"I'm eating fish again today!"

After digging a trench for a long time, Zheng Chang, who had finished work, came over with a bowl, and when he saw a big pot of boiled fish, he couldn't help pouting. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info His hometown is in Gyeongju, which is the Loess Plateau. Everywhere there is yellow earth, dry, and there are few rivers. His family used to be hundreds of miles away from the river, and he had never eaten fish from small to large.

When I came to Lingzhou, I found that this is actually the land of fish and rice. The Yellow River, dotted with lakes, and ditches are full of fish. You can catch fish with your hands, and you can get several fish when you take off your clothes.

In the beginning, it was really refreshing.

There are many fish and varieties in the water.

What carp, crucian carp, catfish, silver carp, trout, bream and so on.

They repaired the city here, and when they got off work, they went to the lake to fish.

There are the most big carps in the Yellow River, and those under three catties are not willing to ask for them, so they are thrown back after they are caught. They all like to catch that kind of big carp, at least more than 30 catties, like a small pig, and the meat is the fattest.

He caught a big carp of more than 30 catties for the first time, and excitedly went to hug the fish, but as soon as he picked it up, the carp stiffened and threw him directly into the river.

For the first time, he knew that the carp was like this, and for the first time, he knew that the carp was so strong. The strength of a carp of thirty catties is greater than the strength of a seven-foot strong man.

The big carp of the Yellow River is delicious, fatty, after killing, chop it into a large piece with a big axe, throw it into the pot and stew, add a little green salt, add some wild onions, mushrooms or something, it is quite delicious.

However, no matter how delicious things are, if you eat them every day, there are times when they are greasy.

After repairing the Heavenly City here for many days and eating fish for many days, Zheng Chang felt that he had made up for the fish he owed in the first half of his life in the past few days.

I've eaten it until now, and it's all greasy.

I used to eat fish, and I only felt fat and fresh, but now I feel fishy.

The cook was an old soldier, in his forties. This age is actually very young, and it is not an exaggeration to be young and strong. However, among Shuofang's soldiers, they are relatively old.

With an apron tied around his waist and a big spoon in his hand, he stood on the edge of the vat with a smile.

"Hey, don't be in the midst of blessings and don't know blessings. How many people can't even drink hot soup, you have big fish and big meat to eat, and you still think this and that, damn it, I think when I went to conquer Liaodong, hey, that mother also, even said big fish and meat, and couldn't even drink gruel. You know, eating grass roots and chewing tree bark, the army passed by, and the trees on the side of the road were all bald. ”

As he spoke, the old soldier directly scooped up a large spoonful of fish pieces and poured it into a bowl of soldiers lined up in front of him.

There was half a catty of white rice in that bowl, and he estimated that there was a catty of fish pieces in his spoonful, and when it was over, he added a spoonful of fish soup.

"Don't be disgusted, brother, really, with such good food, you will wake up laughing in your dreams. Eat more, eat enough, and go back and have the strength to work. If Ningyuan City is repaired as soon as possible, we will be able to go north to Fengzhou, remember brother, Fengzhou has 6 million acres of watered land, and it is still waiting for us. Hit it down early, divide the water and water the ground early! ”

The words of the old house soldier and cook were very infectious, and when Zheng Chang heard it, he also felt that he was in spirit again.

It seems that this fish nugget is not so greasy.

"Six million acres of watered land, watered land." He took the fish soup and walked away with the rice bowl, then squatted down and ate it with his companions.

There are a lot of fish in the lake.

There are so many that you can catch more than 10,000 catties if you go down any net. The big nets sent by Lingzhou were of great use, and the boats dragged the nets in the lake, and they immediately returned with a full load.

There is so much fish that I can't eat it all.

Li Chao asked people to transport a large amount of salt from Lingzhou, anyway, there are many salt ponds in Lingzhou and Yanzhou, and salt is very cheap. The salt was loaded into the ship, and it went down the Yellow River to Ningyuan City.

Fish were brought down from the boat in baskets of willows.

A large group of government soldiers became fish killers at this time.

Squatting on the edge of the dock, he took a knife to disembowel the fish, took out the internal organs, and plucked off the gills. I didn't even scrape the scales and fins, I just passed them in the water casually and threw them into the willow basket.

When a willow basket is full, someone immediately picks it up to the next one.

The next place, on a platform made of large wooden planks, were piles of fish.

And then next to it was a load of green salt.

The large green salt is large and white. Sprinkle the washed fish with large grains of salt, mix well, and then put them into willow baskets one by one.

Then transport it to the other side.

Drying.

Of course, if it is eaten freshly, you can sprinkle the freshly caught live fish directly with salt, and then load it onto the ship and transport it to Lingzhou and other places.

This has to be short, and after a long time, the fish will stink.

The time is short, after the fish arrives, although it has become a salted fish, but it is different from the salted fish that is pickled after killing, it is a salted fish with a very unique flavor, and some people like to eat this salted fish the most.

However, if you want to preserve it in the army, you can't use this method, you have to pickle it after killing it, and then dry it.

Now that the weather is good, Ningyuan City is desperately fishing, killing fish, pickling fish and drying fish.

For Li Chao, with such a good fish resource, it would be a waste not to catch more fish when the weather is good. An army of 50,000 people consumes a lot of food every day. Now leaning against the lake, you can fish every day. But when it's time to leave here, you won't be able to catch it every day.

Therefore, it is also very important to catch more and dry salted fish now.

Drying 10,000 catties of salted fish is much easier than planting 10,000 catties of grain.

Although salted fish doesn't taste so good, it can save a lot of food when eaten with grain.

The rice from Lingzhou, the fish from the Yellow River, and the salt from Yanzhou are really a perfect match, and Li Chao no longer has to worry about food.

The grassland on the side of the Yellow River is also very good, it is said that in summer the grass can grow to more than one meter high, some cattle are tired of eating and lazy, lie down on the spot to rest, all of a sudden they are caught by the grass, and they can't find it for half a day.

It is easy for one person to put more than a thousand sheep, because there is enough grass and water, and after a day, the well-fed cattle and sheep will return to the circle by themselves, and they don't even need to go far.

Li Chao sat on a boat in the lake, this is a newly renovated warship, not particularly large, but the boat has been refitted. On either side of the ship, two gun decks were specially built, each with a row of gun windows.

In this setting, the cabin can be placed as many eight-bull crossbows as possible, and in the center of the top deck, there are also several small stone cannons, which can throw stone projectiles or fireball shells from half a catty to one catty.

The boat uses sails and wheel slurry power, which is very fast and has a strong wind.

The warships drove fast on the lake, advancing and retreating with the beat of drums and horns, and watching the command flag attack.

"Port side against the enemy!"

"Port gunner reloads ready!"

The ballista chief shouted loudly in the cabin, and the ballista men took their positions and began to aim at their targets through the cannon window.

The target was a wooden stake on the shore two hundred paces away.

Li Simo sat opposite Li Chao, and there was a chessboard between the two.

But Li Simo didn't have much mind on the chessboard, he turned his head from time to time to look at those eight Niu Nu.

The huge bed crossbow can be opened with only two manipulations, and now it is actually on the Yellow River two hundred steps away, aiming at the target on the shore.

Is this really possible?

Two hundred steps, an ordinary single-bow crossbow, the lethality within a hundred steps is very limited, if it is a bow and arrow, even if it is an excellent Turkic warrior, their effective range will not exceed sixty steps. If they are on a horse, they generally only have an effective range of thirty or forty paces, and even for more accuracy and lethality, many times, they will not fire their arrows until twenty paces.

Unless it is a large group of upward shots, the arrows will be released at seventy or eighty paces.

But now, Tang Jun's bed crossbow was directly set up on the ship, and there were actually thirty-two bed crossbows and two stone throwing vehicles on one boat. And this bed crossbow only needs to be operated by two people, but the range is said to be up to 200 paces.

Especially since this is still on the Yellow River, on the boat.

Oh my God.

"Ready!"

"Put!"

At the sound of an order, sixteen eight-ox crossbows on one side were fired one after another, and one after another thick crossbow arrows came out of the string with a loud roaring sound.

"Bang bang!"

Two stone cannons on the top deck of the ship were also fired one after another.

"General Simo, it's better to use this to see further."

Li Chao saw Li Simo pulling his neck to look at the shore, and handed over a telescope with a smile.

This is a new model, using a monocular, not as good as Li Chao's original binoculars, but still good.

Li Simo took it, followed Li Chao's example, pulled the telescope open, and brought it to his eyes. As a result, I was so startled that I almost threw away the telescope.

The scene on the shore two hundred paces away suddenly approached in front of me, as if it had flown over.

When his mood calmed down a little, he put the telescope in front of him again, and now that he was prepared, it was much better.

Two hundred paces, the naked eye can only see the faint wooden stakes on the shore, and with this telescope, it turns out that it is only forty or fifty paces away, and the wooden stakes are clearly visible to the naked eye.

"Oh, a lot of stakes have been hit. Oh my God, one of the stakes was hit by a stone bullet and half of it was broken. Tsk, this thing is amazing! ”

The more I looked, the more surprised I became.

This one ship had thirty-two crossbows and two cannons. Sixteen crossbows can be fired at a time, and two cannons can be fired each time. It's so far away, and it's so accurate.

If there are a hundred such warships, the effect is unimaginable.

If the Tang army is in formation, it means that the Tang army has a reinforcement that cannot be attacked, but can provide a steady stream of super long-range strike support.

"This stone cannon is so powerful."

Li Chao smiled, "Don't tell General Simo, the stone cannon you see is only the weakest one we are currently equipped, and it only fires half a catty of stone bullets." We also have artillery carriages that can fire 20 pounds of stone projectiles, and the range is up to 1,000 paces. ”

"A thousand steps?"

Li Simo opened his mouth wide, and he didn't know how to answer.

A thousand steps, no matter how good a Turkic warrior is, he can only shoot a maximum of a hundred steps. A thousand paces, the best Turkic warriors, riding horses and charging, also have to rush for a while.

And the Tang Army, there is actually a giant cannon that can bombard it a thousand steps away, or a giant cannon that can directly throw twenty pounds of stone projectiles.

Twenty pounds of stone projectiles are projectile a thousand paces away.

If such a stone projectile hits a centaur, the one who hits it will die instantly.

Even if you put on iron armor, you will die if you hit it, and you will die if you touch it.

"Are there a lot of such gun carriages?"

"You can have as many as you want, and there are now more than 1,000 crossbows and hundreds of giant cannons in my Shuofang army! And it's still being built! Li Chao said very awesomely.

"And how many such ships are there?"

"There are only a hundred of them at the moment."

A hundred? That's it? Li Simo was shocked and speechless, he wanted to be quiet. (To be continued.) )