Waiting for Ziad to escape from the lake with his people, he ran for dozens of miles in one go, temporarily got rid of the pursuit of the Western Qin army, and then ordered the soldiers to rest, and at the same time counted the number of people, and found that there were originally more than 3,700 people, but now there are less than 3,000 people left, and nearly 1,000 people have been lost, and the nearly 1,000 people lost this time are basically infantry.

After resting for a while, Ziad led the soldiers to continue on the road, just now he fled in a hurry, a little panicked, now he can't figure out the direction and route, the terrain in this area is almost the same, all of them are east-west ravines, some ravines are dozens of miles away.

When they walked out of this ravine and entered the desert, they did not encounter a source of supplementary drinking water on the way, and they fled too quickly when they were attacked by the lake in the morning, and many people just drank enough, and they did not have time to fill the water bag with water, and now they began to lack water again, and after half a day, many people were already dizzy with thirst.

"General, there is a situation!" A retinue reminded Ziade.

Ziad looked in the direction pointed by the fingers of his entourage, and saw a group of men and horses appearing in the northeast direction, waving a large number of flags, and when he saw the flags clearly, the faces of him and all the soldiers under his command changed, and a general said in horror: "Western Qin army, why did they appear from the northeast?" ”

Another general wondered, "Could it be that we walked and walked and turned back?" ”

Ziad shook his head and said, "No, judging by the direction the sun is moving and where it is now, we haven't turned back, our current position has slightly deviated from the route to Scorpion Ridge!" We can't delay any longer, while the Western Qin army has not rushed over, we must withdraw immediately, if we are run over by them, it will be all over, withdraw quickly! ”

In fact, Zhao Hu's outpost had already discovered them, and when Zhao Hu got the news, he immediately ordered the whole army to speed up the pursuit and drive Ziad and his men to the right route.

"General, no, the Western Qin Army has two horses, we only have one horse, we can't outrun them, if we continue like this, we will be caught up sooner or later!" One of the generals galloped his horse and shouted loudly to Ziad next to him.

Ziad shouted, "It seems that if we want to escape, we must have someone left to stop them!" Herram, you take a thousand men and stay behind to stop the pursuers! ”

Heram promised: "Yes, General! ”

Heram was about to lead people to stop and turn around to block the pursuit of Zhao Hu's army, when a nearby soldier shouted in horror: "General, hurry up, there is a sandstorm coming, a sandstorm is coming from the north!" It's a black sandstorm, it's a desert demon! ”

Ziad turned his head to look, only to see that the sky in the north was dark, and countless black sand on the horizon was swept up into the sky by a huge storm, where the storm passed, every inch of sand on the ground was swept into the sky, and the dark sky was treacherous, sometimes showing a scene of thousands of horses galloping, sometimes turning into the faces of devils, and a pitch-black devil maw devouring everything in its passing.

Ziad roared in terror: "Full speed forward, full speed forward, we must get out of the black sandstorm before it sweeps over, or we are all finished!" ”

Sandstorms are big and small, and some small sandstorms will not cause much damage to people and animals, but like this kind of super-large-scale sandstorm and containing huge energy, as long as it is swept in, it is absolutely lifeless, Qi Yad would rather face the Western Qin army than face this terrifying existence in nature, in the face of this level of large sandstorm, manpower is too small.

"Run, run!" All the Great Eaters were terrified and thrashed their horses with all their might, making them run desperately, hoping to get out of the area before the sandstorm.

The sandstorm has not yet arrived, the wind blew over, this cold wind was extremely cold, and the soldiers of the Great Food Army, who still felt hot just now, were blown by this strong wind, and goosebumps suddenly appeared on their bodies, and they soon felt a biting chill, which made them even more frightened, even if they were not swept away by the sandstorm, they were blown down by this cold wind, and they were afraid that they would soon be frozen into popsicles.

Fierceness, courage, and blood were all lost in the face of this terrifying sandstorm, and Ziyad and the Great Eaters ran desperately to the west, and they were so frightened that they were completely frightened.

Zhao Hu and the soldiers of the Western Qin Army who were chasing were also frightened, he immediately made a decision, pulled the reins with his left hand, manipulated the war horse to run to the side, and turned around in time with the army, he couldn't care about chasing Ziad and the Great Food Army, and at this time, if he chased down, he would undoubtedly be in the center of the sandstorm, which was the rhythm of finding death.

Turning around and retreating became the only choice for Zhao Hu and the Western Qin cavalry, galloping at the highest speed of the war horse, which had never been done before, and letting the war horse carry out this kind of overload running was very damaging to the war horse, but at this time he couldn't care about it so much, and the war horse was obviously an extremely intelligent animal, in the face of danger, they would instinctively choose to dodge, in fact, they didn't need the knights to whip desperately, they would also try their best.

The Sandstorm moved very fast, and although Ziyad and the soldiers of the Great Food Army had tried their best to flee, when the Sandstorm swept over, a considerable number of their soldiers were still swept into the sky with men and horses, and were swallowed up in the bloody maws of the Sandstorm Devil.

Ziad had palpitations and stopped, looking back, the banner and figure of the Western Qin army could no longer be seen in the rear, he knew that the Western Qin army would definitely not be able to catch up, after this sandstorm, the distance between the two sides had been stretched far away, but he also found that his losses were very large, there were originally more than 2,700 people, but now there are only more than 2,000 people left, and another six or seven hundred people have been lost.

"There were 20,000 people when I came, but now there are only 2,000 left, how can I explain to the caliph and the general of the Bo Silin when I go back?" Ziad was like a dead father, his face bloodless.

The general stepped forward and comforted: "General, there are victories and defeats in battles, this is a common thing, adults don't need to care too much, our task now is to escape back, as long as we can escape back, it will be victory!" ”

The words were good, but Ziad could only smile bitterly.

At this time, the general Heram was puzzled: "General, I don't know if you have noticed, the Western Qin army seems to be waiting for us in front of us every time, we seem to have been led by their noses, in this process, we continue to lose troops, originally there were more than 5,000 people, and there are baggage teams, we first lost the baggage team, and then we lost General Daoud and a thousand people, and then we were attacked by the Western Qin army on the shore of the lake, and lost another seven or eight hundred people, here we actually encountered the Western Qin army, They seem to be driving us away! ”

By Herram's words, Ziyad's mind was stunned, and he quickly sobered up, and carefully recalled the experiences of the past few days, and sure enough, he found some problems, and then the status of Scorpion Ridge appeared in his mind, it seems that the Western Qin Army has been intentionally or unintentionally driving him and his men and horses in the direction of Scorpion Ridge, could it be that they have set some traps in Scorpion Ridge? Want to do it once and for all in Scorpion Ridge?

Scorpion Ridge is not just a scorpion-like mountain, there is a large lake in the middle of the mountain, where the terrain is dangerous, as long as you occupy the mountains on both sides of Scorpion Ridge, you can form a strong defense line, but if you are surrounded by the lake in the middle of Scorpion Ridge, it will definitely be the end of the total annihilation.

After figuring out this joint, Ziad knew that he couldn't go to Scorpion Ridge anymore, going there was definitely looking for death, but if he didn't go to Scorpion Ridge, where could he go? Of course, there are many places to go, but there are almost no places with water sources.

Suddenly, the lake I had been to before came back to my mind, what would happen if I returned to that lake? This thought made Ziad start to think about its possibility, if he went to the lake he had been to before, this would undoubtedly jump out of the design arrangement of the Western Qin army, they would never have thought of this, but in this way, it would be easy to bump into the Western Qin army chasing from the direction of the lake.

Ziad immediately told several generals about his thoughts, and Herram said: "This idea is very good, they would not have thought that we would return to that lake again, as long as we take enough drinking water there, we will have a way to solve the problem of returning to Behedashir Castle, but then there is a possibility of encountering the Western Qin army chasing from the direction of the lake!" ”

Ziad said: "I have already thought about this problem, we don't go back the same way, we came to leave horseshoe prints and footprints, these are the clues of the Western Qin army chasing us, we take another parallel route this time, first send some outposts to explore the road in front of more than ten miles, once we find the traces of the Western Qin army, we will avoid them, bypass them and go to that lake!" ”

Now this is the only way to get rid of the water, and even if they want to oppose it, they can't find a better way, so they agree one after another. So Ziad returned to the lake with the remaining 2,000 men.

Half a day later, Zhao Hu led the soldiers of the Western Qin Army through the sandstorm ravaged area, but did not find any trace of Ziyad and his subordinates, but only found traces of the sandstorm everywhere, a large number of human and horse corpses, as well as many clothes and other rags everywhere, these were rolled up by the sandstorm and then fell from the sky, people and horses fell to death, and there was not a single living creature on the ground.

"General, having lost the trace of the Great Food Army, the brothers have explored a radius of twenty miles, but they have found nothing!" A sentry rode over to report to Zhao Hu.

Zhao Hu thought for a while, turned his head and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Carving!" ”

A soldier with an iron bracer on his arm, and on the iron bracer stood a mighty gray eagle, which was raised by Zhao Hu since childhood, and he personally fed the eagle twice a day to train it to detect the enemy's situation.

I saw Zhao Hu stretched out his hand, the eagle jumped on his knees and jumped to Zhao Hu's arm bracer, Zhao Hu stretched his head over, the eagle stretched out his head and rubbed his cheeks, and his mouth made a happy cry from time to time, and Zhao Hu whispered, the eagle seemed to understand his words, and when Zhao Hu's arm was raised, the eagle eagle spread its wings and flew high, heading to the northwest, and soon disappeared.