When the August sun finally fell below the horizon, the hot wind on the Gobi immediately became icy cold, as if to take away every minute of temperature from people's bodies.

At this time, it is no longer suitable for marching, or even for anyone to live, but for some purpose, intelligent human beings always try to cross the Hanhai over and over again, and this road is not a road, as evidenced by the dry bones that exist on the side of the road at some point.

He had been traveling through this Gobi for three days, and he still couldn't get through before dark today, so he could only arrange for the three armies to camp before nightfall, and Ah Gui's heart was extremely depressed.

Of course, grain and grass are a problem, this time he sent troops to carry the largest amount of dry food he could bring, and at most he could barely support the whole army for twenty days, and the rest was left for the other 50,000 troops stationed in Lanzhou Mansion.

Starting from Lanzhou Province, even if you hurry up, it will take five or six days for the fastest vanguard to reach Huijiang, and then you will need to contact those tribes close to the imperial court to obtain sufficient information and supplies, which will take time.

If the battle cannot be successful, or even if the war is delayed for more than ten days, then the expedition will be considered a failure.

For the war, Ah Gui has enough confidence and enough certainty, those barbarians who don't even know what the art of war is, relying on their superb riding skills and familiar terrain, they vainly try to resist the army of the imperial court?

As long as it is a head-to-head duel, Ah Gui is confident that he will defeat those rebels in the Hui Department in one day, even if these rabble outnumber the official army, even if they are the head snakes of the ground, even if they wait for work, they still can't stop the heavenly power of the imperial court.

But the biggest problem is not the enemy, but the desert, the weather, the terrain, the damn ... Grain and grass.

The imperial court had previously sent Prince He Hongday as the chief admiral to command the vanguard troops and protect the grain and grass, but this waste was ashamed of the emperor's trust, and in just a few days, the Red Flower Society gang of bandits colluded back to Xinjiang to seize the 100,000 stone grain and grass that should have been supplied to the army, if that batch of grain and grass is still there, and even as long as thirty percent is retained, Ah Gui's grasp of this decisive battle will be fifty percent higher.

Instead of being like now, with only three or four percent chance of winning, he still needs to go out.

Sighing, Gui sat down again, the dinner in front of him was already cold.

In order to clean up military discipline and improve morale, he eats exactly the same as ordinary soldiers every day, nothing more than some dry food, the only good thing is that you can soak it in hot water to eat, but just now when he was distracted, after a moment of effort, the hot water has turned into ice water.

This damn weather, after three consecutive days of rapid marching, has lost more than 500 people in non-combat, these are the most elite soldiers of the Qing Empire, and Ah Gui's heart is dripping blood.

Originally, Ah Gui was reluctant to come to this troubled water, according to his thoughts, the tribes that rebelled back to Xinjiang were just scabies, and it should be able to solve it by sending a few eloquent civil officials to Huairou, and it should be able to solve it.

Once the army is sent to suppress it, if you win, you will form a mortal enemy with the other party, and if you lose, the majesty of the imperial court will be lost, and there will be more rebellions.

However, since the emperor has made a decree, as a general, he must carry out the direction of the emperor's decision.

He just needs to do it all well, and he doesn't need much personal thinking.

Fortunately, according to the map, the oasis stationed tonight is already relatively close to the edge of the desert, and tomorrow it should be able to get out of this damn Gobi, and then it will be time to show your ability to use soldiers.

Lowered his head and ate the bowl of dinner, his stomach churned, his stomach was very bad after many years of military career, and he was expected to be sleepless tonight.

But he could not refrain from eating, and if he was seen having his dinner served in a bowl, I was afraid that there would be some rumors in the army.

Ah Gui smiled bitterly for a while, as the commander of the three armies, there will still be many unsatisfactory things, and he can't call the shots.

At this time, someone outside the door reported that Lord Luo Song, who was in charge of the broken off, had come back and asked to see the handsome.

"Please!" This Luo Song is still very good, although he is an officer of the Imperial Forest Army in the imperial capital, he is the first in everything, and has repeatedly taken the initiative to ask for an ambush to break off, in fact, in the past few days, he has indeed defeated many attempts by traitors to harass the army, it seems that after this war, he can be promoted to the next level.

For this kind of meritorious warrior who was killed in the battle array, Ah Gui respected it more than anyone else.

Soon, Luo Song entered the military tent, and Ah Gui keenly found that Luo Song's complexion was not very good tonight, and the state of the whole person was a little sluggish, and even his face was a little dark.

Did something go wrong when it was broken?

Sure enough, as soon as Luo Song spoke, his voice became a little hoarse: "Dashuai, my department has been attacked by a sneak attack, and all my subordinates have been killed, if I don't see a bad opportunity, I'm afraid I won't be able to see you!"

After all, an iron-clad man actually hung his head and shed tears, and the whole person looked shaky.

Ah Gui hurriedly stepped forward to support Luo Song, and asked urgently, "Who attacked you, how many people are there, are you injured?"

"The enemy... There were more than a thousand enemy troops, all of whom hid behind the sand dunes, and waited until the army had passed, and they did not move at all, as if they knew our plan for the ambush, Marshal, I suspect that there are enemy spies within the army!" Luo Song cried.

When Ah Gui heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little flustered.

Regardless of whether the army is monolithic or not, it is inevitable that some spies or traitors will lurk in, which is inevitable, but this kind of news is inconvenient to spread, otherwise, it will make the whole army panic.

Ordered to retreat left and right, Ah Gui helped Luo Song to sit down, and then said with a straight face: "Lord Luo, you are too worried, my imperial army is obedient to the people, crusade against rebellion, how can there be traitors, not to mention how those Hui people lurk in my army, don't think too much, it's okay if people are fine, rest early, this kind of thing without evidence, there is no need to mention it in the future." ”

Luo Song said: "Dashuai, I have evidence, my subordinates mentioned it to me before, but at that time I thought he was climbing indiscriminately, so I didn't pay attention to it, thinking about it today, it should be true." ”

"Oh?" Ah Gui only then looked squarely at the military attache in front of him, who was only the sixth grade, if what he said was true, then it was better than anything else to be able to pull out a nail that the enemy had arranged in the army before the decisive battle.

"Tell me, who is so bold?"

Luo Song didn't speak again at this time, and the whole person sat on the chair, motionless, obviously fainting.