Chapter 29 Chapter 27: Thrilling Story of Prairie Fire

Reclaiming wasteland naturally requires opening up the wasteland. The wasteland is originally covered with grass, so the grass must be cut off first.He once suggested that if the grass is very dry, it would be better to burn it with a fire, and the grass ash is still a good fertilizer; but as soon as he mentioned it, almost no one was beaten to death immediately.It turns out that on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, the biggest fear is that the grasslands will catch fire. If you don’t set fires, the grasslands will naturally catch fire for no reason. If you take the initiative to set fires, that’s okay!

I have seen many fires, large and small, on the grassland. The most dangerous one was on the way to Hohhot. For small fires in the prairie, everyone puts down any work and puts out the fire first. The method of fighting the fire is to beat the fire with grass handles, or use a trained horse to drag the tree trunks over it. Grass, cut off quickly, so that the fire has nothing to burn. Viewed at night, the fire scene is very spectacular, with fire dragons winding everywhere, but if it spreads to an uncontrollable level, it will be very terrifying. On the way to Hohhot that time, the fire encountered was of the type that was out of control.At that time, I took a medium-sized jeep belonging to the army, and the people in the car were some officers from Xinjiang. Those officers, with white skin, green eyes, and high nose, looked completely foreigners, but they were dressed in Chinese clothes. The uniforms of the army, when they talked to each other, they used a language they couldn't understand at all, but they all spoke Chinese very well. After being greatly surprised, they asked, and the answer was that we belonged to the Fifth Army.

In the Fifth Army stationed in Xinjiang, there are many Uyghurs. Uyghurs have always seldom intermarried with foreigners, so their typical appearance has not changed.I was hitchhiking, and talking about the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River with them was quite easy to talk to. The car was driving in the afternoon, and I saw the right side, and the sky was covered with thick smoke. Could it be that the grassland caught fire, but fortunately, it was still far away, so I didn't care.The wind is strong on the grassland. Although it is only autumn, the temperature is already very low. Fortunately, there is a sheepskin coat, which is enough to keep out the cold.The car has been driving forward, and suddenly, a gust of wind blows over, carrying a large amount of grass ash. Looking behind the car, it is really terrible. I don't know when, the grass behind the car has caught fire, and because of the wind, it is burning. Forward, rolled at great speed.

Grass ash is the vanguard, followed by thick smoke billowing in. The head of the fire is hidden in the thick smoke, fluctuating up and down. When the grass is burning, it makes a lot of crackling sounds. The smoke-breathing monster seemed to be rolling over on both sides behind the car.It is estimated that the speed of the car will not be slower than 60 kilometers per hour, but the fire is coming faster. Seeing that it is getting closer, the car is already within the envelope of smoke. Several people in the car were petrified, but the driver was calm enough and tried his best to increase the speed. The car finally rushed out of the range of thick smoke. It could be seen that the left and right sides were on fire. Only by driving desperately could they escape. When I got up, the speed of the car was still not as fast as the fire, and I was so anxious that people didn't know what to do.

The driver desperately ordered the car to rush forward, then stopped the car suddenly, and quickly turned the car around, aiming at the incoming fire. When he did so, everyone in the car shouted, Ask him what he wants.Two officers were still yelling loudly in Uyghur. Although they couldn't understand it, it could be seen from their expressions that what they were yelling was not a compliment to the driver. As soon as the car turned around, the flames were approaching, less than ten meters away, the driver suddenly yelled: "Cover your head!" Everyone didn't know what he meant when he gave such an order, but at that time the situation was critical, people were flustered, and the driver's voice was full of majesty. Everyone naturally pulled up their coats and put them on their heads.As soon as the hood was put on, I felt that the car was already moving forward. At that moment, I had a sudden thought: the car was moving forward, didn't it rush into the fire?Mostly the driver didn't want to live anymore, but he dragged dozens of us to pay for our lives!

When I had such a thought in my mind, I really wanted to jump out of the car, but everything happened too fast, I just changed my mind, the car had already stopped, and I heard the driver yelling again: OK! He quickly lifted off the overcoat covering his head and took a look, only to realize that this driver is really no small matter. It turned out that due to the strong wind, the fire in the prairie kept moving forward and burned along the wind, forming a fire belt. The length of the fire belt can stretch for several miles, but the width is not very wide, only more than ten meters. The car rushed past at a high speed, and once it passed the fire zone, it reached the place that had been burned. There was no fire, only smoke was left, and it was safe.

At this time, everyone in the car breathed a sigh of relief, and after a breath of relief, naturally, another big breath must be the driver's revenge for our misunderstanding of his actions just now, and he didn't warn us not to take a big breath!With this inhalation, the ashes of grass in the air rushed into his mouth, and he coughed for about ten minutes, his throat was still itching, but the driver looked at us with a smile! It is said that this fire burned for more than 20 days, and it didn't stop until the first heavy snow fell. Countless cattle, horses and sheep were burned to death on the grassland, but no one was heard to be burned to death.He also said that the famous poet Tian Jian was experiencing life on the grassland at that time. He was chased by a fire on the grassland for a day before he could escape.

Grassland fires were not man-made, but started naturally. This is probably a natural adjustment. The burned grass will become the fertilizer for the grass that will grow next year.In fact, with good control, setting fire to the grass is better and faster than mowing the grass manually, but everyone talks about the fire, so naturally I have to join the ranks of mowing the grass.