiers of a completely different faction from him. See faction.

From the Ming Dynasty to the present, the generals of the Nine Frontiers have begun to develop their own private army, caring about their own private army, not the imperial army, but Xiao Ruxun is doing the opposite, any army cares, not to mention whether there is any Meaning, isn't he afraid that someone will say that he bribed the army's morale to plot evil?

What the hell is he thinking?
Li Rusong couldn't figure it out.

When all the soldiers including the Liaodong Army and Nurhachi’s Jurchen soldiers were inspected, Xiao Ruxun told Li Rusong that he still wanted to go around the city wall and see the night watch soldiers. Stop your doubts.

"Admiral, you may not be happy to hear some words, but I still want to say them."

Xiao Ruxun looked at Li Rusong in surprise, then nodded, and said with a smile: "If you have anything to say, Mr. Li, it's okay to say it."

"Admiral, the soldiers here include Jizhen, Jingying, and my Liaodong. Back then, there were all kinds of soldiers on the Korean battlefield. These soldiers are not directly under your admiral, nor did they follow you. They have fought, they are not relatives, why does the admiral care about them so much? Don’t you worry that some people will say that the admiral bribed the army to plot something wrong?"

Seeing Li Rusong's surprised look, Xiao Ruxun's expression was even more different.

"Why does Mr. Li have such an idea? I am the general of Daming, and they are soldiers of Daming. They bleed and fight for Daming. Of course, I should care about them. What does this have to do with where they were born or whether they are directly under me? Which military book says that a general should mistreat soldiers and show no compassion for them?"

Li Rusong was stunned by Xiao Ruxun's rhetorical question, and it took him a while to respond.

"Admiral, what I mean is, you are a general from the northwest, and the soldiers here are not your direct descendants except for your three thousand troops from the Southern Army. Why do you care so much about them?"

Xiao Ruxun understood.

"Li Zongbing, you are wondering why the governor doesn't care about factions and treats the rest of the army equally, right?"

Li Rusong nodded.

(End of this chapter)