There is no doubt that the Han Empire's invasion of Xigaoche this time was a failure.
Xigaoche may have long expected that the Han Empire would move westward after the defeat of Rouran and Donggaoche, and they migrated the tribes in the east, causing the Han army to go hundreds of miles away and did not find a medium-sized tribe, but only wiped out some small tribes.
"They must have taken a long time to prepare."
Li Tan pondered for a moment and continued: "Otherwise, with the vastness of the grassland, there is no too convenient way to contact us, and it is impossible to achieve this point. ” The fact that Xigaoche was able to evacuate the vast majority of tribes in time also shows that Xigaoche is a relatively stable social system, at least there is an efficient ruling class, otherwise some things cannot be done if you want to.
"Withdraw your troops."
Dou Ah has been staring at the mountains and rivers and said, "The ice and snow are already showing signs of melting. ” According to some Rouran aristocrats, the plain where the West High Car inhabits is covered with snow and ice from mid-autumn to winter, and from late spring to late spring.
After the snow and ice begin to melt, the long rainy season begins, and by the middle of summer it will be muddy and even swampy.
"It's a pity."
Li Tan was a little unwilling: "Come here, but less than 5,000 people have been wiped out, and there are not many livestock." ” It's time to withdraw their troops, they have sent troops from September of the thirteenth year of Yuanshuo, and it is now May of the fourteenth year of Yuanshuo, and most of the time is active in the ice and snow, and the situation of non-combat losses is becoming more and more serious as time drags on.
If they can achieve good results by entering the Xigao Vehicle, it is not unacceptable that they are not disastrous non-combat losses, the key is that they have only achieved so many results by going deep into the West Gaoche for a hundred miles, and it is really meaningless to continue.
"This ghost place" Li Tan already has a general understanding of the local situation: "It starts to snow in mid-autumn, and it will not thaw until the end of spring next year, and after the ice and snow melt, a large area of swampland will be formed."
Most of the territory of the West High Car is in West Siberia in modern Russia, where the latitude is high, the temperature is low, the evaporation is weak, and the precipitation is greater than the evaporation.
In addition, there is a thick layer of permafrost underground, and surface water is not easy to seep, and the groundwater level is high, low-lying, and poor drainage, so it is not wrong to say that it is a ghost place.
The Han army arrived in the snowfall season, and the ground had a thick layer of snow, and even formed an icy surface.
If the Han army comes over in summer, the scenery will be very beautiful, but it is just to look at the beautiful scenery, if you really want to enter, you will see wetlands everywhere, and there will be swamps blocking the road at every turn.
Legend has it that the Huns retreated westward, and they reached the time when Siberia in modern Russia was about to go further, and it happened to be summer, and they were blocked by swamps.
It was because the Huns really couldn't get away that they turned south and approached the Western Regions again, otherwise there would not have been an incident of Chen Tang holding the banner of the Marquis and beheading the head of the Zhi branch, and the sentence "Although the strong man is far away, he will be punished" would not have appeared.
Perhaps it is because this area is a ghost place that there are not many tribes in Xigaoche that inhabit, and it is not that the ruling class of Xigaoche has much binding force on the tribes below, waiting to detect that the Han army is coming before moving those tribes.
This time the invasion of Xigaoche was a problem for the Han army to face in the natural environment and wild beasts.
"The bears in this place are bigger than our ones."
"That's right" "Standing up close to three meters, even the fiercest warrior is difficult to fight with."
"I heard that four strong men joined forces to kill a bear at close range."
The person who speaks is sorting the fur, and most of them are actually the fur of some lynx and squirrels, and the number of tigers, brown bears, leopards, wolves, wolverines, sables, and red foxes is also extremely large.
No matter what kind of beast it is, if ordinary people are right, they will definitely be frightened, and ordinary troops will be troublesome to kill, but if elite troops come to kill, it is really not too easy.
Most of the furs they were dealing with were full of holes, which had been shot by a large number of arrows.
If there is too much damage, the value of the fur will be low, and the price of the fur in good condition will be high, and the value will be different depending on the variety.
The Han army is in a state of war, so naturally it will not do anything deliberately hunting, but even if it is not deliberately hunting, it is only killed when it is encountered.
On this day, Liu Shen was wandering around the camp with Julian and Xeias.
As they walked, they came to the fur pile, and when they saw the piles of furs piled up like hills, Liu Shen didn't feel too special, but Julian and Xeias looked straight at them.
"That's a lot" Ksiaias saw a lot of fur and read some of them: "Are there so many tigers and bears in this place?"
Julian's eyes kept looking at the markinged furs, and when he saw how many there were, he subconsciously swallowed his saliva.
Europa is not an animal like a tiger, and if you want to hunt wild tigers, you can't talk about it, and if you really want to experience it, you have to go to West Asia or South Asia.
Precisely because there is no tiger in Europa, they will be happy and even proud to get a tiger skin.
On the one hand, it proves that they have been to Asia, and on the other hand, even if they have not been to Asia in person, the tentacles of the family have also been extended, which is a manifestation of strength.
"It's big," said Ksiaias, after a visual survey, "at least thirty centimeters larger than the biggest tiger on our side." ” The habitat of the Persians is, of course, such an animal as a tiger, but according to the category it is a West Asian tiger.
The body of the tiger in West Asia will appear shorter, and the maximum weight of the adult male West Asian tiger can reach about 480 pounds.
The average weight of an adult male Siberian tiger is 600 catties, the body length is about 2.6 meters, the shoulder height is about 1.1 meters, and the tail length is more than 1 meter; The average weight of an adult tigress is about 320 catties, the body length is about 1.7 meters, the shoulder height is about 0.8 meters, and the tail length is about 0.8 meters.
If you take out the West Asian tiger and the Siberian tiger together, you can really easily distinguish the difference in physique, and you will never mistake which one comes from where.
Liu Shen was not so interested in this, in his opinion, it was just some fur.
However, he was not stupid enough to see Julian and Xeias salivating and offered to give it away, it was the army's trophy, not his personal belongings.
Julian didn't know why his expression became a little depressed.
In fact, he was wondering a little, wondering why the more he faced east, whether it was a man or an animal, he was taller and taller than the man in the west In ancient times, the average height of the Romans was only about 1.57 meters, and the modern Romans can be regarded as growing to about 1.65 meters.
In the vicinity of the Romans, the average height of the Gauls in ancient times reached 1.75 meters, and the Germans reached 1.78 meters.
It was a cold weapon battle, and the side with a good physique must have more advantages, and the Romans, who completely lost to the Gauls in physique, could completely conquer the Gauls, or the Gauls were really too wasteful, or the Romans crushed the Gauls at the level of civilization.
Now when we talk about the level of civilization, we are not only talking about science and technology, but also include organizational strength, tactics, and tactics.
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In this respect, the Romans were indeed superior to the Gauls in all respects.
In the same way, the Romans were able to suppress the Germanic people because of the level of civilization, or the Germanic people were not only taller than the Gauls, but also stronger than the Gauls.
It can be said that the Romans did not have the slightest advantage in Europa in terms of physique, and it can even be said that the Romans lost to any of the surrounding nations in terms of physique, but they became the well-deserved overlords of Europa.
It is a buff from the civilization level, which makes up for the physical disadvantage to the greatest extent.
The Romans had the lead in the level of civilization, won victory after victory, cultivated the self-confidence of the whole nation, and naturally became the hegemon.
However, the Romans only had a little experience after encountering the Persians, and when the civilization level could not form a crushing trend, there was no destruction in the confrontation, but only consumption again and again, grinding the other party to the first can not stand it, in order to pick the fruits of victory.
Julian, who was congested, subconsciously looked around, and his mood was even more depressed at a glance.
Liu Shen, who was standing next to him, was more than 1.6 meters tall at a young age, and he should be at least 1.9 meters tall when he became an adult, and it was normal to be more than two meters If it is said that as a prince of a country, it is only an exception because of his excellent growth environment, but the Han army that Julian saw was generally one meter eight tall, and there was no shortage of strong men with a height of two meters.
If he was standing next to a two-meter-tall Han man, his head would be on the Han man's chest, and he would have to look up at face to face at a special ninety degrees.
"That" Julian was extremely depressed, and asked the question he wanted to ask a long time ago: "What is the staple food of the Han people?"
"Staple food" Liu Shen was stunned by the question, and replied: "The staple food of the Central Plains since ancient times has been millet, soybean and millet. ” Julian has spent a lot of effort in recent years to understand the Han Empire, and if he understands the names, he can also know what they are.
In fact, the Romans have been observing the eating habits of the Han Chinese for a long time, and they have also collected seeds of plant foods from the Han people, and even the first trial plantings have been carried out in several regions of Rome.
The idea of the Romans was quite simple, they thought that the Han people ate so much and grew tall, so they learned from the Han people to eat the same food.
They felt that since the Han people could grow tall after eating those foods, it made no sense that the Romans couldn't.
Of course, plant seeds don't grow when they are thrown into the soil, and it can even be said that the same seeds can't even germinate in different areas.
The Romans chose to plant millet and millet in Egypt, and they found that even if the seed could grow, it looked so emaciated that it would wither and die in the next moment.
Some of the seeds chosen for Gaul showed good signs, and the Romans began to sing and dance when they saw the results, hailing that the next generation of Romans was about to "squeeze" upwards.
"Five years after Yuanshuo, the staple food of the Central Plains gradually changed to rice and wheat."
Liu Shen didn't think about what Julian was asking for, what he knew was that there was no need to conceal this kind of information at all: "You have been staying in Dahan for a long time, and you haven't found this."
Naturally, the Romans also collected rice, barley, and wheat seeds in the Han Empire, and also took them back to Rome for trial planting.
What they didn't understand too clearly was that the Han people ate some staple foods such as millet, soybean, and millet so well, so why did they suddenly have to change their staple foods On the other hand, the Romans need to understand that after the Han people change to eat other foods, will the Han people still be so tall?
"We eat about the same food as the Han Chinese."
Ksias had some idea of what Julian was: "It's just that there's a difference in the way of cooking. ” The staple food of the Persians is mainly rice and wheat, especially the love of pots, and it is really not much different from the Han people to say that the original materials are really not much different from those of the Han people.
There are also many ways to cook them, especially some soups and the like are very similar to those of the Han people.
When Julian heard that his depressed mood had not improved, he was suspicious, wondering why his ancestors had not thought of improving their eating habits, and if they hadn't encountered the Han Chinese, they wouldn't have been able to learn anything, and if they had learned from the Persians, they might be able to increase their height The Europa people use wheat as the main food of bread, and the rest of the food is really not cooked, anyway, boiled in plain water.
In terms of height, whether it is an ancient Persian or a contemporary Persian, their average height has always been about 1.75 meters, and although there are not many people with a height of two meters, there are some, but most of them look thin.
In fact, the body of the Han people is rarely tall and strong, which is the problem caused by different eating habits, simply put, because of the relationship between Asian people and Europa, there is a difference between muscle fiber and Europa.
In fact, not only the Romans, but also the Persians were also exploring the eating habits of the Han Chinese, and many of the nobles of the two countries had already adopted the dietary habits of the Han Chinese.
Again, it is not only about eating habits, but also about learning from the Han people, and some Romans and Persians have even made some classifications, believing that the things of that part of the Han people must be learned.
Liu Shen seemed to think of something, and said, "I heard that you have made a request to the Ministry of Rites, hoping that Dahan can provide teaching."
Julian and Xeias subconsciously glanced at each other.
They used to make a request to the Honglu Pavilion, but with the reform of the Han Empire, they changed from the Honglu Pavilion to the Ministry of Rites, and they were not discouraged by repeated rejections.
"Perhaps," Liu Shen said with a smile, "I can convey it to my father." ” This made Julian and Xeias look overjoyed
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