Chapter 1548 The last person, the last persistence

Style: Historical Author: Winter plum blossoms startle the snowWords: 3158Update Time: 24/02/20 16:17:24
Snowflakes fell one by one, covering the boundless world.

Yao Shun's frozen hands grasped the rope. The rope was dented in the cotton-padded clothes on his shoulders. The straight rope pulled the wooden board. Guo Wenxing on the wooden board stared at the sky with his eyes open.

rustle.

The board was dragged along little by little.

"Leave me alone, you can't go on without me."

Guo Wenxing almost begged.

Yao Shun was panting and shouted: "Can you shut up and say a few words to save some energy? We brothers share life and death together. Who has abandoned whom? Only those who died on the road were not abandoned on the road. of!"

Guo Wenxing wanted to get up, but he couldn't. Due to long-term malnutrition and the loss of a leg three months ago, his body was very weak.

Luo Feng picked up the knife and walked towards Yao Shun, helping to drag the board. After arriving at the deer, he slit the deer's neck, filled the water bag with blood, and stuffed it into Guo Wenxing's mouth: "More than two thousand brothers are left now." The three of us, for these seeds and to complete the mission entrusted to us by the emperor, we must go back! If you die, we can't go home. For us and the ultimate mission, you must persevere and give me a drink!"

Guo Wenxing's eyes were moist and he drank heavily.

The smell of blood stung his throat.

Luo Feng turned around and saw Yao Shun lying on the deer's neck, sucking heavily. He looked around and saw a hill not far away, with no snow at the bottom. He hung the deer behind a wooden board and dragged it with Yao Shun.

After finding some firewood and dead grass, Luo Feng struck the stone with a flaming sickle for a long time before lighting it.

By this time the snow had stopped, and there was great silence between heaven and earth.

Yao Shun skinned the deer and said with a smile: "Guo Wenxing, you didn't come from the Imperial College. Do you still remember what day it is now?"

Guo Wenxing had already sat up, with his hands in his sleeves: "December 18th, the thirteenth year of Jianwen, and in a dozen days, the Ming Dynasty will usher in the fourteenth year of Jianwen."

Yao Shun sighed with emotion: "Since we set sail in September of the fifth year of Jianwen, we have been away from the Ming Dynasty for eight years. If we count from the time we landed in America in July of the seventh year of Jianwen, we have been here for six years. So. After a long time, what do you think happened to Daming?"

Luo Feng picked up the knife, cut off a piece of meat, put it on the knife and started roasting it: "Yes, the Ming Dynasty must have changed a lot in such a long time. In March of the fifth year, the emperor said that it would take ten years to build a new capital. , if everything goes well, the emperor can move to Peking the year after next."

Yao Shun grinned: "Beiping is great, Guo Wenxing, aren't you from Peiping? You can see the emperor when you go home, unlike the two of us who have to drive thousands of miles home."

Guo Wenxing looked at the optimistic two people and sighed deeply.

go home?

Can you really go back?

Looking back on these tragic and suffering years, brothers died and disappeared one by one.

Wu Yi is dead.

Thousands and hundreds of households also died.

The general flag and the small flag are also dead.

Later, the scribe, the horseman, and the cook also died...

Sergeants wear out too quickly.

After arriving on the west coast, considering the tragic sacrifices along the way and the shortage of manpower, as well as the fact that some sergeants did not agree to recross the American continent and return to the east coast, Luo Feng built ships on the west coast at his own suggestion.

I have thought that I can return to the Ming Dynasty through the Pacific Ocean.

The map given by the emperor will not be wrong!

Guo Wenxing firmly believes that the stars are round, the moon is round, the sun is round, and so is the earth!

So, everyone decided to build a ship here and go to sea, and return to the Ming Dynasty with some of the crops they found! Although I didn't find anything like sweet potatoes, I did find corn, a kind of mild ginger, melon seeds that can be eaten facing the sun, melons (zucchini) that look like pumpkins but are not pumpkins...

With these seeds back home, I think it will be able to solve some people's food and clothing problems. The most important thing is that the court must know that the Wuyi Fleet did not die in the sea. They fought to the death for the mission of the court in this wild land!

However, there are unforeseen circumstances, and the ship has not been fully completed.

The plan was ruined by a sudden storm.

That night, the sea water poured in like a huge wall, taking away not only the ships, but also the main shipwrights, some sergeants, and tools. In order to recapture the seeds that fell into the water, more than twenty soldiers jumped into the ocean, but in the end only one came back alive!

After that incident, there were only 326 people left in the large fleet.

After that, they rested for more than half a year, cultivated a number of crops, harvested new seeds, and some soldiers died of illness.

There are only two shipwrights left, and they have very few tools. It is impossible to build a ship for everyone to go back. If they build a small boat, no one is sure how far they can go due to the rough sea.

Later, there were conflicts among the sergeants. Some people wanted to go east, into the wilderness, settle on the east coast of America, and wait for the imperial court to go to America again.

Luo Geng firmly refused to agree. Three hundred people traveling through the wilderness would almost certainly suffer heavy casualties, and it was impossible to say that the entire army would be annihilated. What's more, waiting for the imperial court to go to America again is uncertain. With such a long journey and such a tragic sacrifice, it is unknown whether the imperial court will go to America again.

Later, Lin Dao from a hundred households convinced more than a hundred sergeants, believing that the stubborn Luo Geng would ruin everyone, so he led people into the wilderness one dark night and headed east.

Luo Geng, who had less than 200 sergeants left, had to find a way out.

Guo Wenxing thought over and over again and came up with a bold idea.

If there is no boat to cross the sea, then walk back to Daming!

According to the map, if you go north and then west, you can get close to the Ming Dynasty. If you go south, you will reach the northeast of the Ming Dynasty!

But this plan has a fatal requirement, that is, it needs to advance in winter. Only in winter, when the strait is frozen, can we get out of America and approach the Ming Dynasty.

Winters are severely cold, and the further north you go, the colder it gets.

But in order to go home, Luo Geng finally chose this road after discussing with the sergeant.

But all the way north, it was still hard.

The last shipwright was slapped to death by a grizzly bear, met a pack of gray wolves, and lost many people...

Guo Wenxing's leg was bitten off by a black bear. If Luo Feng and Yao Shun hadn't fought to the death, Guo Wenxing would have died long ago.

Travel along the way, die along the way.

Until now, there were only three people left, two still standing and one disabled.

Guo Wenxing sighed, took the meat handed over by Luo Feng, took a hard bite, chewed it, and said vaguely: "We will definitely go back! Even if there is only one person left, we must go back! Luo Feng, Give me a cane and a leg. I am a man and I can’t continue to lie down and become a burden to you. I want to walk back to Ming Dynasty with you!"

"Haha, no problem!"

Luo Feng finally felt relieved when he saw Guo Wenxing's fighting spirit ignited.

puff!

The knife in Yao Shun's hand fell to the ground.

Luo Feng became alert, drew out an arrow, held a long bow in his hand, and said sternly: "The direction!"

Yao Shun stretched out his hand and pointed to the south: "What is there?"

Luo Feng looked along Yao Shun's hand and saw nothing on the vast snowfield, and couldn't help but ask: "Where?"

Yao Shun's Adam's apple moved: "Heaven!"

Luo Feng raised his eyes and stared at the sky in the distance.

Guo Wenxing looked at it, turned around and asked, "There is nothing in the sky, what are you looking at?"

Yao Shun took a step forward and said, "Can't you see it? There seems to be a black smoke column there!"

Guo Wenxing tried hard to look, but couldn't see the black smoke column.

Luo Feng shook his head: "I didn't see it either."

Yao Shun pointed to the sky in the distance: "Look carefully, it's not just the dark clouds caused by the smoke pillars. It should be a lot of wood piled together and burned."

Luo Feng looked at it carefully, sat down and continued to barbecue: "Yao Shun, peel it with peace of mind. There is no smoke column there, and there is not even a human habitation there. We came from the south, you know."

Yao Shun became anxious: "But I really saw it!"

Guo Wenxing sighed.

People are prone to hallucinations in desperate circumstances, just like a person lost in the desert who is extremely hungry and thirsty will hallucinate the source of water, and then run to death on the road, or eat sand and die.

It's just that in this vast wilderness, in this wild wilderness where few people come and there are only wild animals, it is impossible for anyone to appear. Not to mention that neither he nor Luo Feng saw the smoke column, but if there was a smoke column, it was probably a forest fire caused by a lightning strike and had nothing to do with humans.

Yao Shun looked at Luo Feng and said seriously: "I am not crazy or hallucinating. You are Luo Feng, the deputy captain. He is Guo Wenxing. He strongly supports the round earth theory and is a talented person in the Imperial College and Qintian Prison. I It’s Yao Shun, I remember every name of my dead brother clearly! I’m not crazy, there is a plume of smoke there, we can’t move on, we need to go back!”

Luo Feng looked at Yao Shun and shook his head: "We can't go back!"

"But what if they are looking for us?"

Yao Shun shouted.

Luo Feng stood up, walked towards Yao Shun, pushed Yao Shun to the rock, and shouted sternly: "No one will come to us! The court doesn't know whether we are still alive, how can anyone come! We can only continue to ask for help." Moving forward, this is the only way for us to get home! The two of us can't see the smoke column you mentioned. Even if it exists, it is at least three to four hundred miles away from here. You know that if we go south without success and then turn back, it will be eight hundred miles away. road!"

Eight hundred miles away, no one has the energy to walk this far again.

There is still hope to support moving forward. If the hope of going back is shattered, the power to move forward will also be gone!

Luo Feng started to cut the deer into pieces. After the three of them had eaten their fill, they huddled under the rocks and waited for the sunrise.

I don’t know what’s going on with this damn weather. The sunrise here is very short, less than three hours, so hurry up and take your time. When the sun goes down, you have to find a place to rest.

That night, Luo Feng slept very uneasily because Mr. Yao Shun stood up and looked towards the south. Three people can only stick together. If one person is missing, the remaining two people will not be able to move forward.

Guo Wenxing fell into a drowsy sleep, with tears oozing out from the corners of his eyes. He choked in his dreams and heard: "The clouds follow the dragon, the wind follows the tiger, fame and fortune come from dust and earth. Looking at China, the people are suffering, and the fertile land for thousands of miles is barren..."