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Duo Luo and Na Guan Lu thought they were well-informed people in the 49 cities of the capital, but this expedition to the Western Regions shocked their hearts.
I have never seen such towering mountains. The Tianshan Mountains suddenly rise at the end of the grassland, and the outline of the snow-capped peaks separates the boundary between the sky and the earth.
I have never seen such vast grasslands and snowfields. Everything is flat as far as the eye can see. If it weren’t for the black spots of cattle and sheep moving in the grass and snow, you would even think that you are in a parallel dimension with no boundaries at all. inside.
The Central Plains is not like this, and the white mountains and black waters outside the Pass are not like this. In their memories, everything in the world is fragmented and divided.
You can see the river not far away, trees a few meters to the left, villages in the distance, stone bridges and ancient pagodas further away!
The scenery of the Central Plains is so colorful, and different types of embellishments come together to form a unique pastoral-like picture.
But there is no such thing here. There is only one feeling for all the exquisiteness, that is, bigness...everything seems to be endless!
Mountains fill all the areas in your sight, grasslands, Gobi, snow-capped mountains... They are always huge and endless, and their hearts seem to be stretched instantly.
The small and exquisite mind accumulated in the first thirty years of life was suddenly torn apart by the Tianshan Mountains, pastures, and deserts, and stretched to the limitless size...
"Doro... I... I just found out today... what a frog in a well is..."
"That's right...no...that's right...Lao Guan, I just found out today what the Holy Ancestor, the Great Ancestor and the others...our ancestors defeated..."
"My ancestors...this is the country...this is the country..."
People's minds are not born. If they are not allowed to see for themselves the power and breadth of the world, their narrow and dirty minds cannot be torn into pieces.
Walking on the ice and snow, the expedition team can be said to be struggling to move forward. In order to save horsepower, except for those who can't walk on sleds, the rest of the people are prohibited from riding horses.
No matter how many horses there are, horsepower must be conserved. These horses not only have to carry the expedition team's supplies, but also the war horses' own fodder. Even those war horses that are injured and unable to walk have to be slaughtered to become people's rations.
People who have never been to Mazong Mountain have no idea how difficult it is here. There is no grass at all in this mountain range, and there are no rivers or springs. All supplies have to be carried up by horses.
The road ahead slowly seems to have no end, and this world seems to be no longer on earth!
"Jack...Jack..." Just as Doro and Guan Lu were struggling southward with support, Gordon's scream came from behind the team.
The crowd immediately gathered around, and it turned out that a British corporal from the expedition suddenly fainted and passed out in the snow.
"Hurry... get him on the sled quickly! His body temperature is losing... We must make a fire immediately and give him a sip of hot water, otherwise he won't be able to survive..."
"Old Ding...Old Ding also fainted..." While everyone was in a hurry, another veteran of the expedition also fainted.
The guides and veterans sent by Zhasak Tuhan were also anxious: "Buddha! We have long advised you not to cross Mazong Mountain in winter. It is too cold here and there is no human habitation at all..."
"Now we can only rest, but we don't have the necessary fuel yet... There isn't even a handful of hay here!"
Gordon called Doro and Guan Lu, and the three of them held an emergency meeting. The spread map was pressed on the ground with stones and the three of them squatted together.
"Samuel Baker is already lying on the sled. He can no longer help us with ideas. Now the life of the entire expedition is in the hands of the three of us..."
"Our current approximate location is here... we are still more than three hundred miles away from Guazhou, but we really can't go any further..."
"More than forty team members have lost their physical strength, and they are all on the sled. We can't leave them all here to freeze to death!"
Doro pinched a handful of thick snow and said fiercely, "Of course we can't throw it away. The expedition team must repair now. Everyone's energy has been drained..."
"But we don't even have much fuel to set up the tent on the spot... we only have a small amount of kerosene and some candles. What is this enough for?"
Guan Lu looked at the map carefully and suddenly said, "We are very close to Guazhou now. I heard from the officials of Zhasaktu that even their Great Khan knew our news in advance, so it is impossible for him to be the commander-in-chief." Know the news about our arrival..."
"With such a close distance, the commander will definitely send someone to find us..."
"Our current problems are actually two. How to locate our position for the commander-in-chief, and the other is how to survive the period of time when the commander-in-chief is looking for us!"
"Maybe three days, maybe ten days..."
"Damn! What should we do...what should we do? Wait..." Doro's eyes suddenly lit up.
"When Xiang Shaolong's Far East Volunteer Army was fighting against Lao Maozi, weren't they fighting guerrillas in the White Mountains and Black Waters? How did they get here..."
"Ouch...that's right!"
The two of them suddenly recalled the cold zone combat training they participated in in Vladivostok!
During the Battle of the Far East, Zai Chun came to the front line with four guards. By the way, Doro and Guan Lu also received some training in cold zone combat.
How to survive extremely cold nights, the Far East Volunteer Army has a lot of experience.
"Dig a snow nest... yes, you can also build something... something... a feathered man's snow house!"
"That's right, we have bullets in our hands... We use homemade flares to defuse the bullets! We fire one round every hour at night. I don't believe that the handsome pioneers can't see us!"
Gordon had obviously never experienced special operations in the cold zone, and he never expected that it was still the Führer who saved everyone's lives today, and it was still the scientific method left behind by the Führer.
The entire expedition team was mobilized. Doro, Guan Lu, and the other three guards were all trained. It was really easy to build a snow nest in the snow.
The engineer shovel dug out a slope groove that was 30 degrees upward, then cut large snow bricks and piled them on top one by one, and used loose snow to outline the gaps.
In about twenty minutes, a snow nest that can accommodate two people was built. The opening of this snow nest faces the southeast direction, which can effectively avoid the northwest wind.
Moreover, after people get in through the hole, they will gradually climb up to a platform thirty degrees, which is covered with sheepskins, felts and other thermal supplies.
Light two candles in the snow nest. This kind of snow nest with a leeward side can raise the temperature inside to about minus one degree just by the temperature of the candles.
Although the temperature is still below zero, don't forget that the temperature outside Xuewozi is more than 20 degrees below zero, and it can even reach about 30 degrees below zero at night.
Such a temperature difference can be life-saving. You can't take off your clothes and sleep anyway!
