In the camp of the Western Xia Army, Brother Richard finally figured out the secret that the Liangshan Army would not be short of food.

The reason is in the dry food they carry with them.

The kettle was shaking not rice porridge, but meat porridge soaked in cowmilk.

But that's not all the secret, the biggest secret is still in the raw materials for making porridge, a kind of meat foam powder that is very small in size, but weighs at least two or three times the weight of ordinary jerky, and there is a white milk powder.

These two ingredients only need a small amount, and with the addition of boiling water over a fire or boiling hot water and swaying on a horse, they will soon turn into a kettle of thick porridge, which is not only delicious, but also very hungry and hungry.

Brother Richard deliberately calculated, in addition to some delicious snacks and other cooked food, this dry food bag is only about five or six catties of meat foam powder, and about two or three catties of milk powder, which is enough for more than a dozen people to eat for a day.

In other words, this knight of the Liangshan Army was enough to ensure food rations for fifteen or sixteen days just by relying on this dry food bag.

That is to say, even if it is another fifteen or sixteen days, the Liangshan army will definitely not run out of food.

As for the horses, looking at Liang Shanjun's mounts, they are all fat and strong, as long as a certain amount of fine material is guaranteed, even if they lose some fat when they are hungry, they can still last for more than fifteen or sixteen days.

If you want to wait until the Liangshan army's food and grass are exhausted, it is completely impossible, because the food stored on your side is not enough to support fifteen or sixteen days.

No wonder Lin Chong knew that there was an ambush in front of him, but he dared to drill into our encirclement, it turned out that he had food in his hand and was not panicked!

"Impossible, this kind of meat powder is made of beef at a glance, and it is the best fine meat to do, to make one pound of such minced meat powder, at least ten catties, not twenty catties of fine beef!

There are 20,000 cavalry in the Liangshan army, each carrying five or six catties on their backs, how many cattle will be killed? How could there be so many cattle in the Song Dynasty? ”

After carefully calculating the buried cloth, he couldn't help but shout, he didn't believe that such a high-level military ration Liangshan Army would equip every cavalryman, maybe this was just a special military ration for a certain officer.

But Brother Richard didn't think so, and for several days he carefully observed these knights of the Liangshan Army on the watchtower, and found that such military ration bags and marching water bottles were indeed available to everyone, and he often saw them when they were hungry, so he picked up the water bottle and shook it twice and drank two sips.

Moreover, inspecting the dead horses left on the battlefield by the Liangshan army, it is true that each horse has a bag of dry food, which is full of this high-grade dry food.

All these signs indicate that this high-level military ration is indeed provided by every small soldier, and not by a few officers.

It's just that what he said without hiding the cloth also makes sense, how many cattle do you have to kill to make so much minced meat powder, the Song Dynasty is a big agricultural country, and most of the cattle have to be used to plough the fields, where are there so many cattle for him to kill?

And how much does it cost!

"There is no need to doubt that this is the best marching food, and we are each equipped with more than ten catties of such military food, even if we stay here for a month, we are not afraid at all!"

In the Liangshan army, Hosomu Iwana has already explained everything he knows, and promised to serve Lin Chong and do whatever he wants.

Speaking of which, Lin Chong thought at first that this product would be very stubborn, and would rather die than surrender, and would not say anything, or even if he said it, he would tell a lie, but he didn't know that this product surrendered and rebelled so neatly.

It made Lin Chong a little unexpected.

But thinking about it, I think it's very understandable, after all, there is a tradition of treating foreign races in history in China, such as the Han Dynasty accepting the surrender of the Southern Xiongnu, not only giving them the best pasture, but also responsible for protecting them and helping them defeat the hostile Northern Xiongnu.

The Tang Dynasty was also like this, after a high hat of the Heavenly Khan was given to Li Shimin, the Tang Dynasty was not very good to the Hu people, and finally there was the Hebei Huhua and Anshi Rebellion.

The ancestors of the Dangxiang people were attached to the Tang Dynasty at that time, and the most powerful Tuoba clan was also given the surname Li.

There are these historical experiences there, and there are a few people who are really not afraid of death at the moment of life and death, and there are still fewer defeated and captured surrenders to the enemy country in history?

Especially the Hu people, they rarely talk about morality and shame, most of them follow the law of the jungle, the weak eat the strong, worship and follow the strong, if you have milk, you are a mother, and everything is based on your own interests.

So it's not surprising that Hosomu Rock would make such a choice.

So after explaining everything and promising to go to the camp of the Western Thieves to help the Liangshan army surrender, Lin Chong also asked Mei Jiasheng to take him down to eat something and rest to calm down.

So Hosomu Iwana drank a bowl of hot porridge with pork floss, plus two compressed biscuits and a small piece of spiced pork, which was so delicious that he almost swallowed his tongue together.

I couldn't help but ask casually: "You ...... Well, is the food of our Liangshan Army so good? ”

Mei Jiasheng looked at him with a look at the soil buns, and after thinking about it, he patiently introduced: "Let's just talk about this meat floss, do you know how much you can make by killing a cow of several hundred catties and making meat floss from all over your body?" ”

Ximu Yanming thought about the dry food of beef strips here in Xixia, so he said, "Eighty catties? ”

Mei Jiasheng sneered, as Lin Chong's confidant, he naturally knew the production process of meat floss.

To make meat floss, we first need to select the red meat with the least fat on the cow and cut it into pieces, then boil the meat, and then stew, knead and other processes to make it into strips of shredded meat, and then put it in the drying room for five days until the shredded meat does not contain a trace of moisture.

At this time, I will talk about the shredded meat in a mortar and mash it, and at the same time I compress it, and there is not a little air inside, and then the size of the meat floss has been reduced to less than one-tenth of the original size.

According to Lin Junzhu, if the compressed meat floss made from a cow can just fit into a bag made from the cow's bladder, the weight is only about 20 catties.

In this way, it is equivalent to carrying a whole cow in a bag, ready to travel lightly and march at great speed.

"It can only be twenty catties, so everyone in Liangshan has half a cow on their bodies?"

I couldn't believe it, no wonder I saw the slightest sign of lack of food from the soldiers of the Liangshan Army, and everyone was carrying half a cow on their backs!

"That is, these meat floss only need a small point, after boiling water, it will quickly absorb water and expand, a cow's meat floss is enough for a sergeant to eat for more than two months, and with a little milk powder and other dry food, do you say that even if we stay for another month, we will not be short of food?"

I couldn't believe it, no wonder I saw the slightest sign of lack of food from the soldiers of the Liangshan Army, and everyone was carrying half a cow on their backs!

"That is, these meat floss only need a small point, after boiling water, it will quickly absorb water and expand, a cow's meat floss is enough for a sergeant to eat for more than two months, and with a little milk powder and other dry food, do you say that even if we stay for another month, we will not be short of food?"