After the military discussion, Dong Hu discussed some specific matters with Dong Mao and Hua Xiong, and then he lay on the dilapidated but clean bed with a tired face. Until Da Ya walked in with a food box in one hand and an oil lamp in the other, he realized that he had no fingers in the room.

Da Ya is very virtuous. When he wanted to get out of bed with his shoes, she reached out to stop him, put the two-foot wooden table on the kang bed, wiped it and then put the meal one by one on the wooden table...

Take the naan bread from Da Ya's hand, Dong Hu pointed to the opposite side. Da Ya hesitated for a while, took off her shoes and socks and went onto the bed of the kang, and sat silently opposite him.

"The thousand soldiers that Mengdu originally agreed to have disappeared, and they are really a group of waste who only want benefits."

Dong Hu bit the naan bread hard and seemed to be venting his dissatisfaction. There are four important passages to the north to the plateau, Lintao, Baishisai, Dayugu, and Longqi City lined up from east to west.

On the south side of Lintao is the Ganlang Qiang. You can enter Qinghai by turning west through the Ganlang Valley, or you can cross mountains and ridges to enter the Songfan grassland where the Baima Qiang is located.

Baishi Pass and Heguan Pass were both established during the reign of Emperor Xuan of Han. In order to control the Hehuang Qiang and prevent the Hehuang Valley from causing chaos, Emperor Xuan of Han established Heguan Pass in Jishishan. He could directly kill Yunwu City through the Heguan Pass. As long as the Hehuang Qiang rebelled, the emerging Hehuang Qiang could be cut into two sections, which was a strategic fortress of Hehuang Qiang.

However, Jishi Mountain is the same as Hehuang Valley, and is also the ancestral land of the Qiang people. It is the gathering place for the losers of the Hehuang Qiang fight. It is also a channel for the Qiang to move south on the plateau. In order to better manage Jishi Mountain, Emperor Xuan of Han set up the Hehuang Qiang Pass to control Hehuang Qiang, and the Baishi Pass to move south on the plateau. In addition, the Kuhan City set up by the Qin Dynasty, formed three fortresses to control Jishi Mountain.

However, the national strength of the Han Dynasty declined and the frequent rebellions of the Western Qiang. The Heguan Pass and Baishi Pass set up during the reign of Emperor Xuan of Han were only one name left on the map. However, no matter what, the Heguan Pass still crossed the Yellow River and entered the important flank passage of the Hehuang Valley, and Baishi Pass was still blocking the important passage of Qiang to the south on the plateau.

Like Lintao, the north side of Baishi Pass is also the territory of Ganlang Qiang. After all, the area of ​​nomadic people is quite large.

The plateau Qiang tribes in the south of Lintao and Baishi Pass are the Ganlang Qiang, the Big and Big Yugu, and the Longqi City are all located in the Shaodang Qiang territory, and the southern plateau Qiang is also Shaodang Qiang, at least in name.

In the early years, the overlord of Hehuang Qiang was Xianling Qiang. He was beaten up by Emperor Wu of Han because Xianling Qiang and the Huns attacked the Han Dynasty together. He escaped from east to west along the Hehuang Valley and fled to Longqi City and continued to the plateau. However, because of this, Xianling Qiang declined since then.

Xianling Qiang was defeated by evil deeds, and some people joined the Shaodang Qiang, who lived near Longqi City, and some of them turned into Beihe Qiang. When Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, under the threat of Wang Mang, Beihe Qiang divided into three parts, and one part ran to the steep mountains and ridges northwest of Qinghai, and the remaining two parts lived in the Big and Small Yugu respectively.

Shaodang Qiang swallowed the defeated Xianling Qiang. Since then, he is not willing to live in the poorest place in the westernmost part of the Hehuang Valley, so he attacked east along the Hehuang Valley and fought to the Jincheng Pass. However, he was defeated by the Han general Li Zhang. Shaodang Qiang retreated westward again. Shaodang Qiang was defeated. Shaodang Qiang leader Miwu fled into Dayu Valley with his remaining troops, and swallowed Beihe Qiang who lived in the Big and Big Yu Valley in one fell swoop.

Later, Miwu was defeated and asked to surrender. Zhang Yu, the captain of the Qiang Protector, massacred 800 leaders from all over the Qiang Qiang in one day. Later, Shaodang Qiang Mitang succeeded him as the leader. After being defeated by the Han army, Mitang fled from Dayu Valley to the source of the Yellow River and was given a river head, and fled to the colder plateau.

From this past, we can also know that the Dayu Valley can escape to the plateau. The original Beihe Qiang in Yugu was not annexed by the Shaodang Qiang, but it had become a small tribe under the name of Shaodang Qiang. At the same time, the tribes in the southern plateau of Yugu and Longqi City were actually all the tribes under the name of Shaodang Qiang.

Lintao, Baishisai, Yugu, and Longqi City can all enter the plateau, but the difficulty of the journey is different.

Dong Hu broke up with Mengdu, and Meng Wei and the two brothers made it clear that the leaders of Jishishan were hundreds of ten, with too complicated components. So what if they were sent to Ganlang Valley and were frozen to death on the way? Anyway, they were all disobedient people. After these disobedient people were sent away, the control of the headquarters was stronger.

When they were in Jishi Mountain, they agreed and wanted to snatch the cattle and sheep of Ganlang Qiang immediately. The population was coming, but when things came, they regretted it again!

Dong Hu felt an indescribable anger in his heart, and also had the idea of ​​giving up Jishishan and doing it alone.

Da Ya, who knew his personality, knew that when he kneaded Jishishan's letters into a ball in front of the generals, he knew that he was dissatisfied and angry.

Dong Hu took the wine sent by Daya and drank it in one gulp.

"Jishishan Mountain is too unreliable and not enough to make a decision with it!"

"We are thinking about whether we can go west from Ganlang Valley, from Dayu Valley, or from Longqi City, and from Shaodang Qiang to Hehuang Valley."

Da Ya was shocked. She wanted to be a silent listener, but she couldn't help but speak, "Brother, even if this road is feasible, it may be difficult for us to convince the mercenaries. After all, once we climb to the plateau, we will become an isolated army, going deep into the enemy's territory thousands of miles away. This... is too dangerous."

Dong Hu nodded silently. As Daya said, herders grazing thousands of miles is nothing. Food and supplies are cattle and sheep that walk automatically, but how can they convince the mercenaries who put profit first?

"Bang"

Dong Hu was like a child who was angry and slapped the chopsticks on the table.

"Damn the rock bandit head..."

“It’s so annoying!”

"Hate!"

Looking at the anger that turned around and didn't want people to see him, Da Ya smiled bitterly, silently picked up a piece of his favorite braised pork and sent it to his tightly closed mouth...

"snort!"

Dong Hu snorted coldly, and swallowed the meat piece in his mouth in one mouthful.

"From today, if I want to pay attention to Jishishan again, my surname will not be Dong!"

Dong Hu was very annoyed. The rice was particularly fierce. He didn't bother greasy. He poured all into his stomach with a plate of braised pork...

"The battle formation is dangerous. Tomorrow we will take our brothers to Tiger Bay and Nangougang. You will stay in the city, and all our cattle and sheep will enter the city..."

"By the way, there is something you need to do carefully. The west wall of Hukou Fort should be slightly destroyed, so that two or three hundred people can easily knock it down, but don't let people notice it. Use cow dung and sheep dung and some messy things to pile up, so that people can be as unwilling as possible, or neglect the west wall, so that we can easily recapture the city."

Da Ya really wanted to follow him, but she knew that the family could not be without people to take care of her. She hesitated for a moment and still nodded silently.

"Listen...listen to you."

In the past, they were always "big brothers". When they said "you", Da Ya's face also blushed, but the carefree Dong Hu didn't notice this. After swallowing the last bite of naan, he then grinned.

"Fortunately, you heard me complain, otherwise I wouldn't know how long I would hold my mouth back."

Da Ya smiled gently at him, and said nothing, silently packing the bowls and chopsticks on the small table. Perhaps it was because of the repetition of Jishishan, which made him feel angry, or perhaps it was because his body had entered a period of restlessness in his youth. When he looked at Da Ya's gentle smile, he felt restless.

After realizing the restlessness in his heart, Dong Hu suddenly slapped his thighs, as if he was diverting his attention, and he opened his mouth while wearing shoes.

"I haven't asked Xiao Ya and the others about their studies for a long time. I don't know if I've been lazy during this period. Before leaving, I can only feel at ease."

Dong Hu muttered, Da Ya seemed to have not noticed his strangeness, and put on her shoes and socks, followed him with a food box until she walked out of the house and stepped into the darkness where her hands were missing. She only blushed on her face and followed him down...

Not only are there many beggars in the northwest, but there are many orphans in the whole world, but there are very few children who can live to adulthood.

People have a hard life, and wealthy families occupy almost all the land. Strong adults can become farming tenants. If there is no cap tax on children, there may be people adopt them. But everyone is so poor that hundreds of coins a year become the biggest obstacle.

There are epidemics after epidemics. Not to mention that many people died of epidemics in the Han Dynasty every year, even Dong Hu remembered that his parents were locked at home for half a month when he was young, but the only reason was that he was red-eye disease.

Whether in the previous life or this life, there were deathly scattered blood in my childhood memory, red eyes, colds, smallpox, toad plague... epidemics, but in the previous life, as the conditions got better and better, various epidemics gradually disappeared.

This was the case in his previous life, so how could the Han Dynasty resist the situation? Fortunately, Dong Hu knew some knowledge of epidemic prevention and also some effective folk remedies that he had experienced personally in his previous life. The premature death rate of his beggar brothers and sisters was much lower than that in this world.

Pushing away the next courtyard, pushing open the dilapidated wooden doors, scolding the boy who was still playing tricks to sleep quickly, lying among them and telling some stories that do not belong to this world, but their thoughts travel to another time and space, missing their relatives in another world, thinking about whether they still occasionally think of their disappearing self...

The winter battle plan was already formulated two or three months ago. When Dong Hu decided to poke the Hehuang Qiang's butt, when he recruited mercenaries, regardless of whether Dong Zhuo had or did not transfer the soldiers from Lintao, he would take the initiative to lead the troops into the Ganlang Valley.

Mercenaries say they are soldiers, but they are essentially the people. Only after experiencing the baptism of war can the people become elite soldiers. The Hehuang Qiang is far more powerful than the Ganlang Qiang, and suddenly makes a group of people face extremely powerful enemies. The unpredictable danger is too great, so they have to experience a low-intensity battle formation before the real war.

Lang Meng is a madman, cruel, bloodthirsty, and becomes a tai... The soldiers under his command are generally of the same nature, but Dong Hu sneered at this. Such soldiers seem to be very strong, but if they suffer heavy damage, the speed of collapse is incredible.

Dong Hu is very confident, confident that mercenaries can defeat a group of troops dominated by fear. Whether there is or not, he has this confidence. The only difference is the difference between how much loss.
Chapter completed!