After nightfall, Xiao Ruxun sent people to guard the city to guard against the Mongols attacking at night, and on the other hand, he asked the firefighters in the army to cook enough hot food for the soldiers to eat.

These days, it is difficult and panicked to defend the city, there are many escapees, the defense of the entire Bauhinia Pass seems to be very disorderly, Li Chengliang has limited energy, Chai Guozhu is busy with defense, and does not pay much attention to the matter of eating soldiers, resulting in a very serious problem of food for the army.

Some troops can eat hot meals in time, some troops can only eat cold food, and even some troops can't eat, not because there is no food, but because the number of fireheads is too small, and even some fireheads and Beijing soldiers fled together, no one cooks, the soldiers are starving, and the will to fight is extremely low.

As soon as Xiao Ruxun came, he grabbed the problem of eating, the Zhennan Army had the establishment of the Huotou Army, and secondly, the soldiers of the Zhennan Army were also asked by Xiao Ruxun to learn some basic knowledge of the army's war cooking in the field, so as not to have no one to cook when there was no Huotou Army under special circumstances.

Washing rice and cooking this kind of thing is the Zhennan Army soldiers everyone knows, and then as long as there is a big pot, you can cook vegetables, the Ming army's marching rice is generally baked flatbread with a little salt, when you stop to set up camp, there is naturally a fire head army to prepare hot meals and hot dishes, and the soldiers can eat a little better.

The soldiers are really very bitter, staying in the camp generally only vegetable porridge can be eaten, on the way to eat dried wolves, all year round do not see much meat and oil and water, sometimes the conditions are good, the fire head army will get a piece of lard in the pot of stir-frying, how much to get a little salt with oil and water.

When the conditions are not good, there is no oil and water, then a piece of salted vegetables, a piece of pickled radish pickled cabbage and the like to deal with it, and a meal will go down, anyway, throughout the entire dynasty era, the soldiers' military rations are very simple, basically there is no meat to eat, and even dry rice may not be able to eat, drinking porridge and eating salt vegetables is the norm.

This time, Xiao Ruxun was highly valued by the emperor for fighting, and the officials below did not dare to slack off, so they opened the warehouse and prepared enough marching rations and supplies for Xiao Ruxun, and the current food was enough for the soldiers to eat dry rice, Xiao Ruxun naturally would not treat the soldiers badly and not let them eat dry rice.

If you have dry rice, you also have to have a meal, usually salt vegetables to deal with, salty taste is good enough, this time Xiao Ruxun of course can't let the soldiers eat meat, but get some oil and water to put the salt vegetables in the cauldron and fry until fragrant, and then cook a broth for the soldiers to drink, that can still be done.

That is, the conditions are limited, otherwise, Xiao Ruxun really wants to get a little more out of the pancakes that he made in North Korea and the current Zhennan Army marching rations for the soldiers here to eat on the road, and now that the imperial court is around, the oil and water are still quite enough, but the number of Huotou troops is not enough, and there is no time to do it.

The pancake is very popular with the soldiers, it has the aroma of oil and salt, and it is resistant to storage, it is very satisfying to eat, it is not hard to swallow at all, it is very suitable for soldiers when it is inconvenient to set up camp on the march, but at the moment it can only be dealt with ordinary flatbread.

A steaming dinner made the soldiers, who were shivering from the bitter cold, finally feel the warmth they had not felt for a long time.

They gathered around the fire, ate hot dry rice and stir-fried salted vegetables with oil, and drank soup with the taste of meat, which was the kind of food that all soldiers coveted, and they sometimes never dreamed that they could eat such good military food.

In recent years, the armament has become more and more abandoned, the treatment of soldiers has become worse and worse, and it is the norm to not have enough food and clothing.

Even dry food and salt vegetables did not feed the soldiers, how could they win the battle with low morale on a hungry stomach?

Throughout the Central Plains Dynasty, when the Central Plains Dynasty was strong, there was never a shortage of military food for the soldiers, and if they were well fed, full of spirit, and had a high will to fight, they could naturally win more battles.

At the end of the dynasty, the armament was sluggish, and the soldiers did not get enough rations for a long time, and if they could not eat enough, they would not have enough combat effectiveness and will to fight, and they would collapse at the first touch, which was one of the reasons why tens of thousands of regular troops were often defeated in the face of the peasant army.

Now that the soldiers are well fed, can sleep soundly, and wake up in the morning full of energy, the will to fight will naturally increase.

Xiao Ruxun walked around among the soldiers to inspect the situation when the soldiers were eating, and from time to time squatted down to ask those soldiers if they were well fed and warmly dressed, and the gesture was enough, and the soldiers were often moved to express their gratitude to Xiao Ruxun.

Li Rusong, who was inspecting the army with Xiao Ruxun, saw Xiao Ruxun care so much about some soldiers who did not know him, soldiers of completely different factions from himself, and at the same time, he was more and more confused, and he couldn't believe that Xiao Ruxun really had no factional views.

Daming has come to this day, and the generals of the nine sides have begun to develop their own private troops, caring about their own private army, and not caring about the army of the imperial court, but Xiao Ruxun has done the opposite, any army cares, and does not say whether it is meaningful, isn't he afraid that someone will say that he buys the military and plots against him?

What the hell was he thinking?

Li Rusong was puzzled.

When all the soldiers, including the Liaodong Army and Nurhachi's Jurchen soldiers, were inspected, Xiao Ruxun said to Li Rusong that he still wanted to go to the city wall to inspect the night vigil soldiers.

"Admiral, there are some things that you may not be happy to hear, but I still want to say them."

Xiao Ruxun looked at Li Rusong with a little surprise, then nodded and said with a smile: "If you have anything to say, Mr. Li doesn't hurt to say it." ”

"Admiral, the soldiers here, there are Jizhen, Jingying, and my Liaodong, there are all kinds of soldiers on the Korean battlefield at the beginning, these soldiers are not the commander's direct troops, nor have they fought with you, they are not relatives, why does the admiral care about them so much? Aren't you worried that someone will say that the Admiral has a bad intention to buy the army? ”

Looking at Li Rusong's surprised appearance, Xiao Ruxun's expression was even more different.

"Why does Mr. Li have such an idea? I am the general of the Ming Dynasty, they are the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, they shed blood for the Ming Dynasty, of course I should care about them, what does this have to do with where they are born or if they are my direct subordinates? Which book of war says that a general should mistreat the soldiers and not be considerate of the soldiers? ”

Xiao Ruxun's rhetorical question made Li Rusong stunned for a moment, and it took a while to react back.

"Admiral, I mean, you are a general from the northwest, and the soldiers here are not your descendants except for your 3,000 Zhennan army, why do you care so much about them?"

Xiao Ruxun understood.

"General Soldier Li, are you wondering why this governor doesn't care about factional opinions and treats the rest of the armies in the rest of the country equally, right?"

Li Rusong nodded.