Chapter 251: The Road Is Difficult
In the history of China, the northern border troubles have never been cut off, and the nationalities on horseback are you singing and I appearing. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
During the Warring States Period, the Xiongnu has always been the biggest border trouble in the north, so after Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries in 214 BC, he sent the general Meng Tian to the north to drive the Xiongnu, and built the Great Wall from Lintao in Gansu to Liaodong in the west for more than 10,000 miles, in order to prevent the Xiongnu from advancing southward, which is known as the Great Wall of Qin.
When the Han Dynasty arrived, the Xiongnu were even more imposing, in the seventh year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang was besieged by the Xiongnu in Baishan Mountain, which gave the Liu royal family who had just established the Han Empire a slap in the face, and also became a great shame for the old Liu family.
The descendants of the Liu family did not forget this shame, but recuperated and recuperated, after several generations of efforts until the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, finally did their best, sent Wei Qing to recover the Henan region, sent Huo to seize the Hexi Corridor, surrendered 100,000 people to the right of the Xiongnu, and set up four counties of Wuwei, Jiuquan, Dunhuang and Zhangye; In 119 B.C., Wei Qing and Huo Qubing led 50,000 cavalry to attack in two ways, Wei Qing defeated Shan Yu, Huo Qubing chased and annihilated more than 70,000 people of Zuoxian Wang, and sealed the wolf Juxu. The two armies annihilated more than 90,000 Xiongnu troops, defeated the Xiongnu and fled to the north of the desert and invaded the south.
Subsequently, the Han Empire used troops against the Xiongnu many times, coupled with civil strife and division, the Xiongnu finally gradually dissipated, and some moved westward and partly integrated into the Han nation.
The Xiongnu weakened, other ethnic groups rose, and many ethnic groups such as the Qiang people, the Di people, and the Xianbei people stepped onto the stage of history during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, until the Sui Dynasty Emperor Wen of Sui carried out another great unification, and at this time the strong ethnic groups in the north became Turkic.
Then the Sui Dynasty was replaced by Li Tang, and Li Shimin finally ascended to the throne, but immediately received a slap from the Turkic Jieli Khan, and signed the Weishui Alliance in humiliation.
The Great Han Dynasty from Gaozu of the Han Dynasty to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty went through seven generations of hard work before it was disgraced, but Li Shimin's revenge was a matter of time, so he couldn't wait to point the sword at the Turkic Khan in the fourth year of signing the Weishui Alliance.
The little brother in the true character of the movie hero of later generations is almost a copy of Li Shimin, that sentence: I have waited for three years, just to wait for an opportunity, I want to fight for a breath, not to prove that I am amazing, I want to tell everyone that I must get back what I have lost! It is inexplicably appropriate to use on Li Shimin.
Wu Yuanqing provided logistical support to Li Jing of the Middle Route Army, and took the Yunzhong and Mayi advances, that is, the road out of Yanmen Pass in the north, which is the same route as when Wu Yuanqing was relegated to Daizhou.
"Hey, why are you two here" Looking at Zhang Long and Zhao Hu who appeared in front of him, Wu Yuanqing asked with a worried face.
On this trip, he only brought two personal guards of Wang Dynasty Mahan, while Zhang Long and Zhao Hu were left at home, why did he leave only for a day, these two followed, could something happen at home.
"Young Master, you left in a hurry, you didn't take a lot of things, the young lady asked us to send them to you," Zhang Long said.
"Sending something? What is it" Wu Yuanqing sighed, it's not like something happened at home.
"The backpack you often carry, the young lady has been filled with bombs, and there is a big box that is sealed, we don't know what it is," Zhao Hu answered.
"Oh" Wu Yuanqing knew that this young lady must be talking about Wang Ziyu, Xiangcheng couldn't think of such a thoroughness.
However, there is no need to send a backpack over, he is not simply transporting food, but all the logistics support, and the convoy is pulling a lot of gunpowder and bombs, not only these, but also arrows and the like.
As for what was in the sealed box, Wu Yuanqing couldn't figure it out, and after someone lifted the box over and opened it, Wu Yuanqing only glanced inside and closed it again and nailed it back.
It's good, it's good, it's my daughter-in-law who understands herself, why didn't I forget to bring this thing when I left home, fortunately, Ziyu remembered it and asked people to come over.
On weekdays, this thing is taken out to play in a place where there is no one in Chang'an, and I have not been able to find the opportunity to use it urgently, but this time it has a place to fight the Turks.
Zhang Long and Zhao Hu didn't leave when they sent something, saying that it was ordered by the young lady to protect the young master's safety.
Wu Yuanqing saw that his daughter-in-law cared about him, so he stayed, and let them go back and worry his family.
In November, the north was already frozen, and the farther north it went, the colder it became, and there were a lot of snowy places on the way, and the ground was very slippery.
By the time they reached the halfway point, the army that had set out late in the middle had overtaken them and gone ahead.
Wu Yuanqing was ridiculed by Chi Gong, the deputy commander of the Chinese army, and after the old man laughed at it, he threatened that the army was not carrying much grain and grass when he left, and if the grain transportation team could not keep up when the army ran out of food, he cut off Wu Yuanqing's head with his own hands.
Compared with the intimidation of this old man, another young general was quite kind, and smiled kindly before leaving. I don't know if I think Wu Yuanqing's official position is higher than him or because of something else.
If Wu Yuanqing knew who this kind-looking general was, he would be surprised.
This general's surname is Su Minglie, and the word is fixed, and it is the peerless fierce general who defeated more than 20,000 Western Turks and beheaded more than 1,500 people during the Gaozong period in history. Later, the destruction of the Western Turks was also led by Su Dingfang.
The current famous generals and the future famous generals appeared together in the army attacking the Turks, and it was only one of the large armies, and I have to say that Li Shimin was determined to destroy Jieli in one fell swoop this time.
After Wei Chi Gong led the army away, Wu Yuanqing hurriedly sent someone to order the entire logistics unit to set off with all their might.
He had to hurry up, although he was smiling and scareting, but Wu Yuanqing didn't dare to really think that this was a joke, maybe when the head really fell to the ground.
But that's how people are, the more you want to hurry, the more likely you are to have problems, and Murphy's Law says that if you're worried about something happening, it's more likely to happen.
Wu Yuanqing was worried that there would be various accidents on the road that would delay progress, and then all kinds of accidents would occur frequently.
Either the pulling horse was lame, or the wheel was broken, or it was stuck in a pit and couldn't get out.
Finally, I hurried to a place less than two hundred miles away from Shuofang, and when I felt that victory was in sight, God was very fucked up and snowing.
And it's not a light snow, it's a rare big blizzard, and the earth is covered in silver in one night.
It's really white, it's really clean, more than a foot of snow, not to mention the carriage and wheelbarrow, even if people walk empty-handed, it's extremely difficult, and they can't pull out their legs after stepping on it for half a day.
"Yuanqing, what should I do, there are only five days left before the stipulated arrival time, but the snow is so thick that I can't walk at all" Cheng Chumo arrived anxiously.