Hearing that the crown prince wanted to leave now, Li Shimin did not hesitate to use the emperor's authority and ordered him and Sun Simiao to wait for another half a month.

Half a month later, Cheng Yanjin was going to take Zuo Wuwei to the north, not to participate in the war, but to go to Longyou to contain the Western Turks.

Although the Eastern and Western Turks seem to be incompatible, the truth of the cold lips and teeth is still clear to the Western Turks. Although they will not directly help the Eastern Turks, they will still do something that the army will overwhelm and put some pressure on Datang.

Half a month later, after bringing a few young people sent by Geng Buqu, Li Chengqian followed Cheng Yanjin's Zuo Wuwei and went north together.

The official road from Chang'an to Longyou was repaired because of the locust plague to transport grain, so the prince's carriage would not be unable to keep up with the large army.

invited Cheng Yanjin to ride in the car together, but was refused, Lao Cheng has been riding a horse to lead the team, and he does not get off the horse in the wind and rain.

Niu Jinda is the general of Zuo Wuwei, even if he is Lao Cheng's subordinate, he never gets on the car to rest, and insists on riding a horse.

The generals are like this, when they live in Chang'an, they can eat delicious food and enjoy all kinds of blessings, but after leading the troops to battle, they will immediately come out of the life of fine clothes and jade food, and set an example for the whole army.

Li Jing had long talked about the importance of "ordering not to go out of the second door", so when he set off, Li Chengqian handed over the command of the crown prince and the forbidden army to Lao Cheng. As for the command of the eunuchs accompanying the palace, Zhang Yun would never be handed over to a second person.

Obviously, there are large armies in front and behind, but he has always been in a state of tension, and the guards rotate day and night, even if he gets up in the middle of the night, Li Chengqian can see the back of the eunuch on duty in front of the door.

Although the empress's words were calm, the pressure on them was no less than that of the emperor.

Starting from Chang'an, passing through Gaoling, it took ten days to arrive in Fangzhou.

The army's actions were different from those of the merchants, who passed through the state capital without entering, and even the army always avoided the state capital intentionally or unintentionally, so as not to leak the news to Hu Shang too early.

Basking in the sun outside the carriage with Lao Sun, seeing Li Chengqian almost paralyzed on the carriage board, Sun Simiao said angrily: "Now that we are walking so slowly, how can we, as doctors, dispense medicine while walking." What should you do if you've been lazy like you and waited until you got to the place? ”

Glancing at the scorching sun, Li Chengqian said lazily: "No need, Daochang Sun, believe it or not, when we arrive in Shuofang, the plague has been completely suppressed, or even completely disappeared." As long as the border army is no longer stupid to fetch polluted water, it will be fine. ”

If someone else said this, Sun Simiao would inevitably go up and slap him, but this came from Li Chengqian's mouth, and he believed it for six points.

"Is there anything in that?"

The journey was very boring, so Li Chengqian was happy to discuss medical issues with Sun Simiao.

As the sun set, around four o'clock, Cheng Yanjin began to order the scouts to find a suitable place to camp and prepare for the night.

Since the army left Chang'an, it has returned to the formal system, and when camping at night, it must choose a terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the most important thing is that there must be a water source.

The procession stopped by a small river, and the soldiers began to prepare their tents, passing by the prince's carriage, and seeing the prince and Sun Daochang talking, they couldn't help but show admiration. Even Cheng bites gold and cattle into the country, which is not exempt from vulgarity. They naturally knew that these two went north to solve the plague, and if the plague was not eliminated, it would be difficult for the army to spread out in an all-round way. It seems to be a battle between the Tang Dynasty and the Eastern Turks, but if it is Li Jing's surprise attack of thousands of people that determines the victory, it is a joke.

Containment, encirclement, and victory in a battle may require twice or even three or four times the help of the main battle force.

Lao Cheng and Lao Niu did this, although Cheng Yanjin had a lot of complaints about not being able to participate in the real battlefield, but it was only in Chang'an, and after leaving Chang'an, he became the most competent and loyal general.

The food in the army was very poor, and the staple food was generally pimple soup, which was something that was boiled by adding some water to flour and then pouring it into a pot of boiling water. Slimy and looks like pig food.

Li Chengqian can't eat this thing, and the so-called soup cakes in the bowl are clearly different from the pimple soup in later generations.

Refusing the food sent by the chef in the army and asking for some flour, Li Chengqian decided to make it himself.

Called Lao Sun for help, Lao Sun's hands were very steady, and they were particularly uniform when sprinkling water, so the gnocchi stirred out by Li Chengqian was uniform in size and pleasing to the eye, much stronger than the scum of the army cook's occasional fist-size.

The soup is also exquisite, no need to be extravagant, get some dried vegetable minced, wild vegetable roots, plus a few broken eggs, put some seasonings, it is a very good soup base. When the gnocchi is added and cooked, the aroma is not very large, but it looks pleasing to the eye. Lao Cheng Lao Niu had already accompanied the sergeants to eat, and when he saw this thing, he couldn't help but make a big bowl.

This is holding on, the old cow said while burping: "The cooks in the army should be beaten, why do you make it like that, when you can make it so good." ”

Li Chengqian drank the tea sent by Zhang Yun and said: "It's hard for them, making food for nearly 20,000 people can only be as fast as possible." How can they have the time to make it as patiently as Lone. ”

Cheng Biting Jin laughed: "Okay, in the future, the old man can rest assured that he will eat small stoves with you, they are all gnocchi, where to eat is not a food, burp." ”

With a hiccup, Chen Yanjin glanced at the soldiers who were camping around the prince's camp, and exclaimed: "Walking fully armed for a day, they didn't complain at all, and the old man's soldiers had to rest for a while after eating before they had the strength to camp, and they couldn't see any fatigue." It's just a pity that such a method of raising troops can't be promoted in the whole Datang, which is a pity! ”

Yu Tai clenched his fists and said: "General Cheng thinks too much, the reason why the prince can be trained to this extent is because of time, if it is not for the war, it will be the date of the appointment between His Royal Highness and His Majesty." Therefore, the training of soldiers by the subordinate officers is also harsh. If you really want to talk about combat strength, maybe they can't compare with Zuo Wuwei's veterans of a hundred battles. ”

This is the truth, the soldiers who have been on the battlefield once in total are no different from the little dolls in the Datang military. Soldiers, only blood and fire can be tempered.

After glancing at the sky and estimating the distance he walked out, Li Chengqian asked Niu Jinda with the mentality of asking if he didn't understand: "Niu Gong, why are we walking so slowly?" If this continues, I'm afraid we will not be able to reach Shuofang until September. ”

Niu Jinda explained: "This is also a helpless thing, the march of the large army is not like this, the soldiers and horses have not moved, and it is common practice for grain and grass to go first." However, it is different when we go to Longyou, and we must carry our own grain and grass. Now we are near Fangzhou, waiting for Duzhou, until Shuofang, there is no state capital, no family, and the baggage team has no way to leave supplies for the army. With a large army of baggage, they walked more slowly. Our grain and grass can be eaten all the way to Longyou, and only when we get to Longyou can we get official grain and grass. ”

After listening to Niu Jinda's explanation, Li Chengqian understood. There is still no one to make trouble, and the population of Datang will always inadvertently cause problems to be done.

This is the end of the chat.

Lao Cheng and Lao Niu began to inspect the camp, and Li Chengqian also patted the soil on his buttocks and began to write letters to Chang'an. Duzhou is the last place where you can send a letter, and you have to write to Chang'an to worry about your humanity and say goodbye!

The days of the march were boring, but fortunately, with a chessboard in the carriage, Li Chengqian could still play chess with Sun Simiao.

The chessboard made of iron sheets and the chess pieces of magnets make it impossible to mess up the chess game even in a bumpy carriage.

Go is very interesting, and Lao Sun is also a person with a super IQ, so the journey is no longer boring.

The ability of the army is not at all comparable to that of Orion, but a team of more than a dozen people has captured a lot of goats.

At this time, the goats are not all domestic, and they can be killed and eaten by encountering barren mountains and mountains, anyway, there are many of them, and no one will say that they belong to his family. Fastest update... / .. /

sliced some mutton, and Li Chengqian invited Sun Simiao to taste the hot pot once. Lao Sun's usual diet is very light, all rice and vegetables. But being in the grassland for the winter, not having a body of fat reserves is a big problem. For the sake of his body, Li Chengqian had to trick him into eating more meat.

Don't feel bored, and the journey will pass quickly. In August, before the Mid-Autumn Festival, it was already so cold on the grassland that people couldn't help but wear thick clothes. In many places, the grass even has a tendency to turn yellow.

Chai Shao of Shuofang sent 2,000 cavalry to meet the crown prince and Sun Simiao, led by Chai Zhewei, Cheng Chuhei and Changsun Chong.

As for Lao Cheng, if it weren't for the mission of escorting the prince, they wouldn't have come close to Shuofang. It is very taboo for two leading generals from different regions to meet with their troops.

They are all acquaintances, so Cheng Chuhei resolutely continued to move forward and said a few words to his father. Datang does not have the tradition of father and son going into battle together, but the battle to destroy the country is really tempting, so Cheng Yanjin tried his best not to participate, and also got his son over.

The eldest grandson Chong and Chai Zhewei warmly greeted Li Chengqian, and the way to greet them was to rush into the carriage and pull Li Chengqian's sleeve to ask for vegetables under Zhang Yun's cold gaze.

This means that they have the identity of the imperial family, otherwise they would have been cut into the mud when they attacked the prince's car without unloading their weapons.

"Cheng Qian, don't you know, there are all herdsmen around Shuofang, and when the weather was warm before, there was still a little wild vegetable to eat. But seeing that winter was about to begin, the chief manager ordered to stock up on wild vegetables for winter use, and not to eat them on weekdays. It's all in your pampered mouth in Chongwen Pavilion, how can you tolerate the last meal of mutton and the next meal of beef? ”

Unlike the Central Plains, where there are more vegetables and less meat to almost nothing, the grassland has more meat and few vegetables to almost nothing. At first glance, you may think it's not bad, but after a long time, you won't be able to stand it.

took out a bag of dried fruit from the cupboard in the carriage and handed it to Chai Zhewei and Changsun Chong, but they didn't see these two guys spit out the kernels, and stuffed them into their mouths one by one.

The present day of these two people is their own tomorrow.

However, thinking of the materials that the caravan had transported before, Li Chengqian breathed a sigh of relief.

Escorted by two thousand cavalry, the prince's party entered the city of Shuofang.

It is a city, but it is made of clay. As a newly acquired territory of the Tang Dynasty, Shuofang City is not yet in the transformation plan of the Ministry of War. The cement workshop was constantly expanding, and the cement produced was first sent to the most war-prone city in Datang.

Passing through the low city gate hole, I saw Chai Shao and the Xue brothers.

Not daring to hold it up, Li Chengqian hurriedly got out of the carriage and stood in front of the carriage to return the salute.

"Looking forward to the stars, looking forward to the moon, it can be regarded as looking forward to His Highness and Sun Daochang! Although the plague has been suppressed, it has not been stopped, and I am very worried. I also hope that Sun Daochang can solve our suffering! ”

At the beginning, it was said to the prince, and then it was all directed at Sun Simiao.

It's not that the situation is critical, Chai Shao won't be so rude to Li Chengqian, even if the two are relatives.

Sun Simiao nodded: "Sharing the worries of our army is a matter of poor nature, and send a soldier to guide the way, let me wait to see the epidemic area." ”

Li Chengqian pointed at Yu Tai and said, "The chief manager can arrange the lonely soldiers, and the lonely also has some opinions on the plague, so go over with Sun Daochang to have a look." ”

Although he was confused, seeing Sun Simiao nodding, Chai Shao could only agree.

An area in the southern part of Shuofang City has now become a peerless area. Soldiers with knives stood guard around the barricades, and no one inside was allowed to come out. The fireworks have not been extinguished here. It was the one who was still alive, and he had no choice but to burn the dead under the command, so that the plague would not spread.

Chai Shao's approach is correct, even if it is a little ruthless, but it is correct.

Seeing that those generals looked at the blockade area with unbearable expressions, Li Chengqian couldn't help but say: "The chief manager is doing the right thing, now is the season of the north wind, and it is an effective way to block people suffering from the plague here in the south of the city." It's just that a pure blockade is not suitable, so they should be given some medicine. ”

After speaking, Li Chengqian said to Sun Simiao: "Daochang Sun, you start dispensing medicine immediately and send it inside." As for Lone, he will take over the camp for wounded soldiers. ”

Sun Simiao nodded, tears almost falling.

If what the prince said during the trip is true, then I am afraid that only a few of these people in the blockade area will survive. He dispensed medicine and sent it in, just to do his best. Over the years, he has studied many remedies for the plague, but all of them have failed. Perhaps, as the prince said, the plague is difficult to treat with medicinal stones, and the effect of medicinal stones is still auxiliary, and only the patient's own body can defeat the plague in the end.

For Chai Shao, it is a good thing that the prince will leave the power of the injured barracks as soon as he arrives. If the prince wants to go to war with red eyes, it will be a disaster for them. When the time comes, will they protect the crown prince, or will they fight?

As for the wounded barracks, it is one of the most neglected places in the army, as long as the prince takes care of the wounded soldiers in the wounded barracks, and when the war is over, he can also end up with a reputation of "loving soldiers like sons", which is good for everyone.

When Li Chengqian put on a mask and a white linen protective suit and entered the wounded barracks, his lungs couldn't help but explode.

In the wounded barracks, the most placed is the ash jar, even if this is a place where the mortality rate is higher than that of the battlefield, it can't be arranged like this!

Withdraw! Evacuate them all!

The head of the doctor in the wounded barracks had no choice but to let the prince come to Hu, in his opinion, the young prince came to the wounded barracks, it was obviously nonsense, it was better to send Sun Daochang over!

But he couldn't say what he said in his heart, so he could only listen to the prince's arrangement with a bitter face.

Walking into a room of wounded soldiers, Li Chengqian became angry again.

A wounded soldier in the corner was coughing, but there were so many people in the room. I know that typhoid fever is difficult to treat, so I don't know isolation!

So, under Li Chengqian's orders, the soldiers who were infected with typhoid fever lived separately from the soldiers who were not infected.

There are always wounded soldiers who are sent to the wounded barracks, and although the Tang Dynasty has no idea of officially starting a war, clashes will always break out between the herdsmen on the border line and the scouts of the Tang army. And the Turkic arrows, as long as they hit a Tang soldier, it was possible to end a life, even if it didn't hit the vital point.

Distribute alcohol!

Amid the screams of the wounded, the medic continued to wash his wounds with alcohol with tears streaming down his face. They all knew about wine stings, but the prince ordered them, and they had to do it!

It was even more miserable for those who had been cut with a knife, and when they returned to the barracks, they had to be stitched up by a military doctor with a needle and something called sheep gut. Stitch by stitch is much more difficult than being knifed. You can't resist, because it's the prince who gave this order!

A wave of resentment against the prince was quietly accumulating in the wounded barracks.

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty generally do not resist their superiors, because the slightest resistance will lead to death. But if you really can't stand it anymore and many people resist together, it will turn into a mutiny. Whoever leads the army will be punished severely.

However, when the new wounded soldier found that his wound showed no signs of inflammation at all, but was growing very quickly, he honestly shut his mouth.

Although I am not sure if it is the liquor and the suture housekeeping, it is true that none of them are inflamed. Including the unlucky guy whose stomach was cut open, none of the new wounded soldiers hiccups because of infection. If the blessing of the gods is simply nonsense, even if it was cut by a knife before, it may die of inflammation.

And the earliest wounded soldiers in the wounded battalion were also well cared for. There is no shortage of talents in the army who can build walls, so Li Chengqian ordered these people to build pots and stoves. As long as there is a fire in the house, it will become warm, and many people with typhoid fever were surprised to find that their noses were not blocked and their coughs were not so bad after drinking a bowl of medicine prepared by Sun Simiao and sleeping with their heads covered for a day.

When the whole of the wounded barracks found out that the prince's methods were indeed effective, they immediately reviewed their dark thoughts.

When he encounters a wounded soldier who has been cleaned by strong wine and is still cursing, he will immediately have a bandage unwrapped and unwound to show him the wound.

"Shut up! Listen to the arrangements of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! You know what a dick! ”