(I'll update it at night.,I don't know when.,It's in a hurry.,Find out if there's a typo)

The vast desert is boundless with yellow sand.

A heavily armed army marched through the desert for miles, including not only men, but hundreds of sand lizards carrying weapons and supplies.

The sun was scorching, the weather was very hot, the quicksand was hot, and the heat seemed to burn the soles of the feet through the shoes.

There is no trace of wind around, sweat flows out of the pores, but it is difficult to evaporate without wind, like a fire held in the body, a kind of dry heat from the outside and inside.

"Stop!"

Riding a sand lizard, an officer at the front of the line waved his hand, and the whole long line quickly stopped.

The officer first wiped the sweat from his face with the towel around his neck, took the telescope handed by a soldier beside him, and carefully observed the way forward.

After reading it for a while, his expression froze, he turned over and got off the lizard, and as soon as he waved, a soldier immediately brought a map, and spread it out in the sand, regardless of the hot sand.

The officers crouched in front of the map and pointed to the drawing, and a dozen or so officers in the group arrived on sand lizards, and a dozen people gathered around and looked at the map with the leading officer.

"You see, according to the map drawn by the teacher, we walked for two days and one night, and our current position should be here, very close to the lair of this gang of sand thieves."

The lead officer pointed to a route and stroked, recalling something as he did so, until he reached a certain point, and he poked his finger sharply.

"This is it! We've reached the periphery of the sand thieves' lair. ”

As soon as the leading officer spoke, the eyes of the other officers were instantly serious, and the leading officer looked into the distance, got up and ordered: "Pass my order, the whole army rests, eats, drinks and rests on the spot, and is ready for battle." ”

More than a dozen heralds immediately rode away on sand lizards, and the whole army quickly rested.

In this hot weather, the soldiers took out dry food and water bags from the sand lizard, ate and drank and rested, and some soldiers quickly finished eating, leaning on the sand lizard's slightly cool body and dozing off.

These sand lizards lie on the sand, as if they can't feel the scorching heat of the sand, they are an animal living in the Western Desert, between demon beasts and ordinary beasts, omnivorous, docile, extremely adapted to the Western Desert environment.

The appearance of the sand lizard is like an earth lizard, but it is larger and longer, comparable to a small truck, and the whole body is sandy and yellow, which is very similar to this desert sandy land.

While the soldiers were resting, the officers were constantly discussing and formulating strategic plans around the military map, as they had done for more than a decade, to exterminate these desert bandits and take control of the entire oasis in the heart of the Western Desert Wasteland.

The entire Western Desert Wasteland, the size of several planetary systems, looks like a land suspended in space in the universe.

Even in the center, the scope is not small, the area that the slaves can control is only the area of a planet, and after removing the large desert, the remaining oasis is no more than the size of Asia on Earth.

These scattered oases, like islands in the boundless sea of sand, are scattered, and many of them are still occupied by monsters and sand thieves who inhabit the Western Desert.

Fifteen years ago, after defeating the sand bandits for the first time, the desolate slaves launched a plan to occupy as many oases as possible in the Western Desert, spreading from point to surface to provide a wider land for development.

More than ten years of conquest, not only to expand the territory, but also to accumulate experience in fighting monsters and monks, and to study them.

As the war progressed, the technology of the desolate slaves also continued to improve, and the pace of expansion went from slow to fast, and then from fast to slow, until the last two years, when the population could not keep up with the expansion, it gradually converged, and few troops were dispatched.

In the skirmishes, the slaves also sacrificed a lot, and more than tens of thousands of slaves were destroyed and returned to the reincarnation pool (note: built by the white night, the consciousness of the desolate slaves is immortal, and the reincarnation pool can reshape the body) to condense the body.

"According to the information provided by the sand thieves we captured, there are thirteen monks in this group of sand thieves, the general Dao Ji realm, and the strongest leader has the peak cultivation of the Dao Ji, and he has tried to condense the golden pill several times, but all of them have failed."

A young officer said solemnly.

Daoji and Jindan seem to be only one realm apart, but the gap is like a chasm, which is bigger than the gap between Jindan and Yuanying.

More than a dozen officers were silent, and then discussed again, combined with the environment indicated on the map, after about an hour, the leading officer swept away the others, and said solemnly: "In this operation, we don't know the specific state of the enemy, and the information we have obtained is not sufficient. I decided to send one unit from here to try first, and the rest of the troops to divide into four parts, and encircle from here, here, and here, and these three troops were to provide fire support for the cutting troops. ”

The middle-aged officer pointed to the map and said this, looked up at a few people, and one of the dozen or so young officers wanted to speak, but finally sighed, but still didn't say.

"The rest of the troops are lying in ambush here, with snipers, waiting for the monk at the peak of the Doji to appear, and concentrate the attack with artillery and sniper rifles. Don't be stingy with weapons and ammunition in this battle, and don't be sorry for the enemy who can be destroyed with shells and bullets, and strive to destroy them in one go. ”

"Do you have anything to add?"

The middle-aged officer asked, this plan was not his own, but several officers jointly discussed.

Several officers nodded, no objections.

"Okay, let's go and make final preparations for battle."

The middle-aged officer gave a military salute, and more than a dozen officers also stood up and saluted.

A soldier led the sand lizard, and several officers stepped on the sand lizard to return to their troops, and the middle-aged officer looked at a young officer who had not moved for a long time and looked like a problem just now, and asked, "Xiao Ye, what's wrong with you?" ”

The young officer turned his head, revealing a delicate face of eighteen or nineteen years old, "Brigade commander, why did you send someone to test it?" I felt bad when I thought about the soldiers falling in front of my eyes one by one. They are our compatriots, and must we sacrifice them for the sake of victory? I know you're going to say that they won't really die, they're just going to go to the teacher's reincarnation pool. Can it be done later? If we encounter soul-destroying enemies, do we also sacrifice them to tempt? ”

The middle-aged officer was stunned, but he didn't expect this young officer, who had just graduated from the military academy, to ask this.

The middle-aged officer pondered for a moment, then pressed a strong and powerful hand on the young officer's shoulder, and said solemnly: "Xiao Ye, you have to understand that this is not a question of sacrifice or not, it is that someone must be sacrificed, and someone must pave the way." The people who died were not necessarily soldiers, but could also be us. ”

"You have to remember that you are an officer, you are responsible for the army and soldiers, but you are more responsible for our entire Heavenly Sin Clan. It's not up to us to choose which soldiers to die and which ones don't, we all have our responsibilities and we need to pave the way for the whole group. You're right, in the future, when the situation is unclear and the enemy may be strong, I will also choose to send troops to try to obtain information, but it is not only the soldiers who may be sacrificed, but also us. That sacrifice is likely to be real death! ”

The middle-aged officer's bright and attentive eyes met the eyes of the young officer, and the young officer was stunned for a moment, but said in his mouth: "Then why didn't the teacher come?" He is so powerful, he will definitely be able to deal with all the sand thieves in the Western Desert. ”

The middle-aged officer was stunned again, his eyebrows frowned, "Are you blaming the teacher?" ”

"Isn't it? He's got that ability, Brigadier, you know? On my first expedition, I met a monk with a soul weapon. You know what I saw? A battalion of hundreds of brothers was extracted from the soul, and they were wiped out in an instant, they either went to the reincarnation pool to reincarnate, but died directly! ”

The young officer had tears in his eyes, almost roaring: "The teacher obviously has the ability to save them, why don't you save them?" ”

"That's the question you wanted to question the teacher last time?"

"Yes! I don't understand! I don't understand! ”

"Then why did the teacher save it? He didn't help us enough? Why do we need teachers to walk our way? Does he have an obligation? He said that there will be no enemies beyond our ability to deal with, we have experienced bloody battles, many brothers have been killed, but we have encountered enemies that we cannot deal with? ”

"This, this, this ......"

The young officer was a little speechless, and after that war, he had been holding back a resentment against the white night.

"Actually, you don't think the teacher has helped us enough, you want him to pave all the ways for us. That's impossible......"

The middle-aged officer patted the young officer on the shoulder, stared at him and said, "If one day the teacher leaves, what will we do?" Back to the old life. Or what if he encounters an enemy that he can't resist either? ”

"Think about it, go assemble your troops, and get ready for battle. The road must be ...... by yourself"

After the middle-aged officer finished speaking, he turned away, and the young officer stood stunned and gave a military salute to the middle-aged officer's back.

"You need to walk the road on your own! ...... true"

Bai Ye was explaining trigonometry to a group of students in a classroom when he suddenly whispered to himself. (To be continued.) )