Walking in the endless desert for several days in a row, people in the wasteland felt very small, and a strong sense of loneliness enveloped and spread throughout the army.

Wei Qing looked around from time to time and sighed deeply.

This is the Gobi Desert, people who have not seen it with their own eyes can never understand its meaning, when facing him, the first word that comes to mind is "death", indeed, this is the limit of survival, there is no water, there is no soil, the endless gravel beach sparkles in the sun, whenever the wind blows, the yellow sand rolls, covering the sky and the sun, the whole area is inaccessible, a bleak scene.

Above this desert, the summer sun is like fire, the cold wind in midwinter is like a knife, the harsh environment is enough to stifle any fragile life, making it a barren land, after thousands of years of struggle, there are several plants miraculously survived, settled on the Gobi Desert, the most common are dwarf camel thorns and red willows, and occasionally visible poplars, the Jin people of Mobei call these poplars "drill poplars", the poplars here do not have thick side branches, all the branches and leaves grow upwards together, and the trees are like a sharp arrow shooting into the sky.

Far away, a rock towers, like a naturally formed devil city, from a distance it is more magnificent than the Central Plains city, people sigh that the magic of nature is beyond the reach of manpower, and what is more amazing is that these red stone rocks will make a ghostly cry like a cry in the wind, and the smell is terrifying.

Although Wei Qing led the army to march quickly, but there was a lack of guides along the way, but he did not dare to sentry from time to time, for several days, according to the original calculation, they should have reached the confluence of the middle route army and the right route army, but looking around, it was still empty, Wei Qing muttered in his heart, I don't know if I have lost the way.

At sunset on this day, the horse came to report, and there was still no one around, Wei Qing was even more worried in his heart, could it be that he really wanted to get lost in the desert this time, he looked back and saw that the soldiers were already tired, and immediately ordered to set up camp and wait for tomorrow to move forward.

The sound of horses' hooves in the distance, Shi Qian came to Wei Qing, and arched his hand: "General Wei, why is there no one in the past few days, I think we should also arrive!" ”

Wei Qing frowned and nodded: "I am also like this, but for some reason there is still no trace in the surroundings!" Without saying a word, Bai Buxin came on horseback, and his eyes were full of joy: "General Wei, the horse exploration in the northeast reported that there were traces of the camp of the army, and it looked like the place where the Han army camped!" ”

Wei Qing was overjoyed and asked, "How far is it from here!" ”

"It's only about forty miles away!" Bai Buxin replied: "It's just that there are only traces there, and there is no trace of anyone!" ”

Wei Qing looked at the west, the sun had sunk in the west, and it would set in a while, there were no mountains and rivers in this desert, and it would soon get dark as soon as the sun set, he groaned for a while, and said to Bai Buxin and Shi Qian: "General Bai, you will temporarily lead the whole army, and General Shi and I will take people to the outpost to investigate!" ”

Bai Buxin wanted to speak out against it, but after thinking about it, such a major matter, if Wei Qing didn't go to see it in person, he really couldn't let go, besides, there was no one in the four fields, and there was a flat river, even if there was an enemy, Wei Qing could find it in time and retreat, not to mention that it was only forty miles away from the army, and if there was any problem, he could also help in time, so he nodded and said: "General Wei go and return quickly, beware of the enemy's traces!" ”

Wei Qing hurriedly cleaned up, and Shi Qian led fifty guards to set off to investigate, and not far from the camp, it was already dark, the cold wind was bitter, and the cold was striking, and it looked like it was going to snow.

Everyone wrapped up their clothes and walked for miles, and the snow was already falling.

It was getting dark quickly, but fortunately the moonlight was very bright, and everyone did not dare to light the torches casually, in case they were discovered by the enemy, so they took advantage of the moonlight to go all the way.

The crowd was not a long journey, so there was no need to be sympathetic to the horsepower, and they urged the horses to gallop one by one, and after walking for about half an hour, they had arrived at the place where the horses had been said before.

Wei Qing saw that there were digging pits everywhere, and he couldn't see clearly in the night, for fear of breaking the horse's feet, he immediately ordered the guards to wait here, he and Shi Qian dismounted, walked forward by the moonlight, and walked into the camp, the camp was obviously the style of the Han army, but it seemed that although the scale was not small, it seemed to be evacuated in a hurry, and many things that could be brought or not were scattered around, and the strange thing was that there was no trace of battle in the four places, not as if they had met the enemy.

Wei Qing stood on the ground, suspicious in his heart, not knowing what happened to the Han army.

Suddenly, there seemed to be a sound behind him, and before Wei Qing could react, with a snort, a black shadow swooped towards him, and he only had time to see clearly that it was a black shadow with four legs, Wei Qing's subconscious hand was raised, the Chixiao Sword swung away, and a rain of blood sprinkled down, and the head of a beast fell down, opening its mouth, revealing Bai Sensen's teeth.

It was dark all around, but the bright moonlight was reflected on the ground, Wei Qing hurriedly got up, and was about to see what it was, when there was a howl behind him, and something pounced.

Before he could turn around, the howl turned into a scream, as if something had knocked it down.

"I'll kill!" Someone shouted, it turned out to be Shi Qian.

There was silence for a moment, and a terrible howl rang out, and there were many wild beasts in all directions.

Wei Qing's heart and back were covered with cold sweat, although he had experienced countless risks, there had never been a time when he faced such a huge danger so suddenly.

"It's a pack of wolves!" It was Shi Qian's voice, Wei Qing looked around anxiously, feeling bursts of cold air on his body constantly soaking into his body. Although they were already dressed very thickly, it seemed that the climate of this desert was very strange, and this time it was a little colder than before, and the cold was still intensifying, and Wei Qing, who was frozen, shivered.

Wei Qing felt that the bone-chilling cold was more terrifying than the threat of the wolves, the climate was so extremely cold, much colder than the coldest time he had ever experienced, and obviously, the chill was intensifying, in this case, it would take a while to freeze people through, if this continued, without wolves to eat them, it wouldn't be long before they would stiffen.

"General Wei, the guards are being attacked by wolves!" Shi Qian's voice was a little distorted.

"Got it!" Wei Qing also felt that his lips were numb, he really didn't have time to take care of the guards now.

Suddenly, dark shadows shook all around, and the wolves attacked again.

The Chixiao Sword in Wei Qing's hand danced wildly, not only to deal with the wolves, but also to deal with the cold.

Shi Qian fought more vigorously than Wei Qing, it is estimated that he can't stand the cold, he screams again and again, while jumping around, in fact, he doesn't have to jump to hit the wolf, but such a strange cold makes him unable not to jump.

"General Wei, you break through quickly!" Shi Qian shouted, "I'm here to attract them!" ”

"No way!" Wei Qing only said two words, he felt that his hands were getting harder, his body was starting to get wooden, especially his feet, he didn't listen to the command, he knew that if he continued like this, his body would become numb, and then he would either be fed to the wolf or frozen into ice.

"General Shi, I'll cover you, you quickly light the torches and ignite those firewood scattered on the ground!" Wei Qing suddenly thought of an idea.

Shi Qian screamed and slapped his head with his hand: "I'm an idiot! ”

Wei Qing was dancing the Chixiao Sword while guarding Shi Qian, Shi Qian danced the whirlwind shovel in one hand to protect himself, and lit the torch with the other, this hand lit the torch very hard, Shi Qian straightened it for a while before it was ignited, he hurriedly waved the torch, nodded the firewood scattered on the ground, the wolves howled loudly and retreated, Shi Qian and Wei Qing started together, surrounded the firewood into a fire ring, and both of them breathed a sigh of relief.

The figure shook, and the fifty guards were almost all wounded, and they all led their horses to the fire ring, Wei Qing hurriedly ordered Shi Qian to open the fire circle, and he himself danced the Chixiao Sword and rushed forward, relying on the sharpness of the Chixiao Sword and the bear armor body, covering a group of guards into the fire ring, he himself retreated into the fire circle, and several guards hurriedly plugged the gap with firewood.

The fire was blazing all around, and they could survive with this flame, not only did the flame force the wolves, but the heat also helped everyone resist the cold, but in the ice and snow, everyone was sweating from the heat.

Although they have finally alleviated the crisis now, such a stalemate is not a long-term solution after all, Wei Qing and Shi Qian are using their brains, but there is no good way to think about it for a while.

In the darkness around, the black shadows of the wolves swam, and the green eyes kept flashing in the darkness, and it was estimated that these wolves were also thinking about how to eat this group of people and horses.

Wei Qing untied the overlord's bow and shot an arrow, one wolf was shattered, and the other wolves quickly dispersed, but still had no intention of leaving.

"These bastard brutes!" Shi Qian scolded hatefully.

"Let's go out and kill for a while!" Shi Qian didn't care about the scolding and made suggestions.

"Do you want to freeze to death or do you want to be eaten!" Wei Qing asked unceremoniously.

Shi Qian was speechless.

Sweaty and cold, cold and rheumatism are the best results, once entangled by wolves, if you are not bitten to death, you will freeze to death.

There was no other way, Wei Qing shot another arrow, and shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”

Everyone released arrows one after another, and in a blink of an eye, thirteen or fourteen wolves were killed, and the other wolves dodged into the distance, but they only kept their distance from them, and still refused to retreat.

"Let's wait slowly, these wolves will naturally go back as soon as it is dawn!" Shi Qian said.

That's the only way to go, there's no way around it.

However, this approach did not last long.

"General Wei, fire, fire!" A guard suddenly shouted in horror, Wei Qing hurriedly looked, only to see that the flames in one place began to shrink, and he hurriedly surrounded a fire circle, how could he have the effort to prepare more firewood, now that the firewood has been used up, he saw that the flame could not last long.

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