The day's performance was over, and all the members of the troupe were crowded into a large tent.
The tent was set under a large sand dune, and this mobile city was originally stationed on an endless wall of sand dunes, full of sand dunes one after another, and clumps of desert plants growing in the middle, so when the hustle and bustle of the day was over, the "city" fell silent, it was still very quiet.
Except for the heavily fortified barracks, which are undulating like mountains as far as the eye can see, the tents where the merchants are stationed are far from each other.
Tang Sai'er knelt in front of Xia Xun and slammed his legs with his little fists.
Originally, this was Celine and Jeanna's business, the two of them were originally serving Xia Xun, and it was even more of a duty to serve him after becoming his woman, but the little girl felt that her goddaughter should show her filial piety, so she was very happy to grab this job.
Xia Xun leaned on a box containing props and gestured with his hand on the worn felt carpet.
The felt carpet is very old, some places are worn badly, because people walk in and out too often, there is a thin layer of sand on the felt carpet, Xia Xun's fingers scratch on the felt carpet, scratching a trace.
"Yu Jue has been following that Guo Yixuan for several days, and from what I know now, that Guo Yixuan is just a scholar under Timur's account, although his status is high and he is respected, he is not a military general, and it is difficult to have the opportunity to meet Timur directly.
Moreover, our best choice is to kill without a trace, so the line of Yujue is not needed for the time being, but I have instructed him to continue to stay by Guo Yixuan's side and listen to the news at any time, in case of emergency. ” Chen Dong coughed and interjected: "In the past few days, several female soldiers have come to see our performances every day.
One of them seems to be particularly interested in Lao Sai, and he has chatted with Lao Sai for some reason, these female soldiers are all people under the pro-military tent, can we use a beautiful man's strategy" "Ah, how can there be Chen Dong, don't talk nonsense" Before he finished speaking, Saihazhi jumped up like a cat with its tail stepped on, blushing with an old face, and snorted in a white grin.
Ye An rolled his eyes and said: "It's not a bad thing to have a woman like it, Lao Sai has such a big face, what kind of shame is it."
Once, when they were leaving, Zangfeng overheard their conversation, and a female soldier joked to the girl who was talking to you, saying: Since you like it, confess it to him, I think he likes you very much, you see, this is not like you."
Sehazhi's black face turned eggplant-colored, and he blushed and said thickly: "I don't like her anymore, I haven't even seen what she looks like."
Chen Dong snorted and said: "Look, look, we didn't say her name, you know which one you are talking about, this is not self-defeating" Ye An smiled: "If you want to say that we are not as handsome as you, you have a beard like a hedgehog, but that woman likes you, it's really inexplicable." ” Saihazhi pouted his beard and said triumphantly: "A man with a big waist like me has a manly taste, you don't understand" In Tang Sai'er's heart, her godfather was the most perfect man, and immediately said unconvinced: "My godfather is the most manly" Xia Xun coughed and said with a straight face: "We are discussing a big matter, and there must be a limit to joking."
What a beautiful man's plan, whimsical" Everyone hurriedly smiled, but only said yes.
Xia Xun changed his tone and said: "Those female soldiers, I asked Zangfeng to carefully check the restraints." ” There was a strange look on everyone's faces, Xia Xun only didn't see it, and continued: "They come from a Turkic tribe called Dik, and their tribe is about fifteen days away from Samarkand.
Previously, they were subservient to the Roman Empire, but now they are subservient to Timur.
Their tribe believes in Nestorianism, but at the same time maintains some of the habits of their own tribe."
In fact, the Tibetan wind heard the news that this tribe believes in Orthodox Christianity, but if Xia Xun says that they believe in Orthodox Christianity, I am afraid that no one present will understand what kind of sect it is.
During the Tang Dynasty, when the Christian sect entered the Central Plains, it was called Jingjiao, and Xia Xun said that the Orthodox Church was Jingjiao to facilitate everyone's understanding.
Xia Xun said: "In their tribe, the status of women is much higher than that of men, to be precise, they are male and female, so there are many female warriors in the tribe who are brave and good at fighting, and are not inferior to men in hand-to-hand combat, which is why when Timur recruited troops from various departments, all the female soldiers sent by the Daike tribe were women."
For these reasons, it is difficult for you to make a woman of this tribe obey a man because she likes him.
Actually, quite the opposite.
Therefore, if Lao Sai really uses a beautiful man to tempt that woman, she will only measure the pearl, marry Lao Sai back, take care of the housework and take care of the children, how will she be owned by him, listen to his orders. ” Everyone looked at the appearance of Sehazhi Tiger on his back, imagining that he was carrying a little doll on his back, sitting on the threshold with stitches and threads on the soles of his shoes, and waiting for his wife who had returned from grazing to enter the house, and the appearance of a little bird snuggling up to him.
Everyone was discussing in the tent, and the two assistants sent by Hari Sultan to Xia Xun, Zangfeng and Gai Bang'er, patrolled around the tent one after the other.
They do things at will, vigilantly guarding the approach of outsiders.
In the tent, the discussion continued.
One by one, proposals were proposed, and one by one they were rejected, and then no one could come up with a plan that seemed to be feasible, and everyone's interest was low.
After a lot of hard work, he finally arrived at Timur's side, but now there was only a few miles left, but it became a trench that was difficult to cross, and it was difficult to take half a step, not to mention that God killed him unconsciously, and it was impossible to see him, which was really frustrating.
Xia Xun saw that everyone's mood was relatively low, so he said: "Don't be depressed, you can always come up with a solution, be patient." ” Chen Dongdao: "If we have enough time, we may be able to come up with a proper solution.
The problem is that what we're missing now is time. ” Xia Xun listened, and couldn't help but sigh softly, his eyes fell, and he saw that Tang Sai'er had stopped his fists, frowning slightly, and was also trying to find a way, like a little adult, which was embarrassing, and couldn't help laughing: "Does my little fairy daughter have any magic skills that can make us pass through that person's heavy defenses and appear in front of him."
Xia Xun just joked to adjust the dull atmosphere of the scene, but Tang Sai'er actually asked very seriously: "Godfather, is it really as long as miles to enter that person's military camp and then to the place where he lives?"
Xia Xun said: "Yes, I'm afraid it's more than a few miles, there are countless camps and horses along the way, even at night, the patrol posts are endless, the open and dark sentinels are interspersed, there are trenches and thorns, and there are many desert dogs in their camp, and this is just the news that your Uncle Liu inquired about, as for more deployments, we don't know, such deployment, compared to the palace Ouchi, it is particularly strict, even if it is a mouse, it is not easy to pass through this layer of barriers." ” Tang Sai'er said unconvinced: "That's not necessarily, if I have enough things and manpower, I can completely disappear such a big tent, let alone hide a few people." ” Xia Xun's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked: "So, if you provide enough manpower for you to make everything you need to use, is there a way for you to let us in?"
Tang Sai'er squeaked: "This, but" "Hmm" "But I have to walk inside and out and see all the parts inside before I know what I need to use."
When Xia Xun heard this, he couldn't help but be depressed.
In the bathroom, Guo Yixuan spread his limbs and lay comfortably on the "belly stone", an authentic Turkish "Tanrak" masseuse smeared his hands with olive oil, pushing, holding, kneading, and pressing on his body, Guo Yixuan's skin that had just been steamed by high temperature was pushed like this again, and his whole body was red like a boiled shrimp.
Liu Yujue sat on a wooden stool on the side, and on another low stool in front of him was an open food box, in which were placed mutton skewers, yogurt, milk cool, hazelnuts and other snacks.
Liu Yujue is now a student of Guo Yixuan, who sometimes asks him to help him at work every day, and during his breaks, he will teach him Turkic dialect, mathematics, engineering and other knowledge.
Perhaps because of his compatriots, Guo Yixuan is very important and caring for this student, and even takes him in the bath.
Liu Yujue sat on a wooden stool with a white towel around his waist, took a sip of yogurt, and said to Guo Yixuan: "But, teacher, that Jiayu Pass is unattainable and indestructible, I came from there, I have seen its steepness, I am afraid that it is ten times the strength, and it is difficult to attack." ” "Hahahaha" Guo Yixuan was lying on the "belly stone", enjoying the masseur's service with his eyes closed, and laughed happily when he heard the innocent words of the student, he didn't open his eyes, just waved his hand, and said with a smile: "Traditional city buildings like to build tall city walls, but in the face of increasingly powerful siege weapons, those seemingly giant city walls are the easiest to break."
A sword is a sword, a thousand horses, a thousand armies, a truly powerful weapon is knowledge, and I and several scholars have jointly written to the Khan, suggesting that the walls of Samarkand be renovated, and that the old-fashioned tall barrier-like walls and arrow towers should be demolished and renovated. ” Guo Yixuan said with a smile: "The purpose of building the city wall is to block the enemy, and the strong pass has always been a continuation of the proposition of thousands of years ago, especially our eastern city defense, it has not changed for more than a thousand years, if there is a change, the latecomers are just constantly repairing, building it higher, higher, and continuing to be a little higher, sad."
Yuluo, you follow the teacher to study hard, and when you have a certain attainment in military architecture, you will find that the traditional city defense architecture has fallen far behind the times, the so-called indestructible, hum is just a joke" To be continued: