When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 680 Everyone Come and Eat Purple Eggs

"...Everyone respects Dalia and worships Kracherus."

"Alexandre Cruz, is this the name of all heroes?"

"Looking at the world today, who can compare with him?"

"Only me, line after line, the Holy Alliance Salvation Army..."

Unlike the chaotic and noisy march of the noble coalition army, on the other side of the reeds, behind the front-line God's Punishment Army, two infantry regiments of God's Punishment Army were still singing neat songs as they advanced.

The "March of the Salvation Army" was composed by Grampven and Horne, and was later modified by church musicians to become this marching song with a simple melody and strong rhythm.

Walking in the middle of the four columns, Bemanlay and others sang the marching tune and marched in unison to the beat of the drums and the melody.

Even though it's just each row being neatly arranged, it's a march after all, and we can't make the same demands as on a battlefield.

At the beginning, Bemanlai and other new recruits of the God's Punishment Army thought it was stupid to sing while walking.

But as they made their way here from Long Causeway, they could hardly walk without singing.

Although they had to wear long sleeves and long pants in the hot weather like the nobles' mercenaries, they were in much better spirits than the mercenaries and even the knights.

It's not just their spirits. Unlike the soldiers of the noble coalition, although these monks have dust on their faces, it is far from being dirty.

The military uniform was also covered in mud, but it was not as hardened as that of the imperial soldiers, only a thin layer of dust.

When they put on the uniform and majestic black and gray military uniforms, the usually dirty Black Snake Bay recruits suddenly became clean.

After all, everyone loves beauty. They even remember to change into new clothes when attending the secret party banquet. Such beautiful clothes naturally need to be taken care of.

This is why Horn made them wear uniform and beautiful uniforms. This kind of self-satisfaction and group identity has a huge impact on morale.

Of course, this is based on the premise that Horn ensures that the war monks have enough food to eat. If they are hungry every day, how can they have the mood to take care of their clothes?

It is precisely because they have enough food to eat, sleep well, and have the army chaplain to comfort them when they are sad that they have such a lively spirit.

With this spirit in place, the harsh beatings and disciplinary training did not cause psychological distortion among the soldiers.

So when the order to rest on the spot came, the new recruits could even play and joke around before lunch.

Bemanlai was a quiet person. He didn't dare to go too far away from the main group. He and a few teammates found a sand dune, climbed up, and started to have lunch.

According to the food standards set by Horn, the staple food that each war monk can get every day is 1.5 pounds of compacted hard bread and 2 ounces of sugar-sprinkled cereal.

This hard bread was developed by Horn himself, adding potato root powder, vegetable juice, pea puree and medicinal herbs. It tastes healthy and delicious.

The war monks who participated in the mountain march said after eating that it tasted exactly like His Majesty's cooking during the march.

After eating this hard bread, the green color will transfer from the bread to the faces of the war monks.

That's why Bemanlai hesitated whether to eat this cereal bar.

If I eat it now, I won't have anything to clean my mouth with after dinner of hard bread, which will be a real pain.

The sugar-sprinkled cereal was developed by Madeleine herself. Although it is called cereal, it is actually a solid cube made by compacting and baking sugar, small nuts and dried berries, and oatmeal.

It can be cooked into oatmeal porridge or eaten raw.

If they set up camp, the monks always cook it into porridge, because these cereal bars are small and quite hard, making them difficult to eat.

After eating one, the muscles in my cheeks turn red.

But the sugar in the cereal bars and the fat in the nuts still made the soldiers unable to stop eating this food. Now they are on the march, and the hard bread is kept by the orderly in the rear, so this relatively small cereal bar has become the monks' lunch and snack to supplement their calories.

After thinking it over, Bemanlai made a decision. Instead of continuing to eat, he took out a sausage that he had cooked before leaving in the morning from his bag and started to eat it.

He secretly left the camp last night, got a river fish, and had a meal of sashimi that he hadn't tasted for a long time. His stomach was still full in the morning, so there was this sausage left.

In addition to the staple food, each monk can also get 3-4 ounces of pickled fish and sausage every day, which is about two sausages or a salted fish.

As the mortar roads in North County were gradually completed, a large number of North County people began to imitate the processing of imported materials in South Mound County and raise wild boars to produce bacon.

Especially the emergence of peat allowed them to build drying rooms, making the speed and efficiency of making bacon much faster than before.

The current market price of bacon is about 1 to 4 dinars per pound, high-quality ham can be sold for 5 dinars per pound, and ordinary pork neck is more than 1 dinar.

With the opening of Black Snake Bay, a large amount of cheap spices flooded into the market, so Horn hired a group of people in North County to make dried pork sausages by mincing spices, starch, scraps of meat, pig blood and pig offal into stuffing.

Since they were purchased in bulk, one pound cost less than one dinar, about 1 to 8 sticks, but it could keep a war monk full of grease for 10 consecutive days.

"The purple eggs are here, come and eat them, there's only one pot, first come first served!"

Just as Bermanlai was chewing on a raw sausage, he heard the familiar voice of the orderly.

Hearing that there was purple eggs to eat, Bemanlai, who was sitting on the rock, jumped up and rushed towards the source of the sound with a sausage in his mouth.

Pushing aside the bushes, he put half a foot in the water and saw two orderlies coming towards him carrying a large pot of purple egg cauliflower soup.

They placed the soup pot on a flat stone and began to use large spoons to serve soup to the war monks holding wooden barrels: "Don't grab, don't grab, there are still brown oranges and fat peaches behind for those who don't get it."

Holding the red sticky soup, there was a small cheer among the monks.

Although the military is supposed to provide an average of about 2 ounces of vegetables and fruits per person per day according to standards, most of the time they are just bean sprouts or even pickled vegetables, and it is considered good to have purple eggs to eat.

"Chang Lianzi has made a fortune, why are you so generous today?" asked a monk.

Long Face was the nickname of the quartermaster, because he always had a sullen face. As he was very stingy, he always had a bad impression among the monks.

"It is estimated that the noble coalition forces of the Lilac Corridor will have to engage in direct battle in the next few days." The head waiter of the Bermanle team brought purple egg soup, "Your Majesty has talked to the quartermaster, and they finally relented. The accumulated vegetables and fruits can finally be supplied."

"Your Majesty, ten thousand votes!"

“Ten thousand votes!”

The monks around immediately echoed each other.

The head waiter knocked on the soup bowl and said, "Don't be too happy yet. We have to set off immediately after we finish eating. The scouts in the army ahead have discovered the enemy's tracks. His Majesty has ordered me to take the falcon cannon and bypass the forest from the side to attack from both sides."

The forest on the side was also a quagmire, so the Divine Punishment Army, equipped with a large number of accompanying mages, had to go around to the side.

They can use frost magic and turn mud into stone continuously to support the army's passage.

After hearing this, the soldiers were somewhat surprised. When did these knights move so quickly?
But no matter what, the original idle atmosphere quickly dissipated.

"But we don't have falconry?" asked Bermanlais.

"Your Majesty has allocated eight guns for us, and the artillery crews have also been equipped. We just need to wait for them to be transported to the front. When the time comes, we will have to set off regardless of whether we have finished eating or not."

"Yes." The surrounding circle of war monks beat their chests and waved their hands.

(End of this chapter)