Before coming to western Yunnan, Ding Baojun had always been the mouthpiece of the Yang family, the Yang family's anti-flag outside, Kunming Ding Da Butler, although he was not as good as Duo Kang's Dorjee Steward in the official face, but in the rivers and lakes, the name of Ding Da Butler, but with the Yang family's business route, it traveled all over the southwest half of the country.

Don't care about human life, killing people like hemp, is the reason why the one-eyed falcon is famous, there is also a sentence, called the death of the lord humiliating the minister, the injury on Yang Meng's foot, in the eyes of ordinary people, is not a big deal, but in Ding Baojun's opinion, this is the guards not doing their duty.

Looking at Ding Baojun's one-eyed flickering under the candlelight, Yang Meng could only sigh in his heart, the old man is much stronger than himself, there are a group of old brothers supporting the façade, and he is difficult to enjoy this brotherhood in this life, and his status is also helpless.

"Uncle Ding, don't blame them, I'm trying the limit of long-distance marching, there are some things I still have to be clear, Wei Huozi on the Tibetan side, he will send troops in two months, we have to understand our own combat strength.

I came to Dali this time, and I don't plan to stay longer, tomorrow I will go to the Lisu mountain city on the edge of the Nu River, after arranging that side, I will also go to Tengyue Town, the most lull foothold is Mengla! ”

As soon as Yang Meng said this, Ding Baojun's one-eyed eyes also narrowed, it seems that the third child is real, this third child has been tepid all the way, pretending to be crazy and stupid, it seems that this time the matter in southern Xinjiang is not small.

"Done! Since you want to come hard, I can't stop you, if you have any orders, just say it! ”

After talking about family life, as soon as he talked about business, Ding Baojun's tone also changed.

"Will be the best of the English and French rifles. Three thousand guns were prepared each. Let's transport it to Tengyue Town first! Everywhere Wuzhuang more than six pounds of fire. The cannon is also ready for one or two hundred. Fire. The cannon is not in a hurry. The selected soldiers were prepared with 7,000, 6,000 foot soldiers, and 1,000 artillerymen, and were divided into three battalions according to their weapons, the English musket battalion, the French musket battalion, and the artillery battalion.

The artillery battalion can go slowly, and after the other two battalions are drawn, they go straight to Mengla! ”

When Yang Meng said this, Ding Baojun was a little puzzled, the English appeared in the Tengyue area. What does it mean to send troops to Mengla?

"Third child, the English are the most powerful in southern Xinjiang, why do they want to send troops to Mengla?

Tengyue Town is the closest to India, so wouldn't it be ......"

Ding Baojun didn't say the ugly words, but just clicked Yang Meng, in his opinion, the war in southern Xinjiang should be in Tengyue border, and it would be a bit of a waste to increase troops in Mengla.

"The battle is in the vicinity of Mesai. Tengyue Line is a trade route between Myanmar and us, and once the war starts, it will be a battle of the three families. Tengyue is not an ideal choice for them.

If you want to enter Yunnan from Tengyue, the supply is absolutely unable to keep up, even if you can barely keep up, it is not a matter of these two years.

Below Mengla is Mei Sai, the English are ready to do it, the 1,500 soldiers hoarded there are their waist poles, as for the expedition that appeared in Tengyue Town, it is just a pretense. ”

If you want to enter Yunnan smoothly, only the breakthrough in the middle is the best choice, the Golden Triangle at the junction of the three countries is the most suitable, and the corner of Yunnan is the place where the soldiers must fight.

"Understood, I'll go down and make arrangements, you can take care of the front things, and I think I can still arrange the things in the back."

After Yang Meng's analysis, Ding Baojun also suddenly became enlightened, and he also understood the terrain of western Yunnan, so it seems that foreign devils are not vegetarians.

"It's nothing, I'll fly pigeons to pass the book if there's something, and you and Taichen talk to him, so that he can now pull a telegraph line between Mengla and Dali, I'm afraid that this war will not last for a short time!"

Another advantage of the Golden Triangle is that it can plant a large amount of tobacco soil, and the British chose to garrison troops in the United States, which is also a plan to kill two birds with one stone.

"What about the affairs over there in southern Xinjiang?"

"No hurry! Dragging, as long as they don't go too deep, let them come nonsense, if they kick their noses in the face, they should be killed and buried! ”

"Hmmm! Zhilu Dao! You're ...... foot."

"It's okay, it's just a little flesh injury, if you want to hurt your muscles and bones, run for another ten days and a half months, it's possible!"

"It's done! I'm looking for a man. ”

Ding Baojun planned to leave after saying this, these feet looked worried, out of sight and out of mind, let him come nonsense!

"Uncle Ding, get some spirits and let my guards soak their feet!"

"I know that the calves are protected, and their benefits are indispensable!"

After two days of running, the pain on his body, after eating and drinking, and Lang Zhong showed the injury, Yang Meng fell asleep deeply, and this sleep did not wake up until the third pole of the day, which can be regarded as extremely sweet.

After changing into a new pair of straw sandals, packing up his belongings, and waking up the sleepy-eyed guards, Yang Meng was about to go on the road again.

"How? Can it still hold up? ”

"What's that? If you don't die, you can hold on! ”

"That's good! Go to the Lisu mountain city! ”

The blood of the guards, but in exchange for greater difficulties, the Lisu mountain city, in the first bend of the Nu River, the boundary can not be walked, but it is almost the same to climb over.

From Dali to Gongshan, where the mountain city is located, I have never heard of any road, Yang Meng's guards are all from the Orion family in western Yunnan, and they have communicated with each other, fifty people, and their faces are as black as the bottom of the pot.

"Just a sentence?"

"If you don't die, you can hold on!"

This time I replied, there was not much momentum, and the road was full of mountains! There are cliffs everywhere, and if you don't die, you have to wait to hold on, and you have to lose half your life if you pass!

"Stop cowardly, let's go!"

The first day out of Dali was better, the group hurried slowly, until it was dark, Kankan walked more than 200 miles of mountain roads, and arrived at the camp of fifty-one people, one of them counted as one, and the tired ones died with dead dogs.

"! These are new shoes! Worn through in a day? ”

"Third master, this is just the beginning, and the next step is even more difficult, these are your boots, five pairs of straw sandals. I'm afraid I can't get by! ”

Yang Meng didn't bring boots. But the guards brought it to him. According to them, when they think of this Lisu mountain city, they have to walk!

"What, you have to go for five days?"

"I'm afraid it's more than that! Next it's all mountains! ”

As soon as he heard this, Yang Meng was also a little cowardly, carrying more than 60 catties of things on his back to walk on the flat ground is a burden, the mountain road from Kunming to Dali is quite flat, from Dali to Gongshan. It's not easy to go, it's all mountains and valleys.

Some canyons are only a few tens of meters, if you want to cross over, you have to walk at least dozens of miles of mountain roads, these more than 200 miles of road down, standing on a high place, Dali City can still see a vague look, it seems to be to reduce some weight.

"Only two pots are left, and the rest of the pots and pans are left! Half of what I ate was left, and there were other things that didn't make much use. All that can be left is left. ”

This night, although everyone left more than twenty pounds of weight. But the next day, the group of people walked a shorter distance, and the mountain peak where they stayed last night was close at hand, and they only walked three mountain beams up and down in one day.

"! If there are three or five chain bridges, this mountain road can be completed in an hour, we would be fine! Walked for a whole day and a half! ”

While walking, Yang Meng is also observing the terrain, this mountain road is actually very easy to walk, a few hundred meters long chain bridges can turn this place into a thoroughfare.

There is no bridge, up and down the mountain, there is no road at all, this day and a half up and down, with a rope section, there are more than a dozen, can go down smoothly, even if it is a blessing!

"Third master, it's up to you to do this, if there is a bridge, the mountains and rivers of western Yunnan will be connected! When we were hunting, I don't know how many of our peers fell to death in a year!

If you want to make good things and sell them for money, you have to go into the mountains, but the road in the mountains is not easy to walk, and you can't go back, leaving orphans and widows to starve to death in the mountains, which is also a common thing.

Now it's okay, we can't get enough in the mountains, and we can still rely on the Yang family to eat enough, if we have a chain bridge, we will have a way out of the mountain. ”

A guard has a feeling, hunting is also a life-threatening business, which hunter is not trembling up the mountain? Who doesn't pray to God before going up the mountain? Isn't it because there are so many dangers in the mountains?

Hearing this, these were the guards of the hunters before, and their faces showed a look of happiness, the life of the past is not comparable to the present at all, living in the mountains, this white rice is a rare object, tree roots, leaves, wild grasses and wild vegetables, is their staple food, occasionally hit a few large prey, have to work hard to carry out the mountain, change some salt and cloth.

Now, not only is there enough rice, but also enough wine and meat, new clothes and shoes, and fire. Guns and knives, this day is passing, it is the New Year every day!

"It depends on the ability of Yiliang Ding's housekeeper, anyway, these three masters of the bridge have to fight, you just look at it!"

After the bold words were finished, everyone fell asleep deeply, and the mountain road was really difficult to walk!

Along the east bank of the Nu River, Yang Meng and they walked for three days before they encountered a gentle mountain, this time not only the feet were suffering, but also the hands of fifty-one people were full of scars!

The backpack on the body has long been thrown away, and now in addition to the knives and guns on the body, there is only a piece of oilcloth left, and the woolen felt, which has become heavier and heavier after absorbing moisture, has long been lost.

The food on his body is still sufficient, and along the way, he can easily hit countless prey, and for the sake of insurance, Yang Meng has always kept the food that should have been lost!

"! It's not like a person can walk, and a monkey has to be tired to death! ”

I only walked most of the mountain roads in five days, and there are small half-mountain roads that are even more difficult to walk, and it is impossible to go up the Nu River upstream, the water is too urgent! Along the big river that goes straight down the mountain, you can still sail alive along the river, and you don't even think about going against the current.

All the way non-stop, the brain is in a state of lack of oxygen at any time, although in this way, I can't feel the pain on my body, but the danger is increasing day by day.

"Stop and rest for a day, you can't go any more, if you go any more, you'll die!"

If Yang Meng hadn't come up with the idea of tying each other with leggings, at least six or seven people would have died in the past three days, and he knew that the straight line of Lu Dao was so difficult to walk, so Yang Meng would have gone to Lijiang, although the road there was a little far away, but it was definitely much stronger than the deep mountains and old forests.

The topographic map has become the top priority, and he is surrounded by top hunters in western Yunnan, and even they are trembling, and if the army wants to go along, it will directly become impossible.

The loss of personnel is too great!

Although the terrain of western Yunnan is complicated and difficult to navigate, this is not a bad thing for Yang Meng, but a good thing, in this way, some places do not need to be heavily guarded, just leave a few messengers, if anyone stupidly crashes in, then wait for bad luck!

After resting for a day, it can be regarded as Yang Meng's luck, he actually met a hunter of the Lisu tribe in the deep mountains and forests.

The piety in his eyes made Yang Meng's heart frightened, what did Tang Meiyi turn into the Lisu mountain city? Although the next mountain road is still difficult, Yang Meng's mind fell on the Lisu mountain city on the edge of the Nu River.

The thin mountain people, who were less than 1.6 meters tall, cried and shouted that they wanted to carry Yang Meng out of the mountain, not because of anything else, but because of the bloody footprints left by these more than 50 people along the way.

The straw sandals are basically worn out, the soles of the feet are injured like this, and the boots dare not be worn.

This monkey-like Lisu hunter has a not-so-nice name, Yang Ba, every time he talks about these two Chinese characters that he can write, Yang Ba's eyes are full of pride and glory, he said that this is a name that can only be owned by mountain city warriors! The name given by Mrs. May. (To be continued......)