Yang Fan's team spent a day repairing by Jingpo Lake.
During this period of traveling in the snow, the army was very tired. The main reason is that the snow is too deep and the trek is difficult. Although there are rollers to compact the snow as much as possible, in addition to marching, they also have to camp and cut wood for fuel. Always leave the temporary road.
As soon as they left the kilometer, knee-deep snow made them miserable. Traveling in deep snow is very difficult and very tiring.
It's not that Yang Fan didn't consider asking a truck to deliver briquettes. The main reason is that the iron stove is too heavy to be carried by large armies on the march. So when camping, just dig a fire pit and burn some firewood to keep warm. You can not only grill some food, but also make a fire.
Recently, Dajun's three meals a day have been changed, and he can't stand eating the same thing all the time. Now it’s corn and kidney bean porridge in the morning, with pickles.
At noon, it is steamed buns or pancakes, and the dishes are various stewed dried vegetables. A large pot of fatty pork and various vegetables and wild vegetables dried in the autumn is stewed. The dried vegetables are also very delicious after soaking up the grease.
In the evening, I cook noodles. Boxes of noodles are cooked and stirred directly with scallion oil, which is also very delicious.
Yang Fan's steam truck contained marching kitchen equipment. Providing food for more than 40,000 people is not a big problem. One cooking truck can provide meals for 500 people, ensuring that everyone has hot food.
Now we have enough transportation capacity, we can’t go far, and trucks arrive quickly. Therefore, the food is better. If you go to Wula Street (Siping), the logistical pressure will increase. At that time, food will definitely drop.
Yang Fan planned to just boil the noodles and eat them. The simplest meal was to just boil the noodles.
Add lard and dehydrated vegetables to a large pot, and add some powdered soup stock. Then just add the noodles. Make it into hot noodle soup and eat it, it is quick, warm and nutritious. If you get tired of eating hot soup noodles, you can also eat noodles mixed with scallion oil.
When the noodles are cooked, just mix them with the scallion oil. The speed is very fast, and eating on the battlefield must be simple and fast.
Scallion oil is very simple to make and can be stored for a long time. It is a very suitable field food. Chop the green onions, add half a pot of oil in a large pot, fry the onions over low heat until golden brown, then add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce and oil, add some sugar for freshness, add some salt and it's done.
The scallion oil factory sells fifty kilograms of oil in a small tinplate bucket. It is easy to transport. When eating, open the lid, take out some and mix it with noodles directly. Boil the noodles in water, then sprinkle with scallion oil, and it's ok. It's convenient and fast. Still delicious.
These scallion oils are too expensive to use, so you have to consider the cost. Yang Fan directly used fried sea fish to make cans, and used the remaining oil to fry green onions. Marine fish is very fat, and when fried, a lot of oil will come out. The more you fry, the more fat you get.
These fish oils also carry the delicious taste of sea fish. Scallion oil tastes better than vegetable oil. Fuel consumption is not an issue either. A seafood factory has been established in Vladivostok. There are plenty of oysters, and cooking them in a big pot consumes a lot of oil. Now around Shuangchengzi, sugar beets have begun to be planted on a large scale, and sugar factories have also begun production. There is no shortage of these things.
The Jurchens of the East China Sea were extremely happy along the way.
Normally, during this season, they would smear their bodies with grease and hide in holes in the ground during the winter months. Every winter is a test of life and death. Once you get over it, start the new year. If you don’t make it through, that’s God’s will.
They never had enough food and never had enough to eat in their entire lives.
Only after coming to Yang Fan's place did they feel free to eat for the first time in their lives, and they were full for the first time. Everyone burst into tears with excitement. It turns out that feeling full after eating is so good.
Now, they have not yet attacked Jiannu and obtained the spoils of war, but they are already very happy.
Because I can eat three full meals every day, get into my sleeping bag at night, and lie on the snow and fall asleep. It feels much warmer than living in a cave at home. In the eyes of Ming people, this is suffering. But in their eyes, this sleeping bag is so warm and comfortable, sleeping in the snow is more comfortable than at home.
As for the green eyes everywhere around them, they didn't care. To them, the wild wolves wandering around their homes are no different from dogs. Isn't it the same at home?
In winter, when there is no food to be found, the hungry wolf's eyes glow green, peeping outside the human camp, waiting for an opportunity to get some food.
There is a whistle here
Soldiers stood guard and there were bonfires. They slept like dead pigs without worrying about being dragged away by wolves. It's safer here than at home.
After Yang Fan ordered a day of repairs, he also ordered an extra meal today.
The servants went to Huli to divert the river, blasted open the frozen ice, and used dozens of long nets to haul up more than 100,000 catties of fish. They were all distributed to more than 40,000 Donghai Jurchens, and they were asked to kill and clean them themselves, spread them with salt and spices, and roast them on the bonfire to eat.
One hundred thousand kilograms of fish sounds like a lot. The fish here are big and weigh several kilograms. In fact, it’s just one fish per person. In addition to grilled fish, canned braised pig heads were also distributed. Every fifty people were given a bucket of tinplate cans, and these cans came in a bucket of fifty kilograms each. Each person can get almost a pound of cooked food.
Yang Fan took advantage of the army to repair and took his wives to visit Jingbo Lake in winter on a snowmobile.
The army walk needs to be repaired. He was riding in an RV and was not tired at all.
Yang Fan took them to see the sunrise at Jingpo Lake, as well as the ice waterfall and rime. The morning light, ice falls and rime constitute a beautiful scenery. Under the faint halo of the first day, the vigorous mist is filled with steam, and the rime trembles slightly, like the antlers of a buck, or like clumps of blooming coral.
Yang Fan was taking his wives to have a barbecue on the ice when he saw a steam truck approaching.
Donkey Dan got off the car, ran over and said, "Sir, there are 20,000 Jurchens from Beishan, and a total of fifty big and small heads. We are still fifty miles away from our army, and we will see them tomorrow."
Yang Fan nodded. These people were quite wise. They thought clearly and acted very straightforwardly. No sloppiness. Yang Fan likes this kind of character.
"How are they doing? Do they have a lot of frostbite?" Yang Fan asked. These people came from the north of Heilongjiang. It's colder there.
"Master, they are fine. On the first day we arrived, we gave them strong liquor. We also warned them that it was for treating wounds. Unexpectedly, they all drank it. Several of them were so drunk that they almost froze to death."
"Huh, don't give them alcohol anymore." Yang Fan frowned and said. Drinking too much in this weather can really freeze you to death. This time everyone is here. There were more than 60,000 people in total.
Although these people are unorganized and undisciplined, the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers is so frightening to Jiannu. If Yang Fan can command effectively, these people will be a more elite force than the Eight Banners of Jiannu.
"By the way, we're going to have extra meals today. Send someone to deliver supplies to them in a truck. Don't favor one thing over another."
