Chapter 1056 The Northern Expedition ended, bounty hunters
instant noodles, beer, canned fruit, canned fish, glass bottles, soda, enamel, sausages, biscuits packaged in tin boxes.
Luo Chong wrote down the items about the food industry one by one on paper, and then after a moment of contemplation, he suddenly remembered something.
'Oh, yes, there is also luncheon meat! '
As a representative of the food industry, how can we miss luncheon meat? As a product that can be made with the current technology of the Han tribe, Luo Chong racked his brains to think of this thing.
What is luncheon meat? Some people may not know. To put it bluntly, it is a kind of canned meat, mainly pork or mutton, which is made into block-shaped ham sausage. Well, you can probably understand it that way.
Because the production method of luncheon meat is actually very similar to that of ham sausage. The only difference is that the packaging is different. Ham sausage is stuffed into the casing, while luncheon meat is directly packed into the tin box.
The specific operation method is to first debone the pork or beef, then separate the meat and oil into minced meat, and then mix them together according to the proportion, add some seasonings and flour or starch, and red yeast rice powder for coloring, which is the powder ground from red yeast rice.
After adding it, the minced meat can be packed into boxes, and then the meat and the box are steamed in a steamer, then sealed with an iron lid, and finally the iron box is directly placed in a boiling water pot for high-temperature water bath sterilization to extend its shelf life.
The luncheon meat made in this way is actually canned meat. It can be taken out and eaten directly, or it can be cut into slices and fried in oil, or used as ingredients for cooking other dishes. It is very useful and suitable as military supplies.
This is a very important invention for an era when meat cannot be preserved for a long time. Of course, it also requires the cooperation of an industrial foundation. Otherwise, without a meat grinder and a canning box, you can't even make a can of luncheon meat.
Luo Chong wrote the luncheon meat on paper again, but he did not plan to experiment with it, because the technology of this thing was too simple, and there was no need to experiment at all. It was nothing more than steaming meat filling, and he knew it would work without trying.
It was early May, and when Luo Chong was staying at home to study the food industry plan, the war against the cannibals in the north was gradually coming to an end.
It took a full four months. Compared with the original first and second phase strategies, the third phase of the battle lasted a lot longer. With the continuous elimination of the cannibals by the Shen Ce Guards, the salt pond area, which was originally used as a tug-of-war battlefield, had completely disappeared from the cannibals.
But think about it, you know that their nests are about to be destroyed by the Han tribe, who has the heart to fight for those salt ponds?
Now the cannibal tribe in the forest has completely collapsed under the crazy attack of the Shen Ce Guards. In some villages that were discovered at the beginning, they dared to stay in the villages and rely on the local terrain to deal with the Shen Ce Guards or fight guerrilla warfare, but Qubing has always adhered to the combat purpose issued by Luo Chong, which is the "Three Lights Policy" proposed by Luo Chong.
As a soldier, Luo Chong knows better than anyone what the biggest enemy of guerrilla warfare is. Only by killing, burning and destroying everything can the enemy's living space be completely compressed.
With good tactical principles and sharp weapons and equipment, if this battle cannot be won, then Qubing will have no chance of survival.
In this way, after four consecutive months of crazy sweeps by the Shen Ce Guards, the cannibal villages in the northern forest of Wei Yu have been basically wiped out. There are only three outcomes for them when they encounter the Han tribe: death, surrender and become slaves, or escape.
Although we should not let the other party escape, it is inevitable. There are so many cannibal villages, and there will always be some who run away in advance because they are afraid of the Han tribe, and migrate to other places with their tribesmen. If they can't beat us, can't they just run away? !
Of course, the Han tribe can't do anything to such enemies. However, there is one thing, as long as these people don't go south to cause trouble for the Han tribe, and the river mouth to the south is also guarded by the militia of Heyuan County. It is not easy for those cannibals to get there unless they take a detour. But taking a detour means a longer distance, an unfamiliar environment, and unknown dangers. It is still unknown whether these escaped cannibals can migrate to new territories alive.
"Commander, the east side of the forest has been searched by our first battalion, and no trace of cannibals has been found."
"The west side, which is responsible for our second battalion, has also been searched. Now there is no trace of human activities, let alone cannibals."
"Well, well done, now each battalion should report the number of giant apes hunted!" Qubing listened to the report of his subordinates, nodded and praised, and then asked about the hunting of giant apes.
To be honest, at this point in the war, the cannibals were exterminated by the Han tribe. Even if there were any survivors, they had long since disappeared. The only remaining enemies were the man-eating giant apes.
However, the Han tribe was a foreign conqueror, not a local aborigine, so they did not know the nest of the man-eating apes. In terms of dealing with the man-eating apes, they could only fight encounters. It was really difficult to completely exterminate them.
Hearing Qubing's question, the instructors of the three battalions of the Shen Ce Guard also took out their notebooks and began to report.
"Report to the commander, in this clearing operation, our first battalion encountered a total of 256 giant apes, killed 232, and let 24 escape. Report completed."
When the instructors of the other two battalions heard this, they felt that everyone was about the same, so there was nothing to be embarrassed about.
It was a bit unreliable to want to annihilate all the giant apes they encountered. You have to know that the environment they fought in was originally a forest, which was the most favorable terrain for those giant apes. If they broke into the vision of the Shen Ce Guards, there was nothing to say. A round of concentrated fire could make them into sieves. However, if these giant apes wanted to escape at a medium or long distance, the Han tribe would definitely not be able to catch them.
Those big guys jumped around in the trees and disappeared in the blink of an eye. The Shen Ce Guards could not send troops to chase them. It would be easy to get lost in the forest if they chased them, and they would not be able to catch up at all.
"Our second battalion encountered 317 giant apes, killed 276, and 41 escaped. Report completed!"
"The third battalion encountered 189 giant apes, killed 177, and 12 escaped. Report completed!"
Qubing nodded again after hearing this, and he had a bottom line in his heart. This time, because it was his own side that took the initiative to attack, there was no doubt that they encountered more giant apes. Up to now, the entire Shen Ce Guard has eliminated 685 giant apes. If you add the giant apes killed in the previous two stages, the total number is more than 700.
As for those who escaped, because the Shen Ce Guard had no way to mark the identity of each giant ape encountered, it was impossible to confirm whether those who had escaped were killed in the subsequent encounter. Each battalion only recorded the cumulative number of each encounter and the number of kills and escapes. As for whether there was overlap in the targets, it was obvious that there was.
But those who were killed must be correct, they are all counted, they can't be faked.
However, Qubing can say with certainty that there are definitely giant apes in the forest, but they almost never come out on their own initiative, and it is difficult for the Shen Ce Guards to find them. At this point, a problem arises.
It would be a waste to drag the army here, and it would not achieve much results. If those man-eating apes really want to hide and not come out, he can't let the Shen Ce Guards waste time here. This is simply unrealistic. Moreover, everyone has been fighting for more than four months and has never stopped to rest. The soldiers are already very tired. It's time to make a break, but whether to end this war or not still needs Luo Chong to make a decision.
After thinking about it, Qubing said in summary.
"More than 700, and dozens of them escaped. We have no way of confirming these numbers, but we can say for sure that there are definitely still man-eating apes in the forest.
"If we just ignore it and withdraw our troops directly, then the remaining man-eating apes will cause trouble to the future lives of the people in Heyuan County. In the future, the people will definitely develop this forest, and then they will be attacked by the man-eating apes if they are not careful. But we can't keep wasting time here, and everyone is very tired. This is not realistic. As for what to do, I think we should report to the leader and let the leader make a decision."
Several battalion commanders and the militia captain Zai all nodded. They all knew that Qubing was telling the truth. The army could not waste time here, but the people of Heyuan County could not be ignored. What to do in the future still needed a plan.
So, Qubing's battle report was quickly delivered to Luo Chong by flying eagle.
"Hahahaha, the Northern Expedition is finally over! "
In the study room of Luo Chong's house, Luo Chong's hearty laughter was soon heard.
Xiaodie and Zhan Ying, who were holding their children in the hall outside, ran over immediately after hearing the sound.
"Husband, have we finished fighting the cannibals in the north?!" Xiaodie asked immediately.
"Well, Qubing has sent back the battle report. The third phase of the strategy has been preliminarily completed. All the cannibal villages and settlements have been cleared out. Now there is no cannibal
left there. "Maybe some of them have fled to other places, but they can no longer affect us, so there is no need to care about them."
Luo Chong handed the battle report to Xiaodie. This was not a confidential matter. Even if Xiaodie didn't read it, Luo Chong would have someone announce the news to the world tomorrow.
Xiaodie and Zhan Ying soon gathered together to read it.
"A total of more than 28,000 cannibals have been annihilated."
"More than 5,400 male and female slaves have been captured."
"More than 730 man-eating giant apes have been killed. This, my husband, there are only more than 700 giant apes. It is impossible that there are only so few, right?" Zhan Ying read quietly while looking at it. When she saw that only more than 700 giant apes were annihilated, she immediately felt that there was a problem.
Because more than 700, this number is really too small for a species. Even wild cattle cannot have only this number. Of course, considering that carnivores cannot be more than herbivores, there cannot be more than 700 giant apes.
"Well, I know, didn't Qu Bing also say in the battle report? There must be more, the specific number is unknown, but now they don't come out, and we can't let the army waste away there!" Luo Chong nodded and pointed to the content at the end of the battle report.
Zhan Ying quickly found that content after hearing this, and then said with some concern.
"We can't just leave those monsters alone. Otherwise, the people in the north will be worried when they go into the forest to chop wood. They might be attacked by those monsters. We can't live in fear all the time. Does my husband have any ideas?"
In fact, Zhan Ying came to the Han tribe relatively late and didn't see the horror of those giant apes with his own eyes. Only Xiaodie joined earlier and saw those monsters with her own eyes.
But Zhan Ying had recently seen those huge monsters from the photos sent by Qubing. He was very afraid of these monsters and often talked about them. Fortunately, the firearms of the Han tribe were sharp and they took the initiative to attack the north, so those monsters didn't often go south to the Han tribe to cause trouble.
When Luo Chong heard this, he paced in the study, thinking about how to deal with this matter. The war had indeed ended at this point, but before the giant apes were completely extinct, they would always be a hidden danger for the people in the north, so they had to be guarded against.
Moreover, the giant apes are powerful in their own right. The woodcutters who go into the mountains to fight alone are definitely not the match of those giant apes. Even with ordinary bows and arrows, they may not be able to defeat those monsters, because those monsters have thick skin and flesh . Even if ordinary arrows hit a few of them, they cannot kill them immediately.
In the end, the people will still suffer. "We must leave some muskets for the people in the north, so that they can spontaneously hunt giant apes. In addition, we can also give some rewards to support bounty hunters! Yes, that's the idea." Luo Chong muttered in his heart, and soon found the idea. "
We must take care of it, but the war is over, and the Shen Ce Guards must be withdrawn. As for the people in the north, they can only rely on themselves to defend their homes
. "Those monsters will definitely not be exterminated in a short time. If you want to kill them completely, it may take several years, even decades, or hundreds of years. It is definitely not possible to rely on the army alone. Let the people hunt spontaneously."
"Let the people hunt? Can they beat them? "Xiao Die had seen the horror of the giant ape with her own eyes, so she couldn't help but widen her eyes in shock at Luo Chong's decision.
"What are you afraid of? At most, we can equip them with some muskets, and let those people go into the mountains and forests in groups with guns on their backs. Even if they encounter giant apes, they can kill them. At that time, we will issue some reward systems. If they kill a giant ape, they can get a certain amount of reward from the government. Those people will definitely take the initiative to hunt.
"As for muskets, I think it's better to give them this kind. It is powerful, but not suitable for war. It is enough for hunting and self-defense."
Luo Chong said, and then he cast his eyes on the double-barreled shotgun on the weapon rack in the study. You must know that the double-barreled shotgun is originally a kind of hunting rifle. This weapon is powerful and there is absolutely no problem in hunting large targets.
However, the firepower of this hunting rifle is not continuous. It can only fire two consecutive shots before changing the bullet. It is impossible to use it in war. Such equipment can't beat the regular army like the Shen Ce Guards at all, and there is no need to reach the range of the shotgun. The rifles of the Shen Ce Guards can teach them a lesson.
Therefore, if we equip the people of the north or the militia with a batch of equipment, Luo Chong will not have to worry about them rebelling. In addition to the restrictions on ammunition, if we implement the firearms restriction order and the policy of issuing gun licenses, we should be able to solve the problem well.
With his mind racing, Luo Chong quickly made a decision. He held the double-barreled spray gun in his hand and shouted to the outside.
"Someone, go and call Lin Fei from the Xingang County Power Research Institute. I have something for him to do!"
(End of this chapter)
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