Not every horse thief has its own separate station, such as some small horse thieves, they just have their own residence in Acre City, because it is safer and more convenient for them to be here, and their number is only a dozen, or even twenty or thirty people, so whether it is their family members or other personnel, there are not many people.

And the things they loot need to be sold quickly, and their daily necessities also need to be purchased, so they all choose to have their own station in Ake City.

When these horse thieves are dispatched, they are often almost all dispatched, and there are not many people left in the station, that is, a few people.

The location of Ake City is not far from Huo Gang's position at the moment, if you use the topography of later generations, Yangguan is located in a small mountain range attached to the Qilian Mountains, out of Yangguan to the south is the Qilian Mountains, and then the Qilian Mountains all the way to the west is the Altyn Mountains.

The Altyn Mountains are also a branch of the Kunlun Mountains, and the Kunlun Mountains are the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the bottom of the Tarim Basin, that is, the dividing line of Xinjiang in later generations.

Therefore, the reason why Yangguan is so important in this era is because there are Qilian Mountains in the south and Yumen Pass in the north, and Yumen Pass is a subsidiary mountain range of the Tianshan Mountains in the north.

In other words, if the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty is still there between Yumen Pass and Yangguan, then if the people of the Western Regions want to invade, they can only cross the Qilian Mountains or the Tianshan Mountains, which is extremely difficult in this era.

For example, Hami and Urumqi in later generations are all north of the Tianshan Mountains, and in this era, the reason why Yumen Pass and Suoyang City of the Tang Dynasty were placed north of Dunhuang County is because it is the northern route of the Silk Road that took the line of Hami in later generations.

The southern route is along the edge of the Tarim Basin, which is very dangerous because it is the Taklamakan Desert in the middle.

And the Black Mountain thieves' station Black Mountain is located in the Qilian Mountain Affiliated Mountains to the southwest of Yangguan, this mountain range is not high, but because it is a plateau itself, it is not so easy to cross.

This mountain range and the Qilian Mountains on the south side run parallel to the west, and there is a ditch about 50 li between the two, of course, from the height of the ravine, this is a gully sandwiched between the two mountain ranges, but in fact it is more than 50 li wide, which is no longer a ditch.

In later generations, a provincial road passed through it.

And Ake City is actually about 40 miles west of Montenegro, because this mountain range attached to the Qilian Mountains is not high, but it also blocks part of the water vapor of the Qilian Mountains, so the foot of this mountain range has relatively more precipitation, and there are sparse grasslands at the foot of this mountain, rather than the pure Gobi Desert.

For example, the station of the black mountain thieves is located in the ravine at the foot of the black mountain, one of the peaks in this mountain range, this ravine crosses this mountain range, but it is not fully connected, there is a stream in the ravine, and there is a humid environment formed by the melting of snow water on the top of the mountain in summer, so the water and grass in the ravine are still lush, and some land can even grow crops.

Ake City is also located in such a location, there is also a ravine next to Ake City, the difference is that Ake City is not in the ravine, but on the south side of the mountain range, and the north is built by the mountain range, and the environment near it is also good, not a complete Gobi Desert, there is a water source.

At this moment, Huo Gang and the others were repairing less than 10 miles away from Ake City, mainly to replenish the water and forage for the war horses under their crotch.

However, Huo Gang and Gongsun Lin and Huo Zheng had already observed it a few miles away from Ake City along the mountainside.

Although it is said to be a city, it is actually not even as large as a small town in later generations, and most of the houses are made of stones, and there are no walls here. After all, Ake City does not have a nominal government affiliation, so there is no city lord or anything like that.

Speaking of a city, it is more like a gathering point of all kinds of outcasts, robbers, bandits, horse thieves, merchants, etc.

It's just that because of the particularity of this place, countless people flow here, because even caravans that take the Silk Road basically pass through here.

Of course, most caravans will never rest in the city unless necessary, and even if they buy something, they will send someone to buy it, and then leave quickly.

After reading the layout of the entire Ake City, Huo Gang had already memorized all its terrain with the early warning function of the Spirit of the Jade Gate.

This has to talk about the early warning function of the spirit of the jade gate, whenever an enemy enters Huo Gang's territory, the early warning of the spirit of the jade gate will be reminded immediately, but this requires a large number of enemies, one or two enemies are not good, and it cannot be said that it is completely impossible, to be precise, if the number of enemies is small, Huo Gang must approach a certain distance.

And leaving Huo Gang's territory, the warning of the spirit of the Jade Gate is only a radius of 5 kilometers, Huo Gang didn't understand it before, but he understands it now, after he leaves the territory, a complete virtual three-dimensional terrain map with him as the center and a radius of five kilometers will appear in his mind, and the terrain on it can be described in great detail.

Therefore, at this moment, the entire Ake City is displayed in Huo Gang's Jade Gate Spirit, and I don't know if it is because these horse thieves took the lead in attacking Huo Gang, at this moment in the Jade Gate Spirit, in Ake City, a few red dots are unusually conspicuous.

"Let's go, go back." After Huo Gang glanced at it a few times, he directly turned the horse's head and returned to the place where they had gathered.

Huo Gang's correction place is just right to make Ake City within Huo Gang's early warning range, back to the gathering place, Huo Gang directly found a sheepskin, and then took out something and quickly sketched it on the sheepskin, and soon according to the appearance in his mind, the layout of Ake City appeared on the sheepskin.

Huo Gang did this in front of Wang Scar, and when Huo Gang drew the entire Ake City, the shock on Wang Scar's face couldn't be hidden...... Could it be that General Huo could remember the layout of the entire city just by looking at it from such a distance? This......

It's just that before he was shocked, he saw Huo Gang directly draw a few circles on the map of the sheepskin with a pen and said, "Are those horse thieves' stations here?" ”

Wang Scar is stupid, this is ...... How is this possible?! Drawing the city of Acre he can understand, but ...... But how is it possible to even know where those horse thieves are stationed? Because the map drawn by Huo Gang is too similar! Therefore, Wang Scar could immediately determine that these locations were really the stations of those horse thieves in Ake City.

This...... Wang Scar's eyes were wrong when he looked at Huo Gang, he couldn't imagine how Huo Gang knew...... It's hard to .......