Generally speaking, the so-called Hu cavalry invasion of the border is either a large invasion of tens of thousands of people, or a small invasion of a hundred or ten people. If you ask what bothers the border troops the most, it is the invasion of a small group of hundreds or ten people.
With over 10,000 people, Hu Qi moved south at the slowest speed. The Anbei frontier army had enough time to organize a defense, just like five months ago.
The Baishi Rangers are the most hateful, nimble, cunning, and cruel. Once they sneak across the river, countless people on the border will suffer.
Daqian army horses are not weaker than grassland horses, but 60% of Daqian army are armored, and their marching speed is not as fast as Hu cavalry, so Daqian border troops have the most trouble with wandering cavalry.
I don’t know how the barbarian tribes defeated one tribe in the vast grassland, and then two more tribes appeared in a few years. They have their own writing. During the Qing Dynasty, the war in the north appeared from time to time.
Zhao Junjun and Zhou Zheng's plan is very practical.
"Su Ce, tomorrow Junjun and I are going to set traps, hunt a few rabbits, have a tooth ceremony, and we can also get some rabbit skins."
Su Ce looked at his somewhat red and swollen hands and knew that these two people were not doing tooth-beating sacrifices, but rabbit skins.
"Did Commander Feng agree?" Su Ce asked in a low voice, looking at Li Feng who was checking the weapons.
"I agreed before, but it can't be too far away from the castle. I've seen it. The grass grows abundantly in the river bend. There must be a lot of rabbits there. We are not greedy. Six is enough!"
Zhou Zheng secretly glanced at Li Feng, saw Li Feng nodding, and said with a smile.
Li Feng was born in a military camp. He is twenty-seven years old this year. His face is full of stubble and he has four children. Compared with his subordinate, the young man who is less than eighteen years old, he is much calmer.
Su Ce finished the rice in the bowl, then put the last piece of dried meat in his mouth as a snack and chewed it carefully. After washing the bowl, everyone climbed into bed and left some hot water in the pot. I let myself die and drank more than half a bowl. This meal was made by Li Feng. It was a big meal and it was enough to kill someone.
Lying on the kang, everyone fell asleep quickly.
Young people are always active. Early in the morning, six people grinned and chewed willow sticks to clean their teeth. Li Feng cooked a pot of corn, five liters of corn, a little too much water, and less than two grams of dried meat. Two, cut into small pieces, three pieces of coarse salt, it is really a large amount that can kill people.
After lunch, Su Ce and the others ran to the river bend a mile away in their leather armors. Zhao Junjun set up a simple animal trap on the animal trail. The materials were obtained locally. The fibers were kneaded from the withered grass and wound into threads. What was most common on the grassland? Not cattle, sheep, horses, rabbits or coyotes, but rats.
The trap set by Zhao Junjun could not catch the rabbit. The rabbit was very strong and could only catch the mouse.
Su Ce hung the string on the bow, pulled out a white feather arrow, held the bow slightly with his arm, and nodded towards Zhou Zheng in the distance.
Zhou Zheng grinned, the liveliness of a young man emerging on his face. The three-meter-long spear swept through thousands of troops, cutting off countless blades of grass, frightening snakes and now rabbits.
The smarter rabbits will go back to their old dens, while the stupid ones will run away among the withered grass.
Su Ce squinted his eyes and observed the strange movements in the grass.
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
Three white-feathered arrows cut straight through the air.
"Good archery skills!"
Su Ce smirked at Zhou Zheng. He had a good harvest. Three arrows hit two rabbits. The rabbits that had just entered winter were getting fat. He put down the bowstring, put the bowstring away and put it back in the bag.
Zhou Zheng pulled out the white feather arrow
"The arrow is not injured, just change it!"
Su Ce nodded and said, "Yes!"
Zhao Junjun carefully laid the trap and told the two of them: "Don't go too far!"
Su Ce and Zhou Zheng are not stupid. If they encounter a ranger and are too far away from the Beacon Fort, they are asking for death.
One morning, the three beacon guards were extremely tired, and their steps back to the beacon castle were a bit messy.
Zhou Zheng and Su Ce were carrying a long spear, with a string of fat rabbits tied to the spear. There were nine of them.
Zhao Junjun was carrying a bunch of roots and stems, which were the herbs he was looking for.
Su Ce and Zhou Zheng listened to Zhao Junjun's tireless instructions: "This is licorice, this is ephedra, and this is Bupleurum. If you get wind-cold, boil water and drink it, and you can get rid of the wind-cold after sleeping. I found one at the river bend."
Small pieces, please remember to bring some back when you go there."
The three of them returned to the Fengsui Fort, put down what they were holding, and saluted the Fengsui Commander.
"The harvest is good! Give me the rabbit, put the herbs in the box, go and rest!"
The three people who received the compliment had rosy smiles on their faces, looking silly and happy.
Li Feng took out his knife, cut it, and separated the fleshy skin of the fat rabbit with his hands. He piled up the skin, rabbit meat, rabbit heart with edible internal organs, and rabbit liver in a wooden basin, and threw the rest into another shabby
in a wooden basin.
In less than half an hour, a bunch of rabbit skins were hung on the top of the Xiaohe Beacon Fort. Li Feng sadly took out the coarse salt from the salt shaker and carefully rubbed it on the rabbit meat.
"Zhou Zheng, throw these bastards outside! Junjun, go on guard!"
While handling the rabbit meat, Li Feng directed his five young men.
"Feng Shuai, how about I cook lunch?" Su Ce looked at Li Feng getting ready to cook, thinking of the killer rice meal last night, and asked Li Feng.
Li Feng was having a headache how to cook. Yesterday, everyone had not eaten hot food for several days and had no requirements for taste. Now that Su Ce has appeared, no matter whether it is good or not, there is always hope.
"You do it!"
Su Ce nodded quickly.
He took out his sword and took the only piece of unsalted rabbit meat from Li Feng.
Zhan Dao scraped out less than two ounces of milky white fat from the meat and kept it for later use. He took out a bamboo tube from his cloth bag. The seasoning inside was Su Ce's last inventory.
After thinking about it, I went to the box and took out some licorice, fetched a basin of cold water from the first floor, washed the licorice, sliced it, and cut the rabbit meat into cubes.
Throw the rabbit fat into the pot, boil out the meat oil, throw in the licorice slices, dig out a tablespoon of seasoning from the bamboo tube, and put it in too. Then add the rabbit meat to the pot, add pepper, ginger and salt, and cover the pot.
The wooden spoon used to hold the rice was stir-frying back and forth, and a meaty aroma began to fill the Fengsui Fort.
Pour half a bowl of water, cover the pot, and simmer. After a while, when the rabbit meat is cooked, put it into a vegetable basin and put it on the stove to keep it warm.
Daqian's army usually eats two liters of millet and one salt per soldier per day, or substitutes it with other food. This is not wartime. In Li Feng's words, the food during wartime is like entering a restaurant.
There were five kilograms of rabbit meat tonight. Su Ce poured a liter of rice into the pot and steamed it into rice.
The sky in the west is dyed red, and the rice is steamed.
There were six large bowls, and the rice was evenly distributed in the bowls. No one had more, and no one had less. Li Feng took a wooden spoon and poured the rabbit meat into the six bowls one by one.
It is the privilege of being the Feng Commander to have a rabbit leg to himself. Zhou Zheng and Su Ce, who are sentry duty at night, also have their own preferential treatment. They can share a rabbit leg.
There is equality, there are privileges, and there is preferential treatment. These are the unspoken rules of the frontier army. No one will snatch the meat from the mouths of fellow soldiers. This is true for eating and the same is true for fighting.
Because inequality and corruption are punishments in military law!
During the meal, no one spoke, not because they were silent during the meal, but because the food Su Ce cooked was delicious.
Li Feng imitated the style of military generals, giving this one a piece of rabbit meat and giving that one a piece of rabbit heart. His actions to win people's hearts were harsh but heart-warming.
After finishing his meal and wiping his mouth, Li Feng muttered: "From now on, each person will be on guard duty for two and a half hours, and I will be given two hours. Su Ce won't need to do that anymore, and he will be the gang leader from now on!"
Zhou Zheng, Liu Sanlang and the usually aloof Guan Yue responded in unison. Apparently, they had an extra half hour whistle and the desire for food. The three of them unanimously chose the food. After all, no one wanted to finish eating the salty corn and get up in the middle of the night to look for it.
Drink water.
Su Ce was also happy about this. Not being on guard duty did not mean that he had less work than others. The beacon fort was short of supplies. Each person received thirty more arrows. This was not to strengthen the armament, but to keep it for hunting and supplementing meat.
Winning battles and good food are the magic weapons for the army to maintain morale.
It's just that the conditions of Beacon Fort are simple. After all, this is the forefront of the empire's frontier, and everything is compromised for the war.