Chapter 445 The fox actually raises pigeons

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Broadly speaking, Liu Hanshao knew that the Han Dynasty had camels, after all, Zhang Qian's envoys to the Western Regions had passed through the Silk Road, and most of the merchants relied on camel caravans. But Liu Han lived in Luoyang when he was a child, when the world was turbulent and the imperial court was declining, how could there be a camel caravan? Later, I went to Chang'an once to the west, and I still resisted Hulu, so how could I have the heart to find a camel?

Moreover, this matter cannot be blamed entirely on the scumbags, because the people of the Han Dynasty did not call the camel camel, but called it "camel", and the scumbag didn't even know the word "camel", so what else could they know what "camel" was? In parentheses, the word "橐" is also pronounced camel sound.

In addition, there is another reason, at that time, the self-confidence and superiority of the Han people were all bursting, not only despised the surrounding barbarians and Qianghu, but also despised many of their things, and the camel was unfortunate, belonging to the "foreign animal", and was also despised. As for the Hu people, the Huns did not need camels to plow the land, and they were too slow to ride, at most they were used to carry something and take the road of the Gobi Desert, which was not easy to walk, so the camels were very unfortunate and belonged to their "cheap animals".

Therefore, when Liu Hanshao asked Zhao Yun to secretly raise camels, Zhao Yun was very surprised, and when Zhao Yun told Liu Hanshao that they had now raised 50,000 or 60,000 camels, Liu Hanshao was also surprised.

Because the Fourth Brigade had attacked and merged with the north before, raiding Shan Yuting, and later Lu Bu liked to "train troops", but he really went back to grab livestock. Horses, cattle and sheep, everyone rushed to ask for them, and camels were "strange and cheap", and no one really grabbed them. Then there is no need to wait for Wang to make trouble and buy it quietly, Zhao Yun will be so close.

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"Although the desert Gobi is large, it is long from east to west, narrow from north to south, from our Wuyuan to Longcheng, in fact, it is less than two thousand miles. Don't look at the camel's slow walking, but it has endurance, it can walk nearly 100 miles in a day, and 20 days is enough to walk Dragon City. Moreover, it has great strength, two camels pull the cart, and a squad of soldiers can sit on it, that is to say, as long as we use three thousand camels to pull the cart, we can transport the strength of a division from Wuyuan to Longcheng in twenty days! What's more, even if there is no forage or water for these 20 days, it can survive it! ”

Lu Bu couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Uncle, do you mean to use camels to pull carts and carry the soldiers away?" ”

"Of course. Your five armies have a lot of horses, and your infantry has donkeys to ride, but other armies are not as extravagant as you. Now that our road conditions are getting better and better, we can build more vehicles, which can not only be used to transport grain and grass, but also can be transported together by soldiers, so that the brothers can have less physical exertion and more strength to fight. ”

Everyone here is a leading general, and they know it very well. The army marched, carrying heavy grain and grass, and the normal speed was about 30 miles a day, because it was necessary to camp every day, and it was necessary to reserve some physical strength to prevent encountering the enemy. If you march for a short distance and carry a lot of grain and grass, you can walk about fifty or sixty miles, and if you march quickly, you can reach the speed of 100 miles a day.

However, a rapid march is not something that any army can do, and it is usually in the event of an emergency, or pursuit, or seizure, or support, that a rapid march will be considered, and it is likely that after running a hundred miles, there will be another battle. If the combat effectiveness of the troops is not good, they will be seriously reduced on the way, and their armor will be lost.

If a camel pulls a cart and can carry the soldiers at a speed similar to a rapid march, it is not just a matter of how fast it is, because the physical exertion of the soldiers in the cart is limited, so every unit can be immediately put into the battlefield, and this effect is exciting to think about.

The crowd was thrilled with excitement. I always felt that the desert Gobi was too big, whether it was the Xiongnu or Xianbei, as long as I drilled inside, there was nowhere to find it. Now listening to what the commander said, it seems that the desert Gobi is not so big, and those who ride donkeys donkeys don't seem to be able to escape the commander's palm.

Sure enough, everyone only heard Liu Hanshao say again: "They are also people, no matter how fast they run on a donkey, there are traces to follow." Because if you are a human being, you have to eat, and if you are a human being, you have to drink water. We may not be able to catch up with them, we may not be able to find them, but we can always find water, right? As long as we find a way to take the water, do you think they will come back to us of their own accord? In addition, my brother heard that every May, they have to meet in Dragon City, one to worship God, two to do some business, and three to contact feelings, and then all the departments will go, which can be regarded as the time when they are most together. This is also an opportunity for us. They choose to come to plunder in summer and autumn every year, because at that time the livestock are full and fat, so they have the strength to carry them around, and in winter and spring the cattle are hungry and cold, and those who can survive cannot carry them. But we are different, we have crops and straw, and in winter we can use it as fodder, so that the livestock do not lose fat, and in winter and spring, we can still ride horses and fight. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Hanshao asked jokingly: "Xiaobu, are you interested in attending the May Conference in the future?" ”

Lu Bu said unequivocally: "Yes! That has to go! ”

Dainde suddenly said amusedly: "When the time comes, you will ride a red rabbit, hold a halberd, and see how those bearded people riding thin horses are still jumping in front of you." ”

Lu Bu said disdainfully: "Even if they ride fat horses, I will clean them up as well." Besides, their horses are thin or not, what does it matter to me? I didn't make you hungry and thin. ”

Everyone laughed, but no one was surprised that Dai Ender was able to say "Hulu", thinking about it, he originally had no feelings for the so-called Southern Huns, let alone the current Xianbei? Maybe Lao Dai himself is not aware of it, and the most valuable thing about him now is not to be a teacher, but to have a sense of belonging and superiority.

After everyone laughed, Liu Han Shaofu said again: "So, Xiaobu, if you want to step on Dragon City in the future, you have to endure it now." There are hundreds of thousands of people in Mo Nan Xianbei, don't beat them into a group, let's be anxious with us, don't say let's go to Longcheng when the time comes, it's not good for people to go to Luoyang, even your little Bieye will have to be robbed by others. ”

"They dare ......"

Lu Bu just wanted to be angry, but suddenly understood Liu Hanshao's hard work, and said with a wry smile: "Don't worry, uncle, I will listen to you." ”

Liu Hanshao said with relief: "That's right, our task now is to train the soldiers, restore the national strength, reconnoiter more, investigate more, and when they make enough trouble on their own, it will be time for us to play with them." ”

Liu Hanshao said as if he was going to tease the little girls, everyone laughed when they heard it, but Xun You said: "Commander, the matter of reconnoitring the enemy's situation, our staff of the five armies has also been doing it, and we have also sent many reconnaissance teams to go deep into the desert Gobi and the hinterland of Hulu to reconnoiter the terrain and draw maps. Because we have a compass, we are not afraid of getting lost, but the desert Gobi is too big, and there are not many significant signs for reference, so it is not easy to draw a map. In addition, the reconnaissance team may also encounter enemies, beasts, or their own sudden illness, in order to speed up the transmission of news, we also in Sohu's suggestion, domesticated the military pigeons. It's just that sometimes the people come back but the pigeons don't come back, or the pigeons come back and the people don't come back. ”

"Well, you guys did a good job. The brothers are all good! ”

Liu Hanshao's face was solemn, on the one hand, of course, he felt heavy pain for the sacrificed soldiers, and on the other hand, he felt guilty for the stupidity he had committed.

In order to clean up Dong Zhuo, Liu Hanshao also thought of using carrier pigeons to deliver news, but he felt that that thing was troublesome, he ate a lot of food, and he was unreliable. But the scumbags don't know that even during World War I and World War II, with telephones and radios, military pigeons still played a huge role on the battlefield, because telephone lines may be cut, radios may be interfered with, even if military pigeons are unreliable, even if only one of the hundreds comes back, it is possible to bring back important information.

Think about it, pigeons have accompanied human beings for thousands of years, have been sought after in different periods and different countries, and have played an important role, which is a scumbag who is qualified to dislike? Even Liu Bangbang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, was once chased by Xiang Yu's pursuers and hid in a dry well, because there were two pigeons falling by the well, and the pursuers did not suspect that there were Tibetans here, so that Liu Bangbang escaped. Look, if it weren't for the pigeons, the "Da Han" would have been renamed "Da Chu", how could you have anything to do with Liu Han?

However, Liu Hanshao does not necessarily dislike pigeons, but dislikes those who shout on TV all day long, "Go, send a letter to Lao Wang." "Stuff. Moreover, at that time, the world was so chaotic, people starved to death everywhere, and Luoyang City was not a place where Liu Hanshao had the final say, how could he have the heart to raise pigeons?

Fortunately, when Liu Hanshao caught the old fox later, when Jia Xu persuaded Huangfu Song, he sent the news with pigeons, but no one cared about this detail at that time. Later, Ma Teng used Ma Yunlu to pretend to be a proton, and the news was discovered by Sohu, and when he reported to Liu Hanshao in the summer, he inadvertently said: "If our news can be transmitted faster, the trouble may not be the old horse." The students heard that Vice President Jia Zuo would use pigeons to send messages, and the principal thought it was so feasible? ”

The post stations of the Han Dynasty only carried official news, regardless of the transmission of folk news, so at that time, people also used pigeons to transmit news. It's just that it's not easy to domesticate carrier pigeons, and it may often be unreliable, and it needs a lot of food, and ordinary people can't afford to play at all, so this method is also extremely rare.

But Jia Xu grew up in Liangzhou, although the family did not have much money, but he was not so poor that he could not afford to raise pigeons. The so-called carrier pigeon, a kind of "snow pigeon", is native to Liangzhou.

I never thought that the old fox would have the unique skill of raising pigeons.

It was after these things that Liu Hanshao secretly corrected his mistakes and ordered Sohu to start domesticating carrier pigeons for communication purposes, so it was not too late to wake up.

"Do you have any confidentiality measures for your military pigeon transmission?"

"There are code words."

"It is necessary to intensify efforts in this regard and strive to develop several more sets of passwords. It is better to have the message not to be delivered, than to be captured and deciphered by the enemy. ”

Liu Hanshao thought for a while, and then said: "In addition, replace the Chinese characters on the compass with letters, and tell the reconnaissance team that in case of encountering an enemy, it may be unfortunate to destroy the compass and telescope first." ”

Xun You immediately replied: "Yes! ”

About the pigeon's "this grunt pinched don't broadcast" belongs to Liu Hanshao's inner drama, at least in the eyes of everyone, Liu Hanshao is still quite wise and martial, but Liu Hanshao immediately gave a not-so-wise order: "Go tell Li Erwa, kill a few camels, and invite the brothers to eat meat at night!" ”