The army traveled, mighty, and the cars were thousands of years old, without concealment.

The blue-faced beast received the order of the Yidu army, and immediately inspected the grain and grass, gathered the soldiers and horses, and led the army straight to Hezhou. There are 8,000 regular soldiers, 10,000 newly formed garrison troops, plus more than 5,000 people.

More than 20,000 people, from Yangzhou to Hezhou, even if they cover up, they can't stop the meticulous work of the Western Army.

Yang Zhi also had no intention of covering up luxury, this collision, both sides relied on real power. If the Liangshan army is vulnerable, the western army will naturally be able to easily do so; And if the Western Army hits a full head by itself, there will not be a single soldier in Hezhou City, and the four gates are wide open, and the Western Army will not dare to take half a step past the Lei Chi.

"Report to the governor, there is a Southern army peeping on the river." Hurry up and report it.

Yang Zhi rolled his eyes when he heard this, this Manichaeism is really a loss of points. Still as usual, as if not seeing. Manichaeism, on the other hand, is also obedient, only looking at it from afar, and not being urged by others. One is that Yang Zhi can't be cared for, and the other is that he has nothing to say.

I think the Liangshan army is marching slowly, and the Liangshan army also wants to be fast, but there are thousands of baggage with the army, are they fast? Along the Yangtze River, the Liangshan Army can be established without a water army. Who can blame the Manichaeans for the matters agreed upon during the negotiations?

If so, the Liangshan army followed the river, and the speed was unhurried. The center of the ensuing battle was Luzhou, where it was well fought and the Western Army retreated undefeated.

The words were divided into two ends, just when Yang Zhi led the army to Hezhou, under the city of Luzhou, the two armies also saw the real chapter.

Chao Gai inspected the city defense on this day, and when Luzhou City was broken by him, it was very damaged, even if it had been repaired, and now the Western Army swooped down, it was also a severe test.

The war horse went straight to the head of the city, but in order to make it easier to transfer troops to plug the leakage at a critical moment, the Liangshan army deliberately built slopes on all sides of Luzhou City. As soon as the King of Tota jumped off his horse, Zhang Jun, who was on duty, stepped forward and said, "Recruit, I am afraid that the western army outside the city will do it!" ”

"Oh?" Chao Gai stared at him with wide eyes, and then pulled his legs and walked towards the city wall.

Zhang Jun was already the deputy envoy of the Luzhou soldiers and horses under Chao Gai at this moment, and said after him: "The artillery carts outside the city are almost inseparable, and all kinds of equipment are also complete. ”

Chao Gai looked at the wall from afar, and as soon as he glanced at it, he couldn't help but be shocked. "I also patrolled the city at dusk yesterday, and saw that the armament of the Song army was far less complete than today, and it was not yet noon.

When defending Jeju at the beginning, the Western Army also set up dozens of artillery pieces, but compared to the posture in front of them, it was completely insignificant!

Chao Gai looks outward, there is no need for a clairvoyant, but as far as the eye can see, in the sea of people, there are countless artillery trucks like forests.

However, no matter how many stone cannons there are, Chao Gai is not afraid, and he also has stone cannons in his hands, which are arranged in the open space in the city. The city of Luzhou has just experienced a military disaster, and most of the people in the city have fled, because of the war, many houses have been demolished and burned. Now they have been cleaned up by the Liangshan army, either as a garrison camp or as a school warehouse, and a few of the places near the city have become stone artillery positions.

The Liangshan cannon has a long range, but it occupies a small area, and the mechanical force saves manpower and space, and the stone cannon of the Song army can still be effectively contained in the city.

But what shocked Chao Gai was that among the many equipment of the Song army, in addition to the artillery carts, there were also many shield carts, house holes, goose carts, ladders, etc.

"Recruitment, this is probably the armament stored in Gangneung City, and now it has been transported to the battlefield."

Zhang Jun's words Chao Gai agreed. Jiangling Mansion, Ezhou, and Xiangyang City have a lot of weapons in stock, and now they are all coming in handy.

Chao Gai had a serious look on his face, "It seems that this Liu Yanqing is fully prepared." If you fight, you will be afraid that he will not succeed? Immediately, a series of orders were issued, such as evacuating the people near the city wall, organizing the young and strong in the city, and arranging soldiers and horses to patrol the streets. There was also a position to greet the artillery carts, and when the artillery of the Song army entered the distance, the artillery bombarded violently.

When he had finished speaking, he went along the city to patrol the city. Along the way, I saw that the officers and soldiers on the enemy platform, horse face, enemy tower, and arrow tower everywhere were all performing their duties, and none of them were slack, and they were very satisfied.

After the Huainan Army was mixed in with some people, and then rectified by Xiao Jiasui several times, it finally had the appearance of a strong army. Well-trained and disciplined, Chao Gai was greatly relieved to see it, and he felt that his hard work was in vain.

After patrolling the city for a week, when Chao Gai returned to the south gate, noon had already passed. Zhang Jun had already asked someone to prepare the wine and meat, and Chao Gai was not polite, grabbed a bright golden pancake, rolled up a large piece of pork, dipped it in garlic juice, and tore it up.

Some people say that the people of the Song Dynasty did not eat pork, because of Su Dongpo's poem: Huangzhou is good pork, and the price is as cheap as dung. The rich refuse to eat, and the poor do not understand how to cook. Many people think that no one really eats pork in the Song Dynasty. But I don't want to think about it, if no one eats this pork, how can anyone raise pigs? In fact, the people of the Song Dynasty didn't eat too much pork.

In the city of Tokyo, outside the Nanxun Gate, only the pigs slaughtered by the people must enter Beijing from here, every day to night, each group of tens of thousands, more than a dozen people are expelled, and there are no disorderly people.

Of course, those rich families did not eat pork, which was also a social reality in the Song Dynasty. But is it really because China has despised pork since ancient times? That's. Or rather, it is the argument of the Mu Blowers on the Internet in later generations.

In fact, since the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, a large number of northern nomads went south, and after more than 300 years of war, they were first unified in the Sui and then in the Tang. Although the Yang and Li families, who established the Sui and Tang dynasties, were Han Chinese, they had long been seriously Hu. The Hu people naturally prefer to eat mutton, as is the case with the royal family, as well as the nobles and bureaucrats who can afford to eat meat.

What is good at the top will be very bad at the bottom.

In this way, in the hundreds of years before Su Shi was born, pork gradually declined.

Later scholars pointed out that in the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties in North China, pig breeding was still relatively common, but the number has decreased significantly compared with the Han Dynasty, and it has not become large-scale, which cannot be compared with the large-scale sheep breeding in the livestock breeding zone of the Loess Plateau. The two agricultural books, "Qi Min Yaoshu" and "Four Seasons Compendium", attach far more importance to sheep raising than pig raising.

But this time and that time.

Compared with Zhao Song's love of eating lambs, Lu Qian encouraged the people to raise pigs on a large scale.

In the farming society, dogs can guard the home and prevent theft, chickens can lay eggs for salt, oil, sauce and vinegar, cattle and horses are used to plough the fields and farm for transportation, fish and ducks need waters, sheep have a single type of food, a single meat production and less, can provide most people with meat protein and fat, as long as the omnivorous is not picky, docile and does not run around, a single pig with a large amount of meat.

In the process of the gradual expansion of the Liangshan Army, pork has always been one of the main sources of meat supply for the Liangshan Army. Even now, when the marine fishing industry is gradually developing.

Today's lunch, the food of the soldiers guarding the city is naturally meaty. Like what Chao Gai eats, it is also pork. The difference is that the pork eaten by ordinary soldiers is cured meat, while the pork eaten by Chao Gai is fresh meat. ()

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