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Chapter 1079 Conquest and Assimilation

Between the Hexi Corridor and the desert, a section of the Han Dynasty Great Wall still stands between the wind and sand.

Its front and back have been broken, and the walls are full of cracks from wind erosion, making it look very lonely in the wilderness.

It's hard to believe that this pile of rammed earth can stand for thousands of years...

Li Xia stepped onto the pier.

He looked at the desert in the distance, observed the distance between the beacons, and marked it on the blueprint in his hand.

Duo Si, who was by his side, couldn't help being curious, and asked, "Why do we come here?"

"Why do you ask?"

"Chang'an is so good." Duo Siman mentioned Chang'an, with admiration in his tone, and said: "There is such a good Guanzhong, it would be great to move people there, there is nothing in this desert, why did you come to snatch it?" Desert territory?"

If she is stupid, there are many smart people who think the same as her.

Li Xia didn't bother to explain to her, and said: "According to what you said, Lin'an is better. If you go to Lin'an, you will be less enterprising than Zhao's monarchs and ministers."

"hey-hey."

Duo Siman smirked twice, not ashamed but proud, thinking that if she could be compared with Zhao, she should be more like a Han Chinese.

She used to hear people from her tribe ridiculing the cowardice of the Han people, but after living in Chang'an for a year, she realized that the Han people were living well, and she became more and more envious of elegant and prosperous things.

"Don't think about making progress, I learned another idiom, and I know what it means as soon as I hear it."

Seeing her proud look, Li Xia shook her head and said, "Idioms are nothing special, your cousin is also proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics."

Duo Siman has so many cousins, there are few people in the world who can surpass her.At this time, she didn't ask which cousin it was, and said, "Four Books and Five Classics? That is very, very difficult."

"Yes."

Li Xia knew that the Four Books and Five Classics were difficult, not even himself.

From this point of view, Zhen Jin is more like a Confucian scholar than him.

Is that true Jin Chinese deeply, or Duosi Barbarian Chinese deeply?

Li Xia couldn't figure it out, so he thought to himself, he would know when he saw real gold.

"You haven't said what we are here for, are we going to the Western Regions to rescue Eji?" Duo Siman asked again, she said she didn't care about Ulu Khurnai, but she still cared.

"You don't need to go to the Western Regions, it's enough to come here."

Li Xia replied casually, because he was facing the somewhat stupid Duo Siman, and he didn't mind talking to her about this, and this was also a process of clarifying his thoughts.

"The current situation is that Kublai Khan wants the Western Regions, and I want Tubo. Here you can see how I defended the Western Regions and how he lost Tubo."

"Can you see it here?"

Duo Siman quickly stood on tiptoe and looked further away, only to see the endless yellow sand.

So she pouted slightly and complained, "Obviously I can't see anything."

"Not urgent."

The blue sky is thousands of miles, the yellow sand is all over the sky, and the sky and the earth are so open.

After waiting like this for a long time, finally, a wolf smoke rose into the sky far away.

"See?"

Duo Si's eyes widened in astonishment, only to see smoke rising one after another from far to near.

She adored Li Xia's ability to predict things like a god, filled with admiration, couldn't help but hug him again, then ran away obediently, picked up the shield and bow, and didn't make trouble for Li Xia.

She hasn't lost the ability of a Mongolian woman.

Li Xia took two steps forward, raised the binoculars and looked north.

The boundary between heaven and earth is very far away, at least five miles away.When a black line appeared, his eyes lit up, looking expectant.

After finally being able to fight a battle, he was already full of fighting spirit.

"Stand up my banner..."

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The camel stepped on the yellow sand and stopped. It seemed that because it felt the atmosphere around it was different, it swung its long neck and snorted.

The guide leading the camel also stood still, and said in panic, "Marshal, this..."

Dong Wenbing had already seen the dragon flag in the distance.

This is the second time I have met Li Xia in more than a month.

He just wanted to go to Hehuang, but he was pursued on the main road, and he was intercepted when he planned to cross the desert.

Dong Wenbing knew that the timing was not right now.He came from a long distance with tired troops, but the Tang army waited for work with ease. It is not suitable for a decisive battle. It is the best policy to retreat to Heishui City.

However, thinking that King Yan is still trapped in Hehuang, how much choice is there?

He could see that Tang Jun's strength was not large.

In fact, as an emperor, Li Xia only brought thousands of people to conquer himself, so encountering him in this wilderness may not be a chance.

It's worth a shot.

"Warriors!" Dong Wenbing shouted, his lips were already chapped, but his voice was still as loud as thunder, "The great credit is in front of you. You have marched thousands of miles and crossed the desert. Chang Tiansheng's favor for you has come! "

In the wind and sand, the words of encouragement were passed down layer by layer.Gradually, more than ten thousand yuan troops began to shout in unison.

At this moment, Dong Wenbing felt that he was Huo Qubing, going deep into the desert, and happened to meet King Zuo Xian of the Huns.

The difference is that this time he is the side with more soldiers.

The Yuan army has one man and three horses. When marching, it looks like a black sea, with the momentum to swallow everything.

The Tang army was scattered throughout the entire defense line, and its forces were still scattered. It was only after the Yuan army was discovered that it began to gather gradually.At this time, there were only a thousand people guarding Li Xia's surroundings.

What the Yuan army has to do is to defeat the more than a thousand people before the Tang army's troops are gathered.

But this distance looks close, but it is far away when running. Every time the Yuan army gets closer, more people rush to Li Xia's surroundings.

In this case, the Yuan army did not carry out too many arrow attacks, but went straight to the Tang army's formation.

Tang Jun was running in front of the formation with buckets, splashing some pungent black water. Seeing the Yuan army coming, he hurriedly retreated.

"Fighting fuel tank!"

There was a "boom", the sound was like a strong wind pouring into the cracks in the stone.

When the Yuan army rushed up, a wall of fire suddenly rose.

The flames in the daytime are not dazzling, and even somewhat invisible.But soon there was black smoke billowing, screams overlapped, and the damage caused by the flames was not weakened because it was not conspicuous.

"Ah! Ah!"

Some knights fell off their horses, rolled desperately on the ground and even burrowed into the yellow sand.

The yellow sand has long been scalded by the scorching sun, but it is far less than the flame.

Not only did the flames enveloping him not go out, but they became more and more intense.

He stretched his entire arm into the sand, and in the next moment, everything stopped abruptly, and he was silent.Only the fat on his body was still crackling and burning.

This tragic death did not scare off the Yuan army behind.

Behind them is the desert that spans thousands of miles, and in front of them is the great credit.No one wanted to look back, and the soldiers behind couldn't see what was happening in front, and they were still double-teaming on both sides.

Some Yuan soldiers got off their horses and scooped up yellow sand to put out the fire.There were also Yuan soldiers who jumped over the flames on the ground and rushed into the formation of the Tang army.

When the scimitar slashed down, it could still slash into Tang Jun's armor fiercely.

They came from afar and exhausted a lot of physical strength. Fortunately, they have merit as an incentive to stimulate their strength.

However, the war has just begun, and it will last for a long, long time...

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"Kill!"

A Yuan soldier held a knife in both hands, pressed forward with a knife, and stabbed the tip of the knife into the chest of the Tubo warrior in front of him.

Blood was sprayed everywhere, and the dead Tubo warrior had actually used his broken knife to slash the Yuan army several times, but he himself had no armor, so he was killed with one blow.

Soon, the Yuan army smashed through the first line of defense of the Tubo people and went deep into the garrison.

"What about people?!"

Cui Bin looked around anxiously, looking for the real gold figure.

On the surface, he agreed to Brother Zhao Ben's request, sent all the money and things he had robbed, and took the opportunity to send a group of elite soldiers into Brother Zhao Ben's garrison.

The Tubo people, who were rejoicing because of the money, had already been killed through the line of defense before they could react.

……

In the center of this resident, Brother Zhao Ben has not heard the killing cries from outside.

He was receiving two messengers from the Tang army, and Yan Yunyun was acting as an interpreter.

"Is this your military ration?" Brother Zhao opened one of the jars, sniffed, and said, "It still smells delicious."

"The leader can try it."

Yan Yunyun stepped forward, casually took a piece of dry rice cake, soaked it in tea, and then scooped out side dishes from the jar in front of Brother Zhao Ben.

Brother Zhao Ben was worried that it would be poisonous, so he didn't want to eat it.But seeing that she made another bowl for himself and ate it calmly, he couldn't hold back the aroma after all, picked it up and ate it.

After taking a sip, his eyes lit up.

"It was delicious too!"

"Jinhua ham, more than a hundred years ago, Zong Ze, a famous general of the Song Dynasty, fought against the Jin Dynasty, and the people in his hometown rushed to send pork legs. Because of the long distance, they sprinkled salt to pickle it." Yan Yunyun said: "As for the dry rice, it is made of large rice. production……"

Brother Zhao Ben has never seen rice in his life. If he hadn't tasted it himself, he couldn't believe that this rice tasted better than roast meat sprinkled with salt, so he nodded repeatedly.

To be honest, as the head of a department and the official position of the general manager of thousands of households in the Mongolian Kingdom, Brother Zhao is not someone who has never seen the world. This business traveler on the shore of Qinghai Lake once brought fine wine, jade, gold, silver treasure.

There are also spices, roasted meat sprinkled with spices can also make people salivate, he eats a lot.

But this fresh delicacy is indeed rare.

A big man with a rough appearance can only eat delicious food, and the evil spirit on his body will disappear a lot.

Yan Yunyun said: "The Song Dynasty also suffered from this rice. During the Duanping Northern Expedition, the Song army went deep into the enemy's country, looking for food and grass on the spot. After finding the millet, they found it difficult to swallow. Some people even died of diseases because they were not used to eating millet. .”

"If I were from the Song Dynasty, I wouldn't want to go to the Northern Expedition." Elder Brother Zhao rushed, "What can be grown on this bare ground?!"

"The leader also understands the prosperity of the Song Kingdom?"

"Can I not understand? My ancestors had one, and they went to Sichuan and Shu when the Song Kingdom was beaten away by the Jin Kingdom."

Yan Yunyun smiled, thinking that Elder Brother Zhao Ben was quite open-minded, and it was not difficult to persuade him, and continued: "Now my Tang Dynasty has introduced this Jinghu rice in Sichuan, Shu and Guanzhong. In addition, the commercial roads are smooth, even in the north. You can eat such a bite of rice. Of course, if the leader is used to eating pasta, you can also taste the difference in our fried noodles."

"Okay, okay." Brother Zhao Ben was very interested, "I'll call everyone to eat together."

At this moment, killing cries could already be heard outside.

"Boss, it's not good..."

Elder Brother Zhao stepped forward and shouted, "What's wrong?!"

Before the words were finished, he turned his head to look, and knew what happened without answering.

"kill!"

Yuan Jun yelled and rushed straight to him.

At the same time, General Yuan shouted in Mongolian: "Don't shoot arrows, be careful not to hurt King Yan!"

Although they didn't shoot arrows, the armored soldiers charged into the unarmored foreigners with machetes, and soon blood flowed like rivers...

(End of this chapter)