The even more pressing issue is the water supply. Even though we chose mountain areas close to water sources to escape the heat, every day soldiers would die from a lack of water. More often, it was those who couldn't endure the hunger and thirst, who took a risky chance to go out during the day to search for water and food, only to collapse along the way.
The result was the rapid depletion of body water, and a few weeks later, bodies of various shapes and forms were left as dried corpses by the roadside.
As for the animals in the deep mountains, they instinctively searched for a chance at survival before the extreme heat arrived, either hiding deep in the mountains and forests or migrating to the snow-capped peaks in the north, all struggling to stay alive.
During the first month of the extreme heat, aside from the few who thought they could take a chance and ended up being the first to be eliminated, the majority of the people survived.
