What happened in the direction of Qiwu Mountain, everyone was very curious, and they all wanted to know what was going on, after all, judging from the current phenomenon, it was definitely not a trivial matter, and this was a major event that attracted their attention.

These people are all officials and small officials in Xiazhou City, some of them collude with horse thieves, and some of them are purely mixed rice, people who collude with horse thieves are very nervous, worried that their affairs will be exposed, and people who are purely mixed rice are not so worried, even if something really happens to the north, it has nothing to do with them, after all, they perform their own duties, and they are not responsible for the task of exterminating horse thieves, and at the same time, they are not responsible for protecting anyone, so no matter what happens, it seems that it has nothing to do with them, At most, these people, who are the main officials of a state, need to be properly responsible.

"Wang Tingshi, there is such a big thing in the north, we must do something, we can't wait here!"

"Yes! Oh, yes! We can't just wait here, we have to do something! ”

"Thorn History, why don't we send someone to the north to have a look! You can bring more wine and meat to treat the soldiers. ”

"It's not proper, it's not proper, who knows what's going on in the north, in case it's a disaster, who is still in the mood to eat wine and meat, it's better to find out the news first."

"Many roads into the mountains have been blocked by officers and soldiers, and these soldiers refuse to say anything, how can they find out the news!"

"That's because your position is too low, if Assassin Shi asks in person, these little soldiers dare not say anything."

The petty officials and officials spoke.

Wang Tingshi didn't say a word, he quietly listened to his subordinates arguing, as a state assassin history, he didn't have any great ability, but his background was relatively noble, so it was normal for people to be able to achieve a high position in the history of assassination, and there was nothing strange about it.

In ancient times, this was the case, a person did not need to have too much ability, only needed to have a noble background, a noble background can make a person easily able to achieve fame, and if it is a low background, it is very difficult to climb up.

This is the ancient system, and at the same time, it is also a means for the royal family to take care of the nobility and maintain its own rule, in addition, because the aristocracy monopolizes all kinds of knowledge and resources, many real talents do come from the family, and the proportion of talents in the family must be far more than that of ordinary people.

However, because the family controls the government, this leads to some children of the family who do not have much ability, and it is easier to obtain a high position, which leads to social inequality and makes many people resentful.

In addition, there is another important reason why the royal family takes care of the family, that is, talents from the bottom, once they grasp the power, there will be more serious corruption.

This is because people have a very serious compensation psychology, if you have a very hard childhood, no money to spend, you can't eat, once you grow up, you have power, you will desperately compensate yourself, you can be greedy as much as you want, you can eat as much as you want to take the card.

And for people who have no worries about food and clothing since childhood, basically there will be no such serious problems, because if a person has not lacked anything since childhood, he will naturally have no compensation psychology when he grows up, and the wealthy family can also give himself enough support, even if he doesn't have enough money to spend, it doesn't matter, just ask the family for money.

This Wang Thorn Shi is a descendant of the Taiyuan Wang family, and he is a family with Wang Zhonghe, but the blood relationship is a little far away, and there is basically no connection at ordinary times.

As for the origin of the Wang family, this has to start from the pre-Qin era, in the Qin State, because the general Wang Jian and the general Meng Tian had great contributions, so the surname Wang and the surname Meng lived together in the world, and it was the most noble surname in the world except for the Qin Emperor.

After the death of Qin Shi Huang, Qin II succeeded to the throne, gave his son Fusu to death, and seized Meng Tian's military power.

After that, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu raised troops against Qin, Wang Li committed suicide in defeat, and Wang Li's eldest son Wang Yuan moved to Langya, Shandong Province to avoid the disaster of war, and became the ancestor of the Langya Wang family.

Wang Li's second son, Wang Wei, still lived in Jinyang, after that, due to the change of dynasties and wars, Wang Wei's descendants scattered all over the place, and then returned to Jinyang, known as Taiyuan Wang.

The history of Wang Thorn, who has no great talent, is the descendant of the Taiyuan Wang family, and Wang Zhonghei is the same ancestor, and he is also the descendant of Wang Qian, a famous general of the pre-Qin Dynasty.

Regarding the statements of the officials under his command, this Wang Tingshi did not have any reaction, and he should respond to all changes with the same, so as not to mishandle himself and lead himself into the abyss.

"You all go back and stick to your posts, although something happens in the north, but with General Guo to deal with it, there shouldn't be any big problems, you better do your job! It's all scattered, it's all scattered. ”

Wang Tingshi waved his hand and asked the officials who came to chat to retreat and do their own work.

Although he warned his subordinates and asked them to do the essential work, Wang Tingshi himself wanted to know what happened to Qiwu Mountain and how things were going? Therefore, he sent a number of henchmen to the north to listen to the news, even if the main road is blocked, but there are always some unnoticeable paths to walk, these are the woodcutters usually cut wood, there are some roads that outsiders are not clear, especially Lao Guo's soldiers and horses, who have only been in Xiazhou for three months, are very unfamiliar with the terrain of Qiwu Mountain, and it is difficult to completely block the road.

Li An stayed in Qiwu Mountain, and he didn't plan to go back for the time being, but although he didn't go back, he still knew a lot about the various situations in Xiazhou City, and before he set off, he had already made corresponding arrangements, and Lao Guo was the same, and he deployed surveillance men and horses in many key positions to monitor every move of some officials and people in the city.

The surveillance situation can be quickly transmitted back, so that Li An can know the situation in the city as soon as possible, so as to facilitate further countermeasures.

"Li Shilang, there is news from the city, and the two lotus sisters really have a problem."

One of the guards reported the situation.

"Oh, it's leaking."

Ang Lee asked.

"Yes, this pair of sisters didn't go to the teahouse today, they went out a few times and went back, they looked quite anxious, as if they were waiting for someone, but they didn't wait, whether to arrest or not."

The guard asked.

Li An shook his head and said: "No need, I didn't know anything about horse thieves before, and I felt that they were a little suspicious, so I paid extra attention to them, but now I have annihilated the main force of the horse thieves by mistake, and the new Neiying has been planted in the horse thief's lair, and it is as easy as digging into a bag to exterminate the horse thief, and the two sisters are actually not that important." ”

After all, the situation has changed a lot at this moment, Li Anyou didn't know anything about horse thieves before, and at this moment, he accidentally destroyed the main force of horse thieves, and the form of horse thieves is already in jeopardy, as long as the foal successfully gains the trust of the horse thief group and can pass on the information of the horse thief, then it will become extremely easy for the army to exterminate the horse thief.

In fact, as long as the foal can return to the horse thief, the horse thief has been completely finished, after all, the big foal has been following behind, and the pony has successfully returned to the horse thief's new residence, which means that this place has been exposed to the eyes of the officers and soldiers.

However, if the siege is forcibly carried out, it may cause a strong backlash from the horse thieves, and once the fight really starts, the casualties of the officers and men will not be small, especially when encountering terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the casualties of the officers and men will be greatly increased.

And Li An is a person who likes to pursue zero casualties, and he doesn't want to see a single officer or soldier killed or wounded, so he naturally hopes to get internal intelligence and find out the true situation of the horse thieves, so that he can eliminate this group of horse thieves with minimal losses.

In addition, will there be more than one secret den of the horse thief, if the remaining men and horses of the horse thief are distributed in multiple dens, then one attack cannot annihilate them all, and if the foal is used as an internal response, this matter can be found out, so that the officers and soldiers can make a more reliable encirclement and suppression strategy.

"In that case, should we take them down if we use them to spy on the sisters?"

The guard asked.

"Keep watching! See who else they come into contact with. ”

Li An said.

In the direction of the secret nest of horse thieves, the foal triumphantly led the way in the nearby mountains, and a group of more than a dozen of them came out to chop wood, after all, there are three or four hundred horse thieves in the nest, and they need to eat every day, and they need firewood to eat, so they naturally need to go to the vicinity to chop wood.

However, not all of the dozen or so people need to chop wood, there are two people who lead the way, they are the leader of the whole team, and one of the two people who lead the way is a foal.

Originally, the status of the foal was very low, but it was also his luck, one step earlier with One-Eye, this time the horse thief was reorganized, and the number of people under One-Eye's command reached more than 100 people at once, which was many times that of the previous one, so many people and horses, always have to promote a few small heads, in order to facilitate management, and the foal who has followed One-Eye for a long time is very lucky to be promoted, not only that, all the dozen pony thieves who have been captured by officers and soldiers, all of them have been promoted by One-Eye, which can be regarded as a kind of seal! After all, only by appeasing these people can they not tell their common secrets because of dissatisfaction in their hearts.

"Keep up, keep up, keep up."

The foal walks in front and shouts triumphantly, telling the pony thieves with the rattan frames behind them to follow.

At the back of the procession, there was a little leader, who had been captured with the foal, and who was responsible for leading ten horse thieves out to chop wood for cooking.

Being able to get this errand is enough to show that One-Eye trusts them enough, and if he doesn't trust them, he won't be so relieved to let them take charge of bringing people out to chop wood.

"Goo-goo-goo...... Goo Goo Goo ......"

Near the procession rang out the sound of birds.

This is not actually a bird call, it is a big foal disguised to ask for news.

"There's a pheasant to eat, haha! The brothers will go first, and I will go and get the pheasants, and it will be all right soon. ”

The foal volunteered.

"Forget it, foal! It's important to get down to business. ”

The small head of the last row spoke in opposition.

"Don't worry! How good am I at catching pheasants? There will be no one in the whole Xiazhou who is better than me, you go first, I will come back immediately, if you can't catch the pheasant, all the wine and meat tonight will be given to you, and I will eat steamed buns and drink cold water. ”

The foal said fiercely.

"Well, foal, that's what you said, and the brothers can testify."

The little head in the back looked very happy, and he felt that the foal was not so easy to catch the pheasant.

"Hmph, you don't believe me, brothers, if you catch a pheasant, let's eat it together tonight, and the chicken butt will be left for this dead fat man, haha!"

The foal said triumphantly, and strode away from the group, bending his bow and arrows as if he were really hunting.

"Let me eat chicken butt, it's almost as good as you drink cold water, brothers, there is a row of stones not far ahead, let's go there and rest."

The little head said.

The foal crossed several large trees, and when he looked back, the team continued to march without waiting for him, so he ran boldly and quickly.

More than a hundred paces away, the foal was waiting for him, in order to avoid being discovered, the foal was covered with a camouflage net, this net of camouflage is very good, as long as it is not close to five steps can not be found, so, the foal arrived at the location and searched for a long time and did not find the foal, and thought that he had heard it wrong, but he heard it clearly, the bird's cry should have been made by his eldest brother.

"Second child, what are you looking at? Over here. ”

After making sure that no one was following, the big foal took the initiative to stand up.

"Big brother, why are you hiding so tightly, you can't find it even when you come to you."

The foal wondered.

"Okay, let's not talk nonsense, what's the situation? Are all the horse thieves here? ”

The big colt hurriedly asked.

"There are three or four hundred people, and I don't know if all of them are here! After all, I'm just a small person, and not everything is clear. ”

The foal spoke.

"Second brother, I warn you, this is a good opportunity for you to make meritorious service and atone for your sins, you must take advantage of it."

Big Pony said.

"I'll figure it out, this is the camp defense map I secretly drawn, it's not very good, but everything that should be marked is marked."

The foal quietly took out the map in his arms and handed it to the foal.

"Well done, this is a freshly caught pheasant, still alive? Take it. ”

The big foal took the blueprint, took the pheasant out of the net, and handed it to the foal.

"Big brother, it's not early, I have to go back, and I'll come out in a few days."

The foal takes the pheasant and runs an arrow through the pheasant's head, then runs away with the pheasant.

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