Those who call the shots are always ambitious, and those who execute think something else.

At the very edge of the northwestern part of America, the place where the Ming army landed was named Xihanmen by Magui according to the custom of the Ming Dynasty, and this gate means the same as Macao.

And their habitat, thirty miles south of the West Hanmen, looking at the extremely high peaks and the frozen lake exposed in the shattered gods' glasses, was named Shuihu Peak, because they had to find a place with trees.

Here, the Jurchens leapt to the top of the frozen chain.

The captain from the south has frozen to death and suffered frostbite several times, and the flag army who was so frozen that his brain is not very normal said with a smile that in this kind of ghost place, people don't need coffins when they die.

The Han'er of northern Xinjiang shivered in the cold wind, the Koreans put down the pride in their hearts and obediently put on thick jackets, the Mongols took out the hot strings from their arms and planned to search for some game, and the Jurchens had already led the deer to step on the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Three months, that is, the three months when the imperial court confirmed the death of Ma Gui and others, they continued to cross more than 40 miles of glaciers in the extreme west of America, transported all the baggage back, including all the items that could be dismantled on the ship, and built their new home under the peak of the lake.

No one has honor in their hearts.

They fought alone, and honor was not a ward against hunger and cold.

"Ma, whether you are missing toes or fingers, missing ears or frozen blind, work, eat, and sleep."

A towering giant tree in the forest was put down by the flag army and made a loud noise, Ma Gui pressed his sword and shouted to the flag army: "If you can build a house, go and build a house; Whoever is able to hunt, go hunting; Whoever can cut down a tree, go and cut down the tree; Nothing could be done, so they carried water and boiled water in the camp. ”

"If there is that blind and deaf person who can't lift his hands and feet and can't run, and he really can't do anything, go and pick up stones and dead branches, and pile up a mosque little by little, everyone must move, and if you sit still, you will freeze to death, Ma is your chief military officer, if you don't let you die, your life will always be under my control!"

Chen Mu's flash of installing fishing gear on the butt of the little shark boat became a life-saving magic weapon for Ma Gui and others, who chiseled open the ice sheet of the lake and fished for water.

At first, he also wanted to build a camp, and then the savage Jurchen riders who rode deer and led dogs walked out of the north and south on the roadless ice for ten miles without seeing any traces, and simply ignored those, except for the three military villages that can accommodate 100 people also have some military purposes, and the rest of the banner army built fishermen's huts along the lake.

They scolded Chen Mu in their hearts, saying that everyone who is good will get the field, have a boat to reward them for half a year, and each of them will be a hundred households?

Shit, it's cold and snowy here, can you farm?

Their own ships can't get through, let alone the court's reward ships full of silver, not to mention this ghost place, who has a place to spend with silver?

The primitive wooden house was not warm, and Magui struggled to take off his heavy boots, and his cashmere socks were taken off to shake the ice ballast on them, and then set them up by the fire.

The foot soaking water was steaming hot, so comfortable that he almost screamed, and his eyebrows on his beard still couldn't stretch, and said: "This is not a place to stay for a long time, and we have to continue to go south, we fish, hunt, and then go to the south." ”

Ma Jin was also soaking his feet, and even puffed on a pipe, which was the relic of a southern captain, he raised his eyebrows, and the smoke and Ha Qi gently spewed out from his mouth and nose along with the conversation, and said: "To the south, Duonan is the head?" There are herds of deer, fur seals on the ice, water in the lake, we have food, and there are enough trees. ”

"Survive this winter, and when the sea freezes, we build ships and set off for home." Ma Jin opened his hands and said: "The chief officer, the deputy chief soldier, the commander, the thousand households, how many generals have wasted two years for this matter, we feel that there is land here, we are here, now we know, here the deer can live, the bear can live, the fish can live, the seal can live, they can't live, they can't go back." ”

Ma Jin took down his pipe, "Go further south, do you want to find the Spaniards, this distance we point to the two legs even if they turn into ice cubes!" ”

It is easy to understand that the Spaniards went to the Spaniards, and according to the intelligence of the Nanyang Military Administration, the Spaniards were operating around Mexico.

The topic was very funny, and even if they only had a sketch of the South Asian Merica that the Nanyang Military Government had obtained from the Spanish merchants, they knew that Guam and Luzon were roughly parallel there, and that even if the map of North Asia was missing, everyone knew that they could not rely on two legs to walk from the north of Lake Baikal to the southern part of the Great Wall.

It's not that you can't go, it's that it's simply impossible.

"Brother, I didn't mean that, it won't be there, and the reason why I think I should continue to travel south is one reason." The foot-wiping towel fell into the wooden basin with Ma Gui's movements, and he looked directly into Ma Jin's eyes and said, "Brother really thinks that camping here is safe and sound?" ”

"From north to south, it's getting warmer; From south to north, the more you go, the colder it gets; I don't know about the weather, but in my hometown, it's not the coldest yet. ”

The water was already cold, Ma Gui wiped his feet, seeing that the socks had not yet dried, he simply stuffed his feet into his robe and coat, and was just in time for the entourage to come over and pour the foot washing water, he raised his hand and said, "Don't rush first, go to the bag and get the map first." ”

said that he was not in a hurry to pour water, but in fact, he was very anxious, and let him talk to Ma Jin for a while, and the water for washing his feet would freeze.

"It's cold here, and the water is dripping into ice, and my brother thinks about Layue, what should it be, we haven't been frozen in Wangxia Prefecture, not to mention." Ma Gui spread his hands and said: "The mission has not been achieved, brother really wants to go back like this?" Not to mention whether we can survive the winter here, whether the food is enough to eat, just say that in June and July of next year, the sea will melt with ice and snow, and the ship will be built, so we will look back at Xiazhou smoothly. ”

"You and my brother have the ability, and if you can't explore North Asia, the Nanyang military government will change its strategy and rely on Westerners to do things in South Asia Melica; We, the northern generals, were transferred to the side, perhaps to go back to the border to guard the Great Wall for a lifetime; Either transfer to Japan to participate in the war, maybe die on the battlefield, maybe earn merits, and finally go back to the northern Xinjiang, and finally I have two generals in the Ma family, glorifying the ancestors. ”

When Ma Gui said this, he rarely had the slightest smile on his face, but he shook his head for a moment and said: "But I don't want to do this, if I just leave, even if I have the highest official position in my life, I will be haunted by this, at this moment." ”

"Do you really believe him?" Ma Jin buckled his pipe, pointed to the south, and said, "He has harmed us here, there is nothing but ice and snow, what else do you have to worry about?" ”

The 'he' in Ma Jin's mouth is not someone else, it is Chen Mu.

"The army is criticizing Chen Shuai, he should be criticized, he didn't say that even the egg bag can be frozen, but he didn't blame people, he can really go to Wangxia Prefecture from Kuwu Island, and he can really go to North Asia Melica from Wangxia Prefecture, just by virtue of this, I believe him."

Ma Gui's words were loud, at this time and in this situation, the whole army was afraid that Chen Mu would be able to eat him alive, Ma Gui's sentence I believe him, it is not weighty.

"So he said that there was smallpox in America, and I believe; Curing their smallpox will open up territory for the imperial court, I believe; He said there were minerals here, and I believed it - we hoarded grain, and then we went three hundred miles south and mapped the coast bit by bit. Just in time to catch up with his entourage to get the map, Ma Gui spread it on the felt with his hand, pointed to them and drew a map of the thirty-mile coast and said: "Within three hundred miles, mark the forest farms, fishing grounds, places where deer, bears, and sea dogs beg, and after three hundred miles, choose a place to build a camp to hoard grain and grass, and then walk three hundred miles south until you reach the place where the coast thaws." ”

"Find land that can cultivate and raise horses, find at least 100,000 acres of land according to the thousands of troops who follow us, and give it to the armies according to merit, take the land for the living, give the family members for the dead, and reward those who don't want it according to the silver, and buy it with silver if they think the land is less."

"Live or die, go to sea with me, and I will leave something for those dead soldiers and their families!"