Chapter 175 No war at the border

Dunhuang Captain Mu Yan put his legs on the rough wooden table and held a map to study the path of scout search.

On the other end of the wide wooden case, his captain Ma Laoliu was sticking out his tongue and trying hard to outline a picture of Luo girl on a piece of paper with a charcoal pen.

Mu Yan coughed, but Ma Laoliu still didn't respond. As long as this guy was immersed in the atmosphere of painting, it would be difficult for him to take into account the outside matters.

Mu Yan admired Ma Laoliu's ability. I remember that those who could copy the pictures on the watchtower thousands of times were definitely not ordinary people.

After finally finishing Ma Laoliu's painting, he said to Ma Laoliu who was still unsatisfied: "Didn't you think about leaning against Yinshan this time?"

Ma Laoliu shook the toner on his painting and shook his head and said, "Go to Yinshan to pass through the Hanhai. In winter, it is a dead end, so we took a walk by the Hanhai.

"No enemy was found?"

"It is impossible to find enemies. In such weather, we can just wander around in a while. Where will anyone go out?"

Mu Yan snorted coldly and said, "Camel Guest!"

Ma Laoliu said indifferently: "Those camel tourists who want money and live, can you see if they can survive half of them?"

Mu Yan glanced at the plump and excessive woman in Ma Laoliu's picture, shook his head and said, "Can you put your mind into other places? Don't always be obsessed with this thing.

After the Northern Expedition is over, Yeye will be transferred back to Chang'an to serve. You will take over as the Dunhuang Captain.

From now on, I have to learn to be an official. Dunhuang is a very good place. Brother, I will go to Chang'an to lay the foundation for everyone. When the brothers all become successful, it is better to go to Chang'an to enjoy the happiness together.

You have to continue to get money for your brothers. I don’t want to be a pauper after returning to Chang’an.”

Ma Laoliu shook his head indifferently and said, "What can I do when I go to Chang'an?"

"Drink, eat meat, sleep with women!"

Ma Laoliu nodded and said, "Then I will wait until I can't ride a war horse or kill the enemy before going back and enjoying my happiness."

"Damn it, isn't it? If I hadn't asked General Wei to take a look at it this time, would you think that with my family background, I would be qualified to return to Chang'an to work?

While I’m not dead, I’ll have no regrets when I’m living a few days without any regrets when I close my eyes.”

Ma Laoliu finally moved his eyes away from the picture, looked at the dim sky outside the window, and sighed: "Leave the sand, how do you let me live?"

A sandstorm was closed at Yumen. After a stick of incense, the sandstorm arrived at Yangguan.

There was a layer of gray dust floating on the hot pot, which could not be cleaned no matter how hard it was done. Yun Lang put down his chopsticks and told Liu Er to take away the pot of food.

Huo Qubing's mouth was like a bottomless pit. Whether it was mutton, beef, or pot, noodles, or buns, they could all be poured in and out of sight, and soon disappeared.

"Yeah, the reason why I am invincible and attacking is to rely on this good body to support me. I can eat and sleep, and I have no problem. Everything is fine!"

"Huh? Didn't you sleep well before?"

"There are so many brothers who die in battle with me, so I won't be afraid..."

The door was pushed open, and the hot pot that Yun Lang had just given was brought back by Sui Yue.

This guy has a pair of skilled hands and uses a thin knife to insert it into the hot pot. Then he gently picked it up, and the layer of black and gray floating on the hot pot was picked out.

He was not polite either. He relocated the hot pot on the brazier and started eating it, without inviting Huo Qubing and Yun Lang.

If you have nothing to do, you will be punished by Yun Lang if you invite Huo Qubing to eat Haisai. If you invite Yun Lang to eat something that you don’t want to eat, you will be despised by Yun Lang if you invite Yun Lang.

Sui Yue felt that he was not a noble person, and it would not be necessary to eat some delicious and unclean things, so he ate it very happily alone.

As long as Dongfang Shuo has wine, it doesn’t matter whether he eats or not. While reviewing the documents, he drinks without sip. He is obviously drunk, but his hands are very neat.

After a while, a bunch of official documents were processed.

Sima Qian was like an old cat, huddled in a thick pile of furs, looking at a book slowly.

Don't care about what happened in the military tent.

Su Zhi walked into the tent angrily and said to Huo Qubing: "If you don't restrain your vulgar soldiers, I will terminate the follow-up treatment of the cavalry commander and the bastards."

Huo Qubing moved his butt and looked at Su Zhi and said, "If you offend you, you will chop their heads."

If you just harass those Qiang women, just turn a blind eye. They are all good men from the battlefield, just let them go for small things."

Su Zhi sneered: "Since the general has spoken, I know."

After saying that, he stomped his feet on the ground and quickly left.

Yun Lang looked up at Huo Qubing and said, "The wounded soldiers are going to be unlucky. It seems that when the wounded soldiers are treated in the future, the pain relief procedure can be omitted."

Huo Qubing laughed and said, "All of them are good men, how could they be afraid of pain?"

Yun Lang smiled and shook his head, not saying anything.

If Su Zhi attacked the wounded soldiers with the most sensitive pain in their body, the wounded soldiers could only blame their coach.

Because his coach has never looked at any woman in his life.

Huo Guang came in from outside with dust, cleaned his face, and saw a layer of yarn appearing at the bottom of the wooden basin, and sighed: "The water source has been frozen, and it has become very difficult for the villagers to get water.

I can't use a lot of firewood and ice in the military camp, and I ordered it to stop watering the earthen walls."

Sui Yue had just finished a hot pot and wiped the grease on his mouth and said lightly: "Then just look for firewood. Isn't there a big poplar forest in the north? Just cut it down."

Huo Guang bowed to Sui Yue and said, "The chief minister doesn't know that this oasis is closely related to the existence of that poplar forest.

It is precisely because of that poplar forest that there is the oasis of Yangguan. If we cut down all the poplar forests, the oasis of Yangguan will completely disappear.”

Sui Yue looked at Huo Guang suspiciously and said, "Is there such a connection?"

Huo Guang said: "Yangguan lacks firewood, and the poplar forest has stood there for not many years, for more than ten years, but for hundreds of years.

Have you ever seen the Qiang people living in Yangguan move that forest?

At most, go to the poplar forest to check for dead branches and leaves.

If we could cut it, it wouldn't be our turn, and we would have been cut off by the Qiang people long ago."

Dongfang Shuo, who was drinking, put down his wine pot and said, "Dig a well next to the water source, the well water will generally not freeze."

Huo Guang frowned and said, "The ground has been frozen."

Dongfang Shuo continued: "No matter how difficult it is, you must dig a well. The earth wall must be splashed with water and freezing. Otherwise, after a few strong winds, the earth wall will be hollowed out by the north wind."

Yun Lang and Huo Qubing ignored this kind of thing, and they whispered to discuss the matters of the Huns.

Huo Qubing was very sorry for giving up intercepting the Huns and letting them leave. He felt that if Yun Lang was willing to equip the gunpowder to the entire army, with the help of the earth-shaking power of the gunpowder, he might not be able to defeat the Huns in the field.

Yun Lang didn't explain. After the two of them attacked and defended on the map for a while, Huo Qubing threw down his chess piece and said, "No one can command millions of people like one."

"Not everyone can fight to the end with your 50,000 army. Once you are entangled by the Hun army, you are in danger of being wiped out."

Neither of them mentioned gunpowder in their words, but they both understood that these factors had been taken into account during the exercise just now.

Huo Qubing's suggestion is just a hypothesis under extreme boredom. It is not something that Yun Lang can do, or even Liu Che can do.

Therefore, gossip is just gossip.

Everyone knew that the Huns were in Yinshan, but they had no way to attack or drive them away.

The real Yinshan Mountain is more than 2,000 miles away from Yangguan, but this huge mountain range is from east to west, like a huge barrier standing on the grassland.

The northern slope of Yinshan is cold, while the southern slope is warmer.

This time, Liu Ling walked west along Yinshan, and stopped moving forward when he walked to the yuma Langshan of Yinshan.

And Langshan is only a thousand miles away from Yangguan.

It was this thousand-mile smooth road that made Huo Qubing unable to do anything to the Huns.

Because of this, Huo Qubing and Yun Langkong had a 50,000 army, but they could only stop in the sunshine and Yumen Pass to consume food and grass in vain.

The debate between Huo Guang and Dongfang Shuo finally came to an end.

The ground was frozen hard and wanted to dig a large number of wells, but the project volume was too large. However, there were many ice and snow here. Many canals were dug out on the warm southern hillside, and then ice and snow were piled up on the canal. As long as the weather was good, some melted ice and snow water could always be harvested.

Although the amount of melted ice and snow is not large, it is barely possible to just pour water on the city walls.

Seeing that no one was talking in the tent, Sui Yue whispered: "There is news that Your Majesty will also send a member of the Great Continent to Yangguan."

Huo Qubing's brow frowned slightly.

Yun Lang said with great interest: "Is Lu Bode? When did this guy return to Beijing?

In addition to guards, His Majesty also has established troops?

It is impossible to send troops from the south to Yangguan, right?"

Sui Yue laughed and said, "Mrs. Li has added a prince to His Majesty, so the person who came was Mrs. Li Guangli, the elder brother.

His Majesty did not give him the army. He himself summoned bad people in Hedong and prepared to form an army by himself. He heard that there were still crazy words that the two generals dared not fight against the Huns, and he dared!"

Yun Lang showed a kind smile.

"Has he come to our account to listen?"

Sui Yue shook his head and said, "No, it is said that he is forming his own army."

When Huo Qubing heard Sui Yue say this, he laughed and said, "That's what your Majesty has already approved our military strategy, right?

Otherwise, I wouldn’t have given Li Guangli a good opportunity to make military achievements!"

Sui Yue grabbed his head and said, "This is a secret letter from the embroidered messenger. Can you two say so loudly?

I gave you the edicts and left Chang'an for nine days."
Chapter completed!