When Li Duozuo learned that Li Jing was about to arrive in Shaozhou City, he immediately took Chen Shaohui and others to meet him outside the city, and welcomed Li Jing and the large army into Shaozhou City.

Li Duozuo and others reported to Li Jing on the process of fighting the mountain bandits, and the results were remarkable, not only eliminating many mountain bandits, but also capturing tens of thousands of prisoners.

These captives are retained and integrated into the ranks of prisoners, where they are reformed through labor and atoned for the crimes they have committed.

"Duozuo, you're doing a good job! Not only solved the difficulties of Shaozhou City, but also took the lead, brave and invincible, charging into battle alone, treating tens of thousands of mountain bandits as nothing, and beheading more than a dozen bandits in a row!"

Li Jing was very satisfied with Li Duozuo's performance, and affirmed Li Duozuo's military exploits, Datang can have a fierce general like Li Duozuo, and he is afraid that he will not be able to conquer the world in the future?

After exterminating the mountain bandits, Li Jing decided, and canonized Li Duozuo as the general of the Right Wuwei, the founding county prince, and even gave his son a certain reward.

This is a reward for his brave battle, and it is also to tell everyone that as long as you work hard, you can also be like Li Duozuo!

"The saint has won the prize!"

Li Duozuo got up and bowed modestly, and his heart was so beautiful that he was bubbling!

With the praise of the saints, is it far from becoming a prince of the country? As long as he is willing to be able, even his children and grandchildren will be awarded.

"Well, thanks to Duozuo's bravery, I can repel the mountain bandits, and after this time I completely exterminate the mountain bandits, I will crown you as the founding county prince!"

Li Jing made a promise, which made Li Duozuo even more excited, and he couldn't wait to raise a knife to kill the mountain bandits' lair now, and kill the mountain bandit leader with his own hands to repay Jun's kindness!

"Order the army to rest for two days, and then attack the mountain bandits' lair!"

"No!"

"Send more scouts to find out the whereabouts of the mountain bandits!"

"Sage, the minister has already sent someone to find the mountain bandits' lair, and now it's almost time to come back!"

As soon as Li Duozuo's words fell, a soldier walked in from outside and saluted, "General......"

"Presumptuous, I didn't see the saint here, so don't you ask the saint for sin!"

His subordinates are so eyeless, but they can frighten Li Duozuo, if this makes the emperor mistakenly think that he supports the army and respects himself, it will be bad!

Zhou Yafu of the Western Han Dynasty was strict in governing the army, and there was no Son of Heaven in the eyes of the soldiers, only the general Zhou Yafu, so the Son of Heaven was jealous of Zhou Yafu's high merits, and he was afraid that it would be difficult to control, and finally forced Zhou Yafu to death.

He Li Duozuo can't become Zhou Yafu's second, if the emperor is suspicious of him, then his career will come to an end!

"The little one didn't see the saint, and asked the saint to forgive his sins!"

The soldier immediately bowed down and pleaded guilty to Li Jing, he really didn't notice the Son of Heaven when he came in in a hurry just now!

"I forgive you for your innocence, what do you have to avenge?"

Li Jing asked.

"Qiqi Sage, the scout sent out to find the lair of the mountain bandits, only one person has returned!"

What's going on? Why didn't the other scouts come back? ”

Li Jing frowned, could it be that those scouts were all captured by the mountain bandits?

This gang of mountain bandits is too rampant, even the officers and soldiers dare to arrest them, even if they dig three feet into the ground this time, they must exterminate this group of hateful mountain bandits!

"The terrain of the dense forest is complex, there is a lot of fog, and people who are not familiar with the dense forest are easy to lose their way, and the minister thinks that the scout should be lost and trapped in the dense forest!"

Shaozhou Sima Chen Shaohui explained.

At the beginning, when he first came to Shaozhou, he had entered the dense forest once, because he was not familiar with the dense forest, coupled with the fog of the dense forest, he lost his direction and was trapped in the dense forest, but fortunately he was finally found by the locals and rescued him.

Only then did Li Jing and the others realize that the scouts couldn't find a way out and were trapped in the dense forest, so they had to ask the locals to lead the way and go into the dense forest to find the trapped scouts.

The terrain of the dense forest is complex, and it is easy to get disoriented, which reminds Li Jing of an item that may be able to solve the problem of disorientation.

This object is the compass, but in the Tang Dynasty the compass is Sinan, because Sinan is too large, not conducive to the march, Li Jing decided to make a small compass out.

In this way, you can carry one with you and you don't have to worry about getting lost.

Li Jing ordered people to find the materials needed to make the compass, and also found craftsmen with good craftsmanship.

Li Jing personally demonstrated once, taught craftsmen how to make compasses, and asked craftsmen to make more than 30 compasses overnight.

Once the compass is ready, hand it out to the scouts and teach them how to use it.

Let them enter the dense forest again to find the bandits' lair, and let them follow the direction of the compass, so that they don't have to worry about getting lost.

After the scout gets the compass, he rushes into the dense forest again and starts a journey to find the bandits' lair.

With the compass, they no longer have to worry about getting lost, the compass will always point them in the right direction, as long as they follow the compass, even if they can't find the bandits' lair, they can get out of the way.

Li Jing and the others rested in Shaozhou City, while waiting for the news of the scouts, and by the way, they made a plan to exterminate the mountain bandits.

……

The mountain bandits fled back to their lair, and several mountain bandit leaders gathered the mountain bandits who fled back, and after counting the number of people, they found that the brothers who went out with them this time were not even 10,000 people who could come back alive.

"Big brother, our losses this time are really too great, not only did we not get back the food, but the tens of thousands of brothers who followed us out, only more than 9,000 people came back alive."

The three mountain bandits are against the big mountain bandits.

"Made, this time we planted such a big fight, all because the information is wrong, go and arrest the kid who collected the intelligence for me, and the labor and management will kill him today."

The big mountain bandits' faces were gloomy after hearing this, if it wasn't for the wrong intelligence, how could they attack Shaozhou City, and if they didn't attack Shaozhou City, how could they suffer heavy casualties!

"Big brother, that kid who is engaged in intelligence fell to his death yesterday!"

"What? That's a cheap boy, or I'd have killed him alive. ”

"Big brother, we found traces of the official army ten miles away from the village, and they seem to be looking for us."

"Big brother, what should we do next? If the officers and soldiers find here......"

With murderous intent in his eyes, the mountain bandit stretched out his hand and pressed down, signaling everyone to be quiet.

All the mountain bandits looked at the big mountain bandit and saw what he said.

"Don't panic, let alone mess up, our stockade is a fortress, built in a steep place in the mountains, even if the officers and soldiers find here?"

"If you want to enter our stockade, there is only one way up the mountain, as long as we hold the mountain road, no matter how many people they come, they will not be able to break our stockade."

"Go and prepare more stones, and cut down more thick trees, if the officers and soldiers attack from the mountain road, they will be greeted with stones and rolling logs, and there will be more sentry posts, so as not to let the officers and soldiers slip in!"

The mountain bandits made arrangements, and their ancestors built the stockade here to prevent the encirclement and suppression of the officials and soldiers.

There is a cliff behind their stockade, and it is unlikely that you will be able to climb up from there, and even if you can climb up yourself, the people they have arranged there will greet you.

The cliff behind the mountain can't come up at all, so the mountain bandits naturally don't have to worry, but for the sake of safety, they still sent a few people to guard the cliff behind the mountain.

Defensively, the mountain bandit is not worried, he is now worried about the food problem.

If the officers and troops only besiege and not attack, how long their food can last is related to whether they and the officers and soldiers can afford it.

If there is not enough food, they can only send people out to find more food and store it before the official army finds their lair!

"How much food do we have left? If the officers and troops surround us, how long can we hold out? ”

"This ...... There are no statistics for this!"

"What? How can there be no statistics, fourth, you now take people to gather all the food and see how long we can eat!"

"Old Five, you take a team of people down the mountain and find a way to get some food back, the more the better, but you have to remember that your identity must not be exposed."

The big mountain bandit leader was about to explode, and at this juncture, he didn't even know how much food there was, but he quickly adjusted his state and asked the four mountain bandits to gather all the food.

Let the Wushan bandits go down the mountain to secretly find food, and make all plans for the future, he decided to fight a protracted war with the official army.

If you want to fight a protracted war, you can't do without food, once they are blocked by the official army, they can't get out, and when there is no food, they don't need the official army to attack, they are already starving to death here.

"Yes!"

The Four Mountain Bandits and the Five Mountain Bandits responded and immediately set off to do things outside their palace, and the Four Mountain Bandits collected the food in the cottage and found that the food in the cottage could last for a year and a half.

The premise is that during this time, the cottage can no longer increase the population, otherwise, there will be far from enough food.

Fortunately, Lao Wu went down the mountain to find food, but he didn't know how much food he could get back.

……

The next day, inside the city of Shaozhou.

"Saint, it's not good!"

Li Duozuo barged in from the outside.

Li Jing frowned, and scolded in his heart, you are not good, your whole family is not good!

"Why is Aiqing so flustered? Where is there a little bit of the majesty of my Tang general, what kind of system!"

Li Duozuo, who was reprimanded by Li Jing, shrunk his neck, and knew that he had lost his temper just now, and he dared to break in without passing the word, if this was in Chang'an, he would have been impeached by the imperial historians a long time ago!

"What the saint taught is that the minister is rude!"

Li Duozuo bowed his hand and sincerely admitted his mistake!

"Aiqing, what happened to make you so flustered?"

Li Jing was very curious, what could make Li Duozuo, a general who had always been obedient, so ignorant of the rules that he dared to trespass.

If this is replaced by other emperors, he will not suspect his bad intentions, and the minister of civil and military affairs will not take the opportunity to play the topic and punish him for a big crime of disrespect!

If this is a cool official, it will be directly characterized as a rebellion, and with a click, the head will fall to the ground!

"The saint scouts have arrived in the dense forest, and the compass has all failed!"

Li Duozuo said.

"What the hell is going on? Tell me about it!"

Li Jing's first reaction when he heard it was disbelief, how could a good compass fail.

There must be something wrong with this, or something that affects the normal operation of the compass.