The farmer's proverb goes: before and after the Qingming Festival, you carry melons and sow beans. This means that the agricultural season has reached the Qingming Festival, the weather is getting warmer, everything is recovering, and it is a suitable time for sowing crops. Another reason is that there is abundant rain during the Qingming Festival, which is beneficial to the crops.
Germination and growth. Naturally, the common people do not understand why there is abundant rain during the Qingming Festival. They also do not understand the scientific principles of atmospheric circulation and the intersection of high and low pressure with cold and warm. They do not need to know these to understand the reason for the heavy rain during the Qingming Festival.
It is a summary of ancient wisdom and experience, and is what countless ordinary people have discovered from their lives.
In the early morning of March 12th, the day before the Qingming Festival, a spring rain finally began to fall. The spring rain was as precious as oil, which was the praise of the common people for the spring rain. However, for the 80,000 soldiers of the Luoyan Army on Yu Shili Changgan
In terms of price, this spring rain is not only more expensive than oil, it is a life-saving rain. Because the entire army has been without water for a day, people's hearts are already a little unstable.
Therefore, when the spring rain fell, the entire hill fell into a boil. Everyone ran out of the tent and stood in the falling rain, opening their mouths to welcome the rain falling from the sky. And the generals of the army
They also took a long breath and felt relieved. Although their Marshal Lin said that it will definitely rain in the next few days, because of the so-called "Rain in Qingming Festival", no one dared to do it because of this unknown sentence.
Who wrote the poem and concluded that it would rain? It wasn't until the rain actually fell that they realized that the poem was true and that Marshal Lin's calmness was by no means a pretense.
Of course, Lin Jue is not completely unworried. Although the probability of rain before and after the Qingming Festival is very high, it is not 100% likely to rain. If this year is abnormal, will he still be able to settle accounts with God? So, he has actually done his best.
He had made two preparations. If there was no water supply for two days and it didn't rain again, he would have to risk organizing people to go to the Bian River to collect water. There would definitely be a battle, but it had to be done. Fortunately, everything was still the same.
It happened as I expected, and God finally did not push the Luoyan Army into a desperate situation.
When the spring rain came, Yang Xiu was the happiest person. He had already made preparations. He ordered people to cover the potholes on the hill slopes with large pieces of raincloth. Large pieces of tent cloth were cut.
He opened it like an umbrella to catch and store every drop of rain falling from the sky. He didn't want to waste any drop of rainwater, and he also requisitioned a lot of pots and pans from the army, just for this purpose.
Store the rainwater you receive.
Yang Xiu felt that the spring rain at this time would not be too heavy, so the rainwater was extremely precious and could not be wasted. However, in the afternoon, he was dumbfounded. The rain started from a drizzle in the early morning and became heavier and heavier in the afternoon.
, although it is not a downpour, it has already exceeded expectations. Not only hundreds of water tankers were full, more than a dozen depressions and several large pits dug by humans were also filled with rainwater. There were unexpectedly huge rains in the hills and ravines.
All formed large streams. Everyone finally understood why some terrains on both sides of the hills were full of slopes and fissures. They were ditches formed by the erosion and flow of rainwater.
In this way, the most worrying problem of water shortage was finally no longer a problem. Instead, it rained heavily, and the hills were muddy, making it difficult for carriages and horses to walk. Every time they walked, their feet were muddy.
It becomes a headache. However, this problem is better than thirst due to lack of water. It can only be regarded as a happy trouble at this time.
In the afternoon, in the octagonal room on the first floor of the Range Rover Tower, Lin Jue summoned everyone to discuss matters, and Guo Kun also attended. The generals were all wet, and there was mud under their feet. After it rained, they each checked the tents in the camp.
There were rain leaks, whether there was water accumulation in the camp, etc., so I got wet and my legs were covered with mud. After coming in, they all sat down around a red fire in the middle of the tower room. After a while, everyone was covered in sweat.
White mist emerged, and everyone seemed to be ascending to immortality. Everyone was in a good mood. After the spring rain, everyone felt much more comfortable and relaxed.
Lin Jue sat on a chair next to the fire. He ordered someone to bring a tea cup and put it on the fire. Then he personally took down a large copper pot from the fire and poured water into the tea cups one by one. The sharp-eyed people immediately noticed
The tea was clear, green, and fragrant, which surprised everyone.
"Oh, Marshal, where did you get the tea? Could it be tea brought from the mountains? I didn't expect that there is still tea to drink at this time. We are really in a good mood." Ma Qingshan exclaimed in surprise, he likes to drink it.
Like Lin Jue, there are not many military generals who like to read and drink tea. Ma Qingshan is one of them.
"Hey, there's still tea to drink, it's wonderful, it's wonderful." Liang Qi and others also shouted. Tea is a luxury product, and tea is also a luxury product in the military. Even in Luoyan Valley, tea is enjoyed by ordinary people.
It's something that can't be afforded. Marshal's tea must be excellent tea, and that's even better.
Lin Jue smiled and said: "Everyone, drink it first and see if it suits your taste."
After hearing this, everyone thanked each other one after another and took tea cups to drink. Some took a gentle sip and drank it slowly, while others opened their mouths to drink it like a cow chewing peonies, not knowing the taste.
"Hey, the taste is so fresh, could it be spring tea? But...it's strange, where does the spring tea in our army come from? Where did the commander get the spring tea?" Ma Qingshan touched the taste of the tea in his mouth and exclaimed in surprise.
road.
Lin Jue laughed and said: "Brother Ma still knows the goods, but you have to taste them more carefully."
Ma Qingshan took another sip, smacked his lips and savored the aftertaste, frowning and said: "Strange, strange, the taste is indeed fragrant, but it is bitter. It is like new tea, but not like it. But overall, it tastes good.
very."
Lin Jue laughed and said: "Yes, yes, Brother Ma has some skills. Everyone, what you are drinking is not tea. This is the willow sprouts I boiled with the spring rain that fell today. How about it? Is it comparable to new tea? The taste is not bad."
Everyone was shocked and angry, and then burst into laughter. After doing it for a long time, it turned out that what they drank was not tea, but willow buds. They never expected it. The taste was really good.
"My hometown is in the south, and we in the south have the custom of drinking willow leaf tea in spring. What is important is to use the first rain of the New Year to boil the first sprouts on the willow trees. Drinking this new rain willow bud tea heralds the coming of this new year.
The year has a new beginning. When the spring rain fell today, I thought of this matter, so I told the emperor. Although the emperor’s ancestral home is Bianliang, he also grew up in Hangzhou, so he naturally knows this.
It is customary. At the suggestion of the emperor, we picked some willow buds in the rain and used them for the New Year.
The rainwater has brewed tea for you to drink. If you can drink this willow leaf tea, you have to thank the emperor." Lin Jue laughed.
After hearing this, everyone stood up and saluted Guo Kun, who was sitting on a wooden chair on the north side, and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."
Guo Kun smiled and waved his hands: "What is this? Is there anything to be grateful for?"
Lin Jue smiled and said: "Everyone, this willow leaf tea has some effects. It can improve eyesight, clear fire, diuresis and remove heat. It can be promoted in the army. I know that the officers and soldiers in the army have some internal heat after eating compressed dry food, so it can be promoted. Shan
There are many willow trees around the hillock. You can eat the willow buds while they are young, but if the leaves are old, the tea will be too bitter to drink."
Everyone nodded and said, "Thank you, Marshal, for taking care of me. I will tell the soldiers to make willow leaf tea later."
Lin Jue nodded and invited everyone to sit down again. He said, "Everyone, I am calling you here today, of course, not for this willow leaf tea. Today's rain can be said to be a happy rain, which has greatly alleviated the danger of water shortage for my army.
Mr. Yang, you shouldn’t have to worry about water shortage now."
Yang Xiu stood up with a smile and cupped his hands and said: "Commander, where is the water shortage? The water is full. The water tanker is full of water, the soldiers' water bags are full of water, and there are more than a dozen puddles and dug holes.
The water storage pits are also full. This water is enough for our army for a month. There is no shortage. What we have to worry about now is the military rations. The military rations are enough for six or seven days. I am about to ask for
Commander, tell me, should we implement food rationing and reduce one meal? Now that we are not at war, three meals a day is not really necessary, but it is okay to change it to two meals."
Lin Jue waved his hands and said: "Why should we save food? There is no need. Eating is a happy thing. If you skip a meal, you will lose a happy thing. There is no need at all. Six or seven days of consumption is enough. These six or seven days are enough."
The day and time will be determined."
Yang Xiu said hurriedly: "Okay, just follow the commander's orders."
Lin Jue nodded and Yang Xiu sat down. Lin Jue looked around the generals and said in a deep voice: "I have called you here today to discuss the battle. You all saw it the day before yesterday. The Jurchen army mobilized about 60,000 horses to the east.
, you all know what they did, right?"
"Do you still need to ask? Of course he went to our Funiu Mountain. As the commander-in-chief planned, Wanyan Aguda believed the news that the commander-in-chief deliberately revealed to them, and he wanted to raid our home base.
." Liang Qi said loudly.
Lin Jue smiled and nodded and said: "Yes, they fell into the trap. Next, it depends on Lord Ma and the others. If everything goes well, Lord Ma has already convinced the Northwest Army, and the Northwest Army must have moved to its position at this moment. In the mountains.
The troops and horses under the leadership of Gao Muqing are probably in place. From now on, they are the main force. Everything depends on the result of this ambush and interception. If they win, our siege will be lifted, and everything will happen in five or six days.
Time will tell. That’s why I don’t worry about the food problem. If there is no result by the day we run out of food, then the strategy must have failed, so what else is there to say?”
Everyone nodded. It turns out that the commander-in-chief is not worried about the food problem not because he has a way to get it, but because the war situation has become out of control by then. It doesn't make much difference whether there is food or not. I'm afraid he will have to break out of the encirclement in a bloody way.
