However, this ability to predict the weather is not unusual in the eyes of the Han people, who are much more civilized, and an ordinary old farmer in the countryside may look at the weather. There are many valuable experiences in predicting the weather in ancient China, and some proverbs such as "the morning glow does not go out, and the sunset travels thousands of miles" is the crystallization of this folk wisdom.

Zhuge Liang, the companion of the great shaman, also successfully predicted that the east wind would blow on the day of the great war during the Battle of Chibi, but he also pretended to be a god and played a ghost, saying that he borrowed the east wind, and his behavior was actually similar to the behavior of the great shaman today.

After discussing with the leaders for a while, he finally reluctantly accepted the "revelation of the Immortal Heaven" conveyed by the great shaman. They have now reached a desperate point, if they don't use this trick, what awaits them is the occupation of the royal court, and the countless clansmen living in and around the royal court will be wiped out or taken prisoner, and the consequences will be much more serious than burning a grassland.

If the great shaman is right, or the guidance of the immortal heaven is correct, the northwest wind has been blowing tonight, then what has been burned is the grassland in the southeast, which is close to the Han people, and with the strength of the Han army now, even if this grassland is not burned, it is impossible for their own tribes to graze in this grassland in the future, so burn it, it doesn't matter.

Unlike the gloomy clouds on the Xianbei side, the first division battalion is jubilant. The reason for the rejoicing and winning the battle is one reason, and the other reason is because it is possible to add food today.

Because there will be no supplies after sending troops to the grassland, the first division has to bring enough supplies at one time, and because there are too many things to bring, the food it carries is also selective.

He didn't bring any meat, only some high-energy military rations similar to compressed biscuits in later generations. This kind of military food is mainly made of flour, sugar, oil and other ingredients and water to make bricks, and directly roasted without fermentation. There are also some high-end varieties that are baked with eggs, bean flour, jerky powder, and even vegetable powder. However, these nutritious varieties are special offerings, and are generally intended for the wounded and senior officers.

These military rations are baked into rectangular pieces, just enough for a soldier's meal, and they are very space-saving and easy to carry when stacked neatly. This frees up a lot of space for the team to bring more ammunition.

However, if you eat too many of these compressed biscuits, it is easy to cause various malnutrition diseases due to the lack of vitamins, fiber, protein and other nutrients. As mentioned earlier, in order to solve this problem, Hua Tuo specially formulated a pill for soldiers who needed to eat dry food for a long time.

In addition, this time the first division sent troops to the grassland and brought a lot of tea. With the increase in the territory occupied by Shu Han, various materials were also enriched. Yunnan, the origin of Pu'er tea, fell into the hands of Shu Han with Liu Hounan's expedition. After Liu Hou taught the concept of roasted tea through Zuo Ci, the Agricultural Research Institute has now explored a set of tea-making techniques.

The tea they make now no longer needs to be boiled and drunk like a soup, but can be brewed and drunk like the tea of later generations, and the taste is similar to that of Pu'er tea in later generations. In order to facilitate transportation and storage, this kind of tea is generally made into a brick shape, which is called tea bricks. The army used these tea bricks to make tea every day for the soldiers to drink, and these teas also played a certain role in the health care of the soldiers.

As for protein supplementation, it is simple, and it can be said that this is the least difficult problem in the grassland. Along the way, the first division also killed a lot of Xianbei cavalry, which naturally people can't eat, but the mounts they sit on can be used as a good source of meat. Therefore, along the way, the soldiers of the 1st Division can still taste some meat from time to time.

Horse meat is not very tasty, but it is better than eating compressed biscuits without meat. The soldiers were not picky eaters either, and it didn't matter if they had meat or beef. At the beginning, there were not many Xianbei cavalry killed, a horse often had to be eaten by many people, and in the case of more monks and less porridge, everyone was not satisfied, with entering the grassland, the Xianbei people made clear the destination of the Han army, launched a crazy attack on the Han army, the amount of horse meat increased rapidly, and the soldiers really had several large pieces of meat addiction.

Today, an unprecedented number of Xianbei cavalry have been killed, and it seems that this time the meat can be eaten in the open again. Sure enough, Zhang Bao issued a general order and sent some people to clean up the battlefield. In such a large battlefield, there are still some horses alive, although there are few intact and uninjured, but there are many who are injured and not dead.

If these injured horses were to be returned by the Xianbei people, it is estimated that few of them would survive in the end, but if they were given to the Hongjun, then their fate would be completely different. The doctors who accompanied the army in the Hong army were well-known, and the first division was no exception. In this battle, the number of wounded in the first division was about two or three hundred, and those military doctors could quickly treat the wounds of all the wounded soldiers, and then they could help these wounded horses heal.

With the teaching of Hua Tuo, the originator of surgery, and the concept of disinfection and sterility passed on by Liu Hou through Zuo Ci, the military doctors in the Hong Army are now very experienced in treating traumatic injuries, and with the extensive application of medical alcohol, the healing rate of traumatic injuries is much higher than before.

Especially now that there is penicillin in the army, many people who were thought to be certain to die in the past have also been miraculously pulled back from the ghost gate. After Guan Gong personally tested the drug last time, it has been summarized and improved by researchers from the Institute of Medicine, and now it is now possible to produce penicillin that can be used in clinical practice.

However, because the purification technology is not up to par, allergies are common, so a skin test must be done before use. In addition, this life-saving drug is not easy to produce, and the price is extremely expensive, so it will not be used on these injured horses. Even soldiers do not use it if the injuries are not very serious, or if the symptoms of infection are not very serious.

Generally, those who are too seriously injured, the infection cannot be controlled, they have a high fever and talk nonsense, and they can't survive it, so they will use this "miracle medicine" that is more expensive than gold to save their lives.

After the wounded horses are dragged back, they are usually poured with some Huatuo brand hemp to boil, anesthetized, and then the projectile or shrapnel is removed by the military doctor. Then~ wound debridement, suturing, dressing, etc., they enjoy the same one-stop treatment procedure as humans.

The reason why it took so much effort to save these horses was because horses were too precious to the Han army, especially war horses, which could be said to be hard to find. This time, almost 2,000 wounded horses were brought back, and even if only half of them could be rescued in the end, it would be thousands of horses, still war horses, which was comparable to the number of all the horses in the first division.

Since the first division set out, the cavalry has also lost two or three hundred horses, and now it can replenish thousands of horses at once, how can Zhang Bao be unhappy, this time, the cavalry team can be expanded. Zhang Bao believed that these thousands of horses were the biggest trophies in this battle. With these horses cured, the cavalry of the 1st Division could be expanded to at least 1,500 horsemen.

And there may be horses left, of course, most of the remaining are the old, weak, sick and disabled horses that have been eliminated, and they can only be used to pull carts, not to make war horses. In addition to these wounded lucky horses, there were also a large number of dead horses lounged on the battlefield, which were all rations for the 1st Division tonight and in the next few days.