It's a fine day.
Regardless of the sergeant's obstruction, Zheng He climbed up to the watchtower himself, standing on a high place and looking to the distant northwest, where a plume of black smoke rose from the land.
Shen Wei, Wan Qinglin, Yu Bing, Chai Datian and others rushed to the flagship, and they were all excited.
Zheng He got off the watchtower and said quickly: "There is nothing to discuss. Let's go back, follow the flagship, and move forward with all our strength in the direction of the smoke column! Arrange more lookout sergeants to avoid hitting the ice floes."
Shen Wei, Wan Qinglin and others understood and returned separately.
Soon, the steam engine roared three times in a row, and the naval fleet threw huge water marks on the sea. The flexible and sturdy pure iron steam engine ship acted as the vanguard and flew away like an arrow!
Zheng He did not return to the helm, but stood on the bow of the ship, facing the howling cold wind, staring at the distant sky.
Mao Zhoutai walked to Zheng He and handed Zheng He the telescope: "I can confirm that it is indeed a smoke column, not a forest fire."
Zheng He waved his hand, without picking up the telescope, and solemnly said: "It must be them!"
Mao Zhoutai nodded heavily: "I think they saw our smoke column, but it was too damaged to go south to join together, so they used this method to tell us the direction. Great, they are still alive, they are still..."
Somewhat choked up.
Zheng He clenched his fists, feeling that the speed of the ship was still too slow.
I wish I could have wings from my ribs!
The powerful power provided by the steam engine made it possible to continue traveling against the wind. Although the speed was relatively slow, under full power, he still ran more than a hundred miles in an hour.
The smoke column is still in the distance, but it has become much clearer. XiuShu.com
Zheng He ordered in a deep voice: "Ask the sergeants in the cabin to clear out 500 sleeping berths, and prepare 500 sets of thick cotton-padded clothes and 500 sets of quilts. Order other ships to have all 216 medical officers prepare, In this bitter cold weather, they must have suffered a lot of frostbite.”
Mao Zhoutai took the order.
Although the logbook records that there are not many remaining men in the fleet, it is good to prepare more. After all, there are still some scattered teams. If they can be reunited, there may be three to four hundred people left.
After traveling for more than two hours, the fleet began to slow down.
The number of ice floes began to increase, and some ice floes were even larger than the Dafu Ship. They could already be called icebergs.
"The boat can't move."
Chai Datian, Lu Zhanggong and others sent news one after another.
If we go further, the fleet is likely to be severely damaged, lose power, or even lose the ship!
Zheng He looked at Sun Xu: "How far is it from the smoke column?"
Sun Xu made some calculations and said solemnly: "At least sixty miles."
Sixty miles!
The distance is not far, the cavalry will arrive in a short time, and the infantry will not take an hour to run. But the road in front of us has been blocked by ice floes and icebergs. If we force our way through, the ship will be destroyed if we are not careful!
It's close in front of you, but you can't go forward!
Zheng He pointed towards the mainland: "Land ashore!"
Sun Xu quickly said: "Because of the ocean currents, there are more ice floes on the coastline. Unless we retreat more than 120 miles and land at another harbor." Xiu Shuzhu
Zheng He picked up the map.
According to the direction, mileage and coastline, this is probably Alaska.
Zheng He shook his head: "We are here to pick them up. We can't retreat any further. Just land here! Order the fleet to line up and move towards the coast. Get all the divine machine guns on the right side ready, let us use them Come and blast a path with the divine machine cannon!"
Mao Zhoutai thinks it is feasible.
Although there are many ice floes on the coast, they are not large overall, and the threat to ships is limited. As long as they blast it with the divine machine cannon, and then arrange for the sergeant to use a small boat to explore to avoid the icebergs hidden below the sea surface, the fleet can find a safe sea channel.
The sergeant began to get busy.
The steam engine stopped operating, and the rudder blades slowly stopped rotating to prevent the broken ice floes from destroying the high-speed operation.
of rudder blades.
The long oar stretched out and one end was submerged in the sea.
The helmsman was in place, and sergeants were arranged for observation on the helm, bow, sides of the ship, and watchtower.
As the fleet approached the coast, a ship opened sideways and aimed sideways at the ice floes on the shore. The sergeants were busy opening ammunition boxes and preparing to launch...
Wasteland, under the rocks.
Yao Shun pointed to the sky in the distance and shouted: "I see new smoke pillars, they are getting closer!"
Guo Wenxing and Luo Feng looked at each other and lowered their heads helplessly.
The same, two people still can't see the so-called smoke column.
Luo Feng believed that Yao Shun had gone crazy and was imagining rescue.
Guo Wenxing looked at the woods not far away. The smoke column began to weaken. But this is just a way to appease Yao Shun. After all, no one can come to save everyone.
It's extremely cold here and the strong north wind blows.
It is impossible for those ships of the Ming Dynasty to appear on the sea. Even if they are exhausted, it is impossible to move the ships here little by little.
Guo Wenxing picked up Luo Feng's very rough crutch, stood up with difficulty, and looked to the west: "We are still roughly 1,200 miles away from the Bering Strait. If there is no news after two days, we will continue to the west. Moving forward, we must get there within a month. After crossing the strait, we can go home."
Yao Shun looked at the stubborn two people and said, "We don't need to move on. They saw the smoke column and have already come to pick us up."
Luo Feng had no energy to argue with Yao Shun and leaned tiredly on the rock: "Wait, this deer is enough for us to eat for a while."
Guo Wenxing was not used to the crutches yet, so he walked a few steps unsteadily, looked up in the direction of the forest, suddenly trembled, and shouted tremblingly: "You two, go quickly, go quickly!" xь.
Luo Feng and Yao Shun felt something, followed Guo Wenxing's gaze, and couldn't help but take a deep breath.
A hundred steps away, a huge brown bear stood with bulging shoulders and thick limbs, staring at the three of them.
Luo Feng picked up the bow and slowly drew an arrow: "Guo Wenxing, don't move, don't move. Yao Shun, once the brown bear pounces, take Guo Wenxing away and I will stop it!"
Yao Shun had a stern expression on his face. He looked at the smoke column in the distance and then at the brown bear nearby. He gritted his teeth and said, "Damn, you are asking us to kill a bear to entertain our future brothers! God, you are too much." Give us face! Luo Feng, this time I will kill a bear for you to see!"
Luo Feng shook his head: "You are no match for it. I can delay it for a while while you run into the dense forest and find a tree to climb up! No matter what, one of the three of us must go home!"
The brown bear jumped suddenly, stretched out its neck, roared at Luo Feng, Yao Shun and others, then exerted force on its limbs and quickly approached 1
Luo Feng pulled up his long bow and the moment the arrow flew out, he shouted: "Take Guo Wenxing away!"
