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Chapter 90 Horse Meat
Stewed horse meat and boiled vegetarian food is today's dinner. Although it is so simple, it can be called an imperial banquet, but it is undoubtedly the most distinctive imperial banquet. Zhu Yousong has never eaten horse meat, especially It was the first time to eat this kind of picnic style, the aroma was tangy, and the appetite was inflated just by looking at it. He was even more salivating after eating dry food for two or three days.

After tasting the meat, his mouth was full of oily aroma, and Zhu Yousong couldn't help admiring how well the stew was.He took another sip of the soup, and felt that he had never tasted such a delicious soup in his previous life and in this life. In fact, some salt was put in when the horse meat was stewed. It can't be compared with those master chefs in the Imperial Dining Room of the Imperial Palace, but Zhu Yousong feels that this is the most delicious delicacy in front of him.

Next, Zhu Yousong shook off his cheeks and shook his big molars. This meal was like a storm, and at the end the food served by the guards was basically not wasted. Best meal ever.

After dinner, Zhu Yousong issued an order to transfer all the wounded to the rear near the imperial camp to establish a wounded barracks, and then went back to his tent to rest.

He rested, the tens of thousands of soldiers like Zu Hai and Li Quan were not idle, they still kept a big siege to Gao Jie and the others, they set up several new cannons on high places overnight to cheer them up, cannons are the god of war, this No matter how lethal the thing is, the morale of the army is uplifted, and the enemy generals are frightened. This is the result of capturing Gao Jie's artillery battalion, and now it is used on them again. This is called taking from thieves and using it from thieves.

In addition, troops were transferred to transfer the wounded and the loot, and the adaptation of the [-] captives was also going on overnight...

Zhu Yousong, Zu Hai, Li Quan and others were tossing around under Gao Jie's nose, of course this Uncle Xing Ping, who was trapped on the hillside, knew about it a long time ago.

Witnessing the imperial court's troops sweeping the battlefield with victorious attitude, watching thousands of his powerful army abandoning darkness and surrendering to the imperial court, listening to their earth-shattering declaration of allegiance, Gao Jie certainly felt bad.

Now he also knows that what ambushed him was not Huang Chuangzi's men and horses, but the royal team that his majesty the emperor personally commanded and supervised. He even saw the figure of Zhu Yousong, riding a horse with a sword and covered in armor, with a heroic appearance The general descended to the mortal world, and he was completely different from the Ninth Five-Year Lord with a dragon crown on his head and a dragon robe and jade belt on the Golden Palace, but he remembered Zhu Yousong's facial features and dragon face very clearly.

Therefore, when he saw Zhu Yousong, he was full of shock. Like other officials, he never thought that this King Fu, who only drank and ate meat and hid in the palace to play with women, would lead the army to fight in person. With martial arts in his body, it seems that the rumors of the mighty emperor who cleaned the factory guards and eradicated Ma Ruan's rebellious party are not all groundless.No wonder the arrogant and arrogant Huang Chuangzi has become attached to the emperor. Now that he is pushed to the forefront, why should he have known today!

He regretted that he made a wrong move, but there is no turning back now, the emperor will not tolerate it this time, forget it, leaving Zhang Butcher may not necessarily eat a messy pig, and Zhu Yousong is not the only royal family member. , King Gui, and King Lu are all surnamed Zhu. It is said that they all have great ambitions. They are better than the current Majesty in terms of talent, virtue, and popularity. Serving slaves and maidservants without worrying about food and clothing, as long as you can break out tonight and pull a team, no matter who you go to, you will be a guest.
Gao Jie made up his mind and gradually calmed down.Zhu Yousong's men did not attack him until evening, so Gao Jie was lucky.

But soon Gao Jie's men became restless again. Hundreds of meters below Qiupo, they ate a delicious horse meat meal in front of them, and the more than 1000 people headed by Gao Jie were still behind the scenes. Cavity, water rice has not entered, can only watch.

It is definitely not a kind of enjoyment for a hungry man to see a hungry man eating but not being able to eat, but a kind of suffering, especially the horse meat, military rations, including pots, pans and spoons that Zhu Yousong's generals ate were their belongings. This psychological gap is still intolerable.

A few times Gao Jie was about to explode with anger, and when he was impulsive, he wanted to rush down to fight to the death, but seeing that although his team had rested for a long time, they still didn't have much fighting power, and each of them was starving like a sick child, he stopped again.

There is a saying that people are iron, rice is steel, and they are hungry if they don’t eat one meal. Now they have not eaten two meals, and marching in a hurry to fight a tough battle, it consumes so much. People who fight with iron can’t stand it. The problem of eating must be solved, otherwise it will be a rescue. It's coming, and it's difficult to rush out.

Gao Jie and the others didn't know Zhu Yousong's plan, they just thought that Zhu Yousong's actions were just a simple way to defeat the enemy.

In the end Gao Jie cursed angrily, "Wang Bari's, you eat it, and I eat it too!"

Gao Jie cursed and ordered people to slaughter more than a dozen war horses. In fact, they didn't have many war horses, because he commanded infantry, and these war horses belonged to General Liao. Legs, but now I don't care so much in order to let everyone fill their stomachs and restore their combat power.

There are no pots and stoves, so I have to drink raw horse blood and eat raw horse meat. As for the lack of meat, I can only supplement with wild fruits, grass roots and leaves, but the treatment of soldiers and junior army commanders is naturally different. Not long after it got dark, a general lit a fire, and soon handed over a piece of half-baked black and blue horse meat.

Now Gao Jie doesn't pay attention to it anymore, he takes it and eats it with a big mouth and a small mouth. Probably his kind of horse meat is also the most delicious delicacy for him. His mouth, face and nose are all black and gray. It's Heitian, if you look at it in the daytime, it's almost Baogong.

After the problem of food and clothing was solved, Gao Jie and the others felt that they had a solid foundation in their minds, but it was already Ding Gengtian, and there was still no news of rescuers when they went down to Qiupo.They saw torches moving like dragons, and they knew that the soldiers of the imperial court were mobilizing troops to condemn the generals, and the signs indicated that the emperor's troops might be attacking them.

Gao Jie looked at it, his heart burning with urgency. He didn't know what was going on with Fengyang, and whether Li Chengdong and his wife Xing from Xuzhou had received his military orders. There are also two to three hundred miles here, and it is a round trip when they receive the military order and send troops to rush over. It only takes half a day, so he dare not hold out too much hope.

Thinking of Lieutenant General Hu Maozhen again, Gao Jie couldn't help scolding his mother, "Old Hu, you fucking bastard. You claim to be brave and resourceful. I haven't followed up for a long time. You didn't expect something to happen to me when you were on the eighth day? This time, if I If you go back alive, you must be killed!"

(End of this chapter)