In fact, it is not too difficult to find water sources in the wild, some experienced hunters or perennial business travelers, generals who often fight wars, and many other people have methods, but it is difficult to find a water source that supports thousands of people.

Liu Bi was a miscellaneous man, and he was very good at following his father from south to north, so he was lucky enough to dig a shallow well with enough water to drink through several plants in the valley that had to grow in sufficient water. Seeing that under Liu Bi's confident command, it only took a dozen people to dig out the water source in less than half an hour, which made everyone in the iron-blooded army who had been thirsty for a long time admired, and this scene made the proud soldiers and fierce generals under Chu Yun's command really recognize Liu Bi as the commander, and Liu Bi finally completely controlled the thousand cavalry.

Regardless of ancient or modern times, people who are soldiers are the best to deal with, and they are also the most difficult to deal with, and they are easy to deal with because as long as they have the ability, they can convince the soldiers. The most difficult to deal with is also here, if you don't have the ability, even if it is the emperor Laozi, they will not buy it.

Everyone drank enough water and ate enough, Liu Bi immediately gave an order without nonsense, Guo Shuzi stayed behind, and he personally led a hundred people to explore the way. When they climbed to the middle of the gravel, they met resistance, someone on the mountain shot arrows and threw stones at them, the opponent's soft bow was really not lethal, even the leather armor worn by the cavalry could not shoot through, but the stones injured several people, seeing this scene, Liu Bi immediately retreated.

It's not that Liu Bi is afraid of the enemy, and in order to determine whether this time is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, even if the possibility of a coincidence is one in ten thousand, Liu Bi needs to be sure. Now Liu Bi is sure that they were indeed attacked.

In the early hours of the morning, Liu Bi selected more than a dozen elite soldiers who were good at climbing and had no night blindness and quietly approached the cliff. Fighting at night is a problem, because the night blindness of people in this era is not ordinary, Chu Yun is a modern person, so he pays great attention to the health of his subordinates, and from time to time replenishes the livers of eggs, cattle and sheep so that the proportion of night blindness under Chu Yun's subordinates has dropped to about thirty percent, and it is precisely for this reason that Liu Bi dares to act at night. Liu Bi personally led the team to prepare to investigate, while Guo Shuzi led people to be ready to support at any time, by night, Liu Bi and others climbed a cliff more than 30 meters high, and then quietly touched a bonfire that had not been completely extinguished.

Dozens of men in tattered clothes were all leaning on each other and sleeping soundly, and further away there were many chaotic camps, numbering no less than a few hundred, Liu Bi certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to rush straight to the camp. He came this time to grab a few tongues, and he didn't know where these guys got such big hearts, Liu Bi gave an order, and more than a dozen elite soldiers of the Iron Blood Army killed more than half of these individuals, leaving only a few people, ready to torture the enemy's information.

Liu Bi and the others left for half an hour, dozens of people with torches yawned and walked over, looking like they were going to change shifts, the first one kicked the people not far from his feet viciously, and scolded loudly to let them get up to change shifts, and it took him a long time before he found out that something was wrong, at a glance, these people were all dead, and the people on the cliff suddenly jumped up.

Liu Bi and the others quickly got everything they wanted from the mouths of several kidnapped enemies, this group of people is indeed the same as Liu Bi thought earlier, it is the mountain bandits formed by the displaced people in Luliang Mountain, they are divided into several groups, the most is a few hundred people, Liu Bi and others were targeted as soon as they entered Luliang Mountain, these mountain bandits are really big, they actually want to pull out their teeth, under the joint efforts of the largest bandit Lu Sanniang bandits, seven or eight mountain bandits set up this trap.

Their total number is more than 3,000 people, but most of them are all rabble, hearing this, Liu Bi and Guo Shuzi are angry and funny, this group of guys dare to rob the regular army, and a group of rookies want to rob tigers, it is really naïve and ridiculous.

Before dawn in the morning, Liu Bi asked people to cut down a few trees in the valley and make several large shields out of wooden planks, ready to break through this dilemma, these shields need to be carried by three or four people together, even if a big stone falls, they can stand sideways on the ground and bounce the stone away.

There is nothing to say about the regular army fighting a group of homeless people, when the first wave of the iron-blooded army attacked the hillside with a wooden shield, it became a massacre, the first wave of the iron-blooded army dozens of people pressed hundreds of people to chase and kill, when the second wave of the iron-blooded army came up, the mountain bandits completely collapsed, the iron-blooded army captured prisoners all over the mountains, and finally captured more than 500 people, killed two or three hundred people, and the rest of the mountain bandits scattered in a hurry.

However, these Luliang Mountain bandits also have capable people, and a group of mountain bandits at the entrance of the valley watched the iron-blooded army dispatch more than half of the accomplices who attacked the exit, and they actually attacked directly, and the impact of thousands of mountain bandits all over the mountains was still very good. They had a good idea and wanted to attack from both sides, but unfortunately, they underestimated the strength of the Iron Army. As soon as they rushed down, the mountain bandits at the exit of the valley were defeated, seeing this scene, they immediately wanted to retreat, but it was easy to come down, but it was difficult to go up, Guo Shuozi who was stationed left fifty people to watch the horses, and the rest of the more than three hundred people rushed over, this group of guys was wrapped in dumplings at once, and they caught more than seven hundred prisoners at once, compared to Liu Bi, the iron-blooded army was only three dead and more than a dozen wounded.

A thousand iron-blooded troops commanded more than 1,000 mountain bandits to clean up all the rubble, and then Liu Bi sent a hundred cavalry to escort thousands of prisoners to the nearest Nie County, and handed them over to the county magistrate of Nie County for temporary detention. The magistrate of Nie County is also very capable, and immediately interrogated these people, and when he learned that there were about 10,000 people hiding in Luliang Mountain, he immediately contacted Li Jin, the former county magistrate and now the head of the county guard, Li Jin told Chu Yun the news, which attracted Chu Yun's attention.

You must know that most of these people who can survive in the mountains are men and women in their prime, just like Chu Yun's Iron Blood Castle back then, there are not many old people, and they are all in the prime of life. This is a source of good soldiers, these guys easily pulled out more than 3,000 people, so there are at least more than 5,000 men in their prime, and now nothing is as important as population, Chu Yun has to pay attention to it. Chu Yun immediately ordered that the newly formed Fourth Brigade would go to Luliang Mountain under the leadership of brigade commander Fang Ai to suppress the bandits, of course, it would be more correct to say that it was to arrest Zhuangding.

Chu Yun's infantry already had 22,000 people, and in order to facilitate command, Chu Yun was divided into five brigades, the first brigade to the third brigade were all full of 5,000 people, while the fourth brigade and the fifth brigade were only 3,000 or 4,000 people, and the last two brigades and regiments had fewer veterans and combat effectiveness was not as good as the first three brigades. Don't think that the brigade is adapted by Chu Yun according to the name of later generations, this brigade is a concept that has existed since the Xia Dynasty, Chu Yun is just retro, because in the Jin Dynasty, the commander who controlled thousands of people could become a general, but Chu Yun did not have the power to appoint a general, so he could only replace it with a retro brigade commander.

The brigade commander of the fourth brigade is called Fang Ai, which is homophonic with "hinder", which makes Chu Yun a little speechless, but this guy is the most promising rookie in the Fang family, he is Fang Qing's cousin, but the grade difference between the two is nearly twenty years old, and this situation is also normal in this era. That day, Chu Yun scolded Fang Qing and made Fang Qing seriously ill, and in order to appease Fang Qing and the Fang family, Chu Yun personally promoted Fang Ai to become the brigade commander of the Fourth Brigade. What he has to do now is to lead the Fourth Brigade to exterminate the Luliang Mountain bandits within two months, if this can't be done, Fang Ai is not worthy of being the brigade commander, because they are infantry, so it will take more than half a month to go back and forth, and the time left for him is only a little more than a month.

Not to mention Fang Ai, who was ambitious to send troops to suppress bandits, Liu Bi and Guo Shuzi went out of Luliang Mountain and officially arrived at Xihe County, Xihe County was canceled several times between the Han Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, and was reset several times, which is related to whether the Central Plains Dynasty is strong, Xihe County, as the name suggests, is the west of the Yellow River. This area was called by many names in later generations, such as the Hexi Corridor and the Hetao Plain. It is a fat land that can both plant and raise horses, during the Han Dynasty, here was dedicated to raising horses for the Han Empire, several large-scale riding battles of the Han Empire, more than half of the horses went out from here, and the sweat and blood horses and Dawan Liangju that later generations said were actually equipped with a few elite troops. In the Jin Dynasty, it was regarded as one of the areas where ethnic minorities were settled, and with the horses and fertile apprentices here, the Xiongnu Liu Yuan and the Xiongnu Shile were killed in the Central Plains, and it can be said that the Hu people raised here destroyed the Great Jin Dynasty.

This is the origin of the rise of the Xiongnu Liu Yuan, Liu Yuan established the capital in Pingyang, and it is also the reason why the Xiongnu are reluctant to stay away from home. But as the Huns entered Sili, more and more Huns left the place where they were raised, so it was controlled by many wandering Han people and Zahu, but because it was too close to Pingyang, the Jin Dynasty could not control Xihe County, and even Liu Kun, the assassin of Bingzhou, never controlled Xihe County, he made Chu Yun the county guard of Xihe County, and it was not that Chu Yun violated the bottom line of the Huns, so as to die The idea, don't think that Liu Kun is a useless son of a family, his strategy and foresight are more clever than most people in this era。

When Liu Bi entered Xihe County, he knew what the chaos had become in Xihe County, there was no government here, everything was spoken with fists, and there were Hu and Han people living here, both Hu people who lived by grazing, and Han people who made a living from farming, these people often fought bloodily, simply put, this is a gray area outside all political powers.

Liu Bi's father went out from here, so he returned to his hometown, and Liu Bi was very disappointed when he saw the ghost of Xihe County, but he quickly adjusted his mentality, and he came here as a conqueror.

Liu Bi and Guo Shuzi discussed it slightly, and they were ready to directly enter the county seat of Xihe County Lishi City, as long as they occupied the county seat, then it means that they occupied Xihe County, they have great righteousness, and they also have male soldiers as the backing, even if they are from the stone city Longtan Tiger's Den, they have to break through. When they arrived outside the stone city after a few days of hurrying, the dilapidated stone city made the two people think that the guide had led the wrong way, but after the guide's repeated assurances, the two of them determined that this was the county seat of Xihe County.

"Shall we go first and have a look, or will we camp outside the city and go back tomorrow?" When the two of them came to Lishi City, the sun was almost setting, so Liu Bi asked.

"Someone was sent into the city quietly, and before I came to leave the stone city, the governor told me that there was someone in it who answered us. After Guo Shuzi finished speaking, Liu Bi was shocked, he had forgotten about the Supervision Department set up by Chu Yun and the two school captains who were elusive all day long.

"Then it's troublesome Brother Guo. Liu Bi also didn't ask much, the Supervision Department is not only in charge of the outside, but also in charge of the inside, although it is not as frightening as the Jinyi Wei of later generations, and it does not show too many fangs, but the first appearance of the edge has made the Supervision Department the least liked department.

As soon as the Supervision Department made a move, it investigated and dealt with a county magistrate and a battalion officer who also served as a county lieutenant, on the grounds that two people used their power for personal gain and embezzled hundreds of taels of military funds, not to mention that the county magistrate did not say that the battalion officer was an old brother who was born and died with him after Chu Yun annexed Wangjiabao, he was Chu Yun's personal guard, and he was such a person, because the Supervision Department was cut off by Chu Yun without hesitation, and at that time, Guo Shuzi and others all went to intercede, after all, there were only a few hundred taels of silver, but Chu Yun refused without hesitation. Since then, the officials under Chu Yun have had a fear and rejection of the black-clad Supervision Division.

Guo Shuzi called the three personal guards sent to him by Chu Yun and asked them to dress up and go into the city to find the stronghold of the Supervision Division, and the three of them immediately circled around the city wall before cautiously entering the city. After the three of them entered, it was completely dark, and the gate from Shicheng was slowly closed, this scene told Liu Bi and Guo Shuzi that although there was no government in the city, it must be orderly, but I don't know what kind of force it is, and whether they can use it.

After the three of them entered the city, they immediately found a restaurant called Taihang Restaurant according to the address Guo Yong told them, and the three of them whispered a code to the guy, and they were immediately invited in. When the military generals who reached the rank of captain traveled, Chu Yun would send his own guards to protect them, and some of them were on secret missions, such as the three of them.

Early the next morning, the person in charge of Taihang Restaurant went out of the city with a big car, and he announced that he was going out to do goods, but he did not attract anyone's attention. Half an hour later, Liu Bi and Guo Shuzi secretly met with the stationmaster of Lishicheng of the Supervision Division, he told the current situation of Lishicheng and Xihe County in detail, and they put forward a series of suggestions to Liu Bi and Guo Shuzi, and after the two of them had no questions, they quickly left.

Liu Bi looked at the fine work that had left, and exclaimed: "Lord Du Du is really unfathomable, his long-term goal is far beyond our reach, as long as we follow this plan, then we can take it without much effort from Shicheng, Brother Guo, what do you think?"

"Everything is under the orders of the captain. Guo Shuzi said with a smile.

The arrival of a thousand cavalry, the people who left Shicheng already knew, don't look at the existence of the government in Shicheng, but the major forces here have replaced the responsibilities of the government, and they have demarcated the territory and established order, so Xihe County is not as chaotic as imagined. It is also because of this that after the Yongjia Rebellion, Xihe County not only did not have a depression, but absorbed a large number of displaced people, and relied on the sale of horses, and it was very prosperous.

But after all, they are not an official government, so they will not build the city wall or anything, and they dare not repair it. Building the city wall can only be done by the imperial court, whether it is the Xiongnu Han State or Liu Kun, the assassin of the state, will not allow it, but in addition to these taboos, the major forces in Xihe County are completely equivalent to the soil emperor, and their influence is everywhere. Under the balance of all parties, several major forces in Lishicheng established the Lishicheng Business Alliance, forming a republican system similar to the Western Senate, which can be regarded as a strange thing in Chinese history.

There are four large forces in the Shang Alliance, which control almost everything from Stone City, and the rest of the small forces are just attached to them, it can be said that these four forces are the key to whether Liu Bi can complete Chu Yun's order and control Lishi City. Liu Bi and Guo Shuzi understood these situations very clearly through detailed work. The two of them discussed for a long time with the details of the Supervision Department, and finally made up their minds.