Fei Qian said that there will be thieves coming within three days because thieves hidden around cannot store too much water. In fact, it was not until the third day. In the middle of the night of the next day, when the moon was hanging high above the dune, countless dark heads emerged from the dune.
This made Xu Chu think that Xihai City was lost, so many thieves would have arrived here. However, after the battle, Xu Chu found that it was not at all, because these thieves were ordinary herders, or just ordinary horse thieves and sand thieves. After all, they did not understand martial arts. Had they been trained for a long time, they could not see it on the surface, and after fighting, they naturally had a very clear distinction.
As long as Fei Qian is in a safe position, Xu Chu can let go of his hands and fight.
Behind Fei's incest, there is the baggage back camp.
The craftsmen stared at the front with sweat on their heads and were so nervous. Compared with the craftsmen, the soldiers under Fei Qian were very calm and even had some movements slow, which made the craftsmen anxious.
Slowly take the arrow, slowly aim, and then slowly shoot out...
When fighting at night, bows and crossbows are the key.
The rocket used for lighting was shot onto the dunes, making it impossible for the thieves to hide their whereabouts. Even if the thieves stepped on the rockets, it was too late. When the rockets pointed out their traces, a large number of arrows also followed.
As the continuous screams rang out, these thieves, who were like groundhogs coming out of the sand, made perhaps the last roar in their lives, and they ran into each other with the heavy guard led by Xu Chu.
This made Fei Qian, who was standing on the back line, admire his courage...
Perhaps because Fei Qian's location is the most obvious, or the Sand Thieves also know the beheading tactics, or for some other reason, nearly half of these Sand Thieves came to Fei Qian, but unfortunately they were like they hit the steel wall, and their heads were bleeding.
After Xu Chu cut down more than a dozen people in a row, he pulled away his sword and stood behind the front row soldiers.
The tactics of these thieves are very simple.
The sand thieves lurking in the sand were to disrupt the queue, while the horse thieves hidden deep in the distance waited for the sand thieves to deepen the destruction after the sand thieves attacked and then attacked the entire army ruled by Fei Qian. However, the sand thieves did not complete their mission, and neither consumed much physical strength of Fei Qian and others, nor could they persist until the horse thieves attacked.
After killing these sand thieves, only a few sand thieves escaped into the black sand dunes, Xu Chu and others even had time to sit down and take a breath, alternated with those accidentally injured, and asked them to clean the wounds as soon as possible, disinfect and bandage them with strong liquor, and eat some food, drink some water to replenish their energy...
As dawn approaches, when the black on the sky gradually turns into blue and gray, a clear black line appears on the Gobi Desert.
Xu Chu turned over and shouted: "Enemy attack! Southwest! Arrange! Get ready to attack!"
The horse thief came very quickly, but it also slowed down quickly. Perhaps because they found that Fei Qian's queue was not messy at all, completely different from what they expected...
The horse thief hesitated a little, and the formation naturally became chaotic.
Seeing this, Xu Chu immediately issued an order to attack, which completely lost all suspense in this battle.
When the cavalry gives up speed, it is equivalent to giving up victory.
The horse thief quickly disintegrated and even ran away faster than they did.
After Xu Chu chased and killed the horse thieves, Fei Qian no longer continued to pay attention to the situation of the battle, but went to the camp to see the injured unlucky guys. Most of these guys were being cleaned by doctors with strong liquor and screaming.
"Wash twice more," Fei Qian not only did not arouse compassion because of these people's screams, but also further asked the doctor to do it more strictly. "In addition to avoiding the wounds being contaminated with sand, we should also be careful that these thieves were fed poison on the blade...
Immediately, the doctor's expression became serious. Not only did he pull the wounds of the injured more and more, but he also verbally scolded these unlucky guys. "The cavalry has long said that you should be careful, but he forgot all the mothers, right? Extend your hooves and pull them on yourself! If you scream, use your own cloth to block your mouth!"
Fei sneaked around and found no serious injuries. In other words, as long as these people survived the wound, there would be basically no problem next.
It also means that the last resort of the Western Regions coalition forces failed.
This is in line with the conclusions discussed by Fei Qian and Jia Xu, and also in line with Fei Qian's own speculation about the Western Regions.
Previously, Lu Bu cleared the route from Xihai City to Yumen Pass. On the surface, there were no horse thieves, but in fact it was just like watering an ant point with boiling water, and the horse thieves were not actually wiped out.
A very important reason for the imbalance in regional development is that it is caused by different geographical environments, not biological differences in human beings themselves. The geographical environment of different regions affects the production activities of ethnic groups in different regions. The differences in ethnic groups between the Western Regions and Guanzhong, as well as the differences in Shandong are also caused by production activities. Therefore, it is impossible to deal with these people in the Western Regions by using Guanzhong or Shandong to eliminate bandits. What's more, it is impossible to isolate bandits in Shandong. So how can anyone say that they can eliminate all the sand horse thieves in the Western Regions?
In Fei Qian's view, the entire change in the Western Regions took at least ten years, otherwise he would not really include the Western Regions in the territory of the Han Dynasty. Moreover, in this process, it would be more detailed than the method of educating the Southern Xiongnu, so that he could filter and sievously and finally get real gold.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The "traditional" strategy is of course immigration.
Perhaps waiting for 20 or 30 years, or even forty or fifty years, when the population of the Central Plains is so expanding that it cannot be accommodated, immigration will outweigh the disadvantages. For example, when Chang'an is not enough staff and labor shortage, isn't it better to use one point of human resources in the Western Regions than to use one point of power of the great mankind?
Xu Chu did not pursue the horse thief desperately, but came back after a while. When Xu Chu came back, the sun had just revealed the light forehead representing the strong man from the horizon.
"According to the lord's instructions, they destroyed their water storage places..." Xu Chu signaled the water bags hanging on the horse's butt, "However, there may be other places where the horse thief hides the water, and they cannot be eliminated in all parts."
Fei Qian waved his hand and said, "That water may not be clean, you can use it for washing. The water bag is replaced with newly filtered water and placed in the back camp supplies. Can there be a trap? "
Xu Chu nodded, and then asked: "Most of the invaders are unarmed... This is the merit of beheading..."
Fei pondered for a while, "One of ten strategies."
Xu Chu was overjoyed and immediately announced the matter, which caused a burst of cheers from soldiers.
Normally, having an arable can be considered a serious decapitation skill, while having an arable one does not count at all. It is like opening a card bag, and the decapitation skill is like a legendary level, while an ordinary thief without an arable can only be considered a blue sky and white clouds.
Therefore, most of the time, if you can be considered an ordinary beheading, it will make the soldiers feel very comfortable.
The real top-level beheading is like Guan Yu killing Yan Liang, who was ashamed to take off his clothes among the troops, which was a shocking uproar. The golden legend...
But the following news is not so "legendary".
Because a bald donkey was found among the corpses left by the sand thief and the horse thief, and it was also a painted bald donkey.
Alive.
Perhaps it should not be called a bald donkey, because this is a kind of love name given to Buddhist monks by the Chinese people, and for this type of monk, it should be called a foreign monk.
When the monk was discovered, he was pressed down by several corpses with guards. Maybe he fainted when he fell down, or maybe he was crushed by those guards. Anyway, when the monk started to clean the battlefield, he did not wake up, so of course he didn't have time to run away.
When the soldiers saw their appearance, they knew that they were an important figure, so they immediately tied up and sent it to Fei Qian.
It was also strange that the monk struggled endlessly at the beginning, but after he arrived in front of Fei Qian, he calmed down. His eyes looked at Fei Qian deeply, as if he wanted to engrave Fei Qian's appearance in the depths of his mind, and he felt that there was not much hatred, but full of curiosity and doubt.
Fei Qian looked at the patterns on the chest and behind the monk, and a name jumped out in his heart, the original shaman, or they called themselves "benzene", and their code name was...
Fei Qian forgot what the word should be called, so he reached out and pulled out the battle knife from the guard beside him.
The monk looked calm, as if a shiny sword did not exist at all. He knelt on the ground, but tried his best to straighten his waist, raised his head, and looked at Fei Qian, neither sad nor happy.
"It's interesting." Fei Qian did not use a sword to cut off the monk's monk, but instead drew two "卢" stacked on the ground. Then he looked at the monk's sudden trembling body and asked in the Xiongnu's words, "Do you know this?"
The monk did not respond.
"Do you know how to say Xianbei dialect?" Fei Qian changed to Xianbei dialect.
The monk still did not respond.
『Tsk…』 Fei Qian finally said in Qiang language, 『Is it possible to speak Qiang language? If I don’t understand it, I will have no choice.
The monk looked up at Fei Qian: "Qiangyu...I, I know a little."
"Very good." Fei Qian turned around and sat down, looking at the monk's eyes, "Let's play a game. From now on, you and I can't lie. I'll ask you questions. If you can answer, it's your turn to ask me. If you can't answer or say it, then I will continue to ask the next question until you can answer, and it will become you who ask the question. Answering, asking questions, not answering, not asking questions, lying is equivalent to ending the game. Do you understand?"
"Is this the first question? My answer is, I understand." The monk smiled slightly, and his eyes shone with the light that only wise creatures had. "It's my turn to ask questions now, right?"
The monk deliberately caught Fei Qian a small loophole and gave Fei Qian another one.
Fei Qian laughed, "That's right. OK, you belong to this sect, right?"
Fei Qian pointed to the two "卢" symbols stacked together on the ground.
The monk nodded and shook his head again, "Before, we believe in Buddhism now. Are you the Master Mingfei, the Great Master of God of the Five Directions?"
Fei Qian nodded, "It should be me. You poisoned the water?"
"Yes." The monk's eyes were filled with light seeking answers, "Didn't you drink the water here?"
Fei Qian smiled, "Drink. You..."
Fei Qian was just halfway through, but before he could ask, the monk was angry, "You are lying! No one is poisoned! You didn't drink!"
"Take him to see." Fei Qian ignored the angry monk and signaled the guards to take the monk to the filtering and cleaning equipment next to the water source for a walk.
Soon, after looking around, the monk even saw a soldier equipped with filtered water, and his expression became completely depressed, as if half of his soul had been taken away in an instant. When he returned to Fei Qian again, he was depressed for a long time before he looked up and said to Fei Qian: "Please tell me why it can be detoxified... I can exchange for everything you want to know..."
Fei was silent for a moment and nodded, "From fabric, sand, wood chips, charcoal and other substances, compacted with multiple layers, and use the wooden board as the interval, filtered out water and lime to drive away poison, and just use it to remove the poison."
Fei Qian didn't say it in detail, and even leaked the very important heating link intentionally or unintentionally. However, this still shows that the monks thought it was an amazing method and it was no longer effective among the Han people.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The light in the monk's eyes disappeared little by little, and finally he lowered his head.
Fei Qian stood up and signaled to the guards, "Ask clearly how they came from, whether they had any contact means, and whether there were any plans for the follow-up..."
The guards took the order and took the monk aside to interrogate.
Fei Qian stood with his hands behind his back, looked at the direction of Xihai City, pondered for a long time and said, "We need to speed up."
Xu Chu glanced at the monk and asked: "The lord's intention is that this monk is actually the last resort of the Western Regions coalition. After the Western Regions coalition knew that this method was invalid, it would be... Oh, so, the Western Regions coalition is really damn! It actually uses the West Sea as bait! In fact, it is going to plot against the lord!"
"Why do Zhongkang get angry? In the battle formation, only life and death are the matter." Fei Qian laughed, "If it was not bad as I expected, someone would have contacted the monk outside. Seeing that it was not good, he would immediately flee... I was worried that the Western Regions coalition would soon disintegrate... and fled to all corners of the Western Regions like scattered insects and rats..."
The Western Regions coalition uses Xihai City as bait, and in turn, does Fei Qian also use the Western Regions as bait?
War itself is full of sin. The only criterion for distinguishing right and wrong is to see where the butt is.
If it is hanging on a tree and not hiding the world or the earth, then there is nothing we can do...
Xu Chu frowned, then turned around and looked at the place where the monks were.
"If we are poisoned, then the Western Regions coalition will naturally come in a fierce manner, taking advantage of our weakness..." Fei Qian smiled and said, "It's a pity that I didn't think of this earlier, otherwise I would have to pretend to be... It's a bit troublesome now..."
Fei Qian said that, but in fact, it is also very troublesome to really pretend to be poisoned, unless Fei Qian can sacrifice his life and let these people really drink the water directly...
In fact, for humans, the most terrible way to spread disease is not water, but the characteristics here in the Western Regions make water sources rare, so naturally more attention is paid to this aspect.
After a while, the guards came to report that it was exactly the same as Fei Qian's expected. In addition to the troops of the monks, there was also a small team of people. After seeing the sand thief and horse thief being damaged, Fei Qian and other Han people were not poisoned, they had already escaped...
"Send the order, the cavalry and infantry branch," Fei said in a deep voice, "The infantry escorted the craftsmen and the baggage to slowly follow the original plan... Cavalry, Zhongkang led two thousand as the front drive, and a certain commander Yu as the back formation, and rushed straight to Xihai City!"
Xu Chu could lead the troops, and then the soldiers immediately took action, prepare for preparation, and line up.
The monk looked at it and suddenly burst into laughter and shouted something, but he should have used his own language and couldn't understand it at all.
Fei Qian walked up to the monk and asked, "Why, is it too late to joke about us? Don't worry, although it may not be able to surround everyone, but important people can still be caught. For example...Bu Sen?"
When Fei Qian said the word Bu Sen, the monk's smile on his face stiffened for a moment, and then he forced himself to say: "General, you're wrong, our big leader is Taxa..."
"No." Fei Qian shook his head and smiled, "You lied. You lost. Before killing Bu Sen, I will let someone tell him that it was you who told him and let him curse you... Then we can know whether the powers you believe in have any effect... Which kind of results are you going to choose to accept?"
If the monk really dies, it proves that the Buddha can be deceived. If the monk does not die, it can also be used to prove whether the Buddha's curse is useless.
The monk seemed to have figured out this problem, and struggled angrily, but was immediately pressed to the ground, like a dying fish twitching. After a moment, he started howling and knocked his head against the sand on the ground. There was no longer the light of the previous one in his eyes, only a blank despair left.
"If one day, if you don't hold a sharp blade, you can make you happy and make you sad..." Fei Qian said slowly, "Only you can call it the right way to rule the rule..."
"Don't hold the sharp blade?" Xu Chu asked, "It's better to hold it."
Fei Qian smiled and said, "But you have to hide the blade behind you, otherwise you will wait for a hundred years to fight here!"
"A hundred years?" Xu Chu raised his eyebrows and said, "Don't laugh, lord, this Western Region can be transparent in at most ten years!"
Fei Qian glanced at Xu Chu, "So Zhongkang thinks we have ten years to spend here?"
"Uh...this..." Xu Chu was stunned for a moment, then bowed his head, "Meng Lang."
"It's okay." Fei waved his hand and said, "We must not only think more and understand more than these people, but also continue to do so... Otherwise, they will not despair or surrender. The march into the Western Regions is not to show how powerful the Han Dynasty is, but to let all Han people take the Western Regions as a lesson to know that once they fall behind, they will be beaten."
Xu Chu bowed his head and should be so.
The army immediately took action and divided the two parts of cavalry and infantry. Fei Qian and Xu Chu led the cavalry to Xihai City at noon on the third day.
It was similar to what Fei Qian estimated. During the period when he and Xu Chu arrived in Xihai City, the Western Regions coalition had no time to organize a second sneak attack, and there was no additional ambush arrangement, which made Xu Chu somewhat depressed.
Chapter completed!