Chapter 182: Mountain Pack
Everyone made a fire in the lobby, lit a bonfire, set up iron pots and kettles, and boiled tea and meat. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
There are all dart masters, who dart all year round, and it is easy for them to live in the wild, but everyone throws rice and bacon into the pot.
It's not more difficult than walking darts, field sentry, and supply, and flatbread steamed buns take up a large area, and they can't be stored for long.
The cooking speed is slow, and if you want to rush, you can't wait for the rice to be cooked well, and it is even more difficult to make steamed noodles.
Therefore, for the time being, Yang He prepared rice for the sentinel team and cavalry team, and the military rations of many people in the Ming army who traveled abroad, the rice was cooked and put in the water to be exposed, and the dry rice was obtained several times, which was similar to compressed biscuits, which was compressed rice.
When eating, put the rice in hot water bubble and boil it to eat, not to mention the taste, it is very convenient to be convenient, and you can also carry a lot, a small group of rice can be turned into a big bowl after soaking, or even a big pot.
Then there are pieces of bacon, which were made in the month of last year, and then air-dried.
Of course, this wind is not very thorough, and there is still a difference with mummies, Yingmi's cured meat and jerky meat is very thoroughly air-dried, and it has become a genuine brand mummy, which looks like firewood, and even the muscle texture looks very similar to wood fiber.
So it can be preserved for a very long time, not to mention the rice people, during the Crimean War, the British sailors still ate dried meat marinated in the Nelson era, because there were too many, and those military rations and dried meat were eaten until the twentieth century!
The quality of their dried meat is indeed quite good, but when the soldiers eat dried meat, they are actually eating the mummies of pigs, cows, and sheep, and they have to be sawn before eating, brushed and cleaned, and then soaked overnight, and then cooked the next day.
For the time being, Yanghe's dried meat and cured meat do not need to be so excessive, as long as a year's shelf life, but this bacon tastes authentic until the third month of the lunar calendar, after this time, although the meat quality remains unchanged, the taste will become pungent throat.
It is better to have a refrigerator, so that it will not taste bad and insects will not grow in three or five years.
For the time being, for now, these cavalry personnel of the former dart division are still happy to have meat to eat.
Everyone put rice and dried meat into the pot, and some seasonings, etc., after boiling, they ate separately, and at this time the spring is cold, and the hot meal is eaten, and it is extra comfortable.
Qian Sanniang and Li Ruwan sat and ate together, each with a maza, Li Ruwan ate so much that she pursed her lips indifferently.
She behaves rudely, all kinds of foul words can come without scruples, a long scar on the right side of her face, replaced by another woman, must be secretive, grief-stricken, she doesn't care.
Qian Sanniang eats more Sven, but her appetite is also very large, and idle men can't eat her, and in Xin'anzhuang, only Minister Yang can compare with her.
The cavalry of the dart division laughed around the bonfire, and talked about the sentinels going south, they were excited and apprehensive, after all, they would soon face each other, that is, the ferocious thieves, not comparable to all kinds of bandits and thieves on the way to the darts in the past.
Many people also secretly looked at Qian Sanniang, they won a big victory today, but the shock in the team was very big.
Sanniang is the deputy of the team, and many people in the team are not convinced, although she is also fierce in fighting on weekdays, but fighting with Jiu Ye and leading the team by herself are two different things.
It's just that under the influence of the great victory, everyone looked at it, but found that Sanniang's behavior was in a good way.
After dinner, Qian Sanniang told everyone to maintain their weapons and feed the horses, and she especially said to everyone that when she was ambushed by thieves today, she hit five shots with two handguns, and all five shots rang out, which was because she usually paid attention to maintenance.
Therefore every man's handcuff must be wiped every day, oiled, cleaned, and so on.
Then she made rounds and fed her horses, it was not easy to feed the horses, three meals a day, preferably once in the morning, once in the afternoon, once at two or three o'clock in the morning, the horses had no night grass and no fat, but feeding the horses at night was a chore, especially in winter.
And the war horse is about chewing slowly, people can eat quickly, horses can't, eat at least an hour at a time, people can't leave the groove when feeding horses, to add less to the diligent, very cumbersome.
The horse should also be brushed every day, twice a day, otherwise the horse will be easy to get sick if it is not cleaned when it sweats, and the unclean water cannot be given to the horse to drink, otherwise the horse will get gastrointestinal diseases.
This gastrointestinal disease is still very difficult to treat, and once you get this disease, the horses will quickly lose weight.
Only with such careful care will the horses be able to run fast and become close comrades of the owner.
This is also the reason why Qian Sanniang and others have captured a large number of war horses, but they also don't bring a few horses, each horse has a different temperament, and it is also very recognizable, the owner is honest when riding, and if he changes a person, he may want to stop it.
Sometimes when I get angry, I will even come to a hoof, or take a bite, I have to take a horse, and I have to get used to training.
Qian Sanniang's snow hoof rouge horse has been very close to her, seeing her coming, she snorted and shook her head and tail to greet, Qian Sanniang first made love to it for a while, stroked its horse's neck, so that the horse felt very comfortable, and then Qian Sanniang said: "Smaller, are you thirsty?" ā
She first fed the horse water, a small bucket to drink slowly, the horse drank water is slowly inhaled, the process of drinking has to change a few breaths, "drinking water three lifts", it takes a few minutes to drink well.
Qian Sanniang waited very patiently, waiting for the horse to drink good water, holding the material, adding some salt, and feeding it handful, so as not to let the horses be greedy and cause symptoms.
In the past, "Little Girl" had a knot, and she stuck her arm in to dredge it.
This feeding is an hour, but Qian Sanniang has long been used to it, and she doesn't feel hard, "Xiaoer" likes to eat pancakes and fritters, and Qian Sanniang also fed some.
Horses are omnivores, not only grass, turnips and vegetables, steamed buns, and even beef and mutton, but like giant pandas, they don't have this blessing.
The giant panda is even more stupid, the sheep can't be caught in front of it, the sheep turns around, and can only chase the sheep's butt and bite, helpless, can only eat bamboo.
Of course, the meat that horses eat has to be cooked, and ordinary people don't have the luxury of feeding meat.
After feeding the horse, Qian Sanniang brushed the body of the "little one" again, brushing up and down with a palm-sized bristle brush, especially on horseback, don't let the sweat on your body get stained with sand and gravel, otherwise the saddle will be put down, and it will be difficult to heal the saddle injury.
The snow hoof rouge horse stood very comfortably to brush Qian Sanniang, and after waiting for this ancestor, I don't know when.
However, looking at all the dart divisions and cavalry, this is the case, Li Ruwan is brushing the horses, and at the same time whispering something to her horses.
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Although Qian Sanniang and the others were on guard that night, there were people who took turns to guard every hour, but there was nothing to do that night.
The next day, everyone got up, had breakfast, and got on the saddle to prepare for departure, when preparing the saddle, everyone looked at the saddle on the horse's back to see if there was a foreign body, otherwise it would break the horse's back after putting it on, and the saddle would be injured.
This is also a problem for novices, but fortunately, everyone is a veteran, and this kind of low-level mistake will naturally not happen.
Put the saddle, tighten the belly belt, the elastic is appropriate, adjust the stirrups, cover the halter, put the armature into the horse's mouth, fix it with the lower end of the halter, put the matricle well, and put everything away.
Qian Sanniang said, "Let's go." "The voice is still so cold, it reminds people of cold winter ice and snow.
She stepped on the stirrup and got on the horse's back, and the morning breeze blew her cloak, which fluttered all the time, revealing her devilish bumpy figure, with a cold and sassy look.
However, all the dart masters turned a blind eye, and even Uncle Li, who had been looking for relatives and talking about matchmaking for his son, didn't see it.
That's the aesthetic.
In this era, the popular "Yangzhou thin horse", the thinner the woman, the more flat the better, the day of the Suining banquet, the county government was kind, and selected the two most flat and thinnest Lehu for Yang He, but Yang He was displeased, which is the aesthetic difference caused by the times.
Of course, the Han people may not talk about this, it is good to be stout, have a lot of milk, and be good to give birth to.
There are also those with unique appetites, such as Minister Yang, Li Ruwan is too thin in his opinion.
The sound of hooves was mixed, and a group of ten rode out of the abandoned village, and the horseshoe stepped on some muddy paths, splashing muddy water.
After entering Xin'anzhuang, the horseshoe of the cavalry sentry team is forged with wrought iron, but cutting the hooves and nailing the palm is a technical job, and the horse's hoof injury is very difficult to treat.
Moreover, the size of the horse's front and rear hooves is different, and the front hooves are slightly smaller than the hind hooves, so the horseshoes are all equipped in a set of four.
Soon, everyone turned to the official road, and naturally kept a distance from each other.
Qian Sanniang led the horse in the front, Li Ruwan followed, then Tan Ge'er and others, Uncle Wan and Uncle Li were at the end, and they unfolded in a long line of snakes.
The official road situation is very poor, much worse than the official road from Xuzhou to Suining, the average width is only more than one zhang, and there are no trees on both sides of the road, because the roadbed is soft, and some roads are even lower than both sides, forming a puddle.
Because of the rain in the past two days, the floating soil is still full of mud, muddy everywhere, and it is very difficult to walk.
Along the road, it is even more depressed, this side is all plains, and there are rivers and lakes everywhere, but because the Yellow River bursts, this large area of sandy loam land, saline-alkali land, poor soil, not easy to cultivate.
In addition to the big village in the troubled times, the villagers almost fled to the mountainous areas, and it was difficult to see the people.
As far as the eye can see, there is not the slightest trace of human activity, and there are verdant weeds and reeds everywhere.
Walking slowly for a while, the road conditions ahead were slightly better, although it was also muddy, but there were few puddles, Qian Sanniang slowly accelerated, and the people behind him rode very naturally to speed up, still maintaining a horse distance.
Slowly, Qian Sanniang was faster, she held the reins in one hand, and her body rose and fell rhythmically on the horse, and finally it was like a gallop.
"Stampede......
The snowhoof rouge horse stepped on the dirt road like a fly, and the muddy water splashed.
Nine horsemen behind him, still following, a black cloak raised, the wind strongly encouraging.
The sound of the horse's hooves was dull and rhythmic, forming a very rhythmic rumble on the official road.
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The ten horsemen went south like a whirlwind, but when it was almost midday, the speed of the crowd gradually slowed down, and finally they lifted the reins and walked slowly.
Because of a turn in the official road ahead, a large group of refugees came, all helping the old and the young, carrying pots and bowls, Qian Sanniang didn't want to let the horse crash into the crowd, and she also wanted to ask them about the situation of Lingbi.
She lifted the reins and slowly passed, while looking at the surrounding environment, dozens of steps away from the right side of the official road, there was a desolate mountain bag of black mud and stones, overgrown with all kinds of weeds and shrubs, not high, it seemed that there was a small river or something behind the small mountain bag.
Then on the left side of the official road was a large area of saline-alkali land, densely covered with uneven weeds, and in the past more than a mile, there was a small forest, and the grass and trees were connected.
She looked at it, frowned, and remembered what had happened to her in the abandoned mansion.
The sound of hooves behind her tightened, Li Ruwan also came up, she looked around, and said in a low voice: "Sanniang, the thieves are the best at ambushing, the terrain of this area, especially the mountain bag ......"
Qian Sanniang took off her cavalry side card, took it in her hand, and then ordered the back: "The shield is all taken." ā
Li Ruwan, Uncle Wan, and Brother Tan immediately obeyed, and took off the side cards one by one, or held or set, and the new riders looked at it, and also took off the side cards of the cavalry with the flow and held it.
Uncle Li disagreed, and said, "Qian girl, is it too much of a fuss?" Could it be that there will be thieves here? Unless they're here in the middle of the night. ā
Uncle Wan persuaded: "We came here in a group, we can see it from a long distance, it will be bad if there is a thief, be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years." ā
What else did Uncle Li say, Qian Sanniang's eyes were cold, and she shouted: "If you don't obey military orders, military law will be engaged!" ā
Everyone was shocked, looking at Qian Sanniang with incredible eyes, Uncle Li's face couldn't get by, but looking at Qian Sanniang's cold gaze, thinking about her big victory today, the sixth son also died because of recklessness and disobedience.
just muttered in his mouth: "Really, even the Ninth Master doesn't dare to drink me like this." ā
He looked at Qian Sanniang, and he still had a strange feeling in his heart, this girl, she also helped her change diapers with Jiu Ye when she was a child, is this growing up?
The rest of them also have a strange feeling, as if after entering Xin'anzhuang, Sanniang began to change, and she was not the indifferent and withdrawn little girl she used to be.
Qian Sanniang led the crowd to ride out of the official road and walked on the edge of the saline-alkali land on the left, which was overgrown with weeds, and reached the horse's leg.
Then everyone waited, watching the group of refugees coming, seeing that they looked a little frightened, thieves are not a good thing, many officers and soldiers are also not good things, these are officers and soldiers in front of them? They're not going to risk it, are they?
Qian Sanniang stopped an old man, and seeing his sincere and frightened look, she said: "Old man, you don't have to be afraid, I just asked for the news of the thieves, do you know?" ā
The old man heard that her voice was cold, as if people had fallen into an ice cellar, but he just asked about the thief, he breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly told him that the thieves were still attacking Lingbi County, and he heard that the thieves leading the army would be "a tiger" and others, of course, he also heard about it.
Then seeing that Qian Sanniang was also kind, she was even more relieved, and sighed: "Lingbi is so far away, there are thieves coming, I don't dare to go back to my home, and I don't know where to live now." ā
Qian Sanniang said: "You go to Suining, and Lord Yang, the head of Lian over there, will take in the refugees, and there will be food and drink." ā
When the people on the official road heard it, they all said happily: "Really, Lord Yang is really a Buddha of ten thousand families." ā
Qian Sanniang asked a few more people, and the answers were similar, after all, they were just ordinary people, and they didn't know much.
Qian Sanniang and the others watched them go over, watching them help the old and the young, and walk all the way on the official road with their burdens.
Then a group of refugees came from behind, all of them covered their heads and bodies with felt clothes and bedding, and seemed to be very afraid of the cold.
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