For three to nine days, the happiest thing is to gather around the hot pot, invite close friends and drink two glasses of wine. After drinking too much, you can brag and talk about the mountains. What a wonderful way of life.

Nowadays, Li Xiao is living such a comfortable life. The clear soup in the copper hot pot is boiling and the water is gushing. Put a layer of fat meat slices in it, then cover it with a layer of pickled cabbage, and throw two small red beetles into it. The bottom of the pot

Even if they live together.

"Let me tell you, the sesame sauce dipping sauce when eating from the pot should not be too thin. The meat taken out of the pot will inevitably contain soup. After it becomes thin for a while, you can drink the sesame sauce soup. The barbecue dipping sauce needs to be thinner.

, there is no soup in that thing." Ao Ye stood on the side, guiding Man Ye and Ma Jiang.

Man Ye was holding a garlic pestle in his hand and mixing sesame paste in a basin. Those who didn't know better thought this guy was a busboy at a hot pot restaurant.

"Bang!" Master Man threw the pestle into the basin and looked at Master Ao with his arms folded.

"You talk a lot if you don't work. You are good at cutting meat." Li Xiao had no choice but to find another spoon for rice and handed it to Master Man. He threw half a mutton chop to Master Ao!

Some people like sheep legs, some people like blood necks, and Li Xiao prefers mutton chops.

In fact, no matter what the animal is, generally speaking, the ribs are delicious!

"Hehe!" Mr. Ao sneered, touched his nose, and patted Mr. Man on the shoulder: "Cut the meat, cut the meat. I'll cut the meat, and you continue to mix it with the mud."

Mangui snorted and took the spoon from Li Xiao's hand, and continued to mix the sesame paste.

Li Xiao picked up the knife and began to chop green onions and coriander.

In fact, eating hot pot can be said to be simple or complicated. To say it is simple, just cut some meat, mix some sesame sauce, and cook the meat in a pot.

If it's a little more complicated, there are more than a dozen kinds of side dishes.

Ao Canghai and Man Gui are two carnivores. Today, the three brothers prepared two sheep. They only eat the mutton and eat nothing else.

In the words of Mr. Ao, what kind of vegetables should be eaten when eating hot-boiled mutton? And two heads of sugared garlic to relieve the tiredness? Damn it, the mutton doesn’t have enough garlic!

The mutton is enough to eat, but who does all the hard work?

Today, let's eat mutton.

The uncle can't afford to offend him, so Li Xiao has to be careful now. The man is very upset today because the 1st Cavalry Division is going to be reorganized.

"How can a cavalry be called a cavalry if they don't have horses?" Man Ye threw away the wooden spoon in his hand angrily.

"There are so many brothers, many of whom we brought from Pi Island. They don't know a lot of Chinese characters, but they are the best knights. Now you can reorganize them if you want, and you won't be afraid of breaking the hearts of the brothers." Man Gui

He jumped up, pointed at Li Xiao and asked fiercely.

Li Xiao slowly chopped the cilantro and green onions, trying to cut them into uniform sizes. He hadn't worked for a few years and his hands were very raw.

"Brother Xiao, you are very generous to me. There are more than half a million silver dollars in the bank, and there are various dividends every year. Even if I spend all the money, I will not be able to spend it all until my grandson dies, but those brothers

What should we do.

For more than ten years, they have been either at war or on their way to the battlefield. Fighting against the Jurchens, fighting against the Nanming, fighting against the Mongols, and fighting against the Rakshasa people. At no time did our cavalry division fall behind others.

They have been fighting for more than ten years, and they know nothing but fighting. Now if you ask them to go home and have their children, how will they survive!"

Master Man was very dissatisfied with Li Xiao's practice of killing the donkey!

Li Xiao put the chopped green onion and coriander into a huge bowl. It was really tiring to eat just mutton, so you still need to eat some of the green onion and coriander.

"Are you finished?" Li Xiao put the bowl on the table and started peeling garlic.

"Times are changing. From now on, the cavalry will have no other function except patrolling the border."

"You...!" Man Gui burst into flames and started to move on the bench.

"Hey! You can't do it with your hands." Mr. Ao dropped the meat cleaver and grabbed the bench from Man Gui's hand.

"The barrel made of special steel newly developed by Changxing Island Steel Plant can already support the general-purpose machine gun to fire four hundred rounds per minute.

Let’s not talk about Maxim, let’s talk about general-purpose machine guns. How many general-purpose machine guns do you think can kill your 1st Cavalry Division? There is no way the cavalry will withdraw from the stage of history.” Li Xiao threw the garlic into the bowl and picked it up again. Start peeling off one flap.

"Brother Xiao is right. The story of the Battle of Moscow has been brought back through detailed work. The Russians learned from the British and created Maxim. Murat's First Cavalry Corps died miserably.

Four thousand people were killed in one charge. How long do you think it took?

Fifteen minutes!

Fifteen minutes! Four thousand men and horses turned into four thousand corpses. Napoleon's elite cavalry was completely lost in Moscow. This was an important reason for his defeat!"

"Bang!" The sesame sauce basin was thrown in front of Master Ao: "You are the one who is harmonious with the mud, you are harmonious!"

Man Gui grunted and grabbed the meat cleaver. Today, only the three brothers were in the greenhouse. Otherwise, Man Gui's action just now would have been sieved by bullets.

"Okay, okay! I'll do it, I'll do it!" Man Gui couldn't offend the furious man, so Ao Ye took the sesame paste pot with a smile and started mixing the sesame paste.

"The shape of war has changed, and the cavalry can no longer keep up with the needs of the war. But they are all old brothers who follow us, so we cannot let our brothers feel cold.

I thought about it, we need to organize some border defense regiments on the grassland. The main task is to guard the grassland, and to contain the Mongols. They don't have machine guns, and they are all cavalry. With the current equipment, we still have an advantage.

Then there is the Western Region. Thirteen agricultural reclamation divisions will be established in the Western Region. Externally they are called the Production and Construction Corps. These thirteen divisions are half farmers and half soldiers.

In the past, people from the Western Regions always said that the Han people were like floods and that people from the Western Regions were like stones. After the floods passed, the stones would always come out of the water.

Now, I will organize people to cultivate in the Western Regions. Whether it is planting cotton or growing potatoes or sweet potatoes. As long as they can be self-sufficient, the blond and blue-eyed people of the Western Regions in a hundred years will also admit that they are authentic Chinese descendants.

After the First Cavalry Division is dismantled, your people can either be promoted to the Border Guard Regiment and continue to be pure soldiers. They can also go to the Agricultural Reclamation Division and become hunters and herders on one side.

It should be a good place to go, and no one will complain about you." Li Xiao peeled off two heads of garlic, felt it was enough and walked to the sink to wash his hands.

When peeling garlic, it is inevitable that some garlic will get into the nail caps, and the smell will be very unpleasant.

"Oh!" Man Ye's voice became much softer, and he began to concentrate on cutting the meat. The mutton slices of the same size and thickness were cut off by Man Ye and placed on the plate.

"Oh, what! You don't want to ask, what are you going to do? Learn from me, Lao Ao. In the more than a year since I returned to China, many of my subordinates have been separated and transferred to local jobs.

Those young people who graduated from the Army Academy kept stuffing themselves into me. One time when I got off the army, there were two regiment elders who I had never seen before. What did I say!

Brother Xiao is very interesting. If it were Zhu Hongwu, both of us could beat the drum." Man Ye hummed while talking to Ma Jiang!

Li Xiao knew that these two warlords were very dissatisfied with him for dismantling their army.

Unfortunately, there is nothing that can be done. The expansion period of the Ming Dynasty has passed. What the Ming Dynasty needs to do now is to sort out the changes that it wanted to make during the war but did not have the time or conditions to make it.

Most of the local official positions were controlled by the Donglin Party. For a while, Li Xiao had no cadres to send out.

Many of the imperial decrees were actually misinterpreted by local officials at the local level.

There was no other way. Li Xiao could only transfer the officers of the Liao Army and place them in various local posts in large numbers. This would inevitably have an impact on the army. There was nothing that could be done about it. For a long time to come, the Army would almost

There is no battle to fight.

Officers can only use military exercises to vent their excess energy!

Li Xiao wanted to say that he had no intention of seizing military power. But in the face of the facts, all excuses were feeble. Cadets from the Army Officer School entered the army one after another.

The veteran officers of the army left the barracks one after another to work in local areas.

Mr. Ao was very open-minded about this kind of thing, because he found that although his influence in the army was small, his influence in the local area was large.

No matter where you go now, there are soldiers who were led by Mr. Ao everywhere. The attentive hospitality of his old subordinates makes Mr. Ao very proud.

"You two have been tired for so many years. You two should take a rest. There are almost no wars in the country now, and there is basically no possibility of war. If you are asked to train, you must not have the patience.

Let’s take a break. The northern border requires more than 20 border defense regiments from the Xing’an Mountains to the Qilian Mountains. These places mainly deal with the Mongols, so these border defense regiments will be under your control, Mr. Man.”

"Hey! This is not a land of thousands of miles. I'm afraid it's more than tens of thousands of miles in front and back. Lao Man, you've got it right this time." Ao Canghai congratulated Man Gui with a smile.

Indeed, Mangui's power seems to be greater than before. Originally, the entire First Cavalry Division only had nine regiments, but now it has suddenly become more than twenty border defense regiments.

The number of troops suddenly increased more than three times, and Mangui was indeed in great power.

Only Man Gui knew in his heart that the 1st Cavalry Division was the main division. When various weapons and equipment were distributed, it was the highest priority for the entire Liao Army.

Border Guard Regiment! A proper second-line unit that does nothing but patrol all day long.

No matter how much he patrols, Geritu will never think of provoking trouble. Today's Mongolians are as well-behaved as sheep. They herd sheep on the grassland all day long, waiting for the wool to grow and shave it off.

The money from selling cattle and sheep every year is enough for the herdsmen to buy all kinds of grains by the carts back to the grassland. The Mongols no longer need to carry sabers and rush to Han people's places to rob them to live.

Who would want to rob someone with money and food in their waistband? Besides, the Han people's military power was at its peak. Two of the terrifying general-purpose machine guns could kill hundreds of cavalrymen approaching.

Mangui already knew that the most likely possibility for him in the future would be to eat and wait to die.

"A garrison will be established in the capital, and all the troops in the garrison will be selected from the first division. From now on, other troops will never be allowed to enter the capital, and the defense of the capital must be completely controlled by the garrison.

Master Man is guarding the country outside, and Master Ao is guarding the capital at home. The burdens on both of you are very heavy!" Li Xiao washed his hands, and the three brothers sat down at the table together.

"Then I am the Admiral of the Nine Sects! Haha, this is amazing." Master Ao grinned, and the lines on his forehead were happy.

"The garrison area is not just within the capital. The entire capital, including Fangshan Mentougou, is your defense area. No other troops will be stationed in this area.

As long as you see troops organized to enter Beijing, no matter where they come from, as long as they don't have my warrant, you can kill them first and then report them."

After listening to Li Xiao's words, Man Gui's eyes were full of envy. Compared with himself who was just eating and waiting to die, Ao Canghai was considered a real person.

The wine glass was filled to the brim with cinnamon wine until it was dry. The dishes were not touched at all, and the wine was drained three times in a row.

"Master Man, don't think that nothing will happen to you when you arrive on the grassland. According to reliable information, the Rakshasa people have developed rapidly in the past two years. They recently defeated France and are now known as the Russian Empire.

The head of the Rakshasa Kingdom is now a woman named Ekaterina. This woman can be described as a powerful leader. In just three years under her rule, Russia's national power has grown significantly.

Master Man, you are responsible for the northern gate of the Ming Dynasty. This is the place where war is most likely to occur in the future!

The grassland is vast and vast, and it is also the most suitable place for cavalry activities. If Russia wants to attack our Ming Dynasty in the future, your more than twenty border defense regiments will be the first barrier.
To be continued...