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In terms of distance and direction, Xiao Ming is sure that he is now near the Aleutian Islands, further north must be the Bering Strait, and to the east is Alaska on the American continent! He really didn't realize that he had traveled so far, and that the ship was still drifting eastward without power.

It is very important to analyze and judge where you are, since you have come to the North American continent, Xiao Ming has a more definite consideration for measuring the round-trip route, but the people on the ship are different, these people are basically still the Song Dynasty people in the twelfth century, how to understand the specific location of the whole earth!

"This is the legendary Arctic Immortal Mountain, right?" Gu Xiaoliu said.

"Lao Guo! Are you talking? ”

"I haven't been here again, how do I know, you go and ask Master Hou!" Guo Shouxin said.

An Daoquan also heard the news and rushed out, he stroked his beard and said, "This ...... Over here......? Then he looked at Xiao Ming suspiciously.

Xiao Ming was a little embarrassed, he scratched the back of his head and said, "It should be the North ...... It's Luzhou in the north! ”

"Otherwise" An Daoquan shook his head and said: "Beiju Luzhou comes from Buddhist scriptures, and I only have the Arctic state in China since ancient times, and recently a person named Zhao Ting wanted to write a "Chronicles of the Domains", which said that the Arctic state should be true, but this direction should be the east, is it true that there is a fairy mountain in the east of my Great Song Dynasty?" ”

Xiao Ming looked at the sailors and tiger guards around him chattering and arguing, and he said to An Daoquan: "It is impossible for the Buddhists to know everything, this world is incomparably vast, and it may be a new continent!" And we discovered it, and it will leave our name in history in the future! ”

The name left in the history was still quite satisfactory to An Daoquan, so he stopped talking, just looking at the distant island, but Xiao Ming had to consider whether to find a larger island to log in, because although there was still a lot of food reserves, there was an extreme lack of fresh water.

Using the two remaining auxiliary main sails on the ship, the warship easily approached a relatively narrow island, judging from the direction of the mountain range, there should be fresh water resources on the island, but this island is very primitive, inaccessible, and the danger factor is still relatively large, so Xiao Ming still asks everyone to be cautious.

Not far from the beach, the warship dropped its anchor chain, although it is the Aleutian Islands, but there are some volcanic eruptions, and it is already February, the weather is warmer, there is no ice floe on the beach, on the contrary, the temperature is not too low, presumably because the volcano here is still active.

Divided into four small boats to land on the island of more than 300 people, after landing, on this beach Xiao Ming quickly set up a camp, set up defensive measures, and then began to search and advance in a company, Xiao Ming with a company of men and horses is also among them, the island is lush and lush on the south side, but there are mountains on the north side, and a lot of ice and snow are very desolate.

Everyone began to look for water along the direction of the trees, and Bu Yong, the Tiger Guard Water Division, who often conducts field training, is still relatively good at this, but the first day of searching still found nothing, this east-west island is actually very large, and the soldiers of the three companies did not even go to a tenth of the place on the first day.

Early the next morning, the tiger guards in charge of guarding and guarding were shocked to find a large group of local natives on this island standing outside the camp! The sentinels were immediately very nervous, and since Xiao Ming had not given an order to deal with the local natives, they didn't know what to do.

After being fully alerted, the sentry rushed forward to report to Xiao Ming, who asked how to determine the other party's natives? The sentinels replied that they were all dressed in fur clothes and holding very primitive tools, and Xiao Ming knew that they were the local islanders of Aleutian Island, and they should be a branch of Eskimos according to the category, and they could be regarded as North American Indians.

Since he was sure that the other party was not holding a weapon and a bow and arrow, Xiao Ming determined that the other party was not malicious, and he asked people to bring the salt and some porcelain brought from the boat and go outside to meet the natives, but the necessary precautions still had to be done, Guo Shouxin and Gu Xiaoliu specially informed the tiger guards not to relax their vigilance.

Those people, who were indeed local natives, all dressed in feathers and animal skins, and very kind in nature, saw a large ship on the mountain, anchored in the bay, and went up to the island and some of them searched around, as if they were looking for something, and they were here to help.

Due to the language barrier, the two sides could only make gestures, but Gu Xiaoliu understood very quickly, he was the first part of the people to learn the flag language, and he made gestures very quickly, and the conversation between the two sides was quite smooth, Xiao Ming thanked them and gave them a lot of salt and porcelain bowls.

The Aleutian islanders were very happy, they had never seen such white table salt and beautiful porcelain, and they usually showed that they lived by hunting and fishing, and that their bodies were supplied with salt by the meat of animals, but they also knew such a thing.

The islanders in the primitive society stage naturally couldn't ask for their things in vain, and they exchanged their ornaments and prey for what shells, sea otters, and seal skins! Xiao Ming shook his head and smiled bitterly, showed them the kettle he was carrying, and gestured to indicate that they didn't have enough water, they only needed fresh water!

The islanders suddenly realized, motioned to Xiao Ming and they followed, and were very interested in Xiao Ming's kettle, this kind of hydraulic stamping out of the military kettle is very strong and durable, of course the islanders have never seen such industrial products, Xiao Ming saw that the other party liked it, so he simply gave it to them.

The delighted natives led Xiao Ming and them towards the depths of the forest, and followed a path halfway up the mountain, where a small lake appeared, like a sapphire embedded in the low-lying part of the mountain! Xiao Ming was also overjoyed when he saw it.

Three days later, the "Thunder Dragon", which was filled with fresh water, continued to set sail on the road, Xiao Ming and the natives got along very well, and gave each other a lot of gifts, Xiao Ming just gave the salt and other things piled up on the boat to the natives, in exchange for a large amount of otter and seal meat!

In addition, they also got a lot of shiny little stones given to them by the locals, some of them were very beautiful, and some of them were green and blue, Xiao Ming knew that these were gems even if he didn't know the goods! Those sparkles are diamonds! This is a volcanic area, and it is not unusual to have gems and diamonds, but it is strange that people have given him so many!

After these gains, Xiao Ming felt that he was suddenly very confident, and when his subordinates asked for the direction of the next step, Xiao Ming pointed to the east and said, "Continue to the east!" Walk along the coastline! ”

He also knew that the Pacific current would reach the Gulf of Mexico, but now if he drove in the opposite direction, there was no power, the mast was not repaired, and the plants in the Aleutian Islands were relatively low, and it was not suitable to cut down the whole root to make a mast, so he had to go to North America to find a big tree like cedar.

The warship drifted along the long coastline to the east, and after two or three days, the ocean current began to go south, and the coastline of the entire continent also began to extend southward, An Daoquan was very surprised, what a big continent this is! Is it really Beiju Luzhou?

Xiao Ming knew in his heart that when he passed the coast of Alaska, Xiao Ming asked the ship to dock again, compared the cedars and cedars here, and finally chose the tall and straight cedar trees as the material for the mast, and cut down one of them, and dragged it to the ship, and the main mast of the entire warship could be repaired.

The Pacific Current is still flowing slowly southward, and it doesn't take so fast to repair the mainmast, looking at the coastline, there is a smaller mountain range left under the majestic Rocky Mountains, which is the Coast Mountains, and the continent extends to the south, as if it will never reach the end, and no one in the crowd dares to ask Xiao Ming if he will continue to walk.

Only An Daoquan couldn't help it, he found Xiao Ming and asked directly, "How long do we have to go?" It's almost March, and it's been more than three months since we left Japan and Fuso Japan, so do we have to go to the edge of the sky? ”

Xiao Ming said: "Brother An, don't be impatient, although we can use the sails to break into the western ocean and return to China, but the sea conditions are not unknown on the chart, it is very dangerous to do so, the ocean current will not keep going south, if I am not mistaken, in the summer this current will still send us to the North Sea in the opposite direction, and we can go home from there." ”

Seeing Xiao Ming's confident appearance, An Daoquan stopped talking, he still chose to believe Xiao Ming, especially in the task that Xiao Ming handed over to the captain, he repeatedly mentioned that he should draw nautical charts and measurements, and record the sea conditions, on the name of this new continent, Xiao Ming asked him to indicate: "New Songzhou!" ”

North America is North America, and this is not yet South America, and if you continue to drift at this rate, you will reach the end of the Coast Mountains in about four or five days, where there is a bay, above which is the very famous San Francisco, that is, San Francisco, and down is Los Angeles, California, where there are a lot of gold mines and coal mines!

And Xiao Ming told his subordinates that the purpose was to find the coal mine, fill the cabin with coal, and then take advantage of the Pacific Ocean current in the summer to go north! Now that there is a clear goal, the restlessness of the people and the anxiety of wandering at sea for a long time have also been relieved.

The tiger guards and sailors who had nothing to do all day on the ship then started a jousting competition, and everyone exercised when they were full, because of the presence of An Daoquan, a miracle doctor, almost no serious illness occurred to the people on the ship, which may be a great luck in misfortune! The huge warship floats along the ocean currents on the sea, in addition to the daily sanitation and scrubbing of the deck, the big guys are all around to compete in the art of fighting, and the winner Xiao Ming will be rewarded with a jar of wine!

But what no one knows is that the Pacific Ocean Current has begun to accelerate at this time, because the warm sea water formed by the warm ocean of South America is exchanging with the cold water of the north, and the undercurrent below the surface of the water will be faster and faster until it approaches the Caribbean, and then it will swing towards the South Pacific.

As a result, according to Xiao Ming's prediction, four or five days later, he found that the position of his warship was already very strange, the coast mountain range that had been there was no trace for a long time, and the coastline of the mainland disappeared in the distance.

The last report of the observer said that the coastline was still to the east, but it seemed to be a peninsula, and there was a huge mountain range behind it, but now the warships were drifting westward, and the water was more undulating than the water along the coast!

Xiao Ming knew that the peninsula must be the California Peninsula, because the mountains behind it must be the Sierra Madre Occidental, and now the ocean current diversion is pushing the warship towards the South Pacific, which is terrible, and it must be closer to the coast! If you miss the coast of Mexico, you will be out of the entire North American continent!

"Hurry up and hoist the sails, we have to dock! Can't drift west anymore! Xiao Ming shouted.

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