Youth is limited, wisdom is infinite, take advantage of the short youth to learn infinite wisdom.

- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)

The men who came to the front of the mountains and forests, with the assistance of a large number of barbarian warriors, set up marching pots one after another, and in addition to the normal rice and stir-fried vegetables, four or five hundred men were busy putting the young pigs and lambs they had slaughtered in the morning on the firewood to brush oil and sprinkle the material.

Under the busyness of the men, bursts of cooking smoke soon rose from the periphery of the mountains and forests, and smelling the smell of food in the air, the faces of Yubu Weixin and Andong Jiazhong invariably showed an unpredictable smirk.

Compared with the faint aroma of rice and stir-fried vegetables, the aroma of roast suckling pig and roasted whole sheep is undoubtedly much stronger, and even Anton Jiazhong, who is not greedy for appetite, secretly swallowed a few saliva after smelling this fragrance, not to mention other ordinary soldiers.

"Morita-kun and Matsumoto-kun, the two of you will immediately go and divide the soldiers of our legion into two groups and prepare to take turns eating. Seeing that the time was almost up, You Bu Weixin withdrew his gaze looking at the mountains and forests, turned his head and gave the order to prepare for dinner to the two generals beside him.

"Hey!"

The First Banner Legion had just begun to move, and Anton Jiazhong's Second Banner Legion, Assam's Second Essini Legion, and Valk's Third Lucy Legion also took action, and ten minutes later, more than 50,000 soldiers of the Yanhuang Army had received their jobs.

Neither the shogunate soldiers of the two banner legions nor the barbarian warriors of the two vassal legions deliberately maintained strict military discipline during meals, and in fact, the city of Rome was not very strict in this regard, and only slightly restrained in wartime.

Even so, as in the case of today's noon, when the soldiers sit around in twos and threes during the meal, they discuss the taste of the food loudly, and even burst into a burst of enthusiastic laughter from time to time, this kind of free and casual scene is still very rare.

The deliberate Anto Ietada and Yubu not only let the soldiers of the various regiments play and laugh wantonly during their meals, but also extended their lunch time, which should have been controlled within ten minutes, to half an hour, so that they can better 'talk and laugh'.

"Goo...... Mutter...... ......"Smelling the aroma of the food wafting in from outside the mountains and forests, Takeshi Takamura, who had not eaten for five days, listened to the cooing in his stomach, and asked his friends in the same village, "Takahashi-kun, what do you say you are eating outside?"

"I don't know. Takahashi Miki, who couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, shook his head at first, and then said in a thoughtful manner: "However, this smell should not be the coarse rice and boiled radish we eat, it seems to be polished rice and meat that only adults can eat." ”

"Takahashi-kun, can you still smell the aroma of polished rice and meat, have you ever eaten polished rice and meat that only adults can eat?" said Ashigaru, who was holding a wooden spear on the side, grinning at Takahashi Miki.

"Haha, maybe Takahashi-kun really stole a samurai-sama's food in the kitchen!"

"That's it, that's it, we Takahashi-kun are people who have seen the world, how can we be ordinary people!"

"Haha......"

The Date soldiers gathered around him were almost all from the same village, and they had no scruples about making jokes, but Takahashi, who had a good face, couldn't see that others didn't believe him, especially since so many people took his words as a joke.

"How can you who have never seen the world know what the samurai adults eat on weekdays?" Takahashi Miki, who puffed up his chest like a proud peacock, said proudly: "When I followed Tanaka-sama, because I fought bravely on the battlefield and made war achievements, Tanaka-sama personally rewarded me with a sumptuous meal at the celebration banquet, which is something that everyone knows!"

Seeing Takahashi Mihui mention the high-ranking Ashigaru general Tanaka-sama, everyone who had been joking about Takahashi Mi Teru was immediately convinced, but Takeshi Takamura, who had the best relationship with Takahashi Mi Teru, asked in an incredulous tone, "Takahashi-kun, you said that this fragrance is emitted by the food eaten by the samurai adults, is it possible that the ordinary Ashigaru of the Yanhuang family can also eat such a good meal?"

As soon as these words came out, the hungry Ashigaru once again focused their eyes on Takahashi Miki, and Takahashi Miki, whose vanity was greatly satisfied, explained in a condescending tone: "You don't understand this, do you? This newly rising Yanhuang family can almost be regarded as the richest family in our empire, and their wealth is simply beyond your imagination!"

"Rich beyond our imagination?" Takahashi's slightly exaggerated description shocked the young ashigaru, who was mostly out of the countryside for the first time, so much so that as soon as his words stopped, someone urged him to hurry on.

"This ...... My throat is a little dry!" Before Takahashi's words could be heard, a young ashigaru who couldn't wait handed him the kettle at his waist, and although the soldiers of the Date Army had been without food for several days, the water in the mountains and forests was still relatively abundant.

Takahashi Mihui, who drank a large sip of water, handed over his wooden gun to a young ashigaru to help him hold, and then continued in the face of everyone's expectant gaze: "As far as I know, the monthly salary of each ashigaru of the Yanhuang family is almost as much as our annual salary; ”

Seeing that everyone was exclaiming, Takahashi Miki seemed to feel that the atmosphere was not warm enough, and he said with a look of fascination: "What's more, they can eat three meals a day of rice cooked rice and fragrant meat, which is a treatment only adults have!"

"This Yanhuang family is so good to their ordinary ashigaru?!" Takeshi Takamura sighed, but at this moment, it represented the thoughts of all the ashigaru present.

"Alas, no matter how good this Yanhuang family is, what does it have to do with us, the Ashigaru of the Date family?" I don't know why, hearing his friend sigh like this, Takahashi Miki's originally elated mood suddenly became sluggish.

At this moment, the hearts of all the young ashigaru present became heavy; yes, no matter how good the treatment of the Ashigaru of the Yanhuang family is, what does it have to do with the Ashigaru of the Date family? The other party's weapons and equipment are excellent, and it is even more of a deadly threat to oneself!

At the same moment, it was not only Takahashi Miki and Takamura Takeshi who were full of emotion, but there were not a few other people in the Date army who talked about the Yanhuang family;

Goto Nobuyasu is not the kind of brainless general who has no heart, and he has not heard the talk of his ashigaru, and the reason why he does not strictly stop this kind of talk that is suspected of shaking the morale of the army is because he has nothing to do about the current predicament.