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If it has been defeated, then they are stationed in Linjing, and it will be difficult for officers and soldiers to support eastward.After all, the area around Linjing is actually surrounded by mountains, and the mountains are too high to be suitable for cavalry charges.

At first, Liu Tao planned to use Yinpan County as the place for the decisive battle to attract thieves to go south.But the thieves didn't go south, Zhang Wen didn't bother to wait, and asked them to use night raids to attract the thieves, Liu Tao wanted to refuse, but he didn't know how to refuse.

"General, is this road really okay?" Sun Jian couldn't help but ask. When you come out of Yinpan County, you should follow the local road to the north, enter the official road, go west, and finally arrive at Linjing County. This is the basic way. Law.

However, Liu Tao led everyone all the way from Yinpan to the west. Now the official road is not counted, it is completely a small road walked by the villagers with their feet. I don't know if there is any problem.

"This is the only way we can go!" Liu Tao said angrily, "Could it be that we went straight to the east of Linjing County and confronted the thieves head-on? Didn't this mean that three thousand civilian husbands were specially seconded to help open the way?! "

"It's just that no one has walked this road before, and you may get lost if you are not careful." Sun Jian had to remind.Another point is that according to the map, the south of Linjing County is surrounded by mountains, and they estimated that the last section of the road will have to climb over mountains and mountains.

"You think it's difficult to get out, so of course the thieves are even more unlikely to guess, we will kill from the mountains in the south!" Liu Tao laughed, "Didn't the above let us sneak attack? Of course we will make good preparations, but the east of Linjing County Let Dong Zhuo be in charge of the bandits' position, and I'll be in charge of the south side!"

There is only one official road, and the Jing River is next to it. If you want to harass, you can only go this way. You don't need to think about it. The thieves will definitely increase the defense in the east of Linjing County in response to this situation.

What's the point of a raid if it doesn't constitute a raid?Especially since they were still cavalry, if they failed to advance, they could easily be tricked by thieves, so he wouldn't be so stupid.

"Sun Sima, we have tried our best to find local villagers to lead the way, and there should be no problem with the direction." Guo Jia stepped forward to add.

"Okay then..." What else could Sun Jian say, he could only be prepared to take responsibility together.

Chapter 344 Dong Zhuo really has a problem

In the next few days, Liu Tao and his party walked through the mountains like this. Generally speaking, Yinpan County is westward. Although it is surrounded by mountains, there are still some plains in the end.

Several villages and towns in later generations are located in this area, and there are naturally some villages here today.But many times, when they approached, there was no one in the village, even though the smoke had just risen not long ago.

"Send out more than a dozen people and tell everyone that we are not here to arrest hermits." Liu Tao probably understood why this happened, so he ordered.

There is no real road from Yinpan to this side, but there are still traces of human activities here.How to explain, it is naturally some people who fled here, living a life of seclusion here.

Self-sufficiency, no need to pay land rent and taxes to the court or squires, let alone corvee, what a comfortable life!

It's just that they are also in constant panic, always worrying that the imperial court will send people over to arrest them all.Even held them accountable and sold them into slavery.

Knowing the reason, they can naturally solve it accordingly. Zhang Fei and Lu Bu each sent people to shout for a long time, and finally some people came down from the mountain one after another.Judging by their proficiency, it is probably not the first time they have done that.

"Officer, are you really not going to arrest us?" Not long after, an old man came out from among the villagers and bravely came to Liu Tao.

"We just passed by here, and then went to fight in Linjing County. We didn't intend to arrest you. But we may need one or two people as guides, don't worry, there will be rewards!" Liu Tao beckoned, and someone immediately brought out a bag of food. .

It is useless for such hermits to ask for money, but food is valuable.Sure enough, after seeing this bag of grain, the old villager suddenly smiled and said, "Everything is easy to talk about"!

After careful questioning, I found out that there are at least four or five such villages in this mountain, and there is no such thing as a chief or a pavilion chief. Just choose a village chief and three elders, and you can almost maintain it.There is no need for you, after all, everyone is more or less close.

Speaking of the ancestors, I don't know if it was from the generation of grandpa or the generation of great-grandpa, and then settled down here.Several villages originally came here according to the family, and then intermarried with each other, so the village gradually grew bigger.

"Since your villages know each other, that would be even better... You can send someone over to let us know that we will pass one after another, so don't let them make a fuss. Otherwise, it will be too troublesome to call for a long time to go to a village." Liu Tao replied road.

"This is fine, fine." The old village head quickly said, and then called a young man to inform the other villages.It was also at this time that Liu Tao discovered that there were horses in the village.

"You also raise horses?" Liu Tao asked curiously.

"Our ancestors used to raise horses in Zhangye. This horse raising is already an ancestral handicraft. This is not considered to be relocated here, but also to raise some, not many. There are about [-] horses in several villages. From time to time, they take them to trade. You can earn some money to support your family with this," said the old village chief.

Liu Tao was naturally curious, so he went over to have a look and found that this is a very authentic Xiliang horse, and its appearance is quite good.I don't know if it is a high-quality horse breed brought over from the racecourse in Zhangye.The three hundred horses were probably cultivated slowly over the past few decades.

"Your horses are pretty good. I'll buy as many horses as you can sell!" Liu Tao announced directly, not short of money.

That is to say, there are fifty or sixty horses in the village, and only a dozen of them can be sold, and the rest have to be bred, and some of them are too old to be sold.Liu Tao was also polite and bought them all.

It is only now that I know that these villagers will organize people to sell horses in Yinpan County or even Linjing County from time to time, and then purchase supplies.Since money is used in the village, he naturally doesn't mind spending money.

"Since you are going to Linjing County, you should know the way to get there?" Liu Tao was actually more concerned about this. He thought he might have to open the way, but he did not expect that there was a way.

"There is a road. We opened a road in the mountains and forests. It was worked hard by several generations of our villages during the slack season." The old village head replied quickly.

I can't go to Yinpan County, lest they find me, so I can only take the mountain road to Linjing County.

Many businessmen came from the west of Linjing County, and they also mixed in, pretending to be from the west.I have an accent from Zhangye itself, so I can fool it.

"How about it..." Liu Tao looked at Sun Jian.

"The general really has eyes!" Sun Jian had to be convinced that there was indeed a way to go to Linjing County, so that he did not have to take the risk of crossing from the east, which was not only safer, but also more unexpected.

In the next three days, Liu Tao, led by the local people, came to the vicinity of Linjing County via the mountain road.With the help of three thousand civilian husbands to build camps here, soldiers and horses can be stationed here temporarily.Then send people back, on the one hand to allocate food and grass, on the other hand tell Dong Zhuo that they are about to launch an attack and let him prepare early.

"Han Sheng, you take people there, supervise those civilian husbands, and don't allow them to contact anyone. At the same time, anyone who dares to follow secretly will be killed on the spot!" Liu Tao then called Huang Zhong over and ordered.

"Here!" Huang Zhong didn't ask, he did what Liu Tao said, there was absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Sun Jian didn't have any objection to this, Liu Tao doubted Dong Zhuo, and if Dong Zhuo really had a problem, maybe he would really send someone to follow him.Now it is estimated that Dong Zhuo did not expect that they would not kill from the east of Linjing at all.

Liu Tao didn't stay idle either. He went through all the bandit camps in Linjing County in the past few days, and then drew a map.When I have nothing to do, I do a little sketching, and even ask Zhang Fei for advice.

"Brother, this skill is good. I never thought that charcoal can be used to draw such vivid works!" Zhang Fei also likes sketching very much. No matter how realistic he uses a brush, the characters always have a soft feeling.Unlike sketching, the masculine feeling comes alive on the paper.

"If you want to learn, I will teach you!" Liu Tao smiled, since he is idle now anyway.

Six days before and after, seeing that the time had entered May, there was no response from the thief for a while, and Huang Zhong had already returned with supplies.

"Did you follow?" Liu Tao asked.

"The subordinate stayed in ambush by the side of the road for a long time, and saw three people sneaking up after us, so he shot them dead." Huang Zhong nodded, "Unfortunately, there is nothing on the three of them to prove their identities."

"It doesn't matter if they don't, they have proved a lot of things." Liu Tao looked at Sun Jian.

Sun Jian nodded. Judging from the current situation, it is certain that there is indeed a problem with Dong Zhuo.I wanted to suggest that Liu Tao report to Zhang Wen and take Dong Zhuo down, but Liu Tao said that it was unnecessary...

Chapter 345

"Did you tell Dong Zhuo?" Liu Tao knew that Dong Zhuo had a problem, but he had to ask.

"I have told General Dong that we will launch a night attack in the past few days according to my lord's wishes. When we came back, they seemed to have started to go out." Huang Zhong replied, "It seems that they plan to join us and attack together look."

"The official road is so narrow, what can the confluence do? Are they holding each other back?" Liu Tao complained.

Just to put it that way, the official road less than one kilometer was next to Jingshui, and soldiers, horses, food and grass were all crowded on it, and they had to be pulled into a long team when advancing, and there were very few soldiers who could devote themselves to the front line charge.

Linjing County can be regarded as easy to defend and difficult to attack in the true sense. It is very difficult for officers and soldiers to fight from the south.So they chose to stand still in Linjing County, which actually made sense.

Just say that this time they said they were going to harass Linjing County, so that the other party couldn't help but go south.If we were to unite our forces in one place, then the camp would stretch for hundreds of miles, but there would still be several miles.If they were attacked by surprise in turn, when they were about to retreat, Dong Zhuo would lead his tens of thousands of soldiers and horses into a panic to block the way of retreat.

Liu Tao's cavalry has to face the bandits' pursuit in person, and the key cavalry's advantages cannot be fully utilized, so how can they fight?

"That's not true, Dong Zhuo seems to have only brought cavalry..." Huang Zhong added, "The number is around [-]."

"Oh...that's it..." Liu Tao nodded. If it was just cavalry, it would be somewhat understandable.Think about it too, if it is just harassment, there is no need to dispatch the whole army, it is good to leave some people in ambush in the rear, or to respond.