Han Zhang finally rushed to the lake with his men and horses, and at this time, Heram was fetching water from the lake with more than two hundred large food soldiers, and he immediately pulled out his war knife and shouted: "Kill!" ”

"Kill!" The Western Qin cavalry held high banners and swords, whipped their war horses and killed the cavalry of the Great Food Army who was fetching water.

Heram and the Great Eaters were terrified when they saw thousands of Western Qin troops frantically killing, they had already been killed by the Western Qin army, where did they still have the courage to fight against the Western Qin army, they all stepped on their horses and ran, the Western Qin army pursued for a while, intercepting half of the people, only Heram fled with half of the people with water bags.

After killing the intercepted big food soldiers, the Western Qin army no longer had the strength to pursue, and the physical strength of the war horses had been exhausted by a rush just now, and most of the war horses had fallen to the ground and spit foam.

Han Zhang sighed: "Forget it, let them run, they only had more than a hundred people running away, and they couldn't bring many water bags, and the water was not enough to make them cross the desert and return to Behedashir Castle!" After the order was issued, the whole army rested on the spot, fed the war horses with water and food, arranged a guard post, and quickly reported to General Zhao after the outpost rested for a while to replenish water and food! ”

"Yes, General!"

Soon, Zhao Hu led the army to arrive, and Han Zhangda immediately stepped forward to greet him, hugged his fists and said, "Welcome to the general!" ”

Zhao Hu waved his horsewhip and asked, "How is the situation of the Great Food Army?" I heard that Ziad sent a small number of people to fetch water and ran away? ”

Han Zhang said: "More than 100 people have escaped, and there are still 2,000 people under Ziyad, and according to the estimate of the number of water bags on the horses of the Great Food Army that we intercepted, the water they took away can only drink for one day, even if they save more, they can only drink for two days at most, and it will take at least four days to travel from here to the nearest oasis to the west!" ”

Zhao Hu nodded: "Ben Jiang has already asked the eagle eagle to stare at them, they can't run!" The herald told the soldiers to have a good night's rest tonight, eat and drink enough, and continue the pursuit with enough food, grass and water early tomorrow morning, and vow not to give up until they are killed! ”

"Yes, General!"

That night, the Western Qin army had a good night's rest. Early the next morning, he replenished sufficient drinking water and dry food, and after eating and drinking enough, he set out for the pursuit again.

The pursued Ziad and his Great Food Army have never been able to feel at ease, and they always feel that the Western Qin Army may catch up at any time, sleeping, eating, and even going to the toilet are not steady, and they are worried about it along the way, and they can not relax for a moment, and their nerves are always in a state of high tension.

Herram and his men replenished some water from the lake, and soon joined up with Ziyad, and then continued westward, and the nearest oasis was four days away before drinking water could be replenished, and the water they had obtained was only two thousand people to drink for two days, that is to say, there was no water for two days. However, Ziad couldn't manage so much, so he could only ask for the pursuit of the Western Qin army.

A day later, Ziyad and his army ran out of food, and there was only one day left for drinking water, and the situation weighed on his heart like a heavy boulder.

In the evening of that day, the soldiers were so tired that the horses were too tired to leave, so Ziad had to order the whole army to camp on the spot.

There was no camp, everyone had to sit on the ground or use the ground as a bed and the sky as a quilt. In the process of getting rid of the pursuit of the Western Qin army, they lost everything they could lose, including the camp tents, and now they have nothing but war horses, weapons, water bags, and bags of dry food that have been boiled.

Heram came over and saluted Ziyad: "My lord, we have no food, and if we don't let everyone eat tonight, we won't be able to make it tomorrow!" ”

Wherever there was still food, the grain bags were already empty, and Ziad poured out the last handful of wheat noodles in his grain bag and ate it. He listened to Herram's report, stood up and looked around, his eyes fell on the horses, and sighed: "If you can't do it, let's kill the horses!" ”

In the process of fighting, the food of the war horse is generally the essence of beans and other ingredients with salt and wine, such food is both nutritious and delicious, and the war horse likes to eat, and it is easy to carry and does not occupy a place. Usually only the war horse is fed ordinary forage, the forage is cheap, and the concentrate is expensive, beans are one of the main grains in this era, people have no food, but to supply the war horse.

In the process of escaping for their lives, Ziad and his generals have eaten up all the essence for the war horses, the war horses have run out of food, the people have also run out of food, and the water is only enough to drink for a day. War horses will soon starve to death if they have no food, Ziad didn't say a word in his heart, war horses will starve to death sooner or later, it is better to kill and eat meat, and let people live for two more days.

There was really no other way, and Herram could only nod silently after listening to Ziad's words, turned around and left to arrange for his soldiers to kill horses and drink blood and eat meat.

Killed a batch of war horses, the soldiers and generals of the Great Food Army drank horse blood in large gulps, horse blood is even hotter after drinking, but it is nutritious and can replenish physical strength, horse blood can not be preserved, and it will be wasted if you can't finish drinking.

Everyone was given a piece of horse meat, and there was no firewood in the desert, so it could only be eaten raw, and now the situation was not very important, and it would be nice to be able to fill the stomach.

A dark shadow appeared in the sky, Ziyad and Heram noticed, and Heram said: "My lord, this eagle has always appeared in the sky above us these days, and I suspect that it was sent by the Western Qin people to track us!" ”

Ziad frowned and said: "It's not particularly unusual to use eagles to transmit information, but I have never seen an eagle to detect the enemy's situation, after all, eagles are animals and cannot communicate with people!" If the role of this eagle can really be used to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, then our trouble will come again, as long as it appears, the Western Qin Army will definitely not be too far from here! ”

Heram took off his bow and arrows and said, "I'll shoot it down!" ”

Ziad shook his head: "It flies too high, I'm afraid I won't be able to shoot it!" I can only find a way to lure it down and shoot again! Go get some horse meat ready for it! ”

A soldier quickly took a piece of horse meat, and Ziyad told him to put the horse meat in an open space outside the rest place of the army, and let Herram crouch on the ground with a bow and arrow, and the horse meat used as bait was within the range of Herram's bow and arrow, and as long as the eagle owl in the sky flew down, it was very likely to be shot.

But soon Ziyad and Herram were disappointed, and the eagle owl in the sky was not tempted, and after a few circles in the sky, it flew away. The eagle eagle was so clever that both Ziyad and Heram were dumbfounded.

Ziad, who came to his senses, immediately shouted: "Our whereabouts have been exposed, let everyone get on their horses and get out of here!" ”

After a period of panic, Ziad and Herram left in a hurry with the generals of the Great Eclipse Army, after nightfall, because many horses were so hungry that they lost their strength, one after another, the Great Eclipse soldiers fell back and scattered, and when it was late at night, when Ziad ordered to stop and rest again, it was found that more than 300 people had lost contact with the brigade by counting the number of people, and he had less than 1,500 people left.

In the following two days, Zhao Hu led the Western Qin army to chase after him, always putting strong pressure on Ziad and the Great Food Army, so that they could not relax and rest, and there was no way to find water and food.

In these two days, Ziad's men and horses were left behind, and the number of thirsty deaths reached 1,100, and he had only 400 men left, and all the horses starved to death in these two days, and they could only carry some horse meat on their feet, and the horse meat could not be preserved for long in the hot desert, and it would soon stink.

However, due to the smaller target, it was much more difficult for the Western Qin army to track the outposts, and the speed of the pursuit became slower, and sometimes it took a long time to find the traces of Ziad and his men.

Han Zhang said to Zhao Hu: "General, now that there are only a few hundred soldiers and horses left in Ziade, and there are no war horses, it is actually easy for us to catch up with them, why should the general waste any more time?" ”

Zhao Hu said: "First, cats and mice generally eat the mouse after it is exhausted, and do not give the mouse a chance to bite back; Second, we will also go to the Citadel of Behdashir, where there will be a confrontation with the Caliph's troops, so let's save some strength for now. However, Ziade's target has become smaller, they can hide under any sand dune, our outpost has to be found for a long time, it is really troublesome, so let's do it, their destination should be the next oasis, where they can replenish food and water, we are divided into two parts, I will take some people to the next oasis to wait for them first, you take the rest of the people to chase after them, but you must be careful, Ziad is still very cunning, don't be tricked by him! ”

"Don't worry, the general, the last general knows what to do!"

"Alright, let's go our separate ways and see you in the next oasis!"

Zhao Hu left with a thousand men first, and Han Zhang, with the remaining three thousand people, continued to follow behind to pursue Ziad and the Great Food Army.

In order not to die of thirst, Ziad and the remaining hundreds of cannibals had to drink their own urine every day, but under the sun, the sweat evaporated from time to time, and the body was severely dehydrated, and more and more people fell on the way back to Behedashir Castle.

Shupa, this is the name of the nearest oasis, where lives a small tribe of deserters, this tribe has only a few hundred people, and the people here are also called Shupa.

After another two days of arduous trekking, Ziyad and his men finally saw the sound of the oasis, but only thirteen of them remained, and the rest were all buried in the desert.

There were 20,000 people, and only thirteen people came back, Ziyad looked at the Shupa Oasis in the distance, and then at the twelve people behind him, and suddenly knelt on the ground, he wanted to cry but had no strength and tears.

With the support of the two soldiers, everyone walked towards the Shupa Oasis together, this short distance was too long and difficult, they reached the edge of the Shupa Oasis, Ziad's eyes were a little dazzling, his vision was seriously blurred, he couldn't see things clearly, and in the blurred vision, a group of people came out of the Shupa Oasis.

"I can't see clearly, are they residents of the Shupa Oasis?" Ziad asked Herram beside him.

Herram's face was as dead as ashes, and he sighed: "General, no! It's the Western Qin Army, they have already arrived and are waiting for us here! ”

Ziyad was silent for a long time, and then said to Herram: "Surrender!" ”

"What about you, sir?"

Ziad said: "This is where I belong!" With that, he pulled out his scimitar and walked forward step by step.

"Let's do it together!" Heram followed with everyone, and they all drew their swords and raised their heads to meet the Western Qin army.

Zhao Hu squinted his eyes at Qi Yade and the others who were coming towards him, raised his hand, and the cavalry of the Western Qin Army behind him raised their bows and arrows to aim at them.

After a rain of arrows, Ziad and everyone were shot into hedgehogs.