Red Mansion Soldiers

Chapter 9
Between the vast desert and the grassland, clumps of gray-green grass stand upright, and some of them have already bloomed. The flowers are red and white, and they are chamaejasma chamaejasma.

Fortunately, this is the foot of the mountain, there is not much wind and sand.

The marching route this time is to walk along the mountains, with ice and snow melted water and glaciers, and occasionally cut straight to the oasis found when crossing the desert. The water supply is more convenient, and there is no need to take up so much counterweight.

Fortunately, my plug-in is a real-time map.

I can march the fastest and nearest, thanks to my attachment.

Even Chaganba Ri said good words and didn't want money-like compliments, which made him blush, but fortunately, he was inevitably tanned by the sun in the desert, and his face could not be seen.

Yes, Chagambar Day.

This former Timur has four Jitou all!

Compared with his own dog father and Eji who were captured, Chaganba Ri, who offered to surrender the city, was much luckier.

Dozens of members of Khan Wang’s family were taken away by Yanjing in the eight-hundred-mile express games when they broke through the old city of Ili last year. Now they are probably acting as clowns for the second saint. The half-sisters of the Qi family have probably been divided up by the nobles of the Qi people, right?And he Chaganbari is different.

How do you say that sentence in Chinese?Wei Junjie who wants something.

He was canonized as the Great Qi Dragon and Tiger General, and the Anxi Dufu was assigned to the commander of Yiwei, who was stationed in Yili. He was also a prominent figure in the entire Duhufu!

And it's General Dragon and Tiger, well, it's too good for me.

Judging from the current market situation, even Abu and his brothers and sisters who don't want to see him have to bow and salute when they see him, shouting to see the general.

Thinking of this, Chaganbari couldn't help laughing.

Shi Yuanxiu, who was riding right next to Chaganbari, frowned, and distanced himself from Chaganbari as if avoiding something dirty.

Chaganbari was sent by Lu Guan.Mainly as a guide, although he himself is not popular, but he has a good tongue. He was sent to Heshuote to form an alliance, and he took the same route as this operation, so he knows the way.

Accompanying him was Gui Yiwei.

This former Qixue army, who was abandoned after Dihua Duan and finally surrendered with Chaganba Rixian City, is one of the few elites in the Timur Khanate who can fight back and forth with the Anxi Army!

After Chaganbari was awarded the title of General Dragon and Tiger, the Duhu Mansion formed the Guiyi Guard with the 4000 soldiers of Timur who had been carefully selected on the basis of these [-] people.

It can be regarded as appeasing the Timurid people and giving them a way to make progress.

For this trip, Chaganba daily brought 3000 people to participate in this operation, plus the elite brought by Jia Hun, the total number was 300.

Although Jia Hun charged forward on the city wall of Dihua, the feeling of standing on the city wall and following the charge is completely different.

In the words learned from General Jia.

I'm so high!

When they met horse bandits, Jia didn't criticize them, raised their spears and charged, and the gang didn't stop them, and followed them howling.

No armor!
The group of horse bandits ran away, and the few who rushed over also showed timidity. Once the horses slowed down, the battle was over.

You dare to attack the army of 8000 people, why are you showing your timidity again?
After thinking about it for several days, Chaganbari still couldn't understand this question.

But judging from the bravery of Jia Hun and others, Timur did not deserve to lose.

With a long sigh, he took off his rotten leather armor, changed into clean clothes, hugged the old clothes in his arms, and walked out of the tent.

Commanders have orders, and everyone must keep clean and tidy under conditions.

At first everyone felt that washing and bathing all day was annoying to death, but because of Jia Hun's dominance, everyone did it anyway.

After a while, everyone fell in love with the beauty of regular showers and clean clothes.

Zhengzheng has been away from Yili for a month now.

Going south and crossing the Tianshan Mountains, I took a two-day rest in Aksu to replenish supplies, and emptied the anti-high-resistance medicinal materials in the city, such as Rhodiola rosea. Anyway, Cha Ganba Ri said that this is useful, so let’s take them all.

Continue to go south along the branch of Tianshan Mountain, pass through Bachu and Yecheng, and then go east after evacuating all the medicinal materials. Now it is about three or four days away from Hotan.

The luckiest thing about this march was that there were supply points along the way. Apart from armor and weapons, I only carried Daqi’s standard emergency marching rations—sugar sticks.

This is an explosive military ration that has been circulating on this land for more than 400 years.

At first, it was discovered by the Qili tribe, a large tribe in Baiyue, in the mountains in the southwest.

There lives a tree called the sweet tree, which resembles the sumac.It is called "sugar tree" in Daqi's official herbal directory.

Yes, the gum of this tree is high in sugar.

When the old Duke gave Jia Hun a candy bar, Jia Hun was stunned.

In the last years of the Yu Dynasty more than 300 years ago, the chieftain of Baiyue rebelled and stabbed the Yu Dynasty on the verge of collapse.

The chieftains once entered Sichuan and reached Jianmen Pass.As military rations, Qi Libu also came to Sichuan with candy sticks.

The chieftain's rebellion was finally divided and defeated by the Yizhou prefect at that time.

And this kind of military rations and sugar sticks attracted the attention of the prefect, and they introduced and planted this sugar gum tree.

With the founding of Great Liang, sugar gum trees also came into the sight of the court, and Great Liang also attached great importance to the development of sugar gum trees.

After 300 years of continuous research, sugar gum trees have been developed to the greatest extent, and have been cultivated and improved. They have been planted all over the country, and they have been planted in the northernmost area of ​​Datong.

Sugar gum is rich in sugar, and the best quality sugar gum is even just dried and ground into powder, which is the top white sugar. Unlike eating too much sucrose and getting angry, sugar gum itself has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying.

Although the price of sugar in Daqi is not as low as a few cents per catty, it is far lower than the price of salt, and it has become the most commonly used condiment in ordinary households.

What a god-given tree!
Developed to the Daqi Dynasty, directly add dried meat, lard (can also be replaced with butter, sheep oil or vegetable oil, depending on the place of production), salt, fried noodles or fried rice and crushed kelp into the sugar gum, knead into strips and dry them in the sun.

After a rest, a candy stick about the thickness of the wrist of a two-year-old baby is completed.Wrapped in oiled paper, it can be stored for a long time.When fighting, with some water, a candy bar can last for a day.

A large part of the reason for the victory of the Western Expedition is this kind of god-given military rations.

With this kind of military rations, Da Qi didn't go all the way to the sky, Jia Hun didn't want to understand.

Because candy sticks are portable and easy to carry, as long as each person carries a backpack of candy sticks, they can eat for a long time, which can completely abandon the transportation team.

With the addition of one person and two horses, the horses can carry more sugar sticks while carrying the armor and equipment, and even the cavalry can carry a backpack. He hurriedly marched to the foot of Kunlun Mountain.

I was lucky today and found an oasis with a small pond. Jia Hun decided to camp early today and rest.

Shui Che arranged that, well, people went hunting. The candy sticks were prepared by Jia Hun when he crossed the snow-capped mountains and entered the plateau for a long time when he could not find food. When it comes to food, try to eat as fresh as possible.

This is a depression formed by melting water from snow-capped mountains flowing into a small puddle.

The upstream is naturally connected to the snow mountain, and then flows into the puddle, forming a small green space in the shape of a "middle".

The lower reaches disappeared in the vast desert.

The soldiers of the Assault Corps skillfully set up camp in the upper reaches. The water here is much cleaner and the terrain is also high. If there is a flood, they will not be submerged.

The small pond in the middle is used as a bath.

God knows how this group of people can endure the cold iceberg melt water.But there is no way, there are not many things that can be burned in this area, so try to use it for cooking.

As usual, Jia Hun boiled ginger water for them with dried ginger to dispel the cold. Now that they have reached Hotan, and then they will go to the Kunlun Mountain Pass. Cold water bathes and pours at the foot of the snow-capped mountains.

As for the downstream, it is reserved for washing clothes and drinking water for war horses.

After the meal, the soldiers sitting in front of the bonfire chatting and digesting food also went back to the tent to rest one after another. Since the last rest in Yecheng, they have been driving for several days in a row. The men are also a little bit too much.Now they just want to lie in bed and sleep until dawn.

While there was still some hot water, Jia Hun dipped in a towel and scrubbed his body well, then sat in the tent and began to write his marching notes.

Due to the need to march quickly, and the variables in the Western Regions such as horse bandits, poisonous snakes and scorpions, it is easy to get lost in the desert when there are few people, and the distance between cities is too far, so even the guards Government orders are sometimes not conveyed.

Therefore, the imperial court gave great autonomy to the troops stationed in various parts of the Duhu Mansion, but they had to record the accompanying notes, not only for the chief general, but also for all officers with a thousand households and above, so that they could be compared and recorded in various ways in the future.

Just when a small dish of butter was about to be burned, Jia Hun also finished writing his notes, stretched his sedentary waist, and Jia Hun turned over and lay down in his sleeping bag.

Jia Hun looked at the top of the tent with blurred eyes, feeling the cold bed, he missed Yue Liduo more and more.

Jia Hun got up again and walked out of the tent, greeted several soldiers on watch at night, and went to a place a little further away to release water.

Looking up at the sky, tonight's moon is not covered by dark clouds, and it hangs completely in the sky.

Jia Hun turned his head to look east, feeling a little homesick, and left home for the first time in two lifetimes, even for more than three years.

I don't know how my family is like, is the drama I made up popular?
In my previous life, I liked to watch dramas, operas, operas, and even Kabuki in island countries. Although I didn’t understand most of the foreign dramas, most of the time I just watched the fun, but I would imitate my body when I was at home.

When the old man was still alive, he was surprised to see what he wrote that could barely be called a script when he had nothing to do, but he didn’t say anything. It’s better to have a hobby than to go out and make trouble.

Then he asked someone to invite several piano players to teach him.

It is true to be self-inflicted.

(End of this chapter)