The so-called east side is not the east side of the ever-victorious side, but the east side of the golden city, which is far away.

But in fact, it is not an urgent report.

Because the fighting took place last year.

At the end of the Mingxi War last year, the Jincheng overseer Ma Guifang sent the Mongol and Jurchen soldiers under his command and a small number of banner troops proficient in cartography to the east, and then increased the troops again and again, sent them again and again, and recruited pioneers from the immigrants, and passed through Jincheng with Wu Zhongxing, the magistrate of Jincheng.

His starting point was not only to expand their knowledge of Asia on the map, but also to fulfill his promise to his banner army, that is, the reward promised before the Eastern Expedition - to be promoted according to meritorious service and set up a hundred households.

More than 200 households under the command of the Ma clan are waiting.

Not only is Jincheng opening up to the east, in the north of Changsheng, Heiyunlong also led his troops to ride eastward after the end of the war, but his exploration was much easier, and central Asia had long been included in the scope of New Spain by Spain, and he just led his subordinates to personally explore the general roads and terrain.

Therefore, the Black Cloud Dragon arrived in Florida on the east coast early last year, and even visited the ancient battlefield site of St. Augustinburg, the Spanish colony near the St. Johns River.

After sending people back to Changsheng after sending the terrain and observations along the way, the Black Cloud Dragon drew the boundaries of New Spain north of St. Augustinburg, and then led his cavalry north along the sea to aimlessly inspect the east coast of Asia belonging to the Ming Dynasty.

But the first to fight in this land that was extremely strange to the Ming Dynasty was not the Black Cloud Dragon, but the Mongol leader Hulan, who ran all the way east from Jincheng.

In the past, Hulan was an inconspicuous warrior in the Mongolian steppes, and although he had a few like-minded warriors following, he was not even a Batuer, let alone a tribal leader.

But he followed Magui across the glacier, lived in Majiagang for more than two years, and later won the first rank in the battle with the Spaniards, becoming one of the last more than 200 people to survive the Eastern Expedition, and among these few more than 200 people, Hulan was also a cavalry officer, which made him unique.

Now with the emperor's grace, Hulan has his own tribe - this statement is wrong, the correct statement is that the Ming Jincheng guards the right thousand households, but this is similar to having his own tribe in Hulan's eyes.

After the end of the Ming and Western Wars, Hulan was ordered to lead his subordinates to expand the territory to the east to the sea, and when the banner army he marked finished surveying and mapping the map, he would be given the title of commander, and choose a piece of land from the land he had surveyed as his guard, and guard this land for the emperor for generations to come.

The name Ma Gui has been given, and he is called Hulanwei.

In the eyes of Hulan, the so-called 'Hulan Wei' is tantamount to the 'Hulan Ministry', and it is possible that in the future, like Genghis Khan's Kipchak Khanate, Chagatai Khanate, Ogedai Khanate, and Ilkhanate, it will be canonized by the Great Khan of Wanli and become the Hulan Khanate, paying tribute to the emperor from generation to generation.

With this dream, Hulan first encountered a high mountain that could not be climbed, so he led his subordinates along the foot of the mountain all the way to the north, at the gap in the mountain range to the east, and then encountered the plateau, and after the plateau was the endless grassland, so summer went to autumn.

In order to cope with the cold of winter, Hulan, who found himself too far north in his direction, walked southeast, and encountered one village after another on the way, and when he made his intention known, no one ever attacked them, but the local people tried to relieve them with food.

After all, they can't be beaten, their army looks very scary, not to mention, there are too many people.

Ma Gui has been sending people to the east, the first was Hulan's thousand-man foot horse, and later sent a hundred households from different positions in the north and south to open up to the east, they are connected with each other in the vast grassland, even if they get lost, it doesn't matter, as long as they go east to the end of the sea, they can always meet there.

It was calm for half the year, and in winter they found a huge lake as far as the eye could see, and Hulan thought it was the sea.

But the local aborigines who lived near the lake and called themselves the Botawatomi tribe told him that it was a lake, and in short, Hulan spent the winter of the sixth year of Wanli by the lake.

The name of Botawatomi is difficult to remember, and the banner army under the command of Hulan called them the 'rice washing department', and Hulan introduced them to the rice washing department that they were from the Hulan department of the Ming Empire, and they unloaded the Beiyang military tents and felt from the caravan next to the rice washing department, and cut down the trees to tie up the dark green felt tents.

The women in the rice washing department are more than men and few are proficient in planting and fishing, and the Hulan department is full of men and birds in hand, and hunting is a good hand, and the two tribes just complement each other to trade with each other to survive the winter.

In the coldest season, more than a hundred young men from the Hulan tribe, including Qianhu Hulan, married the girls of the rice tribe, and the two tribes held a grand wedding and married on the shore of the Great Lake, and then the war came.

It was at this time that he learned that they were not the only outsiders on the east coast of North Asia.

In the winter of the sixth year of Wanli, the foreign aborigines riding tall horses rushed into the village of Taomibu, shouting at Hulan's old father-in-law, and when he heard the news that Hulan, who had arrived on horseback, bent his bow and arrow, and before he could shoot the arrow through the throat of the rider, his wife from Taomibu grabbed the reins under his horse and told him: This is the war leader of the Iroquois League who is gathering his army.

Iroquois League.

Neither Hulan's father-in-law nor his wife, nor the father-in-law and wives of the more than 100 young men from the Hulan Department from the Taomi Department could not tell Hulan exactly what the Iroquois Alliance was.

All they know is that all the powerful tribes known to them are members of the Iroquois Alliance, and the rice tribe? They were not members of the Iroquois, but the powerful and warlike tribal confederation threatened war to call up all the warriors they could to fight in Quebec, far northeast.

Quebec means fjord, and Hulan's old father-in-law, who was worried about holding a wooden pipe, said that it was the mouth of another large lake, far away, and he heard that it could sail down the river to the sea.

Ocean!

This word made Hulan's heart move.

The 'very far' in the mouths of the father-in-law and his wife is 'not far' in Hulan's opinion, because they don't have horses or cars, and they don't care if they go anywhere by their legs.

He traveled a long distance and turned corners along the way, and walked more than 7,000 miles all the way to get here, and now his father-in-law said that it was far away, and Na Hulan estimated that he was less than 3,000 miles away from the sea.

The Mongol warriors from the distant steppes who had experienced the bitter cold of the Heishui Turquoise Islands had already made up their minds that if they couldn't do it, they would kill them, whether they were Quebec or Iroquois.

But following his father-in-law's words made him change his mind.

The old Indian knocked the burnt tobacco stalk in his pipe, and said, "There are some invaders who came here a long time ago, and they are very white and look different from us, saying that the land under their feet is not Quebec but Lachana, and they claim that this place no longer belongs to the Chinese monarch, but to the people of New France, who hunt beavers at the mouth of the river and cut down the forests, and also attack the tribes of the Iroquois Confederation. ”

Just as Christopher Columbus believed in India, the first French explorers to reach the New World were convinced that they had landed on the coast of China, firmly believing that Quebec was a province of China.

Hearing the white-looking outsider, Hulan understood, he licked his dry lips, and said, "Let's go too, the Iroquois Alliance is gathering soldiers and horses in the Great River, this is also a big gathering, right?" In my hometown there is a Naadam conference, and there should be one. ”

"Don't worry about this, there are still a lot of my people coming over in the back, I'll leave some troops to meet them, and we'll go to the Iroquois convention!"

Hulan rubbed his hands and walked out of the longhouse belonging to the tribal leader, and said to the left and right: "Send someone back, to tell the marshal that there is going to be a war here!" ”