Liu Bian's reputation has recently been particularly terrifying in Sanfu and Henan Yin.

The emperor personally went out on patrol, like an autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves, sweeping away all the bandits in the place he passed.

This has caused countless people to start not being able to eat during the day and sleep at night.

The bandits entrenched in Hongnong County have even begun a large-scale move.

Liu Wei wanted to wait for the people sent by Xun Yu to take over the baggage and settle Tuntian.

He also had to settle the people in the land he passed through and give them food, so he walked very slowly.

Those bandits who are not very well-informed also know a general idea from word of mouth.

Under such a high-pressure situation in the imperial court, they didn't panic.

Jing Zhaoyin and Hongnong have countless lessons in front of them, and even the most iron-clad thieves have to weigh whether they have the ability to fight the emperor's personal guards.

Heavy snow has once again sealed the mountain.

At the foot of an almost isolated mountain, a somewhat sloppy military village was built on the tidal flats near the river.

Liu Dan, who had two small beards on his mouth, said to his eldest brother worriedly: "Big brother, eight more brothers died today, and if this continues, before the emperor comes, our people will die first." ”

Liu Fan, who was tall and heroic, stood at the gate of the camp and looked at the white mountains not far away in a daze.

"I made a bad decision!" Liu Fanha let out a breath of white heat, then put his hands on his face and rubbed them twice, then turned around and sat down by the brazier.

Liu Dan, who was eager to throw his whole person into the brazier, handed the wine that had already been warmed to Liu Fan, and said: "Brother, now is not the time to say right and wrong, since we have decided to do so, there is no turning back." ”

Liu Fan, whose face was full of sorrow, drank the wine in the cup in one go, and said with his right hand holding the wine bottle, "Chai Bo came out of the mountain and brought back some not very good news, and the eunuchs brought by the emperor seem to be quite capable of fighting." ”

"Chai Bo is back?" Liu Dan suddenly looked surprised, "Did you get grain and grass?" ”

Liu Fan nodded, "I got some, but the heavy snow blocked the mountain and couldn't transport it in, so I already sent my brothers out of the valley to get it." ”

"As long as you get food and grass." Liu Dan happily smashed his thigh twice, "This heavy snow almost killed us." If there is no more food and grass, there will be a mutiny in the camp, and I am afraid that my life will not be guaranteed, not to mention the great cause of you and my brothers. ”

"I said that the emperor's business ......," Liu Fan looked up at Liu Dan.

Liu Dan laughed, "It's all come to this point, what is my brother still looking forward to?" How good can those lackeys around the emperor be? A group of eunuchs, they, that is, they look fierce and can't bite people because of the emperor. ”

Liu Fan shook his head wistfully, "It's not what you think, those eunuchs around the emperor really seem to be quite capable of fighting." ”

"Chai Bo said that after the emperor entered Hongnong County, although he believed our false news, he marched very slowly, and attacked the bandits around him as he went. All the bandits from Xizhi Lu and other counties seem to have been uprooted by the emperor. ”

Liu Dan said disappreciably: "Brother, don't scare yourself, some bandits, give me a thousand soldiers, I will definitely fight faster than the emperor, in a month, I promise to uproot all the big and small bandits in Hongnong County." ”

"Those bandits are just a rabble, and the powerful ones are just gathering three or five thousand, but more of them are hundreds or thousands of people, what real skills do you need to beat them?"

"A child emperor who only knows what to do, with three or four thousand eunuchs, can probably only run out to bully and bully those unsuccessful bandits."

Liu Fan took a deep breath, shook his head and said, "I've thought a lot of things in the past two days, the emperor has assigned you and my brother to the north and south, shouldn't you have noticed what my father did in Yizhou?" ”

Liu Dan looked at his brother and frowned fiercely, "What does my brother want to say?" ”

"I just don't feel very sure, and I can't think about some things clearly." Liu Fan shook his head with a solemn expression.

Liu Dan looked at his brother who looked like this, and couldn't help but feel angry in his heart, "Brother, isn't it because you suspect that the emperor has suspected that Father has the intention of self-reliance?" ”

"No, I mean, if the Emperor already suspects this, will he doubt our plans? And then ......," Liu Fan explained.

Liu Dan looked at Liu Fan in surprise, interrupted him a little impatiently, and said, "Brother, even if the emperor is suspicious of his father, but in addition to sending our two brothers to a ghost place like Changli to prepare for us to suffer and die, what else can he do with my father?" If he doesn't dare to move, he may not dare to break this matter. ”

"Brother, I didn't say you, your indecisive character is a true father. It's all come to this point, you and I should think about two things, grain and grass, and how to capture the emperor. ”

"Don't be like your father, who is ready for everything, but he is afraid to do it."

Liu Fan nodded worriedly, "That's what you said." ”

Although he seemed to be convinced, his expression was still extraordinarily deep.

……

Liu Wei flipped over the map and looked at it several times, and couldn't help but complain to Xun You: "Gongda, did you miss anything in this map?" Why can't I see any place that is more suitable for ambushing soldiers and horses? ”

More than half a month has passed since they walked out of Bears Ears Mountain.

If you go further, you will immediately walk out of Hongnong County and arrive at the boundary of Yin Land in Henan.

Along the way, the horses did not find out the movements of the Liu brothers, so Liu Wei concluded that the place they chose to start should be somewhere ahead.

No matter how stupid and bold those two fools were, it shouldn't be possible to ambush him outside Luoyang City.

So where they can really do it, it's barely a hundred miles away.

Xun You stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, there is nothing wrong with the picture. ”

"Your Majesty can't find any place to ambush, maybe the brothers Liu Fan and Liu Dan don't know how to use troops, but they just randomly chose a place that they think is dangerous to ambush on the road that our army must pass." Xun You said.

Xun You's words broadened Liu Wei's thinking a lot, maybe those two little calves really thought so.

"There should be a water source too!" Liu Wei's fingers slowly swiped forward along the direction of the stream, and after looking around, he reluctantly threw down the map, "If you say that, there are too many places for them to hide." ”

Xun You picked up the map again, hung it in the tent, and said, "Your Majesty, at this time, more than a month has passed since the Liu brothers sent someone to spread the false news, almost two months. Even if they were well prepared, they should not have prepared more than two months of grain and grass, and they would inevitably need to raise grain. ”

Liu Wei nodded slowly, "Just find a place where someone has sold the grain, and then you can find the hiding place of the two Liu brothers?" ”

"Your Majesty Mingjian!" Xun You said with a smile.

"Zhao Ye, order Luo Bao to personally take someone away and check it in disguise." Liu Wei shouted.

"Yui!" Zhao Ye, who completely regarded himself as an air man, responded.

……

Luo Bao took the people out for two days and rushed back at noon on the third day.

"Your Majesty, I have found out." After Luo Bao came back, he immediately came to Liu Bianyu to report.

"In the past month, people have been going to the countryside to collect grain, but the people's lives are not good, there is not much surplus food at home, so they have not received much food, and later, they directly changed to robbery."

"The resentful people in the vicinity have long found out where Liu Fan is hiding, and have already recruited more than 1,000 brave men under the organization of the two townships to prepare to attack Liu Fan."

Liu Wei was stunned when he heard this, "It's the first time I've heard such a thing, they didn't fight, right?" ”

This winter, Liu Wei spent almost exclusively in Jingzhaoyin and Hongnong.

He has traveled so many places, and he has killed countless bandits with his own hands.

But it's really the first time I've heard of the people rebelling against you.

"Back to Your Majesty, not for the time being!" Luo Bao replied.

Liu Wei smiled after hearing this, "It seems that the wanderers of these two townships are smart people, and they know that I am already on the way here, so I will hold up my appearance first." The Liu brothers have been looting the township for so long, and they are still preparing. ”

"Where are the Liu brothers hiding?"

Luo Bao said: "Your Majesty, in a canyon called the Valley of Enlightenment. Two miles apart is the only way for us to go to the capital. ”

"The name of Enlightenment Valley is really good." Liu Wei stretched his waist and reclined down in the soft tiger skin.

Knowing where these two thieves are hiding, the rest of the battle will be simple.

Luo Bao's homework was very comprehensive, and when he heard the emperor sigh so emotionally, he immediately said: "Your Majesty, I heard from the locals that there is a stone house left by the Qin Shi Fang in the Enlightenment Valley, and the name of the Enlightenment Valley is said to have been taken by that monk, but it is not clear whether it is true. ”

"The Fang Shi of the Qin Dynasty said that some people really have great skills, is it true?" Liu Wei asked with a smile.

Luo Bao sneered, "This...... The minister didn't know. ”

"Your Majesty, there are indeed such rumors, but they are not true, I'm afraid no one knows." Xun You said.

Liu Wei was raised by the Taoist, but he didn't know whether the Shi Daoist who raised him had any real ability.

He was just curious.

It is said that some of the pre-Qin monks were really powerful.

"Captain Luo, do you know how many troops the Liu brothers have? Is it a cavalry or a foot soldier? Xun Yu asked at this time.

Luo Bao rolled up his sleeves and looked at the scars on his arms, and then said: "According to the local people, it seems that there are two or three thousand people, all of whom are foot soldiers, but the last general suspects that there should be more than that. Because some people said that they saw a lot of strangers in the past month, all of them went to the Valley of Enlightenment. ”

"It seems that after Liu Fan arrived in the Valley of Enlightenment, he also sent people out to recruit troops. However, most of them were foot soldiers and horses, but the number was very small, and the local people only saw dozens of horses. ”

Liu Wei glanced at Luo Bao's arm curiously, "You hid the news of the inquiry on your arm?" ”

Luo Bao smiled a little embarrassedly, "Your Majesty, forgive me, the minister's memory is not very good, in order to prevent omissions." The minister engraved some key news on his arm. ”

The dense scars, Liu Wei looked at it painfully.

This guy is also a ruthless person!

He even used his arm as a notepad, a cow batch.

"Take the bamboo slip in the future, you remember things like this, it's a bit of a headache." Liu Wei said.

Luo Bao was even more embarrassed, and even his face turned red, "Minister...... Illiterate ......"

Liu Wei: ......

"Wouldn't you just change these things on your arms to bamboo slips?" Liu Wei didn't understand.

Is this directly related to literacy?!

He carved a ghost drawing charm on his arm, why not continue to carve ghost drawing charms on bamboo slips?

Anyway, he can understand it himself.