Midsummer passed in the blink of an eye, and autumn came, the busiest time of the year on the grassland.

A year ago, Lu Jia passed here as an envoy to Yuezhi.

A year later, 50,000 elite Han troops and 200,000 horses were ready here.

This group of Han troops has been stationed here for more than half a year, and they have gradually adapted to the environment here.

In addition, they also need to personally take care of their horses every day.

From the beginning, each person was assigned one war horse, then two horses per person after summer, and three horses per person before autumn.

Gao Shu was just an ordinary soldier. After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, his family's life gradually improved.

When people are no longer hungry, they start thinking about how to make their lives better.

Going to work is naturally a way, but it is a way with no future.

Like these comrades around him, Gao Shu chose to join the army.

It happened that the county was recruiting soldiers, so Gao Shu immediately summoned a few friends and went to sign up together.

As a result, two of the five people were selected. The other two were judged to have an unstable center of gravity and a slightly poor sense of balance, so they were not recruited for the time being.

Gao Shu passed the assessment of these rejected projects.

But in the end he was not selected. The reason for rejection was that his height exceeded the upper limit required by the Ministry of War.

This reason makes Gao Shu find it unbelievable. When did you recruit the tallest people first?

When did growing too tall become a hindrance to becoming a soldier?

But his arms couldn't lift his thighs, so Gao Shu could only go home depressed with the other two people.

However, just a year ago, news came out in the county that this time a group of soldiers with height requirements were being recruited.

Gao Shu went to register again, and the result was naturally satisfactory.

Gao Shu was successfully selected.

A tall man of 1.8 meters, he finally felt proud at this moment.

However, after the gathering, Gao Shu discovered that the place where he came was the same place where the other two friends came, but the three of them were assigned to different camps.

The biggest difference is the food.

My friend has three meals a day, and the standard is three stones of grain per person per month, plus two strips of bacon. If the meat is cut thinner, you can have a piece of bacon with every meal.

As for Gaoshu, life is even more comfortable.

The standard of three shi of food per month remains unchanged, as does the standard of two strips of bacon.

But every three days, meat can be eaten again. Every three days in the camp, a batch of sheep will be killed, the bones will be boiled into soup, and the meat will be divided into portions. Basically, everyone can get about half a catty of meat every time.

And this led to another embarrassing situation. After eating half a catty of meat, the ration consumption for the day was greatly reduced, resulting in the phenomenon of being unable to finish eating.

Later, the camp came up with a solution.

Sheep are killed every day, so just divide the number of sheep killed every three days into three parts.

In this way, soldiers can eat meat every day without wasting rations.

In these small days, even if someone chases Gaoshu away, he is unwilling to leave.

What’s the matter if you’re a little tired from training on weekdays?

Gao Shu can pat his chest and say that before he came to this place to serve as a soldier, he had never had such a full meal or such a good meal.

But now, he can eat enough every day, every meal, and he can eat well.

No, when I arrived, I was 1.8 meters tall and only weighed 120 kilograms. Based on this height, I can basically be said to be skinny.

What now?

Gao Shu's weight has increased to 150 kilograms, and he has no fat on his belly. His daily heavy training has allowed him to burn off excess calories, and the fat has been trained into muscles over time.

Of course, high food was just one of the reasons. Even the war horses were allocated to them five, which was two more than others.

"Brother Shu, is there any meat left?"

"Eating bacon all day long makes my mouth look like a bird..."

Looking at the two brothers Gao Lin and Gao Shan, Gao Shu felt helpless.

The three of them were from the same village, and they were the first two to be recruited.

After arriving here, we found that their camp was not far away.

For half a year, the two parties often worked together.

Therefore, they are also very familiar with their respective military camps, and they have already become familiar with the personnel and so on.

Of course, the Han army was allowed to camp together, but only for half an hour every day.

"No..." Gao Shu was about to shake his head when a violent roar came from behind him.

"You two bastards are here again, Mr. Huohuo?"

"Tun... Chief, we are just here to talk..." Gao Lin was a little scared and explained subconsciously.

"Yes... I'm just here to talk..." Gao Shan echoed.

"Talk? Okay, you guys go ahead and talk!" Chen Li, the village leader, directly pulled the bucket beside Gaoshu and sat down on it without getting wet, staring straight at the two bastards.

"Um...tunnel chief, you look at us like this and you dare not say anything!" Gao Lin looked at Chen Li with tears in his eyes.

"Are you afraid to say it? Or are you afraid to say it?" Chen Li looked at the two people with a livid expression.

"What's the difference?" Gao Lin asked subconsciously. The two of them didn't dare to say, aren't they the same?

"What do you think?" Chen Li glared at these two idiots fiercely, and then said angrily: "I guard against you day and night, but I just can't guard against you two bastards, right? If you dare to ask questions again,

The tree wants meat, believe it or not, I'm going to make a fuss and tell you two to get out? You two have no idea how much trouble you caused our camp last time, right?"

Speaking of what happened last time, the two brothers Gao Lin and Gao Shan couldn't help but blush, and said embarrassedly: "It wasn't just the two of us last time, there were so many people..."

"You dare to say that? Go away, let me see you two again, I have to go to your camp to have a good fight with your village chief!" Chen Li scolded with anger on his face.

What happened last time was very simple. Due to scheduling issues in their camp, they couldn't finish their rations.

Then the fellow villagers from other camps heard the news and came, taking the opportunity to beat the autumn wind hard.

Naturally, Han Xin would not fail to pay attention to such a big matter, so he said lightly, "If you don't want to eat, then don't eat. Since there is still food left for others, it means that you are strong and practice more."

So, stop eating and practice more.

For a month in a row, their camp was miserable.

After returning to normal, I came up with the idea of ​​killing the sheep once a day, and then concentrated on eating, giving out as much as I could, and finishing it on the spot.

If you can't finish it, keep it in one place so no one can take it away.

After a while, everyone else became more honest, but these two people still interacted frequently.

So every time they came, Chen Li had to come and keep an eye on him, for fear that Gao Shu would be tricked into secretly hiding meat for these two guys.

"Tun chief...we..."

'Boom! Boom! Boom!'

Before Gao Lin could finish his sentence, a burst of drumming came from the camp.

Hearing the sound of the drum, Gao Shu quickly tied up his horse.

Chen Li, who was sitting on the bucket, also stood up quickly. Before leaving, he didn't forget to curse at the two of them: "Get out of here, maybe you will gather later!"

The sound of drums in the camp means gathering.

Fifty thousand people were stationed together in a large camp.

This camp is divided into eleven areas, each with 5,000 people per camp. Located in the center is General Han Xin and his 2,000 soldiers, which is also where the central army of this camp is located.

Within each camp, there is also a small camp.

The small camp is the camp of the 500 heavy cavalry belonging to these 5,000 people.

Although Han Xin selected tall soldiers to serve as heavy cavalry, these men had only skeletons and did not have the weight and strength to match.

So in the past six months, Han Xin asked Yuezhi again and again for sheep, or simply exchanged them.

In Han Xin's words, even if he sells iron, he must first support these five thousand heavy cavalry.

Otherwise, they would be tired before even fighting on the battlefield. Why would I give them such high configuration?

It is better to recruit ordinary soldiers directly, not only to save meat, but also to save two horses per person.

In this camp, there is a lot of daily training.

But there has not been a real outing training. For the heavy cavalry, the most they can do is learn to ride a horse at the camp horse farm. The rest of the time is either used for daily physical combat training or staying with the horses to cultivate feelings.

At the beginning, there were no requirements, just feeding on time. When summer comes, you are required to chat with the war horse for an hour every day. No matter what you talk about, even if it is an awkward chat, even if you stare at each other in a daze, you

Also stay in front of it for an hour.

But now, he is required to sleep with his main war horse every day.

Fortunately, after more than half a year of relationship cultivation, the war horse and the soldier have become more and more familiar with each other through a step-by-step approach. Even if they sleep together, there won't be any big problems.

But the most puzzling thing is, since it is a cavalry unit, why haven't they focused on training riding skills even after more than half a year?
Chapter completed!