"Work quickly. If you don't work, you won't be able to eat."
"When fighting, you have the strength, but if I ask you to move a piece of wood, you will act cowardly."
From outside the tent, the voices of Ming soldiers scolding the prisoners could be heard from time to time. Some Ming soldiers were humming an unknown tune while working.
Everyone is very happy, the morale is not as high as usual, no one will die, and a lot of luggage can be harvested. How could you dare to think of such good things in the past?
Feng Sheng in the tent took a water bag and two wine cups, and poured the medicinal wine in the water bag into two cups: "Weixue, take a sip of wine to dispel the tide."
"It's not damp here either, but it's a severe drought. A rain will be great. It will be gray when we go on the road tomorrow morning."
Fu Youde picked up the wine cup, sipped it gently, cut off a piece of meat, and looked at the salt on the plate. He put down the things and turned around to go out and come back soon.
"We have seasonings, but if we just add salt, it won't be as delicious as adding cumin." He said, opening the seasoning package.
"I've been busy setting up camp, so I forgot about it." Feng Sheng also dipped the meat into the plate with dipping sauce.
After he swallowed the meat, he looked at the flames and said, "If this battle is won, the Ming Dynasty will be stable for ten or twenty years. The location of He Lin is the top priority.
Xu Da had better kill more and capture more yuan soldiers there, and don't let them escape with too many people, otherwise they will always think about attacking the Ming Dynasty. "
"The war cannot stop. Even if they go further north, we will still fight. We also have the Silk Road on land.
We must do business with the outside world, selling our low-cost things to them in exchange for their high-cost things.
The cost of their spices is actually not high, but they are expensive to sell to us, and there are always disputes between buyers and sellers over money. "
Fu Youde was thinking about the trade issues with the Arabs, and now they usually call them the big cannibals over there, or the Tianfang people.
He also knew how much advantage the palace took in doing business with the barbarians. It turned out that he used silk and porcelain to exchange pearls, corals, spices and other things with the barbarians.
Those things have nothing to do with ordinary people. They are only enjoyed by the palace and wealthy people.
Now, rock candy, glass mirrors, soaps, and rare music boxes are exchanged for gold, silver, grain, and medicinal materials. Yes, a special resting place for the barbarians is built next to the Shibosi, and the fees are very expensive.
These have a relationship with the people, especially the grain exchanged, some of which are selected as seeds, and some of which are sent directly to the almshouse.
Every shipload of food that came over could feed hundreds of people for ten days and a half. In order to exchange for more things, the Yi people kept transporting food to the Ming Dynasty.
In this way, the Ming Dynasty accumulated enough food to feed more than 100,000 people in one year.
If a disaster occurs somewhere and hundreds of thousands of people have nothing to eat, they can send food there and the court will squeeze it in, and they can get through the most difficult time.
Fu Youde thought about the possibility of war during trade.
Feng Sheng said from another perspective: "If there is no war, we generals will have no choice but to retire and return home. With war, we can continue to have things to do."
Fu Youde suddenly looked up at Feng Sheng, and Feng Sheng also looked at him.
Fu Youde sighed: "We really have to fight, but we haven't hit such a big place. In the Yuan Dynasty, we fought very far. We can't be worse than them."
"Yes, yes! I believe that experts are also willing to support the war, otherwise..." Feng Sheng paused as he spoke, lowering his head to cut the meat.
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"I'm quite fast. I've got all the marks, but I don't have any merit in battle."
Li Wenzhong of the Eastern Route Army was also resting, feeling depressed.
All the front lines sent information to other teams one after another. What I sent here was that I am not in a hurry, I will go slowly.
He wanted to chase lightly several times, but then he remembered what his uncle said: Don't rush forward, don't put down your baggage and chase, you must fight slowly and steadily.
Regardless of how the enemy ran away, how could they still run into the sea? If they go to heaven, you will take their place on earth.
So Li Wenzhong had to march at normal speed, with scouts running around, and the enemy would retreat as soon as they saw his team.
That's not to say that there are no gains at all. No matter how fast the enemy retreats, they will always leave behind some baggage.
For example, the first time, due to the fast marching speed, the enemy did not react and dropped a large amount of cattle and horse baggage.
But then it disappeared, leaving only broken wood and other things that could be used to make fires, as well as animal bones leftover from hunting by the other party.
As for the dead animals, don't think about it. As soon as they die, people will share the meat.
He couldn't throw away his weapons, and he had no food. The most annoying thing was that he wanted to go hunting, but all the wild beasts along the way were cleared by the enemy.
"Fortunately, we brought a lot of military rations, otherwise we would be hard-pressed to survive just by eating on our way. They want us to lure them over.
Little by little, their team gathered together. Yes, they were exchanging space for time, strengthening the wall and clearing the field.
In the end, you just have to concentrate your superior forces to fight with us, hum! Then we won’t pursue it, my God! "
Li Wenzhong felt like there was something wrong with his brain. Sometimes he gritted his teeth and wanted to chase lightly, and sometimes he forced himself to calm down.
"General, eat a fish!" The tent curtain was lifted, and Li Wenzhong's general Han Zheng came in with a stick in his hand with a grilled fish pierced through it.
"Where did the fish come from?" Li Wenzhong felt strange when he saw the fish.
"There are fish in the river where we set up camp, and then there are soldiers who turn out to be Danfolk.
He used a sewing needle to make a fishhook, dug up earthworms from the river and threw them in to catch them. This one was the biggest.
Others were also distributed to the generals, and everyone now took turns fishing. Some people never caught a fish, but they kept catching fish. "
When Han Zheng talked about the origin of the fish, everyone in the team had it.
"Sit down and eat together." Li Wenzhong motioned to Han Zheng to sit down and share together: "If we had known earlier, we would have brought fishing nets. If we can't catch the enemy, we will catch fish."
Han Zheng sat down and scraped off the burnt area with a knife: "General, don't be anxious, it is the enemy who should be anxious.
General Xu Da in the middle had already defeated Wang Baobao and was less than twenty miles away from Helin, so he was calling for reinforcements at the encirclement point.
He Lin's people were anxious and would definitely urge King Qin's troops from all walks of life to go back.
And our enemies either fight us or run faster, rather than always running faster than us.
Otherwise, when the West Route Army arrives to join forces with Lin, once He Lin is lost, where can the enemy in front of us go? "
Han Zheng analyzed the situation between the enemy and ourselves, and now Ha Cizhang on the opposite side only had two choices.
Li Wenzhong used chopsticks to pick off the fish, and then put it on a plate and dipped it in salt: "You can eat it too. If you eat fish, you don't put cumin in it. It will suppress the freshness of the fish."
You're right, we have to be prepared at any time, Ha Qizhang is likely to make a sneak attack.
Starting tomorrow, feed the soldiers well to build up their strength, and the flintlock team will always be vigilant. "
After speaking, Li Wenzhong put the fish into his mouth and tasted it carefully. He seemed to feel much better.
(End of chapter)
