Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Hunter
The soldier opened the bucket, revealing a full load of corn mixed with wheat and soybean.
During the Warring States period, millet and rice were the main foods, and even in the north, rice could be grown when the water conservancy facilities were perfect.
Soybeans, that is, soybeans, are easy to produce flatulence because they eat too much, and the powerful people basically don't eat them, and only ordinary people are forced to eat soybean rice because of their lives.
Wheat was also rarely eaten by the aristocracy because of its bad taste.
Now corn is mixed with wheat and soybean and boiled together, indicating that there is not much food in the army.
Seeing that the rice in the bucket was not as clear as it was on TV, Zhao Kuo breathed a sigh of relief.
"How many bowls can each soldier eat?" Zhao Kuo looked at the soldiers.
"Gifted handsome, ordinary soldiers eat a bowl and a bowl. The wounded soldiers are full. The soldier said.
"Just eating these white rice, how can the wounded soldiers have nutrition to recuperate. The soldiers only eat two bowls of rice a day, how can they carry guns. Zhao Kuo frowned: "Inform the soldiers, in the future, the soldiers will eat two bowls and one bowl, according to this standard, and they are not allowed to be thinned." ”
"No." Liu Ping said.
"Thank you, Sir." The soldiers saluted.
"You should send each of the wounded soldiers first." Zhao Kuo waved his hand.
"No."
Watching the soldiers walk away, Liu Ping said in a low voice: "Lord, if you eat two bowls of food and one bowl of food, I am afraid that our army's grain and grass will last less than two months." ”
"I'll let Handan find another way." Zhao Kuo said.
Liu Ping sighed and did not persuade again.
The total amount of grain sent by the nobles these days has reached 900,000 stones, and according to Liu Ping's estimates, even if the nobles still have some surplus grain, I am afraid it will not be much.
"By the way, didn't you send some meat before? Is there anything left? Zhao Kuo asked.
"My lord, the meat is long gone." Liu Ping said.
There wasn't much meat to eat, and it wasn't enough for one person, even if it was only distributed to middle and high-level people, it was only a matter of one meal.
"Go and call the Flame Bear." Zhao Kuo said.
After a while, the flame bear fell from the sky in front of Zhao Kuo.
"I don't know when I'll be able to reach the Transcendental Realm." Zhao Kuo was very envious of being able to fly in the transcendent realm.
"Dashuai, you look for me." Yan Xiong scratched his head, not understanding what Zhao Kuo meant by calling him over in the middle of the night.
"I heard that you often don't sleep in the middle of the night and go hunting in Taihang Mountain?" Zhao Kuo asked.
Zhao Kuo also learned later that Yan Xiong was a "hunter", and he went hunting that night, and he was not alone, it was a "gang crime." ”
A group of people took advantage of the interval between the Qin army's attacks to sneak out to hunt at night, and then came back during the day, and they couldn't even sleep, fighting with those anglers in their previous lives.
"Hehe, wasn't that before. Dashuai, I haven't hunted once recently, otherwise it would be impossible for you to find me, and I will come over so soon. Yan Xiong scratched his head and said embarrassedly.
"There shouldn't be any fighting in the next few days, you can bring some good skills tomorrow and go to the mountains to hunt some meat and send it to these wounded soldiers, the more the better." Zhao Kuo said.
"Huh? Dashuai, really? No need for tomorrow, I'll call someone over now. You can rest assured, I Yan Bear is the best hunter in the entire Zhao Kingdom, and he will definitely be able to return with a full load. Yan Xiong hurriedly patted his chest and said.
In the past, you had to hunt secretly, and you only dared to go at night.
This time, I was hunting "by order", and I didn't have to worry about being caught again.
"It's dark now, so let's go again tomorrow." Zhao Kuo said.
"Dashuai, you don't understand. Dark is when the beasts are there......" The voice of the flame bear came from afar.
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"Dashuai, Juzi asked me to report that the catapult has been built, so you can go over and take a look."
The next day, Zhao Kuozheng and Lian Po arranged the defense line, and Mo Qi came to report.
"So fast!" Zhao Kuo remembered that he asked Mo Feng to finish the saddle and stirrups before starting to build the catapult, but he didn't expect it to be built so quickly.
"Only one sample was built, and Juzi said to wait until you confirm that there are no problems, and then continue to build." Mo Qi said.
"General Lian Po and I will go with you." Zhao Kuo looked at Lian Po.
"Well, I just want to know what this catapult is." Lian Po said with a smile.
"By the way, the saddle and stirrups are all done?" On the way, Zhao Kuo asked Moqi.
"Marshal, the five thousand pairs have all been built, and General Yan Ju has personally tested them and sealed them all in the warehouse." Mo Qi said.
"Thank you for your hard work, when the war is over, I will build an academy for your Mo family." Zhao Kuo said.
"Thank you, Sir." Mo Qi said excitedly.
After a while, the group came to the back of Changping City.
"Dashuai." Mo Feng took Zhao Kuo to a large clearing, in the middle of which was a catapult more than two zhang high, and on the opposite side was a big mountain.
There were marks of smashing everywhere on the mountain, and a lot of rubble was piled up at the foot of the mountain, apparently the result of previous tests.
Mo Feng's eyes signaled, and a disciple of the Mo family hurriedly walked over and turned the winch, put a stone of nearly 100 catties in the throwing position, aimed at the mountain not far away, and the winch was loosened.
"Whoosh!"
The huge stone flew towards the mountain, and smashed on the top of the mountain with a bang, smashing the mountain into a large crater with a diameter of about one meter, and the crack spread to ten meters away.
"So strong!" Lian Po said in shock.
"Later, with the improvement of technology, the power will increase, but after more use, the material will wear out, and the power and accuracy will decrease. And in order to maintain accuracy, the stone must be polished into a round shape, which is very time-consuming. Mo Feng said.
"You don't have to worry about accuracy, as long as it's not too outrageous." Zhao Kuo waved his hand.
As soon as the war started, it was densely packed with enemies, and it didn't matter if there was an accurate head or not.
"Then build it according to this?" Mo Feng asked.
"Just build it according to this, you only have to be responsible for building the catapult, and I will arrange for others to make the stones." Zhao Kuo said.
There are so many people in the army who are fine, where is the turn to get the dignified Mo family children to dig stones.
"No." Mofeng arched his hand.
……
Since Zhao Kuo visited the wounded soldiers, the soldiers' impression of Zhao Kuo has changed greatly.
Previously, Zhao Kuo was high in their hearts, and he would not have any intersection with them.
Now, the most talked about among these soldiers is Zhao Kuo.
Of course, not everyone likes Zhao Kuo.
Some people think that Zhao Kuo is just pretending.
"He's just doing it so that we can work better for him. I ask you, have you seen anything good beyond the verbal promises? One of the chiefs said unconvinced.
"When you say that, it doesn't seem like there."
The soldier next to him shook his head, thinking about it carefully, Zhao Kuo didn't seem to give anything else except to comfort them and tell them that the war would definitely pass, and the country would not forget their contributions.
"That's it, in fact, he is no different from other generals, but he is more likely to buy people's hearts. However, he is willing to buy people's hearts, which shows that he still looks up to us, and other generals don't even bother to buy people's hearts. Shi Chang said.
"Alas, I thought it would be better to change to a big handsome, but I didn't expect it to be like this." The wounded soldier sighed.
"Those nobles and we are people of two worlds, which nobles have you ever seen take us commoners seriously? When we can use it, we have good words, and when we don't, we have to be grateful to them and have no complaints. Shi Chang said.