Chapter 418: A Village Deep in the Jungle
"Your Highness, why are there only three teams back? Do you send someone out to find it? Hu Ye asked vigilantly, he didn't want this thing to count the missing people and horses on his head.
"At dawn, another team was sent to look for it, but it has not yet returned." Zhu Yunwen's face is not good-looking, and his heart will not be that he has met some cow ghost snake god.
There are more than a dozen people in the two teams sent out, and even if they encounter fierce beasts, there should not be none of them who have escaped back, and there is only one explanation for encountering evil things.
"In which direction are they going?"
"South."
"South? Now we don't know where we are, and we don't know where the south is, so I think it's better to send the whole army out, and it can't be that the whole army will disappear. Hu Ye frowned, he seemed to have thought of some possibility, the more than a dozen heavily armed soldiers could be left behind, it was definitely not a beast, only it could be man-made, could it be that there were really natives here?
Zhu Yunwen thought that Hu Ye was reasonable, and it was useless to stay here anyway, so he had to pull out the whole army and advance towards the south, maybe he would go out directly.
Just when Zhu Yunwen's army was marching, Zhu Yuanzhang was already turning the sky in Nanjing, and there were already two eunuchs who came to report the news who had been made into flower fertilizer, and one knelt tremblingly in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, looking at Ruan An with pleading eyes, expecting this Ruan father-in-law to help him intercede.
"Your Majesty, killing people can't solve the problem, for the sake of now, it is to send people to search carefully along the road."
Ruan An said to Zhu Yuanzhang.
"Search! Search! There have been several groups of people sent out, but none of them are useful, and if my grandson has any three long and two short, none of them will survive! ”
Zhu Yuanzhang slapped the table, and the eunuch who knelt on the ground fainted in fright.
"Your Majesty, the last time the imperial grandson sent someone to report was in the Wuping Office of Tingzhou Mansion, which means that His Royal Highness has now entered Lingnan. The people on the official road said that they had never seen His Highness's army. There is only one possibility, that is, His Highness may have chosen to go to the jungle of Lingnan. If you want to find people in there, it's not an easy task. Ruan An analyzed Zhu Yuanzhang.
"The jungle of Lingnan! Who's bewitching? Zhu Yuanzhang squeezed his fist, and accidentally coughed again, Ruan An hurriedly beat Zhu Yuanzhang's back, this thing's body is getting worse and worse now, and he also knows that as soon as Zhu Yunwen comes back, I'm afraid Zhu Yuanzhang should rest.
"It must be Hu Ye's kid, except for his words, Sun Er will not listen to other people's slander. When I find my grandson, I must whip him to show the public! Zhu Yuanzhang said viciously, and then gave an order, "Come on, order Tingzhou Mansion, Chaozhou Mansion, and Ganzhou Mansion to look for the army with all their might, and if you find it, report it immediately!" ”
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid this matter is inappropriate. If you make such a big fanfare, I'm afraid it will ......" Ruan An frowned, if everyone in the world knew that the imperial grandson's army was gone, it would be strange if it didn't cause panic.
The most important thing is. The imperial grandson is the first heir to the throne, if he is gone, what will happen to the other heirs to the throne? Will they do anything extreme because of this?
Ruan Anyi said that Zhu Yuanzhang was also aware of the strictness in it.
"The order goes down. Let the prefect and commander of the three prefectures find it secretly, and if the news leaks, there will be no forgiveness! Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a moment. The order was given again, "Also, bring the hot air balloon over." ”
Soon, the three Hongling envoys rushed to Ganzhou, Tingzhou, and Chaozhou with Zhu Yuanzhang's orders.
However, there is no impermeable wall in the world, no matter how good Zhu Yuanzhang's secrecy work is, there will always be some ill-intentioned people who know the news of Zhu Yunwen's disappearance, such as Zhu Di, he has a lot of eyes and ears in Nanjing, and it is not difficult to hear this news.
So before those Hongling envoys arrived at their destination, Zhu Di already knew the news of his nephew's army disappearing, but he didn't know whether he was happy or worried.
"Your Highness, that Zhu Yunwen disappeared into the jungle of Lingnan with the army, and there has been no news for several days, is Your Highness ......" Liu Sheng's fists rubbed, and the meaning was a little self-evident.
Zhu Di's brows furrowed, Zhu Yunwen was gone, it was a good thing for him, and when Liu Sheng said this, he was really a little itchy in his heart.
"Your Highness, this must not be done." Monk Daoyan immediately spoke.
"What do you mean?" Zhu Di asked curiously, he had to listen carefully to every word of Monk Daoyan, because Yanwangfu has the appearance it is today, and a large part of the credit is due to this Daoyan monk.
"Your Royal Highness, now the emperor is looking for Zhu Yunwen with all his might, although it is said that once we announce the news, it will cause chaos in the world, and we can win in chaos, but don't forget, the old emperor is still there, his prestige is still there, even His Royal Highness is very jealous of her, can other vassal kings dare to send troops? What's more, Zhu Yunwen is just missing, the biggest possibility is that he got lost in the jungle in Lingnan, with Hu Ye's kid here, he will come out sooner or later. ”
"When the time comes, as soon as he appears, we will be unknown, and when the old emperor gives an order, we will become the target of public criticism, so this matter must not be done." Monk Daoyan persuaded.
The itching in Zhu Di's heart was disintegrated by Monk Daoyan, he was really dizzy just now, and now he is a little afraid when he thinks about it. I remembered what Zheng Da brought back, saying that Hu Ye meant that Zhu Yunwen had at least a few years to live, and there would be no problem with disappearing this time, and if he rashly raised troops, the result would be miserable.
"Liu Sheng, you still continue to supervise the construction of the Shenji Battalion, this matter cannot be discussed again." Zhu Di pondered for a moment and made a decision, this is not a good opportunity, maybe it is the limelight deliberately released by Nanjing, and he must not be fooled.
Hu Ye would not have thought that Zhu Yunwen's loss in the Lingnan jungle would cause Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di to speculate repeatedly, and he was now trekking through the mountains and rivers in the Lingnan jungle with the army, looking for the two teams that disappeared last night.
For this task, there is a good choice, that is, Xiaoqiang, with its sensitive nose, easily found two teams.
However, what annoyed Hu Ye and Zhu Yunwen was that both teams were already dead, and none of them were alive, because they all fell into traps one by one, and the traps were full of sharpened bamboo poles, and the armor could not resist the whole body, so many of them looked ugly.
There was also a soldier groaning in pain, for his hands and feet had been pierced by bamboo, and there was a bamboo sticking out of his neck, which was bright red.
"Damn! Who is here to set such a sinister trap! Zhu Yunwen looked at the scene in front of him, heartbroken, and was about to lead people to look around, and he must find the culprit.
Yun Zichen hurriedly grabbed Zhu Yunwen, since there can be so many traps here, there must be no shortage of around, if you act rashly, the result will become a tragedy.
But fortunately, there are still widows in the team, all of whom are the medicine men of Lou Ying and Xiao Jiuxian, and now they are just used to explore the way.
As soon as Lou Ying and Xiao Jiuxian heard that they were going to take their medicine man to explore the way, and it was very likely that they would not return, they immediately shook their heads like rattles, but Zhu Yunwen couldn't help them, if the wouldn't go to explore the way, let the two old men go to explore the way.
For the sake of their own safety, the two old men still agreed to let the medicine man explore the way, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to carry out the real work in the future, and I don't know when it will be possible to develop a blood clotting agent.
Soon, more than 30 Japanese soldiers were divided into three groups, standing in three rows in front, separated by ten zhang and began to explore the way.
Yun Zichen guessed correctly, it is naturally impossible to have only such a little trap here, because several of the way-finding widows have already died.
Some fell into the trap, and then were poked by the bamboo several holes, not to mention the dead appearance, the bamboo tips that came out of their mouths, and many soldiers with poor concentration spit it out directly.
Some of them set off the trap, and then they were suspended, and then they were shot into hedgehogs by arrows. But looking at the appearance of those arrows, there are not even iron arrows, and if it weren't for the fact that these wouldn't have any protective equipment, I'm afraid they wouldn't have been able to shoot through their bodies.
Some fell into the snake's nest, and the poisonous snake in a nest only took two bites, and the wolf fell directly.
Watching his subordinates die one by one, Kuramiya Minoru couldn't stand it anymore, and asked Zhu Yunwen to call all his soldiers back, what should I do if they all died?
Zhu Yunwen just glanced at Kuramiya Minoru coldly, Call your soldiers back, do you want my soldiers to go up and send them to death? We're not that great.
Hu Ye shook his head, this is a captive, there is no way to do it.
Looking at the few remaining soldiers trembling in front of him, Kuramiya Minoru couldn't stand it anymore, and fainted with a scream, and he didn't know if he was really fainting or pretending.
Zhu Yunwen pretended to let the military doctor send the medicine over, but he couldn't let anything happen to the prince of the Wa Kingdom, otherwise how would he control the Wa Kingdom in the future?
Soon, there were only about a dozen of the more than 30 Japanese robbers left, and Zhu Yunwen's army also marched about a few miles, and he saw smoke rising in front of him.
Seeing the smoke, Zhu Yunwen was not only unhappy, but extremely angry.
"Zichen, take someone to surround me in front, don't let anyone go!" Zhu Yunwen commanded loudly.
The only dozen or so remaining widows finally sat there paralyzed, once again escaping death, but they didn't know if they could escape the poisonous hands of the two old men.
Hu Ye originally wanted to persuade Zhu Yunwen to think twice, but when he thought of the death of those soldiers in the trap, he shut up, if he let the three thousand centaurs know that he still wants to intercede with those people, I am afraid that Spit Xingzi will drown himself.
Soon, Zhu Yunwen led the people to the place where the cooking smoke was rising, it seemed to be a small village, but looking at the building, it didn't look like a Ming Dynasty, and the villagers inside looked a little weird, and they didn't have complete clothes, they only covered important parts. (To be continued......)