The stables were built in a very remote corner on the west side of the camp. Li Yanzhao led everyone to this area, and what they saw was a row of low fences. In the fence, the neighing of horses is endless. Behind the fence is a timber-made camp wall, and when you look out through the camp wall, you can see a tall and verdant mountain.

There were two low tents set up next to the stables, which were the future residences of the people. Everyone carried simple luggage and rushed into one of the tents under the leadership of Li Yanzhao. There are a few old soldiers in the tent, but they are packing up at this time. Thinking about it, the cavalry captain had already sent a herald to inform these veterans who were originally in charge of raising horses. When the old man saw Li Yanzhao and his party coming into the tent, he asked, "Is it the one sent by the commander to raise horses?" ”

Li Yanzhao bowed slightly: "Exactly." ”

The old pawn showed a relieved expression and said, "Since that's the case, I'll hand it over immediately." ”

Li Yanzhao hugged his fists as a salute: "Good." I would like to ask my seniors to guide us and make a proper handover. ”

The old man waited for Li Yanzhao and his party to place the luggage, so he led the group out of the tent and went to the side of the stable first, where a large warehouse was placed, with two words on it: horse material. The old pawn said to Li Yanzhao: "This is the horse storehouse. There were one hundred and thirteen horses and forty-five mules in the army. “

"Horses feed concentrate, mules feed coarse matter. In spring and summer, a horse takes thirteen catties of concentrate, nine catties of grass, adds water and mixes well for a meal, and feeds two meals a day. In autumn and winter, a horse takes 15 catties of concentrate and 13 catties of hay, adds water and mixes well for a meal. In spring and summer, a mule takes fifteen catties of coarse material, ten catties of grass for a meal, and autumn and winter are the same. After the old man finished talking about feeding, he turned his head and said leisurely: "The stable needs to be kept clean, the manure should be picked up every day, and the hay should be changed frequently." ”

Li Yanzhao listened to the old man's eloquent words, but he couldn't help nodding his head, indicating that he understood.

"Raising horses in the army is no better than in the countryside. In the battle array, horsepower is very important, and I hope that you will treat each other well. The old man said again. Seniors are relieved, and we will do our best. Li Yanzhao bowed his hand again.

After saying goodbye to the old pawn, Li Yanzhao and everyone returned to the tent. Tidy up all the things in the tent. Li Yanzhao led everyone to the horse storehouse. The horse depot was surrounded by straw mats, but a small door was opened on the side and a curtain of oilcloth was pasted. Li Yanzhao opened the curtain and entered, and saw that the warehouse was also covered with oilcloth, stacked with various colors of bean cakes, bran and other things. There is also a wooden sign hanging on the side, which reads "fine material" and "coarse material".

There was also a pile of grass that seemed to have been cut this morning. There were guillotines, two large buckets, a few small basins, two scales, and a few large buckets by the door, which were supposed to be used to weigh the amount of horse material. Li Yanzhao walked closer and observed carefully, and there was a note pasted next to a few slightly larger buckets, which read: Fifty catties. There are a few slightly smaller ones on the side, on the book: thirty pounds. After that, there are a few ten-pound and five-pound specifications.

At this time, it was almost evening, and Li Yanzhao thought that maybe it was time to feed the second meal of the day, so he beckoned everyone. According to what the old man said, he took out the paper and pen and calculated that the more than 100 mules and horses would consume 1,469 catties of concentrate, 675 catties of coarse material, and 1,467 catties of grass.

Li Yanzhao assigned work to everyone: himself, Liu Jiwu and Cao Jian were responsible for weighing the horse feed, and Niu Erzhuang and Qin Dayong, who looked tall and strong, were responsible for the mixing. Ding Yue, Cui Yang, and Han Wencan were responsible for the grass, and Liao Rulong, Zhang Xing, and Wang Qiang were responsible for taking small pots of horse material and pouring it into the manger.

Li Yanzhao distributed it like this, and everyone had no objection. He, Liu Jiwu and Cao Jian are all a little literate in writing and ink, and it is easy to count and weigh horse materials. Niu Erzhuang and Qin Dayong are tall and strong, and standing in front of the giant barrel that is half a person high, it is naturally easy to stir horse material with a shovel.

The separation and staggering of the Yongzhou refugees and the Chencang refugees is also a meaning to enable everyone to help each other in their work and communicate more closely. After all, everyone will become a collective in the future, and Li Yanzhao hates the kind of gangsterism in human nature. He never wanted to have any "Yongzhou faction" and "Chen Cang faction" among the dozen or so people under his command.

Li Yanzhao, Liu Jiwu, and Cao Jian took a few large and small buckets and walked to a large pile of concentrate in the warehouse. Put the fifty-pound bucket on the ground, Li Yanzhao took a wooden basin, inserted it into the horse feed and scooped it into the bucket, scooped it seven or eight times, the bucket was full, Liu Jiwu took the bucket and poured it into the wooden barrel that was more than half a person high in front of Niu Erzhuang.

Ding Yue, Cui Yang, and Han Wencan on the side had already taken the guillotine and put it next to the haystack. Everyone is very motivated. Not long after, the wooden barrels in front of Qin Dayong and Niu Erzhuang were already filled with ten buckets of essence each. Cui Yang also stopped the work of the grass in his hand and took the rod scale to weigh the grass.

Li Yanzhao calculated for a moment, then took two ten-pound buckets, filled two buckets and poured them into each person's big bucket. and instructed Cui Yang to weigh 360 catties of grass and pour it into a wooden barrel. Cui Yang did as he was told, and soon the vat in front of the two was full. Liao Rulong, Zhang Xing, and Wang Qiang went to the mountain stream next to the camp to fetch several buckets of water. Poured into the bucket, Qin Dayong and Niu Erzhuang struggled to stir it.

However, Li Yanzhao clearly felt that there was a huge difference between the weights and measures of this era and later generations. He had been secretly surprised when he had calculated the number of feed for the horses. The Tao is that these mules and horses eat a ton of horse feed in one meal. However, after weighing those buckets later, he was shocked to realize that according to the weights and measures at this time, I am afraid that one pound is not as heavy as half a pound in later generations.

In a short time, in the large bucket in front of the two, the horse feed had been stirred. Li Yanzhao stepped forward, grabbed a handful and looked at it carefully, but the two of them stirred it very evenly, and he was amazed in his heart. So he called Liao Rulong, Zhang Xing, and Wang Qiang, and evenly distributed the harmonious horse material into the basin in front of the three people, but one pot contained the amount of feeding a horse, and after the distribution, the three turned around and went straight to the stable. Li Yanzhao could hear the eager screams of mules and horses on the other side of the stable.

After everyone became familiar with the process of this matter, they became more and more fluent. The cooperation between weighing, mixing and beating is more and more tacit and orderly. During this time, the horseman surnamed Ma also came to the stables and the horse depot to inspect it, and saw that everyone was busy and orderly. So he went satisfied.

After the sun was sinking and the meal was sounded in the army, everyone finally finished feeding the horses today. Tired, they all washed their hands in a hurry, then took the dishes and chopsticks and went out to prepare to go straight to the room.

Li Yanzhao stopped everyone in time, explained the simple method of lining up, and asked everyone to line up even if they went to eat. If you are there, you will lead the team by yourself, and if you are not there, one of them will lead the team. Everyone said yes.

A group of eleven of them turned out of their tents, and they saw that the camp was bustling, full of soldiers who had returned from training and went straight to the room with dishes and chopsticks. Li Yanzhao couldn't help frowning as he looked at this messy scene. The camp of this Guangwu army garrison is not large. If there is such a chaotic disorder, if the enemy attacks, it only takes one charge, and the sergeants will surely disperse.

Li Yanzhao turned his head and said to everyone: "In the army, law and discipline are the best, and the troops must be camped, food, clothing, shelter and transportation must be orderly. An army of disorder is a rabble. Then he said, "I am humble and cannot restrain the whole army, but you are my subordinate brothers." I have to ask you to keep things in order. Thank you for your understanding. When everyone heard this, they were not surprised.

"When they enter the room, they have their meals, and they find a table, and everyone must stand solemnly, and when they have the order to 'sit,' they must sit cross-legged. Yu Ji ordered the 'open meal' before the gentlemen could open the meal. "All the people have promised.

The group walked into the room. The houses are many simple thatched huts. Several pillars are topped by beams, and the beams are covered with thick hay. The room was filled with low desks, and a sergeant was eating and shouting while eating. Li Yanzhao came in with everyone. The sergeant turned a blind eye. Only a few people saw the faces of these dozen or so people, looked up suspiciously, and then lowered their heads and went to eat and drink by themselves.

Li Yanzhao led everyone to receive the meal. Today's dinner is vegetable soup and steamed buns. Although the steamed bun is white, it looks like there is a lot of bran and other things added to it. Yellowish. Everyone found an empty table, stood facing each other in two rows, put the dishes, chopsticks and food on the table, and then stood solemnly. Li Yanzhao shouted: "Sit! Then they sat cross-legged, though the movements of their sitting were sparse and untidy. However, Li Yanzhao was satisfied when he saw that no one moved his chopsticks. "Open the meal!" Li Yanzhao said. Hearing this order, everyone picked up the dishes and chopsticks one after another and ate them.

The people at the table on the side had already seen the strangeness of Li Yanzhao and his party. He looked up and looked at it suspiciously. One of them snorted disdainfully: "A group of stables, but majestic." Hearing this, everyone around laughed for a while.

Li Yanzhao didn't bother to pay attention to it, and stopped the young man on his side with his eyes. He still eats and drinks. When the crowd saw that he was not allowed, no one got up and argued with the man who had just snorted coldly.

In the later army, the recruits were trained in March. It is said that those who do not perform well in training are divided into production. Feed pigs, raise chickens, grow vegetables, or go to be the head of the fire.

Gradually, with the changes in the system, the cooking squad of the Huotou Army also had to act together with the grassroots combat units, so there was a slogan that put forward "Cooks are also combatants." The evaluation of combat strength and various assessments have included "logistics soldiers" in the former sense, such as cooking soldiers, into the scope of evaluation.

Therefore, in order to maintain the overall combat effectiveness, the commanders of the grass-roots units in later generations selected soldiers with good training results to participate in the work of the cooking class, and transferred those soldiers who were not well trained to the company's combat squad platoon. For a time, there was an international military competition in which a certain unit was selected to participate, and there was a military quality competition for logistics personnel, and as a result, several cooks of that unit repeatedly achieved good results on the field, which was cited as a beautiful talk by the military fans of the people in the world.

Compared with the scenery of the cooking class, the soldiers engaged in agricultural production have always been the same. Neither evaluation nor scenery. Doing hard production work every day, but it has always been a joke in the army.

The same is true of ancient and modern times. So Li Yanzhao was unmoved, although he never thought that his military career in this life actually started from the horse stable.