Chapter 312 Sandstorm

"Sandstorm!" Zhang Fan was shocked. He had never seen it. He heard that this Gobi sandstorm was quite severe and could scrape off people's skin! Many caravans got lost after the sandstorm!

"Order the troops to move forward at full speed and find shelter as soon as possible before the sandstorm arrives!" Zhang Fan ordered to pass it down.

Tang Jun has carriages and horses, and the speed of progress is very fast. But it suffered from the caravans that followed behind! Tang Jun has no obligation to protect them. However, Zhang Fan is soft-hearted and can't let go of these business trips, so Tang Jun is not marching fast.

But Aken and Green Wing became a little anxious and urged Zhang Fan to let the troops leave quickly.

"Where can this vast Gobi hide? Leaving the caravan, it may not be able to hide. Ask the detective to look forward. If there is any shelter, we will lead the team there!" Zhang Fan shook his head.

Akan thought for a moment and said, "I'll drive forward and have a look. Hurry up and keep in touch!"

"Green Wing, you go with Aken. In case something happens, there will be a response. Well, take some cavalry..." Zhang Fan got out of the car and rode a war horse.

"No cavalry, just join the green wings. Willis can spread around and run, hurry up!" Aken greeted the green wing, and the two got on the car together, with a slip of yellow dust, away from the army!

Zhang Fan continued to move forward with the large army and contacted the Acon Green Wing every ten minutes to ensure that the two sides were within 50 kilometers in a straight line. You should know that if Willis starts at full speed, it will be more than 300 kilometers per hour. If there is no obstacle, it will be ten minutes away from the communication distance.

But in less than half an hour, Zhang Fan lost contact with the two. In the last contact, Aken seemed to have found an ancient relic, which was completely preserved and could shelter from the wind. I'm about to investigate. Then I lost the message.

The direction of the ruins mentioned by Aken is 15 kilometers to the northeast, and the distance is not far. Move forward at full speed and maybe be able to get there before the sandstorm comes. Zhang Fan asked the sergeant to order the caravan to follow up and take shelter in the ruins of the ancient city.

Without Tang Jun's reminder, the caravan also hurriedly drove the camel and pulled the truck forward. Those camels are more sensitive than human beings and know that the big thing is not good. The smell in the wind reminds them that there is a lot of sand, and it is coming! Big enough to drown yourself! The camels hissed forward.

Zhang Fan was also anxious and couldn't wait to leave the team. He rushed to the ruins first to see what happened. But there are also envoys and officials who need to guard, and it seems that things are not that simple. If they go there by themselves, they are indeed in danger, and they will fall with them, which is not a joke. If you arrive with the Tang army, you may have a better chance.

With Aken's adaptability and Green Wing's skills, there should be nothing that can't be dealt with. Besides, Willis will not help him go alone.

Zhang Fan sent a team of Tang cavalry to inquire about the missing area of the two. Let them find two lieutenants to bring back at all costs. If there is danger, the whole army must not fall, and someone must come back to report the news.

It's not a small matter that two seven-grade lieutenants are missing. It's even more humiliating for the troops that have lost their officers. According to the military discipline of the Tang Dynasty, the whole army will be punished! This cavalry is more urgent than Zhang Fan.

The sky has darkened, and the sandstorm behind it is estimated that it will arrive in half an hour. The cavalry team has released three teams, but they have not come back to report the news all the way. Zhang Fan's gaffe seemed to be serious. Aken Green Wing has been out of touch for two hours, which has exceeded Zhang Fan's patience.

There is still a sea of sand in front of the army and caravans, dotted with several wind-eroded platforms, but there is no trace of ruins. Did you go in the wrong direction?!

If you can't see the ruins in another half an hour, you must be stationed on the spot and start preparing for measures to prevent sandstorms, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.

Some leaders of the caravan have even come to persuade them to station on the spot. The sandstorm behind them has been black, and they are about to catch up with the buttocks of the subsequent caravan!

At this moment, the last cavalry returned!

Report! Zhang Shenjun, ten miles ahead, there is an ancient city ruins. The wall still exists, and there is no one to avoid the wind and sand for a while!" The cavalry commander reported on the horse.

"Can you find the traces of the two officers?" Zhang Fan asked urgently.

"Report that Zhang joined the army and didn't find it! The two teams of brothers in front are also missing, but there are horseshoe footprints on the ground, which are exactly what they left!"

"Order the troops to speed up their pace and move forward faster! Ask 500 brothers to go to the back to help the caravan leave quickly!" Zhang Fan quickly issued an order, "Let's send another 300 cavalry to explore the ancient city and be sure to find two officers!"

"Ye!" Several soldiers held their fists and rushed to various places.

As soon as the caravan heard that there was a shelter from the wind ahead, they were overjoyed and dragged the camels that had refused to move forward. These animals have felt a disaster, but they refused to move forward and wanted to lie down on the ground. Tang Jun, who was driven, pulled up from the ground and drove these beasts forward with the personnel of the caravan!

Zhang Fan asked the remaining Tang army to take the envoy officials to take refuge in the ruins of the ancient city. He and several guards came to the back team to check the situation of the sandstorm.

Zhang Fan came to a highland, took out the blue prop telescope, and looked at the black sandstorm that was already not far away!

It doesn't matter. It scared Zhang Fan so much that the telescope in his hand slipped into the dust...

The black sandstorm is full of ghosts! The teeth and claws rushed from the sky! There are many skeleton zombies running forward on the ground! That's not a sandstorm. It's obviously an army of ghosts!

"Quick! Order the team to move forward! The goods are thrown away quickly! Run!" Zhang Fan immediately ordered his own soldiers to go down and urge the caravan.

The soldiers had to go down. Zhang Fan picked up the telescope from the ground, calmed down, and continued to check the movement of the sandstorm. Unfortunately, I don't have the ability to calculate, and I can't accurately calculate how long it will take for this ghost sandstorm to catch up with his troops!

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"This is probably the so-called ancient city of Loulan!" Aken looked at the ruins of the ancient city in the distance and said to Green Wing.

"Probably, it should be safe from the wind. Hurry up and tell Zhang Fan about the direction and ask him to lead the team here! Let's go ahead and have a look!" Green Wing urged Willis to move forward.

After contacting Zhang Fan, the two came to the outside of the city. In front of them was a wall about five meters high and rammed with loess. The two circled the ancient city, which is a square ancient city with a length of more than 300 meters.

There is a collapse in the northern wall of the city, which seems to have been formed by some impact. The south of the city is the main gate, and the city wall is also partially damaged. Entering from the dilapidated gate in the south, there are still thick square wooden frame marks at the door, and the collapsed gate wood is scattered inside and outside the gate. After passing through the gate, I found that the wall of the ancient city was nearly ten meters thick! And there is rough wood reinforcement inside the wall.

The courtyard wall of the residential area in the city is made of clay made by tying reeds or weaving wicker. It is full of wooden houses, poplar columns, and the doors and windows of the house have been damaged, but the frame is still intact, but most of the roofs have been lifted by the wind and sand.

There are still remnants of living utensils in the house, and some large furniture items are also fragmented and scattered on the ground. Pottery fragments, severely rusted bronze products, and some smelting residues can be seen everywhere on the ground.

In the center of the city, there is the only building built with thick loess, which is very huge. Although the wooden beams and columns have been broken, it can be faintly seen that the original magnificence is estimated to be the residence of the city owner or ruler.

There is a conical mound building more than ten meters high in the east of the city, and there are still mottled color paintings on it, but it has been unclear and does not know what its role is.

In the dead city, it is lifeless. Aken was also depressed and sighed.

Green Wing suddenly said, "Did you hear any sound?"

Aken was shocked and listened attentively. But only the low roar when the wind blew through the empty house and through the doors and windows.

"There is no sound except the wind?" Aken replied.

"Listen again, it seems that someone is playing the flute!" Green Wing also listened carefully. Her perception is as high as more than 150, and she has to carefully distinguish how Aken can hear it.

But the sound of the flute seemed to be getting closer and closer, and even Aken faintly recognized it, as if he had known each other and heard it somewhere. Aken's heart trembled as if he had been hit by a heavy hammer. Didn't he hear the sound of the reed flute last night? The sobbing melody, melodious, as if the sad lover whispered, and as if the resentment was nostalgic for the world...

Aken quickly contacted Zhang Fan, but found that he could not communicate!

Green Wing also quickly contacted Zhang Fan, but there was no news!

Something happened! Not Zhang Fan, but yourself!

The two looked at each other and pulled out the blade. Aken put a primary protective boundary on the two people - the 'earth boundary', which is rich in earth elements, and this boundary is surprisingly useful.

Willis carried the two and went to the place where the flute sounded...

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The ruins are close in front of us, and the sandstorm behind them is also coming. The black and yellow dust and smoke, like a huge roller, swept over the ground. The strong wind has made people stand unsteadily!

As long as business travelers turn back, they will be frightened. The camels and horses were already scared and panicked and rushed around, lifting off their goods and people.

Animals are **. They feel that the horrible and strange sandstorm behind them will definitely devour their lives! Businessmen still don't know the terrible scenes in the sandstorm. I just know that I will be caught up by the sandstorm and will be submerged in this sand sea. That's a lifetime!

It's not just nine deaths! Life is better than death! Zhang Fan shouted all the way and asked Tang Jun to unload the goods quickly and drag the camels and horses forward. Those merchants who were reluctant to give up their own money were also forced by the Tang army to run away empty-handed. From time to time, they turned back and wanted to go back to rescue the goods, but Tang Jun was fierce and held his neck with a knife in his hand!

Thousands of troops and caravans, stretching for several miles, the front troops have entered the ruins of the ancient city, and the merchants behind have fallen into the sandstorm front!

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