"Although I have been with Alang for a long time and know some things about the Han people, it is still hard to understand that they would not fight for property." Dao Baifeng said.
"We just value long-term interests more. In other words, this little property is not in our eyes, and the lives of soldiers are more important." Zhu Xi corrected.
"Also, if I go back earlier, I can hold a wedding with you earlier and eat you. Do you know how uncomfortable I feel when I see you hanging in front of me every day, but I can't eat you?" He said.
Said with a smile.
Dao Baifeng's face turned red, and she hit him with her fist and said, "You men are all the same. You only think about this when you get close to a woman, whether you are Han or Dai."
Zhu Ming was laughing and was about to say something else when he suddenly heard loud shouting coming from outside, and someone even screamed.
He hurriedly arranged his clothes and picked up the knife; Dao Baifeng also picked up a spear and stood beside Zhu Chu.
Zhu Chu walked to the door of the tent in a few steps and shouted to the guards: "What happened?"
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A quarter of an hour ago.
"Who are these people?" In the dense jungle next to the road where the Ming army was, a middle-aged man in ragged clothes said in a language. If Zhu Chu could hear this sentence, he would find that he had never heard of this language before.
Never heard of it.
"The flags they raised seemed to have some characters embroidered on them, but they were definitely not Meng characters, let alone Burmese characters." Another bald man said.
"And they also have horses! Pegu's army never uses horses, they always use elephants." said the middle-aged man who spoke before.
"Could it be that Rasatari sent reinforcements from the north?"
"Reinforcements invited from the north? Aren't the Bago people at war with the Ava people in the north? Can reinforcements be invited from Ava?" someone questioned.
"How is this impossible! Whether it is the Dai people in Ava or the Mon people in Bago, they were all slaves of our Burmese people back then. They were very afraid of our Burmese people rising again, so they took extra precautions against the Burmese people. Now we Burmese people
If people raise an army, it is not impossible for them to unite and strangle us."
"So, they are the reinforcements that Rasatari invited from the north?"
"It's very likely, otherwise why would such an army appear here?"
"In that case, tell Sudilunla right away that there are reinforcements from the Bago people here, and attack them while they are parked here!"
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"Your Highness, we don't know for sure." The guard guarding the door nervously picked up the crossbow and replied while looking around.
Zhu Zhen knew that his tent was in the middle of the army and should be the safest place. So he did not leave here, but sent several guards to various places to ask what happened.
"But Your Highness, is your safety safe?" one of the guards said. This time, Zhu Chu brought a total of sixteen guards who were selected from among the best, but he actually had to send out six at a time, leaving only six guards to protect him.
Ten people.
"It's okay. I'll just stand near the entrance of the big tent. You don't have to divide your troops to guard the surroundings of the big tent. Just stay here." Zhu Ming said.
Of course Zhu Zhen valued his own life, but at the same time he also wanted to know what happened immediately, so he took such a move.
Zhu Chu inserted the sword into the scabbard, took two spare hand crossbows from a guard, took one for himself and gave one to Dao Baifeng.
I don’t know how long it took, but two people wearing Ming soldiers’ uniforms ran over. But even though they were wearing Ming military uniforms, Zhu Chu’s guards still raised their crossbows and pointed them at them and shouted: “No!
near!"
The two men raised their hands and said loudly: "Your Highness, we are General Mu's bodyguards. General Mu asked us to deliver a message."
Zhu Ming carefully identified their faces and confirmed that they were Mu Ang's guards. He asked the guards not to fire crossbows and let them come over.
When the two men saw Zhu Chu bowing and saluting, they immediately said: "Your Highness, just now from the jungle on both sides of the road, countless people in tattered clothes rushed out with strange screams holding bamboo guns or other things."
"Because they were caught off guard, our army suffered some losses at first; however, their weapons were very crude and their strength was not very strong. Except for a few, most of them had little fighting experience. Our army gradually regained the situation and defeated the National People's Congress who attacked our army.
Some of them were killed, and some fled back to the jungle when the situation was bad, and General Mu is directing the pursuit."
"Have you found out who these attackers are?" Zhu Zhen asked.
"Your Highness, not yet. They are all in tatters and have no uniform markings at all; no one can understand what they are shouting," one person said.
"Immediately find out who these attackers are." Zhu Zhen said.
"Yes, Your Highness." They bowed again and then returned to Mu Ang's place.
After a long time, Mu Ang walked over to Zhu Chu.
The first thing Zhu Chu said when he saw Mu Ang was: "Have all those attackers been eliminated?"
"No," Mu Ang looked a little angry and a little ashamed: "There are too many venomous snakes and wild beasts in the jungle. Many soldiers were attacked by wild beasts as soon as they entered the jungle. They didn't care about pursuing them anymore, except for shooting a few who ran at the back.
Except for everyone, everyone else ran away."
"Damn it, they must have opened a safe passage in the jungle, but our troops couldn't find it even in their haste."
"Where is the identity of the attacker?" Zhu Zhen asked again.
"There is nothing obvious about this at the moment. Although a few people were captured alive, the language they spoke was neither Thai, nor Mon, nor Chinese. I have asked all the chieftains to send people to identify the people who were captured alive."
"But it looks like they are rebels from the Bago Kingdom." Mu Ang said.
"Why did the Bago rebels attack us?" Zhu Zhen asked in confusion.
"Perhaps they mistook us for the Bago army? I don't know. Logically speaking, our Ming army and the Bago army are very different, so we won't admit the mistake." Mu Ang said with the same confusion.
At this moment, one of Mu Ang's guards ran over and said to Mu Ang and Zhu Zhen: "Your Highness, the general, already knows their identities."
"Who are they?" Mu Ang and Zhu Zhen asked at the same time.
"Most of them are Burmese from Bago."
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"Sudhirunla, our attack failed." A middle-aged man said to a dark-skinned man whose face was invisible and his hands were behind his back. However, it could be seen from this man's skin that he was not very old.
"Colenton, this has been expected for a long time, hasn't it? Although the opponent has not set up a camp, they are well-trained troops, and the ones we sent are just mobs. If we have a lot of bows and arrows, we may be able to kill them.
There are many of them, but the bows and arrows have all been used by the Bago army, and it is difficult to allocate enough bows and arrows at the moment," said the man known as Sudilunla.
"Then why did you arrange such an attack?" Colenton asked in confusion.
"Let them retreat when faced with difficulties and not interfere with our war with the Bago people. Although the Dai people of Awa were also one of the culprits that caused the collapse of our Burmese dynasty back then, there is no rush to deal with them now. We will wait until they are destroyed."
Bago will deal with him again." Sudilunla said.
"What if they don't retreat?" Colenton asked again.
"Then keep attacking. In order to avoid the eyes and ears of the Bago people, we sacrificed countless people and opened up many passages in the jungle. The local Bago people don't know about it, let alone the Ava people who came from the north.
.Most of the roads here are close to the jungle, or these roads were opened in the jungle back then, so we have countless opportunities to attack them." Sudhirunla said.
"I have arranged for my eyes and ears to monitor them in the nearby jungle. If they have no intention of retreating, I will tell you again so that you can arrange another attack." Colenton said.
Sudilunla did not speak any more, but just waved his hand. Colenton bowed and retreated.
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"In other words, these people are Burmese living in Bago?" Zhu Zhen said, looking down at a prisoner who was tightly tied to a chair.
Dao Baifeng translated Zhu Chu's words into Thai, and Dao Banmian, the chieftain of 800 Dadian, immediately said: "Yes, Your Highness, they must be Burmese living in Bago."
"I, Babai Dadian, border on Dongwu (Taungoo), and I am very familiar with the customs and language of the Burmese people. His movements and the language he speaks all indicate that he must be a Burmese."
"Then you ask him why he attacked our army?" Zhu Zhen said.
Dao Banmian said a few words that no one could understand. The prisoner who was tied to the chair raised his eyelids and lowered his head again.
It doesn’t take Dao Banmian to translate Zhu Chu to understand what it means. He sneered and said: "It seems that the treatment we give him is too good. Wang Yong, let him taste the punishment of our Ming Dynasty."
Wang Yong also sneered and took him out of the tent. Immediately, a piercing scream came from outside the tent. However, the sound disappeared immediately, and the prisoner was probably gagged.
A quarter of an hour later, Wang Yong returned to the tent with the prisoner. Although the prisoner had no obvious injuries at all, everyone could tell that he must have been treated inhumanely.
Dao Banmian began to ask questions again. This time the prisoner answered very cooperatively.
After a long while, Dao Banmian muttered a lot, and Dao Baifeng said to Zhu Chu: "Your Highness, he said that the prisoners said that they were Burmese in Bago, and they launched an uprising because they could not bear the oppression and discrimination of the Mon people.
They thought we were reinforcements coming to help the Pegu people, so they attacked us."
"Do these Burmese people have no brains? They are sick of rashly attacking an army they don't know is our enemy or ours!" Zhu Ming scolded.
As soon as Zhu Chu cursed, everyone also followed suit, and countless curse words in Chinese, Thai or Yi were flying for a while. If someone happened to pass by this big tent at this time, he would not think that it was the most noble person from Yunnan to Myanmar.
