"Your Majesty Duke, this oasis is not a place to stay for a long time."
"We'd better take advantage of the war between Xiliang and Yunchui and head south as soon as possible. It would be better to occupy a piece of land in the prairie as soon as possible."
"There's no rush." Grand Duke Langston lowered his bulging belly.
This oasis has beautiful scenery, water and trees, fertile wild animals, a warmer spring-like climate, and no enemies to disturb it...
He looked around, and the more he looked, the more satisfied he became.
They all had the intention to let their subordinates choose a place to build a ducal palace next to this oasis.
It's a pity that he was in a hurry when he escaped and didn't take many craftsmen with him.
The matter of building the Duke's Palace had to be considered in the long run.
ah!
At this time, a shrill and tragic sound came from nowhere.
The staff member's heart skipped a beat and he couldn't help but glance in the direction of the sound.
"Master Duke, listen!" his mother-in-law said in her heart: "This place is really not as safe as you think."
The moment he stepped into this place, the staff carefully asked several leaders of the caravan.
The oasis in front of us looks vibrant, peaceful and peaceful on the surface, but the name "Desert of No Return" is not for nothing.
There are countless dangers inside.
"Aren't they just some poisonous insects and scorpions?" Grand Duke Langston waved his big hairy hands nonchalantly: "Just let the doctor take a look."
"But……"
But so many people were bitten by scorpions that we almost ran out of medicine.
However, just as the staff member was about to speak, he was interrupted impatiently by Archduke Langston.
"Nothing more." He said: "Didn't news come back a few days ago that there was an elusive and tyrannical team on the southern grassland?"
"I will never leave here until I find them and deal with them."
"Instead of blabbering here when you have time, you might as well go to the south and take a look at the specific situation."
After saying that, Grand Duke Langston picked up his fishing rod and came to the lake humming a song.
Ren Ning could see clearly from the tree.
He had learned lip reading, but he didn't understand Beixiong, so he didn't know what the two of them were talking about.
Ren Ning touched his chin.
It seems that I will look for an opportunity to learn this language after I go back this time.
Seeing that Grand Duke Langston and his party were still far away from the lake at their feet, Ren Ning continued to look north.
Soon, he was stunned!
The sky in the north turned gray at some point, and the golden finger suddenly changed color.
Red value 5!
Ren Ning looked at it a few more times.
The red value rose slightly, 6!
Sandstorm!
And it is heading towards the Pearl Oasis, or the south.
Ren Ning put down the telescope, took a careful visual inspection, and couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
This sandstorm was quite large, covering the entire sky in the north; but it was still far away, and it seemed that it would not reach our eyes within ten days.
In this case, he didn't care and continued to observe the situation ahead with his telescope.
The red nose that was caught in the first place really deserved his death.
Archduke Langston did not have fifty thousand men at all.
Ren Ning glanced at the number of tents.
Their number is only over 30,000 at most, and there are about 8,000 unarmed slaves.
But soon he frowned.
Perhaps it was because the Beixiong people were stronger and the opponent's lances and shields were longer and larger than those used by the Yunchui people.
The only good thing is that the metallurgical technology and pig iron quantity of surrounding countries, including Xiliang and Beixiong, are far inferior to that of Yunchui.
Therefore, Archduke Langston's elite men wore armor.
Although the lance in his hand was long, it was mostly just a long wooden pole with only a gleaming spear tip at the tip.
The same is true for the shield, which is only covered with a layer of cowhide on the wooden shield.
Ren Ning inspected their bows and arrows again, then hurriedly climbed down the tree trunk and got into the lake.
The lake was very deep, and there were thick weeds growing on the shore. Ren Ning hid inside without having to worry about being discovered.
Grand Duke Langston walked through the woods with fifty guards, and was about to reach the edge of the lake with rippling blue waves.
"Your Excellency, please wait a moment." The guard captain stood up, "You three teams, go and check the surroundings carefully."
"Everyone, please be serious. If something happens to the Duke, you won't be able to live without it."
Some slaves came to fetch water before, but several of them were bitten to death by wild beasts ambushing them by the lake, and finally they were all eaten up by wolves.
He didn't dare to be careless at all.
"Yes!" The three team captains took the order.
A group hurriedly came to the lake.
The other two teams searched separately, one on the left and the other on the right. Some were scratching at the grass, while others were kicking the trees in front of them.
Ah! Ah!
Not long after, someone screamed, "My eyes... there are poisonous insects on the tree, please help me."
Under the water, Ren Ning could hear clearly, but he didn't know what the other party was shouting, so he had to give up.
"What are you talking about?" the team leader was very angry.
He kicked the guy who was jumping around hard several times, "It's just that the sand from the tree fell down and blinded my eyes. What's your name?"
Others laughed.
"Come on, come on." Archduke Langston said angrily: "I came here to fish. You were cutting grass and kicking trees, which scared away the fish."
I'm still fishing for shit.
"Your Majesty the Duke..." The guard chief looked troubled.
He pricked up his ears and listened.
It was quiet all around, and there seemed to be no animals at all.
Then he hesitated and got out of the way.
And most of the ten guards who had already searched the lakeside just glanced at them briefly and gave up.
thump!
An unlucky guy slipped and fell into the lake.
"Help. I can't swim." He screamed in fright.
Others couldn't help but be dumbfounded.
The Principality of Langston is located to the north of the Desert of No Return. There are no big rivers in the territory, and few of them know how to swim.
"Bad luck!" Archduke Langston cursed, and almost wanted to smash the unlucky little guard to death in the water with a fishing rod.
Finally, he shook his head and found a place more than fifty feet away to catch fish again.
Hold!
He was depressed, and Ren Ning in the water was even more depressed.
I originally wanted to see if there was any way to kill Archduke Langston silently, but in the end I let this unlucky guy mess it up.
Ren Ning dived over.
Now that you're down, don't go up.
Others just take a few glances and then change places, but you have to stretch your neck and dig through the grass to take a closer look...
A conscientious and responsible guard is a good guard, so he must be killed.
"Help...help...underwater..."
Gudonggudong.
The little guard was floating and sinking at first. Ren Ning pulled on it, and he suddenly started to sink more and more.
It’s going to be bad!
The entire team of ten people were all landlubbers. They were all running around anxiously, but they didn't notice anything strange at all.
"Hurry and grab my gun." Someone finally remembered the weapon in his hand and quickly stretched out the gun.
But he was afraid of disturbing the Duke over there, so he didn't dare to shout loudly at all.
I don't know whether the unlucky man in the water was almost unconscious or the voice of the people on the shore was too quiet. He kept clapping his hands in confusion, but never managed to grab the weapon.
The ones on the shore were so anxious that they jumped up and moved forward involuntarily.
result,
With a plop, he also fell down.
"Help!"
…
After a while, the two of them drank enough water and floated on the water one after the other.
"Bad luck!" Archduke Langston threw the fishing rod into the water angrily, turned around and walked away.