The rain in the Great Wilderness Mountain has not stopped intermittently, and the wounds of the five days of running Dai Rong have long been suppurated, and the abdomen has rotted and given birth to maggots, and they have encountered an unknown number of ambushes along the way to the north in the past five days.

The people who retreated north with Zheng Xi have grown from 30,000 to less than 8,000 now, Zheng Xi wiped his face with the rain, walked to Dai Rong's side and said, "Old Dai, how are you?" Can you still bear it? ”

Dai Rong's face was pale, and Dai Rong, who had more air and less air intake, squeezed out a smile and said: "Mr. Zheng, my subordinates are afraid that they won't be able to accompany you out, I have taken a look in the past few days, and we have already come to the road where I brought people into the mountain, as long as we go all the way to the north, we can get out of the Great Wilderness Mountain in two days at most." ”

"What a frustrating thing! You kid give me a life! Two days, not just two days? We can hold on! Zheng Xi scolded angrily.

Maybe it was the cover of the heavy rain that covered up the crying in Zheng Xi's voice, but the tears couldn't hide it.

Dai Rong grabbed Zheng Xi's hand hard and said: "Mr. Zheng, take your brothers to live, only if you survive can there be hope, I am already like this, don't waste my brother's physical strength anymore." ”

Zheng Xi is not a mother-in-law, but the colic in his heart is getting worse and worse, his body began to tremble, many years of war have never had the tragic situation now, there are less than 8,000 of the 30,000 people left, everyone is a withered face, skin and bones, and the living is a savage.

"Mr. Zheng, we brought two batches of more than 100,000 sons into this savage mountain, and the 30,000 people who retreated north after the division of troops don't know what else is left, and the 30,000 people who went south don't know what happened." Dai Rong looked at Nanfang and muttered.

"I don't know!" Zheng Xi is no longer angry, he has been able to accept Gu Ning's southward march these days, indeed, they are all fighting for their lives, there is not much difference between going south and retreating north, but I don't know whose luck will be better.

The two of them were speechless, and after waiting for a long time, the heavy rain finally stopped, Dai Rong was already unconscious, Zheng Xi stayed by his side for a long time, and finally got up and said to the person carrying Dai Rong: "Take good care of General Dai and get ready to go." ”

Just when Zheng Xi and Dai Rong were struggling, the southbound team had been taken out of the Great Wilderness Mountain by Gu Ning, and a team of Eastern Burmese soldiers was stationed at the junction of the Great Wilderness Mountain and the Eastern Burmese people.

Gu Ning stood up and said, "We are the Great Xuan soldiers, come to ask for help!" ”

After talking for a long time, no one responded, Gu Ning shook his head helplessly, he forgot that the voice of Eastern Burma and the Central Plains was different, just when Gu Ning was at a loss, a fast horse came over from the pass of Eastern Burma, and asked loudly in a broken Central Plains dialect: "Which is the Marquis of Xingguo of the Great Xuan Dynasty?!" Which one is the prince of Zheng Guogong of the Great Xuan Dynasty?! ”

Seeing this, Gu Ning smiled, it seemed that His Majesty had guessed that he would go to eastern Myanmar and there was hope, so he got up and tidied up his tattered clothes, wiped his face with a damp cloth, and replied loudly: "Gu Ning, the prince of Zheng Guogong, is in Xia Daxuan!" ”

Entering eastern Burma is not smooth, the people of eastern Burma strongly demand that the Xuan army must put down all the weapons before entering eastern Burma for repair, but as a soldier of the Great Xuan, no one refuses to put down the weapon, the weapon is dignity for the soldier, once the weapon is put down and the prisoner is different?

Gu Ning couldn't reach an agreement after many negotiations with the Burmese people, Lan Xiao was even more angry and had a conflict with the Burmese people, and led a group of people to occupy the pass of the Burmese people, seeing that the war was about to break out, the envoy of the king of Burma said slowly: "General Gu, let me go down and report to my king, you let go of our people, and the materials at this pass will be used by you, but you can't take a step forward, okay?" ”

Gu Ning thought for a while, and said apologetically: "Envoy, I don't want such a conflict either, but please understand that we are all soldiers and horses fighting against the people of the East China Sea, and you let our soldiers who have been fighting for a long time put down their weapons, this is a great insult, neither I nor my sons will agree, please don't blame!" ”

"Yes, I will convey your meaning to my king."

Two days later, Zheng Xi personally carried Dai Rong's body out of the Great Wilderness Mountain, and the Tanma Military Division, who had been cruising in the Great Wilderness Mountain, almost cried when he saw Zheng Xi and others, and it had been almost two months, and he finally saw the living.

But after half a day's effort, Du Jun rushed over, in fact, Du Jun never left the Great Wilderness Mountain too far, he has always held the hope of survival for the soldiers and horses of the Great Wilderness Mountain, and after seeing Zheng Xi and others, Rao is Du Jun is a fierce general on the battlefield, and he can't help but have a sour nose.

"Mr. Zheng! You guys! You're back! Du Jun said excitedly.

"Mr. Du, I'm back." Zheng Xi cried as he spoke, he couldn't hold back any longer, and then he raised his head and fell, tired, sleepy, it.

Gu Ning at the pass also got the news after waiting for three days, and the king of eastern Burma agreed that they would enter eastern Burma with weapons, but they must operate under the supervision of the army of eastern Burma, and they could not receive all information from outside, until they boarded the ship at Pinggang, during which eastern Burma would provide food and medicine.

Gu Ning breathed a sigh of relief, this is not easy, after all, more than 20,000 people with weapons are walking on other people's territory, and it takes at least half a month to travel from the pass to Pinggang, but it is okay, it is regarded as repair, and the 30,000 people he brought have only lost less than 2,000, which is already an extremely rare thing.

This road is quite stable, except for the occasional skirmishes between the officers and soldiers in the army and the soldiers of eastern Burma, there are not too many problems, and finally arrived at Pinggang on the seventeenth day, looking at their own sailors, no one can hold on, Gu Ning is no exception, and the sailors and land fighters have long been waiting outside the port.

Looking at this group of tattered but mentally okay brothers, they all hugged each other, and their relatives saw each other, their eyes were watery.

Gu Ning quickly stabilized his mind, and looking at the generals who hurried down from the big ship, Gu Ning also quickly greeted him.

"Guo Bin, the commander-in-chief of the South China Sea Jiaolong of the Navy Division, has seen General Staff Gu!"

"Mr. Guo, hard work!" Gu Ning had a thousand words hidden in his heart, but after seeing Guo Bin, he suddenly stopped talking, and he could only say these words.

"General Staff Gu, let the brothers get on the boat, we will set sail in the next two days." Guo Bin reminded.

"In such a hurry?" Gu Ning was a little puzzled.

I saw Guo Bin walk to his side and whispered: "Mr. Zheng of the Southwest Bureau has returned to the Central Plains eighteen years ago, and now he is repairing in Yongchang, Your Majesty has a will, let us return to the Central Plains immediately after receiving you, and we will walk on the sea for more than ten days." ”

"What is Your Majesty's will?" Gu Ning became nervous.

"Your Majesty didn't blame you, let you go ashore from Ronggui and return directly to the southwest after receiving you, the people of the East China Sea, Zhu Mu and Taixi have gathered nearly 200,000 troops and are ready to re-enter the six counties of Dali!"

Gu Ning breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay! With Mr. Lao Guo, we immediately boarded the ship, traveled by sea for more than ten days, and then rushed back from Ronggui for at least nearly two months, and the rainy season just passed. ”

Guo Bin shook his head and said: "General Staff Gu, I'm afraid you don't know something, the sea is not safe, this time we came over to the South China Sea Jiaolong The loss is also quite serious, and we still have to rely on General Staff Gu's soldiers and horses on the way back." ”

Gu Ning nodded and said, "It should be, I lost my teacher and humiliated the country in the Great Wilderness Mountain, if there is another problem, I can only go to see Your Majesty." ”

Zheng Xi in the Yongchang barracks also relieved, half a month of repair made him regain his spirits, he looked at the soldiers and horses in the barracks who were being drilled a little ashamed, he sighed, and carried two jars of wine from his camp tent to the tomb of the Xuan army who died in the battle of the Great Wilderness Mountain.

walked to Dai Rong's tomb, opened a jar of wine and poured half of the altar on Dai Rong's tombstone, and then opened another altar and poured half of the altar, patted the tombstone and murmured: "Old Dai, I was wrong, Gu Ning's soldiers and horses went south only lost less than 2,000 people, I should have listened to your southward that day, there are only 8,000 of the 30,000 brothers left, I hurt!" ”

A breeze blew, Zheng Xi took another sip of wine, and then said: "Old Dai, Your Majesty posthumously named you as a good countryman, hereditary replacement, your son Dai Wenlong inherited your position, Your Majesty also summoned him to the white-clothed inner guard, and your wife and daughter were also placed in Chengdu by the queen, don't worry." ”

Zheng Xi poured some more wine from the jar in front of the tombstone on the tombstone, then touched the tombstone with his own jar of wine, drank some more, and muttered, "You know what? I originally thought that I would wait to die when I came back, but His Majesty didn't blame me, but just stopped me for three years and let me wear the guilt and make meritorious service, you know, I hurt to death! ”

In this way, Zheng Xi said without a word, when the sun set, Zheng Xi poured all the wine in front of the tombstone on Dai Rong's tombstone, and then staggered up and drank his own jar of wine, and then said: "The people of the East China Sea are back again, they failed to kill me in the Great Wilderness Mountain, and I will not let him go, you look at it, two months later, Gu Ning and I will take their brothers to fight to the death to avenge you and the brothers who died in the Great Wilderness Mountain!" ”

Nearly 80,000 people died in the Great Wilderness Mountain, and Meng Yan couldn't lift his spirits for many days, and even the great victories in Sanmen Town and Yumen Pass couldn't let him come out of his grief.

It just so happened that the rainy weather in Changsha matched Meng Yan's mood, and Meng Yan stood in front of the door and watched the rain outside the boat in a daze.

Gu Qingfeng walked up to Meng Yan with a cloak and put it on for him, and comforted him softly: "It's been almost a month, you are the emperor, you can't be depressed like this." ”

Gu Qingfeng's words made Meng Yan come back to his senses, turned his head and squeezed out a smile at Gu Qingfeng, and said in a hoarse voice: "More than 80,000 soldiers died in the Great Wilderness Mountain, and there has never been such a fiasco since the founding of the Great Xuan!" Jeong Hee damn it! ”

Gu Qingfeng climbed Meng Yan's arm, soothed his chest and said: "Zheng Xi is also in a hurry, this can't be blamed on him, it's the people from the East China Sea who should be damned, it's the Zhu Mu clan, it's the betrayed Taixi people." ”

Meng Yan kept sighing and said: "I still believe in Zheng Xi, and the ministers in the court also believe in him, Gu Ning and they have already gone ashore, and Deng Ang has replenished them with soldiers and horses, a total of 70,000 people marched to the southwest last night." ”

"Still fighting? No more recuperation? Gu Qingfeng asked puzzled, she knew that the Donghai people, Zhu Mu clan and Taixi people had gathered more than 200,000 people outside Yongchang, but they were not in a hurry to attack.

"It can't be repaired, they haven't been able to kill all our main forces in the Great Wilderness Mountain, they must be unwilling in their hearts, they don't attack now just because they are worried that Deng Ang will sneak attack their rear, after all, the South China Sea Jiaolong has seized Pinggang."

Gu Qingfeng suddenly realized and said, "You let the South China Sea Jiaolong fight the East China Sea Division at sea at all costs, and then seize Pinggang to confuse them?" ”

Meng Yan nodded and said, "Yes, it's not like this, how can I buy these two months for the southwest, it will take time to transfer troops from everywhere." ”

Gu Qingfeng exclaimed in surprise, then covered his mouth, and said with an expression of disbelief: "Qilang, you transferred the soldiers and horses of the Southern Bureau and the Northwest Bureau, right?" ”

"Well, Deng Ang squeezed out 50,000 people for me, and nearly 30,000 people came out of Lao 11, plus Chengdu recruited 20,000 new soldiers and horses, and a month later, there will be at least 150,000 people in the Southwest Bureau, I want to kill all the people of the East China Sea, Zhu Mu's and Taixi people in one fell swoop, and not one will be left!"