Chapter 86 Gastronomy Scheme

Buddha jumping over the wall is really the best in the world, the incense floats in four, wonderful, its taste is endless, so that Zheng Taishou and his iron buddies enjoy it very much, marvel again and again, and be extremely intoxicated.

Of course, the delicacies are inseparable from the wine, so Wang Ping and his wife presented the "flavor house" bamboo leaf fragrant wine, so Zheng Taishou and the generals of the Sui army raised their glasses and drank booze, which was extremely refreshing.

More than half an hour later, Zheng Taishou and these Sui generals in Pingnan Prefecture were all drunk, lying on the table and falling asleep.

At this moment, he suddenly heard an earth-shattering shout of killing outside the city, and after a while, a herald rushed over with a panicked face.

"Report - there is an enemy attack!" The herald shouted hoarsely from afar.

"What?" Jiang Tao, the captain of the guard outside the "Flavor House", was shocked when he heard the news.

Jiang Tao is tall, strong, with skin like black charcoal, a slender face, thick eyebrows, a thick mane next to his cheeks, a pair of triangular eyes, a towering nose, deep wrinkles on both sides of his nose, not angry but mighty, he is a close confidant of Mrs. Zheng's guard.

"There are at least more than 50,000 rebels outside the city who have surrounded Pingnan Prefecture and are preparing to attack the city, 100,000 are urgent, please report to Zheng Taishou immediately, and let him quickly mobilize a large army to defend the city. 100,000 urgent! - "The herald was so anxious that his face was red and his neck was thick, and the blue veins on his forehead exploded.

"Ah, no, I'm going to report to you!" Jiang Tao hurriedly rushed to the private room on the second floor of the "Flavor House" and found that Zheng Taishou and a group of generals were drunk and sleeping soundly on the table.

Jiang Tao's eyes were so red that he knew that the situation was urgent, and he couldn't be confined to small sections, so he hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Zheng Taishou's fat arm and shook it vigorously: "Lord Zheng, Lord Zheng, it's not good, 100,000 is urgent!" Wake up! ——”

It's a pity that no matter how he shakes, Zheng Taishou just can't wake up, and he sees that Lord Zheng is too drunk, so he shakes a few more generals, but he is disappointed to find that they are all too drunk to wake up.

He was in a hurry, ran downstairs, soaked the towel in the basin used to wash his hands in front of the door, and rushed upstairs with a wet towel, and applied a cold compress on the foreheads of Zheng Taishou and several generals, but in the end he was still disappointed.

Jiang Tao had no choice but to run downstairs and ask the guards outside the door to go upstairs to escort Lord Zheng and the generals back to the house, and he took ten guards and followed the heralds to the city wall quickly.

On the city wall and looking outside, Jiang Tao couldn't help but gasp, only to see that the dark city was full of dense, star-like torches, slowly moving towards Pingnan City, outside the east gate, there were already about 5,000 soldiers approaching the city, they carried the ladder, shouting and rushing towards the city.

Jiang Tao was excited, his scalp was numb, and a cold air rose from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, he looked back at the other guards around him, only to see that their faces were pale, and their bodies trembled slightly like chaff, and they were urinated. The smell hit, and someone was so scared that they peed their pants.

At this time, I heard someone shouting: "Oh no, the enemy has already entered the city and is setting fire everywhere." ”

Jiang Tao was shocked, and when he looked back, he saw that there were indeed fires in several places in the city, and there were noisy human voices, firefighting, running, and crying everywhere, and it was a pot of porridge.

The Sui soldiers in the city were all as earth-colored as their faces, and their souls were full of death. Now there is no general to command them, and they don't know what to do, and when they are at a loss, they only hear someone shouting: "Flee quickly, the west gate has not been surrounded, everyone flee from the west gate!" ——”

This sound was like a bodhisattva saving the world, and the Sui soldiers on the city wall who were looking at each other began to instinctively run towards the west gate. With one person taking the lead, more Sui soldiers followed and ran wildly towards the west gate.

"Really! There are no enemies outside the West Gate! Run! - After running slower for a while, I was surrounded by everything! ——”

"Hula", like a tsunami from a mountain, the soldiers of the Sui army on the city wall and inside the city wall all subconsciously ran desperately towards the west gate, only hating their parents for having two legs less, as if they would be caught by the terrifying god of death if they ran slowly.

Anyway, there are no generals to manage and restrain now, and some grassroots petty officers who want to stop them can't stop them at all, and they are either swept down and trampled to death by the torrent of the crowd, or they are also dragged into the flow of people and passively run towards the west gate.

The west gate was wide open, and there were several corpses of Sui soldiers lying on the ground, presumably the guards of the city gate, who were killed by crazy soldiers because they were unwilling to open the city gate.

Jiang Tao wanted to desperately prevent the Sui army from escaping at first, but he was finally disappointed to find that his small position as the captain of the Taishou soldiers was too small, and no one listened to him at all.

Looking at the soldiers of the Angel Army who climbed up the ladder like ants, he could only sigh in the end, and fled to the west gate.

The entire Pingnan Prefecture has become a pot of porridge......

In less than an hour, Pingnan Prefecture fell into the hands of the Angel Army. Until the fall of Pingnan Prefecture, Zheng Taishou and the generals of the Sui Army in Pingnan Prefecture did not wake up.

In a dark corner of the city, a handsome young man said, "All right, no more fires, our men have already invaded the city!" ”

"Your Majesty, your 'food plan' is really amazing! Hey! ——”

"Huh! Gluttony kills people! ——”

……

It turns out that all of this is a bureau of Xia Xuebu.

The geographical location of Pingnan Prefecture is very important, and Xia Xue has long wanted to take it down.

However, Pingnan Prefecture is a state city, not as large as Changxi County, Changle County and other county seats, not only the scale is larger, but also the city is stronger, there are more Sui troops stationed, and the defense is tighter.

Xia Xue originally wanted to attack, but she was worried that the casualties would be too great, so she never moved Nanzhou.

Later, I heard that Taishou Zheng Mu of Pingnan Prefecture was a "big foodie" and was particularly greedy. As long as there is a hobby, then there will be a weakness, and a hobby is often a weakness. Xia Xue decided to use Zheng Taishou's gluttonous weakness as a breakthrough to find a way.

How can you attract Zheng Taishou? Thinking about it, this foodie must have eaten all the delicacies of the Sui and Tang dynasties, so he could only find a way from the delicacies of later generations.

Xia Xue once learned from her mother to cook some simple meals, such as very ordinary home-cooked dishes in the future: Kung Pao chicken, fish-flavored shredded pork, these two dishes Xia Xue will make, think about it, these two are stir-fried dishes, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, there were generally only three ways to cook, one was roasted, one was steamed, and one was called boiling. Stir-fried vegetables did not appear until the later Song Dynasty.

If these two dishes are made, Zheng Taishou, who has never eaten stir-fried vegetables, must be refreshing. However, considering that these two dishes are too homely and need to be more advanced and complicated, she searched her intestines and finally remembered a dish: "Buddha jumping over the wall".

Xia Xue once ate this dish, and was impressed, it was indeed very delicious, and the method was very complicated. The process of making this dish is very complicated. There are more than a dozen kinds of raw materials for Buddha jumping over the wall, such as abalone, sea cucumber, fish lips, yak skin glue, oyster mushroom, hoof tendon, flower mushroom, cuttlefish, scallop, quail eggs, etc. In order to fully reflect the taste and characteristics of each ingredient, it is necessary to make these more than a dozen ingredients into a dish independently, and then gather them together, add broth and Shaoxing wine, and simmer for more than ten hours, so that the taste can truly achieve mellow characteristics.

At that time, she was more interested in this dish, and she and her brother once specialized in imitation, although it was not very authentic, but the taste was also very good.

In order to catch Zheng Taishou, Xia Xue went out this time and made a special chef. Originally, she was not so particular about eating, nor was she a picky eater, as long as she could meet the body's nutritional and energy needs, she could eat any food, otherwise how could she endure it in such a difficult environment in the wild.

Xia Xue learned that Zhao Ning's sister Zhao Xia happened to be married to Wang Ping, the owner of a small restaurant "Flavor House" in Pingnan Prefecture, so she asked Zhao Ning to sneak into the city, discussed with her sister and brother-in-law, wrote a letter of introduction, and disguised herself as a man and disguised herself as a big chef and blended into the city of Pingnan Prefecture.

However, due to the strict inspection of the guards, she did not carry weapons such as Tang knives and bows and arrows, nor did she wear too conspicuous future clothing, shoes and hats such as jackets, bulletproof helmets, and mountaineering sneakers. Buddha jumping over the wall" and other delicacies, and finally seduced Zheng Taishou.

She knew that once Zheng Taishou found out the food he hadn't eaten, he liked to entertain his group of iron buddies and generals, so when they came to the "Flavor House" dinner at night, they took out the anesthetics they carried with them and made of drugs from anesthetic pistol bullets, and then quietly put them into the "Buddha Jumping Over the Wall" and fine wine, although the effect of the medicine is not as good as the anesthesia injected into the body, the anesthesia time is relatively short, and it can only be anesthetized for about 2 hours, but Xia Xue feels that 2 hours is enough.

After anesthetizing Zheng Taishou and the generals of the Sui Army in Pingnan Prefecture, Xia Xue immediately ran from the back door of the restaurant to the alley, and secretly set off a "Kong Ming lantern" with Zhao Ning to send a signal of success to Li Jing, who was ambushed outside the city.

Li Jing actually only brought 5,000 men and horses, 3,000 were the main force of the Angel Army, and 2,000 were auxiliary troops, because the large army still needed to continue the siege of Minzhou. The rest of the people are actually fake by the people of the Angel Kingdom, anyway, it's dark, and it's in the distance, and no one can see clearly. He called more than 10,000 fake people, each of whom prepared a long bamboo pole, a long wooden stick or a long flat pole, and asked everyone to tie five torches to the bamboo pole, wooden stick and flat pole, and then carried them slowly towards Pingnan Prefecture in the distance, the starlight was dim, the sky was as dark as ink, and the night perfectly covered everything. Give the Sui army guarding the city wall a false impression, as if the mountains were full of siege troops, numbering more than 50,000 people.

Li Jing also instructed that when the fake people besieged Pingnan Prefecture, they would use the "siege of three ques" to deliberately leave a gap in the west gate, so that the panicked Sui army could escape from the west gate, so as to reduce the pressure of taking Pingnan Prefecture.

Because Zheng Taishou and the generals of the Sui army were anesthetized by Xia Xue and fell unconscious, the Sui army was leaderless; Add to that the bluff of the people; plus Li Jing's "encircling three ques" strategy; In addition, Xia Xue and Zhao Ning set fires everywhere in the city to create chaos; Coupled with the bravery of the 5,000 Angel Army led by Li Jing, in less than two hours, Pingnan Prefecture was easily taken, and only more than 100 Angel Army soldiers were killed and wounded.

It was an easy victory that no one expected!

All this is thanks to the "big foodie" Zheng Taishou.

Since then, the home-cooked stir-fried dishes of later generations such as "Kung Pao Chicken" and "Fish-flavored Shredded Pork" and the famous dish "Buddha Jumping over the Wall" became popular in the Sui and Tang dynasties in advance, and became popular all over the country.