That night, Yunchu's caravan was stationed at Sanleisha.
There are three paths to choose from.
On the left is Loulan Road, in the middle is Dahai Road, and on the right is Shaogan Road. Loulan Road naturally leads to Loulan, Dahai Road leads to Shanshan and Gaochang, and Shaogan Road leads directly to Hami.
For the army of the Tang Dynasty, they usually choose Shaogan Road where there are post stations and military cities, and Loulan Road where Bailongdui and Shaxi Well supply points are located.
Generally, we don’t choose the sea lane which is the closest route in the middle.
"In order to rescue Kucha, Liang Jianfang led his troops into the sea channel. As a result, the place was blocked by the flood for nearly twenty days. In the end, the two cities of Kucha and Khotan suffered heavy casualties. Therefore, we suggested that we go
"Shuogandao" Wenwen directly pointed out the mistakes Liang Jianfang made in front of Liang Ying, and hoped that Liang Ying could learn a lesson and not make the same mistakes as Lao Liang.
Yunchu shook his head and said: "It's a long way from Yumen Pass to Gaochang. It takes at least two thousand miles to take the short pole road. However, taking the sea road can save half the time and save a thousand miles. We have to ignore this factor.
consider."
Wen Wen dropped the charcoal, looked at Yun Chu and said, "You grew up in the Western Regions. You know best what the Great Sea Road is like."
Although taking the sea channel can save half the time, you should not forget that entering the sea channel means entering no man's land.
When Pei Ju was walking along the sea road, he once said: This road is mixed with sand and moraine, and lacks water and grass. It is difficult for people to walk. It is boundless in all directions.
It's possible, but it's also evil, so it's not feasible.
"Book of Zhou: Biography of Gaochang": From Dunhuang to his country, there are many sandy moraine, and the road cannot be accurately recorded. It can only be verified by human and animal bones and camel and horse dung. There are also strange monsters and monsters, so business travelers usually take the Yiwu Road.
"Book of Sui: Biography of Gaochang" says: There is a shortcut road from the northwest of Dunhuang, which passes through sandy moraine for more than a thousand miles. It is unclear in all directions and there is no road. Those who want to go there look for the bones of humans and animals. On the road, they may hear the sound of singing and suffering.
Searching for it will lead to many deaths and losses, and it will also lead to monsters and monsters. Therefore, merchants often take Yiwu Road when traveling.
You have also read these books. I, the Tang Dynasty people, compiled history books not just for reading, but to prevent those of us who came after us from making the same mistakes again.
It is obviously more convenient to take Shaogan Road, which is Yiwu Road."
When Yun Chu heard this, he smiled and said to Zhong Kui, "The roads recorded in the history books are rugged and difficult. Of course we can overcome them. The problem is, the monsters here are very powerful. Are you afraid of these things?"
Zhong Kui, who was holding Xiao Yuhua's leg to check the injury, looked back at Yun Chu and said, "A certain family has longed to see the monsters for many years but could not get them. How can we miss this opportunity today?"
Wen Wen said angrily, "You can't do whatever you want just because you are ugly. Monsters and demons will not shy away from you just because you are ugly."
Zhong Kui said angrily, "Years of books have been read into the dog's belly. Confucius said, how can you serve ghosts if you can't serve people?"
Only ghosts dare not show their appearance during the day, and disappear at night. They hear their voices but do not know their shapes. When talking about ghosts, most of them are just what others say, how can they be taken seriously?
If you encounter a ghost on the sea channel, you can lie down with a certain family and watch how that certain family captures the ghost. If there is a ghost, a certain family will devour it."
Gentle and puzzled, "Why are you lying on your crotch?"
Yun Chu helped explain, "The crotch of a boy has enough yang to prevent ghosts from invading."
Wenwen looked at Yunchu and said, "Aren't you afraid?"
Yun Chu said calmly, "A certain family has been living with dead bodies in Qiuci for twenty days. From time to time, there is the sound of corpses cracking after fermentation, inflating and being overwhelmed. At this time, a certain family still needs to eat and sleep without being disturbed by ghosts.
Presumably these ghosts are also people who bully the weak and fear the strong. A certain family has always been tough. If the ghosts come, they will be killed."
Liang Ying and Xiao Yuhua looked at Yun Chu who was as calm as water with envy, secretly taking Yun Chu as an example in their hearts, thinking that this is a man.
When Yun Chu saw that Wen Wen no longer insisted on taking the short road, he smiled and said, "That's it, it's settled. Tomorrow, the army will launch on the sea road."
He nodded softly and said, "Okay, you are all heroes and heroes without any restraint. We will take the sea channel now. However, you must understand that there are many thieves in the sea channel, so we must deal with them carefully."
Zhang Donghai, who has never spoken much, said, "Some people think that the king chose the Haidao Road, maybe because there are many thieves there.
The goods we brought were too small, and we couldn't get much in exchange, and we couldn't plunder on a large scale, so naturally we had to rob them from thieves. Only in this way can we show that we are great masters."
After all, he had played with Yun Chu in Liaodong, so he was very keen on understanding the coach's thoughts.
As the name suggests, the Third Base Sand is all sand. After Zhong Kui rode his war horse and stepped onto the thirsty Gobi from the soft sand, even the Shaolin Temple ascetic monks, whose minds were as stoic as the earth, sat cross-legged on the Gobi, facing each other.
Reciting scriptures for the vast sea they are about to cross, hoping that the Buddha can bless this team of people and safely cross this devil's land.
Naha also stood at the door of a wind-eroded castle that looked like a stage and danced a Buddhist dance. Although it was still uncoordinated as before, it still attracted the welcome and respect of the entire army.
Naha didn't dance well, and Yunchu thought it was his fault. The child had walked with a straight line when he was a child. He thought it was a small thing and didn't correct it, because when Naha was learning to walk, it was Yunchu's training.
When a marmot is fat, it will walk smoothly when it stands up.
However, Naha is so beautiful, and she has too many good clothes, especially long skirts that look very elegant. All she needs to do is cover her face with a white gauze and wear her beautiful clothes.
Big clothes, the wind in the Gobi will automatically lift up her brightly colored skirts, making her look so fluttering that the ignorant bastards below will be mesmerized by the sight.
Liang Ying also liked Naha very much, but he deliberately turned his head away from her when she was dancing.
It's not that he didn't want to see it, but because before leaving, the prince avoided Yun Chu, called him to the East Palace, and deliberately asked him to protect Naha.
What he said is very clear. As long as Naha returns well, he will not hesitate to reward her. If Naha comes back and Liang Ying does not, it doesn't matter. The Liang family will receive sufficient sincerity in return.
If Naha didn't come back, Liang Ying came back... The prince didn't say the result at that time, but the look on his face looked like an evil ghost in hell to Liang Ying.
Liang Ying also believes that if such a situation occurs, his experience will definitely not be much better than going to hell.
That was the prince of the Tang Dynasty - when Yun Chu got along with the prince, the prince behaved like a child who knew nothing and looked harmless, which made everyone in Jinchangfang like him.
After leaving Jinchangfang, Liang Ying didn't know how to describe the prince. He only knew that someone humiliated the prince at the Changsun family gathering.
There are at least six families that have been exterminated by the emperor and empress personally. Even the Changsun family is currently very unstable.
Therefore, Liang Ying knew that if Li Hong wanted to destroy the Liang family, he would definitely be able to do it.
It is for this reason that no matter how beautiful Naha is, Liang Ying always treats Naha with the courtesy of a subordinate, and does not even dare to reveal the family-friendly friendship that she should have.
No one in the prince's family is open-minded. Just like his ancestor said, the royal family will fall out faster than a dog.
Xiao Yuhua watched with fascination. Although the injury on his face had not healed yet and his whole body was in excruciating pain every time he moved, he still stood upright and watched Naha dance, unable to let go.
So Liang Ying moved his body outward. He didn't want to get himself covered in blood just because he was so close to Xiao Yuhua when he returned to Chang'an.
Two days later, the army completely entered the sea channel.
Xuanzang, who once led an old monkey through the Great Ocean Road, once said, "There are no birds above, no animals below, no water, no grass, no water, only shadows."
The old monkey said, "A bottle, a bowl, a horse and two people, there is nothing else in the world."
Yunchu knew that this might be one of the driest places on the planet. It was absolutely arid. It might even be the center of the land. No matter where the water vapor was, it couldn't come here. Even if there was rain in the sky, it couldn't wait for it to fall to the ground.
, will be evaporated in mid-air.
However, there are no absolutes in things in this world.
Liang Jianfang, the unluckiest man in the world, encountered a terrible flood in the driest place in the world.
The floods rolled over the Gobi Desert, and the red flood flowed across the Gobi Desert, preventing the 18,000-strong army from moving forward.
As a result, the grand narrative Liang Jianfang concocted came to nothing, and he was eventually convicted for this matter.
The most famous thing on the sea road is not the wind-eroded castles, but the wind. Whenever a strong wind comes, the yellow sand covers the sky, and the strong wind swirls and screams, like the howling of ghosts and wolves, which is terrifying.
Due to thousands of years of wind erosion, the ground here has formed ravines of varying depths, and the exposed stone layers have been carved into strange shapes by wind knives, just like the castles and sculptures in Marvel movies.
At this time, even Afanti, who loves to talk the most, closed his mouth tightly, because as long as he opened his mouth, the fine sand would get into his mouth.
The sand on the sea channel is really pervasive. After walking for a day, enough sand will accumulate in the butt cracks. Under the friction of the two buttocks, the skin will secrete some sweat. When the sand mixes with the sweat, it will pass through the buttocks.
Twisting and rubbing will eventually lead to the result of splitting the skin and flesh, which is unbearable pain. (The author personally experienced it in 1996) It is not necessary to identify the direction when walking along the way. After enough people and livestock have died on the road, it will
There are very obvious road signs.
A dead camel lay quietly on the side of the road. Its meat had no time to rot and had turned into dried meat. The fur on the windward side had been rubbed away by the sand-carrying wind, revealing bones of varying thicknesses.
The fur on the face was intact, but most of it was buried by scattered sand.
Yun Chu licked his dry lips and threw out the long whip in his hand. The whip suddenly retracted, and a colorful agate fell on Yun Chu's hand.
Yun Chu handed the piece of Gobi agate to Wen Wen and said, "Don't be drowsy, be careful, there are treasures everywhere here."
Wen Wen held this piece of warm agate, pulled off her scarf and looked forward. She saw that the undulating mountains were dotted with blood red, blue, white, orange and other colorful stones, shining in the sun, like the remains of a witch.
Pearls add a bit of mystery to the already weird Haidao.