Just as Zuo Sanxiang proposed to collect troops and return to Gaochang, Liu Jingchuan shook his head and looked sad, "It's too late, Zuo Shuai, in less than three days, there will be heavy snow, we can't go far, horses will freeze to death, and people will freeze to death." For now, the only way to do this is to take advantage of the fact that the damp poison has not yet recovered, quickly collect the roots and bark of the trees outside the city, dig holes in the ground and search out the rats and other things, otherwise we will not survive the melting of the ice and snow next spring! ”

Everyone was also exhausted, and although they were winning battles every day, they had nothing to do but capture some weapons and armor.

At this time, as soon as I heard that it was about to snow and the supplies were insufficient, the commanders of the Liang army couldn't help but panic.

Seeing that the army's heart was about to collapse, Zuo Sanxiang glanced at Fu Dingyuan, stood up, walked back and forth two steps and sat down.

Zuo Sanxiang cleared his throat, "There is no endless road, with Lord Liu here, we will not be cold and hungry, by the way, Dingyuan, what is a good way to keep out the cold in winter here!" ”

Fu Dingyuan pointed to his feet, "Dig a hole in the house, people hide in the hole, and the wind and snow can't come in!" First, you can save firewood, second, you can dig a hole in the ground to keep warm, and sometimes you can dig something useful. For example, the coins of the Han Dynasty, and the nests of rats or badgers. ”

"Is there any other good way to do it besides digging a hole, such as what to do with the brother who guards the wall and the brother who guards the watchtower of Beacon Castle?"

Fu Dingyuan touched his head, "This is easy to do, make a tent with the clothes of the seized wet poisoners, and the brothers will make a fire in the tent, and then put on their clothes!" However, the wind and snow here are too big, the tents are not needed, and the damp poison people can't get up to the city wall in the snow, they are all frozen, and it is difficult to walk! ”

"I've heard that there are hunters who go into the mountains to hunt in this kind of snowy weather, why can they walk?" The third prime minister from the left then asked his question

"The soles of the hunters' shoes are different from ours, with serrations and nails, so they can be sturdy to step on."

"That's it, what the hunter can do, we can also try, the wet poisoner may not know. It's going to snow then, and we still can't let up on this defense! ”

At this point, the topic had shifted, and everyone began to whisper about the snowy day hunting and so on.

But Liu Jingchuan is too responsible, "Zuo Shuai, there are not many medicinal materials to prevent typhoid fever in winter, in case a brother is infected with typhoid fever at that time, it will be troublesome, but there is a lack of medicinal materials to treat typhoid fever in the local area!" Even if you dig it, you won't have anywhere to dig it. This thing"

The third on the left almost vomited blood, this kind of thing was said in front of more than a dozen commanders and deputy commanders, and the military heart that had just been mentioned suddenly fell back.

"This typhoid fever is spread together by one to ten, and ten to a hundred, this"

"When the time comes, don't go out if you have typhoid fever, don't beat us with wet poison, we will be gone!"

"It's not good, the ancestors of the Han Dynasty were just like us, no one was afraid on the battlefield, but if you get sick, you can't do anything!"

"It seems to be fate, it is destined that we Central Plains people will not be able to get out of the Green Ridge, so we can only fight here!"

Zuo Sanxiang's face became more and more ugly, and at this time, someone outside the door shouted, "Report to Zuo Shuai!" Someone outside the city asks to see you! ”

"Who? Come here at this time, grab it first! ”

Zuo Sanxiang was upset, so he asked the herald to arrest the person who asked to see him first.

"Zuo Shuai, outside the city is a convoy of hundreds of camel carts! We can't catch it until we go out together! ”

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Hearing hundreds of camel carts, Zuo Sanxiang and everyone's eyes lit up, and they stood up together, "Let's go, take Ben Shuai to have a look!" ”

When I went to the city, I saw a person in the city, a mink hat, a fox fur, a tiger skin scarf around his neck, and waved at Zuo Sanxiang, "Lord Zuo, the villain is Huxi Cliff, don't you remember?" ”

Zuo Sanxiang couldn't believe his ears, and hurriedly rubbed his eyes, "Hu Xiya, why did you come here?" This convoy is yours? You're from the east, so you've been to Gaochang? ”

Hu Xiya bent down and saluted, "Zuo Shuai, this convoy was hired by me from Chang'an, there are few people, there are many camels and goods, and it is specially given to Zuo Shuai!" Gaochang City only loaded goods for one day, in order not to miss Zuo Shuai's big event, so the starry night and straight to Luntai! ”

"Haha, come on, open the door, and take Hu Xiya and his convoy! If you came from the west, I thought you were a lobbyist sent by the Wet Poisoners! ”

Having said that, Zuo Sanxiang still ordered Ma Hua Fu Dingyuan and Wang Bingsan to take people out of the city to receive supplies, and he was still not very at ease with this businessman Hu Xiya.

However, with hundreds of truckloads of supplies entering the city, the military spirit in the city can be completely stabilized, no matter whether this Huxi Cliff is a real or fake delivery, the three phases of the east and west and the left are to be decided.

Bringing Hu Xiya into the city, Zuo Sanxiang got straight to the point, "Do you know that these hundreds of truckloads of supplies can't get out of this luntai city, and I, the general of Zhengxi, don't have any money for you!" ”

"Zuo Shuai laughed, what Zuo Shuai wants to do is to surpass the previous generation of famous generals, in the future, my Liang cavalry will cross the Green Ridge, and my Daliang's caravan will be unimpeded in the Western Regions from now on, and I don't have to be exploited by the wet poisoners, and I can earn back these hundreds of truckloads of materials at any time!"

Zuo Sanxiang was stunned for a moment, and then smiled, "Good boy, I don't see it, you still have such ambitions." However, from Chang'an to Luntai, nearly 10,000 miles away, you are afraid that you will be bankrupt! What are you going to do business with in the future? ”

Hu Xiya took out a thick account book from his arms, "Zuo Shuai, you are the best at fighting, but you are not as good as me in business, when I set off from Chang'an, it was 500 ox carts of silk and porcelain, and when I arrived in Jiuquan, I sold the cattle and porcelain and silk, and exchanged for 500 horses, and the cart was loaded with wine, dried vegetables, iron pots and other sundries, and when I arrived at Yumen Pass, I resold it again, collected 500 camels in the local area, and loaded the weeds, roots, bark and beef and mutton that others did not want to lower the price. ”

Zuo Sanxiang nodded, "No, you bought this beef and mutton and it was rotten, wouldn't it be a big loss?" You kid,"

"I really can't hide it from Zuo Shuai, before I arrived in Jiuquan, I took a detour to the West Sea, and every car and every piece of our clothes were soaked in the salt lake on the other side of the West Sea. It's not bad for salt, so well, this beef and mutton has become salted jerky! Of course, the specific method is too cumbersome, so I won't talk about it, so as not to learn my business by Zuo Shuai in the future! ”

As soon as they heard that there was beef and mutton jerky on the car, everyone was happy, and Liu Jingchuan was also busy asking what medicinal herbs those weeds and roots and bark weeds weed were.

It seems that this Huxi Cliff is really a genius, and even angelica, cinnamon branches, peony, tongcao, jujube, and licorice are all available to prevent typhoid fever.

Hu Xiya and everyone were full of joy, but Zuo Sanxiang felt that this was just an expedient measure, the offensive of the Wet Poison Country and the defensive position of the Liang Army still did not change, and by the second year when the ice and snow melted, it would continue to fight for attrition.

On the third day of Huxi Cliff's arrival, heavy snow fell on time, and the inside and outside of Kung Fu Luntai City were white and clean for half a day, and even the moat was white.

The snow temporarily covered everything, and the Liang soldiers hid in the cave to cook salted dried meat and wild vegetables to eat and drink, and the left Sanxiang told Hu Xiya about the war in the past few months.

"Xiya, after the beginning of spring, you can go back quickly, this round of the Taiwan Imperial Court has no soldiers to send, and more than 2,000 of us can't defend it! By the way, when you went to Gaochang, what happened to Gaochang? I sent people to get food and grass, but there was no response. I don't know what's going on? ”

"Zuo Shuai, trade in Gaochang City is normal, I also saw the Liang army patrolling, and there is also the army of Gaochang Kingdom, but the people in the city are very normal, and there is no change!"

"The Gaochang army? When did Gaochang have an army? Sure enough, there was an abnormality, alas, this Tuoba Han almost missed my big thing! ”

Hu Xiya is unknown, "This Gaochangguo's army and Daliang are not enemies, why is Zuo Shuai so nervous?" ”

"You don't understand, Gao Chang has been under the protection of Daliang for more than ten years, and he has long disarmed the army, and now the sudden restoration of the army is most likely not ordered by the imperial court, but by Tuoba Han and recklessly. If this Tuoba Han betrays the Great Liang, or the Gaochang people betray the Great Liang, then we will really become a lonely army! ”

Only then did Hu Xiya realize the seriousness of the problem: "The villain is just a cloth cloth, I really didn't expect this layer." I knew that I should have found out more news and reported back to Zuo Shuai! ”

"Maybe I'm too worried, now we have to wait, but if I can take advantage of the snow to break the soldiers and horses of the Wet Poison Country, even if Gaochang rebels, I'm not afraid." But now it is the pressure of the soldiers of the Wet Poison Country, and it is unknown whether they are friends or foes behind them! ”

Hu Xiya's eyes turned, "Zuo Shuai, I came this time to prepare for heavy snow in advance, and I hired fifteen people from the Wandering Ghost Country, they are people who can work in the ice and snow!" ”

"Wandering Ghost Country? The country in the far north that was destroyed by the alliance of Daliang and Yu back then? Is anyone else? ”

"There was indeed one out of ten people in the Wandering Ghost Country who fought in World War I back then, but their lives were hard, they could survive in the bitter cold land of the far north, what else could they not survive? It's just that now I can only hunt everywhere or work for the people of the Central Plains for a living, and I don't dare to plunder the Central Plains anymore. ”

"My Daliang can only gather 5,000 soldiers and horses to come to Luntai to fight, but it's a pity, if there are 5,000 more people, why can't I cross the green ridge!"

Zuo Sanxiang shook his head as he spoke, thinking that this time it would be good to be able to withstand the attack of the wet poison man at the turn of spring and summer.

"Zuo Shuai, I don't know anything, I can hire people from different tribes to work, why can't you hire people from other tribes to fight?"

Hu Xiya's words woke up Zuo Sanxiang, and Zuo Sanxiang wiped his face, "It's not that Ben Shuai hasn't thought about it, but I have attacked all the tribes in the Western Regions, and now I want to ask them to help fight, I'm afraid it's very difficult!" ”

"The world is bustling, all for profit. There is nothing that no one can't buy, just look at what kind of means and price the big man uses. As far as I know, there is an Ili River valley in the northwest of Luntai, where there is a group of remnants of the Han Dynasty, who can not only cultivate land, but also herd horses and fight. Even the damp poison people have to bypass their camp and come to Luntai, if we can unite them to fight the damp poison people behind and cut off the food route of the wet poison people, my Central Plains Iron Cavalry will cross the green ridge again! ”

Zuo Sanxiang looked at Hu Xiya, "If you don't do business and come to be my advisor, we will work together, how good it would be!" ”

Hu Xiya waved his hand, "The villain is from a lowly background, he can't enter the court, and he doesn't want to be an official, my life's interest lies in doing business and traveling around the world!" ”