After Shao Biao led the people away, Zhang He and several of his Fuzhou guards scattered in search of water sources, and soon found enough fresh water to temporarily supply a thousand people: on a low hill on the north side, there is a small stream that flows into the sea, and the water is clear and delicious; Farther away, you can see snow patches on the hillside in the distance. If the snow is cut away, it is enough to teach the army to be inexhaustible.

The biggest problem at sea: the source of fresh water, has now been solved.

"We set off from Suzhou, and the weather was getting warmer. Unexpectedly, I could see snow at this time. Zhu Su said with a smile.

However, in fact, my heart has become quite heavy. When you see the snow on the top of the mountain in the distance, you can basically tell that this place is in the north.

"I hope this place is still in my Ming Dynasty." Ru Taisu clasped her hands around herself, and her tone was quite trembling. Although they have cotton robes, the robes they wear in Jiangnan in winter are still a little thinner when they arrive here.

Not to mention the women who were rescued earlier who insisted on not wanting to wear cotton robes anymore, and only wore a few layers of coarse cloth clothes.

"I have to think about it, and I will return to my Daming territory as soon as possible to settle down." Looking at the women who were trembling, but were still busy boiling water and cooking for the Ming army, Zhu Su muttered. "I hope that Captain Shao will be able to determine where we are as soon as possible."

Whenever you come to an unfamiliar realm, holding information is the most important thing.

I don't know where I am, if I still move blindly with my head covered, it is easy to go in the opposite direction, and even directly bump into a strong tribe of Meng Yuan.

The feeling of insufficient intelligence...... Too passive.

The tired Ming army dragged its tired body on the sea, but it still methodically cut down trees and boiled water to make food. Zhu Su climbed a high hill and took out his binoculars to look around, hoping to find some people.

"Your Highness, Your Highness!" But I heard the urgent call of someone. "Your Highness, please come with me!"

"Cao Yuan? Is there a discovery? Zhu Su perked up and turned his head to meet Cao Yuan, who was trotting all the way. Cao Yuan took Zhu Su to a hill, pointed to the ground in front of him and said, "Your Highness, please look here." Although it is deserted, there are still traces of roads. ”

"It can be seen that this place must not be a wild and uncivilized place, if you follow this path, you may be able to find an official road!"

Zhu Su looked carefully, although it was already covered with weeds and gravel, it seemed a little hidden. But there was indeed a winding and bumpy path ahead. A few steps further, Zhu Su even saw a broken bluestone slab in a ditch. Obviously, this bluestone slab was once used to hold down the ditch and prevent pedestrians from falling into the ditch.

And the nomadic fishing and hunting people in the wilderness will not be so careful and cautious to pave the road with bluestone slabs. What's more, on this broken bluestone slab, there are still very obvious traces of artificial polishing and smoothing. Those who can do this are undoubtedly the more civilized Ming people or the Goryeo people. And here, whether it is Daming or Goryeo, it can be directly regarded as having escaped the most dangerous danger.

"Cao Yuan, good job!" Thinking of this section, Zhu Su was also overjoyed. "Go and call some more people, and the king will lead them along the road to the front to investigate!"

Cao Yuan was overjoyed to receive the order, and after a while, dozens of people, including Cao Yuan, Chang Mao, and Zhu Di, formed a reconnaissance team and touched along this deserted path. Sure enough, in front of the road, they found a village hidden behind the mountain pass, and when they saw a village, several people couldn't help but be overjoyed.

But when the people got closer and closer, their joy couldn't help but cool: for no other reason, after they walked in, they could clearly find that this was actually a deserted village.

"Wow, I thought I could find someone to ask where this is, but I didn't expect it to be a deserted village with no people, it's really unlucky!" After checking around and confirming that there was indeed no one living here, Chang Mao took a sip angrily.

"Alas, the last general didn't expect that it would be a trip for nothing." Cao Yuan also sighed. Most of the houses in this village are rotten and overgrown with weeds, and it is clear that they have been abandoned for a long time. "I'm tired of the two highnesses for nothing."

"It's not all for nothing." Zhu Su looked around to explore the remnants of the house. "At least, we can be sure that we are not exiled to the Jurchens, Nuergan, etc. This place should still be in the territory of China. He stretched out his hand and pointed to the lintel of a decaying house: "You see, the houses here are obviously in the shape of my Huaxia. ”

"Such a complex process, those nomads, can't cover it."

"Could it be that this is still my Daming?" Zhu Di frowned deeply, "But, since it's me Daming, why is this place so desolate?" ”

They searched along the deserted road for a while, but at last they found nothing, and when they saw that it was getting late, they retreated back to the camp. When it was completely dark, Zhu Su and a few people were eating around the fire, and a sergeant said: "Three highnesses, Captain Shao Biao Shao has returned." ”

"Please!" Zhu Su hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks, and saw the dusty Shaobiao coming back with an embroidered spring knife. "I've seen three highnesses, fortunately, I don't disgrace my life, and I already have some eyebrows."

"Oh?" Zhu Su couldn't help but feel a little impressed at this capable Jinyi captain: it was just a few hours, and he really found out a little eyebrows, and Jinyiwei's intelligence ability was really not covered.

Shao Biao nodded, and took out a map from his bosom. Zhu Di was stunned when he saw it: "Captain Shao, where did you get this map?" ”

"Back to the Fourth Highness." Shao Biao bowed and replied. "After receiving the order of the Fifth Highness, a certain person led people to find the highest mountain of the four places, climbed to a high place to look around, and drew this map."

"You can even draw maps!" Zhu Su was also amazed.

"In the early years of Shao, he was a scout in the army." Shao Biao said indifferently. "Most of the Jinyi guards are from Tanma."

Oh, that's not surprising, it turned out to be a spy.

Indeed, as a spy, mapping is the most basic skill.

"Let's go on, what eyebrows did you find?" Zhu Fan said.

"Yes." Shao Biao nodded. "Shao climbed to a high place and looked at it for a long time, but only found a few deserted villages around, but there was no trace of people."

"But the terrain here is ...... But it's somewhat familiar. ”

"When Shao followed General Xu of Wei to conquer the Northern Yuan Dynasty, he passed through the land of Liaodong. General Xu asked me to wait to see the map at that time, and I still have some impressions. ”

"Here, or in the land of Liaodong, near Jinzhou!"

Shao Biaodao.

(End of chapter)