Mythical Qin: I, Gao Yao, will never be a eunuch!

Gao Yao vaguely remembered that the location of Tang Wushan was in the location of Jiuyan. In terms of distance, it was not too far. Of course, this was relatively speaking. It would take at least a month for Gao Yao to lead his troops to Jiuyan. Gao Yao roughly calculated that according to the situation and scenery in the plot, the location of Tang Wushan was very likely in Shanggu County.

Gao Yao did put a hat on Yi Xiaochuan, but Gao Yao predicted that Xiang Yu would most likely not attack Yi Xiaochuan, because he was the protagonist, and Liu Bang, who had a broken arm, was not an easy character to deal with. Yi Xiaochuan should not have given up his plan to go to Tangwu Mountain, and in his absence, Tangwu Mountain might not be so easy to get to.

As long as he found Tang Wushan, it was equivalent to finding Yi Xiaochuan in disguise. This time, he brought thousands of elite soldiers with him after training. A few days later, Gao Yao gathered his troops and said goodbye to Li Shou before setting off directly. Gao Yao also did not forget his original mission, which was to escort corvée labor.

Of course, Gao Yao does not need to care about normal corvée. He only needs to care about those corvée who escape. There is no need to think too highly of these corvée who escape. Most of them are similar to Liu Bang. They simply choose to find a place in the deep mountains and old forests to become bandits and wait for changes in the world. Gao Yao does not need to care about normal corvée. He mainly looks for some places like mountain streams along the way and sends a large number of scouts to determine the surrounding situation. Once bandits are found, they will be directly eliminated.

The gap between these mountain bandits and the elite trained by Gao Yao is naturally more than a little bit. Not only in weapons and equipment, but also in the quality of the soldiers. Those who do not surrender are directly killed, and those who surrender are directly treated as escaped corvées and taken away directly. As for the identities of these corvées, no one will deliberately verify them very clearly. After all, the important thing is that they have people to work. As for whether they are runaway corvées from Sishui County, no one cares at all.

It's not that the other counties don't want to do this. There are two problems. The first is that the garrison in each county is limited, and it is difficult to recruit soldiers. If these soldiers are sent out and don't come back, it will be their responsibility. No matter what the reason is, if there are a lot of losses outside, the responsibility will be theirs. Naturally, they dare not send them out easily.

Gao Yao had both the military strength and the commanding ability, and he was also very smart. In addition, as the current governor of Sishui County, he also had to consider future issues. His multiple escapes from corvée labor had already put him under considerable pressure. If the number of corvée labor this time was still too small, his official position would have come to an end, and someone would inevitably cause trouble for him. The governor of Sishui County was just taking a risk. Among the 36 counties of the Qin Dynasty, anyone who could serve as a governor naturally had his own connections, and he had made a lot of connections to achieve this.

Although Li Shou's meaning was not clearly stated, it was clear that as long as the final number of people was reached, Li Shou would not let Gao Yao go looking for trouble with bandits. To put it bluntly, there were so many teams escorting corvée labor, and who knew which teams would encounter accidents. If the people in charge of escorting had an accident, Gao Yao would take over. As long as they could gather a thousand people and escort them to the northern border, the mission would be completed.

There are even some more obscure things that are not explained clearly, that is, at the critical moment, it is not a bad idea to capture some ordinary people and use them as corvée. However, Gao Yao chose to attack the mountain bandits. With Gao Yao's military strength, plus thousands of elite soldiers, and special weapons and equipment forged by Gao Yao, it is not a problem at all to capture the camps of some mountain bandits.

Especially Gao Yao always leads the charge in every battle, standing at the front line. Gao Yao wears fine steel armor awarded by the system, so as long as the arrows don't hit Gao Yao directly in the face, they won't cause any harm to him.

The disadvantage of Gao Yao's doing this is that it is difficult to avoid the loss of soldiers, but he can recruit the best from these bandits and incorporate them into his own army. At the same time, he can also train soldiers. No training can improve combat effectiveness faster than actual combat. At the same time, there is no need to save food and grass for all the soldiers.

When escorting corvées, or setting out empty-handed, the food and fodder they carry is naturally limited, and they also need to ensure that the corvées they carry do not starve to death on the way due to any accidents, so food is relatively tight. Clearing out mountain bandits can naturally provide additional food and meat, training soldiers, and replenishing food. At the same time, any successful record of conquering mountain bandits can be counted as military merit.

At the same time, he can select outstanding people from among them to stay. Gao Yao starts to form his own guard team with Erniu as the leader. Basically, the force value of those who can join the team is between 55 and 65.

Of course, this approach also has its disadvantages. The marching speed is still very slow. It was originally expected to reach Shanggu within a month, but now it has taken almost two months to reach Julu.

The number of corvées gathered had reached over 700, which was actually quite a large number. After all, the more people they brought along, the more they would be consumed, and the slower they would move. They would be able to reach Shanggu within ten days at the latest, and Julu was actually the old territory of the State of Yan. Gao Yao immediately started to inquire about the news about Tangwu Mountain, and finally successfully confirmed that Tangwu Mountain was indeed in Shanggu County.

While Gao Yao was rushing to Shanggu County, another person was also rushing to Tangwu Mountain. This person was naturally Yi Xiaochuan. At this time, Yi Xiaochuan had arrived in Shanggu County before Gao Yao, and was resting in the county town, continuing to inquire about the exact news about Tangwu Mountain. There was another person who appeared here with Yi Xiaochuan, that was Liu Bang, who had lost his arm. However, Liu Bang at this time obviously no longer had the vigor and vitality of the past, and the whole person looked very decadent.

"Xiaochuan, why are you so persistent in coming to Tangwu Mountain?"

"This... I can't explain it clearly now, but only here can I go home."

"Going home... hehe"

At this time, Yi Xiaochuan also noticed Liu Bang's mood change and waved his hand quickly.

"Brother Liu, that's not what I meant. I'm sorry."

"Hey, Brother Xiaochuan, you saved my life. I can't thank you enough. How can I blame you? But as for Gao Yao, I, Liu Ji, will remember this grudge."

Listening to Liu Bang's words, Yi Xiaochuan also frowned. At this time, Yi Xiaochuan couldn't understand why Gao Yao wanted to kill Liu Bang. After joining the Qin army, he began to work wholeheartedly for Qin Shihuang? No way. In Yi Xiaochuan's eyes, Gao Yao was just a cook, and he was very timid. He couldn't understand why Gao Yao did this.