Chapter Eighty-Three: The Cold Wave The winter wasteland is lonely, covered with snow and ice, and even sun-loving marmots do not easily climb to the ground, hiding in places where the north wind does not blow, or carefully eating stored grass seeds, or sleeping hungry.
The frenzied air currents dominate the sky, even the mighty vultures can only hover high in the sky, and will not easily fall until they find a clear target, and under the low-pressure cyclone, once the heavy vulture lands, it is very difficult to fly.
It's not easy for anyone to live.
In the final analysis, the hard work of the world is to make ends meet, and no one is an exception.
The speed of the retreat of the army was very fast, and the advance was much faster before, as long as it set foot on the road home, no matter how far it was, it was not a problem.
Leng Ping was very diligent, and he ran endlessly in front and behind the army on a cold day, and his thick beard was covered with hoarfrost, and the hard march had become a pleasure for him, a pleasure to show loyalty to the king.
There are eight sufferings in the world, birth, old age, sickness, death, love and parting, hatred for a long time, can't ask for it, and can't let go......
It is these human sufferings that the emperor uses to carry out his rule.
Tie Xinyuan didn't know these before, but since he became an emperor, the means to control the eight sufferings of life have been self-taught.
In this respect, it seems that the imperial power is really a gift from heaven.
The rapid development of firearms made Meng Yuanzhi feel infinite fear, and when he realized that the only martial arts that could sustain himself gradually became less important, he had doubts about his unique position in the Hami Kingdom.
Hami is a place where the position can be decided, and if a small soldier with a gun like the king said can kill a master, then the importance of this master in the army becomes meaningless.
Meng Yuanzhi, who has lived in the palace for half his life, has always believed that power lies in constraints, and he has reached the peak of martial arts, so it is correct that there should be corresponding containment measures in the Hami Kingdom.
For a courtier, it is safe to have checked power.
However, when something that could restrain him appeared, he felt extremely frightened.
This fear comes not so much from firearms as from the pressure of royal power.
As the country grew stronger, the focus of Tie Xinyuan's work shifted from ordinary people to officials.
As the country grows stronger, the fewer people Tiexinyuan cares about.
This is certain, when the country was founded, Tie Xinyuan would squat on the ground and eat and work with the people.
Later, I only ate and worked with some specific people, until now, don't think about finding Tie Xinyuan to have a meal with is basically a blessing.
Now, Meng Yuanzhi, Tie Yi and Huo Xian can eat with Tie Xinyuan at any time, and in a few years, Tie Xinyuan is destined to become a real loner, and only a few people can eat together on an equal footing, Zhao Zhen, Yelu Hongji and a few others.
Marching in cold weather is a kind of torture for everyone, and the jujube red horse has wanted to stuff his wet nose into Tie Xinyuan's cloak more than once, and he has long lived in Hami for all these years, and he has long since lost the hard-working nature of wild horses.
Meng Yuan looked directly at Tie Xinyuan's behavior of wearing a mask on the jujube red horse, as if he was looking at a fool, and he couldn't hold back and didn't make a sound, until Tie Xinyuan cut two big holes in a huge mask and put the mask on the long face of the jujube red horse, and then said loudly: "This, it's not necessary, right?"
” Tie Xinyuan looked at his work with satisfaction and smiled: "Zifei Ma Yan knows what horses need?"
” Meng Yuan took a breath of cool air like a toothache and said, "The war horse can't be spoiled, if it continues like this, it won't be able to go to the battlefield." ” Tie Xinyuan glanced at Meng Yuanzhi: "Have you given me the opportunity to charge into battle?"
” Meng Yuan glanced directly at the soldiers who were marching and said, "Before we die, you really don't have a chance to charge.
In addition, it is a disaster for the soldiers to let you charge into battle, the happiness of the enemy, and the glory of slaying the king of Hami will definitely increase the morale of the enemy army tenfold, so you stay in Qingxiang City to take care of the families of the soldiers and prepare enough supplies for us, which is the greatest support for us. ” Tie Xinyuan was speechless.
"General White Horse and Yelujing took a lot of gunpowder and oil bombs, why aren't you in a hurry?"
Meng Yuanzhi didn't have anything to say, he didn't want to see Tie Xinyuan's long face.
Tie Xinyuan put on his hood and turned his face sideways to avoid the cold wind, looked at Meng Yuanzhi and sighed: "I've talked about it all, why are you still like this?"
” Meng Yuan smiled and said: "Since I have identified your identity as a king, I must treat you as a king, I have served the emperor, if I really don't care about the status of the monarch and minister, it is the real way to die." ” Tie Xinyuan smiled: "That's right, I know that I will definitely become the kind of person I once hated the most in the future."
Now, I haven't reached that level, I still need old friends, I still need all kinds of care, and when I become that kind of person, I will definitely tell you.
So, you don't have to guess now, just wait for me to let you know, it's so easy. ” Meng Yuanzhi laughed and said, "Okay, it's a word, I'll wait for you to inform me." ” Tie Xinyuan looked at Meng Yuan seriously and said, "I will definitely inform you." ” "Now can you tell me why I'm not worried about General Hakuba and Yelujing?"
Tie Xinyuan said with a smile: "I wish the Khitans would abandon their riding and archery skills to compete with me in firearms."
Firearms are good to call, and the lethality is not fake, the premise is that you must first learn to control this kind of thing, our existing gunpowder performance is extremely unstable, and the slightest carelessness in the operation process will hurt yourself.
Who is the person in the world who knows the most about gunpowder?
It is us, we are well aware of the advantages and disadvantages of gunpowder.
Know how to avoid the lethality of gunpowder in battle, know how to use the shortcomings of gunpowder to attack the enemy, and know the direction of gunpowder's future development.
Therefore, if the Khitans abandoned themselves and were accustomed to cavalry warfare and switched to firearms, it would be a great blessing for the Hami Kingdom. ” "Do you really not mind the gunpowder getting out now?
In the past, you valued this thing as much as your eyes. ” Tie Xinyuan sighed and said, "It's all been handed over to the Great Song, what secrets are there there."
I heard that firearms were not yet equipped in the Great Song Dynasty, but they were already equipped on sea ships.
Now, there is only one path in front of us, and that is to develop a new generation of gunpowder weapons as soon as possible, and it is the last word to always be ahead of others. ” Meng Yuan smiled and said, "Can Xiao Xi'er become the prince of the Great Song Dynasty?"
” Tie Xinyuan smiled and said: "Whether Xi'er can become a prince or not depends on us, not on the Great Song Dynasty."
We defeated the Khitan and Western Xia in an all-round way this time, and the probability of Xi'er becoming the prince is more than half.
If we can continue to maintain the posture of victory, and the kingdom of Hami is as rich as ever, the probability of Xi'er becoming the prince is more than eighty percent.
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If we can destroy Western Xia and regain Yanyun Land, the possibility of Xi'er becoming the prince is very ten.
Because at that time, the Great Song Dynasty's view of us will change from contempt to despair and fear, and Xi'er's succession to the throne of the Great Song Dynasty will become another victory for the scholars. ” "What victory?"
"The victory of the Great Song Dynasty in annexing the Hami Kingdom."
"What kind of victory is this?"
"Why don't you count, do you think that the original totem of the Han people has changed from an ugly snake to a majestic dragon, and I don't know how many totems of other tribes have been fused in the middle, and finally it has its current appearance?
Can you be sure that our Great Snake Clan is the victor in every fusion and expansion of the outside world?
Being able to turn other tribes into the Great Snake Clan is what makes him really powerful.
Whether he is married, or defeated and reconciled, in short, those once powerful races are gone, and we have passed them on.
As for the means to use, there is no need to be carefully considered.
What exists is the truth, what does not exist is all paradoxes, just the group of extremely realistic people in the court, where will they risk a full-scale war and can't get along with us, when the time comes, they will find the right legal principles to support Xi'er's ascendancy, and they are the great experts in this kind of thing. ” "Imperial ......"
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Meng Yuanzhi is still sensible and interesting many times, as long as he feels that you are in the same camp with him, he basically ignores the other party's life or death.
The jujube red horse wearing a mask seemed to be a little excited, the huge hooves trampled on the ice and snow, the pace became more and more vigorous, and he trotted for a while from time to time, if it wasn't for Meng Yuanzhi's superb riding skills, there would be no way to walk side by side with Tie Xinyuan.
Even if it is a cavalryman, he will walk thirty miles with a convoy in the morning, and the road is difficult to walk, and the weather is too cold, as long as the leather boots of the soldiers who dismount and push the cart are stained with ice and snow, they will frostbite their feet after a while.
Meng Yuanzhi had to order a rest and light a fire to boil the soup.
The sky became foggy, and the air was full of semi-condensed water mist, which was not evaporated by the sun, but was condensed from the air when the temperature was too low.
The people of the Western Regions who have lived in the Western Regions for a long time can't remember when there has been such a cold time.
There is a tent just like not, the fire is lit, and the tent is still frozen in the tent, and the flames are two feet high, and they still don't feel much warmth.
Meng Yuanzhi's face was ugly after returning from a trip outside, and he said softly to Tie Xinyuan: "The problem is big, the soldiers can't stand the cold, and they have already started to burn the wasteland with fire oil bombs to keep warm." ” Tie Xinyuan was taken aback, and hurriedly walked out of the tent, only to see that puffs of smoke were rising, and a large bush had turned into a sea of fire.
"There is not much problem with burning the wasteland for heating, in such weather, there will be no fires in the wasteland, but the problem of using fire oil bombs is very big, which is not allowed by military law, which shows that the soldiers have frozen so much that they can't take care of military law."
"Do we have enough warmth?"
Meng Yuan shook his head and said, "Everyone has warm cotton clothes and sleeping bags, but they can't withstand such a cold wave." ” "What can you do?"
Tie Xinyuan asked Meng Yuanzhi directly.
Meng Yuanzhi shook his head and said: "There is no good way, everyone can only walk back to Tianshan City, I am worried that the attrition will be very serious."