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Chapter 134
Injured horses, after the slaughter of the lean horses, they are directly disemboweled and thrown into a cauldron. The bottom is piled with cow and sheep dung and burned, and the pot is cooked directly.

When it comes to horse meat, the Xi people are different from the Han people. The Han people have always been unable to stand the smell of horse meat when it is cooked, and feel that it smells like swill.

What's more, the folks think that horse meat is not only unpalatable, but also poisonous, so they don't want it. When they get horse meat, they don't like it very much.Xi Ren was very happy, as there is no grassland nation that does not eat horse meat.

Because too many horses were slaughtered at one time, the horse meat could not be eaten up. In this era of extremely expensive salt, bacon and cured meat can only exist in dreams.

In order to store meat, the Xi people have their own method. They cut the horse meat into strips, hang them in the shade, and slowly dry them in the air, so that the dried horse meat can be eaten until next summer.

The same is true for mutton, which is how the whole city handles it. When there is insufficient hay, every family eats meat.

Anyway, it is the mutton given away by the Ministry of Abduction, so if you don’t eat it for nothing, every door in Huaihuang Town is hung with dried mutton and horse meat, so that you can live a prosperous winter.

The meat is enough for them to eat until next spring, and the wheat and corn can be saved for next year's consumption.

Therefore, at least until next summer, or even within next year, the people in Huaihuang Town don't have to worry about not having enough to eat. Each person can eat meat for three meals a day.

Gone are the days when we could barely eat two meals a day, and strong men could eat one porridge, but women and children could only eat two bowls of porridge.

As for those thousands of people who have lost their cattle, sheep and horses, their future is very difficult. If they don't join a big tribe, it will be difficult to survive the cold and windy winter on the grassland.

This harsh law of survival of the jungle is more and more obvious on the grassland.

After solving the problem of full stomach, the morale of Huaihuang town has never been higher than before, but facing the coming winter and the court's reward for this victory, it has not yet come down.

Li Chongjiu still has a lot of things to do, the first is the direction of Yuyi City.

A few days ago, Li Chongjiu received a quick report from his allies in Dexi Department that they had captured Yuyi Town.

With intentional calculations and unintentional calculations, Xi's attack was very successful. The two thousand refugees in Yuyi Town have not yet formed a real organizational structure capable of fighting.

These people were just a mess, and when Xi Ren came, someone was holding a document written by the Great Sui Eagle Yang Lang, the champion marquis, so they all surrendered.

Li Chongjiu decided to move these 2000 people to Huaihuang Town for the winter, and then reclaim Yuyi Town after the spring of next year.

As for Xi Bu, he stayed near Yuyi Town for the winter.

This is the benefit of sufficient food. If there is no supply of rice and food, it is impossible for Li Chongjiu to accommodate the extra [-] mouths.

The two thousand newly arrived refugees arrived in Huaihuang Town.

Li Chongjiu looked at them in ragged clothes, hungry and cold, and felt impatient. He would rather be a dog in a prosperous world than a troubled person.

Under the hunger and cold, almost all of these people looked dull, without extra thoughts, like lonely ghosts, wandering aimlessly.

Li Chongjiu arranged a place for them to live in first. Just like accepting new refugees in the past, he asked them to clean up the sackcloth and rags full of fleas and parasites, take a bath, and put on freshly sewn sheepskin clothes.

Afterwards, arrange a hut for them to shelter from the wind and snow, and give each of them a big bowl of fragrant hot corn and mutton soup.

These people who were on the verge of starving to death, when they ate this hot meal, thought of the ups and downs and the separation of their families, and almost everyone wept.

It made the people in Huaihuang Town nearby feel very sad when they saw it.On this grassland, everyone is a Chinese citizen, connected by blood, so the people in Huaihuang Town try their best to help them and integrate into it.

Under the cover of the strong city wall, there is enough food inside, allowing these eight thousand people to spend a winter here in peace and thrive.
Due to the joining of refugees, the residents of Li Chongjiu Huaihuang Town also exceeded the number of 8000 in one go.

However, there are not many young and strong among the refugees, most of them are women, children, old and weak.

Therefore, the joining of the refugees is just to make up for it. The remaining vacancies of the government soldiers and garrison troops who died in the battle before are filled into the civilian households.

This winter, Li Chongjiu decided to continue his military expansion, and continue to train his elite at this time when every drop of water turns into ice.

Among the three cavalry regiments and one infantry regiment, from among the garrison troops, the elite who performed well in the last battle were selected to make up for the gap.

For Huaihuang Town, these four regiments are all elites who have seen blood, fought hard battles, and won a big victory.

Most of the disciples of Qiqianzhai, Li's Escort Bureau, and Shaolin Temple have become the commanders and brigade leaders of the squadron, which gave Li Chongjiu absolute control over the government army.

No matter in terms of morale or combat ability, the soldiers of the four regiments, in this era, even though they are not as powerful as the Xuanjia Jingqi, Youzhou Iron Cavalry, and Turkic Attachment, they can still be regarded as elites.

In this team, as long as the unorganized ones are eliminated, those veterans who have experienced bloody battles can immediately lead new recruits, and soon after, they can restore their combat effectiveness.

After the supplementary training of the fourth regiment was completed, Li Chongjiu reduced the 25 brigades of the garrison army to 23 brigades, and selected civilians who voluntarily served as soldiers from civilian households, and expanded the number of soldiers in two regiments.

You must know that a Shangfu can have six regiments, that is, a force of 1000 or [-] people.

Li Chongjiu made up six regiments, making his strength reach the standard of a Yingyang mansion.

Li Chongjiu selected men who were over five feet seven inches tall and aged between twenty and fifty. This was because if they were too short, they would not be able to draw a strong bow.

The Yueqi regiment requires at least a rough knowledge of bow and horse, and it is enough to be able to shoot nine bows on horseback, while the infantry regiment must be able to open a bow of one and a half stones, both of which are the lowest standards for soldiers of the Sui Dynasty.

However, the army of the Sui Dynasty was elite, and with Yang Guang's three conquests of Goguryeo and Yang Xuangan's rebellion, it was almost over.

Before in Huaihuang Town, there were not many people who could do these two things, but now there was enough meat and all the garrison troops were prepared, so Li Chongjiu successfully selected [-] young men from them to supplement the soldiers.

The soldiers, brigade leader, brigade deputy, team leader, and team deputy of the two newly created regiments were all drawn from the veterans of the previous four regiments, hoping to form combat power as soon as possible.

If conditions permit, Li Chongjiu can't wait to expand the army to two, three, or five mansions in one go.

Next year, Huaihuang Town and Yuyi Town's survival pressure will increase greatly.

Here the Turks have settled down here, and Huaihuang Town, as the frontier, has been put to the test.

In addition, if Shi Dexi wanted to conquer the old place of Wuhou Qinshui, Li Chongjiu had to defeat Khitan with troops eastward.

According to Etuo, in the hometown of Wuhou Qinshui, tens of thousands of Dexi people were enslaved by the Khitans.

If these tens of thousands of Xi people can be rescued, for Li Chongjiu, it will not be easy to add the help of nearly ten thousand prairie rangers.

On the grassland, there are both dangers and opportunities.

But with the completion of Yuyi Town next year, it is imperative to march to Shanggu County.

It is impossible on the grassland to watch the fire from the other side for a lifetime and march to Shanggu County. This is related to whether Li Chongjiu has the possibility of winning the world one or two in the future.

The Central Plains, this is the general trend of the world, where the wind is blowing.

Li Mi should have defected to Zhai Rang, and Li Yuan and Li Shimin's Jinyang rebellion is not far away, both sides have a good impression of him.

Does this mean that if Li Chongjiu wins Shanggu, he can wrestle with Dou Jiande and Luo Yi?

The ancients described the places where they started in different places, for example, starting from Guanzhong, with Chang’an Xianyang as the capital, which was a trend of building a high-rise building, rising to Henan, and setting the capital at Luoyang, which was a great trend in the middle of the house, as for Hebei, it was set in You Yan is pulling out fur.

In the land of Yanzhao, since ancient times, there have been brave warriors with generous and tragic songs.

At that time, Zhao Wuling Wang Hufu's cavalry and archery rose here, Han Wu Zhongxing, Liu Xiu used Youzhou Tuqi to cut off the heroes, since the Qin and Han Dynasties, Yanzhao's elite soldiers have been the heroes of the world!
Could this be different from the Qin and Han Guanzhong model, another way to seize the world, allowing Li Chongjiu to fight his way out of the world's princes and thousands of troops.

Looking at the lofty mountains to the south, Li Chongjiu's heart was full of turmoil.
Just at this time, Li Chongjiu's news of Lubu's good news has spread to Dongdu.

Shanglin Garden in the eastern capital, also known as Xiyuan, has a distance of one hundred miles on Tuesdays, and the royal cemetery has never been wider than this throughout the ages.

When this garden was established, 30 mu of water surface was dug here with great effort, and it was named Jicui Pond. [-] meters above the water surface, each with a distance of [-] steps.

Yang Guang's dragon boat floated on the pond, drinking and having fun. After the Battle of Yanmen, the emperor with double pupils became more and more estranged from court affairs, and liked to sing and dance.

Holding a document in his hand, Pei Ji came to the dragon boat in a small boat. Seeing that Yang Guang was drinking from a high cup, he immediately said, "Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, great victory ahead."

Yang Guang glanced at Pei Ji and said, "Where is there any great victory, do you think I'm easy to deceive?"

Pei Ji hurriedly knelt down and said, "To the Son of Heaven, this is absolutely true. He is the champion of Yanmen!"

"Champion Hou!"

Yang Guang listened to his eyes, his eyes became sober, and he said: "If you are a champion, you will never lie, just listen to me."

"Yes." Pei Ji read the good news on Lubu.

After Yang Guang heard this, he laughed and said, "It's my Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, good! Good! Good!"

Yang Guang even said three good words, obviously Longyan Dayue.

Pei Ji hurriedly said happily: "This is also thanks to the emperor Hongfu."

Yang Guang narrowed his eyes, and said: "The country is in trouble, and the Turkic people fight well, and I got angry when I was surrounded by Yanmen. Pei Qing, how do you see it?"

"How should the country reward such good generals? Do you ministers have any ideas?"

(End of this chapter)