Three Kingdoms

The weather in the Western Regions is always a little unkind. It seems to be sunny and comfortable in the morning, but it will turn into violent heat at noon, and then in the afternoon, sand and dust will hit, blocking the sky and the sun, forcing the army to stay in place. . When it comes to eating, you should eat as soon as possible when the wind and sand are light, otherwise you may break your teeth with half a mouthful of rice and half a mouthful of sand.

Because Fei Qian had to take the copper and iron cannons with him and related craftsmen, the speed was inevitably slowed down. There is nothing that can be done about this. It cannot be like what some people say: everything is ready, everything is there, everything has arrived, and everything is finished.

When we camped at night, the soldiers were more or less fine, but the craftsmen were screaming and in a state of disarray. It's not that these craftsmen can't endure hardship, but that they haven't made rapid changes in their daily behavior habits and can't adapt to the changes in the Western Regions.

These habits are even related to...

Loincloth.

For Fei Qian, he naturally called this thing a crotch cloth, but the Han people more often called it a "loin cloth", or based on its shape, called it a "calf nose cloth."

As the name suggests, the "little nose" refers to its shape, and the word "裈" (裈), when taken apart, shows a garment on one side and the word "military" on the other side. This shows that this thing was actually an item that appeared in the military in the first place. In addition to carrying a crotch, this thing also has multiple uses...

As for why they should be distributed in the army and have someone specially teach them the experience and methods of wearing calf-bis, it is of course because the situation here in the Western Regions is completely different from that in mainland China, and many of the original living habits need to be modified, otherwise You will suffer a big loss.

What?

Why no underwear?

Fei Qian doesn't push his underwear, is he worthy of being a time traveler?

The underwear is indeed good, but unfortunately it is not suitable for today.

This inappropriateness means that it is not suitable for the current productivity, and it also means that it is not suitable for the current actual life.

Everything must be analyzed based on the actual situation and specific issues. If you simply look at one aspect of the matter and jump to conclusions hastily, it will be as meaningless as a blind man touching an elephant.

It's not that Fei Qian has never promoted underwear, but in fact, only high-end people can use it, and among most common people, underwear is not popular.

In the current reality of military life, a later style of underwear may not be as useful as a crotch cloth. At least there is no way to easily remove the sand after the underwear gets into it, but a crotch cloth can.

Complementing this are crotchless pants.

Only two days away from Yumen Pass, there were some non-combat casualties.

In order to prevent this situation from expanding, some veterans from the Western Regions were assigned by Fei Qian to the craftsmen to teach these craftsmen who had never been to the Western Regions or suffered from the sand and other creatures of the Western Regions some life skills, including calf wearing. The skills of nose trousers, and some experiences that can help them survive here in the Western Region.

"It's windy and sandy in the Western Region. If you want to keep your butt from getting rotten, you have to tie this cloth in a few knots on your butt so that you can stretch out your butt groove!" ” The veteran who had been in the Western Region for a long time swayed the elephant unscrupulously, demonstrating with his bare buttocks, “Did you see it? Like this, then like this...the two pieces of meat on this butt are separated! Otherwise, you will wait for the sand to run into the middle and wear out your back groove! 』

The craftsmen sitting around made noises, and they all followed the instructions attentively. For a while, they were surrounded by all kinds of black, gray, or yellow buttocks, pouting and inspecting each other.

In the current environment, there is no such thing as being embarrassed.

Sorry, is anything more important than surviving?

The sand in the Western Regions never says anything to be embarrassed about. These naughty devils will come during mealtime and add the unique earthy smell of the Western Regions to all dishes, soups, noodles and rice. They will also come at any time during the day and night, and then get into all the gaps in the human body. And inside the hollows, the gaps in the armor, the gaps in the hair, the gaps in the wrinkles, and of course the gaps between the legs...

The cavalry is relatively better because they sit on the saddle, but as for the infantry, they must know how to put on the crotch cloth, otherwise they will constantly rub against each other during the day's walking. The buttocks will soon become red and fester, and then you will either have to lie down with your legs spread to expose your anus and expose it to the sun for a few days, or you will have to walk the road of life and death with blood dripping all the way in excruciating pain.

In China, later generations often think that only those gorgeous clothes and exquisite patterns can be called Chinese clothes. However, in fact, in the history of China's development for thousands of years, those inconspicuous and even ugly clothes are Really close to the people...

Anyone who is divorced from reality is basically being a hooligan.

Clothing in ancient times was very simple. The basic material was animal skin, and there were no sleeves. If you talk to ancient people about protecting animals at this time, or tell these ancient people how to dress beautifully, then guess whether the ancient people would dance like modern dances as seen in some historical dramas. Amazing, wowing?

If someone really travels back to the Yangshao Culture Period or the Longshan Culture Period and sees lonely men and women in the wilderness with their bare arms and thighs painted with all kinds of decorations, don't be mean-spirited and say that they are detrimental to the moral style, because at that time These people really don't know how to sew the sleeves to the main body of the garment.

If you want to have sleeves, you must first have needlework.

The word "bone needle" sounds simple to say, but if there are no tools provided by suitable technology, those keyboard warriors who are always talking about making mistakes and calling others idiots will have to build one with their own hands without any external help. When I come out, most of the time I cry for my father and mother and I can't even get out of it.

The common people of ancient China often only had clothes, no clothes, and no trousers. This is partly because of poverty, and partly because of the temperature. Moreover, most of the trousers in ancient times were crotchless trousers, and they only reached above the knees. As for those below the knees, they were called "dandies." The so-called dandy refers to guys who even wear high-quality fabrics on their calves. , which is equivalent to the meaning of hanging a Vacheron Constantin on the wrist of future generations.

And such a fragmented process, where even pants are divided into several parts, is the process of productivity development.

A time traveler who is divorced from the original actual situation and can just open his mouth and criticize this idiot and fool at every turn will probably not survive more than three days.

Just like in the Western Regions right now, if you don't respond according to the actual situation, it will be a trivial matter to suffer a loss or injury. In serious cases, you will die within a few days...

"Now let me take a dump!" Don’t laugh, not all campsites have dug pits for you! Yesterday, there was a fool who went to defecate in the bushes and took off his pants, exposing his buttocks! ” The veteran sneered, unabashedly showing his disdain, and stretched out his hand to gesture under his crotch, “Then he was bitten by a scorpion! The swelling is bigger than my head! It can only be cut... If you want to find a chance to be cut, tell me earlier, my knife is fast, and you will never suffer twice! 』

Everyone's expressions became serious. If someone else's accident could not be related to themselves, then it would be a joke at most. But if they said that they might also suffer, then this matter should be taken seriously.

In areas like the Western Regions, which are often deserts, everyone likes bushes, including snakes and scorpions.

"In addition to avoiding bushes, don't choose a place with many rocks! Who knows what insects and snakes will be underneath the stone? Don’t choose near a water source! The first is that if you don’t like drinking water soaked in other people’s feces, then others won’t like it either! Secondly, no one knows whether the next person to drink water will be a fox or a wolf! ” The veteran tried his best to pass on the knowledge of survival to these craftsmen, “You must choose the wind position! You don’t like a mouthful of sand, and neither do those wild wolves and jackals! In addition to bringing a stick or shovel, you also need to bring a knife when you poop alone! Bringing a wooden stick is to scare away snakes, but also to dig a hole... Remember to stick the stick on it after you poop! If you don't like stepping on other people's shit, just remember to mark it when you've finished shitting! As for carrying a knife, is it to guard against insects, snakes, or sand thieves hiding under the sand and suddenly jumping out when you poop? You can't take your poop to the lake..."

The veteran spoke carefully, and the craftsman also listened carefully.

Eating, drinking, sleeping, sleeping may sound simple and even a bit vulgar, but these are the skills to survive.

Because in the Western Region, there are not only bugs and wild beasts, but also horse thieves and sand thieves like bugs and wild beasts.

When you see these horse thieves and sand thieves during the day, they appear to be herdsmen, but at night, they transform into horse thieves or sand thieves. With the reopening of the Silk Road in the Western Regions, there are more and more of these horse thieves and sand thieves. With just a move of your hands, you can obtain wealth that you have never been able to obtain in your entire life. Who can resist such a temptation?

The Western Regions have not formed a unified national will, and naturally there is no unified social order. In this land of the Western Regions, there are no moral standards and traditional concepts of the Chinese mainland. We want to measure the Western Regions with the usual thinking mode of the Han Dynasty. The behavior of these herdsmen is undoubtedly like asking the people of the ancient Yangshao culture why they don’t wear clothes with sleeves and trousers with crotches.

The worsening effects of Lu Bu's massacre of Kucha and the burning of Buddha statues have now slowly spread.

The most obvious manifestation is that the people from the Western Regions have used their greatest means.

Biochemical attack.

To put it simply, it was the originally normal water source in front of me, but now I don’t know who dumped the rotting carcasses of cattle and sheep.

If you are an ordinary person, you will be at a loss if you can't say it, because even if you take out the rotting corpse, you can't clean up the contaminated water. You can only give up the water source. Once you give up the water source, it means that it will be disrupted. The arrangement of the march will even affect the acquisition of the next water source.

Fortunately, Fei Qian brought a lot of water from Yumen Pass on the one hand, and on the other hand he knew some coping methods better than ordinary generals...

The "inheriters" of knowledge in the Western Regions are actually these monks in the Western Regions.

In earlier years, these people might have been witches or shamans, or those people in the tribe who controlled the "mysterious power", and this "mysterious power" was actually the power of knowledge.

In the Western Regions, there was no unified writing or language. There was only a fixed inheritance system, and there was only religion. The old took the young with them, and a class that was completely separated from production became the "teachers" of the Western Regions, controlling and disseminating knowledge.

Among this knowledge, there is knowledge about war and biological and chemical weapons.

This should be the most advanced knowledge and technology in the Western Regions at the moment. It may be regarded as the "Dragon Slaying Technique" in the hands of monks in the Western Regions...

However, this time, they faced Fei Qian.

"In the thirteenth year of King Ling of Zhou, the allied forces of more than ten countries including Jin, Qi and others attacked Qin and settled in Jing. Fei Qian was sitting in a tent on the side of the water source, looking at the color of the dunes as the night deepened. From the bright and warm colors during the day to the dark and cold colors now, he said slowly, "Qin Guo Yu The upper reaches of the Jing River were poisoned, causing many soldiers and horses of the princely states to die due to drinking water poisoning, and their morale collapsed. In this battle, the allied forces of the princes worked in vain and achieved no results, so it was called "the delayed battle". 』

Xu Chu, who was following Fei Qian, suddenly realized, "So it turns out that we used this poisoning method first?" 』

Fei Qian laughed and pointed at the water source in front of him, "Within a radius of nearly a hundred miles, this is the only place that can be used by the army... But it happened to be this place that was poisoned... and Ziyi passed by it before. This matter was not reported when we were here... Zhongkang, what do you think happened? 』

Nature is very magical. Maybe there are deserts all around, but there is an oasis right in the sand dunes.

Just like the Crescent Moon Spring in Dunhuang.

Now this oasis is poisonous, and Fei Qian is currently directing people to do the work of "detoxification".

Looking at what seemed to be the extremely quiet Gobi Desert around him, Xu Chu said, "My lord, there are thieves here, probably hiding in these sand dunes!" If someone asks for an order and gives it to a certain team of people, they will definitely kill all these rats! 』

Of course Xu Chu would not think that Taishi Ci was negligent during the march. This is almost impossible, so it must be that during the gap after Taishi Ci set off, there must be the Western Region Allied Forces, or someone else from the Western Regions, running away Arrived here for poisoning.

Fei Qian smiled, "You can't kill them cleanly..."

Xu Chu's eyes widened. Although he didn't say anything, his expression was full of dissatisfaction.

"Everyone hates the infestation of rats and ants and will kill them when they see them. But when have you ever seen a place where rats and ants can be completely eliminated?" Fei Qian said with a smile, "You have horses, and people in the Western Regions also have horses. With the size of the Western Regions, where can't we hide?" If you are determined to avoid it and not fight, what can you do? To conquer the Western Regions, you should use sharp weapons, but these sharp weapons are not just swords and guns. 』

Xu Chu frowned and then began to think deeply.

Regarding the issue of the Western Regions, some brainless guys just shout to kill, as if killing can solve all problems, but in fact it is like trying to solve the person who raised the problem instead of solving the problem itself.

The problem in the Western Regions today is like finding a nest of cockroaches or termites in your home. Those who take it for granted will naturally think of stepping on it with their feet, or even patting it with their hands, and kill the corpses of these cockroaches and termites one by one with their own hands. The slurry spreads all over the place, and then you scream out loud...

It looks like they killed a lot, but in reality?

Two days later, another one appeared.

So what if you find its nest and pour it with a pot of boiling water?

Pouring boiling water is useful, but it is not very useful, because the maximum temperature of water is only 100, and it will lose its temperature soon after it is poured. When it reaches the end, it is often just a bath for these guys. From this temperature From a practical point of view, pouring tin water may be a more effective method, as long as it can withstand the consequences of the furniture and houses being soaked or burned.

Then it will be over?

No, maybe it can only be clean for ten months, and then a new ant nest will appear in the house before you know it...

Therefore, if you want to eliminate cockroaches and termites in a certain area, you must not only eliminate them at a certain point, but also clear the surrounding area, draw an isolation zone, and carry out encirclement and suppression in a planned and step-by-step manner. The most important thing is to have weapons that are beyond the ability of cockroaches and termites to fight, instead of just swatting or stepping on them one by one.

Technological crushing and irresistible power are fundamental.

Just like the Battle of Cajamarca when Spain colonized South America during the Great Exploration Period in history, 169 people fought against about 80,000 Inca natives. The factor that led to Spain's final victory was that they personally killed them in this battle. people? No, the Incas they killed directly were actually very few. Most of the Incas who died during the battle died while trampling on each other.

What gave more than 60 cavalry and more than a hundred infantry the courage to confront tens of thousands of Incas was because the Spaniards discovered that they had armor and horses, while the Incas only had stone knives and bare feet.

There is almost no need to compare those with armor and those without armor in the era of cold weapons.

What's more, before this battle, the Inca Civil War had already broken out, and there were also terrible diseases that left the Incas helpless!

So can it be said that these 169 Spaniards defeated the Inca Empire?

Maybe it counts, but it can only be said to be the last straw.

This is in line with the destruction of the Indians in North America.

What wiped out the Indians was not pure force, but technological crushing. Muskets could not easily wipe out a tribe of Indians, but smallpox could. Many people think that the scalp order is the root cause of the eventual massacre of the Indians. In fact, it is as simple as the blind man who just touched the tail of the elephant and stubbornly believed that the shape of the elephant is just a rope.

What made the Indians unable to compete with the white people and fight back was not just muskets, armor, and war horses. After all, in the later stages, the Indians also obtained some war horses and muskets provided by the shit sticks, but it really made the Indians completely Disappointed and lying down at the mercy of the virus, they have no solution and cannot resist the spread of the virus.

The scalp order is just a superficial appearance. The deeper purpose is to allow white people to have more contact with Indians, so that the viruses carried by white people have more opportunities to be transmitted to Indians. As the upper class Angsa masters, they don't care whether they give 50 or 100, and they don't care whether the white people at the bottom live or die, because if the white people can come back alive, it means that one more Indian has been killed, and it will not be a loss if they die. Because that means sending a source of infection to the Indians...

No matter how you calculate it, it's a win-win situation, and Mr. Angsa wins twice.

Swords and guns can only massacre a place or a city, but the virus kills the whole situation, the entire region!

It is a pity that Fei Qian does not have such means to destroy the Western Region at the moment, but this does not prevent him from deciphering the final methods used by these inheritors of the Western Region.

Fei Qian looked up at the sky, the moonlight was clear.

"Within three days, there will be a thieves attack." Fei Qian said slowly, "Zhong Kang can show off his skills." 』

Xu Chu banged his breastplate lightly with a bang, and said proudly: "Please don't worry, my lord, the thief will never come back!" 』