After Zhao Chongyang and others joined Xie Zhen and Xie Bao, under the leadership of the guide, they traveled day and night, and after three days, they bypassed the Zhejia army in the Daheng Mountains, crossed the Wuding River, and entered the southern part of the Mu Us Sandy Land.

In this area, except for the occasional diaspora of Mongolians, there are few Han villages. In order to save horsepower, Zhao Chongyang asked the big sword, armor, and helmet of the big knife team to be taken away by him. Everyone looked at him with surprised eyes, and he had to explain: "When I was a child, I learned spells from a Taoist master, and I can carry spells for thousands of miles, but the preparation before each spell casting is very troublesome, so I rarely use it. If it weren't for my ability to spell, where did the dry food and pears that were sent to you every day come from, would I be able to move the horses of Wu Song, Bao Daochang and others? The distance of this expedition was nearly 2,100 miles, and the desert accounted for almost half of the distance, and we rode in two people, with an average of 310 miles a day, and we were expected to arrive in seven days. When we arrived at Xingqing Mansion and prepared to attack the city, the battle on the side of Daheng Mountain was about to start or was already loud. In the three days we were in the desert, we had to try to maintain such a speed, so that we could basically guarantee that we would arrive in Xingqing within seven days. Therefore, half a month before departure, I asked people to prepare dry food, meat, and vegetables, and in the first three days, in order to conceal our whereabouts, we tried to travel at night, rest during the day, and eat dry food, and did not cook on the fire. Tonight, resting in the desert, you can raise the fire and cook your own rice and eat your own food. I carry all the utensils and ingredients for cooking with me by spell, meat, vegetables, pots and pans, and I can drink some wine properly......"

Listening to Zhao Chongyang, you can eat fresh meals and drink some wine tonight, and everyone is looking forward to it.

The crowd traveled lightly, alternating with weights on the horses, no slower than on the mountain road. It's just that the climate in the desert is dry, and people and horses consume a lot of water. Fortunately, Zhao Chongyang had prepared and stored millions of catties of water in the system warehouse, enough for more than 3,000 people and more than 6,000 horses to use for several days.

They traveled in the desert for a day, and came across four waves of camel caravans coming from the west, some of them one or two hundred people, and a few hundred camels, and a few dozen of them, and a hundred and ten camels. The camels were driven by young and middle-aged men with bows and arrows and weapons. Look at the dressed Han Chinese, Hui and Mongolian people.

In the evening, they came to the edge of a poplar forest, the first resting place that the guide had found with him. Because there is water near here. After everyone dismounted, some set up tents, some fed the horses, some buried pots to make food, there were many dead branches in the poplar forest, and even the whole giant tree died due to lack of water, so there was no firewood. In fact, Zhao Chongyang prepared firewood for everyone, as well as charcoal stoves and coke for heating at night, the late autumn nights in the desert are relatively cold, if the temperature is low at night, you can burn two stoves in the tent

After dinner, the guide asked everyone to raise several fires around the camp to prevent wolves and other wild beasts from attacking.

Sure enough, after midnight, two packs of wolves came to patronize them. The first group consisted of only a few dozen, and more than a dozen of them were killed by special operators with arrows and flintlock pistols, and the rest fled in confusion under the leadership of the head wolf. At this time, Wu Song, Bao Daoyi and others didn't sleep anymore, and directly led people to cut the wolf skin, clean up the wolf meat and eat it tomorrow, and some soldiers simply cut the wolf meat with a knife and roasted it on the fire to eat.

Maybe it was the smell of dead wolves that spread fast and far, or the smell of roasted wolf meat attracted more wolves, and the second time two or three hundred wolves came. This time there was a lot of movement, and everyone got up. Zhao Chongyang gave an order, and the big knife team had a big knife in their hands, detoured from a distance, surrounded the wolves, and slowly shot with a crossbow, trying not to cut with a knife to ensure the integrity of the wolf skin.

It took nearly two hours to finally hunt all the nearly 200 adult wolves, and skinned them, and they only needed wolf livers for their internal organs. The rest of the entrails were placed on the technical bar, reserved for dozens of wolf cubs. At this time, it was also close to four o'clock in the morning, and everyone tossed for half a night, and there was also some Russian. Zhao Chongyang ordered the fire to be raised to make breakfast and eat braised wolf meat. He boiled a pot with his own hands and asked each company to send cooks to observe.

At six o'clock in the morning, the whole army ate a ton of fragrant braised wolf meat and went on the road in good spirits......

After three days of hard work, they finally walked out of the Mu Us Desert at about 5 p.m. on the eighth day of the eighth month of August and entered the edge of the Ningxia Plain, which is known as the south of the Yangtze River.

Zhao Chongyang ordered the whole army to rest for a while, eat some dry food, drink some water, take advantage of today's sunny weather and the first quarter moon, and walk until about 11 o'clock in the evening before resting, and then rest until 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon before setting off......

Zhao Chongyang estimated that they were only two hundred miles away from Xingqing Mansion based here, and for their light cavalry, it was only half a day's journey.