Zhang Bao ordered people to drag the dead horses back, of course, not all the dead horses, because in this battle, there were tens of thousands of dead horses, and even if the first division was dispatched, it would be impossible to completely deal with all the dead horses in a short period of time, not to mention that there was still a lot of work to be done.

Zhang Bao just sent a regiment and asked them to do their best to carry the horse corpses. How much meat the First Division can get depends on how hard they try tonight. The regiment used hundreds of donkey carts to help pull the meat, and then the leaders of the group flayed and cut the horse's meat.

The skin, internal organs, bones, etc. are all thrown away, and only the meat is the best fine meat. In fact, horse skin is a very good thing, although it is not as thick as cowhide, but it is also a rare leather raw material, but the transportation space of the first division is limited, so it can only be discarded.

The cut meat is first taken away by the gang leaders and boiled in a large pot or roasted on a campfire, which is everyone's dinner tonight, so it should be cooked first. After satisfying everyone's meal for tonight, the soldiers of this regiment did not stop, but continued to cut the horse meat.

They cut the horse meat into strips, coat it with salt, and hang it. After drying, they become air-dried horse meat, which can be used as military rations in the future. The wind in the steppe was particularly dry, which was very suitable for drying dried meat, so there was a spectacle on the vehicles of the First Division: the outside of the carriages of each car was covered with strips of dried meat, and from a distance, I thought that these cars were covered with dark red beaded curtains, which were ugly.

But ugliness is ugliness, and the soldiers are very happy to look at these ugly "bead curtains", because for a long time to come, they will not have to worry about having no meat to eat.

Although the camp of the first division was covered with corpses of men and horses, Zhang Bao did not give the order to transfer the position, but ordered to camp on the spot. This was suggested by the General Staff.

The General Staff believed that the corpses covered around the camp could be used as an obstacle to prevent the Xianbei cavalry from approaching the camp. If the Xianbei people want to steal the camp at night, they can't rush over at high speed on horseback, they can only walk slowly. In fact, in the dark of night, it is difficult to walk slowly, and if you are not careful, you will trip over the corpses on the ground, and it is easy to sprain your feet if you trip too much.

The General Staff believes that if such a good environmental condition is not used, everyone will be able to sleep peacefully tonight. As for saying that dead bodies bring plague, that refers to something that only happens when corpses decompose a few days after death, and in the dry grasslands, one night should not be a big problem.

In addition to bringing the live horses back for treatment and pulling some of the horse corpses back for food, the First Division did not deal with the corpses of the Xianbei cavalry. Because if the workload is too large, tens of thousands of pits have to be dug, and on average, each person in the division has to dig two or three pits, and it may not be able to finish it in one night.

Anyway, it was the Xianbei people who died, not their comrades, whether they were violent corpses or not in the wilderness had nothing to do with themselves, as for whether so many corpses would bring plague to the grassland, this was not something they needed to worry about, they were going to leave the grassland immediately after they finished their own business, and even if the flood was monstrous after they left, it had nothing to do with them.

After a feast of horse meat for the whole of the 1st Division, they set up camp and set up their guard according to the usual practice, while the rest of the men returned to their tents to rest and prepare for the long night.

Sleeping until midnight, Zhang Bao was woken up by his own soldiers and a staff officer on duty, when he reluctantly got dressed, and when he heard the staff officer's report, his eyes were bigger than his father Zhang Fei's.

"What? You say the Xianbei people set the fire? ”

"Yes, division commander, the hot air balloon has just received news that a line of fire has appeared about five miles northwest of Daying, the length of the line of fire is very long, it is estimated that it is two miles long, and it continues to grow, it is estimated that the Xianbei people are still igniting. In addition, it is blowing northwest wind tonight, and the wind speed is level 1. It is expected that the line of fire will reach the camp within two quarters of an hour to half an hour. The staff officer said

"Bu Dugen, this bastard, deliberately doesn't let people sleep peacefully, don't catch him for Lao Tzu, otherwise he must be good-looking." Zhang Bao complained hatefully, and said: "Send the order, the whole division will urgently assemble, do a good job of alertness, and be ready to fight at any time." Now are those regimental vigils? The last sentence was asked by Zhang Bao to the staff officer.

"To the east is the first and second regiments, to the south is the second and second regiments, to the west is the third and third regiments, and to the north is the twenty-first regiment." The staff officer replied. Because the strong enemy was around, Zhang Bao did not dare to relax, so he arranged a regiment of troops in each of the four directions of the southeast, northwest and west to be on duty.

After they were on duty for midnight, four other regiments would take their place, and they would be able to retire and sleep for half the night. However, in this situation, it is obvious that no one wants to sleep anymore.

"Order the four regiments to tie wet towels around their mouths and noses, bring sapper shovels, and immediately go to the fireproof isolation belts in their respective directions, check whether the isolation belts are done as required, and if there are any places that are not in place, they will be remedied immediately. Let them be ready to deal with emergencies~ at any time.

Order the Trinity Regiment to support the west and the 11 Regiment to support the north, and let them also bring sapper shovels to widen the separation zone with all their might. Others are ready for battle and ready to respond to enemy charges. Zhang Bao quickly gave the order.

The staff officer on duty quickly recorded the order and handed it to Zhang Bao to look at, Zhang Bao glanced at it, quickly signed his name, and took out a small copper seal from his waist and stamped it on the paper. The staff officer took the order, saluted Zhang Bao, and hurriedly trotted out to issue the order.

Soon, the sound of the horn "woo" sounded in the camp of the first division, and the rhythm of this horn was so rapid that those who knew it knew that this was the emergency assembly number of the Hong army. The whole camp was boiling, and the soldiers were busy but not chaotic, and they were all completing their movements quickly.

Except for the urging of the officers, the rustle of their clothes, the clatter of their weapons, and the sound of no one in the whole battalion, let alone complaints and noises. This unusual silence shows that the soldiers are well-trained, and those who see this scene must think that these soldiers must have carried out such an emergency set in normal times.

Soon, the soldiers got out of their tents in an orderly manner and, in accordance with the military orders received by the officers, walked to their posts and carried out the corresponding orders.

Soon, a raging fire appeared in front of everyone's eyes. The length of the line of fire was so long that the soldiers could not even see where the two ends of the line of fire were, and at that length it would have been longer than the width of the entire battalion.

The line of fire quickly rushed to the camp of the 1st Division, exuding an overwhelming momentum, before the line of fire arrived, the billowing smoke was blown to the camp early, this time, the whole of the 1st Division had already tied wet towels to their mouths and noses, so no one was choked by the smoke.

But the eyes were not spared, and they were smoked to tears. The officers had no choice but to take turns to keep their eyes open and observe the enemy's situation, and arranged for some soldiers to monitor the outside of the camp and guard against the enemy's sneak attack. Others close their eyes and rest to avoid being damaged by the smoke.

These soldiers who were on guard with their eyes open could not hold on for long, and soon they had to retreat, close their eyes and rest, and change to another group to go up to guard. This time is the most dangerous time, and I can't help but feel that the first division is not nervous.