A team of hundreds of thousands of people moved hard in the ice and snow, and almost every moment someone fell down and couldn't get up again.
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan frowned from time to time, and Mo Jilian and Que Teqin were also heartbroken.
In another ten days, the hot-air balloons ran out of fuel and landed on the ground one after another, and the two Que Teqin and the leaders of various tribes were still "protected" by the people brought by Zhang Xiaobao.
In order to reduce the weight, the other Turkic people had already thrown away by Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.
Watching the unusable hot air balloon being ignited as firewood, Mo Jilian and Que Teqin unanimously looked at the fairly clear night sky, leaned against a pile of bonfires, and drank the spicy wine, full of bitterness in their hearts.
"Zhang Xiaobao, can you think of a way to let the people of Fengzhou bring the grain and grass faster? I can't afford to die, and there will be less than half of my clan's death."
Mo Jilian glanced at Xiaobei and others who were guarding Zhang Xiaobao, and said to Zhang Xiaobao, while sniffing his nose, a scent he had never smelled came from, and he held something to eat to Xiaobei. Curious.
Beckham was scalded and changed hands back and forth, breathing in his mouth. Seeing Mo Ji, he looked at him, no matter whether he could soil his clothes, put the sweet potato on his pants, rubbing his hands vigorously, and squeezing it from the sweet potato. Next one piece and hand it to Mo Jilian "Taste it for you."
Zhang Xiaobao looked at his sister, and then at Mo Jilian, and introduced: "This is called sweet potato. It can be used as food and powder. It is delicious. After drying, it can be turned into snacks. When the output comes up next year, I will share it with you. Some are used to make porridge."
Mo Ji was stunned for a while, and when he took the sweet potato, he suddenly remembered his purpose, "Zhang Xiaobao, when will the grain and grass arrive?"
"It's coming, it's coming. Now it's hard to get around. Your family has a large population. Even if a hundred jin of grain arrives first, it's a drop in the bucket, and then stick to it."
While talking, Zhang Xiaobao wiped his sister's little mouth that was black when eating roasted sweet potatoes, and faced Mo Ji with a helpless look.
A cry came from a distance, and Mo Ji couldn't bear to close his eyes. Knowing that someone in the family had died, he gritted his teeth and asked Zhang Xiaobao: "If, I said if, now this is not a member of my clan, It's your Datang people, can't you get food and grass?"
"Uh! This... this..."
"Zhang Xiaobao, I beg you, please be merciful, I am guilty, I shouldn't take the tribe with you, you kill me, don't take my tribe to vent your anger." Mo Jilian saw Zhang Xiaobao's hesitation. Knowing that Zhang Xiaobao must have a solution to the people who were replaced by Datang.
With a plop, he knelt in front of Zhang Xiaobao and pleaded bitterly. He thought that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were uneasy, so he deliberately wanted to make his family more dead.
Zhang Xiaobao looked at the Mo Jilian in front of him, his eyebrows squeezed into a word "Chuan", instead of trying to pull Mo Jilian, he sat on the ground, looked at Mo Jilian and said:
"To be honest, I really replaced the people of my Datang, not to mention the food of hundreds of thousands of people, that is, millions of people. I also sent people to the place early. When these resources are mobilized, there is no way to guard against your back-ups. What if you are instigated to attack when there are loopholes in my deployment?"
"No, I promise not, they don't have the strength anymore." Mo Ji Lian heard hope, and quickly promised.
"You promise? Can you guarantee that it involves the survival of a clan? In this way, order your people to throw away all the copper and iron, kill all the horses, burn all the leather armor, let the young and old eat first, and walk in front of the team. I can guarantee that there will be food and salt tea within three days, but salt tea is only for young and old. If you agree, you can give orders."
Zhang Xiaobao finally let go, but put forward a bunch of conditions.
Mo Jilian knew that this was Zhang Xiaobao's bottom line. Listening to the fading cry in the wind, he nodded gratefully: "Okay, I'll go and order immediately. Do what you said."
"Brother." Mo Jilian left, and Beckham leaned into Zhang Xiaobao's arms again, biting her ears and said: "Brother, don't feed them enough. Just now, Xiaoyuan and I went to give some of their top children. They stared at me when they were eating roasted corn."
"Oh? Then we Beckham didn't kill them?" Zhang Xiaobao asked, touching his sister's head.
Beckham shook his head, "No, what's the use of killing a few? Unless they are all killed, Xiaoyuan said that they didn't hate us, but the injustice of the sky, and the hunger and cold heart must be wild. They are like wolves and can be killed. It cannot be tamed. After being fed and edified, the ambition will be deprived. For a long time, a wolf or adult dog, such as a pheasant and poultry, such as a wild boar and a domestic hog."
"Yeah, we Xiaobei know so much." Zhang Xiaobao praised.
"It's not me, it's Xiao Yuan. He looks so learned all day, which makes people look annoying." Xiaobei pulled out the softest core of the sweet potato and put it in his mouth, and allowed his fingers to mumble.
Zhang Xiaobao didn't expect Wang Juan's brother to start studying this aspect. He smiled and wiped off his sister's drooling fingers, and asked: "Then the people of Datang don't have enthusiasm? Even the ambition of the Turkic people. Not as good?"
"That's different, Xiaoyuan said, the ambition of the barbarians is to seize the barbarians, and the ambition of the Tang Dynasty is to create. That is to say, people around them want to grab something good from the Tang Dynasty. What about our Tang Dynasty? We make things that make our lives better. They don’t understand the benefits of making things by ourselves. As long as we don’t let them be emperors, we will keep making things ourselves, right?"
After Xiaobei talked about it, she couldn't figure it out, so she had to ask her brother.
Zhang Xiaobao can't talk too deeply to his sister, even if he said, Xiaobei can't understand it, so he can only nod his head in agreement.
The Mo Jilian who went to give orders was not so smooth. Many people were unwilling to throw away their close-fitting weapons, let alone kill the horse. Mo Jilian persuaded the people to fail and began to force the people in the clan to follow suit and kill them. Hundreds of people have achieved the goal.
At dawn, the team set off again, and the speed of marching was much faster than yesterday. Horse meat is also food. The full body is supplemented, and it has a stronger resistance in the face of severe cold.
The faces of Mo Jilian, Que Teqin, and the leaders of the various tribes in the Turkic were not so good. They worried that their status would be lost after they really surrender to the Tang Dynasty. They were even more afraid that the people in the clan would not be moved by the guards of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. .
Mo Ji repeatedly told the leaders of other tribes about the power of Datang's weapons, and asked them to suppress the uneasy clansmen. At this time, there will be conflicts. It is estimated that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan will be ruthless to destroy the entire Turkke.
Walking on the road, some people still get frozen to death from time to time, and those who get the wind chill don't even have to expect to survive. Every time they move a certain distance, a few corpses will be left in the team as food for the wolves who dared not move forward.
In the howling of the cold wind, the mood of the Turkic people was even more ups and downs. On several occasions, someone came out of the team to take action on the team of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, but was discovered and killed by others early.
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan seem to be ignorant. They still talk and laugh with Mo Jilian and others. As a tourist, they occasionally find a few snake holes to catch the snake in hibernation, dig out the snake gall and pick it up with strong wine. , Made snake gall wine for brothers and sisters to drink.
Xiaobei has not complained straight once that snake gall wine is awful, bitter and astringent, but she never refuses every time she drinks it. The main reason is that she feels dizzy and comfortable after drinking a little wine.
Just when some people in the Mojilian worried clan couldn't control the emotions and caused terrible disaster to the entire Turkic, the three days promised by Zhang Xiaobao finally came.
There is still an endless grassland ahead, covered by a layer of snow. At noon on the third day, when the team was resting, a row of black spots suddenly appeared on the horizon. Turkic people who were eating stood up one by one and looked at them vigilantly. .
Mo Jilian quickly picked up his clairvoyance and looked over there. There were countless deer and dogs over there, rushing towards his side without any haste. Behind the deer and the dogs there was a sleigh that was tilted up in the front. .
In addition to those pulled by deer and dogs, there are sails on the back, which are snaking in the direction of the wind, and there are many people wearing white clothes and cloaks who are stepping on two "bamboo pieces?" A pole, follow forward, if the opponent doesn't move, and you don't look carefully, you can't find it at all.
"This is the team that delivered goods to Fengzhou Supermarket, right?" Que Teqin looked curiously and asked Mo Jilian next to him.
Mo Jilian shook his head slightly: "It is estimated that it is not only the food and grass, but also the army who came to suppress my waiting. Those in white clothes. In order to ensure the same speed, the deer and the dog did not use their full strength when they ran."
With the distance between the two teams getting closer and closer, even when the opposite situation can be seen clearly without clairvoyance, the people in the Turkic team are finally honest. If you were thinking of desperately leaving Zhang Xiaobao and his party behind, now There is no hope at all when their brigade arrives.
When Datang's team was less than a hundred steps away from Tubo, a thousand snowboarders came out of it and spread out in a semicircular formation to surround the Tubo team.
Another dozen people rushed straight towards Zhang Xiaobao and the others. As they thrust their arms down on the snow, the bodies of these dozen people would travel a long distance, faster than running a horse. Running on the grassland is much slower, but it is many times faster than people wading in the snow.
"Report, little son, little lady, Fengzhou Snow Battle Camp came to report. There should have been 1,050 people. In fact, there were 1,049 people. One of them got a foot when they just set off. The report is complete."
More than a dozen people came to Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, and the middle one stood up to report.
When Mo Jilian and the others saw the appearance of these more than a dozen people, they were puzzled for a while, because they didn't know what the other party looked like, they were all wrapped up, and even their eyes were wearing something. They thought they were afraid of the wind. , There is the problem of tears in the wind.
Zhang Xiaobao knew that they were called goggles, specially developed for Team Snow. They shielded the wind and didn't have to worry about snow blindness. Hearing reports from someone, he took the initiative to take a step back and gave Wang Juan to the front.
Wang Juan snapped back a salute, nodded and said, "Very well, take care of the crippled one, go back to strengthen basic training and return to the team."
"Yes." The man answered, did not stand up to Wang Juan, afraid of falling, propped his hands with ski poles, and swing his legs, the man had already turned and slid towards the team.
Another person stood up again, "Fengzhou logistics camp should report to 2,200 people, actually 2,200 people, 1,000 snow deer, 1,000 sled dogs, and 6,000 sled dogs. In fact, there were 6,000. In addition, four sled dogs fell into an ice hole when passing a lake. They were stretched by the front and back sled dogs. They were wounded. There were 1,900 snow dogs, and 1,900. only."
"Very good, return to the team, pay attention to the four injured sled dogs to do a good job of curing and keeping warm." Wang Juan also returned a salute to this person.
She could imagine the situation of the four dogs at the time. The dog in front must have passed by. The ice broke suddenly and four dogs fell in the middle. According to training, the people on the sled would brake the sled, that is, the dog in front of it. Push forward, and the dog behind will push backward, and the fallen dog will be stretched up and wait for someone to come and be treated.
This is usually what a well-trained polar sled dog will do. I didn’t expect people trained in Toyosu to be successful.
"The Fengzhou medical team should report to 300 people. In fact, there were 300 people. The report is complete."
"Fengzhou Engineer Battalion should report 600 people. In fact, there are 600 people. The report is complete."
"Fengzhou damage management team should report to four hundred and fifty people. In fact, there were four hundred and fifty people. The report is complete."
"Toyoshu combat headquarters should report to 60 people. In fact, there are 60 people. The report is complete."
"To report to the Fengzhou Reconnaissance Camp, you should go to..."
"Fengzhou espionage camp report..."
"Toyosu Towed Artillery Battalion reports..."
One person after another stood up to report to Wang Juan. Wang Juan also responded one by one. The leaders of the various tribes of the Turkic not far away were also listening. Only then did they realize that a unit can have so many branches. , They are in charge of their own affairs, not just the kind of arrangement when the forwards and the Chinese army are marching.
After the people in front of them all reported, in the end there is still a short man, dwarf
The short one also slid to the front, and did not report to Wang Juan, but looked around and found Beckham who was staying behind. He held up his ski poles a few times and came to Beckham’s approach. His voice sounded like a child’s voice. Said: "Feng, Fengzhou, children's group, group, report, check-in, there were a hundred people, actually 86 people, 14 of them were crying, let the adults send them back."
Beckham looked at the children's group with a surprised look. The boss with an open mouth blinked his big eyes vigorously. After a while, he realized.
"Is there a children’s group in Fengzhou too? It’s so stupid. It’s shameful that I can be crying even if I wear duck down. I didn’t cry even when my face was blown red. It’s not good to study in school, so I came here to collect something. lively?"
"Stupid, I can't read it anymore." The little guy in the children's group replied with lack of confidence.
"Well, then, go back to the team, keep warm, don't cry in the cold, if you start fighting, remember to shoot far away, don't rush forward, pick the leader to fight first, just like wearing this."
Becky specifically pointed to the heads of the Turkic tribes next to him and introduced them to the head of the Toyosu Children's Group.
"Yes, remember, take the lead first." The leader took a few serious glances and agreed. He also supported his hands and squatted while swinging his legs. He wanted to learn the steering from others, but the result was He fell down with a plop, got up hard, and then left.
It's embarrassing to see Beckham covering his face.
Zhang Xiaobao was having fun and said to Xiaobei: "Xiaobei's children's group is still very brave."
"Don't mention it, I'll disband them when I look back." Beckham was very sad, and the direct troops were really disappointed. He saw a lot of eyes looking at him, looked back, reacted, and smiled shyly," Uncles and uncles, Beckham said For fun, I didn't let them hit you, amused, they forgot after a while, yes, for fun, kids, I can't beat adults, right?"
Xiaobei’s explanation is obviously not acceptable. The leaders of the Turkic tribes are more worried about the children’s group. Children are not as stable as adults. Maybe they will be misunderstood if they wait for someone to make a little action, usually small. Children can't beat adults, but children with guns have to count separately.
Wang Juan watched from the sidelines and did not stop him. He acquiesced to this, and understood that Beckham poses a greater threat to others, just like handing a loaded gun to a monkey who is curious about everything. .
Zhang Xiaobao said to Mo Jilian and others at this time: "The first delivery of materials has arrived, you have arranged the corresponding matters, and the following materials will be delivered one after another. I hope we can unite and fight against the cold environment. Please do your best."
A group of people in Mo Ji Lian promised again and again, scattered around to make arrangements. At this time, Zhang Xiaobao did not continue to look after them. The staff was fully staffed, and they were not afraid of making trouble.
As stated at the beginning, the delivered materials are given priority to the young and the old, especially the salt tea and medicine. Turkic people follow the orders and do not dare to express the thoughts in their hearts. It seems harmonious.
"Xiaobao, how do you arrange for the more than 200,000 people who have returned? It can't be all placed in Fengzhou, where there is insufficient manpower. Once they get the opportunity, it is estimated that there will be trouble again."
When the team marched again, Wang Juan began to worry about the arrangement of the personnel, and asked Zhang Xiaobao.
"Arrangements for Henan Road, Huainan Road, and Jiangnan Road. Jilizhou also arranges five thousand. We must disperse all of them and prevent them from forming a settlement advantage. We will arrange for someone to explain to them the laws of the Tang Dynasty and to communicate with other people in the Tang Dynasty. They are treated equally without any preferential treatment.
I don’t need to be gentle with them. Since I admit that I am a member of the Tang Dynasty, don’t make specializations. If you don’t admit it, I will destroy them. As for the pre-Turkic traditions, you can keep them if they don’t conflict with the laws of the Tang Dynasty. All places will be changed. "
Zhang Xiaobao knew that this arrangement would cost a lot of money and food, but he had to do it, otherwise it would be difficult for him to think about doing it again after his enthusiasm.
"The Yellow River is already frozen, so you have to go by land, say hello in advance, and you have to mobilize the army to frighten you, and I will make arrangements." Wang Juan agreed with Zhang Xiaobao's method and started to do it.
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When the Turks were no longer a threat, the people of Silla also began to struggle.
The magistrate of Mu County reaped the benefits and began to write letters to the clan of Xinluo together with Li Dong, and carried out the demolition with the demolition fee given by Songgan.
Now that the bottom of the year has come, and the year has not yet passed, most people focus on the New Year. Hearing that the magistrate is about to demolish and relocate, the first thought is that the magi does not plan to let himself have a good year.
Those who don't want to demolish and relocate when the New Year is about to come, and those who are more courageous, unite their neighbors and come to the county government office to discuss with the county magistrate, hoping that the county magistrate can be accommodating one or two, and wait until the new year.
As a result, they didn't see the magistrate Mu, they saw the dark-faced yaman, and they were beaten up after a little bit of argument.
The magistrate of the county magistrate is not afraid of the people making trouble at all, and all those who dare to make trouble will be arrested and put in jail immediately.
At this time, he was stealing pleasure. Song Gan gave him money based on the number of people on the household registration. It was not calculated according to the area of each house, and it was impossible to calculate. The house was basically not registered except for the corresponding officials. , Usually the registration is the amount of the field, there is no difference between building ten houses and building one house.
Song Qian’s price was five hundred wen per person, and the money he gave was Datang’s banknotes, so you could buy the good things from Datang directly.
The county magistrate Mu’s thoughts came to life, and he planned to distinguish the people in the county according to men’s and women’s and young and old. Adult men were given three hundred wen, adult women were 200 wen, the elderly one hundred wen, and children were given fifty wen. Not bad.
And it was not Tang's banknotes, but Silla's money. The banknotes he kept, part of it for spending, and part of it to give gifts to the people on it.
Under the coercion of force, the people in the county were not allowed to put away their own belongings, and reluctantly left the house where they had lived for a long time, trying to find a new place to settle.
The county magistrate also urged people to move quickly, and it is best to complete the demolition work during the Chinese New Year.
At this moment, the news from nowhere reached the ears of the people in the county. The merchants of Datang gave out five hundred wen of banknotes per person, and did not require that the relocation be completed before the Chinese New Year.
This matter became more and more true and spread more widely. It didn’t take too long for the people in the county to know everything. If you look at the money you get, and compare it with the rumored money, the people will know the money right away. Being greedy by the people in the county, the brave people once again organized people to find the Yamen.
"Diao Min, Diao Min, all Diao Min, hit me and arrest me." Seeing that more and more people gathered outside the Yamen, the Ma Xian magistrate was a little worried, but even more angry, and delivered orders one after another. Going down, soon, the yamen had a job to do, and they beat and scratched, and all of a sudden, the county was stunned.
The people did not fight with the officials. Under the deterrence of powerful force and status, the people in the county became honest, and began to converge one by one. They came to a new place according to the arrangements of the county magistrate to find a new way to build a house, but the resentment in their hearts was even greater. It's big, but there is no way for a while.
In this situation, Song Gan came with a lot of supplies and the kindness he deserved.