16. The old good man is not old (middle)
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"Speaking of which, although the population loss of Shangjun is very serious, there are too many bandits, and even if it is so, it should be seen that you will rob it again, I really think that so many of us are waste or air, really. (To read the latest chapters of this book, please visit the Wèn Novel Network biquge.info)"
With the guidance of businessmen who are familiar with the road conditions, Li Shushi's southbound journey has become more reasonable. It's just that although the distance has become easier, the corresponding robbery has also increased. Maybe it was influenced by Zhao Qinglong and the Yellow Turban Army to break through the county, although the number of Li Shushi's group reached 800, and it seemed that it was also a black oppression, but there were still people who were not afraid of death to attack. Along the way, there have been many battles, and it can really be said that one person is killed in ten steps.
In fact, strictly speaking, it is not that the bandits are really stupid to that extent, the bandits are basically local people, and they are quite familiar with the local mountains and rivers, and the use of raids and harassment is a great threat to the general business and even the army.
It's just that their luck is not very good, and they just met Li Shushi and his party, and they immediately suffered a big loss.
Li Shushi's troops are real troops, and the commanders of this army are still a group of generals who have quite a lot of battlefield experience and have left the category of rookies, so the raids of the bandits are completely useless to Li Shushi's troops, who are very vigilant. And because the opponent's strength is not enough to pose much of a threat, Li Shushi's troops can even be effectively rotated to maintain their body.
As a result, the bandits could only adopt a hit-and-run approach, hoping to rely on fatigue tactics to drag down Li Shushi's team.
It's just that what these bandits didn't expect was that there were not many good people on Li Shushi's side who were good at tracking, whether it was the experienced Cao Xing and the scouts he guided who matured with the accumulation of experience, or Xu Chu, who aspired to become a righteous thief, or Dian Wei, who often needed to go into the mountains to avoid the limelight, and Dian Wei's peers, all of whom had a lot of research on tracking and anti-tracking technology.
Although some of these bandits may be able to evade the pursuit of Li Shushi's team, most of them are not so strong in technology, and finally become the experience value of the soldiers sent by Li Shushi, and this result also makes those who are lucky enough to escape immediately flee thousands of miles away and resolutely do not appear next to Li Shushi's wild wolf, lest they become the meal of Li Shushi's troops.
It's just that these bandits were either wiped out without a trace by Li Shushi, and they couldn't notify other bandits, plus Li Shushi, who later saw that there was a cheap thing to take advantage of, blocked the news, which resulted in the strange phenomenon of bandits from all walks of life rushing to Li Shushi's flesh and blood grinding plate like moths to fire.
Although this will have an impact on the marching speed of Li Shushi's troops, considering that they have already taken a lot of detours because of the caravan, it is better to use the time saved by taking shortcuts to train the troops, anyway, everyone feels that they have gained a lot.
Moreover, this series of battles also left a deep impression on Li Shushi and his subordinates in the hearts of the powerful young people in Shangjun, whether it was a strong army or a general like a god, or a decisive means of killing, these young people deeply realized the strength of the "army under the command of Dong Tingshi" in the old man's mouth.
Although they didn't say much, it could be seen from the increasingly awe-inspiring eyes they looked at Li Shushi and the other officers and soldiers. After all, the environment they live in is a place where the weak eat the strong, and if they don't have enough strength, then they can only be swallowed up by the powerful Hu people or the harsh environment, so they respect the role of force more than the Central Plains.
Of course, Li Shushi doesn't know how large Su Xiaololi's personal guard team will be, and he also doesn't know if Luo He's fan group will surpass Su Xiaololi's personal guard. It's just that in the face of powerful force, the faint sadness generated by those teenagers who have not yet left adolescence in the bright sun can only go with the wind.
It's just that, compared to those young teenagers, what surprised Li Shushi even more was the origin of the businessman who led the team.
The businessman's name is Ma Ji, the word public opinion, for a businessman has such a literary word, Li Shushi also felt very strange when he heard it at the first time, and even jokingly said that Ma Ji was born in such a scholarly family but ran the businessman, the lowest industry in the Han Dynasty, is there some sorry for the elders in the family who gave him this word.
For Li Shushi's joke, Ma Ji could only smile bitterly and introduced his story to Li Shushi.
In fact, the story is not too long, and it is not complicated. Ma Ji is actually a descendant of the Maoling Ma family, and the reason why he came to this place in Shangjun is because he is a descendant of the horse members of the Maoling Ma family in the Xinmang period, of course, it is just a branch clan.
At that time, the situation in the Central Plains was chaotic, so many children of the Ma family stayed in Shangjun, but with the passage of time, more and more children of the Ma family returned to Maoling, hoping to return to their ancestral hometown, and more importantly, relying on the prestige of the Maoling Ma family to seek a more promising future. It's just that the grandparents of the Markey family don't know why they have been staying in Shangjun, but in order to maintain the family expenses, many children have to engage in some lowly jobs, and at the same time concentrate family resources in favor of more promising younger children.
Although this result is a bit cruel, it is also helpless for families who are struggling to survive. However, Markey took these things lightly, because he felt that his qualifications were not outstanding, and it was not surprising that he could not be looked down upon by the elders of the clan, but his efforts were not in vain, at least his son had shown good talent, and it was very likely to become a key training object in the clan, which also gave him more motivation for his caravan career, for the future of his promising son.
It's just that northern Shaanxi can't get rid of the hat of poverty in the era of agriculture, although I don't know what Ma Ji and other members of the Ma family who stayed in Shangjun for, but it is undeniable that their lives are not rich.
Although Li Shushi admired a strong and intelligent man like Ma Ji, it was difficult for him to help, after all, although Shangjun did not lack rivers, because of the high annual evaporation, it was not easy to develop agriculture. There are not many specialties, although there are some good grasslands in the north and west of Shangjun, but there are also the spheres of influence of the Xianbei and Qiang people.
Even if Li Shushi can lead the two counties, he still needs to pass through the Huns' sphere of influence to trade and transport materials between each other, and Li Shushi has no practical way to deal with the Xiongnu royal court located in Meiji, northwest of the Xihe, after all, these people have considerable autonomy and have a feeling of a country within a country. Kill and can't kill, the other party has the absolute strategic initiative, and can enter the transportation arteries of Shangjun and Xihe at any time, unless the Huns become an agrarian nation, is it just possible now?
Not to mention that because Shangjun has been invaded by Xianbei, Xiongnu and Qiang people for many years, the imperial court has planned to give up here, anyway, because of the invasion of foreign races and had to move to Shangjun has been more than once, perhaps Liu Hong put Li Shushi in Xihe because the imperial court is really unable to take care of the barren land but the war has been raging for many years, but it is unwilling, so it decided to fight again.
Of course, Li Shushi would not say these analyses to Ma Kei, after all, he is just a scholar who travels to study now.
"You are also the villagers of Shangjun, and you don't want to be embarrassed by you, but you also know very well that the yellow turban thieves are very arrogant, and the Hun barbarians from the south are even more arrogant and unreasonable, even if you pass from me, you will have to face them, and you will not be so good at talking at that time."
Sure enough, as Ma Ji said, when Li Shushi and his party arrived in Diaoyin, they began to be closely "monitored" by the locals. Originally, the most convenient passage along the Luoshui River Valley to Feng Yijun was also blocked by the powerful coalition of Eagle Yin and Haoqiang.
However, perhaps it was because he saw that Li Shushi's group not only had a large number of people, but also that many of them were strong and powerful in Fushi County, and their strength was far superior to them, although they had received some military training, but their profession was still a militia of the people, so they were quite polite to Li Shushi and others, but they resolutely refused the request of Tongguò. In their opinion, a team of nearly 1,000 people can already have a decisive impact on the combined forces of the Feng and Le clans, which are staging a battle of fighting eyes in Qiyuan.
In fact, what Li Shushi didn't know was that Haoqiang, who had been a high slave, also sent a limited number of people to join in the fun, and Haoqiang, who carved yin, thought that they could be villagers in the same county, and everyone should be able to help each other, so he happily let him go. It's just that as soon as the other party arrived on the battlefield of Qiyuan, he was moved by Le's very light words and joined the team of Feng Yihao's strong coalition army.
In fact, it is also simple, but it is just an application of information asymmetry. Because the Qiang people entered Kou Sanfu, it was naturally impossible for the imperial court to give up this area, and although Shangjun was a little unwilling, it was much less important than Sanfu, so if the people of Shangjun who were in a semi-abandoned state could be moved to Sanfu to enrich Sanfu's household registration, then it would obviously be a good supplement for Sanfu to resist foreign invasion. And Le's, how to say it's also a local head snake, can naturally become a reliable bridge.
It is precisely because of this reason that the Eagle-Yin Haoqiang coalition army, which was originally very united, has signs of collapse and disintegration, not to mention the Haoqiang in other areas with more difficult conditions in the north? The Diaoyin coalition army was pressed by the Feng clan and did not dare to deviate, so these depressed heroes also decided not to let the heroes in other places get this advantage, which is why these people guarding the road are tough.
It's just that Li Shushi will be afraid of the other party? The troops standing behind him were not those militiamen who had not been transferred, but real soldiers who had not only changed their jobs but also experienced countless battles of all sizes, if it weren't for the other party's tone was quite polite, I am afraid that Li Shushi would have ordered the troops to directly level the small sentry post in front of him.
"The son on the other side is still angry, the old man has a mention here, I don't know if the son is interested?"
Just when Li Shushi didn't plan to waste time here and was about to give the order to forcibly rush through the level, a middle-aged man's voice came from the back of the checkpoint, making the order that Li Shushi was originally going to give temporarily take back.
p.s. collection of the uproar of the fall, tearful ......
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