Chapter two hundred and fifty eight returning home in a snowstorm
The bitter cold wind swept across the earth with a shrill strange roar, like a shiny steel knife cutting the thick snow accumulated on the ground, hitting everything with signs of life.
The gray sky, the white earth, the thick snow, and the snow-capped mountains that tower into the clouds. This is the snowy and ice world at the foot of Kunlun Mountain in the western border of the Qin Dynasty.
In winter here, the only sound that can be heard between heaven and earth is the roaring cold wind that seems to never stop.
In the misty world, a long line of horses was moving forward in a difficult situation in the thick snow. The footprints left were smoothed by the cold wind wrapped in snowflakes.
On the vast snowy field in the wind and snow all over the sky, this long horse team, facing the might of nature, is as small as an ant in the world.
On the backs of dozens of plateau horses with low height but extremely thick limbs, they were tied with ropes of all sizes. Every step they took would be deeply trapped in the thick snow. Obviously, the
Things are not light.
Behind the bodies of these horses, nearly a hundred people wearing Daqin costumes, wrapped around them all, with only two eyes exposed, relying on these horses as barriers to move forward in the thick snow, one step deep and one step shallow.
A thick and long rope stretched from the front to the end, wrapped around the waists of the Qin people who were struggling to move forward on the snowfield, so as to maintain their balance and avoid losing.
As for those plateau horses, they are also connected one by one with rope.
The cold wind became more and more wild, and it was becoming more and more difficult for these travelers to walk.
Suddenly, a man with an extremely tall zongzi walking in the front seemed to have noticed something, turned around and shouted at a person behind him who was also wrapped in zongzi.
The cold wind was too strong, and the words were blown away as soon as they were spoken. The man in front said several times that his companion, who was only about a foot away from him, understood it, and then turned around and looked at the person behind him.
The companion tells it.
After repeated and reposting, it was only the middle section of the human and snake after a cup of tea.
However, at this time, the horse team had already begun to move in another direction under the leadership of the leader. It turned out that a hole that was sunken into the roots of the snow-capped mountains appeared just a hundred feet in front of the horse team.
The pit was not too big, but it was enough for this traveler with only a hundred people and dozens of horses to enter inside to avoid the increasingly heavy snowstorm. Outside the top of the pit was covered with ice lingers as thick as arms and thighs.
And down there are all kinds of magnificent shapes.
Before the message could be reached by the last person of the horse team, the strong man with a strong figure at the front of the horse team had already reached the pit.
At this time, even if the people behind the horse team were told, they knew what was going on. Seeing the hole, the only naked eyes on their bodies showed joy.
One hour later, more than twenty small bonfires had risen in the pit. The cold-resistant plateau horses originally used as barriers were lined up in rows and lying next to each other and blocking the outermost part of the pit. Although it was impossible
It completely covers the cold wind, but at least it can block a lot, right? More importantly, this pit is located in the leeward. Having a horse wall is enough.
"Prince, with this blizzard, it seems that the caravan will not be able to arrive at Shache City before New Year's Eve this time."
The tall and strong man who spoke was the Zongzi man who had walked in front of the horse team to lead the way. But at this moment, the strong man wearing a hairy bear had taken off his equipment to protect his head and face, revealing a picture of him.
Fang Shi's face, full of beard, said a blizzard on her lips. In fact, there was no sign of worry between the strong man's eyebrows.
The strong man's words have already pointed out the identity of this caravan, which is a caravan between Daqin and Central Asia.
"I'm here for Brother Lao Lu."
A middle-aged man sitting next to the strong man heard the strong man's words and looked worriedly at the increasingly heavy snowstorm outside the pit, showing a hint of worry.
"Haha, take money and eliminate disasters with others. Princess and Princess don't have to worry too much. The blizzard will not last for a few days. When the wind and snow stop, the caravan will set off for a long journey. But on New Year's Eve, I'm afraid it's Princess and brothers.
You can't be happy in Shache City."
The words of the strong man surnamed Lu suddenly caused the caravans in the pit to laugh together. The concerns in the caravans, who were unable to return on time because the wind and snow blocked the road and could not return on time instantly dissipated a lot.
Especially some strong men with open chests exposed with a body of tendons, they seemed to remember something when they heard the words of the strong men surnamed Lu. They all laughed strangely and boldly.
These people are all subordinates of the strong man surnamed Lu, and they are also guards of the caravan.
Although the opening of the Western Regions and Central Asia trade routes has not been long, it has only been more than a year. In addition to stimulating the growth of trade in Daqin and Central Asian countries, there is also another stimulating, that is, organizations that are somewhat similar to later generations of escort agencies have begun to be born.
However, at this time, there was no organization called the escort agency. It was just a small team organized by some rangers or people in the green forest who had washed their hands in the early years.
The main job of these small teams is to protect the caravans such as the princes and the kings. For example, the noble families in Guanzhong and Xianyang. Their caravans have their own disciples and diners to protect them, so naturally they will not invite them.
Lu Tong, a person who was not very clean in his hands, was a guard.
Now there are 100,000 elite White Tiger Army troops in the Western Regions. The large gang of sand thieves have been wiped out by the White Tiger Army. The small thieves can only plunder those caravans that are alone or without guards. Of course, this is very rare.
Any caravan that is robbed is reported to the White Tiger Army, and they will be faced with the purge of tens of thousands of White Tiger Army.
In addition to the Western Regions, the giant bandits and thieves from all over the Qin Dynasty had already washed their hands and stopped washing their hands. Those who wanted to make a fuck had already been wiped out by the Longwei Mansion. The caravan was walking, and they wanted to
It is safer than Xiyu County.
The only thing Lu Tong and his friends need to be prepared for is the bandits who do not belong to the territory of the Great Qin after leaving Shache City and crossing the last border post established by the White Tiger Army of the Great Qin Dynasty at the Holy Mountain Pass of Kunlun Mountain.
The Holy Mountain Pass is the name of the road that the Qin Shanglu who came and went to and from time to time gave the White Tiger Army a name with gunpowder. It means the road given by the Holy Emperor.
The old man who was called a prince by Lu Tong was obviously the head of the caravan.
The words of Lu Tong comforting the princes are obviously not just talking nonsense. The place where the caravan is stationed at this moment is less than fifty miles away from the White Tiger Army Post at Tianshen Mountain Pass.
At this distance, the White Tiger Army cavalry only takes two to three hours at most. What's more, from the opening of the trade route to the rest of this year, dozens of caravans entering and leaving the country have not been robbed once.