Li Ming laughed loudly, he patted Xilai on the shoulder heavily and said, "You don't have to worry so much. The things I decided will never change. I will not help you freely, but to obtain your assistance. If you can provide my troops with enough food and water, that's fine. By the way, what is the main food here?"

After coming to the west, he was silent for a while. He hesitated for a long time before he said a little embarrassedly: "Brother Li, I'll tell you that the food in the desert is absolutely incomparable to the Tang Dynasty. Here, it is very good if people cannot fill their stomachs, so the food is extremely rough. Under normal circumstances, our main food is camel seeds, sand dates, dayun and a small amount of wheat, which was exchanged from other places. In addition, we also raise yellow sheep, which is the main source of meat. As for camels and horses, they are our partners and we will not eat them. Therefore, our life is very difficult."

After hearing what he said, Li Ming was silent. Yes, the living conditions in the desert were very difficult. He had known this for a long time, but he did not expect that the staple food of people here would be camel grass seeds. How difficult it would be to swallow. But even this kind of thing, I'm afraid the people here would not be full. I couldn't help but feel a hint of pity in Li Ming's heart.

"What about water? You should have enough water, otherwise, how can this city exist for hundreds of years?" After a while of silence, Li Ming finally couldn't help but ask again.

Xilai smiled and said, "There are water sources. In this place, every city is built on the basis of water sources. Without water sources, there will be no city. Therefore, there must be water sources in our city, and there are more than one place. These water sources were found by my ancestors through hardships. There are several wells and even dozens of feet deep. Usually, these water sources are under special care. In order to continue our city, each household has strict restrictions on the daily water usage of each household."

Li Ming nodded, knowing that he knew that the West was right. Water sources are the basis for human survival in the desert area. A city is a concentrated water source. It seems that he should help them.

Thinking of this, he had made up his mind, so he stood up and said, "Since we have reached an agreement, I will go back and call my troops over now, and then we will launch an attack on Yunsha City as soon as possible. I hope that when I leave, you can prepare enough food and water as soon as possible. My troops are now out of food."

Rejecting the kind hospitality from the West, Li Ming and Lin Long set out on their way back. With the marks and meticulous records along the way, Li Ming finally returned to his desert base two days later.

Except for the team members who had explored, most of them had returned, but the three teams searching to the north had no news, which made Li Ming very uneasy. These team members had followed him for a long time, so losing anyone would make him feel uncomfortable. However, after listening to the introduction from Xilai, anyone who went deep into the northern desert area was not able to come back alive. This made Li Ming feel very bored.

However, now there is not much water here and the food is about to be exhausted. If the large army is left here to wait for the remaining people, it will undoubtedly not work. In desperation, Li Ming had to leave all the remaining water and things, and left a team assistant, who led most of the remaining guards and seized guns and ammunition to drive towards the city coming from the west.

After walking in the desert for a day and a night, the troops had already marched to the outside of the city wall. Here, two or three thousand people had already gathered, and these people had already welcomed them with food and water.

After resting outside the city, Xilai found Li Ming and told him very politely that since there were no extra houses in the city to receive his personal guards, they had to stay outside the city. As for their daily diet, he would send someone to deliver them on time.

After hearing Xilai's words, Li Ming couldn't help but feel angry. It seemed that Xilai still didn't believe in him very much, so he found such a reason that made him laugh, which made Li Ming feel a little confused about the idea of ​​cooperating with Xilai. After all, Xilai is also considered an indigenous here, so his wishful thinking may fail.

However, at this time, Li Ming had learned how to control his feelings. Therefore, he did not show any dissatisfaction with Xilai's statement. On the contrary, he kept saying a lot of words of understanding, which made a hint of red clouds rise on Xilai's fair face.

Under Li Ming's command, the guards set up camp outside the city that night. Fortunately, they brought their tents, otherwise these people would have to sleep on the cold night.

After a day of rest, Li Ming was still worried about the people he stayed at the base. So after discussing with Lin Long, Li Ming asked Xilai to borrow camels and horses.

Xilai felt a lot of guilt about the stationing of Li Ming's troops. Therefore, after hearing Li Ming's request, he readily sent his camel team and horse team, and sent more than 3,000 people to accompany him to help Li Ming carry supplies. With these people, Li Ming left ordinary guards outside the city, and led the other half of them back to the base.

Several groups of people came back one after another in the base, but in the end, only three teams searching towards the north were left without a trace. Under the leadership of Lin Long, Li Ming, who was unwilling to accept the camel and ventured into the depths of the northern desert. After three days and three nights, he finally found two of them in the strong wind, but the remaining team could not find any trace.

Li Ming felt extremely helpless and had no choice but to give up searching. After all, the more than 3,000 people accompanying him consumed a lot of supplies every day. If they didn't go back as soon as possible, they might have to run out of water and food again.

With the efforts of these more than 4,000 people, they put camels and horses on the car. After ten days and ten nights, they finally managed to transport the supplies of more than 300 trucks outside the city. They still used the trucks as a support to rebuild a not-so-shy city outside the city.

With a temporary camp and a supply of supplies from the west, Li Ming finally stood firm in this desert for a while. The next thing was to take the troops to rest and seize Yunsha City.

Because of Xilai's attitude, Li Ming re-emerged some views on the cooperation between them. His initial idea was to rely on Xilai's identity to cooperate with him in order to establish a regime close to him in this place. However, Xilai's vigilance against them made him overturn this idea. Instead of supporting a capable person like Xilai as his puppet, it would be better to establish a regime here himself and then rely on this as a support to gradually advance towards the direction of the Tang Dynasty. This would not only allow him to return to the Tang Dynasty smoothly, but also allow him to establish a powerful force on the periphery of the Tang Dynasty. At that time, the attack on both sides can easily pacify the entire northern part of the Tang Dynasty. In this way, the date for his unification of this space would be just around the corner.

In fact, now, Li Ming was surprised by his own ambitions. Just a few months ago, he was complacent about being able to occupy the two states of the world, but in just a few months, his eyes turned to the entire space, which made him feel a little nervous.

After the troops were resting for a few days, Li Ming found Xilai again and expressed his thoughts to attack Yunsha City. When he heard that Li Ming was preparing to take action, Xilai was obviously very happy. He actually took the initiative to divide half of the remaining 3,000 soldiers to Li Ming to increase Li Ming's strength. At the same time, he also sent more than 4,000 civilians to transport food and water. For the Beijiang City, which has a population of only 40,000 or 50,000, it can be said that he has done his best. After all, the elderly, weak, women and children account for nearly 70,000 people here.

Yunsha City is located in the south of Beijiang City from the west. It takes three days to reach it if you walk normally. Yunsha City is far larger than Beijiang City. Therefore, they have been in an offensive state for a long time, but they are fighting in the desert. The defensive side must have a great advantage. At least the pressure on the offensive side in terms of logistics supplies is huge. Therefore, although Yunsha City has more than 20,000 soldiers, it has not been able to completely occupy Beijiang City over the years.

Under the guidance of the guide, the troops marched in the desert for three days and three nights. Due to the drag of the logistics troops, their march was so slow that they approached Yunsha City on the evening of the third day.

The scale of Yunsha City is obviously much larger than that of Beijiang City, but it can be seen from the city wall that under the bloody sunset, the tall city wall made of sand and earth stands in the endless yellow sand, which looks so majestic and spectacular. The city wall here is not as dilapidated as Beijiang City. In every part of the city wall, you can see the guards patrolling everywhere.

Of course, the height of Yunsha City is far higher than that of Beijiang City. With Li Ming's light skills, he can only barely cross it. Therefore, Li Ming's original plan to lead the guards to jump over the city wall and start a massacre in the darkness. These guards do not have such high light skills.

About one kilometer away from the city wall, Li Ming ordered camps to set up camps and rest. Speaking of camps, it was not like Li Ming did in the Tang Dynasty. Wooden fences were used to protect the camps. Here, trees were scarce. Therefore, Li Ming had no choice but to order the migrant workers to pick up the shovels in their hands and build a sand wall in front of the camp around them.

After all the work, it was already dark. Just when Li Ming was about to order the guards to gather, a faint noise came from the distant city wall. As the sound became louder and louder, a long dragon made of torches ran out of the city wall and rushed towards them.
Chapter completed!