The flag was raised, the horn was blown, and the army set off again, this time, everyone's face was a little more awe-inspiring, not in awe of Wei Qing, but in awe of the desert, the power of the sandstorm made the soldiers finally understand that the desert is not just hot: the name of "Sea of Death" is not a lie.

Wei Qing specially ordered that three teams of sentinel detachments should be sent in each direction, and each team should not be more than 20 miles away from the one team behind, so as not to get lost in the desert.

A few days later, the army had entered the desert for nearly five hundred miles, and there was still more than half of the distance from Hami, and that night, the army was encamped, far and near, the fire was shaking, the soldiers sat around the fire, Wei Qing sat on a stone, looking at the stars in the sky.

He didn't know if this expedition would completely destroy the Wusun Army in the end, he could only say that he hoped to completely destroy the Wusun Army, but at the same time, he once again thought about a question that always bothered him in his heart: why fight.

In this life, you can only live in a six-foot-long and four-foot-wide bed, and no matter how big the room is, you can only sleep in such a large area; Eat, a meal is only a few taels, and people with a great appetite are no more than a pound, even if you put seven plates and eight bowls, you can only look at them and not eat them all; Yes, but one horse, one cart, and a hundred taels of carriages can only sit one at a time; Clothes, but a few, the family has a thousand pieces of silk, and they can't wear them all at once.

But? It's just that someone has killed hundreds of people in order to see more things in their eyes, is it really worth it? After robbing a thousand miles of land, how many places can you see, can you stand in the courtyard and see thousands of miles away? So why let hundreds of people fight to the death, for just a place you can't see.

He didn't understand, he really didn't understand, in his mind, it was good to be able to have food and clothing, to have a house, and to walk without being tired.

What he didn't understand even more was the thoughts of the Jin people, the emperor was greedy and wanted to occupy the Han Dynasty, what could the Jin people get? Even if they occupied the entire Han Dynasty, they were all the property of the emperor and the nobles, what did it have to do with the people of Yujin, why did they die for such a result.

Wei Qing looked up at the starry sky, his heart was full of questions, but there was nothing to solve.

A chill hit, Wei Qing stood up and decided to go back to the tent to rest, he had just raised his legs, and before he could take a step, he saw a camel galloping towards him, and the person on the camel was holding a red flag in his hand and waving it.

Wei Qing immediately stopped.

It was a letter from the sentinel detachment, it seemed that there was an urgent matter to report, could it be that there was an enemy, thinking of the enemy, Wei Qing's heart was not nervous, but a burst of joy.

It is better to fight the enemy than to fight the terrible sandstorms of the desert, who go deep into the desert in order to clear the enemy, and it would be great if the enemy came on his own initiative.

The letter came to Wei Qing's side, turned over and jumped off the camel, stood unsteadily for a while, and fell to the ground, but he didn't exhale pain at all, but rolled on the ground and got up, and rushed straight to Wei Qing's side: "General, sixty miles ahead, the sentry detachment is all dead!" ”

Wei Qing's heart tightened.

"All dead, attacked by the enemy?"

"Probably not!" The letter replied: "All the hundred men have no sword scars on them, we are a detachment of sentry forty miles away, and we have not been able to contact the sixty mile detachment for a long time, and the centurion sent twenty men to look for them, only to find that they are all dead, and all of them are in a terrible state, as if they were frightened to death by something!" ”

Wei Qing was even more surprised.

What can scare a hundred people to death at once, is there still a ghost in this desert?

"Order, call General Wei Qi'a!" Wei Qing immediately ordered.

Wei Qi'a, Abri, and the single father Dolan, these three people take turns to be guides every day, and today Wei Qi'a is on duty.

Wei Qi'a hurried over.

Wei Qing gave a general explanation of the situation and asked Wei Qi'a: "What are the ghosts in this desert!" ”

Wei Qi'a frowned: "There are many strange things in the desert, but this is the first time that something that can scare a hundred people to death at once has happened!" ”

Wei Qing pondered for a moment, and ordered a team of 1,000 people to be dispatched, and he and Wei Qi'a went to see what was going on, and handed over the army to Bai Buxin's command.

As soon as he got on the road, Wei Qing asked Wei Qi'a: "Is there really a ghost in the desert?" ”

Wei Qi'a shook his head and nodded again: "What mortals can't explain, just say that it is done by ghosts, there are indeed many strange things in the desert, but whether it is done by ghosts or not, no one knows!" ”

"What's wrong!" Wei Qing asked.

Wei Qi'a replied: "There are many strange things, for example, sometimes, the people of the Western Regions who are very experienced, form a caravan desert, this road may have been walked countless times, but this time they suddenly lost their way, and they kept circling around a large circle of several miles to dozens of miles, sometimes you see footprints in front of you, thinking that you have finally found the road, but it turns out to be your own footprints, and finally, you die of thirst in the desert, sometimes you will see strange patterns on the desert, the pattern is very huge, it is several miles big, And the painting is very neat, that is, a bird or a horse, who painted it, how to draw it so accurately, this is not known, and sometimes walking, the person in front of him suddenly disappeared, looking around and nowhere to be seen, a few days later, in the same place, you will find the body of this person, and the whole body is dry, like this kind of thing, countless, some of which are known later, and some of the things are always unknown! ”

Wei Qing felt a chill in his heart when he heard this, and sighed: "It turns out that there are so many terrible places in the desert! ”

Wei Qia said: "The terrible thing about the desert is not in the sand, but in the fact that there is nothing in the sand, and do you know that there will be ships in this desert!" ”

The more Wei Qing listened, the more curious he became, and asked, "How can there be a boat here!" ”

"Yes, indeed!" Wei Qi'a replied: "More than once someone found that a big ship suddenly appeared in front of them, the ship knew at a glance that it was only needed for navigation, the sails and oars on the ship were complete, it seems that it has been parked there for many years, this kind of ship is what people call a ghost ship, this ship can not be touched, once it touches the whole ship will turn into ashes, if you suddenly encounter this kind of ship at night, it can really scare people to death, but it is not enough to scare a hundred people to death at once!" ”

"Did someone use a spell to get a ship?" Wei Qing asked.

Wei Qi'a shook his head: "Where is there such a spell, I heard that someone has examined it, saying that this desert is actually a large sea in ancient times, someone sailed on this sea, this ship was in the sea, and then the sea disappeared and became a desert, so this ship was placed in the desert, after countless years of wind and sun, the entire hull has decayed, but there is no water in the desert, so although the ship has decayed, but it has not collapsed, as soon as you touch him, the whole ship will be affected by external forces, and it will collapse, I don't know if this statement is true or not!" ”

"Vicissitudes of life!" Wei Qing replied.

Wei Qi'a nodded: "That's true, the desert climate is dry, and many things can be preserved for a long time, so this statement also has its truth!" ”

"Then the person disappeared inexplicably, and reappeared a few days later, but became a dry corpse, but someone explained that there was no explanation!" Wei Qing asked.

Wei Qing is not curious, but 200,000 people walk in the desert, and one is not more than 200,000 lives, so he also wants to know more.

"Yes!" The muscles on Wei Qi'a's face suddenly trembled: "This is a desert blight, this thing does exist!" ”

"What's that?" Wei Qing asked.

"It's a bug!" Wei Qi'a replied: "This insect is very small, only the size of a grain of rice, but he often appears in groups, often millions, gathered together, forming a huge insect shape, his color and appearance are almost the same as the desert, even if people walk to him, it is difficult to find, these insects hide under the sand, if someone approaches, it will burst out in an instant, and in the blink of an eye, it will pull people under the floating sand, this insect specializes in sucking the body fluids of people and animals, once a person is pulled into the sand, the blood of the whole body will be sucked dry after a while, Turning into a dried corpse, after sucking it dry, these insects will throw people onto the surface of the desert again, which has happened more than once! ”

Wei Qing was stunned, he didn't expect that the little insect would be so terrifying, and he couldn't help but lose his voice and said: "Could it be that this hundred-person team was killed by the desert blight!" ”

"Probably not!" Wei Qi'a replied: "The desert worm will not kill a hundred people at once, let alone these people have not turned into dried corpses!" He looked up at the front: "It's not far ahead!" Let's take a look! ”

In front, there were faint black shadows lying on the ground, which should be sixty miles of sentinel troops.

Wei Qing ordered the thousand-man team to spread out in formation to prevent the enemy from sneaking up, and took dozens of people and Wei Qi'a and the messenger who had just reported the message forward, and the messenger suddenly shouted: "Something is wrong! ”

"What!" Wei Qing asked.

The messenger pointed forward: "When I left, there were still nineteen brothers guarding here, and now there is not a single one left!" ”

"Alert!" Wei Qing immediately ordered.

Everyone wound their arrows, their swords unsheathed, and approached cautiously, and when they got closer, everyone exclaimed in low voices.

There were not a hundred, but a hundred and nineteen, and the nineteen who were waiting here were also dead, and the most terrible thing was that everyone was blistered all over their bodies, and their bodies and faces were covered with blisters, and they looked as if they had been roasted to death by fire.

"Stop!" Wei Qi'a suddenly screamed: "Retreat, retreat!" ”

Wei Qing didn't know why, but he knew that Wei Qi'a would never panic like this, so he immediately ordered: "Retreat!" ”

Wei Qi'a's face was full of horror, and his voice was nervous: "This is the fire scorpion, it was the fire scorpion that killed them!" As he spoke, he raised his torch and threw it at a corpse.

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