Chapter 81 The Meaning of Death
When a large strategy has been successful, small-scale combat is of little significance.
The coldest time in Yili is not when it snows, but when it is first clear after the snow.
When Xia Wanchun saw the reading of minus 37 degrees above the mercury thermometer, he knew that the Kazakhs who had burned the tents and other warm facilities were dead.
There is not much battle in the Wild Wolf Valley. Anyone who can run basically ran away after passing through a large pile of rocks last night. Those who stayed there no combat power.
In terms of keeping warm, the Kazakhs basically rely on various furs, unlike the Han army, which are tightly wrapped by gloves, ear cups, cotton hats, thick sheepskin jackets, wool pants, thick wool socks, and big-headed scalp boots.
Qian Tong seemed to really treat himself as a deputy general. After Chen Chong reported that the war was over and searched for the Wild Wolf Valley, he walked into the Wild Wolf Valley with his personal guards.
A heavy snow last night made white snow fall throughout the valley, and the breeze that appeared in the early morning made not only snow on the trees in the valley, but also a rare scene of rime.
A green cold mist slowly appeared in the valley, and the sound of trees being cracked by the cold air coming from the mountains and forests was endless.
From time to time, a tree could not withstand the snow-pressing top, and suddenly broke. The heavy crown hit the ground, causing a large stream of snow mist to rise.
Qian Tong's big leather shoes were on the ground and couldn't even step on the snow. How long did it take for these soft white snow to freeze into ice. This scene would not have happened. Last night, the fire at the entrance of the Wild Wolf Valley had burned for almost a night. After heating the air conditioner, it was sent into the valley, turning into moisture, and then quickly became cold, the scene that Qian Tong saw appeared.
Not only were the trees rime, but even many war horses were covered with ice and snow, and they froze to death and turned into ice sculptures.
Many people have also frozen to death, but Qian Tong deliberately did not observe.
The more you walk into the valley, the more corpses there are, and the more you have reached the point where you cannot deliberately ignore them.
It was here that Qian Tong saw people who were frozen to death while roasting, and a large group of people surrounded by a fire? Even though the fire still radiated with blue smoke? However, the group of people surrounding the fire had been frozen to death.
Their death looks very strange? They all smiled together? But that kind of smile was very strange. Qian Tong didn't want to reminisce about this smile in his dream? He just turned his eyes on the blue sky.
Countless boulders fell from both sides of the narrow cliff, blocking the valley tightly? Want to pass through this rocky land? You can only climb slowly. As for the war horses who want to pass, there may not be any of them.
Just on this pile of rocks, Qian Tong saw many war horses that had been frozen to death? Groups? Groups.
The accompanying clerk was counting the bodies of the war horses, but he ignored the dead. After all, Xia Wanchun's purpose was to war horses? Inhuman.
In the huge Western Regions, whether it is fighting or doing business, it is inseparable from war horses and camels? If the Kazakhs did not have war horses, Xia Wanchun would dare to let his subordinates charge against them with cold weapons.
The first thing Xia Wanchun had to do was to cut off the legs of the Kazakhs.
Although Qian Tong had just arrived in the Western Regions? But? On the way? He had read a lot of documents about the Western Regions, especially those that every official in the Western Regions must read, and he even read them thoroughly.
This is a process that officials of the Lantian Dynasty must go through before taking office.
Only at this time can officials get in touch with the most realistic evaluation of the Ministry of Supervision’s place of office. There is not only information, but also some instructions for taking office, especially the Ministry of Supervision’s description of the fatal points and advantages of a place, which can be regarded as the most precious wealth of the former officials. (Please guess, is there any such thing now that an official has in office?)
This will help officials get into work as soon as possible.
Qian Tong is also a powerful general who climbed out of the pile of dead people, and is also a person who is used to seeing dead people. Even such a person, after entering this quiet canyon, he always feels like he has entered the ice hell.
By the time he came out of the Wild Wolf Valley, Chen Chong had already rectified the army, and Xia Wanchun also entered the special carriage, and the army was ready to turn back to Yili City immediately.
In such weather, no matter how well equipped it is, it is not as warm as living in an adobe house.
The Western Regions are very large. Due to distance, huge things can only break out after time.
According to Xia Wanchun's estimate, it would be at least three months later to see the impact of this war on the Western Regions. At this time, the severe cold in the Great Gobi Desert had already sealed everything, including time.
Qian Tong got on Xia Wanchun's carriage, took a secret sip of the other person's wine, and then said to Xia Wanchun who closed his eyes and rested: "Seven hundred and eighty-one people were killed in battle and one thousand one in injuries. It is estimated that there were 472 soldiers who were going to retire because of this battle.
Xia Wanchun nodded and closed his eyes again. He did not ask about the outcome of the battle. At this time, even if he killed all the Kazakhs, it would not make much sense to him.
Xia Wanchun clearly distinguished this point.
The people from the Junggar tribe were Xia Wanchun’s target.
He never thought of killing all the people of the Junggar tribe completely and completely, and he just wanted to force these people to the point of desperate situation and then ask about recruiting them.
Sun Guoxin will arrive in Yili in April to preach. There is no way. This is the only way to distinguish people. In the Western Regions, both the Uygurs and the Mongols believe in Buddhism.
But the Uyghurs and Kazakhs believed in Mohammed, who could not appear in the Western Regions. The master had long said that he would rather turn the Western Regions into a Buddhist country than hand over the Western Regions to Mohammed.
The Uyghurs and the Uyghurs are not the same ethnic group at all.
Uygur is not a Uyghur. There is a huge difference between the two in their tribes. Uygur's tribes such as Pugu and Hun from the Mongolian grasslands and some Uyghurs composed of the nine tribes of the Uyghurs, the shamanism, Zorosa and Buddhism they believe in.
The origin of Uyghur tribes were the Kuye private tribes of the Western Turkic River Basin and the Yedma tribes of the Western Turkic River Basin. Since these two tribes were resolutely resolutely, the Uyghurs also inherited this.
The Western Regions have always been a place of war, or in other words, Buddhism and the *** religion have been fighting on this land for thousands of years. It was not until the Mongols occupied the Western Regions that Buddhism, which had been suppressed and beaten by the *** religion, had a chance to breathe.
Xia Wanchun knew about the emperor's belief policy of the Mongols in the Western Regions, so he did a lot of things in the work of ethnic differentiation.
When Sun Guoxin arrived in the Western Regions in April, Xia Wanchun believed that he could use this east wind to complete the sweep of the Western Regions, and then he could implement the banishing policies formulated by the court and stabilize the place.
When the army returned to Yili City, it was already very late. When the Yili City Gate was closed, the last ray of light in the sky disappeared, and the earth was quickly swallowed up by the darkness.
No one wants to celebrate, mainly because the frozen ones are like turtles. Even the people who are happy only want to get into the house, take a sip of hot soup, and then sleep with a thick quilt.
Xia Wanchun returned to his bedroom coldly. The cruel scene he created with his own hands three days ago did not appear. The whole room was as warm as spring, clean and elegant as he returned to his first visit to the Western Regions.
He sniffed hard, and did not smell the smell of blood, nor the aroma of rouge that should have been there a few days ago. There was only a faint sandalwood fragrance, which made people feel refreshed.
After Cui Liang came in, he whispered: "I have never reported it. I have made my own decision to clean up the place. Please forgive me if the Governor."
Xia Wanchun raised her eyebrows and said, "Take the blame for me?"
Cui Liang frowned and said, "The matter was done by the eunuch, Xiaguan, and it has nothing to do with the governor."
Hearing Cui Liang's tone was stiff, Xia Wanchun nodded and said, "It's good."
He knew that Cui Liang was not so much a formal official of the Lantian Dynasty as an official who belonged to the royal family. Their big leaders were Qian Duoduo and Queen Qian.
Although the Lantian Dynasty emphasizes equality for everyone, it cannot be done in actual operation. Not to mention the eunuchs, even female officials, the Ming Dynasty still did not accept them highly.
Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, most of the female officials who could serve as landlords were found in major departments, as well as yamen and academies as auxiliary officials.
There are only four senior female officials like Han Xiufen, Zhou Guoping, Zhao Guoxiu, and Zhang Guoying in the Lantian Dynasty.
Compared with female officials, people have deeper concerns about eunuchs serving as officials.
Therefore, no matter how hard these people have to work hard, in the Lantian Dynasty, they are still aliens, and can only be recognized by the royal family. Even so, in the eyes of many people, they are still slaves of the royal family.
Over time, even they themselves think so.
For these people, even Xia Wanchun didn't feel that after taking the blame for him, he should say thank you, and he would only give his gratitude to his master's wife a lot of money.
"Stay the city well and I will sleep for three days."
After Xia Wanchun finished giving instructions, he took off his clothes and threw himself on the bed. After a moment, he snored slightly.
The governor went to bed, so the deputy general could not sleep. Qian Tong supported his heavy body to patrol the military camp and patrol the city defense again, and then returned to the yamen.
He really wanted to sleep, but unfortunately, he didn't dare to relax for a moment.
The result of slackness in Hangzhou was that he was almost kicked out of the official sequence. If he slacked in the Western Regions, Qian Tong felt that he might really need to castrate himself before going to find His Majesty the Emperor to seek the position of eunuch by writing a pen.
Outside the city of Yili, wolves whizzed past outside the city, and their paces were in a hurry. Neither dark nor cold could hinder their determination to move forward.
By looking at the direction they are heading, the guards will understand why they are so in a hurry.
Chapter completed!