Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 176: Wind and Snow Road

Managing tens of thousands of people to eat, drink, and scatter is a complicated and cumbersome job even in the later generations with advanced technology. Therefore, after the army went out, Li Ji has been very busy. Sun Xiangfu even met him alone once. There is no chance.

After entering the boundary of Bingzhou, the sky and the earth became a vast expanse of whiteness. There was no snow in Guanzhong this winter, but Bingzhou to the north of the Yellow River was covered with snow. Therefore, even an army with more than 2 horses could not march fast. Way, the horses and carts transporting grain and grass can't go fast!

"The north wind blows the ground and the white grass breaks, and Bingzhou snows in October.

Suddenly, like a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloomed.

Spread into the bead curtain and wet the curtain, the fox fur is not warm and the brocade is thin.

The general's horn bow is out of control, and the knight's iron clothes are hard to wear. "

Since this place is not a barren land, and there is no Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty at this time, Sun Xiangfu slightly changed a few lines of the poems he remembered, and recited them out, entirely because of the occasion and feeling.

"Uh, it's gone? After listening to this poem, the old man probably hasn't finished writing it yet!"

Sitting on the snow plow made by Sun Xiangfu's guards, Tang Fengyi was much luckier than the other prisoners on death row. He shook his head and listened to Sun Xiangfu read a few poems, but he didn't want to finish the poem so bluntly.

"Hehe, the battle is not over yet, how can the poem be finished? The next time you see the appropriate scene, just continue writing." Sun Xiangfu fell back on his back, supported by the shackles wrapped in fur His back was lying on the snow rake like that. People who didn't know him would not think that he was a man in shackles, but that he was dressed in a strange way.

"You wrote this poem now?" Tang Fengyi asked in surprise when he heard the words.

"Of course, what do you think!" Although only a few words were changed, Sun Xiangfu also firmly believed that he was one of the original ones, and looked at Tang Fengyi who questioned him with disdain.

Seeing his displeased expression, Tang Fengyi didn't dare to doubt any more, and began to admire Sun Xiangfu's literary talents. Although he asked himself that he had read many books, he still couldn't write such poems.

The pawns of the army also have a serious job. Whether the road under the snow can be used by the army must be waded out first. The uneven places should be paved and repaired. Therefore, people like Sun Xiangfu are walking on the road. In front of the army, Sun Xiangfu has no sense of security when he is separated from the army, because this is the territory of the Wang family in Taiyuan.

"Old Tang, do you think the Taiyuan Wang family will send someone to kill me?" Thinking of this incident, Sun Xiangfu asked.

"No, you are a pawn in the death row camp, why should they waste that effort." Tang Fengyi replied without thinking.

"Not necessarily, in case someone hates me to the bone, they must torture me personally!"

"People with this kind of psychological distortion generally fail to achieve great things."

"Well, I'll just say this to you. I'll buy you another drink tonight." Sun Xiangfu found a little sense of security in Tang Fengyi's place, and his mood improved a lot.

However, just as he finished speaking, there was the sound of a horse neighing in front of him.

"What's the matter?" Hearing the sound, Sun Xiangfu sat up from the snow plow rake, and had been riding a horse around him, Xi Junmai, who was riding fast on his horse, to check the situation.

"Someone blocked the road ahead with rocks." After a while, Xi Junmai turned around and said.

"It's just arrived at the border of Taiyuan, and it's still hundreds of miles away from Shuozhou! Someone came to make trouble." Sun Xiangfu said with a bad expression.

However, Li Ji has a military order. If the march of the main force of the Chinese army is blocked by roads, these people in the death camp will be beheaded. Said, at most one or two hours, the vanguard will arrive here, and if the road is not opened at that time, these people will have to be whipped, there is no way, this is the treatment of the death camp.

The supervisory team composed of fifty cavalry followed from behind. If there was no accident, they would immediately issue an order to clear the rocks. If the death row prisoners did not obey, they would face their icy blades.

Sun Xiangfu signaled the guards with his eyes to stop the supervising team, and then with Tang Fengyi's help, he jumped off the snow rake, stepped on the thick snow, and walked to the front of the team in a few steps.

Among the more than 200 death row inmates, there were all kinds of people, but they saw the big rocks piled up like hills on the road in the valley, but they couldn't do anything about it.

Sun Xiangfu asked Xi Junmai to take out a second-generation binoculars from his pocket and looked up the left and right peaks, and found that there were no avalanches and landslides on the peaks on both sides of the road. The purpose of artificially blocking here is to stop the army from advancing. You must know that if the army stays in the snow for one more day, the combat effectiveness will be reduced and the consumption will be increased. The half of the poem that Sun Xiangfu read before It is a portrayal of their reality.

"If we rely on people like us to clear these rocks, I'm afraid it will be impossible in less than ten days and a half months. Even with the pioneer camp, it will take at least three or four days. Therefore, the people blocking the road want our lives." After getting the observation report bought by Xi Jun, Sun Xiangfu turned around and said to the many death row prisoners who had already gathered in front of the rock pile.

Everyone knew Li Ji's order. Before the arrival of the Chinese army, the road must be cleared. Otherwise, everyone would have no chance to go to the battlefield to avoid death.

Therefore, hearing Sun Xiangfu's words, all of these death row prisoners were ashamed, and those with poor psychological endurance could not help but shed tears.

"However, they may not be able to succeed. I have a way to make this place passable before the arrival of the Chinese army. Would you like to do it with me?"

Sun Xiangfu has been thinking about how to get there since he saw the road conditions. As a later generation, if there is no flaw in his IQ, it is not difficult to think of a way, that is, to use snow and ice.

"Do it, let's do it, Xiao Lang, hurry up and find a way!"

"Yeah, let's do it."

Everyone was shocked when they heard the words, and they all looked at Sun Xiangfu with expectant eyes.

"Okay, then, everyone will follow my division of labor and do this..."

Ice and snow are solidified water. Seeing that the heavy snow would not stop for a while, Sun Xiangfu naturally thought of using the compacted snow to build a gentle slope and let the army walk directly over these blockages.

Therefore, all the more than 200 death row prisoners were mobilized by Sun Xiangfu, and even the guards came to help, and the knee-high snow around the road was filled on the rocks. Soon, the prototype of a gentle slope was slowly formed.

"Everyone pay attention to stepping on the ground. When the cold wind blows at night, the road is hard to break with a hammer. By the way, a few people cut some thin branches and spread them on the surface. After freezing, it can prevent slipping... ··”

With a solution, everyone was very motivated. Two hours later, when the forward troops arrived here, the uphill section had been fully paved, and the downhill section was almost completed.

"You have such a good brain. I can see that the eyes of those condemned prisoners are full of admiration when they look at you." Tang Fengyi is getting older, and Sun Xiangfu did not let him carry snow with those young and strong, and assigned him a more relaxed job of laying branches. The task was given to him, taking advantage of a gap, he said beside Sun Xiangfu who was watching everyone work.

"Really, so you admire me too?" Sun Xiangfu shook the white snow on the shackles and said.It was precisely because of wearing this thing that he couldn't work with everyone.

"I've been in admiration for you since you were reciting poems, and when I saw that you immediately thought of this method of paving the road with snow, I felt that it was not unreasonable for Wang Hao to be defeated by you for a while."

When Tang Fengyi said this, he looked to the left and right on purpose, and found that no one was paying attention to this place, so he said, "However, the north of the Yellow River is Wang Xu's territory. It's different, I like to use strength to crush opponents upright, so it's definitely not Wang Xu who blocked the road."

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu took a meaningful look at Tang Fengyi and said, "I've known you for so many days, and this sentence is only useful. Why do you suddenly want to help me?"

"Hehe, this old man doesn't want to die!"

Smiling and waving to Sun Xiangfu, Tang Fengyi ran to the edge of the woods to hug the branches again, leaving only Sun Xiangfu in deep thought.

If it is true as Tang Fengyi said, then the blocking of the road may not be the work of Wang Xu, then the person who did this must have wanted to kill himself, or, even if he couldn't kill himself, he would make himself hate Wang Xu. Who is it?

In Taiyuan, the only ones who can mobilize a lot of manpower to transport rocks to block the road in winter are Wang Lin and Wang Hao.

No matter who they are, the meaning is the same to Sun Xiangfu, so there is no need to consider this issue at all. What Sun Xiangfu needs to consider is how to use their mutual dismantling relationship to attack them. Of course, the method It's not so easy to think about, the reason is that the amount of information is not symmetrical, Sun Xiangfu doesn't know where and what the family members are doing.

The vanguard general who conquered Shuozhou this time was Bull Jinda of Langye County. Some of the military rations were distributed to these prisoners on death row. There were only about 200 people, and they couldn't eat much.

Sun Xiangfu didn't want everyone to consume too much and die on the road before reaching Shuozhou, so he asked the guards to distribute some salted fish and soy sauce to them. Eating hot millet porridge is both appetizing and warm.

Of course, they can't rest after eating, they have to go on the road immediately, and if there is anything wrong with the road ahead, they also need to solve it quickly.

Not everyone has a snow rake. Sun Xingfu's pair was made for him by the guards. He is the only one in the whole team. Next to the snow rake where Sun Xiangfu was.

People seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. When they find a powerful person in their circle, they will be afraid of him at first, just like Sun Xiangfu who just entered the death row camp. He is always accompanied by heavily armed soldiers. The soldiers looked at the death row prisoners very coldly, as if they could kill them at any time, so everyone was afraid of him.

And when they discovered that this strong man was actually a wise man who would protect everyone, they became dependent. Even cattle and sheep knew how to follow a strong leader, let alone a human being!

"Hey, that runny-nosed boy, how old are you this year, why did you commit a capital crime?" Sun Xiangfu was very bored lying on the plow in the snow, so he said to a boy who looked at his face from time to time.

"I'm thirteen, my mother died in Chunshang, and I had no money to buy a coffin, so I stole a nobleman's purse..."

"Stealing? You shouldn't be sentenced to death!"

"I have never stolen anything. I was too clumsy when I stole the money bag. I was discovered. When he grabbed me, I resisted and scratched him."

"Then there is no need for the death penalty!"

"The county magistrate said that the man is a scholar and has the status of a loose official. Therefore, it is a capital offense for me to rob a wounded official."

When the thief was caught and resisted, the nature immediately turned into robbery. Disorganized officials are also officials, and they are of a completely different class from ordinary people. Robbing an official and injuring him is a real capital crime. However, Sun Xiangfu felt that it was too heavy to put a 13-year-old boy to death in this way.

(End of this chapter)