Chapter 80: The Barbarians of Accounting Schemes

War is never easy, let alone fighting on three fronts. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Every time the army moves, it is piled up with mountains of gold and silver, especially the Hami army.

In this world, the more primitive the army, the lower the cost of his operation.

Barbarians only need to carry knives and their own strong bodies to wage a war.

The Tangut people only need a little simple material to run thousands of miles and take the Hami country by surprise.

As for the Khitan army, it will take them a while to prepare, and after preparing enough materials and financial resources, it is possible to start a war.

The materials of the Hami army are the most complex, all kinds of different types of gunpowder bullets, various types of fire oil bombs, different crossbow arrows for different environments, and even some special crossbow arrows with poison must be prepared.

The transport of firearms is very fatal, and if something goes wrong, you can kill a lot of your own people without the enemy attacking.

The real war began in August, but the armament of Hami began in March.

It was precisely because of the complete fortifications, sufficient food and grass, and sufficient heating in the desert that the Hami army persisted in fighting in the harsh environment of the desert for three months.

Tie Xinyuan's casual performance of the war on the surface was only witnessed by the bright moon in the sky, and how many sleepless nights Tie Xinyuan had spent.

Every time a document is issued, the wealth accumulated by the Hami Kingdom is less, and every time a transport team leaves Qingxiang City, or Hami City, this wealth that should be used to improve people's livelihood is sent to the battlefield, and then it is meaninglessly consumed.

Huo Xian knew what this battle meant for Hami, so he searched the treasury exhaustively, even if he didn't want to make money, he had to ensure that the soldiers on the front line had enough food and clothing.

It will be camped for a whole year, all the energy will be devoted to the manufacture of weapons, and all kinds of very profitable private financial resources will be stopped, and this alone will make Hami lose 20% of its national revenue.

It's just that this battle can't be left unfought......

The dinner party to appease the group of patriarchs consumed 3,000 silver coins from the Hami Kingdom, which Tie Xinyuan took out from his mother's treasury.

After Tie Xinyuan finished the banquet, he sat in the study and enjoyed a big bowl of soup cakes, with a thick layer of meat on top of the soup cakes, noodles and gluten, and mutton soup was hot......

Tie Xinyuan was sweating profusely, and after eating a large bowl of mutton soup cakes, he looked a little dazed.

What else do you pursue in life?

Fortunately, Huo Xian quickly dragged him back from a kind of empty satisfaction.

"Meng Yuanzhi's condition at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains was not very good, those barbarians hid in the ice and snow and attacked Meng Yuanzhi's baggage camp...... They robbed the 1,400 gunpowder shells and 670 gunpowder shells left in the baggage battalion, in addition, crossbow arrows, food, and countless losses. ”

After carefully reading the casualty report and loss records, Tie Xinyuan sighed and threw the two documents on the table and said, "What kind of world is this, even the savages know about the sneak attack."

687 people were killed in battle......"

"Meng Yuanzhi was furious, and he had already chased after him......"

"What is Lao Meng doing? Don't he know the truth of anger and rebellion? He had to lose all the soldiers in his hand before he was reconciled? ”

Huo Xian frowned and said, "Since the barbarians have already begun to retreat, he only needs to follow slowly and monitor them to leave......"

Tie Xinyuan interrupted Huo Xian's words and said: "That's not the case, for barbarians, you have to be afraid and killed at once, otherwise they will be addicted to robbing Hami."

Meng Yuanzhi's approach was not wrong, what was wrong was that he was too paralyzed and careless, and he didn't expect that barbarians would also use tricks.

Since Lao Meng had caught up, he ordered King Leng Ping and them to protect Lao Meng's left and right wings. “

Huo Xian gritted his teeth and said, "Search forward!" It's better to be slower than to take the enemy lightly. ”

Tie Xinyuan nodded and said, "Just give the order according to Xiangguo's wishes, and in ten days at the latest, I will arrive at Tianshan North Road by sled." ”

Huo Xian paused for a moment and said, "The king is ready to go on a personal expedition?" ”

Tie Xinyuan shook his head and said: "Help them take care of the back road, and replenish supplies by the way, so far in the battle, we can't afford to lose more and more." ”

Huo Xian did not stop Tie Xinyuan, in the battle with the Western Xia people, Tie Xinyuan performed well, and Huo Xian has now slowly recognized Tie Xinyuan as qualified to lead the army.

There are still a large number of reserve weapons in the fortress on the Tianshan Road, so starting from Qingxiang City, Tie Xinyuan only needs to rush to Tianshan City on a light horse, and then transfer to a large sleigh to cross the vast Tianshan Road and finally arrive at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountain.

The big sleigh of Tianshan City is a new invention of the camp, similar to a land boat, in the days when the winter snow melts, the craftsmen who will camp on the cliffs on both sides of the Tianshan Road Canyon, inlaid with thousands of iron rings.

Each iron ring is tied to the iron chain, as long as the iron chain is tied to the giant sled, as long as the person on the sled turns the wheel, the iron chain will drag the large sleigh forward, one iron chain ends, it will be connected to the next iron chain, and so on, the large sleigh will crush a strong enough snow track on the thick snow layer, and countless small sleds will be along this crushed out of the snow road, continuously transport materials and soldiers and horses to the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains.

By the time the 10,000 cavalry led by Tie Xinyuan arrived at Tianshan City, the large sleds that had been pressing the road had already set off for three days, and Tie Si had prepared a lot of sleds in Tianshan City, waiting for Tie Xinyuan's arrival.

It is not an exaggeration to call Tianshan City by Iron Rope Xiongguan.

This can be called the first military fortress in Hami country, and it looks particularly majestic in the heavy snow.

The tall blue walls need to be looked up to get a full view, and the two sections of the wall are connected by a steep ridge, like a high mountain in the middle of a canyon.

Qingxiang City was built for three years, Hami City was built for three years, and Tianshan City began to invest a large number of people in the construction of Tiexinyuan when it was ready to build the country, and it has been under construction for seven years. It's still not finished.

Snowflakes fall from the top of the walls and pile up at the base of the walls, and the daily removal of this snow is already a huge undertaking.

Everyone who stood under the walls of Tianshan City would feel shocked consciously or unconsciously.

It was these walls that blocked the cold winds from the north, allowing the strong cold winds to fly high into the air, so that those cold winds could not finally be strengthened through the canyon, and eventually could not form the black storm that the Hami people talked about.

The low clouds seemed to be pressing on the city, and dozens of tall windmills erected on the city wall were tirelessly lifting the boulders that had been mined and transported up the high city wall, so that the city wall could continue to grow upwards without limit.

Iron Xinyuan's cavalry team passed through the huge city gate, and Iron Xinyuan walked up the long steps to the city wall.

The cold wind is howling here, and people can barely stand on the city wall, and they can only pull iron rings one by one to get out of a straight line on the city wall.

The fire in the watchtower was raging, and Tie Xinyuan still didn't feel much warmth, and the cold wind through the lookout hole blew the fire into sparks.

"Aren't the glass windows already installed? Why is it still like this? The soldiers are human beings, not cast from steel and iron, and cannot withstand such a cold wind. ”

Tie Si shook his head slightly, and immediately a servant stepped forward to report: "King Qiqi, the glass windows are very useful in spring, summer and autumn, but there is no use in this winter, the snow will stick to the glass, and eventually turn into ice, and the lookout hole will not be able to see anything." ”

Tie Xinyuan glanced at the official and said, "Then find a way to heat the glass, or install a brush on the outside of the glass, in short, so that the ice and snow can't cover the glass." ”

The official wanted to argue again, Tie Si waved his hand at him, and invited Tie Xinyuan to go down, and on a snowy day, staying here was completely sinful.

Tie Xinyuan knew that he shouldn't directly question such a trivial matter like this, and the reason why he said it was not because he was worried about the soldier's body that he proposed a way to improve it.

But because, he found that the number of soldiers on duty in the watchtower is very small, and there are only six people in a watchtower in Nuoda, which is very inappropriate, when a cloud attacked Qingxiang City, it was to let the mandrill carry the rope up the cliff, and finally let people climb up along the rope, almost destroying the city defense of Qingxiang City.

In this world, mechanical power is not developed, so the muscular strength of human beings has developed considerably.

Those at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains who could still wear thin clothes in the ice and snow still swept like flying, severely damaging Meng Yuanzhi, who was famous for his bravery in the Western Regions, Tie Xinyuan didn't think that such a tall city wall could be rare for those fierce barbarians.

Only people who are not confident enough to the extreme will build such a tall wall.

Huo Xian once said this about Tie Xinyuan, if it weren't for the fact that the Hami Kingdom needed these walls to weaken the wind, he would have suggested to Tie Xinyuan to stop building such a city wall.

Only the faint of heart and soul would do that.

Back at Tie Si's residence, Tie Xinyuan looked worriedly at the huge map of Tianshan North Road hanging on the wall.

Because he found that at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, the Hami army and those barbarians had completely mixed up.

For some reason, the barbarians, who were fleeing north, suddenly stopped, and no longer went north, having been completely mixed up with the pursuing Hami army two days earlier.