Chen Bazhi, who was holding heavy artillery, didn't need to worry, Ma Jin didn't know, he only knew that when he commanded the fleet stationed in the extreme east of the mainland, he was really relieved to be able to look at the strait with his own eyes.

In April of the first year, more than 700 people from the Kuwu Island Xiharwei, with the weight of the May food, in pursuit of the other side of the strait Amerika, they held the imperial edict, carried the high hopes of the ministers of the Nanyang, each in order to increase the official and get the emperor's reward land.

As a northern general, Ma Jin made a special trip to Chen Bazhi to ask for a captain who was skilled in navigation before setting off, and made the most adequate preparations and the worst results, sailing 6,000 miles.

Drifting at sea, with no slower speed, the ship can travel 5,000 miles in a month.

But Magui didn't expect that in front of them for the great cause of Amerika, there was a long peninsula.

In the voyage notes of the fleet, it is clearly recorded that Magui circled a semicircle of 4,000 li in the hometown of Nurgandus, and only then arrived at the peninsula located 800 li east of Kuwu Island, which was the first 100 households set up by Majin, with the name of 4,000 li.

Record the wrongful path he took.

When he arrived at Four Thousand Miles, Ma Jin was really excited for a while, and he mistakenly thought that he had led the fleet to the strait, so the original name of the hundred households was Wangxia Prefecture. But when he led his fleet around the strait and continued eastward along the coast, he never found the shore that he had planned to go north.

It wasn't until he continued to travel thousands of miles that Ma Gui went crazy into the cabin and tossed the charts, and finally admitted that he had taken the wrong path, and immediately sent two small fleets back to Wangxia Prefecture, and sailed west from Wangxia Prefecture back to Kuwu Island, so that the new fleet could measure the distance of the route and name it again.

There are many Jurchen fishing and hunting villages scattered along the long coastline, and during the reign of the imperial court in Nurgandus, the tribes north of the Nuergan Mountains were collectively known as the Beishan Jurchens.

Although their ancestors had paid tribute to the imperial court, each landing was like a stroke of luck for the Majin fleet, sometimes the tribes along the way were willing to exchange food for decorations or spices, and sometimes they would ride reindeer and pick up bows and spears to pose as if they were dealing with robbers.

There is no way, if it is not necessary, Ma Jin, who has been worn out by the voyage and is very anxious, is unwilling to dock, let alone waste time with these savage Jurchens, but his fleet is underfed, and it is a waste of too much water, food and time to travel 4,000 miles.

If they do not replenish food and water on the spot, they will fall into the dilemma of not being able to find the strait and not be able to return to Kuwu Island.

Stopping and stopping all the way, two small boats were released every hundreds of miles to stand guard along the coast, waiting for the follow-up fleet, setting up two hundred households, and when he really reached the end of the mainland, there were only more than 300 people left in the fleet around him.

The cold wind in Xipol was biting, and the hemp brocade that got off the ship was still shivering from the cold, and he stepped on the seashore that had been frozen solid, he looked at the smoke in the forest in the distance and asked Ni Shangzhong: "Why do the Jurchens call the purpose of our voyage Xipol?" ”

"Former Mongolian language? Maybe someone came back then. ”

Ni Shangzhong has a strong physique, as a former captain of the ship, occasionally serves as a mission to break the thin ice during the voyage, he has long been accustomed to this kind of severe cold, and with some chagrin, he took off the helmet covering the fur and scratched his hair, exhaled like a white ha, and stepped on the snow with a squeaky sound, and said: "It's good to have hot water, the last time I freshened up was August!" ”

The local Jurchen tribe said that it was only warm for five months a year, so they set off in the warmer April, but they did not expect to go around a big circle to the north, and the subsequent weather has been like the winter of Nanyangwei.

After entering August, the weather is normal, like the winter of Wanquan Dusi, which is also Ni Shangzhong's hometown.

Now that it was October, and the land and trees along the coast were covered with ankle-high snow, and they could no longer go east, Ni Shangzhong looked over their warship to the northeast sea with a telescope, and said: "You can faintly see the island over there, general, this should be it." ”

Since September, the sea they passed through began to show signs of ice, and as the northeast direction became more serious, occasionally hitting broken ice, the bow of the ship on which Ni Shangzhong was riding had already cracked in several collisions, and the ship was close to being abandoned.

In fact, Ma Jin did not reach his destination, he just found that the next road could no longer rely on the ship, so he stopped the boat and docked, otherwise he originally wanted to go around to the north of the North Sea to see to confirm that he had really reached the end of the mainland.

Running four thousand miles of unjust road really made Ma Jin suffer enough.

These generals, who were wrapped like bears, were not cold, but the flag soldiers who had disembarked earlier were frozen, and even if they were wearing winter clothes, they were still too cold to bear.

The white expanse in front of him was so bright that Ma Jin's eyes hurt, and he said: "I'm afraid I'm going to spend the winter here, but I don't know how long the winter here is." ”

While the fleet was still on the way, the Beishan Jurchens, the closest to Wangxia Prefecture, said in a language that only the savage Jurchens could understand that the sea heading east only thawed three months a year.

It is very likely that they will stay here until June or July of the following year.

The Fujian captain who was seconded from Wudao looked at the warship distressedly with a wolf skin jacket wrapped in his armor, and put his hands in his sleeves like a northern soldier, stepped on the snow under his feet, and scolded Gan Linniang while stepping on it.

Even the northern soldiers, who were accustomed to the wind and snow on the frontier, were shivering with cold when they arrived here, except for the flag army who were ordered to run away as soon as they got off the ship to set up a guard or receive orders to carry and cut wood, the others had already curled up and sat back to back, burying their faces in their knees to avoid the cold.

When the sailors on the tail boat came down, Ma Gui, who went to explore the horses, looked straight in the eye...... At the tail of the team was the boat of the North Korean soldiers, and before departure, each ship was prepared with heavy winter clothes, but the dozens of North Korean soldiers were still wearing North Korean uniforms.

Chen Mu of this Daming Expedition Team has made a lot of money, not to mention the winter clothes directly transferred from the border army, the flag is armed with relatively cheap deer fur and sheep fur, and the generals are wolf fur, leather boots and quilts, and even each small flag is also equipped with a new lighter made by Nanyangwei.

But these Korean soldiers did not wear cloaks, did not wear deer and sheep fur, only wore red and blue combat jackets, and rarely had helmets on their heads, and even the leading young general Yi Sunsin only tied his forehead, his teeth were clenched from the cold, his face was pale, and he tried his best to show a moderate appearance in the Ming army, and each of them came in line with bows and arrows.

"Why don't you wear robes, this weather is going to freeze to death!"

Ma Gui's questioning did not make Yi Sunsin feel afraid, he raised the bow and arrow in his hand, and said: "This place is much colder than North Korea, but it is not enough to freeze people to death, and in North Korea, many people can survive the winter with only single clothes." ”

"I have joined Chen Shuai's disciples, and I have not made any achievements in the next inch, but the amount of money is higher than that of others, and I am deeply disturbed; When the general crosses the strait, it will not be too late for me to put on my robe, and now let me wait to hunt for you. ”

"I heard that there are deer in the land of the Beishan Jurchen, and there should be one here./14_14088/