October 12, morning. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The civil fort is calm.

After the sun rose, Shen Xi habitually stood at the head of the city, using a telescope to observe the Tatar military camp in the distance, ten miles apart, even with a telescope, he couldn't see what the people inside were doing, and he could only roughly know the layout of the Tatar camp.

Tightening his clothes, Shen Xi felt a little cold.

It was the Xiaoice River period, and the weather was already very cold in mid-October, and the south was ready for winter clothes, not to mention that this is the northern country where the winter moon will be frozen for thousands of miles.

At this time, there was no shortage of winter clothing for the soldiers in the army, and a large number of sheepskins, cloths, and ready-to-wear clothes were looted from the Tatar camp twice, and a little recuperation was a thick winter coat.

Compared with worrying about the weather, Shen Xi was more worried about the water source in the city, and the soldiers would have less strength at most if they didn't eat for a few days, but if they didn't drink water for a few days, the result would be a loss of combat power, just waiting for the Tatars to cut off their heads.

As the saying goes, an autumn rain and a cold, Shen Xi believes that when the next precipitation comes, it will not be rain that falls, but flying snowflakes.

"My lord, it's getting colder, and it's already freezing in the morning, which is not a good sign, our fortifications haven't been built yet!"

Hu Songyue, who was wrapped in a thick sheepskin and had a slightly bloated figure, came to the city and greeted Shen Xi.

Shen Xi said: "There are disadvantages of upper freezing, and it is much more difficult for us to excavate." But there is also an advantage, that is, after freezing, all fortifications built with mud and water will be very stable. Let the soldiers pay attention to keeping warm, do not drink cold water at will, and warm up each person with a few sips of hot wine every day, but they are not allowed to drink too much, otherwise military law will be engaged! ”

At the moment of the great enemy, Shen Xi also knows that it is useless to rigidly abide by some military rules and military discipline, just like drinking, soldiers need to use alcohol to keep out the cold, it is okay to drink a few sips, but the time and amount of alcohol must be strictly limited for everyone, alcohol can make mistakes, especially those soldiers who keep vigil, once they are allowed to touch the wine, they are likely to take a nap while on duty at night, or they may be touched by the Tatars and cut off their heads.

Shen Xi finished his daily routine inspection and came down from the road, when the women and children who had been rescued from the Tatar camp had been buried in the stove and lit a fire, and the city was shrouded in faint cooking smoke and the rich smell of meat.

According to Shen Xi's request, the soldiers ate two meals a day, one in the morning and one in the evening. Because of the countless amounts of rice and flour seized in the two battles, it is now possible to change the pattern of each meal, if it is steamed in the morning, then it is rice in the evening, and the next day it is changed to rolling noodles and rice crackers.

Because there is a large amount of horse, donkey, and mule meat stored in the army, there will be fragrant broth at every meal, plus bean sprouts and kelp from the water, and wild vegetables picked from outside the city every day.

Shen Xi took advantage of the time before breakfast to return to his room at the command post to write a war log, and he recorded in detail what he thought about and worried about every day, and when it was quiet in the dead of night and his thoughts were clear, he would carefully study these materials and make some strategic and tactical arrangements.

This time, Shen Xi did not bring his female dependents with him, although he rescued a batch from the Tatar camp before, Shen Xi didn't want to be misunderstood, and he took care of his daily life.

Almost half an hour later, breakfast was prepared outside, and the bell rang on the bell and drum tower. Shen Xi put down the pen, put away the rice paper full of words, tidied up his appearance, and then put on his big hand and went to the "canteen" outside to prepare for breakfast.

The city was divided into eight canteens, four of which were renovated from dilapidated houses, and officers and soldiers ate nearby.

Shen Xi did not have privileges in the army, basically what ordinary soldiers ate, he followed what he ate.

It turned out that when Shen Xi was at home, he was very picky about food, mainly because the female relatives and maids in the family had good cooking skills, and they raised his mouth, but Shen Xi could still accept the life of coarse tea and light rice, after all, he was reincarnated as a human being, and his pursuit of appetite was not so great.

To put it bluntly, people in this era are just living in the world to seek two meals a day and one night for stability!

Today's breakfast is a piece of flour bun and a piece of pickled donkey jerky, and a large bowl of kelp soup, the kelp itself has salt frost, and the army also brought a lot of salt when they went out on the expedition, and this time they snatched back hundreds of stones from the Tatar camp, enough for tens of thousands of people to squander for a year or two.

Kelp soup is not a clear soup with little water, there is a layer of oil foam floating on the surface, and the horse meat below is slightly astringent, which is actually not a vegetable soup, but a delicious broth, the most important thing is that you can add it after eating, of course, there is no horse meat when you add it, but it can be stained with oily blood, isn't it?

After breakfast, the soldiers were all organized and went to build fortifications outside the city, which was not until after sunset in the afternoon.

Shen Xi originally planned to go back to his room at the command post to sleep for a while, this time in the morning is usually the calmest time on the battlefield, Shen Xi usually stays up late at night, at this time he is full of food and drink, his whole body is warm, and he wants to sleep, so that he will be more energetic in the afternoon and evening.

But there were still many things to deal with today, so he could only choose to discuss the construction of fortifications outside the city.

The meeting lasted for half an hour, and after the meeting was dismissed, Liu Xu and Zhu Lie were ordered to go out of the city to supervise the construction of fortifications, while Hu Songyue went to supervise the firecrackers to practice their formations and shooting techniques.

In order to strengthen the rapid mobility ability of the firecrackers, Hu Songyue was also asked to teach these firecrackers the riding skills, so that the firecrackers under Shen Xi's command had some characteristics of the Western dragoons.

Unlike the previous three generals who always talked with Shen Xi, at this time, the whole army realized that if they didn't listen to Shen Xi's words, they would be buried in Tumu Fort and become lonely ghosts.

In the past, from the general to the ordinary soldiers below, they all unanimously questioned the ability of Shen Xi, a young man who had not dried up, but after seeing Shen Xi's two battles led by strategizing, they knew what kind of genius the boss they were with.

Zhu Lie and the others knew that they had no brains, and now the whole army was under siege, either to break through the siege and die for a lifetime, or to stay and fight with Shen Xi vigorously.

If you don't even have the opportunity to be a deserter, then what's the reason not to try to be a brave and fearless soldier and fight to the death for the sake of the country and the nation?

After confronting the Tatars for a long time, the officers and men of the whole army felt more and more the extraordinaryness of Shen Xi. Now there are nearly 10,000 Tatar cavalry outside the city, but it is estimated that they are scared by Shen Xi, they are guarding an area of more than ten miles outside the city, even if the Ming soldiers build fortifications under their noses, they will turn a deaf ear and ignore them at all.

Hu Songyue and others finally have a deep understanding of what it is like to be with the coach.

In the past, in their impression, the Tatars were jackals, tigers and leopards, and the Ming officers and soldiers could only find the city fortress to hide after seeing it, or they ran away, just like rabbits.

But after fighting Shen Xi, they deeply felt how glorious it was to be a citizen of the "Heavenly Empire".

Sample, I'm standing outside your camp, do you have the ability to come out and fight? Let's go back and let our coach bombard you with "Marley......

Isn't your camp very strong? Let you try our artillery, let you try our livestock bombs.

In order to prevent the Ming army from launching a surprise attack with "Mare", the Tatars very cooperatively built a lot of trenches in front of the camp, like a moat, once the Ming army used "Mare" again, the cattle would fall into the ditch, so that they would feel at ease when they defended.

The Tatars have already made up their minds, the main force will not come, the trenches will not be filled, this battle will drag on first, and wait until Shen Xi's soldiers and horses take the initiative to kill, then the attack and defense will be reversed, let you taste our strength!

The Tatars had many soldiers and horses, and their combat power was strong, but as the besieging party, they were more nested than the Ming army stationed in the city, and the Tatars also experienced a great humiliation from the commander of the army to the ordinary soldiers.

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