"Big brother, it seems that this Great Sui is really not the opponent of Xia Guo, we really made the right bet this time!"

Li Erbin was holding a canned pork from the South Seas in his hand, and while gobbling it up, he muttered to Li Dalang, who was chewing a piece of whale meat next to him, that the deliciousness of the canned pork made him almost swallow his tongue.

"Huh? Why? Li Dalang turned his head to look at his cousin sitting beside him suspiciously, usually this cousin has always been a little naïve, but what Li Erbin said just now is very consistent with Li Dalang's analysis of the current situation.

Li Erbin just swallowed a big mouthful of pork, wanted to speak but was almost choked, and it took a lot of effort to swallow it, and then he hurriedly wiped a handful of oily lips with his sleeve, and then said to Li Dalang: "When I was at home, I heard the old man say that the people take food as the sky, and this soldier also pays attention to eating food before he can fight!"

You see, we used to guard the grain road and it was considered fat, but there were only two meals a day, and we could only eat six or seven percent full at a time, and the things we ate were brown rice and wheat rice, and there was no meat at all! But what do you see the soldiers of the Xia Kingdom eating? There's meat in the meal! ”

"What do people eat?"

Li Dalang couldn't help but look around, surrounded by mostly his cousins and his own robe of the Zhichong Mansion, because they surrendered in time to assist the Xia army to quickly capture Beiping County, plus the relationship between Li Dalang and Lian Yucheng, so it can be regarded as a temporary uprising and enjoy the treatment of the Xia National Guard.

At this time, Li Dalang's cousins and robes were all enjoying a sumptuous lunch, eating all kinds of canned meat that had just been distributed by the Xia army in Beiping County, all of which they had never heard of, never seen, and never eaten.

At the beginning, they saw that the Xia soldiers distributed a large number of canned pork, canned fish, canned beef and mutton, and canned whale meat to themselves, who had just surrendered, and only left some canned fruits, and the rest were eaten by the frozen meat that was transported later or the fresh fish caught in the sea.

At that time, Li Dalang and other soldiers of Zhichong Mansion were very moved, they were just surrendering soldiers, but the Xia army was actually willing to give him the best things, and later he learned that it was not the high consciousness of the Xia army soldiers, but that they had already eaten enough of these things.

Although the canned meat configured by Xia Jun is made of the best meat, the spices and salt used are also the best, unlike the luncheon meat made of inferior scraps used by the Bald Eagle Empire in later generations, under the strict supervision of Xia Guo, merchants did not dare to cut corners.

But this is the way it is in this world, even if you eat too much dragon liver and phoenix marrow, there will be a day when you eat enough, since the Xia army began to configure canned meat, it has been decades since it came, so many soldiers have eaten enough of these canned meat that is a peerless delicacy for the Sui army.

Thinking of this, Li Dalang couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, what else is there to compare, as long as the soldiers of the Sui army over there are not even enough to eat on the days of the war, the Xia army here not only has meat three times a day, but even everyone has eaten enough meat, and the generals have to strictly order how much meat each soldier must eat at a meal to ensure physical strength.

"Big brother, I'll just think about it!" Li Erbin was not in a hurry to continue to eat meat at this moment, he said to Li Dalang with great interest, "Didn't the brothers of Xia Jun say before, we are all Han people from the Central Plains, as long as we become nationals of Xia in the future, we will immediately have fifty acres of land, or fifty acres of land per person!" ”

"I know this, but the Great Sui Juntian system can have more than 30 acres of land alone, which is nothing!" Li Dalang was thinking about his own affairs in his heart, and he didn't pay attention to listening, but just replied casually.

"Alas, big brother, are you confused?" Li Erbin said dissatisfied, "Although the Great Sui's equalization system can allocate 30 acres of land, it would be good to be able to distribute 20 acres now, where did it come from 30 acres?" Besides, when we get married and have children and grandchildren in the future, where will there be extra land allocation in this pass!

On the other hand, the land of Xia Country is vast, not to mention the small population, I don't think there is any need for people to lie to me, so as long as there is definitely 50 acres of land in the past, when I take my father and mother over, and then start a family and have a baby, there will be at least more than 200 acres of land in the family! ”

Li Dalang heard his analysis clearly this time, but it was indeed the truth, and then Li Erbin whispered again: "Brother, you don't know yet, they also secretly revealed that in fact, if you are willing to go to more remote counties, you can also get more land, at least one hundred acres per person, who has so much land in our Guanzhong except for the big landlord?" ”

"yes!" Li Dalang sighed, "This time, I must follow Xia Jun to fight hard, but our brothers still need to take their families out as soon as possible, otherwise if this incident is leaked, the relatives will not end well!" ”

At this moment, Li Dalang really regretted it, not that he regretted taking refuge in Xia Jun, but that he regretted not continuing to work with Shopkeeper Sun in Chang'an.

Wouldn't it be better if you kept following them, but now that you have taken refuge in Xia Jun as soon as possible, you will also have a better future.

Just thinking about it, suddenly a group of Xia soldiers appeared, Li Dalang suddenly got up and urged the soldiers around him: "Hurry up and get up, hurry up and watch those prisoners of war work!" ”

Saying that, he also shouted: "Since you have taken refuge in our Xia Army, the big guy has to work hard, His Majesty the King will not treat everyone badly, don't learn from those fools yesterday who still want to escape, can they still be faster than a four-legged war horse?" ”

Saying that, Li Dalang couldn't help but look at the team of Xia Army soldiers with envy, the exquisite winter clothes made of sheepskin on their bodies were not at all permeable to the cold wind and were very energetic, and the tall leather boots, thick sheepskin hats and wrenched cow belts all made these Xia Army soldiers full of might.

In particular, the long musket on their backs is even more powerful, and it is said that the relatively long musket on their backs is enough to knock down a soldier wearing leather armor at a distance of nearly 100 paces, and Li Dalang believes that he will also be equipped with this rifle sooner or later.

Although Li Dalang and their soldiers who surrendered to Cheng enjoyed the treatment of the militia, the Xia army did not need them to go to the battlefield immediately, after all, they were suspected of using people as cannon fodder, so they were now mainly responsible for supervising tens of thousands of Sui prisoners of war under the leadership of 100 Xia soldiers to build a flat road from Beiping County to the seaside.

At the mouth of Luanshui, a small port is now being built like Zhuojun, and it will also be a relatively important port here in the future.

"Liaodong's reinforcements are coming!"

Just when the prisoners of war were busy building roads, I don't know who shouted, Li Dalang and the others were suddenly surprised and looked at the defense line by the sea, although the sea could not be seen here, but the breath of the sea breeze could already be felt, and a huge team appeared on the horizon in the distance.

"Yesterday, the army just captured Beiping County, and today the reinforcements from Liaodong have arrived, and this speed is really fast enough!" Li Dalang was taken aback.

"What's this," a Xia soldier next to him said with a smile, "Our Beiping County is already very close to the Liaodong Peninsula, and a mature steamship was built a few years ago, so is it not happy to come from Liaodong?" ”

To be honest, Li Dalang really didn't understand what this soldier was talking about, what peninsula, steamer, but this did not prevent him from understanding the meaning of the sentence, it seems that Xia Guo didn't know what kind of technology he had mastered, and the ship he made was very powerful.

As the army approached, Li Dalang looked at them without blinking, the banner was clear, the soldiers were sharp, and with the unrestrained accompaniment of marching drums, the soldiers marched with extraordinary vigor, and at first glance they were an elite division.

In fact, this army that has just arrived is not the regular army of the Xia Army, but only the second-line National Guard, but every Xia Army soldier present does not dare to underestimate these second-line troops, because many of these National Guards are veterans and middle- and low-level officers who have been re-recruited after retirement.

Speaking of the ability to fight, they are even much stronger than their soldiers, and after the arrival of reinforcements of up to 100,000 people, the Xia army is no longer afraid that Beiping County will be recaptured by the Sui army.

It has to be said that the maritime advantages possessed by the Xia State are too helpful to the Xia Army, not only is it more convenient for the Xia State to transport military supplies, but even after having a huge fleet, the Xia Army can fully use its strong maritime capacity to maneuver along the entire Bohai Bay coast.

Transporting a large number of troops from the southern Liaoning region in the relative hinterland of the Xia Kingdom to Beiping County in the lower reaches of Luanshui was faster than a land march, not to mention that it could also save a lot of physical strength, not to mention that the Xia army also had a large number of steam-powered ships that could move more quickly.

After learning of the arrival of the new reinforcements, Huang Rui and Ji Xiang were both overjoyed, so that the army that the Xia army had arranged within the Great Wall to block the Sui army's back route had reached more than 400,000 people.

After some discussion, Ji Xiang led the main cavalry force to continue to be responsible for the battle in Zhuo County, which was surrounded by plains, which was more suitable for the operation of cavalry clusters, leaving only 50,000 infantry troops to assist in guarding the city of Zhuo County, while Huang Rui led the main force of the infantry army to Beiping County to be responsible for the war here, and Chen Yu still defended the first line of the Great Wall.

The number of Xia troops in charge of the three of them was nearly half of the number of Sui troops on the Liaodong Front, and they were no longer afraid of the arrival of the Sui army.

As time passed, Xia Jun's ability to control this land became stronger and stronger, and every day Xia Jun's influence on this land increased, and more and more people began to choose to board the sea ship to immigrate to Xia after learning about Xia Jun's propaganda.

After all, the power of the wealthy families here in Zhuo County is still relatively large, and at present, the Xia Kingdom will not have time to clean up these families in order to defeat the Sui Empire for a while, but the ordinary people here have gained freedom, and as long as they migrate to the Xia Kingdom, they will have fifty acres of basic land.

Compared with the already extremely wealthy people of the Xia Kingdom, these conditions offered by the Xia army were extremely tempting to the people of the Sui Empire, and more than half a million people left the harbor in just one month.

For the people of the Sui Empire who were leaving, the war seemed to be far away, but the impact of the Xia army's sudden attack on Zhuojun also became greater and greater over time.