Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

That night, Cheng Chumo looted more than 200 sheep and returned.

"Sir, the weather is really too cold. The snow outside is so deep that it's hard to walk. Many sheep in the city are cold to death, and not many can be robbed."

Cheng Chumo hurried back and said.

Li Yi'an thought for a while and said: "Go and take those sheep that died of cold, as long as the corpses have not deteriorated and rotted, put them in ice and store them for emergencies."

In this environment, it is more difficult to rot the corpses of frozen dead animals, but many dead sheep exposed to the air are prone to breed bacteria and cannot be eaten, so the freshly dead sheep can only be frozen as food storage.

With fresh mutton, the whole army finally got another full meal.

Then tragedy struck the next day, and all the soldiers had to go out to train. For the sake of fairness, Li Yi'an, the general, accompanied them to train together, not afraid of the wind and snow.

Time passed quickly and almost ten days passed, entering the fourth year of Zhenguan.

The wind and snow finally subsided a lot, the temperature rose slowly, and the snow around me was decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Sir, we are running out of food stocks."

Yu Wenzhan was recently in charge of logistics and supplies, and came back and said: "According to our current consumption, we can last for about five days at most. Those sheep have been eaten by us, and the froze-to-dead sheep can't eat much. Most of them are buried by us." gone."

What Li Yian was most worried about finally came. In the end, he still had to worry about food. The nomads are not like the people in the Central Plains. The staple food here is not five grains, and there are not many reserves. Therefore, once the sheep are frozen to death and cannot be eaten, many people will suffer. will starve.

Su Lie said: "Now the snow is about to melt. If the enemy attacks at this time and we are short of food, it will be difficult to support us. We don't know when our support will arrive."

Li Yi'an thought for a while, then said: "I'll go to the tooth tent to see if the old thief Xieli still has food in stock."

Li Yi'an didn't live in the Yazhang area, but lived in their barracks, but the barracks is not far from the Yazhang disease, and it's only a short walk away.

He arranged for people to search for food, but they basically searched all the places that could be searched here, and all the food that could be eaten was emptied when they first occupied the place.

"Sir, why don't we ask that queen? If the old traitor Xieli has hidden food, she must know."

Cheng Chumo suggested.

"That's a good idea!"

Li Yian went to the place where the prisoners of war were held.

As soon as he appeared, everyone's nerves were tense, and they raised their heads cautiously, for fear of suffering.

"Where's Princess Yicheng?"

Li Yian asked.

"Dead...dead!"

A slightly weak voice came from the side.

died?

Li Yi'an followed the sound and saw Yang Man lying beside Xiao Yating, motionless.

He went over to check his pulse, his heartbeat stopped, his body was cold, and he frowned and asked, "When did you die?"

"One day."

Xiao Yating said with tears in her voice: "The last time I asked to see the general, I asked for help because of illness, but the general didn't want to see me, and now I finally can't hold on."

"Take the corpse out and burn it, then find lime powder all over the city and sprinkle it on the ground, if you can't find it, use wine!"

When Li Yian heard that he died of illness, he hurriedly withdrew, and just arrived at the door and said: "Take Xiao Yating with you."

Princess Yicheng was sick and died. He was worried that some virus would spread at this time. If an unknown plague came out, it would wipe out their entire army in this place.

Li Yi'an personally checked Xiao Yating's body, she didn't have a fever or abnormality, but still prescribed some medicine for her, as for other prisoners of war, they were not allowed to leave the place where they were held.

Fortunately, he considered that there would be various special situations during the march, so he prepared a lot of herbs in the luggage.

"May I ask what the general wants from me?"

Xiao Yating said.

"In the tooth tent, is there any place to store food?"

Li Yian asked.

"Yes, please come with me, General!"

Xiao Yating was very cooperative and took him to a dilapidated house, trying to open a wooden board embedded in the ground, but she didn't have the strength.

"Chu Mo, you come!"

Li Yi'an said.

Cheng Chumo pushed hard with both hands, and the wooden board was pushed away, and a special smell rushed towards him.

It turns out that there is also a cellar here. Unexpectedly, there are already people in Turkic who know how to use the cellar to store food. The old thief Xieli still has some ideas.

After a while, the smell inside dissipated, and Li Yi'an arranged for the soldiers to go down to have a look.

"General, there is a lot of meat in it, as well as rice and flour!"

The soldier who went in quickly said excitedly.

"Move them all out!"

Li Yi'an's heart stabilized, and the food crisis was finally solved, thanks to the old thief Xieli.

Yu Wenzhan brought hundreds of soldiers to move the contents out. Li Yi'an found that what was in the cellar was still marinated and dried bacon, no wonder it could be kept in the cellar.

To marinate meat, you need salt.

Salt was already very cheap in the Tang Dynasty, but it was still a luxury in the Turks. The only person who can marinate meat in such a large amount is Xieli.

"Sir, these things are still not enough. We have more than 2000 people. The food here can only feed us for about three days."

Yu Wenzhan said helplessly.

Although there is a lot of food, Xieli stores food for himself, not for the troops. Once there are more people, there will be less to distribute.

Li Yi'an could only look over at Xiao Yating, who shook her head slightly, indicating that it was gone.

"Three more days, then we can last for eight more days, and we can almost wait for the support to come."

Li Yi'an said in a deep voice.

As long as you save some, you can still eat until the tenth day.

Time passed quickly, and five days were gone in the blink of an eye.

On the fifth day, Li Yi'an got the news from the scouts that there were people from the north again, all Turks.

An hour later, they saw a group of Turkic soldiers coming down from the north and stationed about five miles outside their city.

Li Yi'an immediately assembled a large army to prepare for a counterattack, but to his surprise, the Turkic soldiers stationed outside did not launch an attack for almost a day.

On the morning of the third day after they were stationed, someone shouted from below the city: "General in the city, we Khan request to meet you."

There are many khans in the Turks, and the leaders of some super large tribes are also called khans, but those are just small khans, such as the khans of Xue Yantuo and the khans of Huihe, and the big khan here is Xieli. The Great Khan is equivalent to the emperor.

"Out of town!"

Li Yi'an said.

The soldiers and horses of both sides gathered outside the city.

"Tuli, I met General Li!"

The khan on the opposite side bowed his hands with their Tang etiquette.

It turned out that this was Tuli Khan, the son of Shibi Khan, the Tuli Khan who later became unhappy with Jieli and contacted Datang to betray Xieli.

He also came to surrender?

"May I ask which General Li is from Datang?"

Seeing that the other party didn't respond, Tuli asked again.

He had only heard of Li Yi'an's surname, and didn't know his military rank or name, but he was definitely a ruthless person who dared to attack here.

I'm afraid there are people who are more ruthless than Li Jing, because Li Jing still can't hit here.