There is no doubt that the Han Empire failed to invade Xigaoche this time.

Xigaoche might have expected that the Han empire had finished fighting Rouran and Donggaoche would move westward. They moved the tribes in the east. As a result, the Han army could not find one that could be called as far as hundreds of miles away. Medium-sized tribes have only eliminated some small tribes.

"Their preparation time must be very long." Li Tan pondered for a while, and continued: "Otherwise, with the vastness of the grassland, there is no convenient way of contacting it, it is impossible to achieve this point."

Xigaoche was able to evacuate most of the tribes in time. In a certain aspect, it also showed that Xigaoche is a relatively stable social system. At least there is an efficient ruling class. Otherwise, there are things that they want to do and cannot do.

"Withdraw." Dou'a has been staring at the mountains and rivers and said, "The ice and snow are showing signs of melting."

According to some Rouran nobles, the plain where Xigaoche inhabits is covered by ice and snow from mid-autumn to winter and late spring. After waiting for the ice and snow to melt, it will enter a long rainy season. It will be muddy all over in the middle of summer, and even swamps will form.

"It's a pity." Li Tan was somewhat unwilling: "Come here, but less than 5,000 people have been eliminated, and not many livestock have been robbed."

It's time to withdraw their troops. They sent troops from September of the 13th year of Yuanshuo. It is now May of the 14th year of Yuanshuo. Most of the time is spent in the ice and snow. As time goes by, it is also the case of non-combat victims. It's getting worse.

If entering the Xigao car can achieve good results, it is not a catastrophic non-combat loss that is not unacceptable. The key is that they only get so many results when they go into the Xigao car for hundreds of miles, and it does not make much sense to continue.

"This ghost place..." Li Tan already knows about the local situation: "It starts to snow from mid-autumn, and it needs to be thawed in the late spring of the following year. After the snow melts, a large area of ​​swampland will be formed..."

Most of the territory of Xigaoche is in Western Siberia in modern Russia. The local latitude is high, the temperature is low, the evaporation is weak, and the precipitation is greater than the evaporation. Then there is a thick layer of frozen soil underground, the surface water is not easy to seep, the groundwater level is high, the terrain is low, and the drainage is not smooth. There is nothing wrong with saying that it is a ghost place.

The Han army arrived during the snowing season, and there was a thick layer of snow on the ground, even forming an icy surface.

If the Han army comes in the summer, the scenery will be very beautiful, but it is only to look at the beautiful scenery. If you really enter, you will see wetlands everywhere, and there will be swamps blocking the road at every turn.

According to legend, the Huns withdrew westward. They arrived at the time when Siberia in modern Russia was about to move forward. It happened to be the summer season and was blocked by swamps.

It was because the Huns couldn’t leave, they turned south and approached the Western Regions again. Otherwise, there would be no incidents of Chen Tang holding the banner of the marquis and cutting the head of Zhizhi. Will not appear.

Perhaps it is because this area is a ghost place that there are not many tribes living in Xigaoche, and it is not how much binding the ruling class of Xigaoche has on the tribes below, waiting to realize that the Han army is coming before relocating those tribes.

This time the invasion of Xigao Che, the trouble for the Han army is the natural environment and the beasts.

"The bears here are bigger than ours over there."

"That's right!"

"Standing close to three meters, no matter how fierce the warrior is, it will be difficult to fight with it."

"I heard that four strong men joined forces to kill a bear at close quarters."

The speaker is arranging the furs. The fur of some lynx and squirrels is the most common. The number of tigers, brown bears, leopards, wolves, wolverines, sables, and red foxes combined is also extremely large.

Regardless of what kind of beasts, if ordinary people are confronted with each other, they will definitely be upset. Ordinary troops will be troublesome to kill, but if elite troops come to kill, it really shouldn't be too easy.

Most of the furs they were dealing with were full of holes, which were shot by a large number of arrows.

The value of fur that is damaged too much will be low, and the price of intact fur will be high, and it will have different value due to different varieties.

The Han army was in a state of war, and naturally would not engage in deliberate hunting, but even if it did not deliberately hunt, it only kills when it encounters it. Take a look at the pile of furs that are being classified, it really does not kill less.

On this day, Liu Shen was hanging out in the camp with Julian and Xias.

When they walked, they came to the fur pile. Seeing the piles of fur piled up like a hill, Liu Shen didn't have any special feelings, but Julian and Xias looked straight.

"It's so much!" Kseaas saw a wide variety of furs, and read some categories: "Are there so many tigers and bears in this place?"

Julian's eyes had been looking at the striped fur, and seeing that there were so many, he swallowed subconsciously.

There is no such thing as a tiger in Europa. If you want to hunt wild tigers, you can't talk about it. If you really want to experience it, you have to go to West Asia or South Asia.

Precisely because Europa does not have a tiger as an animal, they will be happy and even proud if they can get a tiger skin. This is to prove that they have been to Asia on the one hand, and on the other hand, even if the tentacles of the Asian family have not been personally extended, it is a manifestation of their strength.

"It's huge!" Kossias took a visual inspection and said, "It's at least 30 centimeters bigger than the biggest tiger on our side."

Of course, the Persian habitat has such an animal as a tiger, but according to the category it is the West Asian tiger.

West Asian tigers will appear shorter in body. Adult male West Asian tigers can weigh up to about 480 jin. Because of their shorter body and that weight, they will look fatter.

Adult male Siberian tigers weigh an average of 600 jins, with a body length of about 2.6 meters, a shoulder height of about 1.1 meters, and a tail length of more than one meter; the average adult female tiger weighs about 320 jins, with a body length of about It is 1.7 meters, the shoulder height is about 0.8 meters, and the tail length is about 0.8 meters.

If you put the West Asian tiger and the Siberian tiger together, you can really easily distinguish the difference in physique, and you will never mistake which one comes from.

Liu Shen is not so interested in this, in his opinion it is just some fur. But he didn't feel stupid to see Julian and Xias coveting and offered to give it away. It was the army's spoils, not his personal belongings.

Julian didn't know why his expression became a little gloomy. In fact, he was wondering a little, wondering why the more he faced the east, no matter whether the physique of humans or animals was bigger than the people in the west?

In ancient times, the average height of Romans was only about 1.5 meters, but contemporary Romans can be considered to have grown to about 1.65 meters.

In the vicinity of the Romans, the average height of the Gauls in ancient times was 1.75 meters, and the Germans were 1.78 meters. From the physical point of view, the Romans with an average height of only 1.5 meters could conquer the height. Lu and suppressing Germans are actually quite difficult.

It was a battle with cold weapons. The better-physical side must have more advantages. The Romans who completely lose to the Gauls can completely conquer the Gauls, or the Gauls are too useless, or the Romans are in it. The level of civilization has crushed the Gauls.

Talking about the level of civilization now, it's not just those of science and technology, it also includes organizational strength, tactics, and tactics. At this point, the Romans are indeed better than the Gauls.

Similarly, the Romans were able to suppress the Germans because of the level of civilization, or the Germans were not only taller than the Gauls, but also stronger than the Gauls.

It can be said that the Romans do not have the slightest advantage in Europa in terms of physical fitness. It can even be said that the Romans lost to any neighboring people in terms of physical fitness, but they have become the well-deserved hegemon of Europa.

That is a kind of gain from the civilization level, which makes up for the disadvantages of physique to the greatest extent.

The Romans took the lead in civilization, won again and again, and cultivated the self-confidence of the whole nation, and naturally became the overlord.

However, the Romans only got so refreshed after encountering the Persians. When the civilization level was unable to form a crushing force, there would be no destruction and rottenness in the confrontation. They could only be consumed again and again, and the other party could not bear it first. , In order to pick the fruits of victory.

Julian, who was embarrassed, looked around subconsciously, and felt even more gloomy. Liu Shenxiao, who stood next to him, had a height of more than 1.6 meters at a young age. He should be at least 1.9 meters in adulthood. It is normal for him to exceed two meters, right?

If the prince of a country is taller because of the excellent growth environment, it is just a case, but the general height of the Han army seen by Julian is 1.8 meters, and there is no shortage of strong men who are up to two meters tall. If he was standing next to a Han man who was two meters tall, his head would have reached the Han man's chest, and he would look up 90 degrees when he wanted to face-to-face.

"That..." Julian was extremely depressed, and asked the question he wanted to ask a long time ago: "What is the staple food of the Han people?"

"The staple food?" Liu Shen was taken aback when he was asked, and replied: "The staple food of the Central Plains has been millet, spinach and millet since ancient times."

In recent years, Julian has spent a lot of energy to understand the Han Empire, understand the names and know what they are.

In fact, the Romans have long been observing the eating habits of the Han people. They also collected the seeds of plant food from the Han people, and even the first batch of trial planting has been carried out in many areas of Rome.

The Romans had a very simple idea. They wondered that if the Han people grew up so tall, they would learn to eat the same food as the Han people. They felt that since the Han people could grow taller by eating those foods, the Romans could not do without reason.

Of course, plant seeds can't grow by throwing them into the soil. It can even be said that the same seeds can't even germinate in different areas.

The Romans chose to plant millet, spinach, and millet in Egypt, and they discovered that even if the seeds could grow, they looked haggard, as if they would wither and die in the next instant.

Some of the seeds selected in the Gaul region are showing good signs. The Romans are happy to observe the results and begin to sing and dance, cheering for the next generation of Romans to jump up.

"Five years after Yuanshuo, the staple food of Central Plains has gradually changed to rice and wheat." Liu Shen did not think about Julian's question of what he was doing. What he knew was that there was no need to conceal this kind of information: "You stay in Dahan. The time is not short. Didn't find this?"

The Romans naturally collected rice, barley, and wheat seeds in the Han Empire, and they also brought them back to Rome for trial planting. What they didn't think too well was that the Han people ate some staple foods such as millet, spinach, millet and so on. Why did they suddenly change their staple food?

Another thing, the Romans need to understand, for example, after the Han people change to eat other food, will the height of the Han people still be so tall?

"What we eat is almost the same as that of the Han people." Xias had some understanding of what Julian was thinking: "It's just that there is a difference in the way of cooking."

The staple food of the Persians is mainly rice and wheat, and they especially love rice crackers. To say that the raw materials are really not much different from the Hans. They also have many cooking methods, especially some soups and the like which are very similar to the Han people.

When Julian heard that his depression did not improve, he doubted it a little. He wondered why his ancestors never thought about improving their eating habits. !

The Europa people use wheat to make bread as their staple food, and the rest are really no cooking methods. Anyway, they are boiled in white water.

In terms of height, whether they are ancient Persians or contemporary Persians, their average height has always been around 1.75 meters. Although there are not many people with a height of two meters, there are some, but most of them appear thin.

In fact, there are very few people who are tall and healthy in Han people~lightnovelpub.net~ That is a problem caused by different eating habits. Simply put, because of the eating habits of Asians, muscle fibers are different from Europa people. .

In fact, it is not only the Romans, but the Persians are also exploring the eating habits of the Han people. Many aristocrats in the two countries have adopted the eating habits of the Han people.

It is also not just about eating habits. The Romans and Persians can learn from the Han in all aspects. Some Romans and Persians even made some classifications, thinking that the Hans must be learned.

Liu Shen seemed to have thought of something, and said: "I heard that you made a request to the Ministry of Rites, and hope that Dahan can provide teaching?"

Julian and Xias glanced at each other subconsciously. They used to make a request to the Hongxuanguan. With the reforms of the Han Empire, the Hongxuanguan became the Ministry of Rites, and they were not discouraged when they were repeatedly rejected.

"Perhaps..." Liu Shen said with a smile, "I can convey to my father."

At this moment, Julian and Xias couldn't help showing their overjoyed appearance.