The trees are towering, and in the dense and continuous rainforest, even if it is daylight, you can't see your fingers, you can't see the slightest sunlight, and even if some light is reflected in the forest through the branches and leaves, it is also intermittent.

In the dim, damp rainforest, a beggar-like procession struggled through the trees, not unfurling a flag, but recognizable from its hair outfit as the Ming army.

It had been nearly a month since the army led by Li Dingguo himself drove into the reckless rainforest of Burma, and in order to win by surprise, this time he did not follow the river all the way south, but plunged headlong into the vast jungle under the guidance of local native guides.

On the first day of entering the rainforest, the army of 25,000 winded its way up a sheep's intestine path in the rainforest that the natives had traveled to hunt and trade with the horse gang. From the second day, I entered this reckless rainforest, and as far as the eye could see, there were towering ancient trees, and the huge canopy made the forest even more visible. As soon as the army entered this hazy and humid environment, the smell of various objects after decay came to the face, which only made people feel disgusting, and even almost suffocated. And the ground is full of thick fallen leaves, and walking on it is like walking on a soft one, and there seems to be nothing unusual. But it didn't take long for everyone in the army to feel like they were walking on thin ice, and even everyone became trembling, because there were often some deep pits and swamps covered by these fallen leaves, and if a pedestrian fell into it, he was very likely to lose his life.

This rainforest is full of all kinds of risks, and even the natives in this army are also cautious and dare not slack off. For the Han people in the army, few people really understand the horror of the big forest, and the horror of this dense forest is beyond their imagination.

In order to be able to welcome back the holy car, Li Dingguo led more than 20,000 elites to directly break into this primeval rainforest, and the dark environment in the rain forest is really daunting. Towering trees densely blocked the way, and the overgrown weeds and rattans made it almost impossible for people to walk, so much so that they had to send out unearthed soldiers to open the way with machetes in front. And in this rainforest, there are all kinds of birds and beasts from time to time to howl, which makes people's hearts and souls chaotic. Fortunately, this is not a caravan of a few people, dozens of people, or hundreds of people, but a vast army of tens of thousands of people, so as not to be intimidated by such an environment.

After the battle of Mopan Mountain, although Li Dingguo suffered heavy losses, but now he has recovered some vitality, plus through the recruitment of the head of the people, recruited a lot of natives in the army, through the Han people, these natives know more about the rainforest, and now they act as the vanguard of the army, in front of the task of "opening the road in the mountains, building bridges in the water", these natives with machetes cut through thorns and thorns along the way, and opened a real road for the army, which is a road that "no one has walked before".

Even every step they take is the first time people have set foot on this land, and when crossing the cliffs, they also need to erect handrails with rattan to avoid falling into the abyss. When crossing ravines, it is also necessary to cut down trees, build wooden bridges in them, and even build rafts to cross the rivers that stand in the way.

What's even more annoying is that it is the rainy season, so it has only been a few days since the army entered the mountains, and this downpour has been overwhelming. During the rainy season in Myanmar, the rain is endless, and the sky seems to have been poked into a big hole, and the rain is pouring down from this big hole all the time.

Almost every day, from dawn to dusk, from dusk to morning, the whole day is non-stop, all day is rain, if there is any difference, that is, heavy rain to moderate rain, to light rain, and then to heavy rain...... This goes on and on, and so on, so that there is no end in sight.

In the dry season, the ravine can be walked, which will be turned into a small river by rainwater, so it is necessary to build a bridge to cross the ditch. But because of the turbulent water in the ravine, it is not easy to build a bridge, often the wooden bridge is just erected, and it is broken by the rapids, so the march is slow, beyond anyone's expectation, often not more than ten miles a day.

But just like that, the army was still marching in the direction of Ava. When they first entered the rainforest, for the first few days, everyone only thought that the beasts and snakes in the rainforest were threatened, so the soldiers were vigilant against sudden attacks by fierce beasts.

In fact, most of the animals in the rainforest were frightened by the noise made by the troops when they entered the forest, and they had already avoided the distant mountains and forests, and would not have the slightest contact with the large army. At most, it was at night that the soldiers noticed that the red and green eyes of the wild beasts flashed around them from time to time, staring at them with a sense of readiness to take them away.

Because the soldiers' attention was on the beasts, they took the ants crawling on the trees lightly, and they didn't even notice the ants. Occasionally, they would find piles of white bones under the trees along the way, which was not a terrible thing for them, and since there were birds and animals in the rainforest, it was natural to have white bones.

But no one noticed the problem: they saw the bones and not the carcasses of the animals—even the rotting ones, even the skins. Where did all this stuff go?

In fact, compared to these tiny insects and ants, the flood beasts in this rainforest are not even worth mentioning. The dense forest could block the sun, but not the rain, and puddles of water were poured under the feet of the soldiers, and the sulfur floated out. Because all people are barefoot straw sandals, so leeches bite barefoot, everyone's attention is distracted by the environment, and leeches bite people are actually not painful, so they often will not be found, even if people find out, can not be beaten, because the leech is beaten or pulled off the body, its head burrows into the flesh, and continues to reproduce in people's rest, further harming the human body. Although the native soldiers told them that leeches should not be beaten and should be burned with charcoals, the speed of cocoa burning could not keep up with the speed of leeches' bites, and even their bodies were full of leeches, so they had to burn the leeches on their legs with burning charcoal fire as they walked! Leaving patches of blood on the body, this is a blood road, a veritable blood road.

Tens of thousands of troops marched and fought with great momentum, but after entering the vast primeval rainforest, it seemed as if they had entered the boundless sea, and they could not even set off a wave.

On the tenth day of entering the deep mountains and wild forests, Li Dingguo felt that the situation was a little bad. But there is no turning back from the bow, and now Bai Wenxuan is heading south along the waterway to attract the attention of the Burmese army, while he is leading the army all the way south to take Ava, and now he has only one wish: that is, to get out of this forest as soon as possible, otherwise, if he stays here any longer, the troops will have to go out of chaos.

If you stay like this, before the Burmese come, the rainforest will eat everyone!

Before leaving, Li Dingguo's worries were quickly fulfilled. It didn't take long for the team to start showing sick numbers, and there were also outdated soldiers, and falling behind in such an environment was almost equivalent to death. Marching day and night in heavy rain, coupled with physical and mental exhaustion, people are easily weakened, especially after being bitten by mosquitoes, more and more people are infected with the "plague", and the number of deaths is increasing day by day, from a few people a day to a dozen, even dozens of people and finally to hundreds of people. Due to the lack of medicine, many soldiers had a high fever in their stomachs, but they died a few days later.

And even more cruel things kept coming, in order to save their lives, no one was willing to carry those sick numbers. At this time, some people even proposed, "At this time, good people are still uncertain, how can the sick number get out alive." So the sick numbers were set aside. Many of them were still able to struggle, so they followed the line with a stick on their back, while those who could not move rolled on the ground and wailed there.

"Brother! Brothers! Don't leave me behind! Don't leave me behind! ”

They kept calling the villagers in their native accents to try to get help from the villagers, because everyone knows that in this environment, falling behind is death, let alone being sick?

But at this time, everyone was protecting themselves, and everyone chose to be silent.

In the end, even the dead could no longer attract anyone's attention. Because on the march route, more and more sick numbers appeared, and more and more people died.

What's even worse is that those seemingly inconspicuous ants and unknown reptiles in the rainforest began to attack the dead, and even some of the remaining sick numbers have become a delicacy in their mouths. And there wasn't even a trace of flesh on the bones......

In the face of such a tragic situation, Li Dingguo, as the commander-in-chief, was even more anxious, and he even wondered for a while whether he had fallen into the trap of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and whether Zhang Fengyang was the death of the Manchu Dynasty, because he realized that his team had entered a battlefield without enemies. This battlefield, where you can't see the enemy, is likely to eat everyone!

And the way to break free from this battlefield where you can't see the enemy is not to kill the enemy, but to step up the march and get out of this dark forest as quickly as possible, in order to be able to leave this place as soon as possible, Qian Zong, who is responsible for opening the road, was cut four or five by Li Dingguo one after another because the road was too slow, so that under the threat of life, the speed of the team's march finally accelerated a little.