In early spring, the northern part of the desert is still desolate, and does not show the appearance of recovery. As an area close to the Arctic frozen soil and ice ocean, it is the first to feel the threat of coldness.
In the early warmer climate, there used to be a large-scale lawn here, but now the gray-black land is exposed. The low temperature caused the death of a large number of unadapted vegetation, especially the ancient ferns, which have survived for ten years.
Centuries old antiques, like those who think that their ancestors' methods can be practiced for thousands of years, are unwilling to follow the times and will naturally be abandoned by the new era.
Of course, after the Little Ice Age has passed, the temperature will naturally recover slowly, and the sun will still rise in the east. It will still burn for at least five billion years, but these dead ones are already dead and can never be resurrected.
"Give me the order and move faster!"
The Poshihetou man was riding on horseback, looking at the tribesmen crossing the river on the bank, and couldn't help but frown.
"Chief, the ice upstream has melted, and the current is a bit fast..." Qianqi Commander on the side quickly explained, "We have brought a lot of cattle and sheep this time..."
"Then you have to move faster. Look at the soil here, nothing is growing at all... The next meadow is still twenty or thirty miles away. We must get there as soon as possible..." the leader of Po Shihe said,
"General Zhang is waiting in front. If you are late, you will be punished!"
After hearing this, Qianqi Commander's face became a little ugly, "What I mean is...hey, I understand, I will go and urge you..."
Thousands of horsemen and horses rushed towards the river.
"Send someone to take a look behind you! Don't let those cunning Xianbei bastards escape!" Po Shihe shouted at the top of his lungs.
Qianqi Commander waved his hand to indicate that he understood.
Chief Po Shihe felt that he was a big shepherd. The two thousand cavalry he commanded, as Zhang He's army, not only had to take care of the four-legged ones, but also herd the two-legged ones...
From a certain point of view, these four-legged and two-legged ones are all trophies of the Han people, and Poshihe only manages them on their behalf.
You have to look after the cattle and sheep, and you also have to look after the captives.
Fortunately, these captives were also herdsmen and knew how to take care of cattle and sheep. Moreover, when the Han people promised that they could keep part of the cattle and sheep based on the grazing conditions of these captives as a measure of how they could keep some cattle and sheep in the future, these captives would also
Taking care of the cattle and sheep very consciously saved Po Shihe and others a lot of energy.
In the desert, the strong own everything.
The leader of Po Shihe looked at it, and after a moment, he sighed slightly.
The guard on the side glanced at the leader and said, "Chief, how can this Han man be so powerful? He is good at armor and swords, so forget it. The Han people are good at these things... But now the riding skills are even better than us...
It’s like they don’t need to rest, they can walk in front of us every time, and when we arrive, they have already rested, leaving only grass and debris on the ground..."
Leader Po Shihe was silent for a moment, "I can't figure it out either..."
In fact, although Zhang He led the Han cavalry to assist Po Shihe in quelling the rebellion of the Jiankun Kingdom, not all the people in Po Shihe could immediately and smoothly accept the powerful concepts of the Han people and their willingness to obey the Han people.
Leader and on the road to return. After all, no matter what clan you are in, there are always some people who think they are smart and others are fools, right?
There are also some people who do not have any objections against the Han people or Zhang He. They simply do not want to change places and feel that the place they are used to is good. As for the white disaster and the black disaster, they are still far away.
Hundreds of miles away! Even if something really happens, it's not too late to consider moving away. Why do we have to evacuate at the beginning of spring?
After living in the desert for decades or hundreds of years, many people's thinking has been assimilated by the desert, making them slow and dull. Therefore, it is difficult for these people to understand why the Han cavalry can run faster and earlier than them.
After arriving at the destination, they can still get time to repair, but they have to keep speeding up, speeding up, and then they can't get up...
These people are still living in the last century.
The thing I think about every day is cattle and sheep, and the happiest thing is that there are more cattle and sheep, and the population is more, and then there is meat to eat and wine to drink, and then the days pass day by day, without thinking about the past or looking forward to the future.
Being alive like this seems to be dead.
The leader of Poshihe looked at the river, an indescribable emotion came over him, and he couldn't help but sigh.
He didn't even know why he sighed.
I can't understand.
How many years ago has it been? Are the Han people already so powerful?
It can be said that the Poshihe clan won the Jiankun Civil War, but it did not change the plight faced by the Jiankun Kingdom. The cold wave from the north still forced them to migrate south to find better pastures. During the migration
During the process, most of the men who followed Zhang He went south first, while the other small group, that is, the part who followed Zhang He, served as logistical supplies for Zhang He and others, and began to move laterally to the southeast...
……wow~⊙o⊙……
The Korean Wave is a, uh, cold wave. They are all so bad. They try their best to destroy the economic order of the desert and destroy it as much as possible. They try to make all the places they come into contact with turn pale.
appearance.
early morning.
Among the Ding Ling tribe, there was no need for nobles to urge them to be whipped or called out in particular. The Ding Ling tribe members who had been busy for half the night the day before took the initiative to get up and crawl out of their low tents or simple thatched sheds.
It’s not that they have high consciousness, but it’s just that it’s too cold in the desert right now!
I arrived here temporarily yesterday and the camp has not been completely set up. Today I have to continue working. Many ordinary herdsmen just drink some boiled water and eat some black pancakes that are as hard as rocks.
In the land of China, the further south you go, the more food you eat is soup, with fresh ingredients, cooked and eaten immediately. This is not because these Han people living closer to the south pursue a quality of life, but because if they don't do this, the food will easily rot and spoil.
, unless you are those who have a preference for carrion...
Stinky tofu with stinky bamboo shoots and a piece of stinky mandarin fish.
In areas closer to the northern desert, many foods are increasingly dry and hard, like stones, and can be used for fighting.
Herdsmen like those in Dingling basically eat dried wild vegetables and black pancakes pressed from grain powder. The slightly richer ones also eat some dairy products.
And those ordinary Dingling families who cook relatively fresh meat have no happy expressions at all, but seem to be sadder than their dead parents, because these relatively fresh meats only mean one thing,
For ordinary shepherd families who are not nobles, if their cattle and sheep have just died, they can only eat these dead cattle and sheep as soon as possible.
Dinling people, as well as herdsmen in the desert, eating beef and mutton at this time is almost the same as Han farmers cooking seeds in a pot in the spring...
Sad and desperate.
The food for the nobles in Ding Ling will be relatively better, but it is also very limited. The nobles have dairy products and dried meat. The nobles will not touch the cattle and sheep that died of diseases on the way. The nobles will eat them.
It is freshly killed, healthy beef and mutton, or jerky made from these healthy beef and mutton.
The world was in chaos, the economic order everywhere collapsed along with the collapse of the political order, and the war damaged production in all aspects, making life difficult everywhere.
However, even if it was not easy, the Han people still had developed handicrafts and planting industries, which could form an internal circulation economic system in a city or large estate.
In the desert, these Hu people who lost their trading system and even encountered a cold wave fell faster and more completely than the Han people...
Falling to the red line of abject poverty.
Ding Ling's leader was also a little confused.
Previously, spring had begun, which meant that new hope had arrived. Cows and sheep were eating the green grass that was growing wildly all over the mountains and fields. The grass seemed to have just been eaten, and then the next bite was eagerly stuffed into the mouths of the cows and sheep.
, then the fat lost by cattle and sheep in winter will become plump and plump to the naked eye.
The tribe will also be full of laughter, some will play the huqin, and then some will spin and dance to celebrate the passing of winter and the coming of spring...
Livestock breed in summer, give birth to new pups in autumn, stock up on hay, and another winter begins.
Gu then looked at the growing number of cattle and sheep in his house, and the piles of hay. He wrapped his leather robe and looked at the flying snow contentedly, drank some kumiss, and gnawed on a piece of bacon jerky.
But how, how did it end up in this situation?
Haven't we been living a good life for decades and hundreds of years?
How do you say it changes when it changes?
I can't understand.
Under the early morning sun, the Ding Ling people endured fatigue, hunger, cold, and inner panic, and began to get busy in the surrounding area.
The desert is very large. Sometimes it seems that it can accommodate endless people, cattle, sheep, and horses, but sometimes it is very small, especially when the pastures in the north were basically destroyed by snowstorms and had to move south.
It's easy to bump into each other in the desert. Sometimes we bump into neighbors and friends. Sometimes...
A shrill shout sounded from a distance, causing Ding Lingtou's hands to shake involuntarily, and half a bowl of water spilled on the ground. However, he didn't care at all. He just stood up straight and tried his best to look into the distance.
A three-color flag appeared in the distance.
Ding Ling people are no strangers to the battle flag of the Hussars General, but no one expected to see this tricolor flag here. Just like every driver will understand the need to drive safely when they get on the road, but
When the accident happened, no one could have imagined it.
This three-color flag was just the beginning. As the siren became more and more shrill, a large number of Han cavalry appeared one after another, as if they were emerging from the grassy slopes of the horizon!
The Ding Ling tribe did not put up any defense at all, nor did they send scouts around for detection, because at this time, no, not only now, but also a few years ago, more than ten years ago, and decades ago, there were no Han people in this time period.
They have invaded the depths of the desert and have never reached this area!
For Ding Ling people, this place is like a bedroom at home. Who would place sentries in the bedroom and check that the doors, windows and walls are safe and complete?
The Han cavalry are all tall, wearing finely polished shiny iron armor, red cloaks, and iron helmets. Many of the cavalry also have white feathers as decoration...
This almost means that many of these cavalry are elite!
In the army, although many items are standard, there are also some very personal, or personalized things. For example, the feathers on the helmet. Even if the recruit Danzi takes a look at it, he cannot put feathers on his helmet at will.
Feathers, unless the feathers were assigned from the beginning.
It's like some medals or armbands in later generations. Veterans wear them fine, but recruits wear the badges to show off as soon as they join the company...
Some Ding Ling people in front of the Han cavalry had no time to think about it. Their first reaction was to turn around and run away...
This is also normal.
In this era, especially now, from the perspective of the Ding Ling people, the equipment of ten or twenty of them together may not be as valuable as the equipment of the Hussars General and one cavalryman. The difference is
A little bit, what can be obtained in one jump will inspire the courage to challenge, but if the gap is too big, it will often inspire fear.
Watching the Ding Ling people flee, the Han cavalry did not launch a pursuit, but calmly gathered in formation.
The elite cavalry formation of the Han people looks like blooming steel flowers from a distance. It is so gorgeous under the sunlight in the early morning that it makes people look ugly. This is not an exaggeration at all, because there are many
Ding Lingren was so frightened that his open mouth even shed tears of happiness or unhappiness.
These Han cavalry were swaggering into neat military formations on the hillside within sight of Ding Ling. Two of them were on the flanks, arranged in a long flying geese posture for cover, and then the rest were divided into three groups in the middle.
Anyone with a little bit of military experience knows that this is a classic Han cavalry formation...
Both offensive and defensive, it seems to contain endless power.
Frightening power.
Many Ding Ling people looked back at their leader, but leader Ding Ling felt chills all over. It would be fine if they encountered Han cavalry in battle. They could not fight and run away, but now...
The whole family is here, and the cattle, sheep, and livestock are scattered in all directions. If you fight, you will almost certainly not be able to beat them, but if you run, how can you run, where can you run, and how can you survive if you run?
At this time, as the leader, he knew that the more he hesitated, the more everyone's lives were wasted, but he still couldn't think of a way...
It's like facing the cold wave from the north, feeling fearful and helpless, and at the same time feeling insignificant and incompetent.
Just when leader Ding Ling was hesitant and at a loss to advance or retreat, Zhang He looked at the Ding Ling tribe from a distance.
"Originally I thought we still had to walk a long way..." Zhang He smiled, "I didn't expect these Ding Ling people to be sent directly to the horse..."
"Perhaps the White Disaster in the north was too severe, causing many Dingling people to move south?" Po Shihe Yuanchang sat a little behind Zhang He and looked ahead and said, "This tribe is not big, so it should not be directly under its control."
From the Royal Court of Ding Ling..."
This time, it was Po Shihe Yuanchang who accompanied Zhang He. On the one hand, he served as a guide to lead the way, and on the other hand, he also added some merits to his return to the Han Dynasty.
"Send the order!" Zhang He pointed his spear, "Tell them to surrender! Or die!"
Compassion and sympathy are good qualities when used on one's own people, but it is quite interesting to abuse this kind of virtue and even use it on aliens, including but not limited to humans.
Just like this piece of grassland, this piece of pasture, occupied by the Dinling people, would not be shared with other nomadic peoples, let alone the Han people. Even without the support and creation of such a powerful cavalry general Fei Qian
, cavalry units with sufficient ability to travel far, these Dingling people, no, even the previous Huns and Xianbei people, will treat the Han people like cattle and sheep.
Many Han cavalrymen understand some Xiongnu and Xianbei languages, but the cultural system in the desert is too chaotic and has not formed a unified model at all. When a new generation of kings rises from the bones of the previous generation, they often think of something other than inheritance.
, but to tamper with the things of the previous generation and make them your own, such as filling in some sounds, removing some strokes, etc., and then you can claim to be your own original creation, indicating that this is the wisdom given by God.
Therefore, in the desert, Poshihe Yuanchang, who has had some trade exchanges with other tribes for a long time, has acted as a communication bridge. Just like now, the Poshihe tribe followed the Han cavalry and shouted loudly to the Dingling tribe. warn.
Without much surprise, after a while, the leader of the Ding Ling tribe lay down in front of Zhang He's horse like a dog, wagging his tail...
……☆????｀☆……
The Poshihe logistics troops who were rushing behind the scenes finally arrived at the scheduled location, but unfortunately they heard the news that Zhang He's large army had already set off, which immediately made the leader of the Poshihe branch open his mouth. , "Han people, are all Han people made of iron? They don't need rest?"
Immediately, the leader of Poshihe received a new order from Poshihe Yuanchang, requiring the logistics troops to take over the control of the Dingling tribe and continue to move eastward...
"Still leaving!"
This Dingling tribe is obviously not the first one, nor will it be the last one. Under the command of two thousand cavalry commanders from Poshihe Logistics, these Dingling tribes that were incorporated along the way, or the remnants of Xianbei , all seem to be very well-behaved, but the leader of Poshihe knows that this is like pushing a snowball down from the top of the mountain. The snowball will get bigger and bigger. Although the momentum will become stronger and stronger, it will become increasingly difficult to control. !
What if that...
The logistics leader of Po Shihe couldn't figure it out, and even thinking about it for a moment felt frightened.
"What do the Han people want to do?!"
"Is it possible that the Han people want to sweep across the entire northern desert like the Xiongnu or Xianbei did?!"
