"See General Hou!" When Merton saw Hou Junji coming, he immediately stepped forward.

Hou Junji's face changed, and he immediately laughed and said: "Mo Hou is not dissatisfied with this general, how can there be such a desert march trick to hide." ”

Merton was not afraid to say: "General Hou misunderstood, this desert march was an inspiration from Mo not long ago, success or failure is still between the two, it is only the first experiment, how dare you alarm the general when it has not succeeded!" ”

Hou Junji's face couldn't help but look forward to it: "How is the experiment of the ink sacrifice wine now?" ”

Merton said proudly: "It was a great success, and with this method, the carriage was enough to cross the desert, and it was no longer afraid to fall into the quicksand." ”

"Really, the ink sacrifice wine is not going to popularize this method soon, but we are suffering from quicksand!" Niu Jinda raised his voice and complained.

"However, the Mo family's ink skills are famous, and we have admired them for a long time!" Xue Wanjun followed.

The firearms supervisor came to the top not only to alarm Hou Junji, but also to the generals of other armies have come to investigate, you must know that almost all the armies are marching in the desert is difficult, at this moment, I heard that Mo Jiazi can march in the desert and catch up with the others, and catch up with more than thirty miles in one day, naturally understand that Mo Dun must have mastered the method of marching that they don't know, and naturally can't wait to come to ask for advice.

Merton smiled bitterly: "This is just Mo's old skill, you can see it at a glance." ”

Under the leadership of Merton, the generals came to the outside of the convoy of the firearms supervisor, only to see that the car was still the same car, but the wheels made everyone frown.

"Is this the only old man with such wheels to see in his life?" Niu Jinda circled the wheels of the firearms supervisor carriage twice, and couldn't help but be amazed.

The wheels of ordinary carriages are two-wheeled carriages, and later Mo Jiazi developed a four-wheeled carriage, but in order to multi-functional transportation, coupled with super load, the army directly added an eight-wheeled carriage, and each wheel is extremely wide, while the carriage of the firearms supervisor is even more different, the wheels have been removed, and it has become a long oval ribbon wheel, which is a tracked wheel in later generations.

The carriage of the firearms supervisor has a lot of weight, but the tracked wheels are only slightly sinking, when walking, the tracks continue to rotate, driving the carriage to move forward smoothly, and the speed is naturally slower than the wheels used on the normal road, but in the desert, the advantages of the tracked wheels are fully displayed, walking on the sand is like a flat land, which is a hundred times stronger than the wheels that are deep in the sand as soon as they walk, and it is much faster.

"This car is really similar to a sled!" Xue Wanjun exclaimed.

"What General Xue said is very true, this is exactly what Mo had after the snow road march, only had the idea, since the wide sleigh can be a carriage sliding on the wide snow, then it can also be load-bearing on the sand, but the sand is naturally not as smooth as the snow, so Mo thought of the tracked wheels, so that there is a wide load-bearing surface and can move forward, which can just solve the dilemma of the desert march sinking." Merton explained.

The generals couldn't help but sigh again and again, the Mo family deserves to be the Mo family, and it is indeed a strange trick that opens their eyes.

No one could have imagined that the two seemingly unbeatable plans of the snow march and the Gobi Desert march would be identical, and both would use Merton's winter hats and gloves to survive the cold.

When marching in the snow, Mo Jiazi used the chariot of the Spring and Autumn Period to attack the snow, and then Hou Junji imitated Mo Jiazi's snow and created an enhanced version of the chariot to attack the snow, directly pushing the frozen snow away.

And Mo Jiazi's chariot could not break through the frozen snow, so he came up with a horse-drawn sleigh skiing method, and it was even more whimsical to use this method to solve the problem of desert marching.

Hou Junji was still smug about imitating Mo Jiazi's attack on the snow, but now it seems that Hou Junji is just imitating his actions, and he has not imitated the god of Merton, which is quite funny.

"The tracked wheels of the ink sacrifice wine are indeed wonderful, but this is a vast desert, with no trees and no blacksmiths, and it is too late to improve!" Xin Fang'er snorted coldly.

Merton shook his head and said: "It's not too late, we just need to know that the larger the area of contact between the wheels and the sand in the desert, most of the wheels are eight-wheeled carriages, enough to pass through most of the sand, if it is soft sand, but with a wide plank, the carriage can also be passed, if the carriage is stuck in the sand, but by tying a wooden stick to the wheel to enhance the grip, you can also escape the sand pit." ”

The generals nodded, they were indeed in this situation, Merton's method could not allow them to use the tracked wheels, but it would also allow them to pass through the desert smoothly.

"Of course, this is probably the last time my Datang will be trapped in the desert, even if it is eight hundred miles of Hanhai in the future, with this tracked wheel, our soldiers can still be like a smooth road." Merton said solemnly.

The generals nodded.

Hou Junji glanced at Mo Jiazi in a complicated manner and said, "Since the firearms supervisor has followed, the whole army will continue to set off and strive to cross this desert as quickly as possible." ”

"Yes!" The generals responded in unison.

Suddenly, the army of the Western Expedition continued to set off, and everyone marched with all their might, racing against time.

Ten days later, when the army had finally crossed the sand, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and as soon as they had crossed the sand, their march would be greatly quickened.

"Why is there only so much water here?" When the 100,000 army arrived at the nearest supply point, Hou Junji saw the water source with only a little bit of ice, and he couldn't help but jump like thunder.

The 2,000-mile Gobi Desert is not without any water sources, and with the efforts of the Silk Road merchants, there will also be sporadic water sources in the 2,000-mile Gobi Desert.

However, although there is water in the Gobi Desert, it is also extremely limited, as much as possible to alleviate the current situation of the army's lack of water, a little spring water, can indeed meet the needs of business travel, but to meet the water of 100,000 troops, I am afraid it is impossible.

"It may be that the winter is too cold, and the spring water is frozen and the spring is blocked." Xue Wanjun carefully checked the water source situation, and couldn't help but say with a gloomy face, this is the most important water replenishment point for the army, once this place cannot be replenished with enough water, the army may fall into a crisis.

Hou Junji said helplessly: "Collect the spring water with all your might, even if it is ice, don't let it go, and then continue to march." ”

Now they have no way back, they can only insist on marching with all their might, in history, it is not without the case of a large army passing through the vast Gobi to the west, so he Hou Junji can also lead the army through this Gobi desert.

"Yes!" The generals responded.

Fortunately, there is still some ice water in this spring, and the army has collected enough snow water before, and the drinking water of the soldiers along the road is strictly controlled, so that they will not fall into a dead end.

Rao, the army passed through several water replenishment points in a row, but it was still not optimistic, and the springs here were either too little water because of the freezing, or they were extremely limited and not enough at all.

As the army continued to advance, the water stored became less and less, and even if the whole army had tried its best to control the water use, it soon reached the point of exhaustion.

Hou Junji couldn't help but look embarrassed, he didn't expect that the early spring dispatch of troops that he thought had succeeded in his plan would put the army in such a crisis.