After Shao Biao took the people away, Zhang He took several Fuzhou Guard soldiers from Leg East to look for water sources. They soon found enough fresh water to temporarily supply a thousand people: on a low hill on the north side, there was a small stream flowing into the sea.
It's refreshing and delicious; further away, you can easily see patches of snow on the hillside in the distance. If the snow water can't be divided, it will be enough for the army to have an inexhaustible supply.
The biggest problem in the sea: the source of fresh water, has now been solved.
"They set out from Suzhou, and the weather had turned warm by then. Unexpectedly, they could actually see snow at this time." Zhu Su said with a smile.
However, in fact, my heart has become quite heavy. When I see the snow on the top of the mountain in the distance, I can basically determine whether this place is in the north.
"I hope this place is still outside the borders of the Ming Dynasty." Ru Taisu hugged herself with her head raised, her tone was quite trembling. Although they have cotton robes, the robes Jiangnan Dongyue wore would not be a little uncomfortable when they get there.
A bit thinner.
Not to mention the women who were rescued earlier who insisted on not wearing cotton robes anymore, so they wore a few more layers of coarse cloth.
"We must find a way to return to his settlement outside the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible." Looking at the trembling women who were still boiling water and cooking for the Ming army after going back and forth, Zhu Su murmured. "I hope Shao Xiaoxiao will be here.
If we go there, we can determine their location as soon as possible."
Whenever you come to a strange place, possessing information is not your top priority.
If you don't know where you are, if you don't move blindly with your head covered, it's easy to go in the wrong direction, or even directly bump into a powerful Mongolian tribe.
The feeling of insufficient information... is too passive.
The exhausted Ming army dragged their bodies from the bumpy and tiring sea, but still methodically cut down trees and boiled water for cooking. Zhu Su climbed on a high hill, took out his telescope and looked around, hoping to find some human settlements.
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"Diandong, Diandong!" But I heard someone calling urgently. "Diandong, please follow him!"
"Cao Yuan? Have you found anything?" Zhu Su perked up and turned to face Cao Yuan, who was running all the way. Cao Yuan led Zhu Su to the east of a hill, pointed to the ground in front of him and said: "East of the palace
Look here. Although this place is deserted, there are still traces of the road."
"It can be seen that this place must be a wild and uncivilized land. If you follow that path, you might be able to find an official road!"
Zhu Su looked carefully. Although it was covered with weeds, sand and gravel and seemed a bit hidden, there was indeed a winding and rugged path in front of him. A few steps further, Zhu Su even looked in a ditch.
We arrived at a broken bluestone slab. Apparently, that bluestone slab had been used to hold down the ditch ridge there to prevent pedestrians from falling into the ditch.
The nomadic fishing and hunting people living in the wilderness would not be so careful to pave the road with bluestone slabs. What's more, the broken bluestone slab had very obvious traces of manual polishing. But it was done like that.
There is no doubt whether they are the more civilized Ming people or the Goryeo tribe. Regardless of whether it is the Ming Dynasty or outside Goryeo, it can be directly regarded as having escaped the most dangerous danger.
"Cao Yuan, well done!" Zhu Su was overjoyed when he thought of that section. "I'll call some more people, and I will lead them along the road to the front to investigate!"
Cao Yuan happily accepted the order. After a while, Cao Yuan, Chang Mao, and dozens of people outside Zhu Di formed an investigation team and walked along the deserted path. Sure enough, they found a place in front of the road.
There was a village hidden behind the mountain col. Several people couldn't help but be overjoyed when they saw the village.
But as they got closer and closer, their joy couldn't help but cool down: for no other reason than that, after walking in, they could clearly find that it was actually a deserted village.
"Hey, I thought I could find someone to ask where it was, but I didn't expect it to be a deserted village with no one. How unlucky!" Sidong checked and confirmed that no one lived there. Chang Mao was angry.
He spat.
"Oh, I didn't expect that I would go there." Cao Yuan also sighed. Most of the houses in the village were in decay, and they were overgrown with weeds. It was obvious that they had been abandoned for a long time. "The two palaces are so tired.
Donghong is very happy."
"It's not entirely true that they ran away from home." Zhu Su looked around at the remaining structures of the houses. "At least, they can be sure that they did not live in Jurchen, Nuergan and other places. This place should still be outside the borders of China."
He stretched out his leg and pointed to the lintel of a decaying house: "Let's see, the houses there are obviously not of Chinese style."
"It's hard for nomads to create such complicated craftsmanship."
"Could it be that the Ming Dynasty is still here?" Zhu Di frowned deeply, "Can it be that since the Ming Dynasty is not there, why is this place so desolate?"
The crowd explored the deserted road for a while, but found nothing. Seeing that it was getting late, they returned to the camp in frustration. When it got completely dark, Zhu Su and the others were eating around the fire.
A sergeant reported: "The three masters of the palace, Lieutenant Shaobiao Shao, have returned."
"Quickly please!" Zhu Su quickly put down the bowls and chopsticks, and saw Shao Biao with a dusty face coming back with a embroidered spring knife. "I have met the three masters of the palace. Fortunately, I have lived up to my orders. I already have some features."
"Oh?" Zhu Sucuo, the capable Jinyi Guardsman, couldn't help but feel a little impressed: In just a few hours, he actually found out some clues. Jinyiwei's intelligence capabilities are indeed impressive.
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Shao Biao nodded and took out a roll of maps from his arms. Zhu Di was stunned when he saw it: "Shao Lieutenant, where did I get that roll of maps?"
"Go back to the east of the fourth hall." Shaobiao bowed and replied. "After receiving the order from the east of the fifth hall, a certain person led his people to find the highest mountain in the four places, climbed to the top and looked around, and drew the picture
map."
"You are actually very good at drawing maps!" Zhu Su was also amazed.
"In his early years, Shao was a Tanma in the army." Shao Biao said calmly. "Most of the Jinyi guards like him were from Tanma."
Oh, that's not surprising, he turned out to be a spy.
Indeed, as a spy, drawing maps is the most basic skill.
"Let's continue, what clues did I discover?" Zhu Xi said.
"No." Shao Biao nodded. "Shao climbed up and looked at it for a long time, and found several deserted villages around, but there was no trace of human habitation."
"But the terrain here...is somewhat familiar."
"Shao passed through Liaodong when he followed the Duke of Wei, General Xu, to conquer the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the past month. He was very impressed by the map that General Xu asked him to look at."
"This place may be located in Liaodong, near Jinzhou!"