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Scorching sun, yellow sand,.

"It's so hot!" General Reyes said.

As the supreme commander of the Forward Corps, General Reyes prepared a total of five exquisite handkerchiefs for himself before entering the desert, these well-made handkerchiefs are no different from rags now, and after drying, they are like smeared paste, and when they wake up, they can be used to smash people; Not only that, but the handsome general even found that the red fox's tail, which he cherished as much as his life, had been covered with a thick layer of salt frost, which was as heavy as a mace.

"It's so cool!" Liu Zhenzhen said.

As the chief shaman of the expeditionary sacrifice group, he is now lying comfortably in the spacious carriage, listening to Helen and several young people explain the war song, while enjoying the "iced milkshake" with the little parrot.

A rabbit beauty maid is helping Liu Zhenzhen with a massage, and the other is peeling off the cold grape skin and taking the big ** grape into his mouth and the two little beasts; These two rabbit beauties who used to be the candidates of the saintess, in addition to serving the god of war, they are also very good at serving the spokesperson of the god of war, Liu Zhenzhen especially likes a detail------ whenever the rabbit beauty who helped him massage his palm with a hair or fingernail, the electrostatic reaction in an instant will make this divine comedy shaman flutter suddenly.

The night pearl taken from the jaw of the dragon in the carriage, its effect of cooling off the heat is maximized in this enclosed space, and several other weak mages are not treated so well, although the carriage also has it, but the Tamurraya ice beads embedded in the four corners of the carriage will let the mages wear leather jackets after a while.

It's the twenty-third day!

Along the way, the entire forward corps can be said to be unimpeded, crossing the Oxford Oasis and the Harvard Oasis in succession, and no resistance has been encountered.

The desert human bandits have also encountered them, but they are only a small group of infested scouts, although the entire vanguard regiment is an infantry construction force, but fortunately, there are two Biao warriors and a Chimera knight in the expeditionary sacrifice group, these desert human bandits who rode camels all the way were just a well-made Uzi scimitar with a handle for General Reyes.

In this section of the journey, except for a quicksand loss of four Pig warriors, the entire vanguard has no other losses. The thick leather boots issued by the military headquarters this time, except for covering their feet a little, are not at all able to be bitten by poisonous scorpions and poisonous snakes with ringing tails in the desert------ it is said that last year, it was these small poisonous insects that became a large non-combat attrition of the troops.

Judging from the reconnaissance results reported by the Horned Eagle Scouts every day, although the two oases they passed through were no-man's land, the outer edge of the Yale Oasis had begun to be built by people on the seventeenth day after the Vanguard Corps entered the desert. This news made the whole vanguard corps a little excited, and this period of success made General Reyes and the soldiers of the Toulon Wing begin to think of the scene of attacking the city and making great achievements.

General Reyes's dream of spring and autumn was completely shattered by a word from the quartermaster after dark.

"We may not have enough water, General." When the Pig quartermaster reported to General Reyes, General Reyes nearly fainted.

"How can it not be enough? It's only been eight days since the Oxford Oasis! It's only been eight days!" General Reyes roared and grabbed the quartermaster's collar, nearly strangling the Pige officer to death.

"It's gotta... Ask... Ask you—" replied Quartermaster Pig, trembling.

General Reyes froze.

During the fifteen-day desert march, General Reyes and his staff had actually realized this hidden danger for a long time------ and the drinking water of the entire forward corps was significantly higher than the standard distributed by the military headquarters.

To measure the Beamon army by standards is actually completely undesirable. Because of the differences in race, there are also huge differences in the size of the Beamon warriors, and the needs for food and armor are often difficult to unify, in view of this situation, the five major Beamon legions have their own logistics departments. Each of them looks at their own one-third of an acre; But this time the situation was different, and the bureaucrats from the General Logistics Department of the War Department were in charge of the logistics of the campaign. In the more than 20 years since His Majesty was in power, all of them were sent to study at the military academy of the human kingdom. They learned from the little Boer and the big Boer, and also learned from the human practice, and divided the fighting regiments into the first and second divisions, and the Toulon and Cambridge regiments belonged to the B regiments, and the standard of military quartermaster was only half of that of the A regiments------ and the bureaucrats of the general demand department had their own reasons for why the Toulon regiment and the baggage troops were divided into the same grade, because the size of the Pigs was not as strong as the Beamon warriors of the other three corps.

Although he was born into a nobleman, as the suzerain of the Pigs, General Reyes was well aware of the grandiose appetite of the Pigs, and the questionable logistics distribution standards of the logistics officers of the military department forced him to submit a report with doubts, but this report was not approved for a long time, and the arrival of the chief shaman forced General Reyes to quickly lead the army to set off.

This time, the Pioneer Corps rushed to the destination Yale Oasis, there were two oases along the way to replenish the water, the Harvard Oasis was 600 miles away from the Cambridge Oasis, the starting point, and the Pioneer Corps took ten days to arrive. General Reyes found that the waterwheels carried by the entire forward corps had exhausted all the water in exactly ten days------ and according to the standards of the military department, the water in these waterwheels should be enough for the Toulon Wing to drink for fifteen days.

The second stop, the Oxford Oasis, was only 300 miles from the Harvard Oasis, and it took only five days for the Pioneer Corps to arrive, with enough water to squander.

The third stop, the Oxford Oasis, was more than 1,100 miles away from the Yale Oasis, without any water supply on the way, and at the highest speed of 60 miles a day, it would theoretically take 18 days for the vanguard to complete this journey. In view of the huge water consumption of the forward corps, General Reyes specially asked the craftsmen of the army to make two waterwheels in the Oxford Oasis before setting out, and gave orders to all the soldiers to control the water.

If, as General Reyes envisioned, the water control was carried out and the land was saved a little, the entire vanguard corps would definitely be able to arrive at the Yale Oasis on time and enter the battle at the expected time.

However, General Reyes still underestimated the appetite of the Pigs.

Compared to all the pain, the feeling of thirst is undoubtedly the most unbearable. A rapid march in the desert and a rapid march in the Danube are completely different things, since entering the desert, all the Pigs of the Toulon Wing have reduced their food consumption a lot, and the corresponding demand for clear water land has doubled.

Along the way, passing through two oases in a row, the Pigs of the Toulon United showed high morale and were worthy of the word elite, but after their appetite was raised, it was too unrealistic to let them rein in their water intake and implement water control------ the greedy Pigs and the stoic Wolf were completely two types of fighters.

Under the scorching sun, where could the sweaty Pigs soldiers remember what water control orders, and after drinking the ten pounds of water they carried with them, the eyes of the Pigs began to flicker------ looking at the waterwheel driving beside them, but they had to endure the pain of the throat smoking, it was too cruel, if it wasn't for the military regulations, if it wasn't for the well-trained, if it was the other crappy wings of the Toulon Legion here, I was afraid that they would have already gone up to rob.

Not only soldiers, but also officers, the twenty squadron leaders of the Toulon Wing are all Olevin Hercules, weighing more than five hundred pounds, so that these Giant Elephants walk in the steamer-like desert, and the amount of water that needs to be replenished is also extremely amazing------ the strong figure that Olevin Hercules is proud of, and only when they go to the desert can they feel so burdensome.

If even the mid-level officers look at you and the watermill with such eyes that are close to mutiny, no one of the highest officers will still be satisfied.

Unable to bear to be surrounded by that kind of gaze, General Reyes had no choice but to give the order to replenish the water. This rookie commander who has just entered the battlefield completely ignores the seriousness of what is called military law, since there is an exception for the first time, there will be a second time, and someone will use chicken feathers as an arrow.

By the time the quartermaster found out that something was wrong, things were already a little bigger, and if they were to maintain the Yale Oasis, they had to endure a terrible premise------ Toulon Wing had to march in the desert for ten days at a rate of sixty miles a day, while the daily water ration was reduced by two-thirds, and they were quickly put into battle.

In desperation, General Reyes had no choice but to issue the clear water control order again.

Only God knows, the next day was the same as before, the Pigs first drank all the water they were carrying, and then their eyes began to patrol the watermill again, but this time General Reyes and the squadron leaders had understood the seriousness of the consequences, and they were determined not to ban it anymore.

One day can be endured, two days can be endured, and by the third day, the Pig Warriors with cracked lips are already a little irresistible, and there is no water to pour, if the sound of water splashing from the waterwheel echoes in their ears, the nerves of every Pig Warrior have been stirred to the limit!

What caused General Reyes a big problem was the group of prisoners, who reacted violently after being controlled by the water, and it was not the prisoners who were really in danger, but the instigation shown by the prisoners. The ten zebra warriors of the Overseer team cut off the heads of hundreds of prisoner warriors who tried to forcibly grab water in a single day, and their hands became weak, not only did not stop the wave of prisoners asking for water, but made the Pigs soldiers unable to hold back any longer.

The moment the prisoners unscrewed the hoses of the water wheel, each Pigs swallowed desperately.

The vanguard corps is like a centipede that has been cut off its beard, winding in the desert and stopping its advance------ even if it is no longer disciplined Beamon warriors, there is also a psychological limit, depriving the right to "eat and drink", for the Pig warriors, it just means the minimum psychological endurance. As the most elite professional soldiers in the northeastern provinces, the Warthog infantry and porcupine spearmen did not mutini and grab water, but from the afternoon they chose to pour out their anger on their commanders by means of peaceful resistance that refused to advance.

General Reyes almost gritted his teeth, he really hated it, why did the kingdom have a striker, who must have a stormtroop of prisoners, this rotten convention that couldn't be more rotten! Without the coaxing of these prisoners, perhaps the Forward Corps would have barely made it to the Yale Oasis.

The task assigned by the legion to the Forward Corps was to march sixty miles a day, and within thirty-four days it was necessary to capture the Yale Oasis, and to violate military law! Military law is ruthless, and once this assigned task cannot be accomplished, there is a clear interpretation in the military law of Beamon------ the supreme military commander will judge himself, and all the prisoner assault regiments to which he belongs will be hanged to set an example.

Because of this elite outing, domestic public opinion generally believes that this crusade against desert bandits is easy to capture, General Reyes was born in a Fox family in the northeastern province, and the meaning of the family is to let him take this opportunity to accumulate military merits for future promotion.

The gilded journey turned into a hellish itinerary, which General Reyes never expected, this huge contrast, so that the young noble general suddenly collapsed, there is no way forward, retreat is death, when two multiple choice questions with the same consequences are placed in front of General Reyes, the noble general wants to cry without tears.

Under the reminder of his staff, General Reyes soon realized a very strange thing------ the sacrifices of the expeditionary sacrifice group walked in front of the entire vanguard regiment, and camped far away from the entire vanguard regiment, but they were never seen to come to ask the baggage team for a drop of water and a piece of dry food.

These sacrifices did not carry baggage, but the followers of the sacrifice who followed the carriage drank water, which can be described as ox drink, and also cooled down with toppings.

The large cowhide water bag issued by the military department carried ten pounds of water, which was not enough to replenish the water of the majestic Baleno warrior for half a day.

What's going on? Where does the water come from among the sacrifices? Earth; General Reyes's heart was suddenly filled with suspicion.

The only way to solve the doubt is to find the answer.

The Expeditionary Sacrifice Regiment is a ** system, in terms of rank, only the Legion Commander Prince Karn is on the same level as the Chief Shaman Richard, and General Reyes is not qualified to ask the Chief Shaman directly for the time being, but Fawkes's wisdom makes up for these difficulties. Despite losing the dignity of a nobleman, General Reyes sent a skilled guard warrior to sneak into the tent area of the expeditionary sacrifice group at night.

The guard was thrown the next day with a bruised nose and swollen face, and it was the first time that General Reyes had seen his samurai so sloppy.

"I didn't find anything." The guard covered the gap on his face, and the man crawled up on the sand: "As soon as I entered, four mastiffs pounced, as if these guys started beating me, saying that I actually dared to peep at who was bathing." ”

"Wash ...... Bathe? General Reyes's voice was out of tune.