The reason why he rested for eight hours instead of six hours was not because Zhao Ming was not in a hurry.
But the desert is not only physically demanding in normal times, but also physically demanding in winter.
The temperature here is lower than on the grassland. It will be warmer during the day but colder at night.
So rest more now and drive more in the evening, otherwise you won’t be able to fall asleep when camping in the open air at night.
The desert during the day and the desert at night are two concepts, equivalent to the two heavens of ice and fire.
Winter is better. Camping in the open air still feels warm all over, but at night it is colder than in the desert in summer.
Zhao Ming estimated that the temperature here might not be above minus 40 degrees at night.
Secondly, the deserts in this era are more dusty than those in later generations. When the cold wind blows, even if you poop outside, you will have to freeze to ice.
Moreover, it is not suitable to drive quickly at night. The strong wind blows into the lungs and can easily cause pneumonia and a series of respiratory diseases.
Moreover, when driving in the cold, once you become hurried and start sweating again, the temperature will rise during the day, and you will collapse when you are cold or hot.
By then, thousands of people will have no choice but to lie down together in the desert before they leave the desert.
These days, there is no such thing as a windproof tent that you can carry around with you, so be careful.
So even when rushing at night, Zhao Ming asked the brothers to slow down as much as possible. And make the queue as neat as possible, forming a vent in front.
The brothers in front covered their heads and necks to prevent the strong wind from entering their mouths and noses as much as possible.
Follow this method step by step.
In addition, Zhao Ming also wanted the brothers to save more energy and get a good rest. Once they leave the desert, they will have to start a long-distance attack.
That’s when the real test comes.
The dazzling sunshine shines overhead, but below is the white snow, and from time to time, patches of yellow sand are exposed below the desert hills.
An eagle is soaring high in the sky, flying around the gathering place to investigate.
About every two hours, the eagle will come back, chirp overhead, and then fly to other places for inspection.
"Oh, quite clever!"
Zhao Ming squinted his eyes and looked at the sea blue. Seeing that the other party was very obedient, he ignored it and ordered the brothers who were on duty to patrol. He leaned on Wang Er and others and fell into a half-sleep.
Except for the brothers who are on duty, everyone is resting.
About four hours later, just before the sun was about to set, everyone set off again.
Lu Lu Luxu originally thought that he could leave this desert in one day and one night, but unexpectedly, it was not until the early morning of the third day that he could leave this desert.
When they saw some scattered dry grassland exposed from the snow in the distance, as well as some bulging mountains further away, everyone couldn't help but feel a touch of joy in their hearts.
This means riding a horse. If you are hiking, it will take at least seven days to get out of this desert.
Even so, everyone was thirsty for a while and wanted to find a ditch or a place with dead trees to light a fire.
In the desert, there were no fire-making materials at all, so everyone drank sparingly and drank all the water the next night.
After all, for convenience, the rations everyone carries are dry beef, dry rice cakes and the like.
It is already dry, and in addition, the human body is in urgent need of water in winter, so the water is naturally consumed quickly.
Now everyone just wants to boil the snow, put the dried beef in and cook together, and have a nice sip of beef soup.
After using Haidongqing to screen the area and confirming that there were no Outer Mongolian gatherings within a few miles, Zhao Ming began to walk towards a nearby dry forest.
The desolation here is even more exaggerated than in Inner Mongolia, and the felling of trees in Outer Mongolia is even more serious.
This is mainly because there are more grasslands in Inner Mongolia, so there are naturally more cattle and sheep that can be raised, and there are more livestock dung as burning materials.
But trees are really used as the main burning material here, and everywhere you look, there are bare trees.
Choosing a place with a few dead trees, everyone began to clear away the nearby snow. The brothers responsible for carrying the pot quickly took out the iron pot behind them and set it up.
Although we mainly eat dry food, if we don’t bring a few iron pots to cook the snow, we will probably die of thirst along the way.
The wind here is stronger than that in Inner Mongolia. Severe desertification has caused strong winds here all the time. The strong wind can easily take away the moisture from the body.
It's like a cow being dissected in the wilderness. It only needs to be left for a day and a night, and it may become air-dried and frozen beef.
Firewood was limited, so everyone simply threw some spare clothes they had brought in to increase the intensity of the fire to boil the snow.
No one expected that not long after setting off, the first problem encountered was not eating, but drinking.
As soon as the snow in a few large pots thawed, everyone began to drink with iron spoons.
Just fill a spoon with a spoonful of water and wait for about a minute, and the scalding hot water will turn into warm water.
Seven large pots and thirty spoons kept boiling snow and taking turns to drink water. Even so, they still drank for a full hour before everyone started eating dried beef and dried rice cakes.
While there was still some residual heat from the campfire, the brother who was still a little thirsty drank another round, took a short rest, and then continued on his way towards the distance.
Here, it's time for the prisoners to come into play.
Although the prisoners brought out are more similar to Han people in appearance and can speak some Chinese, they are said to be Han Chinese from Outer Mongolia.
Through the conversation, I felt that these people were still leaning toward them, but even so, Zhao Ming still separated them for questioning.
After confirming that the path pointed out by most people is consistent, we continue to set off.
The large army was galloping again, this time much faster than in the desert. The strong wind here was relatively light, so everyone had no time to waste and could only speed up the pace.
"Mr. Zhao! According to what they said, there is still a lot of Han culture in Outer Mongolia. Isn't this our family? Now we are still having a family separation, tsk tsk, what does this mean?"
The monkey smacked his lips, feeling very incomprehensible.
It was already their second day out of the desert, and they passed by several large gathering places of Outer Mongolians.
But I was surprised to find that some of the landmark buildings here are all in the Chinese style, with the feeling of cornices, brackets, carved beams and painted buildings.
It should be regarded as a combination of Beijing style or Jin style architecture, but it is all domestic architectural style, not the kind that looks like a yurt at first glance.
There are many yurts here, but when it comes to landmark buildings, they are definitely dominated by Chinese-style buildings.
"Hey, isn't that a Taoist temple?"
Suddenly the monkey pointed at an area in the distance that was obviously a town in Outer Mongolia, a building on a hill. This thing looked exactly like some Taoist temples on the mountains in the Guanzhong area.
The red walls, gold characters, and gold tiles are somewhat similar to the Zhongnan Mountain Tower in Shaanxi Province.
From here, you can vaguely see some Taoist temple patterns, similar to the directions of the Five Elements and Bagua.
