Chapter 527: The winner’s dinner, don’t dare to pursue
At the end of Xu hour, it was already completely dark, and the horse meat that had been cooked over a high fire for an hour was completely cooked.
The soldiers of the Wu army sat down casually by the fire in front of them, scooping out horse meat soup with makeshift wooden spoons.
In the dim light of the fire, you can still see the broth steaming upward from time to time, and the aroma floats far away.
You can also smell it from the gathering place of the surrendered soldiers of the Wei army not far away, but they can only sit by their own fire, burn some mountain spring water, smell it, and swallow their saliva. After all, this is the winner's dinner.
, there is no share for the defeated,
They also know that if they win this time, they will definitely be able to enjoy these things, but now they are not qualified to enjoy them.
They could only eat wheat cakes and very dry fried wheat rice, which would be difficult to swallow without hot water. This was the most standard wartime military ration.
In the earliest times, there was no such thing as military rations, because agriculture had not yet been promoted. Emperor Huang and Emperor Yan could not rest after they withdrew from the battlefield. They had to go hunting with their men and eat whatever they hunted. If they could not hunt, they would just go hungry.
Going to the battlefield on an empty stomach.
After entering the Central Plains, the population gradually increased and primitive agriculture began to develop.
At that time, wheat had just arrived in China from West Asia, and noodles, flatbreads, and steamed buns had not yet evolved.
Wheat can only appear in the list of military rations in its most primitive form. The army uses it to cook vegetable porridge and drink it. Various wild vegetables, beans and even meat are added to the porridge.
Because this kind of porridge is very thick, it is also called thick, and the vessel used to hold food is called bronze beans.
Field hunting was another main source of military rations. In the Shang Dynasty, field hunting was very large, and thousands of people could be dispatched at one time to obtain hundreds of wild animals.
During the Warring States Period, we officially became a farming nation, and millet became people’s staple food.
In ancient China, military rations have actually been affected by storage and production.
Millet nourishes people and is easy to store. Rice can be stored for three to five years, while millet can be stored for ten years.
Therefore, millet was the first choice for military ration in the early days, usually by making porridge or cooking. Later, when wheat became more popular, it replaced millet.
With millet, the generals no longer have to drag their tired troops to hunt and dig wild vegetables after leaving the battlefield. They can pour millet from the bamboo tube in a leisurely manner and cook a pot of steaming rice.
A small step in diet leads to a big step in combat effectiveness. The tiger and wolf armies of Qin State were able to calmly unify the six countries by relying on the millet produced in Qinchuan, an area of 800 miles away.
For ordinary soldiers, filling their stomachs is the first priority, and vegetables and meat are not something they dare to think about.
Only for victory celebrations would ordinary soldiers eat fresh meat. In most cases, they would eat pickled dried fish, dried meat, and a more economical option - sauce. It is said that there were fish sauce and meat sauce in those days.
Later, bean-based sauces were also developed.
There were two main types of dry food in the Han Dynasty army, called rice and 糗, which were rice, wheat, sorghum and other grains fried and then mashed for ease of carrying. It was similar to the fried rice and fried noodles of later generations. You just grab a handful when eating.
, drink it directly with hot water, but the staple food in the north and south regions is different.
For example, the Kanto region mainly uses wheat rice, which is wheat that is processed casually. It is directly made into grains of wheat rice without going through complicated processes. At that time, this was a food belonging to the lower class people.
Naturally, Wu Jun would not be kind enough to give them the rice he brought with him. Most people are not used to eating wheat cakes and other foods from the north.
Of course, we won't give them horse meat soup, so we can only give them some military rations stolen from the Wei army.
Even if the soldiers of the Wei army watched others eat meat and did not even give them a sip of hot soup, they felt dissatisfied, but they would not show it. After all, they were still prisoners.
If these Wu troops are offended and don't give them food, it is not impossible to starve them alive.
Cheng Xi was still running desperately with the remaining 800 men under his command. Two-quarters of an hour after successfully escaping from the valley entrance, he set foot on the pontoon bridge again.
He rode his horse across the river without looking back, and did not dismantle the pontoon bridge after crossing the river. Cheng Xi did not dare to stop in the nearby city that was still under the control of the Wei army. He just went to ask the city gate to open the city gate to have something to eat and asked for some
forage,
So I continued to run towards Jixian. It would be easier to walk along the official road I came from, and I could get back to Jixian faster.
By the end of Xu Shi, Cheng Xi and others had already run out for seventy or eighty miles. The guards on Cheng Xi's left and right looked back. There was only darkness behind them, and there was no sign of the Wu army pursuing them.
The people on the left and right said in confusion: "General, this, the Wu army didn't come after me. I thought I was going to die like this in Liaodong."
Cheng Xi thought for a moment and felt uneasy, but he still pretended to be calm and said: "But maybe Wu Jun felt that it was too late and was worried that the general would still have a hand and lay an ambush on the official road, so they did not dare to continue chasing. It's really
A bunch of Jiangdong rats!"
Although Cheng Xi said so, he didn't think so in his heart. He thought this must be Wu Jun's trick again, but he just couldn't think of it for the time being.
Qin Dan and Du De, like the soldiers of the Wu army, found a fire on the hillside and sat down beside it. Their guards had already put the horse meat into the cauldron and cooked it, and it was already cooked at this moment.
The guard filled several bowls of horse meat soup in pottery bowls and said to the two people who came over: "Two generals, the horse meat is already cooked. Come and have dinner." After saying this, he handed the soup bowls in his hands to the two people.
Qin Dan took the steaming bowl of soup and said, "You should sit down and eat quickly. You don't have to worry about me and General Du anymore. If it's not enough later, I will fill more from the cauldron."
The guard heard what he was told and did as he was told. He poured a bowl of horse meat soup from the cauldron and began to devour it.
Du De found a wooden spoon, scooped out a piece of cooked horse meat, put it into his mouth and chewed: "It tastes good, really fragrant, much better than Jianye's horse meat."
Qin Dan took a few sips of soup and continued: "Yes, the horse meat in Liaodong is not comparable to that in Jianye. I heard that there are even shops in Jianye that use other meat to make horse meat to fool people. Many
The people of Jianye have all been taken advantage of like this.
If our Jiangdong can continue to expand from Youzhou to Jizhou this time, it will definitely allow more people in Jiangdong to eat horse meat, even if it is dead horse meat, they can really taste it!"
At this time, the sound of horse hooves was heard from the direction of Xiangping. The visitor came here unscathed. It was obviously one of his own. The visitor looked around here, then drove his horse to Qin Dan. Du De stood up and dismounted.
The military salute said: "The two generals Qin and Du, the great Sima Youling,
After a rest tonight, tomorrow morning I will order you two to lead an army to attack several uncaptured cities in eastern Liaoning, and completely bring Liaodong back to Jiangdong territory!"