The wind and sand are still fierce, the scorching sun is still scorching, and the journey is still long.

It has been a month since Li Ming left Yunsha City. During this month, Li Ming led more than 30,000 combat troops and about 50,000 logistics personnel to replenish his supplies by siegeing the city and siege. It can be said that their behavior can be called robbers, but Li Ming had no choice. In order to return to the Tang Dynasty smoothly, he had to see the troops he led rush into one broken city after another and robbed the city, putting food and water on the car and then leaving. Behind them were corpses all over the ground and panicked residents.

Along the way, the more than 30,000 combatants led by Li Ming lost nearly 2,000 people, and they also captured eleven cities in total. It can be said that on average, they had to go through a battle for three days. After capturing the city, they did not stop at all. After plundering the supplies, they would set off on the road immediately. Even so, they still failed to completely get out of this desert in a month.

It should have been autumn at that time, but the scorching heat and heat in the desert have not subsided at all. In front of us, there were fewer and fewer orange sand, replaced by large patches of pebbles and hard surfaces, and red willows began to appear in their sight from time to time. In the distance, teams of yellow sheep could bring them a sumptuous dinner from time to time. It seems that they have gradually walked out of the desert area and started to step onto the Gobi Desert. When they walked here, the edge of the desert should not be too far away.

The sun gradually sets as they trek through hardships, and the setting sun shines the vast Gobi Desert in blood. The vanguard troops leading the way in front of them begin to stop, unload their camping items from the camels, and prepare to camp on the spot.

The sudden marching and fighting for a month was about to drag down their group. Li Ming and their personal guards were better, and their performance of internal strength was different, but those native white people couldn't stand it. A few days ago, among them, they fainted on the ground during the march. In the past two days, this phenomenon has become more frequent, and those injured in the battle have died one after another, which forced the leading generals to beg Li Ming to let them take time to rectify for two days.

Li Ming was actually very anxious when he saw this situation. He also had to rely on these people to open up a passage to the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, it would be very unfavorable for him to reduce the number of combatants. However, they had more than 80,000 people, and the daily consumption of so many people was very amazing. Although he brought a 50,000 logistics force and carried a large amount of supplies, these logistics personnel also had to consume supplies. Although they were trying their best to plunder the materials from the captured cities along the way, compared with so many people, it was really a drop in the bucket. Therefore, Li Ming had to consider this important key. Before finding enough food and water, a day's delay could cause the death of a large number of people.

However, after the troops entered the Gobi Desert, Li Ming's nervous heart gradually relaxed. Although the Gobi Desert was still boundless and desolate, there were finally a large number of red willows, poplar and flocks of yellow sheep, and even large areas of seazi in some places. Therefore, when the sun was about to set, Li Ming had decided to let the troops rest here for two days, because he had just discovered a large number of flocks of yellow sheep and a few sporadic seazi where the troops passed. In this way, his supplies would not be consumed in transition.

Hearing the order from Li Ming to rest for two days, the soldiers who were already exhausted suddenly cheered and boiled. They swept away their decadent and powerless states in the past few days. They immediately, as if they were full of strength, quickly unloading the camping supplies and building one strong camp after another on the vast Gobi Desert. Under the sunset, they extended for more than ten miles.

Gradually, the sun set the horizon, and the sky in the Gobi Desert had no light except the twinkling stars. In each camp, except for the patrol soldiers, everyone fell asleep early.

Li Ming's camp is in the center of the entire army camp. It is composed of more than a thousand guards and the escort battalion composed of his more than a thousand musketeers drawn from him to defend. In the spacious central army camp tent, he was working with Lin Long on a map and studying it carefully.

According to Xilai's narrative, Li Ming roughly outlined a map, and along the way, he improved the map based on the route he had taken. Now, he is considering what position they are currently in.

According to Li Ming's judgment, they should have entered the territory of Tuhu, but since Tuhu may also be in a semi-barbaric state, there is no obvious boundary between them and the desert cities. Therefore, Li Ming cannot say how far they are from the Tuhu manned area. At the same time, such a large army of theirs will definitely cause fear among the Tuhu manned areas. If they cannot break out of the Tuhu manned areas as soon as possible, Li Ming and the others will probably suffer huge losses. There is no need for a desert here, and there is no connection between the cities there. They are only facing different cities. However, in Tuhu, they face the entire Tuhu tribe. If they are not careful, their plans will be shattered. Therefore, this is also one of the reasons why Li Ming ordered the on-site rectification. Only when the troops are rested before entering the Tuhu manned area can they quickly penetrate and enter the Great Zhou situation.

The night in the Gobi Desert was silent. Apart from the snoring sounds coming from the tent, there was almost no other sound. After studying the next action plan with Lin Long, Li Ming watched Lin Long walk to the small bed on the side of the tent and lay down.

Along the way, for the sake of Li Ming's safety, Lin Long lived in the same camp with him. Li Ming was a experienced person and a modern person. Lin Long was his fiancée. Therefore, he was very happy about Lin Long's approach. According to his idea, he wanted to make mature rice with Lin Long and hold a wedding after returning to Biquan Island. However, Lin Long was quite stubborn about this. Although it was difficult to use force to invade Li Ming, the reluctance on her face still made Li Ming stop many times. Li Ming liked Lin Long, and he didn't want to force her when she was reluctant. Therefore, a month passed, and the two of them were still sleeping in the same camp separately. After a long time, Li Ming became used to this.

The night was already very deep, and Li Ming and Lin Long were already asleep. The night in the Gobi Desert was very cold. Therefore, the soldiers in charge of patrol were wrapped in a wide blanket and mechanically rotated in the camp in the night wind.

Suddenly, a sound of horse hooves came from afar. The sound seemed particularly harsh on the quiet night, so that when they were still far away, they were heard by patrol soldiers in the outer camp.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the camps outside. After receiving the report from the patrol soldiers, the officers in the camp did not dare to be careless. They had fought almost every day for the past month, which had already made them develop the habit of staying alert at all times. Therefore, shortly after receiving the report, teams of camel soldiers quietly ran out of one camp after another with the starlight, forming a circle around the camp far away. At the same time, a captain of a personal guard who was responsible for evening affairs hurriedly reported the news to Li Ming.

When Li Ming heard this news, he felt a little excited and nervous. It was obvious that the people who could operate at night in the Gobi Desert would definitely not be ordinary people. Moreover, from the degree of dense sound of horse hooves, a large group of people came. Therefore, it is very likely that it was the Tuhu soldiers, but what big things are they worthy of their journey in the middle of the night? This question made Li Ming puzzled. Therefore, after a brief consideration, he led his five thousand directly affiliated troops with Lin Long to join the late night encirclement and annihilation.

When Li Ming and his friends arrived at the scene, the sound of horse hooves in the distance was becoming more and more obvious, and their direction seemed to be drifting. The sound was on the left and on the right, as if they were moving in the shape of "Zhi", and the sound was very regular, so Li Ming's brows began to frown. Such a large group of cavalry was moving in the Gobi Desert in the middle of the night. Except for what they were full and full, the rest might be that they were searching for something. However, in this vast Gobi Desert, what is worth searching for such a large group of soldiers in the middle of the night? The answer is self-evident.

Therefore, Li Ming's face began to look ugly. If his judgment was correct, the person who came should have come to search for their traces. As for how they learned that their team of troops could appear in this place, Li Ming still didn't know for the time being, but he knew one thing, that is, Tuhu might have been ready to face them, and he is currently sending a small group of reconnaissance troops to determine their locations everywhere.

In front, the sound of horse hooves gradually approached them. It seemed that in a few minutes, they would be able to meet Li Ming's ambush troops.

"Arthurian Fifteen, lead all the guards to meet them, try not to make any noise in the future, remember, leave me a few living mouths, and destroy the rest, and not one of them is allowed to go away, even the war horses must be killed, understand? In addition, convey my order, the rest of the troops are not allowed to participate in the war, nor are they allowed to make any noise. All of this must be very secretive." Li Ming whispered his order to Arthurian Fifteen next to him.

Upon receiving the order, Jia Shiwu hurriedly led all the guards to silence in the direction of the sound of horse hooves. With their lightness skills, they did not make any sound on the hard Gobi Desert and soon disappeared from Li Ming's sight.

In a short while, a faint sound of weapons hitting them came from the front of them. Soon, the sound disappeared without a trace. Then, Jia Fifteen and others quickly returned and stood in front of Li Ming. Several people stepped out to bring some prisoners to Li Ming.

"Arthur Fifteen, let the soldiers from the outside bury the bodies on the spot, and no traces are allowed to be revealed. All the war horses are brought back to the sacrificial ceremony. These people are taken to my camp and then find General Shu Chi for me." After Li Ming gave the order, he brought the guards and prisoners back to his camp.

Shu Chi was the leader of the accompanying troops this time and was directly ordered by Li Ming. When he heard Li Ming's call, he hurriedly returned from the battle site and entered Li Ming's camp.

In the big tent, Li Ming was carefully observing the prisoners through the flashing and dark sheep oil lamp. Due to his lack of language, he could not interrogate these people for the time being, but after his observation, she was able to roughly determine her previous judgment. These people were dressed neatly and uniformly dressed, which was obviously owned by the regular army. Their skin color and appearance seemed to have more similarities with white people.

Shu Chi walked into the tent and after seeing Li Ming, he began to look at the prisoners. However, what disappointed Li Ming was that these prisoners did not understand the local dialect spoken from Shu Chi, which made Li Ming and the others feel helpless. The distance between Dayi City and Tuhu was very far away, so it was impossible for anyone among them to understand Tuhu language.

In desperation, Li Ming had no choice but to order a few prisoners to take them down for custody, and then ordered Shu Chi to strengthen his guard at night, and then he took advantage of the dawn to take a short sleep.

The next day, Li Ming took his men to the place where he fought last night. In this place, the traces of the battle last night had been buried by his soldiers. No abnormalities were seen except for the messy ground. However, Li Mingming understood that this situation could not be concealed for long. If this team of enemy troops really came to search for them, their disappearance would just prove the existence of Li Ming's troops. Therefore, a great war would be inevitable.

Realizing this, Li Ming began to order the troops to prepare for the pre-war preparations on the spot. At present, his troops were in a time of being trapped in the horses, so it was absolutely impossible for him to lead the troops to avoid the enemy's siege. The best way at present is to rest on the spot, and then strengthen the camp through the rest time, set up defensive traps around the camp, and then prepare to fight to the death with the enemy's army here. From the narrative from the West, Li Ming knew that the Tuhu troops were of the nature of a ranger, and their way of fighting was based on

Taking advantage of the speed of the horse, he quickly attacked their opponents, and then wandered around their opponents, gradually consuming their opponents' strength with the bows and arrows in their hands. This way of combat is a bit similar to Li Ming's own rangers. Therefore, Li Ming would never compete with the speed of both sides in front of this enemy with super powerful power. At this time, he was already familiar with war. To deal with such an enemy, he would attack the opponent's shortcomings with his own strengths. Using positional warfare is undoubtedly the best way to deal with the enemy.

Therefore, after the army had rested for a day, Li Ming ordered all the personnel to dig a circle of traps around the camp, and inserted sharp wooden stakes under the traps. This was the best way to deal with Rangers. With these traps alone, Li Ming would probably be able to destroy about 20,000 to 30,000 cavalry.

Two days passed quickly. In the past two days, Li Ming's troops not only dug traps, but also extracted water from nearby seas. In addition, there were also some camel cavalry slaughtered the yellow sheep nearby. It seemed that Li Ming was preparing to engage in a protracted battle here.

When he returned to the tent in the evening, Li Ming was about to have dinner with Lin Long when a member of the guard suddenly flashed in. The opponent Li Minghui reported: "Report to the master, the assassin Swallow has been arguing for a day to see you. What do you think?"

"Swallow?" Li Ming put down the wine glass in his hand and pondered. After he rescued her from Beijiang City, he kept imprisoning her in the prison cell of the city lord's mansion. Several disciples of Chen Tu pointed her acupoints every day. Therefore, although she had the ability to break free from ropes, she was always imprisoned. Because Li Ming was very busy, he even forgot her for a while and didn't think of her until he left. Because the swallow was cunning and mysterious everywhere, Li Ming did not dare to release her easily, and he had no choice but to stay by his side. In order to prevent her from escaping, Li Ming specially sent three personal guards to take care of her, and a special person would illuminate her acupoints every day. Li Ming meant to release her after she successfully stepped into Biquan Island, but he didn't expect that she would take the initiative to ask for her at this time.

The guard saw that Li Ming didn't say anything for a long time, and couldn't help but say another sentence next to him: "Master, that swallow said, she can understand the words of those prisoners."

"What?" Li Ming jumped up suddenly, with a look of surprise on his face. For the past two days, he had been worried about the language, but he did not expect that the one who could solve his problem would be the weird female assassin.

Li Ming took Lin Long and hurried to a tent that was temporarily used as a prison cell. He happened to see Yan Zi talking loudly with the prisoners in strange language.

Seeing Li Ming come in, a hint of joy appeared on Yan Zi's face, but she still didn't stop. While giggling and saying something to the prisoners, she glared at Li Ming with a squinted smile on her lips.

Li Ming smiled bitterly, sat down on the chair beside him, and interrupted Yan Zi's words: "Okay, Yan Zi, don't act in front of me. I know that you understand their language, so don't show off in front of me. I want their confession, say, what conditions do you want." Li Ming, who knows Yan Zi's habits, did not talk nonsense to her, but made his own request straight to the point.
Chapter completed!