lazy tang

Chapter 826
The heavy snow in the Western Regions can indeed block anyone's attempt to travel in the wild, the boundless Gobi Desert.There are also mountains soaring into the clouds that there is no way to find a way.In winter, even familiar people can easily get lost in the boundless Western Regions.

What Han Dewang said was actually not wrong, but the mistake was that he forgot one thing.It is snowing in Almaty, but it does not mean that it is snowing in the whole Western Regions.Now there is a team that has passed through Suiye City.

Their forwards were walking through the vast snow field, struggling against the wind and snow.If Yunhao were here, he would be speechless in shock.Because these people are wearing cotton clothes and trousers, and even the horses are wrapped in quilts.The good thermal performance of cotton allows them to travel on the wilderness at minus 20 degrees.

Both the man and the horse were breathing hot air, and the snowflakes in the sky seemed like God was sifting cotton wool.The world was in chaos, but the team was still moving forward tenaciously.If you look at it from the sky, it looks like a black river flowing on the vast snow field.

Yousuf is sitting on the tall Dashi Empire horse. As the Eastern Governor of the Dashi Empire, he is obliged to expand the territory of the Dashi Empire.It is not my business to fight the Romans to the west.His mission is to go east, towards the legendary country full of gold.

Fighting in the Western Regions in winter is very dangerous, but Yusuf believes that danger and opportunity always coexist.A man from the Tang Dynasty who came from afar once said that wealth and wealth are found in danger!
From his mouth, Yusuf heard the most beautiful stories.In order to prove that what he said was true, Yusuf was willing to risk his life and wealth.

Breathing out a mouthful of heavy white air, Yusuf took out a compass and a blood-stained map.These are all spoils of war in Suiye City. There are very few Tang people in Suiye City, only a few hundred people.The 15 army under his command only lined up in the city.Those servants from the Western Regions with long beards immediately tied up their masters, and then gave them to the new masters with bruised noses and swollen faces.

Because of the heavy snow, Yusuf got a broken leaf city intact.Now, the heavy snow has not stopped.In other words, his adventure can continue.Until the entire Western Regions became the new territory of the Dashi Empire.

Only heavy snow can make Tang people's flying things in the sky useless.Just rely on this heavy snow to wipe out the main force of the Tang people.Even if the weather improves, the people of Tang will be powerless.The Western Regions are much farther away from the mainland of Datang than Dashi.When Tang Ren's new expeditionary force arrived, he had already returned to Dashi with a huge amount of spoils.If the people of Tang dare to catch up with tens of thousands of miles, hehe!Even if they have something that can fly, there is no way to change the fate of failure.

"Li! You said that if we walk in this direction, we can see Almaty?" Yusuf stopped and asked a guy wrapped like a mummy beside him.

The man looked at the map carefully, then made gestures on the map with a compass, and said affirmatively, "Yes! Going in this direction is Almaty! We must speed up the march, and it seems that the snow is about to stop. We must rush to Almaty before the snow stops. Once the snow stops, those airships will take off. Our whereabouts will be exposed!

The army that has gone through a long journey is definitely not an opponent of the Tang cavalry who waits for work.Only by blocking them in the city can we have a chance of winning. "That guy named Li speaks Persian very poorly. His frozen mouth makes his words even more difficult to understand. Fortunately, Yusuf and him have been together for two years, and they are already familiar with each other. Just listen to the beginning , you know what he's going to say next.

"Leave the luggage behind and get on the horses. We must arrive at Almaty when the snow stops," Yusuf ordered.

"No! You can't do this. Marching in the cold wind is already very hard. When we arrive in Almaty, we still have to fight. The caravan said that there are more than 1 Tang troops stationed there. This is not a small force. As far as I know In fact, the Tang army only had more than 5 people in Beiting, and only 3 people in Anxi. To be able to concentrate 1 people in a city is already a heavy defense.

Their armor is better than ours, their swords are sharper than ours.They have gunpowder, and oil...! "

"We have those too!"

"But the soldiers' physical strength is gone, so we should send people out now. Along the way, ginger soup is boiled, and it is best to put chili in it. Also put some dried milk, so that the soldiers can drink some hot water before they can go on their way. It can also replenish their physical strength." !"

"Okay! Lee! Nah!"

"Let me go, I'm busy enough." Li stopped Yousuf, and led a group of people to pull a dozen camels and rushed forward.

Luckily, the journey was no more than 30 miles.Seeing a pine forest, he quickly ordered the soldiers to cut down the tree.The cut branches are piled up together, after the fire oil is poured on it.Lee, pick up a match and light it.

The blue flame quickly ignited the dry pine branches, large drops of pine oil dripped into the fire, and rosin wafted.

The cauldron is placed on the fire, and the shovel shovels a shovel of white snow and throws it into the cauldron.Although the cold wind is biting, the flames still make people feel warm.More often, this warmth is a psychological feeling rather than a physical one.

The snow quickly melted into water, after the soldiers warmed their hands.They began to unload things from the camel's back, chopped the prepared ginger twice and threw it in.Milk dried children are also thrown in, and then there are large chunks of sucrose, and red peppers.

When these things are cooked together, the weird taste will soon permeate.The water boiled, and these things also rolled in the cauldron.Li took a sip with a spoon, and the taste was indescribably strange.It's definitely not delicious, but it's really fucking warm in the stomach.In this cold weather, warmth is enough.Soldiers have already passed by, and as long as the soldiers pass by, they can take a big spoon with their own rice bowls.

There is the sound of sucking and drinking soup everywhere, and the cauldron is constantly boiling.Strive for every soldier to be able to take a sip of this strange-tasting stuff on the road!
Feeling the heat wave with the fragrance of milk, Li took off his mask.His face was covered with scars, densely packed like red flesh worms.If you look closely, he also seems to have a handicap in one of his hands.No one can recognize him, this is Li Deyu, the troubled son of the Chang'an family back then.

The Li family was finished, and so was his uncle Zhang Zhongjian, who managed to escape from the sea.Li Deyu escaped from the shark's mouth after narrowly escaped death, and drifted alone in the sea.Until a big food merchant ship rescued him!

Everything he encountered made him only want revenge.Take revenge on Yunhao, take revenge on the emperor, and take revenge on the entire Tang Empire.Today, he is here for revenge.He wants to seize the Western Regions from the Tang Empire and seize the most important commercial channel of the Tang Empire.

If Yun Hao knew about this kind of thinking, Yun Hao would almost die with laughter.

No matter what age, I still want to walk the Silk Road for hundreds of years.Sea-going ships obviously carry more loads than camel teams, and are also faster and less labor-intensive than camel teams.The cost of transportation is even less than that of the camel caravan.If such a low-cost transportation line is not used, ghosts are willing to risk their lives in the Gobi desert.

After running for three days in a row, the team was exhausted to the extreme.In the snowstorm, a huge black shadow suddenly appeared.Everyone cheered in their hearts, and the team rushed up like crazy without any more agitation.

Today is Yuan Day, and soldiers guarding the border in the Western Regions are all eating dumplings.Living in the Western Regions for a long time, I even forgot what Chang'an looked like.The food in my hometown makes people miss my hometown even more.Today is Yuan Day, the annual New Year.

The soldiers not only have dumplings, but also drinks if they are not on duty.Of course, if the official wine is not enough to drink, you can also buy some yourself.The barbarians in Almaty are very coquettish, as long as they buy a barrel of wine, their stomachs will shake like waves.Those round chests are even more choppy.

The soldiers who watched the drought for a long time salivated one by one.

Some people really have fun!

When the halazi bleeds a lot, I feel thirsty in my mouth.One jug of wine is not enough, so it is natural to add another jug.So the wine lady danced harder and harder, and the wine sold more and more.

That night, Almaty consumed a lot of alcohol.The hotel owner is so tired that his tongue sticks out like a dog, but he is still smiling!Tonight, I earned more money than usual in a month.

Although it is snowing on the street, there are many drunks.The inspections with whips on weekdays are now gone.It's a rare indulgence during the Chinese New Year.At this time, if you can't get along with others, you will have a deadly enmity.Besides, they are all away from home.During the Chinese New Year holidays, I miss my hometown very much.It makes sense to do something out of the ordinary.

Hu people's auxiliary soldiers pushed the carts, pulled up those drunk people who fell in the snow, and put them on the carts.There is a signing room next to the yamen, and it is warm inside.Let them settle down for one night first. In this weather, if they drink too much and fall asleep outside, they will freeze to death.

Almaty was immersed in joy and nostalgia, and felt pain and joy.

Almost everyone is drinking, Zhang Liang and Han Dewang are no exception.In previous years in Chang'an's mansion, the emperor's banquet should have arrived by this time.Everyone in the family should kneel and thank God under the ten-foot-high grain tree at the door!
Thinking of the scene where the servants came forward to bow to him and congratulate him on the New Year, Zhang Liang would scold Li Tai in his heart.It's because of this bastard that I came to the Western Regions, a place where no shit.Even the snow is so fucking different from other places, it hasn't stopped for three days.The fluttering snowflakes had some artistic conception at first glance, but now they are annoying no matter how you look at them.

Before dinner, descend from the city walls.It was snowing all over the sky, and it was impossible to see two miles away from the city wall.Staying there is not much different from staying in the Protectorate's Mansion.

"Marshal! Your Majesty really wants to withdraw troops?"

After two months of fawning, Han Dewang has become Zhang Liang's confidant.Zhang Liang likes this capable general who can be an official very much.With the qualifications of the Western Regions for the past few years, if you train well, it may be your right-hand man in the future.

Drinking with subordinates is the best chance to win over.Zhang Liang has led troops for many years, so he is naturally very familiar with this one.Tonight, I will take Han Dewang to drink and eat dumplings.In order to talk privately, the two of them were the only ones at the wine table.This time, Han Dewang was even more flattered.

"It's not enough to make ends meet! It will be a matter of time to withdraw the troops. Besides, the trade routes in the Western Regions are not as good as each year. Duke Chu has opened up the sea route, and a ship of goods is much more than a camel caravan. Now Quanzhou and Guangzhou have become the busiest seaports. His grandma's, that The gangsters get their buttholes full of oil, but I eat sand here. After two years in the Western Regions, I will definitely tell His Majesty that I will go to Lingnan for two years and earn some money for my family.

In the future, even if there is a prodigal son in the family, at least they can lose him for two more years. "Zhang Liang sighed helplessly. The children in the family were not up to the mark. The second and third children were lucky enough to be admitted to Lishan Academy, but they didn't make it to graduation. This is why Zhang Liang didn't reject Li Er, but he dared not slack off Ah. The family still needs merit to support them. This trip to the Western Regions will last for a few years. Anyway, Li Er will give an explanation, and the monarchs and ministers who have been there for many years have long understood. This emperor has never ordered others in vain.

"Really? If the Duke doesn't think the general is ignorant, is it possible to let the general attach to the commander's tail?" Han Dewang's eyes almost turned green when he heard about getting rich.In the past few years in the Western Regions, I have gathered some family assets.But compared to those officials of the same level in Chang'an, they are simply super poor.Han Dewang has an unstoppable determination to get rich!
"It's easy to say! Easy to say! Your Majesty will definitely give me a fat job to compensate for the hard work I have suffered in the past two years. You have been in the Western Regions for many years, and the court will not forget you, and His Majesty will not forget you. If this matter is done well, the old man will naturally You won’t watch your colleagues suffer. You don’t know, Chang’an Migui! It’s a gold-selling cave, no matter how much money you have, you can’t fill it.

You have only made a few money in the Western Regions these years, it is difficult to live a good life in Chang'an!Disaster!Disaster! "Zhang Liang said three difficult words in a row, but Han Dewang was frightened.

I thought it would be good if the court didn't transfer me back at this time, otherwise I wouldn't be able to live in Chang'an.

The two chatted, and the steaming dumplings were served.It's a pity that there is no pork filling, so lamb can only be used instead.Dumplings are actually wrapped with lean meat and won't taste good.It is delicious if you have to mince pork belly with three layers of pork belly to make dumplings.

Since it is in the Western Regions, everything can only be done.After the two generals had a drink, they began to eat dumplings while talking about some interesting stories about Chang'an or the Western Regions.Han Dewang is talkative and funny.Only the two of them talked, but the chat was very lively.

When the wine was hot, Han Dewang smiled strangely.After clapping his hands, several dancers who were dressed the same as those who were not dressed immediately came in.Although Zhang Liang doesn't like dancers from the Western Regions, there is nothing he can do now.He praised Han Dewang in his heart for his ability to handle affairs, and drank the grape wine from the Western Regions, and his thoughts in that regard were particularly strong.

As soon as the melody of Kucha sounded, there was a roar that shook the sky!

(End of this chapter)