Chapter 862: Killing Horses for Food
In order to successfully break through, the Wang family really fought hard, and even those treasures that Wang Ling regarded as rare were carried to the front of the army by Wang Feixiao and became a resource to reward the three armies.
Although these treasures are worth a lot of money, but it is difficult to hook the desire of the Huainan soldiers, when people are hungry, even if they are precious gold and silver treasures, I am afraid that there is no roast chicken to benefit, these Huainan soldiers have been hungry for a long time, listless, even if Wang Feixiao repeatedly agitated, it is still a lack of interest.
Wang Jinhu couldn't help frowning, and whispered to Wang Feixiao: "Second brother, it seems that this method will not work, such a valuable gold and silver jewelry can't move people's hearts, we have to think of another way." ”
Wang Feixiao looked at the gold, silver and jewelry in his hand, and then looked at the Huainan soldiers who were screaming, and suddenly realized that in the eyes of a group of hungry ghosts, of course, food is more important than gold and silver, and if they can eat a fragrant stew at this time, this can stimulate their fighting spirit to the greatest extent.
But in a blink of an eye, Wang Feixiao was worried again, and now in Shouchun City, there is a shortage of food, let alone meat, and even a mouse is difficult to find.
If you want to solve this dilemma, the only way is to kill the horse, the cavalry unit has always been the most sophisticated force in the Huainan army, even if the situation is difficult, Wang Ling is reluctant to kill the horse.
In fact, killing or not killing horses will not change the situation at all, even if all the horses are killed, it is only enough for these tens of thousands of troops to fight for a few days, and if you want to fundamentally solve the problem of food shortage, these horses alone are far from enough.
But now the situation is different, at this moment to break through the battle, what is needed is a bang, only let these soldiers eat well, can they have the fighting spirit to participate in the battle, these war horses have undoubtedly become the only way to save them.
But these war horses are Wang Ling's treasures, if they are killed, it is strange that Wang Ling does not die of heartache, Wang Feixiao thought about it for a while, and decided to ask Wang Ling's opinion, if he is willing to kill, Wang Feixiao will dare to do it.
However, on this occasion, it was inconvenient for Wang Feixiao to leave, so he had to send a henchman to meet Wang Ling.
The subordinates hurried away, and soon turned back again, holding Wang Ling's edict in their hands, with only one word on it: "Ke"!
Wang Feixiao's spirits suddenly lifted, as long as Wang Ling agreed, this matter would be easy to do, and now that it has reached this point, even if Wang Ling has any reluctance, he must cut his love, and everything needs to make way for a breakthrough.
Breaking through was already the only way out in front of them, nothing was more important than this, and of course Wang Ling knew what was the priority.
Of course, Wang Feixiao did not slaughter all the war horses, but selected hundreds of thinner and older war horses to slaughter.
However, this is obviously a little difficult to choose the generals, the Huainan soldiers are hungry and hungry one by one, these war horses are naturally not much better, all of them are skinny and skinny, they pick and pick up, and find that there are really few horses left.
The process of killing horses is quite fast, it is estimated that these butchers are also greedy, how many days have not eaten meat, if it were not for so many pairs of eyes staring, these butchers can cut off the raw meat and stuff it into their mouths.
Set up the cauldron of the march, there was no firewood, Wang Feixiao ordered the soldiers to go to the house, anyway, they were ready to break through, and the house could not be taken away, so it was not distressing to demolish it.
Wang Feixiao set the time for the breakthrough at the fifth watch, so the time when these horse meat was cooked was probably at the fourth watch in the morning, and at this time of the day, it was probably the time when these soldiers slept the deepest, but today was an exception, all of them were full of energy, gathered around the edge of the marching pot, just smelling the intoxicating smell of meat, they couldn't walk.
Hundreds of horses, it seems to be a lot, but tens of thousands of Huainan soldiers to share the food, each person really can't take a few bites, in order to ensure that each soldier can eat meat and drink soup, Wang Feixiao ordered the men in the army to carefully divide the horse meat into meat pieces of equal size, a large bowl for each person, and put it away with soup and meat, so that the Huainan soldiers lined up to get it, and at the same time gave each person a dry noodle cake, and ate and drank enough to fight.
Huainan soldiers lined up in a long line, one by one on the ground to receive the broth, the gurgling sound is one after another, many people are so hungry that their saliva falls to the ground, because the queue is very long, many people's eyes are green, waiting for this bite of food is longing.
Once you hold the wooden bowl in your hand, regardless of whether it is hot or not, you scoop up the pieces of meat in the bowl with your hands and stuff it directly into your mouth.
The meat pieces cut by the man are not big or small, each piece is about two or three or two, and the meat pieces of this size are particularly satisfying to eat, but the horse meat just out of the pot is very hot, and many people are scalded and sucked, but no one is willing to spit it out, so they can only swallow it devouring.
The hot piece of meat ate into the stomach, and the fire was burning, and many people couldn't help but sigh there, but they couldn't control it to eat the second piece.
There are only about two or three pieces of meat in each bowl, and many people have not yet smashed the taste of meat, and there is only some soup and water left in the bowl, but at this time, drinking a mouthful of broth and eating a mouthful of dry noodle cakes is also a supreme enjoyment.
In order to make these soldiers have a full meal, Wang Feixiao specially ordered the quota of the grain order to be doubled, and asked the man to burn the dry flour cake into a double size, which is equivalent to eating double the food at one time.
Next is the most brutal and fierce breakthrough battle, not full of the strength to fight, Wang Feixiao knows this truth, so he did not hesitate to kill horses to give the Huainan army a tooth sacrifice.
After a full meal, the spiritual outlook of the Huainan Army has really changed greatly, and the long-lost morale seems to have returned, all of them are full of energy and high morale.
Wang Feixiao finally secretly breathed a sigh of relief, now the state of the Huainan Army has finally returned to normal, which undoubtedly provides confidence support for the breakthrough battle, if it is the previous sluggish state, Wang Feixiao doubts whether he can break through.
It seems that this person is iron, rice is steel, and if he doesn't eat, he has no spirit, and now that the state of the Huainan Army has rebounded, Wang Feixiao is also very confident, as long as they can break through, they still have hope.
After eating, Wang Feixiao ordered all the troops to assemble, at this time the eastern sky was already faintly bright, Wang Feixiao ordered to open the city gate, he and Wang Jinhu each led a group of men and horses, like a tide poured out of Shouchun City, and launched an attack on the position of Sima Jun in the south.
The breakthrough battle of the Huainan Army officially kicked off.