Before we begin, let's review geography at its simplest level.

There is such a mountain range on this plateau, which is not yet called the Mongolian Plateau.

He is the sacred mountain in the minds of all the Huns, and it is also the sacred mountain in the minds of countless rising nomads in later generations.

Zhang Qi didn't know what this mountain range was called now, but he knew that there was a main peak called 'Wolf Juxu Mountain'!

Perhaps in the near future, there will be a young general who has been given to the Han by God with an army that has never been defeated in his life, and has created a great feat that every military general in the future wants to achieve!

This is the absolute center of the ancestral land in the minds of the Huns, who live on the flat land under this mountain range, grazing cattle and sheep with the help of the snow water flowing down from the mountain peaks.

To the north of the mountain range lies the world's deepest inland lake, which is home to one-fifth of the world's freshwater reserves

The westernmost part of the mountain range is also vaguely connected to the Great X Anling Mountains.

Zhang Qi and them, the direction they chose to go was the west.

Crunch.

Snow boots made of tough branches increase the contact area under everyone's feet, so that their legs don't sink deep into the snow that doesn't know how high it is.

Walking in the snow is much more difficult than on flat ground, and everyone is out of breath from the time they set off, and every breath of cold air is a major test of their nose and throat.

No one spoke, and now no one could speak, Zhang Qi walked in the forefront, even if he had been honing in the world of riding and chopping for two months, but walking such a distance still made his endurance close to the apex.

Wrap a breathable scarf that covers half of his face, doing so will make his breathing a little easier.

Since departure, they have been marching for more than six hours, without wind and snow, and the sun is shining but it is bitterly cold.

Looking at the sun, the time was close to more than three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Qi looked back, everyone was walking numbly, and the joy of escaping from the ascension had already been almost wiped out by hard work.

If they go any further, they will collapse.

Such a thought flashed through Zhang Qi's mind and stopped.

“.... Cough.. Belch. The dry throat slowed down for a long time before squeezing out a few hoarse voices.

In this silent atmosphere, his voice was very harsh.

Everyone stopped and looked up at Zhang Qi blankly.

“... Stop and take a break. ”

The voice surrounded by the scarf was a little dull, and as soon as his words fell, the few people behind him lay straight down in the snow.

It's also difficult for them to keep up with Zhang Qi, unlike Zhang Qi, who has been cultivating in the riding and slashing world for two months, several of them were still a group of slaves who had never eaten at all two days ago.

From this point, it is not difficult to see that these people have willpower beyond ordinary people.

Seeing them lying in the snow, Zhang Qi didn't stop him, he was so tired that even he was lying down now.

The clothes were very good, and Zhang Qi didn't feel much cold when he was lying in the snow, except for the tingling sensation in every breath that reminded him that it was winter, the rest of his body was still warm.

After lying down for a while, Zhang Qi got up and pulled a few people up, and rested for a while, after lying down, the snow would melt into water by their body temperature and then penetrate into their clothes, which would kill people.

Spreading out a bundle of rolled animal skins, Zhang Qi spread it flat on the ground for a few people to sit down and rest.

"Hui, everything is here, you can get some food for everyone, and rest for a while.

I'll leave for a while, and I'll come back in half an hour. ”

Hui took out a water bag from under his armpit and poured it violently and nodded, he really didn't have the strength to speak, his body was naturally worse than others, if it weren't for the help of a few people on the road, he would have been unable to support it.

Zhang Qi disappeared from everyone's sight as he spoke, and it looked like about seven minutes in half an hour, but in the world of riding and chopping, these seven minutes were almost equivalent to two and a half hours, which was enough for Zhang Qi to return to his best state.

By the time Zhang Qi came out again, he was already refreshed, and Bo and the others ate half of the naan cake with the water in the water bag.

Seeing Zhang Qi come out, they subconsciously wanted to get up, Zhang Qi stretched out his hand and pressed them: "Rest first, eagle, if you can still move, if you can, accompany me to find a suitable place to spend the night." ”

Among a few people, the eagle's physique is the best, and after a little rest, he will eat to replenish his strength, and the eagle swallowed the last bite of cake in his mouth without saying a word and stood up.

"No, poof, no problem!"

His mouth was a little full, and the eagle muttered, picking up the water bag and taking a few sips before he recovered.

"Let's go."

With the bow on his back and across the knife, the eagle's movements are completed in one go.

Zhang Qi looked at him and smiled with satisfaction, and then walked forward.

Under the mountain range, there is a flat river, except for those that extend out of the foot of the mountain that will block the view, Zhang Qi can see far away.

After walking for about ten minutes, Zhang Qi stretched out his hand and took the eagle company into the snowdrift.

Turning the foot of an extended mountain, Zhang Qi clearly saw curling smoke rising from the vast snowfield.

The smoke rose straight upwards and drifted into the distance, and in the distance, Zhang Qi could vaguely see a few men on horseback carrying something on their backs.

"Two yurts, how many people do you think there will be?"

Zhang Qi asked Xiang Ying in a low voice, and Ying also carefully poked his head out and looked over there.

"They should come here to pick up people, every year when there is heavy snowfall, some small tribes will not have enough food to throw out the old people and children, this tribe should have rich food, so they will send people to pick up people to enrich the population."

"In two yurts, there will be no more than twenty people, and more than half of them will be children!"

Ying's experience is very old-fashioned, he has not gone out with the Hun nobles in the clan, and he has also done the work of picking up people.

"How? Open. ”

The eagle turned his head to look at Zhang Qi.

Zhang Qi looked at the yurts with deep eyes, and several men on horseback also tied their horses and returned to the yurt.

patting the eagle on the back, Zhang Qi pulled him to move back.

"Remember this place, we.... Come in the evening! ”

Zhang Qi said softly, and the cold meaning in his words was terrifying.

The eagle hummed and touched the bow on his back with a little excitement.

"Let's go, go back first, recharge your batteries!"

The two of them moved back a long enough distance to get up and return to where they had been.

The Bo and the others were still resting on the animal skins, and Zhang Qi went over and pulled them up and led them to the top of the mountain range.

"There's someone around here, let's go to a higher place, block the snow wall and come out to rest."

A few people didn't ask much, they took their things and went up with Zhang Qi.

A wall of snow was piled up to block the view, and Zhang Qi re-laid the animal skin.

A few people sat down and continued to rest, while Zhang Qi's mind was thinking about the yurts he had just seen.

They blocked the path that Zhang Qi was approaching, and if they took a detour, the vast grassland and its easy disorientation would make people disorient, not to mention that now that the snow covered the ground, they couldn't even distinguish the landforms.

So Zhang Qi planned to get rid of them, first, they had horses, which could speed up the march of Zhang Qi and others, and second, they also had yurts, which could allow Zhang Qi and others to set up camp anytime and anywhere.

Merely...