Zhu Gaoxu discovered that the road ahead was indeed rugged and difficult to navigate. Not to mention, it was all mountainous. Some roads were even on the mountain and could only accommodate one rider.
Five hundred people were marching on the narrow mountain road, and gravel kept falling off the cliff. Zhu Gaoxu asked himself that he was not afraid of anything, but when he looked down at the bottomless cliff, he immediately became frightened.
But at the same time, he also had some doubts in his mind.
"Lan Shuai."
"Um?"
Zhu Gaoxu asked in a low voice, "Since this road is so difficult, even if the Burmese barbarians make some moves, they won't be able to get through in a short time! The army can't walk on this road at all..."
"We are taking a shortcut!" Lan Yu said calmly, "If the Burmese barbarians had already colluded with Tao Mengqian and other chieftains, wouldn't we be falling into a trap if we took the main road now?"
"Small road?" Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, "How do you recognize the road to Myanmar?"
"It's not that I recognize it, it's that someone under me recognizes it!" After saying that, Lan Yu smiled slightly and shouted to the front, "Old Seven!"
Among the cavalrymen walking at the front, a short and skinny old man turned back and grinned silently.
"He is...?" Zhu Gaoxu was confused.
Lan Yu got off the horse, held the reins to the inner wall of the mountain road, and said, "He was a soldier I recruited when I conquered Yunnan. He was originally from our Ming Dynasty and a Burmese. The roads here are all in
In his head!"
In this way, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly realized.
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Five hundred cavalrymen trudged through the valley and camped in a forest to rest.
After only one day of walking, Zhu Gaoxu felt as if he had been walking on horseback for many days and was exhausted.
Lan Yu sat next to him, holding a cup of hot tea and thinking silently.
The surroundings were eerily quiet, and all the cavalrymen closed their eyes to rest, and no one spoke.
Zhu Gaoxu couldn't bear his temper and wanted to say something but didn't know how to say it.
"Patience, patience!" Lan Yu said, "You can't hold your breath, you don't know who you have learned from, you scratch your head and head whenever you are free!"
"Shuai Lan!" Zhu Gaoxu said, "I have been thinking along the way, have the local kings in Myanmar taken the courage of leopards? If they dare to go against our Ming Dynasty, are they not afraid of our Ming Dynasty...?"
"You are wrong if you think so!" Lan Yu interrupted him and whispered, "True surrender can only be achieved by beating. Although our Ming Dynasty is great, we have never beaten him, so he will not know the pain. Besides,
, he has a geographical advantage and knows that it will be extremely difficult for us to defeat him, so he is confident!"
"Besides, do you really think Myanmar is a small barbarian country?"
Zhu Gaoxu was stunned, "They are not nominally my subjects of the Ming Dynasty..."
"Such words are only believed by those scholars who suffered from the plague. We soldiers must not take them seriously! What happened to the Ming Dynasty? Why should they obey you? You Ming Dynasty has three heads and six arms?" Lan Yu sneered and grabbed the branch casually.
Drawing on the ground, "We have inherited the tradition for thousands of years, and people don't just pop out of the cracks in the rocks. To despise others for no reason can only make people laugh. There is a saying, Yelang is arrogant."
As he spoke, he pointed to the pieces he had drawn and said, "Burma is a collective name, but now it is divided into this king and that king. They seem to be loose and even attack each other. But once they are unified, look at them.
territory."
"Siam and Laos are both within the scope of Burma. They are rich in rice and cotton and can be completely self-sufficient. Such a populous and independent country, outside the southwest border of the Ming Dynasty, do you still think it is a barbarian?
Xiaobang?"
"They...are not that young!" Zhu Gaoxu said calmly.
"Actually, no matter whether he has colluded with the chieftain of Ming Dynasty or not, I will beat him sooner or later and night. How can we allow others to sleep soundly under the bed? If we don't beat him down now, let him know how powerful Ming Dynasty is. Once he gets up in the future,
He is harassing me on the border of Ming Dynasty. When the time comes, we will have to spend a hundred times our efforts to suppress him!"
"If we can't suppress it by then, they may even eat up a large piece of the borderland!"
Hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu looked admiring and said, "Shuai Lan, you know so much!"
Lan Yu's face turned red and she whispered, "Someone told me this too!"
"Who?" Zhu Gaoxu said loudly, "A person with such a high level of ambition will be appointed as a military advisor when I return..."
"Your Majesty!" Lan Yu said, and Zhu Gaoxu was stunned, "Who?"
"The Emperor said it!" Lan Yu pointed her finger to the sky and said, "These words were spoken by the Emperor himself before leaving!"
"He...?" Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, lowered his head and sighed, "He is indeed better than us!"
"More than just better than you, one is in the sky and the other is on the ground... You are so naughty, who can you compare with? Can't you compare with the emperor?" Lan Yu said angrily.
In fact, Zhu Yunxi said much more than that.
In Zhu Yunxi's plan, there could only be one empire in Asia, and that was the Ming Empire.
If these small city-states close to the Ming Dynasty do not take advantage of them, it will be a crime against future generations.
After eating and drinking, they continued on the road. The five hundred people were divided into more than a dozen small teams. Among them, they also saw some small villages hidden in the forests and mountains. However, before these natives could understand the situation, they became the souls of the Ming army.
.
After a few days like this, they encountered more villages, and sometimes people could even be seen on the road. The Ming army simply stayed day and night, becoming more and more cautious.
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It was another night, silent.
The Ming army was stationed in an unknown valley, and the place Lan Yu chose was halfway up the mountain, overlooking the road below.
There was no fire, everyone ate cold dried meat and drank cold tea.
"This is good, there is a Burmese town further ahead." Lan Yu whispered, "If you block this road, you can detect their movements."
Before Zhu Gaoxu could speak, suddenly there were rapid footsteps behind him.
A veteran wearing leather armor came over quickly and said urgently, "Commander, the army is passing twenty miles ahead!"
Lan Yu's spirit became tense instantly, "How many people are there?"
"Five thousand!" the veteran said, "I didn't dare to get too close, so I could only look at the flags from a distance. If we follow our Ming Dynasty's organization, the army that came over would have fifty small flags, and the Centurion would have five thousand people!"
As he spoke, he swallowed and said, "The cavalry is not counted, but there should be two hundred flags scattered. The Burmese are also very cautious in marching, and they send the cavalry out from a distance."
Lan Yu was lost in thought, while Zhu Gaoxu gritted his teeth and said, "These bastards, how fucking dare they are!"
"What else can you see?" Lan Yu continued to ask.
"It should be light infantry. I didn't find many chariots and horses accompanying the army in the army, and I didn't see anyone carrying long weapons. They were all equipped with knives and bamboo spears." The veteran continued, "Moreover, I judge that they are from the Burmese.
Pioneer Army, because some of their cavalry are running backwards!"
"Five thousand forwards..." Lan Yu squinted her eyes, like a wolf seeing its prey.
"Do you want to go back to report the news?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.
"Why are you so anxious?" Lan Yu snorted, "Where are you now?" As he said that, he turned to look at the veteran seriously, "You guys have a rest, and then wait for those five thousand people to pass under our noses.
After that, you bite them from behind."
"Commander, you...?"
"I'll take some people to find out how many people are behind him!" Lan Yu grinned, "If you have a chance, let's fuck him!"
"We only have five hundred people!" Zhu Gaoxu was shocked.
Lan Yu smiled contemptuously, "That's enough to beat him!"