Chapter VII: The Consequences of Musin's Failure
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In order to avoid the pursuit of the Tanguts, the camel caravan made a big circle around Guazhou this time, and sometimes the obstacles created by man are much more terrible than those created by nature. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Mu Xin was reluctant to take the road opened by the Khitans to Yiwu Prefecture, but took the camel team along the Gobi and once again got very close to Yangguan.
Tie Xinyuan stood on the back of a camel, and could even see the broken beacon towers built around Yangguan.
This time I went around in a circle and came to the vicinity of Yangguan, and the nerves of the camel team were tense, for fear that the army of the Western Xia people would suddenly appear here.
Xu Dongsheng and Tie Xinyuan each lay on either side of the camel's body, a tall Bactrian camel, carrying the two of them on the Gobi Desert, as if walking on the ground.
Tie Xinyuan took a bite of the apple fruit that had become extremely soft, and said to Xu Dongsheng through the camel: "This place is less than twenty miles away from Yangguan, and we ran around in a circle for three or five hundred miles, and also crossed a desert, are we doing this too much?" ”
Xu Dongsheng smiled on the other side of the camel: "If you don't draw the attention of Ye Lidulan, these twenty miles of land are where we bury our bones."
I know you want to ask something else, just ask what you want to know, right? ”
Tie Xinyuan threw away the Ping Po Fruit Core in his hand and said with a smile: "I can't see that Elder Mu Xin still cares about those who raided Shazhou with him, did you say those people ran away?" ”
Xu Dongsheng stood up from the basket, lay on the back of the camel and said quietly: "They themselves are a group of people who have been abandoned. How can you run away? ”
"I think there are roads everywhere, as long as there are a few horses. It doesn't seem like it's hard to escape. ”
Xu Dongsheng smiled bitterly, pointed to the boundless Gobi and said: "A small group of people walking the Gobi, the speed is definitely not as fast as the big team, this sentence sounds like nonsense, but it is indeed like this here."
There are packs of wild wolves on the Gobi Desert, if the team is not large enough. A team of more than a dozen people. Overnight, you'll be devoured by wolves.
What's more, the corpses in Shazhou are everywhere, and the smell of blood wafts away in the wind, which will attract all the wolves on the Gobi. It's going to be worse.
Now, if you're worried about Wild Lidulan's kung fu, why don't you think more about how to deal with the wolves, I have just seen two lone wolves watching us over there, and they have been following us for ten miles. ”
Tie Xinyuan was taken aback, and quickly stood up from the basket, holding his hands on the pergola and looking back. Sure enough, on the far horizon, there were two black dots far behind.
"Why don't you send someone to kill them, these two wolves can't be scouts in the wolf pack, right?"
Xu Dongsheng shook his head and said, "That's not it." However, if these two wolves find that they can't deal with us, they will howl to attract more wild wolves, and eventually they will still recruit the big wolf pack, and you can say that they are scouts. ”
Tie Xinyuan has never seen the wild wolves of the Great Song Dynasty, and the wild wolves of later generations will run away when they see people, where will there be this kind of reason of chasing after them.
I thought that I would enjoy a lifetime of happiness when I came to the Great Song Dynasty, but now even the wild wolf has encountered it. This is a great irony.
"When you rest in the evening, you better find an armor to put on, with your body, the wolf can bite your bones off in one bite."
Tie Xinyuan humbly accepted Xu Dongsheng's suggestion, in fact, as long as it was the kind persuasion of others, Tie Xinyuan always refused to come.
"Do you have any shields for me on six sides, my six wounded soldiers need that thing for protection."
Xu Dongsheng snorted coldly and said: "No, giving you three hundred refining knives before is about to make me a poor ghost, and there are not many of those things even in Tokyo." ”
Tie Xinyuan snorted and laughed, pointed at Brother Xu Dongsheng and said, "Old Xu, what are you doing with me saying these strange things, transporting troops from the Central Plains to Persia, and you were kicked in the head by a donkey?"
Hundred steels are not as good as other people's Uzi steel, as long as a blacksmith with a little common sense understands, your three knives will not be the blades left by your dead men, right? “
Xu Dongsheng no longer answered, being in the desert, how important it is to have an extra blade that can defend himself, this guy who has just entered the desert will not understand.
With the attitude of not knowing gold and jade, Xu Dongsheng lay back in the basket, just looked at the wild wolf patrolling not far away, and sighed, why can't these things go hunting elsewhere.
The sun doesn't feel any warmth on his body, but the exposed skin feels pain under the light, Xu Dongsheng curled up again, such a food basket is still a little narrow for a big man like him.
Musin also spotted the wolf, so he sent samurai to chase the two wolves, and the two lone wolves disappeared into the horizon with a howl.
The situation did not improve, and more wolves appeared in this Gobi, and there were still groups of mountain eagles hovering low in the sky, and some mountain carvings landed on the dead boxwood trees.
Its appearance is hard to compliment: a small bare head, with short reddish-brown down feathers, a thin neck, bare, and an eerie lead-blue skin, and their heads are disproportionately small compared to their massive bodies.
The huge hook mouth has two round nostrils that seem to be drilled, and a pair of fierce eyes always tirelessly stare at Tie Xinyuan, who is lying in a basket like a dead corpse.
In order to make sure that he was not a dead corpse, Tie Xinyuan sat up from the basket, which made those mountain eagles very dissatisfied, and they flapped their wings and screamed.
These are all scavengers, but wherever there is a large gathering of them, there must be rotting corpses, and there are no less than a thousand mountain carvings here, which means that there is a lot of carrion here, very much.
A long time ago, Tie Xinyuan once visited the Tibetan celestial burial ceremony, and after an unknown pillar of incense was lit, this kind of fellows known as the Divine Eagle by the Tibetans would come from hundreds of miles away, and his keen sense of smell made him admire.
The smell of rotten flesh was also smelled by Tie Xinyuan, and Xu Dongsheng raised his head like a dog and sniffled to find the source of the rancid smell.
The two looked at each other, and then turned over and fell asleep in unison, and the fool knew what kind of scene he would see next.
The consequences of Musin's anger at the Tanguts were finally revealed.
There is still a bit of comedy to be found in one corpse hanging from a dead poplar forest, and ten corpses hanging from a dead tree that even the most optimistic person can't laugh.
With thousands of tattered corpses hanging all over the poplar forest, even with the red sun overhead, everyone in the caravan felt like hell.
Standing on the back of the camel, Musin spread his arms as if to embrace the thousands of corpses, and the mournful chanting suddenly sounded, as if the end would never be heard.
Only then did Tie Xinyuan understand that the mountain eagles he had just met were not lazy, but after eating enough food, he rested there and waited for hunger to come again, so that he could continue to eat.
The wolf hovers under the tree with its head up, drooling patiently for the rope around the man's neck to rot, or for the man's muscles to rot, both of which have the common effect of the corpse falling.
Musin was in tears, kneeling on the sand and crying like a child, two sturdy Persians supported Musin and dragged him back, and the wild wolves with red eyes that had eaten human flesh had stopped turning their pace, and turned their heads in unison to look at the fresh meat on the sand slope.
Mu Xin couldn't do anything, the wolves were too big, Tie Xinyuan and Xu Dongsheng were already trembling when they saw it, they believed that as long as these wolves abandoned their corpses, with just one charge, their camel team of more than 300 people would be immediately annihilated by the wolves.
Meng Yuanzhi rode a horse and stood on the upper hand, a huge bow was pulled by him into a full moon, a rocket that had been ignited was shot out by him with a swish, and the rest of the Persians also pulled the longbow at the same time, and the dense rocket flew into the poplar forest.
Tie Xinyuan was horrified, jumped out of the basket with a whoosh, and shouted that they would bring their horses over......
Once the poplar forest caught fire, the fool knew that the Tanguts would come in the shortest possible time.
Musin has already run......
Tie Xinyuan and Xu Dongsheng followed closely behind, and those sad Persians seemed to understand that it was not a good thing to do this, and after riding all kinds of mounts, they closely followed those who had already run away.
When one tree turns into a torch, the strong north wind brings the flames to another tree, and the corpses that have been carried away by the wind are like candles.
The mountain eagles that are eating, the crows and other birds, flying up into the air, like dark clouds covering the sun all day long.
When the wolves saw their food burned, they let out a long howl in unison, and the thick black smoke had pulled out a long, high, thick black line with the wind, which was so striking in the blue sky.
Meng Yuanzhi's riding skills were good, and he quickly caught up with Tie Xinyuan, but Tie Xinyuan was in no mood to pay attention to this idiot at all, lowered his body, and just ran wildly with all his strength holding the saddle.
"Settle in the ground." Meng Yuanzhi spoke to Tie Xinyuan with some emotion.
This time, even Xu Dongsheng carefully avoided this idiot, and whipped the horse's ass fiercely to make himself run faster.
Meng Yuan saw that Tie Xinyuan and Xu Dongsheng didn't seem to want to ignore him, so he laughed dryly, closed his mouth and ran wildly.
The caravan behind had been thrown far away, and Musin had climbed a high slope and built a pergola to look at the horizon in the distance.
The poplar forest is in full swing, the black smoke has covered a large part of the sky, and the mountain eagle that was still hovering in the sky just now has completely disappeared. Through the black smoke of different shades, in the distance, a cavalry was rapidly approaching the poplar forest.
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