Start: Datang Wanli a lonely city

Chapter 716

No matter what happened to the netizens on the first night, in the early morning of the second day, after Hu Biao gave the order of 'go'.

Everyone in the team had already mastered the handlebar style, and after vigorously flicking the whip, the team set off again.

In the following time, they may have encountered this and that kind of suffering, but their footsteps all the way back to Chang'an will always be so firm.

But generally speaking, because they stayed out at night and tried to avoid some towns and settlements along the way, it was much easier than when they were hunted down before.

At least they encountered harsh weather conditions, but it would be best not to have that kind of endless pursuit.

In this way, under their difficult journey, Chang'an City is getting closer to them day by day...

Time: The fourth year of Yuanhe in the Tang Dynasty, the tenth day of the first lunar month.

Location: It has long fallen into an area east of Guazhou, the Tubo people.

"There's no fucking way~" On the horse, Lao Hei looked around, and there were achnatherum splendens as tall as a camel. After the almost endless scene, he felt lost!

At this moment, the few of them went out of the convoy seven or eight miles away, and the order they received from Hu Biao was to find the legendary one: the Hulu River.

The reason for this is that it is the famous Yumen Pass. The actual address has been moved several times in history.

During the Han Dynasty, Yumen Pass was placed in the Dunhuang area.

But in the Tang Dynasty, Yumenguan was moved to the Hulu River, which is the south bank of the Shule River in the modern plane.

The convoy wanted to cross the river in front of the serious Yumen Pass, and was destined to be discovered by the Tubo people; so Hu Biao and the others could only take a detour, sneaking across the upper reaches of the Hulu River from the former Master Xuanzang, and trying to find a way to bypass Yumen Pass.

Considering the current temperature, which reached minus [-] degrees at the coldest time, the river surface should be frozen, so crossing the river should be relatively simple.

The problem is, after Lao Hei, Lao Snake and the others took orders to dispatch, they couldn't even find the river anywhere.

Fortunately, for this point, Lao Snake, a native of the frontier province who has performed quite well recently, seems to not agree with this point at all.

"Lost?" The old snake next to him took off the bow and arrow on his back and shook his head: "With me here, I won't get lost; the Hulu River will definitely be found, but before that, let's get some game."

As he spoke, he drew his bow and set an arrow, aiming at a swaying bush.

"Hoo!" A feathered arrow whizzed past.

In the wild grass 50 meters away, an arrow pierced through the heart and lungs of a gazelle before it jumped up.

The powerful arrow remained undiminished, piercing through the gazelle's body, and then piercing into the abdomen of a gazelle side by side.

Suddenly, the two sheep lost their strength and fell to the ground panting in pain.

"Aw~" After a cry like a deer, groups of gazelles rushed out of the achnatherum taller than camels, and ran towards the east.

"Fuck!" Seeing the delicious food delivered to the door, countless recipes for Xijiang mutton flashed through Lao Snake's mind.

"Go!" He clamped the horse's belly, and rushed towards the flock of sheep with Singer, Lao Hei, and Yu Hanfeng who were exploring the way with him.

"Don't worry about anything! At least 40 of them must be killed! I eat horse meat and beef jerky every day, and now I want to throw up when I think of these things."

While the old snake was yelling, he put a shovel-shaped arrow on his Daqing-style bow, and shot at the fattest gazelle.

Then without looking at it, he continued to draw his bow and set his arrows, shooting arrows at the running yellow sheep.

Old Hei followed behind Old Snake, waving his flail at the flock of sheep that bumped into him, and every time he could take away a blind one.

"Chirp!" Hai Dongqing's cry came from the sky.

"Send a signal!" the singer shouted, "Let Hai Dongqing bring Lao Hu and the others over!"

The birds of prey in the sky looked at the situation on the ground and returned to the camp.

When Hu Biao and the others arrived, all they found were the traces left by the horse's hooves and the corpse of a gazelle lying on the ground.

"Enough!" Seeing the gazelle corpse brought over, a smile finally appeared on Hu Biao's face that had been frozen by the north wind.

"What about the old snakes?"

Ari looked up at his "Xiaobai", and replied, "It's in the east!"

Seven or eight kilometers away from them, the old snake nestled in a sunken lee, holding a small book in his hand, and kept counting on the ground with his right hand.

"You didn't make a mistake, did you?" Singer looked at the latitude, longitude and distance he had calculated, feeling a little uncertain.

It is said that geography is the science of the liberal arts, but he has never done this kind of coordinate calculation.

Especially in the absence of GPS or Beidou navigation, using an almost primitive method to determine the latitude and longitude coordinates, this skill is estimated to be only available to pilots and senior sailors.

However, the former assistant sir brother in front of him who has lived in the northwest inland for 26 years and has hardly seen the sea, plays this set of things very well!
Along the way, this old man will calculate the time of sunrise and sunset every day.

At noon, the height of the sun must be measured with a weapon inserted into the ground, and the angle of the North Star must be calculated at midnight.

Measuring the altitude angle of the sun and the angle of the North Star is to determine the latitude where you are. If the latitude remains unchanged, then they have absolutely no offset direction.

The calculation time of sunrise and sunset is to use the time difference to calculate the longitude of oneself.

Then, by recording the coordinates of some important cities, mountains, and lakes, I can calculate how much I have walked, which is convenient for planning the next itinerary.

The Xuan Ge camp team also relies on the old snake's ability to position themselves.

Only then did they leave the Tianshan Mountains and enter Dunhuang, even though they were advancing all the way in the deserted wilderness, they did not deviate due to lack of reference.

"Now we continue to go south from our position, and we can find that Hulu River at most two miles."

Sure enough, after driving the horse forward for about ten minutes, a completely frozen river surface appeared in front of them very quietly...

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It was night, under the binoculars, I saw Yumen Pass, which was only a little bigger than ten miles away.

Hu Biao, who had successfully circumvented a node, couldn't help chanting: "Why should the Qiang flute blame the willows?

While speaking, it was before rushing into a fire.

Regardless of the fact that the oily roasted whole lamb was scalding hot, he cut the meat with a knife in one hand and put it in his mouth.

The same is true for the rest of the team, with long-lost smiles on their faces.

Even if they knew that Guazhou, Suzhou, Liangzhou, Lanzhou and other places behind them had fallen into the hands of the Tibetans, the journey would be quite difficult.

But ever since they stepped into Yumen Pass, they had a faint feeling of going home.

This feeling also made them relax indescribably.

Finally, after eating a full stomach of roast lamb, Hu Biao picked up a book of steaming milk tea in his hand, and proposed to everyone:
"Come on, everyone toast the old snake. The journey has been so smooth. This kid played a key role."

Under such a proposal, everyone raised their glasses lively.

After taking a sip of milk tea, Hu Biao couldn't help asking: "Old Snake, what did you do before, and why are you so familiar with these things?"

"I told you that I have traveled to and from Lianhuo Expressway many times before I was 25 years old."

Seeing that everyone was interested, Lao Snake simply told them about his experience:
From the age of 20 to 25, Xijiang invested heavily in infrastructure construction, and Lao Snake's father made a lot of money doing the project.Anyway, I got two houses in the provincial capital, a car worth 40 yuan, and I also sent Lao Snake's younger sister to a key school.

That is, in those few years, the family was not short of money, and almost every year the whole family drove back to their hometown in Sichuan Province to celebrate the New Year.

During that time, Lao Snake worked in an engineering testing company and often had to travel; it can be said that in two years, he almost traveled all over the Western Regions except Pamir and Altay.

Akesu, where Kucha is located, and Hami, where Qijiaojing was located before, are not less visited!
Also in those few years, he traveled by himself with his friends several times, covering almost all the provinces in the Northwest, except the Tibetan plateau; it can be said that he is the living map of the Northwest in the team.

"But~" Lao Hei pointed to the looming moon in the sky, and said, "You are an inlander, how can you know how to draw astrology?"

"My family was backward. I used to start a business, but it failed. In order to pay off the debt, I found a job as an assistant through a friend. The main reason is that it takes care of food and housing, and I have to take a rest."

"When I was resting, I made money by writing novels to pay off my debts. The first book was about naval special forces. I consulted and learned a lot of nautical knowledge at that time."

"Later, I wanted to be a seaman for a while, because the salary of a seaman is high, and I can get almost 1.5 W in a month on the ship."

"However, my ear was injured, and I was told that I would never pass the medical examination, and I would not be able to get a seaman's certificate of competency."

"I can no longer be a sailor, but my yearning for the sea has not changed, so I have taught myself a lot of sailing knowledge."

"I didn't expect~" He patted his big green horse on the head, "The things I learned can be used here!"

So, in such a night, the voice of the old snake sounded out without a word.

It was like talking about his miserable life before he joined the team.

So much so that everyone thought of this point: Although the system has made some mistakes, it still makes ordinary people like them turn around.

If you think about it this way, it doesn't seem too bad...

PS: The next chapter arrives in Chang'an.

(End of this chapter)