Commander Wang formed three search and rescue teams and headed southwards into the heart of the desert. As more and more bodies were dug out, everyone's heart was in their throat.
"Report, Lady Prime Minister, the main force of the Royal Division, the First and Second Cavalry Divisions, have captured Shahai County. Yang Yihu has retreated to the Grand Canyon of Jiangzhou County. Our troops are currently having difficulty advancing."
Shen Xu looked at the neatly turned-out bodies of the blue-armored soldiers, her shoulders rising and falling with anger. She didn't dare to imagine, but she had to think in that direction.
Her husband and Xue Yan were definitely attacked by Yang Yihu's army, and their lives were in danger.
Perhaps they had already met with misfortune before the huge sandstorm arrived, or perhaps they were already in the sandstorm...
"Madam Prime Minister, it's Guard Li!" Two soldiers hurried over carrying a wounded corpse.
Shen Xu and Pei Zhiyuan quickly dismounted and strode to the stretcher. Li Guan was already dead, with wounds all over his gray face. Mud and sand had accumulated and blocked his wounds, forming black grooves and scars.
"Guardian Li, Guardian Li, where is A Lin? Where are my uncle and Xue Yan?" Shen Xu pushed Li Guan's already stiff and cold body hard, and asked hoarsely about Song Lin's whereabouts, "Tell me..."
Pei Zhiyuan said sadly: "Miss Shen, the person is already dead and will not respond to you anymore."
"Search, search again!" She gave the order with an unstable breath, trying hard to hold back the tears that were about to burst out. The fear in her heart grew more and more.
"Notify the cavalry to immediately reorganize the entire army, deploy new weapons to the battlefield, and storm the Grand Canyon. Capture Yang Yihu alive for me."
Pei Zhiyuan put his hand on her shoulder and advised, "Miss Shen, the king's division is not familiar with the terrain of Jiangzhou County, and the new weapons have not yet been trained and run-in. Wouldn't it be too dangerous to attack at night?"
"Continue searching!" Shen Xu did not respond to his question. She let the soldier take her onto the horse, with an indelible gloom on her face.
Pei Zhiyuan stood where he was and ordered the soldiers to take Li Guan's body back to the camp first. He looked at the back of the man hurriedly heading south and was also anxious.
Under the scorching sun, the desert is filled with a trance-like heat. The heat makes people feel that the ground under their feet is spinning. Stepping on the soft sand feels like stepping on floating clouds, but the legs are so heavy that they can hardly move.
The search and rescue team was searching for Xue Yan and his group in the endless desert. The team of nearly a hundred people was as small as a group of ants among the undulating sand dunes.
Finding the other four people in this vast sea of sand is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
A metallic light flashed across Shen Xu's eyes in the distance. Shen Xu immediately stopped the search and rescue team, quickly dismounted and ran over.
She stepped deep and shallow in the soft sand, almost flying over to push the sand away.
Unfortunately, it was just an embroidered spring knife wrapped in a cloth strip, the cloth strip was covered in blood, and the blade was full of notches. It was hard to imagine how many people the owner of this knife had killed with it.
"Alin, Alin..." She dug in the sand with her hands, searching around for the knife in panic.
The sand suddenly began to roll downwards rapidly. Pei Zhiyuan reacted very quickly, grabbed her arm, and took her back several steps.
I saw a whirlpool forming in the middle of the sand not far away, which quickly drew the surrounding loose land into the whirlpool, and the knife also slid away.
Shen Xu hurriedly went forward to pick up the knife, but was held tightly by Pei Zhiyuan.
"You can't get through, it's quicksand!"
Shen Xu couldn't hold back any longer, and cried to Pei Zhiyuan, "That's A-lin's embroidered spring knife, that's A-lin's embroidered spring knife, he's definitely nearby, he's definitely here!"
Pei Zhiyuan immediately pushed Shen Xu to the soldier, tied a rope around his waist, and slid down the quicksand pit.
After a while, the soldiers took great pains to pull up the man covered in yellow sand.
Pei Zhiyuan was seen holding a knife in his mouth and dragging someone with him.
Everyone hurriedly turned the person over. Seeing that it was not Song Lin, they breathed a sigh of relief, "It's not General Song."
Pei Zhiyuan fell to the ground, panting. "He's still alive. Judging from his attire, he's from Yanyang."
Hearing that people could still be alive after being buried in the sand, Shen Xu felt a surge of hope.
She thought that maybe her husband was lucky and still alive like this person, or maybe he had escaped the sandstorm.
As long as no body is found, there is still hope of survival.
She calmed herself down and said, "First, take the people back to the camp for treatment. As for the others, continue searching south."
Along the way, the search and rescue team found many people, mostly blue-armored soldiers. Many of them were still alive, and some could even walk. It seemed that the sandstorm should have weakened.
The search and rescue team captured the surviving blue-armored soldiers and interrogated them about the orders they had received and the direction of the chase.
"They are likely fleeing towards Xiling City. We saw so many falcon carcasses and blue-armored soldiers injured by falcon bites along the way."
Pei Zhiyuan looked at Shen Xu, whose face was solemn, and said comfortingly: "The hunting falcon is a bird unique to Xiling City. It seems that people from Yanyang Country are helping them."
At this moment, the search and rescue team soldiers who were searching in the west came to report: "Madam Female Prime Minister, a large number of snake and insect corpses were found in the west, as well as the bodies of Beihai people who were bitten beyond recognition."
Upon hearing this, everyone hurriedly followed and chased westward.
All I saw along the way were North Sea cavalrymen and horses bitten by snakes, insects, and scorpions. They were all heading towards the west towards the North Sea territory. Some were bitten to a bloody mess and died in a tragic way.
Among the corpses, a metal prosthetic limb was half buried in the sand. Pei Zhiyuan hurried forward to dig out the prosthetic limb.
That unique metal curve is exactly Xue Yan's!
“Miss Shen, this is Xue Yan’s prosthetic limb!”
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