Chapter 12: A Hidden Shadow

It was already the afternoon of the next day when Zhang Dou saw Bai Wenxuan again, Bai Wenxuan's forehead was wrapped in gauze, and there was faint blood oozing out of it.

When he returned to the forward camp, he went into his house and never came out again, and saw him again except for dinner. Without Bai Wenxuan's constraints, Zhang Dou's speed of training soldiers was significantly faster.

The most obvious thing is that after ten days of mutton nourishment, the soldiers' bodies have become much stronger. They are used to running in the morning every day, and the queue training is also good.

The military posture is also relatively standard, and it seems that the whole person is much more energetic.

Zhang Dou was thinking about the days, and in four days they would set off. At that time, it will be a life-and-death contest, and he has done everything he can to do well, and the rest will depend on luck.

In the past ten days, the most tired thing in Zhang Dou's forward battalion was not the soldiers who trained all day, but the more than 20 soldiers. After they made the granular gunpowder, they sorted the gunpowder according to Zhang Dou's instructions.

The firing charge of the gun was wrapped into a standard charge pack with silk, which avoided the unevenness of each charge and further improved the loading speed of the gun.

He also made more than 600 5-pound explosive bags out of linen, which could be thrown out to injure the enemy as long as the fuse was lit. Zhang Dou found an ordinary soldier and tried it, and he could probably throw about 10-15 steps.

That is, 15-20 meters, leaning on these explosive packs. Zhang Dou was confident that he could block the attack of the Jurchens tenfold, and before the explosives pack was exhausted, the Jurchens did not want to capture his car formation.

On the 10th day of the first month of March, it was the day when the soldiers of Liaoyang distributed food supplies. Zhang Dou brought people to the warehouse early, and he had been looking forward to this supply for a long time.

The more prepared you are now, the more you will be able to survive the big battle in a few days. At the door of the warehouse, Zhang Dou actually met Qin Shi, who also came to receive things, and the two naturally greeted each other.

After a while, the second dog returned. "General! The officials of these warehouses are so hateful that they only told us that there was no gunpowder when we got our things. And the flour distributed to us turned out to be moldy old grain, which was too bullying. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Dou's face turned cold. Now the situation in Liaodong is tense, and the Jurchen Nurhachi men and horses are frequently transferred, and at a glance, they know that there will be a big war in the near future.

At such a critical juncture, the generals of the Ming army were still intriguing and calculating with each other. Can such an army still win battles? Dream on!

Zhang Dou was already disappointed in this rotten court, he walked to the grain cart depressedly, opened a bag of flour and looked at it. It's really old grain, the flour is a little black in color, and there are a lot of mildew spots on it.

Qin Shi also came over, and couldn't help but be furious when he saw such military rations.

"Brother! We can't eat this loss, let's go to the dog officer together. If he doesn't give an explanation today, he has to set his warehouse on fire! As he spoke, Qin Shi pulled up Zhang Dou and was about to go to the official theory of the warehouse.

The second dog and the other pro-soldiers also coaxed, and they were ready to fight.

Zhang Dou looked at the excited Qin Shi and those pro-soldiers, and said lightly: "I'm afraid that the chief soldier is hoping that I will bring someone to the warehouse!" Then he'll have a justifiable excuse to take me down. ”

Qin Shi also calmed down, he knew that what Zhang Dou said was really possible. Said anxiously: "Brother! So what do you say? We can't just leave it at that! If you can't do it, you can get some food from me to save the emergency! ”

Zhang Dou looked at Qin Shi's young face, although they hadn't been together for long. But getting along with Qin Shi is very pleasant, and now the two have become friends who talk about everything.

He was able to stand up for himself completely out of concern for himself, and he couldn't let Qin Shi suffer.

"Brother, don't worry, just moldy flour can be hard to stop me Zhang Dou! Wait a minute, let's see how I turn moldy flour into delicious! Then he took the grain cart and went back.

In the corner on the side, Chen Ce had already led people to wait there. That's right! The moldy flour for Zhang Dou was arranged by him, and the purpose was to provoke Zhang Dou to make trouble in the warehouse.

At that time, he will be able to take down Zhang Dou openly and ask for the guilt, and Qi Jin will have to pay a certain price if he wants to keep him as a subordinate general, and then he will be able to make his voice heard among the Zhejiang soldiers.

But a big scene that he had prepared for a long time did not follow his script, and Zhang Dou, who was originally hot-tempered, was able to endure it like this, which caught Chen Ce, who was ready to take people in hand, off guard.

He can't go down and tell Zhang Dou, you hurry up and smash and rob! I'm ready to take people on my side. It's like having enough strength to hit someone, but the enemy didn't come, and he almost choked back his internal injuries.

He had to let people closely monitor Zhang Dou's movements, and he went back alone and was depressed.

Zhang Dou returned to the forward camp with the grain cart and found all the soldiers, and asked them to set up a large pot in the kitchen, and the firewood and grass were raised below to prepare for cooking.

Qin Shi looked at the busy Zhang Dou with interest, "Brother! Don't they all say that gentlemen are far away from cooking! I see how you're so good at cooking! ”

Zhang Douxin said: In later generations, his 30-year life experience was not in vain, and he always cooked by himself when he was a single dog.

"Brother! You've fooled those readers! This sentence has nothing to do with cooking or not cooking without a penny. Zhang Dou said as he worked.

"Oh? How can it be? That's what people say! Qin Shi looked incredulous.

"This passage was said by Mencius to King Hui of Liang, and his original intention was that the king should have a benevolent heart, and if he does not go to the kitchen, he must have an unbearable heart, so that a benevolent monarch can govern the world and be beneficial to the people." Zhang Dou explained to Qin Shi this famous sentence that had been distorted for thousands of years while working.

This is the words of his friends who laughed at him for cooking by himself in later generations, and Zhang Dou specially went online to check the meaning of this sentence for this reason.

After reading it, I couldn't help but despise those ancient scholars who used this sentence as a cover and didn't go to the kitchen to cook. These people are so undisciplined, they have deceived the Chinese people for thousands of years in order not to cook for themselves.

This group of readers is too tasteless, too unlimited! You must be careful when you cooperate with them in the future, and you may let them sell it when you can't tell you.

Zhang Dou did not delay his work, and after the cauldron was hot, he put a bag of moldy flour in the pot and stir-fried it with salt. As the flour is sautéed, the musty smell inside disappears.

When the flour was fried, Zhang Dou brought a lot of mutton fat. During this time, they ate mutton, but saved a lot of mutton fat, heated the mutton fat, poured it into the fried flour, stirred evenly, and finally added sesame seeds, and a large pot of fragrant fried noodles was ready.

Fried noodles are the traditional food of the Chinese Army in later generations, it has the advantages of easy digestion, sufficient nutrition, not easy to spoil, and easy to carry, and it is really a must-have for home travel and marching wars.

Qin Shi looked at the fried noodles in the pot, and couldn't help but move his index fingers, he reached out and grabbed a handful and stuffed it into his mouth. I felt that my mouth was full of the aroma of mutton fat and sesame seeds, and there was a faint salty taste inside, which was so delicious.

Zhang Dou watched Qin Shi stuff fried noodles into his mouth one by one without squeaking, he filled a bowl by himself, soaked it in boiling water and made it look like a bowl of mushy porridge, and drank it in small sips.

He knew that fried noodles were good, but eating too much made him hungry. Don't look at Qin Shi's joy of eating now, it will be enough for him to feel uncomfortable after drinking water.

Sure enough, after Qin Shi saw Zhang Dou's way of eating, he thought it was very interesting. I also made a bowl of it myself, and hid with Zhang Dou and drank it slowly.

After a while, he felt that his stomach was uncomfortable, and his stomach was uncomfortable for a while. It's like eating a whole sheep.

When he saw Zhang Dou's evil smile, he grabbed Zhang Dou.

"You kid is too inauthentic, I'm still in a hurry for you. I didn't tell me if I knew that this fried noodles were swollen, it was too bad for brothers! ”

Zhang Dou laughed loudly, "Brother, don't worry, as long as you move for a while, you'll be fine!" Why don't we both practice? ”

"Fuck off! You kid is a humanoid monster, and practicing with you is looking for abuse, so I don't compete with monsters! Qin Shi was very jealous of Zhang Dou's great strength, and the two of them had a lot of exchanges before. Every time Qin Shi was abused as a dog, after a few times, no one competed with Zhang Dou.

Zhang Dou was also very depressed, although the owner of this body was powerful. But it's still normal strength, and the weapon used is only a thirty-pound iron rod.

And Zhang Dou is now playing with that iron rod as if he was playing, and it was not easy at all. There was no way for him to create another 80-pound mace, since he had this mace, there was no one to compete with him in the entire Liaoyang City.

Joke! Any weapon that encounters Zhang Dou has to be knocked off, so it's better than trying a wool!

On March 12, news came from the big tent of the Chinese army that it would start the expedition tomorrow. What made Zhang Dou depressed was that only half of the forward battalion had received half of the silver. The rest is said to have drifted away, which is good logging on land!

can even find such a rotten excuse for drifting, it seems that Chen Ce has completely lost his face. Before the battle, Chen Ce could still do such a thing, which made Zhang Dou, who was full of confidence, can't help but cast a shadow on his heart.