The grass is withered and yellow, and the wind and sand whimper and whining across the golden dunes, bringing up a circle of ripples and pushing it out. With-Dream- . In the distance, in the rising dust, the sound of camel bells pierced through the dust, the adobe walls showed their outlines in a blurred view, and the caravans came here with abundant goods, and the yawning Shule soldiers waved their hands and let them in.

Four years ago, the prosperous business road is still slowly passing in time, and the Han merchants who gathered from the sea of clouds in the past have been difficult to see again, since the wolf king destroyed the withered and decayed from the east, the disobedient such as the Shache country Suriya Poxi was beheaded and sacrificed, and the rest of the countries were hindered by the strength of the Han soldiers and dared not speak out.

However, the war in the west was abruptly eroded, and the wolf king's western expeditionary army fell into a siege, but the first to attack was the Shule State Timan who had surrendered and the Khotanese State Captain Chi Li'an, knowing that Dawan was also in the Kushan offensive, quickly united, gathered troops to control the green ridge road, and blocked all the news that came and went, which was also their only way to retaliate.

Sandwiched between the two countries, the king of the Shache Kingdom, that is, the first time that he was directly promoted from a guard to the king of the wolf, can only tremble and curry favor between the two countries, and sometimes quietly release the news to the Han Dynasty in the east, which is all he can do at present.

Spring goes to autumn, about the war in the west since Jian'an twelve years later, gradually less, about the white wolf king who once galloped the northland grassland, Saliman also rarely received it, maybe as Timan and Wei Chi Li'an said at the beginning, cut off their way back, can they still survive between the three powers?

"Unfortunately, it didn't help."

He stood on the city wall and sighed, watching the sand whirl in the wind and run across the desert, and in the distance opposite, the green mountains and yellow leaves were brilliant, and the woodcutter in a coarse linen coat covered with a leather jacket climbed a rock with a firewood knife, wiped his sweat and looked around, all the dense mountains and forests, the leaves rattled in the wind, and then fell down.

and the sound of people's footsteps stepping on fallen leaves.

At the end of the field of vision, a few protruding rocks, a team of Shule soldiers patrolled with bows and knives, stationed here for a long time, so that their faces were full of anger, seeing the woodcutter chopping wood, he directly turned out his bow and arrow and shot over, and the arrow was nailed to the rock at the opponent's feet and bounced away, so frightened that the woodcutter didn't want firewood, ran away, and fell on the ground, got up in embarrassment and left quickly.

This scene provoked the mocking laughter of the Shule soldiers for a while, and then walked along the patrol path for a while, before returning to the not very large camp, more than a dozen simple tents, three bonfires, one of which was on fire, and jumped outside with boiling water. The few people who came back said hello to their comrades in the camp, rested around the fire, drank hot water and laughed.

"Do you say that the fight in the west is over, and whether the person named Gongsun Zhi is dead or not?"

"Who knows, for so many years, I haven't seen anyone coming, the Han Dynasty is also a group of courageless, not a single reinforcement has been sent to me to see, to rest the Han army over there, I'm afraid the bones can't be found, but it's a pity that more than 100,000 people but even if someone escapes back by luck and wants to pass through here, hehe, you have to ask us first? The Han people have a saying, what is said at one time and that time. ”

"If they really want to come, have you beaten them?"

"Fight like a wild boar."

The crowd around laughed, and several Shule soldiers who were preparing to hand over the patrol on the other side were also laughing, just as they were about to leave the camp, there was a faint sound of arrows in the distant sky, and the soldiers who were leaving the team and laughing around the fire stopped one by one, looked up at the sky, and looked at each other and asked each other, "Did you hear it?"

As soon as the word 'yes' fell, the arrow flew through the sky again.

"It's another camp—" like this troop of fifty Colonels grabbed their weapons and rushed out, screaming "—follow me! ”

To the east of the Green Ridge, there was not only one scout camp for them, but only a little east near the city of Pandraft, and into the mountains, there were forty or fifty sentry posts and scout camps, as well as a military camp with five hundred foot soldiers, and there were more than seven hundred people in Khotan, and the two sides guarded each other's seven large and small paths to Shule.

"To the northwest!" The little colonel jumped on a rock quickly, and when another arrow sounded, he discerned the specific direction, pointed to that side, and the soldiers behind him crossed from below with weapons, and this mountain range was densely wooded, so that their feet were a little slower, and after a while, climbing to a high place, fifty people gathered on a cliff surrounded by shrubs and trees, and the sound of fighting and the screams of people were clearly transmitted from below, in all directions, mountains and forests. A soldier squatted down cautiously, his voice trembling a little, "Shall we go down to see the situation, it seems that something is wrong, it can't really be the Han people over there who have come back, right?" ”

"Shut up, don't talk"

At the same time as the colonel scolded, flocks of birds flew out from the foothills of the western mountains, covering their field of vision like covering the sky and the sun, and the school officer who spoke hurriedly closed his mouth, his breathing nostrils were panting one by one, and his chest was rising and falling violently at this moment, "It's the movement of the army"

Between the overlapping mountains, flocks of birds were startled, and the dust spread like a long gray dragon towards this side, as if the mountains were avoiding it.

The sound of the fighting gradually died down all around, and it is estimated that there will be no living people. The team of fifty people gritted their teeth and did not dare to make a sound, and in the dead silence, they could feel the cliffs under their feet trembling slightly, the roaring footsteps and the sound of horses' hooves gradually coming from that side, and then, they saw a broken, blood-stained wolf flag waving in the wind.

A black torrent advanced in their field of vision, weapons and armor were bumping and clattering in the wind, as if there was no end to the army, except for the movement of walking around in the whole march, no one's voice came, and the silence did not look like a human army.

"It must be the devil's army" Far away, the Shule soldiers who were hiding could smell the hideous rust on each other's bodies, and the bloody breath left after the blood was poured out, and their teeth fought with each other when they spoke.

Around, no one objected.

I could only look at the foothills in the distance, and the stretching army was in the field of vision, pushing through here and towards the Shule country.

The western clouds are dyed a magnificent orange red.

The leaves were soft, the mottled black war horse jumped up to the rocks outside the forest, and the distance opened up in the field of vision, and the knight on horseback, with his hair and beard, looked at the city dotted with lights, narrowed his eyes, and at a moment, he raised his hand.

"Slaughtered Shule, leaving no chickens and dogs, and in this way, tell the creatures walking on this land that we have returned from the Shura field."

A low, hoarse voice sounded slowly, pointing to the city in the distance.

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