The north wind blows and the white grass breaks, and the sky is full of snow in August.
Zhang Zhao chanted softly in his mouth, but if Cen Jiazhou had not gone to Luntai, but to the Qilian Mountains, he would have discovered that there may be heavy snowfall here in June.
It's September now, and when Shouchang and Dunhuang in Shazhou can still live in just a crotchless shirt, the cold wind is already howling at the foot of the Qilian Mountains.
Zhang Zhao is wearing a linen robe. This kind of robe is made of two layers of linen sewn together, and then filled with shredded linen cloth, silk floss, silkworm cocoons, kapok wadding, reed wadding, animal hair and other miscellaneous things, and finally compacted.
This was the clothing worn by ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty to resist the severe cold in winter. To be honest, it was not very warm.
Compacting these things requires a lot of skill. Some people can barely keep them warm while others can freeze them to death.
Even if it is well made, there will often be a missing piece of stuffing somewhere, and when the cold wind blows, it will make people shake their heads.
At the same time, in order to enhance the effect, ropes need to be tied around the chest, waist and legs, which is ugly and troublesome.
But it was under such circumstances that the cold wind blew in September, Zhang Zhao found his first golden finger that could be opened.
Cotton!
Being able to think of cotton is also related to his experience. Although Zhang Zhao was from Xi'an before time travel, due to his grandfather, he was born in Southeast Chongqing, which was in the later Republic. After attending college, his family moved back to Shaanxi.
Southeast Chongqing is a relatively poor area. When I was a child, most of the cotton clothes were made by my family. My mother was a Tujia woman. In addition to being a private teacher, she was also good at ginning cotton and weaving. My father was a well-known cotton craftsman.
As a child, he was often teased by his classmates because his father was a cotton maker. For a long time, when he heard the cry "Play cotton! Play cotton!", he would develop PTSD, which was manifested as feeling weak and feeling unwell all over.
, twisting fingers in embarrassment, etc.
Therefore, cotton and cotton-splitting have been with him throughout his childhood. For a period of time, his father even hoped that Zhang Zhao could inherit this craft. He was so frightened that he quickly studied hard and was admitted to a key high school in the provincial capital before his father gave up.
Got this idea.
However, despite this, due to family influence and more than ten years of exposure, Zhang Zhao still knows some techniques of ginning and bombarding cotton.
Cotton ginning technology and cotton bombing seemed to be unattractive professions in later republics, but in the Tang Dynasty, was proper high-precision technology good?
"Erlangjun, above is Ge Du's stronghold. Most of the strongholds are Ge Du's relatives!"
Qiongre Duojin pointed to a small road hidden in the mountains and said, Ge Duo's Dazhai is really hidden. No wonder Shazhou Youyi Army and Yamen soldiers can't find it.
To get to this mountain village hidden in the Qilian Mountains, you have to pass through a Gobi desert with a diameter of more than one kilometer.
After leaving the Gobi, the surrounding scenery was similar. Qiongre Duojin and Bai Congxin relied on the small piles of stones placed on the ground to confirm their direction. People who did not know that these small piles of stones represented information could easily get lost.<
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Since you are removing people, you can’t bring too many people with you. Too many people will definitely arouse suspicion.
Therefore, Qi Xiaohu, Zhang Zhong and others waited five or six miles away with fifty or sixty people, waiting until the smoke was emitted from the village before moving forward.
As for Zhang Zhao, he only had Yin Yaozi and two Ding Zhuangs with good archery skills under Qi Xianghu, plus Bai Congxin, Qiongre Duojin and a few Uighurs.
"How many can be beaten in the village? How far is it to enter Dazhai from here?"
Zhang Zhao did not wear his own Mingguang armor today because it was too conspicuous and too heavy. He is now wearing a Tubo armor with only the upper body, and a linen robe on the outside. This way the defense is good and it is not conspicuous.<
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"There are not many who can fight. Ge Du claims to be five hundred brothers, but in fact there are only more than a hundred who can fight. Most of them have surrendered to Erlangjun. The rest are said to be brothers, but in fact they are all Ge Du.
What a serf!"
Bai Congxin said to Zhang Zhao in a low voice, with a slightly embarrassed look on his face. The two parties are still at the stage of joining together. He doesn't trust Zhang Zhao too much, and Zhang Zhao certainly doesn't trust him too much.
"You and Ge Du are both from the Bai family's royal family. Are there any relatives of yours in this village?"
Bai Congxin shook his head, "I am the descendant of the prince of Changhua County, and Ge Du is the descendant of the prince's brother. They may have been the same family two hundred years ago, but now, they are not even close relatives. The servant's parents died early and have not married yet."
, the only younger brother, also died in the battle with the Canwei people long ago."
Zhang Zhao looked at Qiongre Duojin again. This was the reason why he wanted to take the two of them with him. They had no time to collude with each other. As long as he kept asking questions, anyone who dared to say nonsense would definitely be found out.
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"Ge Duo didn't want to part with his wealth, and he didn't want to keep his family in the stronghold, so I didn't have any relatives in the stronghold.
However, Ge Du's three sons are all grown up and quite brave. The servants can lure them here first. Lang Jun will rise up and kill them. If these three people are eliminated, the village will belong to Lang Jun."
After passing through one trail after another, deceiving one secret sentry after another, a crude cottage appeared in front of Zhang Zhao.
Although it is said to be a village, it is actually very crude. The village is located on a leeward alpine grassland. A few yaks and a group of long-haired goats are wandering around the village. The herdsmen wearing tattered leather robes are prostrate on the roadside in awe, not daring to
Looking up at the people going up the mountain.
Zhang Zhao finally understood why Bai Congxin said that the people in this village were all herder slaves of Ge Du, because if they were really horse thieves under Ge Du, they would never be dressed in such rags. The way he looked at Bai Congxin and the others
I won’t be so afraid.
‘Kuji!’ Zhang Zhao stepped on a soft lump of something. When he lowered his head, he saw that it was a fucking pile of half-dried cow dung!
This shabby cottage is like a large garbage dump, and Ge Duo doesn’t know how to take care of it.
"Baima'er, where is my brother? Didn't you say there is a beautiful man? Why haven't you seen him?"
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Before Zhang Zhao could get the cow dung off his shoes, a fat man wearing a snow leopard skin and a Tibetan fox fur scarf ran down from a large stone building in the middle of the village.
The big fat man shouted Bai Congxin's nickname without restraint while looking behind him.
The elder brother here does not mean elder brother, but refers to father. In the Tang Dynasty, both father and elder brother could be called elder brother, which was regarded as an honorific rather than a specific title.
"The Han women are carrying fine silk cloth at the foot of the mountain. Those with thin skin and tender flesh are all left for Da Lang. Da Gan also brought some good things for Er Lang and San Lang. Da Lang asked them all to come out and let's go down the mountain to meet them.
Let’s do it as soon as Yingda arrives!”
Qiongre Duojin bent his waist and looked at the fat man in front of him with a somewhat flattering look on his face, like a butler. This set of movements was extremely skillful and seemed to have been practiced over a long period of time.
"Dog slave! Now that the Han women are here, you don't hurry up and take one up the mountain. You have to go and pick her up yourself. If those Han women are as black as your sister, I will reward your sister to the groom of a certain person!" p>
Zhang Zhao lowered his head and twitched the corner of his mouth. He clearly saw Qiongre Duojin's lowered hand pinching the corner of his clothes.
This assist is really spot on! Originally, Zhang Zhao was a little worried that Bai Congxin and Qiongre Duojin would not be firm in their surrender, but now it seems that there is no problem.
It is a trivial matter for Ge Du's eldest son to verbally insult Bai Congxin and Qiongre Duojin. This is a feudal society, and the Qilian Mountains are still in the period of slavery. It is common for a master to just verbally insult his subordinates.
The key is that Ge Du's eldest son has no talent at all judging from his expression and words!
You must know that Bai Congxin and the others are in the business of horse thieves. Once Ge Du dies, there will be no successors. If they don't quickly find a big man with thick thighs to rely on, they may die soon. As for why they don't stand on their own, haha! Leader,
I'm afraid it's not that easy.
‘Boom! Boom! Boom!’ Just when the big fat man was looking unhappy, two little fat guys with different looks but similar looks also ran down from the stone building he had just run down.
The eldest one looked to be 18 or 19 years old with a very arrogant face, and the younger one was probably only 14 or 15 years old. Behind the two of them were several servants with low eyebrows and submissive looks.
"Erlang Jun, Sanlang Jun, you are all here! Okay! Okay!" Qiongre Duojin, who had been worried about helping Zhang Zhao to deceive the village gate along the way, suddenly became happy and said yes again and again.<
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Several fat men frowned and looked at Qiongre Duojin in confusion. They were all a little confused.
"Okay? You bitch slave! What's good? Are you hysterical?"
The fat man who was called Erlangjun had a look of reluctance. The old man was getting more and more arrogant and wanted to be greeted. What was there to do? In such a cold day, even wearing a fur robe to warm up by the fire was too cold. Who would want to go down the mountain?
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"Brother Duo Jin said yes, that's because you all happened to be here, and you can go find each one of them one by one!"
Erlang Jun was stunned, but then he saw a horizontal knife with a cold light flashing and stabbed him.
What does this mean? Someone is trying to kill me?
"Ah! It hurts!" The tip of the sharp blade was pierced into his stomach. Only then did Erlangjun react from his stunned state. He screamed and looked at his brother, "Brother, it hurts!"
"Who are you? How dare you stab and kill my brother? My brother is Gedu Dagan!"
The knife came so fast, and in the flash of lightning, the second fat man was already twitching on the ground. The sudden turn of events immediately stunned the big fat man. He probably had never seen such a scene. He had never been the only one to curse others.
No one dared to stab them with a knife.
‘Brush!’ The horizontal knife swept across again, and the big fat man stretched out his hand and pointed at the five fingers of Zhang Zhao’s right hand, and four of them were suddenly gone.
Zhang Zhao pulled out the horizontal knife and stabbed again. The blood-red blade easily penetrated the leather robe on the big fat man. He pushed harder, and the big fat man couldn't bear the strength and fell to the ground, with his mouth, hands, and abdomen
At the same time, blood spurts out crazily.
The remaining third child is still a handsome young man. Although he is a little fat, he is much more pleasing to the eye than his two brothers.
Seeing that his two domineering brothers suddenly disappeared, the third child howled miserably and fell to the ground, crawling back on his hands and feet like crazy.
The ground was full of cow dung and mud, mixed with ice and it was very slippery. The third child was like a hamster on a running wheel. After working for a long time, he could not get very far.
Zhang Zhao hesitated for a moment, he looks like a junior high school student! He has no hesitation in killing adults. If you don't kill me, then I have to kill you. But for minors, the moral conscience laid down by the republic for him in later generations
, but still restrained him at the bottom line.
Zhang Zhao hesitated, but others did not hesitate. Qiongre Duojin, who was beside him, saw that Zhang Zhao did not go after him and looked at him gratefully. The Tubo slave soldier thought that Zhang Zhao deliberately left a bastard for him to escape.
Taking it out.
‘Boom! Boom!’ Qiongre Duojin, who quickly caught up with him, took a black iron hammer and aimed it at Lao San who was crawling on the ground and hit him hard, causing red and white to splash everywhere.
"You bitch! You are a dog slave, your brother is a dog slave, your mother is a dog slave, and your whole family is a dog slave. My sister and I want to marry a hero, so your sister will follow the groom and become a lowly woman!"
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Qiongre Duojin, who was screaming while smashing, fell into a frenzy. After smashing the third child, he rushed over and smashed the head of the boss, who was still struggling on the ground, into a rotten watermelon.
"The Qiongre family of Langmi Dongdai has a lot of money. Ge Du has died. Men from all the families came out and followed me to surrender Ge Du's property and submit to Mr. Zhang's Erlang!"
Time seemed to have stopped. The expressions on the faces of the poor shepherd slaves who had been watching them kill Ge Du's three sons suddenly became vivid.
"Let's go! Divide the gold and silver with Duo Jinjiula (eldest brother)!" Someone shouted, and the cowherd slaves, who were cowering just now, seemed to have felt some kind of call, and screamed from their respective shacks.
I rushed out.
Zhang Zhao took a look and saw that the fastest one seemed to be the herdsman who was kneeling on the roadside just now.
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Blue and black smoke rose in the village, and several horse thieves with weapons rushed out from the stone building of the village. However, when they saw the darkness below, dozens of herdsmen holding wooden sticks and dung forks were already rioting, and they hurriedly
He slipped back and seemed to want to rely on this stone building to hold on.
Zhang Zhao suddenly felt a little boring. He also deliberately wore a piece of Tibetan armor. He was freezing all the way. He thought that there would be a massacre in this village, but he successfully knocked Ge Duo to death.
After having a son, the shepherd slaves in the village were able to deal with the Ge Du family.
"Erlangjun, there are still more than ten Ge Duo confidants at the key road at the foot of the mountain. Let's go and kill them now. Let Qiongre Duojin handle this place. We will ensure that no chickens or dogs of Ge Duo's family are left alive!"
Bai Congxin thought that Zhang Zhao was worried, because there were Ge Du's wives, concubines, and daughters in the stone building. If he did such a thing, he would definitely be eradicated.
Zhang Zhao was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said nothing. He just drew out his horizontal knife and walked towards the middle of the mountain. If the chickens and dogs are not left alone, the chickens and dogs will not be left behind. This is the rule of this era. If he, Zhang Zhao, were in Qi Xianghu's
If Ge Du is taken care of in the village, nothing will be left of the people around him.
Southwest of Shouchang, a cavalry regiment of about one regiment was resting. These soldiers were all wearing simple cotton robes, brown leather hats on their heads, light cowhide armor, and linen tied around their faces to protect them from the wind and sand.<
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They all have two horses, one horse is ridden by oneself, and the other horse is tied with a uniform ring-lock armor.
"Fourteenth Prince! The Qi family's descendant's stronghold should be in the mountains within a few miles of this place. The traitors from the Sixth Group of the Third Regiment we caught outside Shouchang City said that Sanniang was sent away by them.
I entered Qijia Village, but it’s hard to find this place."
A guy wearing a linen robe like a herdsman came down from a mountain and was reporting to a man wearing a robe on his head.
"Ma Yaozi, it's best for your men to move quickly. Mr. Luo Erlang is waiting for you to make a contribution!"
The Fourteenth Prince stared hard at the horse kite coming down from the mountain, and specially emphasized the word "meritorious service".
Ma Yaozi's expression changed, and he didn't even bother to drink water, so he quickly got on his horse again.
It would be better if Cao Sanniang was not kidnapped, but Zhang Zhong, who has been living in Shouchang, is also missing.
What's even worse is that the man Zhang Zhong was protecting has also disappeared.
What's even worse is that the chief culprit who kidnapped Cao Sanniang, Zhai Tongjin, the captain of the sixth team of the third regiment of Jiezhen Yaqian Yamen soldiers, and three other people, died in the husband's cave.<
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The biggest problem is that his superior, Jiedu Yamen, Shouchang Envoy Luo Erlangjun, Luo Xianda's brother, the right horse in front of Jiedu Yamen Yamen, Luo Tongda, the military envoy guarding Yunmen, used to be
It can even be said that the three Luo family brothers, the prime ministers of the White Emperor, were all promoted quickly during the Zhang Chengfeng period.
In this picture, Mr. Erlang is missing, and Mrs. Cao Sanni is also missing. As long as you are not stupid, you can easily contact the Luo brothers. Therefore, the top priority is not just to find Ms. Cao Sanni, but you must also find Mr. Erlang! p>