Relatively speaking, at this time, Vietnam's population was quite sparse, so after leaving Donglin City, walking all the way to the dense forest in the west, sometimes, I was afraid that I would not be able to meet a Vietnamese all day.

This can be seen from the population of Donglin City.

Donglin City, Vietnam, should actually be a small county town on the west side of Cat Ba Island in Vietnam in later generations. It is supposed to belong to Tu Son City in Haiphong, Vietnam. According to that island, Liu Yi can basically establish the current location, where is the future of Vietnam.

Now, Liu Yi understands that the population of Donglin City is actually only about 10,000 people, and if you count the population of some Vietnamese villages outside Donglin City, it may not exceed 20,000. You must know that this is the population of Donglin City on the coast, which extends dozens of miles up and down to the sea, and then hundreds of miles inland. The reason why Kaimingtai has thousands of men and horses is that he actually brought nearly 2,000 men and horses from Guangzhou, so that there are so many Han soldiers in Donglin City.

The Han soldiers were of little use, and the men and horses led by Kaimingtai were actually just asking them to help carry some supplies.

Liu Yi and his daughters, together with thousands of men and horses, together with Kaimingtai, marched all the way to Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam in later generations, and traveled only dozens of miles in one day.

At this time, in Vietnam, there was no so-called official road or anything, it can be said that there was basically no road, and their road was to walk along the riverside of some rivers. Of course, the fact that it took a day to travel these dozens of miles is not a matter of roads, but that the New Han Army will be in a fixed and safe place while advancing. Stop, and then scatter your hands around to find nearby plants. See if there is a plant species that Leo asks for.

As a result, these mountains and forests have really suffered.

Almost every tree was stabbed by soldiers with swords, but any resin seeping out and its sap was milky white, and it had to be brought back to Liu Yi to confirm whether it was a rubber tree. So, basically. All trees of the same kind should be injured a little.

Of course, this is only a minor issue. What really suffered were some vine-like plants, which were dug up by the soldiers of the New Han Army and dug up to see if there were sweet potatoes under their rhizomes.

Pity. The soldiers of the New Han Army looked for it. None of them were the rubber trees and sweet potatoes that Lewis was looking for. However, there are some rhizomes of plants that have edible or medicinal value, but they cannot replace the price of sweet potatoes.

Hanoi is about three or four hundred miles away from Dong Lam City, and according to Kai Ming Tai, it happens to be the confluence of several rivers. Hundreds of years ago, there was already a small town, and after years of development. It's already a fairly prosperous town. The city is larger than Donglin City, and the population is also larger. It has a population of about 100,000.

Kai Mingtai suggested that it was better to go to Hanoi City first, and then wait for the report of the generals below.

Liu Yi thought about it for a while, and felt that the matter of looking for rubber trees and sweet potatoes was indeed in a hurry, and the work that should be done was done by Liu Yi now, and everything depended on the efforts of the generals below. So, he agreed to Kaimingtai's suggestion, left half of the men and horses to search slowly, and led 2,000 Xinhan soldiers to get some bamboo rafts along the river and go up the river.

However, Liu Yi didn't know that the more than 100,000 soldiers of the New Han Army who were dispatched gradually deepened in the dense forest. really encountered all kinds of problems, and fortunately, Liu Yi had an estimate of everything, otherwise, the losses of the Xinhan army would have been great.

One of the most troublesome things is really thanks to Mrs. Zhurong. Not long after Liu Yi left Donglin City, he saw that Mrs. Zhu Rong was wearing such a small dress, but she would never provoke the bites of wild mosquitoes in the forest, nor would she let those blood-sucking leeches and other insects get close, and after Liu Yi asked, Mrs. Zhu Rong said that she used the sweat of a plant to smear her body, so as to avoid mosquito bites in the forest. As soon as Liu Yi learned of this method, he immediately sent someone to inform the officers and soldiers of the Xinhan Army below, so that they could also master this method.

In this method, before it was sent to the military horses below, the soldiers of the New Han Army went deep into the forest. That's the first question that comes into place.

The ubiquitous blood mosquito has been chasing the sergeant to bite. It can be said that almost every soldier has been bitten by this large and poisonous blood mosquito, and some soldiers have even been bitten to the point that they have red blisters on all sides. In addition, some leeches, as well as some caterpillars, etc., also made the soldiers of the New Han Army embarrassed.

Many of the soldiers who were itchy all over their bodies had to take off their armor or clothes to scratch the marks, but the more they scratched, the more itchy they became, and the soldiers who took off their armor were simply unable to move forward in the forest, because when they were touched by some jagged leaves or weed blades, there was a bloody mark on their bodies, and if it was a poisonous plant, it would be even more troublesome. When there is blood, there is a smell of blood, and it will provoke so many mosquitoes even more, and some guys, surrounded by clusters of mosquitoes, almost scared them half to death.

The more dangerous things that were expected to be more dangerous had not yet been encountered, and almost more than 100,000 soldiers of the New Han Army were in a state of paralysis, and they were not able to act as planned.

It is precisely because of this that some soldiers of the New Han Army, who were originally not very impressed, began to face up to this forest search operation.

You must know that since its establishment, the New Han Army has been invincible. It can be said that there really is no difficulty in getting the New Han Army. Almost all soldiers, they ignore one of the most basic factors. That is, they are now in a real tropical rainforest, not those forests in Dahan. Relatively speaking, the living environment of tropical rainforests is indeed much worse than that of forests in China. At the beginning, no one thought that those little mosquitoes would actually cause them such a big trouble.

Fortunately, the method that Liu Yi got from Mrs. Zhurong was delivered to the miserable soldiers below in time, which made the soldiers breathe a sigh of relief.

Not all of the officers and men of this new Han army are veterans who have been in the army for nearly ten years, and some veterans have retired for various reasons, and some new recruits will soon be added in.

The 26th Army Naval Army, General Zhou Tai. It was originally a water thief and robber in Poyang Lake, and a water army was established after Liu Yi was submitted.

Those sergeants at the beginning. After nearly ten years of fighting in the north and south, some died in battle, and some retired due to injuries. Most of them were discharged from the army because they were over 45 years old, and were assigned to return to the local yamen or to be disarmed and returned to the fields. Therefore, the current 26th Army Navy has relatively many recruits in the army.

The 52nd Division of the 26th Army, 3 battalions, this battalion is full of more than 2,000 people. Because he sailed north with Ganning and Zhou Tai, he also participated in the war on the Goryeo Peninsula. When I returned to Qua. Hundreds of new recruits have been added.

Their battalion general Gao Chang, when this guy was a kid, he followed Gan Ning to obey Liu Yi. Ten years later, he was in his twenties and had fought many battles.

It can be said that he is a battle-hardened man. The veteran general who survived the battle. He's a good fighter. But there is one thing that is not popular, that is, it is really tall, and he likes to sell old qualifications and brags. To put it mildly, he's just a little proud.

With such a leading general, almost all of the people below learned from him and liked to brag. That blows louder than the other. In this way, it also directly led to some new recruits of the Han army who joined his battalion. Indeed, it also has a posture of not knowing the height of the sky, thinking that he is already very remarkable.

Listen to their braggings before they received an urgent message from Lewis about how to prevent mosquito bites.

"Hey! The second battalion, let's search separately here, I heard that in these forests, there are a lot of big cats, and wild people, be careful of other people's female cats to take them away, don't be scared to pee your pants, and let our third battalion go to save you. ”

"Fuck you, who doesn't know who pees their pants. The tigress is not afraid, you can be caught by the natives as ducks......"

"Hey, we have high-level generals in the third battalion, and a fart can collapse those natives. Or, when the time comes, your battalion will catch a few native wives for him? Comfort his wounded heart? ”

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This is when the battalions disperse from camp to camp into the forest, and some of them are harmless blowing.

However, after entering the forest, these somewhat proud soldiers did not follow the original new plan of action.

Except for the fact that they were more serious about the search, they looked loose and uncaring. In their hearts, they still think that they have not fought any other evil battles? Is it so stressful to find two plants in the forest? At least, they are really not afraid of the beasts of the forest, they are not afraid of the natives, and they really don't know what it means to be afraid until they see the miasma of the forest.

As a result, they began to search and dig in the woods.

At first, one or two forest mosquitoes bit them, and they didn't care, and even one guy was bitten by some leeches, and he grabbed those leeches to joke with others. When they encounter some small animals, they still have the heart to catch them. It's as if they're just playing in the forest.

Zhang Bing, seventeen years old, was a new recruit to the 26th Army. His father was a robber from Turning Yang Lake, and later joined the New Han Army, and in a battle, he saved Gao Chang's life, but he himself lost an arm. After retiring, he went home and directly changed his son's name to Zhang Bing, which means that his son will be a soldier and no longer a thief. Up to now, three years have passed, and he has trained his son Zhang Bing for three years before his son directly found Gao Chang and joined the 3rd Battalion of the 52nd Division of the 26th Army, starting from a small soldier.

Zhang Bing was only seventeen years old, and it was when he was young and frivolous, and he did practice all his skills, such as sheltering himself in the water, a recruit could actually enter the top ten in the whole battalion. Affected by the atmosphere of the third battalion, he was even more stinky. Sometimes, when I hear those veterans talk about the previous wars, I don't know, and I think he himself has participated in one.

This kid was a little resistant to letting him search for plants, thinking that he should fight more than do these boring things.

Therefore, after he entered the forest, he was more concerned about whether there were natives to train his hands.

In the forest, he drilled everywhere, and as a result, he was the first to be hit. He was covered in caterpillars that almost scratched all the skin on his body. I couldn't stand it, and when he took off his clothes and armor and scratched itchy, he attracted countless mosquitoes, which scared him so much that his feet trembled.

If you say that in the face of some beasts, you really don't have to be afraid, but there are so many bloodsucking mosquitoes, what should I do? You can't beat it that much, and you can't drive it away. Tongshi's brothers, around him, don't know what to do.

This poor child, when he saw a pool of water, thought that if he got into the water, he could only keep those mosquitoes from biting, right? But as a result, as soon as he dived into the lake, he provoked countless blood-sucking leeches and crawled all over his body.

Seeing such a situation, they were really stunned, and hurriedly grabbed the blood-sucking leech attached to Zhang Bing's body. Its body is full of dense red spots, red spots that have been bitten through the skin by leeches.

That's not all, a thigh-thick, several-foot long anaconda scurried up from the bottom of the lake because it smelled blood. scared them enough, and more than a dozen people failed to keep the big anaconda.

Only then did they know that it was so dangerous to enter the great forests of Vietnam, and they no longer dared to take it lightly.

But after a lot of trouble, their normal work is a little difficult to continue, at least, around the big lake, they really don't dare to go to search, what if the big anaconda suddenly comes out again and rolls a soldier into the lake? And who knows, how many such big anacondas are there in these forests?

It wasn't until the mosquitoes were sent to avoid that they were no longer afraid of those mosquitoes, and everyone regrouped to be able to carry out the search operation cautiously. Of course, the unlucky little soldier, Zhang Bing, he fell ill directly, contracted the disease, was swollen, and was sent back to recuperate.

In fact, it was not only this battalion of the New Han Army that encountered such and such difficulties. Almost every naval army of the New Han Army has encountered some problems, and even, in the forest, there have been soldiers of the New Han Army who have lost their lives.

However, the situation of the sailors who strictly followed the latest code of conduct in Donglin City was much better. Every time they arrived at a place, they first checked the surrounding situation according to the new code of conduct to confirm that there was no danger, and then dispersed their men to search. Especially when facing mosquitoes and leeches, they at least know that they light some fireworks to smoke away some mosquitoes, and scatter some powder or liquid with a pungent smell in those places where there are leeches. Even if you pour some wine and oil, it's fine. In this way, too many mosquito bites can be avoided to some extent.

On the first day, no one encountered the natives who were active in the forest, but on the second day, some soldiers of the New Han Army encountered the natives, and there was a conflict between the two sides. (To be continued......)