Section 737 The White Clothes and Great Food Dispatch Troops
Wei Xi said loudly: "If our side wins, we will go straight to the Mediterranean, reach Europa, and achieve a supreme reputation!" ”
His voice turned high-pitched, and everyone looked at him intently, he led everyone in the direction, and he led everyone from one victory to the next. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
This time, facing great dangers, it will also bring considerable benefits.
"Let's have a battle with them, and the battle will be decided!" Wei Xi shouted.
"I ask for your unity, every ounce of your strength, obey my orders, join me, defeat them, we are invincible in the world!"
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The Fuyuan General's Mansion and the Taiping Mansion made a general mobilization, and posted posts everywhere to explain the invasion of food and clothing, and my Great Zhou has reached the critical point of life and death.
All the strength is needed to defeat the enemy and ensure that the good life can last.
Under the command of General Wei, we are not afraid of any enemy and have the confidence to defeat them!
Recruit all those who can be used, and contribute all available strength.
Defend well, strengthen training, and gather supplies...... Every person, every bit of material resources
Even if it is winter, we will not stop, do what we can do, all in order to win this war.
Wei Xi had given his people a happy life, and now it was time for them to reciprocate, and they did not disappoint him and prepared for this war.
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The White Coats sent troops in the summer.
The million-strong army is dialed, and the power is not trivial, and the formation is amazing!
There are hundreds of miles on the front, hundreds of miles in depth, all of them are people and cattle, horses and sheep, people have armies and people, horses are used to ride, cattle come to trailers, sheep are brought to eat on the road, people shout horses neighing, dense, endless!
The Great Food Army marched into the Amu Darya River at the beginning of May.
Affected by the snowmelt upstream, the river swelled sharply, the waves were rolling, carrying a large amount of sediment, and the grass on both sides of the river bank was green, which was a good time to march into the army.
As expected by the Tang army, the Great Food Army took the homeland of the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms in the Amu Darya River --- the Syr Darya River, and went north, and then there were two roads to choose from, one was the northern line, attacking the Broken Leaf City in the north, directly taking the Tuqishi place, and going east along the rich Ili River, and directly taking the Xizhou of the Tang Dynasty, which was the location of the Western Regions Protectorate.
The other road is to go down the "Pearl River", which can be called the middle line, attack Shule and Qiuzi, and take the Pearl of the Western Regions ---- Bosten Lake area, where Weixi is rich in money and grain.
Both paths are full of temptations, but they are also where the trouble lies.
The Ili River basin on the northern route is relatively flat, and the water and grass are abundant, so it is relatively easy to replenish.
But it goes around in big circles, and this road is the farthest!
The snow-capped peaks of the Tianshan Mountains in the middle line are like a ring of solid and reliable armor that firmly protects the interior of Xinjiang.
An army crossed the Tien Shan Mountains?
This is a question worth pondering!
In fact, the Tang army was there to prepare 100,000 cavalry to recuperate, as long as the big cannibal came down from the mountain, it was enough to kill the big cannibal without leaving a piece of armor.
In fact, the Great Food Army also has a southern line, the shortest distance, but whether it is the Great Food Army or Wei Xi, they all respect it.
That is, after going through Afghanistan, then crossing the green mountains, entering the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty or taking Xiaobolu (the Kashmir region of India and Pakistan), the east is the Tang Dynasty Tibet.
Afghanistan!
Graveyard of Empires!
The territory is mostly mountainous, plateau, mountain, desert is all of it, the mountains are blocked, the terrain is complex, there are mountains everywhere, the mountains are full of caves and cliffs, criss-crossed, the structure is strange, no one knows except the locals, the terrain is so complex that people despair.
Don't look at the fact that Afghanistan is not very large, but there are many tribes, they do not belong to each other, there will be no such a good thing as a good thing, the people there are fierce and martial, you have to fight one by one, the trouble is bigger than the sky!
Even if you get through Afghanistan and successfully cross the green mountains, it is not easy to walk, and you will enter the Tarim Desert. Or meet the prepared Don army in Tibet.
After careful consideration, the Great Food Army went the farthest northern front.
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Ten pontoon bridges were erected over the Amu Darya River, and the Great Food Army worked day and night, and a large number of troops crossed the river from the pontoon bridges.
They entered the vast sea of sand, and then they were depressed.
There are oases in the desert, there are aquatic plants, but the oases they encounter are all polluted by horse manure, and the stench is so bad that they can't drink it at all!
The grass around the water source was eaten up by the horses, and the trees were cut down!
People know the preciousness of the oasis, and very few people destroy it like this, and when the Tang Army gave the order before, many people felt sorry, but resolutely carried out the order.
In order to win, even his life can be abandoned, and Oasis can only endure the pain and say sorry.
There is no water or fuel, and even the animals in the oasis are gone, leaving nothing for the big cannibals.
The Great Food Army sent out wagons with waterwheels, grain and fuel, loaded with dry twigs and coal (which was produced and used), but it was not an easy task for the million-strong army to eat and chew horses.
Therefore, supplies and water are rationed, especially water, and everyone can only drink the water that the body needs, and don't expect anything to wash.
In addition to the water they carried, they used manpower to try to dig a new puddle next to the polluted water source.
The water in the puddle often brings out a foul smell and is undrinkable, so you have to use your own water wheel.
However, the waterwheels of that era were poorly disinfected, the materials were poor, and the water was also smelly, and they were drinking this water from top to bottom.
There were many diarrhea people, even Abdul Malik, who felt his stomach rumbling, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to drink any more water!
Some of his close ministers were suffering from diarrhoea, and three days after their departure, at least a tenth of them were swaying weakly on their horses.
The unfortunate fortune of the Arab Empire lies in their religious beliefs ... You can't drink alcohol, and Wei Xi's army carries wine when they go on an expedition, which is distributed by the quartermaster, not too much, mainly for the officers, even if there is no water or inferior water, the officers' stomachs still don't ring!
So the Great Food Army saw blood!
They prick the veins of horses and camels, drink blood to quench their thirst, and bring their own waterwheels without drinking water.
Fortunately, after five days, they came across a small river, which the Tang army could not pollute with feces, but the Tang army also had a way, that is, to kill some of the livestock and throw them in the water, depending on who would be unlucky... Yes, after the big food army took water to drink, some people had very serious diarrhea, and some livestock also began to get sick!
"Supreme Caliph, I have been to see the soldiers!" Janissary General Hassan reported to Abdul Malikyu: "Thousands of people are sick, hundreds have died, and the number of diseases is rising!" ”
There was no trace of the Tang Army, there was a non-combat attrition, and at least thirty percent of the people were affected!
It's funny, the legions from the Indian region, they are almost unaffected by polluted water and their own inferior water, and they don't drink any water.
In their Kamigawa ---- Ganges, the Asanmen gulped down the water that burned the corpses and poured them directly into the Kamigawa and the river polluted by dead cows, without the slightest discomfort!
Abdul Malik sighed: "It's a pity that there are still too few such legions!" ”