Chapter Fifty-Nine: Fifty Years of Aged Salted Dried Meat

Lin Ziran would never believe that the artillery skills of his own artillery were superb enough to hit the enemy's ammunition pile thousands of kilometers away.

It must have been blinded.

It must be blind.

Otherwise, Lin Ziran would have to wonder if those artillery soldiers were still his own artillery, and not impersonated.

But even if it's blind, it won't change the current result in the slightest.

Their own artillery set fire to the ammunition pile of the Guang'an artillery, and by the way, they set off a big firework.

The fire that rose to the sky was pleasing to the eye.

The artillery on the opposite side is finished.

Lin Ziran said excitedly: "Good job, I must add food to the brothers of the artillery platoon today, half a catty of meat per person!" ”

Luo Mazi on the side came up and said, "Big boss, there is no meat in our supplies!" ”

Lin Ziran suddenly turned pale when he heard this, and then looked at Hao Ren on the side.

Hao Ren said: "There is no fresh meat, but there is salted dried meat, but the taste, tsk, I guarantee that you will never forget it for the rest of your life after eating it!" ”

Luo Mazi on the side listened to it, and his face changed greatly: "My lord, don't want this salted jerky, if you really want to send it, I'm afraid that the brothers will mutiny!" ”

Lin Ziran also nodded and said: "The salted jerky is indeed not like words, and there is no fresh meat, so it will be changed to a silver reward, and the artillery platoon will be rewarded with silver, in short, you can't treat the brothers badly!" ”

It's still more troublesome to want meat to eat on the march, as for the jerky in Hao Ren's mouth, Lin Ziran has never eaten that thing, but he has smelled it, and the taste is the same as what Hao Ren said, and he can't forget it for the rest of his life.

At first, he thought that this thing should be related to beef jerky, bacon and the like bought in the supermarket in later generations.

But when he saw it for the first time, he thought it was a piece of wood, hard, and the soldiers cut it directly with a saw.

When the soldiers put it into the cauldron and cooked it, the smell that came out made Lin Ziran vomit on the spot!

What does it taste like? Luo Mazi said at the time: This thing must have been thrown into a wooden barrel thousands of years ago, otherwise how could it have a mummy-like taste!

Although the storage time of this kind of jerky is not thousands of years, it still lasts for decades.

About fifty years ago, when the Great Heng Dynasty was not as full of feudal towns as it is now, a war broke out with the Osari Empire on the southern continent, and the entire Great Heng Dynasty was mobilized in those years.

In just a few years, the Daheng Dynasty military purchased and stockpiled countless materials, including countless salted jerky!

The Great Heng Dynasty spent a lot of money to prepare for this war, which directly led to civil strife in the empire in the end.

After several large-scale rebellions, the Ji royal family of Daheng was no longer able to control the entire empire, and many local powerful factions and generals supported their own troops, and finally evolved into the current situation of feudal towns.

It doesn't matter, the important thing is that there were too many salted jerky in the pickled stock back then, so these salted jerky will still appear in the armies everywhere to this day.

Fifty years of salted jerky, this is no joke.

What's more, you won't be able to tell the exact year from the taste alone.

Because even if this thing has just been pickled in the last few years, the taste is disgusting!

Therefore, there is no obvious difference in taste between the five and fifty-year-old salted jerky, and they all stink incomparably.

Many soldiers were reluctant to eat it if they could.

Lin Ziran estimated that if he gave down the salted jerky as a reward, the brothers of the artillery were afraid that they would mutiny.

It's better to switch to the simplest and most straightforward money.

When the brothers on the other side of the artillery platoon heard that there was a reward, they were all elated, and they were even more energetic in loading, and soon shells were fired.

Only this time, it was obvious that their true level had been restored, and the shell was more than ten meters away from the enemy's artillery position.

However, even if the artillery position of the Guang'an Army was hit, it was actually impossible to achieve greater results.

Because the explosion of the ammunition pile before directly overturned the entire artillery position of the Guang'an Army and caused many artillery casualties.

Fang Yuanxin looked at his own messy artillery position, and finally sighed deeply: "Let the artillery come back!" ”

"Prepare to retreat!"

The artillery was stunned, and it was impossible for Fang Yuanxin to continue to use cavalry troops to storm the complete fortifications on the opposite side, except to retreat, he already had no second choice.

However, even if they retreated, they still retained a distance of several kilometers and did not go far at all.

In this case, Lin Ziran and Hao Ren had no way to continue to advance, so they could only continue to dig fortifications and build defensive positions while waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

Hundreds of cavalry were eyeing the periphery, and if they dared to leave the fortifications, they would immediately turn over and kill them.

In this case, they can only passively wait for reinforcements to arrive.

This waited for most of the day, and it was not until the evening that Lin Ziran waited for reinforcements.

It was the main cavalry unit in Roan County

Lin Ziran noticed that these cavalry were more interesting, they were not equipped with armor, not even cuirasses, and the weapons used were mainly sabers and short-barreled cavalry flintlock pistols and cavalry revolvers, which were basically no different from the Guang'an cavalry he had seen before, and they all belonged to the standard light cavalry units of contemporary times.

However, the number of this cavalry unit turned out to be the second heavy cavalry regiment.

At the same time, the members also wore black cloaks embroidered with blood-red swords.

To be honest, this kind of dress looks weird in Lin Ziran!

Hao Ren saw the confusion on Lin Ziran's face, and leaned closer and said, "This second heavy cavalry regiment is not simple, its predecessor is the Black Sword Corps. ”

Black Sword Corps?

Lin Ziran knew this name, because the name of this corps was so loud that even ordinary people had more or less heard the story of this cavalry corps.

The history of the Black Sword Corps can be traced back to the founding war of the Daheng Dynasty hundreds of years ago, not to mention the outstanding achievements during the founding war, and the Black Sword Corps has been the main force of the Daheng Dynasty in foreign conquests for hundreds of years, and the black sword cloak is their typical symbol.

At its peak, the Black Iron Corps had a strength of tens of thousands of horsemen, and the cavalry charge it launched was enough to sweep across the entire Central Continent, and no one could stop it!

Even after the civil strife in the Daheng Dynasty, this cavalry corps was the main force used by the Ji royal family to suppress rebellions in various places, but unfortunately although the Black Sword Corps could fight, it could not stand the overall corruption of the situation.

What's more, the Black Sword Corps is a pure cavalry unit, and its cost is very huge, and the Ji royal family is unable to maintain such a large cavalry corps after losing control of other states one after another.

In the end, although the Black Sword Legion still exists and is still loyal to the Ji royal family, it has now existed in name only, but many officers and soldiers of the Black Iron Legion have been scattered in various feudal towns.

The second heavy cavalry regiment in the Luo An Army was formed on the basis of some cuirassiers of the Black Sword Corps who defected to Cheng Lingfeng.

No wonder he is wearing the rumored black sword cape that is the iconic black sword cloak of the Black Sword Corps!