253 Sandstorm
"I saw it, we saw it! But no, I just can't catch up, and suddenly it's gone! I really didn't lie to you, Commander! Conscience of heaven and earth! I don't have two brothers anymore, how could I lie to you about such a thing! ”
Kneeling on the ground with an embarrassed face, the reconnaissance platoon commander kept arguing, but who wanted to believe what he said?
In the direction he had guided, the army hurried over, and there were no lakes or oases at all, but yellow sand covered the sky!
His reconnaissance platoon, just because he was looking for this lake that he said was unwarranted, and two people were swallowed by quicksand, and there were no bones, and even the soldiers in his platoon had different opinions, some people said they saw it, and some people said they didn't see it.
"It may be a mirage, I saw it in an ancient book, there will be some false scenes in the desert, real and illusory, suddenly appear and disappear inexplicably, and you can't chase it."
Li Mu stepped forward to solve his doubts, and this can be regarded as returning the man's innocence.
He was a general in Zhao before, in order to deal with the Huns, he studied a lot of written books and rumors related to the topography of the Xiongnu, among which there was such a mirage, but he had not seen it with his own eyes, and the description was too false, so that he once thought it was a false rumor.
"Set up camp on the spot, looks like we're going to spend the night here tonight."
Standing on a sand dune, I looked out and found that the yellow sand was in the distance in front of me, and it seemed that the sandstorm had started again.
"Hurry up, quickly erect all the planks, fence all the grain and grass, and move faster!"
After hearing Li Mu's order, the troops began to camp on the back of the sand dunes, trying to resist the impact of the sandstorm with the sand dunes.
But what Meng Tian and the others didn't expect was that the speed of the sandstorm advance this time was too fast, much faster than the two times they had encountered before, obviously it was still very far away just now, but when they came back to their senses, they found that it was already very close, and there was not much time left for the 60,000 army to adjust.
However, before the army could get ready, the sandstorm had already arrived in front of them!
The huge wall of wind and sand chose to cover the sun, and as the wall of wind and sand arrived, the whole sky instantly darkened, as if the end of the world.
"Get down, why don't you lie down for me... Bah... It's all good for me! Weapons, weapons all pressed underneath! ”
Bailimeng saw that the sandstorm had swallowed the troops in front, and hurriedly arranged for the troops behind who had not yet entered the sandstorm area to hurry up and prepare, and before he finished speaking, the wind and sand wall had already been pushed in front of him, and his mouth was full of sand, and he hurriedly lay down.
When he was on his stomach, the wind and sand completely engulfed everything, and the sand and gravel that blew at high speed hit his body, and he could even hear the grinding sound of his armor.
"Ah~~~!"
Suddenly, right next to him, a scream came, and then the scream became farther and farther away!
A soldier lying not far from him found that a wooden board standing in front of the grain and grass had faint traces of looseness, and ventured to go over to strengthen the plank.
"Hands! Give me my hand! ”
Trying to look back, Bailimeng suddenly found that the plan of setting up a wooden wall on the back of the sand dunes to protect grain and grass during the first two sandstorms was not worth mentioning in the face of this extremely violent sandstorm.
From the beginning of that piece of wood was blown away, the situation was out of control, more and more planks were blown away, these planks are not just used as baffles, because the carriage in the desert can not move forward at all, so these planks are used to put on the yellow sand as a flat to transport grain and grass, without these planks, is it possible that the 60,000 army of so much grain and grass have to be carried by people?
The wind and sand are too big, a mouth is a mouthful of yellow sand, and the sound can't travel far at all, but Baili Meng is still working hard, and he must keep the only remaining planks.
"Get on your stomach, pass it one by one, and knock your hand on me!"
finally caught the hand of the first person, and then directly grabbed the other party's wrist, and slowly crawled to the place where the grain and grass were while arranging for others to do it in their own way.
Watching the planks being blown away piece by piece, watching the bales of straw fed to the horses being easily torn apart and then blown apart like pieces of paper, watching the whole bag of grain being blown directly into the distance, Baili Meng's heart was very anxious, but he could only crawl over little by little like this, he didn't dare to get up, he knew that as long as he was together, he would also be blown away.
"Hold it down, it's crushed to death, don't move, don't get up, press me, hold each other and press, and the people behind you hold my legs!"
Finally crawling to the grain and grass pile, Baili Meng bounced up violently, because his hands were grabbed, he didn't bounce very high, and he was not blown away by the sandstorm, but it was enough, enough for him to pounce on the precarious plank, which had been blown crooked and could fly away at any time.
Taking human flesh as a new wall, hand in hand, no matter how big this sandstorm is, it can't blow hundreds or thousands of people away at once.
The strategy was successful, and the results were clear.
It didn't take long for these grains and grasses to be pressed under the thick human wall, and the previous crisis was completely gone.
But does that really ensure that you're safe?
The real crisis has just begun!
Bang~~!
"Ah~~!"
A muffled thud, followed by a scream.
"Let go, let go! I'll help you pull the sack open! ”
Just to the left of Baili Meng, another soldier who was closely connected to him was directly smashed on his body by a bag of grain flying from front, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth instantly.
The person is by his side, and Bailimeng can remove the sack from the soldier's body as long as he moves his hand, but what Bailimeng didn't expect is that although he let go of his hand, the soldier still grabbed his wrist, no matter what Bailimeng said, the person just wouldn't let go.
"Army... Captains... No... Can't let ...... loose"
Before he finished speaking, the sack was blown again, and it rolled directly on his head, burying his head directly into the yellow sand, but his hand was still clasped by Bailimeng's wrist.
"Ah~~~~!"
Grabbing the man's wrist again, Baili Meng roared, but he could only let Huang Sha continue to abuse, and let the soldiers lie in it lonely and helpless but could not dodge.
This is a disaster, and it is a disaster that comes suddenly without knowing it, no one knows how long this disaster will last, no one knows what will be left of this Qin army after the disaster, and what they don't know is whether they have a chance to get out of this desert and go to the court of the Huns!