Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1097 Mobei
Although it is indeed summer now, in the north of Yinshan Mountain, deep in the desert, it seems that there are only two seasons in a year, spring and winter.

The wind in Mobei is always carefree, whistling and running from one side to the other, the only difference is whether it is wielding a small knife or cutting people with a big knife...

Zhao Yun stood on a grassy slope, and the new wind blew past him, blowing the cloak behind him high.

At the bottom of the slope, in the middle of the meadow, there is a pond. Soldiers are camping by the edge of the pond. Some people are washing their horses, while others are building tents. They are busy and orderly.

Most of the area to the north of Yinshan Mountain is like this.

This is Gobi.

The wind blowing from the north is like a knife, not only cutting people, but also cutting land.The sharp-edged stones on the ground are enough to prove all this.

If you are not familiar with the terrain, not only is it easy to get lost, but the key is not like the south of the Yin Mountain. As long as you don't go to the desert wasteland, it is relatively easy to find the water source.The water source here is scarce, and if you are not careful, the whole army may be buried in the yellow sand and gravel because of the lack of water supply.

Zhao Yun has seen quite a few bones during his trip to the north.Some belonged to people, and some belonged to beasts. Even these bones were only a few miles away from the next water source, but it was the difference between life and death.

This road is said to be the road of conquest, but in fact it is more like the road of life and death.As long as you survive, you are victorious.At this moment, Zhao Yun could truly feel why these nomadic barbarians seem to be a bit drunk today, and life and death are extremely indifferent. I am afraid that the vast Gobi Desert is the answer.

Looking back, Zhao Yun saw that Han people and Hu people were singing and dancing around the puddle, happy to find such a nest of water of life.From this angle, if you take a rough look like this, you can't tell who are Han people and who are Hu people. At this moment, they are all equally happy and excited...

As if infected by his soldiers, Zhao Yun also smiled slightly, but soon he raised his head to look at the vast sky, and the smile on his face shrank back little by little.

After arriving at Yinshan with the remnants of the Black Mountain, Zhao Yun immediately received the order to lead the team to go north to the desert...

Yinshan was managed by General Zhengxi, no one can deny this, so it is naturally impossible for Fei Qian to give Zhao Yun the opportunity to participate in the specific deployment and arrangement of the Black Mountain group of personnel, Zhao Yun naturally understands this.But being clear does not mean that you can understand, even if you can understand, it does not mean that you can accept it willingly in your heart, but Zhao Yun has no other way except to accept it silently...

For these soldiers at the lower level, whether they are Han or Hu, in fact, most of them don't care about how the remnants of Montenegro are placed, because they have nothing to do with them, but for Zhao Yun, it is naturally a little different.

The main reason was because of Zhang Yan's words before he died.

Without Zhang Yan's words, Zhao Yun would not have become as deep as he is now.When the head of his former leader Zhang Yan, who was regarded as the great commander who had been kind to him, was in his hands, Zhao Yun's mood was indeed complicated beyond words.

If Zhang Yan hadn't taken him in back then, perhaps Zhao Yun would have died on the way to escape from Changshan...

Without Zhang Yan's promotion back then, perhaps Zhao Yun would never have had the opportunity to be a small commander, and naturally he would not have had such an encounter today...

And now, Zhang Yan is dead.

He died in his own hands, in front of his own eyes.

If Zhao Yun was a person with a cold nature, he might have thrown all these things out of the blue sky long ago, and started his own life as if nothing had happened...

It's a pity that Zhao Yun is not such a person.

It was precisely because of this that Zhao Yun was distressed.

If you are a small soldier, naturally even if you are distressed, it will not have much effect. Even if Zhao Yun is torn apart by himself, how many nails can be driven by this body of iron?But now there are more than 2000 people under his command, nearly [-] of whom are old tribes from the original Black Mountain, how he will go in the future has become a burden hovering in Zhao Yun's mind.

Out of Mobei, Zhao Yun basically takes the lead. No matter how difficult and dangerous the road is, no matter how dangerous the situation is, he always rushes to the front. It seems that only the battle at the edge of life and death can make Zhao Yun temporarily forget the torment in his heart .

As the bravest in the army, Zhao Yun is so brave, the soldiers under his banner are naturally strong, and this journey is simply trampling on the blood and bones of the Xianbei people.

The farther north he went, the more silent Zhao Yun became. Day after day, often within a day, he couldn't speak a few words, and he lost weight quickly. His face, which was originally upright, had a sharp chin. The youthful childishness between the brows and eyes is almost polished away, leaving only hardness and strength, just like the boulders on the Gobi Desert.

What now?

What about the future?
These problems in my heart are like the wind in Mobei, howling, rolling up sand and stones, grinding in my heart until my heart is bloody and bloody...

"...Report...Report to Captain, here...is about five hundred miles away from Yinshan Mountain..." An old soldier came up from the slope, hesitated for a moment, but still said.

The silent Zhao Yun made the soldiers more awed, but it also increased a lot of estrangement. At least for now, the soldiers at the grassroots level did not dare to tease Zhao Yun casually, even the old soldiers who were familiar with Zhao Yun. .

Zhao Yun was like a statue, and the lines on his thin face were like the hardest rocks. After a long silence, he said, "Return tomorrow."

This time, Zhao Yun's task is to clean up all the Xianbei tribes within [-] miles of the desert in the north of Yinshan Mountain, and create an extremely cruel no-man's land...

Now is the time to return.

In fact, creating a no-man’s land is not as difficult as most people think. There are actually traces of eliminating the Xianbei tribe. After all, Xianbei is also a person and has livestock, so it must be drinking water, so in fact, it is along the water source, all the way to the north. Don't bother with other Gobi deserts that have no water source, because that is the forbidden zone of life.

Of course, the premise of doing this is to have a guide who is familiar with the road and the distribution of water sources of this generation. However, this may still be a difficult problem for others, but for General Fei Qian who conquered the west, not only the Xiongnu, but also the Qiang people, and even those Xianbei people who got up early and were captured, so it was not difficult to find some guides who knew the distribution of water sources in Mobei.

Speaking of these barbarians is quite interesting, perhaps it is because the law of the weak on the grasslands has made them accustomed to it, perhaps it is because they have changed from the Xiongnu to the Xianbei for so many years, or they have not formed their own set of comparisons. Regardless of the reason for the systematic cultural inheritance, these barbarians do not seem to show much respect for the current general Fei Qian who is conquering the west, and sometimes they are so honest that it is a bit surprising.

In fact, there were quite a few Hu people like this in the Han Dynasty. Even in the heyday of the Xiongnu, there were still a large number of Hu people, whether they were Qiang, Xiongnu, or Donghu, they were all willing to obey the recruitment and orders of the Han Dynasty.

After receiving Zhao Yun's order, both the Han soldiers and the Hu people also began to prepare, and the main task was naturally to refill the extremely dry water sacs.In this Mobei area, water is equivalent to the continuation of life. Even those big animals seem to understand something, and they all work hard to bury their heads on the edge of the puddle, drinking water like a To make up for the lack of water along the way all at once, or to work hard to reserve the water on the way back...

At dawn, everyone got up and prepared to return.

Zhao Yun silently came to the edge of the puddle, he was going to perform the second task...

The puddles are clear.The water brought by that underground river is extremely sweet, but now Zhao Yun needs to completely destroy this water source.

Although it is temporary, during the period of time when the water source is polluted, humans don't have to think about drinking such water directly...

At least at this time, neither Han nor Hu people had the habit of boiling water before drinking.

"Bind the cattle and sheep, kill them, and sink them." Zhao Yun took one last look at the clear puddle, turned around and ordered.

The wailing of the animals quickly disappeared, and along with the rippling red color on the puddle, such a water source that could have been directly drunk would turn into poisonous water rich in various bacteria and microorganisms in a short period of time.

A large number of bacteria and microorganisms produced after the animal corpses rot will continue to multiply in this puddle, and it only takes two or three days to reach an astronomical value. After any treatment of raw water, there is no accident that it will be infected with disease...

In the Han Dynasty, when there were no antibiotics, once a serious infection of bacteria and fungi occurred, it often meant one thing, death.

Normally, if an animal's carcass is exposed to the wild without any treatment or damage, it will enter the decay period in about 3 days, and the whole body will be completely corrupted and eventually become a white bone. It takes about a year.

If it is buried in the soil, it usually takes seven to eight years for it to completely rot and become a bone, and it will take longer to soak in water than the bone in the soil, and it may even take more than ten years.

In other words, if the barbarians hadn't thoroughly cleaned up the rotting carcasses of animals that had sunk in the water puddle, it might take ten years for the water in the puddle to gradually return to its original cleanliness.

This kind of behavior was actually first used by the Huns.

In the old age of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, after forcing the death of Prince Liu Ju and Empress Wei, tens of thousands of people were killed, and the way of administration was blocked for a while. In addition, when General Li Guangli of the Second Division was ordered to send troops, he heard that Prime Minister Liu Qu Yak and Li Guangli conspired to make Liu Quyak, the king of Changyi, the crown prince. At this time, Li Guangli had won the victory and was chasing the Huns. As a result, the old and suspicious Emperor Wu of Han didn't even have the patience to wait, so he directly ordered Liu Quyak to be cut in half. Put Li Guangli's wife in prison...

The result naturally led to Li Guangli's defeat. When the news came, the whole country was in turmoil, which forced Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to reflect a little bit, or to compromise, and finally issued a "Luntai Edict", in which there were mentions. And the Huns sent witches, tied horses and buried them in roads and water, and used them to curse the Han army.

This is probably the earliest biochemical attack...

Seeing this scene, several barbarian veterans got off their horses, prostrated themselves on the ground, pressed their heads tightly into their palms, and muttered in a low voice, not knowing what to say...

Such abnormal behavior naturally caught Zhao Yun's attention.Zhao Yun glanced at them, his eyes flashed a few times, and he rode his horse to the front of these barbarian veterans and said, "Why is this so?"

The old Hu man kowtowed on the ground and said, "Report to the captain, do this, this thing... it will be short-lived..."

Another Hu man said: "Our witch did it before... Later, he died very early..."

"Broken life?" Zhao Yun frowned.

The mystical concepts in the Han Dynasty were still very strong. Gods and all kinds of gods had a certain market, and they would not always be exclusive and attack other beliefs like later generations.

In other words, the current Han Dynasty is like a market that has just been opened up. All the gods want to make this market bigger. It has not yet reached a saturated state, so there is no competition. Everyone is hello and me. Hello everyone……

Therefore, the Hu people believed in Changshengtian, or some kind of Baishi god, and the Han people did not feel that they should be banned. Of course, the belief of the Han people in this era is also relatively chaotic. Not to mention other things, there are five Emperor Guangtian, among them One is the incarnation of Liu Bang, so it really doesn't matter which one you want to believe in.

Therefore, when the old barbarian talked about Changshengtian, Zhao Yun didn't feel that Huren's Changshengtian couldn't control him, so he insulted or slandered him. Instead, he felt that Changshengtian was like another emperor of heaven. It's just the emperor of heaven, there's no need to worry about anything.

"Yes, yes..." The old barbarian kowtowed repeatedly, and said, "We are the lieutenant, praying to the Longevity..."

Zhao Yun was silent for a moment, then said lightly: "Get up! So...no need to pray..."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Yun turned his horse's head and ordered loudly: "The whole army! Let's go!"

For this matter, Zhao Yun will not only do it this time, nor only in this place, but will do it in all water sources within five hundred miles to the north of Yinshan Mountain!

If you lose your life, then you lose your life!
The world is in such a chaotic world, we can only rely on our own heart!
For the stability of the border, for the safety of the people, even if the life is lost, it is willing!

only……

General Zhengxi, don't let me down...

(End of this chapter)