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There is never a holiday for me, but I have to live it; if there is a holiday, I never take a day off, but my relatives and elders can’t help it. I am already forty, and my parents are even older, so I have to go on May Day. These two chapters were closed yesterday
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Hours, throw it down! From Dunhuang to Hami, the distance is more than a thousand miles. There are almost no villages or towns settled by humans on the road. The world between heaven and earth will always give people the taste of desolation and vastness. No matter where you go,
Everyone you see is similar to Yibi, similar deserts, and similar plants. After a long time, it will make people feel tired from the bottom of their hearts. If there are not so many people walking together, but only a few or five people, they will even be suspicious.
Whether I can get out of this world.
Fortunately, there are many people, and joking and singing are an excellent distraction. Occasionally, you can encounter small animals looking for food on the road. They each use their superb archery skills to kill the small animals. Not only can they serve as food for themselves, but also
A fun and joyful game.
On such a desolate ancient road, they have also encountered some human beings. It should be a happy thing to see similar people in this desolate place, but these similar people are more terrifying than the desolate world and ferocious beasts, because they are
Horse thief.
Horse thieves should be regarded as the most resilient creatures in the desert. They are more resilient than poplar trees and camel thorns. Especially the small groups of horse thieves. They live in no fixed place, and the vast desert is their best hiding place.
No one can discover all their secret nests, and no one can follow their footsteps.
If we really talk about force, even if the most powerful group of horse thieves in the desert are assembled, it will be difficult to compete with Xia Xun's three thousand elite cavalry. However, with Barcelona's strength reduced by half, Xia Xun still can't do anything to him.
It would be wishful thinking to drive him into the desert and try to annihilate him or behead his thieves.
These small groups of horse thieves encountered on the road are not a swarm of people. They may not even know that the swarm has suffered heavy losses. When these small groups of horse thieves want to rob a certain target, they will also send spies to follow them to find out the details of the opponent so that they can do something.
They didn't know the origin of this team supported by the army, but they knew very well that this was a bone they couldn't chew, but they came anyway.
They travel across the desert grasslands, and their only purpose is to plunder, plunder everything, horses, livestock, weapons, property, young men, women, they do not produce, do not create, everything comes from plunder, it is difficult to get such a piece of fat, naturally
It's for a bite.
As for the strength of the opponent's troops, they don't care. No one is more vital than them in such a difficult environment. They come and go like the wind and their whereabouts are unpredictable, like a group of jackals and wild dogs wandering in the desert grassland. They are not afraid of revenge at all. Although
This Ming army is not easy to mess with, but it can take a bite every time. Therefore, such "wild dog packs" always follow them erratically along the way, making sneak attacks at night in order to take advantage.
At this time, when Xia Xun came all the way west, the training for the army to attack the camp played a big role. Every time the Ming army encountered horse thieves attacking the camp, they did not panic and responded calmly. The horse thieves could not take advantage of them.
On the contrary, the invading enemies were often robbed by the officers and soldiers. The march of the Ming army was boring. During the day, they could close their eyes and rest while riding on the horse. They had nowhere to vent their energy, so they just used them as a pastime.
, treating the horse thieves' attack on the camp as a game, and never get tired of it!
Tonight is another wonderful cat and mouse game. The camp is lit with torches and the soldiers are happily cleaning the battlefield. The horse thieves did not expect that these officers and soldiers would actually care enough to lay many traps in this uninhabited desert. Some of them were
The unlucky man and his horse were trapped in the pit, and no one is paying attention to them yet.
The loot is very rich. These horse thieves carry all their belongings with them. How can they leave their belongings to others for safekeeping when they come out to rob? The so-called lairs are just some sand valley caves. They really want to hide their belongings in
There, there will definitely be no trace of him when he returns, and none of the old thieves left behind will come forward and admit that they are thieves.
Therefore, they all carried the gold, silver, jewelry, silk, tea, and even some farm land deeds with them. Every horse thief was a money tree. The officers and soldiers who captured the horse thief were very happy, while the officers and soldiers who had not caught anyone were envious. The country
The Duke said, whoever captures anything belongs to him personally, except for the war horses, which must be hunted, and you can make a fortune by playing games, so be happy!
The horse thieves who were lucky enough to survive were squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands. Their bodies had already been plundered. Even the silk they were wrapped in was ordered to be untied. They all looked like beggars and were crying without tears: Officers and soldiers are more ruthless than thieves.
!
"These horse thieves are carrying waste of food! Search them all and kill them!"
The caravan heading from Dunhuang to Beslosbali had also just experienced a brutal fight. After inspecting the battlefield, Ying Zhan coldly issued an order. This is a desert. There is no law and no morality here. The weak will eat the strong and the winner will be the winner.
To respect.
The cavalry guards of major merchants clearly understood this rule. Without saying a word, they drew out their knives and started killing people. The bodies of their fallen comrades were dug in a hole and buried, while the bodies of the horse thieves were simply thrown there, waiting for wild wolves and others.
Vultures share their food. Dust to ashes, soil to soil, life comes from the earth and eventually returns to it.
The tents were set up. They were going to spend the night here tonight. Each caravan took turns to be responsible for guarding. The caravan responsible for guarding the outside tonight put up the tent on the outermost side. Their horses relied on their own caravans to form a tent.
A more peripheral encirclement was formed, and then light cavalry were sent to ride to the wilderness several miles away to keep watch overnight.
The smoke from the kitchen was rising, and dinner began to be cooked.
These caravans did not go the same way as Xia Xun. They went along the edge of the desert and into the depths of the Tarim Basin. Traveling through the Tarim Basin in winter is much more comfortable than in summer. If you take more measures to keep out the cold in winter, there will be no big problem.
, but it can be really hot in summer. During the hottest period in summer, the temperature there can reach over 70 degrees, and even birds dare not fly across it.
Tuoba Mingde's caravan was not responsible for keeping vigil tonight, and their tents were set up inside the circular camp. After the tents were set up, Tuoba Mingde took Yu Jian, whose pseudonym was "Hu Qiqi", to inspect the unloading of his home.
After putting down the piled goods, they started walking on the sand. When they saw other caravan leaders, they would say hello in a friendly way or stop to chat for a while.
He now attaches great importance to the relationship with these merchants, and having good dealings with them will help his next move. In the future, he will follow these Shazhou dignitaries to retreat into Jiayuguan, thus playing an internal role. And Yu Jian is his
I have someone I want to win over, so now I always keep him with me.
"How about it, can you still adapt to such a life?"
Tuoba Mingde asked Yu Jian with a smile, and Yu Jian puffed up his chest and said, "Don't worry, sir, I can still bear this little hardship."
Tuoba Mingde smiled and patted his shoulder: "Don't worry, we will arrive at Luobu Nur in two days. When we get there, it won't be covered with yellow sand. You can have a good rest. The women there are all beautiful, haha.
…”
Yu Jian asked: "Robuchoer?"
Tuoba Mingde smiled and said: "Well, that is a huge sea on the trade route of the Western Regions. The people there do not grow grains or herd livestock, but only fish in small boats for food. Probably most people in the world only live on fish.
They are the only ones, but the people there live long lives and are still good laborers at ten years old. There are also people who are still grooms and waiters at one hundred years old..."
The Lop Nur mentioned by Tuoba Mingde is Lop Nur. It was still an important resting place on the ancient Silk Road at that time. Lop Nur was once the second largest salt water lake in the country. Its water area was 200,000 square kilometers at its largest. Although it was small at this time, It even covers an area of tens of thousands of square kilometers. Fanyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in my country, now covers an area of about 4,000 square kilometers. From this, one can imagine the vastness of the Lop Nur waters.
Yu Jian listened and Wei Wei took note of it.
These merchants are accustomed to taking desert trade routes. Even so, each caravan is still equipped with a guide who travels on the ancient Silk Road all year round. Yu Jian followed them along the way, also paying attention to the road, water sources, and resting knowledge.
He deliberately revealed Xia Xun's itinerary to these spies from Timur's kingdom, hoping to use their hands to kill someone and use their hands to get rid of Jin Yiwei's great enemy. But of course he also regarded Timur's Eastern Expedition as an enemy.
, Tuoba Mingde wanted to use him, and he also wanted to use Tuoba Mingde. If he could borrow their sword to kill Xia Xun, and then report some false information to them, induce the Tamerlane army to make wrong judgments, and let the Ming army fight.
A great victory, even deciding the success or failure of the battle in one fell swoop. Isn’t this killing two birds with one stone?
Therefore, he followed his plan and boldly followed into the desert. Three of his men also took the opportunity to sneak into other caravans and cooperated with him. It would be more difficult to sneak in more people, because these caravans were worried about sneaking in.
The internal agents of the horse thieves usually only recruit employees who know the inside and out. Occasionally when there is a shortage of manpower, they will recruit a few unfamiliar people, but never too many.
A fire has been lit in the felt bag, which is very warm.
The cooked food was also served, including delicious hand-chopped meat, roasted lamb leg, milk skin, and some rice and pasta, which was very rich.
After settling his subordinates and checking the goods, Ying Zhan returned to the felt tent. Miao Yi was sitting at the table with a table full of dishes and wine, waiting for him to come back and have a meal together. Ying Zhan chuckled, sat down at the small table and said to
Miaoyi asked: "How is it? It's your first time traveling far away. Are you still used to it?"
"Is there anything you're not used to?"
Miao Yi raised her eyes and smiled sweetly at him: "Officials, please don't underestimate me. Back then, I and my mother traveled thousands of miles across Hexi..."
She was very relaxed now. She "escaped" out of Dunhuang and avoided Yang Xu. It seemed that she no longer had the suffocating feeling when breathing. So what if the long journey was more difficult. When she came back from Bieshu Bali, Yang Xu Xu should have returned to Jiayuguan from Hami. I believe this is Yang Xu's only trip to the Western Regions. He will never come again in the future, and she can still live a peaceful life.
Peace is her greatest happiness now.
As long as... I never meet him again, that's fine.
Now, she has fled to Luobu Nur. She is going to the west and he is going to the north. It should be... It is absolutely impossible for them to meet again, absolutely!
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