Guazhou Mingsha, Li Qi, the governor of Guagandao, who had set out to fight, stood on the earth city wall, carrying his hands on his back, and looked into the distance.

Looking at the Gobi desert in front of me and the scorching sun above my head, I felt that the entire city was like a sheep on a bonfire, being roasted by fire.

As I saw with my own eyes, this ghost place is indeed too hot. Now it is the hot summer season. The scorching sun is scorching the earth. Not to mention the heat waves around, even the ground is hot.

There is no doubt that attacking from Guazhou at this time is a huge test for the soldiers and horses of the entire army.

The Turks must have known their intention to attack the Western Regions along the Hexi region road to Guazhou. They must have dealt with it.

Then, they crashed into the Western Regions that had been controlled by the Turks, and they might be like a large group of big fishes, crashing into the fishing net array set up by the fishing boat group.

Before Li Shi went to war, he had already done his best to conquer and knew that most of the countries in the Western Regions were countries with cities as their states (one city or several cities), and they all surrendered to the Turkic Khanate.

There is a Tutun country in its country, which was established by the Turks. Therefore, it is impossible for a Western Region country to dare to stand on the side of the Chu army in the west to fight against the Chu army, nor is it possible for a country to dare to help the Chu army openly, otherwise it would inevitably be brutal revenge by the Turks afterwards.

Therefore, after the Chu army in the Western Expedition entered the Western Regions, it was impossible to get normal supplies by just "beautiful and happy" means, nor could it be known from the movements of the Turkic army from the people of the country.

These countries, because of the small and small soldiers, certainly did not dare to provoke them, but they would definitely inform the Turks of whereabouts of the Chu army. It is not impossible to find a flaw when necessary to attack them.

Therefore, the Chu army entering the Western Regions must be like a dog with a broken family in this area, and everyone shouted and beaten, and there would not even be a stable nest.

The injured soldiers during the battle have no safe place to stay and recuperate, and can only force themselves to follow the army.

Then, as the battle continues, more and more injured people will be injured, and more and more people will be seriously injured due to inability to recuperate.

The Chu army was wandering around the Western Regions, hitting walls everywhere and being attacked everywhere, but was unable to find the main Turkic force to fight, unable to fix it safely, the troops were constantly losing, the horses were constantly decreasing, and the movement speed became slower and slower.

Just like a big fish entangled by a fishing net, exhausted and covered in bruises, the fisherman collects the net and the end of the big fish will come.

If that is the case, the expeditionary army will be wiped out, so how can the word "miserable" be so great?

At that time, he, the eldest son of the Central Plains emperor, will receive the most noble treatment: his head is inlaid with gold by the Turkic Khan and made into a wine vessel...

"Your Highness, you have painted it."

The voices coming from his ears brought Li Shi's thoughts back to reality. He turned his head and looked at the two painters standing in front of the easel to draw.

He nodded to the two painters, then stretched his body and stretched his muscles.

There was no way, my father asked him to go to Dunhuang... After the sound of the sand, he had to leave a painting as a memory, so he posed here and asked the painter to draw sketches.

After walking back and forth, Li Shi looked at the white robe she was wearing and touched the "shoulder-drooping neck turban" she wore on her head, feeling quite surprised:

Is it really not hot to wear a robe and a hijab in such a hot place?

This was really an accident, because according to his understanding, when he went to a hot place, wearing a long robe was a pain, and he would inevitably suffer from sweat and prickly heat, and he would feel uncomfortable all over his body.

However, the secret taught by the father of "Arab" is that the Western Regions are hot but dry, unlike the hot but humid Jiaozhou. Here, wearing an "Arabic robe" is not hot because this kind of clothing has good sun protection.

After personal experience, Li Shi proved with facts that the dressing experience taught by his father when he was young was really useful.

The white silk robe and the "shoulder-drooping neck guard" headscarves first use the advantages of "white reflection" to reduce the "absorption" of the clothes to the sun's heat;

Secondly, a robe and a headscarf protect the person's body, limbs and neck well to avoid being exposed to sunburn.

Third, because the clothes are sun-proof and breathable (relatively speaking), and the area in which they are located is not damp, people will not feel "covered". The amount of sweating is actually not large, which psychologically avoids the anxiety of "very hot and thirsty".

Li Shi was very satisfied with this "Arabic robe" and became more and more curious about the identity of "Arabic" that his father encountered when he was young:

Arabic numbers, Arabic robe, who is this Arabic sacred?

However, although the "Arabic robe" is good, it is different from the Central Plains clothing and cannot be worn often.

Not to mention anything else, I was wearing a plain white robe and a big white turban all day long. I knew that this was a summer clothing, but I didn’t know that he thought he was wearing mourning clothes.

Suddenly someone came to report to him, saying, "The team over there is here again." Li Qi hurried to change his clothes.

The team "over there" has come and needs to be properly placed.

......

Outside Mingsha City, there was a temporary military camp. Linghu Xiu and Linghu Xu, who had gone to war with the army, looked at the team entering the camp and remained silent.

There were many carriages in the team, escorted by cavalrymen, and a group of sick men were sitting in each car.

These sick men are all soldiers in military uniforms. They look normal, but they are tired, or have dull eyes, listless, and sick.

As soon as I saw it, I knew I had "Xihai disease".

Linghu Xu knew the origin of "Xihai disease", and saw this and said, "Brother, are these people from Xihai..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Linghu Xiu: "Shh!! Don't talk, don't catch it, you should be slaughtered as a scared chicken!"

"Uh..." Linghu Xu subconsciously looked around and saw that there were many passing soldiers on his side outside his own army. Na Na: "What brother said is..."

The two stopped talking and watched the carriages pass by.

The convoy came from the south, and to the south, it was a mountain pass in the Qilian Mountains.

From Dunhuang Mingsha to the south, cross this mountain pass, and enter the southern territory of the Qilian Mountains. It is the territory of Tuyuhun, namely the Haixi region.

Continue walking south and you can reach the West Sea, where there is the capital of Tuyuhun.

Then walk along the Huangshui River in the West Sea, exit the Huangshui River Valley, go to the edge of the Yellow River, and turn east to reach Jincheng.

In the early years, the Linghu brothers followed the shopkeepers and went on a long journey to do business with the caravan, so they knew that some people with weak constitutions would suddenly get sick after arriving from Jincheng to the Haixi area.

The symptoms of this disease are dizziness, tinnitus, chest tightness, and taking herbs are useless, but as long as you return from the original route (from the Huangshui Valley to the south, and from the mountain pass to the north to the Mingsha), the symptoms will disappear.

People call this disease "Western Sea disease", so caravans walking on "Haixi Road" are not suitable for those with weak constitutions to accompany them.

Especially the caravans who walked on the "Western Road" (walking west from the Huangshui Valley, crossing the western part of the sea, reaching the western end, crossing the mountain pass and entering the Kingdom of Khotan) were weak in physique and prone to "Western Sea disease" followed, and they were sent to death.

The two brothers waited for the convoy to pass by, continued to move forward, and came to their camp.

They are the children of the Linghu clan of Dunhuang, but the word "Dunhuang" is just a county honor for them.

Because the family had already moved to Liangzhou, Longyou, to settle down.

Now, the family responded to the call of the government and sent two children from other branches to join the army. Therefore, the two unlucky brothers from Linghu Xiu and Linghu Xu were "selected".

They took a group of crooked melons and jujubes arranged by their families and followed the Chu army to Guazhou, preparing to suffer in the Western Regions.

The prince who led the army was said to be a concubine's son. The children of the big families in various places who joined the army were also a concubine's son. The two brothers and a large group of concubine's sons marched and set up camps, and they suddenly felt like they were sympathetic:

Are they all miserable people who are not favored by their families?

He was driven out by his father to make a living, and his family business was a part of his family. If he lost, he would lose his mother and his son would be secretly happy.

But along the way, the two brothers observed carefully and based on what they saw with their own eyes, they found that the situation was wrong:

The fishing emperor seemed to really plan to make his concubine's contribution!

They saw that the army was subject to bans, and the soldiers were all burly men with excellent weapons, and they were obviously a group of tigers, not wardrobes pretending to behave.

In the camp, Linghu Xu asked in a low voice: "Brother, I remember that if Kucha is the center, Dunhuang is two or three thousand miles east of it."

“Khotan is in its south, thousands of miles.”

"As for the Turkic royal court, it is unsteady, sometimes in the Pamir Mountains, sometimes in the Jinshan Mountains, but recently, it is often in the Baishan area north of Kucha..."

Linghu Xiu listened silently without saying a word, Linghu Xu continued: "Now, we are in Dunhuang... Mingsha, the movements made by the government army with great fanfare can be seen clearly by the Turks."

"In theory, only the sick men who came from the southern mountain pass were obviously soldiers of another team because they had 'West Sea disease' during the march..."

As he spoke, Linghu Xu's voice lowered: "So, can we, as bait, sway in the sound of sand, deliberately letting the Turks stare at them, and by the way, we will receive the wounded soldiers. In fact, there is still a way to go, and we have to..."

"Okay, just understand it in your heart. Don't say it out loud. Too much words will lead to mistakes." Linghu Xiu interrupted his younger brother.

The two brothers looked at each other for a moment, and each saw hope and unwillingness in each other's eyes.

Should the concubine's son be trampled by the legitimate son? Should he be inferior?

No, as long as I have the chance, I can prove that I am no worse than the legitimate son!

"This is a rare opportunity. Brother, the fishing emperor is going to fish again. If my father knew about it, he would not have sent us." Linghu Xiu looked at his younger brother and said earnestly: "We don't divide the family business, we have to conquer the family business on the battlefield!!"
Chapter completed!