Between the vast desert and the grassland, there are clumps of gray-green grass, some of which have already bloomed, and the flowers are red and white, which are wolf poisonous weeds.

Fortunately, this is the foot of the mountain, and there is not much wind and sand.

This time the route of the march was to walk along the mountains, with meltwater and glaciers, and occasionally cut straight to the oasis found while crossing the desert, so that the supply of water was more convenient, and there was no need to occupy so much counterweight.

Fortunately, Lao Tzu's plug-in is a real-time map.

The fastest nearest march, thanks to their hanging.

Even Cha Gan Ba Ri praised him like a good word and didn't want money, which made his old face red, but fortunately, he was inevitably black-red and black-red by the sun in the desert, and his face couldn't be seen.

Yes, Chagan Pa Day.

This former Timur has all four Jitou!

Compared with the captured dog fathers and Eji, Chagan Bari, who took the initiative to surrender the city, was much luckier.

Dozens of members of the Khan King's family were sent to Yanjing by the 800-mile expedited Games as early as last year when they broke through the old city of Ili, and now it is estimated that they are clowning the two saints, and those half-sisters who bully their brothers and sisters with their stinky feet on weekdays are estimated to have been carved up by the nobles of the Qi people, right? And he Chagan Ba Ri is different.

What do you say about that Chinese saying? Wei Junjie, the Xiwu object.

He was canonized as the general of the Great Qi Dragon and Tiger, the commander of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate and the Yiwei Commander, stationed in Yili, and he was also a leading figure in the entire Metropolitan Protectorate!

And it's the Dragon and Tiger General, alas, it's too good for himself.

Judging from the current market, even Abu and his brothers and sisters, who did not want to see him, bowed and saluted when they saw him, shouting to see the general.

Thinking of this, Cha Gan Ba Ri couldn't help laughing.

Shi Yuanxiu, who was riding a horse next to Chagan Bari, frowned, as if avoiding something dirty, distanced himself from Chagan Bari.

Chagan Bari was sent by Lu Guan. Mainly as a guide, although he himself is not welcomed, but his mouth is quite neat, he has been sent to Heshute to form an alliance, and he has taken the same route as this operation, and he can be regarded as knowing the road.

He was accompanied by Gui Yiwei.

This original cowardly Xue army, which was abandoned after the Dihua was broken and finally surrendered with Chagan Bari, was one of the few elites of the Timurid Khanate who could fight back and forth with the Anxi army!

After Chagan Bari was appointed as the general of the Dragon and Tiger, the Metropolitan Protectorate formed the Guiyi Guard on the basis of these 1,000 people and the 4,000 soldiers of Timur who had been carefully screened.

It can also be regarded as appeasing the Timurid people and giving them a way to progress.

On this trip, Chagan Bari brought 3,000 people to participate in this operation, plus the elite brought by Jia Hui, a total of 8,300 people.

Although I have seen Jia Hui charging on the city wall of Dihua, it is a completely different feeling to stand on the city wall and follow the charge.

In the words I learned from General Jia.

I'm so excited!

When they met the horse bandits, they did not approve of them, but they raised their spears and rushed away, but the gang did not stop them, but followed them with a howl.

No armor!

The group of horse bandits ran away, and the few who rushed over also showed their timidity, and as soon as the horses slowed down, the battle was over.

You dare to storm the army of 8,000 people, why are you cowardly again?

Chagan Bari, who had been thinking about it for several days, still didn't understand this question.

But judging from the martial arts of Jia Hui and others, Timur did not lose unjustly.

With a long sigh, he took off his already rancid leather armor, changed into clean clothes, held the old clothes in his arms, and walked out of the tent on Chagan Bayi.

The commander has orders, and everyone must be kept clean and tidy when conditions permit.

At first, everyone thought that the annoyance of washing and bathing all day was annoying, but because of Jia Hui's strength, everyone still did it.

After persevering for a while, everyone fell in love with the beauty of showering and wearing clean clothes from time to time.

It's been a month since I left Ili.

Went south to cross the Tianshan Mountains, slightly replenished supplies in Aksu and rested for two days, and emptied the city's anti-anti-anti medicinal materials, such as Rhodiola rosea and the like, anyway, Chagan Bari said that this works, so bring them all.

Continue to the south along the branch of the Tianshan Mountains, pass through Bachu and Yecheng, and after emptiing all the medicinal materials, set off to the east, and now there are still about three or four days away from Hotan.

The luckiest thing about this march was that there were supply points along the way, and in addition to armor and weapons, he only carried the standard emergency march rations of Daqi - sugar sticks.

This is a popular military ration that has been circulating in this land for more than 400 years.

At first, it was discovered in the southwest mountains, the big tribe of Baiyue, the Qili Department.

There is a tree called the sweet tree, which looks like a sumac tree. In the official list of Daqi's materia medica, it is called "sugar gum tree".

Yes, the gums of this tree contain a lot of sugar.

When the old man gave Jia Hui a candy stick, Jia Hui was stunned.

In the last years of the Yu Dynasty more than 300 years ago, the Baiyue Tusi rebellion stabbed the Yu Dynasty on the verge of collapse.

The toasts once entered the river and hit the Jianmen Pass. As a military ration, Qilibu also came to Sichuan with candy sticks.

The Tusi rebellion was finally defeated by the disintegration of the Yizhou Taishou at that time.

And this kind of military ration, sugar sticks, attracted the attention of Taishou, and introduced the cultivation of this sugar gum tree.

With the establishment of Da Liang, the sugar gum tree also entered the sight of the imperial court, and Da Liang also attached great importance to the development of the role of the sugar gum tree.

After 300 years of continuous research, the sugar gum tree has been developed to the greatest extent, cultivated and improved, and has been planted all over the country, and the northernmost area has been planted in the Datong area.

Sugar gum is rich in sugar, the best quality sugar gum is even just dried and ground into powder is the top white sugar, and sucrose is different from eating too much on fire, sugar gum itself also has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying.

Nowadays, although the price of sugar in Daqi is not as low as a few pennies a catty, it is far lower than the price of salt, and it has become the most commonly used seasoning for ordinary people.

What a god-given sacred tree!

In the Great Qi Dynasty, dried meat, lard (you can also change butter, mutton fat or vegetable oil, depending on the place of origin), salt, fried noodles or fried rice and crushed kelp were directly added to the sugar gum, kneaded into strips and dried.

After resting, a candy bar about the size of a two-year-old baby's wrist is made. Wrapped in oiled paper, it can be stored for a considerable period of time. When fighting, with a little water, a candy stick can be eaten for a day.

A large part of the reason for the victory of the Western Expedition was this kind of heavenly rations.

With this kind of military ration, Daqi didn't even hit the edge of the sky, Jia Hui didn't figure it out.

Because the candy sticks are portable and easy to carry, as long as each person carries a backpack of candy sticks, they can eat for a long time, and they can completely leave the transport team behind.

With the addition of one person and two horses, the horses could carry more sugar sticks while carrying armor and equipment, and even the cavalry themselves could carry another backpack, and Jia Hui's march was so fast that it only took twenty days to march from Ili to the foot of Kunlun Mountain.

Today, I was lucky enough to find an oasis with a small pond, and Jia Hui decided to camp and rest in advance today.

Shui Che arranged for the people to hunt, and the candy sticks were prepared by Jia Hui when he couldn't find food for a long time when he crossed the snowy mountains and entered the plateau, and he could eat less if he could, so before entering the snowy mountains, he tried to eat something fresh when he could find fresh food.

It is a depression formed by meltwater from a snow-capped mountain flowing into a small puddle.

The upstream is naturally connected to the snow-capped mountains, and then flows into the waterhole, forming a small green area in the shape of a "medium".

Downstream disappeared into the desert.

The soldiers of the Surprise Raid Corps skillfully set up camp upstream, the water here is much cleaner, and the terrain is also high, so that they will not be flooded in case of heavy flooding.

The small pond in the middle is used as a bath.

Hell knows how this group of people can endure the cold iceberg meltwater. But there is no way, there are not many things that can be burned in this realm, so try to use them for cooking.

Jia Hui boiled ginger water to them with dried ginger as usual, and now they have all walked to Hotan, and then they are Kunlun Pass, Jia Hui feels that this group of fighting men does not want to suffer the old sin and cross the desert, but because of the cold water bath, they fell at the foot of the snowy mountain.

As for the downstream, they kept washing clothes and drinking water for the horses.

After the meal, the soldiers who sat in front of the bonfire and chatted about eating also went back to the tent one after another to rest, since the last time they rested in Yecheng, they had been rushing for several days, and the fatigue generated made this group of iron-clad men a little unbearable. Now they just want to fall into bed and sleep until dawn.

Jia Hui took advantage of the fact that there was still some hot water, dipped a towel and scrubbed his body well, then sat in the tent and began to write marching notes.

Because of the rapid march, and the variables in the Western Regions such as horse bandits, poisonous snakes and poisonous scorpions, it is easy to fold in the desert when there are fewer people, and the distance between the cities is too far, so even the orders of the Metropolitan Protectorate are sometimes not conveyed.

Therefore, the imperial court gave the garrisons in various parts of the Imperial Protectorate great autonomy, but they must record the notes of the army, not only the main general, but all officers of thousands and above must write this, so that they can be compared and recorded in many aspects in the future.

Just when a small dish of butter was about to burn out, Jia Hui also finished writing notes, stretched his sedentary waist, and Jia Hui rolled over and lay down in his sleeping bag.

Jia Hui looked at the top of the tent with a confused look, feeling the cold quilt, and he missed Yue Liduo more and more.

Jia Hui got up again and walked out of the tent, said hello to several soldiers who were keeping vigil, and walked a little farther away to release water.

Looking up at the sky, the moon tonight is not covered by dark clouds, and it hangs completely in the sky.

Jia Hui turned his head to look to the east, a little homesick, he left home for the first time in his two lives, and even left for more than three years.

I don't know what the family is like, and the plays I make up are not popular?

In my previous life, I liked to watch dramas, operas, operas, and even Kabuki in island countries, although I didn't understand most of the foreign dramas, and most of the time I just watched a lively show, but I would imitate my posture when I was at home.

When the old man was alive, he was also surprised to see that he had nothing to write and could barely call it a script, but he didn't say anything, it's better to have a hobby than to go out and make trouble.

Immediately, he asked someone to invite a few luthiers to teach him.

Self-inflicted belong to yes.