"In May, Shile Kouji County, the ruling too shou Hu pet, Sui Nanji River, Xingyang too shou Pei Chun Ben Jianye. Gale breaks wood. Earthquake. You, and, Si, Hebei, Qin, Yong and other six states of locusts, herbivore, cattle and horses. ”

Of course, that's what happened in history, and the plane has changed so much.

But the details can be changed, and the fundamental strategy has not yet had a decisive force to overthrow it, such as the Xiongnu's attack on Luoyang.

After last year's defeat, this year they took cutting off the Luoyang grain route as their main tactic, which is an important reason for Shile to go south in history.

He succeeded, Luoyang fell into a great famine, and Sima Yue was forced to take people out of the town to relieve Luoyang's food pressure. However, Luoyang, which lacked major generals, still fell in the early summer of the second year, and the Xiongnu even sent only 40,000 men to take it, less than one-third of the first force.

Their tactics were successful.

But when Shao Xun saw Yang Bao returning to Aocang with an empty boat, he was a little confused.

Did the co-authors of the Huns completely ignore the luck? Something is wrong.

If this continues, when I ship after ship of grain back to Luoyang, will you come again this year, will it be useless?

The forbidden army still has more than 26,000 infantry and cavalry, and if the peasant soldiers are temporarily conscripted and sent to Ding Zhuang, it will not be a problem to gather 40,000 or 50,000 people.

These people are not good at field warfare, but what can you do if you defend the city?

Shao Xun even thought at one point that the Xiongnu might have given up.

Otherwise, how to explain that they haven't done anything to the Caoyun node so far?

No one attacked Junyi, who was guarded by Chen Wu, who was begging for life.

There was no one to attack the Guandu City defended by the Yamen Army.

No one attacked the city of Okura, where there were a large number of troops and ships.

There was no one to attack the city where the righteous army was stationed.

No one even entered the Luoyang Basin, attacking Gongxian, Yanshi and other transport nodes, and there was no sign of building a pontoon bridge to cross the river to the south.

What a bird fight!

And since he didn't know what they were doing, Shao Xun decided to take the initiative to attack, taking the main force of the Silver Lance Army and all the cavalry that could move—counting his own soldiers, almost a thousand horsemen—and crossing the Bianqu to the north, first to Yangwu, and then to Dongyan and Baima, to attack Wang Mibu.

This trick is called striking the grass and startling the snake, that is, to bring out the enemy's tactical intentions.

There are some things that cannot be guessed, only to take the initiative to attack, mobilize the enemy, and then analyze them from the clues to draw relatively reliable conclusions.

He now even suspects that Shi Le and Wang Mi have disobeyed orders and have not adhered to the overall strategy of the Liu Han court.

But this kind of disobedience has limits, they can't break away from the Liu Han court now, and they don't have the ability to stand on their own, so this situation can't last.

When the enraged Liu Cong gave orders again and again, they would eventually be unable to resist the huge pressure and get back on track again.

Let's see who consumes energy!

But as soon as he left the school, he was forced to stop......

The overwhelming locusts have become a scene in Henan.

At first, they were blue, and the birds, chickens, and ducks ate happily, but when the locusts gathered together and met each other, they began to become fierce and violent because of the competition for food, and their body color changed from cyan to brown.

As a result, swarms of locusts began to take off and "fight" everywhere.

There is nothing that can be done about the locusts that take off, and they contain toxins in their bodies, and even their natural enemies will be mildly poisoned if they eat them.

It's okay to eat a few less, and if you eat too much, you can ask for more blessings.

"Man Yu and Gao Yi, you two will scatter the cavalry, be on guard from afar, and come back immediately to report if there is a situation. The rest of the people rushed to harvest the wheat. Shao Xun looked at the locusts that were gradually increasing, and ordered.

In fact, it doesn't matter if you send people or not, such a serious locust plague may be rare in history, and it has reached the point of hindering people's travel.

In his impression, it seems that there is only one Yuan Dynasty that can't even travel-

"In May, in Shandong, Hedong, Henan, and Guanzhong, locusts flew to cover the sky, people and horses could not walk, and the ravines where they fell were flat."

"The crops are exhausted. As far as the sun goes, it hinders people and horses. Fill the trenches and make a profit. ”

This shit world!

Shao Xun sighed, put down the butcher knife, picked up the sickle, braved the flying locusts, and burrowed into the field.

Xingyang is a county under Sizhou. When Wang Yan pushed for winter wheat planting in the autumn of the previous year, Sizhou was not very active, and there were not many farmers, dock forts, and manors who planted this thing.

But when a severe drought struck, leading to a large-scale reduction in the yield of spring-sown millet or even a total of the harvest, many people woke up.

Then, without being urged, at least forty or fifty percent of the farmland was planted with winter wheat last autumn, and the harvest began one after another in May.

A few days ago, the first batch of wheat had even been harvested and dried.

In recent days, some farmland has been harvested.

Shao Xun never imagined that one day, the war would be interrupted by a severe locust plague.

There are so many accidents in this war!

******

Kui An took off his battle robe, carefully covered the back of the mount, and even pulled a few freshly grabbed brocades, carefully covering the BMW.

But unexpectedly, the fine silk was also covered with locusts.

Kui An looked stupid, and the locusts even ate silk.

He looked up at the sky again.

Hordes of locusts took off in droves, swooping down on farmland, meadows, and woods, looking for anything they could eat.

To be honest, he hadn't seen a locust plague, but he had never seen a locust plague so severe.

There are too many!

I don't know how Hebei is, it is estimated that it is not much better, or even worse.

Being so troubled by locusts, there are no remnants of millet seedlings planted in spring in Hebei and Yuzhou!

Grain!

Kui An was suddenly shocked, the most important thing now is food, whoever can possess more food will be able to live!

The sound of horses' hooves in the distance.

Kui An looked through the dense swarm of locusts, but it was his own cavalry.

Many locusts fell on the horses, and they raised their hooves uneasily, and even threw people off directly.

Brute! Even horse hair is eaten, what a beast!

Kui An was furious, grabbed two locusts in one hand, and wanted to stuff them into his mouth.

"General, you can't eat it." The soldiers hurriedly took his hand and persuaded, "You will get sick." ”

"Get out of here!" Kui An scolded: "I used to hear people talk about history, mentioning that Yuan Shu was in Shouchun, the people were hungry and poor, and they used mulberries and locusts as dry food, is it fake? ”

"General, I really can't eat it." The general wiped his face, dragged down a locust, and said, "This thing is blue at the beginning, and it is edible." If it turns brown, don't eat it. If you are really hungry, if you want to eat, it is better to steam it before eating, but if you eat too much, you will still get sick. ”

"I'll eat it!" Kui An glanced at the two locusts that were still struggling in the palm of his hand, quietly threw one away, stuffed the other into his mouth, chewed it and ate it, and said while eating: "Even if you have eaten human flesh, the locusts can't eat it?" ”

The pro-general is speechless.

Therefore, according to the old legend, locusts can be eaten when they are on the ground. Once it changes color and takes off in a flock, it must not be eaten unless it is about to starve to death.

After eating the locusts, Kui Anqiang held back his nausea, looked at the two people who were following the general, and said strangely: "Didn't you two follow the peach leopard?" How did you come back with an injury? ”

General Tao led the crowd to Mengxian County, and was attacked by the beggar marshal Wang Ping and Qi Ji, and was defeated for a while. I'm here to let you know. ”

"Is Peach Leopard a waste? He has 3,000 horsemen, but he can't beat Wang Ping and Qi Ji? Kui An reprimanded.

"General, look at this locust, whose horse can run?" The person who came said aggrievedly: "When the war horses and draft animals were restless, the beggar army came out of the fortress, and our army was defeated, losing more than 3,000 people. ”

Kui An was speechless, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

This is like when the two armies face each other, the wind and sand suddenly rise, and the side that is at the bottom is in turmoil and is taken advantage of.

This battle was fought!

"General, there is no way to herd horses outside, food is at stake, we have to get food as soon as possible." The pro-general stepped forward and reminded.

Kui An was even more speechless.

Not as much today as it was a few decades ago, not even as it was a decade ago.

There are fewer and fewer villages, and there are more and more earthen walls, fort walls and even large dock forts, and the trend of people gathering to form docks is very obvious.

Thousands of cavalry went south, and if they could not graze in the wild, the consumption would be too great in the case of a very tight supply of food.

Then, the only way to get food was to storm the fortress wall - that's why they had to go south with their infantry.

The small earthen enclosures of dozens or more than 100 households are easy to capture, and there is no need to even fight, and the cavalry can get food by going around in a circle and being frightened. But they are too small to quench their thirst.

If it was the Great Dock Fort, tens of thousands of horsemen might be able to scare them and make them voluntarily hand over their food, and thousands of horsemen should wash and sleep as soon as possible. He is sure that you will not be able to capture your own dock fort, or he will not be willing to attack the city with precious cavalry, so he will not pay attention to you at all, and must go to the infantry.

Thinking of this, Kui An became more and more irritable.

He found that the battle was a far cry from what he had planned before he set out.

He even vaguely felt that after this locust plague, the commanders of the Dock Fort were more and more reluctant to give in, and every grain of grain was very precious. To ask for their food is to ask for their lives.

In short, it's not as good to talk as it used to be.

He kind of wanted to quit the army.

Shao Xun is so lucky, Er's mother! This battle is suffocating!

******

On the Guangchengze pasture, all the livestock are driven into pens, and the doors and windows are closed to prevent the locusts from burrowing in.

In the past, people had only heard of locusts eating herbs and trees, but this was the first time that they had eaten the hair of livestock.

In fact, this is also the first time in history that "the cattle and horses are exhausted", and the second time is in the first year of the Zhenyuan Dynasty of the Tang Dynasty (785), "(locusts) have left behind the grass and animal hair, and they are starving to death." ”

Every time the locusts gather, they become a little shorter-tempered.

When the number of gatherings is too much, and the irritability is extreme, not only the hair of the livestock, but even the leather is eaten.

Ducks cruising in the upper reaches of the lake and eating locusts are eaten. They can resist a little cyanimulic acid in the locust's body - lethal dose 1mg/100kg - but they can't eat much, a duck can eat 100 a day.

Chen Yougen looked at the people and tunding who were urgently mobilized, and felt anxious.

They used a lot of methods to kill locusts.

For example, lighting a campfire at night.

For example, digging trenches in the fields and burying the dense locusts.

For example, use a cloth curtain to tie up a fence along the wind.

But it seems to be a drop in the bucket, and it's better than nothing.

He saw with his own eyes that after a wide, deep trench had been dug up, it didn't take long for it to be filled with locusts.

God wants to kill someone!

Fortunately, the locusts of Guangchengze flew from elsewhere, a few days late. Half of the wheat ripening in the field has been harvested, and although the losses are still very heavy, some of the grain has been harvested.

After sighing deeply, he took the urgently recruited government soldiers and troops, covered the horses with sackcloth, and walked to Liang County to assemble.

There are a total of 10 defense soldiers in the five counties of Liang, Yangcheng, and Luyang, as well as the southern edge of Guangchengze, with 3,000 people on the books, but in fact less than 2,600 can be mobilized.

Two thousand people had already been drafted. This time, after receiving the news that Shile's troops were heading south, they urgently requisitioned 500 more, and almost all those who could go into battle were transferred.

Changshe, Xuchang, Xiangcheng, Yangzhai and Liang counties have prepared some transfer horses and horse materials in advance.

Yesterday, Li Zhong sent back an order to dispatch all the horses that could travel in Guangcheng Ze, and strive to achieve 2,500 soldiers with one person and two horses.

He understood what Li Zhong meant.

With two horses and horses in all places, and horses prepared in advance, their ability to maneuver quickly would far surpass that of Shiler's subordinates—he did not believe that Shile could make all the cavalry under his command have one man and two horses.

This time, he really spared no expense, even if he ran to death and scrapped a batch of horses, he had to grab Shile's soldiers and beat him hard.

It's a pity that it's not good to be a teacher!

The overwhelming locusts greatly disrupted the rhythm of the government soldiers, making it impossible for them to run horses wantonly in the area of Xiangcheng and Yingchuan, and capture and encircle and annihilate Shile's foot cavalry.

Shile is so lucky, Mother Er! This battle is suffocating!

As the sun set, Chen Yougen took the government soldiers and his subordinates, while driving away the flying locusts that were crashing into his body, while carrying heavy swords and crossbow machines, and leading the "fully armed" war horses, to Liang County.

No one expected that this war would unfold in such a comical way.