"We can't afford to hide from it......" Far behind the settlement, Hong Tao let out a long breath, the convoy and horse team turned west, just right, he was going to go east.

No matter what they're here for, they don't want to see themselves again in half a month anyway. Hopefully, in ten days, they'll be done talking about things and going home, so don't eat and drink here.

"Fuck, grandson eats grandpa, what the world!" But when he remembered that the whitefish and rainbow trout he had gotten back for several days were eaten by Zhang Ke, his heart was very unbalanced.

As the saying goes, the sun knows the horsepower, and when you go out for a self-driving trip in the old world, the car is not powerful, which affects the effect of playing. Now, too, the condition of the horse directly determines the comfort and speed of the journey.

This horse, which is said to have been ridden by the son of Krimu, is indeed much stronger than the two pack horses that can only pull carts, which are manifested in the tightness of the back muscles, the amplitude of bumps when walking, and the endurance.

If you ride a pack horse, you have to rest after walking a few kilometers, and you don't get up to speed, and the twisting pace can shake people's waists. Now the big dark horse doesn't need to be urged, as long as the road is relatively flat, it will automatically walk quickly. This stance is relatively smooth, and in addition to being fast, it is also comfortable to ride.

As for whether he is afraid that good horses will be blackened by the sentinels along the way, Hong Tao pointed to the plastic card hanging around his neck: Now we are already people with special passes! Who has ever seen a crippled motorcycle and a guard sign on the front windshield, it must be matched!

Are you afraid of roadblocks and robberies? In the past few years, there have been 30 robbers and gangsters who have died in their own hands, if not 50, but the more the merrier. Even if it's a small embellishment in the lonely journey, so as not to be too boring.

In addition to the horses, he also equipped a full set of weapons, and he really didn't have a bottom in his body and heart without these hard guys. Don't talk about Youluo or Youluo, those miracles were achieved by equipment suppression, and if you really let yourself fight with others with a short axe, you may never see the Youluo brand of chivalry and righteousness in the future.

There is a saying that there are dreams day and night, and at night when Hong Tao spent the night in a small village at the foot of the mountain more than 40 kilometers away, he dreamed of Zhang Ke, Gou Chenzhi, and He Wanjun. They have all grown up, especially He Wanjun, whose body development is no worse than Zhou Yuan.

But he was old, so old that he didn't pay attention to the three of them. Zhang Ke's fat face had a harmless smile on his face, Gou Chenzhi was still so serious, and He Wanjun was flattering at him.

These three little bastards actually wanted to steam themselves and eat them, and there was a disagreement over whether to put green onions, ginger, garlic and steamed fish soy sauce, and finally Zhang Ke said to himself with a smile:

Grandpa Hong, you can live forever if you eat it, and you won't live for a few years anyway, so it's better to let the next generation live forever. After your death, we will erect a monument for you, engrave your portrait, and promise to engrave your eyes bigger!

"Hiss......" Just when Zhang Ke was about to bite his neck, Hong Tao woke up, and he was stunned in the cool night breeze.

Raising his wrist to look at his watch, he slept for less than three minutes, wrapped himself in a cloak as thick as a blanket, and continued to sleep in a different position. Over the years, as long as I spent the night outside, I basically slept like this, either sitting on a tree branch or squabbling in the corner of the ruins of the building, and woke up after a nap, which was a few minutes longer and a few tens of seconds shorter.

At first, I was not used to it, and I often languished due to lack of sleep. Slowly, I got used to it, but I went back to the lake hut and lay in bed often had insomnia, and I had to sit on a recliner with a stall to sleep.

But this can't be done, between ensuring sleep quality and life-saving, you can only choose the latter. Snoring and sleeping too dead are fatal flaws in the wild, and both beasts and humans can be easily spotted and killed.

From Yining to the Balentai checkpoint, Hong Tao walked for 9 days, still one person and two horses, an average of less than 60 kilometers a day. Why is it so slow, it's really not that he's rubbing, it's that long-distance riding is basically at this speed.

Horses are actually very squeamish, they don't eat, drink, or rest well, and they will immediately lose fat to show you. It's okay to run a short distance, but if you want to run a long distance, unless you prepare a lot of concentrate feed, the horse pulls the crotch first.

Of course, Hong Tao doesn't have so much concentrate for the horses to eat, at most he can ensure salt intake, so he has to spend a lot of time every day to find suitable grass for the horses to eat. When you are in a hurry, you can ride for 1 hour, and you can walk for 1 hour with you down, and the time for walking and riding a horse is basically half and half.

Fortunately, he was not in a hurry, and when he sent the horse to Iszawi, he took four live sheep with him, and when he returned to the base, he brought three more, so he didn't have to send meat to the base for almost a month. According to this distance, it is not too tight and not too rich, just right.

Located at the eastern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, the town of Balentai is built in a Y-shaped ravine, where National Highways 218 and 216 and a railway from Hami to Southern Xinjiang pass through.

If you want to enter southern Xinjiang from the north, or enter southern Xinjiang from other provinces, it is a very important transportation hub, and in the words of the ancients, it is called a place where soldiers must fight.

In such an important place, the redeemer will definitely send heavy troops to guard it, and if it is stuck, not only will outsiders not only not be able to go to Yining, but they will not even be able to enter southern Xinjiang. As a result, the whole town was a military stronghold, and not only pillboxes were built, but also artillery positions were established on the nearby mountainside.

God also helped, there was originally a yellow water ditch with not much water flowing from the edge of the town, but after the outbreak of zombie disease, there was abundant rain for many years, and the yellow water ditch was almost a yellow water river. On one side is the mountain wall, and on the other side is the big river, the living moat, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is dead to choke the mouth from the south of Xinjiang and from the east into the Ili River valley.

With the special pass, the checkpoint also did not do much inspection, and simply rummaged through the packages on the horse's back and let them go. The elderly sentry was still full of goodwill and persuaded Hong Tao not to go too deep into Korla, there are a lot of zombies there, and a team of gold diggers was almost surrounded by zombies just yesterday, and finally 2 people died.

And don't go beyond Korla and further south, where not only are the roads cracked and difficult to walk, but there are also wild beasts and rebels. In the propaganda of the redeemer, the latter is more terrifying than zombies and beasts, almost killing people and robbing things when they see them, and there is no humanity at all.

"God bless, good Samaritan ......" Hong Tao certainly didn't believe this kind of one-sided statement, but he still responded to the kindness of the old sentry and sent a bag of dried fish.

The ruins of Korla and Urumqi, two cities occupied by zombies, are the places with the highest concentration of gold diggers in Xinjiang Province. A large city means abundant resources, and even if most of them are spoiled or damaged, the chances of finding valuable items are higher proportionally.

The road is easy to walk, which means that there will not be too many accidents on the way, and the risk is relatively controllable. In fact, Kuqa is closer to Yining than Korla, because almost no one wants to go because of the difficult roads.

However, there is also a problem with the fact that there are more gold diggers, the competition is fierce, and it is easy to have the phenomenon of black eating black. Killing a few people in such a place is really like stepping on an ant, and no one cares. Especially when you've found something valuable and been discovered, it's hard to get out unless you're outnumbered.

After the checkpoint, I walked south along the road over the mountains for another three days, the terrain became lower and lower, and when a large river appeared in front of me, the destination was almost reached.

It's really called a big river, and I see that Hong Tao is confused. In the old world, he had traveled to Korla by car, but he had never found such a wide river and such an abundance of water.

Korla is located on the northern edge of the dry Tarim Basin, and the city would not have developed without the oasis nourished by Bosten Lake. Now holding the telescope and looking around, where is there still the shadow of the desert Gobi, the sky is blue and the water is full of green and water color, and it is almost the same feeling as standing on the shore of Qiandao Lake.

Nature can turn the sea into mulberry fields, Hong Tao did not dare to hold up, found a few homeless people on the side of the road to ask, only to know that this is not Korla City, but belongs to the town under the jurisdiction of Korla City, the name is Tashdian.

If you want to go to Korla city to Taobao, you can only take a boat from here to cross the river and walk 10 kilometers to the southwest. However, the displaced people said that it was unfortunate that you came today, there was a problem with the steel cable pulling the ferry, and the people who operated the ferry were changing it overnight. If nothing else, we should be able to cross the river tomorrow morning.

Hong Tao didn't have the kung fu to float on the water, and he didn't dare to explore the way around at night, so he could only choose to spend the night in this town if he was reluctant.