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Text 462 Riding to Southern Xinjiang

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    "If you can't provoke us, we can hide" After leaving the residential area far behind, Hong Tao let out a long sigh, and the motorcade and horse team turned west, just as he was going east.

    No matter what they are here for, anyway, within half a month, they will never see themselves again.  I hope that after ten days, they have finished talking and headed home, and don't eat and drink here.

    "Damn it, grandson eats grandpa, what is wrong with the world!" But when he remembered that Zhang Ke had eaten the whitefish and rainbow trout he had brought back after traveling for several days, he felt very unbalanced.

    As the saying goes, horsepower is known from a distance. If you go out for a self-driving tour in the old world, the car is not strong enough, which will greatly affect the play effect.  It is the same now, the quality of the horse directly determines the comfort and speed of the journey.

    This horse, which is said to have been ridden by Crimean's son, is indeed much stronger than the two pack horses that usually can only pull carts. It is specifically reflected in the tightness of the back muscles, the range of bumps when walking fast, and endurance.

    If you ride a pack horse, you have to rest after walking a few kilometers, and you don¡¯t have to speed up. The twisting and twisting steps can shake your waist.  Now the big black horse does not need to be urged, as long as the road is relatively flat, it will automatically walk fast.  This posture is relatively the most stable, and it is comfortable to ride in addition to fast speed.

    As for whether he is afraid that a good horse will be blackmailed by the sentries along the way, Hong Tao pointed to the plastic card hanging around his neck: Now we have a special pass!  Who has ever seen a motorcycle with a security sign on the front windshield, it must be matched!

    Are you afraid of highway robbery?  The robbers and gangsters who have died in their own hands in the past few years have to have 30 if they don't have 50. Come, the more the better.  Even if it is a small embellishment that appears during the lonely journey, it will not be too boring.

    In addition to the horses, he also equipped a full set of weapons. Without these hard guys, he really has no idea.  Don't talk about Yuluo or Yuluo, those miracles were obtained only by suppressing equipment. If you really let yourself hold a hatchet and fight others desperately, you may never see the heroic Yuluo brand in the future.

    Youdao is thinking day by day and dreaming at night. At night, when Hong Tao spent the night in a small village at the foot of the mountain more than 40 kilometers away, he dreamed of Zhang Ke, Gou Chenzhi, and He Wanjun.  They have all grown up, especially He Wanjun, who is no less developed than Zhou Yuan.

    But I was old, so old that the three of them caught one without paying attention.  Zhang Ke had a harmless smile on his fat face, Gou Chenzhi was still so serious, and He Wanjun kept winking at him.

    These three little bastards actually wanted to steam themselves to eat, and because of disagreement over whether to put onion, ginger, garlic and steamed fish sauce, Zhang Ke finally said to himself with a smile:

    Grandpa Hong, if you eat it, you will live forever. Anyway, you will not live for a few years. It is better to let the next generation live forever.  After death, we will erect a monument for you, engrave your portrait on it, and make sure to engrave your eyes bigger!

    "Hiss" Hong Tao woke up just as Zhang Ke was about to bite his neck with his teeth bared, sweating profusely in the cool night wind.

    Raising his wrist to look at his watch, he fell asleep for less than three minutes. He wrapped himself in a cloak that was almost as thick as a blanket, and continued sleeping in another position.  As long as I spend the night outside these years, I basically sleep like this, either sitting on a tree branch or squatting in the corner of the ruins of the building, waking up after taking a nap, a few minutes long and tens of seconds short.

    ? I was not used to it at first, and I was often sluggish due to lack of sleep.  Slowly, I got used to it. Instead, I went back to the cottage by the lake and often suffered from insomnia.

    Can't do this, between ensuring the quality of sleep and saving your life, you can only choose the latter.  Snoring and too much sleep are fatal flaws in the wild. Both wild animals and people can be easily discovered, and then you will die.

    ?From Yining to the Barentai checkpoint, Hong Tao walked for 9 days, with one person and two horses, an average of less than 60 kilometers a day.  Why is it so slow? It¡¯s really not that he was dawdling. It¡¯s that long-distance riding is basically at this speed.

    Animals like horses are actually very delicate. They can't eat well, drink well, or rest well, and they will lose weight immediately for you to see.  It¡¯s okay to run short distances, but if you want to run long distances, unless you prepare a lot of concentrated feed, horses will stretch their hips before humans.

    Of course, Hong Tao doesn't have so much concentrated feed for the horses, at most he can ensure the intake of salt, so he has to spend a lot of time every day looking for suitable pastures for the horses to eat.  Ride for 1 hour when you are on the road, and take a walk for 1 hour when you get down. The time for walking and riding is basically half and half.

    Fortunately, he was not in a hurry. When sending horses to Iszawi, he took four live sheep with him, and brought three more when he returned to the base. He didn't need to send meat to the base for almost a month.  Calculated according to this distance, it is not too tight and not too rich, just right.

    Barentai Town is located at the eastern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, just built in a Y-shaped ravine, with 218 and 216 national highways, and another road leading from Hami to the south.The railways of ?? all pass here.

    If you want to enter southern Xinjiang from northern Xinjiang, or enter southern Xinjiang from other provinces, this is a very important transportation hub. In the words of the ancients, it is called a battleground for military strategists.

    Such an important place, the Redeemer will definitely send heavy troops to guard it. If it gets stuck here, outsiders will not only be unable to go to Yining, but even southern Xinjiang will not be able to enter.  Therefore, the entire town is a military center, not only built bunkers, but also built artillery positions on the nearby mountainside.

    God also helped. Originally, there was a yellow ditch with little water flowed by the edge of the town, but after the outbreak of the zombie disease, the rain has been abundant for years, and the yellow ditch has almost become the Yellow River.  On one side is a mountain wall and on the other side is a big river. The natural moat is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It tightly strangles the entrance from the south and the east into the Ili River Valley.

    With the special pass, the checkpoint also didn't do too much inspection, and the package on the horse's back was simply checked and released.  The elderly sentinel still kindly advised Hong Tao not to go too deep into Korla. There are a lot of zombies there. Just yesterday, a group of gold diggers were almost surrounded by zombies, and two people died in the end.

    Not to mention crossing Korla and heading south, there are not only cracks in the road, but also wild beasts and rebels.  In the propaganda of the Redeemer, the latter are more terrifying than zombies and wild beasts. They almost kill people and rob them when they see them, which is inhumane.

    "God bless, good-hearted people" Of course Hong Tao didn't believe this one-sided statement, but he still responded to the old sentinel's kindness and sent a bag of dried fish.

    The ruins of Korla and Urumqi, two cities occupied by zombies, are the places where gold diggers are most concentrated in Xinjiang.  A large city means abundant resources. Even if most of them are spoiled or damaged, the probability of finding valuable items will be higher proportionally.

    The road is easy to walk, which means that there will be no major accidents in the middle, and the risks are relatively controllable.  In fact, Kuqa is closer to Yining than Korla, because almost no one is willing to go because of the difficult road.

    However, there is also a problem when there are too many gold diggers. The competition is fierce, and it is easy to appear the phenomenon of black and white.  Killing a few people in this kind of place is really like trampling ants to death, no one cares.  Especially when you find valuable supplies and are discovered, it is difficult to get out unless there are many people.

    After passing the checkpoint, follow the road to the south and walk over the mountains for another three days. The terrain is getting lower and lower. When a big river appears in front of you, you will almost arrive at your destination.

    That is really called Dahe, and Hong Tao was confused when he saw it.  In the old world, he traveled to Korla by himself, but he had never discovered such a wide river and such an abundant amount of water.

    You must know that Korla is located on the northern edge of the dry Tarim Basin. If it weren't for the oasis nourished by Bosten Lake, the city would not be able to develop.  Looking around with the binoculars now, there is no shadow of the Gobi desert, the sky is blue and the water is vast, and the eyes are full of green and water colors, which is similar to standing on the shore of Qiandao Lake.

    When nature is powerful, the sea can turn into mulberry fields, and Hong Tao didn't dare to trust it. He asked a few refugees on the side of the road to ask, and then he realized that this is not the urban area of ??Korla, but a town under the jurisdiction of Korla City. The name is Tashdian.  .

    If you want to go to the city of Korla to shop for treasure, you can only cross the river by boat from here, and then walk 10 kilometers southwest.  But the refugees said, it was unfortunate that you came today, there was a problem with the steel cable pulling the ferry, and the people who operated the ferry were changing overnight.  If there are no accidents, you should be able to cross the river tomorrow morning.

    Hong Tao didn't have the skills to float on the water, and he didn't dare to explore his way around at night, so he could only choose to spend the night in this town no matter how reluctant he was.
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