Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 639 Chapter 657: Food and Grass Burned
"RV?" Ye Mengqiu put down the cake in his mouth and asked doubtfully, "What is a RV?"

"Uh..." Li Hao thought for a while and explained, "It's a kind of car, powered by electricity, very big, like a house, and can accommodate people, so it's called a caravan."

With such an explanation, Ye Mengqiu fully understood, picked up a cake, got up and said, "Okay, I'll inform Du Hong immediately." After saying that, he turned around and left quickly, eating the cake while running.

Li Hao's caravan has been left in Liuqiu for too long. After coming to this world, he only uses the caravan as a center to connect with the future world. Now that Li Shimin has seen electric and steam locomotives, he will not be so surprised by the caravan. , in the eyes of people in this era, a caravan and a steam locomotive should belong to the same class. They are both incredible things and the crystallization of science. Only Li Hao knows that the gap between a caravan and a steam locomotive is worlds apart.

Li Hao felt a little excited when he thought that he would be able to swagger on the road in an RV in the future, and he was even happier when he thought of being able to contact his parents and brother-in-law in the future world.

Chang'an and Bingzhou have experienced some ups and downs, but the West Turkic Royal Court City was quiet. For ten days in a row, the Tang army retreated ten miles outside the city, and began to secretly manufacture Kongming lanterns and hot air balloons, felling wood to dry, and making fuel. They are currently There is not much oil left, so it cannot be used as the main fuel, it can only be used as a combustion aid, and the main fuel is still dry wood.

In ten days, [-] hot air balloons have been built. Lu Qing's budget is quite accurate. They also moved a few hot air balloons to a mountain depression dozens of miles away for a test, and they really could fly, but Because it is an experiment, the hanging basket is tied to the ground by a rope, and the hot air balloon cannot fly away, so I don't know what the effect will be after it is lifted into the air, but it is sure to be able to fly anyway.

Fan Lihua witnessed with her own eyes that the hot air balloon carried the hanging basket three feet above the ground, and the wooden stakes on the ground were almost pulled out. She exclaimed in amazement and regained some confidence in breaking through the royal court.

But when she returned to the camp, the army officer came to report to her that there was not much food and grass, which was only enough for seven days.

Fan Lihua frowned slightly when she heard the words, and then showed her face and said: "It's okay, the manager has already sent someone to the Anxi Protectorate's Mansion to ask for food adjustment, and I believe it will be here soon."

Fan Shui heard the words and said: "Chief Manager, this batch of food and grass is very important to us, everything needs to be cautious, why not send someone to take care of it."

"En." Fan Lihua nodded and said, "That's exactly what I mean."

Fan Lihua returned to the tooth tent and said: "Fan Shui, pass on our military order, ordering Xue Yinglong to lead two thousand light cavalry, and go to meet the grain and grass, there must be no mistakes!"

"Yes!" Fan Shui took the order loudly and left.

Not long after, a 25-year-old young general rushed out of the camp with two thousand light cavalry and headed east.

More than 300 miles to the east of Wang Ting, a team under the banner of Anxi Duhufu is traveling from east to west at the foot of Tianshan Mountain. Although this team has only 3000 people, there are many ox carts, more than 1000, and every day Each car is almost fully loaded, and experienced soldiers can tell at a glance that this is a grain and grass team transporting grain and grass.

This team is the food and grass team sent by the Anxi Duhu Mansion. This time, it will transport 3 shi of grain and grass to support Fan Lihua. The [-] shi of grain and grass is not too much, and it is not too little. It is enough to feed for half a month, but now there are only [-] people left in Fan Lihua's army, so the [-] stone grains are enough to feed for a month.

The leader of the grain and grass team this time is called Wang Dashan. He has a very simple name and looks very simple. He looks like a farmer, but his skills are not simple. He is very skilled in martial arts. He performed outstandingly in Tingzhou , was valued by Wang Yuantai, adopted as his adopted son, and vigorously cultivated. Soon he repeatedly made military exploits and rose step by step. He has become a general of Zhonglang. The most important thing in Anxi Protectorate's Mansion, so he was responsible for escorting food and grass. After leaving the boundary of Anxi Protectorate's Mansion and entering the border of Western Turkic Kingdom, Wang Dashan was extremely cautious all the way, and sent more than a dozen scouts to scout the way ahead for fear of accidents. .

I didn't expect to be afraid of anything. On this day, I was walking well at the foot of Tianshan Mountain. Suddenly, a scout in front of me galloped back and shouted loudly from a distance: "General Wang, there is an enemy attack! The enemy attack!"

Wang Dashan was taken aback when he heard the words, and hurriedly ordered: "The whole army stops and prepares for battle to meet the enemy, even if it dies! Protect the food and grass!"

"Yes!" The whole army shouted, and then the army stopped and began to prepare for battle.

Wang Dashan knew how important this batch of food and grass was to General Fanlihua who was marching westward, so there must be no mistakes.

Soon, the sound of rumbling horseshoes crossed the hill, and a large number of cavalry suddenly appeared like dark clouds, rushing towards them. Looking at their clothes and weapons, they could be sure that they were the elite cavalry of the Western Turks.

"The archers are ready!" Wang Dashan shouted orders with cold sweat on his forehead. He is not afraid of fighting, but now his task is not to fight, but to protect food and grass, which is much more difficult than fighting.

When the western Turkic cavalry was three miles away from the food and grass team, they suddenly dispersed and charged towards the food and grass team in an arc shape. Wang Dashan's heart sank when he saw this. Very difficult.

"Kill!" With an order, countless arrows were shot, and they went straight to the Western Turkic cavalry to press them down.

Each of these western Turkic cavalrymen had a rattan armored shield. Seeing the grain and grass team shooting arrows, they raised their rattan armored shields to defend themselves. Although rattan armored shields are not very effective against arrows, they are far better than nothing. The cavalry rushed towards them like a gallop, with a fearless momentum, and they were extremely scattered. Three rounds of shooting only killed 800 people, and the group of cavalry rushed to the front of the grain and grass team.

Everyone in the grain and grass team rode their horses to fight, but the Western Turkic cavalry didn't want to fight them at all. They rushed directly to the ox carts loaded with grain and grass, smashed the crock pots filled with kerosene on the vehicles, and then threw torches on the vehicles. Shoot fire arrows.

Wang Dashan's scalp felt numb when he saw this. This group of cavalrymen were dead soldiers who came here to burn grain and grass. They were not afraid of death at all. It was lit, and the Western Turkic cavalry had begun to retreat and flee.

Wang Dashan hurriedly shouted: "Stop chasing them, put out the fire! Save the food first!"

Everyone in the grain and grass team gave up chasing the enemy and turned to fight the fire. They had no water at the moment, and it was impossible to put out the fire. Everyone had to brave the flames to rescue the grain that was under pressure, otherwise they would all be burned.

However, when the food and grass team was busy fighting the fire, the cavalry of the Western Turks went back and forth. Seeing this, Wang Dashan hurriedly shouted: "Stop them! They still want to set fire!"

Immediately, more than 1000 cavalry stepped forward to intercept them. However, this group of Western Turkic cavalry was not afraid of death at all. Anyway, they are dead soldiers, and they have only one purpose, setting fire to burn food, it doesn't matter how many people die, as expected, the most terrible people are those who are not afraid of death.

The group of cavalry rushed to the remaining grain and grass carts, pouring oil and setting them on fire. Everyone in the grain and grass team stepped forward to stop them, killing one after another, but they couldn't effectively stop them from setting fire.

Half an hour later, all 1000 Western Turkic cavalry were killed, but only [-] of the more than [-] grain carts remained intact, and the rest were all engulfed in the fire, and there was no way to save them.

Looking at the corpses all over the ground and the grain carts burned by the fire, Wang Dashan stood there with tears welling up. All the grain team members stood there silently looking at the fire, their faces full of frustration. The mission failed, they failed to protect the food and grass, and the army going west in front of them was about to starve, and they might fail because of this, and their food and grass team undoubtedly became sinners.

With a "plop", Wang Dashan bent his knees, knelt down on the ground, and put his hands on the ground, tears dripping down on the ground. His heart was in extreme pain. He would rather die in battle than bear the torment in his heart at this moment. It is hard to imagine how the tens of thousands of troops marching west would fight without this batch of food and grass. Because of his incompetence, many people would be killed.

"General, we did our best..." Lieutenant General Ma Chen walked to Wang Dashan's side, trying to comfort him.

Wang Dashan raised his head and said with tears all over his face: "So what if you try your best, the food and grass are still gone, and there are only more than 700 stone grains left, how can it be enough for tens of thousands of troops to conquer the west? I am useless, I deserve to die..."

Ma Chen sighed: "Yeah, but... as you can see, those Western Turkic cavalry are dead soldiers, they are here to risk their lives to burn food. Courageous."

Wang Dashan stood up slowly, wiped away the tears all over his face and said: "I have no face to go to the front to deliver food, and no face to go back to Xizhou..." When he said this, his voice suddenly became bleak, and then he suddenly He pulled out his saber and cut at his neck.

Fortunately, Ma Chen and Wang Dashan were good brothers for many years, and they knew him very well. Afraid that he would be overwhelmed, he hurriedly punched him on the arm. The force was so great that Wang Dashan's entire arm was almost broken, and Wang Dashan's knife was naturally also beaten. have to fall to the ground.

Ma Chen stepped forward and kicked the knife, stood in front of Wang Dashan, stared at him, and shouted loudly: "Dashan, calm down! If you commit suicide, where will you leave the three thousand brothers? A man is a man. If you lose the battle, you will fight!" If you lose a battle, you have your own military law to deal with it. At worst, go back to lead the military law, how can you kill yourself privately! Are you still a soldier of the Tang Dynasty! "

After being yelled at by him, Wang Dashan calmed down a lot. After a moment of silence, he nodded and said: "Okay, the failure of this grain delivery is my fault. I bear all the responsibilities alone. I must not let the brothers get involved. .”

"Fart!" Ma Chen glared and shouted, "I have been brothers with you for many years, how can you be punished alone, if the delivery of food is successful, will you be the only one to receive the reward!"

This sentence really made Wang Dashan speechless, and Ma Chen continued to say loudly: "I will bear with you together for any crime, even if it is beheading, our brothers will also accompany you on the road!"

The soldiers in the rear also said loudly at this time: "General, we are all responsible for the burning of food and grass. We are willing to work together with the general to bear the responsibility!"

"Yes! Let's take the blame together!"

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(End of this chapter)