The Han people who were able to control the demon dragon flew away. Jinghe City was not big, and the army and civilians totaled only four to five thousand people. These people stood on the Gobi Desert, watching the pass in the Tianshan Mountains send out waves after waves. of cheers.
In addition to the advance team such as Doro and Guan Lu, this airship also has more than 300 elites carefully selected by Commander Zuo. The entire airship has a total of more than 400 people and more than 20 tons of supplies, which is almost The limit of the airship's carrying capacity has been reached!
The higher you fly, the stronger the wind becomes. Winds that are level 2 or 3 on the ground are already level 4 or 5 at an altitude of 1,000 meters. Moreover, the air flows in deep valleys and turbulence can easily occur.
Several times, sudden strong winds caused the airship to tilt at thirty degrees. If all the personnel and cargo had not been tightly tied up, half of the people on the airship would have to be evacuated!
Except for the captain and the operators, the rest of the people were frightened. Several guides were trapped on the edge of the pod, overlooking the mountains where they lived all year round from the sky. They were all so frightened that they vomited!
"Look...look...that's the cave where the red lama does his penance...the wind horse flag..."
"Where is there a spring... I can tell the way... ugh..."
"Go left, pass between the two mountains...it's wider over there..."
The group of guides no longer vomited bitter bile, but they still persisted in distinguishing the direction and road, and made a way for the airship out of the mountains.
"The current speed is 30 kilometers per hour...it can't go any faster...it will take at least five hours to cross the Tianshan Mountains..."
"God be merciful. Let the wind be like this. Don't let it get any louder. If it gets louder, we'll all be doomed!"
"Shut up... don't say unlucky words! The fate of the country rests on our shoulders. This time there is only success, not..."
Before Doro finished speaking, a whirlwind of turbulence suddenly came directly from the right side of the airship. This time the airship tilted almost forty-five degrees, and everyone was lying on the deck!
"Hold on...Hold on tight..."
At this moment, there was only a muffled sound, and a bunch of strapping nets at the rear of the pod suddenly broke, and more than ten boxes of canned meat and compressed biscuits fell from the air.
The two closest soldiers were caught off guard and were hit directly on the head by the box. One soldier's rope broke and he fell from a thousand meters high.
The other man's body burst into pieces and was already dead, but the rope around his waist was still strong, hanging him dangling in mid-air!
The evil wind lasted for a full six minutes, and then the airship gradually regained its balance. Doro and Guan Lu crawled on the deck, holding the bodies of their comrades in their hands and tears falling down!
As soon as the tears came out of my eyes, they were frozen into ice crystals, and then fell off from the skin, hitting the deck and hitting my brother's body!
"Have a good journey, brother... Wuwuwu... bless us and keep us safe... When we return to the capital, you two brothers should be credited with the first meritorious service!"
"Don't worry about me, family members. The court will never forget it, and neither will we!"
"Fuck! Keep your chests up! This is a war, and no one will die in a war!"
"Everyone takes the opportunity now to check the cargo cables and re-reinforce them. Everyone also checks the ropes around their waists... Tianshan Mountain is the gate of hell, we have to break through!"
The 130-kilometer Tianshan mountain road can be leaped within five hours. Zeppelin created a real extreme trip in this Western Region!
At this moment, no one in Ningyuan City or Yining County knew that another support force from the north of Tianshan Mountain was coming!
In the winter, the Tianshan Mountains are covered with heavy snow, and the veterans at the original checkpoints continue to destroy the roads. Now the land access has been completely cut off. Although Ningyuan City was captured, it was basically isolated and helpless.
People can still survive by eating the food and grass chewed by horses. After all, the people here in Yining still care about the imperial army. After the bloody battle, the surrounding people transferred all their property to the city.
The entire Yining area was completely militarized, and everyone had no private wealth. Food, fodder, cattle and sheep were all distributed uniformly. General Rongquan recorded these for the people and promised that after the war is over, the court will distribute food, seeds and cattle to everyone. Sheep and livestock production resumed.
At this time, the people of Yining had long forgotten their little calculations. "General! I used to think that the court was not good at all, and there were many complaints... But after falling into the hands of the Rakshasa ghost, I realized that there were things in the past. How precious!”
"We are willing to break up our family and support the imperial court in fighting foreign enemies!"
It is with this kind of support from the people that Yining's defenders can survive this winter!
Climbing to the top of the city, Rong Quan frowned and his men whispered, "There is not enough horse material in the city, so we should go out to collect it... How many brothers are sent out of the city today?"
"Are you out of food again?" Rong Quan was shocked when he heard the word fodder.
In the winter, the army was trapped in the isolated city, and the food for the people had been concentrated in the city. If you save a little, you can get through it, but the consumption of horse feed for the war horses is really too much.
On the one hand, there are not so many places to store it in the city, and on the other hand, there are not that many manpower to transport it, so the fodder is scattered in the farms and pastures outside the city, pile after pile weighed down by the snow.
If you want your war horses to be well fed, you have to go out of the city regularly to transport fodder, but Rakshasa ghosts are not fools. These Cossacks did not go far. They were snooping around Yining County, looking for fighters at any time!
They found that the Qing army would leave the city every now and then to collect forage. This gave them an opportunity. The Cossacks sent multiple troops to ambush around Yining County. Once they found the soldiers and civilians transporting forage, they would massacre them!
Rongquan's army was at a disadvantage now. There were many civilians in the team transporting fodder, and it was impossible to bring the cannon out of the city. After all, there were not many cannonballs left and they could only be used to defend the city!
During a sneak attack, the musket can only be fired for one or two rounds, and it will soon lead to hand-to-hand combat.
At this stage, I have to say that the people who have lived in the cold zone for many years are strong enough. These Cossacks are tough, brave, cruel and bloodthirsty, and they will not be inferior to the Qing army one-on-one or even one-on-two!
Now Rong Quan's casualties were increasing. In the end, every time he went out of the city to transport food and grass, he needed two to three thousand troops to support him, and he even had to pull two or three cannons to threaten him!
"Three days ago...the horse feed that was just shipped was finished so quickly?" Rong Quan lamented.
His subordinates sighed helplessly and shook their heads, "These Rakshasa ghosts are too vicious. They just want to harass us to death... If our horses starve to death, these infantrymen will not be able to defeat them!"
"Go ahead... personally lead three thousand elites... I give you special approval..." Rong Quan gritted his teeth and said, "Three cannons, twelve shells! That's all..."
"Yes! I'm leaving the city right now!"
At this time, the cannon is the guarantee of the morale of the army. As long as the cannon can move with the army, the courage of all the soldiers will be inspired.
There was a commotion in Ningyuan City. Three thousand elites were mobilized from each camp head, and three cannons were also pushed out from the artillery camp. This time the army walked through the east gate. There was a pasture fifteen miles away, and more than a thousand people rushed there. With seven hundred carts, they slowly left the city under the protection of cavalry!
Just as the vanguard was approaching the pasture, suddenly the sound of horse hooves thundered in the distance, and the sound of the Cossacks' Ula charge sounded again!
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