They come, the security.
Jiao Zhen was originally a death row prisoner waiting to be beheaded in autumn. In his opinion, it was better to live than to die, so it was a happy thing to be here.
However, what he didn't know was that starting from Linhe City Pier all the way west, he had to walk through a long desert and wasteland, and he would reach Blackwater City more than a thousand miles away. This will undoubtedly be a difficult march.
After they were fed, they were assigned tents and the soldiers sent them to sleep.
Along the way, they were tortured enough. Everyone ended up sleeping like a dead pig.
Three days passed in a flash, and all they could do was eat and sleep. They had never been so comfortable.
There was actually boiled milk tea to drink in the morning. There is also boiled beef for lunch. The staple food is cornmeal pancakes. It doesn’t matter if it’s enough, you can eat whatever you want, as long as you can eat it and don’t waste it.
Such good treatment made these people open their mouths in shock.
Three days of training greatly replenished their energy and spirit. .
On the third day, after dark, they slept until midnight. Finally, the order came and they immediately set off for Blackwater City.
The soldiers were like wolves and tigers, beating them up with horse sticks, lining up, putting on their backpacks and setting off. The backpack was issued yesterday and contains a sleeping bag and dry food. This backpack is a Russian-style pocket backpack. Made of canvas, very sturdy.
This time we have to walk more than a thousand miles to reach it. Not to mention the long journey, the environment is also very harsh.
It's summer now, and it's very hot in this wasteland. The temperature can reach around 40 degrees at noon. In the desert and on the surface next door, temperatures range from seventy to eighty degrees.
If you march during the hottest time of the day. They will become massively dehydrated and die. After all, they had to walk to Blackwater City on two feet.
So we could only avoid marching during the hottest time and hide in a tent to sleep. If they are exposed to the desert and Gobi without shelter, they will be sunburned to death.
Fifty thousand camels, with a large wooden barrel on one side of the carriage. Bring food and water. Under the supervision of regiment training cavalry, 80,000 people embarked on the long sandy road.
They took the northern route, because the northern part of the Alashan region is the Gobi, which is relatively easy to walk. The west, south, and east are deserts. They took the northern route and only had to cross the north-south Ulan Buh Desert. Ulan Buh desert. It is narrow from east to west and longer from north to south.
The first three days were fine, but they just felt hot and very tired. My feet felt very weak when stepping on the soft sand, which made marching like this very tiring. They get up in the middle of the night every day, and then set up camp to rest at noon.
Jiao Zhen's skin soon turned dark due to the sun. Their skin began to explode in the sun. After the skin was sunburned, it became hard and fell off, revealing red flesh.
He looked up at the sun, which was like a ball of flame. He felt that the world was an oven and he was a piece of cake. The front and back are almost cooked.
Starting on the fifth day, some people fell to the ground while walking and never got up again.
They are all extremely evil people, and no one will waste their limited water to save them. If the soldiers hadn't shot several of them, they would have even gone back to plunder other people's water.
Water, which is usually the least valuable in the mainland, is actually more valuable than gold here.
Those who died were soon overrun by vultures.
These violent thugs felt chills running down their backs as they watched the vultures quickly eating up their companions until they were reduced to a skeleton.
When going to bed at night, Jiao Zhen was awakened by a scream. Du Xiaoer, who was in the same tent, was jumping and screaming. It turned out that it was because the desert was extremely cold at night and a scorpion got into his pants.
The scorpions in the desert were so poisonous that Du Xiaoer fainted quickly. The soldier who led the team only left a bag of dry food and a water bag. He urged the prisoners to set off without waiting for him to wake up.
Jiao Zhen knew that Du Xiaoer was also on death row. He killed many people by sap and robbery. Unexpectedly, he escaped the execution of a knife in the execution ground, but his case was dismissed here.
As soon as the large group of people left, the vultures would eat him.
After ten days, most of the water was consumed. The soldiers only gave them a small glass of water every day to ensure that
They won't die of thirst. Their mouths were so dry that they couldn't even swallow solid food. Everyone's lips were chapped and their skin became like tree bark.
They felt like they were being dried out quickly.
These people are criminals and unstable elements. Yang Fan needs to screen them.
Therefore, neither the front cover nor the rear cover is suitable for housing these people. In the Hetao area, Yang Fan will recruit refugees to colonize the area. Instead of using these unstable elements who can feed one person and keep the whole family from going hungry.
Yang Fanren believes that people without family members are not worthy of trust. Because this was in the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty. The cost of betrayal is low. Maybe just a bowl of rice.
The emperor brought these people here just to draw away the capital camp. Used to gag Yang Fan.
Therefore, Yang Fan thought it would be better to put them in a closed environment first, carefully screen them, and then detain them in separate areas. Don't use it casually without understanding the situation.
Jiao Zhen, tortured by thirst and fatigue, was like a walking zombie, and he followed numbly. He was desperate. He felt that he would fall down here and be eaten by vultures at some point. Or be poisoned by scorpions and snakes that enter the tent in the middle of the night.
A month later, of the more than 80,000 people, more than 3,000 died, and finally walked out of the desert and Gobi in disheveled condition.
Jiao Zhen was walking with dull eyes when he suddenly heard a huge shout, as if the earth was shattering. Then the people in front all ran forward like crazy. No matter how hard they beat the escorting soldiers and officers, it was of no use.
There was a Populus euphratica forest ahead, and behind the Populus euphratica forest, a vast lake could be vaguely seen.
When they saw the huge Juyanhai, they collectively went crazy.
Along the way, food and water were very precious, with only a very small amount per person. All their lips were split with thirst. They were used to it, and people would fall to the ground as they walked along the way.
They had no one to care about these people and watched them being eaten by crows and vultures that fell under the black pressure. They even feel that they and others will soon follow in their footsteps.
They cursed the emperor in their hearts. It was impossible for them to give them a knife to have a good time and come up with this method to kill them. This feeling of desperate struggle to survive every day is too painful.
At this time, they all ran madly to the lake, burying their heads like donkeys and horses and drinking heavily. Jump into the lake and splash.
They cheered excitedly, they would not die of thirst. You won’t die from the heat, and you won’t be eaten by vultures. They finally came out. Damn it, this journey has been hell.
The fanatics howled and cried. The joy of surviving the disaster made them lose control.
