Before entering the desert, but when they reached the edge of the desert, it was too hot, but they were afraid that it would be even hotter after entering the desert.

This kind of tent is sewn with linen soaked in tung oil, and most of the ancient oilcloth umbrellas are made of this oilcloth, the tent made of this oilcloth is very light, much lighter than the tent made of cowhide or animal skin by the northern nomads, and it is easy to carry, and the tent cloth used by the military is also painted with white paint to reflect the sun's rays, so that the tent inside the tent is not very hot.

Until more than two o'clock in the afternoon, the temperature has not yet dropped, Zhao Ziliang took a few people to the outside of the Chinese army's tent and looked up at the sky, and then beckoned to a few people behind him, and walked into the tent first.

"General, it's still very hot outside, and it is estimated that it will take half an hour to pull out the camp and set off, so let's eat some cold melon (watermelon) and snow melon (cantaloupe) to reduce the fire!" Zhao Ziliang said and waved his hand to a few servants behind him.

The servants brought the watermelons and cantaloupes cut from the tray in their hands into the tent and gave a plate to each of the bigwigs such as Fumeng Lingcha, King Asiran, Liu Wei, and Gao Xianzhi.

Seeing this, Fu Meng Lingcha and the others, who were too hot, saw that their eyes lit up, and Bian Lingcheng hurriedly said: "Hurry up, bring it up!" ”

Eating sweet watermelon and cantaloupe, Fumeng Lingcha and others praised loudly: "It's good, it's cool!" ”

After eating two pieces in a row, Fu Meng Lingcha ate his mouth full of watermelon juice, raised his head and asked, "Ziliang, how many cold melons and snow melons are there, give them to the soldiers to taste!" ”

Zhao Ziliang smiled bitterly when he heard this: "General, you are the last general in trouble, in order to maintain the speed of the march, you can't bring more food and drinking water." Where is this kind of stuff carried in large quantities? The last general only let people bring a few of them, and it is impossible for the soldiers to taste it! ”

Fu Meng Lingcha also knew that what he said was a little too embarrassing, and when he saw Zhao Ziliang say this, he waved his hand very embarrassedly: "Forget it, Ben will also know that it is too difficult for you!" If you can maintain the speed of marching 80 miles every day, there should be no shortage of food, the focus is on drinking water, when you are thirsty, a drop of water can save your life, and it will also make people die of thirst. So you have to make sure that the soldiers and the animals have drinking water."

Zhao Ziliang said: "General, this last general knows!" In any case, the supply of drinking water for the army will be guaranteed".

Fumeng Lingcha said to Sima Kanghuai of the marching army: "Pass the order, and leave the camp on time after half an hour!" ”

Kang Huaishun stood up and saluted and agreed: "No! ”

Bian Lingcheng was originally too hot, but now he eats the watermelon and cold melon sent by Zhao Ziliang, and he is so cool, and he thinks that he is about to enter the desert, so he can't die of heat? Can this body withstand the pain of a long-distance run? Thinking about it, he felt a little scared, he put down a piece of melon skin and said to Fumeng Lingcha: "General Fumeng, our family is really not able to go on an expedition. It's better for our family not to go, our family believes that the general can lead the soldiers to sneak attack and return with a big victory, so our family will stay in Broken Leaf City and wait for the general to return victoriously. How is it? ”

When Zhao Ziliang saw Bian Lingcheng retreating at this time, he originally wanted to take this opportunity to rectify this eunuch and give him a little bit of power, so as not to make trouble for this guy in the future. Immediately said loudly: "Lord Bian, isn't this okay?" You're the overseer sent by the Emperor, and you're not there. The soldiers must be slack, so I am afraid that it will be detrimental to this battle! If you are here, the soldiers will be able to feel the emperor's favor, right? I think you better stay, as the saying goes, the food is the king's luck, the matter of loyalty to the king, you said right? ”

Bian Lingcheng was angry when he heard this, and turned his head to look at Zhao Ziliang angrily: "Zhao Ziliang, our family is talking to General Fumeng, what are you talking about?" Step aside! ”

Zhao Ziliang didn't buy it, and stood still, "Lord Bian, you're not right, everyone has a mouth, what is the mouth for?" In addition to eating and drinking, it is to speak, and even the emperor can't help but let his courtiers speak, let alone Lord Bian? Could it be that Lord Bian, what are you more than the emperor? ”

"You ・・・・・・" Bian Lingcheng's face turned purple when he heard this.

Fu Meng Lingcha thought for a while, waved his hand and said: "Forget it, since Lord Bian doesn't want to go, don't go, when the camp will be pulled, Lord Bian will return with his entourage, but you must avoid the patrol cavalry of Shi Guo and Shi Guo, otherwise the news will be leaked, and General Ben will not rest with you!" ”

Bian Ling was as if he had been granted amnesty, and he didn't dare to agree: "Don't worry, general, our family still knows this very well."

In the afternoon, about three days later, the sun was in the west, and the temperature outside had dropped a little, but it was still very hot at the edge of the desert, but at this time, even if there was an eight-hundred-mile flame mountain in front of it, it had to set off for camp.

The tents were light and easy to pack, and the army was quickly packed, and the knights marched into the desert in six columns, and Zhao Ziliang and his men were in charge of logistics at the end of the team as always.

The sand not only absorbs a lot of heat, but also reflects the heat, the whole team of five thousand cavalry marching in the desert is simply roasted on the fire, every general and soldier is constantly dripping sweat, in the case of the whole body and face are wrapped, it is too uncomfortable, not wrapped in the face and easy to be roasted by the underground sand to burn the facial skin, wrapped in even hotter.

The high temperature and high heat, there are still wind and sand blowing in the desert from time to time, everyone's lips are dry, not long, many people's lips are cracked, have to drink water to moisten their lips, the consumption of drinking water is very large, it is not yet dark, many people's water bags are empty, Zhao Ziliang sent people to ride along the team to each person to send another water bag, a large baked cake and some dried meat, and take back the water bag sent before.

After dark, the Phimun Lingcha sent men along the march of the army to march overnight, and each man had to meet his physical needs such as food, water, and excretion on horseback.

The soldiers began to light torches and march through the night, and every few people had a torch, some began to eat and drink water, and some stood on horseback to pee.

Zhao Ziliang walked at the end with three hundred elite cavalry and more than one hundred logistics teams, after it got dark, although there were torches, the range that could be illuminated was not large, and the whole team was walking on the sand dunes, he had led the team to the land of Zhaowu Jiu, and had also walked hundreds of miles of desert, and had experienced dangers in the desert.

He said to Chu Ge: "Pass the order, no one is allowed to leave the team at will, even if they ride a horse to the side for more than five steps!" Wei Meng, Wang Can, Li Siye, you lead the team, I will go to the front to have a look! ”

"No!"

As soon as Zhao Ziliang rode his horse to the front of the army, he saw that the front stopped advancing, and someone was shouting: "Help, help・・・・・・"

There was more than one person at this call, Zhao Ziliang was a little surprised, he immediately stepped forward and came to Fu Meng Lingcha's side and asked, "General, what's wrong?" ”

Fumeng Lingcha frowned and said: "There is quicksand in front, a captain and a few soldiers have fallen into it, and the others are rescuing!" ”

"The last general will go over and take a look!" Zhao Ziliang said a word and immediately stepped forward.

Soon came to the place where the accident happened, separated the crowd, and sure enough, they saw a sentry captain and a few nights stuck in the quicksand, the quicksand was still slowly sliding, most of their bodies were already submerged in the sand, and they were still sinking, and the fear of death was shrouded in their hearts, so that they couldn't help but shout for help.

Zhao Ziliang shouted: "Quickly stretch out the spear and pull them up!" ”

One of the lieutenants shouted, "General, the spears are too short to reach them!" ”

Zhao Ziliang quickly shouted to a soldier behind him: "Hurry up and go to the soldier of Bahana to borrow a few horses and stumble over!" ”

When everyone around heard this, they all remembered that the nomadic cavalry was basically equipped with horse shackles, and the soldier immediately agreed, turned around and ran to the rear.

Zhao Ziliang shouted to the captain who was now in the quicksand and a few nights without retracting his hands: "Don't panic, don't panic!" We're already figuring out how to get you up soon. Now don't move, the more you move, the faster you sink, don't move! ”

After listening to Zhao Ziliang's words, the detective lieutenant and the four nights finally quieted down, and they stopped shouting, and the sinking speed was really slow. However, several of them are not optimistic about this, and now the quicksand is about to cover their necks, and they are afraid that it will be too late.

The sentry captain looked depressed, took out a letter from his chest and cried: "General, a few of us are afraid that it will not be done, when the villain came out, he was already pregnant for three months, if the birth is successful, the child is now more than two years old, but the villain has not seen him (her), and I don't know if it is a son or a daughter, the villain is unwilling!" The villain has a letter here, which was written by someone before the expedition in Shule Town, that is, he is worried that he will die in this battle, so he asks the general to give this letter to Captain Wang Tao and ask him to send someone to help the villain deliver it to the hands of the villain."

Even though they were sinking slowly, they were sinking, and as they spoke, quicksand had already covered the chins of the lieutenant and the other soldiers, and soon to their mouths and nostrils.

Zhao Ziliang hurriedly agreed: "Okay, okay, I will definitely send it to Captain Wang, you can throw it over!" ”

The lieutenant threw it hard, Zhao Ziliang's eyes were quick, and he grabbed the letter at once, and the lieutenant saw that he was relieved, and was about to speak, when the quicksand flooded his lips, and soon his nostrils were full.

The same was true of the other soldiers, whose arms were still struggling meaninglessly after the quicksand had flooded their heads, and gradually their arms disappeared into the quicksand.

A soldier who had just gone to borrow a horse stumbling ran over panting with a few horse stumbling and stared blankly at the empty place on the slowly flowing quicksand in front of him, and fell to his knees on the sand with a plop and cried: "Captain・・・・・・

Zhao Ziliang was about to comfort a few words, when he suddenly heard calls from several locations behind, and waited for people to go over to check the situation, and after getting the feedback, he learned that many people wanted to go to the neighborhood to defecate because the team stopped, but he didn't expect to fall into the quicksand just a few steps.

Zhao Ziliang immediately arranged for someone to trip over with a horse to rescue, although after the rescue, rescued a number of soldiers, but because it was night, the light was too dim, and the rescue was inconvenient, and more than a dozen soldiers were flooded by quicksand because the rescue was not timely. (To be continued.) )