The dry wind blows on the face, and there is some choking sand, gravel, gravel, sand dunes, strangely shaped weathered rocks, distant mountains...... In the sunlight, it is a bit monotonous yellow, and there is no edge at a glance, all of which form a magnificent and desolate Gobi desert scenery. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

If you really live in such an environment all the time, you will definitely not be comfortable, and you will not find such a beautiful view, or even disgusted. However, for tourists, it is also a good experience to see more green mountains and green waters, and occasionally enjoy the desert scenery.

Xiao Tianlei arrived in Mozhou at this time, and before, he had also been to Mozhou, but because of the conflict with the Western Regions Protectorate, they all took a detour, and his understanding of Mozhou was quite rough.

Now Xiao Tianlei can swagger on the land of Mozhou, the reason is very simple, the coalition of the Brotherhood and the Rong people has occupied Mozhou.

The reason why it is so fast, because it is a bargain, the Western Regions Protectorate, who originally ruled here, took the initiative to give up Mozhou, and the Western Regions Protectorate took the initiative to protect Huo Ting, and led the soldiers of the Western Regions Protectorate to return to the King of Qin, as for which king Qin, I don't know. In short, in today's world, many people want to fight for the world.

For the various forces of Great Xia, the main competition is still Middle Earth Kyushu, the people of Great Xia have always believed that Middle Earth is the center of the world, and Middle Earth is indeed rich and densely populated, according to the practice of all dynasties, as long as it occupies Middle Earth Kyushu, with the manpower and material resources of Middle Earth, it will soon be able to sweep away the eight wildernesses and control the world.

As for Mozhou, a barren border place, the generals and officials placed here are basically some people who have been excluded from the Middle-earth Dynasty, if it weren't for the appointment of the imperial court, who would want to stay in this ghost place all the time? Now that the Great Xia court exists in name only, there is no restraint, and the army is returned to the interior, which can be said to be a fairly correct decision, Mozhou's grain cannot be self-sufficient, most of them have to rely on the mainland's supply, and now affected by the war, Mozhou's food supply is insufficient. The cavalry of the Brotherhood and the Rong cavalry jointly invaded, and through guerrilla tactics, they ate the troops of the Western Regions Protectorate little by little, blocking their supplies, and if they stayed any longer, everyone in the Western Regions Protectorate would be finished sooner or later.

Xiao Tianlei went to Mozhou this time, not to visit the mountains and rivers, but to personally come to inspect and see how to deal with this newly occupied territory, but Xiao Tianlei is not in a hurry, and he can finally get rid of various official documents for a while, so as to visit Mozhou and relax for a few days.

"It is said that the remnants of the Zoroastrian Ming army went west, saying that they were heading to the birthplace of Zoroastrianism......

"Through the Desert...... How many can survive ......"

Riding a steel mane, Xiao Tianlei and his brothers led the cavalry and Rongren cavalry of the Brotherhood, chatting while going to the west entrance of the state capital of Mozhou.

One of the reasons is that the Rong people can be said to have grown up on horseback, everyone's riding skills and archery skills are excellent, and they are born with excellent cavalry, but in the past, the various tribes in Rongzhou attacked each other, and they were constantly suffering from internal friction, and they could not establish a unified army at all.

Although it is only a conscripted servant army, however, the Brotherhood did not use the Rong cavalry as cannon fodder, and the two armies combined already have more than 20,000 cavalry, and an army of this size can completely break the army of the Western Regions Protectorate head-on, however, adhering to the consistent style of the Brotherhood's combat, try to minimize the losses in the battle, and still adopt guerrilla tactics and wolf pack tactics.

In addition to weapons and equipment, the treatment of the Rong cavalry and the cavalry of the Brotherhood is basically the same, every battle, can share the spoils of war, for the Rong cavalry, such a battle is easy and comfortable, is to be happy, to the command of the Brotherhood is very obedient, many people even want to join the Brotherhood's army.

In addition to the prestige of the Brotherhood among the Rong people, another factor is because of the Ice Phoenix, the custom of the Rong people has always worshiped the eagle very much, believing that the eagle is the messenger of the gods, especially the falcon of the alien beast level, which is highly respected. The ice phoenix has been assisting the Brotherhood cavalry in battle, showing the same wisdom and spirituality as people, for the Rong people it is simply the eagle god, yes, every time the ice phoenix falls to eat, the Rong people always have to kneel down and pray.

The Brotherhood cavalry is highly disciplined, which plays a role model and psychological encouragement, just like the Funan soldiers recruited by the Brotherhood in Funan, they are basically cannon fodder in the original Funan army, and most of them are weak chickens, but under the command of the Brotherhood, as long as they wear the iconic horn helmet of the Brotherhood army, they feel that they are possessed by gods and demons, and their combat effectiveness is bursting. To be exact, it should be demonic possession, they still think that the army of the Brotherhood is a demon army, although, there is also a little side effect, about the psychological hint that they are demonically possessed, they will become a little crazy and murderous.

After running for more than an hour, Xiao Tianlei and others arrived at the west entrance of the Mozhou state capital, but the west entrance is the only big city in Mozhou, of course, it is not comparable to the big city in the interior, that is, the scale of the county town, the main body of the city wall is made of sand rammed, relatively low, and it has been established for a long time, which can be seen from the traces of wind and sand erosion on the top.

Passing through the old city gate and entering the city, except for a few buildings, most of the houses are made of sand, and the wind and dust are piled up on the roof, which is still the color of a piece of sand. As an important trading place in Mozhou, Xikou has always been quite prosperous and lively, but at this time, it is a bit depressed.

"Before the gang of guys in the Western Regions Protectorate withdrew, they ransacked it, and then they ran away, running like rabbits, we ......can't catch up with it," Zheng Biao said with a regretful face, among the brothers, he was relatively belligerent, and he was exhausted if he didn't fight for a day. This time, I went to Mozhou to face the Protectorate of the Western Regions, thinking that I could fight for a long time, but I didn't expect people to directly lift the table and stop playing.

Xiao Tianlei and others entered the west exit, which attracted the attention of many people, Xiao Tianlei rode a huge wild boar, it was difficult not to attract attention, and many people secretly visited.

Xiao Tianlei was also observing the people around him, most of them had some fear in their eyes, and some hostile eyes, it is not surprising that after the army of the Western Regions Protectorate withdrew, the West Exit was also in chaos, some wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob, some wanted to occupy the West Exit, and some wanted to occupy it, it was a chaos at that time, Zheng Biao and others led the army to kill it, cleaned it up, and killed some people to stabilize the order of the West Exit.

Ignoring those who probed their brains, Xiao Tianlei and the others entered the Duhu Mansion, eating Mozhou's special food while chatting with a group of brothers. When he was full of food and drink, Xiao Tianlei also basically understood the situation of Mozhou, Mozhou is really troublesome, Mozhou is prosperous because of trade, the people here come from Tiannan and Haibei, and most of them are martial artists, with large and small gang organizations, some religious sects, and the relationship is intertwined. As an outsider, it's not impossible to completely control this place, but it's really a bit of a struggle and a waste of time, and Mozhou is vast and sparsely populated, except for some mineral deposits, there are only sand and stones left.

Xiao Tianlei came to the conclusion that spending manpower and material resources to control Mozhou really outweighed the losses. After thinking about it, Xiao Tianlei thought that there was no need to occupy Mozhou and rule the residents here, all they needed was to maintain the trade route, so as long as the normal trade order of Mozhou was maintained, as for those people in Mozhou, there was no need to care about them.

The next day, Xiao Tianlei and his entourage left Xikou, and after discussion, Xiao Tianlei decided not to want the city of Xikou, no matter how the people there tossed it, because he planned to build a new city as the stronghold of the Brotherhood in Mozhou, and it would be a suitable city to live in.

Mozhou is far away from Lingzhou, and Xiao Tianlei doesn't want it to be a burden to the Brotherhood, and wants to build it into a self-sufficient and livable city.

What is the biggest challenge to survive in Mozhou? Not all kinds of conflicts between people, but the harsh natural environment.

The environment of Mozhou is harsh, one is the natural factor, the other is the human factor, there are some trees and oases in Mozhou, with the prosperity of trade, the increase in population, there are not many trees in Mozhou are cut down, used as building materials and firewood, the oasis disappears one by one, the west mouth was originally an oasis, now there is almost no green, the river is also dry, and in a few decades, Mozhou is completely desertified, and people can not survive here.

If you want to build a livable city in Mozhou, people in this world may not have thought about it, but for Xiao Tianlei, it is just some common-sense questions, and when he entered Mozhou, Xiao Tianlei came up with this idea, because he saw that the grassland in Rongzhou was being eroded by the desert, and thought of some information on desertification control in his previous life.

At present, the desertification of Mozhou is not too serious, so the siege of transforming the environment is not large, and it is only to build a city first, which is basically to plant some suitable trees on a large scale. There is also the construction of some water conservancy facilities, the local people take water, either dig a very deep well water, or have to go far to camel water, in fact, Mozhou is not a shortage of water, but the snow water melted in the snow mountains will not flow far in the desert will dry up, Xiao Tianlei remembered a kind of underground water canal called qanats, which is very suitable for the current situation.

Xiao Tianlei and a group of brothers are looking for a suitable location to build a city, while envisioning a plan, as for the workers, there is no need to find another one, Zheng Biao and they caught a lot of horse thieves and soldiers from the Western Regions Protectorate a few days ago, which happened to be used to dig wells and plant trees, so they can't raise these people in vain.

Soon, Xiao Tianlei and a few brothers found a few suitable locations for building a city, and were discussing where to be the most suitable, at this time, a message came from the private chat system, from several brothers who were in the distant sea, it was Jiang Xiaoxi, they had been exploring the sea, running farther and farther, in the past, they were smooth, but this time they encountered some trouble.

"What happened?" Xiao Tianlei asked.

"You'll know when you see it." Jiang Xiaoxi directly transmitted the images around them, and the brothers were all startled when they saw it, only to see huge tentacles entangled Jiang Xiaoxi and their boats, and rows of basin-sized suction cups on the tentacles, including barbs. Although they couldn't see the whole picture clearly, from those huge tentacles, they could know that Jiang Xiaoxi and they had encountered a sea monster that had always been huge, looking like a huge octopus or squid, the size of the boat they were on, and maybe even larger.

"Big tooth pinch?" Xiao Tianlei asked Jiang Xiaoxi, for the safety of their going to sea, the big shark Big Tooth was one who walked with them.

"This guy is so powerful, he almost ate it! I let Big Tooth roam around the side, but it didn't do much! ”

"Big Tooth is not an opponent either? So fierce?! ”

"What should I do?"

Xiao Tianlei and his brotherhood are also a little dumbfounded, Big Tooth is not this guy's opponent, it's okay to say on the road, they have no way in the sea, and Jiang Xiaoxi and them are good at naval warfare, besides, Xiao Tianlei and the others are at least thousands of miles away at this moment, even if they fly, the daylily is cold! I can only watch Jiang Xiaoxi and the others fight with the tentacles of the sea monster, in fact, it is not much use at all, those tentacles whip the hull, the hull keeps shaking, and many places are broken, as long as the hull falls into the sea, Jiang Xiaoxi and the others will have to become the sea monster's mouth, Xiao Tianlei and the others are also in a hurry.

Syllable! The tentacles struck several people who were put on at once, and several of them fell into the sea together.

"Ah!! I'll get it out of the way, and you'll save people! Jiang Xiaoxi and the others were shocked, Jiang Xiaoxi jumped into the sea with the sea stone trident, and landed right on the back of the big tooth. Jiang Xiaoxi tried to attack the sea monster to attract attention, but the sea monster's tentacles retracted into the sea, and the next scene made everyone scratch their heads, and those tentacles stretched out of the sea again, but they scooped up the people who fell into the water one by one and sent them to the deck.

"What's the situation?" Everyone was puzzled.

"Huh!! This big guy seems to listen to me! One of the tentacles of the sea monster stood up, and he also looked confused, Xiao Tianlei saw this brother, thought about it for a while, and understood the reason.

The brother on the sea monster's tentacle is named Ma Xiaoyi, whose original name was Ma Xiaoliu, and the name of the template sea beast priest O Aloy was changed after he obtained.

Sea Beast Priest Aloy template, in the LOL system, is a female man image, controlling some tentacles to fight, Ma Xiaoyi is a tall and strong boy, just a little stunned, after Ma Xiaoyi obtained the Sea Beast Priest Hero template, he obtained a special kind of Gang Qi, which is roughly water attribute, and at the same time has extremely high damage to the spirit, Xiao Tianlei originally thought that this would be the end, but he didn't expect such a situation to happen today.

Now it seems that the sea monster has become a part of the hero template of the sea beast priest, in this way, the hero template of the sea beast priest can be regarded as complete, the real sea beast priest, this time, it can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, which means that the brotherhood will have another powerful combat power on the sea in the future.

As soon as Xiao Tianlei explained, the brothers suddenly realized, they were all a little envious of Ma Xiaoyi's luck, this kind of good thing can be encountered, although the sea monster is a little ugly, but it is ridiculously strong, as a mount on the sea, it is also so windy that there is nothing to say.

The brothers talked a lot, but even if the sea monster was no longer threatened, Jiang Xiaoxi and their danger had not been lifted, because of the previous attack of the sea monster, the hull of the ship they were riding in was seriously damaged, a large amount of water had entered the water, and it was slowly sinking, and what was worse was that it seemed that a storm was coming.

"Hurry up and bring some necessary things, find an island to settle in, and wait for us to pick you up."

"It may take some time to find you, and you probably have to live a savage life for a while."

"Island survival, I've heard Brother Lei say it before, I wanted to try it a long time ago."

"Let's find the island first!"

"How do I find it?"

"Stupid, look if there are any seabirds, the places where seabirds land are mostly islands."

………

Although facing the danger of the storm, Jiang Xiaoxi, Ma Xiaoyi and others were optimistic, commanding everyone on the boat, scavenging some food and necessities from the boat, and moving them onto the small boat on the ship.

Maybe Jiang Xiaoxi and their luck is really good, it didn't take long to see a group of seabirds, the seabirds probably also sensed that the storm was coming, and they were flying towards their residence, Jiang Xiaoxi and the others followed the seabirds, seeing the black clouds of the storm approaching, they finally saw a big island on the horizon. (To be continued.) )