Just in this way, I will not be able to come again for a few months. I wanted to take advantage of this time to go to a small nest in Russia, and bring some daily necessities for storage.
Be prepared, Hong Tao doesn't know how long he can live in Sailimu Lake, this matter is not up to him, if he doesn't want to be homeless, he has to make plans in advance.
In the past few years, he has traveled all over the towns in northern Xinjiang, not just wandering around, let alone chasing zombies, but looking for a second, third, and fourth spare nest.
If you want to say who is the biggest mouse in the world, it must be him. At any time, as long as he is free, he will not listen to digging holes to store food and prepare for the escape. It is no longer deliberate, it is simply instinct, and he is also a very particular big mouse!
Is it enough just to have a place to live? Still a long way to go. What he said to Chu Qiu back then was really not bragging, it was much easier and more comfortable for him to live alone in the last days than to bring a group of people.
Food, daily necessities, weapons and ammunition, warm clothes, vegetable seeds, necessary tools, including electrical facilities, and even mattresses and recliners must be fully prepared. This can't be considered qualified, and places without more than two escape routes are still unattractive.
Therefore, tossing back and forth between several small nests to stockpile supplies is the only serious thing he has done in the past three years, and he has been unremitting. Even in the winter when the mountains are covered by heavy snow, they are constantly drilling, and the farthest nest has entered the territory of Russia.
That place is an outpost of the Russian border guards. There are a lot of weapons and ammunition stored in it, but there is no food or daily necessities. If you want to go from northern Xinjiang, you need to cross the Altai Mountains at an altitude of nearly 4,000 meters. Most of the way is no-man's land, and some places have snow even in summer.
However, the words of the tea stall owner made him cancel this plan temporarily. It is not too urgent to perfect the small nest, but there is not always the chance of being able to be safely close to the Yining base and not being easily bullied.
It has been seven years since he came to Xinjiang Province, and it has been more than three years since he wandered around, but he has never been to the Yining base, or even been close to it. The reason is very simple. It is the main base of the Redeemer, with a large population and relatively strict management.
You said that you don¡¯t bring enough weapons and equipment, just go with a machete or a self-made crossbow like a refugee, he really doesn¡¯t feel safe, who has the addiction to be slaughtered. But if you go there fully armed, you don't need to be happy, and you will be found as soon as you reach the checkpoint, and it is not easy to run away.
Without any foundation or acquaintances to get in rashly, there is nothing but suffering. Hong Tao didn't believe that the refugee settlement in the Yining base didn't have the scourge of bullying the market and buying and selling by force. To the sky, it's a little milder on the surface, but it's actually more fucked up in the bone.
?I don't have a good impression of the management of the Redeemer, just look at the virtues of the Kuitun sub-base to get a general idea. There is no rigid need for the exchange materials they can provide, and you can find what you want by yourself.
But now it is different. If the tea stall owner can establish a relationship with the people in the Yining base and gain a foothold in the refugee area, he can reduce a lot of worries. Try to go over there to see that at least you won't be too bullied. If it doesn't work, you can leave.
In addition, Hong Tao also wants to visit southern Xinjiang. The shortest way is to go east from Yining to Bayinbulak Town, Hejing County, and then go south along the Duku Highway to Kuqa.
Since there is no human-controlled area in southern Xinjiang, Bayinbulak Town is the southernmost stronghold of the Redeemer. If you want to pass through here and go south, you must have a pass from Yining Base.
Why do you have to go to southern Xinjiang to see it? Isn¡¯t Hong Tao curious? He listened to the sentinels who had been stationed in Bayinbulak town chatting while drinking tea at the Kuitun base. After nearly ten years of natural transformation, the endless Taklamakan Desert has become a wetland swamp, desert and Gobi intersecting. Echoing the complex landform, many wild animals have made their homes there.
In addition, in some places in southern Xinjiang, there is still a group of survivors who are called rebels by the redeemed and called rebels by the refugees in private.
It is said that they were also part of the Redeemers at the beginning, but because of their different ideas, they might have failed in the power struggle, so they had no choice but to escape from the Yining base. But facing the savior's pursuit and interception, he had nowhere to go, so he plunged into the zombie-controlled area in southern Xinjiang.
Surprisingly, not only did they not fend for themselves, but they also gradually grew stronger. From time to time, they made raids or infiltrations into the area controlled by the Redeemers. They almost blew up the Kuitun oil refinery the year before last.
Although there are many people on the Redeemer's side, there is nothing good to do with them. Unable to attack, we can only strengthen the defense forces of Bayinbulak Town and Barentai Town, and prevent the rebels from infiltrating as much as possible.
Hong Tao wants to find a chance to get a pass to see the completely changed TaklamakanWhat does the desert look like? By the way, I will also set up a few small nests in southern Xinjiang. There are unpredictable things in the sky, whoever waits until death which cloud has rain, maybe it will be used someday.
It would be even better if you can see what kind of virtue the rebels are. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to join them, just pure curiosity. Now he has lost confidence in all survivor forces, and he doesn't feel that anyone is much better than whom, including the revival alliance he established himself, which is now called the East Asian Alliance.
Yili is not a city, but a region. Its full name is Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. This place has been famous since ancient times. In the Western Han Dynasty, the Wusun Kingdom was here, and it was under the jurisdiction of the Protectorate of the Western Regions. In the Tang Dynasty, the Kunling Duhufu was established to govern the ethnic minority tribes east of Suiye City, including the Yili area.
Later, when Genghis Khan destroyed Xiliao, it became the fiefdom of Chagatai, and its capital was Alimali, which is near today's Huocheng. It was the largest city in Central Asia during the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties.
After the Qing Dynasty pacified the local government of Junggar, the whole territory of Xinjiang was unified, and a general in charge of Yili and other departments was set up to take charge of Xinjiang affairs, referred to as General Yili. Nine cities, including Huiyuan, Ningyuan, Xichun and Suiding, were built successively, with Huiyuan as the center, forming a trend of stars arching the moon.
All in all, all in all, the history of this area is very long, not at all shorter than that of the ancient capital of the Central Plains. For a long time, the center of Xinjiang was not Urumqi, but Ili.
So the question is, why did humans regard this place as an important city so long ago. Throughout history, there are no more than three situations where cities and capitals are established. First, the transportation is developed; second, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack; third, the climate and geographical environment are suitable for development.
The Ili area, also known as the Ili River Valley, flows through the Ili River and enters Kazakhstan westward, forming a long and narrow basin, or plain, between the mountains.
In ancient times, human beings did not have the ability to fight against heaven and earth. If they wanted to eat enough, they had to find a place suitable for farming and grazing to live together. The Yili River Valley is such a fertile land with a less harsh climate.
As far as the Xinjiang province alone is concerned, it covers an area of ??more than 1.6 million square kilometers, accounting for more than one-sixth of the country's area, but its population is only about 20 million, on par with Beijing. Why is the population so small? Is it because of the remoteness? Not all, the main reason is lack of water.
On the whole, most areas in Xinjiang Province are deserts, Gobi and mountainous areas, with relatively low precipitation, and the main source of water is rivers formed by melting snow. Human farming, grazing, and domestic water cannot be solved by rain here, and they can only live next to the river.
Those who have been to and walked through most of the Xinjiang provinces should know that wherever there are rivers, they are already full of people and full of land. Once away from the river, less than tens of kilometers, or even a few kilometers away, is the arid and barren Gobi Desert, or a desert full of yellow sand and no grass.
The Ili River Valley area has been a natural treasure land with dense forests, green grass, moderate climate, abundant water and rich products since ancient times. Not only the ancients thought so, but the survivors also thought so, and did it at the same time.
As the largest group of survivors in Xinjiang, the Redeemers were divided into two parts at the beginning, one in Yining and one in Urumqi. After several years of development and changes, it was finally decided to combine the two into one, choosing Yining as the main base, and at the same time giving up Urumqi.