That's right, the one who caught up from the rear of the convoy on horseback from a distance was indeed Helton, who had been sent out by Lao Luo for a long time, this Bulgarian and Southern European mixture became even thinner, but his eyes were not as aggressive as when Lao Luo was first selected from the gladiator camp, but full of confidence and maturity, especially the neat beard on his chin and the smile on his face that always wore like a successful adventure businessman.

With him was Fromm's red-haired man, as well as the hunter-turned-Jin Qian and a few oriental faces.

Maybe it's because of the big gains, or maybe it's because they have finally returned after leaving the team for many days, and several people have excited and happy looks on their faces.

"I've seen the general!" Several guys who came to Lao Luo jumped off the horse, bent down and saluted, which was quite neat.

Lao Luo also returned a military salute and glanced at everyone, "You have worked hard, Helton stays, and the rest of us go back to meet their families and rest!" ”

"Whoa!" After the excited sound of promise, several tired and dusty creatures dispersed, including the red-haired Fromm, who rode away in the direction of the scout camp - where he had some of his best friends.

Helton, who was left behind, did not have an envious expression, for him, Lao Luo was his backbone, the parents and patriarchs were almost the same, and when he walked up to Lao Luo, this gladiator who had no hope in the past said with a smile on his face: "General, this battle is really majestic!" ”

Of course, Lao Luo understood that he was talking about the battle with the three departments that had just ended, and he was not humble, and asked directly: "What is the reaction of the people there in Luntai?" ”

The expression on Helton's face was wonderful, exclamation, admiration, joy and a little frustration were all displayed on it, "General, a few days ago, there were deserters who ran to Luntai City, which caused a lot of panic, and they were worried that our people would directly attack Luntai City, a few days before I set off, there were some timid and afraid people who were planning to follow the deserters to the east. ”

"Oh......" After being surprised, Lao Luo realized that he seemed to have overlooked something, "Won't the people in Luntai City all run away?" ”

"Of course not, Lord." Seeing the different expressions of his own generals for the first time, Helton wanted to laugh but didn't dare, "Luntai City is a very messy place, and there is no unified leader. When the deserters passed, everyone panicked, and the poor might be able to flee with nothing, while the merchants were reluctant to give up their money...... A few bold people also gathered people to integrate the order of Luntai City......"

Putting order in order? It's just trying to see if you can keep your own property, and maybe you can take the opportunity to grab other people's property and territory? Lao Luo guessed.

In a world without law, all order is dominated by force, and there may be some simple and traditional moral concepts, but how much utility can such an illusory thing as morality alone?

With Helton's words, Lao Luo thought of too many things and gave him some headaches. However, more information was needed on how to do it, and he said, "Go to my military tent and tell me what the situation is!" ”

"Yes, Lord!"

The convoy that had left Dou Mo continued to be busy, returning to Lao Luo's military tent, Lao Luo asked, Helton was in charge of telling, and Nuralman was in charge of recording, and this inquiry continued until sunset.

Pulling Helton to have dinner together, and driving this somewhat overwhelmed guy to rest, Lao Luo had time to summarize and analyze the general situation in the East. No one can replace him in this kind of affairs, at least in Lao Luo's eyes, no one around him can clearly grasp the overall situation.

Even Li Deming, the big leader of the party, is far from being the "key gentleman" of Western Xia in the eyes of Lao Luo, but just a new tender who has just inherited his father's status, maybe Li Deming laid the foundation for the establishment of Western Xia in the "previous history", but at the moment he is really immature.

The information that Li Deming was able to provide to Lao Luo was only about the Zhao Song and Northern Liao, and the Guiyi army and the Uighurs, and what he could talk about could only be general. Of course, it is also possible that the other party did not cooperate, so that Lao Luo's situation in the East is still stuck in the concept of "history books".

Helton is completely different, he is a pair of eyes sent out by Lao Luo.

For this era in the East, Helton is not fundamentally different from Lao Luo. Lao Luo is a traveler in different timelines, Helton is a stranger from the far west, the common point of the two is that they do not know enough about the East of this era, Lao Luo's concept comes from books, and Helton's impression comes from the dictation of others.

Therefore, every bit that Helton sees with his eyes is precious to Lao Luo.

Helton went to Luntai City as an ordinary merchant, so all he could touch and see was everything at the bottom. Coupled with the context of some of the general news that Li Deming said, after Lao Luo summarized all of them, he came to a conclusion with only two words - confusion.

There are few words that describe the current situation more accurately than these two words.

The Han Chinese, the Uighurs, the Tibetans, the Dangxiang, the Khitans, the Tunis, the Turks, and even some remnant nobles of the Qiang or Xianbei and many people who do not know their own lineage are entangled in this land, not to mention good and evil, not to mention any justice and evil, they plunder each other, and occasionally depend on each other, and no one can earn an absolute ruling position.

Even if someone is able to unite several large and small forces in a short period of time, at most they will not be able to support a short period of ten or decades, or even a few shorter years, and then fall apart.

Because of the afterglow of the Tang Dynasty in the past and the relationship between the population, the Dangxiang people are a relatively large group in this place, and similar to them is the Guiyi Army, a force that also belongs to the feudal town, and the two are very similar. With regard to the largest forces in the East, the Zhao Song Dynasty and the Northern Liao, their attitudes were almost the same, and in the words of this era, they listened to the tune but did not listen to the propaganda.

Zhao Song and Northern Liao contained each other in the east, and there was no spare strength to open up the vast area of Hexi, which was the foundation for the large and small forces in this region to be safe.

As for the fact that the Dangxiang people were able to sustain themselves and even establish an independent dynasty, the most basic reason was that they had the support of the population base of the Dangxiang people, and what other good generals were able to do just because of the people, and there was no population base, so what would the Dangxiang people use to fight against the Uighurs and Qarluqs in the west? What's more, there are barbarians who came down from the Tibetan Plateau.

After summarizing such a context, Lao Luo breathed a sigh of relief.

As a former military commander of special operations, he profoundly understands that the biggest taboo in doing a thing is that the situation is not clear. Without information to refer to, any plan can only stay on paper.

At the moment, this information, although still crude, allows him to handle things according to this line of thinking, rather than closing the door without a clue.

Of course, it is not impossible to leave nothing and go on a rampage, as in Central Asia.

But what are the consequences?

Destined to be full of enemies! And then this district of more than 100,000 people can still live in peace in the Hexi area?

Definitely not!

In Central Asia, Lao Luo chose the method of crossing the river dragon, like a passing bandit to get a handful of people and leave, and no one was helpless.

But when it comes to the Hexi Corridor or the Hetao area, it is not appropriate to do so again.

Lao Luo and these more than 100,000 people want to take root in the land and multiply, so that the land is full of enemies, and he is busy fighting wars every day, how can he win over human resources?

What's more, it is true that there are captures in the war, but there is also consumption, and once the consumption is large, it will definitely be difficult to maintain. That's when the hearts of people are lost and fall apart.

Therefore, in the long run, it is not enough to rely on the knife to speak.

Lao Luo didn't know much about governance, but the information explosion society in later generations gave him a lot of indirect experience, and even the United States, which was founded 200 years ago, understood the concept of governance with a big stick and Hu Luobu, and he didn't believe how difficult it would be to govern such a thing.

Besides, it is not that he has to manage Nuoda's territory right away - if he wants to rule, he still needs a time process that is approved by others, not to mention that there are more than 100,000 people as the foundation at the moment, Lao Luo does not believe that there will be anything to worry about, and it is impossible to use the model of military town to transition, and the rest of the matter is just the rebellion of Shunchang.

As for Zhao Song and Northern Liao, at least at this time, Lao Luo knew that it was useless to think too much.

According to the schedule, the rout of the party people should have passed Luntai, and they may have reached Yizhou (Hami) or even Guazhou (Jiuquan), and it is really difficult to say what the reaction of the party forces in the Hetao area will be, and even Li Deming cannot judge what kind of situation it will be.

The worst-case scenario is that the Dangxiang people will stand with the Song people and attack westward.

Lao Luo did not believe that the Song people would have such swift courage, nor did they believe that the party members would tie their fate to the Song people, even if they heard the news of the defeat of the leader in Polo.

As for whether there will be any variables? There is really nothing to worry about, there are a total of 140,000 people under his command, and there are more than 30,000 elite soldiers, at least before arriving in Lingzhou, Lao Luo does not believe that anyone dares to come and offend at will, and the tens of thousands of corpses buried in the underground soil on the banks of the Polo River are still not decomposing below.

Putting aside all the things that didn't need to be considered for the time being, Lao Luo decided to set off directly from the camp three days later.

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