Yu Xiang was in a daze, and was woken up by a sound of Xi Suosuo, opened his eyes, and saw the red lady sorting out her clothes and pulling her hair by the light of the lamp.

Yu Xiang propped up his upper body and asked, "When is it?" ”

"It's almost dawn, and I've already blown the horn of the dinner market just now." The red lady said.

Yu Xiang came to his senses, leaned over, and kissed the red lady on the face, the red lady was shy, but the war was about to start, and they couldn't care about their children's affection, Yu Xiang was already lying in his clothes and stood up.

The red lady helped him straighten his wrinkled clothes, and then he and Yu Xiang opened the mosquito net and went out of the military tent.

The top of the hill is brightly lit, and people come and go, bustling.

Yu Xiang and the Red Lady walked side by side to the meal, and the people around them bowed to them and greeted them, and Yu Xiang and the Red Lady politely returned the salute.

Before coming to the meal, the logistics staff was distributing meals to the soldiers, and Ding Dafu was directing on the side, and he led the logistics to stay up all night last night to rush out the breakfast. Today's breakfast is big white steamed buns, hand-rolled noodles and hard-boiled eggs.

The smell of green onions wafted from the battlefield.

The soldiers were informed yesterday that the war was urgent today and that breakfast would be exhausted before dawn. I ate white flour buns and three boiled eggs per person. This kind of food, many families even have a rare meal during the Chinese New Year.

Zhang Er was stunned, eating the white bun in a big gulp, drinking the noodle soup, the noodle soup was floating with green leaves, the fragrance of shallots and the aroma of vegetable oil, aroused his infinite appetite, he gulped and drank a big mouthful of noodle soup, and reached out to take a big white bun, and took a bite of more than half of it.

The bald egg peeled the eggshell, while chatting with Huang An beside him, Huang An put the egg in his pocket and was reluctant to eat it, he wanted to take the egg home and take it home for his mother to eat.

This scene happened to be seen by Yu Xiang, and he felt that it was not a taste, although the villagers of Xincun can now eat a full stomach every day, but high-protein foods like eggs, ordinary villagers in Xincun are difficult to eat, especially eggs and meat, for everyone, it is still a luxury, this kind of food that is commonplace in later generations, is extremely precious at the moment.

He walked up, took out the remaining egg in his pocket and handed it to Huang An and said: "Eat it, if you eat it, you will have the strength to kill the enemy, and when you win the battle, you will have eggs and meat, and one day in the future, as long as you want, you will eat eggs every day and eat meat every day." ”

Huang An saw that Mr. Qian was talking to him, nervous and excited, his face turned red, and he hurriedly said: "Mr. Qian, I have eggs, I don't want to eat yours, you must maintain sufficient physical strength to lead us to victory." After that, he took out an egg from his pocket and clumsily peeled the eggshell, because he was inexperienced, the eggshell was peeled off with a large piece of egg white, Huang An was reluctant to throw it away, and put the egg shell with egg whites in his mouth to eat.

Yu Xiang peeled the shell of his egg completely and cleanly with a few simple strokes, and he handed the egg as white as jade to Huang An, who took it obediently.

Yu Xiang patted Huang An on the shoulder, and after saying hello to Zhang Erzi, bald and others, he and the red lady continued to inspect the next food service.

Huang An took the egg, his face flushed with excitement, this is Mr. Qian's personal peeling of the egg, for him, what a great honor, he held the egg in his hand, reluctant to eat.

After Yu Xiang left, Zhang Er was stunned, bald and a few others next to him came over and asked, "Huang An, you kid is really blessed, you have been taken care of by Mr. Qian like this, what did Mr. Qian say to you just now?" ”

Huang Anhan said with a smile: "Mr. Qian let me eat eggs with confidence, I have the strength to kill the enemy, and said that I will eat eggs every day and eat meat every day in the future." He held up the egg in his hand and showed it to everyone.

Zhang Er was stunned and cheered after listening to it, and said with a big grin: "There will really be this day in the future, eating tender white eggs and eating meat at once, just let me be a fairy, and I won't do it!" I stayed in the new village and ate eggs and meat every day. ”

After Zhang Er was stunned and said this, everyone can't wait for this day to come soon, everyone knows that Mr. Qian is not just talking, what he said and what he promised are becoming reality step by step.

Through word of mouth, soon, everyone on the battlefield knew that after winning the battle, they would eat chicken every day and eat meat every day in the future, which was undoubtedly an extremely good wish and commitment for many people who had tasted the pain of hunger, and most people in the new village who had just eaten their stomachs were undoubtedly an extremely good wish and commitment, which inspired everyone's fighting spirit, everyone rubbed their fists, and those who went to the battlefield for the first time no longer seemed to be so afraid of the coming war.

At this time, in the minds of everyone in the new village, a beautiful scene of eating eggs and meat every day comes to mind.

Yu Xiang came to the next meal, Zhang Xuemei was holding a big spoon, and kept putting noodle soup into the soldier's bowl, she saw Yu Xiang and wanted to put down the spoon, Yu Xiang motioned for her to continue, don't stop.

Yu Xiang just stopped for a while, and then continued to the next meal, on the hill, there were more than ten meals, each meal was orderly, and there was no queue crowding.

Zhang Xuemei's logistical work was meticulous and conscientious, and she did it herself, judging from the situation of breakfast supply, the battlefield logistics preparations were done very well, and Yu Xiang was quite satisfied.

After inspecting the logistics work, he felt steady, and he continued to inspect the front-line warfare.

He and the red lady came to the front line of defense, and saw that the soldiers who had finished eating consciously replaced the soldiers standing guard on the front line, all of them were full of energy and high morale.

Zhang Xianzhong's camp was not so lucky, they came to the area of Dongshuanghe, because Yu Xiang had gathered all the food in the area before, Zhang Xianzhong almost didn't collect any food, and Zhang Xianzhong's army supplies mainly relied on robbery. plundered, and they did not have much food with the army. This time, because of Yu Xiang's wartime temporary law of clearing the wilderness, Zhang Xianzhong did not find much food supply.

In Dongshuanghe, they have not yet captured the local people to replenish the source of troops. Just arrested a few old men who stayed behind and locked them up to understand the local situation.

Of course, their home has been confiscated, and all the food and valuable things of his family have been looted, and not only that, but they have also been set on fire, and the huge mansion was immediately engulfed in flames, and Li Qiankun and his wife and Lao Ding were also imprisoned.

The makeshift cell was filled with people he had met. Li Qiankun couldn't think about it, he sat on the ground and gasped, and Lao Ding was on the side to advise. If it weren't for the sake of keeping them to interrogate the situation in Xincun, or for letting them lead the way after the capture of Loess Gang, I am afraid that they would die a long time ago this morning.

There is not much food left, Zhang Xianzhong boiled all the remaining grain into gruel, 10,000 soldiers ate a water guarantee, in front of Zhang Xianzhong, there is a way to go, that is, a quick battle, occupy the loess gang, and capture the new village in one go, grab the grain. If there is no more food supply, the few hundred "two-legged" women will suffer again. It's going to be killed and used as military rations.

As soon as the sky was bright, Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu led the troops on three routes and marched towards Huangtougang, and the people at the front of the line were all homeless people who were coerced.

Zhang Xianzhong has his own wishful thinking, he wants to use these people as human targets, consume the ammunition and strength of the new village, if the displaced people can break through the loess gang, it is better, in case it can't be captured, then his regular army will charge, the bullet exhausted, exhausted loess gang in one fell swoop, as long as you can grab food, you will not worry about replenishing the army.

Behind the displaced people were military discipline teams armed with broadswords, the purpose of which was to prevent the displaced people in front of them from retreating and fleeing.

In the end, Zhang Xianzhong's elite soldiers, although the whole team is known as the five thousand major armies, the actual elite soldiers are only about 5,000 people, and there are less than 200 war horses. These are Zhang Xianzhong's old roots, and he doesn't want to lose all these people.

The displaced people in front of the queue are in a state of semi-starvation, they are driven by hunger, the purpose is very simple, that is, they hope to be able to go to the new village, eat a full meal and survive, if they grab some silver taels by the way, they will return to their hometowns in the future, buy some fields, build a house, and be good farmers, they are coerced to come, they have no purpose, they feel that in the peasant rebel army, they can eat enough and live, many of them have not been on the battlefield, and they do not have much emotional understanding of the cruelty of battle. Moreover, they had seen Zhang Xianzhong's cruel means of killing the "two-legged sheep", and they were afraid in their hearts, and they were very afraid of the fierce military discipline team behind them holding a big knife, so they had only one way to go, that is, to go forward and forward, to capture the loess gang as soon as possible, capture the new village, and grab money and grain.

More than 10,000 people, shouting slogans, rushed towards the loess gang. When they arrived at the foot of the loess hill, it was already dawn. They assembled under the loess hill and prepared to launch a general attack.

On the loess hill, everyone enters the first line of defense, before the fire. The gun team was divided into two groups, one assembled and one group fired, which greatly improved the efficiency of shooting operations. It allows people with good shooting ability to give full play to their strengths, and a group of specially loaded ammunition allows people with quick hands and feet to give full play to their strengths.

At this time, all the fire. The gunners were ready, they clutched their steel guns, and they had already loaded the cartridges and ammunition for the regular load.

Each set of fire. On the side of the spearmen, there are four or five spearmen guarding them, who are responsible for close assassination and protection of the fire. The safety of the gunners.

The enemy had assembled at the foot of the Loess Gang Mountain, and Yu Xiang held a telescope to see the situation of the enemy's position clearly.

Yu Xiang frowned, handed the telescope to Qi Dayong, and according to Yu Xiang's instructions, he took the telescope and looked at the enemy army, and after reading it, he frowned.

The telescope was handed to the red lady, Yu Xiang no longer shy away, and taught the red lady how to use the telescope hand in hand, the red lady looked at the enemy position, only to see the dense enemy at the bottom of the mountain, the front line is obviously not a regular soldier, among them are old and young, wearing a variety of clothes, most of them are ragged, and there are few in armor.

Most of these people have yellow muscles and thin bodies, like hemp rods, and the guys in their hands, except for a few steel knives and spears, are mostly hoes, harpoons, sticks and other farm tools.

What makes people feel cold is that their expressions are so numb and indifferent, like the walking dead, all lifeless, just driven by some instinctive power.

At this time, an earth-shattering shout came from under the hill: "Eliminate Yu Xiang, grab money and food!" "The horn of the enemy's attack has sounded, and the dense crowd has begun to climb up from the bottom of the hill, their eyes flashing with terrifying greed, and they all try their best to climb upward, and the front, some even run upward, and everyone's face seems to have a few words written on it: "Grab money and grab food."

The red lady said: "The enemy wants to use the homeless people as human shields to consume the ammunition and strength of our army. ”

Everyone agrees with the Red Lady's statement, Yu Xiang believes that since Zhang Xianzhong uses the displaced people to consume the firepower of the new village, on the one hand, he must use the fire. Guns, against those who are physically strong or with sharp weapons, to combat their arrogance and deter them; On the other hand, it is necessary to preserve the gunpowder, release some of the displaced people to the front, give full play to the advantages of Xincun's pure steel spear weapons and home combat advantages, and fight with them hand-to-hand, these auxiliary soldiers of Xincun have an advantage in physical strength and weapons, and should be able to resist for a while. Finally, using psychological warfare, these homeless people just want to eat enough to survive, and after the first round of shooting, the auxiliaries shout together, 'Disarm and surrender, give money and food!' As long as there is the slightest chance of survival, and their attack is frustrated, some people will be shaken, and in doing so, some people will be able to win over some people to the battlefield. Cause chaos in front of the enemy.

Qi Dayong felt reasonable, and he quickly passed down the order. The spearmen mainly killed the strong and armed with sharp weapons, and put some thin and poorly armed people to fight the spearmen in close combat, and after the first round of shooting, the auxiliaries shouted the slogan "disarm and surrender, give money and food" to shake the enemy's morale.

Qi Dayong's order was quickly conveyed to everyone on the loess hill.

Soon, the black-pressed enemy slowly pressed forward and entered the fire. The firing range of the gun.

Qi Dayong pulled out his saber and shouted loudly, immediately burning in the front row. The gun will be on fire. Guns were placed on the low wall of the mound in front.

The enemy running in front was unkempt, and there was no battle formation, just relying on the overwhelming crowd to come. Some of the enemies in front also saw the fire in front of the earthen wall. The gunners, they don't care, they have seen a lot of firearms of officers and soldiers, killing people is not very effective, scary and blowing up their own people is seen a lot, when they are approaching a hundred steps, there is no movement in the new village, everyone is even more fearless, thinking that the new village is afraid, just at this time, the enemy group sounded a dense charge horn, the enemy in front of them is even more crazy, shouting loudly, waving weapons together, screaming in their mouths, "Kill Yu Xiang, grab money and food!" The slogan, quicken the pace and rush forward.

In fact, the fire of the new village. The gun shot at a distance of up to one hundred and fifty paces, in order to achieve the best shooting effect, the enemy was deliberately put into the range of sixty steps, just when the troops in front of the enemy entered sixty steps, Qi Dayong pointed at the saber and shouted: "Shoot!" ”

"Bang bang!"

Fire. The guns rang out in unison, spraying projectiles and smoke.