"Lord, these people are quite obedient, but they were originally killers, and they were all kung fu honed between life and death, and it was a little inappropriate to use them in the army, and many soldiers were a little unbearable in just a few days."

Chang Yuchun replied.

"The strength can achieve the effect in the fastest time, we have a lot of herbs, let them eat ginseng if they can't bear the physical strength, they are all strong men, it doesn't matter if they are tired and bitter, the only thing to pay attention to is not to let the soldiers be seriously disabled."

Chang Yuchun, Shi Le and a few recently promoted lieutenants nodded slightly after listening to Liu Yuetian's words, those medicinal materials are precious ginseng, snow lotus and He Shou Wu, which can replenish blood and qi, and it costs dozens of taels of silver to sell a plant on the market, but more than 1,000 plants were planted near Liu Yuetian's dock fort, and those who didn't know thought it was a weedy land, where could they have thought that this "weed land" could bring tens of thousands of taels of silver to Tianshui in a year, Now Liu Yuetian uses these medicinal materials on ordinary soldiers as if they don't need money, which is enough to see that he attaches great importance to his subordinates.

Time flies, every day passes Tianshui's soldiers will increase a point of ability, in the blink of an eye fifteen days have passed, Wang Tong's army has reached a position three hundred miles away from Tianshui, this gang of "called Huazi" can only travel about fifty miles every day, although it is slow enough, but the soldiers lack exercise, one by one is still to the limit, and many people are sick, one foot deep and one foot shallow foot only half a life left.

Wang Tong sat in a six-seater carriage, and the bumps along the way made him cry bitterly.

"How far is it to Tianshui?"

Wang Tong's inquiry to his subordinates.

"Lord Qiqi, there are still two hundred miles away, and it will take five days to reach according to the speed of the army!"

The general replied.

"It's getting hotter and hotter this day, tell the soldiers, let's hurry up, and when we capture Tianshui, we can have a good rest and rest!"

The weather in May, the temperature has begun to rise, the highest at noon is more than 30 degrees, the closer to the water the drier it is, Wang Tong is a fat man, the most afraid of the heat, walking for more than ten days, he is also very tired now.

"My lord, it's noon now, let's bury the pot and cook first, and then go when we're full!"

"Okay, I'm a little tired too, just rest in place!"

Wang Tong nodded in agreement.

More than 30,000 soldiers, divided into three teams of the front and rear Chinese army, stretched for a distance of more than ten miles in front and back, and after hearing the order, they all sat on the ground one after another, and some lay on the ground, and after a while, they began to snore.

Cooking is the head of the army, they are actually hard-pulled farmers from around Chang'an, and cooking is no problem.

"Old Gu, how much do you think the government can pay us this time?"

A middle-aged man in his forties whispered to another old man next to him while cooking.

"Hehe, young man, you are too naïve, and you are still paid? The last time Wang Tong sent troops to attack Tianshui, I also followed, and I didn't even give a penny of silver for more than a month, and now Da Zhou is not as good as before! ”

The old man shook his head and said.

"Alas, I don't have much hope, let alone our firehead army, even those sergeants, it seems that they also ran in vain, you look at them, they are listless, how can they fight like this? I am looking forward to the end of this war now, and the children at home are still waiting for me! ”

The middle-aged man sighed and said, even a firehead army like him could see that those soldiers had no combat effectiveness at all, once a big war broke out, how could they win each other?

"I'll tell you a little secret, young man!"

The old man leaned in front of the other and whispered.

"In these years, there is nothing more important than a small life, those officers and soldiers don't look at the strength, but the ability to escape is the first in the world, if there is a big war, they are faster than the war horses, you and I don't have to be stupid when the fire head army is then, let's cook on the fire, at least the stomach is full, and it is not slower than them in terms of escape, so you have to be smart......... Moreover, our firehead army is not only cooking, but also this .........! ”

The old man secretly lifted the corner of his clothes as he spoke, and the other party saw that there was a cloth bag sewn inside, and white rice was placed in it, at least half a bucket.

"See? The government doesn't give money, let's figure it out ourselves. ”

The old man said proudly.

"Old Gu, this is military rations, if it is discovered, then .........!"

The other party was taken aback.

"Fool, those soldiers have hidden weapons and pig iron, and some officers secretly take the war horses for themselves, our military rations are not even farts at all, if you don't take it, others will take it, otherwise you think we will come out to fight in vain? The last time I went to Tianshui with Wang Tong, it took me just over a month to get a load of grain, which was enough for the family to drink gruel for several months. ”

A load of grain is nothing in the eyes of those officials, but in the eyes of ordinary people, it is a life-saving ration, more important than a tael of silver.

"A load of grain? So much? I, I don't have anything to put it! ”

The middle-aged man figured out the mystery in a moment, and immediately worried that he couldn't hold too much food.

"You go back and sew a cloth pocket inside your clothes, and put some in it every time you cook while others are not paying attention, remember, not too much, half a bucket at a time, so that those military leaders can't see it, and when you get back to the barracks, you collect the rice and put it with your luggage."

The old man secretly taught the other party how to smuggle grain.

"Gu, thank you!"

The middle-aged man was overjoyed, and at the same time secretly grabbed a handful of grain and grass from the side and put it in his pocket, this handful of grain is not much, only enough to eat a meal, but it is better than nothing, he is ready to sew a big bag after going back today.

This kind of thing is not uncommon in the army, as the old man said, from the lowest soldiers to the senior generals are trying to take advantage of the public, of course, the most ordinary soldiers do not have much opportunity to contact these, the most popular is the soldiers in charge of the army's money and food, can blatantly put the money and food into their own pockets, but these soldiers are the cronies of various generals and captains, not everyone can be a person.

The second is the soldiers in charge of war horses and weapons, and these equipment must be left at least 10% in their hands, of course, these soldiers also have a deep background.

The Huotou Army is also very popular, and you can take the opportunity to get some food like this old man, but the Huotou Army has no military status, most of them are prisoners who have been assigned to the army because they have violated the regulations, and their identity cannot be compared with the soldiers.

This old man was a cook back then, because he committed a crime and was assigned to the army as a firehead, the middle-aged man was also a cook, but he did not enter the army because of a crime, but was forcibly requisitioned by the government, and promised to give him a military salary of five dollars a month, if he didn't come, then he would be directly charged with a crime and put in prison, the army was at least more than a thousand soldiers who were brought in by semi-forced methods, and many of them had never touched a weapon, It's a joke to let them go to war and fight.