Section 428 Commencement of the trip

Starting from Dafeichuan, the Tang Army's itinerary a few days ago was like an outing. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Tangbo Ancient Road, hundreds of thousands of Tubo people arrived before, so the road traces are obvious, and it will not be wrong, because there are not many human tracks.

The view is superb!

It's summer, so the grass is green everywhere. On the side of the ancient road, there are all kinds of wildflowers. It is all over the hillside, and the formation is magnificent, reaching the sky!

The scene is extremely shocking. Flowers cover the plateau like a giant carpet, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and purple, colorful everywhere you see.

The point is that there are no enemies!

After three days of sorting, they did not encounter a single enemy, not a single Tibetan person charged on horseback, and no one shot cold arrows at them, not even a single Tibetan who came to watch on horseback.

The herdsmen have no long things, there are no legendary strong walls and clear fields, and they do not destroy the water source, you must know that destroying the water source is disgusting, the other party will release rotting animal corpses or feces to pollute the water source, but the water source found by the Tang army according to the map is clear.

The few Tubo or Tuyuhun herdsmen I met all expressed deference to the Tang army, this is not an outing or what?

As the vanguard, each soldier is equipped with two well-bred ponies to transport equipment and supplies.

All the personnel of the Tang Army were equipped with standard equipment, such as public tents, coal, pots, etc., as well as collective mountaineering equipment and a large number of ropes.

In addition to weapons and bows and arrows, personal equipment also includes quilts, waterproof clothes and hats, a change of clothes, thermal underwear (duck down or leather clothing), socks, flints, kettles, cutlery, knives, compasses, hats, gloves, toiletries, medicines, salt bottles, large bags of toilet paper, etc.

Each soldier also had to carry three days of food.

The recipes of the Tibetan troops are: fried noodles, dried meat, tea, mustard, and cheese.

For this war, a large number of fried noodles were prepared, that is, fried flour, which was the fried noodles eaten by the volunteers during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.

Flour made from wheat, sorghum, soybeans, and sesame seeds, stir-fried with salt, and dried cooked flour is stir-fried.

The way to eat it is to mix it with boiling water, then use a sieve to move it in one direction to become a semi-solid, add jerky and cheese, and you can eat!

Of course, where so much boiling water came from on the march, it had to be eaten dry with frozen water or snow water.

Because of the addition of sesame seeds, it smells very good, and after eating it for a few days, you can only mechanically stuff it into your mouth.

From generals to soldiers eat this and this,

Because it is fried, it is easy to eat and can be stored for a long time.

This is a pioneering achievement in the history of the Tang Army, on the plateau, it is not easy to eat or flatbread, one is the lack of water, the other is that there is no pressure cooker must be sandwiched with raw rice, the flatbread is also not easy to cook, the important thing is that there is so much transportation capacity to transport fuel? There were no cars back then!

There are no forests on the plateau, and even some coal is still buried underground.

Fried flour provides calories, but fortunately there is plenty of jerky, mare's milk and cheese from the horses they carry, and yaks, cattle and sheep also provide meat.

This is what the army on the expedition to Tibet can eat, they also carry beans, in addition to beating the teeth of the horses, but also used to make bean sprouts, this is the chief of the discipline, when eating, each officer and soldier at most get a small handful, and eat them in a precious place!

Fortunately, the general manager is wise, in addition to wheat, fried noodles also put soybeans, sesame seeds and other improved taste and nutrition, as well as jerky, but the source of people's energy!

The unsweetened mare's milk and cheese tasted bland, but the officers and soldiers never disliked it.

Tea is a must for every soldier, most of them bring a large piece of pressed tea bricks, cut a small piece when eating, boil water to make tea when there is a condition, and chew dry when there is no condition, thanks to the general manager, the Tang army has tea to drink (eat) until it arrives in Luo.

Compared with other Tang troops in China, the troops of the expedition to Tibet were more luxuriously equipped, their clothes were warm, everyone had a compass, leggings, and plenty of jerky, they were able to consume rhodiola to prevent altitude sickness, and everyone was wrapped from head to toe as required to protect against ultraviolet rays......

What is Ultraviolet Light?

It's the light that can burn people, oh, who said that, the chief manager said it.

The army knows that the chief manager is not a person, but the heavenly Wuqu Xingjun descended to earth, what does he say, everyone had better take it all!

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It turned out that the Tang army was well prepared, it was dispatched for three days without any attrition, and the morale of the troops was high.

The weather has been very good, there is no rain or snow, the sun is shining, the evening is full of stars, and the Milky Way is brilliant.

Everyone thinks that this is a good omen, and if you follow the general manager, you will be invincible and invincible!

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In front of Heka Town, the road leading to Heka Town is smooth, on both sides is a wide grassland, very monotonous, the grass quality is not very good, not very fresh and tender kind, belongs to the wasteland meadow, the grass looks a lot, but it is green and yellow, and there are not many livestock that can be fed.

The first division camped when it passed, and the grass was easily gnawed away, and if it stayed in the same area, it would have been grazed from a distance.

Moving on, you can gradually see the alpine pastures, the green carpets also look like verdant pastures, and the mountains are shrouded in clouds and mist, quite like a fairyland. Just on the ridge in the distance, the town of Heka is in sight.

Sure enough, humans are all smart, they occupy the best and easiest places to survive, and with the surrounding pastures, they can survive by grazing their livestock.

Cheng Boxi walked with Wei Xi, and he asked boredly: "Why does the grass here grow so well, but the grass grew so poorly before, and it seems that there is no water source?" ”

At that time, science was backward, many of them were not clear and did not understand, he asked casually, and did not want to find the answer, but he did not expect Wei Xi to say: "There are mountains here, and the mountains have heights, blocking the water vapor, and the water vapor falls on the mountains, moisturizing the land, and the grass will grow well!" ”

"On the flat ground, the wind blows away all the water vapor, and without water, there is no life!"

"You know that, too!" Cheng Boxi said in surprise.

"I can do anything!" Wei Xi said proudly.

"I believe it!" Cheng Boxi said: "You became a colt so quickly and became a general, and people say that you are not human!" ”

"I'm a youkai!" Wei Xi said his true nature.

"A big youkai!" Cheng Boxi agreed: "Big demon! ”

The surrounding officers and soldiers all looked at Wei Xi in awe, and the admiration in their eyes was undoubted.

Looking through the binoculars, the vanguard had already entered the town, and there seemed to be no fighting.

They put on the banner of security.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the scout flew to report: "There is no trace of the enemy within a radius of thirty miles!" ”

"Let's go, let's go into town!" Wei Xi greeted.

And the general Shi Wanchao said suspiciously: "Will there be any ambush?" Why did it go so well! ”

This is not only his question, but also the question of most officers and soldiers, when did the Tubo people become harmonious?

The nomads fought against the Central Plains Dynasty, and they always did everything, and they rushed up to fight the frontal and carried out the most vicious slaughter, and the frontal fight would not be timeless, and they would attack and disturb the war: shooting arrows around the enemy day and night, killing the lonely, fetching water, picking up horses and grass, will not make you comfortable anyway.

The Tubo people did not use these tactics, which is very strange.

"There's an ambush!" Cheng Boxi snorted coldly: "Didn't you see that my third brother has already beaten his horse into the town!" (To be continued.) )