"Don't worry, don't forget, our road to the north is blocked by the Xia people, and Liangzhou is not a place where you and your clansmen live for a long time, it is too close to the Great Song Dynasty. In case one day the emperor asks me to rob Liangzhou, won't the two of us become enemies, do you want to be enemies of this official? ”

Morale is available, this is a good thing, but it can't be too urgent, Hong Tao has to let Xi Luosa understand that the reason for attacking the Xia people is not to help the Song people grab territory, but for the future of their own race, and no one can take advantage of it if they don't get rid of this roadblock. At the same time, he also had to dispel his attempts at Liangzhou, that place was destined to belong to the Great Song Dynasty, and no one was allowed to touch it.

"No, the villain doesn't dare to be an enemy of the adult...... Let's go further west and set off after beating off the Xia people? Xi Luosa basically understood, and Lord Shuaiji said it very clearly and directly, and the more he did this, the more relieved he became. If you have something to say, you should say it directly, those who go around in circles are deceiving people.

"That's right, I'll set off after running away from the Xia people, and I don't think I can leave without waiting for our agreement to end. However, this first battle is very important, I need to show the emperor what I am capable of, so that he will keep me stationed in Huangzhou for a long time, and we can continue to work together. So you have to help the official choose 300 warriors from the clan, they are not good at riding and shooting, but they must be good at climbing, and it is best to understand a few words of Chinese, can you do it? ”

This time, Hong Tao told the truth, and there was not a single word of falsehood. But deceiving people with the truth is often more fatal, long-lasting, and difficult to discern than deceiving people with lies.

This requirement is really not difficult for Xi Luosa, the Tibetan people have grown up in the plateau since ancient times, and it is still the highest plateau in the world, riding and archery is not their main talent, and mountaineering is daily life.

And their mountaineering has one more attribute than other mountain peoples, that is, temperature. On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, ice and snow are raging for more than half of the year, and living in this environment, if you say that you don't know how to climb snow-capped mountains, it is a waste.

What are these 300 people going to do with it? Relying on 300 people to fight seems to be a bit small, even if each of them can carry two hornet's nests, it is not of much use to the large army of the Shangxia people, so you can't wait for death after launching.

Therefore, they are not suitable for frontal combat, in fact, the terrain of Huangzhou also determines the mode of war, and it can only be attacked by small forces. In the stretching Qilian Mountains, it is impossible to use a large army, and the exhausted logistics cannot be supplied, and there is no chance of retreating if there are as many deaths as possible in a snowstorm.

But Hong Tao still has a card to play in his hand, and that is Jiang Erlang's special forces. Since returning from the camel team, Jiang Erlang has actually begun to select team members, but the selection scope is mainly concentrated in the forbidden army.

He didn't realize that the soldiers could be used in this way, but he just used them as auxiliary troops such as translators and guides. Now Hong Tao is going to supplement this small army with 300 soldiers, mix them with the dozens of forbidden troops selected by Jiang Erlang, and then carry out intensive training according to actual needs.

"Climbing a mountain? Adults, the last general is not good at climbing, how to teach others? Jiang Erlang didn't have much resistance to these three hundred soldiers, but he was a little puzzled by the training subjects given by Hong Tao.

"It's not just about climbing mountains, it's about assassinating, stalking, ambushing, surviving, and discipline, all of which you teach them. But while teaching others, we also have to learn some new things, such as surviving in cold weather and walking in snowy mountains. Don't panic, this official will find time to study with you, so there's no opinion, right? ”

Hong Tao knew that Jiang Erlang would be puzzled, if he understood what was going on with him. It doesn't matter if you don't understand, just listen to the greetings, and what you can give them is confidence in addition to the necessary equipment.

As he said, from this day on, Hong Tao would run to the special forces training base twenty miles away every three or five days, and become an ordinary special forces soldier, climbing snowy mountains with the Tibetan people, starving and freezing together, sleeping in the snow at night, and being tossed by Jiang Erlang together.

At first, these recruits really didn't understand what Lord Shuai Si was tossing for, but seeing that Master Shuai Si was also practicing with him, although his results were always at the bottom, he didn't dare to have any objections, and he didn't even dare to gossip. Because this Lord Shuai Si is a smiling tiger, he doesn't even blink when he kills people.

As time passed, Hong Tao slowly won some respect in the special forces, not with physical strength and survival skills, but with his brain.

With him, from time to time there will be some strange equipment to try, and it turns out that these equipment are really useful, and it is impossible to think of it.

For example, the snowboard, which resembles a tennis racket, is made of wattle strips and hemp rope, and has a steel clip in place at the front with an iron sole. Tie your shoes to the iron soles with leather ropes and you can walk on them on the snow.

The effect is definitely not as fast as walking on flat ground without wearing anything, but walking on the snow is much faster than walking with only shoes on, and it saves effort. The deeper the snow, the more effective it is, and the pressure is dispersed after stepping on it, so your feet will not sink in, and you will not have to pull your legs out of the snow every time.

This feeling was the first conclusion that the soldiers came to the conclusion that they lived in snow all year round and were often unable to move long distances because of the heavy snow covering the mountains.

With this kind of snowboard, you will be able to walk in the snow, and as long as you master the correct use, you will be able to adapt to it with more practice, and your walking speed will be faster and the walking distance will be longer.

Such a gadget made Fan Bing have a good impression of this Song official who killed people without blinking. People only need to sit in the room and think about it to make something so useful that they realize the benefits of having a strong brain.

Can this satisfy Hong Tao? Definitely not, his style is to smash people down with one surprise after another.

Is there snow on the peaks of the plateau? Definitely not, there has to be ice, and the place where the snow does not melt all year round is the ice cap. This thing looks like snow, but it's actually hard due to the pressure, and it's ice when you walk on it.

At this time, it is a bit stretched to resist skiding just by stepping on the snowboard, what to do? Hong Tao took out another pair of iron soles.

It has changed, the sole of the shoe is full of sharp steel nails, which are equivalent to steel thorns under the feet when tied to the shoe, and with two ice axes made of pure steel, as long as it is not a straight up and down ice cap, it can cope with it.

These two pieces of equipment can be regarded as saving the forbidden army in the special forces, and they must have the ability to be selected by Jiang Erlang, but they haven't played much since they came here, just watching the soldiers show off their innate life skills.

With skates and ice axes, the Forbidden Army finally kept up with the speed of the soldiers, although no one could climb neatly, and they didn't even have to eat hot farts. When it comes to hand-to-hand combat and the use of bows and crossbows, you can also rely on skills to turn defeat into victory.

Everyone's satisfied? Hong Tao was not satisfied. With snowboards, skates and ice axes, will you be able to navigate the highland mountains with ease? The answer is no.

Even the bravest and most climbable warriors among the Tibetan people are still powerless in the face of some terrain. For example, ice cliffs, ice gullies, ice peaks that are too steep.

In order to get through these terrains, you can only use an ice axe to chisel out the pedals little by little, and then move up little by little. A 100-meter-high wall of ice can take several hours or more.

But in the actual battle, only one person can't pass, it's a team of hundreds of people, and if everyone takes a few hours, this road will have to walk for several months.

What to do? Hong Tao has no problem, but there is special equipment in later generations, which is used for climbing, and it is not enough to use it.

Rock cone, three-wheel mechanical plug, four-wheel mechanical plug, quick hanger, horn figure-eight ring, chest riser, fixed single pulley, double axle double pulley, seated seat belt.

These are all climbing equipment, and they are just as good as climbing ice walls. Not to mention that you have to try all kinds of sports in life, even if you don't play well, you can still come in handy at critical moments.

With the current industrial capacity, some equipment cannot be made, such as hand-held ascenders, flat belts, and climbing ropes. But it doesn't matter, the ancients didn't live so delicately, they felt that if they were killed by falling to death with these things, it was destined by God, and no one blamed them for their bad lives.

In addition to these equipment, each member of the special forces will also be issued a hiking bag sewn from cowhide, about 60 liters, which is used to hold daily necessities, medicine, and fuel.