The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 262 Lamb Stomach Wrapped in Meat
The arrival of the western expeditionary army shook the entire land of the Seven Garrisons of Kansai.

Apart from the sandbar, this vast expanse of sand has not been stained with blood for a long time!
Moreover, it is almost impossible to see Han Chinese faces in this native land.

But they still came!

The first thing the army did upon arriving here was to eat a meal of mutton stewed in sand, a specialty of the Western Regions.

Young chief Arahunsali was leading the entire tribe of teenagers in a busy work session.

Seeing the number of troops stationed by the western expeditionary army, Arahunsa and his people would wake up laughing in their sleep.

Their backer has arrived!
As a shepherd with a secure job in the garrison, employed by the Heavenly Immortal General, he was eager to use all the skills he knew.

His hands kept moving, and his little mouth kept chattering:

"General and other generals, please take a look. This is the most common way of cooking lamb in our tribe."

Don't be fooled by the fact that these fat sheep weigh over 100 pounds; the meat cut from their entire bodies could fit into their own stomachs.

The fat-tailed sheep we raise don't have any gamey taste at all; they only need to be lightly marinated with pepper, salt, and cumin.

After stuffing the sheep's stomach full, seal it with a needle made of tamarisk twigs! But don't seal it completely; leave a hole in the hollow reed stalk!

This cooking method was quite unusual, and Tian Jiu and the others watched with great interest.

"Kid, you're using a sheep's stomach as a pot! Don't you think the meat in your big pot will fall apart faster if you cover it tightly?"

Arahunsa chuckled foolishly: "If you don't leave an air hole, the sheep's stomach will burst!"

Don't ask him how he knew.

I've done it.

It was fried.

I've been hurt!

Before long, more than a thousand bonfires were piled up on the sand.

This is all for heating the sand.

Once the young chieftain confirmed that the sand was usable, large sheep stomachs were quickly thrown in.

The damp sheep tripe swelled up like a pig's when exposed to high temperatures.

The fine sand, initially scalding hot like charcoal, gradually cooled down, evenly and persistently dedicating all its heat to each and every lamb tripe.

The rest is up to time.

It wasn't until three hours later that the young leader announced that the mission was accomplished.

The dark, hard, steaming tripe was pulled out one by one.

Simply pull aside the willow branch sealing the sheep's belly, and the broth poured out from the sheep's stomach will completely tantalize everyone with its aroma.

Some, not afraid of the heat, couldn't wait to grab a piece of meat from the cut-open sheep's stomach and throw it into their mouths.

He jumped three feet high in an instant, shouting that it was hot!

It was hot, but I couldn't bear to spit it out.

The saltiness, pepper, and cumin enhance the freshness of the meat, while the mutton fat thoroughly permeates every tender and juicy strand.

No need to chew hard, it can be slurped down into your stomach in just a few bites.

How can one piece of meat, about the size of half an egg, be enough to satisfy your cravings?
A piece of mutton completely whetted my appetite.

Piece after piece, the more you eat, the more delicious it becomes, the more you crave it.

What does the way the instigator ate with his head down and slurping it up tell us?
In the blink of an eye, the area around the sandpit was crowded with soldiers sticking out their buttocks to grab the meat.

When is meat the most delicious to eat?
One is when you are hungry.

Secondly, it tastes best when everyone's scrambling to eat it. Having both makes it doubly delicious!

More than 75,000 people finished more than 5,000 sheep tripe stuffed with meat in less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

The massive meat-eating scene left even the young chieftain, Arahunsari, completely dumbfounded!
Inside the general's tent.

Xiong Zhen rubbed his swollen belly and couldn't help but let out a satisfied sigh:

"We really have to thank General Gan and the brothers of the vanguard battalion for this meal of meat today! They fought bravely for us and also had to secure food for the army! After taking Guazhouwei, they didn't even have time to eat a bite of meat before rushing off to Hami City!"

The generals, who were also stuffed, shouted, "We thank General Gan and the vanguard battalion!"

Tian Jiu sucked on the grease on his finger and laughed:
"Everyone used to say that the Tan sheep from Yanxian County in Northwest China was the best in the world. But after eating the sweet and delicious grassland sheep, Angcai felt that he hadn't lived in vain! He never expected that the big-tailed sheep from the Western Regions would not only be big but also taste so good!"

The group of generals and centurions who came with Deputy Commander Xiong were all young men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five.

If you let them eat their fill, they could easily eat two or three pounds in one meal!
In fact, the border town has never lacked sheep in previous years, but the snow disaster at the end of last year caused a shortage of sheep throughout the Northwest.

Later, it was General Gan who let them taste the heavenly flavor of grassland mutton, but the price of that sweet and fresh mutton soup was indeed not cheap.

They each have a large family to support.

How can we eat such delicious food every day?
it's good now.

The Western Regions' big-tailed sheep, which cost no money, smells amazing!

One of the brigade commanders remarked:
"Ang thought he was coming to Guanzhong to fight the barbarians with his fists, but this godforsaken place had nothing but sand and was bound to live a miserable life where he didn't know where his next meal would come from."

And it really worked! Killing such a big, fat sheep is enough for a dozen or twenty of us brothers to have a good meal!

These sheep are so fatty; if the brothers eat a few meals of these, they'll be even more energetic when they fight the barbarians in the future.

The generals nodded repeatedly:

"No wonder that damned Kashgar Khanate tried every means to seize this territory of Angmen in the past. Our ancestors really chose a good place! Now that we're here, we will never give up the Seven Guards of Guanzhong again!"

"No way! Not an inch of land! Grandpa wants to see what kind of foreigners are on this land who dare to defy our border troops! If they are as sensible as the Eastern Yugur, then they are our own people! If they don't submit, Grandpa will beat them until they are convinced!"

"That's right! If you're not happy, then fight!"

"Just do it!"

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Deputy Commander Xiong gulped down a large mouthful of mutton offal soup and immediately announced, "We've eaten the fat sheep and drunk the soup! Now it's up to you young people!"

The soldiers bowed and accepted the order: "Yes, sir!"

If we want to station troops here, there's a lot of work to be done.

The first military order issued by Deputy Commander Xiong to the garrison in Guazhou was to transfer 50% of the troops stationed at Heping Pass to Guazhou to assist them in continuing to rebuild the garrison.

The temperature difference between day and night is large in the sandy area, so it's better to move into the garrison as soon as possible.

Of the 75,000 troops that marched west, 15,000 were left to garrison Guazhou and join the infrastructure construction team.

The rest were divided into six teams of ten thousand men each and dispersed to the other six garrisons.

The Yugur people of Anding, Quxian, and Aduanwei, who had just received silver notes from the Han army, began to spread the news extensively as soon as they returned to their tribes.

"The mighty Han army of the Celestial Empire! One hundred thousand troops will be stationed in the Seven Guards of Guanzhong! From now on, we will never let the Kashgar Khanate bully us again!"

"The Han army of the Celestial Empire are all gods of wealth! We will never have to worry about selling our sheep for a good price again! As long as they sincerely submit to the Han army, they can sell them for the market price every year!"

"Just think about it, the 100,000-strong army will have to buy everything they need for food, drink, and supplies. This will bring us so many business opportunities."

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(End of this chapter)