After leaving the Tang Dynasty for more than a year, when the Xuansu Sea expedition returned again, they were surprised to find that the Silla that had intercepted and killed them in the Korean Strait was about to be defeated, and only one capital city was still supported.

The expedition team, from the chief manager to the soldiers, all sighed from the bottom of their hearts, those who offend my Tang Dynasty will be punished even if they are far away.

I don't know if the commander of the Silla South Coast Naval Division, who almost drove them to a desperate situation and died before he could get out of the army, was captured and beheaded.

After receiving Li Yu's order, Qu Tu Zhongxiang, who was stationed at Pohang Port, sent a brigade from the army to escort the head and deputy head of the Xuanwu Sea expedition to the Yanwang camp outside Jincheng.

Along the way, from time to time, the Tang army sentry horsemen who were responsible for transmitting news to the garrisons in various places galloped by, and the surrounding Silla people saw the Tang army crossing the border, so they panicked and threw down their things and fled to the nearby mountains and forests, and the villages also looked dilapidated and impoverished. Some of the houses appear to have been burned by fire not long ago, but although they have been repaired, the charred beams are still visible.

When the team passed by the things discarded by the Silla people, Lu Yuanqing took a look and found that the discarded basket contained fish and shrimp caught in the river and wild vegetables picked. What is quite puzzled is, why did the Silla people see the Tang army desperately fleeing?

An old woman who had no legs and could not stand up when she accidentally fell, so she crawled across the icy river to hide in the grass on the opposite bank, causing many soldiers to stop and point at each other and laugh.

Regarding the relics discarded by the Silla people on the ground, the soldiers escorting them unceremoniously picked up the fish, shrimp and wild vegetables on the ground, and said with a smile: "We have fresh fish, shrimp and vegetables to eat." ”

"Why do those Silla people see me like a snake and a scorpion?" Lu Yuanqing was quite puzzled and pointed to the Silla people who had been drilling into the jungle and there was no one in the blink of an eye.

This question was like opening the floodgates of the escort soldiers, and they all explained to Lu Yuanqing and the others in a voice: "The Silla people in a radius of 500 miles were frightened by the army that passed by before, and when they saw our Tang army crossing the border, they hid, not hiding, hehe......"

The soldier who spoke threw Lu Yuanqing and the others a look that you understand with a lewd smile, and as an expedition team that had done a lot of things in the Wandering Ghost Country, such as destroying villages, destroying villages, robbing money, and robbing women, everyone smiled awkwardly.

It's just that those ghost women are stout, and they don't bathe frequently, and the clothes they wear are either animal skins or fish skins, and after years of time, there is a strong fishy smell on their bodies. Thinking of the fact that everyone in the expedition team was trembling, it was not that they didn't know femininity for a few months, how could they not go to dry the smelly ghost woman. At this moment, when I heard the escort soldiers talk about how the Silla women they snatched were delicious, they cast envious looks one by one.

Pohang Port to Jincheng is only 50 miles, and it is almost a day away by horseback.

Hearing that Hu Anjun, Lu Yuanqing and others even set up camp, Li Yu didn't care about spending the night, and summoned them to report on the situation of this exploration of the northern shore of the Xuansu Sea.

The Tang Dynasty has an extremely limited understanding of the northern part of the Murwei, the Yan Dynasty, and the Wa Kingdom.

In the former Sui Dynasty, I heard that there was a famous drive to the north of the Wei Dynasty, and its people were very long and short-dressed, and they did not ask for hair, and they were all wrapped in their heads. In the caves, there are only pigs, and there are no animals. People are light and agile, jumping more than three feet, and can float upright, lie down, walk on the water without waist, and walk on the land. Several large ships were taken to the north of the chamber to plunder. He has no armor and uses stone as a arrowhead.

Li Yu didn't need to think about the description of the driving degree of Meiguo to know that it was recorded according to the relay of the Murwei people, and the content was half-true and half-false. No matter how good a person is, it is impossible to jump more than three feet, it is almost ten meters, and even the kangaroo has to bow down.

It was not until the fourteenth year of Zhenguan that the king sent his son Ke Ye Yu Zhi as a messenger to Chang'an to pay tribute, and Huaxia learned that there was a country on the other side of the sea more than five miles away from Chang'an. From the mouth of Keye Yu Zhi, I learned that there is a night fork country in the north of the Flowing Ghost Country.

As for the specific situation of the Yaksha country, in the history of the country, it is only briefly mentioned in the text when the ghost country is remembered.

The country of the ghosts is in the north of the North Sea, north to the country of Yaksha, the remaining three sides are to the sea, and the south goes to the Mo Shi Ya boat for fifteen days. Its elder old man said: "There are Yaksha people in the north of the country in January, all of them have their fangs out, and they are not involved in their boundaries, and they have not been hired." ”

It can be seen from this that the Tang Dynasty really has a certain understanding of the north of the Murwei, the Indigo and the Wa Kingdom, and the only ones who have come to pay tribute are the Wandering Ghost Kingdoms, and the two kingdoms of Exorcism and Yaksha are all relayed by others, and they do not understand the truth.

The purpose of Li Yu's expedition to continue exploring the north is to truly understand the facts of the Three Kingdoms, open a sea route, and then occupy the Kamchatka Peninsula where the Ghost Country is located, and establish a permanent base as a forward base for crossing the North Pacific to explore the route to the Americas.

Sail-powered ships have to cross the vast Pacific Ocean, and there is no doubt that from Kamchatka, the Aleutian Islands are the closest to crossing the North Pacific into Alaska.

The secondary purpose was, of course, to find a habitable place to establish a colony along the Xuanfu Sea (Sea of Okhotsk), and to learn from the later Tsarist Russia's eastward march into Siberia, along the rivers and into the interior, and then to control this vast and boundless Far North land that blessed his descendants.

The premise is that future generations can have Li Yu's foresight and determination, and make up their minds to keep this family business.

Wandering ghosts, driving away sleep, and yaksha, Li Yu called them the Three Kingdoms of the Far North, although the three kingdoms are just some Ru Mao drinking blood, the population is only tens of thousands, and the tribal alliance is not a tribe.

In response to His Royal Highness's urgent summons, Hu Anjun and Lu Yuanqing changed into new clothes and presented them to His Highness with local specialties obtained during their exploration of the north.

When Li Yu saw three familiar and unfamiliar puppies in the small iron cage, deep in his mind, the memories before the crossing poured out like a rolling river.

", isn't this Erha?"

Li Yu almost couldn't sit still and rushed up to bring Erha out to play.

The black and white fluff of the three puppies in the cage, the silly and lively character, and the innocent and cute eyes immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the tent.

Xing'er, who was sitting next to Li Yu, rushed to the iron cage with a sword step, and took out a cute puppy to play with in her arms.

"Mr. Hu, where did you get this dog? It's lovely! Xing'er asked happily, the puppy in the clutches of the devil didn't mind the new owner's delicate palms rubbing it non-stop, and responded from time to time, gently biting Xing'er's little finger, and arching the little steamed bun in the way.

Hu Anjun smiled: "This was seized from the wandering ghost people, who are used to pull sleds in winter. ”

"Such cute dogs, can the ghosts even get down and use them to pull heavy sleds?" Xing'er was suddenly angry, waving her little fist and saying angrily: "I want to free the puppies from the hands of the wandering ghosts......"

Hu Anjun and Lu Yuanqing were suddenly dumbfounded, and looked at His Royal Highness's favored personal maid with strange expressions.

If this spreads, wouldn't they laugh at the world if they crusaded against the Wandering Ghost Country for a dog?

As for whether His Royal Highness will crusade against the Wandering Ghost Country, Hu Anjun and Lu Yuanqing have no doubts in their hearts, although they don't know why, but by feeling, His Highness got the news they brought back, and then they sent troops on an expedition.

Isn't that the same that you found in Hokkaido when you came back from your first voyage?

The husky was actually seized, and Li Yu grabbed the details of what Hu Anjun said and asked, "Could it be that you have a conflict with the wandering ghosts?" ”

Before large-scale colonization, Li Yu still did not want the expedition to make enemies with the local natives first, which was not conducive to the initial construction of the colony.

Since the two sides thought that they had become enemies, those natives would not be stupid enough to allow the Tang Army to build a colony, and it would be a battle between the dragons and tigers.

Hu Anjun replied with some embarrassment: "Your Highness, when we arrived at the wandering ghosts, we deliberately befriended each other, but those wandering ghosts didn't know how to steal our things, and they didn't do much, and there was a conflict that caused the death and injury of the other party. The ghosts attacked us indiscriminately, so we had to fight back, slaughtering several of their villages and seizing some furs. ”