Li Mengxi smiled and said sweetly, "Sisters and aunts, have you cooked?"

"Doing it, doing it!"

"It will be ready in a moment. Will the military advisor leave it here for us to eat?"

The female soldiers warmly welcomed Li Mengxi.

Li Mengxi looked around, "Where's Sister Ning?" he asked.

After waiting for a while, Zhang Ning came over, and Xiao Bian followed Zhang Ning.

Li Mengxi told Zhang Ning a few words, "Sister Ning, please look after the female barracks. If anything happens, come to me directly."

After explaining, Li Mengxi called to his younger brother, "Xiao Brick, come back with me for dinner."

The younger brother shook his head, "I'll eat it here."

"That's okay." Li Mengxi smiled and left.

No one can bully the female soldiers, no one. Zhang Ning is here, Zhang Ning is here means that whoever dares to mess with the female soldiers is messing with Zhang Ning, and whoever dares to mess with Zhang Ning is messing with someone Li, unless they want to die.

Otherwise, no one would have such courage.

Soon after, the meal was ready.

Hot porridge, dry pancakes, and a spoonful of fried salty and oily horse meat per person. For ordinary people, more oil means delicious food, and salty food means full flavor. Li Mengxi felt that the only drawback was that there were no vegetables.

Vegetables are extremely important. If you don't eat vegetables for a long time, your resistance will decrease and you will easily get sick, which will lead to attrition.

What makes vegetables different from other materials is that they cannot be preserved, nor can they be collected and stored on a large scale.

Bean sprouts are the only vegetables that giant deer can obtain stably in large quantities.

When marching and fighting, it was more difficult to get vegetables, so you could only soak bean sprouts with soybeans or mung beans during the march, and eat them once every three to five days.

In the days since we left the army, there has been an unexpected problem. To get water for soaking bean sprouts, you have to fill a bucket with a large bucket of water and then drag it with a cart. In this way, it takes three or four days to soak the bean sprouts.

There are several barrels of bean sprouts, and at the end of the day, each person only needs a few. Not only is this a waste of transportation capacity, but the yield is still low, which is very inconvenient.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Horse meat is really too greasy and salty. When eating the salty horse meat, Li Mengxi was thinking, is it possible to make some vegetables that can be preserved for a long time? For example

, the kind of dried vegetables in instant noodles, and canned vegetables such as pickles and sauerkraut.

From the perspective of portability and preservation, drying vegetables is undoubtedly the best method.

How to make dried vegetables and dry them? Li Mengxi was thoughtful.

Li Mengxi immediately stopped tacitly, took out his paper and pen, and wrote down his inspiration under the light of the fire.

When Liu Bei saw this, he also put down Kuai Zi, pulled a piece of wood from the bonfire and gave it to Li Mengxi to light up.

In a sudden burst of inspiration, Li Mengxi thought of the technology of dehydrating vegetables. After he finished writing, Liu Bei was curious and asked what he had written. Li Mengxi briefly told Liu Bei what he had written.

Liu Bei didn't understand. Liu Bei didn't quite understand why people insisted on eating green vegetables every now and then. However, Liu Bei completely understood the point of dry preservation and preservatives.

Liu Bei knew that this was the principle of epidemic prevention. Just like the plague, pests are similar to crops. They must have the right temperature, water, and food for them to thrive.

If water, temperature, and food are removed, pests will not be able to breed.

Dehydrating vegetables means removing water to prevent pests from breeding and preventing spoilage.

Fortunately, Li Mengxi was talking there for a long time, and he forgot that Liu Bei had already understood the knowledge about plague.

Dehydrated vegetables are highly defecation-resistant. Vegetables are made up of dozens of percent water. Other techniques for storing vegetables, whether it is sauerkraut, kimchi or anything else, cannot remove the water, while dehydrated vegetables remove almost all of the water.

All water means that the weight and volume are greatly reduced, which means that a soldier carrying one kilogram of dehydrated vegetables is equivalent to carrying one hundred kilograms of vegetables. One kilogram of dehydrated vegetables can provide half a year's vitamin needs, which is so convenient.

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Liu Bei wolfed down the rice and finished the meal. After finishing the meal, he filled the bowl with hot water and drank the oil and water in the bowl together with the porridge, thus washing the bowl at the same time.

After eating and drinking, Liu Bei stood there with his hands behind his back, looking left and right.

After watching for a long time, when he saw that the soldiers had almost finished eating, he went down to inspect the camp.

According to the convention of camping, after setting up camp, each group should get together to study writing, but there are always some people who don't like reading and secretly chat with others.

Regarding this situation, Guan Yu had to train the person when he saw it, Zhang Fei beat him up directly when he saw it, the military judge saw it and had to write it off, and Liu Bei only bumped into it, and there was no punishment at all.

Liu Bei bumped into those people who were lazy. He walked over and chatted with the soldiers for a while, and finally warned them earnestly, "Brothers, we work hard to eat, how can we not think about a future or a way out? If you don't learn some literary skills, just

If you can't be promoted to a high official, is it difficult to learn calligraphy or is it difficult to be a human being who kills people? Why don't you think about it?"

The lazy man blushed and looked embarrassed. Liu Bei patted the man on the shoulder and said with a smile, "How can we, a seven-foot man, be inferior to a kid? Even a kid can learn two hundred words like him in more than a year. Don't

Don’t be afraid of being slow, add up a little and make a big difference. When success comes, just learn!”

When Liu Bei left, no one among the ten soldiers at the campfire was lazy and chatting. They all studied calligraphy seriously.

In addition to war soldiers, the craftsman camp also has no time to spare. War soldiers need to learn calligraphy, and craftsmen have an even greater need to learn culture.

Within an hour after the meal, almost everyone was learning Chinese characters.

An hour later, those soldiers who wanted to sleep could go back to sleep, and those who didn't want to sleep could study for a while. The craftsman's camp began to get busy.

Among the routines of the Julu Army, there is the "hamster tactics", that is, hoarding supplies for later use.

In the area near the camp, there are always materials such as trees and stones.

At night, when the soldiers rest, the craftsmen can use the night time to go out to cut wood and quarry stone, trying their best to use all available time to increase their own advantage.

At night, seven or eight craftsmen from the carpentry camp, pottery camp, and other camps went out.

The carpentry camp cut down wood and harvested timber, and the pottery camp found a good location to dig the mud on the spot for the kiln. A usable small earth kiln often had to be built in the middle of the night, and it was often busy all night and was not even used.

But this does not mean that it is useless. It cannot be used at this time. The kiln will be dry in a few days and it can be used by then.

After the kiln is dry, the fire pot can be fired on the spot, and the lime can be fired on the spot, which has many uses.

As for what to do if the kiln is captured by the enemy, the Julu army marches forward and the kiln stays behind. After all, it is a small number of people who are outflanked by the enemy from behind. Even if the enemy hits the kiln, even if the kiln falls into the hands of the enemy

Here, it is still a question whether the enemy knows how to use it.

Does the enemy know how to collect stones and use kilns to burn them into lime to prevent the plague? Does the enemy know how to burn small clay pots to hold tung oil for fire attacks?

If the enemy knew this, he would have known how to stockpile supplies along the road early, and there would be no need to seize the Julu Army's earth kiln.

In addition to the busy craftsmen at night, there is also a special drilling team.

There were a few soldiers who were responsible for digging holes on the spot with Luoyang shovels every time they set up camp. Their purpose was not really to dig wells, but to explore for water.

The Luoyang shovel digs holes very quickly. From working at night to breaking camp the next day, the hole can be drilled three feet below the ground. At this depth, if there is water, it can be detected. But if there is no water, from the soil information

It can also determine the conditions of some groundwater.

Luoyang Shovel has to be so busy at the camping site every time he sets up camp. The purpose is to know the water source underground at the camping site as accurately as possible.

If you know that there is water within three feet of the ground, it means that it is easy to dig a well to find water. If you are besieged by the enemy, you will be much calmer if you know that it is easy to find water underground. By then, the enemy will think that our army is in desperate situation, but our army is

A well was dug in the camp and a water source was dug out. If the enemy made a mistake in judgment, the enemy commander would definitely have such emotions as God's will.

On the other hand, if the Luoyang shovel detects no water within three feet, it means that the groundwater is too deep to be dug, and it will be a big disadvantage to stay in place.

The Art of War says that if you know yourself and your enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger.

A shovel in Luoyang can enable our army to know the underground water veins, which the enemy cannot. Only this one place can be the chance of victory or defeat at a critical moment.

Li Mengxi went to see the progress of Luoyang shovel work. Digging out soil was boring, so Li Mengxi watched for a while and then left.

Li Mengxi is not afraid of the Luoyang shoveling team cutting corners or anything else, because there is a reward system. Every time the Luoyang shoveling team detects water, it will be counted as a great achievement. If no water is found, there will be no credit at all.

Under this incentive system, the Luoyang Shovel Team was scrambled by the soldiers to do their jobs, not to mention cutting corners. Often when it was time to break camp, the Luoyang Shovel Team was reluctant to stop shoveling.

Under this incentive rule, the Luoyang Shovel Team is like gamblers. They must think that if they poke a shovel more, they will see the water. The people of the Luoyang Shovel Team understand more clearly than others what it means to walk a hundred steps and half a ninety.

It's just a matter of time.

Since the time when Julu went out to the army, the number of direct water explorations has only been two, which is about one-tenth.

Inadvertently, a piece of useful hydrogeographic data was gradually completed. Anyway, at least on the way from Julu to Yuyang, the distribution pattern of groundwater is that the proportion of groundwater within three feet is less than one-tenth.

Probably, the ratio in the south is much better.

Therefore, probably when the trapped people and horses in the south died of thirst, it was because the groundwater in the south was too shallow that they were trapped, so they just dug wells on the spot, but they could not get thirsty.
Chapter completed!