Chapter 152: White Calamity
All the people in the bones of Baye have suffered a lot of losses under this once-in-a-century white disaster, and even the families of these grassland warriors have died in the white disaster, and now when they hear Jia Yi say "great", anger is already the most amiable attitude, if it were another time, they would have rushed to cut Jia Yi into pulp.
"I have a saying in the Tang Dynasty called Sai Weng lost his horse and knew that it was not a blessing, it is about an old man who lost a horse, and then all the neighbors persuaded him to want to drive some, but he replied to everyone: Who knows that it is not a good thing, but it didn't take long for the horse he lost to bring back a mare."
In the Tang Dynasty, the Tang people were proud of their being Tang people, so as long as they were not the people of the Tang Dynasty, then all of them would be uniformly called Hu people.
From ancient times to the present, few Hu people can understand the words in the Analects of Confucius, but when these words become straightforward stories, Hu people will hear them clearly, because they usually speak, and they basically use stories to express their meaning.
After Ah Gu inquired about Jia Yi's story, he immediately thought of something, waved his hand and asked his soldiers to put away their weapons, and then asked Jia Yi with a suspicious face: "Can you let this white demon that devoured our cattle and sheep family turn into a white angel?" ”
"What's the first question I ask you?"
"We don't have a lot of cattle and sheep dying of cold and starvation?"
"Yes, when you come back, you will bring me all the frozen cattle and sheep, and I promise that when you come back, the general will be happy to exchange grain with you, and how much you will exchange for as much as you want."
Jia Yi is still very clear about Li Jing's attitude, after all, the only role of frozen cattle, sheep and horses for these Hu people is to eat, but how many people can they have, can they eat so many cattle, sheep and horses, and then support the meat of cattle, sheep and horses all winter, aren't they afraid of getting any diseases?
Jia Yi's words suddenly turned into fairy music in the ears of all the Hu people, and those who understood it cheered as soon as they understood, and those who didn't understand asked their companions around him who understood, and then they also cheered together, and soon all the three thousand people laughed loudly.
You must know that the biggest livelihood of the herdsmen on the grassland is those cattle, sheep and horses, so every family has a large number of livestock, but in the white plague, a large number of their livestock are frozen and starved to death, although they will not lack food this winter, but wait for the beginning of spring, those cattle and sheep that can still be preserved in the winter will rot and deteriorate, and can no longer be eaten, and then waiting for them will be long-term hunger, unless they regain the cattle, sheep and horses.
With Jia Yi's assurance, the next conversation became much more pleasant, and Ah Guda used a very vivid metaphor to tell Jia Yi about the unique culture on the grassland, which made Jia Yijue, who had never seen anything in the world, very novel, and very fascinated by it.
In the words of Aguta, the blue wolf on the grassland is like a poisonous weed everywhere on the grassland, even if it is artificially killed batch after batch, but in the next year, the poisonous weed will grow again.
Hearing this news, Jia Yi immediately took care of his thousand brothers within a radius of fifteen miles around, if they were allowed to encounter a single one or two wolves, I believe that any one of the spies could be easily treated, but wolves are wild beasts that live in groups, as long as they appear at least, they are also in groups, for the sake of the life safety of the spies, Jia Yi immediately gave a vague order to shrink the scope of the exploration, and the first fifteen miles became five miles, and the range became smaller, and the personnel could only get together, surrounded by groups of three or five, the entire army slowly marched in the direction of the bones of Baye.
As the army deepened, the weather became colder and colder, and the cold wind slowly turned into small blades, scratching people's exposed skin, and a small opening would appear if they were not careful.
Although Jia Yi was fully mentally prepared for this harsh environment, he was still a little caught off guard when he faced it directly, if he had known this, he might have covered his face with a thick sheepskin, touching a few shallow openings on his cheeks, Jia Yi could be regarded as knowing why the people on the grassland looked so vicissitudes.
"I hope you don't break your face." With deep prayer, the march of the army slowly became faster.
The tribe of Aguta is not very close to Shuofang, a distance of three hundred miles, and because everyone is light, the speed can be increased to sixty miles a day, but even so, if you want to go to the Aguta tribe, it will take five days.
Jia Yi, who had already prepared in this regard, used the prepared jerky as the rations for this march, and with the pimple soup, it was simply the best delicacy for swaying the grassland in winter.
After eating the jerky, Ah Guda was also amazed by the jerky, but he felt very sorry for not knowing the production method of the jerky, and asked Jia Yi many times, but all he got was a faint smile from Jia Yi.
Just kidding, this will be a profitable business for Jia Yi for a long time in the future, how can he tell you a Hu man casually.
Rushing to the cold wind during the day, and falling asleep at night with the shouting of the blue wolf, before he arrived at the tribe of Aguta, Jia Yi boiled into two dark circles, not that he didn't want to sleep or that he wasn't sleepy, but he was really afraid that if he slept too dead at night, he would sleep directly without paying attention, wouldn't it be too wrong.
I don't know when, white snowflakes fell in the sky, and the snowflakes fluttered around with the cold wind, like looking for their own children, drifting everywhere until they finally fell into the arms of the earth.
Soon, a thin layer of snow was spread on everyone's body, and Jia Yi would knock off the snow that fell on his body at first, but it didn't take long for the snow to pile up on his shoulders and helmet again, and he ended his futile act.
Soon there were many corpses in the snow, including blue wolves that had escaped from the wolves, livestock that had not survived the winter, and herders who had not had time to return to their tribes.
Originally, Jia Yi thought that when these Hu people saw the herdsmen again, they would take them home for burial, or bury them on the spot to comfort the souls of the deceased in the sky, but what Jia Yi didn't expect was that these people just glanced at these dead Hu people, and then continued to fight their horses and move forward.
In the cognition of the Tang people, the dead are great, this is the truth that has been pursued since ancient times, even if you see a strange dead person on the road, you will kindly dig a pit and bury it, but on the grassland, the Hu people will choose to ignore it, because burying a dead person will waste a lot of people's strength, and it will indirectly waste a lot of food, and no one will want to waste useful strength on useless dead people.
From here, Jia Yi saw the other side of the reality of the Hu people, and almost had the same personality and attitude as the people of later generations.
The Hu people can ignore their own people, and there is no reason why the Tang people would have pity for a Hu people, so Jia Yi and his soldiers also chose to ignore them.
It didn't take long for Jia Yi to understand why he called the heavy snow a white disaster, if the snow only fell a few centimeters or ten centimeters, it would not have much impact on people and livestock at all, but when the snow fell to tens of centimeters, the road would become very difficult.
Looking at the war horses that couldn't stop moving forward, Jia Yi knew that if they continued like this, then what was waiting for them must be the end of all being frozen to death, in order to ensure the speed of the march, Jia Yi ordered everyone to dismount, dismantle the carriage that was pulling, and put together the planks on the carriage into countless sleds, and then dragged forward by the war horse.
Without the weight of the war horse, with its wide hooves, it will not be transferred too deep into the snow, and in this way, under the admiring gaze of everyone, the speed is raised again.
Five days passed quietly, and when Jia Yi appeared in the Baye Bone under the leadership of Ah Guta, he was suddenly stunned by the scene here.
Countless cattle, sheep and horses, of course, all froze to death, were piled up, forming a lot of corpse mountains, and the herdsmen who are still alive are doing their best to ensure that their tents are not buried by heavy snow, after all, tents are not better than houses, they do not have a strong process, once pressed by the snow, they will soon collapse because they cannot bear the weight of the snow.
Without a tent, it is very deadly for these herdsmen, because the tent has the effect of blocking the wind, and it can still allow some of the people in the tent to survive, if they lose the shelter of the tent, then the herdsman will definitely die.
Soon, someone in the busy tribe found out about the return of Ah Guta, and screamed for the first time, with this scream, more people stopped their work and slowly surrounded the direction of Ah Guta, not because they didn't want to be fast, but they couldn't get up quickly.
"Please also ask General Jia to rest for a while in my Baye Bone Tribe."
Jia Yi looked around, and when he looked up at the sky, a large snow flake fell directly into his eyes, and he fleshed his hands for a while before his sour eyes felt better.
With a wry smile on his face, he looked at Ah Guda and said, "Do you think it's better for us to fix here for a while, or hurry back to Shuofang, and then rest and recuperate." ”
It's cold, and only one tent can stop some cold wind, Jia Yi really doesn't feel at ease about handing over his life to this not very safe tent, so the most direct thought in his heart is: "Hugh the whole fart, go back quickly, and rest well." ”
Nomads are called nomads because their homes are movable, as long as the main body is removed and the tent is put away, when the tent is erected again, it will be their new home.