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Chapter 386 Zhang Xiu Still Surrendered

"Compressed biscuits?" When they marched until noon and were eating dry food, all the generals saw compressed biscuits for the first time. Fortunately, biscuits are not unusual.

After knowing the baking process, Xudu gradually became popular on a small scale.Many chefs will ask the owner to help build a baking kiln or something while learning pastry, and try to bake some biscuits, cookies, or pizza bread.The problem is compressed biscuit, what kind of biscuit is this?
"To put it simply..." Wang Yong thought for a while, "This is to use wheat flour as the main raw material, add ingredients such as sugar, oil, dairy products, and nuts, bake them into biscuits and crush them, then mix water and oil, and compress them with hydraulic pressure Formed food.

If compressed biscuits are stored properly, it is conservatively estimated that one year will not be a problem.If it is with a march or something, the current technology can only do it for three months without any problems.The key is that if you eat with water, you can usually get full with one or two yuan! "

"It's easy to carry, and has a long shelf life. At the same time, you only need a small amount to eat enough. It's really good as a dry ration for marching... I said nuts before, what are they?" Cao Cao took the compressed biscuit and put it in front of Qiong's nose to smell it. smell.

"It's peanut residue, which is also to reduce costs. Peanut oil was popular in the past, so it was planted in large quantities, and many workshops sold peanut residue at a low price, but it was often booked again, and it was not easy to buy. Earlier, I and Wanshi The house decided to buy a large number of peanut residues...but it is the purchase that has been delayed until now." Wang Yong was a little embarrassed. At that time, he wanted to buy peanut residues. The main reason was that they were cheap, and they could be made into oil tea to fill the stomach. The key point was that they could be sold for money.

Who knew that after earning so much in a year, there was not much demand for peanut residue.Thinking about it later, it can be used to make compressed biscuits, which can also be regarded as waste utilization.No, after three or four months of research, I went to Pei County on the way, and then came back to continue the research, but was delayed by the newspaper for more than a month, and the research was completed years ago.

In the final analysis, thanks to the increase of baking kilns, experiments can be started one after another.

"It's just that you said sugar and dairy products were added, isn't that too extravagant?" Cao Cao asked back.

"So, according to the cost, compressed biscuits are divided into two types. One is the high-end luxury type, which is not low in cost, but has the best taste and rich nutrition, but it is a bit hot; the other is the low-profile version, which uses maltose and does not Dairy products and fats also use cheaper rapeseed oil. Calculated, the cost is indeed not high!" Wang Yong replied.

If it really counts, fried rice or fried noodles may not be cheaper, if it is just based on the standard of 'just let the soldiers eat well'.But if you want to 'feed the soldiers and have strength', then this configuration is the best.

"It's just that the cost of dry food is a bit high..." Prince Fu, who accompanied the army, was a little distressed.

"Considering the maintenance of soldiers' combat effectiveness and the time saved by marching... Actually, this compressed biscuit is very affordable. For example, this time, I have already produced a batch of compressed biscuits years ago, and now all I need is to bring them out in the warehouse. If you change to fried rice, it will absorb water, swell and soften in about two days at most, and there may even be other problems." Wang Yong replied.

"Indeed, in order to avoid this situation, we have to bury the pot to make food every two days, but this compressed biscuit does not have this problem. And if there are no fireworks, the probability of the enemy's finding us is lower, which is very suitable for a quick march! Anyway! , if the physical strength of the soldiers can be guaranteed!" Chen Dao, who also joined the army, saw the benefits of compressed biscuits.

"Very well, since that's the case..." Cao Cao looked at Wang Yong, "In the future, compressed biscuits will be included in the logistics supplies. If I'm not wrong, the patent for this thing should be in your hands... I will quote a price later! "

"I obey!" Wang Yong nodded, which meant that for a long time, he was responsible for providing almost all of Cao Jun's dry food.Not only this part, it is estimated that other places will also accept purchases.Even with this order, he can make a lot of money.

As for the question of what to do with this dry ration... Excluding the rush march, basically the necessary camping is still needed, and you can't eat this stuff every day.Only in this way, the pressure on the Huotou army was reduced a lot, and it was not so easy to prepare dry food for so many soldiers.

"It turned out that the whole army moved at full speed and entered Nanyang County at all costs!" Cao Cao immediately made a decision.

Originally, Zhang Xiu was going to be caught off guard, and the other party would never know that he was coming. In other words, the other party had no way to defend against it. At least it was safe before entering Nanyang County.

It's just that the next step is to enter a state of strenuous rapid march. It is said that Xia Houyuan's troops are five hundred miles in three days and one thousand miles in six days. This march is really the same.Generally speaking, Cao Cao would not use such a risky marching method. It can only be said that there are really not many soldiers on hand for this raid.

"My lord, I can't continue so fast. The soldiers below have opinions!" Huang Zhong stepped forward to speak. Most of these soldiers were newly recruited, and some of them were previously recruited by the Runan Yellow Turbans.

Six days and one thousand miles, many people collapsed directly, if not for the food to keep up, I am afraid that some people would be exhausted to death.Even so, it was considered exhausting, and at the same time, morale was also greatly damaged.

"Well, we are almost at Nanyang County, and we will resume normal marching tomorrow, and rest half a day early!" Cao Cao looked at the map, then nodded and agreed, some things cannot be rushed.

Wang Yong is also speechless. According to his world, the distance from Xuchang to Nanyang City is only more than 160 kilometers, which is about 330 miles, or about 350 miles at most.As a result, this world started from Xuchang, not only passing through the area from Luyang to Ji County, but it has already traveled a thousand miles!

To the south of Pheasant County is Xi'e County, and to the south is the Zhisuowan County of Nanyangju. Calculated, there are at least two hundred miles away.Sometimes I really have to sigh, this world is definitely not China, or even Earth, right? !

As Cao Cao expected, he marched at a slower pace the next day. Although it did improve morale and let the soldiers rest and maintain combat effectiveness, it was impossible to hide the truth from Zhang Xiu. The opponent already knew that Cao Jun was attacking her. And it's only two hundred miles away. It's impossible to organize a battle at this time!

There are four generals under Zhang Xiu's command, and she is one of them. She is a well-known cavalry general and has the title of "Northern Spear King"; Rare generals; in the end, there were only Lei Xu and Zhang Xian, two returning generals, and their power was not bad.

She also has an outstanding adviser, that is Jia Xu, the scholar of Wuwei Guzang, who is her most important adviser.When Zhang Ji died at the hands of Liu Biao, she planned to avenge her uncle and fought with Liu Biao.But in the end, under Jia Xu's suggestion, he temporarily surrendered to Liu Biao and was able to separate Nanyang County.

"Military division, the enemy army hits the door of our house, and we have no preparations here, what should we do?" Zhang Xiu found Jia Xu
"General Zhang, we are Han generals, why worry about Master Wang?" Jia Xu shook his head, "Just open the door to welcome Master Wang!"

"That's right... It seems that I can only surrender!" Zhang Xiu shook his head, turned around immediately, and ordered Cao Cao to surrender.

"..." Jia Xu was speechless, what she meant was to make a false surrender...don't make it a real surrender...

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