"Very well, let me ask you, where are you thieves, and who is the thief capital?" He Yaozong asked.

"If you go back to the military master, the leader of the small ones is a Red Army friend." The red-clad thief replied.

"Red Army friends, once a thief under the command of the gods, but right?" He Yaozong asked.

"If you go back to the military master, it's exactly." The red-clothed thief replied.

"Speaking of which, we're still old acquaintances, can you follow your leader to besiege Jingbian Fort?" He Yaozong asked.

"This .....!"

The thieves first glanced at each other, and then shook their heads and said, "I have never been to Jingbian Fort." ”

"That place is where your Jingbian Fort army is stationed, and the little ones don't dare to go even if they eat the bear's heart and leopard's guts." A thief had a look of admiration written in his eyes, and said repeatedly.

"Hmph, even if you know each other, let me tell you, our Jingbian Fort Army has just killed Jiannu Zhenyi in Liaodong at the fifteen00 level, and it is the first brave general of the Jurchens, Mang Gurtai, who is also our defeated general, how about it, we are powerful, right?" He Yaozong felt that these thieves knew the prestige of Jingbian Fort, and he couldn't help but tell the greater achievements of the Jingbian Fort Army in pride.

He thought that if this pontible record was spoken, these thieves were only afraid of admiring the five-body throwing to the ground, but how did he know that these thieves were you looking at me, I was looking, obviously I didn't know what this Jiannu meant, so naturally I didn't know what it meant to kill so many Jiannu.

"Alas, I told them that these things are very good, how can the people of Shaanxi know how powerful Jiannu is."

He Yaozong saw that the thieves were stupid and stupid, and he didn't know why, he muttered a sentence in his heart self-deprecatingly, and then he continued to ask the thieves: "That's it, let me ask you, where are you stationed?" How many bosses are there? What is the strength of the troops? ”

"Back to the military master, we are stationed in Zhenyuan County and the Puhe River valley near its left, in addition to our family, there are Li Dusi, Du San'er, Yang Laochai, Hao Lin'an, Liu Liu, we don't know the specific number, but I heard the leaders say that we have a total of more than 50,000 people." The red-clad thief replied.

"How many can really fight?" He Yaozong asked.

"Each leader has an old battalion of soldiers and horses, and the number varies, but there are always seven or eight thousand people who can fight." The red-clad thief replied.

"Do you have enough food to eat?"

"It's not enough to eat, although we have opened the granaries of many large families, but there are many people, and it didn't take long to run out of food, so the leader sent us out to fetch food."

"Enough, I already know everything I want to know, come on, send them on their way." He Yaozong whistled at his subordinates, signaling his subordinates to kill the thieves.

"Master Jun, you see what you asked us, we answered truthfully, please do well, spare our lives."

When the red-clothed thief saw that he and the others had honestly told all the information but still wanted to be killed, he naturally quickly kowtowed like pounding garlic, burst into tears, and repeatedly begged for mercy.

However, this is useless, He Yaozong's expression remains unchanged, he has no intention of sparing the thieves, the soldiers of the Jingbian Fort Army will naturally not be soft, a few knives down, many screams, all the thieves will become dead immediately.

"Wu Chiren, you go back quickly, report the news from the mouth of the artesian thieves to the marshal, and I will take the brothers to Zhenyuan to investigate the deployment of the bandits." He Yaozong said to one of his subordinates.

"Yes, Master He." Wu Chiren got the order, so he flew on his horse and galloped away.

"Let's go, follow me to Zhenyuan to investigate the enemy's situation." As soon as He Yaozong's voice fell, he rode his horse and galloped in the direction of Zhenyuan.

******

Outside Zhenyuan City, on the top of a hill in the north, He Yaozong and his subordinates were dressed in white, prostrate in the snow, observing the situation of the thieves below the hillside.

"The thieves occupy the county seat, and the camps are widely spread along the line of the Puhe River valley, but the defense of the camps is loose, there are no open posts and secret posts, and the soldiers and homeless people are scattered, which greatly affects the combat effectiveness." He Yaozong was holding a clairvoyant mirror wrapped in cloth strips to check the enemy's situation, and said to the recorder beside him.

"He Ye, I've written it down, it seems that this guy is no different from the ones we met before, fighting a war is a half-ass, just this kind of goods, you don't need the main army to come out, you just need our Jingbian Fort army to get it done." The recorder was writing and drawing on the paper, and he hadn't forgotten to talk to He Yaozong.

"That's true, but our marshal said that Hong Zhishuai treats our Jingbianbao army as a henchman, and doesn't want us to suffer losses, so he deliberately asked us to act with the main army." He Yaozong's face was full of glory, and he said triumphantly to the recorder.

"Isn't that right, when Hong Zhishuai first became the governor of Yansui, how many things did our old man do, and it was normal for his old man to treat us as henchmen, don't you say?" The recorder said to He Yaozong with a smile on his face.

"That's natural, because other people look at our Jingbian Fort Army differently, but in the final analysis, it is our own strength that can have such a status. Alas, why don't you talk to me about this, have you recorded all the information I said? He Yaozong was intoxicated at first, and then quickly restrained his smile and asked the recorder solemnly.

"Master He, don't worry, it's all memorized." The recorder said.

"That's great!" He Yaozong nodded at first, and then said to the painter who could draw: "Guo Shengshou, have you drawn the topographic maps of the mountains and rivers here?" ”

"Back to He Ye's words, everything has been drawn. It's just that you have to wait for the ink to dry before you can encapsulate. The painter Guo Shengshou replied.

"It doesn't hurt to wait." He Yaozong first replied to the painter, and then he turned around and said to a subordinate who was still making a sand table out of clay: "What's the matter, how long will it take for the sand table to be ready?" ”

"He Ye, just give me another forty minutes." The soldier didn't stop in his hand, his eyes kept looking down the hillside, and he replied casually.

"It's okay, you take your time, you must get the information accurate, and then report it to the marshal." He Yaozong commanded.

"Got it, Master He." The soldier answered the words, and continued to work in his hands.

"You guys are busy first, come a few people, follow me around, if there is a thief's sentry, he will be slaughtered with a knife." After He Yaozong said this, he climbed backwards to the side of the hillside, and only after confirming that the enemy could not see him did he get up and vigilantly patrol the forest with a dozen of his men.

In fact, speaking of which, the thieves are a semi-amateur military organization after all, so the sentry detectives are not doing very well, He Yaozong took his subordinates all the way to the wild, and they were about to approach Zhenyuan, only to encounter a few rogue sentry spends, after he killed these rogue sentry spies, he took his men and horses, and came directly to the slope of the north of Zhenyuan County, and the enemy situation under the mountain was unobstructed.

It can be said that if He Yaozong had enough troops in his hands, he would even dare to attack the bottom of the mountain immediately, because the soldiers and civilians of the thieves were mixed, and once there was a change, they would not be able to form an effective resistance force at all.

But He Yaozong didn't do that, because it wasn't his job, he only needed to be responsible for gathering intelligence.

Now his subordinates are collecting intelligence, and he is vigilantly spreading with a few of his subordinates, and see if there will be thieves here, otherwise if it is exposed, it will not be difficult to get out, but there is no way to collect the information completely, and when he returns to the barracks, Liu Renyu is afraid that he will not be able to explain.

Besides, He Yaozong and his subordinates spread out in a fan shape, separated by a hundred meters from each other, forming a fan to protect the sand table makers who were still collecting intelligence on the top of the mountain.

This hillside is far away from the county seat of Zhenyuan, and thieves will never come here under normal circumstances, but He Yaozong still has to strengthen vigilance, because this is the basic requirement written in the "Jingbianbao Military Infantry Military Drill Code" and must be implemented.

Time passed minute by minute, and forty minutes later, the sand table maker restored all the situation in the Puhe River valley in Zhenyuan County to the sand table.

"This is the case, brothers, get on your horse and go back to the commander to get his life."

After He Yaozong said this, he led his men down the hillside, took the horses, and went straight to the central county where the army was stationed.