wild trail

Chapter 297 Rough Guess

"Is it easy to deal with the savages over there? Have you encountered any troubles!" Wang Lang asked.

"Returning to Your Majesty, although the savages over there are more ferocious than the people on the grassland, they are not a threat to us, but the weather over there is very cold, and the woods are full of white snow, which increases the arrest. It is very difficult." The soldier replied respectfully.

"Does it often snow over there?"

The soldier shook his head, "During the days we arrived, it didn't snow, but the wind was very strong. Whenever the wind blows, the whole world turns white."

While listening to the soldiers' narration, Wang Lang analyzed the climate characteristics of this world in his mind. A few months ago, the Ministry of Rites observed the shortest day, that is, the winter solstice. This is a tropical place and there is not much difference in temperature. When Shi Yue and the others arrived in the north, it was just in time for the coldest winter.

It took the army more than three months to get there from Yancheng, excluding the time wasted in building strongholds during the journey. With Shiyue's ability, they can at least march more than 20 kilometers a day, that is to say, the snowfield in the north At least 1000 kilometers away from here.

More than 1000 kilometers sounds abstract. If you compare it with a map, it is almost as far from Beijing to Hangzhou.

It is definitely not an easy task to deploy materials from such a long distance. Fortunately, the previous supply station was built in the northeast direction. If it is properly arranged, the materials will be concentrated in the built stronghold in the north and stored. Batch delivery to Shiyue and the others is the most reasonable way.

After the soldier finished speaking, he saw that Wang Lang was frowning and contemplating for a long time. He was a little at a loss for a while, and could only stand there awkwardly and look at each other.

Wang Lang raised his head to look at these soldiers, and said: "You go back to rest first, the family members are in Yancheng and have a look at their home, rest for a few days before it's too late."

"Please, Your Majesty, I will take my leave!" The soldier bowed and retreated slowly.

After these people left, Wang Lang got up and came to the square table, and spread the simple map of Xia Kingdom drawn earlier on the table.

I roughly measured the distance between the cities, estimated the positions of the stronghold and the northern jungle, and marked two black dots respectively, marking them as stronghold [-] and stronghold [-].

"Tropical, temperate, so this is near the equator."

Wang Lang drew a dotted line near Yancheng, and marked it on the side, which may be the equator.

Looking at this map, he was very puzzled. Now he has basically confirmed that he is near the equator. In his impression, the large land near the equator is Africa and South America.

But South America is not realistic either. It is impossible to have grasslands in the tropical jungles of Brazil, unless there is a pampas grassland near the Antarctic, but it belongs to the temperate zone, which is not in line with the situation here.

At present, looking at Africa, the possibility is the greatest, but there is still one thing he can't figure out. If it is really Africa, then there is no need for the dinosaurs to come here by sea.

I don’t know what went wrong in this world. Dinosaurs are still alive and kicking in this world, but human beings have evolved to this level. Even if this is a different earth, it will not be the same as the evolution of human beings in another world. Too much difference.

Even tens of thousands of years ago, 10,000+ years ago, there is not much difference between the continental plate and the future.

Thinking about it this way, if it was really Africa, the dinosaurs could pass through the Middle East and come over from land. If that was the case, this continent should have been rampant with dinosaurs long ago, and it would not have been so long in this world that even a living dinosaur No one was seen.

The place I am in is like a lost continent isolated from the world, not bordering on any continent.

Wang Lang scratched his hair, his thoughts became more and more confused, he leaned on the back of the chair, stared blankly at the roof, and muttered to himself: "Could it be that there are other continents besides the seven continents in this world?" , if this is the case, even if this is the earth, this world is really too strange to me."

He sighed and stopped thinking about these things, rubbed his temples, looked at the map in front of him again, and thought about the method of material transportation.

Three days later, the cavalry who came back to deliver the letter left in the north.

Not long after the cavalry left, Mu Feng left with the supplies transport team. Before leaving, he specially asked Wang Lang for the method of making ice. This kind of cool ice made him very fond of it. .

The long transportation team is protected by fifty elite soldiers, and the speed of moving forward is very fast on the smooth road.

After repairing the vehicle at the first supply station, continue on the road.

The team of transporting materials did not arouse the slightest interest of the people in Yancheng. During the slack season, the farmers who are free will always call some acquaintances to the river to catch some fish and shrimp, and take advantage of the cool night to have a few drinks. Xiaojiu sang some songs with weird tones, boasted about their glorious deeds to each other, and said some gossip that they didn't know where they heard it, which also added a lot of adjustments to their busy life.

When Wang Lang came to his small courtyard, he saw Fan Xing and his other two concubines with big bellies leading two-year-old Wang Lan to watch Wang He practice archery.

Seeing Wang Lang's arrival, the three of them stood up and saluted Wang Lang.

"Father!"

Wang Lan, who could already walk, ran towards Wang Lang unsteadily.

Wang Lang smiled and picked him up, teasing him.

"Lan'er, have you been naughty today!" Wang Lang said softly.

Wang Lan shook her head and said, "Lan listens to her mother very much today."

"Lan'er, how cute!" Wang Lang rubbed his beard against Wang Lan's tender face, making the little girl giggle.

Wang Lang hugged Wang Lan and sat on a chair, watching Wang He's archery.

Wang Lang's arrival immediately lifted Wang He's spirits, knowing that his father was watching him from behind, and tried his best to draw the bamboo bow to the full string, but because of his small body and weak strength, his face was flushed and he pulled the bamboo bow seven times away. into about.

Staring at the archery target in front of him, with a sound of "whoosh!", the arrow flew out limply, piercing crookedly on the archery target.

Seeing this harmless arrow shot by himself, Wang He blushed suddenly with shame, turned around, bowed anxiously to Wang Lang, and said, "Father, my son has let father down."

Wang Lang smiled and said: "Why am I disappointed? Didn't the arrow hit the target? You have shot very well. What you need now is strength. You are still young. Don't worry about this matter. Take your time." Just fine."

Originally thought that Wang Lang was going to criticize himself, but unexpectedly it was a word of praise, Wang He was overjoyed immediately, and quickly said: "My child will definitely work hard."

(End of this chapter)