Chapter 450: Thousands of Miles of Ice
Yang Xianmao came to the city gate, and saw that the Liao army guarding the city was very strict, and checked them one by one. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Yang Xianmao saw from a distance that the Chiyang donkey had arrived at the city gate, and when he was still more than ten zhang away from the city gate, he spotted the gap in the Liao army, and suddenly started, and rushed through the Liao army with lightning speed, passed through the city gate, went straight out of the city, and ran wildly into the distance.
The Liao army couldn't help but be shocked, but they also saw clearly that there was no one on the donkey, thinking that the donkey was suddenly frightened and ran wildly, so they didn't go to chase after it, looked at each other, and then they all laughed.
Yang Xianmao saw the Chiyang donkey out of the city from a distance, so he was relieved. Their carriage came to the city gate, and the Liao army carried out a strict inspection. When he was found, he had already disguised himself as an ordinary girl, and he was not nervous, but he said that his sister suddenly had an emergency, and was sent to the capital to find a few Langzhong to see, but they all said that they could not be cured, and asked her to transport it back to prepare for the future, so she was preparing to transport it to her hometown.
Wende has also been disguised and is a middle-aged woman. After careful inspection, the soldiers of the Liao army found that Wende was really unconscious, his face was sickly, as white as a piece of white paper, and he didn't react at all after shaking a few times, and he was really similar to a dead man. Yang Xianmao's disguise was seamless, there was nothing unusual at all, and there were no other contrabands in the car, these two people did not match the portraits of Yang Xianmao and Wende attached to the city wall, so they let them go.
After getting out of the city smoothly, he walked dozens of miles along the post road and came to the town where Huang Qiaoqiao and Zhizhi lived.
When there was still a mile or two from the town, Yang Xianmao asked the carriage to stop on the side of the road, said that his family would come to pick him up, and paid for the car and sent it away.
Then Yang Xianmao carried Wende to a secluded place in a small forest, and when he saw that there was no one left and right, he began to clear his disguised clothes.
After he cleared his disguise and Wende's, he resumed his men's clothes, and then quietly waited for Wende to wake up naturally after the anesthetic. According to his calculations, he would wake up in about half an hour.
After waiting quietly for a while, sure enough, Wende gradually woke up from the anesthetic state, opened his eyes, and saw that he was in the middle of the wilderness, Yang Xianmao was sitting next to him, he was surprised and happy, but his whole body was weak, and he couldn't sit up, and said in a weak voice: "Brother Yang, we ...... Are we out of town?"
Yang Xianmao meditated cross-legged and ignored her. Wende didn't dare to ask more, just waited for him to slowly recover his strength. After another long time, my body recovered and I was able to stand up and walk slowly.
So Yang Xianmao got up and took her to the inn where Zhizhi and Huang Qiaoqiao were.
At the door of the inn, Yang Xianmao saw the Chiyang donkey whose hair had been changed by his own potion from a distance. When the Chiyang donkey saw him, he immediately rushed over, snorting very affectionately and arching Yang Xianmao's arms with his furry donkey head.
After Yang Xianmao saw Huang Qiaoqiao and Zhizhi, he ordered him to set off immediately for the Arctic cold land. This place is close to Shangjing, the capital of the Liao Dynasty, and I don't know if the Liao army will search outside the city. Moreover, there is not much time left for him now, and he must reach the extreme arctic cold before the winter solstice.
As before, Wende and Yang Xianmao rode Chiyang donkeys, Huang Qiaoqiao rode a thousand miles of horses, Zhizhi stepped into the air, and a group of four immediately set off to the north.
On the way, passing through a town, Yang Xianmao bought two Sinans to use to indicate the direction.
Along the way are trails that avoid post roads and towns. Especially the passes. However, the strange thing is that the Liao army did not find the pursuit and search along the way, as if the Liao army did not know that they were heading north.
Since the Liao army did not pursue them, after staying away from Shangjing, they also stayed in small market towns along the way to buy supplies.
Wende is responsible for these things, and her Khitan dialect is really good, because the further the Northern Han people go, the fewer and fewer people there are, and some Khitan dialects in various parts of the Liao Dynasty are very different, and sometimes Wende can't understand them, but they even communicate with people with guesses, that's it, it's much better than they don't know anything and are blind. This made Yang Xianmao secretly feel that it might be right to bring Wende as a guide.
It was already early winter, and the farther north, the colder the weather became, all the way was icy and snowy, and a few of them except Wende were all cultivators, not afraid of the cold, but Wende couldn't withstand the cold, and shivered from the cold.
So Yang Xianmao had no choice but to repeat the old trick, and used the pure yang true fire to rise up and envelop the Wende behind her, so that she was within the protection range of the pure yang true fire, so that even if it was extremely cold around her, she could feel like a spring breeze and didn't feel cold.
Yang Xianmao was worried about a problem, that is, Yelu Xiyin said before, they were on the ice field of the extreme arctic, and the spell could not be used, at that time, not only could he not take care of Wende, but even he had to face the extreme cold, and he had already begun to feel the horror of the cold here.
As the further north they went, the sparsely populated became, so they had to purchase the necessary things every time they went to a market town, because it was unknown how long they would have to walk to the next market town.
The further north they went, the fewer Han Chinese became, and people with high noses and blue eyes began to appear completely different from Han Chinese.
The rivers along the way were frozen, and I don't know if it was because of this, or if the Flood Desolate God Crocodile had changed its strategy after seeing that several raids had no effect, and no longer lurked in the river to sneak attack, and they did not encounter any more attacks from the Divine Crocodile along the way.
The purchase along the way was also smooth, because silver is a universal currency, there is no problem that there is no silver can not buy things, Yang Xianmao used a lot of silver, and naturally he could buy what he wanted. In this way, the four of them were dressed in thick fur costumes, and all four of them were wrapped tightly, and a sleigh carriage was also prepared, and it was much better to walk on the snowfield, and the sleigh was much better than the horse-drawn carriage. I bought several sleigh carriages in one go, and the money spent was dizzying.
They prepared the necessary equipment such as tents for food and drink, and spent a lot of money to hire five or six able-bodied coachmen to help drive the carts and transport things.
Thinking of Yelu Xiyin's warning, Yang Xianmao specially purchased some blades such as bows and arrows and knives and guns in the weapons shop as equipment, once the spell was not used, the blade was more useful than the fist.
Further north from here, there are few people on the road. In addition to the vast snowfield, there was already a border of the Liao Dynasty before that. Wende told Yang Xianmao that they were part of the tribe of Merry's headquarters. The Meili headquarters belonged to a vassal state of the Liao Dynasty, but was actually independent.
The towns here are not to be compared with the prosperous cities of the Song Dynasty, and even some of the big market towns of the Liao Dynasty cannot be compared, and there is basically nothing to sell. It is sparsely populated, just a few scattered houses together, and there is nothing big for sale.
In this way, their supplies on the road became a problem. As a result, Wende approached the local officials to identify himself and asked to see their tribal chief.
When the official saw that Wende had a noble temperament and could accurately tell the chief's surname and appearance, he believed that it was really the chief's old man, so he hurried to see Chief Merry.
The chief once went to Shangjing of the Liao Dynasty to meet the emperor of the Liao Dynasty when he saw Wende, and he was very happy to see him, and he really responded to the words of Confucius, "There are friends from afar, and they are happy", not to mention that they came from Shangjing of the Liao Dynasty, which was thousands of miles away, so they set up a banquet to entertain them. And their wine banquet is nothing more than barbecue big fish and meat around the fire, of course, there is no exquisite wine banquet of the Song Dynasty or the Liao Dynasty.
At the banquet, Wende said that they were going to the extremely arctic cold land, and that there was a shortage of supplies on the way that needed to be replenished, and Yang Xianmao also brought out a lot of silver to give the chief a greeting gift, which made Chief Merry so happy that he immediately patted his chest and agreed, and immediately gave them supplementary supplies. Chief Merry also wrote a letter to the chief of Urlangai, who was closest to the cold land of the Arctic, asking him to take care of Wende and his party.
Chief Merry also gave them a special clearance paper. With the help of the customs clearance documents, they were able to move unimpeded over the entire territory of the Merry headquarters, and smoothly entered the Langgai tribe near the ice fields of the sea near the extreme arctic.
This tribal area is more vast, no less than the Liao Dynasty in terms of area, but compared to the previous Meili headquarters, this is more extensive and sparsely populated, and you may not be able to meet a family for a few days. The common people are also poorer, and the climate is more cold, with only vast snowfields and snow-covered coniferous forests.
What's even more terrifying is that along the way, the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer. Most of the twelve hours of a strip are dark nights, and the days are very short.
This situation made Yang Xianmao and them feel extremely surprised. But a few of the coachmen who accompanied him came here and told them that this is normal here, that in summer the days are very long and the nights are very short, and in the winter the days are shorter and the nights are longer. And this situation after entering the snowfields of the far north, it is dark all winter and the sun is not visible. The sky is brighter, though. But the farther north you go, the darker the night gets.
This peculiar phenomenon of polar day and night made Yang Xianmao feel very surprised, and they also felt uncomfortable. Because the night is getting longer and longer to the north, they can only spend part of the night walking forward, but fortunately, there is a reflection of the snow, and the road is relatively flat, there are no cliffs, and they can move forward unimpeded.
After entering the Landing Territory of the Woolang Reform Department, several coachmen hired told Wende that they could not go any further, because their horse-drawn sleigh was not as good as a dog sled on the ice field. It is not easy to walk, and there is no one on the ice field, so there is no way to get forage to feed the horses, and the sled dogs can eat fish and meat, but the horses cannot. Sled dogs are more hardy and adapted to life on the ice field. Therefore, if they want to change to dog sledding, they can't help, and they are not willing to venture to the arctic cold, hoping that after the change, they can change to the local dog sled and let them go back.
Wende told Yang Xianmao of their request, and Yang Xianmao was right to think about it, so he promised to wait until Langgai found the dog sled, pay them a gratuity, and send them back to the Liao Dynasty.