King Lingyu

Early in the morning of the second day, Sima Lingyu made the soldiers eat and drink enough, of course enough water, and set off.

The team of 1000 people is mighty, with horses on horseback, and some soldiers use two-wheeled wooden carts to transport buckets of water. These people move forward by foot and carry weight, so they move slowly. They are at the end of the team. square.

In order to be able to travel lightly, and to concentrate manpower on the crucial matter of water transportation, Sima Lingyu has already ordered that unnecessary equipment should not be carried. Each soldier only carries a large water bag on his back. A big sun hat on the head, there is nothing extra.

Food, grass, camp tents, and water are all managed in the back, and shifts are changed every two hours to escort.

What Sima Lingyu meant was that before entering the desert, everyone only drank the water in the water bag on their bodies, so that the water transported in this way can be saved to drink, and it can almost last until they leave the desert.

At that time, Li Ming wanted to find a guide in the village at the foot of the mountain, because the people in this village lived in the place closest to the desert and would be relatively familiar with it, but he offered a huge reward, and no one dared to take this job. Money can't take life!

Li Ming thought that if he didn't have a guide, he should buy a few camels, but the result was also surprising. No one in the village went into the desert, and if they didn't need camels, there would be no camels.

This made Li Ming and Sima Lingyu feel even more uneasy.

On the way to the desert, everyone was preoccupied, and everyone seemed to have a sense of crisis.

The more you walk towards the desert, the hotter you feel, the more you sweat, and the thirstier you become.

Sima Lingyu was riding a horse, and seeing that there were already soldiers in the team couldn't bear it, he picked up the water bag and started drinking in big gulps.

The eldest princess is still sitting in the carriage, and the sun can't reach her, but the stuffy feeling is a bit out of breath.Hong'er sat beside her, kept soaking the towel, and helped her wipe her cheeks and forehead.

"Hong'er, have we entered the desert yet?" the eldest princess asked anxiously.

"Princess, not yet." Hong'er opened the curtain of the carriage and looked outside, only to feel a wave of heat rushing in through the window, so she quickly closed the curtain.

Now everyone hopes that the evening will come sooner. Sima Lingyu once thought that it would be better to just drive at night, but in that case, the time will be doubled, so the water may not last until the end.

After three days, they finally arrived at the edge of the desert. After setting up camp at night, Sima Lingyu discovered a very serious problem, that is, the water they transported evaporated a lot due to the heat, and it had already lost almost one-fifth of it.

At this speed, it is impossible to last half of the desert, and people have evaporated before drinking the water.

Sima Lingyu, who was in the tent, was frowning.

Seeing Sima Lingyu like this, the eldest princess was also a little worried, "Your son-in-law, are you worried about drinking water?"

Sima Lingyu nodded, "Do you know that one-fifth of the water we have stored has been evaporated in vain?"

Hearing this, the Eldest Princess was also shocked. The heat of the past few days made her understand the importance of water.I didn't think it before, but now I have to be very thirsty to take a sip.

The eldest princess frowned, "Forehead, since we need to go to the five frontier provinces to gather troops, why do we have to bring so many people along the way?"

The eldest princess's question hit the point.

"There are two reasons. First, this is the emperor's order to let a thousand elite soldiers accompany them. Second, these 1000 soldiers are not ordinary soldiers. They are highly skilled in martial arts, and they can fight ten against one."

The eldest princess still frowned, "But no matter how powerful they are, they are probably useless for heroes. The desert is extremely dry, and we don't have enough water. I'm afraid they will die of water shortage before we get out of the desert. Why go to the battlefield to kill the enemy?"

Sima Lingyu is also pondering that the current situation is indeed as the eldest princess said, and it is very likely that the entire army will be wiped out in the Nantige Desert, "What do you think of Su Ying?"

"Let's put aside the emperor's mother's will for the time being, and now life-saving is the most important thing! Only the necessary people are left, up to 200 people, and the rest return to the same way."

Sima Lingyu thought that what the eldest princess said was very reasonable, so he invited Li Ming to discuss it. Finally, only 1000 people with stronger physiques were selected from the nearly 200 people, and the rest all went back the same way.Sima Lingyu also told him to keep all the water bags of the returned soldiers and fill them with water, which is convenient to drink and not easy to evaporate. The remaining barrels for transporting water must also be sealed to minimize evaporation.

Even so, Sima Lingyu was still so worried that he couldn't sleep well at night. He was going to set off into the desert early in the morning, and he didn't know what would happen?Although Li Ming has rich combat experience, he has never been in the desert, so can he go out with just that sheepskin map?

Just as Sima Lingyu was thinking wildly, he suddenly heard the call of an oriole. How could there be birds on the edge of the desert? It must be A Yue who sent a secret signal because it was inconvenient for him to find him.

Sima Lingyu got up, put on his coat, and walked towards the door of the tent.

"Forehead son-in-law!" The eldest princess didn't sleep well, Sima Lingyu got up, and she woke up too, "Where are you going?"

"There are some things that need to be discussed with General Li. Go to sleep first!"

Sima Lingyu went out of the tent and saw A Yue at the door. A Yue came over and whispered to her, "Master, the master is here! Wait for you over there!"

When Sima Lingyu heard this, she was overjoyed, since she hadn't seen her master for a long time.She looked far away, and sure enough, she saw the figure of the master far away, and—how many camels did the master bring? !And - the figure next to the master, I can't see who it is, but why is it so familiar?

Sima Lingyu ran all the way, and knelt down when she saw her master, "I have seen the master!"

Since the day when Sima Lingyu's master left her teacher, there would never have been any major incidents. The sudden appearance of Sima Lingyu is enough to show the seriousness of the situation.She called "Yu'er" and helped Sima Lingyu up.

Sima Lingyu got up, and saw the person next to the master - Jingwengege! ?

"Brother Jingwen?" Sima Lingyu was puzzled. Could it be that when she went to Nanshan to learn martial arts, the master she followed was actually her own master?

"Brother Ling Yu," Jing Wen giggled, "Now it's time to call you senior brother!"

Sure enough!No wonder Jingwen Gege's martial arts improved so fast, it turned out that the master trained/taught him himself.

"My teacher heard Jingwen say that you were going to cross the desert, but there were no camels, so I found some for you. Horses are useless in the desert."

Sima Lingyu couldn't help lamenting the master's ability, Li Ming's search was fruitless, but the master managed to get it.

This meeting was very short. Sima Lingyu's master left her a bottle of pills, saying that it can temporarily delay metabolism and keep the body's water from excessive loss. Before leaving, he left a sentence, "Life is the most precious thing." Yes, no matter who it is, life and death are not as important as your own life!"

After the master finished speaking, he looked into her eyes, hoping that she would understand the true meaning of the words.

Sima Lingyu nodded heavily.

After parting from the master, Sima Lingyu and Jingwen Gege led the camels together and returned to the barracks, just in time to meet General Li on his night patrol.

"My lord, Gege, how did you get these camels?" Li Ming was overjoyed and shouted excitedly.

"Don't worry about how you got it, here, take care of it!" Sima Lingyu handed the rope to Li Ming, and Li Ming happily called two people to carefully lead the hard-won camel away.

"It's getting late, brother Jingwen, let's go back and rest!" Sima Lingyu looked at Jingwen Gege who suddenly became her junior sister beside him.

"Okay!" Jingwen Gege has a lot of questions since she found out that Sima Lingyu also studied under the Nanshan Xiuhui School. She really wanted to ask the two of them together alone, but after thinking about it, it was too late Let's talk about this expedition!

In the tent, the princess also heard Li Ming's words of "My lord, gege", and she felt unhappy, she didn't mean to discuss things with Li Ming, why was she with Jingwen gege again?

When Sima Lingyu returned to the tent, he was obviously much happier than when he went out just now. Seeing this, the eldest princess couldn't help asking.

"What makes the forehead so happy?"

"We have a few camels, so we can walk more smoothly in the desert!"

"Didn't General Li not buy a camel?"

"It's Jingwen Gege!" Sima Lingyu lied, she couldn't say it was sent by her master.

"Hey, this Jing Wen Ge Ge is really good at it. Not only is he strong in martial arts, but now he has great supernatural powers. He got a camel!" The eldest princess was really jealous at the moment, not because she was jealous that she had just been with the forehead, but because she was jealous that she could help Sima Lingyu solved the urgent need.

Sima Lingyu guessed what the eldest princess was thinking, and walked over, "In my opinion, Su Ying, you are the one with the best skills!"

The eldest princess was praised inexplicably, "What is Su Ying capable of? First, I don't know martial arts, and second, I can't get a camel."

Sima Lingyu smiled, "But you helped me solve a big problem!"

"What's the big deal?" the eldest princess asked, why didn't she know.

"Water!" Sima Lingyu thought, if the eldest princess hadn't suggested that most people should return, the water problem would not be solved at all.

The eldest princess also thought of this, and couldn't help laughing, it turned out that she had also helped the forehead.

"So you are the great hero!" Sima Lingyu complimented the eldest princess, "Sleep, great hero, you have to hurry tomorrow morning!"

This time both of them fell asleep peacefully until the next morning.

Sima Lingyu and the others got up, had breakfast, and set off before the sun rose.Now in their team, some are riding horses, some are riding camels, and of course the eldest princess still rides in a carriage.

A Yue rode a horse and followed Sima Lingyu who was riding a camel, and when he saw that she was alone, he chased after her.

"Master, this subordinate received Junli's letter from Fei Ge last night, saying that Miss Lu and Lan'er have returned to Lu Mansion, everything is fine, I want you to rest assured."

Sima Lingyu nodded, thinking how wise she was for not bringing Sister Yun out at that time, she definitely couldn't bear this kind of suffering, "By the way, Wuqing and the others, are you still following them secretly?"