There was no one in the empty fir forest. Xie Jin led the team for five or six miles and saw no one.
Passing through the cedar forest, you are greeted by a huge grassland of short trees.
The climate in this area of Northern California is relatively humid. According to Wang Ye, it has a mild monsoon climate, which is humid and rainy all year round. It is one of the few excellent agricultural areas in the world.
The prince said that Southern California, which is further south in the New World, is relatively dry. There is not much rain there all year round, and except for the coastal areas, it is all desert and wasteland.
So Li Zhi asked Xie Jin to land in the Northern California area. Today's navy in one town and nine provinces widely uses astrolabes and quadrants, which can calculate the latitude of their location relatively accurately and control their position and direction in the vast Pacific Ocean.
What Xie Jin saw along the way also proved Li Zhi's judgment. The huge cedar forest on the seaside showed that the rainfall here was abundant, and the short tree grassland in front of him also had thick grass. At this time, all the grass had grown
It has turned yellow, turning the entire field of vision into grass yellow. The two-person tall dwarf trees are mixed in with the one-meter-high grass. The leaves have withered and turned yellow in the cold wind of October, and it seems that they are about to fall off all the leaves.
There is no end to this short tree grassland, giving people an extremely strong visual impact.
The sky and the earth are so big that everything in the New World seems to be bigger than that in the Ming Dynasty. Not only are the fir trees bigger, but any grassland is dozens of miles in radius, which is rarely seen in the Ming Dynasty. Even the grassland on this grassland is
The wild grasses are taller and have thicker branches and leaves than those in the Mongolian grasslands and Liaodong wastelands. I don’t know what species they are.
It was a bit difficult to walk among the one-meter-high weeds, so Xie Jin led the team to walk slowly.
If it was to understand the geography of this landing point as quickly as possible, Xie Jin should disperse the team of more than 100 people. However, Xie Jin always felt unsafe, so he always kept the entire company together.
After walking two miles, a soldier under Xie Jin suddenly pointed to the northeast and shouted: "Company commander, look, there are a lot of cows!"
Xie Jin looked along the soldier's finger and found that there was indeed a dark thing in the grass in the northeast. Xie Jin raised the telescope around his neck and found that those dark things were really cows.
It's a bison.
There are three to four hundred of those bison. Their hair is brown and black, and they look different from Chinese buffaloes and oxen. These bison have large heads with a pair of sharp horns. Their forelimbs are extremely
Stout, with highly protruding shoulder blades.
Looking through the telescope, these bison are very tall, probably as tall as a person.
The soldier who pointed out the buffalo was called Liu Zhengdao, a third-class private. He was very excited at this time, waving his arms and said: "Company Commander, we have fresh meat now! I have been eating big cakes with dried meat for a month.
I almost vomited!"
There were no supply points on the way across the Pacific Ocean. In order to save space for fresh water and supplies, the fleet only brought flour and dried meat on the road. After eating these things for a month in the sea, it really felt like fading away from the birds.
Xie Jin nodded and said, "Okay! Kill one and eat it!"
When the soldiers heard Xie Jin's words, they all beamed with joy. Three scouts took the initiative to ask for orders and went towards the buffalo herd in the distance with their sniper rifles.
Xie Jin found a place with higher ground and carefully observed the scouts' actions with binoculars.
Looking carefully with a telescope from a high place, Xie Jin discovered that there was a winding river in the middle of the shrub grassland. The place where the bison herds gathered was the beach of this small river.
As he watched, Xie Jin suddenly saw someone in the distance.
Xie Jin felt nervous.
One mile away from the river beach, there were about thirty "savages" wearing cowhide jackets and long hair, squatting in the grass with "spear" in their hands, seeming to be preparing to ambush the buffalo herd.
Xie Jin quickly took a large-diameter high-power telescope from the orderly nearby and found that the weapons in the hands of the savages were made of stone and were shiny black.
These people are probably the Indians the prince mentioned.
These Indians were hiding in the grass, and their yellow cowhide coats were the same color as the weeds. It was impossible to tell their ambush unless you looked carefully.
Xie Jin felt nervous and was about to blow the trumpet to pull the scouts back when he heard a "pop" and the scouts fired.
The scouts were so focused on killing the cattle for meat that they did not pay attention to the Indians a few miles away. They were shooting bison.
A bison on the periphery was shot. It suddenly jumped up from the grass, as if a wild beast was biting it on its back, and bounced a few times desperately. However, the caliber of the Jinwang rifle was very large, and the cone-shaped bullets were lethal.
The strength was so amazing that the bison jumped a few times before falling limp and falling to the ground.
The herd suddenly became confused, and they began to flee in panic, trying their best to escape in all directions.
But then the shots from the other two scouts rang out.
"Pah! Pah!"
Two more bison were shot.
Xie Jin nervously observed the Indians in the distance.
However, the angry natives that Xie Jin was worried about did not appear.
The Indians were obviously frightened by the situation here. They did not dare to squat in the grass anymore, so they all lay down in the grass. They were frightened by the powerful muskets and tried to hide themselves in the hope that
Don't let yourself be discovered by the "strong man" who comes ahead.
Then it only took more than ten seconds for these Indians to start running away.
At this time, the other soldiers of the Huben Army realized that there was someone in the distance, and they were all stunned.
The Indians ran very fast, running wildly through the grass, and soon escaped several miles away.
A platoon leader next to him asked: "Company commander, do we want to chase the natives?"
Xie Jin rolled his eyes and said, "What are you chasing after? This is a place where the natives live. Maybe they have laid traps and snares. If you break in, it will be over."
The soldiers laughed.
Although they did not dare to pursue, the soldiers of the Tiger Army were very proud of the Indians' escape. Originally, everyone was worried about being attacked by the local indigenous people, but seeing the appearance of these Indians, everyone felt that they were worrying too much. Obviously, as long as they are like this,
Unless people attack the Indians, these natives will not dare to challenge the Tiger Army.
Xie Jin also gained some confidence because of the escape of those Indians, and no longer felt full of crisis.
He waved his hand and said: "Search as a squad to find a high ground near the water source to build a fortress. The ship is going back to Tianjin to send a message and pick up the second batch of soldiers. We have almost eaten the supplies.
From now on we will be eating bison meat every day!”
"I eat meat every day!"
When the soldiers heard Xie Jin's words, they happily raised their guns and shouted loudly on the open grassland. 8)
