Zhu Gaoxu discovered that the road ahead was indeed rugged and difficult to walk. Not to mention the mountain road, some roads were even on the mountain, and they could only accommodate a rider.

Five hundred people marched on the narrow mountain road, and gravel kept falling off the cliff. Zhu Gaoxu asked himself that he was not afraid of anything, but he looked down at the bottomless cliff and immediately became frightened.

But at the same time, he also had some questions in his mind.

"Lan Shuai."

"Um?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked in a low voice, "Since this road is so difficult, even if the Burmese barbarians make some moves, they can't get through it in a short time! On this road, the army can't move at all..."

"We are taking a short road!" Lan Yu said lightly, "If the Burmese barbarians would have colluded with the chieftains such as Dao Menggan, wouldn't we go to the trap of our own when we walk the road at this time?"

"Little Road?" Zhu Gaoxu thought, "How do you recognize the road to Myanmar?"

"It's not that I recognize it, it's that my subordinates recognize it!" Lan Yu smiled slightly and shouted to the front, "Lao Qi!"

Walking among the cavalry in front, a short and thin old man turned around and grinned silently.

"He is..." Zhu Gaoxu was confused.

Lan Yu got off the horse, held the reins and held the inner wall of the mountain road, and said, "He was the personal soldier I recruited when I was conquering Yunnan. He was originally from our Ming Dynasty and a Burmese. The road here is in his mind!"

In this way, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly realized.

~~

Five hundred cavalrymen struggled to cross the valley and camped in a forest to rest.

After only one day of leaving, Zhu Gaoxu felt as if he had been walking on a horse for many days, exhausted.

Lan Yu sat beside him, holding a cup of hot tea in his hand and thinking silently about his thoughts.

The surroundings were a little quiet, and all the cavalrymen were restless and no one spoke.

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but want to say something but didn't know how to speak.

"Parity, patience!" Lan Yu said, "You can't hold back your breath, and I don't know who you have learned, but you will scratch your head when you are free!"

"Lan Shuai!" Zhu Gaoxu said, "Along the way, I was thinking, is the local king in Myanmar brave? If you dare to go against our Ming Dynasty, don't you be afraid of our Ming Dynasty..."

"You'd be wrong if you think so!" Lan Yu interrupted him and whispered, "Real surrender is achieved. Although our Ming Dynasty is great, he doesn't know how painful it is before he hits him. Besides, he has the advantage of territoriality and knows that it's even more difficult for us to hit him, so he's confident!"

"Besides, do you really think Myanmar is a small country in the barbarian state?"

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned, "They are not nominally my Ming Dynasty's subordinates..."

"That's what the scholars who have suffered from plague believe. We who are in the army must not take it seriously! What's wrong with the Ming Dynasty? Why do they obey you? You have three heads and six arms in the Ming Dynasty?" Lan Yu sneered, grabbed the branches and painted it on the ground, "We have been passed down for thousands of years, and they are not from cracks of stones. They are despised by others for no reason and can only make people laugh. There is a saying that Yelang is arrogant."

As he said, pointing to the figures he drew, "Myanmar is a general term, but now they are divided into this king and that king. They seem to be loose and even attack each other, but once they are unified, you look at their territory."

"Siam and Laos are all within the scope of the Myanmar State. They are rich in rice and cotton, and they can be self-sufficient. Do you think that such a country with a large population and independent population is beyond the southwestern border of our Ming Dynasty?"

"They... are not that small!" Zhu Gaoxu said reluctantly.

"Actually, no matter whether he colludes with the chieftains of my Ming side, he will beat him up sooner or later. How can he allow others to sleep soundly under the couch? If you don't beat him down now, let him know the power of the Ming Dynasty. Once he gets up in the future, he will harass my Ming frontier. At that time, we will have to spend a hundred times more effort to calm him down!"

"If you can't suppress it at that time, a large piece of the border land may be eaten away by them!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu looked admiring, "Lan Shuai, you know so much!"

Lan Yu's old face turned red and she whispered, "Someone told me these too!"

"Who?" Zhu Gaoxu said loudly, "A person with a treacherous heart, after he returns, I will be regarded as a military advisor..."

"Emperor!" Zhu Gaoxu was stunned when Lan Yu said, "Who?"

"What the emperor said!" Lan Yu pointed his finger at the sky and said, "These words were all explained by the emperor in person before leaving!"

"He..." Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, lowered his head and sighed, "He is indeed better than us!"

"It's not just better than you, one is in the sky and the other is in the earth... You are so shameless, who can't you compare with the emperor?" Lan Yu said angrily.

In fact, Zhu Yunxiu said much more than that.

In Zhu Yunyu's plan, there can only be one empire in the entire Asia, that is, the Ming Empire.

If these small city-states close to the Ming Dynasty were not taken, they would be a crime against future generations.

After eating and drinking, they continued to set off on the road. Five hundred people were divided into more than a dozen teams, and some small villages were also seen hidden in the forest and mountains. However, these natives had not yet understood the situation and became the soul of the Ming army.

After such a few days, they encountered more villages, and sometimes they could even see people on the road. The Ming army simply hid in the day and came out at night, becoming more cautious.

~~

Another night, silent.

The Ming army stationed in an unknown valley. The place chosen by Lan Yu was halfway up the mountain, just looking down at the road below.

Without a fire, everyone ate cold jerky and drank cold tea.

"This is very good. Going further forward is a small Burmese town." Lan Yu whispered, "If you stick to this road, you can detect their movements."

Before Zhu Gaoxu could speak, he suddenly had a quick step behind him.

A veteran in leather armor came over quickly and said anxiously, "Master, the army is passing twenty miles ahead!"

Lan Yu's spirit became nervous in an instant, "How many people?"

"Five thousand!" said the veteran, "I didn't dare to get too close, I could only look at the flag from afar. If we follow the organization of our Ming Dynasty, the army coming had a total of fifty small flags, and the 100-man team would be five thousand!"

As he said that, he swallowed his saliva, "The cavalry is not counted, but there should be two hundred flags sporadically. The Burmese marched very cautiously and sent the cavalry out from afar."

Lan Yu fell into thinking, while Zhu Gaoxu said gritting his teeth, "These puppies are so fucking dare!"

"What else can I see?" Lan Yu continued to ask.

"It should be light infantry. I didn't find many military chariots and horses in the army, nor did I see anyone carrying long weapons. They are all equipped with swords, bamboo and guns." The veteran continued, "And the villain judged that it should be the Burmese vanguard army, because their cavalry ran backwards!"

"Five thousand forward..." Lan Yu narrowed her eyes, as if she was seeing a wolf in her prey.

"Do you want to go back and report the letter?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

"What's the hurry?" Lan Yu snorted, "Where is it?" As he said, he turned his head and looked at the veteran solemnly, "You guys have a break, and then wait for the five thousand people to pass under our noses, you bite them from behind."

"Master, you..."

"I will take people to find out how many people are behind him!" Lan Yu grinned, "If you have the chance, just fuck him!"

"We only have five hundred people!" Zhu Gaoxu was shocked.
Chapter completed!