Chapter 1127 Chaos

Guanzhong is far away, and Jia Xu only needs 500 cavalry. Relatively speaking, the things he needs to carry are naturally less. Therefore, after a military order, it didn't take much time to get ready.

Looking at Jia Xu leading the team away, Fei Qian scratched the back of his head.

Nowadays, people have long hair. If in later generations, they would more or less look like a literary young man with long flowing hair. But the problem is that there was no shampoo in the Han Dynasty...

Not even soap yet.

If you want to clean your hair, most people usually use plant ash, better to use honey locust, and more extravagantly to use rice water. As for bath beans, soap and other things, there is no such thing.

Fei Qian wanted to invent some soap, but when the people in Huang's workshop heard that grease would be used to produce bathing gadgets, their eyes looked a bit wrong...

Later, Fei Qian gave up in desperation.

This is indeed the case. In an era where people would be criticized to death for using too many candles, and in an era when most people may not be able to eat a few mouthfuls of fat all year round, it is time to get ahead of the curve and produce these daily necessities that require a lot of fat. , is it really a suitable thing?

So, let’s talk about it.

However, the result is that if it is not convenient to bathe and wash your hair, the oil and dust secreted by the scalp will be combined, and long hair can easily store these dirt, and then it will become extremely easy to become a paradise for all kinds of small animals and bugs... …

In later generations, some people often envied the literary style of the Han and Wei dynasties. They felt that a nobleman was wearing a wide robe with long sleeves and long flowing hair, and then there was a Luoli little maid behind him with green jade fingers, holding a wooden comb to comb his hair. It is something both romantic and elegant.

But these people definitely didn't look at the wooden comb, nor the small wooden barrel behind little Luoli, let alone the layer of scalp ash floating in the small wooden barrel, or even the lice and fleas floating in the water. …

Distance brings beauty, and if it really turned out like Fei Qian's, nothing would be beautiful.

Fei Qian secretly used his thumbnail to pop out the dirt from the gaps between the nails of his other fingers, and asked Pang Tong beside him: "You said that Wenhe, with only five hundred cavalry, can solve the chaos in Guanzhong?" ?”

Pang Tong looked around and saw that no one was nearby. He glanced sideways at Fei Qian and said, "Brother, have you been eating too much meat recently? It's not good to eat too much meat. You'd better eat more millet and corn." Bar……"

After Pang Tong finished speaking, he turned around and left.

"Hmm...huh?" Fei Qian suddenly reacted, grabbed Pang Tong, then put his arm on Pang Tong's shoulder, and said with a smile, "Oh? Are you saying that a certain carnivore is despicable? So, little junior brother Don’t eat meat anymore? That’s fine, I’ll tell you, from now on, you can only eat grains, and don’t eat anything else..."

Pang Tong struggled a few times, but couldn't get away, and said angrily: "Let go, how can you humiliate me like this! Also, eating meat will help you grow your brain, not just your strength!"

Fei Qian let go of his hand with disdain and said: "With your small body, you still have the nerve to call me a carnivore... Look at Yuan Zhi, he can probably hit you three times! I'll go to Zuo Fengyi and call me if you need anything." Discuss it carefully with Yuan Zhi, don’t take risks rashly... By the way, you haven’t said what you are going to do yet..."

However, Pang Tong ran away and said: "Jia Wenhe will do whatever he plans to do..."

"Ah?" Fei Qian couldn't help but scratched his head again, tilted his head and thought for a while, then shook his head, muttered something, turned around and walked down the city wall.

The expedition to Yinshan is about to begin again, and Zhang Yun is arriving soon. There are still many things that need to be prepared...

So what if Jia Xu and Pang Tong failed to achieve their strategic goals?

After retreating, our basic market position is still in the north anyway, so there is not much loss. The Yinshan Mountains are different. As an important area for producing grain and horses in the future, there is absolutely nothing to lose!

In order to prepare for possible epidemics, you need to bring a large amount of lime. Fortunately, whether it is lime, sulfur, or even pea pod plant ash, etc., items used for bathing and isolating bacterial infections are available on Luliang Mountain. Huang's Workshop There are quite a few in the warehouse, so it’s pretty ok.

However, the problem Fei Qian said he had to face was not just this problem. He needed to know whether the Xianbei people of the Yunzhong generation in Yanmen Changshan Mountain would interact or even cooperate with the Mobei Xianbei when they went south this time. , crucial.

If he led his people north to the Yin Mountains, only to have the Xianbei King Bu Dugen in the Changshan area of ​​Yanmen send troops to raid his Pingyang lair and plunder the surrounding areas, he would lose more than just money.

Both the population accumulated in the past two to three years and the reputation established among the Qiang and Hu will suffer the heaviest blow.

Therefore, how to fight here in Yinshan is still a very delicate, very critical, and very troublesome problem...

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Although Fei Qian believed that Chang'an should be secured if it could be secured, and withdraw if it could not be secured, Jia Xu did not think so.

Really go back?

So do you still want this face of yours?

Although Jia Xu himself does not attach much importance to face, after all, this face is related to how he can eat beef under General Zhengxi, so he cannot ignore it.

After all, without beef, can we still call it a complete and happy life?

Damn it, these damn Xiliang monkeys!

Jia Xu cursed in his heart with an expressionless face. He was a little impatient and completely forgot that he was actually from Xiliang...

"Jia Zheng, what should we do next?" asked the cavalry commander in charge of leading the team.

"Find a place to camp first," Jia Xu said calmly, as if all the news just now was expected by him. The speed and tone of his speech did not change at all from before, "Let everyone rest first." ...Well, pay attention to concealment..."

"Wei!" Seeing Jia Xu's calmness, the commander of the cavalry also felt at ease, so he cupped his hands and followed the order.

If among the contemporary heroes, Jia Xu can at least be ranked among the first few to remain calm during major events. The benefit of this was something he experienced firsthand when he was young.

If Jia Xu hadn't been able to declare that he was a relative of the Taiwei without changing his face and his heart not beating, he might have died at the hands of bandits long ago.

If Jia Xu hadn't been able to shout out at the critical moment that he had a plan to offer to Fei Qian, he might have become a dead soul under Zhang Liao's gun.

However, the current situation is still very difficult.

Jia Xu is not omnipotent. He did not expect that Xia Mou, who had withdrawn from Guanzhong, would collude with Han Sui!

So what Jia Xu needs to face this time is not only the pitifully few and poorly trained Guanzhong cavalry in Guanzhong, but also the Xiliang frontier troops who are accustomed to fighting on horseback, and a large number of people who have been on horseback since birth. Those Qiang people rolling on their backs!

Five hundred riders.

The food road originally used to attack Xia Mou was enough.

Jia Xu was already familiar with the terrain in Guanzhong, and he also knew that there were only one or two routes for transporting grain and grass. Therefore, as long as one or two attacks on Xia Mou's grain routes were carried out, the morale of Xia Mou's army would be greatly damaged. , there will naturally be a chance to reverse the situation.

Besides, in the original Guanzhong land, these noble clans would not stupidly wait for the refugees to come and cause harm one by one. Those who were before could be said to be unable to react, but now, I am afraid they have gathered near Chang'an...

Are these nobles going to flee?

Unlikely.

After all, if one wanted to escape, Dong Zhuo or Li Guo would have already escaped before, but now, they are even more reluctant to escape. After all, if you escape now, doesn't it mean that all your previous efforts have been in vain? It would be better to escape early and at least get the title of foresight.

Therefore, these noble clans near Chang'an will naturally fight for their own survival!

Xia Mou's use of the power of the refugees was indeed good and effective in terms of tactics, but after all, Xia Mou was a military attache who preferred the military and was not very clear about the relationship.

Encouraging the use of refugees to attack the Wubao of the powerful nobles was already breaking the rules.

No matter who it is, no matter which ruler it is, they will not like people who are good at instigating the people at the bottom. For such people, the rulers have only one approach.

All the nobles didn't like it either.

And those refugees who were taken advantage of, after experiencing pain and failure and waking up from their arrogance, naturally didn't like it.

Xia Mou did this, which seemed to be a gain at first glance, but in fact he ruined his entire future.

Therefore, Jia Xu was originally very confident.

However, all these calculations and plans need to be made without the intervention of Xiliang soldiers!

Originally, the Chang'an area in Guanzhong was just a small disadvantage. After adding Han Sui and other Xiliang soldiers, the situation became a big disadvantage. And with the five hundred cavalry of my own, targeting the small disadvantages, I could naturally leverage the situation easily, and Nowadays, in a situation where there is a huge difference in power, the role that can be played is limited...

Just like a wooden stick, it may be able to move a big stone blocking the road, but it certainly cannot move a mountain. The difference in strength is too big, which makes the difficulty more difficult. This catches Jia Xu off guard and makes him very embarrassed. .

Alas, if I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have...

Um?

There seems to be an opportunity, yes, it should be an opportunity.

Jia Xu stroked his goatee and narrowed his slender eyes...

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Pang Tongcai ignored Fei Qian's words. For him, when Jia Xu only wanted cavalry instead of infantry, he had guessed that Jia Xu would cut off Xia Mou's food route.

Soldiers of Spring!

Refugees can eat leaves, chew bark, and even eat whatever they have, no matter what, but what about the soldiers?

Also gnaw tree bark and eat grass roots?

It's not like we send troops during the autumn harvest, so we can just feed the enemy.

Therefore, soldiers must be expensive and need to be mobilized from the rear. And this food channel has become the weakest point of these armies.

With Xu Shu at Zuo Fengyi, Tongguan has a way out. Anyway, Tongguan will definitely not be captured in a while. Therefore, when Jia Xu went to cut off Xia Mou's grain route, he went to cut off Yang Biao's grain route. .

Requesting the rear to transport grain and grass can be one, two, but not three.

Of course, it’s not that no one has done this. There are even many famous generals who asked the rear not only three, but four, five or six times to escort grain and fodder up...

But the problem is that even if these famous generals win the battle, they lose their lives.

What's more, most of the generals who did this became the stepping stones for these famous generals, without even leaving their names.

Is Hongnong's grain and grass large enough to be transported over and over again?

Since we want to attack the grain road, we definitely can't go from Diaoyin to Zuofengyi. After all, the Tongguan blockade makes it impossible for both sides to go, so we can only go to the east of Hedong...

However, Pang Tong himself did not expect that he would also encounter difficulties after arriving in Shaanjin.

In Binbei Pingyang, due to the late spring cold, part of Fenshui is still frozen. If the river beach is shallow, you can even walk from one end of the river bank to the other without detours.

However, in Shaanxi and Jin, the geographical location is further south than Binbei and Pingyang, and the river water contains more sand, gravel, debris, etc. than the Fen River, and the water volume is also larger, so the ice has long been opened. The layers are running endlessly...

Pang Tong looked at the bits of ice floating up and down in the river and remained silent.

Damn it, why is it unblocked now?

Why can't it be frozen for two more days?

What to do?

Pang Tong brought 500 cavalry, plus Zhang Liao's 1,200 infantry and 800 cavalry in Shaanjin. Although not much, it became a huge problem to quickly cross the river in a short time.

Originally, there was a pontoon bridge above the river, but after it was burned down, it was never rebuilt, leaving only a few iron cables dangling over the river.

Rebuild the pontoon?

How long will that take?

After the construction of the pontoon bridge is completed, I am afraid that the soldiers who stayed behind for detection will report all the information to Luoyang and Tongguan. What hidden advantages do I have?

If you use a boat to cross, firstly, you will not be able to find so many boats in a short time, and secondly, the speed will not be as fast...

Pang Tong stood on the rocks at the Shaanxi-Tianjin ferry. The cold wind coming from the river blew his robes and turbans up and down, making them flutter, which was a bit elegant.

Talented men in green clothes, enjoying the wind by the river.

If we talk about elegance, this is the case.

"Ah owe!"

Pang Tong, who was standing on the rock with the cold wind blowing, sneezed hard and quickly climbed down and hid in a sheltered place from the wind.

Although Pang Tong is not closely related to the word "Jun", he still feels that he can be regarded as a "talent". But now, there is no elegance in Pang Tong's heart. There is only one thought swirling around, damn, how are we going to cross this river?

It is still necessary to pass by without alerting the defenders on the other side, or before the defenders on the other side have time to send out a warning signal. Otherwise, the watchtower built in the distance on the other side must be used as a beacon signal, and the beacon warning signal Once it rises, it can be delivered to Luoyang within one day!

Cutting off the opponent's food route naturally requires that the opponent be unprepared before it is called a breakthrough, otherwise it will lead to death...

what to do?

Damn it, what on earth are we going to do?