It's getting dark.
Wei Chigong and Shan Xiongxin, two famous generals of the envoys, with a competitive mind, each rushed to the north with 10,000 horses, and they wanted to rush out of the building to ambush the north entrance of the pass before the Turks came.
Niu Jinda, Luo Shixin, Li Junxian, and Wu Heimin also ordered 5,000 soldiers and horses to ambush on both sides of the Huihe River valley.
A group of soldiers and horses went out of the building to annoy Guancheng, and Guancheng suddenly became a little deserted from hustle and bustle.
There were only 10,000 soldiers and horses left in the city, and Li Chao and Pingyang, Su Dingfang, and his other students were responsible for guarding the pass.
"San Lang, I learned a noodle dish from the people here, I'll give it to you below."
Li Xiuning, who was wearing a brocade robe and iron armor and a red cloak, was very heroic.
But in this quiet dusk, she wants to give her beloved lover a bowl of noodles.
"Oh, what pasta" Li Chao knew that Shanxi had a lot of characteristic noodles in later generations, and Shanxi's noodles were also very distinctive in the northern noodles, which can be said to be famous all over the world, and Shaanxi noodles were on a par with them, among which knife-cut noodles, cat ears, noodles and buckwheat were the most famous and delicious.
A bowl of steaming, salty and fragrant noodles makes people feel refreshed and comfortable all over.
Changzhi braised mutton soup, Dingxiang steamed pork, Datong rabbit head, Pingyao beef, Xinzhou tile crisp, yellow rice oil cake, not rotten seeds, as well as the characteristic flower dignium, and Shanxi's window cut flowers and old vinegar are as authentic.
"I'll make you sorghum noodle fish."
Sorghum noodle fish is a noodle made of sorghum flour, and the strips are about the same thickness as chopsticks, and the shape is like a small fish, so it is called sorghum fish.
Sorghum is actually not tasty because it is more astringent.
Especially at this time, sorghum is mainly steamed and eaten, with less grinding flour, and it is even more unpalatable.
In normal years, it is used as feed for cattle and horses, and it is only eaten during famines, and it is called disaster relief food.
In the city, there is a lot of sorghum stored.
Sorghum is considered to be a relatively high yield in the north, and it used to be stored as fodder for horses in the army.
In the eyes of the princesses of Pingyang, Lou Fuguan has been repaired extremely well in the past two years.
But in Li Chao's view, it is still just beginning to take shape, and in his plan, the north will eventually be cultivated into the Nine Sides.
This was the method adopted by the later Ming Dynasty to defend against the northern Mongols and Jurchens, but it was different.
The main difference is that the Ming Dynasty mainly defended the Great Wall, while Li Chao wanted to engage in fortress clusters and point-like in-depth defense.
But from a defensive point of view, in fact, the goal is the same, it is all grassland.
Limited by climatic and geographical reasons, the early Tang Dynasty was still mainly to defend against the Turks going south, and in the middle and late stages, they may be able to defend and counterattack, but even if they can defeat the Turks, it is impossible to occupy the grassland at once, which is unrealistic.
Therefore, Li Chao still advocates building fortress chains, trapping the north and south of Yinshan one by one, and the focus is to maintain control over the south of Yinshan.
Now there are three internal and external passes, and Shuofang and Longyou Hexi are also building such border fortress groups.
For example, in Shanxi, the internal and external three passes are all defense depth systems with Taiyuan as the core, but the Datong Basin in the north of Daibei and the places further north still control the vacuum, so in the future, there will be Yunzhou Datong and Shuozhou Mayi as the core, and a defense cluster in the Daibei of the Datong Basin will be established.
In Hebei, it is necessary to establish a cluster with Youzhou as the core, including Shanhaiguan, Juyongguan and Yanbei Guancheng.
Ningxia, Gansu, Yansui, Hetao, Liaodong, etc., should also be the same in the future.
And the key to sorghum flour is to use hot water.
In the kitchen in the backyard of the house, Li Chao changed his armor, put on a slightly looser robe, and sat in front of the stove to light a fire.
Water was boiling in the pot, and Li Xiuning brought a small bag of sorghum noodles.
Sorghum flour is not as white as flour, but has a dull yellow color.
The water boiled, Li Xiuning took a bowl of noodles, and Li Chao waited for him to finish scooping the noodles, and then poured water from the bowl.
Li Xiuning scooped up as much noodles as he added, which was a one-to-one ratio.
Li Xiuning took chopsticks to stir up the flour with water and made it into gnocchi without dry powder.
The dough that had just been stirred was still a little hot, Li Xiuning went to knead it directly, and Li Chao hurriedly reached out to catch it.
"This noodle is a little hot, just stirred with boiling water."
"It's okay, my hands aren't delicate."
Li Xiuning said, and then directly grabbed the gnocchi with his hand, took the gnocchi in his hand, put his five fingers together and continued to force it towards the center, and soon the dough in his hand became a dough with a smooth and delicate surface.
This made Li Chao very surprised, he couldn't imagine that he was born in a famous family in Pingyang, and he still had such a face-to-face ability, but thinking that she was still a female general, Li Chao was not surprised.
"I have inspected the granary in the city, and there is still a lot of grain in stock, enough to eat until next summer's grain.
General Li Jing guarded the east of the river and was very good.
In a short period of time, such a strong fortress was built, so much grain was stored, and it was brought into the north, and the Turks were so embarrassed. ” The catastrophe in Hebei, but there is still military food in Daibei, although it is related to the reduction of troops in the north in the past two years, but it is indeed Li Jing's ability.
He used troops several times, but there were not many soldiers dispatched, and each time it didn't take long, but he gained a lot of money.
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Li Jing brought back a large number of cattle and sheep from the north, and then processed them into dried meat and meat floss, which greatly enriched Hedong's military food reserves.
If it weren't for this, after this catastrophe, where would Daibei still use the army.
"According to the plan of me and the imperial court, there must be three to five years of grain for 100,000 soldiers and horses in such an important military fortress as Loufu, so as to ensure the stability of this strategic support point in the east of the river.
Even if the Turks came, as long as they withdrew into the city, with such a dangerous pass, plus enough food, they would be able to fight a defensive battle with the Turks for a year or two. ” At present, the city defense, grain storage, armaments, etc., are still just average.
Especially between several important fortresses, there is still a lack of in-depth support for the surrounding defense, and the beacons, post stations, military stations, and roads are not perfect enough, and it is not yet possible to quickly support each other.
Li Chao knew Li Jing's thoughts, just keep attacking and don't need to defend, because they think the best defense is to attack.
But Li Chao is a little more conservative, after all, this kind of all-attack style of play is too dangerous.
It's like football, offensive football is exciting and beautiful, but it's also more prone to problems, on the contrary, conservative defensive football, although it may not be so enjoyable to watch, but it is more stable.
If you want to attack, you have to defend first, be invulnerable first, and then defend and counterattack, and be able to attack and defend, which is the king's way.
With these fortresses and forts, these defenses can be invincible.
After the dough has been awake for half an hour, you can knead the noodles and fish.
The technique of supporting the noodle fish is very important, and you have to rely on the back palm to control the strength, so that the sorghum noodles can be kneaded slender without cracking, let alone broken.
Li Chao pulled off a piece of dough the size of a fingernail from the awakened dough, and then put it on the cutting board to knead it vigorously, and a piece of dough was quickly kneaded into a thick end and a thin noodle fish.
The prepared fish is not boiled directly, but steamed.
"I'll mix some hot and sour garlic sauce again, and we'll eat it cold in a while."
Li Chao watched the small fish on the board take shape and proposed with a smile.
"Listen to you."
Peel the garlic and pound the garlic to prepare the dogwood sauce When Li Chao's hot and sour garlic sauce is ready, Li Xiuning's fish and fish are also steamed.
"Newspaper" "Reporting to Xiangguo, General Wei Chi sent someone to report and found that the Turkic army was coming to Loufu Pass."
Li Chao held a fish with chopsticks in his hand, dipped it in the garlic juice, put it in his mouth and tasted it, "The heat is just right, the fish can be eaten" t1706231537: