"General, we have been marching for a long time in order to rush forward. The soldiers are physically and mentally exhausted. We should take a break for a while." The battalion officer of the First Infantry Battalion was sweating heavily and trotted over to Zhao Guirong and said.

Zhao Guirong looked back at the soldiers and found that the soldiers were sweating profusely, and their expressions all showed signs of sleepiness.

"Staying for a while here, cooking." Although Zhao Guirong was eager to advance, the soldiers were just people after all. It was very physically consuming to march in the mountains and forests that were not familiar with the terrain, so the soldiers could only rest first.

When the soldiers of the First Infantry Battalion saw that the chief general agreed to rest, they cheered and urged the cooks to cook on the stove.

"Send sentries to set up defenses around to prevent the enemy or poisonous snakes and beasts from appearing." Zhao Guirong still sent scouts cautiously.

The soldiers who served as scouts dispersed around the official road with bitter faces. The entire camp could rest, and only they had to continue wandering.

In the jungle, hunters lurking one by one are approaching the Jiuzhou Army, which has lost its vigilance. Perhaps it is easier for the Jiuzhou Army to conquer Lang Son this time, so the soldiers of the Jiuzhou Army did not think that there was anything difficult for the Zheng family in Annan, because the main force of the Zheng family was heading south to Changyulei at this time, and the north was just a few scattered local troops.

"Xipi, I've been away for two days, but the enemy has not seen one. Many of my companions have died under the mouths of poisonous insects in the jungle. When can we reach Gaoping? Let's finish the war quickly. I want to go back to Jiangnan." A sentry held a Dresse rifle and said to another sentry who came with him to investigate in this direction.

"Of course, this mountainous place is not as good as the gentle village in Jiangnan, but if you want to accumulate military merits and get promoted, you still have to come here to practice." Another sentry said, "If it were in the past, we would not have the chance to be promoted. Now, as long as we fight bravely, we will have an additional salary, and we can also accumulate military merits and be promoted by our military merits."

"If I could be a captain, I would be satisfied. Even if I do it for me, I wouldn't have the ability." The sentry said.

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound in the jungle, which alerted the two sentries. They looked at each other and approached the jungle with muskets in front and back.

"Who, come out quickly!" A sentry walking in front was holding a rifle and was about to pull the trigger.

At this time, a cold light flashed in the dense forest, and a poisonous arrow penetrated into the sentry's throat, piercing out from the back of the neck, carrying blood. The sentry, who was still talking just now, gradually lost his spirit in his eyes. He wanted to shout, but his throat was pierced, and he couldn't even make a word before his death, only a dry rustling sound.

"There is an enemy..." The sentry following behind was shocked when he saw his companion die tragically and was about to fire a gun to warn him.

However, a sharp dagger stretched out from behind him and cut off his throat! The dagger with cold light splashed everywhere had a purple luster in the air, and it was obviously also highly poisonous.

The two sentries were quietly resolved!

After they fell to the ground, dozens of people appeared in the jungle one after another.

"In our jungle, they are no different from ordinary prey." One of the natives took back the poisonous dagger and looked indifferently at the two cold corpses on the ground.

"Don't take it lightly. Their strength is not about fighting alone, but about using dense firearms to destroy the enemy." said the Zheng family soldiers.

"Hmph, in the jungle, where is the firearm useful for our silent bows and arrows? Is this the powerful musket you mentioned?" A native man picked up the Dereser rifle on the ground and played with it in his hands.

"Their muskets are very weird, you have to be careful..." The soldiers of the Zheng family quickly reminded.

Bang!

A crisp gunshot sounded throughout the forest, alarming a group of birds in the forest. The local people who accidentally pulled the Dereser rifle were shocked and all the rifles fell to the ground.

The local people around and the Zheng family soldiers turned pale. Now, when the gunshots sounded, their concealment was likely to disappear!

"I..." The local people who had made a bad thing blushed and didn't know how to apologize.

Zhao Ronggui and others, who were resting, heard a gunshot in the jungle. Many soldiers immediately grabbed the muskets beside them and faced the lush jungle back to back.

"Don't panic, maybe the sentry just encountered some wild beast." Zhao Ronggui stopped everyone in time, and he pulled out the sword around his waist and watched everywhere vigilantly.

In the jungle just now, the grass and trees swayed, and a tiger jumped past and sank into the forest again.

"It's a tiger!" A soldier shouted when he witnessed the tiger flashing through the forest.

"It turns out that I just encountered a beast." Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It would be fine if it was just a tiger. They had thousands of people, and everyone had weapons on them. The king of the forest did not pose any threat to them.

It was probably judged that the sentry encountered a wild beast, and everyone felt relieved and continued to rest. However, Zhao Guirong, as the main general, was not so relieved and said to a team leader: "Take your team to pick up the sentry over there. Even if they encountered a wild beast, they might need to pick up the support."

"As for order!" The team leader immediately led a dozen of his subordinates into the jungle in that direction.

"There are quite a lot of beasts here. I have seen all the poisonous snakes, tigers, and wild elephants on these roads."

"We Yunnan Provincial Administration Office also have many beasts, which are common to us Miao people. There are many people playing with some poisonous insects in some villages in the deep mountains and forests."

"It's true and fake. You can also play with poisonous insects. Are you afraid of being bitten by poisonous insects and killing them?"

"I lied to you and I am the bastard you mentioned. Let us call me Practice Gu."

The soldiers who were resting couldn't help but hang up, thinking that everyone agreed to be wild animals, and that it would be fine if someone went to drive them away.

"It's just a wild beast?" After sending a team to pick up the sentry, Zhao Ronggui still felt a little uneasy.

This feeling of uneasiness is not that Zhao Ronggui discovered something unusual, but that he is just an intuition about danger brought about by years of war.

"You all cheer me up and patrol everywhere." Zhao Ronggui gathered his own guards and let them take up the position of sentry for the time being.

Just after Zhao Guirong sent a team into the jungle, the team encountered Tumin and Zheng's troops in the jungle, and there were dense muskets sounds! Tumin and Zheng's troops thought they and others had been exposed, so they began to attack in advance!

The local people and Zheng family soldiers lurking around were everywhere, and bows and arrows and muskets were fired in the forest, aiming at the Jiuzhou Army in the bright spot!
Chapter completed!