Chapter 192: Rivers and Mountains (2)
The reason for the anger of the pioneer general Ashina Shapi is none other than the disappearance of his beloved war horse, Ugin Pony. www.biquge.info I went out for a walk with the horses in the morning, and when I returned to the camp, I disappeared inexplicably, and I couldn't find it. Ashina Shapi whipped all the Tuliao cavalry who were in charge of walking the horses with twenty lashes, and did not ask the whereabouts of his beloved horses without asking about them.
This Wujin horse was specially given to him by Emperor Ashina in order to reward him for his heroic battles over the years (slaughtering the people of Pingzhou). After Ashina Shapi got this BMW, he also cherished it very much, and he was reluctant to ride it on weekdays unless he went into battle. But he didn't expect that his beloved treasure horse came to Luodu City for a walk, and he was inexplicably gone.
Ashina Shapi didn't know that at this time, his beloved horse had turned into fragrant meat in some people's pots and entered the temples of other people's five organs.
It won't be long before his beloved horse will turn into a rice commune, from the belly of Li Deyi, "Four Eyes", Wang Zhuangbiao, and Xiao Liu, and turn into spring mud to protect flowers. Li Deyi picked up a piece of juicy horse meat with his hands, gnawed on it, ate a piece, and reached out to take out a piece from the pot. Horse meat is slightly rougher than beef, and the taste is almost bad, but in fact, the taste is not much different, and it is also very hungry when eaten, which is a rare delicious food in wartime.
This good horse was not dead when it was dragged back by Four Eyes and Hummer. At that time, Li Deyi saw that such a majestic horse was made like this, and he felt distressed for a while. "It's a pity, such a good horse was bitten off a leg by 'Four Eyes', and it was hit by a hoof of a 'Humvee', and it won't live long." Li Deyi said with a regretful look on his face at the time, and then came with a sentence: "I have been marching these days, and the oil and water in my stomach are almost dry, so I just ate this horse to replenish the oil and water." This is really because of the food to the enemy, thanks to the Tuliao people for sending this good horse. Brother Wang! Brother Wang! ”
Wang Zhuangbiao heard Li Deyi's call, walked out of the tent, and said loudly: "Not enough to eat? Sprinkle the family and bring it again. As soon as I came out, I saw this black gold horse with a broken leg. Wang Zhuangbiao doesn't look at riding horses, but after all, he is from Jiangmen, and he naturally knows how to ride war horses. He opened his mouth and said, "Ah, this is a good horse!" As he spoke, Wang Zhuangbiao walked over and looked at the broken leg, and said with a look of pity: "The bones have been completely bitten, even if they are raised, they are still lame, and they can't go into battle, it's a pity, it's a pity." ”
Li Deyi urged behind him: "I also know it's a pity, let's slaughter and eat, I haven't touched the oil and water for several days, and my stomach is dry." ”
To say that Wang Zhuangbiao still knows how to do it, unlike Li De, who can't ride at a glance, he just wants to slaughter and eat meat. Wang Zhuangbiao wiped his oily hands on the gray cloth apron on his chest, "Let the Sprinkle family see if they can still be stallions, such a majestic war horse is rare." It's lame, and being a stallion is also very useful to our Weibei camp. As he spoke, Wang Zhuangbiao went around to the back of the black golden horse's buttocks, stretched out his hand to lift the lame horse's leg, and took a closer look.
"No, no, my crotch is seriously injured, and the stallion can't be done, so I can only slaughter and eat meat." After Wang Zhuangbiao finished speaking, he went back directly to get the extra-large kitchen knife. Well, there is very reason to believe that it was the "Hummer" who cut off the crotch of this black gold horse. "Hummer" himself is a mule and cannot breed offspring, so he has always looked at those stallions as unpleasant. Especially when I saw the sturdy stallion (although the "Humvee" was tall, it was a mule after all, and it was much worse than the tall and sturdy Tuliao horse), the "Humvee" had to be bullied. Since this Wujin horse is the mount of the Tuliao people, the "Hummer" is of course not polite to it, and it kicks it a few times according to the back of the crotch. With the strength of the "Hummer", under the ruthless force, this Ugin horse has long been kicked through the flesh and rotted the roots of the descendants.
Wang Zhuangbiao took out the chef's knife and chopped off the horse's head with a knife, ending the painful life of this black gold horse. Then, with a sharp hand, he pulled off the horse's skin. "Such a beautiful horse, leaving a skin, strange and beautiful." These are Wang Zhuangbiao's exact words. Li Deyi was not interested in horse skins, and helped to boil water for life on the side.
By the time Doctor Xiao Liu came to the Huotou Camp to eat, the horse meat was already cooked. All the soldiers of the Dingbei Garrison Regiment shared a bowl of horse broth, and there was a small piece of horse meat in it, which was only a mouthful.
Li Deyi specially left a large piece of horse meat for his senior brother. Xiao Liu, the head of the group, probably thought about how to deal with the Tuliao people all night last night, and he was really hungry for this work, so he took the horse meat handed over by his junior brother and ate it in a big gulp. When the food was almost over, Xiao Liu's stomach had something, and the person also recovered a little bit of energy, and when he looked up, he happened to see the beautiful horse skin with black and gold dots.
Looking at this beautiful horse skin, Xiao Liu suddenly became interested and asked, "Where did this horse skin come from, it's pretty good." Li Deyi was gnawing on a large piece of bone, swallowing the meat in his mouth, wiping a handful of oily mouths, pointing his hand into the pot, and saying, "That's what is left in the pot." ”
Doctor Xiao Liu nodded, "It turns out that what I ate is." Such a good horse is rare, just look at this skin to know that this horse is not ordinary. Wang Zhuangbiao reached out next to him and scooped up a large piece of ribs, threw them into his mouth, chewed the bones with all his might, and then chewed the bones into slag and swallowed them, and then answered: "The Sprinkle family has seen it, it is really a good horse, but unfortunately the injury is too serious to be cured." What's even more regrettable is that he injured his hip, and he couldn't even make a stallion, so he could only slaughter and eat meat. This Tuliao horse is very majestic, even in the Tuliao people, it is also a rare good horse, and we can't find this kind of good horse on the ground in Pingzhou. ”
Wang Zhuangbiao said casually, but he didn't expect this to enter the heart of Head Xiao Liu, "What did you just say?" This horse is from the Tuliao? ”
Wang Zhuangbiao nodded: "If the Sprinkle family wants to come, eighty percent of them are from Tuliao." We can't raise such a good horse on the ground around us, only on the grass to the north, it's possible. ”
When Commander Xiao Liu heard this, his expression suddenly became serious, and he frowned and said: "The Tuliao people have always tightened their war horse treasures, why will we let us catch them?" Who caught this? Call here, I want to ask. ”
Next to him, Li Deyi interjected: "If you can't ask, they can understand, but they can't speak." This horse was captured by Four Eyes and Hummer together this morning. Captain Liu listened to his junior brother's words and nodded, such a trivial matter is still difficult for Captain Liu. He has been following Old Medical Officer Sun for more than 20 years, and he is a fool, and he should learn to be shrewd, not to mention the talent of Xiao Liu.
With a roll of his eyes, Captain Xiao Liu said directly to his junior brother: "Then it doesn't matter, you go hunting with them tomorrow, and ask them to take you to the place where you hunted horses today, don't you know?" ”
Li Deyi slapped his thigh violently, "Yes, it's still my senior brother who has a way, why can't I think of it." Well, I'll go on a run tomorrow in person. "You've been patronizing and eating for half a day, where have you thought about this, it's really stinky and shameless.
During the day, the Dingbei garrison continued to consolidate its camp, digging deep trenches, digging out the soil, and piling up a high slope for observation and guarding. At the same time, he continued to send scouts to investigate the enemy. Li Deyi was not idle, and during the day, he took his thirteen students and continued to be responsible for sweeping the surrounding Tuliao scouts.
To this day, the Tuliao people also know that thirty miles to the north, there is a force of about 10,000 soldiers and horses. The Tuliao people also knew that this army had a small group of particularly powerful cavalry, which had been hunting their own scouts, and many elite scouts had suffered great losses. However, at the moment, the Tuliao people have not had time to pay attention to the Weibei camp for the time being, after all, they have been besieging Luodu City for almost two months, and at this juncture, even if they know that an unknown person is coming, it is impossible to stop the planned battle plan and immediately dispatch a large army to attack. The black-backed marshal of Tuliao Ashina only adjusted his position and prepared a reserve army to defend the north of the army.
The Tuliao people have besieged Luodu for more than two months, and basically every army and horse has been used, and it is not appropriate to transfer any one to attack now, because that will weaken the suppressive power of Luodu. The Li family in the city has tens of thousands of troops, and once it cannot be suppressed, the siege of the Tuliao people will collapse.
Don't the Tuliao people know how to keep reserves when they fight? The whole army is on the line? Brother, of course there are reserves, but you listen to the name, reserves, reserves. This army will only be used when it is a critical moment to decide the outcome of the game. Those who are casually pulled out to fight are not called reserves, they are called vanguard troops.
If the Tuliao people did not come to attack, Commander Xiao Liu was naturally happy to continue to build the camp. He listened to his master's words and was ready for a long-term battle. Since we are going to fight a protracted war, of course, the more firmly this camp is built, the better. One of the major recruits in the training of the Dingbei Garrison Regiment is the civil engineering operation of the camp. This is the old rule, and of course it was also handed down by Di Dashuai back then. According to legend, the earliest was this set of things handed down by the founding ancestor of the Ping Zhou Dynasty. It is rumored that at that time, in the Taizu military camp, there was also a special branch of troops in charge of this, called engineers.
For several days in a row, there was no battle in the Dingbei garrison regiment, and some people in the Li family in Luodu City were not very satisfied with the Dingbei garrison regiment. Obviously, they are all here, why not fight the Tuliao people outside the city. It's okay if you don't go to war, you can harass it, but it's been a few days, and I haven't seen any movement from you.
Well, the Li family is a typical dead Taoist friend who does not die and is poor. Your Li family has the ability, why don't you harass the Tuliao people yourself? Instead, they were blocked in the city by the Tuliao people. Now that reinforcements are coming from outside, it's to blame the reinforcements for not being strong. But fortunately, there is still a person who understands in the Li family, and the second son, Li Shiluan, has not spoken, but quietly watched his eldest brother Li Xinxiao with a group of old ministers of the Li family, blaming the Dingbei garrison there.
Listening to this, Li Shiluan couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart. In the final analysis, it's not that we can't defeat the Tuliao people, otherwise why ask outsiders for help. Now that the Dingbei garrison is here, they have begun to blame them for not working hard. Li Shiluan is becoming more and more disdainful of his big brother. But his father, in order to protect the face of his eldest brother and the prestige of his eldest son, has been sitting quietly behind the bookcase and not saying a word. Li Shiluan clenched his fists tightly, and then stretched them out again, and the expression on his face remained unchanged.
Li Shiluan looked at the noisy ministers, his face was unresponsive, but his heart was very uncomfortable. Now that the Li family has reached the critical point of life and death, these people are not discussing how to cheer up and repel the 60,000 Tuliao army outside the city, but they still have the heart to blame the reinforcements. His eldest brother is really confused, isn't it just that he suffered a loss in Weibeiying back then, and he is still obsessed with it. The Li family has reached a critical juncture of survival, and the eldest brother is still thinking about the little feud of Chen Guzi's rotten sesame seeds, this belly. Thinking of this, Li Shiluan quickly shook his head and scattered the thoughts in his mind.
In the end, Li Shiluan, who couldn't bear it anymore, raised his voice, got up from his seat and reported to his father, saying that he was going to test the newly developed long knife of the Black Armor Long Knife Battalion, and the long knife of the Tuliao cavalry was restrained, and then he left without looking back.
Days went by like this, and nothing happened. It was not dawn that day, so Li Deyi got up early, took the "Humvee", let the "Four Eyes" lead the way, and went to the place where they had caught the Tuliao horse a few days ago.
The siege of Luodu City by the Tuliao people was a siege battle, and the cavalry was not very good, so the horses were naturally idle. War horses can't always be idle, if there is no war, they must walk around every day, so that the war horses can be fully active to maintain horsepower. Therefore, the Tuliao people now walk a circle of horses every morning.
When Li Deyi arrived, it was not yet dawn, and the Tuliao people had not yet come out to walk their horses at this time. Li Deyi found a relatively hidden hillside nearby, quietly climbed up, and quietly lay behind the cold stones, waiting for the Tuliao people below to appear.
Li De's land at a glance, located in the west of Luodu City, is a large open space, at a glance, the terrain is flat, and the vertical and horizontal Qianmo can be faintly seen on it, thinking that it should be a large area of farmland. After the arrival of the Tuliao people, tens of thousands of horses trampled on the ground for more than two months.
The first rays of sunlight in the morning finally leaked out, and it was dawn.