The new Sima Wei asked Luo Cheng, "The whole army has been reorganized, what are we going to do next?" ”

"What do you think we're going to do next?" Luo Cheng asked rhetorically.

In the Xuansu City Lord's Mansion, Wei Zheng took this account book and flipped through it, "Since the holy decree said that the battle plan of our Left Fifth Army after the reorganization is to go south to Pyongyang, and we will send troops in April at the latest, I think we only need to defend the three cities and seven villages now, and when the rest of the Eighth Army crosses the river, we will follow the east to the Yalu River together." ”

Luo Cheng shook his head.

"No, waiting is not enough. Don't forget, we offended Yu Wenhua and Li Jiancheng, the two of them, one is the general of the left guard, and now he happens to be the general of the first army of the left, and he also commands the fifth route army of the left wing. Li Jiancheng Laozi is a guard Siqing, in charge of weapons and ordnance. Therefore, in the next eastward and southward expansion, our biggest trouble may not be the Goguryeo people in front, but the cold guns and arrows of the people around us. ”

"We have to prepare in advance, pass my orders, and slaughter all the cattle, sheep and pigs we have captured and make them into meat floss."

"Meat floss?" Wei Zheng asked.

Luo Cheng had to explain to him this magical meat work, compared to bacon and cured meat, meat floss also has the advantage of easy storage, but although the bacon and bacon have shrunk, it still occupies a lot of volume weight, and the meat floss can minimize the accumulation of water.

"A cow is made into meat floss, and it can fit all into the bladder of that cow." Luo Chengdao.

Wei Zheng's eyes widened?

Are you kidding? "I know that a cow's bladder can be blown into a ball, but it can't be blown anymore, so how much beef can it hold?" You know, a cow can produce at least two or three hundred catties of beef. ”

"Of course, you can't fit ordinary beef, but you can't fit it when you make it into meat floss."

Meat floss is said to be the treasure of the Mongolian cavalry in later generations across Europe and Asia, and the Mongolian cavalry of that year relied on meat floss and milk powder to make their military food worry-free.

"Whether it is pork, beef or mutton, or even chicken, duck and fish, you can make meat floss, the method is not difficult, first cook the meat, and then stew, kneading, meat floss is easy to carry, store, and nutritious, very convenient. For example, if you kill a cow and make it into meat floss, you can stuff it all into the bladder of that cow, and it is only about twenty or thirty catties. When marching and fighting, no matter how difficult the conditions are, take out a little bit each time, put it into the kettle, and even hang it directly on the saddle, when the horse walks and gallops, the kettle shakes, and the meat floss will soak into meat floss porridge in it, which can be used at any time, and the meat floss of a cow can last for several months for practical needs. ”

This Wei Zheng is really an eye-opener.

"What do you mean by the general, making meat floss for us to go south?"

"That's right, you have also seen the holy decree, the armies assembled in Huaiyuan and set off to cross the river, when crossing the river, they were given armor and equipment, and then they were given a hundred days of food, and as soon as they came out of Huaiyuan, there would be no follow-up supplies. A total of 100 days of food, all have to be carried by themselves, from Huaiyuan to Pyongyang, how far Huaiyuan is from Pyongyang, I don't need to say this, a hundred days can barely work, but what if there is an accident? ”

"Again, you know how much of a burden it is to have a soldier carry a hundred days' food, right? If we go deep into the enemy's territory, we will have to bring 100 days' food, which will slow down the speed of the march very much. I'm afraid that if something happens and we don't get to the city of Pyongyang for 100 days, or if we change our battle plan and have to withdraw at that time, what will we do if we don't have enough food? ”

If the army has no food, it will be defeated.

No matter how elite the army is, it will definitely be defeated if it runs out of food.

And Luo Cheng, who knows a little bit about history, seems to remember that the Sui army's attack on Pyongyang this time did not really reach the city of Pyongyang, as if it was only more than 100 miles away from Pyongyang City, so he ran out of food, and then marched hard, but the Datong River was ambushed by the Goguryeo army, so this hungry army was defeated, and the Ninth Army was defeated.

The 300,000 army was defeated like a mountain, and after the defeat, they retreated north, but they had no food all the way, and they didn't know how to hold on to it in the end.

Luo Cheng didn't want to be like this himself.

Although his Left Fifth Army does not need to start from Huaiyuan, it can start directly from Xuansu City, and it can travel 300 miles less, but the road ahead is long.

Don't look at Luo Cheng's Left Fifth Army, there are eight regiments of baggage chariot soldiers and stragglers, the main task of these soldiers is to be responsible for carrying and transporting the equipment, grain and grass equipment of the army, and at the same time responsible for the tasks of camping and garrisoning, but the more grain and grass they carry, the heavier the burden, and the more inconvenient the maneuver, which will be very dangerous for the large corps that wants to turn thousands of miles behind the enemy. Especially in Liaodong, there are mountain city walls everywhere, and it is very difficult to supply food on the spot because of the enemy's food.

After thinking about it, Luo Cheng felt that he still had to have enough food and clothing, he now occupied the three cities of Liaodong Xuansu, and he had a large number of seized materials in his hands, and he didn't want to find a way to get enough for himself, isn't that stupid.

Other armies certainly don't have this condition, but he has this condition.

Anyway, after a while, he will go east and south, and this Xuansu and other cities will also be handed over to the armies behind, and the materials inside will also be handed over to others.

Wei Zheng agrees with Luo Cheng's idea, he has to work for the benefit of his brother.

"General, I think we should take the opportunity to quickly process the grain in the granary in Xuansu City, grind the rice into rice, and grind the wheat into flour, so that it is easy to carry."

"What Wei Sima said is right, but I think rice can also be reground into noodles, and it is better to reprocess it."

"How do you still process rice noodles?"

"Add oil to stir-fry, fried into fried rice, fried rice flour or fried flour, in addition to adding salt, but also add salt in it, so that after frying, you can eat dry, you can also add water to brew, cold water and hot water, and when we have processed the meat floss, then mix it with the meat floss, it will become meat floss porridge, how good."

"The general is clever." Wei Zheng gave a thumbs up directly. "However, the dry food of the 33,000 people in the whole army, it is not easy to bring more meat floss rice noodles."

There are 33,000 people, one person eats two liters of millet a day, and one person has to carry two stones of millet for 100 days of military rations. It is certainly impossible to carry so much grain by itself, and it is mainly carried by auxiliary soldiers in carts and horses, and when there are too many carriages and horses, the burden of forage and grain for livestock will increase.

"If a soldier is paired with ten catties of meat floss and twenty catties of fried rice and fried noodles, I think it is enough for 100 days."

Luo Cheng shook his head, "Make more budgets, first calculate the amount of fifteen catties of meat floss and forty catties of fried rice and fried noodles for one soldier, mobilize the whole army, and all the people and prisoners in the three cities and seven forts, let them move together." I'm going to make enough meat floss and fried rice and fried noodles before the army starts. ”

"Add salt to both the meat floss and the fried rice and fried noodles, so you don't need to carry extra salt."