On both sides of the official road leading to the Yunnan Provincial Administration in the southwest of Guizhou, there are rocks and mountains; the main road in the middle is filled with dust.
If you look from a few miles away, you can also see the movement on the road. The scene is like a huge dragon suddenly appearing in the mountains, stirring up a large area of the ground! It is also like a landslide, and muddy sand and dust rise up along the mountains.
This army was the vanguard of the Han army, but the number of soldiers was not large. They set out from Guizhou City and were marching along the post road towards the Yunnan Provincial Administration. The generals ordered that branches be hung behind the baggage vehicles; the branches dragged on the dirt road, making a particularly loud noise. From a distance, the smoke looked like a large army.
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There are several flat areas in the mountains northeast of Guizhou City. There are military tents ever
Seven days after the two government troops left Kunming City, Zhang Fu's army and Guizhou's army arrived near Mile Prefecture one after another.Mile Prefecture was governed by a local governor, and it was difficult for the Yunnan government to force them to obey some extreme orders, such as burning their own food. When Zhang Fu led his army to Mile Prefecture, he ordered the looting of the locals inside and outside the city, and took away all the food that could be found.The total strength of the two armies reached more than 200,000 people, with Guizhou in the front and Zhang Fu's army in the back. They would probably have to march south along the main road for three days, and then turn east; in the future, as long as they reach the Tiandong area of Guangxi Provincial Administration, there will not be too much danger...In addition to Zhang Fu's vanguard cavalry at the front, the front of the central army was the Guizhou vanguard. The commander of the guar
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