Zahedan City.
Zhao Hu led his army to the city.
After fighting Ziad in Bad Town, Ziad lost most of his cavalry and only led more than a thousand of his remaining troops back to Zahedan City.
Zhao Hu lost more than 400 people and had 4,000 left.
There were more than 500 people.
These two consecutive battles made Zhao Hu discover that the generals of the Food Kingdom began to learn to use tactics.
This had never happened before.
In order not to be plotted by Ziad, Zhao Hu slowed down his advance.
It was not until two days later that he led his army to reach Zahedan City.
At this time, the sky was a little gloomy.
The army came to the city.
The city gate was wide open.
No sound came from the city.
Zhao Hu reined in his horse and stopped just a stone's throw outside the city wall.
He raised his chin to the guard captain beside him and said, "We will do it beforehand."
Sentries have been sent to investigate, but we haven’t seen them coming to contact and report the investigation.
There may have been an accident and we sent a few people into the city to investigate the situation."
"Yes, general," the captain of the soldiers agreed, clasping his fists, and immediately sent twelve soldiers into three groups to investigate the situation in the city.
Three groups of soldiers rode into the city cautiously along the way.
Everyone knew that Zaheidan was not just a city, it was also a fortress.
All the houses in the city were built more like fortresses, and there were many bunkers.
If you are not careful, you will be shot by someone inside with a bow and arrow.
After half an hour, a cavalryman entered the city to investigate and quickly returned to Zhao Hu to report: "General, no large food army was found in the city, but we found hundreds of children underground in a house.
He is sixteen years old and only a few months old.
They are all children left behind by the people in this city.
In addition, please ask the general to come and see it in person."
Zhao Hu turned to the generals around him and said: "Leave one person here, the others will go into the city with me."
"promise" One general stayed in place to lead the army, and the other generals followed Zhao Hu on horseback into the city.
Under the leadership of the soldiers, everyone came to the tallest fortress in the city.
They saw more than two hundred children sitting in the fortress.
These children The children were all skinny and ragged from hunger.
At this time, they were taking the steamed buns given to them by the soldiers, taking a bite of the steamed buns and drinking a sip of water.
Several soldiers were feeding batter to babies who were only a few months old.
Zhao Hu asked the soldiers who found these children: "Where did you find these children?"
The soldier pointed to a corner and said: "General, there is an underground entrance over there.
There are stairs to go down.
The underground space is very large.
There are ventilation holes leading to the outside.
It can accommodate hundreds of people.
That is the basement where food and supplies are stored.
They were hiding there.
At first, we didn't know there was a land here.
We went to the lower room, and when we were about to leave, we heard cries coming from the underground.
After searching, we found the entrance to the basement.
These children had not eaten for two or three days, especially babies who were several months old.
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If It’s not that they are crying out of hunger, we don’t know there is a basement here.”
Zhao Hu nodded and asked: "Have you found the parents and relatives of these children?
Also, why is this city so lifeless?
Do you have any other findings?"
The soldier said: "General, please come with me."
He turned and walked outside.
Zhao Hu and others followed him out.
After a while, everyone came to the northeast corner of the city wall.
This was a large area of sand.
At first, Zhao Hu and others didn't find anything, but when they walked in, they found that there were corpses everywhere under the sand because there were many Many hands and feet are exposed to the sand.
The soldier said: "The villain thinks that the parents and relatives of those children should be here.
The cannibal killed everyone in the city, and the children were hidden in the basement by their parents to avoid bad luck.
The weather is so hot, The Big Eater also had to guard here.
If the corpses were exposed for a long time, they would definitely stink, so the Big Eater buried them here.
In addition, judging from the traces in the city, the Big Eater should have left in a hurry.
People judged that they had just left not long ago, and it would not have lasted more than an hour."
Zhao Hu looked at the countless exposed limbs of corpses on the sand, gritted his teeth, and said nothing with a livid face.
At this time, a knight came galloping towards him.
Before his horse could stop, he jumped down and bowed to Zhao Hu: "General, the big cannibals have withdrawn to the Luti Desert in the west.
I will wait behind and watch them enter."
Desert, it seems that they want to withdraw to Behdashir Castle from the desert."
Zhao Hu looked at the hands and feet of the corpse exposed on the sand again, with a fierce look in his eyes.
He flicked his cloak, turned around and strode towards the horse, and roared: "Instruct all the soldiers in the army to prepare enough dry food and water, every day."
We are equipped with two war horses and are on standby to send people to tell the sentries who are tracking the food army, and order them to keep a close eye on Ziad and his food army, and to leave tracking marks along the way."
"Yes."
A general agreed and immediately got on his horse and ran out of the city.
After Zhao Hu mounted the horse, he looked back at the enemy and said in a deep voice: "Find someone to clean up these corpses and carry them outside the city for burial.
As for the children who are over fifteen years old, arrange for them to enlist in the army, and those who are under ten years old will be arranged to join the army."
All the five-year-olds were sent to Jiling City and handed over to the local government for resettlement."
"Yes, General" The army was quickly prepared.
When Zhao Hu rushed outside the city, he looked back at Zaheidan City and ordered: "The first battalion will stay in Zaheidan City.
The other battalions and the general will pursue the Dashi Army and set off."
"Yes."
The generals responded with a roar.
The army immediately pursued towards the west under the leadership of Zhao Hu.
An hour later, the army chased them to the edge of the desert.
Zhao Hu reined in his horse and stopped.
A soldier next to him immediately jumped off his horse to look for the mark left by the sentry.
He quickly returned and reported to Zhao Hu: "General, they are going in this direction. " Zhao Hu raised his hand and waved forward: "Chase" By October, although it was still very hot in the Luti Desert, there was no high temperature that the human body could not bear.
The highest temperature during the day was 412 degrees, and the temperature of the surface sand reached about 57 degrees.
Zhao Hu no longer worried about encountering hot weather in the desert that could kill the entire army, and just led the army in pursuit.
After a day of pursuit, the army still did not stop at night and continued on its way.
However, the light at night was not very good, so they had to stop a short distance to look for tracking marks left by the tracking sentry.
The next morning, the army finally caught up with the food army when it reached the junction between the eastern beach of the desert and the ravine and dune area in the middle.
A scout noticed that Zhao Hu was chasing after him with his army, and immediately rode up to report to him: "General, the food army is resting in a ravine twenty miles ahead.
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The ravine runs north-south.
At this time, The sun has just risen and cannot shine in the ravine, which is a good place to rest.
Although the food army retreated, they still sent some spies in the rear.
The brothers did not dare to get too close to avoid being discovered."
Zhao Ziliang asked: "What is the situation of the Dashi Army now?
How many infantry do they have, how many cavalry do they have, and how much baggage are they killing?"
The detective said: "The brothers once took the risk to go around in front of them and hide in advance.
When they passed by, they observed and found that they had four thousand infantry and more than one thousand two hundred cavalry.
However, their infantry all had horses.
They should still return Taken from the city of Zahedan and surrounding towns and villages They had more than 2,000 horses, so horses were sufficient.
In addition to horses, they also had more than 300 camels.
Camels and stolen horses were used to carry supplies.
Although there were many supplies, horses and camels were used to carry supplies. , has some impact on their marching speed, but not too much.”
Zhao Hu looked at the direction of the food army with deep eyes.
He held the whip in his right hand and beat the palm of his left hand rhythmically, thinking about how to deal with Ziyad and his remaining defeated generals.
After thinking for a while, Zhao Hu raised his whip and waved: "Bring me the map."
The soldier brought a cylinder, took off the lid and pulled out a roll of blueprints from the inside and handed it to Zhao Hu.
Zhao Hu took the map and looked at it.
There were two dotted lines at the location of the Luti Desert.
One dotted line was from Jiling.
The city leads to Behdashir Castle in a winding way.
This dotted line is relatively long. , another dotted line also leads from Zahedan City to Behdashir Castle.
This dotted line is shorter.
There are several different marks drawn on these two dotted lines, including circles, triangles and circles with crosses. , representing lakes, mountains, hills, and oasis respectively.
These are two ancient business travel routes through the desert.
In the right season, business travelers do not want to detour through towns such as Bam Oasis and Shulgaz City to travel between the east and the west.
Carrying enough food and water across the desert is a good route.
Shortcut, but only small caravans dare to do this.
Large caravans require more food and water and consume more money.
If they go in the wrong direction in the desert without replenishment, they may all be buried in the desert.
Zhao Hu looked at the map for a while and clicked on a location on the map with his finger.
The generals standing nearby were a little confused.
One of the generals asked: "What are the general's plans?"
Zhao Hu said: "We first pursued them with great fanfare to frighten their courage and make them exhausted.
After two days, we divided into two parts.
One part accelerated the march and went around to the front, waiting for the big man-eater at Scorpion Ridge, two hundred miles away. , the second step is still to hang behind them and chase them until they are chased into the trap we set up in Scorpion Ridge."
The general asked: "General, are we taking it for granted that the legs are on the giant eater's body and the head is on their neck?
We have no control over how they go.
What if they don't go to Scorpion Ridge?"
Although Scorpion Ridge is not the only way to go from Zahedan to Behdashir Castle, you can replenish drinking water and rest by the lake by taking Scorpion Ridge.
Generally, business travelers will take Scorpion Ridge.
If they don’t go, then we Just try to force them to go to Scorpion Ridge."
The general asked curiously: "What can I do?"
"You will know when the time comes."
Zhao Hu said, motioning to the soldiers to put the map away, then he got on his horse, raised his hand and waved forward: "Give the order, the whole army should run as fast as possible, and make the biggest noise.
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The resting Dashi Army knew that we were about to catch up with them”: