The officers and men of the Hump Battalion, who were preparing to open overnight, began to pack their luggage.

"Centurion, why is this year so weird? In addition to bringing fried rice, I also sent this thing, saying what are compressed biscuits? Do I have to bring it? ”

A soldier asked the commander.

In the past, the standard configuration of the army was that each person was given two bags of 20 catties of fried rice, tied to the place where the luggage was put behind the war horse with a cloth bag, and it was generally eaten in ten days on the road.

However, they also had a supply of grain and grass along the way, which was to directly plunder the local people.

When marching and fighting, there is definitely no way to bring so much grain and grass, and as a raid team, you need to travel lightly.

So the soldiers were quite puzzled when they saw the few cookies wrapped in waterproof paper.

"The boss said that this kind of compressed biscuit, one piece can last for the past two days, and the 20 biscuits you brought with you can last for a month in extreme environments."

The centurion didn't understand what his superiors were doing, but he could only obey the military orders, and he patiently explained them to the soldiers.

Okay, in addition to bringing 20 catties of fried rice and these 20 compressed biscuits, this 200-person raid team set off.

Along the way, they did not take the big road, but picked the small road, and then raided the rich villages and settlements of the Hu people in the middle of the night, and harassed the Hu people with a great headache.

But this year's situation is a bit special, the Hu people suffered an ice storm last year, which damaged their crops badly, and they looted the village, but they did not find much food.

Moreover, this team of 200 people, half a month after marching, happened to bump into a regular army of more than 2,000 people of the Hu people.

The Hu army met with them, and in the end, after a fierce battle, the people of the Hump Battalion were besieged on a snowy mountain.

The pass of the snow-capped mountain is only allowed to pass through one person, and the price paid to attack the mountain is very large.

The two sides are at a stalemate.

The Hu army organized several attacks to no avail, but instead left a few corpses, and they were not in a hurry.

The Hu people couldn't go up, so they started to encircle and starve them to death.

The Hu people knew that these officers and soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty came out to raid, and they generally only brought a small amount of dry food, and some of them had already been consumed on the road a few days earlier, and if they were besieged for a while, they would definitely be able to starve them to death without much effort.

Although it was April now, there were no edible plants on the snow-capped mountains, and the Hu people wanted to wait for their work and starve them to death.

The Hu people also studied the corpses of the Great Zhou officers and soldiers they found, and found that the food bags on their bodies were nearly empty, and according to this trend, it was only a matter of time before they starved to death.

However, some Hu people found that some soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty had some hard pimples like flour cakes in their bags, but the number was not much, and the appearance of more than a dozen pieces was estimated to be used by them to satisfy hunger, and the Hu people didn't care.

These gnocchi are not large in size, and they will last for two days, and then they will be gone after eating.

The centurion of the Hump Battalion also discovered this conspiracy of the Hu people, so he sent the Fifth Route Signal Corps back to ask for help.

In fact, this place is not far from the border of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and if friendly troops come to the rescue, it is easy to get out of trouble.

The heralds went down the mountain overnight, but were found by the Hu sentries, four of the five dead, and only one escaped.

However, the horses of the escaped herald died, so he could only strip the dead Hu soldiers' clothes, pretend to be Hu people, and run back with his feet to report the news.

Three days later, the fried rice in the Hump Camp was indeed eaten quickly.

Those Hu soldiers were also very angry, burying pots and cooking at the foot of the mountain every day, sometimes barbecuing meat, deliberately letting the fragrance waft to the mountain, stimulating the officers and soldiers of the Great Zhou.

There were also some Hu soldiers shouting at the foot of the mountain, telling the officers and soldiers of the Great Zhou to come down and surrender, if they surrendered, they would be fed before they went on the road, and let them be full of ghosts.

But they didn't expect that the centurion of the Hump Battalion would lead the crowd to nibble on compressed biscuits on the mountain.

These soldiers eat half compressed biscuits every day, try to save food, half a compressed biscuit can last a day, although they can't eat enough, but they won't starve to death.

"That's good, I got peanut kernels."

"It smells like milk."

"It's the best bread I've ever tasted."

"I didn't expect the chief to be so wise and prepare such a hunger-resistant thing for me."

The trapped officers and men were not so hungry that they panicked, but they were full of fighting spirit.

When people are hungry, everything they eat is delicious.

Not to mention that the compressed biscuits are made of fine flour and white noodles, and according to Liu Wan's recipe, a lot of sugar, oil, nuts, and milk are added.

For the hump battalion soldiers in a desperate situation, this is the supreme delicacy.

It's just that they didn't expect that a small piece of compressed biscuits would have such a strong sense of satiety, and twenty or so biscuits would indeed allow them to last a lot longer.

The soldiers who complained that compressed biscuits were useless before were glad that this time they suddenly had a bright brain and knew how to distribute this kind of life-saving food.

It is said that this kind of compressed biscuit is not large, but it is very hungry, and it is best to put it in a pot and cook it into a paste.

It's just that there is no forage on the mountain to make a fire, so you can only gnaw dry.

In addition to food, there is also unmelted snow and ice on the snow-capped mountains, so there is no shortage of water.

They chewed the biscuit dryly, found that the biscuit was not difficult to chew, chewed slowly, and then with a handful of snow water, although the taste was not as good as the hot, but finally could fill the stomach, do not feel hungry.

When the stomach is full, even if you smell the aroma of the enemy soldiers' barbecue at the bottom of the mountain, you can resist it, so that you don't go crazy with hunger and run down the mountain to expose yourself.

The escaped herald ran bloodied with both feet, crossed mountains and mountains along the way, and only arrived at the main camp on the border of the Great Zhou Dynasty a week later to ask for help.

The general was stunned, because according to his description, more than ten days had passed since he had fled until the time when the group of officers and soldiers had been trapped, and it would take them three days to ride their horses again.

So to save this group of people or not to save them?

I'm afraid that if I don't get besieged by the Hu people, I will already be trapped and starved to death.

"Report to the general, this time the compressed biscuits we brought are very sufficient, it is estimated that they should be able to last for 20 days, and it should be too late to save them now!"

The herald sensed the general's hesitation and hurried to speak.

The general struggled for a while, but finally assembled a team of 3,000 people to save people.

In fact, the general was also very apprehensive in his heart, after all, according to the herald, he didn't believe that the compressed biscuit could last for so many days.

However, if the soldiers are not rescued in distress, it will be spread out, which will greatly depress morale.

After weighing it, the troops were still dispatched.

The officers and soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty took the officers and soldiers by surprise and attacked the Hu soldiers of more than 2,000 people.

I thought it was a vicious battle, but I didn't expect that when the officers and soldiers of the Great Zhou on the periphery were killing the Hu people, there was a sudden uproar in the inner circle, and the Hu people began to mess up, as if they had also encountered robbery.