Zuo Zongtang ordered a large army of 30,000 to advance from Lanzhou to the north, passing Gulang, Wuwei, Yongchang... Shandan, Zhangye rushed straight to Jiayuguan!

The situation in Xinjiang can be said to have changed three times a day. The Tsarist Russian army raided the Ili River Valley and occupied all the Qing Dynasty territory outside the Tianshan Mountains. At present, thousands of troops in Rongquan are trapped in several ancient passes, relying on the dangerous geographical location and the bitter and cold weather in winter that are suffocating!

Aguber's expansion momentum had weakened, but under the stimulation of Tsarist Russia, his arrogance soared and began to attack the Junggar Basin and Xingxing Gorge in Anxi Prefecture in the snowy weather.

Suzhou Admiral Xu Zhanbiao had already had a fierce cavalry encounter with Agubo's vanguard outside Xingxing Gorge. Thanks to six new field fast cannons, he forced Agubo's three thousand cavalry to retreat!

Zuo Zongtang was worried. He knew very well that the most important thing after Emperor Tongzhi returned to power was to take power. If the situation in the northwest repeatedly occurred before powering power, the conspirators in the court would definitely take advantage of the situation and even refused to return government affairs under the pretext of unfavorable war situations.

Even if the emperor was given the emperor's personal power, before and after Emperor Tongzhi's wedding, Zuo Zongtang's army must enter the strategic counterattack stage, that is, the troops were out of Xingxingxia army to invade Xinjiang.

Time is endless. After the monk, King Tai and others reached a fundraising agreement and signed it, there was no worries about funds. Zuo Zongtang had to take action. The Hunan Army stationed in Gaolan Camp began to move closer to Yumen, Guazhou and Dunhuang in batches.

What worries Zuo Zongtang even more was that Rong Quanfeige passed a letter saying that the British Jazz Gordon's expedition team had arrived in Tacheng. For safety reasons, the expedition team was temporarily repaired and prepared to cross the Junggar Prairie under the snow.

What a dangerous action this is, but Gordon and others have no choice but to do this!

Because although the wind and snow are dangerous, compared to the brutal Agubo, this is actually the choice with the highest safety factor!

"You can't delay. Frozen to death is better than dying under Aguber's butcher's knife! Tsarist Russia captured the Ili River Valley, and Aguber's garrison in Dihua was even more ready to move. The ambition to go north to invade the Quanjunggar grassland is so great!"

"Once spring is in full swing, the Aguber rebels in Dihua will definitely launch a full-scale attack on the grassland. It will be even more dangerous for us to return to the Central Plains at that time!"

Gordon, Rong Quan, Doro, Guan Lu and others discussed for a long time, and finally had to make such a risky decision. A thousand Junggar Grassland warriors who were familiar with the terrain escorted the expedition team to venture in the season when the snow-covered grassland was covered.

Zuo Zongtang was shocked when he received this news. He immediately opened the map and looked for it carefully, "God! This group of people are so crazy... If you want to be safe at this time, you have to enter Kobuduo Mongolia in the west... Is this life worthless?"

Liu Jintang pointed at the map with his finger and said in a scattered voice, "Tacheng crosses the Nam River to the east, and Lama Temple enters the grassland of not many kes... This is basically a sparsely populated golden land of death!"

"They must find four wells in the wind and snow to avoid getting lost... Chekjing, Yichejing, Holchut Well, Zachson Well... The well water on the edge of these four deserts is a gathering area for herders to graz in summer. In winter, there is a white light. How to find it?"

"If you can't find it, you have to find it!" Zuo Zongtang angrily took a picture of the map. "Send a message to Xu Zhanbiao, asking him to scatter his horse north, and take my imperial envoy to guard the guards to meet Zasaktu Khan! He said I wanted him to cast a net to find someone!"

"I know, I don't have the right to order them to the Mongolian Khan. My level is not enough... but tell him that Agubo is the enemy of the Manchu, Han and Mongolian tribes. They did not show mercy when they killed the Mongolian herders!"

"Even if you put a white-haired knife, you have to send troops to the grassland to pick me up! There is no room for bargaining! Go right away!"

At this moment, Zuo Zongtang had already understood Gordon and his team's plan. To the north of Dihua, which is the center of the Junggar Basin, there is a vast desert called the Gurbantonggut Desert. To the north of this desert is the territory of Koduo Mongolia, and to the south is the administrative region of Dihua Prefecture, Xinjiang.

Gordon and the others would definitely not go to the southern foot of the desert. They could only go to the more desolate desert north of Kobado Mongolia, but there were no signs or towns in that area. They could only rely on four wells to recognize the road. You must walk one by one to the right place to get to a safe area.

After passing these four wells, they were the grasslands north of Hami Prefecture and Zhenxi Prefecture. Of course, the expedition team could not enter here south, because it had been captured by Agubo, so they had to go east.

Entering the territory of Zazaktu Khan, this is a prosperous place with a little more abundant water and grass!

As long as Zasaktu Mongolia welcomes the expedition team and then goes south to Anxi, Gansu, it will be considered a safe place in the Qing Dynasty.

"More than a thousand miles! They are wandering in the desert grasslands that are rarely visited... Agubo's scattered cavalry are also elusive. Isn't this seeking death?"

"I really make trouble for me!" Zuo Zongtang cursed, but from the bottom of his heart he still admired the group of expedition teams. Even the officers and soldiers who knew the news in the army in the west secretly raised the big thumbs up and said something was good!

After Master Zuo's military order was issued, the marching army suddenly accelerated, and countless cavalry rushed to the distance with the military orders, and Zuo Jigao stirred a gust of wind and thunder in the northwest.

"Master... eat dry food! You didn't eat anything in the morning, and lunch was still twenty miles away. Take compressed biscuits..." Liu Jintang carefully peeled off the oil paper of the compressed biscuits, handed it over and took a pot of water.

Zuo Zongtang, on the horse's back, had to deal with government affairs in the northwest wind. He was so hungry that he put his chest on his back. He chewed a compressed biscuit with heavy oil, salt and sugar, and drank a few sips of cold water. The hunger felt much more relieved.

Looking at the biscuits in his hand, Zuo Zongtang sighed, "Good thing! This is a good thing... How much pressure does this small piece of biscuit relieve our logistics?"

"You said that after so many years, why didn't anyone think of this? You said that we have eaten fried noodles with fried noodles. Sijiucheng has been sold for hundreds of years, but no one thought about pressing it into a module and turning it into dry food?"

Liu Jintang smiled wryly and said, "Hey... This is actually what foreigners call physics! Why didn't we think of it? Why did Xiao Letian think of it? In the final analysis, it was because people understood the principles of all things!"

"I have studied it. People can think of it first to explain people's anti-sorption of food and what nutrients the human body needs... They have certain rules for these studies, that is, physics is our technique of investigating things!"

"There is the idea of ​​analyzing the problem... and then these small inventions and creations are available!"

"If we don't understand this principle, then we will always be behind others in the future... They will think of it first, and then we suddenly realize it after seeing it... Isn't it that simple?"

"But it's such a simple thing. Why didn't we think of it first, but let others think of it? This is physics!"

The Qing Dynasty's understanding of Western physics was different from those of the 21st century. The Qing Dynasty people were always willing to use the art of investigating things to fit Western physics concepts.

Don’t laugh at them for being a little knowledgeable. In an era when Liu Jintang’s thoughts were actually considered a traitor and a path of evil. He just said it in front of Zuo Zongtang. If he said this in front of a Qingliu Confucian scholar, he would probably have to pile up the impeachment memorials on the roof.

"Well... I ordered the Chinese shopkeeper named Fan Jin, to give as much as this portable compressed biscuit... But I have to make an appointment in advance!"

"The compressed biscuits I gave to my army must not contain a drop of big oil. They all have to use butter or vegetable oil... The money is all included in my loan!"

"Haha, do you know... The latest news has been heard from the horses in Xinjiang... The people under the control of Agubo's dogs have already had a famine!"

"When our army attacks, food will work better than bullets!"
Chapter completed!