Chapter 6: The Wild Lands
That night, Yun Chu's caravan was stationed at Sanleisha.
There are three paths to choose from.
On the left is Loulan Road, in the middle is the big sea road, on the right is a little pole road, Loulan Road naturally leads to Loulan, the big sea road leads to Shanshan, Gaochang, and the slightly pole road leads directly to Hami.
For the Tang army, it is generally necessary to choose a slight road with a post station and a military city, as well as Loulan Road with Bailongdui and Shaxijing supply points.
In general, the nearest sea route in the middle is not chosen.
"In order to rescue Qiuci, Liang Jianfang led his troops into the Great Sea Road, but as a result, he was blocked by a major flood for nearly 20 days here, and the last Qiuci was killed and injured in the two cities of Khotan, so we suggest that we take a little bit" Gentle in front of Liang Ying, directly pointed out the mistakes made by Liang Jianfang back then, and also hoped that Liang Ying could learn a lesson and not repeat the mistakes of Lao Liang.
Yun Chu shook his head and said, "From Yumen Pass to Gaochang, the road is long, and it takes at least two thousand miles to walk a little pole road, however, taking the sea road can save half the time, and walking a thousand miles less, we can't ignore this factor."
Gently dropped the charcoal pen, looked at Yun Chu and said, "You grew up in the Western Regions, and you know best what the Great Sea Dao is like
Although you can save half the time by walking the sea road, you should not forget that entering the sea road is equivalent to entering no man's land.
At that time, Pei Ju walked the sea road and said: This road and sand moraine, lack of water and grass, people are difficult to walk, the four sides are vast, the road can not be remembered, but with the six animal bones and camel and horse dung as the standard, check to know the road, if the snow is not feasible, and there is a charm, it is not feasible.
"Zhou Shu Gaochang Biography": From Dunhuang to its country, there are many sand moraines, and the road can not be recorded, only to the bones of people and animals and camel and horse dung as a test, and there are strange monsters, so the business travel to and from Yiwu Road.
"Sui Shu Gaochang Biography" cloud: from the northwest of Dunhuang there is a shortcut, more than 1,000 miles of sand moraine, all sides are at a loss, there is no way, those who want to go look for the bones of people and animals to go, the road or hear the sound of song and bitterness, pedestrians look for it, many cause to die, cover the charm of the dragon also, so the merchants come and go, take more Yiwu Road.
You have also read these books, and I am a Tang Dynasty man who cultivates history books, not just to read, but to prevent us latecomers from repeating the mistakes of the past.
It is obviously more convenient to take the road of a little pole, that is, the road of Igo."
When Yun Chu heard this, he smiled and said to Zhong Kui, "The road recorded in the history books is rugged and difficult, we can naturally overcome it, the question is, the ghosts and spirits here are very powerful, are you afraid of these things?"
Zhong Kui, who was carrying Xiao Yuhua's leg to check the injury, glanced back at Yun Chu and said, "A certain family has been longing for many years to see the charm and the ghost, and today there is such a good opportunity that I can miss."
Gentle and angry, "You can't do whatever you want just because you're ugly, and you won't shy away just because you're ugly."
Zhong Kui said angrily, "I have read books for many years in the belly of a dog, Confucius said, how can you do ghosts if you can't do anything?
The ghosts do not dare to appear during the day, disappear at night, hear their voices but do not know their shape, when they talk about ghosts, most of them are people and clouds, and they can not be taken seriously
If you encounter a ghost in the Great Sea Road, you can lie down on the crotch of a certain family and see how a certain family captures the ghost.
Gently puzzled, "Why do you want to lie down under your crotch?"
Yun Chu helped explain that "the boy has enough yang flavor in his crotch, which can prevent the invasion of ghosts."
Gently looked at Yun Chu and said, "Aren't you afraid?"
Yun Chu said indifferently, "A certain family has been living with dead corpses in Qiuzi for twenty days, and there is always the sound of the corpses being overwhelmed after fermentation and inflation
Presumably, these ghosts are also people who bully the soft and fear the hard, a certain family has always been tough, if the ghost comes, kill it."
Liang Ying and Xiao Yuhua looked at Yun Chu who was as calm as water enviously, and secretly took Yun Chu as an example in their hearts, thinking that this was a manly husband.
Yun Chu saw that Wen Rou no longer insisted on walking a little way, so he smiled and said, "So it's decided, tomorrow, the soldiers will go to the sea."
Nodding gently, he said, "Okay, you are all heroes who have no cover, let's take the sea road, but you must understand that there are thieves in the sea road, we have to be careful to deal with it."
Zhang Donghai, who has never spoken much, said, "A certain family thinks that the prince chooses the Great Sea Road, not necessarily because there are many thieves there
We brought too few goods to get back much, and we couldn't loot them on a large scale, so we naturally had to rob them from the thieves.
In the end, he was mixed with Yun Chu in Liaodong, and he is still very keen to grasp the coach's thoughts.
As the name suggests, the third base sand is full of sand, and after Zhong Kui rode a war horse to take the lead from the soft sand to the thirsty Gobi, even the ascetic monks of the Shaolin Temple who were as stoic as the earth also sat cross-legged on the Gobi and chanted scriptures in the face of the Hanhai that was about to cross, hoping that the Buddha could bless this team of people and horses and cross this devilish land safely.
Naha also stood at the door of a stage-like wind erosion castle and danced a Buddhist dance, although it was still as incongruous as ever, it still attracted the welcome and respect of the whole army.
Naha danced badly, Yun Chu felt that it was his fault, this child walked on crutches when he was a child, he thought it was a small thing and did not correct it, because when Naha learned to walk, it was when Yun Chu trained marmots to get fat, and marmots were on crutches when they stood up and walked.
However, Naha is so good-looking, plus she has too many good clothes, especially the kind of long skirts that look flowing, there are a lot of long skirts, you only need to put a white veil on your face, put on her good-looking big clothes, and the wind on the Gobi will automatically prop up her brightly colored dress, fluttering like a fairy, so that those unseen turtle doors below are fascinated to watch.
Liang Ying also likes Naha, but he deliberately turns his head away from Naha when he performs and dances.
It's not that he doesn't want to see it, but because when he was leaving, the prince avoided Yun Chu, called him to the East Palace, and deliberately instructed him to protect Naha well.
The words are very clear, as long as Naha goes back well, then he will not hesitate to reward, if Naha comes back, he Liang Ying does not come back, it doesn't matter, his Liang family will get enough sincerity in return.
If Naha didn't come back, Liang Ying did...... At that time, the prince didn't say the result, but the look on his face looked like a demon in hell in Liang Ying's eyes.
Liang Ying also believes that if such a situation occurs, his experience will definitely not be much better than going to hell.
That's the prince of the Tang Dynasty - when Yun Chu got along with the prince, the prince behaved like a child who didn't know anything, and he looked harmless to humans and animals, which made everyone in Jinchangfang like him.
Leaving Jinchangfang, Liang Ying didn't know how to describe the prince, he only knew that someone had humiliated the prince at the eldest grandson's family party.
There are at least six families that have been wiped out by the emperor and empress personally, and even the eldest grandson is currently very unstable.
Therefore, Liang Ying knew that if Li Hong had the intention of making the Liang family a desperate family, he would definitely be able to do it.
For this reason, no matter how beautiful Naha looks, Liang Ying will always have subordinate etiquette to Naha, and even the good friendship of the Tongjia that he should have dare not reveal.
None of the prince's family is open-minded, just like his ancestor said, the royal people turn their faces faster than dogs.
Xiao Yuhua was fascinated, although the injury on his face was not yet healed, and his whole body was painful to death when he moved up and down, he still stood straight and watched Naha dance, and he couldn't give up.
So, Liang Ying moved his body outward, he didn't want to return to Chang'an in the future, because he was close to Xiao Yuhua, he would get bloody.
Two days later, the army entered the Great Sea Road completely.
Xuanzang, who once walked the old monkey through the sea road, said, "There are no birds on the top, no beasts on the bottom, and there is no water grass Gu Ying is the only one"
The old monkey said, "A bottle, a bowl, a horse, two people, there is nothing else in the world."
Yun Chu knew that this was probably one of the driest places on the planet, it was an absolute drought, and it could even be the center of the land, no matter where the water vapor could not come here, even if there was rain in the sky, it would be evaporated in mid-air.
However, there are no absolutes in the world.
Liang Jianfang, the unlucky man in the world, suffered a terrible flood in the driest place in the world.
The flood swept through the Gobi Desert, and the red flood flowed unchecked, leaving the 18,000-strong army unable to move forward.
led to the grand narrative concocted by Liang Jianfang to come to naught, and in the end he was convicted of this incident.
The most famous of the sea road is not the wind-eroded castles, but the wind, whenever the wind comes, the yellow sand covers the sky, the wind is agitated and whirling, and it is terrible and howling, like a ghost crying wolf.
Due to thousands of years of wind erosion, the ground here has formed ravines of different depths, and the exposed stone layers have been carved by wind knives into strange shapes, like castles and sculptures in Marvel movies.
At this time, even Avanti, who loves to talk the most, closed his mouth tightly, because as long as he opened his mouth, the delicate sand would burrow into his mouth.
The sand on the sea road is truly pervasive, walking for a day, there will be enough sand accumulated in the buttocks, under the friction of the two buttocks, the skin will secrete some sweat, when the sand is mixed with sweat, and after the butt flaps twist and rub, it will eventually achieve the effect of opening the skin and flesh, which is painful. (The author personally experienced it in 96 years) walked all the way through the practical and practical directions, the road is this thing, dead people, dead livestock after enough people, there are very obvious road signs.
A dead camel lay quietly on the side of the road, its flesh had not had time to rot and had become jerky, the fur on the windward side had been rubbed away by the wind carrying the sand, revealing bones of different thicknesses, and the fur on the leeward side was intact, but most of it was buried by scattered sand.
Yun Chu licked his dry lips and threw out the long whip in his hand, the whip retracted suddenly, and a colorful agate fell on Yun Chu's hand.
Yun Chu handed this piece of Gobi agate to Gentle and said, "Don't be drowsy, pay attention, there are treasures everywhere here."
Gently holding this piece of warm agate, she tore off the face towel and looked ahead, only to see that in the undulating mountains, there were also colorful stones such as blood red, blue, white, orange and yellow, shining in the sun, like a witch's pearl, adding a bit of mystery to the strange sea road.