This year's winter came very early and cold, and just in mid-September, a snowstorm had already swept the Far East ahead of schedule.

The Guanwai and the Far East are not the same concept, although these two places are located in the same dimension and the same continent, but their respective climates are very different.

The Far East is broadly referred to as the Far East of the Russians, while in the Chinese concept the Far East is the vast land beyond the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers.

Needless to say, the north of the Heilongjiang River is a real bitter cold place, and not many people know about this area east of the Ussuri River. Take Vladivostok as an example, draw a line according to the dimensions of the earth, and the dimensions here are actually similar to those of Mukden, which is today's Shenyang, but the winter in Vladivostok is much colder than that of Mukden.

Because the eastern bank of the Ussuri River is already affected by the humid air flow from the Sea of Japan, the cold air of Siberia and the humid air of the sea collide with each other, naturally causing more snowfall than the inland, and the cold feeling is very different.

Most of the cold in the interior is dry and cold, as long as you wear more clothes, thick cotton or fur can isolate the cold outside, so that people's bodies feel very warm, in Xiao Letian's words, this is called physical attack.

The cold in the coastal area is damp and cold, the water vapor content in the air is very high, and the cotton and fur are easy to accumulate these water vapor inside, forming a small moist area, so the clothes can not form a dry insulating air layer, and the cold feeling is naturally better.

Not only in the Russian Far East, but also in the Korean Peninsula a little further south, the Korean Peninsula is typically influenced by the oceanic climate, so there is a lot of snow in winter.

This is especially true in Japan, where the warm and humid currents of the Pacific Ocean and the cold currents of Siberia have combined to create countless snow countries, which is a big reason why Japan has plenty of fresh water.

The weather in the Far East is the biggest enemy, and if the volunteers want to fight for a long time in this white mountain and black soil, they must adapt to the climate here. Long Ye ventured alone to meet Ningguta Hunchun and asked for the opening of the border of the Ussuri River, the purpose of which was to allow the volunteers to survive the cold winter of the first year safely.

The frozen Ussuri River is still not able to walk on carts, but there is no problem with the people on foot, and the Qing soldiers in old sheepskin jackets and cotton coats are stunned to see the groups of soldiers walking on the ice.

The green cotton clothes in the snowflakes were very dazzling, and all the soldiers were struggling forward with a foot of thick snow, and they didn't take two or three steps before they fell down, and then the people around them hurriedly helped.

No one dared to ride a war horse, and now the war horse is more fragile than people, just a hundred meters above the ice, six war horses fell in the snowdrift and never got up again.

The veterans of the Qing army were dumbfounded, "Damn, this is what the general said about the volunteers? Can they still defeat Lao Maozi? Damn, it's really fake? Frozen to death......"

"Don't look at it, it must be those people, you look at the fast guns behind them, we haven't seen them at all...... Look at the cage around their horses' necks, is it a human head?"

"Oh, it's really a human head, look at it, it's Lao Maozi's head, it's really the volunteer army that killed Lao Maozi......! Hurry up and answer them and boil hot water......"

As soon as the whip of the Qing soldiers at the west bank checkpoint sounded, a long-haired mule rushed out of the checkpoint with a climbing plow.

This is a mule that grows outside the gate, it has adapted to the cold climate since childhood, its long mane even covers its eyes, and the climbing plough behind it runs extremely briskly on the snow, and soon rushes in front of the more than 30 volunteers.

"It's the volunteers who are here? Damn, you don't want to die, you still dare to come out to march in this kind of white-haired weather? Send the frostbitten brother to the plow, and I'll take you to the village to hide......"

Ye Qiu bowed his hand and thanked, "I will accept my feelings, I will not have any other thank-you gifts when we arrive in the village, we will bring good wine, my brother will come and drink a bowl, it will be enough!"

As soon as he heard that there was wine to drink, the old soldier's eyebrows and beard immediately laughed, and his beard floated up: "Okay! With your words, I am sure that you are the commander, right? I will give you a ride on the plow, and I will give you a ride......

Ye Qiu shook his head, "The wounded soldier climbs the plow, I am an officer, I must not go up, our volunteer army is disciplined, the wounded soldier is bigger than the sky, and the officer cannot be specialized, if a soldier does not eat, the officer cannot eat, and if the soldier does not rest, the officer cannot rest, brother, you go forward, and we will follow ...... later."

The veteran soldier was stunned at the time, and said in his heart that this was an official? It can't be, but looking at the chilblains on the young soldier's face, he knew that this was definitely not acting, nor was it a fame and reputation.

Looking at the golden stars on the cotton clothes, and the pistol at his waist, he knew that ordinary big-headed soldiers would never have such a thing.

This is the volunteer army that fought from the south? Damn, I rushed to this officer's style, Lao Tzu also believed that they could fight, and I had never seen such an officer who loved soldiers so much in my life!

There was a crisp sound of a horsewhip, and the veteran soldier rushed straight to Xiaotumen Village five miles away with a climbing plow and a wounded soldier.

Ye Qiu led a platoon of soldiers to struggle along the climbing plow ruts, and the oncoming snowstorm poured ice slag and cold wind down the neck collar, and all the soldiers' eyebrows were already hung with ice ballast.

The rest of the soldiers at the outpost didn't dare to slack off, and directly sat the cauldron outside, and put a spoon in the boiling hot water, "Gentlemen, you have worked hard, hurry up and drink the hot one, there will be a village five miles away, and it will be no problem to settle more than 30 of you......"

The soldiers of the Volunteer Army were so cold that they couldn't even speak, they lined up and drank a spoonful of hot water, and when they left, they did not forget to solemnly give these Qing soldiers a military salute to thank them.

The ancients were honest, they had never seen soldiers who drank hot water and saluted and thanked, and at that time, there was no place for their panicked hands and feet, "Thank you, thank you...... A sip of hot water won't do!"

After all the soldiers had drunk the hot water and left, one of the soldiers who was cleaning up the stove suddenly shouted, "Ancestor and grandmother......!

Everyone gathered around to take a look, and sure enough, a silver Ryukyu dragon pattern silver coin was placed on the edge of the iron pot!

Suddenly, everyone's noses were sour, and tears rolled out: "Damn, what kind of soldiers are these! Look down on us, don't you? This is looking down on us! Throw them back, isn't this scolding?"

The young soldier has such a good face, who wants to lose face in front of these heroes who killed the old man? Just as they wanted to chase after them and smash the silver coin in the face of those people, the old soldier sighed and stopped them.

"Don't go, people are pushing us into the pile of good people! People respect us a foot, we can't help but appreciate it, prepare firewood, don't turn off this pot for the time being, I estimate that someone will have to cross the river in the next few days......"

"Damn, no wonder these people are capable of turning over the old hair, benevolence and righteousness! This is the teacher of benevolence and righteousness sung in the play!"