Chapter 601: Prepare to Go
The eight characters on the paper were written with a brush. Needless to say, the paper was good. The paper mill in Da Zhou had been running smoothly for a long time, producing paper steadily, and it was also put on the market and could be bought and sold normally. However, there were basically not many people buying it now.
After all, few ordinary people are literate and have basically no demand for paper.
As for things like writing brushes, they were made by Wang Dong when he had nothing to do.
After all, she is a Chinese teacher, so it is normal for her to have some literary hobbies.
Zhou Xu himself still prefers to use charcoal pencils and feather pens, not for any other reason, but simply because writing is easy and efficient, especially charcoal pencils, which are more convenient to use on documents or drawings that need to be corrected.
He now has a lot of documents to deal with and even more words to write in a day. If he uses a brush, his efficiency will not be improved at all.
Now that Wang Dong has come up with calligraphy, it will at most add another hobby to the Zhou family. Zhou Xu does not stop him. After all, the non-stop work he had arranged for him to do was not what he wanted to do. He has to give Teacher Wang some chance to relax.
Originally, Teacher Wang wanted to ask Zhou Xu to practice calligraphy, under the pretext that as a king, he should at least practice some arts such as music, chess, calligraphy and painting to cultivate his sentiments and improve his character.
When Zhou Xu heard this, he rolled his eyes, picked up the brush and showed him his very impressive calligraphy skills, which completely confused Teacher Wang.
When he was in school, he did take part in a calligraphy interest class. He even participated in a city student calligraphy competition with his good calligraphy skills and won two small prizes. However, he really didn't have much interest in this, and it was no longer a topic of conversation.
Now that I pick up the pen again, my writing is pretty good.
In his own lounge, Zhou Chongshan stared in a daze at the eight large characters written in a flamboyant style on the paper.
Under Wang Dong's instruction, Zhou Chongshan had already learned to read, but he had never imagined that words 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 intention, he was to take the remaining troops of the Xianzhen Camp back to the rear to select soldiers and make up the 300 troops of the Xianzhen Camp.
Zhou Chongshan had no objection to this order.
Now there are only 81 cavalrymen left in their Xianzhen Camp, and they will not be of much use if they stay on the front line. It would be better for them to go back early to select soldiers and train them.
Without further ado, Zhou Chongshan led the remaining 81 members of the Xianzhen Camp on their return journey early the next morning.
After this, the 1,000 Lizardmen troops sent by Zhou Xu arrived at the southern fortress with supplies.
Along with that came the rewards their king gave to the soldiers in the southern border, which simply meant a lot of wine and meat!
The wine is also a fruit wine developed in the past two years. The taste is basically the same as that of alcoholic beverages. Once it was launched, it was loved by a large number of people. In addition, its price is a bit high, which emptied the wallets of many people.
On this day, the South Border Fortress brought wine and meat, and naturally held a celebration banquet. In the meantime, they also welcomed the newly arrived reinforcements, allowing the soldiers to eat and drink to their heart's content.
He took a big bite of the boiled mutton in his hand and then took a big gulp of fruit wine. It looked so refreshing.
But after wiping his lips, the soldier couldn't help but sigh.
"Damn, if it could be fried in oil, it would definitely be delicious. The meat is good, but how long have I been eating this boiled meat? I can hardly swallow it now."
"There's wine and meat, and you're still picky?"
The cook who had just finished his work and was passing by was speechless when he saw this.
"If you don't eat it, I'll eat it!"
"No, no, no, I just said it casually."
As he spoke, the soldier quickly stuffed the meat in his hand into his mouth.
During this time, the soldiers sat there and chatted casually.
The cook, who had finished his work, started chatting with them again.
"In order to resist the attack of the ratmen, all the oil was fed to those stinky rats. Don't count on it in the short term."
"But the sheep itself has a lot of oil, right? We can squeeze it out."
The cook rolled his eyes when he heard this.
"In addition to considering the actual situation when cooking in our army, we also have to consider convenience and distribution."
As they were talking, the leader of the group of soldiers slowly began to talk to the group of amateurs in front of them who didn't have to worry about cooking.
"We're holding a celebration banquet, and we're also giving you oil to fry the meat on the spot? Besides, is that little bit of oil enough for so many brothers in the fortress to share? That's why we don't do barbecue. Boiling is the most convenient and easy to share. It's that simple."
Although the soldiers from the southern border were almost rolling their eyes after eating so much boiled meat and vegetables, they ate a lot at the celebration banquet and ate up all the rewards sent by Zhou Xu.
Two days later, during this time, their soldiers in the southern border and the reinforcements that arrived later had almost rested.
After getting permission from their king to send troops, Li Ce didn't want to wait even a second and wanted to send troops immediately. After all, the faster they sent troops, the greater the advantage they would have.
Conversely, the longer time goes by, the more the rat people will recover.
During this period of time, Li Ce has already gathered all the troops for the expedition.
Of the 1,000 troops that came to support earlier, although all 300 dragoons had been killed in battle, the 700 infantrymen behind them were unable to catch up due to their movement speed, so they can be said to be in perfect condition now.
These seven hundred troops, plus the one thousand troops that have just arrived, will be joined by a force of three hundred soldiers in good condition drawn from their original southern fortress, making up a total of two thousand troops that will set out directly in two days.
Before the war started, Li Ce was commanding these two thousand troops to deal with the rat people. Now he still has two thousand troops. Even though there is still a lot of gap in combat experience, he is not at all inferior at this time.
Don't forget, they just won a great victory. At this time, they should be afraid of the enemy! Before the expeditionary force set out, 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 Caoyuan City.
There is nothing much to say about the content of this report. Li Ce simply gave him a brief report on his work and informed him that the troops had already set out.
Long before, when he confirmed that the garrison in the southern border had suffered heavy losses and was determined to take the initiative to attack, he had already arranged supply troops and issued a conscription order again.
Now that he has received the report, there are no new measures he needs to take.
To put it bluntly, the main purpose of this report is to let him know that this happened and have an idea of what is going on.
After reading the report, it was already late, so Zhou Xu went to bed early.
The next morning, after breakfast, Zhou Xu started his inspection work.
(End of this chapter)
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