Safowan, who was running on the long yellow sand, saw a pursuit soldier behind him and blocked him in front of him, and it was impossible to escape. He tried to make a fuss and urged the camel mount to speed up, gritting his teeth and holding the scimitar to kill Lu Bu. The other party also slapped the horse and danced the halberd and rushed towards him. In just one round, Safowan's head fell to the ground in the light of the halberd blade.

The other Bedouin cavalry were also not opponents of the Liang army's heavy cavalry. Most of them were stabbed by the opponent's cavalry in the moment when the war cavalry intersected. Even if they were lucky enough to avoid the attack, it would be difficult to see through the heavy armor of the opponent's body. In the end, they were stabbed to the ground by the Liang army's cavalry behind. After a quarter of an hour, hundreds of Bedouin corpses and hundreds of war horses and camels that had lost their masters on the yellow sand.

After Lu Bu looked around, convinced that all the enemies had been eliminated, he said in a deep voice: "Go back to the camp, wait until we have enough food and drink and rest, and be sure that the rest of the troops have followed, and continue to advance south."

Faced with the attack of the 300,000 cavalry of Liang Kingdom, like wind and clouds, the Bedouin tribes living near the Euphrates River Basin and on the edge of the desert, hundreds of Bedouin tribes on oasis retreated south and fled south.

In the desert, a huge team of people, camels, war horses and sheep was struggling toward the southeast with difficulty. Their leader was the chief named Sabir Hussein, who was the cousin of Safwan who was killed by Lu Bu.

He was originally a large Bedouin tribe chief. When the Liang army attacked, he was prepared and fled with his troops.

Like Safowan, he wanted to flee to other nearby tribes with allies to take refuge, but he was more careful and sent a visitor to inquire about the situation of the destination in advance. It turned out that almost every destination was occupied by the Liang army.

Only then did he realize that the Liang army sent troops this time different from the Persians who came to suppress them in the past. This time, the Liang army dispatched unimaginable war cavalry to capture them all in one go like fishing. And they could no longer escape the pursuit of enemy soldiers by cruising in the oasis like in previous years. The only way to survive was to continuously withdraw to the hinterland of the desert in the southeast.

On the way to escape south with Sabir Hussein, Sabir gathered more than tens of people from other tribes, totaling tens of thousands. These more than ten tribes were all smaller tribes, and even the large tribes had lost many people. Only Sabir was strong and strong, so he was elected as the leader of the alliance.

The more they go to the heart of the desert, the less oasis and water sources are. Fortunately, they are familiar with the terrain and can always find water sources along the way. However, the few oasis in the heart of the desert cannot accommodate so many people. So Sabir's final destination was to retreat to the southeast coast, where there are a large number of oasis water sources.

The Liang army also stopped the offensive for the same reason. It was unimaginable that 300,000 warriors crossed the desert with a radius of nearly two thousand miles. Even if the Liang army was as familiar with the water sources and oasis in the heart of the desert like the Bedouin people, the drinking water problem of 300,000 people and horses could not be solved. Lu Bu immediately changed his strategy and dispatched more than 300,000 troops to continue to divide his troops and head towards the heart of the Bedouin Desert.

The remaining nearly 260,000 troops moved eastward, and they would gather in the bay area south of Ucha Port where the Euphrates River entered the sea. There they would be transported to Abu Dhabi and the warships of the Ganning fleet to Abu Dhabi to Master, and then launch a new round of sweeping offensive.

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In the middle of the Bedouin Desert, a row of black shadows appeared on the yellow sand under the scorching sun in the west. A group of people slowly swam forward like rattlesnakes in a desert.

This is a Hu cavalry under Lu Bu's command, led by the commander of the Beifu Army. Except for his twenty personal soldiers, the rest were Turkic Hu people from the desert. The 300,000 Hu cavalry under Lu Bu's command came from various places in the northern Eurasian prairie. There were the Marine people from the coast of the Whale Sea, the Xianbei people from the Xianbei Mountains, the White Huns north of the Arctic Sea, the Dingling people near the Arctic Circle. There were even a small number of Slavs who lived nomadic on the northern coast of the Black Sea.

Among these Hu people, only the Turks who grew up on the Gobi Desert on the Shiwei Plateau had experience in desert life and marching. Therefore, the more than 30,000 Hu cavalry left by Lu Bu were almost all composed of these Turks.

But at this time they also complained. One of the leaders said, "Damn, although this is also a desert, it is different from our desert. It's so hot that it's time to peel off a layer of skin, and there's not a trace of wind."

Someone immediately responded: "Brother, say less, it's still half an hour before the next time I get into the water."

In order to save fresh water, Liang, the leader, ordered each person to drink water once an hour, and each time he drank water, he would still be a regular half-gourd ladle.

While they were talking, General Liang was very anxious because he could not find the water source and oasis marked on the map. He even wondered if he had lost his way. If he really got lost, the team of soldiers he led would be completely finished. Fortunately, he finally confirmed that his direction was roughly correct based on the sun that was about to set.

But if the water is still not found, the crisis will not be resolved. Even if you return to the same path now, the Hu cavalry, who are used to being wild, will not be able to guarantee that they will not lose control and launch riots. Now the more and more complaints from these Turkic warriors are a sign of pre-riots.

The sky finally turned completely dark. Don’t look at the hot day, once the sun sets, the temperature will drop sharply. Someone wanted to light a bonfire to keep warm, but was stopped by the Liang general. This caused more people to complain. The anxious Liang general looked around in a daze. He thought to himself that he would send a scout to find water early tomorrow morning. If he could not find it, he could only return the same way.

Thinking of this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and a little starlight on the horizon in the distance attracted his attention. The starlight was orange-red, and the light was bright and dim.

General Liang made a quick judgment and said happily: "This must not be a starlight, but a bonfire!"

He had a good guess. Just three or four miles away from their campsite, there was an oasis rarely seen in the heart of the desert. The oasis was a thousand acres in the radius, and in the middle was a shallow pool formed by springs. The spring water kept gushing out, making the pool water overflow, forming a stream flowing to the distance and finally disappearing into the vast yellow sand. The pool water and the stream were filled with Bedouin wool felt tents.

Several leaders and chiefs were feasting around a bunch of bonfires of roasting all sheep. They were not the Bedouin tribe where they lived, but a team of people stationed here by a Southern Bedouin tribe alliance to guard the key rush and prevent the Bedouin tribes near the Euphrates River from occupying territory in the north.
Chapter completed!