The rainy season in Bangladesh continues, and after a short period of sunny days, there are days of heavy rain and light rain, which makes everything so wet that the air seems to be full of moisture. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The wooden deck of the teak bridge over the Sulma River was also slippery, but it didn't interfere with the passage of the caravan. Under the torrential rain and night, I saw a zigzag fire dragon rolling through the bridge to the south. In the light of the fire, you can faintly see groups of soldiers in gray or green uniforms. It also carries the sun and moon of the Ming Dynasty and the 10,000-character flag of the Dali Kingdom. It is the army commanded by Zhu Guowei, the king of Dali!

The army surged forward with oil-soaked torches, each carrying rifles, some draped in robes, others simply taking off their soaked uniforms and walking briskly. None of the men in the ranks dressed in officers' uniforms rode horses, and they marched forward and backward encouraging the soldiers to advance. The figures of these officers also staggered, apparently exhausted by the days of marching and fighting.

It was already May 8, 1876, and Zhu Guowei's army was once again blocked by the British and Indian fortress blockade at the Garni River to the north! However, when the headquarters of the King of Dali arrived on the south bank of the Garni River, the good news of Chittagong had already arrived, and at the same time, there was an order from the Southern Army, requiring the Northern Route Army of the Indian Front to go south to join the Southern Route Army.

Zhu Guowei and Wu Changqing, who had long lost their minds, did not hesitate at all after receiving the order from the Southern Army, and immediately turned around to the south. However, on the way south, Zhu Guowei did not run in the front, but personally commanded a detachment of more than 10,000 people, and fought viciously with the pursuers of the British and Indian troops. In the end, it was finally repulsed. Now cross the Sulma River and head south. It is the elite soldiers commanded by the king of Dali himself.

There were also some mules and horses in the ranks. There were one or two seriously wounded on each mule and horse, all of them dying -- although Academician Zhu Yisha had found a way to refine penicillin and streptomycin, they could only be synthesized in small quantities in the laboratory at the moment, and there was no way to produce them on a large scale, so they could not save the lives of the wounded. The final outcome of these wounded, who have no way to be well cared for, is self-evident. If it is replaced by Zhu Juan's ruthless man leading the troops, he will definitely give them a good time! But Zhu Guowei, who has believed in Buddhism since childhood, can't make such a ruthless move, and still holds the purpose of not abandoning anyone. Take them on the march with them, even the officers and soldiers who died in battle, as long as they can collect the corpses, they will all be incinerated and put in urns and carry them on the march. There was a lot of time along the way.

The king of this "bodhisattva's heart" is also walking in the same way now. But the whole person seems to be ten years old! He was also dark and thin, with a scruffy beard, and his life was really bitter, and I am afraid that there was an even more bitter life waiting for him below.

"My lord, the King of Siam has sent his guards north to meet us, and the navy plans to send a convoy of convoys through the Sunda Strait to bypass Sumatra to transport supplies and heavy artillery to Chittagong, and the main force of the Seventh Army is also marching towards Chittagong. This battle is definitely going to come back! ”

Luo Ange followed Zhu Guowei's side, and as he walked, he was still comforting his king - in fact, it was not all good news. Zhu Guowei's errand as commander of the Indian Front is gone. Instead, the commander of the 7th Army, General Pan Dingxin, took the position. What's worse, Zhu Guowei's rich and handsome brother Zhu Guoliang has been stationed in Ava King City as the regent of Dali! I don't know if this regent will become a king in the end?

"What's the situation over there with Wu Changqing? Have you ever found the main force of the Anglo-Indian army? Zhu Guowei worked hard to get rid of the bad premonition from his mind, but in fact, he was really worried. Although he lost the battle, Zhu Jishi did not want to get rid of his kingship, a king who took the lead and worked hard in front was better than a king who only knew how to soak in white and rich beauty. And Zhu Guowei's performance on the battlefield is not too bad, but the opponent he met is too powerful.

In fact, arranging Zhu Guoliang to go to Ava Royal City to be the regent was actually arranged by the crown prince Zhu Guoxiong, and Zhu Guoxiong didn't have any bad intentions, he just wanted Zhu Guoliang to occupy the position of regent, so as not to covet a lot of younger brothers who had no throne to inherit.

"No main Anglo-Indian forces were found." Luo Ange Road.

Zhu Guowei shook his head, "I always feel that something is wrong...... Ange, have you noticed that the pursuers of the British and Indian armies do not have much energy? It was not the Gurkhas and Sikhs who came out, and even less the Europeans. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to get out so easily. ”

"King, do you mean ......" Luo Ange frowned, "You mean we were fooled again?" ”

Zhu Guowei walked silently for a long time before he said: "I always feel wrong!" Do you think we should concentrate our troops and turn north? ”

Luo Ange smiled slightly bitterly, further north? Sounds like a headless fly! During this time, the entire Northern Route Army flickered from south to north, east to west, and I don't know if there was a will. Heming was dizzy, anyway, he was almost tired and fainted. If you continue to maneuver like this, you don't need to fight, you are tired to death!

"Wang, why don't you call the front army headquarters for advice?" Luo Ange couldn't openly oppose his king, so he kicked the ball to the newly reorganized Front Army Headquarters.

Pan Dingxin, who had just arrived in Chittagong, actually saw that there were some problems, the Indian Front's Northern Route Army was now maneuvering behind enemy lines, and although the situation in East Bengal had become chaotic, the British had a relatively deep foundation there after all -- Bengal was one of the first territories firmly controlled by the British, and the pro-British forces were very strong, and the traditional princes had fallen more than 100 years ago, no better than the Donghui Kingdom. In this case, the actions of Zhu Guowei's Northern Route Army were very easy to grasp by the Anglo-Indian army. It was very easy for Hemingke to mobilize troops to encircle and intercept him.

But he now has no right to change the goal of the Northern Route Army, because now the Southern Army has issued an order for the Indian Front to strictly obey the command of the Southern Army -- that is, it deprives the Indian Front of its flexibility in military command (Pan Dingxin can of course choose to disobey the order and be dismissed by the Southern Army), and Pan Dingxin also knows that the reason why the Southern Army is doing this is to carry out a grander decisive battle plan.

To a certain extent, the more than 80,000 people under Zhu Guowei's command were a small decoy -- if Zhu Guowei led his troops to retreat to the Donghui Kingdom, then why would the Nanyang Fleet have to risk crossing the Sunda Strait and making a detour of more than 3,000 nautical miles to deliver supplies to Chittagong? This Zhu Guowei is really an unlucky child......

But see through and see through, point to break, Zhu Guowei is the king of a country no matter what! is also a figure in Zhu Ming's royal system, if it is damaged, this responsibility is still not small. Therefore, Pan Dingxin immediately transferred Zhu Guowei's report to Hong Kong. However, the reaction of Crown Prince Zhu Guoxiong, commander-in-chief of our Southern Army, to this was a complaint.

"This King of Dali is really, he didn't know how to be afraid of fighting and rushing before, and now he was afraid of wolves and tigers, how could he lead troops if he was so timid? I called him and told him to move south firmly, and he must act quickly, and not let the British and Indian troops form an encirclement situation! ”

In the operational command center of the Southern Army, a group of elite staff officers and the chief of staff of the Southern Army all responded one after another when they heard this. Admiral Feng Ziye, commander of the Nanyang Fleet of the Ming Royal Navy, also stood in the command center in a straight uniform.

Zhu Guoxiong decided the fate of his younger brother in a few words, and beckoned Feng Ziye to him, "Is the Nanyang Fleet ready?" ”

"Your Highness, the Nanyang Fleet can be dispatched at any time?"

"What about the battle plan?" Zhu Guoxiong has known the plan for a long time, and now he is just reconfirming.

"The Nanyang Fleet will be divided into two sub-fleets, the escort fleet and the main fleet. The convoy was launched from Cam Ranh Bay, consisting of four capital ships, ten armored cruisers and ten protective cruisers, escorting twenty-four steam sailing ships south as decoys. The main fleet departed from the port of Xingming in Borneo in advance ......" (to be continued......