New Shun 1730

After a month of this, the soldiers in the camp were very familiar with Liu Yu.

But in terms of prestige, it seems that he does not have much, and some people think that he is crazy.

Although it is said that a general should eat with the soldiers and share the same hatred with his sons, it is a pity that it is only a story in the storybook.

When these soldiers really saw such an officer who ate with the soldiers, they were not used to it at all, and thought that this man was sick.

Dashun was just a feudal dynasty, and there were endless incidents of drinking the blood of soldiers. The Beijing camp may be stronger, but there really has never been an officer who mixed with the soldiers.

Liu Yu thought clearly that he was just a guest general, and this was not his foundation. He just borrowed the lives and blood of these big-headed soldiers to dye his official uniform.

Even if the purpose was so simple, he knew that some methods were needed.

After talking more, Liu Yu found that there were quite a few Solon people in the team. It can be seen that the court also cares about this matter. Those who were transferred are all familiar with the terrain and climate.

The Solon people and the Later Jin were mortal enemies. The capital of the Solon Kingdom was in Yaksa, which was massacred and destroyed by the Later Jin during the Chongzhen period. After that, the war was intense, and the Later Jin kept capturing people from various Solon tribes to fill the Eight Banners.

Death in battle was bearable, but people who had lived in the mountains and forests all their lives could not withstand the smallpox and colds in the interior, and died in batches, and often the entire tribe died out.

After the founding of the Dashun Kingdom, the population in the Yaksa area of ​​the old Solon Khanate had basically died out.

When the Russian Empire arrived, the Russians built a city on the site of Yaksa. Some tribes moved south, and some served as soldiers in the Dashun area.

The Songhua River area restored the distorted Tang Dynasty soldier system, and the Beidi Zhechongfu became an excellent soldier light cavalry similar to the Cossacks. Some Solon people who survived smallpox gradually gained military merits, and there were quite a few in the Beijing camp.

In addition to these people, we have to wait for some people who can speak Russian from Mongolia.

Seeing that it was the end of September, everyone was finally ready, and it was time to set off.

Mantou bought everything on Liu Yu's list. Not counting the standard equipment from Duke Qi, the rest cost nearly two thousand taels of silver, and he also borrowed some money from his classmates in Wude Palace.

There were several large boxes full of things, and several large carts were loaded with things that no one knew what they were.

Some people speculated whether it was Liu Yu's own private goods.

But after all, Liu Yu had the identity of a duke and the nominal leader of this team, so no one dared to ask more.

Going to war and taking the opportunity to make money were the privileges of officers. With envy, all he hoped for was to become an officer in the future, at least to get a share of the pie.

Starting from the capital, Liu Yu quietly learned some details such as how to set up camp and how to march.

With the methods of his previous life, he took notes at night, summarized the rules and experiences, and combined with the theories learned in Wude Palace, it was not difficult to master them.

The winter of the seventh year in Taixing came very early. As soon as we left Shanhaiguan, there was a heavy snowfall.

Everything was covered with a layer of white. The mist rising from the unfrozen river made the weeping willows along the shore covered in silver, creating a unique scenery that was not available in the prosperous capital.

But this snow also made the marching people miserable.

The pale sun hung above their heads, and the white snow did not receive any sunlight at all, reflecting the dazzling sunlight to everyone like a mirror.

There was a dead silence all around, except for white, and the occasional green that could be seen was just the pine forest on the mountain.

Everything was dazzling.

Jiaolaobutu, with red and swollen eyes, rode his horse to Liu Yu, who was resting with his eyes closed on horseback.

It snowed heavily and it was sunny, so many people were hit in the eyes by the snow.

Snow hitting the eyes is also called snow blindness.

The white snow reflects almost all the ultraviolet rays of the sun, just like a person staring at the sun all the time, with hot and painful eyes.

A little wind will make you cry. The pain was so severe that it even affected the brain in the eyes, making people want to dig out their eyeballs.

"Brother Liu, let's take a break now? Marching after the snow is too difficult. Many brothers have been hit in the eyes by the snow. If they continue to walk, they may go blind. I think we should rest for a few days and wait until the brothers' eyes are healed before we go."

Liu Yu slowly opened his eyes, adapted to the dazzling snow light, glanced at Jiao Laobutu with red eyes, and asked: "What was the march like on snowy days before?"

"Well...if there is no major military situation, we don't march on snowy days. If there is really an emergency, we will pull one by one and take turns to open our eyes. But... although His Majesty has entrusted us with an important task, it is not urgent."

"That's what you said, but it's better to hurry up sooner rather than later. The road ahead is long, and I don't know how many miles there are. Rest today, rest tomorrow, when can we get there?"

When the soldiers on horseback heard this, they couldn't help but curse in their hearts.

They were hit in the eyes by the snow, and it hurt so much that tears flowed out. The slightest breeze was like someone stabbing their eyes with a needle.

"Fuck you, what the hell? We ate together on weekdays, and I thought you looked like a good person. I thought you were different. But in the end, you are still the same."

"Fuck you, you act like a real bean bun on weekdays, and your eyes hurt so much, can't you take a break?"

"Fuck you, I believed you and really thought you were a good person."

Several people cursed in their hearts. There were people from all over the place in the team, and the curses were all strange, but the overall meaning was similar, and they all did their best to imitate Liu Yu's mother.

"Guwu Yan" says: A woman's genitals are shaped like mussels. Northerners call it Bazi. Fujian people call it Jiwai. Sichuan people call it Pi...

This curse in his heart actually showed the demeanor of a great country.

It is really a vast land with different people and languages, which is not comparable to a small country.

Jiaolaobutu was speechless after hearing Liu Yu's words. He thought, what can you accomplish with your troops like this? Even if you learn from General Li and Wu Qi every day and eat with the soldiers, what's the use? You know the skin but not the bones.

Just as he was about to persuade him a few more times, Liu Yu stopped his horse and said slowly: "However, as a general, you must know the changes in astronomy and geography. If you don't prepare in advance, and the soldiers have to suffer at that time, it is the fault of the general."

This sentence sounds like a human word. The people around him think that the meaning of this sentence can be relaxed?

Liu Yu waved at Mantou and shouted, "Take out the things in box No. 3 and distribute them to everyone. Take out the tobacco leaves in the other box. There are few big cities on the way after Shenyang, and the brothers have been out of tobacco for a few days."

Mantou hurriedly went to the big boxes that Liu Yu brought with him, took out a bunch of things that were originally customized, and gave one to each person.

He also took out the good tobacco leaves in the capital and distributed some according to the ten-five squads.

After getting the tobacco leaves, the soldiers who had not smoked for a long time wanted to chew them in their mouths, pinched a handful and put them in front of their noses to sniff hard, and wanted to suck the tobacco leaves directly into their noses. Many people even forgot the severe pain of snow blindness for a short time.

As an officer, Jiao Laobutu naturally had a lot of tobacco leaves. He took the other thing that Mantou got in his hand, and he didn't understand it.

This thing is a wooden eye mask with a rope tied at the back, which looks quite like the donkey belt used to pull the mill.

Only there are two thin slits on the top of the eye mask.

Wearing it without any instruction, these two slits did not completely cover the eyes. The scenery and roads outside were difficult to enter the eyes through the slits, and the originally dazzling snow light was weakened a little.

After the steamed buns were distributed, Liu Yu shouted: "Brothers, wear this. It will be difficult for snow to hit your eyes in the future."

Jiao Laobutu did not believe that this broken thing could prevent snow blindness? He had never heard of it.

Liu Yu also knew that this thing was not a magic pill, and it would not work just by wearing it.

It would be useless to say anything at this time. Wait until the effect is seen in a few days, and then he can say what he really wants to say.

Looking at Jiao Laobutu's untrusting eyes, Liu Yu thought that this thing would naturally be useful. In the later Long March, crossing the Jiajin Mountain, they were also troubled by snow blindness, and they relied on similar things to survive, but those were woven with yak tail hair, not wood.

In the Jiajin Mountain back then, a group of soldiers wore eye masks and marched in the snow, which was quite romantic like a demon hunter.

The thing in Liu Yu's hand is made of wood, and is more like the snow blindness goggles used by the Eskimos to adapt to local conditions. It is effective, but it looks unsophisticated.