Chapter 4: The severe drought in Guanzhong will make the snow worse

Outside the northwest border, although it was early spring, the cold wind was still rushing to the point of being like a sharp long sword, repeatedly sweeping away all living things. The world was vast, but it was dead.

Just when the cold wind in the late spring was raging, it was surprising to find that in the ghost weather in the cold winter, you can still see the brigade of Turkic cavalry, riding thin war horses, whistling past the earth in the severe cold.

These Turkic cavalry were as pale and thin as their pitiful war horses. Many Turkic cavalry did not need to be attacked by the Tang army at all. They would fall off their war horses while they were galloping, and never got up again.

Li Jing, the chief general of Liangzhou General Administration, was keenly aware that something was wrong. Just as the Tang army soldiers were about to sweep away the enemy in front of him, Li Jing shouted, "Leave a living!"

Just as the sharp horizontal knife cut the forehead of the Turkic knight, it retreated urgently. A shocking blood cut appeared on the forehead of the Turkic cavalry. Blood kept gushing out of the wound and quickly solidified and crystallized in the temperature of more than ten degrees below zero. At this moment, the exposed shoulder blades of the Turkic cavalry had already covered with pools of condensed blood stains.

A medical soldier stepped forward and gently wiped the blood stains with his hands. He endured the pungent smell of blood and stirred the Turkic knight's wound with his heart. He couldn't help but give an order: "Wipe his forehead with snow, don't let him faint - hurry - don't rush slowly, move quickly..."

The cold feeling on his forehead made Zhisi Qie scream all over, pulling him back from the edge of fainting. The pain on his shoulder became stronger and stronger. The hateful Tang Ren was torturing his pain nerves with one knife. The knife in his hand almost spasm every time he moved inside his body. The whole process of digging out the arrow only took half a quarter of an hour, but in Zhisi Qie's feeling, it seemed as long as centuries - although Zhisi Qie's own idea of ​​time was not known as "century".

With the screams of Zhisi Qie, the medical staff finally carefully and slowly took out the sharp arrow like a small triangular scraper from the wound on Zhisi Qie's shoulder...

"Puhuang powder... hurry up... take it!" The medical nurse also ordered a little nervously...

The medical soldier took the small bottle handed by his assistant in a hurry. He pulled out the plug without hesitation, poured the dim powder onto Zhisiqie's wound, and poured it clean at once.

The medicine is very effective and the temperature is low. When he almost took a few breaths, Zhisi Qie's wound no longer bleeding.

Li Jing looked at this scene and finally breathed a sigh of relief. He slowly ordered: "Band him, be careful not to touch his wound again, and don't let the powder spread, bandage three layers of front, back, left and right until the blood stains cannot seep out..."

The soldiers of the Tang army began to clean the battlefield. A soldier of the army looked at a war horse with broken legs. He picked up the knife very skillfully, began to peel off the skin and chop the meat.

Li Jing pondered: "Chop the horse meat into pieces, it is best to chop it into minced meat and put it in the pot. The worse the better, it will be easier to cook and it will be easier to put it into the pot..."

The head of the team agreed...

Li Jing's handsome tent was quickly built by the soldiers, and a brazier was burning inside. It took not long for Li Jing to feel the long-lost warmth. However, Li Jing did not feel comfortable for too long. He walked to another small tent. In the tent, Zhisi Qiezi had long been bandaged into a mummy.

Li Jing looked at Zhisi Qiezi, who was pretending to sleep, and smiled faintly: "Can you say Tang Yan?"

Zhisi Qizi ignored Li Jing's question and turned his head to look at Li Jing.

Li Jing squatted down slowly and said, "You can speak Tang words but refuse to speak. Do you feel wronged and unwilling to speak? It turns out that people from Zhisijia can win but not lose."

Zhisi Qiezi trembled when he heard the sound, opened his eyes slightly and glanced at Li Jing, sat up suddenly, and glared at Li Jing.

The two guards were shocked and were about to step forward to press them down, but Li Jing waved his hand to stop them.

"My name is Li Jing, and I am the general manager of the Liangzhou military in the Tang Dynasty..." Li Jing looked at Zhisi Qie's eyes silently and said in a gentle tone: "You really want to say that you are not full and your horses are hungry. Are you not convinced?"

Zhisi Qiezi seemed to be surprised, a flash of light flashed in his eyes, but he still stared at Li Jing blankly, his lips tightly closed and refused to speak.

"The people who can be the Legend of the Condor Heroes are all warriors of the Turkic clan. I don't deny that it is our luck to catch you this time, not that you are not brave enough-" Li Jing still did not think it was his disobedience and said slowly: "You Turks have no outlets. Surrendering to the Tang Dynasty is the only chance of survival that you all can get!"

The expression on Zhisi Qiezi's face moved a few times, and finally he slowly spoke: "You Tangren are numerous, we can't beat you,

I lost in your hands - it's not unfair!"

"Three thousand people!"

Zhisi Qie was stunned and looked at Li Jing suspiciously.

Li Jing said lightly: "Two thousand five hundred people!"

Zhisi Qie asked in confusion: "What?"

"If you defect to the Tang Dynasty, you can get 2,500 food that can survive!" Li Jing shook his head lightly and said, "Now there are only 2,000 people left!"

Zhisiqie roared: "This is not fair..."

Before Zhisi Qizi finished speaking, Li Jing said lightly: "One thousand five..."

Zhisi Qiezi said with a sad face: "I...I...I...Surrender!"

Li Jing said: "The East Turks have increased significantly recently. I want to know what happened to the East Turks?"

Zhisi Qiezi struggled for a while and said slowly: "The leader of Jie Li's great Khan is now preparing to meet Dragon Hunting City!"

Hearing this, Li Jing shook his wry smile.

...

In Tai Chi Palace, Li Jiancheng looked at the huge map and frowned. Du Fuwei, the Minister of War, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, Fengzhou City is broken, and the general manager Liu Chengdao was captured. Fortunately, Jie Li was busy going south and did not massacre the city."

Li Jiancheng thought for a while and said, "How about the military newspapers in various places?"

Du Fuwei smiled bitterly and said, "Gaoling, Jingyang, Longzhou, Yuanzhou, Jingzhou and Qizhou are said to have found Turkic cavalry."

Wei Zheng looked silent and said nothing.

Fang Xuanling said: "According to the fact that the Turks should not start a war in the spring. Their war horses need to be fattened, and most of the livestock are in heat in spring. Now they should be shooting a frightened shot."

Li Jiancheng's eyes looked at Chen Ying in the crowd.

At this time, Chen Ying closed his eyes and lowered his head without saying a word.

Li Jiancheng winked at Chen Ying, but Chen Ying turned a deaf ear.

Chen Shuda bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the most important thing now is Qingzhou. Once the 40,000 Tianjie Army fled without fighting, Qingzhou fell into the enemy's hands, and Jie Li can now reach the city of Chang'an in one breath.

Li Jiancheng sighed with regret: "I originally prepared a title of prince for Luo Yi, but now it seems that he is not worthy of it at all."

Wang Gui said anxiously: "If Luo Yi defected to the Turks and rebel against the water, he would attack Chang'an with the Turks."

At this moment, Chen Ying, who had already snored slightly, suddenly laughed and said, "If Luo Yi stayed in Qingyang and resisted the Turks, he would be a warrior; if he abandoned the city and left, he would be a deserter. If you were soldiers of the Tianjie Army and had fought with the Turks for many years, and suddenly learned that the Lord General fled without fighting, what would you do? Will you still follow him? What's the terrible thing about a deserter who betrayed his relatives? A county official and a rope can take him down!"

Li Jiancheng pointed at Chen Ying and said, "You all listen, this is what the old man said!"

Wei Zheng frowned and said, "Your Majesty, the other counties are not yet clear, but Yongzhou is indeed very bad."

Li Shijiancheng frowned and asked, "It's very bad? What a bad method?

Wei Zheng sighed and said, "There is water shortage, food shortage! It has been two months since Yongzhou, and it has not rained. Now the people are talking about irrigating the land, and even people and livestock drink water, it is very difficult."

Fang Xuanling picked up a document.
Chapter completed!