Chang Le, Ga Yao, and Manluo chased after them for a whole afternoon, but they didn't see any trace of the big cannibals and those mercenaries, and at dusk, everyone had to stop and rest, and wait until tomorrow after dawn to pursue. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Early the next morning, Chang Le and the others were preparing to pursue before a storm blew in the desert, and the yellow sand in the sky blew to cover the sky, and the entire sky was dim, and nothing could be seen.

By the time the sandstorm had passed, the sands had lost the traces of the cannibals and mercenaries.

Ga Yao looked at the flat sand and said, "This is trouble, there is no trace of those people on the ground, how can we track them?" ”

Chang Le looked at Manluo and asked, "Manluo Centurion, it's not easy to survive in the desert, shouldn't there be a way to go to the south from here?" ”

Manluo nodded and said, "Of course, the nearest distance from here to the territory of the Great Food Country is also six or seven hundred miles, if you don't take the oases and residences along the way, you will die of thirst or starve to death in the desert if you walk around!" There are two ways to get to the border of the Great Food Country, and if they had planned in advance to retreat south as soon as the thing was done, they would definitely choose the nearest route, and now we can only try our luck! ”

Chang Le said: "That's all, please lead the way with Captain Manlo Centurion!" ”

More than 200 men and horses then continued to march south under the guidance of Manlo, and it was impossible to march on horseback in the desert, which meant that with the assistance of the local army on the territory of Khorizm, they could exchange them for horses in the oases and settlements along the way, so as to maintain a high marching speed.

In the evening of the next day, Manlo, who was leading the way in front, stopped, because there were more than twenty corpses lying on the sand in front of him!

Everyone stopped, Chang Le dismounted and walked to the side of a large corpse to take a look, and said to Manluo and Ga Yao: "These are the mercenaries hired by the Great Cannibals, I have seen them!" ”

The injured Ma Kun also said at this time: "That's right, these are these people, I have met with them, and I will never admit my mistake!" ”

Ga Yao walked over to the corpse and looked at it, then at the other corpses, and wondered, "Why did these people die?" They don't seem to have any scars on them! ”

Chang Le saw some water bags scattered around here, as well as the remaining flatbread crumbs and minced mutton, he picked up one of the water bags, opened the stopper and smelled it, and said: "There is a smell of wine, it seems that not long ago, the big cannibals and these mercenaries rested and ate here, but the big cannibals poisoned the mercenaries' wine and poisoned all these mercenaries to death!" You see, the faces of these corpses are blackened, which is a sign of poisoning, which also explains why there are no wounds on the corpses! The purpose of the big cannibals to poison these people must be to extinguish their mouths and prevent the news from leaking, according to the situation of these corpses, they should have just died, not more than an hour! We're going to speed up now, and we should be able to catch up soon! ”

"Okay, chase it now!" Manlo said immediately.

Before the sun went down, Chang Le, Manluo and Ga Yao arrived at a small settlement with more than 200 people, where dozens of families lived in tents, and the tents were built on the edge of a small river, which was not only covered with wetlands, aquatic plants, but also woods.

A few people were lying on the sand dunes in the distance to observe this settlement, and Manluo said to Chang Le: "It's getting dark now, if those big cannibals don't want to freeze in the desert, they will definitely stay in this habitat to rest, and wait for tomorrow after dawn before setting off!" ”

Chang Le nodded and said: "We have tracked all the way, and the horseshoe camps and traces along the way prove that they came along this road, and now they will definitely be in this place of residence, we must find a way to surround them, and we can't let anyone run away!" ”

Ga Yao said: "If you want to arrest people, it is better for Manlo to take his people first, they are locals, and those Thorn Zim people will not be hostile to them!" ”

Manlo said, "We must rush over immediately, I fear that the great cannibals will kill these unarmed people!" ”

Chang Le hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Don't worry, our purpose is to catch the living, not the dead!" So you have to surround them, and you take them over and start not showing them, and then order them to be surrounded when you find the big cannibals! ”

"Okay!" Manlo agreed.

Chang Le discussed with Ga Yao again, and divided Ga Yao's men and horses into two, Ga Yao took half of the people to the rear of the residence, to prevent the big cannibals from escaping after discovering that something was wrong, blocking their escape path, while Chang Le led the rest of the people to stay here and prepare to support at any time.

The three of them immediately went into action, and Manlo and his hundred cavalry marched from the dunes to the dwelling place by the river below, and their arrival attracted the attention of the herdsmen of the settlement.

It was getting dark, and a fire was lit at the riverside residence, but Chang Le soon noticed that there was a noise coming from there, and it seemed that there was a conflict, so he no longer hesitated, and immediately led everyone and horses to rush over.

Chang Le rushed over with his men and horses to make the local Thorn Zimo people more vigilant, because Chang Le and the people he brought were not Thorn Zimo people.

An old man pointed at Manluo and shouted, "Manluo, what do you want to do? These are the people of Allah, our friends and brothers, and I will not allow you to touch them! You will never be allowed to take them away! Also, who are these people, whose clothes and appearance look like Oghuz, do you have a foreign enemy? ”

Manluo smiled bitterly and said, "Uncle Anrik, things are not what you think! These great cannibals have killed an Eastern Roman in our territory, and they are a great official, and I must take them back. This is the lord from Xiqin, and behind him are the soldiers of Oghuz, we are chasing these big cannibals together, this matter is very big, please don't embarrass us! ”

"Fart, I don't care about the Eastern Roman Empire or the Western Qin, I only know that these people are our brothers and friends, with me here, you don't want to move a finger against them!"

More than a dozen cannibals were surrounded by Manluo and the people, but some local flower thorn zim people protected these big cannibals, and Chang Le quickly understood that these flower thorn people had the same beliefs as the big cannibals, otherwise they would never protect these big cannibals regardless of the danger.

Chang Le stepped forward and said, "Uncle Enrique, is it?" I am Chang Le, the captain of the Western Qin Army, and this is my identity nameplate! We were ordered to escort the Eastern Roman Empire's envoy Julius back, but we were targeted by these great cannibals, whose purpose was to kill Julius and blame us for Western Qin! Do you know what an envoy is? If the envoy of Apa Khan is killed in the envoy during the mission, it is equivalent to the murderer openly provoking and despising the envoy, and if Baba Khan does not react, he will be laughed at by the countries and spurned by his subjects! And if the envoy country can't find out who the murderer is, it must bear this responsibility! Now the envoys of the Eastern Roman Empire were killed by these big cannibals in the land of your flower thorn zm, you flower thorn zm has an unshirkable responsibility, if we don't catch these big cannibals back and hand them over, my Western Qin king will definitely hold me accountable, this matter is by no means something that an old man like you can bear, if you insist on protecting these big cannibals, it will bring ruin to your entire clan, do you understand the seriousness of this matter? I understand that you and your people share the same beliefs as these cannibals, you see them as friends and brothers, but they are guilty, they are here with hostility, and if you protect them, you are protecting sins, which is not in line with your faith, right? ”

Although the old man was stubborn, he was by no means a fool, he understood Chang Le's words, turned his head and looked at the leading big cannibal suspiciously, and asked, "Brother Amud, why are you lying to me?" ”

The big cannibal at the head smiled bitterly and said: "Brother Enrique, I can't help myself, I've caused you trouble, thank you for your hospitality!" ”

After speaking, he shouted to the dozen or so big cannibals around him: "Kill it!" ”

The scene instantly became chaotic, the sword light and sword shadow ruined the peaceful night in an instant, although the great cannibal was brave and not afraid of death, but it could not defeat the Flowery Zimo cavalry and the Oghuz cavalry, which had an absolute numerical advantage, after killing six people, the others were besieged in the middle one after another, and could not escape again.

Seeing that there was no hope of breaking through, the leader of the great cannibals immediately shouted: "I am a brother, we will meet again before Allah!" ”

Hearing such a shout, An Le knew that he was going to suffer, so he immediately grabbed the bow and arrow of an Oghuz cavalryman next to him and shot it out, shooting three arrows in a row, hitting the arms of the three big cannibals with knives, while the other big cannibals all killed themselves one after another.

"Catch them!" An Le shouted, and some of the Oghuz men rushed over, and the three big cannibals with wounded arms and dropped weapons grabbed them, took off their belts, and tied them up firmly.

・・・・・・

Henglus, the palace of the Western Qin Dynasty.

Wang Can hurried over, his face was a little uneasy, and when he saw Zhao Ziliang, who was walking in the courtyard of the palace, he walked over and reported: "King, there will be something to report at the end!" ”

Zhao Ziliang twisted his neck and said, "Say, what's the matter?" ”

Wang Can hesitated for a moment, but still gritted his teeth and said: "Julius was attacked and killed by a big cannibal on the way back to his home, and seven of our eight escorts also died・・・・・・

Zhao Ziliang stopped and frowned when he heard this: "Didn't I ask you to protect carefully, why did you let him be killed by the big cannibal in the end?" ”

Wang Can hurriedly said: "Yes, the last general has an unshirkable responsibility for this matter!" However, many things are not under the control of the last general here, and the head catcher escorting Julius temporarily changed the route of advance after discovering the attempt of the great cannibal, so that we had no way to send troops to escort us along the way, and Julius was killed in the territory of Khizm, but three murderers were captured by us, and the bodies of Julius and others were also sent to Kerch in Crimea after processing."

Zhao Ziliang rubbed his eyebrows and said: "It seems that we can only find a way to let those three big cannibals tell the truth, and let them tell the Eastern Romans in person who came up with the idea to kill Julius, otherwise the Eastern Romans will definitely ask the king for an explanation, and the relationship between the two countries will also be affected, you can do this matter personally, you must let them speak!" ”

"Yes, the last general will interrogate him personally!"