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- Early on the morning of October 13th, the heavy snow stopped for the first time, and the three armies gathered in the north of Anbei City.
In the cold wind, the three armies were solemn and silent.
Zheng Yanqing walked up to the general platform and shouted loudly: "Soldiers, do you know what we are going to do this time?"
"Counter the rebellion!"
"Counter the rebellion!"
"Ashinaqilifu, an ambitious thief, betrayed the Sui Dynasty, raised troops in Mobei to rebel, attempted to re-establish the Turks, and destroyed all the achievements we have made in managing the grassland for so many years. Can we agree?"
"cannot!"
"cannot!"
"The traitor Ashina Tilifu contacted the rebels in Mobei and surrounded our soldiers in Dingbei City. They thought that we did not dare to go north. Mobei is their world. Then I ask you, should we Should we save our brother Pao Ze?"
"should!"
"should!"
"Then what should we do?"
"Break the Turkic tent and kill Qilif!"
"Break the Turkic tent and kill Qilif!"
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Zheng Yanqing drew out his sword and shouted loudly: "Let's go!"
The officers and soldiers of the three armies, totaling more than 22,000 people, headed straight for Dingbei City, 1,300 miles away. At the same time, Princess Yicheng's general Yang Yi in Bigan City also led his troops northward. As the flank of the Anbei Army, they jointly went northward to quell the rebellion.
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Anyone can shout loud slogans, but this road to the north is more difficult than everyone imagined.
The wind and snow coming from all directions can make people feel collapsed like a knife cutting them, covering their head and face, blocking out the sky and the sun.
In order to keep out the cold, Zheng Yanqing took out all the 50,000 cotton-padded clothes stored in the warehouse of the Anbei Protectorate, two pieces per person, and distributed them to the soldiers of the three armies. However, many soldiers were reluctant to wear them and chose to put them on their horses.
This horse is more delicate than a human being.
Although horses can withstand wind and snow better than humans, even horses cannot bear the long journey in wind and snow.
During the march, horses fell dead from time to time along the way.
And soldiers love horses more than themselves.
Seeing that this was not going to work, Zheng Yanqing ordered that all the cotton-padded clothes be tied to the horses, and the soldiers from all three armies got on the carts and hugged the yurt cloth to keep out the cold.
There is no shortage of large vehicles on the grassland. The car can also protect against wind and rain, and can also help soldiers conserve their energy. Everyone and the horses took turns driving, which saved a lot of effort.
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The road is already difficult to travel. No matter how many carts we take, we can only travel fifty or sixty miles in a day. No matter how difficult it is, it will be even more difficult.
Fortunately, the Sui army set up a post station every fifty miles between Anbeicheng and Dingbeicheng to facilitate the dissemination of information. Everyone followed this line, but they were not afraid of getting lost in the snowstorm.
The cavalry originally traveled more than ten days, but the Sui army took about twenty days.
The long journey of more than 20 days was a huge drain on the physical strength and energy of the soldiers of the three armies.
Although the Sui army was fully prepared for this march, the manpower was sometimes poor.
On the long march, people would fall down from time to time and never get up again.
What Zheng Yanqing fears most is the coming of night, because it is colder at night. Early the next morning, countless corpses were always found, completely cold.
No one knows how they died silently in the dark night.
On this day, even the dead bodies are not buried or cremated. They can only pile people together and pile them into the snow, and wait until spring tomorrow to collect them. 强牺 wanbar.net 读牺
By the end, even Zheng Yanqing was numb to the casualties.
And besides freezing to death, what’s even more serious is frostbite.
Face, ears, hands, or feet. Faced with the blackened, damaged, and unconscious bodies of the soldiers, the military doctors had no choice but to cut them off while crying.
The severed hands, feet, and bodies were piled into basket after basket.
Zheng Yanqing didn't know how to face these soldiers. These are all soldiers who fought bloody battles with him, all elites who have survived hundreds of battles. Today, they did not fall on the battlefield killing the enemy, but they came to the end of their military careers in this way.
The military doctor was amputating the feet of a soldier who looked to be no more than 17 or 18 years old. Zheng Yanqing saw it and asked in a low voice: "He is still so young and has a long life ahead of him. Can this foot be used?"Saw? "
When the military doctor saw Zheng Yanqing, he stood up and said, "Captain, his foot is completely necrotic. If it is not amputated, the necrotic blood will spread throughout the body, and he will not even be able to save his life."
Zheng Yanqing sighed and said nothing more.
This soldier had a childish look on his face. When he saw Zheng Yanqing, he was busy saluting Zheng Yanqing. Maybe he still doesn't know what losing this foot will mean.
Zheng Yanqing felt uncomfortable in his heart. He had been fighting for so many years and had never experienced any kind of situation, but he had never felt so powerless as he did now.
I feel sorry for the soldiers!
"All soldiers who died of frostbite or suffered frostbite while fighting here must be dealt with properly, and they must not be allowed to bleed or shed tears. Remember, I will chop off the head of anyone who goes wrong."
However, although Zheng Yanqing felt uncomfortable, it would not affect the march plan. A general should have a compassionate mind and love his soldiers as his own sons, but when it is time to harden his heart, he must not be swayed by emotion.
A qualified general should bring more people home, not just one person.
Therefore, on this difficult road, even if it leads to bloodshed and broken bones, Zheng Yanqing will not hesitate at all and will never retreat.
The further north you go, the colder the weather becomes and the more difficult it becomes to walk.
The moat in the desert is not what Hun said.
The sky and the earth are a vast expanse of white, with no reference and no end in sight. Everyone walked on the road almost mechanically, with only one consciousness left to move forward. Walking, falling down is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is despair. Many people are so nervous that they collapse and cry and scream until they are exhausted and die there.
Thirteen hundred miles away, everyone felt as if they had died once.
Perhaps the only thing that can comfort them during this winter march is that there is no longer a shortage of water. The grassland is covered with snow, and you can eat it if you catch it.
It is impossible to boil it. Zhida z.com Zhixiao
There are few trees on the grassland, and it is winter, let alone finding firewood. For this reason, the army carried a large amount of cow dung, which after burning could be used for heating and cooking. But it was too cold in the cold night, and the cow dung consumption was too large. It was not enough for heating and cooking, and there was no need to boil water.
Later, many people recalled that the smell of snow was the smell of grassland, because they had eaten so much grassland snow that many years later, they still could not forget the earthy, grassy, ??and even bloody smell of snow.
I don’t know how long everyone walked until November 6th. After twenty-three days of hard work, the 20,000-strong army marched for 1,300 miles, and finally arrived at their destination—Dingbei City.
This wind, this snow, and this city cannot stop those people who love this country
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