Chapter 49 Jinyiwei Marching
Under the night, the Sanhe Shunjun camp was brightly lit. In the camp that stretched for dozens of miles, lanterns and bonfires were covered with wilderness, like stars scattering on the sky on the ground. It was three o'clock in the morning, and at about two pm, the auxiliary soldiers and fire-headed soldiers in the Shunjun camp had already gotten up and started to get busy.
At the fourth update, Shunjun opened fire to make meals, and the brightly lit camp became as bright as the daytime.
Gao Wencai and Zhao Peng also have their own fire-headed soldiers. Among the five hundred random craftsmen, experienced old craftsmen also served as gunners, and inexperienced new apprentices also served as baggage soldiers and fire-headed soldiers. The new apprentices got up under the shouts of the Jinyi Guard and buried the stove to make fire. The Jinyi New Army camp was brightly lit. The new apprentices who served as fire-headed soldiers put a big pot on the fire, boiling hot grain porridge in the pot, steamed grain steamed cakes and mixed grain steamed buns on the steamer. There were also a few large pots of pickles, dried tofu and dried fish.
Since robbing the Li family in Zhangjiawan that time, Jinyi Xinjun's food has been available for open supply. Not only did they have enough food, they also seized a lot of dried fish, jerky, eggs, frozen meat and other foods. The fresh meat that was inconvenient to carry was eaten a few days ago. The army went on a war to bring the dry goods with them, which could be used as breakfast.
Half an hour later, the rice was prepared, and drums rang in the camp, and the sound of trumpets of getting up one after another, and a noise in the camp was heard one after another.
Princess Kunxing and Fei Zhen'e in their youthful girls were at the age of sleepiness. They were awakened by the sound of drums and trumpets early, but they stayed in the warm bed and refused to get up.
"I'm up, I'll have nothing to eat after dinner." Zhao Peng walked into the tent of the two women.
"Let's get up now, you go out first, we're going to get dressed." Fei Zhen'e rolled her eyes at Zhao Peng.
Zhao Peng withdrew from the tent of the two women's camp and inspected the camp outside.
The 360 young Jinyiwei who accompanied the army also got up. Chen Xinyuan, the leader of the child soldier, sat on a stone, drank hot hot porridge very loudly, and chewed steamed buns and steamed cakes in big mouthfuls. The children around him also said nothing and just kept their heads to eat. The meal time every day was the happiest moment for these children.
I am poor when I have a half-aged child. These teenagers have a lot of appetite. With high-intensity training, they can eat no matter how much food they eat every day.
Chen Xinyuan recalled the training session in Tongzhou Daying. There were enough meals a day. The breakfast was steaming millet and grain porridge, and the snow-white white flour buns. Each young Jinyiwei also gave half a salted duck egg, a piece of fermented tofu, and a small plate of pickles. The half salted duck egg that was cut open was lying on the plate. The golden egg yolk was flowing with orange-red oil, which made people's index fingers flutter. At noon, the rice noodles were enough. The bowl of each young Jinyiwei was covered with bacon, wild duck and sausage. The large basin in the middle was filled with tofu stewed cabbage and vermicelli stewed cabbage. The dinner was also sparse, with fragrant millet porridge, steamed cakes or white flour buns, with braised tofu, pickles, stewed soybeans and other side dishes.
In this day and age, it is simply paradise for children to be able to eat such food! But since the marching began, three meals a day have been changed to two meals a day.
It was when children of this age were growing up. Zhao Peng took special care of them. In addition to the open-end meal, he also prepared some steamed buns and pancakes for them during the march to replenish their energy.
But those adults were not treated like this. The team was sitting on a stone, throwing the wooden rice bowl of the porridge into a baggage truck, wiping their mouths, and then shouting to the recruits who were eating slowly, "Brothers, eat quickly, eat enough! I ate early today. If I don't eat enough, I have to be hungry until the evening before I can eat!"
When the army marched and fought in wars, there was no saying that there were three meals a day. It only had two meals a day. After dinner in the morning, I got up and set up camp in the evening and then had dinner. If I were not full, I would have nothing to eat throughout the day.
Zhao Peng, who had been inspecting, also walked up to the brothers and sat down, and had a meal with the soldiers of the Jinyi New Army. This was a habit he developed in his previous life. The officers and soldiers shared the joys and sorrows. Although the soldiers' meals were not as good as big fish and meat, in which era, the food of these Jinyi New Army was very good. They usually had three meals a day, two meals a day, steamed bread and steamed buns and other foods, and one meal at noon, and the rice was open and supplied. This was already a paradise for ordinary people back then.
After dinner, the recruit He Xing put down his job: "Did brothers ever think that they could live such a good life? Back then, adults and children were hungry, but now rice flour and steamed buns are made, and military pay can be taken home to adopt parents, brothers and sisters. I am a bachelor who eats one person and is not hungry for the whole family. The military pay can be saved and a wife can be married in the future. Brothers, don't say anything, He will sell his life to the general!"
After dinner, Min Qinghua put down the bowl and said with a smile: "You have to have the fate to marry a wife if you save money. I have heard that Jiannu is very cruel. If you accidentally die, what kind of wife will you marry?"
He Xing said disdainfully: "So what about Jiannu? You are not carrying a head on both shoulders and slashing it with one knife, your head will still fall off. If you hit it with a gun, you will still get a hole for him! They are not Nezha with three heads and six arms, nor are they the Bull Demon King who is a hundred feet tall!"
"How come the Ming Dynasty fought with Jiannu for many years, but lost more than won? I heard that those soldiers could not defeat Jiannu, so they cut down the heads of ordinary people and killed good people. They had no other skills, so they only knew how to bully the common people." Min Qinghua said.
At this time, Zhao Peng's voice came from behind: "This little brother, are you a fire soldier?"
Min Qinghua turned his head and saw Zhao Peng wearing a black armor and a six-petal steep iron helmet. He quickly saluted: "Return to the general, the humble position is the fire soldier."
Zhao Peng pointed to the turtledove gun and axe behind Min Qinghua and said, "This is your weapon to kill Jiannu! Jiannu relies on nothing more than heavy armor and bows and arrows. The distance is far away. The turtledove gun is farther than his bows and arrows. No matter how many layers of thick armor are shot on Jiannu, one gun is used to hit him, he will feel cold! When you get closer, this big axe can split Jiannu's thick armor! No matter how many layers of thick armor and one axe are used to chop him into two pieces! Just like two pieces like a pig!"
"Hahaha!" The soldiers laughed.
He Xing asked with some concern: "But Bei Zhi is a spearman, without a big axe with armor, how can he kill Jiannu?"
Zhao Peng picked up a spear placed on the ground and pointed to the dark spear head and said, "The spear head of this spear is also called the armor-breaking cone. The top of the spear head is a steel point. As long as you stab it hard, you can pierce the thick armor of Jiannu! No matter how thick Jiannu's thick armor is, it is not a large plate armor of the Thais. If we encounter a large plate armor of the Thais, our spear cannot pierce, but Jiannu's outer cotton armor, inner chain mail, and armor-breaking cone can pierce it!"
"Taisi Plate Armor? What is that?" Gong Xiaoda asked curiously.
"When we have the conditions in the future, we will naturally use the invulnerable Thais Plate Armor!" Zhao Peng said with a smile.
While talking, a shocking trumpet sound came from the central camp of the Shun Army, which was an order to set off. Zhao Peng took out his pocket watch from his arms and took a look at the time. The pointer pointed at five o'clock. He put away his pocket watch and waved his hand: "Go!"
While speaking, the auxiliary soldiers had already put away the tent and put all kinds of supplies in the cart. They just waited for the order to set off and then pushed the cart away.
Shunjun's night-departure had already set off, galloping back and forth on the official road ahead, and came back from time to time to report on the situation on the road. Of course, there were also Jinyiwei, and not only were there night-departures, but also casual-departure spies. Not long after the team set off, a casual-departure spy came back on a horse and reported: "About 20,000 Jiannu vanguards have arrived in Ningyuan! They are heading towards Shanhaiguan! And Beizhi also found that there seemed to be Jiannu and Guanning Army mixed in Shanhaiguan city."
After discovering that the situation was not good, the spy bypassed Shanhaiguan and rowed from the sea to the Shanhaiguan. After arriving on the shore, he rode back on a prepared horse to report.
Chapter completed!