Dou Tong frowned and pondered, combing it carefully, and finally understood the ins and outs of the whole incident, as well as the measures taken by Li Yanzhi and the deep meaning contained in it. Just when he was secretly complacent about his achievement, Li Yanzhi slowly patted him on the shoulder, and then pointed to the Wolves and Qiang people who were brought back by Lei Rong's subordinates one after another, and said to Dou Dao: "Do a full set of dramas, you might as well be in the camp tonight and feast these Qiang soldiers." The venue was placed near the left side of the point, so that the Hun captives who were dragged half to death could see through. ”

Dou Tong said yes, and then returned to the camp with Li Yanzhi. The cavalry of the various units that participated in the encirclement and suppression also sent squads to search for the escaped captives everywhere with this as the center. The rest returned to the camp one after another.

Li Yanzhi quietly followed Lei Rong, who was escorting Wolf Qiang. At this time, it is not so much that those people who participate in the wolf and qiang are escorted, but that they are treated as if they were guests. Apart from the confiscation of weapons, there is nothing on them that restricts their movements. And thinking of the long distance, Li Yanzhi also instructed Lei Rong to let them ride back to the camp.

Although Liang Tai made it clear that he and his subordinates were only willing to cross the river and return to the tribe as soon as possible, when Lei Rong said that the wealth and other things were in the camp, and let them enter the camp to immediately fulfill the goods they had promised, Liang Tai could not resist the pleas of his subordinates, and finally agreed to follow Lei Rong to the camp general for a night's rest.

"What's the matter?" Li Yanzhi approached Lei Rong and asked quietly. He ordered Lei Rong to receive this captive, just because he wanted to use Lei Rong to make Liang Tai feel close. And then try to ask some useful information from Liang Tai.

"Liang Tai said to me that there are three teams of captives who came to the state this time. They're the biggest team of all. There are more than 800 people in total. The other two teams, each of 600 men, set out at the same time as them, but they had already penetrated into the state border. As for where they went, Liang Taiyan didn't know. ”

"He doesn't know who sent them?" When Li Yanzhi heard this, he immediately felt that the situation had become serious. Previously, this group of people and horses was scattered in the county, and their frequent activities had made him feel a headache, if there were still two more branches, let alone a small Lingju County, that is, Guangwu County, I am afraid that they would also be turned upside down.

"Liang Taidao, it was Zhao Nanyang Wang Yin who summoned 1,000 cavalry under his command, and recruited 200 tribal warriors from the left near Wolf Qiang, Huang Qiqiang, Luoyang Di, Linwei Di, and Qingshui Di. Break it up and reorganize it with the Hun cavalry of the headquarters to form three cavalry teams. Immediately, they crossed the big river from Jinchengdu and Jishidu respectively, and went deep into the territory of our state. ”

"It's Liu Yin'er again!" When Li Yanzhi heard this, he suddenly felt angry. The scene of the bloody battle between Lingju and Liu Yin led by Liu Yin last year is still vivid. This time, sending cavalry deep into the state border to wreak havoc turned out to be the idea of this guy again.

"Long history, Liu Yin'an endures ferocity, does a lot of evil, and sooner or later he will die himself!" When Lei Rong mentioned the name Liu Yin, he was obviously angry. In Li Yanzhi's conversation with him, he obviously felt Lei Rong gritting his teeth. When Liu Yin's name was mentioned, there was a hideous sound of grinding teeth.

Li Yanzhi smiled slightly, then patted Lei Rong and said, "Don't mind." Liu Yin is not only the clan of Liu Zhao, but for Longxi Diqiang, it is to restrain and prevent and use. Although we have the intention to force it to perish, we still have to obey the orders of heaven. At this time, it is really not appropriate to raise troops to advance. If that time comes, I will return with you. Don't say that Liu Yin is his father Liu Yao, and he will also perish one day! ”

"But for now, I have to endure for a while. Later, there will be a banquet in the camp, and you will have to greet these Wolf Qiang subordinates more. After all, Diqiang has the same origin, and there are more topics between you. I'll sit at the table and be a spectator. ”

"Changshi wants those Hun captives to see this scene, and then act as a countervail, so that Liu Yin will be on guard against the Qiang tribes, and then let the Qiang tribes centrifuge them?" Lei Rong frowned and asked, but Li Yanzhi coughed loudly.

"General Lei Bairen, together with the art of war, you can be called self-taught." Li Yanzhi didn't know that he had been triumphantly designing for a long time, and even Dou Tong, a subordinate who had been following him since the beginning of the Guangwu Army, didn't see it, this general from a foreign race, was actually broken at a glance.

"It's Changshi who underestimated our Qiang tribe." Lei Rong sighed and said leisurely: "I have lived in the Longxi area since the time of our ancestors, and the Han people moved in a large number of people in the first Han Dynasty, and lived together with us. The "Sun Tzu", which is regarded as a sacred book for soldiers by the Han people, has also been involved in it since I was a child. ”

Lei Rong's explanation slightly dispelled the doubts in Li Yanzhi's heart. Then, Lei Rong sighed again and said, "Changshi is so planned, I think it will be a long time in the future, and the days of Longxi Diqiang will not be easy......

Li Yanzhi had expected that Lei Rong would still have some old feelings for his homeland and people. He nodded: "Of course I know." It's just that if things are going on for a long time. Where is the Pure Land? Even if Liu Yin doesn't take advantage of the precautions now, is it impossible to do it? Doctors often say that severe cases require strong medicine. Today, it has been a long time, and only swords and soldiers can restore some clarity to the world. ”

After that, Li Yanzhi pointed at Lei Rong again and said: "If these Qiang tribes can be like Lei Bairen's subordinates, wake up as soon as possible, and come to the north to be cool, how can they be humiliated by Liu Yin'er?" Those tribes can't let go of the countryside, so they can only be firmly bound in Longxi, day after day, year after year. ”

Lei Rong sighed: "What Changshi said, it's not that I don't know it, it's just that it's hard to accept it because of love." He looked up at the sky, and then looked back at Li Yanzhi with an inexplicable loss on his face, and said, "What Changshi said before, I don't know when it will become a reality......

Li Yanzhi was also silent for a while when he heard this, and then stretched out his hand and patted Lei Rong's somewhat cold shoulder armor: "Xu is one year, Xu is ten years." However, people do not give up, or one day, they can return to their homeland, and the world is safe. ”

The two chatted with each other all the way, and after about an hour, they returned to the outside of the camp. Some soldiers had already taken the lead and returned to the camp to convey Li Yanjiong's order, and the Huotou soldiers immediately got busy and began to prepare the food and drink for the evening banquet.

When Li Yanzhi returned to the house, he immediately pulled over a stack of papers, and wrote a letter in a fluttering manner, which was to inform the county guards of the enemy situation to the county commanders of various counties, saying that there were still two captives and horsemen who were going deep into the state border and attempting to wreak havoc and destroy, and asked the county guards and county commanders to be prepared to deal with it.

Because of the importance of the stakes and the many involved, let alone the fact that this news leaked and caused a large-scale panic among the subjects, Li Yanzhi did not summon the scribes to come and copy. While he worked hard to write the book himself, he considered whether it would be more convenient to go to Xin Yan to typeset and print this letter now, or it would be more convenient to copy it a few more times by himself. After thinking about it, he decided to copy it himself. After all, now that he went to find Xin Yan and started typesetting and printing, the effort may be greater than how many copies he copied.

Since the contents of the letters were the same, Li Yanzhi first wrote the letter and signed the letter, then took a stack of envelopes, wrote the name of the recipient and arranged them. Then take the letter that has been written before, fill it on the letterhead according to the name of the recipient on the envelope, and then write a letterhead, then seal it in the matching envelope, and write another letter...... If it was a reciprocating matter, it took about an hour to write this stack of letters, seal them separately, drip fire paint, and stamp the official seal, and then go to Tao Heng's camp and ask him to send his cavalry to the prefectures and counties.

As for Xiping, Jinxing and other counties in the Huangshui Basin, he also sealed the letter and sent it to the cavalry. After all, when he was still in the Guangwu Army as Bi Ma Wen, he led the army with Ma Ping to fight in Huangshui. Although it is difficult to travel through this mountain range that separates Guangwu and Xiping, it can still be passed. In addition, Xiping and Jinxing are relatively wealthy, so it is inevitable that people will not covet them.

When he left the cavalry camp and wanted to return, he saw that the table was open in front of the general. Nearly 200 members of the Wolf Qiang tribe were already seated in it. Lei Rong was patrolling among them, greeting everyone in fluent Hu warmly. And the Qiang cavalry soldiers under Lei Rong became the waiters who poured food and wine in the middle of the banquet. Li Yanzhi glanced at him, but saw that although these horsemen were holding wine and dishes, they still had bows and knives hanging from their waists. Obviously, Lei Rong was also quite wary of these descendants.

Lei Rong saw Li Yanzhi walking by, so he ran over to greet him and pulled him to sit in the banquet. Li Yanzhi pretended that he couldn't resist Lei Rong, so he went to sit on the vacant seat in the banquet. Immediately, these rough men in the army poured wine one after another, and then bumped into each other in the air. Li Yanzhi stood up, looked around at the surrounding Wolf Qiang tribes, held up the wine bowl and said: "This time, all the righteous men helped us kill the thieves, and Li Mou is the head of this place, so he should pay a bowl of respect to all the righteous soldiers!" ”

"!" Li Yanzhi raised the wine bowl upward, and then brought it to his mouth, but in just a few breaths, the wine in the coarse porcelain bowl had been drunk. He stretched out the bowl upside down and showed it in front of everyone. Seeing that Li Yanzhi was so bold, these wolves and Qiang people also raised their bowls and did it during the banquet.

At the gate of the camp, Dou Tong's department, which finally returned to the camp after a long journey, witnessed the somewhat abrupt banquet in front of the general stage. And the Hun captives lying on stretchers also had a full view of all this.

Li Yanzhi looked at the Dou Tong department where the layman entered the camp, and an imperceptible smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Dou Tong urged his subordinates to quickly carry the Hun prisoners on stretchers to the outside of the camp, and immediately called the camp medical officer to treat them.

After three rounds of drinking, the cavalry who had gone out to search for the fleeing enemy also returned to the camp one after another. Cao Jiansuo led his troops to capture several enemy horsemen and escorted them to the camp from Yuanmen. The rest of the teams that returned to the camp one after another also carried several enemy prisoners.

During the banquet, the Wolf and Qiang tribes were staggered, and the banquet was in full swing, and they didn't seem to be aware that this banquet was deliberately designed by Li Yanzhi. Lei Rong and Liang Tai sat together, perhaps because they were both Qiang tribesmen, and the two of them cherished each other and were extremely enthusiastic.

Li Yanzhi drank for a while, got up and walked to Lei Rong's place, and said that he was not strong enough to drink, so he returned to his house. After entering the house, the guards on duty went to invite Cao Jian, Tao Heng and other horsemen to come. After a while, several riders entered the house one after another. Li Yanzhi raised his head and looked around at everyone, and said softly: "Fang Cai Lei Bairen will talk to Qiang Liangtai, and I learned that there are still two Hu cavalry who have entered the state this time, and each of them may have six hundred cavalry. I have just sent a letter to the magistrates of the counties, asking them to take precautions. ”

When everyone heard this, their colors suddenly changed. This army was easily defeated by them, and it had already brought irreparable losses to the county before. And now two more have popped up, who knows where they are going and how much damage they will bring to the state!

"In the past few days, the generals have been wandering around and scouting, and today they have been fighting bloodily for half a day, and they are indeed tired. The generals ordered their subordinates to rest for one night, and tomorrow morning, they will go out to the camp again! ”

Li Yanzhi untied the saber from his waist and put it heavily on the cases in front of him: "Be sure to find out where the other two captives are going!" After finding out, he flew to report to the local county magistrate and returned to the camp to report. ”

Li Yanzhi looked around at everyone: "This time, we will definitely want these miscellaneous pieces, and there will be no return!" ”

Everyone clasped their fists and bowed: "Obey the order of Changshi." I'll go out of camp tomorrow and ride out. If you don't catch all the thieves, you will not return to the camp! ”

Li Yanzhi shook his head: "Since the thieves are no longer active in our county, you should keep your subordinates first." If you encounter a captive ride, you can beat it a little, and if you can't beat it, you can run, anyway, I have one person and two horses, and it is expected that most of the captives and thieves will not be able to catch up! ”

Li Yanzhi's order to preserve his strength made the generals in the room slightly stunned, but also made them feel a sense of warmth. Especially today, our own cavalry has been fighting with this group of thieves for most of the day, and there are many casualties. For the still strong combat effectiveness of the captive cavalry, the cavalry generals also have a deep sense of powerlessness.

And when the generals went out of the house, they returned to their camps. And the feast of the generals in front of the stage is still continuing. Li Yanzhi ordered the guards outside the house to summon Wei Xu, and then ordered him to lead his troops to the wall, and strictly prevent the people of the Wolf and Qiang tribes from taking the opportunity to cause chaos tonight.

Fortunately, there was no incident overnight. The next morning, as soon as Li Yanzhifu left the house, he heard the sound of horses' hooves as the cavalry of each battalion assembled out of the camp. He climbed the watchtower on the inside of the gate and looked out, only to see the subordinates of the cavalry battalion marching in a group of four under the leadership of their respective generals, and drove out of the city at intervals in teams.

There was a neighing of war horses in the stables of the camp, and yesterday not only defeated the captive horsemen, but also captured nearly 200 war horses. Now one of those horses has been brought to the inner city stables, and the other part has been assigned to the outer city stables, which are received by Lei Rong's department.

After the cavalry of the various divisions came out of the camp one after another, they assembled a little five miles outside the city. Cao Jian and Tao Heng made a general arrangement for the whereabouts of each department. Cao Jian led a team of 100 people to patrol and spy on the counties in the county, while Tao Heng led his troops to the north to look for traces of enemy cavalry that might be wandering here. The two sides agreed to send each other's sentry horses to report their respective conditions at dusk every day. And the command of this cavalry was temporarily owned by Cao Jian according to his military position.

After the discussion, each left a contact code to prevent the enemy horse from pretending, and then the two sides went in different directions. Tao Heng led his troops to the north along the road, while Cao Jian led the crowd to the west, wanting to first inspect the two counties of Yongdeng and Zhiyang, which were far away from the county seat.

Tao Heng led his troops to dusk and had arrived under the rule of Wuwei County. The cavalry of the department walked through the valley, and the hundred people Dou Tong entered Tao Heng's side, hugged his fists and said: "Tao Bairen general, I don't know where I am camping today?" ”

When Tao Heng heard this, he took out the map in his arms and looked at it carefully, then frowned and pondered: "A few miles north of here, there should be a township, I might as well go to the left and then choose a place to rest." After saying that, Tao Heng turned to Dou Tong and asked, "Have you ever sent the sentry to contact Cao Du?" ”

"Assigned." Dou Tong replied respectfully. Then the two led the crowd all the way, and soon after, over a low hill, the township that Tao Heng mentioned had been shown in front of everyone.

The burning dwellings, looming in the afterglow of the setting sun, and the corpses that fell in the four fields instantly pierced everyone's eyes!