Chapter 169 Thirty Miles of Sand Sea
Huangsha City is fifty miles west of Yanhui Pass, and it is located further north. Compared with the environment of Yanhui Pass, Huangsha City is more harsh. However, it is strange that there are sporadic green in the Jubei City. If there are some green plants or low lichens to see in Yanhui Pass and Jubei City, then there are endless seas of sand and dunes around Huangsha City.
The team of Yan Huiguan Xingang Battalion set off quickly after lunch. The team had to arrive in Huangsha City within two days, then rest for a day, make rectifications, and finally set off to Jubei City.
The end of the year is over, and the Jiangnan region may have already started spring. As the warring world is about to be awakened, both sides are about to usher in the sowing season. The nomadic teams in the Western Xinjiang and the Northern Regions are also going to transfer the pastures. This is the time when the people of the Western Xinjiang and the Northern Regions are most eager to plunder the land of the Han and Tang dynasties.
Because the land in the Western Xinjiang and the Northern Regions is barren, only some grass can grow, and the harvest of cultivation is not satisfactory. Although the land is vast and sparsely populated, unfortunately the farming resources are scarce. If it weren't for this, the current king of Western Xinjiang would not want to go south and east to enter the border of the Han and Tang dynasties.
After all, war will kill people. Who would be willing to use their lives to attack the iron walls of Jubeicheng if they can cultivate and live well on the land they grew up in?
As soon as the Jingzhe passed, the cold wind blowing from the extreme cold snowfield north of the northern region was about to pass, and the wind season near Jubei City and around Huangsha City was about to pass. Everyone knew very well that the disappearance of the wind meant the beginning of the war. Only the ignorant recruits were still holding their weapons and counting the burning clouds above their heads every day.
After coming out of Yanhuiguan New Recruitment Camp, the few people had been walking for a long time. The sergeant and the sergeant had war horses, but the recruits could only rely on their own feet to walk the more than fifty miles. Humans are tired animals, and they were full of dangers along the way and needed to keep their energy highly concentrated at all times, so the eleven branches scattered and did not go much further.
The moment the leaders of the 11th team left the camp, they all dismounted and knelt on the ground, and kowtowed respectfully at the camp gate nine times. The recruits didn't know what the situation was. Some people thought it was a ceremony, so they knelt on the ground and kowtowed a few times. The rest did not receive the orders from the sergeant and the commanders, and naturally they did not dare to act rashly, and they all stood there blankly, looking at each other in front of each other.
Only Yun Zangfeng looked at the camp where the captain was thinking, and he didn't know what was going on. He just felt that this incident had a lot to do with the hidden lieutenant. In the camp lieutenant, a fat and strong figure hugged his face against the tent cloth and tried his best to suppress his crying sound.
The 11th team of Yanhuiguan Xingang Camp scattered and took eleven different routes. Among these fifty miles, there are thirty miles of sand. There is no established route inside, and you won’t even know if you are taking the right path. Fortunately, this sand sea is not big, you just need to identify the clear direction and keep walking, and you will always go out.
This is Yun Zangfeng's idea, and it is also the idea of many new recruits. However, when they are truly in the sea of thirty miles of sand, they know how innocent and naive their ideas are, and how small human beings can be.
Starting from Yan Huiguan Military Camp, Yun Zangfeng and the five people around him climbed a mountain. Below the mountain was a sea of sand. This was also the most dangerous place, not only because there were various deadly poisons living here, but also various natural traps hidden, such as quicksands and sand rivers, but also because there were the most dangerous horse bandits between the three passes and the enemy guerrillas.
No one can be left behind when arriving in Huangsha City safely is already Yun Zangfeng's responsibility and a huge challenge facing everyone.
A thirty-mile journey, if it is in Youzhou, Tai'an City or Jiangning County, you only need to give Yun Zangfeng a fast horse, which is an hour's journey. However, if it is such a large desert, a thirty-mile may take a long journey. It is not only a matter of foot journey, but also a matter of life and death.
This mountain is not the entrance where several sergeant commanders and chiefs took them out to study and train when they entered the recruit camp. The entrance is a small path between two mountain walls. It is very narrow and can only accommodate two or three people to pass side by side at a time. If you drive a horse, you can only pass slowly by one person and one riding.
Looking up at the sky, I saw a line. Such a place is not uncommon in Yuzhou and Yizhou. You can often see some mountainous places. The line of sky is not unusual. But after walking out of this line of sky, there are soft and hot yellow sand, and occasionally black sandstorms sweeping from the inside, ruthlessly devouring the lives of passers-by.
This time, only one team in the eleven teams chose to pass from there, because the terrain of the first line is easy to set up ambush, and only a pile of wood and huge rocks on both sides are needed to push down when the ambushed team passes. No one knows whether there are spies in their team, so they randomly choose a route into the sand sea.
The enemy has no way to predict the route of the eleventh team. All the captains have never told the recruits he has brought before, so if the enemy wants to set up an ambush, they can only be on the first line of the sky. As long as they avoid the first line of the sky, whether they will live to reach Huangsha City depends on God's expression.
Some people say that these soldiers were too careful. Perhaps no one knew the time of the army's departure or the route. There was no ambush at all in the Yishitian. However, as long as they were a veteran, they would definitely tell him that on the battlefield, they lived with this care. No matter whether the Yishitian was ambushed or not, they had to be treated as ambush there.
Fortunately, I did not go to the desert for a long time this time, and the dry food and the clean water I carried were sufficient, otherwise drinking water would be a big problem in moving in the desert.
"Do you know? I heard from the older generation that there is an extremely huge sailboat in the middle of this sea of sand. I have never seen a big ship. I have grown up here for more than 20 years. Who has ever seen it? Let's hear it?" A black coal ball that looked stupid and looked silly said, revealing her white teeth. The ragged shirt and cloth on the black coal ball were shaken and covered with dust. The army's armor was not worn, and it was wrapped in a bag and carried it on its back. I don't know what he thought.
Black coal briquettes are natives. There is a small village just east of Yan Huiguan. It’s just that there is no one in the family. Once this battle starts, no one can stand the fear of being scared every day. The whole family wants to go to Yizhou, Youzhou, Jiangnan and other places, but the journey is long, and a young brother got cold on the road and had no money to treat him and died.
The family left for a few more days and was so hungry that they were so hungry that they found a dilapidated temple to live in. They ordered the black coal balls to go outside to ask for some food. If not, even Guanyin soil would do.
Black coal balls never expected that when he returned to the ruined temple, his family had already set up a big pot inside the ruined temple, and cooked meat soup.
He quickly went up to serve a bowl of soup, and everyone in his family looked at him with a sip of the soup. Although there was no seasoning or oil or salt added, it tasted a bit fishy, but it was always a broth and a hot broth. After a bite of the soup, before he could eat the meat, he saw the whole family looking at him.
"What's wrong?" asked Black Coal Ball, "Dad, why don't you eat it? Why are you watching me do?"
On weekdays, Black Coal Ball has the best relationship with my younger brother, and I was so hungry that I forgot everything when I saw the broth, and even the body of my younger brother who was carrying me was clean.
When the black coal balls came back to their smell, they immediately vomited out. There was nothing in their stomach, and they even vomited sour water. The black coal balls' eyes were red and tears couldn't stop flowing. He pointed to his father's nose and asked, "Dad, mother, how can you do such a thing? This is your biological son."
His father stammered for a long time and finally said, "Son, your brother has gone. The body is smelly. If you don't eat it, it will rot. Your grandma hasn't eaten anything for many days. If you don't eat anything, just..."
Later, the black coal balls left the house and left all the food. While begging for food, he went home. He put away all the remaining bones of his family and said that he wanted his younger brother to return to his roots.
Black Coal Ball has never mentioned these things to anyone. When others ask about their family, they always giggle and go over. If you want to ask why he is coming to join the army, Black Coal Ball will definitely answer you, you can have some food to eat.
He also said the name black coal ball himself. He said: "I forgot everything in my real name. When I was a child, I went to the field to work a lot, and people became dark. All our friends called me black coal balls, so you just called it that."
By some means, Black Coal Ball and Huang San lived in the same house and became so-called confidants. In Huang San's words, "Those who gave birth to me and those who knew me were black Coal Balls." So the three people in the same house, Black Coal Balls, the young master of the Hong family and Huang San all followed Yun Zangfeng on the road.
Yun Zangfeng's strength gave the five people great confidence, so he didn't worry about anything along the way. He came down from the hillside and entered the sea of sand for thirty miles. However, Yun Zangfeng was very nervous from the beginning because this time he had a few more lives on him.
Halfway through, the black coal ball asked. Yun Zangfeng had seen larger ships, but he had never seen them before, so he turned his eyes to the young master of the Hong family. The young master of the Hong family felt Yun Zangfeng's gaze and asked: "What are you doing?"
Chapter completed!