They took a bite carefully, not knowing what kind of meat this is, but it is indeed crispy and fragrant, and it is considered delicious - this is from the perspective of a pseudo-official, and for ordinary soldiers, it is simply a delicious food from the sky.

The soldier does not have meat to eat normally.

For a moment, the whole place was filled with the sound of eating and the crunching sound of meat. It was obvious that this meat was very chewy and the meat was firm.

"Dare you ask... what kind of meat is this military marquis?" Zhao Wei accompanied the officer who was carefully asking the meal.

"I don't know it anymore. This is the new military ration invented by my military commander. "Eat rabbits with cold onions and peppers". Otherwise, you locals are stupid. Ba County has so many mountains, forests and shrubs that cannot farm or sheep, so they are idle and can't even raise rabbits."

Zhao Wei was surprised: "So this is a rabbit? I haven't eaten it much, but rabbits are easy to run away and are not easy to raise."

Rabbit feed is indeed easy. They eat grass like sheep, and are not picky about food than sheep. Many grasses or shrubs and leaves that cannot be eaten by sheep can also be eaten by rabbits. Otherwise, how can rabbits turn into ecological disasters that destroy cattle, sheep and animal husbandry?

But the reason why rabbits are difficult to raise is mainly because they have too strong athletic ability and are too easy to escape, and cannot be managed by them. Therefore, Chinese people have never thought of raising rabbits manually since ancient times, and at most they are hunting rabbits.

When asked this question, the Han army officer was proud and proud: "If you don't say you won't find a way. Rabbits are not easy to raise, so just catch a group of them alive and breed them out for a little bit of breeding.

Rabbits grow so quickly, they can reproduce for three generations a year. Are there enough weeds and leaves that are afraid of not growing wildly? During the winter, heavy snow covers the mountains, puts baskets and traps by the forest at the entrance of the village, cuts some radish baits, and collects a lot of goods at dawn."

I have to say that after repeated tinkering with Li Su and Guoyuan, the military farmer, guided those residential areas that had farmed along the Jialing River last year to learn to catch free-range/trap recycling rabbits. The effect was indeed very good and it was also a masterpiece.

If it is a rabbit on the grassland, it may not be completely out of food and will hit a trap in winter, and it may also migrate south in advance. However, this mountainous area in Shu was not a place where rabbits were bred more, and rabbits belong to half an alien species. After the heavy snow covers the mountain, rabbits are completely out of food. At this time, the efficiency of radish traps is very high. Just as those farming sites originally planted radishes and stocked up radishes, which naturally formed the industrial model of "released in summer and autumn, recycling traps in winter, and fried and dried for a long time".

Li Su's only adventure in raising rabbits across regions was to over-propagate foreign species and may destroy the ecological balance. For example, if you get some rabbits in Australia, the ranch will be completely over.

But in Sichuan, Li Su believes that it will not cause ecological disasters. As long as you teach local people how to eat chili peppers, such as dry meat that keeps fresh for a long time, rabbits will never be flooded.

Of course, Zhao Wei could not have known these secrets, but Li Su deliberately leaked them to him in order to let him know how rich Liu Bei's army's military rations were! After letting these surrendered soldiers be released back, it greatly damaged the confidence and morale of the Diaoyu City defenders in the bath.

Zhao Wei felt bitterness in his mouth and asked, "Is your army so rich that he eats meat every day?"

The officer of Fangfan smiled proudly and said, "That's not the case, but it's already Mayday. These cold-eating rabbits were caught and slaughtered in winter. If they put them down, they will be broken. I will finish them soon.

If the National Commander is really a talent for military farming in the world, he can only eat the rabbit meat in the mountains and transport military rations in a transit. He can also produce so many radishes, pilosula, taro, and rabbit subsidies. Unfortunately, this rabbit meat can only be eaten in winter and spring."

After he said this, Zhao Wei felt it became more and more credible, rather than Li Su deliberately making people brag about it.

He asked indirectly, including where the warship that defeated them today came from, Liu Bei's army transported grain from Hanzhong to Diaoyu City, and why the Jialing River waterway was not damaged much... These inside stories were gradually found by him, and his confidence suddenly became lower and lower.

How could I continue to spend money with Li Su? It would be really unfair to lose to him.

...

The Han army kept the prisoners for two or three days and opened them to see them. They only kept the road to the south very strictly and never let a living who knew the inside story back to Jiangzhou.

On the third day after being captured, Zhao Wei finally got Li Su's reception again, which also means that Li Su would let them go.

Li Su shook the folding fan, and seemed to be dissatisfied with the heat in Bajun in May:

"I have seen the military power of our army these days, right? After returning to the city, I told Liu Mao not to resist stubbornly. As long as I surrender and sacrifice my father and son, I can even give Liu Yan a idle official position to cover up his shame. Otherwise, if these two thousand mouths are sent to the city, he will not be able to eat enough food for even a year. When the day of breaking the city, it will be a burning of jade and stone!"

"I... I try my best to persuade." Zhao Weiren did not dare to resist under the low eaves.

Li Su continued to criticize: "There is another thing. If you are willing to do it, even if Liu Mao does not surrender in the future, I will protect your whole family from wealth. If you refuse, I don't care. I have other ways."

Zhao Wei was quite frightened: "You wouldn't want me to be an insider after returning to the city and open the city gate, right? Diaoyu City is extremely solid and built along the mountain. There are layers of defense along the mountain. It is useless to open a door."

Li Su's eyes lit up: "So, do you already know the defense structure of Diaoyu City?"

Zhao Wei: "I don't know this... I just know it's really solid and has many defense lines."

Li Su snorted coldly: "Since that's the case, you have given you anyway. After entering the city, please observe carefully, draw pictures of the city defenses on wooden boards, make a few more pieces, and throw them into the river. We will set up a net downstream to intercept them. On the night after the throwing, we will pretend to shoot a rocket to the camp opposite the river."

If Zhao Wei did not agree, Li Su would naturally send Xiaozhu to mingle among the prisoners and find out the locations of the granary and other places in the city. Even if he could not completely burn all the food in the city, he would still slaughter Liu Mao.

Li Suke wasn't that idle and really stayed in for another year.

Zhao Wei was frightened and always felt that Li Su must have a backup plan and would not believe him completely, so he had to leave by obedience.

In the evening of that day, two thousand prisoners were stripped of their clothes and drove them to the city of Diaoyu City.

The Han army shouted from a distance with a paper tube horn: "Listen to the defenders in the city! These are the brothers who transported you food two days ago. They were captured by us. Now let's put them back! We don't care about the more than 2,000 guards. We are afraid that Liu Mao is not kind. In order to save military rations, he even ignores his own soldiers! Liu Mao, if you want to be a human, take them back, otherwise we will not raise idle people and kill prisoners!"

The city was moved. The Diaoyu City defenders obviously did not expect that Liu Bei's army would despise them so much. They released more people to defend the city to speed up food consumption (only the prisoners knew about Li Su's existence, and the city defenders did not know as of now)

All attention was focused on Liu Mao’s decision-making.

Liu Mao was also completely overwhelmed, but there was no way out. After thinking about it again and again, he gritted his teeth and decided: "Let them all be put back, but we must check whether there are any enemy troops mixed in! Moreover, from tonight, we must strengthen defense and investigation every time we go to the inner wall to avoid the enemy's slightest moves and secretly opening the city gate!"

Liu Xi had no choice but to obey the military orders and took back two thousand prisoners.

Unfortunately, Li Su seemed to be very calm and did not make any small moves in the next half month. Instead, Liu Mao's soldiers became exhausted because of the day and night of duty.

The prisoners returned to the city also had sufficient food and transportation and dispatched them properly, and were not afraid of protracted wars. All the news that ordinary soldiers had eaten rabbit meat and spread. As a result, the morale of the defenders became increasingly depressed.

Li Su also obtained the defense maps in the city through the wooden boards floating in the Jialing River without any idea, especially the locations of the main granaries in various places.

He was not idle these days. On the one hand, he found a few jewelry craftsmen, polished a pair of flat and round fire beads with natural crystals, and a concave lens opposite to the concave concave and concave beads of fire beads, and then used Li Su's own "calcium carbonate flocculent precipitation" abrasive to smooth the clarity. Add the copper cylinder to get a telescope that is not reliable but can be used at least.

On the other hand, Li Su asked the besieged troops to set up a wooden building worth more than ten feet to the top of a mountain on the south bank of the Jialing River, which was more difficult than the well railing. However, because they did not need to move like the well railing, they could be constructed. In this way, standing on the roof of this building, fitting a telescope, and comparing the wooden board map, can roughly confirm the impact on the city.

"Well, I didn't expect that there were some scattered military rations in the shanty area behind the first two city walls. These points can be burned with a catapult cart and a sugar turbulent oil tank. The gentle military farm areas in the west of the city are all granaries. If you can place a large Kongming lantern, put the sugar turbulent oil tank in it, and put it on a kite string and set it on fire... It's a pity that it's not easy to control the direction."

No matter what, try it, how much it can be burned. The key is that Li Su feels that the morale in Diaoyu City is so low that no one can fight for it. As long as the fire is messed up, it is better to let other people with dissidents, or those Han army who have infiltrated it to find opportunities to attract the attention of the defenders and use fake fire to cover the real fire and set fire, it is better than not trying.

A few days later, the relevant actions gradually began. It was about one day in late May. The Han army, which had not been striving to attack the city for a long time, launched an offensive again and dispatched some "Hanzhong Cannons".

Unlike in the past, this time the Hanzhong cannon was added with incendiary bombs, and the attack on the buildings inside the wall became extremely accurate, which really scared the defenders. It also destroyed and burned some buildings close to the outer defense line, including two small granaries. About a few thousand stones of military rations allocated to the exterior wall guards were burned, and a lot of firewood and forage for cooking were burned together.
Chapter completed!