The sun is blazing, the yellow sand is everywhere, and the sand dunes next door are endless......

This is the impression that the desert of the Western Regions gives to Lin Sha, empty and monotonous, extremely boring.

It's not pleasant to ride on a tall camel and walk in the desert under the scorching sun.

It's still spring, and if it's summer, it won't kill anyone, right?

A series of melodious camel bells sounded in my ears, and looking back, the sight of hundreds of tall camels lined up in a row was magnificent, with heavy goods on their backs and deep footprints one by one, and several flags fluttering high in the middle of the procession, this was a standard desert caravan.

Not to mention the lazy and leisurely shopkeepers in the caravan, the five hundred men and horses led by Lin Sha himself were in good spirits, riding tall camels to form small teams to patrol back and forth, monitoring and investigating all suspicious situations.

"Boss, Boss, Boss Hasselblad, please come over and talk!"

At this moment a herald came galloping with his whip, and when he came to him, he pulled the reins and said loudly.

"Is that guy annoying?"

Lin Sha waved his hand angrily, signaled to the soldiers around him to give the herald a small bag of salt water, and muttered dissatisfied, turned around and rushed to the center of the camel team.

"Boss Hasselblad, what are you looking for me?"

Far away, Lin Sha shouted at the lavishly decorated camel cart in the middle of the caravan.

The curtain of the unusually luxuriously decorated camel cart was lifted, revealing a big fat face with a shiny face and obvious characteristics of the Western Regions, and nodded at Lin Sha with a sneer.

"Lin Qi makes Lin Qi make ......"

Moments later, a caravan guard arrived on a camel, holding a delicate cowhide water bag. Came to Lin Sha with both hands and a respectful face: "My lord said that Lin Qi's envoy has worked hard, and this is the special wine of the Western Regions to quench the thirst of the flag envoy!" ”

"Thank you for me. I'll have to patrol the back of the road, and that's it! ”

Linsha unceremoniously took the bag of wine. nodded and said indifferently.

"Okay, okay, the little one will go back and tell the master!"

The guard wanted to say something, but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back, bent down at Lin Sha and saluted respectfully, turned his camel and drove towards the luxurious camel cart.

"Hehe, it's really a straw egg, if you want to tie up with Lao Tzu, you have to go out in person, don't you treat Lao Tzu as a little servant?"

Hang a leather bag containing grape wine from the edge of the saddle. Driving the camels behind the long caravan, what he had just said was not a lie.

……

It is said that he pit the 'Mixed Yuan Thunderbolt' Cheng Kun at the top of the light, and just after finishing his work for the golden lion king Xie Xun, he received an order from Lao Zhuang, the leader of the Ruijin Banner, to escort a caravan to the center of the Western Regions safely.

This is a very normal order, and the newcomer battalion has also been training for nearly a year, it is time to pull out and practice well, and he plans to personally go out on this trip to protect merchants in the Western Regions.

After all, there are hundreds of thousands of people who follow the Ming Sect to eat, and the amount of money and materials required is astronomical.

For so many mouths to be able to eat enough and even eat well. The high-level leaders of the Ming Sect had to rack their brains to open up a way to make money, at least for now, it seems that Yang Dingtian is doing very well.

As a combination of secret sects and Jianghu sects, Mingjiao naturally has many shady businesses, such as smuggling salt. Open a court to collect protection money and other means of money.

But after all, this is not a serious business, and the current situation in various places is turbulent, and the people are living in dire straits. If you want to squeeze oil and water, it's not so easy to squeeze.

Therefore, self-opening trade routes is the best choice.

Just right. Guangming Ding is located in the Western Regions, just above the main point of land transportation between the East and the West. Most of the business travelers have to pass through or pass through the vicinity, bringing huge business opportunities and benefits to the people near Guangmingding.

Regardless of ancient and modern China and foreign countries, making foreign trade business is the most astonishing profit, and Mingjiao has taken this line to make money and earn cramps. In addition, the security environment in the Western Regions is also very poor, bandits are rampant, and there are a large number of escort needs for caravans.

So Mingjiao intervened in the business of the dart bureau, providing a strong bodyguard team for the caravans, which caravans from the East and the West were rich, as long as they could ensure the safety of property and goods, they were very generous in spending money, so that the bodyguard business actually made a lot of profits with Mingjiao.

When Lin Sha knew this, the surprise in his heart did not need to be mentioned, with such a prosperous trade route as the Silk Road, it is no wonder that Mingjiao has risen rapidly in recent decades, and it is guaranteed by sufficient financial resources.

After taking the mission, first meet with all the escort caravan owners, and then wave goodbye to the colleagues and friends who are familiar with Guangmingding.

The owner of the caravan he escorted on this trip was named Hasselblad, a well-known merchant in the Western Regions, and he heard that his family had an astonishing wealth and countless servants, and he was like a local emperor.

This guy started to look down on people, and when he saw that the Mingjiao master who led the escort turned out to be a young boy, his face was full of displeasure, and his words were revealed, and he even planned to ask the Mingjiao high-level to be replaced directly!

Nima, when you encounter this kind of thing, your uncle can bear it, and your aunt definitely can't bear it!

Lin Sha didn't say a word, picked up the steel spear and hit it on the ground, and directly asked the master guards around Hasselblad to come one by one, knowing what it means to be incomprehensible and invincible!

The result is self-evident, the warriors of the Western Regions around Hasselblad are not weak in kung fu, but there is no one in Lin Sha who can survive ten moves!

The big fat man Hasselblad was suddenly shocked, his attitude took a 180-degree turn, he was so enthusiastic and respectful that he was almost flattering, and from time to time he took out some special gadgets from the Western Regions to offer them.

Lin Sha didn't embarrass this guy too much, but just warned him not to look down on people, and then he accepted Hasselblad's filial piety with peace of mind, and personally ordered the five hundred elites of the newcomer battalion and the Hasselblad caravan to set off together.

Along the way, there are all kinds of scout patrols, and when they are encamped, they are all in accordance with the rules of the army, and when they encounter emergencies, they are all dealt with in accordance with the pre-determined rules and regulations.

Hasselblad and his large number of men and guards were eye-opening, and the performance of Linsha's men and horses was more disciplined than the regular army of their country, and the last trace of doubt in his heart was also dissipated, and he walked with peace of mind every day or to curry favor with Linsha, the mysterious young general.

After all, no matter how powerful the individual is in martial arts, fighting with the marching army is wrong, it should be the escort bodyguard is completely different. With a caravan as big as them, once something happens, it may encounter a group of sand bandits in the desert, and the number of people is in the hundreds, how much can you kill no matter how brave you are?

But at the moment, the quality shown by Lin Sha and his men is definitely at the level of the regular army, although this makes the commotion a little bigger, and the camping and rest are not too much of a toss for comfort, but as long as the caravan can reach the destination safely, everything is worth it!

……

"Cheer me up, not to mention that I have to concentrate at least my mind to put it away, so as not to be caught off guard by accident!"

Riding a camel back and forth in the entire camel team, I found that my little brother had gone through a long journey for most of the day, and his mental state was not very good under the scorching sun on his head, and even some of them began to slack off and be lazy.

After all, it's a recruit unit that hasn't experienced the test of blood and fire!

He felt that it was not okay to go on like this, and if something really happened, he would suffer a big loss. So he called all the accompanying flags and the team, and admonished them with a solemn face.

"Boss, it's not so exaggerated, we've been traveling for more than ten days, and I haven't seen any gang of thieves who have the courage to come to the door to find death?" As soon as he finished speaking, one of his subordinates, Xiaoqi, who was about forty years old, complained.

Heha is also right, since the caravan left the Guangming Ding area, it has been acting according to the marching standard all the way, how can a thief with a huge momentum have the courage to step forward to find fault?

"You're talking a lot!"

Lin Sha's eyes glared at him and he said, "You can't relax your vigilance before you reach your destination, is it true that what I told you before has been in vain?" ”

The influence of Mingjiao in the Western Regions and Central Asia was not small, because the expansion of the trade road also knew the situation in this area very well. Although the current Western Regions and Central Asia are nominally controlled by several major Arab countries, in fact, the cities are dominated by local tribes, and the situation is very chaotic for the sake of commercial interests and territorial interests.

With the passage of time, several powerful civilian armed forces have emerged in the Western Regions and Central Asia, or bandit groups or sand bandits are more accurate.

These guys are strong, often wandering in the Western Regions, where countries are strife, and they usually don't forget to play the role of horse bandits and sand bandits to rob past business travelers, because of their long-term combat effectiveness is very good, it is an extremely headache existence, even if there are many masters of Mingjiao, they are not willing to provoke easily.

"This ......"

That Xiaoqi's face was flushed when he was said, but he still muttered in his mouth: "It's not that you're careful, boss, it's just that you set up camp according to the standard once a day, and when you leave in the morning, you have to spend time cleaning up, I just don't think it's necessary!" ”

"Is there a need for me to have the final say!"

Lin Sha waved his hand and said dissatisfiedly: "Okay, there is no need to say more nonsense, everyone disperses to restrain those boys, don't let them desert indiscriminately and make people make a loophole!" ”

As he spoke, he looked up with a meaningful gaze, only to see a large sand eagle hovering above the caravan, if he remembered correctly, this sand eagle had been following the caravan for several days.

With Lin Sha's strict orders, the small banners and the team under his command really didn't dare to slack off, no one wanted to be punished by Lin Sha's grasp, not to mention the problem of losing face, just those strange punishment measures made their scalps numb and didn't dare to try it easily.

On this day, the caravan and the escort rushed to the vicinity of the ancient city of Loulan, and set up camp early before it got dark, but in the middle of the night, they suddenly heard a terrible shout: "The enemy is attacking ......" (to be continued......