"Give me a sweet potato." Chen Xunping put out his tobacco and reached out to Qin Rong.
Qin Rong picked up a well-proportioned sweet potato from the stove cover and put it in his hand.
Chen Xunping took the sweet potato, peeled it off, and said, "You have never experienced a camp bombing. After dark, everyone is asleep, and the enemy suddenly breaks into the camp, killing people and setting fire to it. It doesn't take many people to destroy the entire camp." It’s confusing, the people in the camp have no idea how many enemies there are, and more lives will die at the hands of their own people than at the hands of the enemy.”
After saying that, he took a bite of the sweet potato with its skin peeled off.
The sweet potato was a bit hot to the mouth. He roared the heat and said, "It's the same sweet potato, but it tastes better when it's roasted than when it's cooked."
"There is a lot of waste. Look at these torn off skins. They can fill your stomach just as much as you eat them. Many people can't even eat them if they want to." Qin Rong said while eating.
Chen Xunping, with the sweet sweet potato flesh in his mouth, said: "This thing has a high yield. A lot of sweet potatoes have been planted on the grassland to open up wasteland. The yield is very high. Not only can people eat it, but livestock can also eat it. I heard that the current winter on the grassland , the herdsmen are having a hard time, even fewer cattle and sheep have died.”
"If it weren't for the high output, we would be struck by lightning with this wasteful way of eating, haha." Qin Rong laughed.
Potatoes and sweet potatoes have been grown on a large scale. Because of their high yields, Tiger Character Banner mainly promotes these two foods. After all, in this era when even the stomach is not full, it is good to have something to eat.
In addition to daily consumption, many of the potatoes and sweet potatoes produced will be made into various sweet potato flour and potato flour, which will be used as military rations and supplied to various war divisions.
Tiger Banner also has a special agriculture department, whose members are mainly experienced farmers, specializing in cultivating various crops. Over the past few years, some achievements have been made in cultivating crops.
The nearly 100,000 troops under the Tiger Character Banner have never left ordinary soldiers with full stomachs or even food. The main reason is that high-yielding crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes are planted in large quantities on the grassland.
Chen Xunping licked the flesh of the sweet potatoes on his fingers and said: "If the imperial officials do their best to promote such a good thing to the people in the north and plant it, the people's lives will not be so difficult."
"It's useless. No matter how high the output is, it's hard for ordinary people to benefit. I heard that the imperial court has increased wages. Do you want more?" Qin Rong picked up a piece of sweet potato from the stove and asked Chen Xunping.
Chen Xunping shook his head.
Qin Rong tore open the skin and ate it himself.
"You should also eat less. If you eat too much, you won't be able to eat it for lunch. Today is a stew." Chen Xunping said to Qin Rong.
Before every battle, some delicious food will be prepared to reward the soldiers of each battalion.
"Don't worry, I can eat a big bowl of meat." Qin Rong said with the unswallowed sweet potato in his mouth.
Chen Xunping smiled, and then said seriously: "Let's get down to business!"
After hearing this, Qin Rong chewed quickly in his mouth, and stuffed all the sweet potatoes into his mouth.
"Regardless of whether the cavalry army outside Huailai Acropolis will attack at night, we must be careful and not give them a chance." Chen Xunping warned.
Qin Rong nodded, swallowed the last bit of sweet potato in his mouth, and said: "I will send more people on night watch at night. If they don't come, that's it. If they dare to come, I will let them come back."
The last two sentences were said with murderous intent.
"Prepare some horse tripping pits around the camp. These will be very useful after dark." Chen Xunping was making suggestions from the side.
Qin Rong nodded and said: "Don't worry, I will disperse our sentries first and patrol a few miles around the camp, and then let people dig secretly. When the horse army comes, they will definitely regret their sneak attack."
"Haha, do you know what I like most about you? You are so bad." Chen Xunping smiled and cursed, tapping Qin Rong with his hand.
"Go, go, go. You are so good as you said. The idea of digging a horse pit was not yours. Also, the last time we attacked Baoan Prefecture, you had someone carry a coffin of gunpowder and blow up the city gate directly. It's open." Qin Rong shot back.
The two of them started arguing with each other while sitting in the big tent.
It got dark.
After the Tiger Character Banner army set up camp, they never made any move, which made all the officials in Huailai Acropolis heave a sigh of relief.
Huailaiwei was attacked by the rebels outside the city one day later, so they could hold on for one more day and wait for the arrival of the army led by Zhao.
At midnight, there was a crescent moon overhead.
"Go, everyone shout." Ma Youyi ordered the subordinates around him.
As the men left, there was more and more movement around them.
In order to prepare for this attack on the camp, he deliberately took his men away from the village where they were originally used to rest and ran to a place a few miles away from the village to rest.
After a while, several general flag officers came to Ma Guerrilla.
"It's almost midnight, you guys go back to greet your subordinates, eat some dry food, and remember to wrap the horse's hooves with cotton cloth." Ma Guobi told several people.
In the darkness, no one lit a fire. Several flag officers groped in the dark and returned to their subordinates.
About half an hour passed.
Ma Guerji once again asked several general flag officers to come over.
There was an unknown fur blanket spread on the ground. Ma Youyi sat on it and said to the subordinates in front of him: "I have told you everything that needs to be said during the day. Next, let's go to the rebel camp. I have only one request. After entering the camp, just kill people and set fire to me, and destroy it as much as you can, but after half an hour, everyone must withdraw, and you must not be greedy for credit."
"Don't worry, general. Brothers will never hold the general back."
One of the several general flag officers assured.
Ma Youyi looked at the subordinates in front of him, and then said: "I can't guarantee how many of you will come back alive this time, but I can guarantee that no matter which one of you fails to come back, I will definitely give you the same things you deserve." Take your wives, children, and children and set off."
With that said, he stood up from the blanket.
One of his soldiers came over, rolled up the blanket on the ground, folded it and placed it on the horse.
Under night.
Hundreds of horse troops began to approach the Tiger Flag camp under the moonlight.
At the beginning, everyone was on horseback, but they did not let the horses run too fast. They controlled the speed of the horses and moved forward slowly.
When there were only a few miles away from the Tiger Flag camp, everyone got off their horses, led their horses and started to walk towards the Tiger Flag camp.
The hooves of each war horse were wrapped in cotton cloth, and they did not make much noise as they marched.
When they were less than a mile away from the Tiger Character Banner camp, Ma Guerrilla noticed that there were a lot of wood ashes left behind after the campfires burned around them, and you could feel the residual warmth on them if you touched them with your hands.
