open sea

Chapter 516 Legacy
Those who call the shots always have ambitions; those who execute them think otherwise.

On the edge of the northwest of América, the place where the Ming army landed was named Xihanmen by Magui according to the custom of the Ming Dynasty. This gate means the same as Macau.

And their habitat is in Xihanmen. Walking thirty miles southward, looking at the extremely high peaks and the frozen lake exposed in the shattered god's eyepiece, it was named Shuihufeng, because they had to find a place with trees. place.

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

The captain from the south had frozen to death and suffered several frostbite injuries. The Banner Army, who was so cold that his mind was not normal, said with a smile that in such a ghostly place, people don't need coffins when they die.

The Han children in northern Xinjiang trembled in the cold wind. The Koreans let go of their pride and obediently put on their thick jackets. The Mongols took out warm strings from their arms and planned to search for some game. The Jurchens had already led them. The deer came back from stepping knee-deep in the snow.

Three months, that is, the three months when the imperial court confirmed the death of Magui and others. They crossed the glaciers for more than forty miles in the far west of America, and brought back all the luggage, including all the dismantled objects on the ship. , Build their new home under the water lake peak.

Nobody has honor in their hearts.

They fought alone, and honor was no protection against hunger and cold.

"Mum Ma, no matter whether you have missing toes or fingers, missing ears or blind eyes from freezing, you can work, eat and sleep."

A towering giant tree in the forest was brought down by the Banner Army and made a loud noise. Ma Gui pressed his sword and shouted to the Banner Army: "Whoever can build a house, go build a house; whoever can hunt, go hunt; whoever can cut trees, go cut trees; Can't do anything, just bring water to boil in the camp."

"If someone is blind, deaf, unable to lift their hands, unable to run, and really can't do anything, they will pick up stones and dry branches, and build a mosque bit by bit. Everyone must move and sit still. You will be frozen to death, Ma is your commander-in-chief, if you don’t let you die, your life will always belong to me!”

Chen Mu's ingenuity to install fishing gear on the buttocks of the small shark boat became a life-saving magic weapon for Ma Gui and others. They dug open the lake's ice cover to fish for water.

At first, I wanted to build a camp. Later, the savage Jurchen riders who rode deer and led dogs walked north and south for ten miles on the ice with no roads, but they didn't see anyone. , and the rest of the Banner Army built fisherman's huts along the lake.

They scolded Chen Mu badly in their hearts. They agreed that everyone would get a field, a boat to reward them for half a year, and each of them be a hundred households?
Shit, here is a world of ice and snow, can you farm?

Their own boats can't get through, let alone the imperial court's silver-laden boats, not to mention this ghost place, who has money to spend?
The original wooden house was not warm enough. Magui struggled to take off his heavy boots and cashmere socks to shake the ice on them, and then put them on the stove.

The foot bath was steaming, and he was so comfortable that he almost screamed out. The eyebrows on the beard still couldn't be stretched, and said: "This is not a place to stay for a long time, and we have to continue to go south. We will fish, hunt, and then go south. "

Ma Jin was also soaking his feet, and he even held a pipe, which was the relic of a southern captain. He raised his eyebrows, and gently exhaled smoke and breath from his mouth and nose as he spoke, saying: "Go south, how many How big is South? There's deer here, there's fur seals on the ice, there's water in the lake, we've got food, and there's plenty of trees."

"After this winter, when the ice melts on the sea, we will build a boat and set off home." Ma Jin opened his hands and said: "The commander-in-chief, deputy commander-in-chief, command envoy, Qianhu, how many generals are responsible for this matter?" Two years have been wasted, we thought there was land here, we came here, and now we know that deer can live here, bears can live, fish can live and seals can live here, so we can’t live people, and we still don’t go back.”

Ma Jin took down the pipe, "Go further south, you want to find the Spaniards, we can't reach this distance even if our two legs are turned into ice cubes!"

It is very understandable to go to the Spaniards. According to the intelligence of the Nanyang Army, the Spaniards are active in Mexico.

This topic is very funny. Even if they only have the sketch map of South America that the Nanyang Army obtained from the Spanish businessman, they understand that Guam and Luzon are roughly parallel there. Even if the map of North America is missing, everyone knows that they are not It is possible to rely on two legs to walk from the north of Lake Baikal to the gentle place south of the Great Wall.

It's not impossible, it's simply impossible.

"Brother, I didn't mean that, and I can't get there. There is one reason why I think I will continue to travel south." The foot towel fell into the tub with Ma Gui's movements, and he said looking directly into Ma Jin's eyes : "Brother really thinks that camping here is safe and secure?"

"From north to south, it's getting warmer; from south to north, it's getting colder. I don't know the weather here, but in our hometown, it's not the coldest time yet."

The water was already cold, Ma Gui wiped his feet, seeing that the socks were not dry, he simply stuffed his feet into a fur robe and overcoat, just in time for his attendants to pour water for washing his feet, he raised his hand and said, "Don't be in a hurry, First go to the bag and get the map."

He said he was not in a hurry to pour the water, but in fact he was in a hurry. Let him chat with Ma Jin for a while, and the water for washing his feet would freeze.

"It's so cold here that the dripping water turns into ice. My brother thinks about the twelfth lunar month. It's not like we haven't experienced the cold in Wangxia Prefecture, let alone." Ma Gui spread his hands and said: "The mission has not been fulfilled, brother really wants to go back like this ? Not to mention whether we can survive the winter here, and whether there is enough food to eat, let’s say that in June and July next year, the sea will melt and the boats will be built. Let’s go back to Xiazhou without any problems.”

"You and my brothers are both capable. If you can't visit North America, the Nanyang military government changed its strategy and relied on Westerners to do things in South America; we, the northern general, are transferred to another place, and maybe we will return to the border to guard the Great Wall for the rest of our lives; or Transferred to Japan to participate in the war, maybe died in the battle, maybe earned merits, and finally returned to northern Xinjiang, in the end, I have two generals from the Ma family, and I will glorify my ancestors."

When Ma Gui mentioned this, it was rare to have the slightest smile on his face, but he just shook his head for a moment and said: "But I don't want to do this. If I just leave like this, I will treat this even if I have the highest official position in my life. At this moment, brooding."

"Do you really believe him?" Ma Jin put down his pipe, pointed to Nan and said, "He brought us here, and there is nothing but ice and snow. What else do you have to worry about?"

The 'he' Ma Jin said was none other than Chen Mu.

"The army is criticizing Chen Shuai. It should be criticized. He didn't say that even egg bags can be frozen, but he didn't lie. From Kuwu Island, it is really possible to go to Wangxia Prefecture, and from Wangxia Prefecture. That’s all it takes to get to North America, I trust him.”

Ma Gui's words were resounding. At this time, in this place, and in this situation, the whole army might eat Chen Mu alive when they saw Chen Mu. I believe Ma Gui's words, which are not to be regarded as disrespectful.

"So he said there were people in America who had smallpox, I believed it; cured their smallpox, and they would open up territories for the court, I believed it; he said there were minerals, and I believed it—we hoarded food, and then sent it to the Walk three hundred li to the south, and draw the coast bit by bit." Just as his followers took the map, Ma Gui spread it on the felt, and pointed to them to draw a map of the thirty-mile coast, saying: "Three hundred miles Inside, mark forest farms, fishing grounds, places where deer, bears, and sea seals beg for food. After [-] miles, choose a place to build a camp to store food and grass, and then walk [-] miles south until you reach the place where the coast is thawed."

"Find land that can be cultivated and raise horses. Follow our thousands of troops, find at least [-] mu of land, and distribute it to the troops according to their merits. Those who are alive will take the land, and those who are dead will be given to their families. Those who don't want it will be rewarded in silver. Those who think the land is too small can redeem it with silver."

"Whether dead or alive, go to sea with me, I will leave something for the dead soldiers and their families!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)