If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 4 Guan Huchen

The Liusha River is eight hundred miles wide. When the wind is strong, the waves surge like mountains and the waves roll like ridges.

A large amount of weak water is often swept into the two banks with the waves, forming floods that stretch for hundreds or even thousands of miles, submerging large tracts of land.

Looking southwards across China, how wide and long are the Yellow River and Huai River?
When the Yellow River bursts its banks and the Huai River overflows, thousands of miles of land can be turned into a swamp. However, the Liusha River is eight hundred miles wide, and the amount of water is too huge and abundant.

Moreover, the water is so light that goose feathers cannot float, and it is easy to create waves due to the wind.

Xiaoyu's most profound impression happened four years ago.

That day the sky was as dark as a canopy, with wind and rain flying everywhere. The Weak Water was spreading wildly, and the waves it raised were really like a mountain flying into the sky, almost a thousand meters high.

She hasn't been to other places yet, so it's unclear, but the sand dunes where the Xisha barbarians live have become a lonely boat in the vast ocean.

The sand barbarians could do nothing but huddle in their own animal-skin tents and shiver.

The Ruoshui flood is not a one-time deal.

The vast and weak water directly changed the landform and ecology, creating a "quicksand world".

Seawater creates saline-alkali sands, and weak water is not salty, but it is more severe than seawater.

Xiaoyu has studied the physical and chemical properties of weak water, which are completely beyond the scope of ordinary liquid water.

Animals and plants need water because water is involved in various organic reactions in their cell activities.

Weak water clearly has weight - Xiaoyu has weighed it before. You can use a bottle to hold water, and it has weight, but it is much lighter than ordinary water - but the physical density of weak water is absolute zero.

Elementary school physics knowledge: If the density of an object is greater than that of water, it will sink in water; if the density of an object is less than that of water, it will float; if the density is the same as that of water, it will float in water.

The density of weak water is zero. Any non-miraculous substance has volume and weight, so its density is greater than zero. If it falls into weak water, it will inevitably sink.

Xiaoyu conducted experiments on animals by pouring weak water into their mouths. The weak water could not be normally absorbed and utilized by cells, and would flow "upwards" along the blood vessels and muscles.

It's like an ordinary person drinking mercury, the mercury falls down.

Weak water will rush upwards and eventually enter the brain. If the person does not die immediately, he or she will become sickly and very few can survive.

Animals cannot drink weak water, and plants cannot use weak water to grow.

On both sides of the river, which are often swept by weak water waves, only a very small number of plants can survive, and it is basically all sand.

But the earth cannot be flat all the time.

The Liusha River stretches for thousands of miles, so it is impossible that there are no highlands such as mountains and mounds.

Even if weak water causes floods on both banks, it will not pollute the groundwater. Normal groundwater has density and will sink when encountering weak water.

The weak water flood that rushed ashore from the Liusha River was almost completely separated from the pools, lakes, and groundwater in their original locations.

Therefore, as long as one can find a piece of high ground that is not often directly flooded by the weak water flood, green plants can grow and then a barbaric civilization can be developed.

It is impossible to have the lush greenery and forests like normal riverside mountains.

Even though there were originally tall mountains nearby, they became lower over tens of thousands of years due to the erosion of the Qianli Ruoshui flood waves, and also showed serious sandification, eventually becoming the current sand dunes with green plants covered on the top and mottled weeds on the bottom.

The Xisha Barbarians, where Xiaoyu was born, live on a hill beside the Liusha River.

This is also the origin of the two names "Dune Kingdom" and "Dune King".

At this time, on the top of the sand dune where nearly 30,000 people had lived, the "Red Smoke Horse" with fiery red scales and long mane like flying flames slowly stepped into the palace of the "Dune King".

"Hiss~~~" It sneezed lightly, and two bright red flames as thick as chopsticks came out of its nostrils.

The red flames grew in the wind, and in the blink of an eye they were already seven or eight meters long, as thick as a bucket. Like a swing, they circled around the "Sand Dune Palace", and the palace made of felt, wooden stakes, and linen began to rise with blazing flames.

"Hey hey~~"

The red smoke colt turned its head and neighed softly at the knight in dark armor on its back, as if it was proudly asking for credit.

The knight on horseback was tall, covered in armor, with his helmet pulled up with a visor, so his face could not be seen clearly. Only eyes as cold as a sword shone through his eye sockets.

The armor is made of rich materials and has a heavy and solid texture.

On the left and right shoulder armors, two dark golden Pixiu beasts were biting two golden rings, and behind the golden rings was a three-meter-wide red cloak with the end almost dragging on the ground.

All around, the sand barbarians howled miserably, cried and begged, while the armored cavalry laughed wildly and shouted curses.

You can also hear the sound of sabers breaking through the air, the hissing sound of blood spurting as flesh is cut, and the crackling sound of fire burning.

Strong winds blew up thick smoke that swept across every open space.
The entire battlefield was so noisy and chaotic, but it didn't seem to affect the knight on the Red Smoke Horse at all.

He sat quietly on the horse, without even drawing the sword from its sheath. His iron gloves were as clean as new, without a trace of blood.

Just looking at the leisurely and contented movements of him and the red smoke horse he rides can create a sense of peace and tranquility in one's heart.

"Ta-ta-ta~~~"

A black horse came running from the back slope, and was still more than 20 meters away from the Chiyan colt that was glowing red all over. The precious horse, which could travel a thousand miles a day, hesitated and stopped, not daring to go any further.

There was an armored knight on the black horse. The style of his armor and weapons were almost exactly the same as those of the dead ghost Ge Qing.

However, Ge Qing did not have a visor. Instead, he covered his face with a black visor like the general on the Red Smoke Horse.

He seemed to be familiar with the ferocious power of the Red Smoke Horse, which ordinary war horses could not bear to look directly at. Without waiting for the precious horse under his crotch to stop, he gently pressed the saddle with both hands, and his body jumped over the horse's head like a big bird, leaping over a distance of ten meters and landing lightly behind the Red Smoke Horse Knight.

He bowed his back, clasped his hands together, and said, "General Guan, please order the brothers to put down their swords. I have confirmed that there are less than fifty strong and brave men in the entire Shaqiu Kingdom who are still capable of fighting.

They had been killed or wounded in the first wave of cavalry charge, and the remaining ones were all old, weak, women and children."

"Humph, what's going on, Sha Manzi? Can't my 'immortal eyes' see as clearly as your 'pig eyes'?"

Guan Huchen on the Red Smoke Horse sneered and said, "I have always been strict in managing my troops. If I had not been sure that the Shaman camp had no resistance, how could I have disbanded the cavalry regiment and allowed the soldiers to do whatever they wanted?
You just have a pair of pig eyes, not a pig brain, think about it carefully! "

Hearing the words "immortal eyes" and "pig eyes", the armored knight reacted immediately. He lowered his head slightly, and his hands hanging at his sides were unconsciously clenched into fists, with veins even bulging on the back of his hands.

General Guan pulled the reins, and the red horse under him immediately turned obediently, from facing away from the black-armored knight to looking down from the front.

He saw the armored knight's subtle movements, and a playful and slightly pleased smile appeared at the corners of his mouth under the visor.

"General, slaughtering innocent old and weak people is against the harmony of nature and is a very ominous sign." The armored knight's voice was a little muffled, but he was still advising.

In fact, he already understood Hu Chen's thoughts.

Not only did he know, but all the brothers in the Great Shu Iron Cavalry Camp knew - General Guan's Red Smoke Horse had been setting fires all the time. It would snort when it saw the Sand Barbarians, and would snort when it saw the Sand Barbarians' tents or huts, burning from the outskirts of the sand dunes all the way to the Sand Dune Palace.

It can be said that the fire that ignited the sand dunes was mostly caused by the Red Smoke Horse. In other words, it came from General Guan's deliberate indulgence.

If not for this, the Iron Cavalry Battalion would not be in disarray and would not give free rein to all kinds of ugly desires.

“Swoosh—Pah~~~”

As soon as the black-armored knight finished speaking, a fire snake as thick as a thumb flew out from General Guan's sleeve at an extremely fast speed, like a living poisonous snake.

The black-armored knight saw it and tried to turn his head to dodge, but it was too late and the snake flame whip had already hit his face.

"Kangdang~~~"

The knight groaned and fell backwards to the ground. His helmet fell off his head and rolled a few steps away.

It was a face that was tragic and extremely ugly.

For example, if a winter melon has been left for too long and the inside is almost rotten, gently peel off the skin of the winter melon, use a knife to dig out the eyes, nose and mouth on the surface of the rotten winter melon flesh, and then take two pig eyes as big as peaches and stuff them into the eye sockets.

Those two huge, ugly pig eyes were still dripping with thick, yellowish-brown water.

The thick water solidified into a thick "scale" near the eye sockets.

"Song Changqing, you are just a deputy general, and you dare to talk to me about 'harming the harmony of heaven'. When the Shaman united with Xilu and formed the Thirty-Six Nations Alliance to invade our Great Shu, why didn't you persuade the barbarians not to massacre the people in the border towns of Shu to avoid harming the harmony of heaven?
The Dashu Luye Guards still had 50,000 brothers at this time last year.

Now, including our mostly incomplete cavalry battalion, we still have less than three thousand men.

You don't pity your own brothers and the people of your country, but pity the barbarians of the enemy country. What is your intention?"

General Guan shouted in a loud and stern voice, and some of the black-armored knights who were burning, killing, raping and looting nearby also heard it.

Some people stopped their hand or hip movements, turned their heads, and looked at the "Pig-Eyed Knight" Song Changqing with hateful eyes.

The snake flame whip had left a burnt mark on Song Changqing's ugly face, and it was burning with pain, but he did not scream or cover his face. He just hurriedly picked up his helmet.

He put his helmet back on and pulled the visor back down over his face.

Even though the burn marks on his face rubbed against the mask, causing even more pain, he did not slow down at all.

"General, business is more important!" He raised his voice a few notches, "The entire army of Shaqiu State was destroyed outside Tianmen Town along with the rebellion of Lu State.

It was just a dune country, now just a mound of earth with only 20,000 people left.

If it were just for them, it would not be worth it for my Great Shu Deer Wild Guard Cavalry Battalion to cross thousands of miles of wilderness.

Even if we need to clear out the enemy's nest, there is no need for you, General, to take action.

Aren't you here with a special order from the envoy of the Chinese Empire to capture 'Sha Manyu'?

The envoys of the upper country clearly requested that capturing 'Sha Man Yu' alive is a great merit, and bringing back 'Sha Man Yu's body is only a small merit. If 'Sha Man Yu' is lost, and there is no trace of him alive or dead, even if we sweep the Sha Man tribe's territory, not only will it be useless, but it will also be a serious crime. "

Guan Huchen was stunned for a moment, then he slowed down his tone and asked with some doubt: "Have you caught 'Sha Man Yu'? Bring her here for me to see. Did you hurt her?"

"Haven't found anyone yet." Song Changqing replied.

General Guan was angry again and shouted, "Useless, as my deputy general, before we entered the dunes, I specifically told you that catching Sha Manyu was your first priority, and for this reason I also gave you her Shadow God Map.

Now that we haven't even caught anyone, what are you doing?"

Song Changqing stopped talking.

He didn't waste time.

He had been looking for someone before, but when he saw the Iron Cavalry Battalion killing people indiscriminately without distinguishing between the old and the weak, he couldn't bear it and came to persuade them.

The armored knights who were "surfing" around quietly retracted their swords and "guns", quietly but quickly surrounded from all directions, gathered in front of General Guan, and formed a neat team.

General Guan became even angrier and cursed, "Idiots, what are you all doing here? Hurry up and go find someone. Find that 'Sha Manyu'. I want to see her immediately!"

A knight with a big beard walked out of the crowd, clasped his fists and replied, "General, don't worry, with Deputy General Song's reminder, the brothers have always remembered the mission of searching for Sha Manyu.

According to the information provided by the envoys from the upper country, that 'Shamanyu' was just a girl of eleven or twelve years old.

Although the brothers killed many people, they never used their swords on the little sand barbarians. They even refrained from killing the handsome little boy barbarians. "

(End of this chapter)