At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves raining down sounded not far away.

Shi Min looked forward and saw that Yiyang Gong Shi Jian was rushing here with a team of his own guards.

"The Grand Duke!" Shi Jian saluted.

Shi Min waved his hand and said, "Yiyang Gong, why are you here?" ”

Shi Jian seemed to have some secret things that he wanted to talk to Shi Min about alone, so he looked at some of the nearby soldiers. Shi Min then let his guards retreat.

"Governor, I don't know if you have come up with any way to defeat the Xianbei people?"

Shi Min shook his head and said, "Without a water source, it is really unsustainable. ”

Shi Jian sighed and said, "Governor, you can't do anything now. In my opinion, it is better to retreat. ”

"Retreat?" Shi Min frowned and said, "Yiyang Gong, you must know that our army is now facing a dilemma. If the army retreats, it will be chaotic, and if it is chaotic, it will be defeated! ”

"I know." Shi Jian said, "But this is already the best way!" Now our army is besieged by the army of the Xianbei people, and the water and grain are no longer sustainable. If this continues, in a few days, our army will be completely annihilated! ”

When Shi Min heard this, he couldn't help but squint his eyes and said: "But Yiyang Gong, you have to know that even if our army retreats now, the water source is insufficient, and even if the enemy does not pursue, in the end, our soldiers will all die of thirst in this wasteland in the north of the desert!" ”

Hearing this, Shi Jian looked at the dozens of guards nearby, and then whispered to Shi Min: "Thorn slave, you can't do anything now." What we have to think about now is not how to defeat the Xianbei people, nor how to preserve our strength, it is important to save our lives! ”

"If we don't even have our lives, what can we talk about? I think so, now there is a little water left in the army, and I have calculated that it is enough for a thousand people to drink for five days! Why don't we take the opportunity to run out of here with our cronies! Escape from this hellish place! ”

When Shi Min heard this, his face sank, and he said, "Yiyang Gong, you are a deserter!" If the king knows that you and I have left these tens of thousands of soldiers in disregard and slipped away by ourselves, how can we survive when we return to Yecheng? Isn't it sin and family? Sin and the Nine Tribes? ”

"If you don't say it, if I don't say it, who will know?"

"No!"

Shi Min still waved his hand solemnly and said, "You don't have to say anything about this matter anymore!" Yiyang Gong, wait two more days, if it is really time to run out of mountains and rivers, please take care of yourself. ”

"Alas!"

Shi Jian saw that he couldn't persuade Shi Min, so he couldn't help but sigh.

Looking at a cactus on one side, Shi Min couldn't help but feel an idea, he knew that many desert plants contained a lot of water. For example, cacti, immature yucca, and agave flower stems will contain high moisture. The barrel-shaped cactus contains a high level of moisture, but the squeezed water has a spicy taste, and the juice thickens quickly like slime.

To get the water out, you can also chew the pith, but don't swallow it. Carry some of these plants with you the pith of these plants, and suck them to quench your thirst.

Thinking of this, Shi Min snorted and swung a sword, directly cutting down this half-human-tall cactus.

Then, Shi Min slowly squatted on the ground, shaved off the thorns of the cactus, then put it in his mouth and sucked it, bit it again, and chewed it slowly.

After a long time, Shi Min took a sip, and then wiped the corners of his mouth with disgust.

"How? Governor, can you eat this thing? Can it quench your thirst? Shi Jian asked, tilting his head.

Hearing this, Shi Min nodded and said, "You can quench your thirst." ”

However, Shi Min immediately patted the dust on his battle skirt, looked at the few cacti, agave and other plants here, and couldn't help frowning: "But there are really not many plants here, and there are very few things that contain water!" Our army still has 70,000 people, and just by taking the water of these plants, I am afraid that it will not be enough at all, far from enough! ”

"What then?" Shi Jian said with a sad face.

In this regard, Shi Min was still racking his brains there, thinking and meditating.

He suddenly picked up the sword in his hand again, and was about to put it back in his scabbard, but from the sword of the sword, a thick slime, green cactus slime, dripped from the sword.

The slime flowed down the blade of the sword, like blood, and slowly fell on the dry desert.

"I thought of it!" Shi Min's eyes couldn't help but light up.

Hearing this, Shi Jian was speechless: "What is your plan?" ”

"Shi Jian listens to orders!"

"The last general!" Shi Jian immediately hugged his fists.

"Return to the camp at once, and give orders to all the officers and men of the whole army. Let them prepare a bowl, pots and pans, anything that can hold water, utensils! Then let them hang a blade of a sword, spear or spear from a vessel at nightfall! The next day there will be water to drink! ”

"No!"

Regarding Shi Min's military order, Shi Jian was a little unconscious, and the second monk was puzzled. But now that Shi Min's military order has been issued, he must follow it.

Shi Min is knowledgeable, and he vaguely remembers digging a pit about 90 centimeters wide and 45 centimeters deep in the relatively wet ground, placing a water collector in the center of the bottom of the pit, and hanging a plastic film drawn into an arc on the surface of the pit. The light energy raises the temperature of the moist soil and air in the pit, and evaporates to produce water vapor, which condenses into water droplets when in contact with the plastic film, and slides into the utensils.

Although Zhao Jun's conditions are a little worse now, if he wants to get water in the desert, he can't do it!

After Shi Jian returned to the camp, he immediately announced the military order issued by Shi Min.

Soon, the soldiers took out all the pots and pans they used to drink and eat on weekdays, put them in all corners of the camp, and then looked for some branches, wooden planks and other things as supports, and then set up a weapon, the sharpest part of which was naturally facing the pots and pans and other utensils underneath.

Night falls.

The night in the desert is very cold and cold, the wind is gusting, and the winter is getting stronger.

Many of the soldiers of the Zhao army sat on the edge of the bonfire, baking the fire to keep warm.

A Zhao pawn looked at an iron sword hanging beside him, as well as the pottery bowl under the tip of the sword, he couldn't help rubbing his hands, and sighed: "This plagued weather! You see, there's still no water in this bowl. The Metropolitan Governor isn't here to entertain us, is he? ”

"Phew! What nonsense?! ”

A Zhao pawn next to him said dissatisfiedly: "The Metropolitan Governor has all the opportunities, how can he have this idle time to entertain us big soldiers?" ”

"Well, I said, does it really work to hang the sword over the top of the clay bowl like this? I heard that if you do this, you can get a bowl of water the next day! It's incredible! ”

One of them replied, "Maybe it's true?" ”

"How is that possible? When I wake up, a bowl of water will appear next to me to drink, isn't it a god or a man......"

"That's right! Like the gods in the sky, you can turn stones into gold! ”

For the soldiers in the camp, there were many discussions about his own approach, and Shi Min was silent about it.

In the second half of the night, the wind was bittersweet.

The soldiers of the Zhao army, who had already fallen asleep deeply, naturally had an urgent need to urinate. So this Zhao pawn opened his eyes, and in his sleepy eyes, he inadvertently saw a bowl full of water on the pottery bowl next to him!

"Heavenly ......"

This Zhao pawn felt incredulous, and then rubbed his eyes with his hand again, making sure that he was not dazzled, and finally picked up the bowl of water and took a sip!

It's really a long drought!

"Hahahaha!" Zhao Zu laughed wildly and said loudly, "There's water!" There really is water coming out! ”

Some Zhao Shu, who could still sleep deeply, changed color when they heard this, and then they all scolded and scolded for a while, and then picked up the pottery bowl next to him, the pottery bowl full of water!

"Out of the water! Wake up! It's really out of the water! Many Zhao pawns couldn't help but scream, and even worse, they all hugged their heads and cried!

At this time, Shi Min was still fighting at night, studying this sheepskin map of the country in the big tent of the Chinese army.

As soon as he heard the movement outside, Shi Min's originally tightly frowning brows finally relaxed.

"The Grand Duke!" Hua Mulan, who was a personal guard, ran in with a bowl of water at this time.

"Out of the water! There was really water to drink! ”

"Hmm." Shi Min smiled very calmly.