"Where does this road go?" After walking more than ten miles east from Liyi County, Li Xin saw a road in the north and couldn't help asking.

"Oh, that's the road to Dun County!" After Tu Qi glanced at it, he replied.

"Dun County? What is the jurisdiction of this place? Hearing this name, Li Xin was a little curious.

He only knows a little about the Guanzhong region now, and the counties in other places are really not so clear. If it has been in the three counties of Huayin for so long, then there is no big problem. But now, as the territory expands, he feels more and more inconvenient.

"The subordinates are not particularly clear, but I heard that this county seemed to belong to the jurisdiction of the upper county in the past, but after many years of wars, so, it was basically abandoned. Nowadays, there is no clear jurisdiction over this place, although there are many counties and townships in the north, but the population is not very large. Just because the farther north you go, the closer you will be to where the Northland Hu people live, which is very dangerous! Tu Qi scratched his head, and he couldn't say it clearly.

"Ueki!" Seeing his appearance, Li Xin didn't want to ask any more.

Li Xin knows this place in Shangjun, because it has appeared more than once in the history books. For example, Meng Tian's fight against the Xiongnu is related to Shangjun, and during the Western Han Dynasty, Li Guang had been stationed in Shangjun for many years. Li Xin didn't know why this Shangjun was gone when it arrived in the Western Jin Dynasty.

Come to think of it, it should also be related to the situation in the world. After all, the closer to the north, the more uncontrollable the Western Jin Dynasty and Eastern Jin Dynasty courts became, and many of them were directly reduced to the land of the Hu people. As a result, many counties were eventually abandoned.

If he had a map of the afterlife in his hand, he would have known where he was going. Because along this road to the north, you will pass through Huanglong County, Luochuan County, Fu County and other places in later generations, and finally directly reach Yan'an, the land of northern Shaanxi that has a far-reaching impact on later generations.

"What's the topography like?" After thinking about it for a while, he still asked, I don't know the details, it's probably okay to ask!

"My subordinates haven't been there in person, it seems that from here all the way to the north, you can go all the way to the river!" Tu Qi was a little embarrassed because he couldn't answer the question.

Hearing this, Li Xinzhong couldn't help but pay a little attention to it. According to his understanding, being able to reach the river means that he can directly reach the Yellow River in the north. If such a smooth road is left unchecked, even if the Fu Qin army does not come over, there may be other enemies who will cross the border from there.

If he is not mistaken, the north north of the Yellow River at this time, the area on the north and south banks of the large zigzag, seems to be the place where the Huns lived. If those guys got the news and knew that Guanzhong was half occupied by Li Xin, maybe they would have some bad intentions. Not to mention, those people in Fu Qin may also want to borrow a knife to kill people and provoke those guys to go south to Guanzhong.

"No, this place has to be fortified! At the same time, we have to find out what the situation is over there as soon as possible! Thinking of the serious problems in this, Li Xin felt that there was no room for delay.

"Yes, my subordinates will arrange for someone to find out later!" Tu Qi hurriedly said. In this matter, he knew that he was derelict in his duties.

"Well, you're still too few people now, so be it! When you get back, find a way to build on your original scout team and expand it into a scout camp. It's been so long, and you should have risen to the rank of lieutenant too. At the same time, the name Scout is not very suitable and, moreover, it is easy to be noticeable. From today onwards, I have decided to form a staff division, and you will serve as the first staff commander! Seeing his appearance, Li Xin's heart couldn't help but move, and after thinking about it for a while, he said.

"Staff?" When Tu Qi heard this name, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

"Yes, the meaning of the existence of the Department is not just as simple as before, your task is not only to find out the situation in various places and report the latest military situation in various places in a timely manner. It is also necessary to gather the detailed mountain and river road conditions, customs and customs of various places, especially the map, which must be complete. This will have a great effect on our future actions. Li Xin nodded and explained to him.

"Yes, the subordinates must make good arrangements!"

"The staff division has been separated from the baggage battalion and temporarily served as an independent department, directly under my command! If there's anything, you can just report it to me. As for the materials you need, when the time comes, you can just go to the king's book with my warrant to get them!" At present, our strength is still too weak, so the scope of your activities, except for Guanzhong, is mainly based on the land around Guanzhong. With the expansion of our Huashan Army's territory in the future, your tasks will naturally increase accordingly, and your link is very important, so you must not ignore it! Given the importance of this department, he decided to separate the Division.

"The general can rest assured, his subordinates will work hard and never disappoint the general's expectations!" After working in this line for more than a year, Tu Qike knows how meaningful what he is doing, especially according to what Li Xin is saying now, the status of the staff department will definitely be very high in the future, and it is very unique.

Li Xin has always attached great importance to the matter of intelligence, and this has been reflected in the past battles with Fu Qin. In today's world, if you want to say who will pay more attention to this aspect than him, I'm afraid there is no one.

With the continuous expansion of the territory, the demand for this area has naturally become stronger. It seems that in today's world, disputes are everywhere, and the change of the king's flag at the head of the city is happening every day.

Whether it is Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou and other places east of Tongguan, or Liangzhou and Qinzhou further west, or even other places in the world, something is happening now, and I am simply black-eyed.

Knowing oneself and knowing that the other side can win all battles, and only when the intelligence work is done well can one be able to face a more powerful enemy with a relatively weak force. Only then can we gain a firm foothold in this chaotic world and continue to forge ahead.

Seeing that he understood what he meant, Li Xin didn't say anything more, and the group got on their horses and continued to move east.

Along the way, Li Xin saw that many places were very desolate, and on the side of the road, there were many farmhouses and thatched huts that had collapsed, and it was obvious that there had been no people for a long time. On the endless fields, weeds have already grown, and at a glance, you can only see a piece of emerald green covering, but it is not the wheat wave that Li Xin wants to see the most!

When it was getting late, they were still more than fifty miles away from Xiayang County. Li Xin decided to spend the night in a deserted village on the side of the road, and was not in a hurry to rush to the county seat.

"What a bright star! In the future, you will not be able to see such a bright starry sky, and you will not be able to hear such insects and birds! After dinner, everyone basically began to rest, Li Xin couldn't sleep for a while, looked up at the starry sky, and sighed secretly in his heart.

"Look, what's that?" Just as Li Xin was sighing, he suddenly heard a low voice from the side.

"It looks like a firefly! You see, it's still moving! ”

"Have you ever seen a green or blue firefly? I see, it's a ghost fire! The man sounded a little scared, as if he had discovered something terrible.

"Ghost fire? No way! With so much fire, is it all ghost fire? His companion said with some disbelief.

"It's the ghost fires, you see, they're flying towards us. I've heard that if this fire falls on anyone, they will die! The man who spoke first was even more alarmed and said again and again.

The sound of the two of them talking woke everyone else up. When the soldiers got up, they were all stunned by the scene in front of them, and Li Xin was the same. I saw that in the grass of the plain in front of me, countless pale green points of light were slowly flying out, and these points of light were indeed flying towards me under the drive of the breeze.

These soldiers around them can be said to be experienced in a hundred battles, and they are not afraid of licking blood and killing the enemy to fight, but after seeing these ghost fires at this moment, they are all frightened. When Li Xin saw this scene, he couldn't help but shake his head.

"General, the ghost fire is flying towards us, let's leave quickly! If these ghost fires fall on our bodies, I'm afraid we won't be able to live! The soldier standing beside Li Xin said to Li Xin with a trembling voice at this time.

"What nonsense? It's not a ghost fire at all, what's there to be afraid of? We all fight bravely to kill the enemy on weekdays, and our hands are stained with blood, if there are really ghosts, wait until these ghost fires come to the door? I'm afraid that those enemies who died in our hands will turn into ghosts first! Seeing this, Li Xin couldn't help but reprimand.

These people don't know what this thing is, it's because of their limited knowledge, but Li Xin knows! It is said to be a ghost fire, but it is just a kind of fire formed by the phosphorus element in the bones that emerges after the corpse decomposes, and its low ignition point. Because this thing is driven by the wind, it will fly around, and the color is not the same, which naturally makes many people think that this is a bad omen.

"General, I've heard of such things as ghost fires, and they do look similar to these! If these aren't ghost fires, then what are they? Tu Qi ran over at this time, even if he was used to seeing life and death on weekdays, he couldn't help but feel a little numb at this time.

"It's called phosphorus fire, and it's something that appears in the bones of a person after he dies. Due to the high temperature, it will burn on its own, but there is no danger. They are different in color because each person's bones contain something different. In short, there's nothing to be afraid of! Li Xin said lightly.