Chapter 1049
Stana took a sip of water, saying that it was drinking water, but in fact it was wetting his chapped lips with water.
The winds in Central Asia seem to be hot and dry, and the sun in the sky seems to be on fire. The eggs are buried in the sand and will be scalded in a few moments.
It's definitely tougher than the Flaming Mountain!
Shi Danai had been to the Flaming Mountain, just on the edge of Hami. To be honest, Shi Danai felt that this place deserved to be called the Flaming Mountain.
The Central Asian Railway had to be crossed here, and further north was the Great Siberian Plain. Although it is more suitable for building railways, it is there that in winter, the cold is the biggest test for the tracks.
The railway could only advance to Moscow along the edge of the Great Siberian Plain, where it was still densely populated.
Looking through the binoculars, there are Russians planting trees in the distance. Those were Eastern Ukrainians who had been driven out of their homes by the Hebrews, many of them from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
There, the Israelites collected heavy taxes from the Russians, and eighty percent of the harvest in the land was paid.
This tax rate can be regarded as appalling.
But the Hebrews collected it like this, and collecting taxes was not an end in itself, but a means. They want to drive as many Russians as possible from this land.
Because all over the world, even in some parts of Africa, Hebrews are coming to Israel one after another.
After the Russians in Donetsk were driven away, even a group of blacks came and occupied their land.
How can blacks be Hebrews, Russians do not know. Anyway, they knew that they would starve to death if they stayed on the land left by their ancestors.
The revolt was fierce and fierce. Those Russians who resist taxes will be stripped naked in winter.
And then hanging on a stake on the side of the road, the bitter cold of Russia, in just one night, can freeze these people into ice sculptures.
The corpses would sit on stakes for a whole winter, and their feet would be gnawed away by wild dogs and wolves to their bones.
And the upper body was pecked by crows.
After all, the dead are dead, but the living are more sinful.
Their wives and daughters would appear in the military camp in Sevastopol, and in addition to doing laundry and cooking, they would also become bedside tools at night.
As for their sons, they will become child laborers. When they entered the factory in Sevastopol, they were not paid any wages except for some food every day.
The life of enslavement was so miserable, and the cost of resistance was so heavy. I can't live anymore!
The Russians, who had no choice, had no choice but to start a life of fugitive.
The Hebrews even treated this as a business, and the border guards would make bids on a per-person basis. Those who leave behind their money will be able to cross the border alive!
If you don't want to keep your money, then leave your life behind.
After paying for the last pair of pants, those Russians who fled from Donetsk and Luhansk finally crossed the border alive.
The Russian border guards went crazy with rage, but there was nothing they could do. Because they were strictly ordered by their superiors not to provoke the Israeli army on the other side.
The moment they entered the Russian border, everyone fell to their knees and kissed the land of the Russian nation.
The people are crying, the soldiers are crying. Everybody's crying!
The children of the fighting nations swore that one day they would treat the Hebrews in an even more cruel way. They will use their blood and their lives to reclaim the land left to them by their ancestors.
The shame and pain of the defeated are deeply imprinted on them.
The lads asked to join the army, but they were refused.
They were loaded onto trains and transported to Central Asia. Here they were given new land, and the so-called tax was to plant trees.
Planting ten trees a year on both sides of the railroad would cover the tax on ten acres of land.
The Russians, who are immortal in the catastrophe, carry the seeds of hatred and engage in greenery in the hot desert.
With the right conditions, they will become the bravest fighters.
Unable to resist taking another sip of water, Stanai told himself that he couldn't drink it anymore. In a singing place like Central Asia, you can't drink all at once without seeing a well.
God knows when you'll be in a desperate situation with a lack of water.
"This is the hardest part of the road, and we have to get around the desert. The woods will organize the desert to invade the railway, and if the desert is not stabilized, the railway will be swallowed up within a few years. β
Behind Shi Danai, eight students followed. These are the cadets who will graduate from the Railway Academy this year, and he wants to take these children for internship.
Let them know how difficult the road survey is and how hard it is to persevere in this most difficult environment in order to become the best road surveyor.
"Teacher Shi, I heard about the fourth brother of Dashuai. The Governor of Jiangnan also did us survey the road? A thick-eyed young man swallowed and moistened his dry throat, which was about to smoke.
"Yes! The first railway in our Ming Dynasty, the railway from Jinzhou to Beijing, was measured step by step by Master Li.
Then he traveled all over the northwest, and even wanted to go all over the southwest ......!
Good job, boys. The road to success is at your feet, and not everyone has the opportunity to see this magnificent scenery.
Although the desert Gobi is harsh, it also has its rough beauty. β
Shi Danai pointed to the sand dunes in the distance, and these eighteen or nineteen-year-old boys frantically poured chicken soup.
If they are not given adequate encouragement, they will not be able to make it to their destination.
The construction period is very tight, and the Central Asian Railway needs to be constructed while surveying the road. The two teams set out from Moscow and Ili at the same time, marching towards a common goal.
This place is the node of the Central Asian Railwayββββ Uralsk!
A little-known small city, but because of its unique geographical location, it has become the meeting point of two survey pairs.
Now, Staney is only thirty kilometers from Uralsk.
The road survey team from Moscow was closer than them, and it was estimated that they had already arrived at the place to start resting.
I like the word rest so much, which means having a hot bath and a hot soup to drink.
It's been so long since he took a shower, and Stana has even forgotten when the last time he took a shower.
"Captain, look!" One of the team members points to black smoke in the distance.
The black smoke was thick and thick, and it was connected to the sky and the ground. It's like heaven and earth!
"That's ......!"
"The direction of Uralsk." Another member of the team voiced what Stanai had in mind.
"How can there be such a big smoke, something happened in Uralsk."
"Let's go check it out!"
"Don't even move! Head up the hill over there. Shi Danai put down his binoculars and immediately pointed to the mountains three or four kilometers away.
The group rode horses and galloped towards the mountains.
"Captain, why do you want to go into the mountain!" One of the team members was a little puzzled, and just galloped into the mountain, and immediately asked.
"The smoke is still rising, if something happens. Then now the murderer must still be in Uralsk!
A dozen of us are going, aren't we sent to death? Pull the horse to the back of the mountain, and look at it. Shi Danai angrily reprimanded this kid.
I don't have the slightest heart, this kind of kid is okay in the Ming Dynasty, if he goes abroad, a few lives are not enough to die.
With two of the leanest lads with rifles in their hands. Stanley led people to the top of the mountain!
In the distance, the fire in Uralsk is still burning, and occasional explosions can be faintly heard.
It can be faintly heard from 30 kilometers away, which is enough to prove how violent the explosion was.
What the hell is going on, and why is Uralsk being attacked? Who will attack Uralsk?
It's already far from Europe, and deep inland, where forces on all sides are relatively weak.
I think Russia's influence here is the largest. Someone actually dares to move the city of the Russians here?
To attack a city, how many troops would be needed. And who will have such a large force?
A series of question marks kept flashing in Shi Danai's head.
There was no answer, and he didn't know what to do. Fortunately, there are still a lot of supplies, and there should be no problem to support it for more than ten days.
I just saw that there seems to be a mountain spring in this mountain. For the survey team, as long as there is water, it is not too big.
Surviving in the absence of supplies is a basic skill for a field survey team.
Inside the telescope, black dots began to appear. It was a large group of cavalry, several thousand men.
These men were rifles in their hands and galloped against a backdrop of smoke. Almost everyone's horse has a bloody human head around their neck.
There were many others, with several human heads around their necks. The carriages that followed were loaded with all sorts of goods, and twenty or thirty carriages full of blond Russian girls.
These men were dressed in large black robes and covered their mouths and noses with black cloth scarves, which looked somewhat like Persians.
However, Shi Tainai did not think that the Persians would have the courage to provoke the Russians and the Ming Empire at the same time.
The direction in which those people were galloping was the hill where Shi Danai was.
Shi Danai's heart suddenly rose to his throat, if he was discovered by these people, there was absolutely no reason for him to survive in this business.
"What to do? What to do? Shi Danai was so anxious that he muttered involuntarily.
The historian has always been a Jiangnan scholar who has been a heirloom of poetry and books, but it was only in Shi Kefa's era that he could be regarded as dealing with Qiu Ba.
The descendants of the historian are obviously influenced by genes. The force value is generally not very high, although Shi Danai has participated in several encounters in the Western Regions.
But the Ming army had a large number of troops in the Western Regions, as well as a large number of agricultural reclamation regiments. These farming regiments all have guns, and as long as they encounter Han people being attacked, as long as they run to the farming reclamation regiment, they will be fine.
Give those horse bandits eight guts, and they don't dare to fight the idea of the peasant reclamation group.
But now it's different, no one will help you when you're abroad. Moreover, there are thousands of people on the other side, which is not at all something that his dozen or so human guns can fight against.
Between the lightning and flint, Shi Danai picked up his rifle: "Withdraw!" Let's go into the mountains. β
The three of them climbed down the mountain with a roll, and Shi Danai rode on his horse and took his subordinates to fight the horses and left.
A dozen horses galloped through the mountains and quickly disappeared into the mountains.
"Captain, why are we going into the mountains, what if those people chase and kill us?"
"These people are definitely not from the neighborhood, and the Grand Marshal and the Empress of Russia set up the railway meeting point here. At such an important node, it is impossible not to send people to clear the surroundings.
Therefore, when they came to the mountains, they could only say that they had taken refuge for a while. I guess I'll be running away tomorrow!
Something so big happened, the nearby garrison should have rushed over quickly. "Shi Danai is very smart, and if he hides in the mountains for a night, he should be fine.
After climbing several hills in a row, both men and horses were sweating. In a mountain col, Shi Danai saw that the team members couldn't walk.
They had to dismount and unload their equipment from the camels at the same time.
Everyone led the horses and camels into the woods!
"Don't light a fire tonight, and put on your coat if it's cold. Two people work in shifts, and everyone takes turns to stand guard.
No talking, no smoking, no drinking, no drinking.
Violators! Kill!
Do you understand? β
Shi Danai said the word "kill" gloomily.
All the team members shuddered, and it was the first time they had seen the captain's expression so hideous.
"No!" Everyone replied in whispers.
It was quickly getting dark, and there was a noise far away. You can hear the shrill screams of a woman, echoing far away in the silent night sky.
With two more men, Shi Danai climbed the highest mountain nearby.
The men were stationed in a col about two or three kilometers ahead, which was full of bonfires.
Inside the telescope, there are many figures in the background of the fire, and people can be seen dancing towards the campfire.
Stana even smelled barbecue!
"Grandma's, I really don't know how to write dead words." Shi Danai scolded.
Now Russia is a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, and the subject people are abused like this, so it is natural to be a little unhappy as a Ming person.
Descending the mountain, Stanley ordered the radio station to be set up.
The survey team carried a state-of-the-art radio, albeit a state-of-the-art one. But you have to have a camel to carry it.
Two large boxes were removed, one containing the radio station and the other containing the antenna.
"Brothers, those people are abusing the citizens of our subjects. Now, we're going to lift the radio up that mountain.
Then send a telegram to the base camp and ask them to send airships to bomb the debris. Stanley looked at his men.
The things that a camel can carry are very heavy, and it can be very hard to carry them up the mountain.
And the mountain in front of me is almost nearly a thousand meters high. Climbing mountains in the dark, and carrying such heavy things. If you are not careful, you will be thrown to death.
"Whether you want to go or not, it's the man who squeaks. Don't be like a! Shi Danai looked at a dozen of his men.
There was silence for about a minute!
One of the team members stood up: "I'll go!" β
"I'll go!"
"I'll go too!"
"Count me in."
"Captain, I'll go too."
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Soon, the boys signed up enthusiastically. Participating in such a dangerous operation for the first time made them tremble with excitement.
Of course, there are also the timid. But everyone raised their hands, and they had to raise their hands too.
"Well done, you two stay. For the rest, take turns carrying the boxes up the hill. β