After getting the jade seal, Yang Fan was excited for a while and then he felt calm.
After all, Yang Fan is a modern person and is not as enthusiastic about the imperial seal as the ancients. However, Tu Shanyue, Lin Yueru, and Chen Xi were so excited that they stayed up all night. They kept mumbling. Yang Fan was sleepy, so he didn't care whether they slept or not.
In the morning, Yang Fan got up on time and stretched. His joints crackled all over his body. He suddenly felt comfortable and incomparable.
Yang Fan tucked them in and got dressed under the maid's clothes. He left the ladies to continue sleeping in. He got out of the RV directly.
Donkey Dan doesn’t know what happened yesterday, but he never asks questions that he shouldn’t.
"What a nice weather." Yang Fan said while looking at Jingbo Lake in the early morning.
The main purpose of setting up camp here is to facilitate the collection of water. After all, an army of more than 60,000 people needs a lot of water. In this era, it is impossible to live without water. Not only do the soldiers need to drink, but they also need to cook.
"Go ahead and give us the order. Everyone will have a meal. Each group will be given a spiced pig's head, three kilograms of bulk liquor, a bucket of braised hairtail, and unlimited rice and steamed buns."
Donkey Dan guessed that something good must have happened last night, otherwise the master, who has always strictly controlled food, would not be so generous.
"Master, are you ready to start a war? The people below are all very anxious." Donkey Dan asked tentatively.
"That's right, after dinner, we will all break camp and attack Amin." Yang Fan said, "Now the roads are all rotten, and the flat ground is also very muddy. Amin has no way out, and the ground will not be dry until next month."
This was Yang Fan's wishful thinking. He deliberately contacted Amin on a small scale and refused to fight each time. He retreated all the way here just to distract them so as to create opportunities for Mang Gurtai.
Now, the ice and snow have melted and the roads are muddy. It will take at least a month before the ground will be dry. This time will be enough to hold him off, and Mang Gurtai will be able to succeed.
As soon as the news spread, the people of Donghai burst into cheers. All they had been eating during this period were compressed biscuits, and only one person ate half a pound of canned luncheon meat at noon every day. Forget about wine.
Yang Fan strictly controlled food consumption because he knew that the muddy road was extremely difficult not only for Amin, but also for himself. The steam truck had a difficult time traveling on the temporarily built road. There was often melting snow and water.
It overflowed the road. In some places, there were landslides on the mountains.
The supplies from Vladivostok also became untimely. Yang Fan could only limit consumption and distribute quotas.
Fortunately, in order to ensure the heat, a large number of canned luncheon meats that were shipped earlier are still there. These items are all in tinplate buckets of 50 kilograms each. There is not much meat in the luncheon meat. This stuff is actually minced with animal offal.
, ground into powder and made with some fat and starch.
Yang Fan raised a large number of cattle and sheep on the grassland. After slaughtering them, because Mongolians do not eat offal, these things are easy to perish during transportation and are not easy to preserve. Therefore, Duolun became a meat product factory and gutted all the cattle and sheep.
Crush it, add spices and starch, and you can make luncheon meat.
Yang Fan has a lot of pure fat meat in his hand. If you add some more, it will be very fragrant. Soldiers like to slice the lunch meat with a bayonet and eat it in steamed buns. Pick it on the bayonet and lean on the campfire until it sizzles with oil.
, also very delicious.
People of this era especially like oils and fats and are not afraid of greasy food at all.
Yang Fan has basically made full use of cattle and sheep. Even the bones have uses. When deboning, the fascia and part of the meat can be connected to the bones by making them wider, and then crushed together with a grinder. The mud produced has a scientific name, called
Chicken bone paste.
This thing is non-toxic and is a legal food additive for later generations. It is said that the calcium supplement effect is particularly good. The ham sausages we eat in later generations are basically made of this stuff, with some fat, starch, and spices added. However, the chicken of later generations is
Bone mud is mainly composed of chicken bones discarded from chicken farms.
There is almost no cost except labor and tinplate, it is very cheap.
But sausages and luncheon meats made from chicken bone paste are extremely calorie-dense. They are especially suitable for high-intensity activities such as military marches and battles. Without calories, the physical exertion will be too great, and people will die from exhaustion.
With the gradual start of ocean fishing in the past two years, the processed fish leftovers and bones have become one of the main raw materials for chicken bone paste. They can be used to make fish balls, crab sticks, and fish-flavored intestines.
The offal is made into luncheon meat, and the bones of the meat are made into chicken bone paste, and then made into ham sausage. This extremely low-cost food is very popular among the officers and soldiers.
The people in Donghai were very excited when they got the news of the camp. Everyone made a lot of money along the way. The money was stored in Xinghe Bank, which was with the army. They had planned to go to Shuangchengzi to spend a lot of money after the war.
Say it again.
The retreat along the way made them very depressed. They did not understand why Mr. Yang avoided Amin. In their opinion, Jianzhou was just that. If there was a fight, it was not necessarily who would win.
This time I finally got a clear military order. After dinner, let’s get started!
The tribes in the East China Sea began to attack Amin on the other side in units of thousands of households.
During their retreat, they were almost free. At this time, everyone was gearing up and preparing for a big fight. Yang Fan had agreed with them for fifty taels of Jianzhou's head.
Yang Fan was not worried about not having enough money, because they all accepted paper money. In Shuangchengzi, only paper money could be used to buy things. Gold, silver and copper coins could only be exchanged for paper money at a bank.
No matter how many banknotes are issued, they will spend them in Shuangchengzi, and the money will return to Master Yang's hands.
At a quarter past noon, war drums suddenly sounded in the military camp on Yang Fan's side. Three hundred big cowhide drums were beaten by a group of strong men. The sound of the drums was earth-shattering. Hearing it from far away, one could feel the diaphragm in the abdomen vibrating together.
Amin was worried in the big tent that the military rations from behind could not be transported.
It's strange that such a muddy road can be walked easily. The Qing army only guaranteed one meal a day at noon. In order to save food, dinner was cancelled.
Suddenly he heard the sound of drums coming. Three hundred drums were beating together, forming a resonance. He could feel the pressure even across the lake.
Amin quickly ran out of the big tent. Because the big tent was built in muddy water, and the ground was covered with bundles of shrubs and twigs, water would pop up when he ran.
Amin boarded the only remaining Lv Gong car and looked towards the east. The other heavy equipment was abandoned on the road. Because it was too difficult to walk, the Lv Gong car had to be abandoned.
The thing was too heavy, with three layers of hardwood boards sandwiched between gravel and quilts. It became even heavier when it got wet. The wheels got stuck in the mud and couldn't be pulled out. They quickly gave up on the truck.
Amin was on Lu's bus and saw the open space on the south side of Hunan. The Jurchens from the East China Sea were grouped into a group of one thousand. There was no formation at all, and the hedgehog group drove towards this direction.
Although Amin despised these barbarians for not knowing the art of war, he did not dare to underestimate them.
"Hey! Why can they walk in the mud and fly so fast?"
Amin was surprised to find that the muddy flat land was full of mud pits and puddles. Baqi could sink into his knees with one step, making walking very difficult and strenuous. But these people could actually walk normally.
