Chapter 82 Wind and Snow Walk Alone and Be Bold
"What bad water are you having? I think you just changed your name to Li Badshui. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Medical Officer Xiao Liu couldn't help but laugh at his junior brother. "I don't call this name, it's too ordinary. Senior brother, what do you think of my name Zhi Duoxing? This nickname sounds so majestic. Li Deyi and his senior brother laughed. Doctor Xiao Liu raised his eyebrows and said in a raised voice, "Just you?!" Still smart and multi-star? ”
After arguing with Senior Brother for a while, Li Deyi's mood obviously recovered a little, and said: "Senior Brother, among the homeless people we recruited, there is not a single blacksmith. I pondered that now that there are swords and soldiers all over the world, those blacksmiths have long been accepted as treasures by those powerful families in various places. Even if there are one or two, it will be difficult to fall into our corner, senior brother, you say yes. Facing the morning breeze whistling above the city, Li Deyi talked to his senior brother in a low voice.
"Our Dingbei County is indeed a little remote, and even the homeless people rarely come to our area. As far as I know, there are now hundreds of thousands, millions of displaced people in several large provinces near Zhongshen City. Doctor Xiao Liu held on to the cold city wall with one hand and said slowly. Li Deyi then said: "So I feel that just by recruiting homeless people, we can't find a blacksmith who is enough to make armor, so we have to think of something else." This armor is too important to fight, and the few times I went into battle, if I hadn't worn the armor that the master specially made for me, I don't know how many times I would have died. Senior brother, we must find a way to get a blacksmith, and we must build our own armor. ”
The dawn of late autumn is the most frozen, and Dr. Xiao Liu stretched out his hand and tightened the felt on his body: "What you said is good, but where can we go to find a blacksmith now?" Those skilled blacksmiths have long been looted by the self-reliant warlords everywhere. Even if we find a way to dig people from them, we don't have to think about those who are too far away, and if they are thousands of miles away, where are they not blacksmiths to make iron for people, why should people come to our poor country. The only ones closest are Wang Songcheng in the south, and Li Sinai in the Shang Jin, these two are much more powerful than us, and they are rich and powerful. Digging people from them basically doesn't have to think about it. To the east of us, we are either ruined by the Tuliao people, and Zhongshen City is even more in ruins, and the blacksmiths have been caught in Tongwan City, and it is difficult to find even a personal shadow. Either it is the territory of Shimai Prefecture made by Jiedu, and his power is stronger than Li Sinai and Wang Songcheng combined, where can we dig his corner. Hey, it's hard......"
Although Senior Brother's words were reasonable, Li Deyi just didn't give up, and asked in a low voice: "Senior Brother, those blacksmiths who were caught in Tongwan City, although the Tuliao people didn't kill them, their lives must not be easy, right?" Xiao Liu nodded: "It's really sad, after the Tuliao people catch them, they have to brand their faces as kneeling slaves, and they have to wear shackles on their feet, forcing them to work day and night, and their status is only a little better than the cattle and sheep on the grassland." If they slack off, they will have to eat a whip, and they will eat the lowest food, just to ensure that they will not starve to death. ”
"Then let's go and rescue these blacksmiths, what do you think, senior brother?" Li Deyi said what he thought, and stood there waiting for his senior brother's reply.
Doctor Xiao Liu stared at his junior brother seriously for a long time, making sure that he was not joking, and then asked three questions: "We are thousands of miles from here to Tongwan City, and it is two thousand miles back and forth, how do you plan to go?" When you arrive at Tongwan City, where the Golden Horde Court of the Tuliao people is located, the army is gathered, how can you save people? Even if you succeed in the first two steps, how can you escape back with people after you save them? ”
As soon as Doctor Liu's question came out, Li Deyi was obviously asked. Also, at a young age, it's good to think so much, how can he think so thoroughly. Li Deyi scratched his head, blushed embarrassedly, and said: "I haven't thought about it so much, last night I just thought that we really had no other place to recruit blacksmiths, so we could only fight the idea of the Tuliao people, but I didn't expect this matter to be so difficult, haha." Li Deyi laughed self-deprecatingly. Unexpectedly, Medical Officer Xiao Liu said seriously: "What you said is not bad, going to the Tuliao people to rescue those blacksmiths who were beaten into kneeling slaves is indeed a way out for us." Although this matter is a little more difficult, and the road is a little farther, didn't we still kill all the way to Tongwan City last year? ”
Hearing what his senior brother said, Li De's eyes lit up, and he said happily: "Yes, didn't we go to Tongwan City last year!" As soon as these words were spoken, Li De's small face fell again, and he said dejectedly: "Last year, all the cavalry on the entire grassland entered the pass and plundered, and only some old and weak people were left on the grassland, almost defenseless. Because of this, we can kill all the way to the bottom of Tongwan City. This year is difficult, not to mention that the Tuliao army is stationed near Tongwan City, passing through major tribes along the way, just their cavalry, we can bear it. Ay...... It seems that there is no way to lead troops to rob people. ”
Doctor Xiao Liu almost choked when he heard his junior brother's stupid words, and instantly raised his voice and said: "I really don't know when you were so ambitious, and you still want to lead troops to Tongwan City to rob people, not to mention how to kill them along the way, just the city wall, how do you get in?" After Xiao Liu finished speaking, he also felt that his words were a bit heavy, patted his junior brother on the shoulder and said: "I haven't slept all night, and now Wang Songcheng's Xiao cavalry guard has also gone away, hurry back and rest, look back and think about these things slowly, don't be in a hurry." ”
Back in his cabin, Li Deyi lay on the bed and baked cakes back and forth, and after thinking for a while but still had no clue, he fell asleep. The next day, Li Deyi took the children to exercise in the morning as usual, instructed the enlightened children to cultivate the original qi, took literacy courses, practiced queues, and took out red tassel guns to practice (play). In the afternoon, I still went to the sword and armor camp to pick up the hammer, and never mentioned the matter of finding the armor blacksmith again.
Seeing that everything was as usual for his junior brother, Medical Officer Xiao Liu still persevered in cultivating the original qi every day, and no longer mentioned the matter of finding a blacksmith, and his heart was also secretly relieved. He also knows that Weibei Camp is having a hard time now and lacks everything, but at the moment, this situation cannot be solved by being in a hurry or by slapping his head with his hand, things must be solved in the same way, and impatience can only be bad. The junior brother wanted to find some blacksmiths, although he was anxious for the Weibei camp, but Xiao Liu was really afraid that he would be too distracted by these miscellaneous matters, but it would delay his own Yuan Qi cultivation.
The sun rises as usual every day, and Li Deyi's life is still like that, but he begins to deliberately tell the children more about Weibei Camp during class every day. A few days later, the first snow on the north-west side came early. Two days later, Doctor Sun and the three generals agreed to let Doctor Liu and Li Deyi take the newly trained soldiers to the northern grassland of Dingbei County, just near the Jinshui River, to drive away those small grassland tribes who came to spend the winter.
The first few times Li Deyi went to the grassland, he always came with others, and this was the first time he led the team. After consulting his senior brother's opinion, Li Deyi also brought the thirteen children who had begun to cultivate the original qi, but he didn't want them to go into battle, but he just planned to let them take a real look at the things on the battle formation, and see them for a long time.
The clean-up operation went smoothly, and the four small tribes who came to spend the winter on the banks of the Jinshui River were completely wiped out. The newly trained soldiers, except for a few who were injured because they were flustered in the fight and made mistakes in the fighting moves they usually trained, performed well on the whole. Now pull it out, even if you encounter the Tuliao cavalry of the brigade, you can be regarded as having the strength to fight, but if you want to become an elite like the veterans of the Weibei Battalion, you have to go through a lot of fighting and training.
This operation was led by Senior Brother, and Li De boldly mentioned it as soon as he had some words: "Senior Brother, isn't there a shortage of manpower in our mine, let's arrest these Tuliao men and go back to work." Medical Officer Xiao Liu did not agree with his junior brother's proposal, and said: "They are all wild and untamed grassland animals, and if they are really caught and mined, I am afraid that they will make trouble in the mine." "Wouldn't it be okay to cut off their big toes, I read from the book that the founding ancestor of the Ping Zhou Dynasty once treated those Yi people who refused to obey like this." Li Deyi said his own way.
Medical Officer Xiao Liu also felt that this method was feasible, so he ordered the soldiers to tie up all these prisoners with ropes and bring them back. As for these Yiren women, since most of the displaced people under the jurisdiction of Weibei Camp are men, these women can be brought back as daughters-in-law for those displaced people who work weekdays. What, you say the language barrier? That's not a problem at all. The status of women in this era is still low, after all, the great god of crossing, the founding ancestor of the Ping Zhou Dynasty was a man, and he had a large group of old people in his own harem, and he had a good time, so he had no intention of improving women's rights. Women have a low status, and they basically have no status to speak at home, as long as they are obedient and can work. If you catch it, you can find someone to teach you for a month or two, and you can easily understand the official dialect of the Ping Zhou Dynasty.
The biggest gain of this operation was that when breaking a small tribe, he found a citizen of the Ping Zhou Dynasty, according to him, who had escaped from Tongwan City, but he was caught by the rangers of other tribes before he could escape far, and after several changes of hands, he was sold to this small tribe. Li Deyi asked him about the situation in Tongwan City, and got an important piece of news, due to the inhumane bullying of the Tuliao people, many Pingzhou people who were arrested in Tongwan City began to try their best to flee. But in the vast grassland, where can they escape, most of them are eventually either killed by the chasing rangers, or buried in the belly of wolves, or frozen to death by the harsh winter of this northern grassland. But even so, there are still many people who choose to flee, preferring to risk death and abscond for the sake of the non-existent glimmer of life, rather than stay in Tongwan City and continue to be tortured by that inhuman.
On the night of returning to Weibei Camp, Li Deyi went to talk to the master late at night, and the next day, Li Deyi gathered the children together, assigned two months of homework, and asked them to study at home on their own, not to be lazy, and then called out the thirteen children who had begun to cultivate the original qi and instructed them to go to their senior brother Xiao Liu, or find their own master when they encountered problems with cultivating the original qi.
Once the children are arranged, everything at home is arranged. Li Deyi went back to the house and took his saber and small hammer, put on his master's special armor, and then got a set of large leather armor and put it on the outside. Called the "Hummer", and went to find the "Four Eyes" who were squatting there and watching a group of little wolf cubs play with him, and then the brothers went to Wang Zhuangbiao to bring enough food and prepare to set off.
Before going out, Dr. Liu stopped his junior brother, and then dragged his junior brother into the house, where an old soldier with a sharp short knife was waiting there. Li Deyi said in a trembling voice: "Senior brother, what are you going to do?" I'm just going to save a few people and come back, so I don't have to scare me with a knife. ”
Medical Officer Xiao Liu pressed his junior brother to the chair: "I know what you are going to do, do you think I don't know what I said to Master so late last night?" I listened outside the house, but I didn't even enter the house. Sit down and don't move, let Zeng shave your head, and Brother Zeng will fix your head well. He turned his head to the eldest brother Zeng and said, "Give my junior brother a barbarian head on the grassland, which is the kind of head shape that Tuliao men often keep, so that he looks like that." Zeng shaved his head and agreed, and he was about to do it with a razor.
Li Deyi hurriedly stretched out his hand to cover his head and shouted: "Why do I want to cut out the Liao people, it's really ugly, don't pick it, I don't pick it." Doctor Liu raised his hand and gave Li De a head look: "Aren't you planning to sneak into Tongwan City?" Aren't you going to die just like you're dressed!? So brainless. Hurry up, and I'll change into the clothes of the Tuliao people later. As soon as Li De heard that what his senior brother said was right, he honestly asked people to shave his head, and finally tied two long braids of twisted flowers on the left and right heads, and changed into the clothes of the Tuliao people who had just been snatched from the grassland. Then Doctor Liu took out a bag and handed it to his junior brother, which contained the application things that Doctor Liu had prepared for him overnight.
Li De took a look at the set of clothes on his body and said, "It's pretty good-looking, this dress is quite warm on the body, it's really good." Doctor Xiao Liu rolled his eyes and said, "This is the clothes of the leader of the small tribe that was seized a few days ago, can it be good, although it is much bigger on your body, it is also suitable to put on the outside of the two layers of armor inside." Don't delay your work, I'll teach you two more sentences of Tuliao, and try to talk to people as little as possible after you go, so as not to miss the stuffing. If anyone examines your background, it will be said that you are the Kanna of the Baikal tribe in the western steppe. Li De opened his mouth and asked, "Senior brother, which Baikal tribe is this?" What is Karna? Dr. Xiao Liu patiently explained: "The Baikal tribe is a small tribe that was wiped out by us a few days ago, they call themselves Baikal, and Kana means the son of the patriarch. "Oh, I see. I didn't plan to do anything this time, but I went to touch the details of Tongwan City first. Don't worry, I won't cause trouble. ”
Although Medical Officer Xiao Liu was a little relieved, his junior brother had always had a lot of ideas, and now he has achieved a little bit in the majestic realm, and the world is so big that he can go anywhere. A good man should be rampant in the world, and he really shouldn't always be stuffy in one place, so Doctor Liu didn't intend to stop his junior brother. After earnestly admonishing him, he put a large bag of sauced beef in his brother's arms and personally sent him out of the house.
As soon as he came out of the house after changing his clothes, Li Deyi heard a strange scream. It turned out that it was "Hummer" who couldn't help but laugh when he saw Li Deyi dressed like this. Li Deyi turned over and rode on the back of the "Humvee" with a red face, "Let's go, don't laugh, what's so funny, this is what my senior brother asked me to dress up like this." Doctor Liu sent Li Deyi to the gate of the camp and met Li Wuving.
Li Wuyi looked at Li Deyi's dress, opened his mouth wide in surprise and shouted, "Why are you going?" Li Deyi said angrily: "I'm going to Tongwancheng, will you go?" Li Wudi didn't think about it and nodded: "Okay, I'll go too." Doctor Xiao Liu hurriedly stopped him: "You are not allowed to go, if you want to go, you have to cut off such a head, change into this clothes, will you still go?" Li Wudi glanced at Li Deyi's dress, and suddenly showed an uncomfortable look on his face, frowning and thinking back and forth in his heart, and finally Li Wuyi gritted his teeth and said, "It's too ugly, don't go." Li De was angry.
Medical Officer Xiao Liu sent Li Deyi out of the gate of the county seat, and only said: "Be careful on the road." He waved his hand and turned his head to go back. Li Deyi said goodbye to his senior brother, rode a "Humvee" with "four eyes", and plunged into the vast snowfield. All the way to the north, Li Deyi walked with a dull head, he didn't know that after his senior brother Xiao Liu entered the city, he went up to the city wall, and watched him completely disappear at the intersection of the vast snowfield and the sky, and then went down the city wall.
Inserted into the grassland to the north first, Li Deyi turned his head and began to march eastward, hurrying to the road during the day while there was a sun in the sky, and at night he opened a snow nest and buried himself in it, hugging the 'four eyes' to keep warm. Along the way, he encountered many grassland tribes, but Li Deyi didn't dare to approach, so he made a detour and rushed all the way in the direction of Tongwan City.
The resilience of the grassland is incomparably amazing, and the fire that Li Deyi and his senior brother set off last year that spread throughout the grassland has now completely disappeared from the traces of the fire, and there are only white snowfields and a few dead grasses everywhere. After rushing for more than a month, Li Deyi finally saw the shadow of Tongwan City. Tongwan City is still as tall and majestic as last year, towering over the grassland, looking down on the land under its rule like a wolf king.
When he arrived at Tongwan City, Li Deyi did not rush into the city at first, and walked around Tongwan City a few times from afar. But I saw a circle outside Tongwan City, full of white bones, some new and some old. This old one should be the people of the Ping Zhou Dynasty who were tired to death when the city was built. The new white bones, with a little strip of cloth on their bodies that had not yet completely rotted, should have been kneeling slaves who had recently escaped and died on this grassland.
After going around a few times, Li De's hand became tighter and tighter, and every inch of the city wall of this unified city was soaked with the blood and tears of the people of the Ping Zhou Dynasty. After running wildly for a while, Li Deyi finally calmed down his emotions, and then turned around and walked towards the city gate.
The Tuliao people just destroyed the Ping Zhou Dynasty last year, and now they obviously have great confidence in their own strength, and the city gate is not guarded, so wide open for people to come and go at will. Li Deyi's various means of entering the city prepared in advance were completely useless, and he put up the small piece of tea brick in his arms that he intended to bribe the guards. Entering the city, Li Deyi saw the interior of this royal city for the first time.
Successive generations of Tuliao people have been nomadic herds in the grasslands for a living, living in pursuit of water and grass. It was not until the Great Khan of the Ashina family of this generation unified all the tribes of the grassland and plundered a lot of wealth in the Kouping Zhou Dynasty that the first city of the Tuliao people was built. Although there was a city, the Tuliao people were still not accustomed to living in civil houses, and the city was full of tents, large and small, and even cattle and sheep still lived with people. The whole city was in shambles, sewage was everywhere, and it was filled with the smell of cattle and sheep.
In the center of the city is the Tuliao Imperial City that is being built, this imperial city is built on a protruding hill as a whole, this hill is the highest place in the Tongwan City, the imperial city as a whole is built with white stone, the golden top, the style is roughly imitated the imperial palace of the Ping Zhou Dynasty. The overseer brutally oppressed the captured people of the Pingzhou Dynasty and forced them to work day and night, anyway, what these kneeling slaves have now is that they are tired and then replaced by a batch. In today's Tongwan City, killing a Pingzhou kneeling slave only needs to compensate the master for a sheep.
Li Deyi walked to a corner where no one was paying attention, stopped and looked around at the city, secretly remembering the terrain in the city and the sentry post. Just as he was remembering it, he suddenly heard a scream in his ears.
This terrible cry instantly ignited the anger that had been suppressed in Li Deyi's heart, and when he turned his head to look around, he saw a tragic scene.