Zhao Zongjing is clear, no wonder Wang Ningan instructed himself to pay attention to Murong Qingchen, this guy is a madman at all, a madman through and through!

Wang Ningan is also crazy!

It's just that Wang Ningan is good at refining his purpose, a crazy goal is divided into countless small steps, and if you implement it step by step, you won't look so crazy.

But Murong Qingchen is different, his eyes are only focused on the result, if he wants to delay the opponent and win the preparation time, he must block the water source, and if he wants to block the water source, he will destroy the karez!

So much for!

He didn't care how many people bought a qanats with their lives, and he didn't care what the qanats meant to the Western Regions!

A person who doesn't even care about God is too dangerous.

"General Murong, are you ......?"

Syllable!

Murong Qingchen slapped the seal of the general of Zhengxi on the table of poplar wood, which shook everyone's ears and buzzed!

"Don't tell me anything! Listen, don't care who you are, in wartime, you are a soldier, if you are a mother-in-law and mother-in-law, like a woman with bound feet, you will be sent to Qingtang immediately, don't drag me back here! Wang Xianggong asked me to come to the Western Regions to lead the army, so that I could win a big battle, not to be a bodhisattva! ”

Murong Qingchen's arrogance is simply unbearable for the big guy, if it is placed in normal times, he can beat him so that his nose and face are swollen, and he doesn't even know his parents.

But in the face of a strong enemy, a madman like Murong Qingchen is really needed!

Di Yong hesitated for a long time, then bowed down and said, "General, since this is the case, the last general will ask for an order to go and destroy the karez." ”

Murong Qingchen groaned for a moment and immediately shook his head.

"No, you're not suitable!"

"Why?" Di Yong is a dignified horse master, after the door, for so long, no one has said that he can't do it!

"You don't know the situation in the Western Regions, it's easy to fail, I must give this task to the most suitable person." Murong Qingchen raised his head and ordered, "Go and call Zhao Li and a few people from the Wei Chi family." ”

This time it was Wang Ningxuan's turn to be surprised.

What are you kidding, do you have to let the Khotanese destroy the qanats?

Wang Ningxuan only felt that the person in front of him was crazy!

"Murong, do you know what Qanats surprised the Khotanese people about? There are so many qanats built by their ancestors! It's a lot of bones! You let them destroy what their ancestors left behind! You, do you still have a little heart? ”

Murong Qingchen's face sank, "Wang Ningxuan, don't think that you are the younger brother of Wang Xianggong, you can accuse me casually!" I respect the prince, but that doesn't mean I respect you! I don't know the past of the qanats, I only know that the water of the qanats is constantly supplying Xizhi's 100,000 army! I also know that these 100,000 people are the last bit of blood that came to slaughter Khotan. If the ancestors of Khotan had spirits, would they be willing to see their children and grandchildren exterminated? ”

Murong Qingchen slowly stood up with a dark face, and he walked behind everyone.

"From now on, no one is allowed to question my decision! Those who violate military orders will be killed! ”

……

Tough, savage, brutal, violent!

Almost instantly, everyone labeled Murong Qingchen with countless labels, but I have to admit that the order he gave was indeed the most needed.

Zhao Li, who has been away from the Western Regions for seven years, still retains the fear of lack of water in the depths of his soul.

When he was very young, he was once scattered by enemy forces, and there were more than a dozen guards to protect him as he crossed the Hanhai Desert...... In those ten days.

Zhao Li had never seen the guards drink water in front of him, and whenever he asked them, the water bladder was full.

Until one day, Zhao Li's water bladder was empty, he shouted for water, opened one of the guards' water bladders, and the dark yellow liquid flowed out of it, and the strong smell made Zhao Li almost faint!

It turned out that the guards had been drinking pee...... Repeating over and over again, their urine was almost the same color as the camel's urine...... Someone drank it, had stomach cramps, vomited, became dehydrated, and died forever in the desert.

Zhao Li, who was only a teenager, saw the corpses along the way, those corpses were not decomposed, nor devoured by animals, they were like dry wooden stakes, falling on the sand, and there was no life at all.

That time they were lucky, on the edge of the desert, they met wild camels, and they paid with three lives to hunt two wild camels.

They filled their skins with camel blood and walked for another three days before they reached the oasis and survived.

Of a dozen guards, only seven were still alive.

Since that time, Zhao Li has been the most careful in drinking water, and he is reluctant to waste even a drop.

In any case, he never thought that one day, he would need to destroy a qanats that had lasted for hundreds of years!

This is iniquity!

Heaven will not let you go!

Zhao Li was trembling all over.

He closed his eyes, Murong Qingchen's face replaced the heavenly god, he bared his white teeth and smiled faintly.

"The fate of Khotan hangs by a thread, it doesn't matter if we die, there are still tens of millions of people of the Great Song Dynasty! But what about the Khotanese people? There are only a few thousand old and weak women and children left, let them run, how many people can escape to Qingtang? It's not all about dying on the way! If you destroy the karez and stop the Xizhi army, the Song army will stay and fight side by side with you to defend your homeland! If you can't do it, then there is no need for Da Song to sacrifice in vain! ”

All along, Zhao Li has seen the glamorous side of the Great Song Dynasty, and he knows for the first time that the Great Song Dynasty also has such a vicious general!

He's an incomprehensible lunatic!

Zhao Li struggled painfully, and after a long time, he slowly opened his eyes.

"How's it going, the gunpowder is buried?"

"That's it!" The soldier immediately agreed, and then tried again: "My lord, can you ......?"

"Can't!"

Zhao Li rudely interrupted the soldier's words and snatched the fire breaker.

With trembling hands, he sent the fire fold to the front of the fire rope.

At this moment, he even wanted to jump in and disappear with the qanats.

Sometimes death is a relief, and living is a sin!

"If there is any punishment from heaven and God, let me bear it alone!"

Zhao Li howled in pain, and disappeared in front of him with the fire rope, and after a while, a muffled voice like thunder appeared.

Whoa!

The fragile layer of sand collapsed rapidly, and sound waves traveled along the cullinery of the qanats, followed by shaft after shaft collapse.

In the absence of any modern tools, it is very dangerous to dig a shaft and open a culvert.

Not only do they have to endure the cold and dampness underground, but they also have to overcome the collapse that can occur at any time, how many people are buried alive in the ground, and every qanats are exchanged for countless lives.

And once repaired, a qanat can create an oasis that can feed the people around it, as well as many creatures and animals......

In the Western Regions, even the most vicious people would not dare to destroy the qanats.

It's not so much a punishment from heaven as a public enemy of the whole people!

Zhao Li did this, and destroyed a qanat and refused to stop, he took the people and horses, out of nowhere, in the original Khotanese hometown, there were 32 qanats, and he destroyed 27!

The remaining 5 were too close to the military camps of the Qarakhanid to be able to get their hands on them!

Even so, it's appalling enough.

Xizhi led an army of more than 100,000 people to advance, and needed huge logistical supplies, the qanats disappeared, and the camel caravans transporting supplies had to bring water several times heavier than grain in order to march eastward, and they had to risk dying of thirst along the way to send a little food.

"Crazy, they're all crazy!"

The Great Khan of the Qarakhanid Empire, Xizhi, wielding a scimitar studded with precious stones, cursed wildly and shouted loudly!

Don't think that destroying the water source will stop us!

Wait!

Ben Khan will cut off your heads and make them into night pots!

Behind Xizhi were several old men in black clothes and white beards, who were elders from far away Baghdad.

"Your Majesty, the blasphemers are evil and incorrigible, and only scimitars and blood can bring them to their knees! The Khotanese people, the Gaochang people, and the Song people are all enemies more terrible than poisonous snakes! If you encounter them in the desert and poisonous snakes, you must destroy them first! This will be an edict that all warriors must obey! ”

"The great gods will rain down their wrath, your majesty, your conquest will be supported by the whole world, and we suggest that you march along the Tarim River, where there is plenty of water, and no one can destroy it!"

……

Xizhi was already mad, he discussed with his subordinates how to deal with it, but one thing had to be admitted, that is, they had to adjust their march plan, in the desert, hundreds of thousands of people to adjust, often meant a delay of several months, or even a year and a half.

Puchanghai's city can be repaired quickly, and if they are lucky, they can harvest a season of grain before the arrival of Xizhi's army.

The land here is really good for farming.

The water of Puchanghai irrigates the farmland, and the crops grow at a speed that is visible to the naked eye, perhaps even the plants know that life is not easy.

The craftsmen who came from the Great Song Dynasty have arrived in the third batch.

And this third group of craftsmen is not trivial, they brought with them the technology of the crossbow, limited by the lack of wood, at most a thousand can be made.

However, they also brought gunpowder technology.

There is no shortage of sulfur in the Western Regions, and a large number of livestock, concentrated urination, can provide valuable manganese, in order to guard the city, they have another sharp weapon!

It's just that among the many technologies, the most gratifying is the cement firing technology!

Since he ordered the destruction of the karez, Murong Qingchen has become the most terrifying person, even on Song Bing's side, he didn't dare to face this great general.

"Brother Murong, I really don't know what to say! Why does my master appreciate you so much! Lu Huiqing snorted angrily and threw a cement brick into Murong Qingchen's arms.

Murong was drinking wine around the fox skin, he was drunk, he didn't seem to have woken up yet, and muttered: "Don't bother Lao Tzu, wait for Xizhi to call!" ”

"You dare to pretend to be garlic with me!" Lu Huiqing scolded: "See, if you use cement to make a pipe, go deep into the water layer of the hillside, and lead the water to the foot of the mountain through the cement pipe, do you think about it, is it more labor-saving and cost-effective than the qanats?" Don't have to die yet? ”

"Ahh

Murong Qingchen was startled, and suddenly, his hands trembled, staring at the cement bricks in front of him, and the whole person was stunned......