With this experience of scaring off the wolves, Wang Xun's prestige in the team has increased several levels. Especially those who are strong in the army no longer dare to treat the school captain who is less than 20 years old as a child.
, his eyes were full of admiration. When he set up camp in the evening, knowing that there could be no enemies nearby, he asked everyone to put the carriages end to end to form a camp, and densely spread three layers of anti-cavalry weapons around the perimeter of the "camp"
The iron caltrop was also implemented to the letter, and no one dared to laugh at him for superfluous things.
The dark night in the desert is very cold. Although there is no wind, the cold air still gathers from all directions, seeping through the furs and silk jackets on the body, and slowly seeping from the sweat pores into the bones. Because I can't predict that I will still be walking on this damn road.
How long would it take for them to see the next oasis? They had to light as few bonfires as possible to economize on the few dry firewood they had. This made the dark night seem even longer. Before the hour, most of the brothers had already been frozen.
When they woke up, they huddled up in their own bedding, and their upper and lower teeth kept clashing, "Gurgling, gurgle, gurgle..."
On the other hand, those strong people, who were accustomed to endure hardship, slept very sweetly. The sound of snoring came and went, like the dull thunder in the summer evening.
Listening to these accompaniments in his ears, Wang Xun certainly couldn't fall asleep anymore. He opened his eyes wide and counted the stars in the night sky out of boredom. Compared with Chang'an City, the stars above his head at this moment seemed bigger, closer, and clearer.
.Although there is a full moon hanging in the sky at the same time, it cannot cover up their light. It is said that each star in the sky corresponds to a person on the ground. When the natal star becomes bright, the person's luck also changes.
It will get better. "I just don't know which one is mine?" Wang Xun thought silently in his heart, "Which one is the Nymphoides, Aunt Yun, and which one is the Purple Rose?"
Unknowingly, he began to miss the city of Chang'an. When he was in it, he always saw its flaws and wished he could leave as soon as possible. But now that he was thousands of miles away from home, the most profound thing in his memory was all its advantages.
There is a Taoist temple by the Qujiang Pool. Peach trees are planted in front of it. When spring comes, the peach blossoms bloom as gorgeous as clouds. Walking under the trees, you can see countless men and women, almost all in pairs, and they meet each other.
Nodding in greeting, no one will laugh at anyone. In the season of flowers blooming, those who walk alone under the peach trees are a different kind.
Erlang? Bai Yongzhi's voice came from behind, as soft as a whisper, but full of attachment. Wang Xun slowly turned around and saw Bai Yongzhi leaning against a peach tree, with a peach blossom color on his face. He smiled
Then she walked over, stretched her arms forward, and fixed Bai Yuzhi under the tree. Bai Yuzhi slowly raised her lips, closed her eyes, and her long eyelashes trembled up and down...
How can you live up to the beauty of this beautiful time? In just a short moment, the fragrance on your lips has already made you intoxicated. But at this moment, the sky suddenly changed drastically, and thunder rolled over from the sky, splitting the peach tree behind it and staggering...
The ground was covered with red. Pairs of young men and women held their heads and walked away. As they ran, their clothes slowly fell off, revealing their white skeletons. They were all from Gaochang, and were buried alive by Hou Junji in the vast ocean.
Gaochang people. They are filled with resentment. They stretch out their fangs and claws and try to attack all living creatures nearby...
"Ghost -" Bai Yuzhi screamed in fright. The voice that came out of her throat was indeed a man's. In an instant, she also turned into a skeleton and opened her arms to herself...
"Ah——!" Wang Xun was so frightened that he woke up from his sleep in an instant. The screams were still echoing in his ears, each one louder than the last, "Ghost, the unjust ghost is here to claim his life!"
"Nonsense, where did this come from?" Although his heart almost jumped out of his throat, Wang Xun still did not forget the responsibilities on his shoulders. He turned over and sat up instinctively, grabbing the chain hammer that he had always kept at hand.
"Ghost, ghost..." Minzhuang and the soldiers ran away, turning the whole camp into a mess. Only the carriage blocked the way, so they didn't flee in all directions. "It's over!" At that moment, Wang Xun almost planned to escape alone.
.But a strong stubbornness from the bottom of his heart instantly suppressed his fear and forced him to raise his head and look around.
Everyone has his own responsibilities on his shoulders, and he cannot escape by running away. Right now, his responsibility lies in this camp, which is the carriages filled with luggage.
On the fifteenth day, the pale moonlight illuminated the desert brightly. Just a hundred steps away from the camp, there was a group of pale shadows, with muscleless skulls on their heads, riding war horses, quietly heading towards
The group approached. Because they had to deal with the thorns under their feet, they didn't walk very fast. However, the fishy smell on their bodies hit people's faces.
That is definitely not the smell that a living person can have, and the dark red blood on the body is definitely not just flowing out. It is a Gaochang people, the Gaochang people who were buried alive under the sand dunes by Hou Junji. After nearly a hundred years, they really came
It was time to die! Fear was like a poisonous snake again, tightly wrapped around Wang Xun's heart. It was so tight that he could hardly breathe. He didn't want to die, but it seemed that there was no way to escape. With the idea of taking a backer before dying,
, he grabbed an almost burned firewood from the bonfire beside him, and threw it towards the ghosts outside the camp. The bright charcoal fire swirled in the air, passed nearly fifty steps, and landed on the ground.
It exploded and red stars shot out. The ghosts who were dealing with the caltrops were startled by the sparks. Although they were far away, they instinctively stopped their mounts, raised their hollow eyes, and looked into the camp.
"Don't be afraid, use rockets to greet them. Even ghosts are afraid of fire!" Like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw, Wang Xun opened his throat and made a voice that was almost not his own. "Rockets, rockets. Don't run, it's such a big desert.
, where can you run to?"
No one stopped to listen to his orders, and the soldiers and the people were in chaos. A few strong men had already climbed over the carriage away from the ghost and ran wildly into the depths of the desert.
"Kill those who run away from the battle!" Seeing more and more people climbing onto the carriage, Wang Xun shouted at the top of his voice, ran for a few steps, and pulled the nearest escapees off the carriage one by one with one hand. "Rocket"
, rockets! We have a lot of rockets! Even ghosts are afraid of fire. If you don’t bring water in such a big desert, you will die of thirst sooner or later.”
I don’t know whether his reminder had an effect or whether the fear of dying of thirst outweighed the fear of ghosts. People no longer tried to climb over the carriage, but collectively turned their heads and headed straight for the place where the water bags were piled. "
Whoever grabs the water will die!" Wang Xun was so anxious that he swung away the chain hammer in his other hand and hit it on the head and face. The two fastest runners, Minzhuang, were hit and screamed and fell to the ground. The third one fell to the ground.
The person standing close to the water bag was a flying dragon guard. He quickly lay down and rolled on the ground to avoid the fate of broken muscles and bones. But he was so frightened that he opened his mouth and screamed loudly.
"We are ghosts even after we die. Are ghosts still afraid of ghosts?" In desperation, Wang Xun also risked his life. He hammered the chain into a circle and swept around the water bag. "Pick up the bow, shoot rockets, and use rockets."
Burn them to death. Hou Junji is watching from the sky. Back then, the people of Gaochang were no match for the athletes of the Tang Dynasty. Even if they become ghosts, they are no better!"
Between being beaten to death by a chain hammer, escaping into the desert to die of thirst, and fighting the evil spirits who rushed into the camp, most people instinctively chose the third party. Taking advantage of the crowd's calmness, Wang Xun put down the chain hammer.
, leaned over again and grabbed a burning stick from the bonfire, and threw it towards the ghost closest to the camp.
This time, the torch almost hit the target. The frightened ghost's mount raised its front hooves and let out a roar. "How can a ghost ride a live horse?" Suddenly, an idea flashed in his heart, and Wang Xun shouted loudly. "Fake."
Yes, don’t be afraid, everyone, those outside are definitely not ghosts. Ghosts cannot fight on a living horse!"
"Yes, yes, the ghost can ride a horse after absorbing enough yang energy!" The voice of the guide Lao Yue came immediately, which made people's skin crawl. Without saying anything, Wang Xun strode over and said with
The small shield on his left arm hit Lao Yue in the face. After watching the opponent fall softly to the ground, he raised the hammer again and shouted at the ghosts outside the camp, "If you have the guts, come here and challenge me."
, What’s the point of pretending to be a ghost? Even if I’m dead, I’m still a ghost, and I’m definitely better than fake ghosts like you!”
The ghosts outside still didn't speak. They all jumped off their mounts and approached the camp on foot. A dozen of the more daring Feilong guards heard Wang Xun's shouts, and with the idea of fighting to the death, they drew their bows and arrows and rushed towards the outside of the camp.
Shooting. Most of them are ordinary feather arrows, with only a few sporadic ones using fire arrows. The ghosts who were approaching silently were caught off guard and were actually shot by the feather arrows. There was an unlucky ghost whose shroud was unfortunately ignited by the rocket.
He was so frightened that the skull fell off his neck by accident.
"#￥%@" The unlucky man cursed in an unfamiliar language and bent down to pick up the skull on the ground. Now, the flaws on his body became more and more obvious. The originally blackened neck was illuminated by the firelight on his body, and it bent.
The hair is clearly visible.
"Fake!" "Fake! The skull is on the head!" The guards, who had been frightened to death, woke up one after another and yelled at the top of their lungs, "I told you to pretend, I told you to pretend. I'll shoot you to death.
Turn you into a real ghost. Shoot you to death, shoot you to death!"
"Shoot you to death. I am an evil person who specializes in dealing with evil spirits!"
"You were killed by me when you were alive, and you are still a coward when you die!"
More guards woke up from their panic, drew their horned bows, lit the arrows with tinder on the front, and shot them out one by one. They usually did not train seriously, and the fire arrows they fired were very likely to be off target.
The target was hit. But there is always a lucky guy, and Blind Meng also got the right place. The "ghosts" who were close enough to touch the edge of the carriage were shot into a panic, and they retreated with curses. The camp immediately
There was roaring laughter, and more feather arrows rose into the air, chasing the footsteps of the "ghosts" and sending them and the frightened horses a hundred steps away.
There was no wind in the surrounding areas, and the fire arrows embedded in the sand continued to burn, illuminating the skulls left behind by the "ghosts" when they retreated in embarrassment. Looking at the pale white skulls and a few seriously injured people in front of the camp
The struggling "unlucky ghosts", the flying dragon guards and the people laughed loudly, not remembering who was almost pissed in their pants by the ghosts just now?!
"Lao Zhou, is Lao Zhou still here? Count the number of people for me!" While everyone was still immersed in the excitement of fighting off the "ghosts", Wang Xun ordered loudly. "Old Zheng, Lao Zheng, quickly bring a few brothers and put them together."
Block the gap for me. Xiao Fang, Fang Zi Teng, are you scared to death? If you are still alive, take a breath! Old Wei, where is Old Wei, quickly see how many Minzhuang you have left? Old Zhu, look for
A few guys with loud voices stood on the carriage behind and tried to call back the guys who had run away."
People are weird. I was scared to death just now, but after I found out that the ghost was disguised as a bandit, I completely forgot about my fear. Soon, there were playful responses from the camp. Several main guards leaders and Wang Xun temporarily
The promoted leaders of Minzhuang did not even have time to escape. They put on a posture of not being afraid of danger and went separately to carry out Wang Xun's orders.
After a while, the gang leaders Zhou and Lao Zheng, the coward Fang Ziteng, and the Minzhuang leaders Wei Feng and Zhu Wuyi came back to report that the place that had just been pushed away by the group had been blocked with carriages again. After repeated counting, one hundred
Eighty-seven of the imperial guards were left, and 262 of the three hundred minzhuang were left. Zhu Wuyi had already sent a dozen minzhuang with loud voices to stand on the carriage and shout to the surroundings. He didn't know which group had escaped.
Can you cowards hear me?
"Ignore them. They deserve it if they die of thirst! Sit down here, we have to discuss what to do next!" Wang Xun spat on the ground and ordered in a low voice. Under the current situation, he had no time to think about what he could do.
The team could not be brought out of the desert completely. The pretenders were wandering outside the range of the arrows. It seemed that they would not give up until they got the supplies in the carriage. And there was no village in front of them and no store in the back.
In the desert, everyone should not expect reinforcements at all.
"What are you still discussing? You are the biggest official here. Whatever you say, we will do it!" Zheng, the elder of the group, responded without any hesitation.
"Yes, if Captain Wang hadn't kept his composure just now, we would have been frightened to death or hacked to death by bandits!" After experiencing a crisis, Wei Feng, the leader of Minzhuang, admired Wang Xun and stepped forward.
, loudly echoed Lao Zheng’s opinion.
Several other leaders felt the same way about Wei Feng's words and all spoke in agreement. Wang Xun's original intention was to establish his absolute command first. Seeing that no one had any objections, he immediately said loudly: "Then I won't be polite. From now on.
From now on, no matter who is a soldier or who is a leader of the people. Anyone who dares to disobey orders will be dealt with according to military law. Otherwise, none of us will be able to walk out of this desert alive."
"Yes, we can't cause chaos. The more chaos there is, the faster we will die!" Everyone nodded and responded in a low voice. The materials in the carriage were transported to Shule for the Anxi Army's next military operation. If they are taken away by bandits, even if everyone
If you are lucky enough to escape from the desert, you will have to be beheaded in public according to military law. It is better to fight to the death and defeat the robbers and find a way out for yourself.
"Yes!" Wang Xun nodded lightly, and then began to arrange the defense tasks, "I'll give everyone a solid background. I guess you have also secretly explored it. All the carriages are equipped with weapons. They are all ordnance supervisors.
It’s a fine product that has been made with great efforts. Let’s unload a few cars later and let each of the brothers pick out some handy household items..."
"When you get to Shule in the future, I'm afraid, I'm afraid it won't be easy for you to explain to them!" Before Wang Xun could finish his words, Wei Feng, the leader of Minzhuang, hesitantly reminded him.
"Let's get over this hurdle first!" Wang Xun smiled and narrowed his eyes into a straight line. "It's better if we use it than to fall into the hands of robbers."
Was the intruder really a robber? He couldn't be sure. But a clear voice in his heart told him that if he didn't kill all those pretenders, the road ahead would never be peaceful.
