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Chapter 28, Doraemon's Floating City

Yanjin County, Ligudu

As an important crossing of the Yellow River in the north of Bianliang, as early as the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, it was already a battleground for military strategists in the north and south.The surging Yellow River flows through the north of this town, making this place the only way for Song people to go north from Beijing.The town is divided into a checkerboard shape by several intersecting rammed-earth roads. There are many houses stretching for several miles. There are thousands of them. There are more than a hundred inns and hotels. Business travelers and tourists come and go from all directions.The main houses of each family are all big tile-roofed houses of the same color, high and spacious, much stronger than the people in other places, and the wealth of the townspeople can be seen from this.

But this small town, which was prosperous due to business travel, has now been burned down by the ferocious Jurchens just like many villages in Hebei and the Central Plains.Burnt black corpses can be seen everywhere in the ruined walls, and there is a peculiar stench of decayed corpses, which still permeates and refuses to dissipate.There was no sound in the huge ruins, not even a cock crowing and a dog barking—more than two months later, the whole town seemed to be still at the moment of being slaughtered.

Seeing the decayed ruins and rotting corpses everywhere, and feeling the cruelty of the war, everyone had to turn around and go out of town to camp in the suburbs—to Wang Qiu's surprise, Nobi Nobita, a primary school student, faced such What a hideous and ugly corpse with broken arms. Although his face was a little pale and his legs and feet were a little weak, he didn't vomit or faint, showing an extraordinary psychological quality... But Wang Qiu recalled Nobita Nobita again. The number of times the human group has saved various worlds and defeated various demon kings over the years seems to be relieved...

At this time, the sky had cleared up, and the rare winter sunshine fell on the earth through the gaps between the leaden clouds, but it couldn't bring much warmth to the shivering travelers.A few officers can of course find a shelter from the wind and keep warm by a fire.But the soldiers are busy.Dozens of horses were led to the side of the road, their saddles were loosened, and they lowered their heads to eat the hay collected by the soldiers on the spot and the bean cakes and wheat bran they brought with them.

Several other soldiers took out some paper bags from the bag under the saddle, which contained the portable dry food for the Song Dynasty.After the boiled and dried japonica rice is ground, it is a pressed rice cake.Served with a small bag of salty soy bean that is as salty as a block of salt, it is the military ration for a soldier of the Song Army. This kind of rice cake has actually been born for a long time. It was called "嗤", and it even spread to Japan, which also uses rice as the main crop, and became a food that Japanese travelers often carried with them in the Heian period.

Of course, like all military rations, the taste of this rice cake is actually not good, it is dry and astringent, and it is difficult to swallow.So when conditions permit, the cooks will put it in the pot, add water to boil it into a paste, and then mix some wild vegetables or pickles before scooping it out and distributing it to the soldiers... At this moment, several soldiers are putting rice Put the pancakes, salted tempeh and water into a small pot, set it on the fire and simmer, and occasionally cut a piece of vinegar cloth and throw it in for a stir.

——In addition to the production of portable military rations such as "占" and salty soybean meal, in the logistics department of the Song Army, there is also a method of soaking coarse cloth in vinegar, which is to soak the coarse cloth in vinegar, dry it and carry it with you. When you need it, cut it off Put a small piece into the pot, and you can drink the soup with acetic acid taste.

It can be seen from this that the logistics thinking of the Song Dynasty army has far surpassed the limitations of the times and is almost modern.

It is a pity that such an "advanced" army with excellent armaments, perfect logistics, generous salaries, organizational system and military strategy far surpassed the times, but it still couldn't beat those "advanced" troops whose logistics and equipment basically depended on robbery, tactics and command. Instinctive savages...

Of course, the above-mentioned military portable rations, which seem to be very high-end and high-end, are actually junk food for vulgar soldiers to satisfy their hunger.As a pampered scholar-bureaucrat of the Song Dynasty, Qin Hui, the censor Zhongcheng who served as the supervisor of the army, would not despise this kind of poor food even if he was away from home-beside the blazing fire, the servants had already spread a felt blanket in front of him and arranged a table. A plate of carved candied fruit and glutinous rice "fruit", and a few freshly baked sesame cakes.At the same time, a frozen green chicken was poured with sauce, pierced on the barbecue grill, and the grilled fragrance was overflowing.

Seeing that the roast chicken would not be cooked for a while, Qin Hui first ate a piece of pancake stuffed with jerky with the candied fruit.A jug of lamb's wine, piping hot, arrived soon after.Qin Hui picked up the wine jug, filled a glass for himself, took a sip, and smacked his lips in satisfaction—authentic lamb wine, milky white in color, refreshing and delicious, with full stamina, it is the perfect way to keep out the cold when traveling in winter things.The whole world can only drink it in the 72 main stores in Kaifeng Prefecture, so when Qin Hui learned that he was going to be the supervisor of the army, he immediately sent people to buy a lot.

Just as Qin Hui drank a few glasses of lamb wine and felt a warm feeling slowly rushing up his throat, he saw Guo Jing, the Great Immortal Guo, walking down the embankment in front of him with his hands clasped, his face full of dissatisfaction. The color of joy... After seeing this, he quickly put down the food and drinks at hand, stood up from the fire and saluted Guo Jing, the real protector of the country. At the same time, he asked how the road ahead was and whether he could continue north.

"...It's really difficult! Now the Yellow River has become a valley! I'm afraid it will take monkeys to climb over!" Guo Jing replied with a sigh.

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Speaking of it, the sudden cessation of the Yanjin section of the Yellow River was actually the fault of Guo Jing, Doraemon and other traversers themselves.

——Before, Doraemon used the [weather controller] to mess up the weather, so that the temperature in Bianliang, Tokyo, soared to more than 40 degrees in an instant in the cold weather of minus [-] degrees. The frozen Bianliang section of the Yellow River thawed and thawed extremely quickly.

But the problem is that although the downstream section of the river has melted, the upstream river course is still frozen for thousands of miles... What's more terrible is that at this time, the Yellow River is silted up by silt, and it has already become a hanging river on the ground, and the tributaries on both sides cannot The influx depends entirely on incoming water from upstream, making the water level very low in the dry season.The melted snow in the lower reaches quickly dried up, while the frozen upper reaches had no water to replenish—as a result, the river below Zhongmu in Henan dried up.

However, a rare winter flood broke out in the lower reaches of the river, and it became a snow-covered frozen swamp—because it was far away from Bianliang, the section of the most downstream of the Yellow River near the estuary did not thaw, and the melted water had to Swell up toward the ice...and flood.

Of course, this small flood is nothing compared to the burning, killing and looting of the Jin soldiers.

Closer to home, since the river in this section of Ligudu has dried up, and the upstream and downstream have been frozen again, this has become a dry riverbed.Therefore, if Guo Jing's "Mini Northern Expeditionary Army" does not want to take a detour, they have to climb down the steep embankment and step on the silt enough to sink pedestrians with fear—although the silt at the bottom of the river is still solid due to the severe winter. , but no one knows if there will be a place that is not frozen solid, and it will sink as soon as you step on it-the difficulty of climbing up the steep river embankment on the opposite side is no less difficult than rock climbing.If there were only a few nimble scouts and vanguard special forces, then maybe they could do it.But if you still have to lead the horse and drag the baggage cart... I'm afraid it will be a bit difficult.

That's why Zong Ze suggested that Guo Jing and the others take a detour of a hundred miles upstream so that they can cross the river on the ice.

However, for Doraemon, who has all-purpose pockets and magical props, these troubles are just trivial things.

"...It's okay, it's okay! Since you can't walk on the ground, let's fly over from the sky! I just got tired from walking all the way."

Doraemon said so calmly, while Nobita Nobita hurriedly nodded in agreement—although with the help of [Universal Rein] and [Momotaro Taming Maruko], after two days of continuous riding, I still let this person use The elementary school students who are used to [Random Door] feel a bit overwhelmed, their legs are scorchingly painful, and they are limping when they walk... They have been complaining all the way for a long time.

"...flying over? That's a good idea! But do you have any extra [Bamboo Dragonfly]? And these Song Dynasty people might not know how to use it!"

Apart from agreeing with this, Wang Qiu also expressed cautious concerns. As far as he knows, Doraemon has just accidentally damaged his last spare bamboo dragonfly in the fierce adventure of the world's hive base in "Resident Evil". However, I haven't had time to buy new bamboo dragonflies to replenish them.

"...It's not such a petty thing as a bamboo dragonfly! If you want to play this time, you can play a big one!"

With a complacent expression on his face, Doraemon took out the set of [Ningyun Spray] and [Automatic Universal Construction Machinery] that created the "Cloud Kingdom", "...let's do a big job, Build a flying war castle!"