Datang Longya

Chapter 329 Frontier
After leaving the country, apart from "raping, looting" and "burning and killing", no one will control what the army does. It's just "requisitioning" the herdsmen's cattle and sheep, a trivial matter!

The herdsmen, who were resting in the house, heard the screams of the lambs. They thought that wolves were coming, so they immediately picked up sticks and drove them out. As a result, what they saw was not wolves, but an army that was more terrifying than wolves!

Li Xiaogong can actually speak Turkic, pointing to the sheep held by the soldiers of the Dragon Scale Army, and said a few words amidst the screams of the sheep.

Hearing Li Xiaogong's words, several senior herdsmen lowered their heads, but the two children still roared angrily under the pull of their parents and elder brothers.

However, their roar is destined to be useless, even their strong father and brother dare not say "no" in front of the army, let alone they are so weak.

Li Ke tugged at Li Xiaogong's sleeve: "Hejian King, what did you just tell them?"

Li Xiaogong said: "I just said that we are the army of the Tang Dynasty, and we requisitioned these cattle and sheep."

"That's all?" Li Tai had a look of disbelief.

"That's all." Li Xiaogong remained expressionless.

This is a common thing on the way of the army. The imperial court has always followed the "sacred way" to the mainland. Even if a general with outstanding military exploits does this kind of thing, he will inevitably be demoted and imprisoned.But if it is Jimi Prefecture, it is no different from the enemy country. They are not counted in the registered households in the world. It is just a few cattle and sheep requisitioned, which is not a big deal.

In this very short period of time, hundreds of sheep and two cows were slaughtered. The blood stained a piece of grass, and the smell of blood was a bit disgusting.

The herdsmen looked at the red-stained grass, and the two children and the old herdsman wept silently. They were unarmed herdsmen. It would be good if the army passed by and survived. Some... just some cattle and sheep.

Leng Feng sighed, and tugged Tang Jian beside him, Tang Jian understood, and opened his mouth to the herdsmen in Turkic, saying, "Don't be sad, this man next to me is a high official of the Tang Dynasty, he can ask Sirius God Promise, when he returns to Chang'an, he will arrange a caravan to pass by you, and then you can get salt and tea leaves equivalent to the value of these cattle and sheep..."

Hearing Tang Jian's words, the herdsmen stopped crying, stood up straight and saluted Leng Feng.In their view, there is no reason for this general to lie to them, not to mention that he promised the Sirius God.

In the eyes of grassland people, the pledge to the Sirius God is the most serious, which is equivalent to a monk making a wish in front of the Buddha.Although cattle and sheep are the lifeblood for them, they are nothing compared to salt tea and so on. It is profitable to be able to exchange a batch of cattle and sheep that must be killed in these winters for salt tea.

After killing the cattle and sheep, Leng Feng asked the herdsmen for a lot of pasture, and asked the soldiers to roast the beef and mutton. Otherwise, the meat would breed a lot of bacteria in a short period of time and attract flies. One time, no matter how you can last for three to five days.

Of course, the premise is that it doesn't rain, and the practice of roasting it after the rain is useless.

After everyone had shared their food for three days, Leng Feng gave the order to move on. What followed was the endless grassland, the empty grassland, sometimes just like the desert, which would make the travelers who came in confused and collapsed.If you don't have the ability to distinguish directions, it is possible to be trapped in the depths of the grassland.

Determined to go in the north direction, Leng Feng didn't know until he met Yu Chigong's frontier army that he had reached the junction of Jingbei Road and West Turkic Xintu.

When the army left the country, it was necessary to hand over the documents with the frontier army. Yu Chigong, who heard the news, was still so dark, and showed his big white teeth when he grinned: "Hahaha, I thought it was someone who came to change defenses, but it turned out that two people passing by Yes, it made me happy for nothing, and I have to continue to guard here."

Li Xiaogong jumped off the horse and said with a smile, "It's almost there. After the autumn harvest in the Central Plains, you will be able to return to Chang'an."

Leng Feng also jumped off his horse, and said to Yu Chigong: "It is rare for a military general in Beijing to get a chance to lead an army. If you feel that the grassland is difficult, let me help you talk about Liu Hongji being transferred out to replace you? That guy is about to die on a woman's belly." gone."

"That's not okay! Haha."

Although Yu Chigong complained, he would definitely be the first to quit. He and Cheng Yaojin both came from reckless backgrounds, because they were loyal to the King of Qin and obtained a status that others envied after the King of Qin proclaimed himself emperor.

But this is "conglong's merit" after all. After Li Shimin ascended the throne, he always sent a few of them to give them credit for their prestige, so as to block the public's mouth.

Li Xiaogong took out the document and handed it to Wuli Sima for verification. Yuchigong was easy to handle, just say a word, but if you don’t go through the formalities with Wuli Sima, tsk tsk, if you can’t guarantee it, they will call the army to arrest you first, and ask why you led the army privately leave the country.

The "Wuli Sima" created by Li Shimin was clearly the "Marshal No. [-]" except that he could not influence the commander-in-chief's decision-making during the war.

Passing by someone's resident, no matter what, I have to stay for one night. That night, Yu Chigong hosted a banquet in honor of Leng Feng and Li Xiaogong. The food was only wild vegetables, enough beef and mutton, no wine, only milk...

Being in the grassland, being able to make up these things is not bad.

After Yu Chigong asked the two to sit down, he said embarrassedly, "I'm in the grassland, I only have these things, don't laugh at me."

Li Xiaogong shook his head, while Leng Feng pointed directly, throwing a half-person-high cloth bag to Yu Chigong.Yu Chigong opened it and saw that it was full of dried cabbage and dried radishes. The cabbage was so sun-dried that it would crumble when touched, while the dried radish shrank a lot.

"Let's just eat it. We don't bring much of this stuff. If we can give you a bag, you'll be satisfied! Soak them in warm water before cooking, but the taste is a bit worse than fresh ones."

Yu Chigong said with emotion: "It is enough to have enough to eat, how can there be so many demands!"

The grassland is not like the Central Plains. Herdsmen seldom grow vegetables. They all eat beef and mutton. People in the Central Plains may be excited because they have enough meat when they first enter the grassland, but after a long time, they still feel that the vegetables are more delicious.

Li Xiaogong didn't eat meat, but took a mouthful of wild vegetables, which might not taste very good, swallowed it bitterly, took a sip of water to rinse his mouth, and said, "How is it? Is there any movement in West Turkic?"

Yuchi Gong snorted and said: "The news of the locust plague in Guanzhong spread, and several tribes of the Western Turks came to test it out, but I beat them up and chased them for more than 30 miles. It stopped."

It stands to reason that it is only the strength of a few tribes. Yu Chigong's doing this is a bit of a fuss, but it is the most suitable method at this time.

"Showing the enemy to be weak" is a kind of art of war, and "bluffing" is also an effective method.

(End of this chapter)