The big colt did not dare to delay, and hurriedly went to report the situation of the thief's lair as fast as possible, while the foal appeared in front of the pony thieves with a pheasant in his hand.

"Oops! You've really caught it, it's fast enough! ”

The fat horse thief's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it was real.

The foal looked at the fat man and the others proudly, and said, "Dead fat man, we just said that if I hit the pheasant, the chicken butt will be yours, and you are not allowed to cheat, and the brothers can testify." ”

"We hear it, we can testify, hahaha."

The crowd stirred up.

"Chicken butt is chicken butt, what's wrong with chicken butt, chicken butt is the best, but you have to cut more meat, and the last inch is chicken butt."

The fat horse thief didn't seem to care, as long as he could eat the meat, he didn't care if the meat was a chicken butt or the rest of the meat.

"Brother Xiaoma, this chicken is too small, how good it would be to shoot a few more, and it won't be enough to eat!"

A pony thief spoke.

"Just taste it, but still want to eat enough? Too greedy. ”

The foal scolded.

"Little Brother Ma, can we all take a bite?"

A pony thief asked.

The foal replied, "This is natural, the brothers can share a piece of meat, the head and neck are mine, the butt and the offal are fat, the two legs and two wings can be divided into four people, and the remaining two pieces of chicken breast can be divided into three portions, so that everyone can eat meat with one portion!" ”

"Chicken thighs are the best, I want chicken thighs."

"I want chicken thighs too, chicken thighs are the best."

"Why do you give you what you want, I also want chicken legs."

The ten pony thieves quarreled, and everyone seemed to like the chicken legs.

The fat man got angry and shouted: "Whatever the noise, go to work, half an hour is limited, whoever cuts the most firewood, who can be the first to choose, by the way, to a group of two, anyway, the chicken legs are also two, don't be stunned, hurry up and work!" Don't run too far, just within a radius of 200 paces. ”

The foal also said, "Brother, go to work!" The two of us are here to grill pheasant meat, go ahead! ”

When the ten pony thieves heard this, they hurriedly formed five groups of twos and horses, and then ran to the neighborhood to chop wood, their goal was to cut as much firewood as possible, and then eat the chicken thighs they had always dreamed of.

"Hey, I knew you were so capable, so I wouldn't bet with you, I want to eat chicken thighs too! Now I can only eat chicken butts, hey! ”

The fat horse thief said helplessly.

"Fatty, next time we have a chance, let's have a chicken leg for each person."

The foal said with a smile.

"Good! This is a good feeling! Will you be able to meet pheasants by such coincidence next time? ”

The fat horse thief asked suspiciously.

"There are a lot of pheasants in this area, and I heard them so many times along the way that you forgot about them."

The foal said.

"It's true, along the way, I often hear pheasants on the road, and it seems that there are a lot of pheasants in this area! Then it's decided, next time I have a chance to catch another one, I'm going to eat chicken legs, haha! ”

The fat horse thief said with a smile.

"It's not interesting to eat it directly roasted, next time we will bring some salt and seasoning in advance, and the pheasant will be even more delicious."

Pony Thief said.

"It would be better if we could fight a few more, let's have half of them, and divide the rest among them."

"Good idea, next time I must try to fight one more, this time it was originally two, you can escape one, generally pheasants appear in pairs, it is not impossible to fight two."

"Oops! That's really good, it's a blessing to follow Brother Pony. ”

The two happily disposed of the hen's internal organs, and then, finding some firewood, began to roast the meat.

The most indispensable thing here is the loess, and the loess is mixed with water after the yellow mud, the yellow mud is covered on the surface of the chicken, put it on the fire to roast, this is the legendary called flower chicken, the chicken made in this way is very delicious, because of the existence of yellow mud, the whole chicken can be evenly heated, so that a certain part of the heat causes some to be burned and some are not cooked.

Under the temptation of food, these pony thieves are all thinking about eating, and no one doubts what the pony is doing alone, these heartless guys would not have thought that the pony is actually the internal response of the official army.

After the foal had walked away more than ten miles, he met the man who answered him, and he rode on a tall horse, accompanied by a soldier, and went straight to the horse thief's original main lair, and he had to hand over this very important information as soon as possible.

And since the last time the big colt reported the exact location of the horse thief's lair, Li An and Lao Guo have sent a number of elite scouts to reconnoiter the perimeter of the horse thief's secret lair in different regions, and draw a very detailed topographic map, and after these topographic maps, how the army can deploy is easy to arrange, and through the understanding of the nearby topographic map, it is relatively easy to judge which escape route the horse thief will choose once attacked, and how our army should set up an ambush.

These scouts are all first-class masters, and their ability to draw maps is also very strong, so the qualified maps were quickly sent to Li An and Lao Guo, and Li An was also busy analyzing these maps and merging these scattered maps into a complete map, so that it would be more convenient to analyze and see the entire global terrain clearly.

Ang Lee's drawing ability is super strong, and some very subtle mechanical parts drawings can be drawn without any difference, and it is natural to draw these maps.

"Oops! I'm so tired that I finally drew it, it's not easy! ”

Li An relaxed his waist and put down the pen in his hand.

In front of him was a huge map, which Ang Lee had spent a day drawing, a topographical map of the vicinity of the horse thief's latest lair.

This drawing is not small, the length and width are more than one zhang, and it is connected by a number of giant drawings, and when Ang Lee is drawing, he also needs to start writing from three directions, after all, the drawings are too big, and they can't reach all the places from any direction.

Drawing drawings is only the first step, and in the next step, Li An will also command the soldiers below to make a sand table, and the size of the sand table is almost the same as the drawing, and it can even be larger.

With a large enough area of the sand table, you can observe the surrounding terrain more intuitively, which is very beneficial to command and deployment, and later generations often choose to make a sand table, because the sand table is very important for winning the war, which can simplify the commander's thinking.

"Not bad! That's it. ”

Lao Guo was eating barbecue while looking at the picture, and his saliva dripped onto the drawing.

"Horse thieves are good at choosing places! The terrain around this lair is rugged, which makes it very convenient for them to escape, and they can defend from a high place, and if they really fight, I am afraid that they will lose many brothers. ”

Lao Chen looked at the map and spoke.

Lao Guo said: "The key is to not figure out the situation inside, and not know the deployment of the horse thief, as long as you figure out the situation inside, this battle will be big." ”

Li An touched his head and said: "I don't know if there is a water source in the horse thief's lair, if there is no water source, as long as we block all around, the horse thief can only surrender." ”

"The climate of Qiwu Mountain is okay, it should not be difficult to dig a well, if there is no water source, horse thieves do not dare to camp in this place, and it is troublesome to go out to get water."

Lao Guo said.

"General, I'm back."

The big foal walked in.

"How's it going, got the information?"

Lao Guo asked.

"This is the deployment map of the horse thief's lair, and it is all drawn on it."

The big colt took out the deployment map of the horse thief's lair drawn by the pony from his bosom and handed it to Lao Guo.

"Yes! You're a bit of a level, brother! I can even draw, and it's not bad! All the details are drawn. ”

Ang Lee looked at the map that the big colt had brought back, and praised it.

"Judging from this map, the horse thieves' defenses are still very tight, if they attack forcibly, the losses of our army will not be small, but as long as the troops are sufficient, dozens of casualties should be able to take it."

Old Chen Yue was eager to try.

Lao Guo looked at the big foal and asked, "Is there any other information besides this map?" Are all the horse thieves here, how many people are there, and what is the combat effectiveness? ”

The big colt replied: "General, the second child does not have a high status among the horse thieves, and some things are difficult to investigate, but he said that he will find a way, the horse thieves should basically be here, there are three or four hundred people, and the combat effectiveness is not weak, in addition, the secret lair is indeed more than this, One-Eye has said that there are many places, and the specific location, it is estimated that only the leader of the horse thieves and One-Eye knows, and the rest of the horse thieves are not clear, the second child also said that some horse thieves left the lair and went outside to explore the way, and the horse thieves seem to have left Qiwu Mountain, The plan to go elsewhere for a leisurely time, one-eyed said it himself, should not be fake. ”

"Good! These guys are going to slip away, we must not let them escape, we must not, while the horse thieves have not escaped, first transfer troops to besiege them, and then eat this group of horse thieves step by step, so as to try our army's new weapons. ”

Lao Chen said.

"Haha! Lao Chen don't get excited, transfer troops to besiege the horse thieves, naturally there is not much of a problem, however, it seems that there should be a better way, and dozens of soldiers need to be killed and wounded, which is really reluctant! ”

Li An said.

"After the siege, persuade to surrender, and may not lose any soldiers, this method can solve the battle faster, and solve the scourge of horse thieves in Xiazhou as soon as possible, if you wait for the opportunity, if you let the horse thieves escape, you will regret it."

Lao Chen was earnest and spoke.

"Lao Chen, rest assured, the horse thief will definitely not be able to escape, let's guess first, where the horse thief will go, where are they going?"

Li An looked at the huge map in front of him and spoke.

This map is the entire map of the northern territory of the Tang Dynasty, which depicts all the territories north of the Qinling Mountains of the Huai River in the Tang Dynasty, and of course the entire territory of Xiazhou.

Lao Guo looked at the map, frowned and fell into thought, Lao Chen was not willing to guess at all, he seemed a little impatient, where the horse thief was going to develop, how could he know, he didn't know much about the situation on the border, and the most important thing was that he felt that it was the easiest thing to directly surround the horse thief, even if there were dozens of casualties, but the credit was huge, it was very common to kill a few people in a war, there was nothing worth saying.

"The east is still richer, if the horse thieves want to live a good life, they should choose to go to the east, and in order to stay away from the Qiwu Mountain, they must cross the river, after crossing the river, it is a big mountain, where the mountains and rivers can be much denser than here, and it is much more difficult to exterminate than here, it is the best place for the horse thieves to leave the Qiwu Mountain."

Lao Guo opened his mouth to guess.

"Isn't the west rich? There are also the grasslands in the north, half of these horse thieves are descendants of nomads, and it is not impossible to return to the grasslands for refuge. ”

Lao Chen asked.

"To go to the west to cross a large desert area, and to the river valley with abundant water and grass, they can't stay, there is the base camp of our Shuofang army, the garrison is fifty or sixty thousand, it is still very easy to exterminate these horse thieves who have not established a stable foothold, dare to go to the west, unless these horse thieves are tired of living, as for the northern grassland, it is also necessary to cross the desert to reach, and there is nothing valuable on the grassland except for cattle and sheep, can you live a good life by robbing cattle and sheep every day? The herdsmen are also quite strong, some people rob cattle and sheep, they will be desperate, in order to snatch some food and kill people every day, lose brothers every day, horse thieves are not so stupid, and only the east is where they are suitable for robbery, after crossing the river is the Jin land, since the Kuching people are good at business, and there are merchants where there is a lot of wealth, caravans come and go, horse thieves want to rob, it is very easy, in addition, after crossing the river is the territory of the east of the river, our soldiers and horses are Shuo Fang's soldiers, easy can not cross the lineNaturally, the horse thieves also knew this, so it was most likely that they would go to the mountains east of the river. ”

Lao Guo analyzed for a while and spoke.

Li An hurriedly nodded and affirmed: "What Lao Guo said is that the best place for these horse thieves is the mountains and forests in Hedong, the terrain in Hedong is rugged, and the mountains and rivers are inside and outside, which is a good place to hide the traces of horse thieves. ”

"In that case, we only need to surround the horse thieves halfway through their migration, and none of these horse thieves will escape."

Lao Chen said.

"Hedong is a vast area, we still don't know the exact migration route of the horse thieves, this must be clarified as soon as possible, as long as we know the migration route of the horse thieves, we can set up an ambush in a targeted manner, and then wipe out the horse thieves."

Lao Guo looked at the map and said.

Li An nodded and said: "It depends on whether the foal can get the migration route map of the horse thief, if it can be obtained smoothly, it will be too easy to intercept the horse thief halfway." ”