Chapter 70 Enemy Attack, Enemy Attack

The march of 150,000 people naturally cannot be compared with the team of about 1,000 people when they were horse thieves. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the army is divided into four routes, there are still many people here in Tiexinyuan.

There were too many people, and just lodging was a big problem, and as soon as the sky was dark, countless fires were lit in the campsite selected by Tie 300.

From a distance, the fire spread far away from the foot, ten miles of company camps are a bit exaggerated, five or six miles of land is absolutely there.

From the very beginning, Tie Xinyuan didn't intend to protect this group of people, not because he was ruthless, but because he couldn't protect them at all.

Once these Uighurs and armies were mixed and there was a war, the Uighurs would no longer have to fight the battle, and the army of 16,000 men would definitely be overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of Uighurs who wanted to seek the protection of the army.

This time, Tie Xinyuan brought out all the people he could bring out, and it was impossible to stay in Hami, the food consumption was too great.

Moreover, if these young and strong do not come out, the safety of the Hami Kingdom is also problematic, only by taking away the young and strong, Ouyang Xiu, who stayed in Hami, can they lead a group of women and children to start building Hami.

The Western Regions are physically strong, even women, they are generally much stronger than the women of the Han family, and earthwork construction of a general nature is not very difficult for them.

The land plan formulated by Ouyang Xiu was very majestic, and Tie Xinyuan originally thought that Ouyang Xiu, who was studying hard, should not be good at this kind of thing.

The result was that Tie Xinyuan was wrong, and in addition to drawing the same map, he arranged it very reasonably.

Cities, towns, farmland, reservoirs, roads, military stations, transit stations, and customs offices are all the same, and the arrangements are well organized.

He even creatively instituted a fishing tax, which meant that from now on, if you wanted to catch fish in the waters under the jurisdiction of Hami, you would have to pay taxes to the government.

Meng Yuanzhi took more people away, a full 300,000, the place he was going to was farther away, and there were fewer people going, so he couldn't stand the consumption.

Moreover, there is a big difference between the Tangut people hearing that 300,000 people marched into Tangut and 10,000 people marched into Tangut.

The only difference from Tie Xinyuan here is that the Uighurs under the command of Meng Yuanzhi have knives in their hands and are more courageous.

And before leaving, Tie Xinyuan also told these people that whoever grabbed the things belonged to them, but they only needed to pay thirty percent, and they should be compensated for the Hami Kingdom to supply them with the travel expenses to the Western Xia Kingdom.

Ouyang Xiu almost raised his hands in favor of Tie Xinyuan's approach, the army of the Great Song Dynasty had left Qinzhou very shamelessly and was heading towards Taozhou, at this time, as long as it could increase the crisis for the Western Xia people, he was very welcome.

This was also the first time that the old master had ignored the possible casualties of the Uighurs, and from this point of view, the old master, although kind-hearted, was a real Great Song scholar at heart.

Bringing so many people out is not to grab territory, nor to hit anyone, it is miserable to say, just to eat a full stomach.

This world is not good, if you don't come out with a knife, you can't find food, and the food on the Great Gobi is counted, and if you are full, there will naturally be other people starving.

At the end of July, the north of the Tianshan Mountains is very hot during the day, and at night, the temperature will drop sharply, especially in the middle of the night, without a leather jacket, it will not be able to resist at all, and for another month, the heat will still be hot during the day, and at night, the earth will begin to freeze, as long as there is a strong wind, the snowflakes will then flood the whole land.

Therefore, Tie Xinyuan must find enough food before the heavy snow arrives to return to Hami.

Otherwise, starving to death would be a trivial matter, and after the heavy snow blocked the Tianshan Road, it was likely that the people he brought out would be swallowed up by the Uighur king or the Qarakhanid.

Tie Xinyuan and his generals sat around the fire to eat dinner, the dinner was not very good, it was all cooked wheat grains, although it was very fresh, it was very difficult to digest this thing.

Fortunately, it is not barley, if it is barley, what will it look like when you eat it, and it will still be the same when you come out.

Naturally, there is nothing delicious about the wheat rice, but fortunately, it is all new wheat, and there is no strange smell in the warehouse.

Tie Xinyuan ate a bowl and threw it away, and drank a large sip of honey water, without this thing to moisten his intestines, the consequences were unpredictable.

"Are the scouts back?"

Seeing that Tie Xinyuan had dropped his rice bowl, the generals also put down the rice bowl in their hands, and Tie Xinyuan motioned for them to continue eating, and asked Tie 300, who was in charge of the scouts.

"No, it is estimated that it will take a few days, and there is at least a thousand miles from here to Yanqi, and it is not so fast to come and go."

Tie Xinyuan said with a smile: "The vast territory has the advantage of this, we can play hide and seek with the enemy, as long as the Qarakhanid gives us a little more time, the more food we will bring back, and the less burden we will have to follow us."

If all the people who carry the grain go back, I even hope to compete with the Qarakhanid here to see our true strength. ”

Ah Da laughed and said: "Qarahan should not come, I even think he has already retreated, otherwise, there will not be only 30,000 people left in the land of Gaochang, and his own army and horses will not retreat to Yanqi." ”

Tie Xinyuan looked carefully, although Ah Er was digging rice into his mouth, Ah Da had no signs of choking, he had two heads, one was eating, and the other was talking without any inconvenience.

Tie Xinyuan shook his head and said, "I always feel that the purpose of Karakhani left in Yanqi is on us.

When winter comes, the Tarim River will freeze, and the quicksand will be blown harder than steel by the cold wind, and then they will have the ability to march to Hami. ”

Tie Sanbai shook his head and said: "King, this is impossible, whether it is the Great Tribulation Ghost Moraine or the Hanhai, it is not something that can be traversed in winter, and it can barely pass in summer and autumn."

As far as I know, the most terrifying thing in the Great Tribulation is the Devil's City, and sometimes people will involuntarily circle around the Devil's City, obviously walking forward, but in the end they will find themselves back to the place where they started.

The most terrible thing is that the water in it is cursed by the devil, as long as people drink it, they will become devils and attack their companions madly.

Most of the people who died in the ghost moraine of great calamity went crazy and died.

And the Hanhai is even more dangerous, there is no water quicksand in winter, but there will be dry quicksand, other deserts can find a little water, but there is absolutely no water in the Hanhai, even if you dig three feet can not find a drop of water, if you want to get out of the eight hundred miles of Hanhai, it will take at least more than a month, no one can carry a month and a half of water through the Hanhai, what is even more terrifying is that the sand piles in the Hanhai will move.

Many caravans camped under the sand, and when they woke up the next day, it was not uncommon for an entire caravan to disappear.

The most terrible thing in winter is the high winds, and in the event of a black storm, it is nothing to bury the entire army.

As long as he is a normal general, he will never let his army go through these two places in the cold winter. ”

Ah laughed and said: "If the king is worried about their sneak attack, we might as well put an army in the sandstone mountain after returning to Hami, if the Qarakhanid really comes from the Hanhai side, I think, the army that has passed through the devil's purgatory must be an army that is extremely tired, and it should have no combat effectiveness." ”

Whether it was Tie 300 or Ah Da said, Tie Xinyuan knew that he knew even better than Tie 300 that during the Tang Dynasty, an army strayed into the Hanhai Sea and finally disappeared completely.

Suspiciousness is fox nature, fickleness is also fox nature, these two personalities are very clearly reflected in Tie Xinyuan.

At the beginning, my grandfather said that he was too suspicious and would eventually suffer a big loss.

Therefore, Tie Xinyuan worked hard to make himself decisive and courageous, tried not to think clearly about what he wanted to do, and tried not to modify the plan once he made a decision.

In terms of employing people, he also worked hard to use his own people, with people who were close to him like siblings, if he couldn't be sure for a while whether this person was loyal or traitorous, he simply didn't use it, if he had to use it, he would use Song officials, such officials he didn't have to give them all his trust, he just needed them to work under his own surveillance.

Tie Xinyuan shook his head and drove his doubts out of his mind, turned around and asked Wei Chiwen, "How much grain have we got?" ”

Wei Chiwen shook his head and said: "Less than 10,000 quintals, I'm talking about the grain transported back to Hami, the army only has six days' rations now, and the grain harvested in the Dwarf Cedar Castle is not much, and there is not much gold, only two hundred catties, I haven't weighed it carefully." “

"Attack whom tomorrow?"

Iron Five took a map and pointed to a place called Turing near the left of the camp.

Yu Chiwen continued: "Turing Castle is the castle of the Uighur family, which is regarded as a count of the Uighur kingdom, and has been here for many years, according to the Uighurs here, the head of the family is not bad so far, and his sister married the Uighur king, an old family in the east of the Uighurs, and their family has at least 2,000 soldiers, all of whom are very elite warriors. ”

Tie Xinyuan turned around and smiled at Tie Sanbai: "Such a family should be a very rich family, and there should be a lot of food."

I just don't know if the news that we're here has leaked? ”

Tie Sanbai smiled: "I shouldn't know." ”

"It shouldn't be possible, you should say it for sure in the future."

As soon as Tie Xinyuan's words fell, the expression on Tie Sanbai's face changed, and he jumped up and shouted, "Enemy attack!" ”

At the same time, Tie Wu and Ah Da jumped up at the same time, Ah Da was the fastest, he ordered Baozi to protect Tie Xinyuan, he himself had already stepped on the war horse, and rushed to the east with his own soldiers at the first time.

According to Wei Chiwen, the Ai family has only 2,000 soldiers so far, and he has a hundred personal guards, how can he resist for a while, leaving enough time for everyone to prepare.

Tie Wu also had the same thoughts, at this time, the only army that could be used was his own personal guards, and there were not many hundred, so he and Ah Da swung their swords together to kill the east. (To be continued.) )