Da Wei Chun

Chapter 666 The Son of the Plane
Entering April, wheat is being harvested in various places.First Henan (south of the Yellow River), Hedong, and roughly mid-April, then Shandong (east of Taihang Mountain), Hebei, and Guanzhong.

Because of the climate, only spring wheat can be grown in Beidi and Hexi.Northland is a little earlier, harvested in mid-May.Hexi is later, and it is not worth Maihuang until the beginning of June.

It's early May and it's time for grout, but it's a good time to roast wheat.

Cut off the connecting rods of wheat ears, soak them in salt water for a while, then set up a small fire, keep a little distance away, roast the wheat husks until they are burnt black, rub out the wheat grains in a dustpan, and then you can eat them.

I am used to eating fine rice and fine noodles, and occasionally eating this food is extraordinarily delicious.Wei Yu's face was as muddy as a cat's, her cheeks were bulging, her mouth was so stuffed that she couldn't even speak.

Li Chengzhi refused to let her eat it a long time ago, but Wei Yu didn't care about it, his mouth was slurred, and his arms were thumping to grab it from the dustpan.

"I really can't eat any more, or I will definitely have abdominal distension..."

Li Chengzhi pushed her with one hand, and pulled the dustpan away with the other.Wei Yu didn't obey, and slid into Li Chengzhi's arms like a chicken thief.

Suddenly, the pearls are round and jade-run, with a light fragrance.

After a moment of dazed effort, Wei Yu snatched it away.

Gao Wenjun was so helpless, he reprimanded in a low voice: "In broad daylight, and Jingmo and I are still here, why don't you say to be on guard?"

"I beg for a few grains of wheat, and I still need to guard against others?"

Wei Yu was so upright and strict, "Sister is too lenient?"

You think she is pretending to be crazy, but her big eyes are full of childlike innocence.You pretend she really doesn't understand, but you can't get up in Li Chengzhi's arms.After eating, he pulled the lapel of Li Chengzhi's robe to wipe his hands.

Gao Wenjun was so angry that his teeth itched, he could only secretly curse at the idiot.Zhang Jingmo covered his mouth, giggling.

Li Xiaoxian was about to come in to Bingbao, when he saw this scene, he quickly closed the gate of the courtyard: "Lang Jun is busy, please wait a moment!"

"Li Zhonglang, are you blind as an old man?"

Cui Guang was standing outside the door, seeing it clearly, he couldn't help but sneered: "Dare to ask what your father-in-law is busy with, busy flirting with each other, talking flirtatiously?"

Li Xiaoxian smiled awkwardly, and didn't know how to reply, but luckily Wei Zijian was still on the side, helping him out of the siege.

"At such a time, what kind of leisure and elegance is there?"

Wei Zijian was also very surprised, muttered something, and shouted through the door: "Chengzhi, I came with Shangshu..."

Wei Yu froze at first, then turned over abruptly, his face full of anxiety: "It's over... It's over... Father must have seen it, otherwise Li Xiaoxian should have reported it..."

The Wei family has been a noble family for generations, and the etiquette is quite heavy.If Wei Yu dared to be so presumptuous in her natal family, Cui Huirong would have swollen her hands.Seeing Wei Zijian's voice at this time, there is no reason not to panic.

Zhang Jingmo handed her a silk scarf to wipe her face, but Gao Wenjun sneered: "When I see my aunt next time, I must tell her..."

The mouth of the cooked duck was still hard. Wei Yu was terrified to death, but she refused to admit defeat at all: "Just say it, how can I still be afraid of you?"

The two were bickering, Li Chengzhi got up, rushed out to greet them, stood outside the door and bowed to the two: "I've seen Shangshu, my uncle!"

This is a side courtyard, not suitable for entertaining guests, so Li Chengzhi invited the two of them to the central hall.

Cui Guang took a closer look inside and saw a pond dug in the courtyard, surrounded by dense trees.There are deck chairs and small cases under the tree, on which there are dried fruits, preserved meat, wine jars, pots and cups and so on.

There is a fishing rod and a fishing rod beside the chair, and a small stove is placed on one side.The mutton liver on the stove was being burnt to sizzling oil, and an aroma of mutton and roasted wheat came to the nostrils.

"If it's as Zijian said, are you really in a good mood?"

Cui Guang cried out in amazement, moved his index finger vigorously, and stepped over the threshold: "Don't go to the middle hall, just leave it here, roast some of the lamb liver, and ask someone to cut some fresh meat..."

Northerners eat meat either boiled or roasted. Xianbei comes from Donghu and is better at this.Cui Guang has long been used to it.But to say that the roast is good, there is no other company except Li Chengzhi.

It is also because of Li Chengzhi's curiosity that the Hu merchants in the Western Regions who entrusted the pepper traffickers actually got fennel and cumin from India.

Of course there is no chili, so we can only squeeze some ginger juice and garlic juice instead, but it is still delicious.Even Yuan Ke, who vomited at the sight of meat, was full of praise...

Cui Guang was not polite at all, and stepped into the side courtyard without waiting for Li Chengzhi to refuse.

Whenever he met Li Chengzhi, he didn't have a good face, but when he met Gao Wenjun and others, he was always polite.

Seeing Gao Wenjun and others asking him for a salute, he stopped in his tracks and bowed solemnly: "Trouble the three ladies..."

After a few greetings, the three female relatives left the courtyard.Cui Guang sat on the reclining chair with a golden knife, and called Li Xiaoxian to pour wine and barbecue for him.

It's not that Cui Guang is blind, but that the matters discussed later are all confidential, and Li Chengzhi's confidants must wait on them.So Li Xiaoxian was used to it long ago, but felt that Cui Guang favored him a lot.

The idlers were screened away, and heavy troops were deployed outside the courtyard, and the three of them sat down.

Cui Guang asked vaguely while biting the sunburnt: "Whether Li Song or Huangfu are invincible, they are invincible. It is time to pursue and pursue the victory. Why do you want to retreat?"

Li Chengzhi was startled, his hair stood on end: "Who said I was going to retreat, how could I not know?"

Including the military orders handed down to Li Song, Li Feng, Huangfurang, Li Liang, and even Daxi and Zhang Jingzhi, they are all in moderation, and they are accepted as soon as they are good. They have never mentioned half a word about retreating. How did Cui Guang know? ?

"Although the old man is old, he is not ignorant. You can hide your petty thoughts from others, but you can't hide it from me..."

After talking for a while, Cui Guang pointed at Wei Zijian again, "Of course I can't hide it from Zijian!"

Wei Zijian pondered for a while, and said in a low voice: "If you don't have the intention of retreating in your heart, you should take the momentum of a big victory and plot Guanzhong to lay the foundation of the emperor. If you are stationed in Guanzhong, you should naturally build armaments and hoard food and grass , Buy a batch of military supplies, and transport them to Wuwei and Jincheng as soon as possible for the army to use.

And although Shangshu and I stay at home, we still know a thing or two about the turmoil in the city: a few days ago, you suddenly shut down the iron factory and A factory, and ordered the Ministry of Civil Affairs to dispatch craftsmen, folks, women, old people, etc. Anyone who can walk will be conscripted by you, and sent to Zhangye, Wuwei, and Heli Mountain North.

At the beginning, Shangshu and I thought it was because the people were not strong enough, so we sent them to transport grain and build villages.But after listening to the gossip, did you know that you have gone to shepherd all the sheep? "

Li Chengzhi was startled, and then heaved a sigh of relief.

He almost thought that Cui Guang and Wei Zijian would be able to read minds and guess what he was thinking, but it turned out that it was a mistake and hit the right thing?

It was also because the two of them didn't know how many livestock Xihai had seized. If they really sent people to herd sheep, then Xihai wouldn't have to do anything.

It's just because there are too many cattle and sheep captured: the Dabai Rouran alone has nearly a million cattle and sheep collected from Zhuoxie Mountain and Junji Mountain.

But Huangfu asked Li Liang to play tricks, and smashed the three parts of Tianzhu to pieces.Yanhu Lake is nearly a thousand miles wide from north to north, full of ownerless cattle and sheep.

Li Shi led the ranch herders and five thousand strong men, and they were almost tired enough to vomit blood just by driving cattle and sheep every day.

Although there is no actual number, according to Li Shihuibing, the livestock captured by the three tribes of Tianzhu is said to be more than one million.

That's 200 million, and the army and civilians in Xihai are worth 20 households. If they all go to grazing, who will plant the land, who will fight the battles, and who will build the weapons and armor?
Of course, it is impossible to let it go, so I can only kill it and make it into dried meat to fill the army rations.

Fortunately, there is a lot of salt, and it is easy to make: dig a pond near the salt lake, kill cattle and sheep, cut them into pieces, and submerge them in them, and they will be soaked in four or five days.It does not rot even in midsummer.

Most of the livestock handed over from Rouran were transported to Dunhuang to help Li Song rule the people and farmland, and a small part was slaughtered by Li Feng on the spot, and made into military rations like Li Shi.

And those women, old and weak who used to help workers in various factories were sent to help Li Shi and others slaughter cattle and sheep.

As for Min Zhuang, they were all sent to the Qilian Mountains to pick sulfur with Li Shixian and Li Chengxue.

The rhetoric of shepherding and the like is just used to deceive people.

Unexpectedly, Cui Guang and Wei Zijian made a mistake and hit the right button, and guessed that he had intended to stop fighting.

No stop no.

Just because the gunpowder that Xihai had accumulated for more than four years was almost used up in less than a month?

Nitrate is easy to handle, and charcoal is easier to handle, but sulfur cannot be mass-produced.

If it was before, it would naturally be possible to purchase from Guanzhong and Luoyang through Hu merchants.Or smuggle some from Nanliang via Tuyuhun.But now that the war continues, the Silk Road has been broken, and Tuyuhun has become a deadly enemy. These two roads are completely broken.

The only solution today is to scrape off the stone bit by bit.

But the water far away cannot quench the thirst of the near, so with the little bit of sulfur collected every day, it is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket to supply nearly one hundred thousand troops and five or six thousand cannons.

The so-called powerful tiger is the most appropriate metaphor for the Yuan and Wei Dynasties at this time.

That is, the imperial court was defeated repeatedly, the soldiers were lost, and the food and grass were even unsustainable. After eating for one month, there will be no next month.But if it is true that swords are against swords and guns are against guns, Xihai is far from being an enemy.

Because fighting is based on national strength and accumulation.

And this happens to be Li Chengzhi's shortcoming.Just like today's Xihai, he is only a little wolf cub who has just learned to walk.It looks fierce, but in fact, it has just learned to bark its teeth.

If there is no more gunpowder, let alone a toddler, I am afraid that he will not be as good as a wolf cub who has not been weaned.No matter how fierce you bark, it's hard to get rid of your milky voice.No matter how old the tiger is, if the wolf cub really wants to go up, being swallowed is just a matter of opening his mouth.

Therefore, rather than being exposed by the enemy to expose the fact that Xihai is already a strong outsider, it is better to accept it as soon as it is good.It also saves the tricks.

Therefore, Li Chengzhi never had the ambition to plot Guanzhong, and the reason why he fought on both sides was just being forced to the edge of a cliff and fighting with all his courage.

The so-called life and death are bearish, and if you don't accept it, you will do it.Li Chengzhi is ready to be benevolent if he fails.

If it is dead, nothing will be discussed.If you are lucky enough not to die, then lead the remnants to Dunhuang.If it doesn't work, go to the Western Regions.

Can't beat Yuan Wei, can't they also beat a few small countries in the Western Regions who drink blood?
But who would have thought that it would be as if God had eyes and suddenly opened up for him, how to fight, how to win?
Li Chengzhi even wondered if he was possessed by Liu Xiu and suddenly became the son of a plane?

On April 20th, Li Chengzhi received a report from Shandan Racecourse that Tuyuhun recruited more than [-] elite riders, claiming [-], and joined forces at Salt Lake on April [-]th.And the army has been divided into six divisions, four of which followed Zuoguli King and stationed at Nanmen Pass, and only the southern part of Tianzhu was temporarily stationed in the north of Salt Lake.

Huangfu Rang said that he had already made arrangements, and that at midnight on the [-]st, that is, after Murong Xiao led his army out of the South Gate Pass, he would cooperate with Xi Zuo who was lurking in the south of Tianzhu, and attack the south of Tianzhu, which was guarding the salt lake at night.

Although it was only used as casual chess at that time, Li Song and Huangfu Rang have been playing in Tuyuhun for more than four years.There are not one thousand, but eight hundred spies placed in various ministries.Therefore, Li Chengzhi concluded that this battle is a sure thing.

However, in order to prevent Tuyuhun from counterattacking, after much deliberation, he decided to order Daxi and Zhang Jingzhi to reorganize the army. As soon as the news of Huangfu Rang's victory came, he would order the two men to march eastward and rush to help.

Sure enough, after only two nights and one day, that is, at dusk on April [-], Huangfu Rang sent another horse to report: the southern part of Tianzhu was caught off guard, and it collapsed completely in just one night.And because Huangfu let the enemy know ahead of time, he formed his troops in the east of the Salt Lake earlier, so the news did not come out, so he thought that he could repeat the old trick and use this trick against Murong Xiao.

Huangfu Rang also said that he had secretly contacted Li Han, who was then the famous Tuyuhun King Murongxiao's former military camp commander, and agreed to attack Nanmenguan on the night of April [-]rd.

This has also been deduced long ago, the purpose is only to use the momentum of thunder to bloom in the center of Tuyuhun's hinterland first, so that it will be difficult to see from the beginning to the end, and it will be caught off guard.Then, taking advantage of your illness to make you ill, I will give you another stab at the back of the waist, so that you will know how severe it is and how afraid you are.

At that time, even if the Yuan Wei Dynasty granted Tuyuhun a golden mountain, Murong Xiao had to withdraw his troops.

For this reason, Li Chengzhi also gave Huangfu a sixteen-character policy: be surprised, attack the unprepared, and fight as fast as you can.

Of course, a strategy is just a strategy, whether it can be realized or not depends on whether Huangfu implements it properly, and more importantly, whether God will give him face or not, and whether he is lucky or not.Therefore, even Li Chengzhi himself is not sure of victory.

When he was stationed in Shanshan, Cui Yanbo claimed to have millions of soldiers under his command, and Li Chengzhi naturally didn't believe it.But even if there is a discount, 30 should be available.

In addition to the more than 40 troops from Tuyuhun, this is an army of nearly [-].And how many soldiers does Huangfu Rang have?
Even counting the people who transported grain and guns, and the herdsmen and herdsmen of Shandan Horse Farm, there will be more than [-].

The enemy army was ten times larger than himself, if Huangfu failed to make a surprise attack, he might be surrounded by Murong Xiao and Cui Yanbo.Even if he has two thousand cannons, big and small, but the so-called ants kill elephants, if Cui Yanbo and Murong Xiao dare to kill each other, regardless of casualties, Huangfu would probably end up with the entire army wiped out.

At that time, Xihai will have at least three out of ten troops.And this is only second, the most important thing is that Li Chengzhi has no more soldiers to send, and the south and east of Zhenyi can only open their doors and let Cui Yanbo invade.

At that time, Li Chengzhi will have two choices: to fight to the death, or to escape as soon as possible.

But even Li Chengzhi himself didn't expect that not only would the battle go smoothly, Huangfu Rang would even play the essence of the "blitzkrieg"?

(End of this chapter)