It was probably in the evening that the camp had already been set up.

It is already a desert, and the temperature difference between day and night is already very obvious. It is so hot during the day that you want to be shirtless, but when it comes to night, it is colder and you can wear more clothes.

"Young Master... the fire has already started, come and roast the fire..." Ying Lao bowed!

At this time, Li Zhan, who was in the tent, hurriedly said, "I understand, Mr. Ying..." Following Li Zhan and Feng Ming both left the tent. As soon as Li Zhan went out, he saw Lin Dong eating instant noodles.

To be honest, Li Zhan has been eating instant noodles for about a month and it’s really hard to withstand it. It’s not that instant noodles are not delicious. In fact, Li Zhan’s instant noodles include lard and lamb oil. Add some salt and chopped green onions. The taste is still good. With fried rice, the more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes.

But no matter how delicious it is, it won’t be delicious after you eat it for a long time. But what Li Zhan didn’t expect was that this child named Lin Dong had eaten instant noodles for more than two months, but he was not tired of it. Lin Dong told Li Zhan that he would eat instant noodles for the rest of his life.

To be honest, it's a bit terrifying.

When Li Zhan and Feng Ming sat by the fire, it would soon become dark.

However, just after it was dark, suddenly, after Li Zhan looked at the top of Yumen Pass, he actually found a ray of light on the top of Yumen Pass, which was particularly dazzling.

Li Zhan immediately asked, "What is that?"

No one around knew about Li Zhan’s problem, only Gao Hu smiled and said, “Haha…Young Master, that’s why this place is called Yumen Pass.”

"Oh..." Li Zhan looked at Gao Hu and said, "Brother Gao Hu seems to know some story. It just happened to be nothing. Let's tell us...!"

Gao Hu looked at everyone's expectation and laughed, "Okay...but this is what I heard. I don't know whether it is true or not. Everyone should just listen to it.

During the Han Dynasty, the terrain near Yumen Pass was very complex, with swamps everywhere, gullies crisscrossing, forests covered the sun and weeds. Whenever the caravans carrying jade on the Silk Road caught up with the hot weather on the road, in order to avoid heatstroke in the daytime, animals would always rush on cool nights.

However, at night, the roads near the station are always shrouded in darkness, which makes the caravan unable to distinguish the direction. Even the elderly horses who often travel back and forth on this road will be dizzy and difficult to recognize the way, so this journey is called "Horse Lost".

Among the many caravans that travel back and forth when the horse is lost, there is a caravan specializing in jade and silk. They travel on this road all year round and often lose their way when the horse is lost.

Once, the caravan got lost as soon as they got lost. Just when people were anxious, a lonely goose fell not far away. A kind-hearted young man in the caravan found the lonely goose, and quietly grabbed it and hugged it in his arms, preparing to get out of the horse's lost before letting it go.

After a while, the wild goose cried to the young man with tears and said, "Guru Guru, give me food, Guru Guru, you can get lost."

After hearing this, the young man suddenly realized that the geese fell behind because they were too hungry to fly, so he immediately took out his dry food and water to feed the geese. After the geese were full, they flew into the sky and kept flying, leading the caravan out of the lost horses and successfully arrived at the destination of Xiaofangpancheng.

After a while, the caravan lost his direction again when the horse was lost. The wild goose flew over again and shouted in the air: "Gulu, Gulu, the caravan lost. Gulu, Gulu, Square Pan Inlaid Jade."

The geese flew while shouting, which once again led the caravan out of the "horse lost". Only the young man who saved the geese could understand what they said when they flew away.

The young man passed on the meaning of the geese to the leader and said, "The geese asked us to inlaid a piece of luminous dark green jade on Xiaofangpan City. In the future, if the caravan has a goal, they will never get lost again."

After hearing this, the leader thought that a piece of luminous dark green jade would be worth thousands of taels of silver. He really couldn't bear it, so he didn't agree.

Unexpectedly, the caravan was lost again on the "horse lost", which led to the inability to find the water source for several days. Everyone was dry and thirsty, and even camels were gasping for breath, and their lives were in danger.

At this moment, the wild goose flew over and shouted in the sky: "The caravan lost his way, the square plate of jade is inlaid with jade, and he will never lead the way."

After hearing this, the young man hurriedly told the leader, "The wild goose said that if he couldn't bear to inlay the black jade, it would no longer lead us."

The leader panicked and quickly discussed countermeasures with the young man. The young man said, "Hurry up and knelt down and swear to the wild goose, 'You must be inlaid with jade, and never go back on your word', otherwise we will be in danger."

The leader immediately knelt down and swore to the geese, saying that if the geese were willing to lead them, then after they got lost, they would definitely have black jade inlaid.

After hearing this, the geese serpent in the air for a moment, leading the caravan out of the "horse lost" again, saving the caravan again.

After walking out of the "horse lost", the leader of the caravan did not break his promise and immediately picked the largest and best piece of luminous black jade from his caravan, which was inlaid on the top of the local gatehouse. Whenever night fell, the piece of black jade emitted a dazzling light, which could be seen clearly even within a radius of dozens of kilometers.

Later, since the luminous dark green jade was used as a signpost, the passing caravans have never lost their way again.

There was a piece of jade on that gate building, and it has since been renamed "Yumen Pass".

Gao Hu smiled and said with a smirk, and continued, "Someone has seen it at Guanlou. It was not a few thousand taels of jade, but a stone. However, no one understands why the stone shines. However, the fact is that the light has indeed saved many people."

After listening to the story, Li Zhan nodded continuously. The light was like a lighthouse, which really guided many people. Li Zhan thought that this was why. Many people in the Tang Dynasty regarded Yumen Pass as the gateway to the Tang Dynasty. The light was like the light at home. Seeing it was like going home!

Just after listening to the story, I rode in front of me.

After a while, Li Zhan saw that the person coming was either Hou Guangliang.

"Young Master..." Hou Guangliang came to Li Zhan with a smile. Li Zhan looked at Hou Guangliang and asked, "Have you eaten?"

Hou Guangliang nodded and said, "I've eaten... By the way, my father asked me to tell you that you will enter the Western Regions tomorrow. There is a desert of two thousand miles ahead. Your son's carriage is no longer available, so you can only follow everyone.

There is also the water source. Maybe the young master can’t take a shower, but my father said he would definitely guarantee the young master’s drinking water and washing water.”

However, after Hou Guangliang finished speaking, Li Zhan shook his head and said, "Guangliang, go back and tell Manager Hou that I am not afraid of dirt. After entering the desert, water is the most precious resource. I want to set an example and never waste a drop of water. Water is for drinking, not for washing."

"Young Master...why are you doing this? You have a noble status...!"

But before Hou Guangliang finished speaking, Li Zhan smiled and said, "Guangliang, it is because of my noble status that I have to do better. Rules are rules. The more noble a person is, the more powerful a person is, the more they must abide by the rules, not for others, but for themselves.

I don’t wash, but it’s just for everyone to save water, and then we all walk out of the two thousand miles of desert together.”

Hou Guangliang smiled and nodded and said, "Young Master, I understand..."

Li Zhan also replied and laughed: "By the way... your Jiuhu Army must take good care of the horses. It is hot during the day and cold at night, and this ghost weather is hard to bear."

"Please rest assured that the war horse is our brother, and we will definitely take good care of our brothers." Hou Guangliang promised immediately.

Li Zhan was very relieved about Hou Guangliang. Looking at Hou Guangliang who was guaranteed, Li Zhan smiled and said, "Okay, I believe in you..."

In this way, there was nothing to say all night. The next day, the army officially left Yumen Pass and entered the desert.

Here we want to explain how dangerous the 2,000-mile desert is. Why can King Gaochang feel so at ease that the Tang army cannot pass the desert, because the desert is really terrible.

There are many climate characteristics of deserts, such as sunny days, strong sunshine, dryness, hot summers, large temperature difference between day and night, and many wind and sand.

The key is "doing".

Because it is dry, there are few clouds and rain, more sunshine, and strong sunshine; because it is dry, there are no clouds in the sky, and it cannot block some sunshine, and the ground has no moisture, and cannot evaporate and cool down. The heat from the sun to the ground is used to heat the air of the earth, so the temperature in summer is particularly high, and the temperature difference between day and night is particularly large.

The high temperatures in the desert during the day are caused by strong solar radiation.

How high is the temperature on the ground at noon in the desert? In the desert areas of Xinjiang, my country, temperatures of 70 degrees Celsius are common. On the surface of sand dunes in the southern Turpan Basin, 82.3 degrees Celsius was once measured.

In addition to these, there are dangerous creatures, venomous snakes and scorpions, but the greatest danger in the desert is not venomous snakes and scorpions, but heatstroke and dehydration. In the desert, once heatstroke and dehydration occur, it is almost uncontrollable, because a person who has fainted from heatstroke will lose the ability to save himself.

The desert is vast and flat, with sparse vegetation. People are easily lost due to the single scenery and lack of direction when they are moving in the desert.

Moreover, people usually do not walk straight lines in the desert, and usually tilt to the right. The left step of the person is a few millimeters larger than the right step, so when they are in progress, they turn to the right without realizing it. Walkers usually walk around about 3 to 5 kilometers in circles, which is what the saying goes, "ghost hits a wall."

The most terrifying thing is the sandstorm... For a long time, the desert area has clear sky and scorching sun, which has left the desert under abnormal high temperatures, creating a super-large high-temperature upstream.

This airflow is dry and powerful. It rises rapidly to high altitudes, bringing the ground sand and dust into the sky, producing dust; its rapid rise also causes large-scale negative pressure zones to form near the ground, which will inevitably lead to a large amount of air to fill it, which will lead to a storm on the ground, which may lead to catastrophic sandstorms.

When the sandstorm comes, the dust is flying all over the sky, and the sky is as dark as at night.

The gravel on the ground was scraped and ran all over the ground, hitting the ankle epithelium and breaking blood, and even bone cracks and fractures occurred; the sand scraped on the face with a needle-like pain, and even piercing the skin and oozing bleeding.

Once a sandstorm occurs, people and camels must quickly move to avoid sand and dust that may fall from the sky to avoid the misfortune of being buried by wind and sand. If you do not avoid it in time, it will be very dangerous.

So, King Gaochang was so at ease, but King Gaochang forgot that the Tang army was not afraid of hardships, nor at all!

....................................
Chapter completed!