"This is Zhang Rui!" Zhu Chang announced, "You can't be wrong. The other one is Liang Sheng! He turned the corpse over with his foot, and the dead body's face was pale, and its blood-red eyes were wide open, staring at the gloomy sky.

"Both of them are under General Zhao." Lu Shengdao.

This means that the six princes have really gone north! Liu Mo thought to himself. Shouldn't we also continue to the north, through the swamps?

Zhang Rui's right arm was cut off by his wrist, and only a blur of flesh and blood remained at the end.

The palm of his right hand was missing, and his left palm, though it was still attached to his arm, was rotten.

"Damn Zhou Dynasty miscellaneous!" Zhu Chang muttered.

Liu Mo didn't say anything, just turned over and jumped off the back of the war horse, handing the reins to the attendant.

It was an unusually warm morning, but Liu Mo could see that beads of sweat were all over Zhu Min's forehead.

Liu Mo's mount was very cramped, rolling his eyes and pulling the reins, trying to retreat from the dead man.

The attendant led it away a few steps, trying not to let it break free. The horses don't like the feeling of this place, and then again, Liu Mo himself doesn't like it either.

"General Sun," Liu Mo asked, "you sent six scout troops, this is one of them, what about the others?" Did you find anything? ”

"Back to my lord, not yet!" Sun Kan replied.

Liu Mo was obviously very dissatisfied with this answer.

"I sent it out yesterday, and today I only found two dead people? What are your men doing? ”

"My lord, this is the territory of the Zhou Dynasty!" Sun Kan pointed out, "I can't let my men go too far!" ”

"That's right!" Liu Mo sighed, "Then forget it." He waved his hand impatiently. Tell me how long they were dead and how? ”

What Liu Mo wanted to know was whether the two of them were killed when they encountered the Zhou Dynasty patrol after they were separated, or whether they were seriously injured and abandoned on the side of the road.

This is very important information, which can allow Liu Mo to take precautions as soon as possible.

Sun Kan squatted down beside the corpse, grabbing his scalp and grabbing his head. Strands of hair fell from his fingers, crunchy as straw. He sighed and reached out to flip his face over.

There was a deep wound on the neck on the other side of the corpse, like a large mouth, which was filled with dried blood clots. Only a few tendons remain between the head and neck. "He was hacked to death with an axe."

"Axes?"

"That's right," Zhu Min muttered, "Lord Liu, it's the axe of ordinary people chopping wood!" ”

"This..."Liu Mo frowned, "Aren't they killed by the Zhou Dynasty army?" But after he got lost, he was killed by the people of the Zhou Dynasty! Abandoned on the side of the road? ”

Then the question arises, why didn't the people report to the government when they encountered the soldiers of Great Xia?

Liu Mo only felt breakfast churning in his stomach, but he forced himself to purse his lips and force himself to look at the second corpse.

Zhu Min said that Liang Sheng was a tall and ugly person before his death, and his body was also big and ugly after his death.

His body was rotting. The wounds covered the whole body like a rash, from the lower body to the chest to the throat, and were decorated with dried and cracked blood flowers. His eyes were still open, and his white eyes stared straight at the sky.

"My lord, these two people look like they were killed by the people of the Zhou Dynasty!" Zhu Min announced.

"I see!" Liu Mo said, "How are the pursuers in the back?" ”

"Like annoying flies, endlessly!" Sun Kan replied, "They pursued with light cavalry, but always kept a certain distance. Whenever our broken troops tried to drive away, they retreated. As soon as we moved forward, they pursued them again.

Not only that, but at night, they launched suicide attacks in order to hold us back! ”

Liu Mo's brows tightened when he heard this, "Yang Yizhi is gathering a large army, he wants to annihilate us completely!" ”

"My lord, what now?" Zhu Min asked.

Liu Mo's eyes were closed and he thought for a long time.

"Continue north, the large army of the Six Princes is in the north!" He announced.

All the way north, the land became more and more desolate.

After walking for about two days, they came to a red wasteland.

Forage is hard to find here, and there is less water. It is a dry and inhospitable land of low hills and wind-eroded, barren wilderness.

They crossed the bone-dry riverbed, on which the horses depended on brown and tough forage, which grew under the rocks and at the bottom of dead trees.

Liu Mo sent scouts to investigate, but they found neither rivers nor sweet springs, only shallow pools of bitter water exposed to the scorching sun. And the deeper you go into the wasteland, the smaller the pools you find, and the longer the distance between them.

The water ran out quickly, and they had to move on without being able to get off the water source.

The land grew desolate, the forage became scarce, and the horses fell one by one.

At this time, the soldiers who followed Liu Mo began to whisper in private.

"Where is our governor taking us?"

"Is the Sixth Prince really in the north?"

Liu Mo couldn't explain it, he could only resist the pressure and continue to the north with his troops.

The good news is that the next day, they found a pool.

But the water in the pool was not clean and smelled of sulfur, but their water bags were empty, and they had no choice.

Liu Mo ordered people to use bottles and cans to hold water, boil them before drinking. The stench didn't diminish any bit, but water is water, and they were thirsty.

He looked up at the horizon in the distance, but the red moors were still endless. At this time, Liu Mo began to doubt himself!

It was not until the next morning that they came to a cracked red plain, where they wanted to set up camp, and the scouts rode back at a gallop. "Lord Liu! There's a city ahead! They shouted, "It's only an hour's ride away!" ”

"Take me there!" Liu Mo said.

When the city finally appeared in front of him, the white walls shone behind the air curtain, so beautiful that Liu Mo thought that it could only be a mirage.

"What is this place?" He asked subconsciously.

No one can answer his question, this is the territory of the Zhou Dynasty, a place where the soldiers of Great Xia have never set foot.

The white wall in the distance symbolizes recuperation and safety, they can heal their wounds and recuperate, and reorganize, so Liu Mo immediately ordered to go and investigate. "Be sure to find out if there are any enemy ambushes!"

"Yes!"

Sun Kan's reconnaissance unit soon returned to and fro.

"Lord Liu, it's a dead city. The city gate is broken, and there are no enemy ambushes! ”

"Then go in and rest the troops!"

Liu Mo grabbed the horse's belly, first walked through the broken arch of the ancient city, and ran along the silent street. Sun Kan and Zhu Min followed, and the rest of the Great Xia soldiers also slowly followed.

I don't know how long this city has been abandoned, but the pure white walls, which look beautiful from a distance, are found to be ruined when you come in.

The narrow alleys of the city are intricately intertwined, and the buildings are overturned against each other, and their fronts are windowless and featureless, and they are pale as far as the eye can see. Everything is white, as if the inhabitants have no idea about color.

They walked through the sun-drenched ruins of collapsed houses, and there were faded burn marks everywhere.

Liu Mo found the ruins of a long-ruined palace and was about to set up camp in the palace square, where the wind and sand were raging, and weeds grew among the road stones.

At this moment, a rush of horses' hooves was heard.

The scout came to report, "Lord Liu, there is a situation!" ”

"Didn't you probe it?" Liu Mo really wanted to scold, "Be on guard, be ready to fight at any time!" ”