Abri pointed into the distance: "Look! ”

Wei Qing followed Abri's finger and looked, in the distance, there seemed to be a faint gray and yellow line.

"What's that?" Wei Qing asked.

"That's a sandstorm!" "The sandstorm in the desert can bury all of us 200,000 alive in half an hour, so we need to be prepared!" ”

Wei Qing didn't answer, the horn sounded not far away, and all the Western Regions troops moved, panicking one by one, packing up their things in all directions, it seemed that they had begun to prepare without waiting for Wei Qing's order.

Wei Qing's heart suddenly tightened.

Even if they are from the Western Regions, they will not be so disciplined as to do things on their own without waiting for the commander's order, and it is by no means groundless that they are so panicked now. Although Wei Qing didn't know what the sandstorm would look like, he knew. Although he was the commander, he should be a soldier in the desert climate.

"Abri, I authorize you to command the whole army for half an hour!" Wei Qing said immediately.

"It doesn't take that much time!" "If it takes us half an hour to get ready, we'll all be buried under the sand!" Abri said. ”

Having said that, Abri did not refuse to command, because he also knew in his heart that when it came to fighting, he was indeed not good, but when it came to dealing with the weather in the desert, Wei Qing was indeed not good.

Abri began to order: "The whole army, every thousand people in a circle, every ten thousand people in a circle, in the middle of the supplies, people in the periphery of the materials, horses in the periphery of the people, camels in the outermost periphery, fast, move fast!" ”

No matter how weird this order is, this is an order given by the commander, and no one dares not to carry it out, but the soldiers of the Han army have never done this, and they don't know what they are doing it for? Therefore, although Abri kept urging, the Han army was still not moving fast.

Wei Qing coldly watched a thousand-person team slowly wrapping around a circle, and the other four or five thousand-person teams had formed their own circles, but due to the slow movement of this thousand-person team, the other teams could not form a big circle.

Wei Qing urged the camel to rush forward, stood on the side of the thousand-person team, and shouted: "I count dozens of people, and those who are still outside the circle after ten counts will be killed!" He raised his arms exaggeratedly: "One, two, three,,,,,! ”

The movement of the thousand-man team suddenly accelerated, and everyone did it with all their might.

"Four, Five, Six, Seven,,,,,!"

The soldiers of the thousand-man squad pushed me and squeezed me, and they rushed into the circle one after another.

"Eight, nine!" Wei Qing didn't count, because there were no one outside the circle, and a complete circle had been formed.

Although Wei Qing only threatened this thousand-man team once, this threat seemed to have grown wings, and in the blink of an eye, it spread throughout the whole army, and the movements of the Han soldiers were much faster.

Wei Qing returned to the command point and stood side by side with Abri, although he used his authority to urge the whole army, he really didn't know in his heart whether the sandstorm would be as terrible as Abri said.

A gentle breeze blew, and there was a hint of earthiness in the air.

Abri's face changed color: "Order, everyone sit down on the spot, pull each other's arms, do not let go, and shout to the horses and camels to kneel!" ”

This order was not easy to carry out, it was easy for the camel to kneel, but it was not easy to let the horse kneel, and it took a while to be confused before the order was barely carried out.

Abri was about to urge the armies to pull their arms with each other, when suddenly, a wave of screams came from the circle of Calvary 10,000 people.

The gray-black line in the distance has turned into a tumbling smoke cloud at some point, the cloud starts from the ground, until it reaches the air a hundred feet away, like a wall, and this wall is not a few bricks, this is a wall of yellow sand, a wall of unknown thickness, as far as the eye can see, the wall of yellow sand is dozens of miles thick, and you can't see it far, in the sand wall, countless sand particles swirl, making a whining sound like the howl of tens of thousands of hungry wolves.

This battle, the soldiers of the Han army who grew up under the green willows in the south of the Yangtze River have really never seen it.

Now there was no need for Abri to urge anything, everyone sat down and pulled each other's arms.

The sand grew nearer, and the terrible howl of the wolf turned into a low rumble, like a thousand horses galloping forward.

"It's time for us to get in the circle!" Abri shouted almost close to Wei Qing's ear.

Wei Qing nodded, and entered a circle with Abri, pulling each other's arms.

The sandstorm was nearer, and now there was no rumbling, and there was an uproar that sounded like it was raining, except that instead of water, it was sand.

There was a bang, as if a large basin of water was splashed at once, and countless grains of sand directly hit Wei Qing and the others on their faces and bodies, this blow was extremely heavy, and the beaters couldn't sit still, Wei Qing felt that his hand was loose, and a soldier on the left couldn't hold his hand, and fell to the ground on his back.

Wei Qing was shocked, this sand piled down like a heavy rainstorm, if it fell on his back, he would have to be buried in it in a moment, he stretched out his hand to pull hard, this soldier hurriedly stood up, and with a bang, the whole body seemed to come out of the ground, and sat up all at once, if it was a moment late, he could only lie on the ground forever.

The wind is getting stronger and stronger, and then the wind is howling, and the person who blows wants to fly up from the ground, then Wei Qing understands why Abri is arranging it like this, if he stands, the wind is so strong, he is afraid that nine out of ten people will be blown down, if he is lying down, the sand will immediately bury the person, so he can only sit and let the sand bury his lower body, and at the same time hold each other's hands to resist the strong wind.

The wind is getting stronger and stronger, the sand grains are mercilessly pumped on the face, the face hurts, everyone can't open their eyes, can't breathe, before the divine power of nature, any manpower is insignificant, people can only be there to let the wind and sand attack, suddenly a person crashed into Wei Qing, Wei Qing tried to lower his head sideways to see, and saw that this was a soldier from the Western Regions, this soldier was blown by the wind all the way, his hands and feet danced in the air, but he couldn't catch anything, until he hit Wei Qing's body, he stopped.

Wei Qing lowered his head, put his mouth to the ear of the soldier in the Western Regions, and asked loudly, "Why did you let go!" The soldier from the Western Regions wanted to answer Wei Qing's question, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was filled with sand, and he couldn't speak at all, so he had to point forward, Wei Qing looked in the direction of his finger, and was surprised in his heart.

In the left front, a large area of sand is constantly pouring down from the air, the sand on the ground has accumulated several feet thick, has buried a thousand people only the neck and head, this thousand people are trying to prevent being buried alive, are desperately climbing out of the sand, but as soon as they climb out of the sand, the wind blows they can't stand, and they roll around.

Wei Qing had to take a closer look, a gust of wind blew, and the sand particles hit his face, so Wei Qing had to hurriedly close his eyes.

I don't know how long it took, but the wind finally faded, and with the last breeze, the sandstorm ended.

Wei Qing struggled hard, the sand was buried all the way to his chest, he struggled desperately for a while before he could get up from the sand, his ears, head, and face were full of sand, and the sand particles fell down as soon as he moved his head.

There were clumps of sand everywhere, and the sand wriggled one after another, and out of the sand stood a soldier, or a horse, or a camel.

But some of the piles of sand have been buried for too deep and for too long, and from then on, they can only use the sand piles on their bodies as tombs and sleep here forever.

For the next half a day, people were packing up, gathering livestock, and rescuing their companions.

In this sandstorm, nearly 3,000 people were buried alive or blown by the wind and disappeared, and nearly 5,000 horses and camels were killed or missing, and the lethality of the sandstorm was equivalent to tens of thousands of enemy troops.

Wei Qing was patrolling around, but he heard Abri's angry shouting, and he hurriedly walked over, only to see Abri scolding a general.

It turned out that the ginseng was covered with sand and was very uncomfortable, so he simply untied the water bladder and poured water to wash his hair, which happened to be full of eyes by Abri, who was furious when he saw that he was wasting precious water so much, and immediately scolded the general.

Wei Qing knew what happened, and he was also very angry in his heart, he didn't know anything else, but how could he not know the role of water in the desert, a sip of water might be life-saving, but he was taken by this general, and he actually washed his head like a boy.

"From today, you will not be allowed to drink water for three days!" Wei Qing coldly ordered: "Save your wasted water, and return to normal in three days!" ”

The general's face immediately turned pale, and the desert march in the past few days had made him understand what it meant to not drink water for three days?

With a thud, the general knelt down and kowtowed to Wei Qing.

Abri was a little careless, not giving people water in the desert for three days, it was equivalent to letting this person suffer the punishment of Ling Chi, the purpose of which was to make this person's death extremely painful, Abri hurriedly helped the general to intercede: "General Wei, I have already trained him, read that he is ignorant, you spare him this time!" ”

Wei Qing actually didn't really want this general to die of thirst, but if he didn't severely punish this general, everyone wasted water like this, or in a few days, the 200,000 army would be a white bone, he snorted and replied: "Since Abri pleaded and spared you, but within ten days, your share of water will only be half of that of others, and this one cannot be spared!" ”

When the general heard this, he knew that this was already a very fortunate result, and thanked him again and again.

"Straighten out the military horses and move on!" Wei Qing ordered, and then added: "Order the whole army, if someone wastes water, cut it down and never spare it again!" ”

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