my wonderful zoo

Chapter 151 adds two new features

On March 29, Chen Xun had just finished feeding Lang Qing and Xiao Hei in the morning when he felt that they had upgraded almost at the same time.

Enter the zoo and check it out.

Door: Chordate

Class: Mammalia

Order: Perissodactyla

Family: Equine
Genus: Equus
Breed: Mongolian horse

Contract Level: 5
The contract level of the Mongolian horse population has been upgraded to level 5, and it has gained a new characteristic: "cold and heat resistance".

Mongolian horses are native to the Mongolian Plateau, where they live in the open air on the grasslands. They endure the scorching heat and mosquitoes in summer, and can withstand the severe cold of -40°C in winter.

Compared with people who need clothes to keep warm, this ability to withstand cold and heat is indeed stronger.

Almost as soon as he finished the upgrade, Chen Xun felt that he was not as stuffy as before wearing three layers of heavy armor.

Now that summer has arrived, the weather is getting hotter and hotter. Before, Chen Xun was worried that it would be difficult to wear multiple layers of heavy armor to fight against the Jin Army this summer.

Now with new features, a big problem is solved at once.

Let’s look at the upgrade information of Gray Wolf.

Door: Chordate

Class: Mammalia

Order: Carnivora

Family: Canidae
Genus: Canis
Species: gray wolf
Contract Level: 2
The new characteristic obtained is: "Super strong sense of smell", which is completely expected by Chen Xun.

Before upgrading, Chen Xun guessed that the gray wolf species might give itself three characteristics. The first one would be a super sense of smell, followed by super hearing, and finally night vision.

Now it seems that my guess is indeed correct.

The super sense of smell is not very helpful in improving his combat effectiveness, but it is very useful in daily life. At least Chen Xun will not have to worry about someone poisoning him in the future.

Poisons in this era are not yet colorless and odorless. With the gray wolf's "super strong sense of smell", we will definitely be able to easily identify additives in food in the future, and poisons will naturally be distinguished.

The two newly added features this time are both for enhancing personal abilities, and their collective help to Chen Jiajun is almost zero, which makes Chen Xun feel relieved.

After leaving the zoo and looking at "Meng Gu" standing on the little black saddle, Chen Xun wondered. During this period, he had been almost inseparable with these three people. Why had the Mongolian horse and gray wolf been upgraded, but the snow pigeon had been since After being upgraded to level 6 in mid-May last year, it has not been upgraded again.

The gap has been close to a year.

Chen Xun was wondering, could it be that the highest contract level for the zoo's animal population is level 6?
It’s also possible that level 7 is a big hurdle and the requirements are extremely high, but I haven’t reached it yet.

I hope it's the latter, otherwise the upper limit of bonuses for animals in this wonderful zoo will be too low, completely unable to match the word "wonderful".

It was April [-]nd, and it rained heavily for two consecutive days, giving the entire Kaifeng Mansion a rare break.

The dragoons found a town and managed to repair it, relaxing their nerves from the continuous battles in the early stage.

After the rain stopped, Chen Xun received a report from Xuzhou that the lower reaches of the Yellow River were flooded again. This time the scale was even worse than when the Yellow River was dug out at the end of last year. Almost the entire lower reaches of the Huaihe River were flooded.

The crops that are about to be harvested in summer are basically dead.

Chen Xun felt very distressed when he read the various reports in the letter. An official like Du Chong, who was stupid, boundless and evil, should really be cut into pieces. Even if he was cut into pieces, it would be an advantage for him.The weather became hotter and hotter after the rain. Chen Xun had "cold and heat resistance" characteristics, which was not very obvious. However, when the soldiers of Miaodao Camp put on their armor, they were all wet with sweat in a short while.

However, the hot weather is actually good news for Chen Jiajun.

The dragoon soldiers all come from Guangzhou, where the humidity and heat are unmatched in the north.The Jin people are from the north of Shanhaiguan, and they can't stand the sweltering heat.

The further the time goes on and the hotter the weather becomes, the more disadvantageous it will be for Jin people.

On April [-]rd, when the entire army was organized and about to set out again for mopping up, Chen Xun received information from Pei Ren that the Jin army in Kaifeng planned to transport grain to Fengqiu again. The time was not yet certain, but it would definitely be within these two or three days. Within the sky.

More than 300 carts of food have been prepared in Kaifeng city, enough for Fengqiu Jinbing to eat for half a month.

The number of gold soldiers protecting the grain transport team is also shocking.

Ten thousand infantry and five thousand cavalry.

"Can we eat it?" Sun Zheng and others felt that this enemy force was too numerous, and Kaifeng Mansion was only forty miles away from Fengqiu County, which was too close.

"It is most likely a trap by the Jin people. When we fought with the food guards, the Jin soldiers from Kaifeng and Fengqiu immediately came out to support us. They attacked from both sides and surrounded us." Lai Qingyun also did not support the attack on this guard. The grain team fights.

Chen Xun nodded after hearing this. This analysis is very possible.

The only advantage the Jin people have over Chen Jiajun is that they have more people.

In addition to the 3 Jin soldiers who sent to Fengqiu in the early stage, the [-] miscellaneous soldiers only needed to hold back the dragon cavalry of the Chen family army for a while, and the Jin soldiers from Kaifeng and Fengqiu could encircle them on both sides.

There are so many of them that they can make the surroundings airtight.

"If this batch of grain is transported to Fengqiu, Fengqiu can sustain it for a longer time." Chen Xun did not want to give up this good opportunity to annihilate the Jin's miscellaneous cavalry: "Is it possible to use the trick?"

"Following the enemy's plan?" Sun Zheng was puzzled. The enemy was planning a conspiracy. How could he follow the enemy's plan?

If we go to rob food, we run the risk of being surrounded.

If we don't rob the grain, the Jin people will succeed in transporting the grain.

It's like two people gambling. One person has a lot of money and forces the other person to play. The person with less money will definitely lose.

"The risk is too great. Don't take it. We will just waste it with them. We have the Yellow River to transport supplies, and they will definitely not be able to consume us." Lai Qingyun advised.

"I wonder if you have heard of 'two-legged sheep'?" Chen Xun asked.

The word "two-legged sheep" started to be called during the Jingkang period. Hebei was severely harmed by the Jin people. Now the price of rice in Shandong and western Beijing has reached thousands of yuan, and there is still no market for it.

In order to survive, people naturally turn to anything as food. In some severely affected places, the price of human meat is cheaper than dog meat.

And this phenomenon occurs too often in history.

Let’s not talk about Cao Cao. Almost everyone knows that his troops eat human breasts.But Liu Bei's army also ate it, and not many people knew about it.

There is a record in "Heroes of the Late Han Dynasty": "The army was prepared in Guangling, and they were hungry and trapped. The officials, big and small, were eating each other. The poor and hungry invaded, and they wanted to return Xiaopei, so they asked the officials to surrender."

"Are you worried that the Jin people are in Kaifeng...?" Sun Zheng was unable to speak.

"It's not a worry, but an affirmation." Chen Xun replied: "The food reserves in Kaifeng City are limited. With one million Kaifeng citizens plus 20 gold soldiers, if we continue to harass like this, the food in the city will eventually be exhausted. When the time comes, this tragedy of 'mutual cannibalism' will inevitably be staged in Kaifeng City."

Seeing the solemn expression on everyone's faces, Chen Xun continued to ask: "When the time comes, who will be eaten, do you still need to ask?"

(End of this chapter)