Hearing Ding Daniu's question, Long Zi and Hillman were stunned for a moment, and then their faces showed thoughtful expressions, and they groaned for a while, Long Zi and Hillman exchanged glances, and then replied cautiously: "In the past ten days, the rebel army seems to have suddenly given up military operations, and our Tanma has not found their traces for several days. ”

"But today, seeing that the general's team doesn't seem to have gone through any battles, I feel a little strange, could it be that the chaotic army in the west of Meishan has also disappeared? Listening to the general's question at this time, I think maybe the general hasn't found any traces of the enemy after entering Meishan, right? ”

Ding Daniu didn't want to hide it, and nodded, "Yes, the commander of Shangguan Yonglun's division and I searched the entire western part of Meishan and found that these chaotic troops had retreated ten days ago. So I wonder if this phenomenon is also happening in your area? ”

Long Zi smiled bitterly, "It should be, the activities of the rebel army have been greatly reduced about ten days ago, but it did not attract our attention at the time, and later our scouting horse found that the rebel army was making a military transfer, it seems to be moving to the north, our strength is too weak, it is quite difficult to protect ourselves, not enough to entangle the enemy, and it has not attracted attention......

Ding Da Niu shook his hand, "Mr. Long doesn't have to worry too much, I don't mean to blame Mr. Long and the volunteers, it is the responsibility of the imperial army to quell the rebellion and suppress bandits." Although we are the garrison of Tokugawa Prefecture, the current castle guard of Tokugawa Prefecture, Lord Qin Du, has been appointed by the Imperial Central Committee as the military and political envoy of the Northwest of the Empire, commanding the military and political affairs of the six prefectures in the Northwest and the Qiē of the Northwest, and has been ordered by the Emperor to quell the rebellion in the Northwest. ”

"We are all cultivated by Lord Qin, which is equivalent to the direct troops of Lord Qin, and Meishan County is also the territory of Lord Qin, quelling the rebellion. It is our duty to restore the normal order of local production and life and ensure the safety of the lives and property of the people in the region. ”

"Lord Qin has been concerned about the chaos in Meishan and Longdong counties for a long time, and he is deeply sympathetic to the suffering of the people in the two counties, but because of the wrong name, his words are not good. It was inconvenient to intervene until the imperial court issued an order to counter-insurgency. As for Mr. Long and Mr. Hillman's ability to lead the rebels to shed blood and sweat to protect the peace of the place, I only have respect and admiration, and I have no other thoughts. ”

Ding Daniu's words were not only Long Zi and Hillman, but even Ji Gaoming, the town guard of Shilipu, and Chu Juezhi, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, who were sitting on the side, were also deeply moved.

When they heard that Qin Duan had been appointed by the empire as the military and political envoy of the Northwest and was in charge of the six counties in the northwest, they were even more surprised and delighted.

Qin Du's reputation among the people in the northwest region had even overshadowed that of the Great Qin Emperor, and he not only had outstanding military achievements. Twice defeated the Huns who were rampant in the northwest, captured a large number of Huns, forced the invincible Huns to sign an alliance under the city, and swept away the bandit forces that had been entrenched in the northwest for a long time with lightning speed, completely eliminating the bandits who were harming the party.

He also lightly reduced taxes and fees, built water conservancy, and attached importance to infrastructure construction. Resolve ethnic contradictions and vigorously develop the local economy. In just two or three years, the economy and population of Tokugawa Prefecture under his jurisdiction have grown explosively rapidly, and the economy of the Northwest Prefecture has also returned to full vitality. Some elderly people even spontaneously asked to build a shrine for him. Tribute incense, of course, this was resolutely stopped by Qin Duan.

These situations were well known to the lower-class people and merchants in the surrounding prefectures and counties, and while they were envious, they also longed for themselves to be such a parent official. Now that they learned that Qin Duan had officially assumed the post of Northwest Military and Political Envoy, how could they not be overjoyed.

Several people hurriedly asked Qin Duan about the details of his appointment as the military and political envoy of the Northwest. Ding Daniu saw that several people were so interested in this matter, so he explained the details of this matter one by one.

After a long time, the discussion on Qin Duan's appointment came to an end, and Ding Daniu asked about the situation of the rebellious army, "In your opinion, Mr. Long, since the original rebellious army operating in the south of Meishan has moved to the north, and it has begun to move before our government army has set off, what is the reason for it, and where will it be transferred?" ”

Seeing that Ding Daniu attached great importance to his opinion, Long himself was also very pleased, and he racked his brains and thought for a long time before he said his thoughts: "According to what the adults said, I suspect that the rebel army must have received the news that the government army will march in advance before it was transferred, and there must be someone threading the needle in the middle, otherwise how could the chaotic army, which was originally not united, move so unanimously all at once?" As for the fact that they all moved to the north, especially to the northeast, there must be a reason for this, and I dare not make a presumptuous assertion until there is evidence to confirm it. ”

Long's own inference was not much different from the original views of Shangguan Yonglun and Ding Daniu, but now the situation has changed somewhat, and almost all the rebellious troops have moved to the northeast.

Ding Da Niu nodded knowingly, he could understand Long Zi's thoughts, after all, the status of the people involved was very different, and Long Zi himself was just a small volunteer leader who had not yet been recognized by the government, to put it bluntly, he was a civilian, of course, it was impossible to draw conclusions. However, the meaning of his words, Ding Daniu has already understood, and it is also consistent with his own thoughts.

In the evening, at the strong request of the local officials and squires of Shilipu, Ding Daniu and Deng Dashan participated in a dinner specially prepared for them.

Just when Ding Daniu and Deng Dashan had dinner with the local officials and squires of Shilipu, Shangguan Yonglun, who was in the north of Meishan, also fell into deep doubts.

"My lord, we have interrogated all the captives, and they are almost all minor characters who don't know any valuable information, but there is one small leader who reflects some slightly valuable information."

Mica also saw Shangguan Yonglun sitting in front of the desk, staring at the map above, without raising his head, as if a statue was placed there.

Slowly raising his eyes, Shangguan Yonglun's heart was still full of doubts, "What's the situation?" ”

He reported that more than half a month ago, when he led his brothers on a guard mission, he saw many strangers coming and going frequently and coming into contact with the leaders of their rebellious army, but his status was too low to know the content of the contact talks, nor did he know where these people came from or who they were. However, he reflected that it seemed that these people looked like they were people in the imperial government. ”

Nodding silently, Shangguan Yonglun stood up, put his hands behind his back, and walked around the room a few times, and then said: "This is not my surprise, the chaotic army has moved to the northeast, there must be a certain purpose, the northeast of Meishan only borders Lishan County, where a horse is flat, you can easily enter Lishan County, but Lishan County has 100,000 elite troops, this qiē connection, people can't believe it!" ”

Shangguan Yonglun sighed softly, and the corners of his mouth hooked up a sneer, "I originally thought that the rebel army might be in collusion with foreign enemies such as the Kaman and Siathrow, but according to the information we have so far, the situation is much more complicated than I expected earlier." ”

Mi Da also listened to the analysis of the head of Shangguan Yonglun's division, and was also very shocked in his heart, the black hand behind the scenes is about to come out, but what about the black hand? Mica only felt that the cold sweat on his back was slowly soaking through his underwear, making him dare not think about it further. As a soldier, he just wants to lead the team to charge into battle, kill the enemy and serve the country, once this involves political struggle, it is often not so simple, I can't tell when someone was stabbed in the back, and I don't know why when he died.

"Is there any news from the south?" Shangguan Yonglun didn't want the dark political struggle to disturb everyone's minds, so he staggered the topic.

"Not yet, and the county guard hasn't heard from him yet, so he should be here. Division commander, what should we do now? ”

"There are no more bandits in this area, I judge that the rebel army is now concentrated at the junction with Taixuan Mansion, we still follow the original plan, first go south to Fucheng to meet with the First Garrison Division, wait for the control of Fucheng, and then go north. The reconnaissance unit was ordered to intensify its search to the northeast, and to continue to communicate with our internal line in the rebel army until contact was made. Shangguan Yonglun's voice was not emotional.

……

Li Xiangjun saw that Qin Duan only wrote a short two words "self-break" with a brush on a piece of paper, and Liang Qiming and Li Xiangjun, who had just walked in, were taken aback, "Self-break? Who do you want to cut yourself off? ”

I saw that they were surprised and inexplicable, and they were also a little inexplicable, "This is my reply to Liu Xiaoshan and Shangguan Yonglun, what's wrong?" ”

"Self-judgment, self-judgment, I thought who made a mistake and you let him judge himself." Only then did Li Xiangjun understand the meaning of the two words, "What, is there any accident ahead?" ”

"Well, there are some problems, some deviations from the original estimate, I let them make their own decisions, don't report everything, so as not to delay the fighter. What's the matter, Li Xiangjun, what good things do you have today, seeing that you are happy, you have an affair, right? ”

Shaking his head, Li Xiangjun replied in a very calm tone: "The news that you have been appointed as the military and political envoy of the northwest county of the empire has spread throughout the country, and all the forces around the empire have also known about this appointment, and now many people are plotting against you, and some people want your support, we have received some information." ”

While putting the envelope on the envelope and ordering someone to send it to the front line quickly, Qin Duan motioned for the two to sit down and talk slowly, and the next person also sent two cups of steaming Longjing tea.

"Do you want to hear good news or bad information first?" Yuzhu greedily took a large sip of Longjing tea, and then sat down and asked Qin Dui.

"Well, let's hear the good news first."

Qin Duan also picked up the teapot on the case, this Longjing tea, produced in the south of the Yangtze River, has an excellent texture, exquisite craftsmanship, and is produced by a famous artist, it is a rare treasure in the tea set, Qin Duan also got some from Wei Zhongxian. (To be continued......)