The cooking method of braised lion's head is generally divided into two steps.

One said: burning; The second is called burning.

Roasting, that is, braised pork, take half of the fat of fresh pork, half of lean meat, chop into small pieces, add the blanched winter bamboo shoots, and then chop again.

This word 'chop' is very expressive.

Why?

Because, anyone who has ever cooked knows that it is not difficult to chop a piece of lean meat into minced pieces, but the difficulty is to chop pure fat meat into minced pieces.

Therefore, this process is extremely demanding for cooks.

The technique is not good, the knife is not fast enough, the hand is not ruthless enough, the strength is not long-lasting, and the minced fat is often 'stubborn'; however, if you chop too much, that piece of fat meat will become a puddle of fat and greasy oil, which tests the cook's knife skills.

Wait until the fatty meat, lean meat and blanched bamboo shoots are chopped into fine minced pieces, then they can be placed on a plate for later use, and the other ingredients can be prepared.

Half a bowl of pepper water, a spoonful of salt, two spoons of oyster sauce, a pinch of pepper, and a pinch of five-spice powder.

By the way, you have to have minced ginger, chopped green onions, and eggs.

After preparing the ingredients and ingredients, you can proceed to the next step, take a little starch, dissolve it with pepper water, add all the ingredients to the minced meat, and stir.

The process of stirring is not difficult.

However, there is one thing that must be followed, and that is that during the mixing process, it must be stirred in one direction, whether clockwise or counterclockwise.

When Yang Chuan cooks braised lion's head, it is generally stirred in a clockwise direction.

He stubbornly believes that if this person wants to do a few decent things in the world, he must first learn to use his brain and learn to follow the trend.

This is like wanting to 'irrigate' the Weishui from the lower places to his family's fields with a water truck, and he has to use the momentum of the water flow to let the water flow to the high places.

The same goes for cooking and cooking.

The meat filling, stirred clockwise, under the combined action of egg white, starch and Sichuan pepper water, can quickly form small balls, whether fried in hot oil or braised in braised soup, will not fall apart.

On the contrary, those meat dumplings are very tight, which can definitely ensure the chewiness of the braised lion's head.

When the dumplings are formed, they can be fried in hot oil.

Then, it's the second step of this famous dish: braised dishes.

In many people's minds, braised pork, braised eggplant, braised elbow...... Waiting for braised delicacies is to be burned.

Not really.

Braised is an elegant way of saying it, and it is also a delicate job, which is usually sprinkled with a few grains of rock sugar in the hot oil, stir-fried to bring out the sugar color, and immediately poured in the prepared ingredients for stir-frying.

In Yangzhou, the ingredients often used for braising are rock sugar, ginger slices, cumin seeds, cinnamon, bay leaves, grass fruits, nutmeg, white cardamom, star anise, and peppercorns.

As for the dosage, it varies from chef to cook, but it's pretty much the same.

The stir-fry of sugar color and ingredients must be mastered to ensure that the flavor of the ingredients can be fully integrated into the soup.

After that, you can add water, put the fried meat dumplings into the pot, add dark soy sauce to color, and simmer for two quarters of an hour; Add a few drops of balsamic vinegar and continue to simmer for another quarter of an hour.

As for how to eat braised lion's head.

Well, Yang Chuan admits that he has seen people eat braised lion's head, sprinkle salt on it, sprinkle cumin powder, and then dip it in garlic sesame oil, just like gnawing on steamed buns.

Simply that!

Tyrannical creatures......

……

From the very beginning, Yang Chuan made all kinds of calculations, whether it was repairing bridges and roads, or letting the elk marquis Li Guang be a meat shield to attract firepower, or trying every means to establish the 'Dachaigou Base Area' and the 'Rouge Mountain Base Area', the overall ideas and techniques were strictly in accordance with the cooking method of 'braised lion head'.

For example, the two kings of Wanhu of the Huns, the King of Hun Evil and the King of Hugh Tu, are the meat filling of this hard dish.

The territory occupied by the Hun Evil King is large, not only more than a thousand miles in the western section of the Hexi Corridor, but also extends its tentacles to the Western Regions, which seems to be powerful, but it is a piece of lean meat.

None of them.

Poor one.

As for King Xiutu, it seems that the territory is small and the population under his tent is also small, but the two places of Weiwu and Zhangye that he occupies, relying on the nourishment of the snow and water of the Qilian Mountains, can not only be used as a grassland with abundant water and grass, but also learn from the cultivation of the Han people, planting a large number of barley, soybeans, wheat, rape and alfalfa, which is simply rich.

It's just a big piece of fat.

Lean meat is easy to chop, anyway, you have enough strength, a sharp kitchen knife, and fast hands, just chop it in one meal.

This kind of strength to fight and kill is naturally the most suitable for Huo Quzhi, who has been single for 19 years, that hand speed, thousands of miles long, wide open and close, directly stunned the evil king.

As for the fat and oily King Hugh Tu, he is fat and greasy, and if he doesn't get it right, he will become hob meat, which needs to be steady and steady, step by step, which is naturally very suitable for Yang Chuan, a big Han chef.

As soon as he left Longxi County, he immediately ordered the construction of a big Han gallop road, and let Li Guang use it as a meat shield to attract firepower and pull hatred in the area of Wusheling Mountain, which was the first knife he chopped down.

After a little firewood ditch, logging, mining, farming, and exploding soldiers, this is the second knife he chopped out.

Poisoning dozens of tribes along the way, and spreading rumors, throwing the black cauldron to the evil king who was fighting against Huo Quzhi and Cao Xiang was the third knife.

Pretending to be a god and playing tricks on Rouge Mountain, continuing to provoke the relationship between King Hugh Tu and King Hun Evil is the fourth knife.

Attracting the main force of King Hugh Tu, letting that old guy attack Rouge City with all his strength, and quickly consuming his main cavalry force, is the fifth sword.

Wait until the king of Hugh Tu is sleepy and lacks horses, and loses more than half of his combat effectiveness, let Huo Qu kill a horse gun, and strive to carry out a hearty hunting operation under Rouge City.

This is the sixth knife.

Then, the seventh knife prepared by Yang Chuan could be unsheathed-

With several 'base areas' such as Longxi County, Dachaigou, Rouge City, Stone Town, and Tuweizi City as support points, the two people and horses of the Hun Evil King and the Hutu King were thrown into the hot oil and fried repeatedly.

This was the first stage of his passage through the Hexi Corridor.

With the cooking method of Yangzhou's authentic braised lion's head, it is about the first step of 'burning'.

As for the next 'braised food', it is a meticulous job that requires a lot of time and wealth, and it will take a lot of effort to operate and take care of it for a long time to come.

Of course, if necessary, there may be wars.

At the very least, it is necessary to kill and cripple the Xiongnu people, and defeat the Qiang, Di people, and the countries of the Western Regions, so as to create a stable and peaceful development environment for future 'economic construction'.

For now, we still have to find a way to defend Rouge City......

……

Just when Yang Chuan stood at the head of the Rouge City, carefully pondering, calculating and deducing, the war finally officially began.

The thousands of Huns plundered by King Hutu died.

On the green grassland, the corpses of the old and weak women and children looked a little messy, most of them were concentrated forty or fifty steps away from Rouge City, forming a shocking wall of people.

Some are not yet dead and wail in pain.

But no one cared.

This is a battlefield, and the old and weak women and children who were driven here are not even cannon fodder, but they are just to let King Hugh Tu relieve their hatred, let the Huns at the head of the city hate, and add a little shadow of death to this protracted siege war.

King Hutu's face was gloomy, and the horsewhip in his hand pointed forward in the air: "Siege." ”

A captain rode forward: "Hei Bo'er, that tooth, you, rush!" ”

Two teams of 1,000 people slowly came out of the ranks, and the soldiers were divided into two wings, one left and one right, in a big circle, and headed in the direction of Rouge City.

After hundreds of years of fighting with the Han Empire, the Huns not only had extremely strong field combat capabilities on the grassland, but also naturally accumulated a lot of experience in siege warfare, and their combat power was not inferior to the border army of the Han Dynasty.

Even, in order to ensure the advantage of their cavalry flexibility and mobility, they also created and invented many special siege methods.

For example, the two thousand-man teams that were outflanked in two ways at this moment were not the main siege force, but the fire cover, trying to attack from both sides, shooting the defenders at the head of the city with bows and arrows, thus creating an opportunity for the frontal siege troops.

On the side of defending the city, Yang Chuan is naturally very familiar with this.

He was wearing a layer of iron armor, two layers of leather armor, and two or three layers of soft armor woven with silk, hair, cashmere and other 'special substances'.

Not to mention the wolf tooth arrows of the Huns, even the crossbow arrows fired by the bows and crossbows of the Han army, they could not hurt him in the slightest.

Afraid of a hammer!

He casually ordered: "The shield men defend, the pikemen prepare." ”

The flags in the hands of the soldiers waved a few times, and there was a 'boom' sound, and the shield soldiers at the head of the city erected a large shield covered with cowhide and wool felt, forming a tight shield wall.

Airplanes!

The first wave of arrows of the Huns came in an instant, shooting on the giant shield, and without even a few decent sounds, it fell crackling at the feet of the shield soldiers.

This wave of arrow rain is just a tentative attack, and in the face of Yang Chuan's specially made wool felt giant shield, it is not enough to see at all.

To sum it up in one sentence: you can't break the defense.

The two thousand-man teams under the city moved quickly, one left and one right, quickly interspersed in the direction of the city gate, and the bows and arrows in their hands were continuous, and several waves of arrows were splashed up.

Still no casualties.

King Hugh's thousand-man squad was not discouraged, and continued to move quickly, and on the surface, it did form a firepower suppression with obvious advantages.

There can't be too many casualties at the beginning, this is what Yang Chuan meant.

In Rouge City, there are only more than 3,000 people, among them, one and a half children who came from Luding City, naturally each of them is a treasure egg, even if there are fewer casualties, it will make Yang Chuan tremble in distress.

Similarly, the more than 2,000 Hun warriors must not suffer casualties at the first time, otherwise, the impact on morale will be too great......

Hoofs rumble and arrows rain.

In the blink of an eye, King Hutu's two thousand-man teams staggered by, made a big circle, and once again suppressed them in the direction of the city gate.

At this time, in the army of King Hutu, a group of men and horses slowly appeared.

There were about 3,000 people.

Unlike the other cavalry, these three thousand Huns wore leather armor and hard leather hats, and there should have been a soft lining to protect their heads; They had no boxwood bows or quivers, but a roll of woolen rope wrapped around their horses, and each of them had a scimitar hanging from his waist.

In addition, these people also seem to have a sharp knife hidden in their sheepskin boots.

'This is the siege force of King Hugh Tu? ’

I have to say that the appearance of these 3,000 people made Yang Chuan a little surprised, and he also added a little jealousy to the King of Hutu in front of him: 'Learn the siege techniques of the Han army, and you can make special forces......

The 3,000 siege soldiers galloped wildly at the beginning, and in a dozen breaths, they rushed to the foot of Rouge City, and with the cooperation of two thousand-person teams, they turned over and dismounted, and directly attacked the city.

Their siege methods were simple and crude.

It is to take off the wool rope from the horse's back, carry the end with the iron hook, turn it in the air a few times, and throw it upwards violently.

Click, click, click!

After a messy and crisp sound, seven or eight hundred iron hooks 'caught' at the city wall, and the besiegers quickly climbed up without the slightest hesitation.

In just seven or eight breaths, they were approaching the city.

This siege speed is really not bad.

The Huns defending the city were in confusion, and some people began to draw their swords in their hands, and they were about to cut those wool ropes.

Yang Chuan indifferently ordered: "Let them come up, the shield soldiers continue to defend, top on the front, and the pikemen are ready." ”

"As long as they show their heads, they will be poked to death."

And so, a very strange battle began.

At the head of the city, a row of giant shields was tightly pressed against the city wall, and each shield soldier carried the giant shield on his shoulder, and everyone had a scimitar in his hand, ready to fight at any time; A thousand pikemen, each in their own right, stared intently at the gap in the giant shield, and put their spears on the wall, waiting for the poke.

There was no expected rain of arrows, and there was no rolling stone and sasswood, gold juice and hot oil in the previous battles, which made the siege soldiers of King Hutu a little nervous in their hearts.

There was silence on the top of the city.

Except for their own wheezing and the sound of their heartbeats, between heaven and earth, there seemed to be only a breeze on the grassland......

Shame!

Shame!

Shame!

Just when those siege soldiers climbed to the top of the city, and suddenly appeared at the head of the city with the swing of the wool rope, the pikemen suddenly exerted their strength and silently poked the first shot.

The spears designed by Yang Chuan are all made of fine iron, which are not only extremely sharp, but also carved three spiral blood grooves on the tip of the spear in accordance with the design principle of the three-edged military thorn.

Therefore, this shot poked out, whether it is poked in the face, neck, chest and abdomen, or in the head of the hard state, it will easily pierce into it and give those siegers a fatal crit.

Immediately after, the spear shrank.

The Xiongnu siege soldiers who suffered heavy losses fell straight down, accompanied by a terrible scream, which made people's hearts tense inexplicably and their scalps numb.

Then, there is simple, boring, and tedious repetition.

Come up with one.

A team came up, poked in, pulled out, and a team came up, and there was a sound, poked in, pulled out.

In just one tea time, three thousand siege soldiers lost seven or eight hundred people.

The defenders of the city did not suffer a single casualty.

Don't look at the casualties of seven or eight hundred, but it is extremely important to the morale of both the offensive and defensive sides, and it often forms a one-sided momentum in a short period of time.

For this tentative siege, Yang Chuan didn't care.

He held the telescope and carefully observed the King of Hutu in the distance, and found that the corner of the Hun man's mouth actually appeared with a slight sneer......

(End of chapter)