Chapter 175 There is no war at the border

Dunhuang Lieutenant Mu Yan rested his legs on the rough wooden case, holding a map and studying the path of the scout's search.

On the other side of the wide wooden case, his lieutenant Ma Lao Liu was sticking out his tongue, trying to sketch a luonvtu on a piece of paper with charcoal.

Curtains coughed, Ma Lao Liu still didn't react, as long as this guy was immersed in the atmosphere of painting, it was difficult to take care of things outside.

For Ma Lao Liu's skills, the curtain smoke is admired, I think that at the beginning, the people who can copy the pictures on the watchtower thousands of times are definitely not idle people.

finally waited for Ma Lao Liu to finish painting, and said to Ma Lao Liu, who was still unsatisfied: "I didn't think about leaning on Yin Mountain this time? ”

Ma Lao Liu shook the toner on the painting, shook his head and said: "To go to Yinshan to cross the Hanhai, crossing the Hanhai in winter is a dead end, so we walked around the Hanhai."

"No sign of the enemy?"

"It's impossible to find the enemy's tracks, and we can still wander around in such weather, where will anyone go out?"

Mu Yan snorted coldly: "Camel guest! ”

Ma Lao Liu said indifferently: "Those camel riders who want money and don't want their lives, take a walk in the winter and see if they can survive half of them?" ”

Mu Yan glanced at the plump and excessive woman in Ma Lao Liu's picture, shook his head and said, "Can you put your mind to other places, don't always be obsessed with this thing."

After the end of the Northern Expedition, Ye Ye will be transferred back to Chang'an to take up his post, and you will succeed me as the captain of Dunhuang at that time.

From now on, to learn to be an official, Dunhuang is a very oily place, brother, I will first go to Chang'an to lay the foundation for the big guys, and when the brothers are all successful, we can go to Chang'an together to enjoy happiness.

You still have to get money for the brothers, I don't want to go back to Chang'an and be a fucking poor bastard. ”

Ma Lao Liu shook his head indifferently and said, "What can I do when I go to Chang'an?" ”

"Drink, eat meat, sleep with women!"

Ma Lao Liu nodded and said, "Then when I can't ride a war horse and can't kill the enemy, I'll go back and enjoy the blessings." ”

"Dog's brainless, isn't it? If I hadn't begged General Wei to open up this time, do you think that with my family background, I am qualified to return to Chang'an to serve?

Take advantage of the efforts that are not dead, live a few days, and have no regrets when you close your eyes. ”

Ma Lao Liu finally took his eyes off the picture, looked at the dim sky outside the window, and sighed: "Leaving the sand, how can you let me live?" ”

The sandstorm was closed at the jade gate, and the sandstorm arrived at Yangguan after a pillar of incense.

There was a layer of gray dust floating on the hot pot, and it couldn't be cleaned no matter how much he got it, so Yun Lang put down his chopsticks and told Liu Er to take the pot of food away.

Huo Quai's mouth is like a bottomless pit, whether it is mutton, beef, or pot helmets, noodles, and buns, they can all be poured in, and they will soon disappear.

"The reason why Yeye is invincible and invincible is to rely on this good body to support, I can eat, I can sleep, there is nothing wrong, everything is fine!"

"Huh? Didn't you sleep well before? ”

"There are more brothers who die with me, so I won't be afraid......"

The door was pushed open, and the pot of hot pot that was sent out by Yun Lang just now was brought back by Sui Yue.

This guy has a pair of skillful hands, sticks a thin knife into the hot pot, and then gently picks it, and the layer of black ash floating on the hot pot is picked out.

He was not polite, relocated the hot pot on the brazier, and began to eat, without inviting Huo Quzhi to follow Yunlang.

If you have nothing to do, you will be punished by Yun Lang if you invite Huo Qu to eat nonsense, and Yun Lang will be despised by Yun Lang if you invite Yun Lang to eat something unclean.

Sui Yue felt that he was not a noble person, and it was not important to eat something delicious and not very clean, so he ate very happily alone.

Dongfang Shuo As long as he has wine, it doesn't matter whether he eats or not, while reviewing the documents, he has a sip of wine, he is obviously drunk, but he is very neat under his hands.

After a while, a bunch of official documents were processed.

Sima Qian was like an old cat, huddled in a thick pile of fur, looking at a book slowly.

Ignore what is happening in the military tent.

Su Zhizhi walked into the big tent angrily and said to Huo Quai: "If you don't restrain your indecent generals, this official will terminate the follow-up treatment of those bastards of the cavalry captain." ”

Huo Quzhi moved his ass and looked at Su Zhi and said, "If it offends you, you cut off their heads."

If you just harass those Qiang women, you can just turn a blind eye, they are all good men on the battlefield, and they can just let them go for small things. ”

Su Zhi sneered: "Since the general has spoken, the lowly position knows. ”

After speaking, he stomped on the ground and quickly left.

Yun Lang looked up at Huo Quzhi and said: "Those wounded soldiers are going to be unlucky, it seems that when the wounded soldiers are treated in the future, the procedure of pain relief can be omitted." ”

Huo Quzhi said with a smile: "They are all good men, how can they be afraid of pain?" ”

Yun Lang smiled and shook his head, noncommittal.

If Su Zhi attacked the most sensitive place in the body of the wounded soldier, the wounded soldiers could only blame their own coach.

Because the coach of his family has never looked at any woman in his life.

Huo Guangfeng came in from outside, cleaned his face, and saw a layer of fine yarn appear at the bottom of the wooden basin, so he sighed and said: "The water source is all frozen, and it has become very difficult for the people to get water.

I also couldn't use a lot of firewood in the barracks to melt the ice, and I ordered the matter of watering the earthen walls to be stopped. ”

Sui Yue had just finished eating a pot of hot pot, wiped the grease on his mouth, and said lightly: "Then just look for firewood, isn't there still a big poplar forest in the north?" Just cut it down. ”

Huo Guang arched his hand towards Sui Yue and said: "I don't know for a long time, this oasis is closely related to the existence of that poplar forest.

It is precisely because of that poplar that there is an oasis in Yangguan, and if we cut down the poplar forest, the Yangguan oasis will disappear completely. ”

Sui Yue looked at Huo Guang suspiciously: "There is such a connection?" ”

Huo Guangdao: "There is a lack of firewood in Yangguan, and the poplar forest has stood there for not a few years, more than ten years, but a few hundred years.

Have you ever seen the Qiang people living in Yangguan move that forest?

At most, go to the poplar forest to check the dead branches and leaves.

If we could have cut it, it would not have been our turn, and we would have been cut down by the Qiang people a long time ago. ”

Dongfang Shuo, who was drinking, put down the wine jug and said: "Dig a well on the edge of the water source, and the well water will generally not freeze." ”

Huo Guang frowned and said, "The ground is already frozen." ”

Dongfang Shuo continued: "No matter how difficult it is, you have to dig a well, and the earthen wall must be splashed with water and frozen, otherwise, after a few strong winds, the earthen wall will be hollowed out by the north wind." ”

Yun Lang and Huo Qubing would not pay attention to this kind of thing, and the two discussed the affairs of the Huns in a low voice on the side.

He felt that if Yun Lang was willing to equip the whole army with gunpowder, with the earth-shattering power of gunpowder, he would not be able to defeat the Huns in the field.

Yun Lang didn't explain, after the two of them attacked and defended me on the map for a while, Huo Quzhi threw down his chess pieces and said, "No one can command millions of people like one person." ”

"Not everyone of your 50,000 troops can fight to the death, and once you are entangled by the Hun army, you are even in danger of being wiped out."

Neither of them mentioned gunpowder in their words, but they both understood that these factors had been taken into account in the exercise just now.

Huo Quzhi's suggestion is just a hypothesis under extreme boredom, and equipping 50,000 people with gunpowder is not something that Yun Lang can do, or even Liu Che can do.

Therefore, gossip can only be gossip.

Everyone knew that the Huns were in the Yin Mountain, but there was no way to attack or drive them away.

The real Yin Mountain Land is more than 2,000 miles away from Yangguan, but this huge mountain range stands from east to west, like a huge barrier on the grassland.

The northern slope of Yinshan is cold, while the southern slope is warmer.

Liu Ling went west along Yinshan all the way this time, and stopped moving forward when he reached Yinshan Yumai Wolf Mountain.

And Wolf Mountain is only thousands of miles away from Yangguan.

It was this thousand-mile flat road that made Huo Quai, who had no choice but to be a Huns.

Because of this, Huo Quai, Yunlangkong has an army of 50,000, but it can only stop in the sunshine, and the Yumen Pass line consumes grain and grass in vain.

The dispute between Huo Guang and Dongfang Shuo finally came to an end.

The earth is frozen and hard, and it is too much to dig a large number of wells, but there is a lot of ice and snow here, and many canals are dug out on the warm southern slopes, and then the ice and snow are piled up on the canals, as long as the weather is good, you can always harvest some melted ice and snow water.

Although the amount of melted snow and ice is not large, it is barely possible to just splash water and ice on the city walls.

Sui Yue saw that no one spoke in the big tent, so he whispered: "There is news that Your Majesty will also send a member of the Great Adult to Yangguan." ”

Huo Quzhi's brows furrowed slightly.

Yun Lang was very interested and said, "Lu Bode? When did this guy return to Beijing?

In addition to the guards, Your Majesty also has a formed army?

It's impossible to send soldiers from the south to Yangguan, right? ”

Sui Yue said with a smile: "Mrs. Li has added a prince to Your Majesty, so the person who came is Mrs. Li's brother Li Guangli."

His Majesty did not give him an army, it was he himself who gathered bad people in Hedong and prepared to form an army by himself, I heard that there were also wild words, saying that the two generals did not dare to fight the Huns, he dared! ”

Yun Lang smiled kindly.

"Did he come to our tent to listen?"

Sui Yue shook his head and said, "No, it is said to be an army of its own." ”

Huo Quzhi heard Sui Yue say this, so he smiled and said, "So, Your Majesty has already approved our military strategy, right?"

Otherwise, he would not have given Li Guangli a good opportunity to make military achievements! ”

Sui Yue scratched his head and said, "This is the secret letter of the embroidered messenger, can you two say it so loudly."

The edict to the two of you will leave Chang'an for nine days. ”