Ji Yan and the other three people, under the leadership of Chen Laohan, a local Chinese in Zhancheng, walked out of the north gate of the capital, and then continued to walk all the way north.

It didn't go well at first.

Because although the battle between Jiaozhi and Champa did not start for a long time, the two sides had been stationed on the front line for a long time, so the people of Champa in the north had already run away if they could flee, and the rest basically couldn't run, or they didn't care, so there were not many refugees along the way.

Along the way, the most seen are some armies of the Champa state that have newly opened to the north, these armies are very local characteristics, in addition to the general garrison soldiers lining up, the most interesting thing is that there are many elephant soldiers.

Elephants are more common than horses in this South Seas region, and the locals have long understood the art of elephant taming.

When he first saw the elephant soldiers of the Champa Kingdom, Ji Yan always felt that their troops were a bit like a circus, and he was very curious about whether they would fight and fight.

Because the Ming Dynasty is currently only stationed in Yungui to deter the Jiaozhi State, and then plays the role of the aunt of the neighborhood committee in the mediation, ordering Jiaozhi to return the land of the occupied Champong State, and letting Zheng He's team stay in the capital of the Champong State to protect the Champong State from being beaten by the Jiaozhi State.

However, despite the above actions, the Ming Dynasty still did not really wage war against Jiaozhi, so all you saw along the way was the army of the Champa State.

The shape of the territory of the Champa is very similar to that of Chile in South America, and it is a long, narrow north-south country, similar to a spicy strip standing up.

The capital of the country is located in the middle of the territory, and the main thing in the country is a large road, which can be said to be a road leading from north to south.

If the weather is good, it will only take six or seven days to walk from south to north.

However, there is currently war in the north, and it is now a typhoon day at the end of June, so Ji Yan's scientific expedition team estimated before setting off that it would take about six or seven days to travel from the capital to the border area in the north.

Fortunately, Ji Yan knew that they had two months, so it would take six or seven days to arrive in the northern region, which was completely acceptable to him.

However, it was expected to be so, but as soon as they got on the road, Chen Laohan kept urging them to hurry as soon as possible, so the progress was a little faster than expected at the beginning.

This old man Chen is not very good at Chinese, and Ji Yan thought that he should have brought language skills when his soul was pierced, so he tried to communicate with this old man.

However, it is a pity that the communication process between the two people is very bumpy, it can be said that they play the piano to the cow, and the donkey's lips are not to the horse's mouth.

Ji Yan can only regretfully confirm the fact that this body has any language ability, and how much he has inherited.

It is not a "translation system" that I inherited from some plane or outer space.

This local dialect of Champa is derived from Hindu, and the speakers are also local people of Champong, so few people in the Ming Dynasty understand it, and no one studies it, anyway, the Champa people are rushing to learn Chinese.

This can be regarded as one of the advantages of Chinese living in this era, that is, the Ming Dynasty people did not need to learn foreign languages. (Of course, there are also shortcomings, that is, there are very few people in the Ming Dynasty who understand foreign affairs, which is especially obvious during the War of Resistance against Japan and Aid Korea during the Wanli period.) ）

People from the surrounding countries are trying their best to learn Chinese, striving for the opportunity to do business with China or immigrate to China.

It's almost the opposite of modern society.

Ji Yan can only speak Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, and other relatively large languages, which are currently useless in Champa.

They don't pick a specific time when they travel this way, the most important thing is to look at the weather, and if the weather is suitable, they will leave, and if the weather is not suitable, they will stop.

As long as it is not pouring rain, lightning and thunder, or the wind speed is too high, the four of them basically travel day and night, and they do not stop.

On this journey, Ji Yan gave full play to his modern specialty, that is, he was well-informed, and knew a lot of tropical fruits here, and he dared to pick up and eat whatever he had seen.

In the Nanyang area, in addition to the mountains and rivers passing by rivers and lakes, they go into the water to fish.

If you want to talk about the annoying things on the way, one is snakes, insects, scorpions, centipedes, etc.

Ji Yan looked at these insects, and he didn't know why, but a fear always rose in his heart.

On the contrary, Mei Yuning was not afraid at all, which can also be said to be a very strange thing.

The other is that Ji Yan deliberately emphasized to everyone that hygiene must be paid attention to.

For example, you must drink boiled water, and you must wash your hands before eating and after using the toilet.

Don't look at these things that are common in modern times.

In ancient times, few people cared about this.

In addition to Mei Yuning, because of her background and gender issues, she pays more attention to hygiene.

Like Sun Dayong, even if he is an old man, he doesn't think it's a big deal to drink raw water, and complains that the water looks crystal clear, cold and heart-warming, and he is thirsty on the road, how good it is to drink a sip.

It was still Ji Yan's sharp words and persuasion that he poured boiling water into his kettle.

However, in humid climates, it is sometimes not easy to make a fire and boil water.

When I was in a hurry, I was really thirsty, so Ji Yan suggested that there were coconuts and coconuts, and if there were none, I would eat some mangoes or something to quench my thirst.

Do not drink raw water directly.

I walked like this for more than three days, but fortunately there was nothing wrong along the way.

The old man Chen became more and more excited, and there were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road.

Ji Yan and the others knew that they should soon arrive at the border area, so they no longer swaggered and took the big road, but let Chen Laohan lead the way and take the mountain road.

After entering a hill that is not too high.

They first communicated with Chen Laohan, and made it clear that at this moment, the four of them were in a mountain very close to the northern border of the Champa Kingdom, and the mountain where they were currently located was a river, and after crossing the river and then crossing the mountain, they would arrive at the real border area, and now they don't know whether it belongs to the territory of Jiaozhi or Champong.

The crowd did not stop, but rushed all the way, passing through this dense forest, the dense jungle of the South Seas, the trees were several people high, so although they were on a mountain, they could not see the outside at all.

However, while walking, Ji Yan still felt that something was wrong, to be precise, he smelled it.

A smell of rotten meat.

He still had a bit of an impression in his mind, as if it tasted a little like the one in the edict, which was a very bad omen.

At the same time, the other three people in the same company also smelled the smell, and the four of them looked at each other, all frowned, and had to cover their mouths and noses with their clothes, and continued to climb forward in the mountains.

While slowing down his pace and listening attentively, Mei Yuning and Sun Dayong even took out their blades and held them in their hands.

Ji Yan actually brought a long dagger with him when he went out, but he didn't know how to use it, and he basically used it as tableware along the way.

Moving forward so cautiously, I didn't encounter any problems, but there were more and more flies and mosquitoes.

Seeing that he was about to reach the foot of the mountain, he could already hear the sound of the small river trickling not far away, so Chen Laohan rushed forward directly, and Ji Yan and the other three also followed quickly.

Out of the dense forest, a mile or two ahead was a river, and on either side of the river was a flat land.

That's not the point, though.

The point is that both sides of the river are blood-red.

Not long ago, there should have been a terrible battle here.

Ji Yan and Mei Yuning are actually the first time that they have been in such close contact with war.

Ji Yan won't say anything, he has only been here for a year, and the closest he has seen to war is the dilapidated Jinan Mansion that was tormented by the Battle of Jingjing, but it was also a battlefield several years ago, although Jinan Mansion is recovering slowly, but it has also been rebuilt.

Mei Yuning followed his father Mei Yin to govern the army in Huai'an for several years, but the Battle of Jingyan did not reach Huai'an, and Zhu Di only hit Jinan in the first three years, and did not touch Yanzhou and Huai'an south of Jinan at all.

In the last year, Zhu Di took Yangzhou to the west, bypassed the Huai'an line, contacted Neiying in the capital, and directly took the capital.

Therefore, although Mei Yuning has been in the military camp for several years, at most he has prepared his troops and horses and prepared to go to battle, but he has not participated in the real war.

Looking at the rotten corpses that stretched for miles, with stumps and severed arms, in addition to people, there were elephants and the like.

The surface of the river, which is not wide, is full of floating corpses, flies are flying all over the sky, maggots are crawling all over the ground, this is like hell on earth.

Ji Yan and Mei Yuning couldn't help but turn pale, their hearts were shocked, and they felt a little disgusting and wanted to vomit.

Old Jianghu Sun Dayong also swallowed hard and spit hard.

Only Chen Laohan seemed to be numb to this appearance, but kept searching for traces of his daughter.

Of course, Chen Laohan's daughter would not be on this battlefield, so he quickly looked disappointed again.

Just when the four of them were shocked, a roar suddenly came from not far away, it was not a human voice, which instantly attracted the attention of Ji Yan and the others.