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Chapter 492: Building a nest is a very hard thing

At the end of October, the fighting near Taiyuan was still fierce, 300,000 Turkic wolf riders, plus Liu Wuzhou's 100,000 horses, Taiyuan had been surrounded like an iron bucket. Now sitting in the city are still Li Yuan's fourth sons, Li Yuanji, the Duke of Qi, and Chen Yinshou, the chief historian. Twenty miles south of Taiyuan City, Li Jiancheng, the son of the Tang Dynasty, led an army of 100,000 troops to garrison, and Taiyuan City was a horn for each other.

The weather had become colder, and the Turkic offensive was becoming more and more intense. Last time, Ashina Duji Shiqin led hundreds of thousands of troops south and trapped Yang Guang in Yanmen, but in the end he returned in vain, but suffered heavy losses. It has only been a little more than two years, and Ashina Jishi has made a comeback.

In fact, it's not that he's crazy and belligerent, nor is it that he has the certainty of victory, it's just that he has to fight this battle.

The year before last, Li Xian and Luo Shixin led more than 10,000 light horsemen into Saibei, and the biggest achievement was not to almost wipe out Ashina's territory to go to the hoof, nor to dig another nest on the shore of Qingniu Lake. But in the late autumn of that year, Li Xian and Luo Shixin led their troops to fire one fire after another on the grassland, and it didn't seem to have much impact that year, but in the spring of the second year, hundreds of thousands of Turkic cattle and sheep starved to death!

In addition, last year's winter on the grassland was late, and at the end of April, the northwest wind was still blowing, and people could not reach out. It's the season of spring flowers, but it's still snowing on the grassland!

One year of man-made disasters, one year of natural disasters.

If we don't think of a way, it will not only be as simple as millions of livestock starving to death, but I am afraid that the problem of grain and grass will not be solved this year, and there will be a tragedy of cannibalism on the grassland if it does not survive the winter! The big tribes were better, but the small tribes with a population of only a few hundred or thousands could no longer find reserves for the winter, and as the Great Khan of the steppe, Ashina Jishi knew that he was facing the most severe test in his life.

He made the sorcerer have to do things every day, begging the immortal heaven to take back the punishment of the steppe people. However, Changshengtian seemed to be asleep, and he couldn't hear the prayers and begging of the wizards all day long.

Not many Turks have starved to death in the past two years, but Ashina Jishi knows that when this winter passes, countless Turkic corpses will be revealed when the snow melts next year!

In order to alleviate the crisis, he must fight this battle.

But he wasn't sure, so he didn't make a decision.

Fortunately, Li Yuan rebelled and marched into Chang'an, which gave a good reason and opportunity. Taiyuan has been governed well by Li Yuan in recent years, and although the people are not rich, at least they will not starve to death. If they can take advantage of this opportunity to grab all the land west of the river, the herdsmen will have hope to survive this winter.

The people of the Central Plains do not have many fat cattle and sheep, but their granaries have enough grain for the grassland people to eat for several lifetimes.

This time he went south, and it was true to say that Ashina Jishi was here to invade, but in a sense, he was also here to save his life.

The two sides have been fighting for more than a month, but Ashina Jishi has not yet found a way to conquer Taiyuan. The losses of Liu Wu Zhou's army were very large, but the city of Taiyuan was too strong, and there were many defenders in the city, as well as countless stocks of grain and weapons and armor in the Jinyang Palace, and the Tang army in Taiyuan City was not afraid of being trapped, on the contrary, the Turks went south, and they would be hungry if they could not capture Taiyuan.

I thought that I could take Taiyuan quickly, and then the Turkic army went to Chang'an in one go. Even if Chang'an City could not be attacked, it would not be difficult to force Li Yuan to cede a large area of territory. But it was blocked in Taiyuan for more than a month, which made Ashina Jishi very annoyed.

During this period, Liu Wuzhou's men and horses have been attacking the city, and the losses are quite large, so Liu Wuzhou is not as active as he was at the beginning, and he no longer works hard to attack the city every day.

The more Ashina Jishi thought about it, the more upset he became, and waved his hand to let everyone in the big tent withdraw.

Although the weather has turned cold, it is not so cold that it makes people shiver. But Ashina Jishi was wrapped in a thick blanket of felt, and a stove had been lit in the big tent. Since the defeat and escape back to the royal court the year before last, his body has deteriorated day by day. It's just that he knows that he must not fall, his son is still young, and if he falls now, then he can imagine what will happen to his son in the future.

The people in the big tent all withdrew, and Ashina Jishi looked at the charcoal fire in a daze.

Suddenly, he coughed violently, violently, until he curled up, and this appearance made him look even older.

Releasing the hand covering his mouth, he quietly wiped the blood from his palm on the felt carpet.

"Someone!"

Ashina Jishi's eyes were a little gloomy, if he saw it himself, he was afraid that he would also be frightened by this look, because there was no life in this look.

"Go and call Ashina Elifo, I have something to tell him."

Ashina Jishi commanded, and then leaned back, he felt that he had been drained of strength in an instant, and Changshengtian seemed to be already beckoning to him.

"I hope that my decision is not wrong, and the glory of the Turks must not be lost in my hands."

He sighed and tightened the felt blanket around him.

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"Is it delicious?"

Li Xian glanced at the green kite stuffed with her mouth and asked, the latter couldn't open her mouth, so she could only nod with a red face, this appearance did make her feel a little embarrassed. She subconsciously looked at the Huangluan beside her, but found that her sister, who was half a year older than herself, had a fuller mouth.

Li Xian roasted a leg of lamb that had almost turned golden brown, and slowly but skillfully brushed it with his own condiments.

"Actually, roast leg of lamb is better than the front leg of lamb."

Li Xian seemed to be still distressed about the two sheep front legs that were snatched away by Cheng Zhijie and Xiong Kuohai, and those two guys snatched the best meat and roasted it themselves, which was simply a waste of good things.

"Lord ......"

Huang Luan swallowed the meat in his mouth with some difficulty, and after taking a sip of water, he asked, "It seems that I haven't seen General Qin for more than ten days?" ”

"I told him to go northwest with three thousand cavalry, go around in a circle, and then come back to join us."

"Confuse the enemy?"

The green kite looked at the empty plate in his hand, and his eyes kept staring at the leg of mutton in Li Xian's hand. In fact, it's no wonder that she and Huangluan are a little uncivilized in eating, they have been marching in a hurry these days, eating a few mouthfuls of dry food when they are hungry, and drinking a few sips of cold water when they are thirsty. It's rare for Li Xian to be interested in barbecue today, how can the two of them not be greedy?

Speaking of which, it seems that girls are more hungry than boys of the same age.

Li Xian picked up the flask and took a sip, feeling a fire burning directly into his stomach from his throat. This wine was bought yesterday in a passing village, the widow in the village with a little girl to spend her days, but she learned the craft of her mother-in-law's winemaking thoroughly, and then the wine was tightly passed by the secret method that was not passed on, at least four catties of ten catties were removed, and the remaining wine tasted more mellow. It is a freshly brewed wine, and it tastes like an old wine.

And the bag of wine in Li Xian's wine bag is a wine head, less mellow, a little more violent, speaking of which, if a beginner drinks this wine head, he is afraid that he can get drunk for a day and a night with just one bowl.

The so-called wine head is the first wine made from grain.

The taste of this wine is a bit like the burning knife brewed in Baoding Mansion in later generations, more than 70 degrees, and the feeling of drinking it in the stomach is not much different from swallowing fire.

"Qin Qiong is the most cautious person, and her martial arts are exquisite. It is most appropriate to send him to lead troops to confuse Dou Jiande's men. In a few days he will return to join him, and then he will have to march hastily. ”

"Still?"

Qing Kite subconsciously opened her mouth wide, it seemed that she had been a little overwhelmed by the continuous rapid march in the past two months.

Huang Luan pouted and said, "If you run like this, your ass will be upside down." ”

As the time spent by Li Xian's side became longer and longer, the changes in the personalities of the two of them became more and more obvious. When they followed Wen Jia at the beginning, the two of them were also full of yin energy. Compared to now, it's like two people. People say that if they don't see each other for three days, they should be impressed, and this sentence is perfect for the two of them.

Li Xian smiled, shaved off the properly roasted mutton with a knife, put it on a small plate and said, "It seems that today's roast lamb hind leg is right, you can eat more." ”

"Why?"

"Eat where you make up for it."

Li Xian said seriously: "Ming'er, I'll catch a few pheasants for you, and specialize in roasting chicken butts." ”

Qing Kite and Huang Luan blushed at the same time, not knowing what to say.

"Lord ......"

Huangluan's temperament is more straightforward than that of the green kite, so he is the first to break free from the embarrassment and shyness. She pinched a piece of mutton and put it in her mouth, chewing it and asking, "We were going all the way to the northwest, why did we suddenly turn to the southwest?" I've been marching for three days, and I don't know where I'm going. ”

"You'll know when you get there."

Li Xian took a sip of wine, then wiped his hands with a soft cloth and said, "Before we reach our destination, even you and I won't say it." ”

Huang Luan didn't care, and put the last piece of meat on the plate into his mouth.

"It's not just us who are curious, but the soldiers in the army are curious. Everyone thought that after burning the county seat of Wuyang County, the army would turn back to the east to block the way back to Dou Jiande. But all the way to the west, wouldn't it be a pity to let Dou Jiande go like this? ”

"Can't stop Dou Jiande."

Li Xian smiled and said, "The river is so long, and his heart is ruthless enough. ”

I don't understand what I said, but Qing Kite and Huang Luan both understood.

Since Dou Jiande can leave Su Dingfang as an outcast in order to withdraw the army, he can naturally leave all the soldiers as an outcast, he has this courage, as long as he can return to Hebei and return to Zhaozhou, even if he loses all the people and horses going south, he can accept it, the mountain is still there, are you still afraid that there will be no firewood?

"Lord, when can we go back to Junoze?"

The green kite asked softly.

She asked, meticulously putting away all the condiments for the barbecue and putting them into a deerskin bag.

"At least three months"

Li Xian stood up and stretched his waist, and sighed in his heart, it is really not easy to build a nest, and it is not possible for birds to build a nest on a tree branch in a day or two, not to mention that the nest he wants to build is so big that it is a little scary. A bird's nest can fall off with a gust of wind and break its bones. And the nest you want to build, as long as you build it, you will not be afraid of earthquakes, and you will not be afraid of major earthquakes.

When he thought of this, Li Xian suddenly found that he was really an unenterprising guy.

If you don't win, you lose first.

Several retreats have been arranged, but it seems that they are still not enough. How hard it is to build a few nests.

However, if the retreat is not arranged, how can it be possible to move forward boldly with confidence?

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