Chapter 163 Don't offend women

Nature is cruel and unforgiving. Now Chen Ying finally has a clear understanding. A strong cold snap from Siberia suddenly came, and the entire small Milan oasis suddenly became a world covered with ice and snow.

Despite the cotton clothes and hats that the soldiers had, thirty-one soldiers froze to death overnight, all of whom were standing, and before they died, they were frozen by the ice and snow carried by the cold wave.

When Chen Ying saw them again, they were still on duty, but they were not breathing. Chen Ying is not a hard-hearted person, he heard the deeds of the volunteers in North Korea in the later generations, and the soldiers were frozen into ice sculptures, but there was no intuitive understanding, Chen Ying did not expect that his army would also encounter such a situation.

At this time, it would be irresponsible for the lives of the soldiers to continue marching, and it was not a good idea to camp on the spot. The hard state of the earth frozen by the cold wave is about to catch up with the steel, and it is impossible to dig a nest to escape the cold wave temporarily.

In the small Milan Oasis, there are still a few poplars, but this bit of fuel cannot supply Chen Ying's entire army for more than three days. Zhou Qing sent a sentry to search for the tribes on the oasis, but what he saw was the entire tribe of more than 300 people, tens of thousands of sheep, thousands of horses, including all people, men, women and children, all frozen into ice sculptures.

This is a punishment from nature, when Chen Ying saw this scene, he smiled bitterly: "It seems that this is God's willful punishment for Ben Dadu, and the deaths of these people are all God's warnings to Ben Daduhu!" ”

Even Chen Ying, who is an atheist, has serious doubts about his insistence on faith at this moment. Even if there is only one mountain range in the Altun Mountains to the west of the river, but it is far away from thousands of mountains and rivers, there is no way.

Chen Ying instructed Zhou Qing: "Bury all these soldiers!" ”

Although the land is as hard as iron, it is really not impossible. As long as the dry poplar wood is placed on the ground and burned, the flame will melt the frozen ground, and as long as the flame is extinguished, at least in a quarter of an hour, a deep pit can be dug.

In this way, the soldiers laboriously buried these frozen soldiers to prevent them from being violent in the wilderness.

The soldiers under Chen Ying's command silently collected the cattle, sheep and horses frozen to death in this tribe, and now they are short of fuel, and the frozen corpses of these cattle, sheep and horses can not only be skinned to keep out the cold, but also increase the source of meat, even if it is not good, they can also use the fat of cattle and sheep as fuel to heat the fire.

Ashnasimo could only order the soldiers to collect all the things in this tribe that could be worn and protected from the cold. Chen Ying occupied this unknown tribe on the spot, but also found that this tribe was frozen to death because of the lack of fuel.

This is the tragedy of this era, people can avoid the disaster of war and war, but they cannot avoid the punishment from nature, this is a helpless thing.

These corpses, which were stripped naked by the soldiers, looked extremely dazzling in Chen Ying's gaze, as if they were like a thorn, making Chen Ying feel uncomfortable.

Chen Ying sighed and said, "Bury them too!" ”

Ashina Simo shook his head and said: "Dadu Protector, bury our own brothers, the last general has no opinion, but they, forget it!" ”

Chen Ying's body trembled, so that he could increase his body temperature, he stomped his feet, and said: "As a man, you have to talk about your conscience, although they are dead, death has nothing to do with us, but we took away their property, even if the cattle, sheep and horses are all frozen to death, this is also their property, people cannot be resurrected after death, and we can't watch them run wild." ”

Ashina Simo is not afraid of hard work, but afraid of not enough fuel, you must know that just buried 31 people, enough to burn more than 20 dry poplar trees, the entire Milan oasis, in fact, there are thousands of Hu Yang trees, and burying more than 300 people, it means that more than 200 trees will be burned in vain, which is too wasteful.

Seeing Ashina Simo hesitate, Chen Ying said with a straight face: "Execute the order!" ”

Ashina Simo had no choice but to turn around and leave to carry out the order.

In the original way, the dried poplar trees were piled on the ground, and then poured oil on them and ignited them, which soon formed a large fire, but when the fire was roasted in the wild, one side of the body was almost cooked, but it was still cold in the back.

This group of guards of the Great Protectorate Mansion turned their backs to the fire, and then faced the fire.

A moment later, however, there was a spectacle, and snow began to fall above the fire.

Zhou Qing's snot flowed to his mouth, and as soon as he touched it with his sleeve, the snot turned into ice and slipped to the ground, and Zhou Qing cursed from time to time: "This thief is really weird!" ”

"This is how strange you are!" Chen Ying explained: "The cold wave generally lasts for three or two days at most, and no more than five days at most, which is a unique climate in the Gobi Desert, the water vapor does not become clouds, it can only stay at low altitude, they are pervasive, and it is precisely because of them that under the same low temperature, it will feel even colder, and after the bonfire heats the moist and cold air, the water contained in the air becomes fine snowflakes and falls." This is a natural phenomenon, no surprise! ”

When the frozen layer is melted by the burning fire trap, it is easy to excavate.

In order to save trouble, the soldiers of Zhichong Mansion dug a huge pit, ready to bury all the more than 300 corpses in it, and when the soldiers dug four or five feet deep underground, suddenly a soldier shouted excitedly: "Look, what is this?" ”

The soldiers hurriedly gathered around: "Dig up gold?" Or a gem? ”

The soldier continued to dig down hard, revealing the pitch-black and shiny black soil underground, these soldiers were not uninformed, they already knew that this kind of thing was coal. With coal, especially inexhaustible coal, then it will not be a problem for them to survive this cold snap.

The soldiers shouted excitedly as they dug.

It didn't take long for Chen Ying to discover this astonishing discovery.

Chen Ying breathed a sigh of relief, this was simply a gift from God.

In ancient times, the Western Regions were oceans, and then the earth's crust slowly moved and the mantle rose, forming the mountains of the Western Regions, but the Western Regions has gone through a long evolution of oceans, grasslands, and forests to today's wastelands.

In later generations, the resources of the Western Regions were staggeringly abundant, of which coal accounted for 40 percent of our rabbits, and more than one-third of oil, Milan was a billion-level coal mine in later generations, and it was a semi-open-pit coal mine. The key point is that there is no way to survive the winter because of the burning problem here, so generally speaking, this oasis with an area of less than 600 square kilometers only has a few hundred habitats.

With coal, everything is much easier. Keep the fire unextinguished, pour boiling snow water on the tent, it will soon be frozen into ice, and slowly the tent will form an igloo, and all the tents will be opened, forming a small ice city, where there are enough cattle, sheep and horses, there is no shortage of meat, and it is definitely not a problem to persist until the cold wave recedes.

Ashina Simo, who had always been resistant to Chen Ying's order, was also stunned when he looked at this scene, and he thought that Chen Ying must have known that there was abundant coal under Milan, and let him bury these corpses, just to create a favorable excuse for the discovery of this coal.

Chen Ying may be sure that he has never been to Milan Oasis before, and as for why Chen Ying is unpredictable, Ashina Simo attributes this to Chen Ying's super marshal instinct.

Follow Chen Ying, and you will definitely not get into trouble.

The soldiers entered the warm tents, happily sat around the fire, barbecued mutton, beef, and even horse meat, and the originally low morale began to soar.

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Outside the Dasan Pass, several spies of the Hundred Cavalry Division looked around in a tea shed near the official road. Although the winter in Guanzhong is not as cold as in the Western Regions, this tea shed is only fenced with thatch, and it is also windy on all sides, and more than a dozen sentries of the Hundred Cavalry Division are here to keep an eye on the pedestrians on the official road.

Since the Baiqi Division did not have Li Shimin's aura blessing at this time, the personnel recruited were extremely complex, including rangers and gangsters who had difficulty surviving.

A bearded man holding a waist knife leaned in front of a leader-looking man next to him and said, "Zheng Tou, our master is drinking the northwest wind here, what are you doing!" It's been three days, and there is not even a ghost on the official road! ”

Zheng Tou is actually Zheng Rentai's distant nephew named Zheng Wencai. Zheng Wencai injured his life in Luoyang, was wanted by the government, took Zheng Rentai's way, took refuge in the Baiqi Division, and became a small leader.

Zheng Wencai glanced at his beard and said: "As far as your mother's nonsense is concerned, the boss ordered us to stare here, let's stare here, there is wine and meat here, you don't have to worry about eating and drinking, what do you do with so much?" ”

The beard said: "There is a shortage of wine and meat, but aren't the brothers afraid of suffocation!" ”

Zheng Wencai scolded with a smile: "You will fucking die on a woman's belly sooner or later!" ”

"Isn't there a verse that says? Peony flowers die, and ghosts are also romantic! At this moment, the bearded man said to a woman in a red cloak on the official road: "Zheng Tou, look, that girl is not bad, right?" ”

Zheng Wencai turned his head to look, only to see a woman in red in the distance like a cloud of fire passing by, and disappeared at the end of the horizon in a flash, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, licked his lips and said, "What is the origin of that woman?" It looks pretty good! ”

Zheng Wencai's spirit perked up, it is really rare to see a woman who can ride a strong bow in a strong horse this year, although he can't see the woman's appearance from such a distance, but the heroic figure still makes him excited, this woman is probably the Yuwen Zhaoyi who asked them to find it, he suddenly shouted: "Chase me!" There is a reward for catching that woman! ”

A group of hundred-horse sentry scouts howled like weasels seeing chickens, and rode after them.

The woman in red seemed to never expect so many people to come after her, and she glanced back with some surprise, which just allowed Zheng Wencai to see her appearance clearly.

Although Yuwen Zhaoyi can't talk about the country and the city, it is absolutely attractive, with the perseverance and decisiveness of a man who is not inferior to a man, and a wildness from the bone marrow in the charm, which is somewhat similar to the Turkic woman who bends the bow outside the horse. Zheng Wencai became more and more excited, as long as Yuwen Zhaoyi's head was on top, she could also have a good time before she died.

Although Zheng Wencai was born in Zheng's partial house, but his family is well-off, he has played a lot of beauties, but most of them are weak women who are scared to the body just by looking at them, and it is boring to play too much, like this kind of heroic and wild woman is still the first time to see it, and the desire to conquer burst out like a torrent, he screamed wildly, chased after the horse, and shouted while chasing: "Don't run that woman, stop me!" ”

The woman in red ignored it, and just rode her horse and ran away. Zheng Wencai and the others chased for another mile, and suddenly saw the woman turn around again, but this time there was an extra compound bow in her hand, the bowstring was pulled to fifty percent full, and an arrow swished straight to Zheng Wencai's throat. Although Zheng Wencai is a nasty billet, after all, he is from a family, he has learned literature, and he has also practiced martial arts, and his skills are not bad, plus the strength of this arrow is insufficient, there is no threat to him, he just took the arrow in his hand with a copy of it, and laughed: "Little lady, is this a token of love you gave me?" Thank you! ”

Yuwen Zhaoyi, who was dressed in red, didn't speak, and swished a few arrows in a row, and the accuracy was actually good, but the strength was not enough, and he was either caught by Zheng Wencai's hand or easily dodged by him, without any threat.

The bow is a good bow, and the arrow is also a good arrow, but the manpower to draw the bow is insufficient, and no matter how good the bow and arrow is, it is useless, and the distance between the two is quickly shortened.

Zheng Wencai laughed: "Little lady, you are flirting with a certain family!" "I kept taking advantage of my mouth, and I didn't delay in my hands, but I just chased after it, and in a blink of an eye, I crossed more than ten miles and came to a high dirt slope.

That Yuwen Zhaoyi did not escape, turned the horse's head and swished three arrows in a row, the wind was loud, and the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air was like a harrier eagle roaring, and the three hundred horsemen were hit by arrows in their throats and planted from the horse's back, and they didn't have time to hum before they died. These three arrows frightened the group of sentries who were taking advantage of the unclean mouth, and they all reined in their horses, not daring to approach again.

Just then, the sound of horses' hooves sounded behind them.

Zheng Wencai turned his head to look, and his soul was suddenly scattered.

Dozens of miles behind blocked the back road.

And beside the woman in red on the hillside in front, dozens of knights appeared. His face changed suddenly, this was obviously a trap!