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Volume 2 In the Spring Breeze, Under the Sun Chapter 7 The Consequences of Mu Xin¡¯s Failure

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    Chapter 7 The Consequences of Mu Xin¡¯s Failure In order to avoid the pursuit of the Xixia people, the camel team made a big circle around Guazhou this time. Sometimes the obstacles created by man are much more terrifying than those created by nature.  .  Mu Xin was unwilling to take the road to Yiwu Prefecture opened by the Khitan people. Instead, he led the camel team along the Gobi and approached Yangguan again.  Standing on the back of the camel, Tie Xinyuan could even see the broken beacon towers built around Yangguan.  This time, when they went around in a circle and arrived near Yangguan, the nerves of the camel team were tense, for fear that the Xixia army would suddenly appear here.  Xu Dongsheng and Tie Xinyuan were lying on both sides of the camel's body. This was a tall two-humped camel carrying them as they walked on the Gobi desert as if they were walking on flat ground.  Tie Xinyuan took a bite of the Ping Po fruit that had become extremely soft, and said to Xu Dongsheng across the camel: "This place is less than twenty miles away from Yangguan. I ran in a circle for three to five hundred miles, and even crossed the  A desert, are we wasting our time?" Xu Dongsheng smiled on the other side of the camel: "If we don't draw Yeli Dulan's attention away, these twenty miles will be our burial place. I know what you want.  If you want to ask anything else, just ask what you want to know?" Tie Xinyuan threw away the apple core in his hand and said with a smile: "I don't think Elder Mu Xin would care about those who followed him to raid Shazhou. What do you think of those people?  Have you run away?" Xu Dongsheng stood up from the basket and lay on the camel's back and said quietly: "They are a group of abandoned people, how could they run away?" "I think there are roads everywhere, as long as there are roads.  With a few horses, it doesn¡¯t seem like it would be difficult to escape.¡± Xu Dongsheng smiled bitterly and pointed at the boundless Gobi: ¡°A small group of people can¡¯t travel as fast as a large group of people. This sentence sounds like nonsense.  , but this is indeed the case here. There are wolves in the Gobi Desert. If the team is not large enough, a team of more than a dozen people will be devoured by wolves overnight. Not to mention that Shazhou is full of corpses and smells of blood.  Drifting away in the wind. It will attract all the wolves in the Gobi. The situation will be worse. Now, if you are worried about Yeli Dulan, why not think more about how to deal with the wolves. I saw it just now.  Two lone wolves were watching us over there, and they had been following us for ten miles. " Tie Xinyuan was startled, and quickly stood up from the basket, holding the awning with his hands and looking back. Sure enough, they were on the far horizon.  There are two black spots dotted far behind.  "Why don't you send someone to kill them? These two wolves are not scouts in the wolf pack, right?" Xu Dongsheng shook his head and said: "That's not true, but if these two wolves find that they can't deal with us, they will howl  To recruit more wild wolves, the big wolves will eventually be recruited. It makes sense to say that they are scouts. " Tie Xinyuan has not seen the wild wolves of the Song Dynasty. The wild wolves of later generations will run away when they see people. How can they be found?  This is the principle of following closely behind.  I thought that when I came to the Song Dynasty, I would enjoy a lifetime of happiness.  Nowadays, even wild wolves have been encountered. This is really a great irony.  "When you rest in the evening, you should find some armor and put it on. With your body, a wild wolf can break your bones with one bite." Tie Xinyuan humbly accepted Xu Dongsheng's suggestion. In fact, as long as others are kind,  Tie Xinyuan never refuses advice.  "Do you have any shields? Give me six shields. The six wounded soldiers under my command are in great need of protection." Xu Dongsheng snorted coldly: "No, I gave you three Hundred Refined Swords before.  It makes me a poor man. There aren't many of those things even in Tokyo." Tie Xinyuan burst into laughter, pointed at Brother Xu Dongsheng and said, "Old Xu, why are you talking to me about these weird things? You are transporting weapons from the Central Plains to Persia.  , you were kicked in the head by a donkey? Hundreds of steelmaking is not as good as other people's wootz steel. Any blacksmith with some common sense will understand that your three knives are not the weapons left by your dead men, right? "  Xu Dongsheng stopped answering. In the desert, it was important to have an extra weapon for self-defense. This guy who had just entered the desert would not understand.  With an attitude of blindness to gold and jade, Xu Dongsheng lay back in the basket, just looked at the wild wolves patrolling not far away, and sighed, why can't these things be hunted elsewhere?  You can¡¯t feel any warmth when the sun shines on your body, but your exposed skin will feel painful under the light. Xu Dongsheng curled up again. Such a food basket is still a bit narrow for a big man like him.  Mu Xin also discovered the wolf, so he sent warriors to drive it away.?Two wolves, two lone wolves howled and disappeared over the horizon.  The situation has not improved. More wolves have appeared in the Gobi desert. There are also groups of mountain eagles circling low in the sky, and some mountain eagles have landed on dead boxwood trees.  Its appearance is really hard to compliment: a bald little head, topped with short reddish-brown down feathers, a thin neck, bare skin, and a strange lead-blue color. Their heads match their huge bodies.  Disproportionately small.  The huge hooked mouth has two round nostrils that look like drill holes, and a pair of fierce eyes are always staring tirelessly at Tiexin Yuan, who is lying in the basket like a dead body.  In order to make sure that he was not a dead body, Tie Xinyuan sat up from the basket, which made the mountain eagles very dissatisfied and flapped their wings and screamed strangely.  ¡°These are scavengers. Wherever they gather in large numbers, there will definitely be rotten corpses. And there are no less than a thousand mountain eagles here, which means there is a lot of carrion here, very much.  A long time ago, Tie Xinyuan once visited a Tibetan sky burial ceremony. After an unknown incense stick was lit, these guys, known as divine eagles by the Tibetans, would come from hundreds of miles away and smell the scent.  He was amazed by his keenness.  Tie Xinyuan also smelled the stench of rotten meat, and Xu Dongsheng raised his head and sniffed like a dog to find the source of the rotten smell.  The two of them looked at each other, then turned over and fell asleep. Any fool knew what kind of scene they would see next.  The consequences of Mu Xin angering the Xixia people finally appeared.  A corpse hanging on a dead Populus euphratica forest can still find some comedy elements, but ten corpses hanging on a dead tree will make even the most optimistic person unable to laugh.  When thousands of tattered corpses were hung all over the Populus euphratica forest, everyone in the camel team felt like they were in hell, even with the red sun above their heads.  Mu Xin stood on the back of the camel and opened his arms, as if to embrace the thousands of corpses. The sad chanting suddenly sounded, and the sound was so long that it seemed that the end would never be heard.  Only then did Tie Xinyuan realize that the mountain eagles he had just met were not lazy, but were resting there after eating enough food, waiting for hunger to come again so that they could continue eating.  The wild wolf is hovering under the tree with its head raised, drooling and waiting patiently for the rope around the person's neck to rot, or for the person's muscles to rot. The two have a common effect, that is, the body will fall down.  Mu Xin burst into tears and knelt on the sand, crying like a child. Two strong Persians supported Mu Xin and dragged him back. The wild wolves with red eyes that had eaten human flesh had stopped turning.  , all turned their heads to look at the fresh meat on the sandy slope.  Mu Xin could not do anything. The wolves were too big. Tie Xinyuan and Xu Dongsheng were already trembling. They believed that as long as these wolves abandoned their bodies and charged, their camel team of more than 300 people would be destroyed.  It will be immediately annihilated by the wolves.  Meng Yuanzhi rode his horse and stood in the windward position. He pulled a huge bow into a full moon. He shot out a ignited rocket with a whoosh. The other Persians also pulled their long bows at the same time.  The dense rockets flew into the Populus euphratica forest.  Tie Xinyuan was horrified, and jumped out of the basket with a whoosh, shouting to Yao Tieyi and the others to bring their horses over Once the Populus euphratica forest caught fire, all fools knew that the Xixia people would rush over in the shortest possible time.  Mu Xin has run away Tie Xinyuan and Xu Dongsheng followed closely behind. Those sad Persians seemed to understand that this was not a good thing, and rode various mounts, closely following  You get carried away by following someone who has already run away.  The poplar trees in winter don't have a trace of moisture. When they see sparks, they explode quickly. When one tree turns into a torch, the strong north wind brings the flames to another tree, and those trees are carried away by the wind.  The watery corpses burned like candles.  A mountain eagle that is eating, a bird like a crow, is flying in the sky like a dark cloud, blocking out the sun all day long.  When the wild wolves saw that their food was burned, they all let out a long howl, and the thick black smoke had been drawn out by the wind into a long, tall, thick black line, in the  So eye-catching in the blue sky.  Meng Yuanzhi¡¯s riding skills were good, and he quickly caught up with Tie Xinyuan, but Tie Xinyuan was in no mood to pay attention to this idiot. He lowered his body, hugged the saddle and just ran with all his strength.  "May I rest in peace." Meng Yuanzhi spoke to Tie Xinyuan with some emotion.  This time, even Xu Dongsheng carefully avoided this idiot and attacked him fiercely.??Crack your butt with a whip to make yourself run faster.  Meng Yuanzhi saw that neither Tie Xinyuan nor Xu Dongsheng seemed willing to pay attention to him, so he laughed dryly, closed his mouth and ran away.  The camel team behind them has been thrown far away, and Mu Xin has climbed up a high slope to build a pergola and look at the horizon in the distance.  The Populus euphratica forest was burning in full swing, and thick black smoke had covered a large area of ??the sky. The mountain eagle that was hovering in the sky just now had completely disappeared.  Through the varying shades of black smoke, in a distant place, a cavalry team was rapidly approaching the Populus euphratica forest.  (To be continued.) ps: Chapter 1
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