The reason why he didn't leave was that Cheng Yanjin saw the men and horses of the original Xuanjia Army.

Zhang Shigui camped here for training, and when he heard that Cheng Yanjin had arrived, he personally greeted him.

"Lao Zhang, you are proud of your life here." Cheng bit Jin Le and gave Zhang Shigui a bear hug.

Zhang Shigui had a bitter face: "Otherwise, let's change." ”

"What, isn't it pleasant?"

"It's not that it's unhappy, but the saint wants to expand the Xuanjia army to 17,000 people, into two armies. Two battalions per army, 3,500 men each. That's it, the sergeants of the Xuanjia Army were transferred from Gela, and finally they had enough numbers, and then they trained for a while, but they were dissatisfied by the saints. ”

The bitterness on Zhang Shigui's face was not fake, and Cheng Yanjin noticed that Liu Mu was making an excuse and was about to slip away.

Cheng Biting Jinyi stretched out his hand and grabbed Liu Mu: "Dumu, this is probably your fault." ”

"It has nothing to do with the willow horse. It was the Xuanjia Army and the Qingheyu Training Camp that were defeated in three battles, and the saint was dissatisfied, let us move here to step up training, and there will be a competition at the end of the year, if we lose again, ......" Zhang Shigui sighed heavily, obviously feeling a lot of pressure.

Cheng Yanjin suddenly reacted: "This is still a ghost made of stupid wood." ”

"Why?" Willow's voice was raised an octave.

Zhang Shigui also said: "It's because our skills are not as good as others, and we can't let Liu Yuma make a false concession, which is even more inappropriate." ”

"No!" Cheng bit Jin Le smiled.

"Why?" Zhang Shigui said in his heart, is there really something strange in this?

Liu Mu was about to run away again, but Cheng Yanjin grabbed him again. Then Cheng Biting Jin said to Zhang Shigui: "You picked up soldiers from the government soldiers, don't you know that these government soldiers in Chang'an have been picked by this stupid wood." ”

"That knows, but it's nothing?" Zhang Shigui is a sincere person, and he doesn't feel anything wrong.

Liu Mu had already picked troops before the expansion of the Xuanjia Army, which was not a robbery.

Cheng Yanjin smiled and asked, "Then do you know where he picked the troops for the second time?" ”

Zhang Shigui shook his head, although he knew that more than 10,000 people had been added to Liumu's training camp, but he didn't know where these soldiers came from.

Cheng Yanjin laughed: "You are really a sincere person." Do you know about the border army and the guard army changing guards? ”

"I know, on the New Year of the saint's accession to the throne, he ordered the replacement of some border troops who had been guarding the frontier for a long time, as well as several guards who had been guarding the border for many years."

He selected 18,000 people from these old soldiers, and then he had to compete and select them, and finally left 12,000 people. He didn't let go of the other six people, all of them got to Laizhou, and continued to train, and some people may have something to do now. After Cheng Yanjin finished speaking, he looked at Liu Mu with a smile: "Is there such a thing?" ”

"Yes." Yanagi generously admitted.

Cheng Yanjin turned his head to look at Zhang Shigui: "You say, can you beat his so-called recruits?" ”

"Well, yes. However, I still didn't train my soldiers well, and I didn't take advantage of me when I was equipped with willow horses. Zhang Shigui is still saying good things for Liu Mu.

"Dumu, you said it yourself, did you take advantage?"

Cheng Yanjin is not bullying Liu Mu, but he and Zhang Shigui have also fought side by side, and in terms of friendship, he is going to level a bowl of water.

Liu Mu sighed slightly: "General Zhang was not defeated in the source of troops, nor in equipment, but in logistics. ”

"What do you mean?" Zhang Shigui and Cheng Yanjin asked in unison.

"Come with me." Liu Mu led the two of them into the house, and at the same time shouted to his guards, "Bring the basket on horseback." ”

To Cheng Yanjin and Zhang Shigui's surprise, Liu Mu's guards outside the house were still guarding the door and not letting people approach.

What's in a small basket?

Inside the house, Yanagi opened the small basket and first a sackcloth backpack.

"This backpack is very cleverly designed, it carries a lot of things, and it doesn't interfere with the march. This thing is a small thing, but it is not a problem to carry five catties and ten catties more than General Zhang's people. ”

Zhang Shigui understands that if you bring five catties more for marching and fighting, you will naturally have more benefits of bringing five catties. This doesn't need to be explained.

Liu Mu took out the objects in the basket one by one.

"This thing is a single soldier ration set general, which is divided into individual hard dry food, vegetable packs, meat packets, sugar packets, soup packets, water packets, and fruit packets."

Zhang Shigui and Cheng Yanjin didn't understand, they only saw a bunch of things they didn't understand.

Liu Mu is introduced one by one.

"Let's talk about this hard dry food first, don't look at it as a small piece, you have to eat it in your mouth, how hard and hard it is. This piece is more than three taels, ordinary men work in the field, and there is such a piece to top a meal. ”

High in calories, high in fat.

In the modern era of later generations, this thing is far less calorie than the military rations of individual soldiers in China, but it is not worse than the military rations of small countries.

Willow wood is made of lard, yam powder, rice flour, and flour. I don't know how long I tortured the cooks in Huayuan County, it took me an unknown amount of money, and it took nearly a year to successfully try to make compressed cakes.

When this thing is finally formed, it is pressed with thousands of pounds of boulders, and then it is sawed with a saw, and it cannot be cut with a knife.

"Then there's the vegetable bun, which is dehydrated dried vegetable powder, which is used to swallow, don't care if it's delicious or not."

"This is a meat bun, and inside it is dried lamb and pork jerky, all of which are marinated dried meat."

"It's sugar packets, ginger candy, ginger candy cubes with salt. Next is the soup bag, if you have the conditions, you can drink a hot soup by boiling some hot water, which is lard, vegetables, dried salt, shallots or something, I can't figure out the specifics, in short, you can still drink. ”

The next thing Yanagi picked up was the water packet.

"This is filled with malt milk essence, which is synthesized with milk powder, sugar, wheat flour, etc. Sweet. ”

"In the end, this is preserved fruit, which is also pickled, and it must have been salted and brown sugar."

The weight of these things is more than five taels, and Liu Mu put a piece of hard dry food: "These are enough for a soldier to eat for a day." And eating these, compared to General Zhang's ordinary corn cakes and Tang Qin cakes, the endurance is at least twice as high, at least. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Cheng Yanjin was very skeptical.

Liu Mu smiled: "Otherwise, we won't leave today." Anyway, the ordnance matter is not urgent, and tomorrow I will ask General Zhang to pick two teams of people, one team to use his original military rations, and the other team to use mine. Rushing to march from here to Sanyuan to fight one and come back, he ran on two legs and a full set of equipment on his back. ”

"Try it." Zhang Shigui already believed it in his heart, but he still wanted to see the result with his own eyes.

Cheng Yanjin said: "This is a lap to Sanyuan, only a hundred miles, too close." ”

"Then run back and forth to Xuanyuan Mausoleum, I'm afraid it will take three days."

"Wait, Lao Cheng also wants to see the results. Arrange a reliable captain to lead the team, no one is allowed to be a ghost on the road, Lao Cheng wants to see real things. Cheng Yanjin was really moved.