On the afternoon of the third day, the Lingzhou army had already appeared on the edge of the Yijin Horo Desert, and Li Zhongyi was the first time to lead the army into the desert.

Zhi Congruan stood beside the road, touched his chin, squinted his eyes, and carefully observed the water replenishment of the Lingzhou Army.

Along the way, Zhe Congruan had already seen very clearly that the Lingzhou army, whether it was marching or temporarily resting, had all the rules and regulations, and there was no chaos.

During the break, the scouts scattered far away, the cavalry dismounted and replenished the horses, and the infantry still maintained a complete command sequence.

Zhi Congruan nodded secretly, and knew the autumn when he fell a leaf, and he knew that when the army was resting, he could maintain the ability to launch a counterattack at any time, and he didn't dare to say that the Lingzhou army was already invincible, at least if the enemy wanted to sneak attack, I am afraid it would be difficult to go to the sky.

Li Zhongyi's cautious use of troops not only made Zhi Congruan feel a little excessive, but also made him sigh: Undefeated can win, isn't it?

After the people sent by the Senate to Song Yunxiang came back, Li Zhongyi was sure that there was nothing unusual about the various water sources along the way, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, this time he sent troops to Xiazhou, what Li Zhongyi was worried about was not the cavalry harassment of the party members, but the fatal question of whether the water source was guaranteed.

In order to make the army drink water without worry, Li Zhongyi deliberately ordered people to build hundreds of water wheels as early as half a year ago, the purpose of which was to prevent natural disasters in the water source or deliberately polluted by the Tuoba family.

Li Zhongyi instructed Zuo Ziguang, who was following him: "Pass the order, in order to prevent separation." The infantry marched in turn with ropes in hand, and their faces were covered with cloths to protect themselves from sand and dust, and when they were ready. Let's go into the desert today! ”

With an order, Zhi Congruan was surprised to see that the entire Lingzhou army, including Li Zhongyi, was covered with thick linen cloth on his face.

At the same time, the sons and daughters of the infantry army took out ropes from their backpacks, tied them back and forth, and prepared themselves.

Zhe Congruan nodded secretly. But it was a little strange in my heart, Li Zhongyi was able to come up with such a clever trick, could it be said. This son was very familiar with the conditions of the Great Desert before?

No, the hometown of this deputy governor Li is Chengdu in Shudi, where the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and where does the desert come from?

Zhe Congruan looked at Li Zhongyi suspiciously. This Deputy Governor Li is holding his back at this time. With a breezy face, he looked at the depths of the desert in the distance.

Soon after the whole army entered the desert, the Lingzhou army immediately encountered the first fatal problem. Because the desert soil is loose, the large water cart full of drinking water will sink into soft sand particles almost every time it moves forward, and the officers and men need to push and pull hard before they can continue to move forward.

Li Zhongyi thought to himself. This is really an old revolution, always encountering new problems. Unexpected things happen from time to time.

Zhe Congruan had actually thought of a good way, but he deliberately held back and waited for Li Zhongyi to come and beg him, so that he could bargain and take the opportunity to abduct Li Zhongyi to rescue Fuzhou.

However, Li Zhongyi's flexible mind shocked Zhi Congruan.

Li Zhongyi pondered for a while, and suddenly thought of the extremely popular sleds in the Northeast. Since the sand is very soft and not very stressed, it is necessary to remove the wheels and simply use wooden planks to increase the contact surface between the sand surface and the water wheel.

According to the tradition of the Lingzhou Army, no matter where the army goes, there are always dozens of carpenters in the baggage camp.

So, Li Zhongyi summoned these carpenters to his side and explained the principle of wooden pry with analogy.

Fortunately, the wooden slap is not a high-tech job, and the carpenters quickly made samples according to Li Zhongyi's description.

Li Zhongyi took the sample and looked at it, immediately smiled, and said, "This is it." ”

After about an hour, the wheels of the large waterwheel had been removed and a raised wooden skid had been installed.

After the army hit the road again, Zhi Congruan looked at Li Zhongyi with extremely complicated eyes, and secretly exhaled a breath of turbidity, this son is so flexible and changeable, how can the future be limited?

Before nightfall, there was a sudden sandstorm in the desert without warning, the wind was fierce, the yellow sand was flying all over the sky, and you couldn't see your fingers, even if you were between the supports, even if you shouted loudly, it was futile for the other party to hear clearly.

The cavalry of the Dangxiang clan have been living near the desert for a long time, and they have long been able to deal with the sudden attack of sandstorms. They took out their blindfolds one after another, and covered the eyes of the war horses under their crotch for the first time, preventing the war horses from being frightened and disrupting the formation.

The cavalry of the Han army under Guo Huai were not stupid at all, and when they saw the party cavalry doing this, they also followed suit, followed the horse's eye, and then dragged the war horse down on the sand and pressed it under them.

At the beginning of the sandstorm, Yao Hong, who was at the front of the infantry column, had already stopped his steps and whispered a military order backwards, "Stop advancing, hold on to the rope, don't let go, and squat down." ”

Yao Hong's military orders were passed on by word of mouth, with the help of good peacetime training and the ropes prepared in advance, one by one from the head of the team to the end of the team.

Li Zhongyi and Zhe Congruan's side, there were already tooth soldiers with their backs to the wind and sand, surrounded by water. Li Zhongyi knew that this was not the time to speak, so he had to accept the kindness of his henchmen.

It was no surprise that he had always been accustomed to superior treatment, and he took the lead in squatting down to avoid the huge grains of sand that hurt on his face.

By the time Li Zhongyi and Zhe Congruan squatted side by side, the tooth soldiers had already set up a small area above their heads to cover the sand and shelter from the wind with the ponchos made of oiled paper and linen in their backpacks.

"Phew, Phew, Phew!" Zhe Congruan viciously spit out several mouthfuls of fine sand in his mouth, this kind of fine sand is very disgusting, no matter how many mouthfuls of sand you spit out, you always have the feeling of not being clean.

Li Zhongyi took off the water bladder from his waist, slowly poured a large mouthful of water, and took this sip of water in his mouth, gargling it in his mouth, and still refused to spit it out.

After a long while, Zhi Congruan noticed that there was no wind and sand on the top of his head and around his side, so he took a long breath and shouted at the top of his throat: "No blame, I haven't seen such a big wind and sand before, right?" ”

Li Zhongyi pondered for a while, and also shouted loudly: "I have only heard of the power of the wind and sand before, but now it is really better to see it than to hear it, and the power is amazing." ”

Zhi Congruan shouted again silently: "With such a big wind and sand, the loss can't be small." ”

Li Zhongyi said: "With the help of ropes, the problem will not be too big!" ”

What Zhi Congruan wanted to ask was about preparing the rope in advance, but for a while, he didn't think of a good word, so he deliberately knocked on the side. (To be continued!)

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