When Li An looked into the sky, he really didn't see a bird, so he let out such an exclamation, but when Li Hanlu stuck his head out, he found two pigeons flying in the eastern sky.

"Husband, there are pigeons, or two."

Li Hanlu opened his mouth to remind.

Ang Lee naturally saw it, but how could two pigeons suddenly appear in this desolate area where birds don't? Moreover, pigeons are generally artificially bred, mainly responsible for the task of sending letters, there are no birds in the sky, and two pigeons suddenly appeared, which is very abnormal, absolutely something.

"Pigeons, how can a pigeon suddenly appear in such a desolate place? It's better to knock it down and take a look. ”

Li An's hands were itchy for a while, so he picked up his bow and arrows casually, and shot an arrow at the pigeon flying overhead.

The two pigeons are flying together, not very far apart, but if you want to shoot two pigeons with one arrow, it is also impossible, although Li An's archery skills are outstanding, but he does not have such a great ability, so he only shot one pigeon, the other pigeon was startled, and then, quickly flew away, and when Li An bent the bow and arrow again, he found that the pigeon was no longer in range.

The height of the pigeon flight is generally not high, and it will not be long before it lands when it is shot, of course, if the pigeon wants to fly higher, it can also be very high, at most four or five thousand meters of height, and the height of the aircraft is not much different, so that the bow and crossbow can not shoot the pigeon down, even if it is the most powerful gun in the civilized era, it can not hit such a high pigeon.

Seeing that Ang Lee had shot a pigeon, one of the guards who accompanied him immediately rode his horse and quickly picked it up, and then rode his horse to catch up with the convoy.

"Li Shilang, it's a carrier pigeon."

The guard rode his horse and kept in touch with Ang Lee's car as he lifted the pigeon in his hand.

"Carrier pigeon, sure enough, carrier pigeon, bring it."

Ang Lee reached out and took the pigeon and took the letter from the pigeon's leg, and then threw the pigeon to the guard.

"Sure enough, it's a carrier pigeon, what kind of letter could it be?"

Ang Lee was curious and ready to open the letter.

"Husband, maybe it's someone else's letter, it doesn't seem appropriate to open someone else's letter so casually, and besides, the pigeon has been killed, and I'm afraid the letter won't be delivered."

Li Hanlu felt that Li An was not doing things right, a little too reckless, no matter in any era, it was not appropriate to peek at other people's private messages, according to the standards of later generations, that is, there was no quality performance, and even people would be suspected of having a special voyeurism, if this habit was made public, then this person's reputation would be miserable, and he would be ridiculed by the world.

"What are you afraid of, wasn't it two pigeons just now, this should be the person who sent the letter worried that something happened to one pigeon, and the news could not be delivered in time, so two were specially prepared, so that even if one had an accident, the other pigeon could deliver the letter on time."

Ang Lee said with a smile.

In ancient times, when sending letters, if there was an urgent message, in order to ensure that the message could be delivered in time, it was generally necessary to prepare several more letters, use different ways to transmit, or the same way to transmit many times, such as using pigeons to deliver messages, it is completely possible to use multiple pigeons, so that even if one pigeon has an accident halfway, the rest of the pigeons can also deliver the news in time.

In later film and television dramas, there are often such plots, in order to deliver a very important news, the person responsible for delivering the news will release dozens of pigeons at the same time, so that the possibility of the news being sent out is extremely great.

And the reason why it is so troublesome, that is because the probability of an accident with the carrier pigeon is still very large, in the sky, there are a large number of birds, these birds can be killed pigeons, in addition, the reliability of the pigeon is certainly not as good as people, if the pigeon is lost, the news can not be delivered, artificial shooting will also cause the message can not be delivered in time, so, release a few more pigeons is absolutely safe.

"Madame, guess what is written in this letter?"

Li An smiled at the corner of his mouth and asked.

Li Hanlu replied without interest: "Husband, how can I know what the carrier pigeon shot down from the sky is written casually." ”

Li An sighed: "That's right, it's a carrier pigeon that was shot down casually, but the news delivered by this carrier pigeon has a lot to do with us!" ”

"Ahh How is this possible in relation to us. ”

Li Hanlu was greatly surprised, and hurriedly took the letter in Li An's hand and read it.

"How can this be, husband, since this is the case, then let's go back quickly! The white city ahead must be full of dangers, and if we go now, isn't it tantamount to throwing ourselves into the net? ”

Li Hanlu opened his mouth to analyze.

Li An thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "No, let's continue to go to the Ancient White City, if we can lead the horse thief to the Ancient White City, it will be very good." ”

Obviously, Ang Lee felt that this was a very good opportunity, and maybe he had no intention of inserting willows and could solve the problem of horse thieves in Xiazhou in one fell swoop.

"With just a hundred of us, the strength is too weak, this is very dangerous, is the husband planning to let General Guo send reinforcements over for reinforcements?"

Li Hanlu opened his mouth to guess.

Li An nodded and said: "Madam is right, that's what the husband thinks, since we already know about this, we won't be afraid of the sneak attack of the horse thief, on the contrary, if the horse thief really dares to come over and sneak attack tonight, it will be their death, I will write now and tell General Guo the ins and outs of the matter, so that he can watch it." ”

Soon, Li An wrote the letter, and then handed it to the three escort cavalry, let them rush to Xiazhou City as quickly as possible, tell Guo Ziyi about this matter, and let Lao Guo bring troops over to reinforce him, maybe he can annihilate all the horse thieves in one fell swoop, as for how to transfer troops, Li An can't manage so much, he is only responsible for delivering the news, he believes that Lao Guo will have the safest way.

"Husband, how did the horse thief's eyeliner know this news, the news that we are going to Baicheng, the husband only told Cui County Order, no one else knows, even our guards are all temporarily known, then, will there be a problem with this Cui County Order."

Li Hanlu said.

Li An opened his mouth and said, "Madame, do you think there is something wrong with Fat Cui?" This is indeed possible, but it is not certain yet, after all, Cui Fatzi has so many subordinates around him, if there are subordinates who ask, he may say it directly, in this way, many of Cui Fatzi's subordinates will have suspicions, but no matter what, there is a horse thief's eyeliner in Dejing County, or someone colludes with the horse thief, this is a sure thing, which is enough to show that not only the problem of horse thieves in Xiazhou City is very serious, but also the situation in Dejing County is not peaceful! In the entire territory of Xiazhou, there are horse thieves almost everywhere, no wonder Lao Guo has been busy for several months and has not achieved much success, it is that the horse thieves have been operating for too long, and they have taken deep roots in Xiazhou, and it is indeed not easy to pull out the horse thieves with deep roots. ”

"Husband, this letter must be put away, the handwriting on it can help us find the horse thief eyeliner in Dejing County, and then, following this horse thief eyeliner, we can find people who collude with the horse thief, so that we can find the forces behind the horse thief step by step."

Li Hanlu took the letter in his hand and spoke.

"What Madame said is that this letter is evidence, as long as you find the person who wrote the letter, you can wipe out all the forces that the horse thieves have planted in Dejing County, Madame must collect it, and you must not lose it."

Li An said affirmatively.

Li An is really annoyed by the horse thieves in the Xiazhou area, these hateful guys are really difficult to deal with, because what they are best at is guerrilla warfare, and the teams that adopt guerrilla warfare are often the most difficult to deal with, even if such a team only has a small number, it is also difficult to deal with.

For example, the nomads in the north of the Central Plains Dynasty are some ethnic groups with small populations, but because they have fast war horses, they can fight guerrilla warfare with the Central Plains peoples, so the Central Plains Dynasty often needs to use a lot of manpower and material resources to defend against the attack and harassment of these nomads, which is simply annoying, but there is no too reliable way to deal with this problem, and can only spend huge manpower to build the Great Wall of passive defense, which shows that the guerrilla warfare team is terrible.

The little devils of later generations were so strong that they occupied half of China in half a year, but in the face of the guerrilla warfare team, they were still helpless, often in a situation of passive beating, and lost a lot of vital forces.

Therefore, as soon as he heard that the horse thieves spent the rest of their time hiding in Tibet, except for robbing merchants, Li An knew that such a team was not easy to deal with, and it would take a lot of effort to eliminate it.

A group of more than 100 people rushed to the ruins of the old Baicheng in the distance in an orderly manner, and the horse thieves already knew their whereabouts, except for Li An and Li Hanlu, as well as a few people in the car, the remaining guards were not clear for the time being, but after arriving at the destination, Li An would tell them.

The speed of Li An's group was very fast, but no matter how fast it was, it was not as fast as the carrier pigeon flight, and before Li An arrived at the ruins of the old White City, the leader of the horse thieves had already received the news in advance, and frowned very worriedly.

The leader of this horse thief, in fact, is not very old, at most only forty years old, which is very young, and the reason why he does this business is naturally because he is too hard and tired to do anything else, and the income is still very low, and if you are a horse thief, you can just go to rob it, it is very easy and refreshing, you can live a very nourishing life, you don't have to suffer and be angry to earn some small money, and you don't have to worry about offending people and being framed, so they choose to risk their lives to be horse thieves.

That is to say, these people choose to be horse thieves in order to make their lives more relaxed, in order to allow themselves to live a richer life, so they have such a choice, they do not plan to confront the court, nor do they want to overthrow the court and become the emperor themselves, they just want to be a free horse thief and live a life of doing whatever they want.

However, they seriously ignored the determination of the Tang Dynasty to protect the people, they robbed ordinary merchants, and it seemed that they did not oppose the Tang Dynasty, but these merchants were the children of the Tang Dynasty, and the merchants paid taxes and made a great contribution to the tax burden of the court, so the interests of the merchant group were lost, and the court would not sit idly by, and protecting the interests of merchants was something that the court had to do, so there were thousands of soldiers and horses entering Xiazhou.

They thought that they would be able to live a good life of robbing other people's wealth forever by robbing the merchants, but they were unexpectedly attacked by the imperial court, and in order to escape the blow, they could only hide in the mountains, and then, using their painstaking management of the intelligence network for many years, timely and accurately obtained the movement of the imperial court soldiers and horses and merchants transporting goods, and then according to the specific situation, wittily avoided the imperial court soldiers and horses, and looted the lone merchant convoy, so as to continue to live a life of robbery.

They want to gradually drag the soldiers and horses of the imperial court to death through this non-contact method, and force the imperial court to give up encirclement and suppression of them, after all, the eight thousand soldiers and horses are in a state of combat readiness and frequent dispatches, the financial resources consumed are many times that of usual, and the loss of financial resources is very large, and the short-term consumption is good to say, if it is a long-term continuous consumption, even if it is a wealthy Tang court, it will be under great pressure, and they bet that the imperial court soldiers and horses have no way to take them, and in the end they can only give up encirclement and suppression, anyway, What they did was just loot the goods, and they felt that it was not very harmful to the imperial court, so that the imperial court would not spend too much money to deal with them.

But when the leader of the horse thieves saw this letter, he felt that he was wrong, completely wrong, very wrong, he hid in Tibet for three consecutive months, and robbed several caravans by the way, and the loss of the horse thieves under his command was not large, he thought that this would force the court to admit it, give up the continued encirclement and suppression of them, but the court not only did not give up, but also sent bigger officials, which shows that the court is staring at them, and will not stop if they are not all exterminated, and this is obviously not what he wants to see.

Since the transfer of soldiers and horses from Lingzhou, their lives have not been so good, even when they sleep, they have to open one eye, they must be ready to transfer the station at any time, and even the looted property must be scattered and hidden, so as not to be seized by the imperial court after the nest is ended.

But now, the imperial court has sent such a big official, this is not to destroy them, and they will not give up! In this way, the leader of the horse thieves was naturally very worried, he didn't want to continue to play hide and seek with the court, but as long as he didn't give up robbing the merchants, the court didn't seem to stop encircling them, which made him very painful.