The cavalry commander who was assigned to pursue Duduo was named Liang Zhen.

His ancestors were Mongolian, then he became Korean, and now he is Han.

His ancestor was Balazala Varmi, king of Yuanliang.

In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, the family members of King Yuanliang were exiled to Jeju Island. In the twenty-first and twenty-fifth years of Hongwu, the remaining Mongolian princes were exiled.

The Mongolian power became more and more powerful in Jeju Island. The King of Korea was afraid that something would happen, so he moved some of them to the Korean mainland and gave them land to multiply. Then more and more moved, trying not to let the Mongols get together on the island.

Liang Zhen's branch has been the horse-breeding officer of Jeju Island for generations. Although he cannot speak Chinese, he has always known Chinese characters and still preserved his family tree.

After the Datong Army occupied Jeju Island, Liang Zhen's father took the initiative to join the army and helped raise and manage war horses.

Liang Zhen was recruited as the Datong Dragoon because he was proficient in riding and shooting skills. There are currently more than 30 Jeju Island soldiers like him in the Datong Army, and Liang Zhen is the one who has been promoted the fastest.

Encountering broken troops along the way, the five hundred dragoons ignored them and focused on Duduo's direction to pursue them.

Although Duduo was riding a horse, he was fully armored and had three bags of arrows hanging on his body. How could he outrun the lightly-armed dragoons?

"Go and stop the pursuers!"

The soldiers Dodo ordered to flee with him were all elite red Baya soldiers.

Knowing that they were about to die, the Baya soldiers still reined in their horses and turned around, as if fighting to stop the pursuing enemy.

Liang Zhen waved his sword and gave instructions, ordering one hundred cavalry to surround and kill these ten people. He led the remaining four hundred people and went around to continue chasing Duduo.

Duduo looked back and was so frightened that he sped up quickly. He drew his knife to cut the rope, discarded the quiver containing heavy arrows and whistle arrows, and then took off his helmet and threw it away.

He still felt that it was too slow, so he hurriedly took off his armor. After running for a long time, he finally took off his cotton armor as well.

But the chainmail cannot be taken off for the time being.

Seeing that he could not get rid of his pursuers, and there was a small river blocking the way ahead, Duduo did not dare to flee along the river to Surabaya, so he took the reins and ran towards Yimeng Mountain in the north.

Isn't it just running away into a ravine?

Dodo has experience!

However, Liang Zhen became more and more impatient as he pursued him. His horse was not powerful, but Duduo was riding a horse. If there was not a river blocking the way, he would have really escaped.

The chase continued until dusk, when both sides entered Yimeng Mountain and continued to run along the ravine.

The sky was getting dark and the moon was not bright, so it was difficult to see the road in the mountains clearly.

Several dragoons fell off their horses one after another, and Duduo was not much better. This fellow was riding his horse in the dark, and suddenly the horse stumbled and was thrown violently.

My feet are sprained.

Duduo was beaten to pieces, and the pain in his ankle made him sober. He immediately reluctantly climbed up the hillside.

After a while, the Datong Dragoons came after them, and they could barely see their mounts under the moonlight.

"The Tatars have abandoned their horses!"

Liang Zhen dismounted and bent down to check, but the light was too dark to see the footprints clearly.

Fortunately, the dragoons all had fire sticks on them, so they went to the nearby area to get dead branches and leaves, and then tied them with the prepared match ropes to make a very simple torch.

I searched carefully and found out the situation quickly.

Especially on the hillside, when Duduo climbed, he left a lot of traces along the way.

Liang Zhen ordered: "Leave ten people to guard the horses, and the others will abandon their horses and chase after me!"

The simple torches were weak, burning and extinguishing. After climbing up the hill, some of the traces of Dodo's escape became shallower, and the pursuit speed also slowed down a lot.

In fact, Duduo had completely lost his sense of direction and only knew how to run along the mountain ridge. His ankle was sprained and he was limping. He cut off the scabbard of his sword and used it as a crutch. When he thought he was running too slowly, he took off his chainmail and threw it away.

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In a daze, his foot slipped and Duduo rolled down the mountain ridge.

His whole body was injured in many places by branches and stones, and his waist was hit by a protruding stone. Duduo felt pain all over his body, staggered up, and continued to run away without direction.

After escaping for most of the night, Duduo finally couldn't hold on any longer and felt that his pursuers had been thrown away, so he lay down and panted to regain his strength.

Before I knew it, I fell asleep.

When I woke up the next day, it was already dawn, but I didn’t know what time it was.

Duduo looked up at the sky, trying to identify the direction through the sun, but it turned out to be a cloudy day.

It's not a cloudy day. Looking at the dark clouds in the sky, I'm afraid it's going to rain.

This year, in Shandong, except for the prefectures and counties close to Henan, the rest of the country has also recovered, and finally no longer suffers from severe drought like in previous years.

"Boom!"

There was a muffled thunder.

Duduo is not worried but happy, as long as it rains, all traces of him will be washed away, and he will definitely be able to escape this time.

God help me!

It's just that... I don't know which direction to escape. He's not very familiar with Yimeng Mountain.

Moreover, Dodo is hungry.

The pain in his ankle was mostly gone, and Duduo climbed over another mountain ridge in a daze. The sky was still gloomy, but it didn't rain.

At noon, he was really hungry and couldn't find anyone, so he could only pull out some grass roots and chew them raw.

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Liang Zhen was lost like Duduo and lost all traces.

He divided the soldiers into several groups, not far from each other, and used the trumpet to spread the news.

Suddenly, bursts of smoke rose from the front.

Liang Zhen immediately led his troops there. The mountain peak was quite high. If you got close, you could see the dilapidated houses.

Bandits' den!

There are many such bandits in Yimeng Mountain.

"Big, big, big... Your Majesty, the officers and soldiers are coming!" A young man ran back to the stronghold in panic.

The gangster's nickname is Ma Wangye, also known as Three Eyes, because of the scar on his forehead.

The leader asked: "How many have come?"

"I'm afraid there are hundreds of them!" the boy replied.

The second master smiled and said: "Don't be afraid of hundreds of people, just go and ambush them."

"Don't be anxious," the military advisor said, waving his feather fan. "There is a war in Shandong right now, and no one has time to suppress us. The soldiers at the foot of the mountain must have other motives. Let's send a few people to ask about the other party's origins. Even if we are bandits, we must be polite before attacking."

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The master's name is Hong Suowang, and he wishes to be a child in Feixian County. There was a locust plague, and the whole family was starving, and his mother was also sick.

He went into the mountains to collect medicine for his mother, but was robbed by bandits. Hong Suowang took off all his clothes and said that he really had no money, but his Confucian shirt was worth a few copper coins. He asked the bandits to spare his life and bring the herbs back for treatment.

Mother.

The bandit leader felt his filial piety, so instead of robbing him of his clothes, he sent him home.

As a result, his mother had died of illness and his wife and children were too hungry to walk. He simply took his family into the mountains and became bandits.

After a while, the gangsters rushed back: "Those soldiers are from the Datong Army. They said that there was a Tatar prince who was killed and fled into the mountains. They also asked us to help find him. If he is found, all the past crimes will be punished."

If you don’t pursue the case, you can still go down the mountain and divide the fields and be a good citizen.”

"Prince of the Tartars?"

Hong Suowang stood up quickly and asked: "The Datong army really defeated the Tatars and chased a Tatar prince into the mountains?"

The little guy nodded and said, "That's what I said."

Hong Suowang said happily: "Master, here is our opportunity to make a fortune."

Of course the bandits know the situation in Shandong. The Eight Banners Army is at war with the Datong Army. Whoever wins will most likely win the world.

The leader smiled and said: "Since the Datong Army has won, Emperor Zhao of Nanjing is the real Dragon Emperor. All the people in the village should go out and look for that Tartar prince."

There were hundreds of men, women, and children in the village, and they were familiar with the terrain. They immediately led the Datong Army to search everywhere.

…

It's a new day.

Duduo was so hungry that his head was dizzy. He was not looking forward to rain now, he was just looking forward to the sun coming out so he could figure out which direction to go.

There are ravines upon ravines, ridges upon ridges, and there are mountains in all directions.

Yesterday, I finally met a family of mountain people. After killing the whole family, they only found a little food. And there was no oil and water. The more they ate, the hungrier they became, so they could only drink cold water to fill their stomachs.

If this continues, he will starve to death.

"ah!"

Duduo screamed and felt severe pain in his ankle.
To be continued...