Will Ming

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Chapter 490 Building a nest is hard work

It was the end of October, and the fighting around Taiyuan was still fierce. With 30 Turkic wolf cavalry, plus Liu Wuzhou's 10 horses, Taiyuan was surrounded like an iron barrel.Now sitting in the city are still Li Yuan's fourth sons Qi Gong Li Yuanji and Chang Shi Chen Yinshou.Twenty miles south of Taiyuan City, Li Jiancheng, the son of the Tang Dynasty, led an army of [-] troops to station, and he and Taiyuan City were horns of each other.

The weather has become colder, and the Turkic offensive has become more violent.The last time Ashina Tuoji personally led hundreds of thousands of troops to the south to trap Yang Guang in Yanmen, but in the end he returned without success and suffered heavy losses.After just over two years, Ashina Duoji made a comeback.

In fact, it wasn't that he was crazy and belligerent, nor that he was certain of winning, it was just that he had to fight this battle.

The year before last, Li Xian and Luo Shixin led more than 1 Qingqi into Saibei. The biggest achievement was not that they almost wiped out Ashina Quhu's territory, nor did they dig another nest by the Qingniu Lake.It was the late autumn of that year. Li Xian and Luo Shixin led troops to set fire to the grassland one after another. It didn't seem to have much influence at that time, but when the spring of the next year, the Turkic Hundreds of thousands of human cattle and sheep starved to death!

In addition, walking on the grassland was late in winter last year, and at the end of April, the northwest wind was still blowing, and people couldn't stretch out their hands.It was the season of warm spring and flowers blooming, but it was still snowing on the grassland!

A year of man-made disasters, a year of natural disasters.

If there is no other way, it will not be as simple as a million livestock that will starve to death and freeze to death. I am afraid that if the problem of food and grass cannot be solved this year, the tragedy of cannibalism will occur on the grassland if the winter cannot pass!The big tribes were better, but those small tribes with a population of only a few hundred to a few thousand could no longer find enough reserves for the winter. As the Great Khan of the Grassland, Ashina Dujishi knew that he was facing the most severe test in his life.

He asked the wizard to perform rituals every day, begging Changshengtian to take back the punishment of the grassland people.However, Changshengtian seemed to be asleep, and could not hear the prayers and begging of the wizards all day long.

Not many Turkic people died of starvation in the past two years, but Ashina Duojishi knew that when this winter passed, countless Turkic corpses would be exposed after the snow melted next year!

In order to alleviate the crisis, he must fight this battle.

But he was not sure, so he has been hesitant to make a decision.

Fortunately, Li Yuan rebelled and marched into Chang'an, which gave a good reason and opportunity.Taiyuan has been well governed by Li Yuan in the past few years. Although the people can't be said to be rich, at least they won't starve to death.If they can take advantage of this opportunity to snatch all the land in Hexi, the herdsmen can hope to survive this winter.

People in the Central Plains don't have many fat cattle and sheep, but they have enough grain in their granaries to last for several lifetimes.

This time going south, it is true that Ashina Duo Jishi came to invade, but in a sense, he also came to save his life.

The two sides have been fighting for more than a month, but Ashina Duoji has not yet found a way to conquer Taiyuan.Liu Wu and Zhou's army suffered great losses, but the city of Taiyuan was too strong, and there were also many defenders in the city. There were also countless grains and weapons stored in Jinyang Palace. The Tang army in Taiyuan was not afraid of being trapped. On the contrary, the Turkic people went south with all their strength, and they would starve if they could not attack Taiyuan.

I thought that Taiyuan could be won quickly, and then the Turkic army rushed to Chang'an in one go.Even if Chang'an City cannot be breached, it is not difficult to force Li Yuan to cede a large area of ​​territory.But in Taiyuan, he was blocked for more than a month, which made Ashina Tuji very annoyed.

During this period of time, Liu Wuzhou's troops have been attacking the city, and the losses have been considerable, so Liu Wuzhou is not as active as he was at the beginning, and he no longer works hard to attack the city every day.

Ashina Tuoji became more and more upset as he thought about it, he waved his hands to let everyone in the big tent back out.

Although the weather has turned cold, it is not too cold to make people shiver.But Ashina Duoji was wrapped in a thick layer of felt blankets, and a stove was already lit in the big tent.Ever since he was defeated and fled back to the royal court the year before last, his health has deteriorated day by day.It's just that he knows that he must not fall, his son is still young, if he falls now, then he can imagine what will happen to his son in the future.

All the people in the big tent retreated, Ashina Duoji stared at the charcoal fire in a daze.

Suddenly, he coughed violently, coughing violently until his body curled up, which made him look even older.

Letting go of his hand covering his mouth, he quietly wiped the blood in his palm on the felt blanket.

"Come on!"

Ashina Duojishi's eyes were a little gloomy and lifeless. If he saw it himself, he would probably be frightened by the eyes, because there was no life in them.

"Go and call Ashina Alif, I have something to tell him."

Ashina Duo Jishi gave an order, and then leaned back. He felt that his strength was exhausted in an instant, and Changshengtian seemed to be beckoning to him.

"I hope my decision is not wrong. The glory of the Turks must not be left in my hands."

He sighed and tightened the felt blanket wrapped around his body.

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"Is it delicious?"

Li Xian glanced at Qing Yuan whose mouth was full and asked, the latter couldn't open her mouth, so she could only nod with a blushing face, this eating appearance really made her feel a little embarrassed.She subconsciously looked at Huang Luan beside her, but found that her sister who was half a year older than her was fuller.

Li Xian was toasting a leg of lamb that had almost turned golden brown, and brushed it with his own condiments slowly but skillfully.

"Actually, the roast leg of lamb is better than the front leg of lamb."

Li Xian still seemed to feel sorry for the two lamb front legs that Cheng Zhijie and Xiong Kuohai snatched away. Those two guys snatched the best meat and roasted it themselves. It was a waste of good stuff.

"My lord..."

Huang Luan swallowed the meat in her mouth with difficulty, took a sip of water and asked, "It seems like you haven't seen General Qin for ten days?"

"I asked him to take [-] cavalrymen to the northwest, make a circle and come back to join us."

"Confused the enemy?"

Qing Yuan looked at the empty plate in her hand, her eyes were fixed on the leg of lamb in Li Xian's hand.In fact, it's no wonder that she and Huang Luan's eating habits are a bit unrefined. These days, they have been marching in a hurry, eating a few mouthfuls of dry food when they are hungry, and drinking a few mouthfuls of cold water when they are thirsty. Haven't had a few decent meals.It's rare that Li Xian is interested in barbecue today, how can the two of them not be greedy?

Speaking of it, it seems that girls are greedier than boys of the same age.

Li Xian picked up the jug and took a sip, feeling a fire burning from his throat directly into his stomach.I bought this wine yesterday in a passing village. The widow in the village spent her days with a little girl, but she had thoroughly learned her husband’s family’s wine making skills. At least four catties are removed from the catty, and the remaining wine tastes more mellow.Even the newly brewed wine tastes as thick as old wine.

And the bag of wine in Li Xian's wine bag is the head of the wine, which is less mellow and more violent. Speaking of it, if a beginner drinks this wine, he may be drunk for a day and a night with just one bowl.

The so-called wine head is the first wine made from grain wine.

The taste of this wine is a bit like the burning knife brewed by Baoding Prefecture in later generations, with a temperature of more than [-] degrees. Drinking it in the stomach is not much different from swallowing fire.

"Qin Qiong is the most cautious person, and has superb martial arts skills. It is most suitable to send him to lead troops to confuse Dou Jiande's troops. He will come back in a few days to meet up, and then he will have to march quickly."

"More?"

Qing Yuan opened her mouth wide subconsciously, it seems that she has been unable to bear the continuous rapid march for the past two months.

Huang Luan pouted and said: "If you keep running like this, your butt will be smashed."

As the time spent by Li Xian's side grew longer, the changes in their two personalities became more and more obvious.When they followed Wen Jie, the two of them were full of Yin Qi.Compared with now, they are like two different people.People say that if you don't see each other for three days, you should see each other with admiration. This sentence is perfect for the two of them.

Li Xian smiled, used a knife to cut off the well-roasted mutton, put it on a small plate and said: "It seems that the roasted lamb hind legs are right today, you should eat more."

"why?"

"Where you eat, you will make up for it."

Li Xian said solemnly: "Tomorrow I will catch some pheasants for you, and I will roast the chicken butts."

Qing Yuan and Huang Luan blushed at the same time, not knowing what to say.

"My lord..."

Huang Luan is more straightforward than Qing Yuan, so she was the first to break free from embarrassment and shyness.She pinched a piece of mutton into her mouth, chewed and asked, "We were going all the way to the northwest, why did we suddenly turn to the southwest? We have been marching for three days, and we still don't know where we are going."

"You'll know when it arrives."

Li Xian took a sip of his wine, then wiped his hands with a soft cloth and said, "Until we reach our destination, I won't tell even you."

Huang Luan didn't care, and put the last piece of meat on the plate into his mouth.

"It's not only us who are curious, but the soldiers in the army are also curious. Everyone thought that after burning Wuyang County, the army would turn back east to block Dou Jiande's return path. But they went all the way west. Wouldn't it be a pity to let Dou Jiande go like this?" ?”

"It can't stop Dou Jiande."

Li Xian smiled and said, "The river is so long, and his heart is cruel enough."

Some didn't understand this sentence, but both Qingyuan and Huangluan understood.

Since Dou Jiande was able to withdraw troops from Su