C1002 Shijiang (1/2)
This year's winter season was exceptionally early and cold. The blizzard had already engulfed the Far East in advance as soon as the middle of September arrived.
Even though these two places were on the same continent as each other, their climates were completely different.
The Far East Region was said to be the distant east side of the Russian, while in the Chinese concept, the distant east was the vast land outside the Black Dragon River and the Wusuli River.
There was no need to talk about the north of the Black Dragon River, the place was truly cold and bitter. However, not many people in the region east of Wusuli River knew much about it. Take Haishenwai for example, to draw a line according to the dimensions of the earth, the dimension here was actually similar to the one in Fengtian's day, Shen Yang. However, the Haishenwai's winter was much colder than Fengtian's.
Because the East bank of the Wusuli River was already affected by the wet air current in the Sea of Japan, when the cold air of Siberia and the humid air of the sea collided, there was naturally more snow falling from the sky than from the land, and the cold feeling was also different.
The inland cold mostly belonged to the dry cold. As long as you put on more clothes, thick cotton or fur would prevent the cold outside, making people's bodies feel very warm. In Xiao Letian's words, it was a physical attack.
Cotton and fur could easily store this water vapor and form small wet areas inside. In that case, clothes would not be able to form a dry, insulated air layer, and the cold feeling would naturally surpass that. Xiao Letian called this magic attack.
Not only the Russia, but even further south would prove this point if one looked at the climate of the Korean Peninsula. The Korean Peninsula was typically affected by the ocean's climate, so there was a lot of snow in winter.
This is especially true in Japan, where a combination of warm, humid air from the Pacific Ocean and cold current from Siberia has created numerous snowy kingdoms, which is a very important reason for Japan's abundant freshwater.
The weather of the Far East was the biggest enemy. If the Bravehearts wanted to fight in the Black Lands of White Mountain for a long time, they had to adapt to the climate here. The reason why Dragon Lord went to the Hun Chun alone to risk opening up the borders of the Wusuli River was to allow the loyal troops to survive the first year of winter.
The frozen Wusuli River was currently unable to walk on the large carriage, but there were no problems on foot. Qing Jun, who wore the old sheepskin's jacket and long cotton coat gaped at the squads of soldiers that were walking on the ice.
In the midst of the snowflakes, the green cotton clothing was extremely eye-catching. All of the soldiers struggled forward on a foot of snow. They didn't even take two or three steps before falling onto one of them.
No one dared to ride a war horse. Right now, a war horse was more vulnerable than a human. Just by crossing the ice a hundred meters away, six war horses fell into the snow and never got up again.
The older soldiers of the Qing Army were dumbfounded. ”Damn it, this is the loyal army that the general mentioned?” How could they defeat the old setae? F * * k, is that for real? ”Even the ice is freezing us to death …”
”Stop looking, it must be those people. Look at the guns behind them, we've never met them before …” Look at the cage around their horses' necks, are they human heads? ”
”Aiyo, it really is a head, quickly look, it's the head of the old setae, it's really that brave army that killed the old setae! ”Hurry up and help them, boil some hot water …”
A long, furry mule pulled the climbing plow out of the West Bank outpost at the sound of the scythes' whips.
Ever since they were young, they had adapted to the cold weather. Even their long manes were covering their eyes, and the climbing ploughs behind them ran extremely fast on the snow surface. Soon, they arrived in front of the thirty over brave soldiers.