Chapter 2924 The sound of wind and rain at night, how many heads have fallen
The weather in the Western Regions is always a little unkind. It seems to be sunny and comfortable in the morning, but it will turn into violent heat at noon, and then in the afternoon, sand and dust will hit, blocking the sky and the sun, forcing the army to stay in place.
When it comes to eating, you should eat as soon as possible when the wind and sand are light, otherwise you may end up with half a mouthful of rice and half a mouthful of sand, and you may break your teeth.
Because Fei Qian had to take the copper cannon, iron cannon, and related craftsmen with him, the speed was inevitably slowed down. There was nothing that could be done about it. It couldn't be like what some people said.
Everything is ready, everything is there, everything has arrived, everything is finished.
When we camped at night, the soldiers were more or less fine, but the craftsmen were screaming and looking miserable. It's not that these craftsmen couldn't endure hardship, but that they didn't make rapid changes in their daily behavior and habits and couldn't adapt to the conditions in the Western Regions.
The change.
These habits are even related to...
Loincloth.
For Fei Qian, he naturally called this thing a crotch cloth, but the Han people more often called it a "crotch cloth" or, based on its shape, called it a "calf nose cloth."
As the name suggests, the "little nose" refers to its shape, and the word "裈", when taken apart, has a piece of clothing on one side and the word "military" on the other. This shows that in fact, this thing was originally an item that appeared in the military. In addition to the crotch, this thing
In addition, it also has multiple uses...
As for why they should be distributed in the military and have someone specially teach them the experience and methods of wearing calf-bis, it is of course because the situation here in the Western Regions is completely different from that in mainland China, and many of the original living habits need to be modified. Otherwise, otherwise
You will suffer a big loss.
What?
Why no underwear?
Fei Qian doesn't push underwear, is he worthy of being a time traveler?
The underwear is indeed good, but unfortunately it is not suitable for today.
This inappropriateness means that it is not suitable for the current productivity, and it also means that it is not suitable for the current actual life.
Everything must be analyzed based on the actual situation and specific issues. If you simply look at one aspect of the matter and jump to conclusions hastily, it will be as meaningless as a blind man touching an elephant.
It's not that Fei Qian has never promoted underwear, but in fact, only high-end people can use it, and among most common people, underwear is not popular.
In the current reality of military life, a later style of underwear may not be as useful as a crotch cloth. At least there is no way to easily remove the sand after the underwear gets into it, but a crotch cloth can.
To match this, there are also crotchless pants.
Only two days away from Yumen Pass, there were some non-combat casualties.
In order to prevent this situation from expanding, some veterans of the Western Regions were assigned by Fei Qian to the craftsmen to teach these craftsmen who had never been to the Western Regions or suffered from the sand and other creatures of the Western Regions some life skills, including wearing calfs.
The skills of nose robes, and some experiences that can help them survive here in the Western Regions.
"It's windy and sandy in the Western Regions. If you want to keep your butts from getting rotten, you have to tie this cloth in a few knots on your buttocks so that you can stretch out your buttholes!" Veterans who have been in the Western Regions for a long time are wandering around unscrupulously.
He looked at the elephant and demonstrated in person with his bare buttocks and balls, "Did you see it? Like this, and then like this...the two pieces of meat on the buttocks are separated! Otherwise, you will wait for the sand to run into the middle and wear out your back groove!"
The craftsmen sitting around made noises, and they all followed the instructions attentively. For a while, they were surrounded by all kinds of black, gray, or yellow buttocks, pouting at each other, and checking each other.
In the current environment, there is no such thing as being embarrassed.
Sorry, is anything more important than surviving?
The sand in the Western Regions is never said to be embarrassing. These naughty devils will come during mealtime and add the unique earthy smell of the Western Regions to all the dishes, soups, noodles and rice. They will also be present during the day and night.
Come at any time, and then get into all the gaps and holes in the human body, the gaps in the armor, the gaps in the hair, the gaps in the wrinkles, and of course the gaps between the legs...
The cavalry is relatively better because they sit on the saddle, but as for the infantry, they must know how to put on the crotch cloth, otherwise they will constantly rub against each other during the day's walking.
The groove on the buttocks will soon become red and fester, and then you will either have to lie down, spread your legs to expose the anus and expose it to the sun for a few days, or you will have to walk the road of life and death with blood dripping all the way in excruciating pain.
In China, people of later generations often think that only those gorgeous clothes and exquisite patterns can be called Chinese clothes. But in fact, in the history of China's development for thousands of years, those inconspicuous and even ugly clothes are the ones that are called Chinese clothes.
Really close to the people...
Anyone who is divorced from reality is basically playing hooligans.
In ancient times, clothing was very simple. The basic material was animal skins, and there were no sleeves. If you were to talk to ancient people about protecting animals at this time, or if you wanted to tell these ancient people how their clothes should be beautiful, then guess what ancient times
Will people be as amazed and wowed as when they see modern dance in some historical dramas?
If someone really travels back to the Yangshao Culture Period or the Longshan Culture Period and sees lonely men and women in the wilderness with their bare arms and thighs painted with various patterns, don't be mean-spirited and say that they are detrimental to the moral style, because at that time
These people really don't know how to sew the sleeves to the main body of the garment.
If you want to have sleeves, you must first have needlework.
The word "bone needle" sounds simple to say, but without the tools provided by suitable technology, those keyboard warriors who are always talking about making false claims and calling others idiots will have to build one with their own hands without any external help.
When I come out, most of the time I cry for my father and mother and I can’t even get out of it.
People in ancient China often only had clothes, no clothes, and no trousers. This was partly because of poverty, and partly because of the temperature. And most of the ancient trousers were open-crotch trousers, and they only reached above the knees.
, as for those below the knees, they are called "dandy". The so-called dandy refers to a guy who even wears high-grade fabrics on his calves, which is equivalent to the meaning of hanging a Vacheron Constantin on his wrist in later generations.
And such a fragmented process, where even pants are divided into several parts, is the process of productivity development.
A time traveler who is divorced from the original actual situation and can just open his mouth and criticize this idiot and fool at every turn will probably not survive more than three days.
Just like in the Western Regions now, if you don't respond according to the actual situation, it will be a trivial matter to suffer a loss or injury. In serious cases, you will die within a few days...
"Now I'm going to shit! Don't laugh, not all campsites have dug cesspits for you! Yesterday, there was a fool who went to the bushes to shit by himself, and even took off his pants, exposing his crotch!" The veteran sneered, not saying anything.
He concealed a look of disdain, stretched out his hand and gestured to his crotch, "Then I was bitten by a scorpion! The swelling was bigger than my head! The only way is to cut it... If you want to find a chance to be cut,
I told you earlier, my sword is sharp and you will never suffer the consequences twice!"
Everyone's expressions became serious. If someone else's accident could not be related to themselves, then it would be a joke at most. But if they said that they might suffer as well, then this matter should be taken seriously.
In areas like the Western Regions, which are often deserted, everyone likes bushes, including snakes and scorpions.
"In addition to avoiding shrubs, don't choose a place with a lot of rocks! Who knows what insects and snakes will be underneath the rocks? Don't choose a place near a water source! The first is that you don't like to drink water soaked in other people's feces, then
Others don't like it either! Secondly, no one knows whether the person who comes to drink water next will be a fox or a wolf!" The veteran tried his best to pass on the knowledge of survival to these craftsmen, "You must choose the windward position! You don't like it.
Those wild wolves and jackals don’t like eating a mouthful of sand! In addition to bringing a wooden stick or shovel, you also need to bring a knife when you are alone to defecate! Bringing a wooden stick is to scare away the grass and scare snakes, and also for digging.
What a pitfall... Remember to stick the stick in it after you poop! If you don't like stepping on other people's poop, just remember to mark it after you poop! As for carrying a knife, you have to be careful.
What kind of insects, snakes, or sand thieves hide under the sand and suddenly pounce out when you poop? You can't take your poop to the lake..."
The veteran spoke carefully, and the craftsman also listened carefully.
Eating, drinking, sleeping, sleeping may sound simple and even a bit vulgar, but these are the skills to survive.
Because in the Western Region, there are not only bugs and wild beasts, but also horse thieves and sand thieves just like bugs and wild beasts.
When you see these horse thieves and sand thieves during the day, they are in the state of herdsmen, but at night, they will transform into horse thieves or sand thieves. With the reopening of the Silk Road in the Western Regions, these horse thieves and sand thieves have become more and more popular.
There are more and more coming. Just by moving your hands, you can obtain wealth that you could not obtain in your life before. Who can resist such temptation?
The Western Regions have not formed a unified national will, and naturally there is no unified social order. In this land of the Western Regions, there are no moral standards and traditional concepts of the Chinese mainland. We want to measure the Western Regions with the usual thinking mode of the Han Dynasty.
The behavior of these herdsmen is undoubtedly like asking the people of the ancient Yangshao culture why they don’t wear clothes with sleeves and trousers with crotches.
The worsening effects of Lu Bu's massacre of Kucha and the burning of Buddha statues have now slowly spread.
The most obvious manifestation is that the people from the Western Regions have used their greatest means.
Biochemical attack.
To put it simply, it was this originally normal water source in front of me, but now I don’t know who dumped the rotting carcasses of cattle and sheep.
If you are an ordinary person, you will be at a loss if you can't say it, because even if you take out the rotting corpse, you can't clean up the contaminated water. You can only give up the water source. Once you give up the water source, it means that you will be disrupted.
The arrangement of the march may even affect the acquisition of the next water source.
Fortunately, Fei Qian brought a lot of water from Yumen Pass on the one hand, and on the other hand he knew some coping methods better than ordinary generals...
The "inheriters" of knowledge in the Western Regions are actually these monks in the Western Regions.
In earlier years, these people might have been witches, shamans, or those in the tribe who controlled the "mysterious power", and this "mysterious power" was actually the power of knowledge.
In the Western Regions, there is no unified writing, no unified language, and no fixed inheritance system. There is only religion. The older ones take the younger ones, a class that can be completely separated from production, and become the "teachers" of the Western Regions.
Control and spread knowledge.
Among this knowledge, there is knowledge about war and biological and chemical weapons.
This should be the most advanced knowledge and technology in the Western Regions at the moment. It may be regarded as the "Dragon Slaying Technique" in the hands of monks in the Western Regions...
However, this time, they faced Fei Qian.
"In the thirteenth year of King Ling of Zhou, Jin, Qi and other ten countries allied forces attacked Qin and settled in Jing." Fei Qian was sitting in a tent on the side of the water source, looking at the color of the dunes as the night deepened, and the warmth from the day.
The bright and warm colors turned into the dark and cold colors now, and he said slowly, "The Qin State poisoned the upper reaches of the Jing River, causing many soldiers and horses of the princes to die from drinking water poisoning, and their morale collapsed. In this battle, the allied forces of the princes were in vain.
And it was in vain, so it was called "the battle of procrastination."
Xu Chu, who was following Fei Qian, suddenly realized, "So it turns out that we used this poisoning method first?"
Fei Qian laughed and pointed at the water source in front of him, "Within a radius of nearly a hundred miles, this is the only place that can be used by the army... But it happened to be this place that was poisoned... and Ziyi passed by it before.
This matter was not reported when we were here...Zhongkang, what do you think happened?"
Nature is very magical. Maybe there are deserts all around, but there is an oasis right in the sand dunes.
Just like the Crescent Moon Spring in Dunhuang.
Now this oasis is poisonous, and Fei Qian is currently directing people to do the work of "detoxification".
Looking at what seemed to be the extremely quiet Gobi Desert around him, Xu Chu said, "My lord, there are thieves on the side, most likely hiding in these sand dunes! Please give orders to a certain team of people, they will definitely kill all these rats."
clean!"
Of course Xu Chu would not think that Taishi Ci was negligent during the march. This is almost impossible, so it must be that during the gap after Taishi Ci set off, there must be the Western Region Allied Forces or someone else from the Western Regions.
Went here to do the poisoning.
Fei Qian smiled, "You can't kill them cleanly..."
Xu Chu's eyes widened. Although he didn't say anything, his expression was full of dissatisfaction.
"Everyone hates the plague of rats and ants, and they will kill them when they see them. But when have you ever seen a place where all rats and ants can be eradicated?" Fei Qian said with a smile, "You have a horse, the one in the Western Regions."
People also have horses. With the size of the Western Region, where can't you hide? If you just avoid it and don't fight, what can you do? To conquer the Western Region, you must use sharp weapons, but these sharp weapons are not just swords and guns."
Xu Chu frowned and then began to think deeply.
Regarding the issue of the Western Regions, some brainless guys just shout to kill, as if killing can solve all problems, but in fact it is like trying to solve the person who raised the problem instead of solving the problem itself.
Nowadays, the problem in the Western Region is like finding a nest of cockroaches or termites in your home. Those who take it for granted will naturally think of stepping on it with their feet, or even patting it with their hands, and kill the corpses of these cockroaches and termites one by one with their own hands.
The slurry spreads out, and then you scream out loud...
It looks like they killed a lot, but in reality?
Two days later, another one appeared.
So what if you find its nest and pour a pot of boiling water over it?
Pouring boiling water is useful, but it is not very useful, because the maximum temperature of water is only 100, and it will lose its temperature soon after it is poured. When it reaches the end, it is often just a bath for these guys. From this temperature
From a practical point of view, pouring tin water may be a more effective method, as long as it can withstand the consequences of the furniture and houses being soaked or burned.
Then it will be over?
No, maybe it can only be cleaned for ten months, and then a new ant nest will appear in the house before you know it...
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 clear the surrounding area, draw an isolation zone, and conduct encirclement and suppression in a planned and step-by-step manner. The most important thing is
, it is necessary to have weapons that are beyond the ability of cockroaches and termites to fight, instead of just shooting or stepping on them one by one.
Technological crushing and unmatchable power are fundamental.
Just like the Battle of Cajamarca when Spain colonized South America during the Great Exploration Period in history, 169 people fought against about 80,000 Inca natives. The factor that led to Spain's final victory was that they personally killed them in this battle.
Humans? No, the Incas they killed directly were actually very few. Most of the Incas who died during the battle died while trampling on each other.
What gave more than sixty cavalry and more than a hundred infantry the courage to confront tens of thousands of Incas was because the Spaniards discovered that they had armor and horses, while the Incas only had stone knives and bare feet.
In the era of cold weapons, there is almost no need to compare those with armor and those without armor.
What's more, before this battle, the Inca Civil War had already broken out, and there were terrible diseases that left the Incas helpless!
So can we say that these 169 Spaniards defeated the Inca Empire?
Maybe it counts, but it can only be said to be the last straw.
This is in line with the destruction of the Indians in North America.
What exterminated the Indians was not pure force, but technological crushing. Muskets could not easily exterminate an Indian tribe, but smallpox could. Many people think that the scalp order was the root cause of the eventual massacre of the Indians.
, in fact, it is as simple as the blind man who just touched the tail of the elephant and stubbornly believed that the shape of the elephant is just a rope.
What made the Indians unable to compete with the white people and fight back was not just the muskets, armor and war horses. After all, in the later period, the Indians also obtained some war horses and muskets provided by the bullies, but it really made the Indians completely
What makes them disappointed and lying down to be slaughtered is the spread of the virus that they have no solution and cannot resist.
The scalp order is just a superficial appearance. The deeper purpose is to allow white people to have more contact with Indians, so that the viruses carried by white people have more opportunities to spread to Indians. As the upper-level Angsa masters, they don’t care at all.
Whether it is 50 or 100, it doesn’t matter whether the white people at the bottom are dead or alive, because if the white people can come back alive, it means killing one more Indian. If they die, it will not be a loss, because it means sending an infection to the Indians.
source……
No matter how you calculate it, it's a win-win situation, and Mr. Angsa wins twice.
Swords and guns can only massacre a place or a city, but the virus kills the whole situation, the entire region!
It is a pity that Fei Qian does not have such means to annihilate the Western Region at the moment, but this does not prevent him from deciphering the final methods used by these inheritors of the Western Region.
Fei Qian looked up at the sky, the moonlight was clear.
"Within three days, there will be an attack by thieves." Fei Qian said slowly, "Zhong Kang can show off his skills."
Xu Chu banged his breastplate with a bang, and said proudly: "Please don't worry, my lord, the thief will never come back!"