Xinshun 1730

Chapter 29 Snow Blind
After working like this for a month, the sergeants in the battalion are very familiar with Liu Yu.

But in terms of prestige, it seems that there is not much. On the contrary, some people think that he is out of his mind.

Although it is said that a general should eat the same food as the soldiers and have the same hatred as the son, it is a pity that that is only a story in the storybook.

Seeing such an officer who eats with the soldiers, the soldiers are not used to it at all, but feel that this person is sick.

Dashun is just a feudal dynasty, and there are endless incidents of drinking soldiers' blood.The Beijing camp may be stronger, but there are really no officers who have mixed with soldiers.

Liu Yu thought clearly that he was a guest general, and this was not his foundation. It was nothing more than borrowing the lives and blood of these big soldiers to dye his official uniform.

Even if the purpose is so simple, he also knows that some methods must be used.

After chatting a lot, Liu Yu found that there were quite a lot of Saurons in the team, and it could be seen that the court was quite concerned about this matter, and those who were transferred were all familiar with the terrain and climate.

The Saurons and the Houjin were deadly enemies. The capital of the Sauron Kingdom was Yaksa, which was destroyed by the Houjin Tu during the reign of Chongzhen.Afterwards, the battle became tighter, and Hou Jin continued to capture the people of Sauron's various ministries and fill them into the Eight Banners.

Death in battle can be tolerated, but people who have lived in the mountains and forests all their lives cannot bear the smallpox and colds in the interior, and die group after group, often the entire tribe dies.

After Dashun established a firm foothold, the population in the Yaksa area of ​​the former Sauron Khanate had basically died out.

When Tsarist Russia arrived, the Russians built the city at the former site of Yaksa.Some tribes moved south one after another, and some became soldiers in Dashun.

The out-of-shape military system of the Tang Dynasty was restored in the Songhua River regions, and the Beidi Zhechong Prefecture became an excellent military soldier and light cavalry similar to the Cossacks.Some Saurons who survived smallpox gradually made military achievements, and there were quite a few of them in the capital camp.

In addition to these people, we have to wait for some people who understand Russian from Mongolia.

Looking at the end of September, the people are finally complete, and it's time to set off.

The steamed buns were all prepared according to Liu Yu's list, not counting the standard equipment obtained from Qi Guogong, and the remaining ones cost 2000 taels of silver, and a sum of money was borrowed from the students of Wude Palace.

There are several large boxes filled with several large vehicles, and I don't know what they are.

Some people speculate, is it Liu Yu's own private goods?

But after all, Liu Yu has the status of a prince of the country, and is the leader of this team in name, so no one dares to ask more questions.

It is the prerogative of military officers to go out to fight and take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune.With jealousy, all he hopes is to become an officer in the future, at least to get a share of the pie.

Starting from the capital, along the way Liu Yu just quietly learned how to camp, how to march and some other details.

If you have the method from your previous life, you can just write it down at night and summarize the rules and experience. Coupled with the theory learned in Wude Palace, it is not difficult to master.

The winter of the seventh year of Taixing came very early, and when we left Shanhaiguan, it was snowing heavily.

Everything is covered with a layer of white, and the mist rising from the unfrozen river makes the weeping willows along the bank covered in white, giving it a unique view that the bustling capital does not have.

It's just that the snow made the marching people miserable.

The miserable white sun hung above the head, and the white snow did not accept the sun's rays at all, reflecting the dazzling sunlight to everyone like a mirror.

The surroundings are dead silent, except for the white, which is still white, and the occasional touch of green that catches the eye is just the pine forest on the mountain.

Everything you see is dazzling.

Jiaolao Butu's eyes were red and swollen, and he rode his horse to Liu Yu who was resting on the horseback with his eyes closed.

It snowed heavily and it was sunny again. Many people were hit in the eyes by the snow.

The snow hits the eyes, which is the so-called snow blindness.

Bai Xue reflects almost all the ultraviolet rays of the sun, just like a person staring at the sun all the time, his eyes are hot and painful.

A little wind, tears will flow.The pain was excruciating, and it even involved the brain inside the eyes, which made people want to dig out the eyeballs.

"Brother Liu, I think we should take a rest now? Marching after the snow is too difficult. Many brothers were hit in the eyes by the snow, and if we continue walking, I am afraid that we will go blind. I think we should rest for a few days and wait for the brothers. Our eyes will be healed before we leave."

Liu Yu slowly opened his eyes, adjusted to the glare of the snow, glanced at Jiao Laobutu with red eyes, and asked, "How was the march on a snowy day before?"

"Uh... If there is no major military situation, I don't march in snowy days. If there is an urgent matter, I will pull one by one and open my eyes in turn. It's just... Although His Majesty has entrusted us with important tasks, he is not in a hurry .”

"That's the way it is said, but don't hurry too late. The future is far away, and I don't know how many miles are left. Take a break today, and take a rest tomorrow. When will we arrive?"

When the soldiers on horseback heard this, they couldn't help but cursed in their hearts.

All of them were hit in the eyes by the snow, and the pain was so severe that tears flowed out, and a little wind seemed to be piercing the eyeballs with needles.

"Damn it, what's the matter? We eat together on weekdays, but you look like a good person, and you think you are different. In the end, you are still like a bird."

"I'm a damn girl, I usually pretend to be a real bean bag, my eyes hurt like this, can't I just take a rest?"

"Mom, I'm a bitch, Ge Laozi believed in your evil, I really think you are a good person."

A few people scolded flowers in their hearts, and there were people from all over the team, and the words they scolded were all kinds of strange, but the overall meaning was similar, and they all followed Liu Yu's mother's example.

"Gu Wang Yan" says: A woman's vagina is shaped like a mussel.The northerner's name is Bazi.The people of Fujian call it ji wai.People in Sichuan call it batch...

Cursing secretly in this communication, it actually shows the atmosphere of a big country.

It's true that the land is vast and the people are different, and the language is changeable, which is not comparable to a small country.

After listening to Liu Yu's words, Jiaolao Butu was also a little speechless, thinking that if you lead troops like this, what can you accomplish?It is to learn from General Li and Wu Qi every day, and eat with soldiers, what is the use?Know its skin but not its bones.

Just about to persuade a few more words, Liu Yu stopped his horse and said slowly: "However, as a general, you must not know the changes in astronomy and geography. If you don't prepare in advance, and make your soldiers suffer when the time comes, then it is the general's fault. .”

What he said seemed like a human saying, and the people around him felt that the meaning of the words could be calmed down?

Liu Yu waved at the steamed bun, and shouted: "Take out the contents of the No. [-] box and distribute it to everyone. Then take out the tobacco leaves from the other box. After passing Shenyang, there will be no big cities along the way. Brothers, the cigarettes are dead. It's been a few days."

Mantou hurriedly went to the big boxes that Liu Yu was carrying, took out a bunch of custom-made things, and shared one with each other.

He took out the good tobacco leaves in the capital and divided some according to the Shiwu team.

When they got the tobacco leaves, those soldiers who had not smoked for a long time wanted to chew them in their mouths, squeezed a handful and put them in front of their noses to sniff vigorously, wishing to inhale the tobacco leaves directly into their noses, many of them were short-lived. Forget the excruciating eye pain of snow blindness.

As a military officer, Jiaolaobutu naturally had a lot of tobacco leaves.I don't know what happened to the other thing that came into my hand while holding the steamed bun.

This thing is a blindfold made of wood, with a rope tied behind it, which looks quite like the thing pulled by a donkey's belt.

It's just that there are two slits on the top of the blindfold.

Wearing it without a teacher, these two slits are not completely blindfolded. The outside scenery and the road pass through the slits with difficulty, and the original dazzling snow light is actually weakened a bit.

After dividing the steamed buns, Liu Yu shouted, "Brothers, put these on. It will be hard for the snow to hit your eyes in the future."

Jiaolaobutu didn't believe it, could this shit prevent snow blindness?He hadn't heard of it.

Liu Yu also knew that this thing was not a panacea, and it was not useful just by wearing it.

Saying anything at this time is useless, wait until the effect is seen in a few days, and then say what he really wants to say.

Looking at Jiaolaobutu's distrustful eyes, Liu Yu thought that this thing would be useful.Later generations who crossed Jiajin Mountain on the Long March were also plagued by snow blindness, and they survived with similar things, but those were woven with yak tail hair, not wood.

On Jiajin Mountain back then, groups of soldiers wore blindfolds and marched in the snow, which was quite romantic like a demon hunter.

The thing in Liu Yu's hand is made of wood, more like a snow-blind mirror made by Eskimos according to local conditions.To be effective is to be effective, but it seems to be an indescribable idiot.

(End of this chapter)