Chapter 318 Tang Niu Destroying the Embankment(1/2)
In the summer of Xihua, the world was drought.
Countries have suspended military operations and are busy dealing with domestic disasters.
Huajun is close to the sea and has sufficient freshwater resources, so the situation is relatively better.
However, the disaster situation in various prefectures and counties in Dahua is not optimistic, especially Yuanzhou has fewer water resources, and people complained during the drought.
In previous years, droughts often occurred, and each disaster would cause serious losses.
At the end of the Dacheng Kingdom, when encountering drought, the government would invest in purchasing and distribute cattle, sheep and other livestock to the people in some disaster areas, allowing them to temporarily migrate to areas where the drought is not as serious. Of course, there are so many people across the country that it is impossible for them to rely on this method. Sometimes they will dig canals to enhance their flood discharge and drought resistance.
Ningze has been doing it for digging canals, draining floods and resisting droughts for a long time. When floods occurred in the past, they would prepare for the future.
However, the drought this year is particularly severe, and the measures to fight disasters in the past are not enough.
To this end, Ningze allocated a large amount of funds to carry out well-drainage operations nationwide. At the same time, it continued to dig canals, properly allocate water resources, and take a two-pronged approach.
On the other hand, water trucks are manufactured in large quantities to facilitate water extraction and drought resistance.
Ningze's drought resistance policy has good results, effectively curing domestic drought conditions and ensuring people's hearts.
When Zhou, Liang and Nancheng learned about this, they sent envoys to Dahua to obtain scriptures.
Although the four countries are fighting each other and fighting for the world, the people are innocent.
For example, today, the people are suffering from drought. The Three Kingdoms hope that Dahua will share the experience of disaster relief with the people.
As the Queen of Dahua, Liu Yuanxiang said to all civil and military officials: "The people in the world are my people! We should save them."
Ning Ze agreed, which was also an opportunity for Liu Yuanxiang to further enhance his reputation.
So he taught all the drought resistance experience to the Three Kingdoms envoys and brought them back to the country.
It mainly consists of more modern drilling experience and waterwheel production methods.
Having gained the shared experience of drought control in Dahua, Zhou, Liang and Nancheng successfully suppressed drought after efforts.
All the people in the world praised the unparalleled benevolence of the Queen of Dahua, and many people went to Dahua.
Locusts will be found in a long drought.
In order to prevent the terrible locust plague that had occurred before, during the treatment of drought, Ningze ordered local governments to actively extinguish locusts of any size, strive to eliminate locust eggs, and accelerate the digging of wasteland. On the one hand, it will expand farming and on the other hand, it will reduce the living space of locusts and insect eggs.
In the autumn of the second year of Xihua, the drought was successfully overcome and the locust plague did not occur.
Countries have passed the drought and ushered in the autumn harvest.
The troops were fully equipped and the military rations were sufficient, so they were ready to move.
Ma Jian sent troops to fight westward and prepared to attack the two barbarian tribes of Dun and Hadiwu.
After all, they are loyal to Lu Cong and may send troops to harass him at any time.
Has already taken down Shanshan, Lihu, and Tuyu, if Dun and Hadiwu conquered, he would have no worries and could fight Lu Gong with all his strength, and even gain the power of the five barbarians to transform into his own advantage.
Lu Cong obviously couldn't let him succeed, so he sent troops south to attack Qiangyang.
Ma Jian was halfway through the way, and immediately turned around and hurried back when he heard about this.
Qiangyang is extremely important and cannot be misunderstood.
Ma Jian and Lu Cong's army confronted Qiangyang again and fought with each other.
Tang Niu wanted to send troops to the south to attack Miliang.
Staff Li Pei suggested: "There are still Puduo in northern my country. The two major barbarians of Di obey Lu Cong and take the lead in attacking them! Only when the rear is stable can they move south with peace of mind! Furthermore, to conquer Puduo and Di people, they can conquer the east to fight against the Liang and build a passageway."
Tang Niu thought about it carefully and found something reasonable.
So he went out to fight in person and marched towards the Puduo tribe first.
Lu Cong sent Zhou Hao north to attack Xiacheng, hoping to force Tang Niu to give up attacking Puduo.
Mei Xu sat in Xiacheng to block Zhou Hao.
The Zhou Kingdom and the Puduo tribe were separated by a desert. Tang bulls and soldiers entered this area. Thousands of soldiers died in extreme environments. They finally crossed over and arrived in Puduo smoothly.
Puduo's soldiers and horses were defeated by Tang Niu in succession, and several generals were killed.
The leader Xilifu was afraid of Tang Niu, so he surrendered voluntarily and swore allegiance.
The Tang Niu subdued Puduo and collected his troops. With the help of the Puduo tribe's familiarity with the terrain, he crossed the other desert eastward and arrived in the territory of the Di tribe.
The Dimeni people live in a mountainous area with lush grass and trees, with a complex terrain.
The Tang Niu Army arrived nearby, found a suitable place to camp and sent scouts to find out where the dike tribes were hiding.
During the night break, the camp suddenly became in chaos.
Countless venomous snakes ran around the military camp, and a large number of soldiers were bitten while sleeping, their wounds swollen and their surroundings turned black.
Tang Niu hurriedly led his troops out of the camp and ordered military doctors to treat the injured.
However, the military doctor was helpless and found that at least one thousand people died in the mouth of poisonous snakes and could not wait until dawn.
Wild venomous snakes cannot be so orderly. They appear in the military camp at the same time and launch an attack on their own troops.
Staff Li Pei said: "I heard that the Dike tribe is good at taming animals. I guess it was an enemy attack yesterday!"
Tang Niu frowned: "The dike tribe drove away poisonous snakes and attacked the camp, and it was hard to guard against it. No one saw it. Our army suffered heavy casualties. How to deal with it?"
Li Pei replied: "I know that a kind of wild grass burns with smoke and smells very strong, which can drive away snakes, insects, rats and ants."
"Give you a thousand soldiers and collect them as soon as possible!"
"Here!"
Li Pei led his troops to collect a large amount of weeds and lit them around the military camp. Sure enough, snakes, insects, rats and ants dared not approach them.
He also said to Tang Niu: "The Di tribe is good at controlling beasts. It is easy to hide in the mountains and forests, and it is hard to guard against it. Your Majesty can order soldiers to cut down wood and build walls to resist beasts. When the scout finds the Di tribe's residence, he can destroy it in one fell swoop!"
Tang Niu ordered soldiers to cut down trees and build high walls around the military camp as Li Pei's suggestion.
At the same time, strengthen patrol forces and collect the entrances of the camp.
That night, the Di tribe indeed appeared.
The poisonous snake was afraid of the strong tobacco smell and did not dare to approach the military camp, so it released the tamed wolf pack and attacked the Tangniu military camp.
Fortunately, the high wall was built, and the wolves could only attack from the gate.
The patrol soldiers closed the gates and beat gongs and drums.
The Tang Niu Army rushed to the entrance and climbed the wall to defend, and the archers shot the wolves back.
The dike tribe did not take advantage, and blew the whistle in the dark and called the wolves away until dawn did not appear again.
For several days, the Dike tribe launched attacks late at night, using their familiarity with the terrain and their super high beast control ability to harass them.
Although Tang Niu Jun relied on the wooden wall to block the attacks again and again, he was also exhausted and it was quite tiring to defend all night.
Finally, after about seven days of persistence, after losing nine scouts, he successfully obtained the hiding place of the Di tribe.
Tang Niu immediately led his troops to set off.
Halfway through the way, I suddenly heard a tiger roar, which frightened the war horse.
A group of soldiers of the dike appeared in front of him, each of whom was holding a poisonous snake in his hand, and the person in charge was holding a tiger, and it was its sound just now.
The generals on Tang Niu's side tried hard to pull the reins, and could only barely ensure that the war horses remained in place, but they kept spinning because of fear and just wanted to leave.
The fear of tigers makes it difficult for the mount to control.
After finally seeing the dike clan appear for so many days, Tang Niu tried hard to control the war horse under his crotch and shouted at the other party: "I am the Emperor of Great Zhou. Why don't you kneel down to greet the barbarians?"
The leader of the Dike tribe responded disdainfully: "No matter who you are, if you don't want to die, leave quickly!"
"Bold! How dare you be so rude to me!" Tang Niu looked straight at him and wanted to go forward, but his mount refused to obey orders because of fear.
The other general laughed: "I heard that you have the best military general in the world, but now I can't see you at first sight!"
Tang Niu was furious. Since the war horse was out of control, he simply turned over and landed on the ground, and walked forward with a ghost slash in his hand.
"Your Majesty!!" The general and the strategist behind him hurriedly dismounted and chased Tang Niu, while looking at the tiger opposite him in fear.
"Since you can't retreat, you'll die here!" The generals of the Di tribe gave the order, and the soldiers behind them released poisonous snakes and moved quickly towards the Tangniu army.
Li Pei hurriedly shouted: "Torch! Use the torch to drive away the poisonous snakes, throw the spare tobacco in front and light it."
The soldiers were busy and quickly lit torches and tobacco to block the poisonous snake's path forward.
The poisonous snake really did not dare to pass through the torches and thick smoke, so it stalemates in front of it.
Seeing this, the generals of the Di tribe blew a loud whistle, and suddenly there was movement on the slopes on both sides. A large number of Di tribe soldiers emerged, holding ferocious wild wolves in their hands. After they came over, they directly released the wild wolves. The wolves quickly rushed towards the Tang Niu Army and launched a fierce attack. The Di tribe soldiers who remained behind each took out their blowing arrows and shot the poisoned arrows at the Tang Niu Army.
"Get a formation to guard!" Tang Niu gave a loud order, and quickly rushed towards the generals of the Dike clan.
Seeing Tang Niu coming towards him, the general of the Dike clan immediately let go and shouted: "Kill him!"
The free tiger roared and jumped.
Tang Niu rushed towards the tiger, and suddenly leaned back as soon as it rushed forward, slid forward with inertia. At the same time, he raised the ghost slash and cut it out.
"Pu!" The tiger fell heavily to the ground and struggled wildly.
To be continued...