Walking on the endless mountains and winding mountain roads, but also worry about the Tubo people who pop up from time to time on the side of the road, the only good thing is that the Tubo people are very lazy, they even refuse to get off the horse to dig ditches, smash stones on the top of the mountain, and block the wooden walls of the road. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Fan Wushu once bragged with Changbayo, ridiculing the Tubo people for not being able to fight, and if their Tang army encountered an enemy invasion, they would pry down the entire mountain wall and block the road to see how the enemy walked!

Changbayo glared at him and said, "You will offend the mountain god by doing this!" ”

"Mountain gods?" Fan Wuxian said in surprise.

"Yes, mountain god!" Changbayo is pious and authentic.

They believe in the primitive religion of Ben (Bon), believing that all things have spirits and cannot be moved lightly, and that the mountains are like the body of the mountain gods, and whoever dares to touch the mountain gods will be punished by the mountain gods.

"There is a mountain god in this mountain?" Fan Wuxian said in disbelief.

"Of course there are mountain gods!" Changbayo said unquestioningly: "You have to be careful, don't let the soldiers cut down indiscriminately, or we will be in trouble." ”

Aha, the scenery on both sides of the road is very good, somewhat resembling the Rocky Mountains of North America, the mountains are covered with lush coniferous forests, connected by patches of green grass and rivers, and the sky is incomparably blue, and the sun is scorching the earth.

Changbayo admonished: "Try not to touch the mountains and forests, and if you want to collect firewood, pick up dry branches and dead leaves." ”

He added: "Now the heavens are still taking care of us, and it is also the blessing of my fourth brother, don't you see that the weather is very good, if it rains or hails, it will make everyone unhappy." ”

Mountain gods? Fan Wuxian is not afraid, because his family master will be a big demon, and even the mountain god has killed one when he was in Luoyang.

But in the matter of good fortune, Fan Wuxian still believed in it, so he ordered the army not to move a single tree or stone on the road.

If he wanted to move, Fan Wuxian silently thought that he would wait for the capture of Luo!

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The cavalry of the Tang Army was Shi Wanchao with 10,000 cavalry first, the Chinese army was Wei Xi and Fan Wuxian, Yang Chengxian was postponed, and as for the cavalry of the Tubo people, there were 20,000 with Shi Wanchao, 10,000 with Wei Xi, and the infantry engineers of the Tang Army were mixed up.

They are all combat troops, the speed is very fast, the progress is also fast, they have long been separated from the baggage behind them, relying on the barley and livestock collected along the way for food, Changbayo and some of the leaders who are more familiar with the face are no longer fighting, they are busy all the time to get supplies for everyone, and the supply of 100,000 people is not a small problem.

In this context, tsamba is very popular.

According to local conditions, the unpeeled barley (conditionally plus sesame seeds and bowl beans) is fried and then ground into fine noodles, which is tsamba.

Take it on the road, stir it well with a small amount of milk tea, cheese, etc., and knead it into a ball by hand to eat. Not only is it easy to eat, nutritious, high in calories, great for hunger and cold, and most importantly, easy to carry and store.

The advent of tsampa began in the seventh century AD, and the king often went out to lead his troops to fight, but the snow-capped mountains were continuous, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and it was not easy to supply the army, and it was even more difficult to cook, because of the problem of high sea, and it was not necessarily possible to boil a pot of water with a ton of dried cow dung! Therefore, Zao had a headache.

Then, the heavenly king Gesar gave the king of Zao a dream, how not to fry the barley and grind the flour, which is easy to carry and easy to store, the king woke up, and ordered his subordinates to burn the pot and grind the wheat, prepare the military rations, the barley second wheat is fragrant, and its processing method soon spread all over the snow-capped mountains and meadows.

Wei Xi is now greedy for heaven, and cheekily said that tsampa was his invention, but in fact, it was the invention of the people in Tibetan areas, but he had the right to speak and said that he was his.

Accompanied by the lack of milk tea in tsamba, Wei Xi did not use the method of butter tea (too troublesome), but adopted the Xinjiang milk tea method: first boil the tea, then add milk to boil, stir well, and add an appropriate amount of salt after the tea and milk are completely blended.

The preparation method is simple, the taste is very ordinary, and it is really simple to say, but it is such a milk tea, and the only people who can enjoy it are officers, because of the lack of fuel, the first priority is to make tsampa, and the dried cow dung and dead leaves, withered grass and dry branches collected on the road are all used in the important task of making tsamba and boiling meat.

Even so, the Tang army's journey to conquer Tibet was bright on the surface, but in fact everyone was hungry to fight!

The supply of 100,000 people was too heavy for the barren Qinghai-Tibet line, and although Changbayo and others did their best to prepare food and grass for everyone, the supply was always insufficient.

The feeling of a deflated stomach is terrible!

For everyone's appetite, in order to survive, to have the strength to fight, and to go down, the Tang army had to give up the instruction that it had always insisted on not moving the animals and plants in Tibet, but to eat whatever it saw.

So the Qinghai-Tibet line of bison, rock sheep, argali, Tibetan antelope, Tibetan wild ass, white-lipped deer, sika deer, red deer, roe deer is limited to snow leopards, wolves, foxes, wild dogs all suffered, there was no animal protection during that period, the Tang army saw it and shot with a bow, sucked blood and ate meat, ate a mouth full of blood, like a raw Tibetan, so that the fellow Tubo people are muttering: "Aren't the Tang people the most civilized?" ”

Anyway, the road encounters angry things are all bad luck, the Tang army fishing, net fishing, doing dam fishing to fish, birds flying in the sky, their own archers beckoning them, it can be said that they fly in the sky, swim in the water, run on the ground, all are food, the Tang people are never picky, happily eat them in their stomachs.

The Tubo people who returned to obedience saw that the Tang people had disturbed all things on the earth, and they were shocked to interfere, while the Tang people argued, "The general has an order, and his back is turned to the sky and eaten by people (how does it seem to sound like the saying of Guangnan East Road), we are just following the order of the general, he is the son-in-law of the heavenly son, everything is right, you say no?" ”

"Ugh! ......" The Tubo people were speechless, and when they saw that the Tang people wanted to persuade them to eat meat together, they ran away in fright.

At that time, the snowy plateau was sparsely populated, with little impact on nature, and there were not many species of wild animals, but there were quite a few of them, and they were reduced to military rations.

In Bison Gou, the Tang army shot and killed 2,000 bison in one go, and the bison within a radius of 100 miles were extinct.

They killed nearly 5,000 Tibetan antelopes in one go.

On the snow line, people killed two snow leopards and skinned them to be presented to General Wei.

The pheasants on the snowy fields were so stupid that people ran over to catch them and boiled them into pots and pots of chicken soup, which were very conscientious to replenish the sick and wounded

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Killing too much, and for a time there was not enough fuel to cook it, the people cut the meat into thin strips, salted it, threaded it with hemp rope, and hung it on a heavy horse and took it away.

Rely on natural air drying, or dry the meat at the temperature of the horse's body, which is convenient to eat.

But walking around like this is extremely funny, and we are all called children to laugh at ourselves.

Thanks to General Wei, when going up to the snowy plateau, the Tang army carried three treasures: one is tea, its use is undoubted; the second is salt, which is very useful for curing meat; The third is soap, no matter how dirty your hands are, you must always find a water source before eating, wash your hands with soap before you come to eat, this is the fire chief of every fire staring at the eyes urging, because this is General Wei's military order!

Compared with the Tibetans, the Tang people had a lower rate of illness on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which made the Tibetans envious.

In this way, the forward troops of the Tang Army relied on this versatile military ration to hit Luo. (To be continued.) )