In late August of the 34th year of Qin Shi Huang, on the blue south coast of Korea, five ships were sailing eastward, but not far to the south, a storm was about to strike.

After hearing the sentry alarm, Wei Yang, who was in charge of this expeditionary fleet, hurried to the deck, and the fierce wind blew so hard that he couldn't open his eyes.

He secretly said that it was not good, and it happened that a middle-aged man who was in a panic 621 color also came to look outside, so he shouted loudly in the wind: "Master Xu, didn't you say that there will be no north wind at this time!" ”

Xu Fu also looked at the storm sweeping in the distance, dumbfounded, but he was also aggrieved in his heart.

"I've never been to this sea before, so how can I be sure of everything?"

This is indeed a coast that Xu Fu has never explored, and their voyage began a month ago, with the Shang Jia's "easy deepening, almost all the Mahan tribes fell to the Qin Dynasty, and Fusu personally commanded 3,000 soldiers, under the guidance of Shang Jia and several Mahan tribes, began to march eastward.

According to the latest information, Canghaijun's last stronghold is Lintunyi in Donghao, which is at the other end of the peninsula and faces the sea in the east.

Wei Yang volunteered, and in the next job, Xu Fu was also brought by Heifu to accompany him, and he was the most experienced in sea exploration.

A group of five ships, each with 100 people, set out from Shing Shan Kok in late July, and after arriving at Hanseong, they rested for a few days, and then sailed south along the coastline of Malaysia and Korea.

Five days later, the coastline deflected abruptly to the east, and from then on the fleet entered unexplored territory......

For this voyage, the ship was full of food, and Heifu also asked Cangyu to send them a large number of beans, which were easy to preserve, and if the fresh water was sufficient, they could also use the newly invented method of the farmer to send bean sprouts to eat, which was a good non-staple food for sea voyages.

Heifu was afraid that the crew would not be able to eat fresh fruits and vegetables if they stayed on the ship for a long time, and they would get scurvy, but it turned out that he was too worried. Although the speed of the voyage is slow as it is walking, it is better to drive far from the shore, and when it encounters a bay that is easy to moor, the fleet will also send people to sit in small boats and go down to search.

It was on the southern shore of the peninsula that they met the tribes called "Benhan" and "Tatsuhan".

"The people of Benchen are not similar to the Mahan people, both of them are short and hairy, while Benchen is slightly taller, with good tattoos and a gown, and his speech is also very different. Benchen is also good at farming, the land here is more fertile than Mahan, good at growing rice, making cloth, there are towns gathered, each has a king, and can smelt copper......"

Wei Yang wrote in his "Voyage Diary" that he heard the Ma Han people on the ship translate that after Benchen's child was born, he made the child's head rest on a stone all day long, in order to hope that the back of the child's head would be flattened, probably thinking that this would lead to a long life? Therefore, everyone who sees it is a head.

What's also funny is that Benchen's residential buildings are a kind of well-dry wooden houses, like prisons in the Central Plains.

The military situation was like fire, they just stopped to get fresh water, changed some food, and did not delay too long in the land of Benchen. The fleet continued eastward into an archipelago-strewn sea, and Xu Fu pointed to the southeast and told Weiyang that this was actually a strait, and in the southeast, there was a land covered with mountains and forests, perhaps another state outside Kyushu......

"Maybe it's just a big island."

Wei Yang repeated the words of his middle father Heifu like this, and he didn't pay much attention to it.

Just as the voyage entered the twelfth day, the current suddenly became unstable, for fear of hitting the fragmented coastal reefs, the fleet was a little farther away from land, but unexpectedly, it encountered this sudden gale!

This place is more than ten miles away from the land, and the coastline can be faintly seen, if it is an inexperienced captain, he will definitely rush over to avoid this strong wind, but Xu Fu stopped Wei Yang.

"This sea area is full of reefs, and now it is the time of low tide, so if you rush over, you may hit the reef if you are blown by the wind!"

The best thing to do is to drive diagonally, keep the boat not too far from the shore, and as soon as you see a small island in the bay where you can moor, you can immediately move over!

Yu Yang gritted his teeth, and for now, he could only try his best to find a way to get the ship out of danger.

Fortunately, a narrow bay appeared before them, and the fleet hurried to get closer to that before the wind and waves became stronger, and at this time they had to rely on the sails and rudder to keep the ship from going wrong under the strong wind.

Xu Fu used his years of experience at sea to have sailors pull the sails of the brig diagonally and let it be sideways by the wind. In this way, the sail can be tilted with minimal wind force, and the strongest part of the hull can be turned against the waves, and the original course can be maintained.

The four ships smoothly rushed to the soft sand, and immediately dropped anchor, one on each side, and brought the ship to a steady stop, the bottom of which was coarse sand and gravel, and the anchor could be eaten. As the tide rises, they will resurface on the surface of the sea, stop at a depth of three feet, and they will be small and stranded, and a group of people can push them into the sea.

But there was still one ship that was out of direction and crashed straight into the sharp reef on the edge of the bay! After the full ship exclaimed, the ship crashed heavily into the rocky reef, countless people fell into the sea, the bow of the ship also broke a big hole, and the sea water rushed into the ......

The ship had to be abandoned, and all night, Wei Yang was busy rescuing people, but the crew of that ship still died a third of the ......

The four boats were parked on the beach, leaning sharply under the lap of the wind and waves. The waves jumped higher than the top of the ship, sweeping the deck from bow to stern with unstoppable speed. The sails had been lowered, the masts were shaking, and the planks creaked as if the next time they would be scattered by the waves.

Except for the captain and a few, all of them did not dare to stay on the ship, and they stood on the shore trembling and hid in the caves of the shore, hoping that the storm would abate at dawn, but their hopes were in vain, and at dawn the next day the wind was stronger than before, and the sea was turbid, and one of the four ships left had a broken mast and was abandoned.

"Son, do you see?"

Wei Yang had not experienced such a big wave since he joined the boat division, biting his lip and looking at his boat distressedly, Xu Fu laughed:

"The sea is like a woman, her temper is unpredictable, yesterday she may have been tender to you, today it may be cloudy, and the angry waves crash on the shore, wanting to tear you apart."

After sighing for a while, Xu Fu sighed again:

"But no matter what the temper is, a man still can't live without a woman, just like you and I can't live without the sea."

It was not until the third day that the violent storm gradually subsided, and hundreds of people returned to the ship in shock, and found that the cabin was flooded, and most of the food had been soaked in water, and if it was not exposed to the sun quickly, it would become moldy......

After drinking the bean sprout soup, when the wind and waves were calm, more than 400 people crowded into four boats and continued eastward, and only two days after that, the sailor in charge of the distant view shouted:

"Five hundred lords, the direction of the coast has changed again!"

Sure enough, the coast deflected again, winding north.

"It's almost there."

Yu Yang breathed a sigh of relief, while Xu Fu happily wrote and drew on the map, and their voyage proved that this tribal land was indeed a "peninsula" as Heifu had painted.

It was night, when the ship was berthed at night, Xu Fu stood at the bow of the ship, holding the star-pulling board, and measured the latitude where they were against the Liuren astrolabe.

Later generations always thought that the premise of latitude measurement was to prove that the earth was round, but even if Xu Fu thought that the earth was flat, it did not affect latitude measurement at all. Relying on the angle between the height of the North Star and the ground to determine latitude is very applicable in the Northern Hemisphere, accurate and convenient.

"The county guard introduced the astral technique into the army, and the scouts measured that the last stronghold of the Canghai King, Lintun, was thirty-eight degrees ...... latitude."

And where they are right now is thirty-six degrees.

The turbulence of the wind had completely subsided, and then there was a playable southeast wind, and the four sterns propped up its hard sails, and with the wind it sailed as fast as it could, with the sail rope fastened to starboard, all the way north.

At this point, they had completely left the Benchen territory and circled to Donghao, and a few days later, when Xu Fu measured the latitude again, they were approaching thirty-eight degrees.

The rocks on the shore are covered with endless greenery, and one can see flocks of roe deer jumping in the woods and on the plains, and in a short time, a wooden city standing high on the hill comes into view, and there are many rafts and bamboo rafts by the sea, and many people are trying to push them into the sea......

And more than ten miles away, there was a black oppressive army, which was wading through mountains and rivers, and was rapidly approaching this side, which was the army led by Gongzi Fusu.

"It's the last day of August, and we're joining forces here."

Xu Fu and Wei Yang looked at each other and smiled.

"It seems that it is not too late for us to arrive!"

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On the last day of August in the 34th year of Qin Shi Huang, Lintun City (Gangwon Province, South Korea) on the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, which is a small state established by the Hao people, is actually a small village with wooden walls and fences.

But Canghaijun's year-long wandering has also come to an end. Originally, Canghai Jun's plan was to avoid the edge of the Qin army, and lead his troops to wander between Sanhan and Donghao, if the Qin people sent an army to pursue, they would definitely be exhausted by the mountainous landscape, and they would also break into the territories of various ministries and cause contradictions, so Canghai Jun would be able to fan the flames, gather local tribes who don't know how strong and big Qin Jiji was, harass the Qin army, and made them return home.

But in the past half a year, the Qin army has changed the strategy of going deep alone, and instead sent merchants to go deep into Mahan and Donghao, using brown sugar and knives as stepping stones, establishing trade relations with various ministries, and also using poisonous tricks: if the ministries do not have mink, they can exchange the heads of the people of the Canghai Jun Department for goods......

The tribes were greedy for the interests of the Qin people, and the Canghai Monarch was repeatedly robbed and killed by the natives, and the core deployment of the exile with him was only more than 3,000, and in the past few months, more than 1,000 people have been lost.

Canghai Jun had no choice but to counterattack, seized Donghao Lintun as a foothold, this place is east of the Whale Sea, at present, the Qin army, Ma Han, Donghao thousands of people from three sides of the land surrounded, if you don't want to be wiped out, you can only count on the ship to go to sea, escape to Chenhan, Benhan......

But their hopes were soon dashed, and in the early morning, four warships suddenly appeared on the east coast, as if falling from the sky!

When the black flag was raised from the ship, when the bamboo raft that was struggling to float on the sea was unceremoniously knocked over by the ship, and the crossbow machine was fired in succession, killing all those who fell into the water, Canghaijun and his men were in despair.

Although the Qin ships were not many or large, they were heavily armed warships, relying on dozens of bamboo rafts, and they could not enter the sea at all.

The people who fled all the way knelt powerlessly on the beach, knowing that the next thing was to die.

"Heavenly punishment, this is heavenly punishment......"

Beside Canghaijun, a white-haired old man dressed in clothes and obviously from the Central Plains sighed:

"I am the punishment of heaven, and I am far away. This is the Qin Shi Huang I know, just like the old days when dealing with Yan Wangxi, Prince Dan, and Fan Yuzhi, if anyone touches the scales, his anger of the Son of Heaven, even if he escapes to the ends of the earth, he can't hide! ”