Chapter 20 The Siberian Permafrost
It was a vast area with a radius of several hundred miles, and the ground was gray and yellow, covered with specks of white frost and snow.
There are three treasure spots on the map.
In the upper right corner, a black dot of light.
Bottom right. A cyan dot of light.
In the lower left corner, slightly near the center, is a golden dot of light.
Han Zhou said: "Three babies, not bad." ”
Baidu query latitude and longitude.
It is in the territory of Northern Russia, Siberia.
Siberia is a vast area in North Asia, stretching from the Ural Mountains in the west, Cape Dezhniov in the east, the Arctic Ocean in the north, the mountains of north-central Kazakhstan in the southwest, and Mongolia and the Trans-Khingan Mountains in the south, covering an area of about 13.22 million square kilometers. Most of the area is controlled by Russia and is rich in mineral, biological and water resources.
Expedited visa processing expeditiously. Three days later, flew to the Russian city, Novosibirsk.
Siberia can be divided into three parts according to the topography: the West Siberian Plain, the Central Siberian Plateau, and the East Siberian Mountains.
Among them, the Western Siberian Plain is the granary of Russia.
The city of Novosibirsk, located in the southeast of the West Siberian Plain and on the upper reaches of the Ob River, is the third largest city in Russia, after Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Novosibirsk was born in 1893 on the Trans-Siberian Railway, which was gradually developed with the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway. In 1926, it was renamed Novosibirsk, and since the 30s it has become the center of Siberia and the largest industrial complex east of the Ural Mountains.
Today it is the largest city and economic, scientific and cultural center of Siberia, with many factories and some of the best universities, museums and theaters in Russia.
Han Zhou approached the porthole and saw the spotless deep blue of the ocean.
The plane landed slowly.
Before getting off the plane, change into a down jacket.
As soon as I stepped out of the plane, extremely cold air poured into my lungs along my noses. The tiny capillaries in the nose reacted suddenly, not painfully, but as if tiny ice crystals had quickly formed, and a slight discomfort could be felt. But at the same time, there is a cold and refreshing feeling, as if the body and mind have been forcibly purified by the cold air poured into the body.
If you haven't been to Harbin and other places further north (except for Antarctica), it's hard to feel this way.
Found a 5 star hotel. Although Han Zhou's English is bumpy, he can barely speak fluently. The high-end hotel workers in Russia all speak English. Smooth stay.
Spent two days renting an SUV. Bought all kinds of wilderness survival equipment.
Folding shovel, non-slip boots, windbreaker, sleeping bag, thermos flask (to prevent water from freezing) and drinking water, lighter, simple first aid equipment, alcohol, compressed biscuits, multivitamin, satellite phone......
Two shotguns were bought on the black market.
In order to prevent the cold weather in the field gasoline from freezing. Bought special aviation gasoline and piled it up in the trunk.
Go, drive.
Drive through the vast Siberian plains to the hidden gems marked on the map.
The next night, we arrived at a dry meadow.
Cyan dots of light are close at hand.
Han Zhou carried his bag, picked up a shotgun and a folding shovel, and got out of the car.
Find the ground corresponding to the light spot and start digging.
The ground is hard and difficult to dig. Because it's frozen soil.
Permafrost refers to a variety of rocks and soils that are below zero degrees Celsius and contain ice. According to the geographical distribution of permafrost, the differences in the soil-forming process and the diagnostic characteristics, it can be divided into two soil types: glacial swamp soil and frozen desert soil.
The soil moisture of glacial marsh soil is often moist, the soil layer is shallow, the profile is composed of peat layer and latent layer, the organic matter content is low, it is slightly acidic to acidic reaction, and the nutrient element is deficient. You can't grow crops.
The permafrost soil is mainly developed in the lower part of the ice and snow activity zone in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and other high mountains in China. Generally above 4000 meters above sea level. Permafrost soil is a permafrost soil with arid soil moisture status, with a pale surface layer, gravel surface, and polygonal fissures.
Siberia is predominantly glacial marshes.
Dig up the frozen hard ice bog soil little by little.
Five minutes later, the shovel clicked and something was found.
Continue to dig out the surface soil.
Take out a small iron box.
Open, a pile of yellowed paper.
It is written, it should be Russian, Cyrillic. Like notes or book manuscripts. Han Zhou didn't know him.
Not the rest.
Keep driving. Two hours later, I drove to the black point of light hidden treasure.
A long area with a different soil color from the surrounding area, a little light.
Digging.
Dig carefully.
The shovel bumped into something.
It's still an iron box with rubber at the opening and closing, and it's well sealed. Open, it's a pistol.
The thin muzzle of the gun, the handle resembles a broom, and the long magazine is in front of the trigger.
"Box cannon. ”
Han Zhou recognized it immediately.
To be precise, it should be called a Mauser military pistol, also known as a barge gun.
Originally built in 1896 for police and law enforcement, the gun inadvertently became the first truly military automatic pistol, taking the world by storm.
In the archives of the War Department of the Beiyang Government, there is a document that in September 1912, the War Department signed a contract with De Shang Li and the foreign company to purchase: "Seven Mi Li 63 came to obtain 200 Mauser pistols, with a wooden box handle, each with 500 bullets, and the price was 58 taels of silver. ”
It has also been imitated for a long time, such as the Hanyang Arsenal, the Gongxian Arsenal, the Dagu Shipyard, the Shanxi Military Craft Factory, the Chongqing Weapons Repair Institute, the Hengyang Ordnance Bureau, etc., and the quality of the imitated box guns is quite good. It was widely used in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Very popular with Chinese.
In the first half of the 20th century, there was a high demand for arms due to the chaos of warlords in the country. At that time, the RB controlled the export of arms from the West to China, but box guns were not included as pistols, so box guns became the first choice for all factions.
Later people's armies were also heavily equipped with box guns. Zhu De, the commander-in-chief of the rebel forces who fired the first shot of the Nanchang Uprising, used a box cannon. At that time, many Chinese gunners carried more than two box guns, one with a wooden holster, and the other with a smoothed crosshair and inserted into the belt to facilitate the drawing of the gun and shooting.
The most interesting thing is that the Chinese have come up with a very simple method, not only to quickly press the gun, but also to transform it into a fully automatic rapid-fire strafing advantage - the gunner holds the gun in his right hand, pulls the bolt into rapid-fire gear, holds the gun up with his palm, stretches it to the left front, pulls the trigger, and the muzzle jumps up to strafe the gun from the front left to the front right; when the palm is raised down, it shoots from the front right to the front left; and when the gun is held in the left hand, it is completely opposite.
When the general was martyred, he carried three box cannons with him.