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Chapter 263 Camel
Putting down the binoculars, the two looked at each other, both a little stunned and surprised.

"Old Ren," Lei Er opened his eyes in disbelief, "I'm not mistaken, is Gu Datou on the opposite side?"

Ren Ning remained silent, looked carefully at the figure across from him again, and then nodded with certainty.

"It's indeed the big head," Ren Ning smiled: "The one next to him is Lu Youtian. The others are also brothers from Qibaying."

He had written letters home for these people before, so he knew quite a few of them.

Especially Lu Youtian, if he hadn't contributed the first crystal, Ren Ning really didn't know when he would get the telescope.

"Good guy." Lei Er recognized him now and couldn't help laughing.

"Why are they here?"

Ren Ning shook his head, "Not very clear."

Although the intelligence network of the Starfall Legion is extensive, it is not detailed enough to track down the whereabouts of small soldiers like Gu Datou and Lu Youtian.

Of course, there is no need for this.

This time, Gu Datou and Lu Youtian on the opposite side also recognized Ren Ning and Lei Er.

After the surprise, the remaining 170 cavalrymen of the Eighth Cavalry Battalion rushed over excitedly.

Wangchuan runs to death.

There was a little distance between the two sides, and it took a long time to get together.

Haha!

More than a hundred people jumped off their horses at the same time and patted each other's shoulders excitedly.

"Big Head, Arita, you fellow riders of the Eighth Battalion, long time no see!"

"Long time no see! Come and eat broad beans together. I brought them all the way from Hanoi County."

"Old Ren, oh no, General. And Lei Er, so it's really you guys. Just now Datou almost wondered if the clairvoyance in his hand was broken."

"What kind of general?" Ren Ning waved his hand haha, "They are all dead brothers, and they are not in the fortress. Just call me Lao Ren as before."

"kind!"

……

After a long chatter, the two sides remounted their horses and lined up towards the place where Qi Baying lived temporarily.

Ren Ning looked back thoughtfully.

There are minions trailing behind, carefully erasing their tracks.

"General Huo sent you in." Lei Er looked around, "Where are the other brothers from the Eighth Battalion?"

Gu Datou laughed loudly: "It's all here."

Ren Ning and the two were taken aback.

Two years ago, the Starfall Legion left the fortress and transferred to Guangxin County. At that time, the Eighth Cavalry Battalion was full of 1000 people.

They knew that the pressure and casualties in the fortress were very high these days, but they didn't expect it to be so brutal.

Lu Youtian next to him smiled: "Our Eighth Battalion is not bad. The Seventh Battalion and Ninth Battalion next to us have all been defeated."

"But we killed more than one or two thousand Xiliang people." When he said this, he was a little complacent, "Brothers have made enough money."

……

Walk forward while talking.

A group of people hurried, and didn't stop in a shallow mountain nest until the sun went down.

Sentinels and defenses were set up around the nest, and there were bushes and even a small water source inside.

Although the spring water is thin, it is flowing endlessly.

Ren Ning turned around and nodded with satisfaction: "This place is really nice."

The Desert of No Return is thousands of miles away from Yunchui Empire, and even thousands of miles away from Yunchui's political and economic center.

Almost all the news about it comes from the caravans on the East-West Line.

According to the legend, the Desert of No Return is extremely desolate and barren, like a purgatory on earth.

It is said that as long as you step into the Desert of No Return, no one will be able to come out from it.

"Cut." Gu Datou sneered, "It's all those caravan bastards talking nonsense."

Ren Ning nodded.

Lei Er was even more emotional: "The rumors about those caravans are really unreliable."

Or the ancestors were right, reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles.If you want to know the real situation, you still have to see it for yourself.

If they hadn't come here in person this time, they would have never known that there would be such a place with mountains and water near the Desert of No Return.

It can be said that it is much better than imagined before.

No wonder Tiele brought his people to settle here.

Gu Datou and Lu Youtian looked at each other.

In the two hours since they came back, they also learned why Ren Ning and Lei Er appeared here.

The two laughed and said, "Old Ren, this place is nothing. The water source is pitifully small, barely enough for a hundred of us to drink, and we dare not even take a bath."

They looked up to the north.

"Although it's called the Desert of No Return, there are actually many oases in it. There are wild animals and lakes in the oasis, and some lakes are not small. It's not a problem to feed tens of thousands of people."

"It can be said that the environment is much better than here."

It's just that they stayed here because they insisted on harassing or robbing the grain and grass that Xiliang sent to the east.

In other words, they were driven here by a large number of Xiliang people.

"Really?" Lei Er widened his eyes curiously.

Ren Ning remained silent.

I have seen the desert in my previous life, so I am not surprised.

He inquired carefully about the famous oases nearby, and took out a map to mark those locations one by one.

After a long while, he asked, "So you don't know where the migrated Kailun tribe settled down, do you?"

Gu Datou scratched his shiny forehead heckly.

He was a little embarrassed, "I'm really not sure about this."

Lu Youtian next to him explained: "We robbed Xiliang people of military rations several times, and we were chased and hid in Tibet. We just came here not long ago."

But the grassland is vast, and the people and horses brought out by Tie Le are not much bigger than sand, so it is really not so easy to come across.

Ren Ning nodded thoughtfully.

No wonder on the way here, the soldiers behind him kept clearing their tracks.

"Be careful tonight," he said.

"What?" Lei Er and the others were stunned, subconsciously stood up and looked around.

It's just that they are now in the bushes at the bottom of the small mountain nest, so they can't see outside.

Ren Ning got up and walked towards the high point: "We always thought that there were no Xiliang people nearby except Tie Le, so we unscrupulously shot cloud-piercing arrows into the sky."

Since Gu Datou and the others can see it, the aborigines here and even the Xiliang people who hunted down Qibaying may see it and even touch it.

Several people understand.

"Afraid of hair." Gu Datou has always been full of confidence in Ren Ning, "We will kill one if we touch it, and we will kill a team if we touch it."

Lei Er read more books than him, and said with a smile: "This is called soldiers coming to block, water coming and soil flooding."

On the high point, three telescopes looked around.

It's just that night has fallen at this time, and the surrounding sky is dark.

Except for Ren Ning who has a golden finger, everyone else can only look lonely.

Gu Datou muttered: "What time is it now? Why is it so dark at night?"

"July 24." Ren Ning replied.

From time to time, he would record the local conditions and customs on the road and describe the topography and landforms along the way for occasional needs.

So remember the days.

"As long as it's not the fourteenth of July." Someone whispered.

Everyone laughed lowly.

Ren Ning suddenly raised his hand and pointed: "On the hill about ten miles to the north, there are more than fifty people peeping at us."

The faces of the people next to him straightened up, and they all looked towards the north.

They don't need to worry about this manpower. The only thing they worry about is whether there will be any management in the farther places.

what.

Ren Ning had a strange face, "Their mounts are not horses, but..."

camel!

(End of this chapter)