Chapter 29: Snow Blindness
After a month of mixing like this, the sergeants in the battalion were very familiar with Liu Yu.
But when it comes to prestige, it doesn't seem to be much, but some people think that he has a bad brain.
Although it is said that the generals should eat with the soldiers and have the same hatred with the son, it is a pity that it is only a story in the book.
When I really saw such an officer who ate with the soldiers, these soldiers were not suitable at all, but felt that this person was sick.
Dashun is just a feudal dynasty, and there are endless things about drinking soldiers' blood. The Beijing camp may be stronger, but there are really no officers who have mixed with the soldiers.
Liu Yu thought about it and understood that he was a guest general, and this was not his foundation, it was nothing more than using the lives and blood of these big-headed soldiers to dye his official uniform.
Even if the purpose was so simple, he knew that there was a need for some means.
After chatting a lot, Liu Yu found that there were really a lot of Sauron people in the team, and it could be seen that the imperial court was also quite concerned about this matter, and the people who were transferred were all familiar with the terrain and climate.
The Sauron people and the Houjin are mortal enemies, and the capital of the Sauron Kingdom is in Yaksa, which was slaughtered and destroyed by the Houjin during the Chongzhen period. After the war was tight, Houjin continued to arrest the people of Sauron's various tribes and fill the Eight Banners.
It is bearable to die in battle, but the people who have lived in the mountains and forests all their lives cannot bear the smallpox and colds in the interior, and they die one by one, often the entire tribe dies.
After gaining a firm foothold in Dashun, the population of the Yaksa area in the old part of the Solon Khanate was basically dead.
When the Russians arrived, the Russians built the city on the site of Yaksa. Some tribes have moved south, and some have served as government soldiers on the Dashun side.
The Songhua River has been restored to the distorted military system of the Tang Dynasty, and the Beidi Zhichong Prefecture has become an excellent government soldier light cavalry similar to the Cossacks. Some of the Saurons who survived smallpox gradually gained military merit, and there were quite a few people in the camp.
In addition to these people, there are some people who know Russian from Mongolia.
Seeing that by the end of September, the people were finally complete, and it was time to go.
The steamed buns were all purchased according to the things on Liu Yu's list, not counting the standard equipment that Qi Guogong got from there, and the rest also cost a small two thousand taels of silver, and borrowed a sum of money from the classmates of Wude Palace.
A few big boxes full of them, a few big cars, and I don't know what they are.
Some people speculate that it was Liu Yu's own private goods?
But after all, Liu Yu has the identity of a prince and the nominal leader of this team, and everyone doesn't dare to ask more.
It is the prerogative of officers to go to war and take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune. Under the red eyes, all he hopes is to become an officer in the future, at least to get a piece of the pie.
Starting from the capital, along the way, Liu Yu just quietly learned some details such as how to set up camp and how to march.
If you have the methods of your previous life, you will write them down at night, summarize the rules and experiences, and it is not difficult to master the theories you have learned in the Wude Palace.
The winter of the seventh year of Taixing came exceptionally early, and it was a heavy snow when it came out of Shanhaiguan.
Everything is covered with a layer of white, and the mist rising from the unfrozen river surface makes the weeping willows along the coast covered in silver, and there is a unique scenery that the bustling capital does not have.
It's just that the snow also made the marching people miserable.
The miserable white sun hung overhead, and the snow did not receive the sun's rays at all, reflecting the dazzling sunlight to everyone like a mirror.
There was a dead silence all around, except for white, it was still white, and the occasional touch of green could be seen, but it was a pine forest on the mountain.
Everywhere you look, it's dazzling.
With red and swollen eyes, he rode his horse to Liu Yu, who was resting with his eyes closed on horseback.
It snowed heavily, and it was a sunny day, and many people were hit in the eyes by the snow.
Snow hits the eye, also known as snow blindness.
The snow reflects almost all of the sun's ultraviolet rays, just like a person who is always staring at the sun, and his eyes are hot and painful.
If there is a little wind, tears will flow. The pain is extreme, and it even implicates the brain in the eye, making people want to gouge out the eyeballs.
"Brother Liu, I think we should take a break? It's too difficult to march after the snow. Many of the brothers were blinded by the snow, and they were afraid that they would be blind if they went on. I think we'll rest for a few days, and then we'll go when the brothers' eyes are healed. ”
Liu Yu slowly opened his eyes, adapted to the dazzling snow light, glanced at the arrogant Lao Butu with red eyes, and asked rhetorically: "What was the snow day march like before?" ”
"Uh...... If there is no major military situation, there is no march in the snow. If there is really an emergency, it is also pulling one by one, taking turns to open their eyes. It's just that...... Although Your Majesty has a heavy responsibility entrusted to us, there is no hurry. ”
"That's what I said, but it's too early or too late. The future is far away, and I don't know how many miles there are left. Take a break today, rest tomorrow, when will it come? ”
When a few soldiers on horseback beside him heard this, they couldn't help but curse in their hearts.
Several of them were hit in the eyes by the snow, and it hurt so badly that tears flowed out, and the slightest wind seemed like someone had pricked their eyes with a needle.
"Damn it, what's that? When we eat together on weekdays, we look like a good person and think you're different. In the end, it's still a bird. ”
"I'm in a dead mother, I usually pretend to be like a real bean bag, my eyes hurt like this, I can't take a break?"
"Mom, I sold it, Ge Laozi believed in your evil, and I really thought you were a good person."
Several people scolded the flowers in their hearts, and there were people from all over the team, and the scolding words were strange, but the overall meaning was similar, and they all worked hard according to Liu Yu's mother.
"Gu Yu Yan" said: The woman's feminine object is shaped like a mussel. The name of the northerners is Bazi. The Min people shouted crookedly. The Sichuan people call it a batch......
This scolded in his heart, but he scolded the atmosphere of a great country.
It is really a vast and different people, and the language is changeable, which is not comparable to a small country.
After listening to Liu Yu's words, he was also a little speechless, and said in his heart that if you lead the troops like this, what can you accomplish? is to learn from General Li and Wu Qi every day, eat with the soldiers, and have a hanging? Know the skin but not the bones.
Just as he was about to persuade a few more words, Liu Yu stopped his horse and said slowly: "However, as a general, you must know the changes in astronomy and geography. If you don't prepare in advance, but you have to suffer when the time comes, it will be for the generals. ”
This is still like such a human saying, and the people next to him think that the meaning of this sentence can ease their eyes?
Liu Yu waved at the steamed bun and shouted, "Take out the contents of box No. 3 and distribute them to everyone." Then I took out the tobacco leaves from another box, and after passing Shenyang, there were few big cities on the way, and the brothers had been off for a few days. ”
The steamed buns hurriedly went to the big boxes that Liu Yu carried, took out a bunch of things that were originally customized, and divided one for each person.
He took out the good tobacco leaves in the capital and divided them into some according to the Shiwu team.
After getting tobacco leaves, those soldiers who had been smoking cigarettes for several days were eager to put them in their mouths and chew them, pinched a handful and put them in front of their noses and sniffed them vigorously, eager to suck the tobacco leaves directly into their noses.
As an officer, he has a lot of tobacco leaves. Another thing that I put in my hand with steamed buns, I don't know why.
It was a wooden blindfold with a rope tied to the back, and it looked like something that had been pulled on a donkey's leash.
It's just that there are two thin slits on the top of this blindfold.
Putting them on without a teacher, these two thin slits were not completely blindfolded, and the scenery outside was difficult to pass into the eyes through the slits, and the original dazzling snow light was also weakened a little.
After the steamed buns were divided, Liu Yu shouted: "Brothers, put this on." In the future, it will be difficult for the snow to hit the eyes. ”
Proud of the fact that this thing can prevent snow blindness? He hadn't heard of it.
Liu Yu also knew that this thing was not an elixir, and it was not useful if he wore it.
At this time, everything he says is in vain, and he will wait until a few days to see the effect, and then he will say what he really wants to say.
Looking at Jiao Lao Butu's not very trusting eyes, Liu Yu thought that this thing was naturally useful. Later generations of long marchers over Jiajin Mountain were also plagued by snow blindness, and they relied on similar things to survive, but those were woven with yak tail hair, not wood.
At that time, on Jiajin Mountain, a group of soldiers wore blindfolds and marched in the snow, which was quite a bit of the romance of demon hunters.
Now the thing in Liu Yu's hand is wooden, and it is more like the snow blind mirror of the Eskimos according to local conditions. Effective is effective, that is, it looks indescribable.