As the mountains get higher and higher, breathing becomes more and more difficult. Of course, they don’t know that this is called altitude sickness, but the discomforts that should be felt are indispensable.

Although the Eight Banners' children experienced a major decline in overall quality by the late Qing Dynasty, many officials with military positions could not fire their bows, shoot arrows, or even ride bad horses.

But Emperor Tongzhi was the king of a country after all, and the guards he brought when he traveled were carefully selected, and he was considered a general selected from a large group of sluts.

Guan Lu and Doro both practiced martial arts since childhood, and even Guan Lu received careful guidance from the ancestors of the Forbidden City.

I have very good physical fitness and some have practiced internal martial arts, so I can still withstand this altitude sickness.

The Gurkha mercenaries hired by the expedition team had a higher altitude than here. The altitude sickness in the Tianshan Mountains is not a problem. Now it is the hardest to do so.

Gordon was a soldier and could hold on, but although Samuel Baker had rich experience in exploring, his physical fitness was slightly worse and he couldn't walk quickly.

Several British civil servants who were traveling with them also experienced altitude sickness to varying degrees, which has become a drag on the entire expedition team at this moment!

"Cut the wood, tie the sled... drag them away!"

It's strange that people's potential is often forced out. These people born in the pass seem to suddenly have a sudden enlightenment, and all the talented and skill points left by their ancestors have been opened.

The ice and snow skills are the blood talent that comes from the white mountains and black waters. It is the body of the ancestors of the Eight Banners who are fighting hard and fighting outside the pass.

Facts have proved that all playboys are actually fake playboys, and they are all bad things that good people have spoiled. Once they reach the world, they don’t care about their desperate situation, and these playboys can all make a way out.

Not only that, they can save people!

After digging out the ice and snow, these Qing Palace guards quickly created two suggested snow sledges. The slightly thicker trunks cut off the bark and used a steel dagger to cut as smoothly as possible. When they were put into the snow, they would not have enough strength to pull them up.

"Take the team members away... and build snow sledges while walking. We are really pigs. We have to use horses to support so many supplies. Why don't we let the horses pull the snow sledges!"

"I really have to go outside the pass to train for a winter. I can't lose my ancestors' skills..."

The snow sled was really urgent. The supplies were supported by the horses. The horses were often tired and could not move the snow layer, but the supplies were unloaded and placed on the sled, and the horses immediately became much easier.

Pulling the snow sledge and sliding in the snow, it turns out that the resistance is much smaller!

Samuel Baker sighed and lay on the snow sled and said, "Blame me, I really didn't want to call Central Asia... It's like a polar adventure... I have no experience!"

"Say a few words, save some energy to cross the mountain pass. As long as you walk down the mountain pass, your disease will be much better..."

I don’t know when the expedition team’s marching ended. There were more and more team members falling along the way, and more temporary sledges were built.

When the expedition team saw the Alasan Pass, the entire expedition team had already been on the snow sled. Even people without altitude sickness were sitting on the sled and riding war horses, which was a hundred times more comfortable than the beginning of the life.

"See the boundary stone of the Alashan Pass! After passing the mountain pass, it is the northern border, and we are finally safe..."

"Get away, you can escape..."

After passing the mountain pass, the terrain was hovering downwards, and the horse team ran even more vigorously, with faster and faster speeds and even several overturn accidents.

The snow-capped mountain road that crossed the Alashan Pass took four days and four nights. When the expedition team continued to advance on the morning of the fifth day, suddenly several black spots appeared on the snowfield in the north.

Then dozens of black spots began to expand, and a large group of cavalry were trampling on the ice and snow and rushing towards them!

"I am General Rong Quan of Yili... Who is in front of me... Did you come from the Yili River Valley..."

"I am Rong Quan...who is ahead..."

Guan Lu stood up excitedly when he heard the familiar voice, "General Yili...our general...is enough to be home...hahaha..."

"We are the expedition team appointed by Master Longsheng... who traveled through Central Asia to work in Xinjiang... We are Master Longsheng's special envoy..."

Boom! The whole snow field was boiling, and the cavalry in Tacheng heard that there were really the envoys of Long Live the Emperor, and their blood was boiling and screaming.

Rong Quan's emotions collapsed at that time, and he rolled off his horse and knelt in the snow. "I am the emperor, Guarjia, the Guarjia clan of the Yellow Banner... General Rong Quan of Yili... bowed to the Lord!"

"Master is auspicious! Long live... Long live!"

The faces of the entire person were kneeling in the snow and cried bitterly, and the tears immediately melted the ice and snow!

Among the guards, Doro had the highest position, and he stood in front of Rong Quan and shouted, "Sage Bow... Get up!"

After completing the fixed procedure, Doro immediately helped Rong Quan up, and looked at General Doro, Yili with a snowy face, and quickly wiped it with his hands, "General... General suffers... General suffers..."

Rong Quan was really emotionally broken. He actually said rudely, "Why are you here...Why are you here...Woooo..."

Speaking of the emotional part, the seven-foot man cried loudly!

How could Rong Quan not cry? When the mob attacked Huiyuan City, his family was also in the city. Mingxu burned his family to death and actually Rong Quan's relatives died tragically in the city.

Later, he was seized by the Tsarist Russians and tried every means to escape back to northern Xinjiang, gathering the defeated soldiers and recruiting herdsmen to train the army to accumulate food and grass!

Rong Quan almost alone bears the responsibility of the entire Xinjiang. This burden is too heavy, and he really can't take it anymore!

The guards surrounded Rong Quan and watched as General Yili cried bitterly in the snow. The distant expedition team and the garrison surrounded him in a circle with a solemn expression.

After crying for more than ten minutes, Rong Quancai put away his emotions and clasped his fists with his hands, "I'm rude, I'm rude... Now Xinjiang is in a turmoil, I dare not believe anything..."

"My imperial envoys, please give me a token or imperial edict! If I can't feel at ease, I will never let you into the northern border!"

Doro bowed with his fist and said, "It should be, it should be..."

The guards' waist signs and secret decrees given to them by Zaichun before leaving. Although the emperor did not take charge of the rule, there were still private seals. Zaichun could not invent the decrees, but the secret decrees were equally effective when sent out.

Rong Quan was also a guard in the Forbidden City. He knew that the waist cards could not be fake at a glance. He carefully identified the secret order several times and finally confirmed that the seal was correct.

Only then did he feel at ease, General Yili and his expedition team immediately set off north to Tacheng.

After walking in the wind and snow for a whole day, Doro and the others finally saw large herdsmen's tents, as well as large groups of cattle and sheep. At the end of the snow-white horizon, a small town surrounded by mountains appeared in front of people.

"That is the Tower City built by General Agui... I have rebuilt it again in the past few years, and I have stationed 5,000 troops at this moment..."

"This is the last established offensive force in the entire northern border... The rest are militia groups, and those who can fight are already concentrated here!"

"Ah? Five thousand?"
Chapter completed!