Lar is indeed a very beautiful place. The Tarim River runs across it from east to west. Looking up, you can see the Tianshan Mountains in the north. A few kilometers south of the Tarim River is the famous Taklimakan Desert.
Between the Tianshan Mountains and the great desert, and surrounding the north and south banks of the Tarim River, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians used their own hands to open up a vast farm of millions of acres on this wasteland that was originally a Gobi Desert, making it the granary of Xinjiang Province.
If it weren't for the large yellow desert in the south constantly reminding people that this place was once a Gobi desert, no one would have thought that the large farm in front of them with crisscrossing paths and dense rivers was reclaimed by hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians over several years.
Although the roaring Tarim River brings plenty of water here, without these hardworking soldiers and civilians, this place would not have become a fertile land for harvest. It can be said that this land full of vitality is a miracle.
Yang Jing and his team stayed here for a whole day. Of course, with the consent of their superiors, the commander of the First Division and Political Commissar Lu met with Yang Jing again and thanked Yang Jing for his donation on behalf of all the soldiers and civilians of the First Division.
Early the next morning, Yang Jing and his group of seven continued their journey, heading south along National Highway 217 on the south side of the Tarim River.
From Aral, it is another 400 kilometers to reach Hotan. The National Highway 217, which runs through the Taklimakan Desert, extends southward along the west bank of the Hotan River.
The entire highway extends through the desert. The road condition is good, but the surrounding scenery is really very monotonous. At a glance, you can't see anything but the yellow sand all over the sky.
Yang Jing didn't see the spectacular scenery of "the lone smoke rising in the desert, the setting sun over the long river" that he imagined. What he saw were just the undulating sand dunes, and then the undulating sand dunes, and the undulating sand dunes...
When they were about to arrive at Hotan in the afternoon, Yang Jing and his friends finally saw an incredible scene.
Suddenly, a large piece of khaki "cloud" came from the desert in the west. You say it is a cloud, but the color is wrong. But if you say it is a sandstorm, this large piece of "cloud" seems to be motionless, as if a large cloud really fell from the sky and was dyed khaki by the desert.
This large cloud is hundreds of meters high, and is continuous in clusters, looking extremely spectacular.
Austin and his group of foreigners had never seen such an amazing view before, and they all clamored to get off the car to take pictures.
Yang Jing had seen videos posted by friends on WeChat in his later life, and one of them was a video of this kind of scenery. However, the video was not as shocking as seeing this spectacular scenery in person, and even Yang Jing wanted to go down and take pictures.
But Director Wang who came along was terrified and quickly stopped these ignorant guys from getting off the car.
"Mr. Smith, this scenery looks spectacular, and this sandstorm seems to be not moving, but in fact, it is moving very fast. Look, the sandstorm seemed to be quite far away just now, but now it seems to be right in front of you. Mr. Smith, this is not some strange sight, this is a real sandstorm, and a very severe one at that! You must not get out of the car, we need to stay in the car to avoid this sandstorm."
Hearing Director Wang's serious tone, Yang Jing realized the danger.
The more beautiful something is, the more dangerous it is often. If Director Wang hadn't told him, even Yang Jing wouldn't have known that this strange and spectacular scenery was actually a very dangerous sandstorm.
Sure enough, the large piece of "cloud" that was originally strange and magnificent and seemed to be motionless soon came in front of everyone. At this time, everyone was horrified to find that it was indeed a violent sandstorm that covered the sky and the sun.
Yang Jing had watched the cult movie "Mad Max: Fury Road" in his later life and was shocked by the earth-shattering sandstorm in the movie. Although he had never personally experienced the sandstorm in the movie, Yang Jing felt that the sandstorm in front of him was definitely no worse than the one in the movie.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the sky and the earth were filled with black and yellow sand. As far as the eye could see, there were no longer unchanging sand dunes, but a sky full of sand.
There were violent sandstorms everywhere. Driven by the strong wind, the gravel was like a huge slap that could kill gods and Buddhas. It flashed down from the sky in an overwhelming manner. The gravel hit the glass and body of the car, and the crackling sound was enough to scare people to death.
Looking out from the cab, one couldn't even see anything three meters away, as if at this moment, the entire world had turned into the state it was in when chaos first began.
The two-ton Pajero was like a weak child in this violent sandstorm, shivering. Every time a gust of wind blew, accompanied by dense crackling sounds, the car would shake violently, making people worry that the car would be blown away...
Although Austin and his friends were all tall and strong, they had never seen such a scene before. Paul Battier, who was born in Oklahoma, kept making the sign of the cross on his chest. In his words, the tornadoes that often occur in Oklahoma every summer are actually almost the same doomsday scene.
Of course, sandstorms are not as destructive as tornadoes, but the consequences of sandstorms are comparable to those of tornadoes.
After a tornado passes, everything is in a mess, and after a sandstorm passes, all you can see is yellow sand.
Even the originally clear Hotan River has become turbid, and the originally flat National Highway 217 can no longer be seen - it is completely covered by thick yellow sand.
Fortunately, the shape of the roadbed was still recognizable, so the car did not drive into the roadside ditch. Of course, the two brand new Mitsubishi Pajero had to change their paintwork by now - from green to yellow.
In fact, the place where the sandstorm occurred was not far from Hotan. Although it took about half an hour, it was only a little after 3 pm when Yang Jing and his team arrived in Hotan. Moreover, when approaching Hotan, there were many more people on the road, and they were cleaning the 217 National Highway covered by yellow sand.
In fact, the people of Hotan, who live deep in the desert, are already familiar with this kind of fierce sandstorm, so they come out to clean up the road as soon as the sandstorm passes. This road is a very important road, connecting Aksu and Urumqi.
When Yang Jing and his party arrived in Hotan, the high-ranking officials of the Hotan region and the commissioner of the administrative office were waiting for their arrival along with a group of people.
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