"Clang! Clang! Clang! "
In the evening, when the sun was setting, the sound of a golden gong could be heard from the Black Armored Army's camp in the northwest of Chang 'an City. The soldiers who were sweating profusely on the drill ground heaved a sigh of relief. The sound of the gong signaled the end of the day's tough training!
"Listen up, everyone. Disperse, eat and return to camp. Soldiers on night duty, prepare to patrol after dinner!"
Sun Zhiping, who was in full armor, shouted at the soldiers in front of him.
"Yes, sir!"
In the scorching summer, the group of people who were wearing airtight plate armor had long been soaked through from the heat. In addition, after a day of high-intensity military training, they were simply exhausted, and all of them were so hungry that their stomachs were growling. At this moment, when they heard Sun Zhiping announce that they were disbanding, all of the soldiers could not help but shout out in agreement. Then, everyone took off their helmets at the same time and let out a long breath.
As the new armor made by the workshop was connected to the whole body, it was more troublesome to put it on or take it off. It was impossible to do it in a short period of time. Now, they had more important things to do — eat. Therefore, they didn't have time to take off their armor!
For a group of people who had been training for the whole day, eating was the most important thing!
"Xiaoxuan, let's go! Let's go eat! "
Cheng Chumo rushed over with Yuchi Baolin and said to Li Zexuan anxiously.
Although these two unlucky children were both descendants of military families, and Cheng Chumo had personally been on the battlefield before, their equestrian archery skills were nothing to write home about. In the morning, they had not passed the Black Armored Troops' equestrian archery test, so in the afternoon, Sun Zhiping really did not let them eat. This made the two children starve to death!
Fortunately, after a period of emergency training in the afternoon and under the guidance of Li Zexuan and Sun Zhiping, Cheng Chumo and Yuchi Baolin finally grasped all the tricks and passed the Black Armored Army's equestrian archery test. Otherwise, these two unlucky kids wouldn't have dinner!
Now that it was finally time for lunch, Cheng Chumo wished he could grow a pair of wings and fly straight to the Wu Battalion's kitchen. However, he had never been to the Black Armored Army's camp before, and he didn't have the chance to have lunch either. Therefore, he had no choice but to drag Li Zexuan along!
"Why are you in such a hurry? It's not like the kitchen is short on food for the two of you. "
Li Zexuan rolled his eyes and said grumpily.
Even though he said that, he still led Cheng Chumo and Yuchi Baolin to the kitchen of the Wu Battalion.
"Xiao Xuan, it's easy for you to say that. You may have eaten lunch, but Bao Lin and I are still hungry. I feel like I can eat an entire cow right now. I don't care anymore, I want to eat meat!"
Cheng Chumo dragged Li Zexuan along as he ran, his mouth chattering non-stop.
"Hey hey hey! Wrong! Over here! Do you know the way or not? "
It was just that this fellow was walking in the wrong direction. They were heading to the Ding Battalion. Li Zexuan had no choice but to shake off Cheng Chumo's paw and lead the way.
On the drill ground, Sun Zhiping looked at the backs of the three of them as they left. He couldn't help but shake his head.
Actually, he was just about to invite Li Zexuan to have dinner with him. As a senior general in the army, under non-wartime circumstances, he wouldn't usually share a big pot of food with a normal soldier. Although it wasn't to the extent of being given preferential treatment, but in terms of the variety and quantity of food, it was much better than a normal soldier!
But seeing Li Zexuan being dragged away by Cheng Chumo and Yuchi Baolin, Sun Zhiping gave up on the idea of inviting Li Zexuan for dinner. After a moment of hesitation, he also followed behind the three of them and walked towards the kitchen of the Wu Battalion.
On the other side, Li Zexuan led Cheng Chumo and Yuchi Baolin to the kitchen of the Wu Battalion at the speed of the wind. At this time, there was already a long queue. But it couldn't really be considered a long queue because they arrived earlier. There were only a dozen people in front of them.
"Eh? This Wu Battalion's kitchen is quite big huh? I wonder if there's meat for dinner! "
Cheng Chumo looked at the wooden and brick kitchen in front of him and couldn't help but lick his lips and say.
The biggest fear of fire in the military camp was that the soldiers were strictly forbidden from cooking in private. There was only one place to cook, and that was the kitchen. Taking into account the number of soldiers eating and the fact that the kitchen itself had to be fireproof, the kitchen in the military camp was built with bricks and wood instead of tents. If the army was marching outside, there wouldn't be so many rules. The soldiers would usually just eat dry rations or cook in the open air.
After the expansion of the Black Armored Army, there were a total of five thousand people. It wasn't realistic for so many people to rely on one kitchen to provide food. Therefore, every battalion had their own kitchen. The rice, noodles, vegetables and meat were all distributed centrally. As for the allocation of cooks, it was about one cook for every ten people. To be precise, it was the Cook's Army!
(The famous general of the Ming Dynasty who fought against the Japanese, Qi Jiguang, was originally from the Cook's Army.)
Because in ancient times, there wasn't gas, liquefied gas, electrical appliances, steam boxes and so on. One person needed to burn firewood to prepare the food for ten people was already the limit. Therefore, in the past dynasties, there were usually ten or fifteen people to a single kitchen.
In the Wu Battalion, there were still two hours before the end of the afternoon training. The Cook's Army had already stopped the training in advance and went to prepare the food. Therefore, when Cheng Chumo and the others arrived, the Cook's Army was already in the kitchen getting food for the soldiers!
While Cheng Chumo was waiting anxiously, the soldiers in front of him finally got their food. Cheng Chumo quickly took out the big bowl that he had just received (it was a very big porcelain bowl, about the same size as the soup bowl used to hold vegetables) and shouted to the cook who was getting the food, "Brother, get more meat, I haven't eaten lunch yet!"
The cook looked at Cheng Chumo and said indifferently, "There's no meat for dinner in the army, only for lunch!"
"Huh ~?"
Cheng Chumo was dumbfounded. He had been hungry for the whole day, and now that he could finally eat, he couldn't eat any meat. Wasn't this asking him to die?
"Ignore him, just get more food for him!"
Li Zexuan, who was standing behind Cheng Chumo, couldn't help but say to the cook.
He was mainly worried that Cheng Chumo was wasting time here and the soldiers would have a problem with him!
"Aye! Yes, join the army! "
The cook recognized Li Zexuan. After all, they had just had extra training today. Hearing this, he quickly took the big bowl from Cheng Chumo's hand and started to fill it with food.
After a while, three people walked out from the group with big bowls filled with food.
There were so many people in the army, there was definitely no place for them to sit down and eat. All the soldiers squatted in groups of three to five in the open space in front of the kitchen and started to eat.
"Aye, the Black Armored Army is the number one cavalry force in Tang Empire. Why can't they provide meat for two meals a day? How are we going to eat without meat? "
Looking at the white rice and green vegetables in his bowl, Cheng Chumo couldn't help but sigh.
Li Zexuan glared at this idiot and said unhappily, "Are you going to eat or not? If you're not eating, you're going to give your food to Baolin! You still have the energy to complain, I think you're not hungry, right? "
On the other side, Yuchi Baolin was hugging his bowl of rice and began to eat heartily, huffing and puffing.
"Grumble grumble grumble!"
At this moment, Cheng Chumo's stomach started to grumble again. He quickly said, "Eat, eat, eat! Who said I'm not eating! I've been hungry for the whole day, even if it's white rice, I, Old Cheng, will eat it … Mmm, delicious, really delicious! "
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