The desert is lonely, and the sun sets over the long river.

When Liu Xu stepped out of Yangguan and walked into the original Gaochang and now Xizhou, such a scenery was no longer unfamiliar.

At this time, it is dusk.

The scarlet sun still has a little shy half of the face left.

Liu Xu is standing on top of the city of Gaochang.

He's still sketching a map.

In fact, to be honest, the map is not very useful in the desert.

Because the wind and sand are constantly changing, the only real map is the veterans in the caravan, or those sand thieves who live in the desert.

At this moment, Liu Xu is marking on the map, and what he is marking is actually the haunt of sand thieves.

It is not difficult to get from Xizhou to Tingzhou.

But as long as you go out of Tingzhou, all the way to Gongyue City, and even the distant Broken Leaves, Julan, and Hengros, this is a line.

Or, don't go to Tingzhou, but go directly to Yanqi, Qiuzi, Shule, to Dongcao, these roads, those are all sand thieves!

Lu Dongzan couldn't find a way out in Chang'an, and he had already come to the Western Regions, he was here, what did he do after all these years? This Liu Xu has almost no way of knowing.

There are also Western Turks, and even red-haired ghosts, these red-haired ghosts are obviously big cannibals.

Liu Xu marked them on the map one by one, Liu Xu didn't know, whether Lu Dongzan would have the eloquence of a pre-Qin strategist, and whether he would gather the power of the entire Western Regions?

If it is gathered, it will be a bloody battle.

What is a bloody battle, if there is a hope of victory, then everyone will concentrate their strength and twist into a rope, such a theory is invincible, and most of these bloody battles will be won.

But there is also a kind of bloody war, that is, there is no hope of victory, the entire Western Regions united, there is definitely no less than a million troops, how many troops Liu Xu has, specifically calculated, but 600,000.

The gap is 400,000, and it is impossible for these 600,000 people to be concentrated in one place, and besides, it includes medical and logistics people, and if they can really fight, if they can reach more than 500,000 people, it is already good.

Once the Western Regions are united, you will find that in front of you, there are endless human heads! When the manpower is exhausted. Once such a situation occurs, Liu Xu is very dangerous! Such a bloody battle is very difficult and cruel.

Of course, Liu Xu is not afraid.

He is now preparing for a bloody battle with hope.

What he relies on is gunpowder, which is "high technology".

For a war that relies on "high technology", logistics is the most crucial.

Gunpowder, ballistas, fire oil to burn bombs, and food.

So, logistics, he added again.

Liu Xu always felt that there were not enough people.

The Western Regions are too wide, the sand thieves are too scattered, if everyone gathers together and has a decisive battle, Liu Xu is not afraid even if the number is small.

And now the question is how to concentrate the sand pirates.

He gently scrubbed a wrench in his hand, Li Chengqian asked himself back then, whether he had made preparations in the Western Regions, Liu Xu did not hide it, nor did he say it explicitly.

Everyone in the world knows that Liu Xu is preparing for the conquest of the Western Regions, but no one knows what he is preparing.

Some say it's gunpowder, some say it's local fire-oil, and others say it's a map drawn by a caravan from the Western Regions.

It's just that no one says spies.

The gap between the people of Chang'an and the people of the Western Regions is too big, how difficult is it to break into the spies?

It's not that Li Er hasn't tried, but he has failed.

As for whether Liu Xu tried it or not, no one knows.

But looking at his current map, he seems to be very familiar with the Western Regions, and he seems to know very well which sand thieves are, and in the end, he drew a big circle in the distant Broken Leaf City, and his eyes were fixed.

.....

Lao Xu has a scar on his face, crawling on his face like a centipede, he laughs, but it is more ugly than crying, but now, he is laughing desperately, and under him, there is a woman with a fishy smell.

The woman was also laughing, Lao Xu found that some women are born to tempt people, and this temptation has nothing to do with the level of knowledge or the nobility of birth. Even, it doesn't matter whether she's ugly or beautiful.

The woman under Lao Xu is not beautiful, or rather, very ugly.

She has big shoulders and a round waist, and can sit a goat to death with one ass, but she is definitely not fat, she actually has muscles as hard as iron like a man.

Her face is not beautiful, she stays in the desert ravaged by wind and sand all the year round, her skin is as rough as burlap, on her neck, there is a tattoo of a goshawk, and on her shoulder, there is often a goshawk, the eagle Lao Xu recognizes, called the golden eagle!

Yes, that's not an eagle, it's an eagle! This kind of carving, when it gets angry, can tear a person apart. Can easily pick up a sheep.

The only beauty in this woman is her eyes, she is not beautiful all over her body, but her eyes are as gentle as the eyes of a Jiangnan woman. It's so gentle that it can pinch out the water.

Many people, seeing these eyes, can go crazy and fall into it, especially in a place like the Western Regions, there is such a woman, it is almost like a godsend.

Therefore, she is very good at capturing people's hearts.

However, if you want to be unfavorable to her, the moment you are gentle with her, perhaps, you will die.

She kills people, decisively, simply, like the golden eagle on her shoulder.

It has been several years since Lao Xu came to the Western Regions, and when Liu Xu left the South China Sea, he had actually gone to the Western Regions.

When Xiao Wu went back, he returned to the South China Sea and sent Xiao Wu back to Chang'an, and then, before Liu Xu entered the Western Regions, he had already arrived at Broken Leaf City.

I haven't seen this woman for so long, and that woman is crazy, it's really scary.

But Lao Xu was not afraid, so he laughed, and the more the woman under him twisted her waist, the more he laughed.

Until, when they all had no strength, Lao Xu scolded and lay down, and then lay down in the bathtub.

The water was hot, but he didn't feel it, and sitting across from him was the woman, whose name was Ashina Harrier Eagle.

It's a strange name, but Lao Xu didn't care, his eyes were still greedily looking at the woman in front of him.

"The Tang army is about to attack, this Broken Leaf City, it seems that his mother and son can't stay anymore."

Lao Xu spat fiercely, and then put the sackcloth on his shoulder casually, although his eyes seemed to be looking at the woman greedily, but he also glanced at the woman's expression from time to time.

This woman is the most powerful force in Shattered Leaf City. He came here, and together with this woman, he conquered many sand pirates, which was his glory and his mission.

"Since you know that Tang Jun is coming, why do you want to come back? We are all licking blood from the edge of the knife to live, and the birds in the forest fly separately when disaster comes. ”

The woman spoke fluent Chinese.

"Phew, who do you think of me as a madman? On the first day I came to the desert, I swore that I would snatch you back, and I would let those dogs spoil you? ”

The woman smiled so hard that it was hard to imagine what a woman with muscles and scars looked like when she smiled.

But she was smiling now, she raised her hand, naturally someone dressed her, Lao Xu didn't need it, he jumped out and put the linen clothes at will.

"I've actually been curious, why did you come to the desert, this is a desolate hell, people who have the ability to go out will never want to come back, I heard that in the Central Plains, there is the best wine, take a sip, you can get drunk for a day? And the most beautiful woman, whose face is so tender that she can pinch out the water? And the most beautiful delicacies, eat a bite, and it feels like a lifetime is enough? Why did you walk back when you could get out of the desert? ”

Lao Xu snorted and slapped Ashina Harrier Eagle's buttocks.

"Who told you that? Hey, indeed, you're right. But there, it's also a nightmare for us people, you don't know them, you hide in the mountains, they can find you! Lu Dongzan is amazing, but that grandson, in the Tang Kingdom, is a grandson, a child who is seven or eight years old, can throw stones at him, and he doesn't dare to be angry! Lao Tzu lives on the knife, what kind of wrecks will he suffer from them? Lao Tzu didn't go to the Tang Kingdom, but the South China Sea, you don't know, there, the sea is like this desert, endless, the people there, riding not camels, but elephants, a nose, as thick as a thigh, a foot down, is the power of a thousand catties. They also like to sail in the angry sea, facing the wind and waves, as long as you have strength, you are the king of the sea, there, even the invincible Tang army guard in the world, can't care! ”

Ashina Harrier Eagle was a little distracted when she heard it, Lao Xu stopped, she poured a glass of wine for Lao Xu, and waited for him to continue curiously.

"There's a big fish the size of a house, and it can bite most of it with one mouth, even a sea boat. Lao Tzu almost fell into the mouth of the beast and made it eat. But who am I, Xu Maniac, no one in the world can fucking control me, can't kill me, the big fish wants to eat me, I will kill the big fish, I will take the boat to hang it, several boats together, hold it ashore, you don't know, the meat of that thing, it's really delicious. But it was too far for me to bring it, so I took a fish bone on its back! Come, here you go. ”

This whale is actually average, but a fish bone is already as tall as a person, and it is smooth and shiny, like ivory, Ashina Harrier Eagle saw it, her eyes were straight, she really couldn't imagine how big this thing was.

"When I came to the Western Regions, when I was the most unlucky, I was cut ten times, caught four claws by an eagle, and bitten five times by a wolf, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have survived, although Lao Tzu is a bastard, but, the kindness of life, I will never forget, not to mention, you are still my woman now, in the future, my baby and mother, there is a good deal, I don't come to look for you, I am not a hero!"

"Harrier Eagle, I know that you are good at your skills, good at martial arts, and all of your subordinates are outlaws, but I want to say that just your little people, it is not enough to stuff Tang Jun's teeth, unless, Lu Dongzan's guy, can really unite the desert people, then there may be a chance to fight, otherwise, hum, so, Harrier Eagle, you know, I don't advise you, if you want to follow me, you and I will only speak, let's fucking run together, but if you want to fight with Tang Jun and keep this foundation, I will follow you! But you have to remember that Lao Tzu doesn't want to collect your body, we have to rush behind, and if it is not right, retreat immediately! ”

Lao Xu raised the knife, at this time, he was already ready to go back, in Broken Leaf City, there were several forces of sand thieves, one of them was his Lao Xu's subordinates, as well as Lao Hu, Hu Guang, Lao Xue, Xue Ping, several of them He came to the Western Regions, longer than Lao Xu, but Lao Xu knew that these two people were real family members, and they were both retainers of the grandfather.

These people are Liu Xu's arrangement. No one thought that the retainers of the Tang Dynasty would come to the Western Regions to be sand thieves, and he was also the leader of the sand thieves, and once he was a sand thief, it was five or six years.

They have completely integrated into the desert, their accent is an authentic desert accent, their habits, they are absolute desert habits, they kill people, they are more cruel than the desert people, they have fun, they are crazier than the desert people.

This is the desert, the desert where the strong are kings, here, nothing is used, only strength, the strength to kill!

Strength determines money and status.

The three of them are the leaders of the three waves of sand thieves, and if you count the woman in front of you, they are almost the four major strengths. Occupies almost half of Shattered Leaf City.

But it's not enough, so, these days, Lao Xu is already summing up, preparing to kill people and slowly devour other forces!

The woman in front of her was originally the first target that Lao Xu wanted to get rid of, as long as she got rid of this woman, many things would be much easier, but it was too difficult to get rid of her, this woman had the sharpness of a harrier eagle, the patience of a wild wolf, and the force of a golden eagle.

Therefore, Lao Xu was ruthless and came up with a "beautiful man's plan". But to be honest, he is really not a beautiful man. Fortunately, in the desert, there is no need for beautiful men, what is needed is to be strong.

Now, it can be regarded as half of the success, this woman's trust in him is enough, now, it depends on how this woman chooses, if she chooses to join forces with Lu Dongzan to fight against the Tang Dynasty, then at that time, Lao Xu will have to be ruthless and kill her!

Lao Xu didn't wait for Ashina Harrier Eagle to answer, he had already walked out of the gate, and the Broken Leaf City in autumn had already begun to be cold, and the wind swept up the sand on the ground, which could hurt people.

Lao Xu was here in the wind, wandering on the long street, the sign of the wine shop swaying in the wind was hung up again, and I don't know if the owner of the wine shop was accidentally killing people or what, there was a bright red sun appearance, printed under the signboard.

Lao Xu smiled and patted his belly. Then he walked in, throwing the knife on his shoulder on the tattered table.

"It seems that I have killed beef today, I want to give birth, five catties! Three more catties of burning knives! ”

The people around looked at the scars on Lao Xu's face, all of which were a flute, and then turned around. This is Xu Maniac, everyone in Broken Leaf City knows him, and no one dares to touch his moldy head.

Except for the owner of this wine shop, he looks like a little old man, but no one dares to underestimate him, he kills people, like killing cattle and horses, neatly clean!

He is Hu Guang!