Chapter 176: Wind and Snow Road
Managing tens of thousands of people to eat, drink and Lazar is a complicated and cumbersome job, even in the later generations when science and technology are developed, so after the army set out, Li Ji has been very busy, and Sun Xiangfu has not even had a chance to meet him alone.
After entering the boundary of the state, the world will become white, there is no snow in Guanzhong this winter, but the north of the Yellow River is snowy, so even if there is an army of more than 20,000 horses, the marching speed can not be fast, there is no way, the carriages and horses transporting grain and grass can't go fast!
"The north wind swept the white grass and broke the snow, and the state snowed in October.
Suddenly, like a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloom.
Scattered into the bead curtain wet curtain, the fox fur is not warm and thin.
The general's horns and bows are uncontrollable, and the knight's iron clothes are cold. ”
Since this place is not Hudi, and there is nothing in the Tang Dynasty at this time, Sun Xiangfu made a slight change to the few poems he remembered and recited them, completely because of the situation and feelings.
"Uh, gone? The old man listened to this poem, and he shouldn't have finished writing it yet! ”
Sitting on the snow rake made by Sun Xiangfu's guards, Tang Fengyi was much luckier than other death row prisoners, shaking his head and listening to Sun Xiangfu recite a few lines of poetry, but he didn't want to, this poem was read so bluntly.
"Hehe, the battle is not over, how can the poem be written, the next time I see the scene, just continue to write." Sun Xiangfu leaned back and fell back, and the shackles wrapped in fur supported his back, and he was lying on the snow rake, and those who didn't know would not think that he was a person wearing shackles, but would only think that this person was dressed strangely.
"You wrote this poem now?" Tang Fengyi was a little surprised when he heard this.
"Of course, what do you think!" Although only a few words have been changed, Sun Xiangfu also firmly believes that he is one of the originals, and looks at Tang Fengyidao who questioned him with great disdain.
Seeing his unhappy expression, Tang Fengyi didn't dare to doubt it anymore, and began to admire Sun Xiangfu's literary brilliance, although he asked himself that he had read a lot of books, but he couldn't write such poems.
The pawns of the army also have serious work, whether the road under the snow can be walked by the army, they must go out first, uneven places, the paving of the paving, the trimming of the trimming, therefore, Sun Xiangfu These people are walking in front of the army, and out of the army, Sun Xiangfu is insecure, because this is the territory of the Taiyuan Wang.
"Old Tang, do you think the people of the Taiyuan Wang clan will send someone to kill me?" Thinking of this, Sun Xiangfu asked.
"No, you're all a pawn in a death row camp, why should they waste that effort." Tang Fengyi replied without thinking about it.
"Not necessarily, if someone hates me to the core, they have to abuse me personally!"
"People with this kind of psychological distortion generally can't make big things."
"Well, just for you, I'll invite you to drink again tonight." Sun Xiangfu found some sense of security in Tang Fengyi, and his mood improved a lot.
However, no sooner had he finished his sentence than the neighing of horses came from ahead.
"What's going on?" When Sun Xiangfu heard the voice, he sat up from the snow plow rake suddenly, and rode a horse to check the situation on the fast horse of Xi Junmai around him.
"Someone in front of me blocked the road with rocks." After a while, Xi Junmai turned around and said.
"This has just arrived at the boundary of Taiyuan, and it is still a few hundred miles away from Shuozhou! Someone came to make trouble. Sun Xiangfu's face was not good.
Li Ji has a military order, if the march of the main force of the Chinese army is blocked by the road, these people in the death row camp will be beheaded, and their journey is only one day ahead of the Chinese army, less than twenty miles away from the vanguard troops, that is to say, at most one or two hours, the vanguard troops will arrive here, and if the road is not opened at that time, these people will inevitably be whipped, no way, this is the treatment of the death row camp.
A team of fifty horsemen followed from behind, and if there was no incident, they would immediately give orders to clear the rocks, and if the death row prisoners did not comply, they would be confronted with their cold blades.
Sun Xiangfu motioned to the guards with his eyes to stop the team, and then jumped off the snow rake with the help of Tang Fengyi, stepped on the thick snow, and walked to the front of the team in a few steps.
There were all kinds of people among the more than 200 death row inmates, but they couldn't do anything when they saw the big rocks piled up like hills on the road in the valley.
Sun Xiangfu asked Xi Junmai to take out a second-generation monocular from his arms and look at the peaks on the left and right, and found that the peaks on both sides of the road did not see avalanches and landslides, which means that these mountains and rocks in front of him are artificially blocked here, the purpose is to block the march of the army, you know, the army stays in the wind and snow for one more day, the combat effectiveness can drop a few points, and the consumption will increase a few points, and the half of the poem that Sun Xiangfu read before is a portrayal of their actual situation.
"If these rocks are cleaned up by our people, it will be impossible without ten days and a half months, and even if the pioneer battalion is added, it will take at least three or four days to go, so the people blocking the road want the lives of our people." After receiving Xi Junmai's observation report, Sun Xiangfu turned to the many death row prisoners who had gathered in front of the mountain rocks.
Everyone knows Li Ji's order, before the arrival of the Chinese army, the road must be unblocked, otherwise, everyone will not go to the battlefield to avoid death.
Therefore, hearing Sun Xiangfu's words, these death row inmates all looked like ashes, and their psychological endurance was poor, and they couldn't help but shed tears.
"However, they may not be able to succeed, I have a way to make this place passable before the arrival of the Chinese army, are you willing to do it with me?"
Sun Xiangfu has been thinking about how to access the road since he saw the road situation, as a later generation, if there is no hard injury in IQ, it is not difficult to think of a way, that is, to use snow and ice.
", let's do it, Xiaolang, hurry up and say a way!"
"yes, let's do it."
Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and they all looked at Sun Xiangfudao with expectant eyes.
"Okay, then, let's do this according to my division of labor······"
Ice and snow are solidified water, and seeing that this heavy snow will not stop for a while, Sun Xiangfu naturally thought of using the tamped snow to build a gentle slope and let the army walk directly over these blockages.
Therefore, more than 200 death row prisoners were all mobilized by Sun Xiangfu, and even the men of the escort team came to help, and the knee-deep snow around the road was paved on those rocks, and soon, the prototype of a gentle slope was slowly formed.
"Everyone pay attention to stepping on it, when the cold wind blows at night, this road is difficult to smash open. By the way, divide a few people to cut some thin branches and spread them on the surface, and after they are frozen, they can prevent slipping······"
Two hours later, when the forward troops arrived here, the uphill section had been fully paved, and the downhill section was almost completed.
"You have such a good brain, I see that those death row prisoners are full of admiration in their eyes when they look at you." Tang Fengyi was old, Sun Xiangfu didn't let him carry the snow with those young people, and assigned him a relatively easy task of laying branches.
"yes, you admire me too?" Sun Xiangfu shook the white snow road above the shackles. It was precisely because of wearing this thing that he couldn't work with everyone.
"I have admired it a little since you recited the poem before, and when I saw you in an instant, I thought of this method of paving the road with snow, and I felt that Wang Hao was defeated in your hands for a while, which is not unreasonable."
When Tang Fengyi said this, he deliberately looked left and right, and found that no one was paying attention here, so he said, "But the north of the Yellow River is Wang Xu's territory, and he is different from Wang Lin's arrogance and arrogance, and Wang Hao's wisdom and decisiveness, and he likes to crush opponents with strength in a dignified manner, so it is definitely not Wang Xu's work to block the road." ”
Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu glanced at Tang Fengyi meaningfully and said, "I have known you for so many days, and this sentence is useful." Why did you suddenly remember to help me? ”
"Hehe, the old man doesn't want to die!"
Smiled and waved his hand at Sun Xiangfu, Tang Fengyi ran to the edge of the woods to pick up the branches, leaving Sun Xiangfu in deep thought.
If it is really as Tang Fengyi said, then the matter of blocking the road may not be Wang Xu's doing, then the person who did this must want to kill himself, or, even if he can't kill himself, he will make himself hate Wang Xu, who will it be?
In Taiyuan, the only one who can mobilize a large amount of manpower in winter to transport mountains and rocks to block the road is the Wang family, so it must be one of Wang Lin and Wang Hao.
No matter who one of them is, for Sun Xiangfu, the meaning is the same, so there is no need to think about this problem at all, Sun Xiangfu has to consider how to use their relationship with each other to fight them, of course, the method is not so easy to think, the reason is still the asymmetry of information, Sun Xiangfu does not know where the sons of the family are and what they are doing.
The pioneer of the expedition to Shuozhou is the bull of Langxie County, this person is kind-hearted, Lao Cheng, seeing that Sun Xiangfu and others solved the problem of blocking the road in half a day, not only did they punish them, but also distributed some of the military rations of the vanguard army to these death row prisoners, only more than 200 people around them, and they couldn't eat much.
Sun Xiangfu didn't want everyone to consume too much, so he died on the road before he reached Shuozhou, so he asked the guards to give them some salted fish and soybean paste, which had the spicy taste of dogwood and enough salt, and ate it with piping hot millet porridge, which was appetizing and warm.
Of course, they can't rest after eating, they have to hit the road immediately, and if there is anything unusual on the road ahead, they also need to solve it quickly.
Not everyone has a snow rake, Sun Xingfu's pair, the escort team helped him to do, the only one in the whole team, when everyone went on the road again against the wind and snow, it was natural to surround Sun Xiangfu's snow rake.
When they find that there are powerful people in their circle, they will be afraid of him at first, just like Sun Xiangfu who has just entered the death row camp, he has been accompanied by heavily armed armor soldiers, these armor soldiers look at death row prisoners with cold eyes, as if they can kill them at any time, so everyone is afraid of him.
And when they found out that this strong man was actually a wise man who would protect everyone, they had a psychology of attachment, even the cattle and sheep knew how to follow the strong leader, let alone people!
"Hey, that runny nose boy, how old are you this year, why did you commit a capital crime?" Sun Xiangfu was very bored lying on the snow plow, so he said to a little boy who looked at his face from time to time.
"I'm thirteen, my mother died in the spring, and I didn't have the money to buy a coffin, so I stole a nobleman's money bag······"
"Stealing? You shouldn't have betrayed the death penalty! ”
"I didn't steal anything, my hands were too clumsy when I stole the money bag, I was found out, and when he grabbed me, I resisted and scratched him."
"Then you don't have to betray the death penalty!"
"The county magistrate said that the man was a scholar and had the status of a loose official, so it was a capital crime for me to rob an injured officer."
The thief was caught and resisted, and the nature immediately became a robbery, and the loose officials are also officials, and ordinary people are completely different classes, robbing an official and injuring him, that is really a capital crime, but in this way, a thirteen-year-old boy was betrayed to death, Sun Xiangfu felt that it was too heavy.