Martha's eyes lit up when she heard it, she had never heard of this poem, she thought it was still Luo Lie's original, and said with admiration: "You Han people are talented." ”

Luo Lie laughed and said, "I didn't write this poem. He told Martha about Pei Duofei's identity.

At dusk that day, they arrived at the ancient city of Molong according to the original plan, which is also a city that has long been abandoned, although the scale is not small, but there is not a complete building left in the entire ancient city, standing in the ancient city, a desolate and dignified feeling naturally comes to my heart.

The caravans had already traveled back and forth to the Tengger Desert more than once, and almost every time they made their round-trip trips, they would choose to rest in the ancient city of Molong, which was not far from the Yabulai Mountain where Luo Lie was going, and they would be able to get out of this desert by tomorrow afternoon at the latest.

The Tajiks are very hospitable, and they did not hesitate to help Luo Lie, a passer-by who met in the water, as evidenced by the fact that as the sun set, a bonfire rose in the ruins of the ancient city, and the caravan specially slaughtered the six sheep brought with the caravan to celebrate their imminent departure from the sand sea tomorrow, and also to welcome Luo Lie, a new friend.

Luo Lie walked slowly up to the beacon tower, and a large cloud of fire appeared in the western sky, and the sky seemed to be burning from a distance, and the rolling sand dunes were also dyed with a layer of blood. There was a melodious sound of flutes, and in the corner of the ancient city, it was Desili who played the nayi, a piccolo made from the wing bones of an eagle and one of the favorite instruments of the Tajiks.

The sound of the flute has a unique desolate taste, which makes this ancient city that has suffered many vicissitudes even more bleak, Luo Hunt looks into the wind, and the night is engulfing the entire world at an alarming speed, and he seems to have entered another world during this time.

It was only after encountering this Tajik caravan that he returned to reality.

Martha's silver bell-like voice sounded from below: "Brother Luo, it's time to eat." ”

Luo Lie smiled and walked towards the people who were already sitting around the campfire in the ancient city. After eating roasted whole sheep and drinking mare's milk wine, the enthusiastic Tajiks sang and danced around the bonfire, and Luo Lie couldn't help but be infected by their joy.

The night is getting thicker, the darkness covers the ruins of the ancient city of Molong, the people who have worked hard for a day of trekking begin to fall asleep, Luo Lie walked to his tent, when he passed the bonfire, he saw that the old man was still sitting by the bonfire smoking dry cigarettes, he came to the old man and sat down, took out the cigarette case from the pocket of his jacket, took out one and handed it over.

Desiree was not polite to him, took it and lit it on the fire, took a puff, his gray eyebrows furrowed, the taste of tobacco was too faint for him.

Luo Lie also lit a cigarette and raised his head to look at the night sky, the stars in the quiet night sky were shining, and it was easy to find the location of the Milky Way here.

Desili suddenly said a word, his dry finger pointed to the night sky, Luo Lie looked in the direction he pointed, but saw a meteor crossing in the northwest direction, Desirei's expression became sincere and frightened, he threw away the cigarette in his hand, prostrate on the ground, and bowed down to the place where the meteor haunted with great reverence.

Luo Hunt has a wide range of knowledge, and has traveled to many parts of the world, knowing that every nation has their worship totem and their fears, judging from De Xiri's expression, this meteor is obviously not a good sign.

Fortunately, most of the Tajiks had already fallen asleep and did not see the vision in the night sky. Otherwise, it will inevitably cause panic.

As far as meteors are concerned, some people think that broom stars usually bring bad luck, and some people say that when meteors appear in the night sky, they often make wishes for it, but Luo Lie knows that this is just an ordinary celestial phase, and there is no scientific truth to either theory.

The weather in the desert is changing, and there is a sandstorm in the middle of the night, because I found a proper place to stay in advance, and I naturally don't have to worry about being swept away by the wind and sand tonight. This wind and sand is much smaller than last night, Rao is so, and the tent is constantly swaying in the wind and sand.

Luo Lie woke up from his sleep, and to be on the safe side, he checked the four corners of the tent again to prevent the tent from being lifted by the wind and sand. There was a neighing sound of cattle outside, and the wind and sand still caused panic among the cattle, Luo Lie lifted the corner of the tent and looked out, but saw that the old man of Dishri and more than a dozen sturdy Tajik men were moving the cattle into the inner city with high walls.

Luo Lie decided to get up and help, and walked out of the tent against the wind and sand towards them, but he stopped after a few steps, because he heard the sound of horses neighing in the distance, and this sound was definitely not from the interior of the ancient city.

Since being planted by his father after the seeds of wisdom, Luo Lie's sense has become extremely keen, he immediately judged that there is a horse team is coming in the direction of the ancient city, turned around and walked towards the abandoned lookout, because of the wind, so it is difficult to walk, finally came to the lookout, took out the goggles and put them on, looked into the distance, and vaguely saw a group of hazy black shadows coming to this side due west of the ancient city.

The old man of Dishri commanded his people to pull the cattle into the inner city, and also took Martha to the lookout, and at this time the team outside had approached again, and their eyes could also see that this team was numerous, about two hundred people, not a simple camel caravan, some people riding camels, and some people riding horses.

This team should be west and east, judging from their current position, they entered the Tengger Desert not long ago, and encountered this sand and dust before they had to come to the ancient city to escape the wind and sand.

The old man's face suddenly became grim, and he whispered a word, while Martha said to Luo Lie: "The situation seems to be a little wrong!"

Desiree had loudly reminded the clansmen below to be vigilant, and those clansmen quickly picked up weapons, most of their weapons were bows, arrows, knives and guns, in order to ensure the safety of the caravan, they would carry some self-defense weapons with them, but most of them were mainly cold weapons, and the entire caravan only had three spears.

Luo Lie also felt a little bad from the sudden tense atmosphere, these Tajiks have traveled back and forth to the Tengger Desert many times, they should be very clear about the surrounding situation, judging from their reactions, they should have a premonition of danger, could it be that this team is a bandit?

Luo Lie quickly rejected this idea, he had investigated the situation here before entering the Tengger Desert, this desert is not infested with bandits, after all, there are not many caravans that choose to pass here, and the desert is uninhabited, if the bandits rob in this area, they are afraid that sooner or later they will starve to death. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that they came prepared, and this possibility was established after they got the news in advance and locked the caravan of Desire.

But from what Luo Lie saw so far, this was just an ordinary caravan.

Martha said on the side: "Usually caravans camp at night, and rarely they are still on the road in the middle of the night. ”

Luo Lie nodded, and at this time the team was getting closer and closer, and Desili made a gesture, and one of his men lit a torch on the beacon on the right side to warn the other party, telling them that there were already people in the ancient city.

The team outside the ancient city really stopped, and a knight left the team on horseback, came to the root of the ancient city's wall, and said loudly: "We are Shanxi merchants passing by, because we are in a hurry, unfortunately encountered a sandstorm, and I hope to make it convenient to travel, let me wait to enter the ancient city to avoid the wind and sand." ”

Martha translated the man's words to Desire.

Desseri pondered for a moment, and asked Martha to relay what she meant, and those people could go around to the eastern wall of the ancient city and set up camp, where they could also hide from the wind and sand, but they were not allowed to enter the city. Although Desire's decision was not friendly, it was a safe one.

The knight politely clasped his fist at them, then turned his horse's head and returned to the group.

Desiri was secretly relieved to see that the other party did not insist on entering the city. Luo Lie sensed his nervousness, and couldn't help but feel a little strange in his heart, what treasures were really transported in the caravan of Daoxili, otherwise how could he be so nervous?

Luo Lie raised his eyes to look at the caravan in the wind and sand outside the city, and the team began to move slowly, from which the team split into two halves and circled the east side of the ancient city. Luo Lie faintly felt that something was wrong, after the other party's team separated, several carriages were exposed, because the distance was far away, and the specific situation could not be seen clearly, but suddenly he heard an earth-shattering shelling sound.

Two small steel cannons were fired at the same time, and the cannonballs whistled in, and the target was the lookout where Luo Hunt and them were.

Hearing the sound of cannons, Luo Hunt already knew that something was wrong, he reacted immediately, jumped with a loud roar, and then jumped off the lookout, Desirei and Martha reacted almost at the same time, before Luo Hunt landed, the cannonball fell on the lookout, blowing up the lookout into smoke, and the radiation of sand and stones fell on them like rain, as soon as Luo Lie's feet landed, he was crushed by a collapsed earth wall.

Gunfire rang out one after another, and more than 200 uninvited guests began to attack the ancient city from different angles.

Desili sprained his ankle when he landed, but Martha was lucky not to be injured, and shouted his father's name to lift him up from the ground, and another cannonball landed not far behind them, and the three people were blown up in the air by the cannonball, and their bodies were already torn apart in the air, and flesh and blood flew everywhere.

Although the caravan of Desirei was also equipped with weapons, its power could not be compared with that of these bandits, and the three spears were already completely inferior under the suppression of the opponent's firepower.

At present, the only way to choose to hide and only hope to survive the enemy's fiercest firepower attack can we have a chance to survive. Martha heard Luo Hunt's shout, it turned out that although Luo Hunt was crushed by the earthen wall, but the place where he was a trench, so he was not injured, this trench should be the drainage facilities of the ancient city in the past, although it has been countless years, it has not been flooded by yellow sand.