C3012 mouse broth (1/2)
What was the human limit? No one was clear about it, but one thing was for sure. At that time, many people who were reputed to be legendary had no other choice!
If there was a choice, the Old Company Commander hoped to be able to complete the operation in a clean and tidy hospital. There was anesthetic, a beautiful female nurse, and also a skilled surgeon!
However, there were no doctors, nurses, or anesthetic in the Mace City. He didn't even eat anything. There were only cannonballs, bullets, and explosives!
Old Company Commander asked around, according to the current rate of consumption, Mace City's ammunition could still be used for another three months!
Three months! It would be January 1871, and the ammunition would last all winter, but what about the grain? Could the food last three weeks?
After surviving the most painful moment, the alcohol would wash the wound, cut off the gangrene, and stitch up the wound.
When the wound was completely sewn and he spat out the wood dregs in his mouth, the Second Queue length had already returned from his hunting. He brought a squad of soldiers to take out sixteen large rats from the sewers and tied them together with a wooden stick.
”It should be noon by now …” Prepare food... Looks like I'll be able to eat something good today … Fresh rat meat! ”
All the food in Mace City had already been uniformly distributed. Dog meat and cat meat were the delicacies of the high-ranking military officers. All the birds in the sky were shot down by the Sharpshooters one by one.
As for these ordinary frontline soldiers, they could only dig out rats from the sewers and eat them!
Even if it's a mouse, you can't just randomly catch it. You can't just go over there and capture another person's mouse, but there's going to be a quarrel!
The rat was skinned, disemboweled, the meat washed and cut into small chunks, boiled in an iron pot for clear water, the rat meat and a little of the distributed oats thrown in and sprinkled with salt.
The over one hundred brothers gathered around the three big metal pots and looked at the meat broth that could clearly count the wheat grains. Greed appeared in each of their eyes!
The Old Company Commander looked at the position of the Prussian army in the distance as he spoke without turning his head, ”Each bite of the pot will be split into a piece of compressed biscuit! ”The bloody battle has gone on for an entire night, we should make up for it …”
”Long live!” Queue length personally scooped up a handful of compressed biscuits with one hand and the other holding onto a dagger with the other. He began to scrape the biscuits little by little until they were into pieces, before sprinkling them in the pot.
The other soldiers gently stirred the broth with wooden spoons. The compressed biscuit was filled with starch, and soon, the mouse broth had a sticky feeling to it. The fragrance of oil, sugar and even a faint fragrance of milk started to waft out.
Just as the entire company of soldiers was waiting for the meat soup to be cooked, Old Company Commander's complexion suddenly changed. He used his hand to poke the ground, and ignored the pain from his wound, wanting to sit up.
”Help me up …” Hold me against the wall... The Prussian army on the other side was moving again … ”All of you, quickly look …”
After placing the binoculars into Company Commander's hands, he turned the focus and very quickly discovered the strangeness of the enemy's position. On the opposite side of the camp, countless army officers ran out from the tents and wooden houses, forming two rows in the distance, as if they were waiting for someone.
Not long later, more than ten military horse carriages appeared, under the escort of a few hundred cavalrymen, they quickly arrived at the Prussian army's position.
”My God! The great figures of the Prussian army have come to inspect the position again. God, is it going to be a general attack on our side? ”God bless us, please don't use our defense zone as the main attack spot …”