Although the march of the troops has increased a little under the supervision of the officials, it seems that there is no end in sight to this vast rainforest, and it seems that it will never be able to get out, and it seems that everyone will be trapped in this reckless rainforest.

Late at night, the soldiers, who had been walking for a day, began to camp in a meadow in the middle of the rainforest, one of the few places in the rainforest where there was no standing water. A bonfire was lit, and the light of the fire flickered and dimmed, as if a man with lung nagging was breathing very poorly.

Because it was the rainy season, the branches used to make the fire were damp, and these branches emitted white smoke and foam in the flames, making a "sizzling" sound, and a large cloud of smoke and a choking smell spread over the meadows between the valleys.

At this time, the valley, which has been very quiet for thousands of years, has become lively, and there are people everywhere neighing, so lively! Even the elephant hissed a few times!

The soldiers unloaded the grain and grass from the mule horses with all their hands and feet, and unloaded the weapons and equipment on their bodies as well! Then, exhausted, they collapsed on the damp ground like a lump of soft mud.

Although this army is the elite under Li Dingguo's command, among the 25,000 troops, there are not only men, but also two or three thousand women, who are the families of officers and soldiers, and they also have to act with the army, if they stay in place, they are likely to fall into the hands of the Qing army. While the weary men were sitting around the fire, smoking cigarette pouches and driving away mosquitoes with tobacco leaves, and whispering from time to time, the women and children were already busy, and no one in the army had eaten idle, and if they did, they would have been left aside.

The women were cooking there, while the children were looking for wild vegetables and other things to eat, for this army, they had become accustomed to this life of feeding on wild vegetables, and the poor life made it necessary for them to satisfy their hunger with wild vegetables as much as possible, and to replace rice with wild vegetables, after the children found wild vegetables and mushrooms. The women put all the wild vegetables into the pot and boiled them with the rice.

In an iron pot, the gruel, which accounted for more than half of the wild vegetables and mushrooms, emitted an attractive aroma into the air, and a group of dolls were so hungry that they swirled around the pot and couldn't stop drooling. For children, they naturally don't know the troubles of adults, and they are more eager for the gruel in this pot than others, after all, they are the same as adults, and they are already tired and hungry after a day of walking in this deep mountain and old forest.

The light of the bonfire jumped on people's faces, casting many shadows, and people's faces were filled with sadness!

When is the head?

Li Dingguo, who was sitting by the fire in a dress, had a mess of the beard on his chin, and at this time he looked like a prince at all, looking like a dirty soldier, at least not much different from an ordinary soldier. In fact, most of the time, he was dressed like an ordinary soldier. He is neither greedy for money nor lustful, and can be said to be an outlier among the generals of the Ming army. And he loves soldiers like children. It is precisely because of this that the soldiers are willing to follow him in this desperate realm.

Anyone could see that King Jin was in an extremely bad mood, except for the guards who followed him, the rest of the people quietly avoided him, not daring to disturb him easily, for fear of annoying him.

The steaming gruel was delivered, but Li Dingguo didn't move at all, and put it on the edge of the fire. His brow was furrowed, and at this time his face was full of melancholy, and he was holding a branch in his hand and scratching it on the ground, muttering to himself while drawing, and from time to time he smashed the ground with the branch in annoyance, and then drew it again.

He sat by the campfire like this, his brows were tightly locked, and there was only one thought in his mind - whether he was fooled, whether he was fooled by Zhang Fengyang, maybe because everyone knew that he was angry, so no one dared to persuade him to eat first.

"Hugh wants me to see you again, if not, if I don't kill you, I can vent the hatred in the heart of this king."

Just when Li Dingguo was thinking like this, suddenly, there was the neighing of horses in the woods not far away, and then there was a scream of someone, and then the men who were smoking by the fire didn't even have time to throw away the cigarette pouch in their hands, so they even grabbed the weapons at their feet, and then looked at the woods vigilantly, those women were more like wasps that had blown up their nests, and they scattered with a "boom", and then kept shouting the names of the children, among which there was inevitably the sad cry of the children, The whole camp was in chaos!

Li Dingguo, who was originally annoyed, stood up suddenly, and then threw the branch in his hand into the fire, and the fire suddenly burst into a burst of smoke.

Looking at the chaotic appearance in the camp, he immediately shouted angrily.

"What's going on? Who dares to mess with my barracks, don't have a head? ”

After a while, someone came to report that the beast had attacked the sentry, biting a pack horse and taking one of the sentry.

It is also common and inevitable that troops will be attacked by wild beasts in such deep mountains and old forests.

Faced with this kind of thing, Li Dingguo just sighed helplessly, and then was speechless for a long time, and after a long time, he ordered to increase the number of sentry posts and burn more bonfires around the camp, after all, wild beasts are afraid of fire.

Then, Li Dingguo sat by the fire again, and there was even some despair in his eyes......

Is it true that the believers are not human?

The night passed, and a white line slowly appeared in the sky, and it was almost dawn!

After a long night, I don't know when a fog rose in the woods, and the fog rolled in the rainforest like a ghost, sometimes thick and sometimes light, but sometimes it cracked a crack, allowing the sun to shine into the world.

The green rainforest glows green in the sunlight!

The red soil, which is unique to the southwest, forms a sharp contrast with the green of the rainforest.

The bonfire, which had been burned all night, was gradually extinguished, and the soldiers who had rested all night woke up and started to make a fire again, but all around was a watery mist, and it was not easy for the damp branches to burn, but at last the fire was raised, and the women were once again busy cooking their meals, for these soldiers they could only hear two meals a day, morning and evening. After eating this meal, you don't know where the next meal will be? Even for some of them, it is not always possible to eat the next meal.

It is different from the wild vegetable rice porridge eaten last night, because those local soldiers caught a few big snakes when they were exploring the road, although there is not much meat, but it is cooked into porridge with wild vegetables and rice, but it can also make the big guy taste some meat, for those weak soldiers, this is not only a rare delicacy, but also can replenish some qi and blood for them.

Even as the commander of the First Army, Li Dingguo spent the night on the bonfire like everyone else yesterday, but he did not sleep. He sat motionless by the campfire, and at most he had an extra cloak on his body, which had been worn for years. He didn't care at all about the mist-soaked cloak, his eyes staring blankly at the fog floating in the air.

He who hadn't slept all night looked even more haggard, his eyes were bloodshot, and his black eye sockets had a look like a desperate beast, and he had the idea of devouring everything at any time!

Is it really wrong?

Did you really believe in the wrong person?

All sorts of thoughts rose in his mind, and even for the first time he felt some kind of fear. She was afraid that because she had mistrusted others, the army would be buried in this deep mountain and old forest.

At this time, the guards were scrambling to add wood to the fire, and from time to time they were choked by the smoke and coughed.

And for all this, he turned a deaf ear, but where he did, in his heart, he even began to regret it, regretting why he fell for others so easily.

At this time, a man stepped on the thick dead branches and leaves and walked over quietly, removed some of the wet branches, stirred the fire again, leaned down and blew the fire hard, the smoke rose, and the red flames jumped happily with a "pounce", and finally ignited a raging fire.

"Lord Wang, let's eat, your body matters!"

The man picked up a bowl of gruel by the fire and handed it over!

Li Dingguo looked up and saw that it was Gao Wengui, the Marquis of Guangchang. And next to him stood a Burmese.

Burmese?

How can there be Burmese here?

Then he recognized the Burmese.

It was Zhang Fengyang, the loyal soldier who came to his camp a few months ago, he was dressed as a Burmese, and he had a smile on his face.

The moment he saw Zhang Fengyang, Li Dingguo stood up violently, in the past few years, he had always suspected that this person was a spy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he was a traitor who led him to this dead land.

But just when he was about to explode, seeing the smile on his face, Li Dingguo hurriedly hugged his anger and said.

"It's finished?"

Li Dingguo didn't even notice that there was some uncertainty in her tone.

"It's done!"

Zhang Fengyang nodded and replied with a smile.

"Where is it now?"

Li Dingguo even looked behind Gao Wengui, Marquis of Guangchang, why didn't he see Jinshang.

"Back to the King of Jin, now that Jinshang has been escorted to the south, the reinforcements sent by my family Jingluo have occupied the Jiangkou area, and after Jinshang arrives, he can return to the southern capital with the fleet!"

What the!

Just in an instant, the anger that had just been suppressed in Li Dingguo's heart surged again, his eyes stared at Zhang Fengyang, and he asked angrily.

"Zhang Jun is just the right means!"

The reason why he said this was because the person in front of him had promised him that he would bring out the emperor, and he went south to receive the emperor, but who would have thought that this person sent the emperor to the south. He was not opposed to sending the emperor to the south and then returning to the southern capital by sea, but the reason why he was annoyed was because the man in front of him had fooled him.

"Good, good ......"

shouted one after another to do a good job, and the idea of killing people had already risen in Li Dingguo's heart, and he would not do anything else for the brothers who were buried in this deep mountain and old forest along the way.

King Jin's anger made Zhang Fengyang feel the anger and killing intent in her heart, so he hurriedly said.

"Don't misunderstand, the reason why I didn't bring the emperor here is because the risk of this road is unknown, after all, compared to going south, the north is closer, once the Burmese find out that the north has escaped, they will definitely block the road to the north, and the north is already nine deaths in the next time, and it is really not possible to fall into danger in today, so it will be ordered to escort Jinshang to the south! Besides, there is one more thing to inform the prince here! ”

Seeing the murderous intent in Li Dingguo's eyes, Zhang Fengyang hurriedly explained, but his explanation still seemed a little pale, but despite this, when he took out the letter from the envoy, Li Dingguo, who was originally angry, immediately calmed down after reading the letter.

After reading the letter, Li Dingguo looked at Zhang Fengyang and asked in a deep voice.

"When did you receive this letter?"

Could it be that he carried it with him last time?

"Back to the prince, the letter is that before the fleet departs, it will be handed over to the fleet, and the order will be handed over to the king of Jin, and my family will believe that the king of Jin must know how to be more beneficial to my Ming!"

Although he didn't know the content of the letter, Zhang Fengyang never doubted Jing Liu's plan, and in connection with the change in Li Dingguo's attitude, he knew that Jing Liu's letter must have moved Li Guoding.

"Oh!"

Nodding silently, Li Dingguo looked at him and said.

"Believe that?"

After receiving the letter, Li Dingguo read it. The anger slowly disappeared, and after reading the letter, he paused for a moment before he spoke.

"Okay, you stay in our army for the time being, how long will it take to get out of here if you go south?"

Although this is different from the original plan, as long as the emperor is safe, it is more important than anything else, and Zhang Fengyang said that it only takes five days to get out of the rainforest, which makes Li Dingguo's worry about the fate of the team a lot easier.

The troops marched for another seven days—the march of the large army was no match for the individual, and after seven days, the large army finally came out of the rainforest and saw a cottage, which means that it was necessary to get out of the forest.

Li Dingguo, who was afraid of causing trouble, hurriedly ordered the troops to pass quickly, and it was strictly forbidden to contact the mountain people. After nearly two months of day and night marching, the troops finally reached the plains. Then the officers and soldiers saw the rice fields, which were the core of Burma, and Li Dingguo was no stranger to it, and he had fought here twice before to force the Burmese to hand over the Yongli, which was only a hundred miles away from the Burmese capital Acheng.

Then Li Dingguo immediately ordered: camp on the spot, and the team rests. Then he ordered the Burmese local officials to pay for grain and grass, and at the same time the losses of the battalions were reported one after another, and in two months, the army lost more than 3,600 people in the rainforest......

At this time, it was already September 26 of the 14th year of Yongli. At the same time, a message flew to the Burmese palace in Ava City, and Li Dingguo ordered the Burmese king to hand over Emperor Yongli, otherwise he would attack with a large army! At that time, the entire Ava City will be burned with jade and no grass!