Compared with the Nanyang expedition team, which made good progress all the way, the Xuanwu Sea expedition team, which was responsible for exploring the northern region of the Xuanwu Sea, had a much more bumpy road. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Every time the Xuansu Sea Expedition team arrived in an unfamiliar area, they almost had to clash with the local natives, either killing the other party and fleeing in panic, or leaving with people in a hurry.

Hu Anjun, who was the head of the expedition, and Lu Yuanqing, who was the deputy head of the expedition, both felt very strange, and when they led the expedition through the Korean Strait for the first time in the autumn of the previous year, they were chased and killed by Silla sailors, and they escaped from the fjord in the middle of Tsushima Island. On both voyages, in addition to landing on the coast of the Wakoku Kingdom without clashing with the humble Wakomi, he also had conflicts with the local natives in Hokkaido and Sakhalin for various reasons.

No, after a lot of hardships, I arrived in the country of wandering ghosts, and I haven't visited its king yet. Only three days after landing, there was a conflict when the wandering ghost man stole an axe from the expedition team, and the soldier was angry and stabbed the wandering ghost man to death.

After the death of a ghost man, the surrounding ghost villages immediately changed their faces, and more than 1,000 people were gathered in three days to besiege the expedition team's camp.

Hu Anjun was originally born in the tent of the two Davids under the Yanwang Mansion, although he served as a civilian 'history', but he was also a regular soldier who had served as a civilian on the battlefield, how could he be afraid of this gang of ghosts who did not understand the king, stole chickens and dogs?

In addition to the fleet of 100 people led by Lu Yuanqing, the deputy governor, who stayed at anchor in the bay, Hu Anjun personally led 500 soldiers to fight with the wandering ghosts who came outside the newly built camp on the shore.

Although there were many wandering ghosts, there was no order to start a battle, and as soon as their chief called the shot, the wandering ghosts rushed towards the expedition team that was fighting in array.

Dressed in fur, with arrows and sticks as weapons, the ghost people in fur and bones and stones as weapons faced the battle formation of the expedition team in danger, everyone was armored with steel knives and sharp arrows. In just one confrontation, the expedition team killed more than 200 ghosts without a single casualty.

The wandering ghost people, who were shocked by the superior equipment formation of the expedition team, did not dare to step forward for a while, and their chief roared and howled the noisy clansmen to attack again.

There were still a thousand wandering ghosts who flocked to them, and the expedition soldiers fought bravely with spears and horizontal knives to maintain the formation and not be disrupted by the wandering ghosts.

The second wave of the Wandering Ghost Men was eventually overpowered by the expedition, and their morale plummeted after the expedition killed hundreds of them.

Seeing this, Hu Anjun was overjoyed and roared, "Breaking the enemy is at this time." Waving the horizontal knife in his hand, the first soldier rushed out of the array, slashing two unprepared wandering ghosts in a row.

The soldiers of the expedition team who were ordered rushed to scatter and recoil to kill the surrounding ghosts, killing and wounding hundreds, and the morale of the low-spirited ghosts were instantly stunned, and they involuntarily retreated one by one.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the smart one among the wandering ghosts immediately fled, and his head was not bright, and he was rushed to the front of the expedition soldier Yidao after a slow reaction.

The ghosts were fierce when they rushed in, and scattered in a hurry when they fled. Hu Anjun led his subordinates to kill the red-eyed, chased after the fleeing ghosts, and drove them into the village of the ghosts.

After a tear and killing, nine villages of the ghost people were washed in blood, except for fifty young mushrooms that were still pleasing to the eye for the pastime of the soldiers, and the rest were slaughtered.

Breaking through nine villages, the booty was very rich, and more than 300 mink skins alone, 100 brown bear skins, 55 tiger skins, silver foxes, raccoon dogs, otters, and more than 800 local deer and sheepskins of various kinds.

There are more than 500 antler velvets according to the horns taken from the deer's head, and more than 3,000 reindeer raised by wandering ghosts.

What's even more exciting is that when Juan Jun liquidates the loot, he discovers a reddish-brown creamy spice that smells pleasant, and although there is a faint fishy smell in the aroma, this cannot hide its spice nature.

Ask the wandering ghost woman who stayed, what is this? The other party told Juan Jun that this was a reddish-brown creamy secretion extracted from the beaver's sac, and they called it beaver incense, which was used by men and women to help the effect.

Hearing about the helpful effect of this thing, the expedition soldiers laughed at a few guys, and got some beaver incense to use that night. The next day, the others asked if it worked, and several people told them with a satisfied face that this thing was really useful, and it took three minutes to finish it (the Southern Dynasty Liang divided the twelve hours of the day and night into ninety-six quarters).

As soon as the big guys heard the fun, they all looked for reddish-brown beaver incense from the piles of loot, and Nuo was not Hu Anjun hurriedly collected about a pound of beaver incense and brought it back to His Royal Highness King Yan, and it was estimated that it was ruined by this group of obscene goods.

Beaver incense is known as one of the four major spices, it is the lowest price natural spice, and its use is not as great as musk and civet incense, only inferior to civet incense.

Later perfumers were happy to use it when blending floral, sandalwood, oriental, vegetarian orchid, Fuqi and leather fragrances, because beaver incense can increase the "fresh" aroma of the fragrance and bring in some "emotion".

In the ninth century, the Arabs were the first to use it, and in this era in which Li Yu lived, due to the accidental discovery of the Xuanfu Sea expedition, it naturally became the first to be used by the Tang people.

Most of the so-called help-aiding effects of the wandering ghosts are psychological, but as soon as the expedition soldiers returned, the power-aiding effect of the newly discovered spice of beaver incense was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so that the value doubled, and it was not until many years later that the rumor was broken by a famous doctor.

Among the trophies were also seized many sleds used by the wandering ghosts in winter, as well as hundreds of sled dogs that looked like wolves, with black, white and gray fur, and looked much better than wolves.

In addition to dozens of dogs with violent personalities and full of hatred for the expedition, the other more than 200 dogs were much more docile and even extremely timid.

Because of the beautiful coat color and active personality of the sled dog, it is much better than all kinds of dogs in the Tang Dynasty, and it is quite popular with the expedition team.

Juan Jun specially selected five good-looking sled dogs from the puppies and brought them with them, and prepared to go back to present them to His Royal Highness and the four favored maids around him.

An unexpected conflict resulted in the expedition grabbing a staggering amount of loot, estimated to be worth more than 100,000 yuan. According to the decree of King Yan, all the property obtained by the expedition overseas belonged to the expedition itself.

Looking at the piles of goods, the Xuanwu Sea Expedition Team looked at the stars one by one.

The fighting power of the wandering ghosts was so weak that they didn't even have a single iron weapon, and the stone bone arrows couldn't penetrate the armor they were wearing.

At the instigation of his subordinates, the three lieutenants suggested to Hu Anjun to find the village of the wandering ghosts, get more money for the soldiers, and live a prosperous life after returning to the Tang Dynasty, instead of having to travel thousands of miles overseas to take risks.

Hu Anjun discussed with Lu Yuanqing and several expedition directors and felt that it was feasible, and Lu Yuanqing led 200 people to continue to stay in the bay. Juan Jun led the rest of his men and horses from the Avacha Bay of Kamchatka in later generations to the northwest-facing valley into the mainland of the Ghost Country, burning and looting all the way, and it is not enough to describe this group of soldiers who were fascinated by wealth.

In just three months, Hu Anjun and his entourage scooped up the vast area east of the central mountain range of Kamchatka, from the southern Avacha Bay to the north to the later Russian Ust-Kamchatsk, and the seized goods filled three ships to the brim.

At this time, the Xuansu Sea Expedition team, from the chief to the soldiers, had no intention of continuing north, and turned the bow of the ship with the goods full of the ship's warehouse and returned to the ship.

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The Marlin, which was separated in the fog, accidentally fell into the sea and disappeared when the fog did not clear. It was cloudy and rainy for seven or eight days, and there was no sun at night or stars at night. As a result, the remaining 199 people on board could not determine the correct direction, and the captain Luo Shixin had to rely on his previous sailing experience to go all the way to the dark, but he did not know that he was heading south.

By the time the sun rose on the ninth day, the panicked Marlin crew spotted that they were heading south by identifying the sun's position, with a continuous stretch of coastline ahead of the bow.

When Luo Shixin commanded the ships through a vast bay and led the crowd to land to replenish the water, they were shocked to find that the flora and fauna of this place were not within their knowledge.

More than 100 people stood by the river to get water, staring at the kangaroos who ran over curiously.

It took a long time for someone to shudder and spit out a sentence: "Where is this?" ”