After Yu Guozhen took Zhang Zheng across the river, Yue Tuo knew that although his strategy had severely damaged the morale of the tiger guard, it did not really deal a heavy blow to the tiger guard after all.

And Yu Guozhen's troops appeared in the south of the new river in Jiaolai, which meant that he gave up half of the camp he had built. There will be some baggage left in the camp, especially grain, grass, and weapons, so Yue Tuo led his own soldiers to inspect them in person.

He also hoped that by inspecting the Tiger Guard's camp, he would find more ways to deal with this powerful army.

The tiger guards brought by Yu Guozhen were only more than 2,000 people, so the camp did not occupy a large area, but trenches were dug around it. Although the Jianyu scout touched it, all he saw was an orderly display, and according to Yue Tuo's orders, no one dared to touch the things here.

"Is there any food?" Yue Tuo is most concerned about this.

"Master, there is rice, but there are not many of them, and there is this one that is placed with rice." The scout took out two cans and offered them, "The slave doesn't know what it is, but since it is placed with rice, it should be eaten." ”

Although Xinxiang's steel production is restricted by mineral resources and has reached a bottleneck, a very important use of tinplate produced is to make military cans. Unlike the glass jars used in civilian cans, in order to meet the needs of the march, the military cans are tin-plated tinplate, and the tinplate of Xinxiang is even sold to Europe through Dutch and Spanish merchants because of its low refining cost. The Bohemian tinplate, which is now the most important in Europe, could not be beaten, and thus became an important source of income for the export of iron in Xinxiang. Yue Tuo had never seen military cans, but he knew Chinese characters and understood the characters printed on the outside. Then he asked the lid to be lifted with a short knife.

A strong smell of castration came to the nose, and in order to extend the shelf life, this military canned food did not use less spices. The open flag soldier couldn't help but put on a piece of meat with a knife and tasted it, and said to Yue: "Master." It's meat, it's ...... Pork! ”

The breeding industry in Xinxiang has developed rapidly with the popularization of corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes, all of which are quite good feed, especially corn. Therefore, Xinxiang and Hoi An slaughtered 15,000 pigs in the tenth year of Chongzhen, and in the eleventh year of Chongzhen just now, this number expanded to a terrible more than 80,000 heads—although at this time, each pig could only provide more than 200 catties of meat. However, the total amount of pork supplied has also reached nearly 20 million catties. Under the entire Xinxiang system, the total population is less than 600,000, and on average, each person has 30 catties of pork, plus an equally considerable amount of beef, chicken, duck and goose meat, Xinxiang can ensure that every Xinxiang people have a relatively sufficient supply of meat and eggs.

And as a priority for tiger guards, there is no shortage of meat. Even on the march, they did not have to use tempeh and vinegar cloth as dishes as officers and soldiers or prisoners at this time. Canned meat, vegetables, and fruits, as long as they can be eaten, they can be made into canned food. Even some tiger guards changed color when they heard the word canned.

Once or twice to eat such canned food with heavy seasonings, it is delicious, just like Yue Tuo at this time, after confirming that the canned food is non-toxic, as the owner of the Zhenghongqi Banner, of course he has priority to enjoy this kind of good thing. While eating, he said: "There are so many such things in the new soldiers, it is no wonder that the soldiers are brave and fierce...... It's just that they are afraid that they will not be able to endure hardship. ”

"Haha, it's really a good thing, but it's a pity that the number is still less, even if one person can't divide it enough......" He Shuotu also smiled.

They broke Yu Guozhen's plan in Tingkou Town, and also seized a camp of Huwei, and with so many gains, they can naturally laugh at it.

"Let's see what's good." Yue Tuo was in a happy mood to eat, and he was also interested.

It's not really out of curiosity, but there is also a peek at the reality of Xinxiang. Although Jianyu also tried to let those traitor gangs spy on Xinxiang's reality, first, the distance was far away, and secondly, Xinxiang's household registration system was stricter than that of the Ming Dynasty, at least Xinxiang did not have hidden households, so outsiders were easy to be monitored, and even important livelihood workshops could not be approached, let alone Huwei's base.

From Fang Cai's canned food, Yue Tuo could tell that Huwei's treatment was very good, so his morale was extremely high. This is different from those poor and hungry officers and soldiers of the Ming court, and this discovery made Yue Tuo's heart extremely uneasy.

In the abandoned camp, they soon found two cannons.

Along the way, Huwei's short cannon gave Yue Tuo a great shock, this kind of flexible and convenient, not close range artillery, is really a land weapon, and Huwei is used to using one or twenty cannons in a concentrated manner, once bombarded, it can cause a huge blow. Therefore, when these two larger cannons were discovered, Yue Tuo immediately came close to check them out and figure out what was the difference between Huwei's artillery and the Hongyi cannon of the Qing Dynasty.

However, when the cannon was moved, as soon as the cannon was raised, a spring pressed underneath bounced up, triggering a mechanism.

Immediately after that, there was a roar, and the entire camp tent that served as a storehouse suddenly flew into the sky, and Yue Tuo was a little far away, and he was not really hit, but he was also lifted up by the shock wave and fell heavily to the ground. Before he could come to his senses, several pieces of the debris flew through his armor and struck hard at his already weak body.

Laying landmines is no stranger to Jianyu. Qi Jiguang invented the "steel wheel fire thunder" in Jizhou, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty were also accustomed to bury the official pavilion cannon or the office cannon under the official hall when they could not win, and the thief caused an explosion when he sat down in the court triumphantly. However, there is no one like the Tiger Guard that uses a spring as a triggering fuse!

Moreover, the power of the gunpowder used by the Ming government is really limited, and it is easy to be discovered if it is generally buried carelessly. The Tiger Guard is different, how to use landmines, in the Tiger Guard, is an advanced skill that infantry needs to master, the best formula and granulated black fire 'potion', and the power is also better than what Jian Yu has encountered before. Under this bombing, in addition to Yue Tuo, other generals with red and red flags also suffered casualties!

What's more, Yue Tuo, who was already weak due to illness and continuous fighting, fell into a coma after being bombed!

After confirming that Yue Tuo was seriously injured and difficult to wake up, he immediately gave up the idea of entanglement with Yu Guozhen and immediately retreated westward!

"It turns out that it's just life and death unknown!"

After receiving the confirmed news, Yu Guozhen's joy was half less. Yue Tuo's life and death are unknown for the time being, but the evacuation of Jianyu is still in order, and his original plan to contain Jianyu in Tingkou for a few more days and consume more Jianyu materials has finally failed.

"Jianyu south to the east of the mountain, originally unaccustomed to water and soil, among the captives we are holding, didn't someone say that Yue Tuo has been unwell for a long time?" Mao Yuanyi said: "This time I was seriously injured, I think Yue Tuo is only surviving, and he won't be able to drag on much. ”

"In Mr. Mao's opinion, we continue to pursue?"

"No, we're also at the end of the crossbow." Mao Yuanyi shook his head.

Huwei is indeed the end of the crossbow, except for the thousands of people who stayed in Gaomi to settle the tens of thousands of people, the rest of them are all tossing and turning, and many people have even just come over from the sea waves, and they have not rested much before they are thrown into the battle. Coupled with the successive battles, the material consumption of the Tiger Guard is huge, and it also needs to be replenished.

"The next thing can only be handed over to Li Qingshan and Li Mingshan, let's go back to Gaomi, rest and replenish there, and prepare for the next big battle." Mao Yuanyi thought of this and suggested.

"And that's the only way to do it—I hope their brothers do better." Yu Guozhen nodded.

"They are familiar with the situation in the neighborhood, and I have a lot of help from them at Tingkou, so I don't think there will be any problems." Zhang Zhengdao: "It's just ...... There is another matter, I am afraid that petty officials also have to consider. ”

"What?"

"The people of Tingkou."

These words made Yu Guozhen silent, indeed, because he was concentrating on the war, he forgot about this.

At the same time, Du Jiangong, who grew up in Tingkou since he was a child, looked at Tingkou Town from a distance, knelt on the ground in a dejected manner, and slammed the ground with his hands: "If I knew this, I shouldn't have left Tingkou, and I shouldn't have listened to that group of people!" ”

"If you don't listen to others, you won't be able to see the fire at Tingkou at the moment, and Jianyu will kill you a long time ago." A man next to him hugged his arms and held a grass stalk in his mouth, and said "bah".

"Even if he was killed by Jianyu, he always died in his own home, and now that the pavilion is burned like this, no need to ask, my home must be gone, my family is young, how will I spend this winter?"

"Dig a nest in the ground, build a nest, and you have to get through it...... Moreover, that group of people said that they were Denglai soldiers, but I didn't believe it, have you ever seen officers and soldiers who are so kind to talk? The man holding his arms sneered: "Their costumes, and many of them are monks...... I know them! ”

"Huh? Do you know them? ”

"Nanhai Bota's old man's new Xianghuwei, the year before last...... I saw them when I was in Gyeonggi the year before last, when they were ordered to King Qin, and I happened to be in Gyeonggi, and I was captured by Jianju, and I rescued them for them. The man holding his arms said.

As soon as these words came out, Du Jiangong was shocked: "Why have you never heard of you, brother?" ”

"Without a guide, it's not a good thing to go to Gyeonggi, what do you say?" The man sighed, his face was full of chagrin......

"Brother Wu, what do you mean by this?" Du Jiangong was stunned.

"My family is also ruined, and now that Jianyu has burned down the pavilion, I don't have a place to sell my strength...... Just go to Xinxiang to take refuge in Nanhaibo, this body strength will not starve to death. Brother Wu sighed and said: "Brother Du, I expect that Huwei will definitely come to settle compensation, if I were you, I wouldn't want any compensation, just to be able to go to Xinxiang!" ”

Similar words were not heard in more than one place, but most people either cursed Huwei or cursed Jianyu, in short, very few people would believe that there was still someone to compensate for their losses.