Princess Feiyan saved the life of the horse, really. It was the summer of that year, when General Yang Xuan was ordered to lead his army across the quicksand, first to take Gaochang, and then to cut down Qiuzi and Shanshan
|Possible doubts about history|
Sweat and blood horses and Liangzhou horses:It is generally accepted that the Dawan horse that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is looking for is the sweat and blood horse, that is, the heavenly horse. However, historical legend has it that the heavenly horses came from the Wuwa Pond in Dunhuang. Guzang is also produced in Liangzhou. The copper galloping horse from Liangzhou is a sweat horse or a Liangzhou horse prototype. The posture of the copper galloping horse can prove that the opposite side of the horse shaped by this image is what we often call a walking horse. There are sweaty horses, and there are horses in Liangzhou. However, now the specialty of Wuwei (Guliangzhou) Tianzhu County Chakou Station is walking horses. Perhaps, only by figuring out the ratio between the copper galloping horse and the real horse, can we determine whether the prototype of the copper galloping horse is a sweaty horse or a Mongolian horse breed fork horse.
"Anecdotes of Gu Zang".[Fictional History**Novella].
Cai Lei
Chapter I
Princess Feiyan saved the life of the horse, really. It was the summer of that year, when General Yang Xuan was ordered to lead his army across the quicksand, first to take Gaochang, and then to cut down Qiuzi and Shanshan
In the whole Hexi and even the Western Regions, the four seasons of the year are extremely distinct, the winter is long and the spring is short, and it is the season when the wind is raging.
But the wind is not the same as the wind, the wind in winter is bitter and biting, with a strong penetrating power, which can make people feel that the sheepskin jacket on the body is as thin as paper, and if you stay in the wind for a long time, not only the bones hurt, but also the teeth hurt.
Coupled with the stones that were blown all over the ground by the strong wind and the heavy snow that stirred up the chaos of the world from time to time, every time after a long winter, not only people, but even those cows, sheep, mules and horses were also weak, and there was a kind of luck that came back from the ghost gate.
In spring, especially in early spring, the snow is less and smaller, but the wind still does not stop, and it is more durable than winter.
But after all, it is spring, the wind is no longer blowing straight to people's bones like a knife, and the leather jacket on the body gradually feels thicker and heavier, but it is warm and cold at first, cold and hot, and the sheepskin jacket still can't leave the body, but the head, face and arms no longer need to be hidden.
Suddenly, one day, a sharp-eyed herdsman noticed that in the distance of the grassy beach, looking closely, there began to be dots of new green with goose yellow.
At this time, the peasants who were guarding the fields and feeding on their crops had already sown their seeds into the ground.
Although you raise your head and raise your face, even if you are absent-minded at all, you can see it, not to mention the green mountains, that is, the Qilian Mountain, which almost spans the entire Hexi, is still intertwined with dark snow and long clouds, and the peaks are covered with snowEntering the mountains, the glaciers there are still thousands of walls standing on the ice and clear jade.
But the speed and intensity of the snow melting were clearly different, and the once dry stream in the mountains came to life again, and meandered to the bottom of the mountain with a loud ......It seems that it is only a blink of an eye, and the green on the boundless grassy beach below the mountain spreads silently and spreads out.
Then, the grass is green, the flowers are blooming, the seeds are unearthed, and summer seems to have arrived suddenly.
Whether it is a herdsman or a farmer, whether it is a crop or a pasture, in such a season it can be said that the mood is good and energetic, the crops are growing, the grass is growing, and the dolls that got into the belly of the girls last autumn or winter have also begun to croakThe men who have been busy all day during the day will be busy in their own tents or mud huts at night, and they will be busy on the stomachs of their own ladies for a while, and then they will fall asleep contentedly.
Of course, horses, cows, sheep, and other large and small livestock are also passionate or in estrus, or simply have a pearl fetus, and are slowly growing and maturing ......
During the Taiping years, the grassroots people lived such a day. Although the smell of sweating under the scorching sun is actually not pleasant, but thinking about the upcoming fruitful autumn, whether it is a herdsman or a farmer, his heart is still happy.
After all, there is water to drink and food to eat, it is really hot, and there can be a shade or a shrub on the edge of the ridge or a grassy beach, which can make people shelter from the blazing sunIf you really can't do it, then stay up until the sun goes down......
But this did not apply to the soldiers who were in the middle of the ranks. This is especially true when they are carrying heavy baggage and marching in the Gobi Desert.
And, even more terrible, they were cut off from food and water.
They were lost, trapped in what seemed to be an endless desert, and it was now their third day. As the leader of this team, Ma Wei really has mixed feelings in his heart.
Zhang Jun, the king of Liang, specially sent the general Yang Xuanbing out of Yangguan, nominally to take Gaochang and rebel against the thieves, but in fact to cut down Qiuzi and Shanshan, not only to clean up the gate and rectify the surroundings, but also to expand the influence, so that the famous Silk Road leading to the Western Regions was unimpeded.
The team led by Ma Wei is a flank detachment of the vanguard of the army, in addition to probing the enemy's situation, there is also a feint to cover the task of the main force of the forward, that is, the meaning of the soldier in the art of war.
After Ma Biao led the team to collect grain, grass and ordnance from Hecang City in the northwest of Dunhuang, he went all the way to the west, which can be said to be smooth, but unexpectedly lost Jingzhou, and the Han guide found near Gaochang was actually a spy who had been bought by the Qiuzi people for a long time. It was that guy who took them into the depths of the desert in the name of taking a shortcut, but he quietly escaped when the moon was dark and the wind was high.
What's even more hateful is that before leaving, that guy actually pierced the water bags made of cow and sheep urine bubbles by the soldiers one by one, which was completely vicious and hated to put them in a desperate situation of death.
In the past three days, the horse urine has been drunk, and the human urine has also been drunk, although the soldiers' dry food bags still have fried noodles and roasted naan, but because of the dripping water, there is no dry mouth - to exaggerate, the tongue itself has become a cracked dry land, and it is difficult to even speak, that is, in the face of the delicacies of the mountains and seas, who can swallow it?
If it's just that there is no water to pour it, because people still have legs, they can still walk, get out of the predicament, find the water source, wouldn't everything be solved?This is where the most irritating or desperate thing is: they don't know where to go!
As far as the eye can see, even the sky is grounded, except for the yellow sand or yellow sand, and even the sky seems to be yellow. There was not a single cloud in the sky, not a single tree in the ground, not even the camel thorns or shrubs such as red willows, which are common in the desert.
Even the bones of people or horses are nowhere to be found—if you can see them, at least it means that someone has died here, that is, someone has passed by.
With the scorching sun on their heads and the yellow sand under them, Ma and his brothers were like being put into a furnace with coals blazing coals, and every day was worse than death.
At first, Ma Ma also sent a few soldiers to go in different directions, trying to try their luck to see if they could meet people or find water, but three days passed, and all of them were gone, and I don't know if they were dead or alive
The coarse and ink-coarse Ma Wei has seen the before and after the teacher table of Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu during the Three Kingdoms, especially the sentence "Die before leaving the school, and make the hero full of tears" sighed, but I didn't expect that now I can be regarded as empathetic, and I really tasted the sadness, indignation, sourness and helplessness contained in it, which made the horses who wanted to cry without tears and shout silently, and they wanted to die and couldn't ...... alive
Feiyan and his party, all dressed as hunters, appeared at this time. And the soldier sent out by the horse to find someone to find water was cut off his arms, ** in the saddle, and he found and brought the savior, right?
At the sound of the shout, the horse, which was lying like a dead fish, lay under the sand dune, staggered to his feet, staggered two steps towards the comer, and finally fell.
Feiyan reined in the horse, and the five or six strong men with big shoulders and round waists behind him also reined in the horseFeiyan jumped down, and the men also jumped down, holding the scabbard with one hand and the hilt with the other, huddled around her side with great vigilance.
Although he was already delirious and dizzy, the scene in front of him still made Ma Ma realize that the person who came was not an ordinary common man, and it might be too much to say that this place was an enemy country, but it was also an indisputable fact to say that this place was a foreign country.
Struggling, the horse was about to climb up again, but a man stepped on his shoulder and forced him in front of his face with a knife
Soldier?What are you doing?
The horses were speechless, staring at the leather water bladder that hung from the saddle.
A crisp and bright voice rang out: Give it to him. Let him drink.
Hulala", a burst of restlessness accompanied by a puff of smoke and dust, the hundred and tenth soldiers who were originally lying on the yellow sand rushed up like crazy, the posture of grabbing water is grabbing life, life is better than water and water, but it made those people dressed as hunters lose their minds, while desperately protecting their respective water bags, while looking at their leaders.
The horse also looked at the man: a robe that I don't know whether it was linen or wool, and the placket was tucked up between the belt of the same texture, which made the whole person look extremely neat;The legs of the tanned extremely soft leather trousers are tucked into the shafts of the boots, and the toes of the boots are crescent-like curls, adding a touch of femininity.
Although even the head and face are covered by something that looks like a veil and not a veil, and only a pair of eyes are exposed, but it is the sparkling eyes of the autumn water, but people can't forget it.
It was these eyes that made Ma Jie regain his sanity and rationality, what is a drop in the bucket?That's it. There are only five or six horsemen coming, even if they snatch all their water, whether the one hundred and tenth soldiers can all moisten their lips is still between the two, how can they get out of the desperate situation?
Because he was worried that his restless subordinates would mutini in order to grab water, Ma Ti dodged the water bladder that the other party handed to his mouth, licked his bursting lips with great effort, and showed his meaning with a comparison and a picture: the wolf has more meat, less monk, more porridge, it is better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish, show us the way or help us find water, live my whole army, rebuild with grace, no teeth unforgettable!
The crunchy voice rang out again: Oh?Wow, I can't see that the little general is really a pioneer and sympathetic to the army.
Ma Wei replied: I am ashamed, I am only under the military order, and I dare not insult the king's order.
The other party's reply was even more simple: whether it is a military order or a king's order, it is your king, your order. How do you know that in our Western Regions, your Liangzhou Jixian Jun's order will definitely work?
Ma Jie smiled bitterly - the inside and outside of his mouth were very dry, and the slightest movement made the corners of his mouth hot and painful - because of the pain, the smile seemed very difficult: Yes, just call him Ji Xianjun by you.
Only a pair of eyes were exposed on that face, but even in those eyes, there was a smile that couldn't be concealed: Okay, for the sake of Ji Xianjun's face, I will help you once!
According to that person's instructions, the number one hundred and ten soldiers lined up in five teams, each team had a water bladder, and each person passed it down, which was considered to have slightly relieved his thirst;Then, as the man had commanded, the horse led his men up to the largest and highest dune, took off their clothes and shoes, and knelt down to pray for rain.
While Ma Wei and the others were kneeling like that, the man and several of his men were not idle, they danced around the phalanx of soldiers, and muttered something in their mouths.
As the dance rhythm gets faster and faster, so does their chanting. The horses were engrossed in hearing what they were talking about, but were disappointed.
That's all the disappointment?
The 100th person has been kneeling under the scorching sun for more than half an hour, and the sky is still cloudless and open, without a trace of wind or clouds. There were constantly soldiers who knelt and knelt and fell headlong forward, and then they could never wake up again. In desperation, the horse straightened up, raised his arms high, and shouted hoarsely
Manifest spirits, O God!
Oh my God, it's raining!
Come on, O rain!
The horses followed, and the soldiers followed, and the voice was muffled, like tears and blood.
At the same time, the man and his men paid no attention to the horses and the others, and led a horse, and several men held hands in a circle, still with words in their mouths, and after dancing around the horse's hand, a sharp sword pierced through the horse's chest, and stirred it up a few more timesThe sword was drawn, and strands of blood gushed out, and it could really be said that the blood was pouring out. After a few struggles, the horse fell to the ground and lay ...... in a pool of blood
But a miracle happened: there were clouds in the sky that had been cloudless and the scorching sun had been high, and the black clouds rose from the northwest, galloped over, and gathered more and more;The wind was also rising, chilly, with a dizzying smell of wet water.
Then the rain began to fall, first bits and pieces, and then in a blink of an eye, it poured down in strings. And, the most amazing thing is that the clouds only hang above their heads, and the rain only pours down above their heads!
Ma Ti and the others were stunned at first, and then they cried and laughed in the rain and rolled and twisted into a ball, enjoying the gift ...... from the heavens
All of them were brought back to life.
Great grace is not thanked, and it cannot be thanked. In the face of that person, the horse stammered, not knowing how to express his feelings, but the person waved his hand, or that clear and bright voice-
One side of the water and soil supports one side of the people, and one side of the people provides one side of the gods. If you succeed in praying for rain, you can only say that Ji Xianjun acts on behalf of the sky, so there is God's favor, so you can do it yourself.
In order to save the horses and pack them, the man used it to sacrifice to the sky, but a horse was regarded as a bloody horse of the heavenly horse in Liangzhou and even Chang'an, Jiankang and other places, and it was ...... as early as the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty
To be continued
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