Li Siye looked around at everyone, and as he expected, the first person to stand up and provoke must be General Ma Phosphorus.

Ma Fu clenched his fists with a big grin and asked calmly: "Dare to ask General Li, it's okay to bring no baggage, it's okay not to call auxiliaries, and it's unrealistic to cook without cooking utensils, I'll ask you about the dry food for 50 days, what dry food can be put for 50 days without deterioration?" Even if it's a dry cake, it's going to be rancid for ten or twenty days, right?"

"Good question," Li Siye replied with a salute, turned to the guards guarding the door, and said, "You go to the Shule military camp and ask someone to bring a bag of dry food."

The guards responded with their hands and ran to the Shule army to give orders, everyone looked playful, Gao Xianzhi stroked his beard, and Fu Meng Lingcha's sitting posture was not so upright, closing his eyes and waiting.

"Report, the dry food bag has arrived!"

Fu Meng Zhongcheng quickly opened his eyes and came out of his dormant state. Yan Xiaosi walked into the hall with a bag of dry food, handed it to Li Siye, and withdrew with his forked hands.

Li Siye took out a few biscuits that were harder than bricks from the bag, first presented them to Fu Meng Lingcha with both hands, and then distributed them to everyone like candy, while saying: "Please try it, although the taste is not too good, the shelf life is definitely long enough."

Ma Phosphorus bit a piece hard with his incisors, ate his mouth full of dry powder, nodded and said: "It tastes good, but if there is no water, this thing really can't swallow." What is this made of? ”

"Flour, barley flour, corn flour, put it in a bucket or iron pot and stir-fry, add salt, a small amount of mutton fat, if there is any seasoning better, fry until piping hot, dry and cool and then put it into an iron mold and pound it into a hard block, which is our homemade compressed biscuit. It can also be stored as fried noodles without compression, as long as it is kept dry and not soaked in water and damp, it is not a problem to eat it within 60 days. ”

There were also a few strips of cured meat in the dry food bag, and Li Siye also distributed them to the people: "We don't use salt cloth or vinegar cloth, but use salt to marinate the jerky, which carries both meat and salt."

Ma Phosphorus took it and tasted it, took two sips and said, "It's so salty!" Where is the salt in the meat, it's like a piece of meat in the salt. ”

"It's a little salty, but the more salt you have in this meat, the longer it will last."

Ma Phosphorus nodded convincingly, arched his hand and said, "If that's the case, then I don't have a problem."

Kang Huaishun also stood up, faced Li Siye and asked, "The dry food of the people is solved, what do the livestock eat?" General Li said that one person has one camel and one horse, but our Anxi army has not yet achieved that everyone has a private horse, how can a soldier without a camel and horse carry these 50 days of dry food?"

Li Siye did not think about it, and immediately replied: "Now in spring and summer, the grass and trees are luxuriant. Thousands of miles of pastures under the Broken Leaf River, as long as you go out of the city, cross the Pearl River is a pasture, and the horses do not have to worry about eating and drinking. As for some of the soldiers who did not have horses, the cavalry army led by General Wang Zhengjian, each with two or three horses, could temporarily switch to walking, and lend the horses to soldiers who did not have private horses. If this was not enough, the oxen that carried the baggage could also be transported by camel, and the camel cattle of the passing caravans could be borrowed in the exchange city, which should be enough. ”

Fumeng Lingcha asked Wang Zhengjian: "General Wang, can you borrow the horses under your cavalry army?"

Wang Zhengjian stood up and crossed his hands and said: "The cavalry can dismount and walk, but after reaching the Broken Leaf River and engaging the enemy, how can they take advantage of the victory and pursue without cavalry?" How do you cover up the rout?"

Li Siye arched his hand to Wang Zhengjian: "This General Wang doesn't have to worry, the dry food will be less and less during the march, and after entering the Broken Leaf River, the soldiers with private horses can be transported by camel to feed the two of them, and the horses will be returned to the cavalry."

Fu Meng was in a good mood at this time, and looked at everyone with high spirits and said: "Who has any objections, if there is no objection......

"The subordinates still want to ask," but Ma Fu stood up, looked at Li Siye with blazing eyes, and had the potential to refute him: "The tent of the Thiri Shi Khan is set up in Broken Leaf City, if Mohe Khan shrinks his forces in Broken Leaf City, holds out, and waits for our army to consume dry food?" We don't have baggage, we don't have bed crossbows and other siege equipment, how can we take Broken Leaf City?"

Before Li Siye could speak, everyone opened their mouths to argue with Ma Phosphorus: "This is General Ma Phosphorus, you are not thoughtful, the Tuqi Shi people live on nomadic herding, the summer grass is lush in May and June, and the cattle and sheep are all relying on the pasture to grow fat, they enclose the cattle and sheep into the city, what do they rely on to eat, drink and feed?" So it is bound not to stick to it. ”

Ma Pho was quite thick-skinned, regardless of these people's arguments, and continued to ask questions: "What if Mo He prepared in advance, harvested the pasture and stored it in the city, and retreated into Broken Leaf City after fighting against our army, waiting for our army to run out of food and retreat?"

This idea is quite cautious, if Mo Hedagan is really so cautious, and it is connected to the brain circuit of Ma Phosphorus, it is a problem that has to be considered.

Li Siye pondered for a while, but he didn't come up with a countermeasure. Gao Xianzhi finally refused to be silent anymore, and said with a smile: "I'll make up for General Li's plan." One of the Tuqi Shihei tribes is active in the area of the Ili River west of Broken Leaf City, and our Anxi Protectorate has sent someone to contact it, and the Dumo branch has expressed its willingness to submit and work with our army to defeat Mohe Dagan. In addition, the king of Bahanna, Asilanda, also led a crowd of 10,000 to attack westward through Talas. ”

"Even if Mohedagan is well prepared, it is impossible to enpen all the hundreds of thousands of livestock of all his troops into the city of Broken Leaves, our army will attack head-on, Asiranda and Dumozhi are responsible for collecting and capturing the remnants of it, and all the captured cattle and sheep are the military rations of our army. If he cowered in the city of Broken Leaves, we would have to spend it with him to see who could endure it, and this is called fighting to feed the war. ”

"What a war to feed the war." Fu Meng Lingcha clapped his hand a few times and said: "Everyone worked together to finally complete Li Siye's tactics. Now, the whole army listens to me!"

He put his horsewhip on the table, stood up and looked at the people below, and ordered in a loud voice: "From now on, the whole army will prepare, fry dry food, marinate and cured meat, distribute camels and horses, and unload the excess burden. Rise up for yourself, each carrying his own dry food for fifty days, no, only forty days! It is forbidden to use fake hands with others to attack the Broken Leaf River for a long time and break Mohe Dagan. ”

As soon as the Fumeng Zhongcheng army ordered, the entire Anxi army was mobilized, and the fire commanders began to organize the soldiers to fry and make compressed biscuits, and the yak and green cattle that transported the baggage unloaded the vehicles and were assigned to the soldiers to carry the weight.

The barracks of the various armies were in chaos, but they were in order. The cavalry handed over the horses to the infantry, asked each other for their names, and had a squad present to ensure that they were present.

Jia Chonghuan had to run around with scars, in addition to sacrificing his own property, cattle, mules and horses, he also personally requisitioned cattle and horses from the people of the city, and laid down IOUs, and when the Anxi army broke and returned, no matter how many cattle and horses were available. As for the camels of the past merchants, they were also requisitioned in advance, and the merchants could go to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate with IOUs in exchange for silk cloth money.

On the other side of the river are requisitioned flocks of sheep, which are slaughtered one by one, dissected into strips of meat, salted, and hung under the branches of poplar trees to be dried, and the smell of sheep can be smelled from ten miles away.

Thousands of buckets lined the banks of the river, where the soldiers brought grain, ground flour with stone mills, and poured it into the buckets and stir-fried them.

Even after nightfall, the outside of the city was still bustling, surrounded by the smoke of countless fires, and the green smoke rose in the air to obscure the moonlight, but it did not disperse.

Where there are people, there is a market, and where the army gathers, the bigger the market, the Kangju dancers of the orchid wine shop in the city got into the carriage as soon as it was dark, and pulled them to the military camp outside the city to perform the dance, and in the middle of the pile of bonfires was their stage.

Fu Mengzhong was so lenient that he did not stop this kind of entertainment, and as long as he could not miss his plan, he himself would be more than happy to see these women in trumpeted skirts spinning gracefully. There are many dancing experts in the army, who can stand up under the pull of Kang Junu, clapping their palms and spinning and singing, causing a burst of coaxing.

Li Siye sat cross-legged and watched quietly, thinking that this is not the nostalgic Anxi in Zhang Xiaojing's mouth? Desert and forest, mountains and grasslands coexist in the magnificent place, the outline of the ice peak of the Tianshan Mountains is in the distance, the snow clouds of the Tianshan Mountains often do not open, and the snow of thousands of peaks and mountains is Cui Wei. People who have lived here for a long time have naturally become mellow and simple, not like those Chang'an politicians who are confined in the city.

A young man sneaked up to him, half-squatted and half-knelt on the ground, and saluted with crossed hands: "General." ”

Li Siye looked back and hurriedly whispered, "What are you doing?" Hurry up, you are now a khan with the surname of ten people, don't bow to others at every turn. ”

Si Lu whispered silently: "Others won't, but for you." ”

"I can't either."

Si Lu sat beside Li Siye, as if he had something to ask, but he hesitated and didn't dare to speak, but fortunately Li Siye was admiring the dance of Kangju Nu and his eyes were not on him.

"Everyone in the family is fine."

"Hmm."

"Mrs. Wu, Mrs. Chen, Mrs., and ...... Mei'er, they're all right. ”

Li Siye finally turned his head and began to face the law, which made the young man's heart beat a drum, he shouldn't have guessed his mind.

"It's all good, you kid still has a bit of a conscience, and he hasn't forgotten them when he became a khan."

Si Lu quietly pressed his chest, and his heart said that I will not forget, and it has been engraved in my heart like a knife.