It's almost dark.

Yuchi Gong and Shan Xiongxin, two famous generals who used spears, were competing with each other, and each rushed north with 10,000 troops. They wanted to leave the north entrance of Loufan Pass before the Turks came.

Niu Jinda, Luo Shixin, Li Junxian, and Wu Heita also ordered five thousand soldiers and horses to ambush on both sides of the Huihe Valley.

A group of soldiers left Loufanguan City, and Guancheng suddenly became a little deserted from the noisy and bustle.

Only 10,000 troops were left in the city of Guan, Li Chao, Pingyang, Su Dingfang and other students were responsible for guarding this pass.

"Sanlang, I learned a pasta dish from the people here, and I'll give it to you." Li Xiuning, wearing a brocade robe and iron armor, was very heroic. However, in this quiet evening, she was thinking about giving her beloved lover a bowl of noodles.

"Oh, what kind of pasta is it?"

Li Chao knew that there were many special pasta dishes in Shanxi in later generations. Shanxi's pasta was also very distinctive among the northern foods. It is famous all over the world and is no different from Shaanxi pasta. Among them, cut noodles, cat ears, noodle slices and buckwheat are the most famous and delicious.

After a bowl of steaming, salty and fragrant noodles, it makes people feel energetic and comfortable.

Changzhi braised mutton soup, Dingxiang steamed pork, Datong rabbit head, Pingyao beef, Xinzhou waxing crispy, yellow rice oil cake, not bad seeds, and special flower stews, which are as authentic as Shanxi's cut window flowers and old vinegar.

"I'll make you sorghum noodles fish."

Sorghum noodles fish are noodles made of sorghum noodles. The strips that are roughly the same as chopsticks and are shaped like small fish, so they are called sorghum fish.

Sorghum is actually not delicious because it is astringent.

Especially at this time, sorghum is mainly eaten by steaming, with less grinding, and it is even less delicious to make. Usually, it is made for cattle and horse feed, and it is only eaten during famines, which is called disaster relief food.

A lot of sorghum was stored in Loufanguan City. Sorghum was the highest yield in the north. It was stored in a large amount in the past and was used as feed for horses in the army. In the past two years, the horse grain has become the war preparation for the soldiers.

In the eyes of the Pingyang princesses, Lou Fanguan has been extremely strong in the past two years. But in Li Chao's view, it is only a beginning of scale. In his plan, the north will eventually be cultivated into the Nine Territory. This is a method of using the Ming Dynasty to defend northern Mongolia and Jurchens in the later Ming Dynasty, but there are differences.

The main difference is that the Ming Dynasty focused on the Great Wall defense, while Li Chao wanted to build a fortress cluster and dot-shaped deep defense. But from the defensive perspective, the goals are actually the same, they are all grasslands.

Due to climate and geography, the early Tang Dynasty still focused on defending against the Turks to the south, and in the middle and late stages, they might be able to defend against counterattacks, but even if they could defeat the Turks, they could not occupy the grassland at once, which was unrealistic.

Therefore, Li Chao still advocates building fortress chains, and chains trap Yinshan north and south, and the focus is on maintaining control over Yinshan south.

There are now three gates inside and outside, and Shuofang and Longyou Hexi are also building such border fortress groups.

For example, in Shanxi, the three internal and external gates are all defensive deep systems with Taiyuan as the core, but the Datong Basin in the north of Daibei and the places further north still control vacuum. Therefore, in the future, a Daibei defense cluster in the Datong Basin will be established with Datong Basin Datong Basin in the future.

In Hebei, clusters with Youzhou as the core should be established, including Shanhaiguan, Juyongguan and Yanbeiguan City.

This should be the case in Ningxia, Gansu, Yansui, Hetao, Liaodong and other places.

The key to using sorghum noodles is to use hot water.

In the kitchen in the backyard of the mansion, Li Chao changed his armor, put on a looser robe, and sat in front of the stove to make a fire. With water burning in the pot, Li Xiuning brought a small bag of sorghum noodles.

The sorghum noodles are not white in flour and have a little dark yellowish color.

The water boiled, Li Xiuning took a bowl of noodles, and when Li Chao finished scooping the noodles, he also poured water with the bowl. He added as much water as Li Xiuning scooped the noodles. This is a one-to-one ratio.

Li Xiuning took the chopsticks and stirred the flour with water to make it into gnocchi without dry powder.

The dough that had just been stirred was still a little hot, so Li Xiuning went to knead it directly, and Li Chao quickly reached out to catch it.

"This side is a bit hot, just stirred with boiling water."

"It's okay, my hands are not delicate." Li Xiuning said, then grabbed the dough bumps with his hands, held the dough bumps in his hand, and kept pressing towards the center with five fingers together. Soon the dough in his hand became a smooth and delicate dough on the surface.

This surprised Li Chao. He didn't expect that he had such a good friend from a famous family in Pingyang, but he thought that she was still a female general, but Li Chao was not surprised.

"I checked the granary in the city of Guancheng, and there was still a lot of grain stored, enough to eat until the summer grain was put into storage next year. General Li Jing was very good at guarding Hedong. In a short time, he built such a strong city of Guancheng, and had accumulated so much grain, and he also collected the North and fought against the Turks in such a embarrassing manner."

During the Hebei disaster, there were still military rations in the north. Although it was related to the reduction in military use in the north in the past two years, it was indeed Li Jing's ability. He used troops several times, but he did not dispatch many troops. He did not use them for a long time, but he had a great harvest. He obtained a large amount of cattle and sheep from the north, and Li Jing brought all these livestock back and then processed them into dried meat floss, etc., which greatly enriched the military ration reserves in Hedong.

If not, after this disaster, Daibei would not have used the launching of the army.

"According to the plan of my court and the imperial court, there must be three to five years of food for 100,000 troops at any time, so as to ensure the stability of the strategic support point in Hedong. Even if the Turks come, as long as they withdraw into the pass, with such a dangerous pass and enough food to store food, they must be able to fight against the Turks for one or two years."

Now the city defense, grain storage, arms, etc. in Loufan Pass are still just ordinary.

Especially between several important fortresses, there is still a lack of peripheral defense depth support. Beacon, post station, military station, and roads are not perfect enough, and it is still impossible to provide rapid support for each other.

Li Chao knew Li Jing’s idea, just keep attacking and no defense is needed, because they think the best defense is attacking. But Li Chao should consider a little more conservative, after all, this kind of full-attack style is too dangerous.

This is like football. Although offensive football is exciting and beautiful, it is more likely to have problems. On the contrary, a more conservative defensive football may not be so satisfying to watch, but it is more stable.

To attack, you must first defend and be impeccable first, and then defend and counterattack. Only when you can attack and defend are the king.

With these fortresses and fortresses, these defenses can be invincible.

After the dough wakes up for half an hour, you can rub the noodles. The method of supporting noodles is very important. You have to rely on the back palm to control the strength, so that the sorghum noodles can be rubbed slender without cracking, and will not be broken.

Li Chao pulled off a piece of dough as big as a fingernail from the dough he woke up, and then placed it on the chopping board and rubbed it vigorously. A piece of dough quickly turned into a thick end and thin end.

The prepared fish are not boiled directly, but steamed.

"I'll mix some sour and spicy garlic sauce again, and we'll eat it cold later." Li Chao looked at the small fish on the chopping board and suggested with a smile.

"Listen to you."

Peel the garlic and mash the garlic, prepare the dogwood sauce...

When Li Chao's spicy and sour garlic paste was ready, Li Xiuning's fish and fish were also steamed.

"Report!"

"Reporting to the Prime Minister, General Yuchi sent someone to report to him and found that the Turkic army was coming to Loufan Pass."
Chapter completed!