Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 322

After Shao Biao took the men away, Zhang He led several Fuzhou guard soldiers to search for water sources, and soon found enough fresh water to temporarily supply thousands of people: On a low hill on the north side, there was a small stream entering the sea, and the water was clear Delicious; further away, you can also see snow spots on the distant hillsides.If the snow water is divided, it is enough to teach the army to have an inexhaustible supply.

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

"We set off from Suzhou, and the weather was getting warmer at that time. I didn't expect to 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 judge that this place is in the north.

"I hope this place is still within my Daming territory." Ru Taisu embraced herself with her hands, her tone trembling.Although these people have cotton robes, the robes they wear in winter in the south of the Yangtze River still look a little thinner here.

Not to mention the women rescued earlier who insisted on not wearing cotton robes and only wearing a few more layers of coarse cloth.

"We have to find a way to resettle in our Daming territory earlier." Looking at the trembling women who were still busy boiling water and cooking for the Ming army, Zhu Su murmured. "I hope Colonel Shao will be able to determine where we are as soon as possible."

Whenever you come to a strange land, holding information is the most important thing.

I don't know where I am, if I still move blindly with my head covered, it's easy to go the wrong way, and even run into a powerful tribe of Mongolian Yuan directly.

The lack of intelligence feels...too passive.

The exhausted Ming army dragged their tired bodies on the sea, but they still cut down trees and boiled water for food in an orderly manner.Zhu Su climbed up a high hill, took out his binoculars and looked around, hoping to find some people.

"Your Highness, Your Highness!" But someone called urgently. "Your Highness, please follow me!"

"Cao Yuan? Did you find anything?" Zhu Su cheered up and turned to face Cao Yuan who was trotting all the way.Cao Yuan led Zhu Su to a hill, pointed to the ground in front of him and said, "Your Highness, please look here. Although this place is deserted, there are still traces of the road."

"It can be seen that this place is definitely not a wild and uncivilized place. If you go along this small road, you may be able to find an official road!"

Zhu Su took a closer look, although it was already covered by weeds and gravel, it seemed a bit hidden.But there is indeed a winding and rugged path ahead.A few steps forward, Zhu Su even saw a broken bluestone slab in a ditch.Apparently, this bluestone slab was once used to hold down the ditch here and prevent pedestrians from falling into the ditch.

However, the nomadic fishing and hunting people in the wilderness would not pave the road with bluestone slabs so carefully.What's more, this broken bluestone slab still has very obvious traces of manual polishing.Those who can do this are undoubtedly the more civilized Ming people or the Goryeo people.And here, whether it's in Daming or Koryo, it can be directly regarded as having escaped from the most dangerous situation.

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

Cao Yuan happily accepted the order, and after a while, dozens of people including Cao Yuan, Chang Mao, and Zhu Di formed an investigation team and walked along this deserted path.Sure enough, in front of the road, a hidden village was found behind the col. Seeing the village, several people couldn't help being overjoyed.

But when the few people got closer and closer, their joy could not help but cool down: there was no other reason, after they walked in, they could clearly find that this place turned out to be a deserted village.

"Hey, I thought I could find someone to ask where this place is, but I didn't expect it to be a deserted village. It's really unlucky!" Looking around, it was confirmed that no one lived here, Chang Mao was angry Spit.

"Oh, the last general didn't expect that the trip was for nothing." Cao Yuan also sighed.Most of the houses in this village are decayed and overgrown with weeds, obviously abandoned for a long time. "The two Highnesses were so tired that they had a lot of joy."

"It's not all in vain." Zhu Su looked around for the remaining structure of the house. "At least, we can be sure that we didn't live in Jurchen, Nuergan and other places. This place should still be in China." He pointed to the lintel of a decayed house: "Look, the houses here are obviously It is the shape of my Huaxia."

"Those nomads can't build such a complicated craft."

"Could it be that this place is still my Ming Dynasty?" Zhu Di frowned deeply, "But, since it is my Ming Dynasty, why is this place so desolate?"

They searched along the deserted road for a while, but they found nothing. Seeing that it was getting late, they retreated to the camp.When it was completely dark, Zhu Su and the others were eating around the fire when a sergeant reported, "Your Highness, Colonel Shao Biao Shao has returned."

"Please!" Zhu Su hurriedly put down the bowls and chopsticks, only to see Shao Biao returning with a dusty face, carrying the Xiuchun knife. "I have seen the three Highnesses, fortunately I have not disgraceed my life, and I already have some clues."

"Oh?" Zhu Su couldn't help admiring this capable captain in Jinyi: after only a few hours, he actually found out some clues. Jinyiwei's intelligence ability is really not covered.

Shao Biao nodded, and took out a roll of maps from his pocket.Zhu Di was taken aback when he saw it: "Captain Shao, where did you get this map?"

"Return to the Fourth Highness." Shao Biao replied with a bow. "After taking the order of His Highness the Fifth Highness, a certain person led people to find the highest mountain in the four places, climbed up to look around, and drew this map."

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

"Shao was a scout in the army in his early years." Shao Biao said indifferently. "Among Jinyiwei and I, most of them are from Tanma."

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

Indeed, as a spy, drawing a map is the most basic skill.

"Let's continue, what clues did you find?" Zhu Xi said.

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

"But the terrain here...is somewhat familiar."

"Shao Mou once passed through the land of Liaodong when he followed Wei Guogong General Xu to conquer the Northern Yuan Dynasty. I still have some impressions of the map that General Xu asked me to look at at that time."

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

Shao Biao said.

(End of this chapter)