Chapter 1098: Mobei
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Although it is true that the current time is summer, but in the north of Yinshan Mountain, in the depths of the desert, it seems that there are only two seasons in a year, spring and winter. Vertex updates are the fastest
The wind in Mobei is always very aggressive, whistling from one side to the other, the difference is only in wielding a small knife or cutting people with a big knife......
Zhao Yun stood on a grassy slope, and the wind swept by, blowing the cloak behind him high.
At the bottom of the slope, in the middle of this meadow, there is a puddle of water, and the soldiers are camping on the edge of the puddle, some are washing with war horses, and some are setting up tents, busy and orderly.
Most of the area north of Yinshan is covered by this terrain.
This is the Gobi.
The wind blowing from the north was like a knife, cutting not only people, but also the ground. The angular rocks on the ground are proof enough.
If you are not familiar with the terrain, not only is it easy to get lost, but the key is not like the south of the Yin Mountain, as long as you don't go to the desert wasteland, it is still relatively easy to find a water source. Water sources are scarce here, and if you are not careful, you may be buried in the yellow sand and gravel because there is no water source to replenish it.
Zhao Yun has seen a lot of white bones on this trip to the north. There are people, there are beasts, and even these bones are a few miles away from the next water source, but it is the difference between life and death.
This road is said to be the road of conquest, but in fact it is more like the road of life and death. As long as you survive, you will win. At this moment, Zhao Yun can really feel why these nomadic Hu people seem to be a little drunk today and drunk today, and life and death are even more indifferent, I am afraid that this vast Gobi Desert is the answer.
Zhao Yun looked back, and around the puddle, the Han and Hu people were happily singing and dancing, happy to find such a nest of water of life. From this point of view, if you take such a rough look, you can't tell clearly which are Han people and those who are Hu people, and they are all the same happy and excited at this moment......
It seemed that he was infected by his soldiers, Zhao Yun also smiled slightly, but soon he looked up at the vast sky, and the smile on his face shrank back little by little.
After taking the remnants of Montenegro to Yinshan, Zhao Yun immediately received an order to lead the team north to the desert......
Yinshan was single-handedly run by General Zhengxi, and no one could deny this, so it was naturally impossible for Fei Qian to give Zhao Yun the opportunity to participate in the specific deployment and arrangement of this group of personnel in Montenegro, and Zhao Yun naturally understood this. But understanding does not mean that you can understand, even if you can understand, it does not mean that you can accept it willingly in your heart, but in addition to silently accepting, Zhao Yun has no other way......
For these soldiers at the lower level, whether they are Han or Hu, in fact, most of them don't care about how to place the remnants of this Black Mountain, because they have nothing to do with them, but for Zhao Yun, it is naturally a little different.
The main reason is because of Zhang Yan's words before he died.
If it weren't for Zhang Yan's words, Zhao Yun wouldn't have become so deep now. When the head of Zhang Yan, the former leader of his own and the great commander who was kind to him, was in his hands, Zhao Yun's mood was indeed indescribably complicated.
If Zhang Yan hadn't taken him in back then, perhaps Zhao Yun would have died on the way to escape from Changshan......
If it weren't for Zhang Yan's promotion back then, maybe Zhao Yun wouldn't have had the opportunity to be a small commander at all, and naturally he wouldn't have the opportunity he has today......
And now, Zhang Yan is dead.
Die in your own hands, in front of your own.
If Zhao Yun was a person with a cold nature, I am afraid that he would have already gone to the clouds and started his own life as if nothing happened......
It's a pity that Zhao Yun is not such a person.
It is precisely because of this that Zhao Yun is distressed.
If you are a small soldier, naturally even if you are distressed, you can't have much effect, even if you dismantle Zhao Yun alone, how many nails can you hit with the iron in this body? But now there are more than 2,000 people under his command, of which nearly 1,000 are the old subordinates of the original Montenegro, and how to go in the future has become a burden hovering in Zhao Yun's heart.
Out of Mobei, Zhao Yun is basically the first soldier, no matter how difficult and dangerous the road, no matter how dangerous the situation, he is at the forefront, it seems that only the battle on the edge of life and death can make Zhao Yun temporarily forget the torment in his heart.
will be the courage of the army, Zhao Yun is so brave, and his soldiers are naturally strong, and this way is simply trampling on the blood and bones of Xianbei people.
The farther north, the more silent Zhao Yun became, day after day, often within a day, he couldn't say a few words, and the person quickly lost weight, the original square face was slimmed out of the pointed chin, as for the young childishness between the eyebrows and eyes, it was almost polished cleanly, only hard and strong, just like the gravel on the Gobi Desert.
What now?
What about the future?
These problems in my heart are like the wind in Mobei, whistling, rolling up sand and gravel, grinding in my heart until my heart is blurred......
“…… Report to...... Lieutenant, here...... It's almost five hundred miles away from Yinshan...... "An old soldier walked up from the bottom of the slope, hesitated for a moment, but said anyway.
The silent Zhao Yun made the soldiers more awe-inspiring, but it also added a lot of estrangement, at least now, the soldiers at the grassroots level did not dare to laugh with Zhao Yun at will, even these old soldiers who were originally more familiar with Zhao Yun were the same.
Zhao Yun was like a statue, the lines on his emaciated face were like the hardest rocks, and he was silent for a long time before he said, "I will return tomorrow." ”
This time, Zhao Yun's task was to clean up all the Xianbei tribes in the north of Yinshan Mountain, within five hundred miles of the desert, and create an extremely cruel no-man's land......
Now it's time to return.
In fact, creating a no-man's land is not as difficult as people think, and there are traces to clear the Xianbei tribe, after all, Xianbei is also a human being, and there are livestock, so it must be to drink water, so in fact, it is along the water source, all the way to the north, and other Gobi deserts without water sources do not need to be ignored at all, because that side was originally a forbidden area for life.
Of course, the premise of this is to have a guide who is familiar with the road and the distribution of water sources in this generation, but this may still be a tricky problem for others, but for Fei Qian, the general of Zhengxi, there are not only the Xiongnu, but also the Qiang people, and even those Xianbei people who were captured early in the morning, so it is not much difficult to find some guides who understand the distribution of water sources in Mobei.
Speaking of these Hu people is also quite interesting, maybe it is the law of the jungle on the grassland that they have become accustomed to, maybe it is because they have changed from the Xiongnu to the Xianbei like a leader for so many years, or maybe they have not formed their own set of more systematic cultural inheritance, no matter what the reason, these Hu people do not seem to show much yang and yin for the current commander of the general Fei Qian, and sometimes it is a little surprising to be honest.
In fact, there were many such Hu people in the Han Dynasty, even in the heyday of the Xiongnu, there were still a large number of Hu people, whether they were Qiang, Xiongnu, or Donghu, they were willing to obey the recruitment and orders of the Han Dynasty.
After receiving Zhao Yun's order, both the Han soldiers and the Hu people began to prepare, and the most important task was naturally to refill the water bladders that had been shriveled up. In this desert north region, water is equivalent to the continuation of life, and even those big animals seem to understand something, each of them is trying to bury their heads on the edge of the puddle, drinking water with a bang, as if they want to make up for the lack of water on the way at once, or try to reserve the water on the way back......
At dawn, everyone got up and prepared to return.
Zhao Yun silently came to the edge of the puddle, and he was going to perform the second task......
The puddle is clear. I don't know if it's the water brought by the underground river, it's extremely sweet, but now Zhao Yun needs to completely destroy this water source.
Although it is temporary, during the period of time when the water is polluted, humans do not need to think about drinking such water directly......
At least at this time, both Han and Hu people rarely have the habit of boiling water before drinking.
"Tie the cattle and sheep, kill them, sink them." Zhao Yun took one last look at the clear puddle, turned around and ordered.
The screams of the animals soon faded away, and with the red color rippling above the puddles, a water source that could have been drunk could have turned into poisonous water rich in various bacteria and microorganisms in a short time.
A large number of bacteria and microorganisms produced after the decomposition of animal carcasses will continue to multiply in this puddle, and it only takes two or three days to reach an astronomical value......
In the Han Dynasty, when there were no antibiotics, once there was a serious infection of bacteria and fungi, it often meant one thing, death.
Normally, if the carcass of an animal is exposed to the wild, without any treatment or any touch damage, it will enter the ** period in about 3 days, and it will take up to about a year for the whole to be clean and finally become white bones.
If it is buried in the soil and completely decays into white bones, it generally takes seven to eight years, and it takes longer to immerse in water than the white bones in the soil, and it may even take more than ten years.
In other words, if the Hu people had not thoroughly cleaned the puddle of rotting animals, it would have taken ten years for the puddle to gradually return to its original cleanliness.
In fact, this kind of behavior was first used by the Huns.
In the old age of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, after forcing the death of the crown prince Liu Ju and Empress Wei, he killed tens of thousands of people, and the road to governance was blocked for a while, and when Li Guangli, the general of the second division, was ordered to send troops, he heard that the prime minister Liu Quyak and Li Guangli had conspired to establish the king of Changyi Liu as the crown prince......
As a result, it naturally led to the defeat of Li Guangli, and the news came, and the whole country was in turmoil, which forced Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to have a little reflection, or compromise, and finally issued a "Luntai Guilty Edict", in which it was mentioned that the Xiongnu made witches, tied horses and buried them in the roads and waters, and used to curse the Han army.
This is probably the first biochemical attack......
When several Hu veterans saw this scene, they turned over and dismounted, fell to the ground, pressed their heads tightly into their palms, and muttered in a low voice, not knowing what to say anymore......
Such abnormal behavior naturally attracted Zhao Yun's attention. Zhao Yun glanced at it, his eyes flickered a few times, and he rode his horse in front of these Hu veterans and said, "Why is this so? ”
The old Hu man kowtowed on the ground and said, "Captain, do this, this thing...... It's going to be short-lived......"
Another Hu man said, "Our witches have done it before...... Later, he died very early......"
"Folded Shou?" Zhao Yun frowned.
The mystical concept of the Han Dynasty was still very strong, and the gods and all kinds of gods had a certain market, and they would not have exclusivity at every turn like later generations, attacking other beliefs.
Or the current Han Dynasty, it is like a market that has just been developed, all the gods want to make this market bigger, and it has not yet reached a saturated state, and there is no competition......
Therefore, the Hu people believe in immortality, or what is the white stone god, and the Han people do not feel that there is any kind of prohibition, of course, in fact, the belief of the Han people is also relatively chaotic in this era, not to mention others, there are five emperors in Guangtian, and one of them is the incarnation of Liu Bang, so it is said that the belief in that one is fixed, and there is really no such thing.
Therefore, when the old Hu people talked about Changshengtian, Zhao Yun didn't feel that the Hu people's Changshengtian couldn't control his head, so he insulted or slandered, but felt that Changshengtian was like another Heavenly Emperor, the Heavenly Emperor of the Hu people, and there was no need to worry about anything.
"Yes, yes...... "Old Hu Ren kowtowed again and again, and said, "We are the school captain, praying to the immortal heaven......"
Zhao Yun was silent for a moment, and said lightly: "Get up!" Certain...... No need to pray......"
After finishing speaking, Zhao Yun immediately turned his horse's head and ordered loudly: "The whole army!" Leave! ”
This matter, Zhao Yun is not just going to do this time, not just in this place, but all the water sources within five hundred miles of the north of Yin Mountain, they will do this!
If it is a longevity, it will be a longevity!
The world is so chaotic, you can only rely on your heart!
For the stability of the border and the stability of the people, even if you lose your life, you are willing!
It's just that......
General Zhengxi, don't let me down......
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