The expedition was about to set off, and the surveying and mapping staff came up with an idea.
The long island in front of us is the first stop discovered by the expedition on its eastward journey, and it is also the place where humans first set foot.
In order to label it easily, the island needs a place name.
General Wu stood on the boat, staring at the islands getting farther and farther away, and thought for a moment: "This is a newly discovered place for us humans, and it is also the first place we know about. In this case, let's call it Xinzhi Island."
After hearing this, the surveying and mapping staff picked up a pen and wrote on the map.
From then on, this desert island had a name.
New Chishima Island.
According to the previous detection of the northbound team, the fleet is heading in the northeast direction.
This journey took more than a month.
During the voyage, you will find a small island every once in a while.
After marking them on the map, everyone discovered that these islands were distributed in the sea like necklaces.
The amazing thing is that basically every island has one or several volcanoes.
Yu Zhenping, a surveying and mapping consultant, came up with an idea.
"Are these islands all formed due to volcanic eruptions?"
Everyone laughed.
"Your whimsical ability is unparalleled in the world."
After all, these people were not geologists. They just thought that Yu Zhenping's idea was random, and they never thought that this was the case.
The further north you go, the colder the weather becomes.
When the expedition team came out, everyone was wearing summer clothes, so they had to put on thick clothes at this time.
On this day, the expedition team finally discovered an island larger than Shinchishima.
This island also runs northeast and southwest, but the landmass is much wider.
There are two volcanic belts on the island, one in the south and one in the north.
The expedition team originally thought it was a big island, but when they rounded the northern coastline, they discovered that there was a small island behind this big island.
There is a shallow strait in the middle that can be crossed even by a canoe.
The island is large and naturally rich in resources.
The expedition team rested here again, resupplied supplies, and continued northward.
After walking dozens of miles by sea, land appeared again.
But this time, General Wu was in trouble.
The land that appeared in front of me was only a sharp tip deep into the sea, but looking behind it, it stretched endlessly.
Obviously this newly appeared island is probably so big that it has no edges.
General Wu did not dare to make the decision, so he called everyone together for collective consultation.
After final discussion, the expedition team was divided into two.
General Wu led one group to explore along the west side of the coastline, and Yu Zhenping led another group to explore along the east side of the coastline.
Finally, the two groups met in the north of the island.
At first, Wu Jiang still wanted to explore the island.
However, their team traveled north along the coastline for nearly twenty days and still did not see the boundary of the land.
Later, they also discovered land on the west side of the sea, which they originally thought was the same as Sakhalin Island.
But after going deeper, we discovered that the land on both sides of the sea actually merged into one at the deepest point.
In other words, the place they discovered was actually a deep and wide bay.
They still don't know exactly where the edge of this big island is.
And the most serious situation occurred.
The coast here is full of ice and snow as far as the eye can see.
Icebergs hundreds or thousands of meters long stood at the water's edge. I don't know what happened, but suddenly there was an earth-shattering noise, and an iceberg hundreds of times larger than a sailboat fell down.
When it fell into the water, the waves surged and huge waves surged into the sky.
Seeing the waves crashing in, they pushed the boat under Wu Jiang and others' feet straight back, and it was several miles away before Jiang Jiang came to a stop.
Look at the huge ice cubes, moving slowly on the sea.
If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes just now, who would have believed that underneath this hill-like ice mass, there was a larger part under the water.
"Director, what should I do? I don't know when we can meet up with the second team."
General Wu couldn't help scratching his head and looking around, he saw that everyone was shivering with cold.
They had already put the collected animal skins on themselves, but it was better than nothing.
It's so cold in this damn place.
"Go, look back and look for the second team."
By now, General Wu was also scared.
He led the team to turn the boat around and return along the original route.
Surprisingly, just when they returned to the tip of the land, the second team was also here.
The two sides met and after listening to Yu Zhenping's story, General Wu knew what had happened to them.
It turned out that the second team had the same idea as them at the beginning, thinking that after a period of time, they could meet up by bypassing the big island in front of them.
As a result, I walked and walked along the coastline for a long time. Not only did I not see the edge of the land, but the sea in front of me was also frozen.
Although it could be vaguely seen that there seemed to be land on the other side of the ice, the ship could not pass, so Yu Zhenping and others had no choice but to return.
Putting the surveying maps on both sides together, Wu Jiang finally noticed something on his face.
"We have reached the easternmost point of the continent."
The geographical knowledge they learned did not only come from the world maps brought by Western scholars, but from Zuo Menggeng's more detailed and realistic world maps compiled from memory.
Therefore, after Wu Jiang saw it, he recognized it at a glance. The location they arrived at should be the easternmost point of the entire Eurasian continent.
What they thought was an island before was actually not an island, but a very large peninsula.
Judging from surveying and mapping data, this peninsula is far larger than Sakhalin Island.
Since the east side is no longer accessible, and the weather is getting colder and colder, it will take a long time to get out.
General Wu finally decided and the expedition began to return.
However, the return journey did not take the original route, but went west along the edge of the continent.
"According to the commander-in-chief, as long as we follow the coastline all the way west, we will definitely be able to return to Sakhalin Island. Although we don't know how far the journey is, since we are here, why don't we give it a try?"
General Wu was very good at inspiring people, and his words made the originally exhausted expedition team full of enthusiasm again.
The expedition team entered completely unknown territory.
This journey actually lasted more than two months.
However, because it is close to the mainland coastline, it is very convenient to obtain food and drinking water, which does not cause any difficulties.
As the weather feels warmer and warmer, everyone is confident and knows that they are not far from home.
Finally one day, when the soldier standing on the guard tower was taking a nap, he seemed to catch a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye.
He stood up abruptly, rubbing his eyes non-stop, and was even more ecstatic when he picked up the telescope and looked towards the shore ahead.
"We're home! We're home! We're finally back!"
Directly in front of you is the coast in the distance.
At the top of a sentry tower made of cement, the sentry blew a powerful horn.
Soon, countless people ran out of the castle under construction and gathered on the shore to see this expeditionary force that had gone through many vicissitudes of life.
