The Ming army was like crazy.

North Asia Melica followed all the Ming troops of Magui to do one thing - to pull out their feet and gallop.

Magui Ma Jin, as the most pitiful chief officer and deputy chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty, the two of them joined together, leading 22 Liaodong soldiers, 19 Xuanfu soldiers, 3 Shuntian soldiers, 17 Mongolian soldiers, 6 Korean soldiers, 27 Jurchen soldiers and 56 Yanian people, a line of more than 150 people, six months of running, sailing, from Majiagang to the southwest of more than 5,000 miles.

Three years into their landing in North Asia, they've never been so happy!

When they set off, it was still cold, and they set up two hundred households on the left and right in Majiagang, leaving more than 100 banner soldiers to cultivate and log, and ran hundreds of miles with cavalry before Majiagang was surrounded by a circle of towering snow-capped mountains, and the only thing that looked like a road was a huge snow-capped mountain rift valley in the east, and it was not until that time that Magui knew that Majiagang was a small basin.

They didn't find out where the Snow Mountain Rift could go to the east, and Ma Gui didn't have many men, and if they were assigned some strange places that looked like death, they would probably kill him in secret.

Therefore, his choice was to take one of the several boats left to them by Chen Ju, and join a few Majiagang self-built dhows, sail away from Majiagang Bay and continue to sail southwest.

This regained his reputation among his subordinates, and the farther south he went, the warmer the climate became, a common sense shared by all ethnic groups...... It's not all, those new members of the Yanian Banner Army don't have this common sense, they have lived in the west of Majiagang all their lives, and have never been to the north or the south.

Regardless, Magui was well aware that all of his subordinates wanted to spend the winter in a warmer place.

There is no doubt about the result, seeking kindness and reaping benevolence.

The distant snow-capped mountains stretch to the southeast, and at the foot of the snow-capped mountains are endless woodlands.

Gradually, the green came out in front of them, and there were more small creatures running in the forest, and the bulky, thick and poorly made fur jackets of the flag army were taken off and put into the cabin, and they wore the red studded cloth iron armor belonging to the Ming border army, and they walked along the coast, constantly exploring and mapping the fertile land and forests along the coast.

They came into contact with and documented one indigenous tribe after another along the coast, all of which had a small population, ranging from dozens to as few as seven people, and some settled along the coast and lived by fishing and sealing; Others collect wild fruits, hunt wild animals, and migrate from place to place. Of course, there are also gangs and factions that attack each other, and Magui's luck is very good, he only met one like that, and he called him Yiren.

It was a tribe with a population of more than a thousand and already a large village, and in a narrow strait that was nearly a thousand miles long, Magui's fleet found some canoes on the shore, and then several of his cavalry went ashore and explored along the river into their territory, and the cavalry could only hear the word 'yi' in the shouts of the natives, and then several sharpened wooden spears were thrown out, and the native warriors in leather clothes ran out of the forest with bows, and some were said to be armed with iron axes.

There is no doubt that the valiant Ming cavalry fled.

Although no one was injured, several pathfinders were greatly frightened, and then the entire expedition fleet was on alert again - they had not encountered an enemy in more than two years.

From Kuwu Island to here, no one has ever raised their weapons against them, and most of the tribes they met along the way, except for this Yi tribe, not only did not want to attack them but also gave them help, and these banner troops even forgot that in addition to cold, hunger, wild beasts, and disease, the creature who walked upright on two legs was also an enemy.

"Dashuai, as long as the Xuanfu Bird Gunner and my subordinates are together, they can be defeated!"

It was Hulan, a Mongolian flag official under Ma Gui's command, who spoke, all of them were wearing the red cloth and iron armor of the Ming border army, the Mongolian flag with a saber on the front waist and a bow on the back waist had chilblains on their cheeks that seemed to be indelible, a beard on their lips, their skin was so dry that it seemed to be about to crack, the hair on the top of their heads grew just two inches, only the forehead was slightly longer like a peach heart falling between the eyebrows, and the long hair on the sideburns and behind the ears was braided into two knots, and the bun hung down to the shoulders.

When he landed in North Asia, Hulan's hairstyle was that of the standard Mongolian 'wolf', and last summer he planned to grow his hair like the Han Chinese, so now his hair looks a little messy and strange.

The reason for the growth of hair has nothing to do with whether it is sinicized or not.,He can already speak Chinese.,What's more, in this icy and snowy ghost place, except for the greedy big white bear, there is no animal for him to go to nomadism.。

Mainly because Hulan felt that the long hair of the Han people might be warmer.

Ma Gui, who was on the side of the ship, looked at the shore with a telescope, turned his head to look at Hulan and said in surprise: "I don't know anything about them, what's the use of defeating them?" ”

"The natives here speak no less than we do, and it's hard to communicate with each other, I know you can defeat them, but that's not our mission."

Ma Gui looked at Hulan and smiled, Hulan is the head of seventeen Mongolian cavalry, Ma Gui has very few war horses, before Chen Ju came, his people could only ride deer, and now there are some war horses to arm the cavalry of Mongolia and Liaodong first.

This Hulan has a very handsome riding and archery ability, not only good archery, but also very accurate in setting fire on horses, in the past has been tugging on the waist to cut short wooden handles of the fire stick, now with a horse, you can put it in the horse bag.

The Mongols will use a lot of firearms, after all, they have a large-scale firearms and siege troops when they are in the west, the Ming Dynasty inherited a part of the soldiers to develop slowly, until the exchanges with the West, Portugal and other countries in recent decades have greater progress, but now there are no formed firearms troops in the various departments of the grassland, but some soldiers will bring one or two firearms for emergency, after all, compared with the old firearms, the efficiency of bending the bow and riding is higher, and it is too difficult to load gunpowder on the horse.

Ma Gui patted the telescope in his hand with some annoyance, his earliest telescope froze and cracked when crossing the glacier, and now the glass piece of this telescope is not the right color, a little green, and it is too eye-catching to look at.

"Their village is very large, if there are more villages around, maybe it is a country, they don't look like warriors, just strong men with weapons, hunters, this is the first tribe we meet that can farm, make pottery, hunt and fish, and they can smelt iron, so keep it."

Ma Gui saw that hundreds of native warriors in fur and patchwork clothes in the distant wilderness were afraid of the big ships docked on the coast, they looked little different from the Ming people, more similar to the Mongols and Jurchens, although they held weapons, in Ma Gui's eyes, there was no doubt that they were weak.

As Hulan said, a horse team of seventeen Mongols, with the participation of nineteen Xuanfu birds, whether there were a hundred or two hundred warriors, could be easily defeated.

"Leave them a little something, let's make a note of this place, continue to sail south for another two thousand miles, and then return, waiting for Chen Shuai's large army to arrive." Ma Gui raised his hand and swept across the vast coast, turned to his subordinates on the ship and shouted: "Next year, you and others will get land, forest farms, hunting grounds here, everyone has it!" ”