Chapter 392 Filling Water Bingcheng, it turns out that spicy chicken is so delicious!
Blood dyed the ground red, and corpses were covered with red soil.
The twenty wells turned into twenty huge torches, and the burning flames responded to the bright smiles of the Han soldiers at the top of the city.
In less than half an hour of fighting, the Han army suffered nearly a thousand casualties, but the Hu soldiers also left behind more and denser corpses. They are qualified to show a bright smile at this time!
At the top of the city, Uweituo looked at the cheering Han army with a livid face and waved his hand back fiercely. Thousands of heavy-armored infantry with heavy shields, dismounted archers and his own Golden Wolf Army rolled toward Hu Qi.
Retreat in the direction of the main formation.
The cheers of the Han troops at the top of the city were even louder!
This bloody and brutal offensive and defensive battle came to an end. Zhu Biao saw with his eyes that all the Hu soldiers who were attacking Beicheng had retreated towards the formation, leaving only corpses on the ground and equipment being burned violently.
Especially in the narrow rectangular area between thirty steps of the city wall, corpses were piled on top of each other, and there was blood and blood everywhere. The smell of blood in the air could not be eliminated no matter how hard it was.
The top of the city was also covered with cold and stiff corpses. The newly swarmed Han army was throwing the corpses of Hu soldiers who had stripped off their iron armor onto the city one after another. On the blue brick wall
There was blood and leaked internal organs everywhere, which had solidified into ice in the cold weather. It was easy to fall if you accidentally stepped on it.
Zhu Biao inspected the head of Weng City, and there were already slight cracks in the wall. The repaired Beiling City Wall was far less solid than the original Beiling City Wall.
"Have you seen the general?" Xie Shuyan patted the cracks on the city wall and said to Zhu Biao, "The urn city and the city wall in the North City were the most severely damaged during the last war. The repairs only cover the surface, but cannot complete the foundation.
.The foundation of the city collapsed was damaged! If Hu Gou’s car hits again, this urn city will not be able to hold on for a few more days!”
Xie Shuyan was a little angry and impatient. You can't blame him for this. He was really red-blooded and wanted to defend the city. Zhu Biao looked at Hu Qi and withdrew his eyes, and raised the corner of his mouth with a smile that he didn't care about.
"Brother Xie, take a look at our feet. The blood has turned into ice. If I pour water on the city, I can build an ice city in one night. No matter how many dogs charge at the car, what can they do to me?"
It’s not that he noticed the blood freezing. Zhu Biao would have forgotten to fill the ice city with water. He couldn’t encourage Yang Yanzhao in his previous life, but he could still turn Beiling into Tiexui City in this time and space!
"Fill the ice city with water?" The order was passed to Yun Zheng's ears. After the initial daze, Yun Zheng felt a sense of admiration in his heart. Zhu Biao is really good at fighting, but he can't do it!
"This guy is completely crazy..." the general next to him said dumbfounded.
Whether it's blowing sand by the wind or filling the ice city with water, it's not the right way to fight. But no one can deny that "crooked ways" can have unexpected and surprising effects when used in the right place.
The whole city was busy with Zhu Biao's order, from the military academy to the common people. Their hands were turned red by the cold well water, and their faces were numb by the knife-like night wind. But there was no trace of it.
It did not affect the high morale! It was like there was a fiery red sun in my heart, no one complained about suffering, and no one felt tired.
It was deep in the night, and the fire at the top of Beiling City was still as bright as day. The plan of the Southern Dharma King to attack the Thunderbolt Chariot at night had been cancelled. People were dumbfounded as they looked at Beiling City, which had been covered with a layer of ice armor, with dull eyes.
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He could fully imagine in his mind what kind of appearance Beiling City would appear in the eyes of hundreds of thousands of knights and soldiers at dawn tomorrow. A white, crystal-clear and indestructible city!
"Haha, good, what a Zhu Biao. What a brave cavalry general of the Han family." The next day, looking at the Beiling Ice City, which was as crystal clear as jade, Wu Ji smiled up to the sky for a while, and then led the Canglang Army to slowly retreat.
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Of course, this is not about retreating from the siege, but "not fighting" for the time being. Hundreds of thousands of Huqi also spent three days building an ice wall outside Beiling City. Sandbags and loess were used as the foundation.
In just three days, a circle of ice wall that was seventy or eighty miles long and more than one foot high was erected. Wu Ji used the city lock method to firmly trap Beiling City in its center.
The snow was falling heavily, and the sky and the earth were completely white. Everything was covered with white snow.
"Bang bang. Bang bang..." The white ice more than a foot thick was smashed open by the Han soldiers guarding the city with axes. A horse's hind leg frozen in the ice was exposed.
It’s Chinese New Year, and instead of eating dumplings, people in the city eat stewed meat. Although the side dishes are still the boring tofu and bean sprouts, the whole city is surrounded tightly, and there are no vegetables to grow in winter.
Grind tofu from soybeans, sprout the bean sprouts, make tofu skin, and dry the tofu.
Not to mention these little soldiers, even Zhu Biao's general's office is tofu every day. Everyone who eats it is tofu!
Horse meat is not delicious. When cooked, foam will be produced and it will give off a foul smell. Therefore, even outside the Great Wall, few people like to eat horse meat. When they come to the Central Plains human race, they can even smell horse meat.
The taste just stayed away.
But just because it doesn’t taste good doesn’t mean it can’t be eaten. Horse meat is still meat after all. For Beiling City, which is trapped in an isolated city and can no longer get any food from the outside world, when Zhu Biao led his troops to fight hundreds of thousands of barbarian cavalry, what would happen if he was lying on the ground?
The tens of thousands of horses on the battlefield, injured horses, and disabled horses can also provide enough nutrition to the soldiers and civilians in the city.
Moreover, in the winter, after slaughtering and cutting up, not only can a large amount of horse oil be extracted, but the horses and fresh meat can also be directly put into water, frozen and stored.
Zhu Biao did not let them go to waste at all. Even a large number of soldiers devoted themselves to this work in those days. It can be said that the horse meat cut and preserved in those days is the source of meat in the city to this day.
the largest source.
Horses are also quite useful. Although there is no way to process them in detail, the horsehide after shaving and drying the meat fat is also a good material for keeping warm. Horse oil has even greater uses. In addition to being used to make kerosene, others
All used in medical treatment.
Burns, hemorrhoids, cuts, abrasions, suppuration, skin allergies, frostbite, shoulder pain, neuralgia, cold hands and feet, sores on the lips, nose, ears, and even colds, can have a certain effect. Especially the knife
It can prevent further inflammation, blisters, and help wounds heal. When a large amount of horse oil was turned into kerosene, the military doctors felt very distressed. They made great efforts to recover the wounded soldiers in the city from the two wars.
, which has made a great contribution.
However, for the vast majority of soldiers, the most useful thing about horses is horse meat. Even the war horses in the city are in limited supply and are starving, and the pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks are even less likely to survive.
During the war, soldiers need adequate nutrition. Although horse meat is not delicious, they have become accustomed to eating it. In the wind and snow, vigils, night watch, and patrols consume too much physical strength, so they can eat more meat to replenish their physical strength.
Nature is good.
In the bunkhouse at the foot of the city, at the wind outlet, there were ten large pots steaming out, with gurgling splashes of water. The familiar stench of horse meat wafted out from the ten pots.
The soldiers who were still talking and curious at first have turned a blind eye now.
When cooking horse meat, you need to cook it thoroughly. Unlike beef and mutton, beef and mutton can still be eaten if they have blood streaks in them. If the blood streaks in horse meat are not boiled out, it will be poisonous. When the water is boiling, you have to put it in the pot. It will be smoked by the steam.
The soft meat was chopped hard by the fire-headed soldier with his axe. The horse's hind legs were dropped into the pot. After a while, the meat was completely soft, and he had to take it out again and cut it into small pieces!
There are also a dozen stoves burning, either boiling hot water or cooking hot food.
The Han soldiers in the shacks and the Han soldiers at the top of the city changed guard every three hours. This group of garrison soldiers, who were freezing to death, cheered and gathered around the stove to keep warm.
Ding Zhuang, who followed the fire-headed soldier, hurriedly took out the cooked soft flatbread from the pot in a large bowl, and distributed bowl after bowl to the cold and numb hands of the guard.
This kind of pancake made from a mixture of white flour and grains is so hard that it can be hit with bricks during this season. It is impossible to eat it. It can only be boiled in water and eaten before eating. In order to make good use of every piece of coal in the city,
The steamed cakes will last for ten to eight days.
There is a pinch of salt in the crumbled bread, which is not delicious, but for the guards who are so cold that they are numb, it is a rare delicacy. Even lower-level officers like Dubbo wolfed it down along with the soldiers without worrying about their appearance.
Get up. In the winter, only by eating hot food can your whole body feel comfortable, and your hands and feet will have blood circulation again, and you will slowly regain consciousness.
At night, the entire Beiling City was ablaze. Horse meat was fragrant, and water and wine so bland that you couldn't even taste the taste were placed on everyone's desk. Except for the guards on the city wall who were always on guard, the entire city's soldiers and civilians were
Living this hard-won New Year's Eve happily.
"Brother Six, you are so amazing. You can make spicy chicken with horse meat and chili!"
On New Year's Eve, the generals also had a good gathering. At noon, all the officers of Sima level and above except those on duty in the city, as well as friends from the Jianghu and Tingwei's copper, silver and gold warriors, gathered at the General's Mansion.
, here comes the only time to have a good drink since being trapped!
Now it was night, and Zhu Biao held a family banquet at the General's Mansion. He could redeem countless Hongbinlou delicacies from the system, but he couldn't use them. He could only look at the talented people in the city and redeemed spicy food.
Stir-fry chicken and other meat, add some meat to the stew, add live horse meat to the pot, and dip it into the flavor.
Shan Yuping looked at her husband in surprise. She never knew that Zhu Biao had such a good craftsmanship. Just smelling the pot of chili fried pork [horse meat], she really thought of spicy chicken, and her mouth was salivating.
Already.
"So the spicy chicken is so delicious..." After Zhu Zhong and Zhu Tong returned, Shan Yuping looked at her husband with her face in her hands, murmuring without knowing what she was thinking.
Her voice was very small, but I wish Biao's ears were so good. "It's been hard on you these past two months!" Her face has lost a lot of weight. Every day she eats tofu, bean sprouts, bean skins, and dried bean curds. How can she endure such hardships when she grows up?
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"Come back tonight and I'll bring you some delicious food..."
"Ah, no, don't go out tonight. Okay, on New Year's Eve, stay with me..." Shan Yuping immediately grabbed Zhu Biao's hand.
