Qaidam Basin Desert!

An army rode camels and walked in the desert with thin air.

One by one, they covered their faces with cloth to avoid the wind and sand, and walked in the endless desert.

"There's water on the right?"

There was a sudden exclamation from the crowd, one to ten, ten to hundred, and the shouts were instantaneous.

Walking in the desert, even if it is three lives and three joys, it is not as surprising as encountering a water source.

The soldier shouted, but did not move, but looked at his commander expectantly.

The person who commanded the army was receiving Gao Xianzhi, and Gao Xianzhi did not respond to the soldier's expectations, but looked at the guide beside him.

In this desert, the words of the guide are more important than the will of God.

The guide was a rough and heroic middle-aged man, he just glanced at the water source not far away, and said with a smile: "Keep going straight, it's a mirage, that is, a mirage tower, an ethereal thing." I had a brief conversation with your father-in-law, and mirage is what he said. The general doesn't have to worry about the water source, I promised the prince to take you out of this desert, and I will definitely do it. About ten miles away, we will arrive at the Miracle Spring, where we can rest and replenish the water. ”

Gao Xianzhi is very good at mountain marching, but desert marching is very different from mountain marching, being able to march in this desert for a month, and to achieve less than 100 attrition, this guide is indispensable.

Gao Xianzhi thought about the journey along the way, and secretly admired the breadth of his boss's friends, even the famous horse thief king Lou Fan in the Western Regions knew it, and he was willing to act as a guide, so he couldn't help but be curious, and said, "I don't know how Brother Lou met Pei Shuai?" ”

Lou Fan remembered the past, and couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly: "A certain person is beyond his strength and captured for the country." With his grace and without making it difficult, it is natural to do something for him now. ”

He didn't go into details, Pei Min explained it at the beginning, and the grace of helping him take revenge has always been in his heart, and he doesn't dare to forget it.

This kind of great grace is to go up to the knife mountain and go down to the sea of fire, not to mention leading the way.

After another ten miles, the willows and flowers were bright and bright.

Gao Xianzhi looked at everything in front of him dumbfounded, and finally realized why Lou Fan would say the Spring of Miracles.

The oasis in the desert is a miracle in itself, but the small oasis in front of you is a miracle of miracles.

The oasis was not large, but only a hundred paces apart, with green vegetation clustering a fountain in the center.

A three-foot-tall fountain burst out of the ground, spraying water in all directions.

The heat of the spring water and the mist surrounding it are truly a miracle.

"It's here!" As if he had arrived at his own home, Lou Fan turned over and got off the camel's back, and said: "Don't underestimate this small spring, no matter how bad the climate is and how cold the weather is, it is dripping into ice, and this spring is still hot and the water is constantly flowing." It is the first existence in this arid desert, so it is called the spring of miracles. ”

Gao Xianzhi investigated the state of the soldiers, had a bottom in his heart, and found Lou Fan who was drinking spring water again, and said, "Brother Lou, there are still a few days to get out of this desert." ”

Lou Fan thought about it for a moment and said: "You can get out of the desert in five days, turn south, and after Kunlun Mountain, you will be the source of the Yellow River. Whether it can be done or not depends on the general, and so-and-so can only help here. The road to the Sea of Stars is not easy to walk, don't look at your Mount Tai in China. The place where the sea of stars is located is as high as three or four Tarzan...... You want to pass through the sea of stars and through the Kunlun Mountains, it is simply whimsical, and in my opinion, it is no different from looking for death. ”

Gao Xianzhi smiled disapprenosingly: "As long as I get out of this damn desert and return to the mountains, it will be my Gao Xianzhi's world." The things in this world can only be done or not, and nothing is impossible. ”

He spoke confidently, muttered for a moment, and gave an order: "Rest here for two days, replenish your physical strength, and then set off." ”

Looking at Gao Xianzhi's expression, Lou Fan really couldn't understand where he got his confidence.

In his opinion, this crossing the two deserts of the Tarim Desert and the Qaidam Basin Desert was already a miracle, if it weren't for the fact that he had lived in the desert for twenty years and was familiar with the desert terrain, he would not be able to lead Gao Xianzhi and them across the two deserts.

It is even more unimaginable that Gao Xianzhi not only has to cross two deserts, but also cross the Kunlun Mountains......

You must know that Kunlun Mountain is a legendary sacred mountain, the mountain of ten thousand ancestors.

This is simply looking for death!

Of course, if he knew that Gao Xianzhi had crossed the roof of Asia twice in history, he would not have said this.

Under the leadership of Lou Fan, Gao Xianzhi passed through the Qaidam Basin Desert.

Gao Xianzhi said goodbye to Lou Fan, didn't stay long, and drove in the direction of the Xingzhu Sea.

Gao Xianzhi's goal is Maduo City.

Maduo means "source of the Yellow River" in Tibetan, where there are no four seasons in a year, only cold and warm, and the two seasons are usually called winter and summer.

Winters are long and cold, dry and windy, and summers are short, cool, and rainy.

It's summer, and the climate is cool, making it easy to march.

As a leader of the mountain march, Gao Xianzhi was particularly sensitive to the climate, and deliberately chose this time to reduce the consumption of the soldiers' bodies by the harsh weather.

Along the way, Gao Xianzhi only chose flat and wide mountain valleys or rivers to march, and was willing to take more roads than to climb the mountains and take shortcuts, so as to minimize the difficulty of the march.

With his own research on mountain marching, Gao Xianzhi overcame many difficulties and successfully crossed the Kunlun Mountains and reached the Sea of Stars.

Gao Xianzhi did not rush into the army, but led the soldiers to rest at the foot of Kunlun Mountain.

After a long march, the Tang army was as tired as a dead dog.

The soldiers in this situation do not have much combat effectiveness at all.

Gao Xianzhi was not in a hurry, just rested on the spot.

About half an hour, more than 20 people dressed as Tibetans came running from afar.

When they saw Gao Xianzhi, they bowed, knelt down in front of them, and said a lot of things in their mouths, with respect on their faces.

Gao Xianzhi was overjoyed, and said to the whole army with a smile: "Great, a group of rats in Tubo know that we have passed through this high mountain and mountain, like a divine soldier descending from the sky, appearing in front of them, scared fart, someone has already come to surrender." They have promised to join us inside and out, and the city of Mado will surely fall in battle. ”

The soldiers were overjoyed, and their morale rose in vain.

Gao Xianzhi's lieutenant general was overjoyed, and couldn't help but say to his boss: "I didn't expect the general to know the Tubo language, it's really good." ”

Gao Xianzhi's mouth was crooked, and he laughed softly: "What kind of Tubo language do I know?" The more than 20 Tubo people were all arranged by me, and no matter how nonsense they were, they were all made up...... You see! ”

As he spoke, he snorted at the soldiers.

The originally tired soldiers of the Tang Army seemed to have forgotten their tiredness and were preparing for war with high morale.

The march was extremely risky, and high risk meant high reward.

The reward after the victory, Pei Min had already promised that the victory was imminent when he heard that Tubo scared them, where could the soldiers take care of a little tiredness?