The weather in the Western Regions is always a bit unkind. It seems clear and comfortable in the morning, but it will turn into violent and hot at noon. Then in the afternoon, sand and dust will hit the sky and the sun, which will force the army to stay in place. For food, you must eat when the wind and sand are low, otherwise it is possible to grit your teeth with half a bite of sand and clench your teeth.
Because Fei Qian had to take copper cannons and iron cannons and related craftsmen to act together, the speed inevitably slowed down. This was also impossible. As some people said, everything was fine, everything was fine, everything was there, everything was over, everything was over.
When camping in the evening, the soldiers were still fine, while the craftsmen were screaming, each of them was in a mess. It was not that these craftsmen could not endure hardships, but that they did not change their daily behavior habits quickly and could not adapt to the changes in the Western Regions.
These habits even affect...
Lotus cloth.
For Fei Qian, this thing is naturally called a loincloth cloth, but the Han people more call it "天" or according to their form, it is called "天天天天天天天".
As the name suggests, the calf refers to its shape, and does the character "光"? When separated, it is a garment on one side and a military character on the other side. This shows that the earliest thing this thing was an item that appeared in the army. In addition to the crotch, this thing is also multi-purpose...
As for why we have to distribute it in the army and also have to give people a special experience in wearing calf noses, of course, it is because the situation in the Western Regions is completely different from that in the mainland of China, and many of the original living habits need to be adjusted, otherwise they will suffer a great loss.
What?
Why don't you have underwear?
Fei Qian doesn’t push his underwear and underwear, so he is a time traveler?
The underwear is really good, but it's a pity that it's not suitable for the present.
This inappropriate means that it is inappropriate to the current productivity and also means that it is inappropriate to the current actual life.
Everything needs to be analyzed based on actual situations and specific problems. If you simply look at one aspect of the matter, you will hurriedly draw conclusions, just like a blind man touching an elephant.
Fei Qian has not promoted underwear, but in fact, this thing is only available to high-end people. And among most civilians and lower-class people, underwear is not popular.
In the current real military life, a style of underwear in later generations may not be more useful than a crotch cloth. At least after the underwear is in the sand, it is impossible to easily remove the sand, and the crotch cloth is enough.
There are also crotch-opening pants here.
After only two days away from Yumen Pass, some non-combat attributable personnel appeared.
In order to avoid this situation from expanding, some veterans from the Western Regions were assigned to craftsmen by Fei Qian, and taught these craftsmen who had never been to the Western Regions and had never eaten the sand and other creatures of the Western Regions to some life skills, including the skills of wearing calf noses, and some experiences that could make them survive in the Western Regions.
"The Western Regions have strong winds and sandstorms. If you want to not have a rotten butt, you have to tie a few knots on your butts so that you can spread your butts into a way to spread your butts!" The veteran who had been in the Western Regions for a long time was swaying the elephant unscrupulously, showing his own demonstration with his butts bare eggs, "See? So, then... the two pieces of meat on the butts are separated! Otherwise, you will wait for the sand to run into the middle and grind your back grooves!"
The craftsmen sitting around said oh, and followed them with all concentration. For a moment, all kinds of butts around them were sticking out, checking each other.
In the current environment, there is no so-called embarrassment.
Sorry, is it more important than surviving life?
The sand in the Western Regions never says anything embarrassed. These naughty devils will come during meals and add the unique earthy smell of the Western Regions to all the dishes, soups, noodles and rice. They will also come at any time during the day and night, and then drill into all the gaps and holes in the human body, gaps in armor, gaps in hair, gaps in wrinkles, and of course, gaps between the legs...
Cavalry is relatively better because they sit on the saddle, but infantrymen must know how to wear a loincloth. Otherwise, after walking for a day, they will constantly grind each other during the process of walking, and the buttocks will soon be ground red and then fester. Then they will either lie down, spread their legs and expose the chrysanthemums to the sun and keep in the sun for a few days, or they will walk the road of life and death in pain all the way.
In China, people in later generations often think that those gorgeous clothes and exquisite patterns can be called Chinese clothing. But in fact, in the thousands of years of China's development history, those inconspicuous and even ugly clothes are truly close to the people...
Anyone who is out of reality is basically a hooligan.
In ancient times, clothing was very simple, with the basic material being animal skins and not even sleeves. If you talk to the ancients about protecting animals at this time, or telling these ancients how to be beautiful in clothes and clothing, then guess whether the ancients would be as stunning as they saw modern dances in some historical dramas, and they were filled with wow sounds?
If someone really travels to the Yangshao culture period or the Longshan culture period, and sees lonely men and women in the wilderness with their arms and thighs exposed, and painted with various patterns, don't be careless and say that they are hindering the weather, because these people really didn't know how to sew the sleeves and the main part of the clothes together at that time.
If you want to have sleeves, you must have needles and threads first.
The word "bone needle" sounds simple, but if there is no suitable tool provided by technology, those keyboard warriors who can run trains and often scold others for being idiots without using external forces to create one. Most of them are crying and crying that their parents can't get it even if they die.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! In ancient China, people often only had clothes, no clothes, and no pants. This is because of poverty, and on the other hand, it is because of temperature. In ancient times, most of the pants were open-crotch pants, and they were only above the knees. As for below the knees, they were called "playboys". The so-called playboys refer to guys who even had high-end fabrics on their shins on their calfs, which meant that Vacheron Constantin was hung on their wrists in later generations.
And the process of splitting the pants into several parts is the process of productivity development.
Deviating from the actual situation, he would just open his mouth and spray this idiot and that stupid time traveler would probably not live for three days.
Just like in the Western Regions, if you refuse to deal with it according to the actual situation, suffering losses and injuries will be trivial. If you are serious, you will die within a few days...
"Let me say shit! Don't laugh, not all camps have digged cesspools for you! Yesterday, a fool ran to the bush to shit, took off his pants, revealing the back groove!" The veteran sneered, and showed his contempt without any concealment. He reached out to gesture under his crotch, "Then he was bitten by a scorpion! It was swollen than his head! It could only be cut... If you want to find an opportunity to be cut, you should say it earlier. My knife is fast, and you will never suffer the second retribution!"
Everyone's expressions became serious. If someone else's accidents could not be related to him, then it would be a joke at most, but if he might suffer, then this matter is worth taking seriously.
In the Western Regions, which are often desert areas, everyone likes bushes, including snakes and scorpions.
"In addition to avoiding shrubs, don't choose places with many stones! Who knows what insects and snakes will be under the rocks! Don't choose near the water source! First, you don't like drinking water that soaks other people's shit, so others don't like it! Second, no one knows whether the next person to drink water will be a fox or a wolf!" The veteran taught these craftsmen the knowledge of survival as much as possible, "You should choose a wind position! You don't like eating a mouthful of sand, and those wild wolves and jackals don't like it either.
!In addition to bringing a wooden stick or shovel, you also have to bring a knife when you are alone! Wearing a wooden stick is to alert the snake, and also to dig a hole... Remember to insert the stick on it after you finish shit! You don't like to step on others' shit, so remember to make a sign after you finish shit! As for whether you are carrying a knife, you should be careful of insects, snakes, or sand stole and hide under the sand. When you are stolen, you can't just use the shit to bask...'
The veteran spoke in detail, and the craftsmen listened carefully.
Eating, drinking, defecating, urinating, sleeping, it sounds simple and even a bit vulgar, but these are all the abilities to survive.
Because in the Western Regions, there are not only insects and wild animals, but also horse thieves and sand thieves like insects and wild animals.
When these horse thieves and sand thieves are seen during the day, they are in the state of herders, but at night, they will transform into horse thieves or sand thieves. With the reopening of the Silk Road in the Western Regions, more and more horse thieves and sand thieves are. Just take action to obtain wealth that they would never be able to obtain in their lifetime. Who can resist such temptation?
The Western Regions did not form a unified national will, so there would naturally be no unified social order. In this land of the Western Regions, there was no moral standards and traditional concepts of the mainland of China. To measure the behavior of these herdsmen in the Western Regions by the common thinking patterns of the Han Dynasty, it was undoubtedly like asking the people of the ancient Yangshao culture why they did not wear sleeved clothes and crotched pants.
The deteriorating effect of Lu Bu's massacre of Kucha and the burning of Buddha statues has now slowly spread.
The most obvious manifestation is that the people of the Western Regions have already used their greatest means.
Biochemical attack.
Simply put, it is the originally normal water source in front of me. Now I don’t know who has thrown away the rotten cattle and sheep corpses.
If an ordinary person is at a loss, he will be at a loss because even if the rotten corpse is taken out, he will not be able to clean up the contaminated water. He can only give up this water source. Once the water source is abandoned, it means that the march arrangement will be disrupted and even affect the acquisition of the next water source.
Fortunately, Fei Qian brought a lot of water from Yumen Pass on one hand, and on the other hand, he knew better than ordinary generals to deal with it...
The "inheritors" of knowledge in the Western Regions are actually these monks from the Western Regions.
In the earlier years, these people may have identities as witches, shamans, and the part of the people in the tribe who control the "mysterious power", and this "mysterious power" is actually the power of knowledge.
In the Western Regions, there was no unified writing or language formed, and there was a fixed system of inheritance, so there was only religion. The old led the young, and a class that could completely separate from the production, became the "teachers" of the Western Regions, controlling and spreading knowledge.
Among these knowledge, there is knowledge about war and biological weapons.
This should be the most top knowledge and technology in the Western Regions at present, and may be regarded as the "dragon-slaying technique" in the hands of monks in the Western Regions...
But this time, they faced Fei Qian.
"In the 13th year of King Ling of Zhou, more than ten coalition forces of Jin and Qi and other coalition forces attacked Qin and stationed in Jing." Fei sat in a tent on the side of the water source, looking at the dark and dark sand dunes, from the warm and bright colors of the day to the dusks that are now dull and cold. He slowly said, "The Qin State poisoned the upper reaches of the Jing River, causing many soldiers and horses of the vassal states to die due to drinking water poisoning, and his morale collapsed. In this battle, the coalition forces of the vassal states were futile and called it a "delay battle."
Xu Chu, who was following Fei Qian, suddenly realized, "So we used this method of poisoning first?"
Fei Qian laughed and pointed to the water source in front of him. "In a radius of nearly a hundred miles, only this place can be used by the army... But it was just that it was poisoned... When Ziyi passed by here before, he did not report this matter... Zhongkang What do you think should have happened?"
Nature is very magical. Perhaps there are deserts around it, but just in the sand dunes, there is an oasis.
It's like the Crescent Spring in Dunhuang.
Now this oasis is poisonous, and Fei Qian is currently directing people to do the work of "detoxification".
Looking at the seemingly quiet Gobi desert around, Xu Chu said, "Lord, this is a thief, most of it is hidden in these sand dunes! I ask for an order to give a certain team of people, and I will definitely kill all these rats!"
Of course, Xu Chu would not think that Taishi Ci was negligent when he was marching. This was almost impossible, so it must be that during the gap after Taishi Ci set out, there were Western Regions coalition forces or other people from the Western Regions who came here to poison.
Fei Qian smiled, "This is impossible to kill completely..."
Xu Chu stared at him. Although he didn't say anything, his expression was dissatisfied.
"Everyone hates the troubles of rats and ants, and they will kill them when you see them. But when have you seen them? All rats and ants can be eliminated in a certain place?" Fei Qian said with a smile, "You have a horse, and people in the Western Regions also have horses. With the size of the Western Regions, where can you hide? If you are determined to avoid it and do not fight, what can you do? Conquering the Western Regions, you should hold a sharp weapon, but this sharp weapon is not just a sword or a gun."
Xu Chu frowned and then began to ponder.
Regarding the Western Regions issue, some brainless guys will only shout to kill. It seems that killing can solve all problems, but in fact it is like trying to solve the person who raises the problem without solving the problem itself.
Nowadays, the problem in the Western Regions is like a nest of cockroaches or termites found in the home. The guy who took it for granted naturally felt that he would step on it with his feet, or even pat with his hands, killing the corpses of these cockroaches and termites one by one, and then he would scream and feel good...
It seems like I have killed a lot, but what about it?
Two days later, new ones emerged.
So, find its nest and pour a pot of boiling water on it?
Watering boiling water is useful, but not very useful, because the maximum temperature of water is only 100, and the temperature will soon be lost after it is poured. When it reaches the end, it is often just a bath for these guys. From this temperature perspective, watering tin may be a more effective way, as long as it can withstand the consequences of the furniture and houses being soaked or burned.
Then that's how it ends?
No, maybe I can only be purified for ten months, and then unknowingly, there will be a new ant nest in the house...
Therefore, if you want to eliminate cockroaches and termites in a certain area, you must not only eliminate them at a certain point, but also remove them, draw out isolation belts, and encircle them in a planned and step-by-step manner. The most important thing is to have weapons that exceed the inability to fight cockroaches and termites, and not to shoot or step on them one by one.
The crushing force in technology is the fundamental thing.
Just like the Battle of Cajamaca during the Spanish colonization of South America during the Great Discovery period in history, 169 people fought against about 80,000 Inca indigenous people. The final victory of Spain was the people they killed in this battle? No, the Incas they killed directly were actually a very small number. Most of the Incas who died in the battle died while trampling on each other.
The reason why more than 60 cavalry and more than 100 infantry had the courage to confront tens of thousands of Incas was because the Spaniards found that they had armor and war horses, while the Incas had only stone knives and barefoot boards.
There is almost no need to compare with those with armor and those without armor in the age of cold weapons.
What's more, the Inca civil war that broke out before this battle and the terrible disease that left the Incas helpless!
So can we say that these 169 Spaniards defeated the Inca Empire?
Maybe it's also worth it, but it can only be said to be the last straw.
This is in line with the demise of Indians in North America.
What exterminated the Indians was not just force, but technological crushing. The smoothbore gun could not easily kill an Indian tribe, but smallpox could. Many people thought that scalp order was the fundamental reason for the Indians' final massacre. In fact, it was like a blind man who just touched the tail of an elephant, and he stubbornly thought that the shape of an elephant was as simple as a rope.
What made the Indians unable to compete with the whites and could not fight back were not just muskets, armor and war horses. After all, in the later stage, the Indians also obtained some war horses and muskets provided by shit sticks, but it really disappointed the Indians and lay down and let them slaughtered was their unsolvable and irresistible spread of the virus.
The scalp order is just an appearance. The deeper level is to allow whites to contact Indians more and give more opportunities to spread the viruses carried by whites to Indians. As the upper class masters, they don’t care whether they give 50 or 100 or whether they are dead or alive. Because the whites can come back alive means killing one more Indian. If they die, it will not be a loss, because it means sending a source of infection to the Indians...
No matter how you calculate it, it is a win-win situation. Master Ansa won twice.
Swords and guns, just one place and one city, and viruses kill the whole situation and the entire area!
Unfortunately, Fei Qian did not have such a means to destroy the Western Regions at the moment, but this did not prevent him from cracking down on the final means used by these inheritors of the Western Regions.
Fei Qian looked up at the sky, and the moonlight was clear.
"Within three days, there will be a thief attack." Fei Qian said slowly, "Zhongkang can show his skills."
Chapter completed!