No matter what the netizens experienced the first night, early in the morning of the second day, after Hu Biao's mouth gave the order to 'go'.

One by one in the team has become proficient in the handlebar style, and after flicking the whip hard, the team set off again.

In the time that followed, they may have encountered such and such sufferings, but the footsteps of returning to Chang'an all the way to Chang'an will always be so firm.

However, in general, because of the method they adopted along the way, day and night, trying to bypass some towns and settlements, the journey was still much easier than when they were hunted down before.

At the very least, although they encountered harsh weather conditions, it was better not to have that kind of never-ending pursuit.

In this way, under their difficult journey, Chang'an City became closer and closer to them day by day......

Time: The fourth year of the Tang Dynasty, the tenth day of the first month.

Location: It has long been in an area east of Guazhou, a Tibetan people.

"There's no way out~" On the war horse, Lao Hei looked around, all of them were as tall as camels, and after the almost endless scene, he felt that he was lost!

At this moment, a few of them went out of the convoy seven or eight miles away, and the order they received from Hu Biao was to find the legendary one: the Lulu River.

The reason for this is that it is the famous Yumen Pass, and the actual address has been moved several times in history.

During the Han Dynasty, the Yumen Pass was placed in the Dunhuang area.

However, in the Tang Dynasty, Yumen Pass was moved to the Gulu River, that is, the south bank of the Shule River in the modern plane.

The convoy wanted to cross the river in front of the serious Yumen Pass, and it was determined that it would be discovered by the Tibetans; Therefore, Hu Biao and the others could only make a detour, smuggling the upper reaches of the Lulu River from the former Master Xuanzang, and finding a way to bypass the Yumen Pass.

Considering the current temperature, the coldest time has reached minus 20 degrees, and the river surface should be frozen, so it should be relatively simple to cross the river.

The problem is that after Lao Hei and Lao Snake and the others were ordered to set out, they couldn't even find where the river was.

Fortunately, in response to this, Old Snake, a native of the border province who has performed quite well recently, does not seem to recognize such a point at all.

"Lost?" The old snake next to him took off the bow and arrow on his back and shook his head: "With me, I won't get lost; The Gulu River can be found, but before we do that, let's get some game. ”

As he spoke, he opened his bow and aimed his arrow at a swaying bush.

"Whew!" A feathered arrow whizzed by.

Fifty meters away, in the wild grass, a yellow sheep was pierced through the heart and lungs by an arrow before it could jump up.

The powerful arrow continued unabated, penetrating the body of the yellow sheep and then piercing into the abdomen of one of the yellow sheep side by side.

Suddenly, the two sheep lost their strength and fell to the ground, panting in pain.

"Whew~" After a deer-like cry, a herd of yellow sheep rushed out of the grass taller than a camel and ran towards the east.

"it!" Seeing this delicious food delivered to the door, the old snake's mind flashed through the countless practices of Western Xinjiang mutton.

"Up!" He grabbed the horse's belly and rushed to the flock with the singer, Lao Hei, and Yu Hanfeng who were exploring the path with him.

"Leave it alone! Kill at least 40 of them! I eat horse meat and beef jerky every day, and I want to vomit when I think of these things now. ”

While the old snake shouted, he put a shovel-shaped arrow on his big green style bow and shot it at the fattest yellow sheep.

Then he didn't look at it, and continued to stretch his bow and shoot arrows at the running yellow sheep.

The old black followed the old snake, waving the flail at the flock of sheep that collided with him, and each time he could take away a small eye.

"Chirp!" In the sky, Hai Dongqing's cry came.

"Signal!" The singer shouted: "Let Hai Dongqing bring Lao Hu and them over!" ”

The birds of prey in the sky looked at the situation on the ground and returned to the camp.

When Hu Biao and the others arrived, all they found were the traces left by the horse's hooves and the corpse of a yellow sheep lying on the ground.

"Enough!" Looking at the corpse of the yellow sheep that had been moved over, a smile finally appeared on Hu Biao's face that had been frozen by the north wind.

"What about them, old snakes?"

Ahri glanced up at his "little white" and replied, "In the east!" ”

Seven or eight kilometers away from them, the old snake nested in a sunken leeward place, holding a small notebook in his hand, and his right hand kept counting on the ground.

"You're not mistaken, are you?" The singer looked at the latitude and longitude and distance he calculated, and he couldn't make up his mind.

It is said that geography is the science of liberal arts, but he has really never done this kind of coordinate calculation.

Especially in the absence of GPS or Beidou navigation, the ability to determine latitude and longitude coordinates by almost primitive methods is estimated to be only available to pilots and senior sailors.

However, the former assistant sir brother in front of him, who has lived in the northwest inland for 26 years and has hardly seen the sea, has played this set of things very slippery!

Along the way, this old brother will calculate the time of sunrise and sunset every day.

At noon, the height of the sun must be measured with weapons stuck in the ground, and the angle of the North Star will be calculated at midnight.

The purpose of measuring the altitude angle of the sun and the angle of the North Star is to determine the latitude in which they are located, and if the latitude does not change, then they have absolutely no offset direction.

The time of sunrise and sunset is calculated in order to calculate the longitude of oneself by using the time difference.

Then, by recording the coordinates of some important cities, mountain peaks and lakes, you can calculate how much you have walked, which is convenient for planning your next trip.

The Xuange Camp team also relies on the ability of the old snake to position.

Only then did they leave the Tianshan Mountains and enter Dunhuang, even if they advanced all the way in the inaccessible wilderness, they did not deviate due to the lack of references.

"Now our position continues to the south, and we can find the Gourd River for two miles at most."

Sure enough, after driving the horse forward for about ten minutes, a river that was completely frozen appeared in front of them with great silence......

******

It was night, under the telescope, I saw more than ten miles away, only a small Yumen Pass.

Hu Biao, who successfully bypassed a node, couldn't help but chant a sentence in his mouth: "Why should Qiang Di complain about the willows, the spring breeze does not pass the jade gate; it, roast the whole sheep and leave me a little. ”

As he spoke, he had rushed into a fire before.

Regardless of the oily roasted whole lamb, he cut the meat with a knife in one hand and put it in his mouth.

The rest of the team was the same, with long-lost smiles on their faces.

Even if they knew that Guazhou, Suzhou, Liangzhou, Lanzhou and other places behind them, because of the fall into the hands of the Tubo people, the road was quite difficult.

But since stepping into the land of Yumen Pass, they have a faint feeling of going home.

This feeling also made them indescribably relaxed.

Finally, after eating a belly of roast mutton, Hu Biao picked up a steaming milk tea in his hand and proposed to everyone:

"Come, everyone respects the old snake, this journey is so smooth, this kid has played a key role."

At such a suggestion, everyone raised their glasses one after another.

After taking a sip of milk tea, Hu Biao couldn't help but ask: "Old snake, what did you kid do before, why are you so familiar with these?" ”

"I told you, I used to go back and forth to the Lianhuo Expressway many times, and that was before I was 25 years old."

Seeing that everyone was interested, the old snake simply told them about his experience:

When he was 20 to 25 years old, there was a lot of investment in infrastructure in Western Xinjiang, and Lao Snake's father made a lot of money doing projects. Anyway, there are two suites in the provincial capital, a car worth 400,000 yuan, and the old snake's sister was sent to a key school.

In those years, the family was not short of money, and almost every year the family drove back to their hometown in Sichuan Province for the New Year.

During that time, Lao Snake worked in an engineering inspection company and often had to travel; It can be said that in two years, he almost traveled all the places in the Western Regions except for the Pamirs and Altay.

Aksu where the turtle is located and Ha MI where the Qijiaojing is located before are not missing!

It was also in those years that he traveled several times by car with his friends, and he basically traveled all over the northwestern provinces, except for the Tibetan plateau; It can be said that he is the living map of the northwest in the team.

"But~" Lao Hei pointed to the moon looming in the sky and said, "You are an inland person, how can you be able to pull the stars?" ”

"My family was backward, I used to start a business, but it failed. In order to repay the debt, I found a job as an assistant sir through a friend, mainly because I fell in love with it to eat and live, and I took a day off. ”

"When I was resting, I made money by writing to pay off my debts, and the first book was written by the Navy Special Forces. At that time, I consulted and learned a lot of nautical knowledge. ”

"Later, there was a time when I really wanted to be a seafarer, because seafarers are paid well, and I can almost get 1.5 Ws a month on the ship."

"However, I had an ear injury, and I was told that I would never pass the physical examination, and I would not be able to get a seafarer's competency certificate."

"I can't be a seafarer anymore, but my yearning for the sea has not changed, so I taught myself a lot of sailing knowledge."

"I didn't expect it~" He patted his big green horse's head, "These things I learned can be used here!" ”

So, in such a night, the old snake's voice sounded without a word.

talked about the bleak life before he joined the team.

So much so that everyone thought of such a point: although the system has pitted a little, it is also to let ordinary people, so as to turn over.

When you think about it, it doesn't seem too bad......

PS: The next chapter arrives in Chang'an.

(End of chapter)