Villager of Daming

Chapter 1254: The Route is Clear and Confused

The stars are still the same stars, the moon is still the same moon, the newly dug well is still bubbling with water, and the water in the well is shining with mottled spots of light under the light.

After Nahachu's messenger finished speaking, the people on the prince's side fell silent.

They remembered something. Just yesterday, someone sent a telegram saying that the person they were chasing in Taiyuan Prefecture was running eastward.

The other party can run very fast, and he runs like he will lose his life if caught.

In order to avoid losing members, the royal team was very careful when chasing. They chased all the way from the Loess Plateau to the mountains, and from the mountains to the grasslands.

The pursuit continued throughout the entire dog days. At the beginning, there were people behind using fast horses to deliver things, but when they reached the mountains, the logistics were cut off.

It was the palace guards who took the initiative to request it. They were afraid that the people they were chasing might have ambushed them on the road. The consequence of lengthening the supply line was that the defense would be weak at some point in the middle.

The pursuit team, each with five horses, brought medicine, seasoning, salt, meat floss, compressed biscuits, rock sugar...

While chasing, they looked for food nearby. If there was game, they would hunt it. If it was hard to hunt game, they would look for wild vegetables.

The person being chased has a harder time than the one chasing him. Judging from the traces left by the other party, they are gradually gathering a team as they run.

The telegram sent yesterday said that the number of people started from a few and increased to dozens, and now there are almost six hundred.

There might still be some of their people on the grassland. Judging from the traces, they should be herdsmen and don't look like they are being forced.

The team will continue to chase, not afraid of the other side having more people and they have bullets.

At this moment, when Nahachu's people talked about Taiyuan Prefecture, they were naturally referring to those who had run away.

"You can run really fast! How far is it from our Taiyuan Prefecture to here?"

When Prince Jin Zhu Gang saw the situation in his fiefdom, he looked towards the future Prince Jin Princess Xie Qiaoer not far away with wide eyes and a look of curiosity.

Xie Qiaoer continued to blink her eyes, like the stars in the sky: "It's about two thousand miles away, right? Take the map!"

The head of the village said, "Not only that, we have to cross mountains and ridges and take many detours. If that road is easier to take, why did we leave Niangzi Pass?

Niangzi Pass is a relatively convenient place for travel in Taihang Mountain. The straight-line distance between the two sides of the mountain in other places is one hundred miles. You can't expect to walk at least three hundred miles.

Since they have come this way and traveled four thousand miles, there must be a result. We can ask them what they want to do."

The other princes nodded one after another. Yes, what was the purpose of tricking Jiang Wu? He went through so much trouble, there must be a purpose, right?

Nahachu: "..."

He suddenly realized that the people on the other side had found the wrong person, and he no longer belonged to himself, so he ran here...

In fact, it doesn't matter where you run. If you run north, you have to pass the Ming Dynasty blockade line in the north, where there are beacon towers and cities.

The key point is that someone is chasing you from behind, and they are the guards of the palace. They are determined to chase you to the end, and no matter how you run, it is useless. They will not give up.

At this time, someone next to him opened the box he was carrying and took out a map.

First find a dry flat ground, spread a layer of linen, then a layer of cotton on the linen, and then silk on the cotton.

The map was then unfolded and placed on a beautiful silk sheet, and several electric lights were brought aside.

Today's maps are not made of paper. The rough map drawn by Zhu Wentian was continuously supplemented by others afterwards.

When supplementing, they drew on paper. When the troops were marching, there were officials in the four royal palaces. They had nothing to do, so they drew the maps on absorbent cotton cloth. The reason they didn't draw on silk was because it was difficult to draw, and silk should be embroidered with patterns.

Silk dyeing is particularly troublesome. It is not easy to color and the color needs to be fixed after dyeing. If you spend that time, you might as well carve wax paper and dye the drawing paper back and forth.

Zhu Di stepped forward, holding a box with small ornaments in it. He made a pony: "According to the information given yesterday, they are here. Thanks to the theodolite and sextant, it would be difficult to find their position with the map! They were here before..."

He arranged them one by one, showing the route of the team's tracking process. It was not a straight line, but various turns.

The person who was running circled around, thinking he could avoid the target, but unfortunately he made a wrong judgment and the person who was chasing him was very experienced.

There are not only guards from the palace, but also scouts from the local army who specialize in tracking people, as well as herdsmen and hunters.

Jiang Wu is not the only one who can play with eagles. Eagles can also find people, and hunting dogs are even better at tracking.

"Oh my god! They are running really fast. We save a lot of time by taking the boat. Their route is more winding than the Yellow River."

The fifth brother, Zhu Su, stretched out his hand and walked along the route. The nine twists and turns could no longer fully represent the route.

"It means that the process of chasing and escaping is very difficult, no matter which side it is. Fortunately, they are not very far away from us.

Judging from the messages they were able to send, the runners still had some energy left, and at least could speed up at critical moments.

Yes, someone sped up, and someone else deliberately deviated from the straight line to cover the person who sped up, leading our people to follow..."

Xu Da then analyzed the situation and found that the runner was very tenacious and did not resign himself to his fate and surrender.

Nahachu and his sister Gegehaji: "..."

The two of them were confused and bewildered. How could...

"How can you draw a running route from such a long distance? Is this really the case?"

Gege Haji couldn't help but ask, and at the same time she felt a wave of fear, is the Ming Dynasty so powerful?

Nahachu swallowed his saliva, also looking nervous, as if he was the one being chased.

He felt that he was being chased all the way from Taiyuan Prefecture, and at this point he wanted to die.

Just chase for a while! There is no need to chase forever!

Zhu Ying, who was in charge of entertaining Gege Haji, immediately responded when she heard the other party's question: "Sister, we have a theodolite, a sextant, a telescope, a compass, and a watch.

These are usually prepared for sea voyages, including marine clocks, but we equipped the pursuit team with tourbillon watches.

Tourbillon watches are too difficult to make, so in terms of quantity, it is more convenient for ships to use marine clocks.

We who are chasing are measuring as we go along. Everyone needs to rest and it is impossible to run all twelve hours a day.

Even if someone runs for three days and three nights without rest, he will still be caught up by the people behind him after resting. Right?"

"Sister Ying, we can't run for three days and three nights. We don't know if we can run, but the horses will be exhausted anyway, no matter how many horses we ride.

Can you let me see those things? It turns out that our Ming Dynasty is so powerful!
The people in front of them don’t know the situation here, and the people behind us don’t know either, so we have to hurry.

It’s not enough to just send messages back. Some people may not be obedient. If they collude with them, we will be in danger.

Let’s send someone back to calm them down first, it will be easier when we get back, after all, we…”

Gegehaji briefly mentioned the problem of resting the horses, and then went on to say that it was impossible to send anyone to the rear to tell the people in the rear to wait and catch someone.

That would prove that I have surrendered. What should I do if the people in the rear have other ideas?

"It's time to speed up! Walk less and eat more good food tomorrow!" Ling'er looked at the people nearby.

(End of this chapter)