And when the early morning sun once again saw the plain white in the snow, the Taiping Army Huainan attacking army was admiring Zhu Cun, with plain and mellow eyebrows, and also had breakfast with his subordinates among the hot heads. This is also the wartime customs and traditions that the chief governor has taken the lead in retaining when he was in charge of Stormrage Camp. Today, it has also been maintained and implemented by most generals who have practiced and are proud of.
Therefore, he will randomly select organizations with less than one team every three to five, eat the same food in a big pot with them, sing the same folk songs before and after meals; and then check the behavior for a while. This is not only a kind of morale boosting, closeness and compassion to the soldiers; it also shows a basic attitude of understanding ordinary soldiers at any time.
Rather than sitting high above the account, relying on the content of the reports and rewards of others to grasp the basic situation in an army; often when the head coach is alarmed, the situation is already very serious, or it is out of control. , The extent to which harsh or drastic measures have to be adopted.
In a sense, such poor communication between the upper and lower ranks of the military gave subordinates, Zuolao, and subordinates, etc., too much middle-management. They used the topic to play or fake their power to punish selfish desires and room; on the contrary, they lost Mastery of the truth. If things go on like this, this is also where the long-standing malpractices and bad habits of traditional officers and soldiers often have to overthrow, kill the commander and chase the commander.
Therefore, as a member of the Taiping Army, who has the ambition to reform and seek new things, it specifically emphasizes and sets aside this one in the military orders and regulations, and the soldiers face the routine window of the coach directly. Of course, under the momentum of the Japanese Taiping Army’s forge ahead, there is no such thing as cheating and cheating, but as a situation of laziness and negligence that is unavoidable in a huge organization, it also needs to be deterred and spurred to drive. .
Just like today’s breakfast food, it is sesame cakes pasted in an iron barrel oven, crispy meat rolls fried on a plate, pickles, oil residue and soybean juice boiled together; and there are soldiers on direct combat duties, Even get a can of meat. It's not the kind of meat with a lot of soy flour, gluten, pork, beef and sheep blood, and offal, or there is not much meat with good color, but canned beef that is braised and solid.
Yes, it is canned beef, and it is not a canned offal in the name of meat; originally in this era, cattle and buffalo, which were important production tools and components of family property, were not objects that could be slaughtered and eaten casually. Even officials and wealthy people who want to eat beef have to make all kinds of excuses to die from illness, fall to death, and death from old age.
However, since the Taiping Army established a stable territory and large rear area, it has successively set up many breeding farms tailored to local conditions in Lingxi (most of today’s Guangxi), Annan (Northern Vietnam), and Hunan. It is the gradual cultivation of differentiated herds of cattle, horses and sheep for meat and animal power.
As for the source of feed, it is through the tightening of nearby villages to improve and increase the efficiency of agricultural and forestry production, and a large amount of agricultural and sideline products have been accumulated. After these years of breeding, some of the production facilities not only provide fur horns and meat, but also supply raw milk and its products to a certain extent.
Therefore, under the rule of the Taiping Army, the slaughtering and supply of beef in restaurants and shops is no longer a taboo and secret matter. It's just that as we move to the north, the cost of beef is relatively expensive. But canned beef products exclusively for the military are obviously an exception.
Because of the large-scale supply from the rear farm and the processing plant, the unit price of this canned cooked food on the military supply and marketing truck will not even be much higher than that of the other most common canned pigs and sheep. Therefore, before entering the trenches and battlefields, eating half a can of roasted beef with juicy beef on the cakes is almost burning.
Therefore, in the snow behind the stack of bunkers, some soldiers who had already eaten the morning meal in turn, even dressed in single clothes or shirtless, were sweating like rain and using various equipment; then they grabbed each other on the ground. The snowflake rubs on the body as an auxiliary means to cleanse the skin and improve cold resistance.
Zhu Cun, who watched this scene, couldn't help but smile, pour the empty canned juice into the last spoon of thick hot soup, dipped the last small piece of flax cake and obeyed comfortably. Then it suddenly reminded me of the first siege that my brother participated in after joining the rebels many years ago, which was also similar to the scene in the snow.
Just a thin layer of snow at night has already caused many people sleeping in the wild to sleep with pale faces and never be woken up; his brother who only ate some soup and porridge before dark yesterday , Relied on being young and strong enough to wake up slowly after being beaten to each other. Then the rags peeled off from these dead people were wrapped around themselves in circles, which was the only protection they could find.
Then, amidst the chaotic sound of various horns and drums, he held a baffle made of broken pieces of wood, just as the brigade crowd faced the arrows falling on the city’s head like rain, shouting wildly. Go forward. There are screaming arrows flying around and sporadic screams and wailing of arrows in the ears;
And under the cover of the baffle above the oblique lift, he could only see the muddy ground that was trampled on the ground not far away, and the dying man struggling with an arrow falling to the ground, and strode over hard. Not to be tripped over; then he stumbled and stepped into the trenches that were almost full of corpses, and was pushed by the crowd behind him unabated, and squeezed under the roots of the peeling sand wall.
At this time, the threat of arrows flying in the air seemed to disappear all of a sudden, and then it turned into a rolling stone log that was smashed down by the head and head, just like this wave after wave of crowds gathering under the wall, don’t you give me a chance? Stopped smashing out one after another big and small blood-colored gaps. It was so pitiful, when the people near Zhu Cun were about to die, the rear team holding the simple long ladder and hooks finally caught up.
Also coming with them was the Rebel Archers team, which was not aligned with the remaining arrows. Although most of their arrows were blocked by the walls and crenels, they also attracted and dispersed the strength and direction of the defenders' counterattacks in a disguised form. As a result, these survivors at the root of the wall, with a certain expectation and expectation that they will soon be able to eat their stomachs, mustered up their courage and strength like ants gathered in a rice ball, and climbed up.
I don’t know how long it took. Zhu Cun, who had fallen from the broken long ladder twice, recovered a life because of too many corpses, and used both hands and feet to pull an empty pull for the third time. Suo, leaned against the bloody mottled wall again; then he was hooked on his shoulder blade by a scratchy hook that was suddenly poked out;
The messy cloth strips penetrated the hook tip without any protection at all, and they hung on the top of the wall like this volley. At that moment, Zhu Cun, who was torn with blood and heartache, just wanted to fall like this. I fell down and died. However, the next moment, under the instinct for survival, Zhu Cun summoned his energy and grabbed the edge of the city dish with another hand, while the other hand dragged the hook to pull the opponent out and fell in a volley, becoming his first one. Gain. . .
When Zhu Cun, who was covered in blood, panted and sat behind the battlements, biting his teeth and enduring the blackening pain in front of him, the moment he pulled out the truncation hook from his back, he was also fainted on the spot. The death passed; and the city was certainly defeated, but he also left festering wounds, which haunted him all winter.
At that time, if it weren’t for his younger brother Zhu San who insisted on staying with him, insisting on carrying him wherever he went; it wasn’t until the beginning of spring that he found a suitable wound medicine and doctor in Songzhou. It has turned into many dead bones in a certain nameless pit.
Just as Zhu Cun recalled the tragic situation in the past when he attacked the fortified city, another voice called him back:
"Zhengjiang, in the south and east directions of the city last night, hundreds of abandoned corpses were found separately..."
It was Li Yuyuan, the former commander of the front line appointed by him, who originally came from the Chaozhou Tutuo, said straightforwardly:
"But is it still similar to death?"
Zhu Cun could not help asking:
"This time there are some traces of recent injuries to swordsmen and soldiers. In addition, through searches of personal belongings and traces of body and skin, we found that there are no shortage of generals..."
Li Yuyuan nodded and said:
"That said, there has indeed been a change in the city in the past two days? The advisory documents and announcements that our army has projected in the past few days have still played some usefulness..."
Zhu Cun couldn't help but touched the bushy beard's chin, and suddenly said:
"Come here, go and fetch ice from the trenches..."
Afterwards, several large frozen ice cubes of various thicknesses were presented to Zhu Cun, who was turned back to the large tent of the high platform. Then, he beat them one by one with a scabbard, and they broke into pieces clearly and loudly. More small pieces. Upon seeing this, Zhu Cun couldn't help but raised his thick eyebrows and read in his mouth:
"Now that we have been together for so long to cultivate and maintain health outside Guangling City, it's time to move."
"But please show it right now!"
The generals who came together with the promotion of the classical tents could not help but said in unison: Immediately, they saw Zhu Cun walking to the sand table model of Guangling City, and spilling all the broken ice, before speaking to them full of breath. Road:
"Although it's not the best time yet, it's almost the same; after we go down, the city will be covered with snow and ice, and our guns and cannon stones will not work so well..."
"After the river is frozen, the place that the navy can send to is greatly reduced. Instead, it gives them the opportunity to go out of the city to meet... Therefore,"
"Right now it is food and equipment, with sufficient staff, equipment preparation and civil engineering work to perfection, and the soldiers are full of food and practice all day long. Would you like to call me as the enemy in the city
Hearing this, the people present will inevitably be surprised and amazed, and they will show joyful or eager expressions, and then they will become a clamor for petitions.
"Let me take the lead, the children have been waiting for a long time..."
"Our team is the first choice and the first choice. You are not going to fight..."
"I am a soldier in the 23rd regiment, but I have done the jump for many times..." (End of this chapter)