Chapter 420 [Western Regions Autonomous Region II]
The weather is so good.
After walking through this semi-desertified Gobi Desert, you will see the famous city blocks. Looking around, the land intertwined with green, yellow and black colors is endless, and the tiles and blue sky is pressed down very low, as if it is stuck on the scalp, but it does not give people a feeling of depression and suffocation. I just feel that the world is vast and my heart is greatly expanded by this beautiful scenery.
Bai Dong once smiled and said to the flea that ordinary people stayed here for a few years, and their experience may not increase. They are guaranteed to be the heart of a prime minister. The flea smiled and didn't talk. Recently, she could only understand half of the words of her husband. They were all the principles of governing for the country. Did he have a problem with being the Western King? It seems that they don't look like him, why didn't he say these words to the sister of Bijiu? She once secretly read the letter Bai Dong wrote to Bijiu, which was nothing more than the stingy words of "Sweet Brother and Sister Mi". The girl of flea actually likes these touching words, but her husband always likes to say the truth about a man who is a real man as a family, which is clearly partial...
Seeing a clear lake water, the fleas gently jumped off their horses, placed themselves on the bluestone on the shore, took off their shoes and socks, and soaked a pair of delicate little feet in the water. The cold lake water made her breath, and she wanted to take her feet back but was reluctant to let go. Compared with her husband's warm embrace, the cold torture was sometimes a kind of enjoyment.
"Can you reach the snow-capped mountain you mentioned?"
Seeing that the flea lady was about to rest, the special training team did not dare to come forward to disturb her. Seeing that it was almost noon, it simply set up a camp to rest. Altai made a bowl of milk tea with his own hands. The flea looked at him, took the milk tea and drank it. He frowned slightly. It has been almost two months since he arrived in the Western Regions. He was still a little uncomfortable with the smell of milk tea: "Your tribe is on the snow mountain in front?"
“The graves of tribes and my relatives are there too…”
Altai said calmly: "It's a beautiful place, with clearer springs than here, and warmer; the size of a palm-sized snow lotus is like a beautiful flower carved by ice and snow when it blooms. Every summer, I will use the beaten snow fox fur to the foot of the mountain to exchange for food and beautiful flower cloth. Niqiri and Ma Wuma like the Qiang people's flower cloth the most. Sangjie likes the grapes in the central Western Regions and often hides them in snow caves. He deliberately makes his sister unable to find it. When his sister cries, he will try every means to make her happy, but she has to take out all the grapes to become..."
When telling these things, Altai's face was surprisingly peaceful, without laughing or crying, just like telling a story about someone else, but the flea could hear the feelings in his voice, just like what his husband said. Altai had successfully digested hatred, whether it was grace or hatred. They were just the heaviest and most nostalgic part of his life.
Those who have experienced great compassion in this way are already scholars and national scholars.
"My husband said that if Altai still shed tears when he walked here, let me go back immediately; if Altai would look at the sky and tell stories slowly, we will definitely succeed this time. It seems that you did not disappoint your husband, and we can continue to move forward."
The flea pulled back his feet, jumped up suddenly, pointed to the snow mountain in the distance and said, "Tell Mr. Gongshu, we will camp in your tribe tonight..."
When Fleas and Altai left, even Pang Juan and Sun Bin didn't know where they were going and what they were doing. Silde learned to act spoiled for this, but he still couldn't get any information from Bai Dong, so he could only meet Mr. Pang and Master Sun Bin with a dejected look...
This kid always loves to hide it from himself! Pang Juan is a person who likes everything in his control, but unfortunately he met Bai Dong this time; forget it, if you don’t say it, I’m too lazy to ask, Alibaba is a good opponent, and there are many things he needs to worry about.
After the Shanqiang War, the Persian army was defeated but not damaged. Alibaba was originally a test. Once he saw the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, his strategy changed quickly, which also made the three military geniuses, Pang Juan and Sun Bin and Silde, understand the terror of the Persian Empire for the first time.
The question that Bai Dong has never been able to figure out has been answered from Alibaba. In the early Warring States Period, China's military, politics, culture, and technology development was far better than that of the Persian Empire more than a hundred years ago. But why could the God King Xerxes drive his troops to drink horses from thousands of miles away from the Aegean Sea, but China cannot?
Whether it is later historians or Bai Zi who miraculously visited this era, they have calculated the calculations. Assuming that the major vassal states in the early Warring States Period could work together to concentrate all the strategic resources of China to fight against Europe, can they ensure sufficient military resources and logistics supplies?
The answer is no. China may not lack troops, but it cannot support such a long logistics supply. Not to mention going to Europe, even if it goes to Central Asia, soldiers may starve to death and freeze to death, and will also lose a lot of personnel due to the lack of adaptation to the local conditions! The Persian Empire's provincial system seems to solve this problem? But those who have a little knowledge of history will know what the concept of the Persian Empire's provincial is, it is just conquered slaves and barbarians. They can provide enough supplies to the army? That is a fantasy, ten thousand times more bizarre than the story Bai Dong told Cao'er.
But they are slaves and barbarians!
All kinds of unknown races were driven by the Persians from the west of the Palacioles and from the city area like flocks. They did not have to consume food, because they were food themselves!
Seeing the information sent back by Mu Xijing, Bai Dong was stunned and could not believe that such a cruel thing was the first invention of the Persian Empire. The slave legion driven by the Persians was called the "Flesh of Action". Their marching speed was even higher than that of the regular Persian army. As a result, a large number of weak slaves died, and their bodies would be made into jerky meat for other slaves and Persian army to eat!
This happened during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, but that was caused by the struggle between the powers in the world and the difficulty of the people covering their belly. It also happened during An Lushan's rebellion. When Zhang Xun guarded Suiyang, he lost his food and cooked his most beautiful concubine and distributed it to the soldiers for patriotism. It was a habit for the Persians to eat these "action meat". Whenever the army went on an expedition, the slaves they brought were actually ten times that of the army. The Persian army would just carry less food. Anyway, they would have meat to eat.
The Alibaba faced by Pang Juan and Sun Bin was even a hundred times more cruel than the God King Xerxes. When the battle slowly pushed from the central part of the Western Regions to the city area, the vanguard army led by Silde finally had to stop. The invincible Wei Wuzhu and Yongqi elite soldiers met the most shameless Persian army in the world.
When recalling that battle, even Pang Juan, who had been through many battles and Silde, would wake up in the middle of the night, not to mention Sun Bin, his military wisdom was even better than Pang Juan, but his ability to kill people was much worse than that of Pang Juan. Now even the war madman would feel disgusted when talking about that battle, let alone him. Now only the best Bai Family Tea can calm him down and barely eat half a bowl of rice.
All are blood...
The most profound impression that the battle gave people was that the blood covered the Gobi Desert and soaked in the originally beautiful grassland.
The Chinese army faced three Alibaba's legions, but in front of these three legions, there was a meat array composed of 100,000 slaves! Without armor, weapons, or even clothes, some of them were simply naked. They were tied together by iron chains and hemp ropes, covering the ground within a radius of ten miles. Under the threat of Persian bows and arrows, they used their lives to collide with the Chinese army formation. Alibaba has issued an order, and the slaves who can survive in this battle will be free!
The slaves had no choice and were unwilling to choose. It was better to die or try their best to get freedom than to be "active meat". They used their bodies to consume the bows and arrows of the Chinese army like madmen, nibble the iron armor of Wei Wuzu with their teeth, and hindered the footsteps of the Chinese cavalry with their companions and their bodies...
Life is so humble at this moment, even worse than a weak ant. At this moment, all the Chinese soldiers' eyes are red. They can kill people and laugh at the enemy formation, but they are facing fully armed enemies! Now their enemies are hiding behind these poor slaves and laughing at them, mocking them as women, women, and soft eggs.
Pang Juan bit his steel teeth and finally issued an order to fight to the death. Silde roared to the sky and called out "Kill! Kill! Kill!". The army had no mercy to fight against it. If the Chinese army had a little mercy, the entire army would collapse. No one could bear the responsibility.
The battle began, and the first half was massacre, or slaughter.
The war horses of the Chinese cavalry were so excited that they refused to obey the orders. The soldiers' swords were soaked by the blood of slaves. The heads of dozens or hundreds of people were cut off. Even the hardest bronze sword was rolled up. A total of 100,000 slaves were killed by the Persian rain of arrows, but a total of 60% were killed by the Chinese army.
Almost all Chinese soldiers were crying and killing these poor slaves. Among these slaves were the Chenggurong people who were recently captured by the Persians, and there were also unknown races who followed the Persian army from the west of the Pamir Mountains. When their heads were cut off, they shouted all kinds of strange words, which was really ugly, but they were all humans and living lives! Faced with such a killing that had to be carried out, Wei Wuzu and the elite soldiers from Lao Qin felt that they were no longer humans, they were simply demons!
When the exhausted Chinese soldiers finally rushed out of the Blood Sea Corpse Mountain and were glad that they had left hell, they saw 30,000 grim Persian elite soldiers; Alibaba's three legions were actually cavalry, thin armor, and terrifying and hideous helmets. They rode on the high horse of the Huatsmodel, like a group of demons who had just rushed out of hell.
Pang Juan finally ushered in his first big defeat in his career... (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
ps:ps:Thanks to the book friends of ‘yy3930099’, ‘Guangchengzi’, ‘The Decline of the Royal Family’ for their monthly ticket support, thank you :)
Chapter completed!