Chapter 601 Preparing for Expedition
The eight big characters on the paper were written with a brush. Needless to say about the paper, their papermaking workshop in Dazhou has long been operating smoothly and has been producing paper steadily, and It has also been put into the market and can be bought and sold normally, but now basically not many people buy it.
After all, few ordinary people are literate and have basically no need for paper.
Wang Dong fiddled with things like writing brushes when he had nothing to do.
After all, I am a Chinese teacher, so it is normal for me to have a little interest in writing.
Zhou Xu himself still prefers to use charcoal pens and quill pens, not because of anything else, but simply because it is simple and efficient to write. Especially charcoal pens are more convenient to use on some documents or drawings that need to be corrected.
At the end of the day, he has a lot of documents and even more words to write. If he uses a brush, he will not be able to improve his efficiency at all.
Now that Wang Dong has developed calligraphy, at most it will give Da Zhou an additional hobby, and Zhou Xu will not stop him. After all, the things he has arranged for others before are not what he wants to do. Teacher Wang must be given some opportunities to relax.
Originally, Teacher Wang wanted to drag Zhou Xu to practice calligraphy, saying that as a king, he should do some music, chess, calligraphy and painting to cultivate his sentiment and cultivate his character.
When Zhou Xu heard this, he rolled his eyes, and then he picked up his pen and showed him the calligraphy skills he could do with his hand, which completely confused Teacher Wang.
When he was in school, he took a calligraphy class. At that time, he even participated in the city's student group's calligraphy competition and won two small prizes. However, he really didn't have much interest in this. Later, he became That was settled.
Now that I have picked up the pen again, my writing is quite passable.
In his own lounge, Zhou Chongshan stared at the eight characters on the paper in a daze.
Under Wang Dong's teaching, Zhou Chongshan had already learned to read, but he never thought that the word could be written like this.
After looking at it for a while, he carefully rolled up the paper and put it into the bamboo tube.
According to their king's wishes, he was asked to take the remaining trapped camp back to the rear to select soldiers to make up for the 300 troops in the trapped camp.
Zhou Chongshan had no objection to this order.
Now that they are trapped in the camp, there are only 81 cavalry left, and they will not be of much use if they stay on the front line. It is better to go back early to select soldiers and conduct training.
Without Moji, early the next morning, Zhou Chongshan embarked on the return journey with the remaining 81 people trapped in the camp.
After that, a thousand lizardmen troops sent by Zhou Xu had arrived at the southern fortress with supplies.
Along with them came the rewards given by their king to the soldiers in the southern border. To put it simply, they were a lot of wine and meat!
Wine is also a fruit wine produced in the past two years. The taste is basically the same as alcoholic beverages. Once it was launched, it was loved by a large number of people. In addition, the price was a little expensive, which also cost a lot of people. wallet.
On this day, the southern fortress brought wine and meat, and naturally held a grand celebration banquet. By the way, they also helped the newly arrived reinforcements to cleanse themselves from the wind and dust, allowing the soldiers to eat and drink freely.
He took a big bite of the boiled mutton in his hand, and then drank a sip of fruit wine. He felt so refreshed just by looking at it.
But after the soldier touched his lips, he couldn't help but sigh.
"My dear, if you can fry it in some oil, it will definitely taste delicious. The meat is good, but how long have I been eating this boiled meat? I can't even swallow it now."
" You are still picky when there is wine and meat?”
The gang leader who had just finished his work was passing by and was speechless.
“If you don’t want to eat, give it to me, I will eat it!”
“No, no, no, no, I’m just saying casually.” As he spoke, the soldier quickly stuffed the meat into his mouth. inside.
During the period, the soldiers sat there and chatted casually.
And the gang leader who had finished his work started chatting with them again.
"In order to resist the attack of the rat men, all the oil was fed to those stinky rats. Don't expect it in the short term."
"But the sheep itself also has a lot of oil, right? It can be squeezed out.”
The leader of the army rolled his eyes when he heard this.
"When cooking in our army, in addition to taking into account the actual situation, we must also consider convenience and distribution."
As he spoke, the leader of the group was different from the group in front of him. The layman who was worried about cooking started talking slowly.
"We are going to have a celebration banquet, and we will press oil for you to fry the meat on the spot? Besides, is that little oil enough for so many brothers in the fortress? This is also the reason why we don't cook barbecue. Boiling is the most convenient. The best thing is that it’s that simple.”
Although the soldiers in the southern border almost rolled their eyes at the boiled meat and vegetables, they didn’t eat any less at the celebration banquet. They were stunned. Zhou Xu ate all the rewards sent by him.
The next two days passed. During this period, their soldiers on the southern border and the reinforcements arriving later were almost rested.
After getting permission from their king to send troops, Li Ce didn't want to wait for even a second, he just wanted to send troops immediately. After all, the faster they send troops, the greater their advantage.
On the other hand, the further time goes by, the more the Rat Man recovers.
After this period of time, Li Ce has gathered all the troops to go out.
Although all 300 speed dragoons of the thousand troops supported previously were killed, the 700 infantrymen behind them could not catch up at all due to their movement speed. It can be said that they are in a state now. Complete.
These 700 troops, plus the 1,000 troops that just arrived, will be transferred from the original strength of their southern fortress to form a force of 300 in good condition, and they will gather 2,000 troops to set off directly in two days.
Before the war started, Li Ce commanded two thousand troops to deal with the rat men. Now he has the same two thousand troops. Even though there is still a lot of gap in combat experience, he is not weak at all at this time. .
Don’t forget, they just won a big victory. At this time, it’s the other side that they should be afraid of!
Before the expedition departed, Li Ce wrote another report and asked the pterosaur rider to take it back and report the matter to Zhou Xu.
When the report was delivered, Zhou Xu had just arrived in Prairie City.
There was nothing much to say in the report. Li Ce briefly reported the work to him and informed him that the troops had already set off for the expedition.
Earlier before, when he confirmed that the southern garrison had suffered heavy losses and made up his mind to take the initiative, he had already arranged the supply troops and issued another recruitment order.
Now that he has received the report, there are no new measures that he needs to take.
The main purpose of this report, to put it bluntly, is to let him know that there is such a thing and have an idea.
After reading the report, it was getting late, so Zhou Xu went to bed early.
Early the next morning, after having breakfast, Zhou Xu started his inspection work.
(End of this chapter)