When this long convoy arrived in Handan, it really shocked a lot of people, along the way, there were people constantly blocking the road to send food, and the convoys of the rest of the counties also smoothly converged with Zhao Kuo, making the convoy even larger, driving from a distance, rolling up the loess rolling, plus there are knights in front of the road, speeding back and forth, vaguely there is a feeling of the army pulling out. It took a lot of time to finally come to Handan.

The knights who opened the way in front brought two people, one was lucky, and the other was also Zhao Kuo's doorman, called Ming, he had no clan, but because he was from Mu Ziyi of Zhao State, he was called Mu Ziming. The two followed the knight, first saw Ge with a displeased face, and then saw the young monarch Zhao Kuo, Zhao Kuo saw them, very happy, hurriedly dismounted, the two hurriedly met, Zhao Kuo helped them up.

"The second and third sons are finally here!"

Xing then said: "After learning your orders, we went out of Mafu Township, but I don't know which road you came from, so we can only wait in Handan." Zhao Kuo laughed and said, "This is right, if it is staggered, I don't know how much time it will waste... Is my mother okay? Everyone in the family and the villagers are all right? ”

"The mistress is safe, and so are the villagers... This is the mother entrusted us to send it...", fortunately took out a package and handed it to Zhao Kuo, Zhao Kuo got the package, he had already smelled the fragrance of melons and fruits, and he had already guessed what it was, and fortunately took out a stone, which was an ordinary pebble, he said: "This is Pinggong asked us to send it to you, he said that putting this stone on his body can make you safe all the way and avoid disasters." ”

Zhao Kuo looked at this stone with some astonishment, there was no hole on it, it was completely an ordinary pebble, thinking of the old man Ping who blessed the exorcism, Zhao Kuo couldn't help but smile, and just put the stone in the bag and hung it on the left side of his jade belt, and suddenly there was a heavy feeling, this jade belt is also strong.

After greeting them for a while, and asking about the situation of the horse clothes, Zhao Kuo said to them: "I heard that the road from Handan through Wu'an, to Lu, and then along the river to Changping is very dangerous, and the Qin people have cavalry attacking Lu and Li, I am very worried that our carriage will be attacked by the Qin people, so we need a person who is very familiar with the terrain in the southwest of Zhao State, so I sent someone to ask....", he slowly looked at Ming and asked: "It turns out that Ming is the person I need." ”

Ming hurriedly leaned over and said: "Chen Ming used to live in Muziyi, Muziyi is in the area of Lucheng, I followed my father when I was young, and went to Gaodu to sell horses, so I know the terrain here very well. ”

"That's great!" , Zhao Kuo feels that his customers can always bring surprises to themselves, of course, some will bring fright. Mu Ziming continued: "From Handan to Changping, you don't have to take Wu'an Road, Shaojun can go south from Handan to Zi County, and from Zi County to Changping... It's just that this road needs to pass through the Taihang Mountain Road, and the mountain road is difficult to walk, if you are not familiar with the people there, there is no way to pass. ”

"Aren't you familiar with it?"

"It's deserted, there's no city or village, I just know there's a road, but I've never been there." , Mu Ziming said with some guilt, Zhao Kuo sighed, it seems that he can only take the road of Wu'an, because this place is too close to the eldest son, and the eldest son is now controlled by the Qin people, so it is very dangerous here, Zhao has several teams that transport grain, and they have suffered ambushes here and suffered heavy losses.

Zhao Kuo felt that the Qin people were very likely to have gathered an army and were waiting for themselves to fall into the net, and even the regular transport troops of the Zhao State were difficult to resist, let alone Zhao Kuo, the main force of the Qin people was in Changping, and the raid here was only a cavalry of less than a thousand people, but Zhao Kuo felt that if Bai Qi knew the news, he might not know what kind of plans he would make, and he would never dare to underestimate this man.

He also thought about borrowing soldiers from King Zhao to escort him, but in the face of Bai Qi, Zhao Kuo was afraid that no matter how many soldiers he was, he would not be able to protect him. In this way, it is best to bypass the battlefield and go directly to the rear of Changping to transport grain to the battlefield, which is the safest way, how can the Qin people not bypass Changping? ? What's more, this area of Lucheng is often attacked by the Qin people on a small scale, but in the end, it is still impossible for the Qin people to insert the sharp blades into the sides, and they can still defend it.

Just when Zhao Kuo felt embarrassed, Xing suddenly said: "Shaojun, I am very familiar with the terrain of Taihang, which is why I also followed him." Zhao Kuo was stunned for a moment and asked in confusion: "But aren't you from Handan?" How do you become familiar with the terrain of Taihang? How familiar are you with it? ”

Fortunately, he was silent for a moment, and then said: "I once went to live in Taihang for a few years because I needed to avoid some people, and I am very familiar with the situation there, and I know every road. Zhao Kuo was very happy, pointed to the carriage again, and asked, "Do you think such a carriage can pass through the mountain road?" Fortunately, he looked at the carriages carefully, borrowed the horses, and rushed to the rear, and looked at almost all the carriages before returning.

"Shaojun, these carriages can pass, there were also many merchants from the Wei State and the Zhao State who drove the carriages from Taihang to pass by, and there was a road opened up by the merchants, which was near the sheep intestines."

"That's right! I know about it! Mu Ziming suddenly exclaimed, he said: "I know this sheep intestine!" At the beginning, there were indeed many merchants passing by here, but later, this place was occupied by a group of thieves, and the merchants spent money to ask the surrounding county lieutenants to lead people to encircle and suppress it several times, but they failed to defeat those thieves, and later, no one dared to take this road anymore! ”

Zhao Kuo nodded, and then asked, "So, if we take this road, will we also be attacked by thieves?" ”

"No, please rest assured, Shaojun." , Xing suddenly spoke.

The convoy changed direction again, fortunately, along the way, Zhao Kuo was very polite to these people, and Zhao Kuo himself was also very prestigious in Zhao State, these pilots did not complain, but only the knight was the leader, personally came to find Zhao Kuo, this is also the first time he came to Zhao Kuo, Zhao Kuo didn't even know his name, he rode a horse, rushed to Zhao Kuo's side, his voice was very low, he asked: "Shaojun wants to take the mountain road?" ”

"Yes, I have two doormen, they know the way, and I'm really tired of you." , Zhao Kuo hurriedly said, the knight was silent for a long time, and then said: "I once followed Ma Fujun to the battlefield, the Qin people are very cunning, after leaving Handan....", he may not know what to say, hesitated for a moment, Zhao Kuo understood, and asked: "Do you want me to obey your orders, and you will command all the doormen?" ”

"That's right." , the knight said helplessly.

"Okay, I obey your orders, you just let me command, I don't know how to command, along the way, I have to bother you a lot." , Zhao Kuo said with a smile, the knight was stunned for a moment, looking very surprised, and then, he also reluctantly squeezed out a smile, nodded towards Zhao Kuo, and left here. In the following days, Zhao Kuo was silently watching the knight's every move.

He will arrange the time for the doormen to patrol in detail, rotate the personnel, he divided the three hundred doormen into ten teams, according to the distance of 500 meters, respectively from the front of the convoy, patrol to the back of the convoy, and the orders of each team seem to be different, for example, the frontmost doorman is used by him as a scout, they are responsible for constantly exploring the road ahead, and when they encounter a living person, they must come back in a hurry to report, and the convoy will stop advancing.

And the rear doorman has branches hanging on the tail of the horse, they seem to be destroying the traces of the carriage passing by, encountering these unknown things, Zhao Kuo will ask him, he was a little restrained at first, and later, Zhao Kuo asked anything, he will answer seriously, he said, there are thieves can distinguish the materials according to the traces left by the convoy, the information of the escort personnel, so he sent people to constantly destroy these traces, so that they can not get accurate information.

Zhao Kuo nodded seriously and kept his words in his heart.