Although the transfer order has been issued, it will take at least three days to wait for 4,000 troops to assemble and then march to Yehu Ridge. This article is first published by...

During these three days, Ling Yun did not plan to sit there casually. Five thousand people were about to take the initiative to fight. For Ling Yun, there was another important problem to be solved, that is, the issue of military food. Generally, in wars, especially when going out to fight, the supply of food and grass is the top priority. The so-called "food and grass should be taken before the troops move."

Lingyun's five thousand troops set out for war, even if they set out from Yehuling, it was more than a hundred miles away from Taoshan. According to the speed of the war, Lingyun's mixed horse-striking army would have to go for at least three days. After all, it was going to fight, not racing. If you just march at full speed and rush to Taoshan for a hundred miles a day, the whole army would be exhausted and not need others to fight. You would be tired and you would have to fight. You would have to fight for 30 or 40 miles a day. This is a safe speed, especially Lingyun's army is actually just a new army. After three days of arrival on the battlefield, it will definitely take several days to fight. If you count the return journey, this war is expected to take at least about a week, and it may take half a month if it is not done well.

Each soldier needs to prepare at least six days of food rations. At this time, the government soldiers of the Sui Dynasty gave two liters of rice every day during the war. The two liters of rice in the Sui Dynasty were roughly equivalent to more than 900 grams of later generations, about two pounds. The six-day food rations are twelve kilograms of rice plus some pickles and salt. Ling Yun remembered that he had read a data before, which said that ordinary soldiers would consume at least about 3,000 calories in normal stationing and training, while during the battle, at least 4,000 calories can be consumed, up to 7,000 calories. Based on this calculation, the food rations of soldiers during the battle, including staple food and side dishes, should not be less than 1,500 grams per day, and they cannot absolutely maintain normal physical strength.

It can be seen from this that although the number of 2 liters of grain given by the soldiers every day seemed to be quite large, it was actually far lower than the normal value consumed. Especially after seeing the military food in this era, Ling Yun became more and more aware of these. Before Ling Yun took charge of the Huaihuang Army, the daily rations of soldiers in Huaihuang could not reach the amount of 2 liters per day, which was only one liter of rice a day, or even brown rice. With some vegetables, beans, pickles, etc., the quantity was very small. After Ling Yun trained the new army, he personally set up a new system, giving two liters of grain per day, and three meals a day. In addition, there was a meal of meat every day, and some side food would be distributed.

However, now we have to go out to fight, but food is a problem.

Ling Yun’s plan was not to bring other auxiliary soldiers to transport food. Each soldier carried his own food for six days, plus two days of emergency food, a total of eight days of food for food. Try to finish the battle within one week.

After careful consideration of the soldiers' marching rations, he made a list.

In his list, the rations for these six days include six liters of essence rice (two,950 grams), one pound of noodle pot cake (680 grams), two pounds of dead noodles cake (1,360 grams), one pound of dried meat (762 grams), four ounces of sausage (180 grams), six days of soy sauce (5,04 grams), six days of salt (42 grams), six days of salt (442 grams), six days of beans (340 grams), six days of sucrose cubes (1,26 grams).

The food rations for these six days were nearly seven kilograms, which was more than ten kilograms at this time. In addition, Ling Yun also added emergency food rations that each soldier must carry for two days in addition to the food rations for six days.

The weight of emergency rations is two and a half pounds, and it is fried rice that does not need to be cooked.

After this list was listed, Ling Yun handed him over to Wei Zheng and asked him to prepare according to the list.

However, after Wei Zheng got the order, his face looked strange. After a long time, he couldn't help but look up and said, "Is this the military ration for war?"

"Yeah, that's right."

"This is too tedious. There are twelve types of food for eight days, and there are as many as twelve and a half pounds." Ling Yun drew a symbol after each item and wrote a line of numbers in it. He knew that this number was Arabic numerals, and the two arcs were punctuation brackets, but what does this gram mean? He didn't understand it for a while, but he still saw it clearly. Ling Yun's military ration list was too scary. Not only was the high rations ordered, but there were also twelve types. Essential rice, pot-kel, dead noodles cake, jerky, sausage, soy sauce, salt, beans, and even sugar cubes!

He has never heard of many of the things listed here. If it is said that Ling Yun has listed the food for himself, it would be too luxurious if five thousand people use such food.

"What is this fried rice?" Helanhong also looked at it a few times, then asked.

"It's just that the rice is fried and eaten. If you don't listen, it's not easy to stir-fry. But fried rice is the best food for marching and fighting. It is easy to store and can be eaten at any time without steaming. It can be fried in advance, it's delicious and hungry, and it's easy to eat."

Li Yanqing felt it was strange. He had never heard of this fried rice before, and he thought it was a method that Ling Yun brought back from Jiangnan, so he hurriedly asked about the fried rice method.

The main method of stir-frying rice is to wash the rice, remove the miscellaneous rice, then put it in a pot and boil it. After the rice mouth is broken, it will become famous immediately and then stir-fry. However, it is easy to say, it is still very troublesome to stir-fry. It takes three steps to cook, stir-fry and grind to make fried rice. As for the raw materials, the rice in the south and the corn in the north, it is OK. Soak the rice in water in the pot, steam it in a pot, and then stir-fry it in a wok. This fried rice is yellow but not burnt, and the rice is hard but not hard. Due to the water immersion, the water-soluble vitamins in the surface of the rice penetrate into the rice grains, increasing the vitamin content in the fried rice. Also, because it is quickly cooled and dried after steaming and stir-frying, the gelatinized starch is fixed in its original state. When eaten, it only needs to be soaked in tea. The fried rice has low water content and is resistant to storage. It is portable and not easy to mold, deteriorate, and is very suitable for marching dry food.

Such fried rice will not be broken if it is stored for a long time. When you have no time to cook in marches and wars, you can just grab it and eat it to satisfy your hunger, or just boil some boiling water and brew it.

Hearing Ling Yun’s introduction, Li Yanqing said: “Then just make all the military rations into fried rice.”

Ling Yun shook his head, "Although fried rice has the advantages of being easy to store, portable and not easily damaged, the soldiers are not allowed to fight and eat this only. Fried rice is only used as emergency rations. If there are time and conditions, it is better to make a fire and cook normally. Moreover, 5,000 people go to war, even if each person frys six kilograms of rice, the total amount is 30,000 kilograms. Even if you come here to stir-fry this time, will it be difficult to cook them all in the future?"

"Since that's the case, why do everyone bring this pot and dead flour cake, in addition to two and a half pounds of fried rice and six pounds of refined rice?"

"Of course it is for the convenience of matching and combat needs. Each person brings two and a half kilograms of fried rice, which is emergency food. The meaning of this emergency food is not to give the soldiers emergency use when they cannot eat. Instead, it must be allowed to use it under the special permission of the command general. Otherwise, even if the food is out of stock, emergency food will not be allowed to be used casually, and violators will be severely punished. This emergency food, I designed it, is used for the last moment of our army's combat. When the above orders the use of emergency food, it means two situations: one is that our logistics supply has been cut off or interrupted, and the other is that the war has reached the most critical stage. If you cannot win within two or three days, you can only use emergency food if you retreat.

Ling Yun carefully explained the reason for the preparation of military rations to everyone, "Six-day food, the staple food is three-day rice, two-day dead noodles cake, and one-day baked pork cake. The three types of staple food are also used to meet different battlefield needs. When the situation is good, we eat fine rice and can cook with time. If we have time, we eat dead noodles cake. This kind of cake is prepared in advance, soak some hot water when eating. In the most urgent situation, we can eat Guokui. Guokui is a baked noodles cake. Even if there is no water to soak, we can eat it while marching." The dead noodles cake will be very hard, and it will be uncomfortable to soak it without water to taste. Guokui is a baked noodles cake, and Guokui can be kept for ten days and half a month without breaking, but it is relatively swelling and it is inconvenient to carry too much.

Therefore, Lingyun mainly chooses three types of staple foods, with fine rice as the main one, followed by dead flour cake, and Guo Kui as the next.

Of course, you can't just eat staple food. Eating big white rice and big cakes, eating too much will not necessarily get enough calories needed. Therefore, appropriate side foods, jerky, sausage, beans, salt, sauce, and sucrose cubes, are all side foods.

Ling Yun explained for a long time, and Wei Zheng and others were still a little dissatisfied. Salt and soy sauce can be regarded as necessary supplies, and jerky meat is also necessary, but there is no need to include sucrose cubes and sausages. Let’s not talk about the sausages for a while, just these sucrose cubes are extremely valuable items. There are also three taels of sucrose in the rations for six days. Yi is really generous.

However, Ling Yun carefully calculated the results of this order for half a day. The staple food on the order was only 1.16 kilograms per day for six days, which was far below the standard 1.5 kilograms. He wanted to increase it a little, how could he reduce it? As for the so-called sour sugar at this time, it was very expensive and a luxury product. Ling Yun really didn't care. Isn't it just sugar? What's so strange about it? Not to mention the simplest sugar cubes, he would also refine red sugar, white sugar, and rock sugar.

.Think about the history of Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin who sent officials to India to get sugar-boiling methods. Looking at the stingy example of Wei Zheng and others adding three taels of sugar to the soldiers' marching rations, he felt that he could send people to buy these simple refining sucrose blocks for processing and produce better red sugar, white sugar, and even rock sugar. Thinking about the Tang and Song dynasties, the sugar industry had become an extremely profitable industry, and Ling Yun couldn't help but feel that it was a promising industry.

Since Ling Yun has planned to make better sugar in the future, he really doesn't take these sugar cubes seriously at the moment. If he is included in the military ration list, how could he listen to Wei Zheng and others' intentions again?
Chapter completed!