| 1 | All the strategic passes in the mountains are fortified. | |
| 2 | The military forces were ordered to sit down at the approaches to the city. | |
| 3 | When all three of us were at the pass, two unhappy truths became clear. | |
| 4 | Jiayuguan Pass was not so much as the "Strategic pass Under the Heaven" as an important communication center in Chinese history. | |
| 5 | And so it happened that we reached the pass at six, not at four, near collapse, and with a certain trembling in our knees that wasn' t just from exhaustion. |
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