Lao Guo didn't ignore this problem, but felt that as long as his own people didn't leak it, there would be no problem, the leader of the horse thieves kept these letters, it is estimated that few people knew about it except himself, and with his villain behavior, it can be inferred that he is a villain, and it is impossible for a villain to care about the life and death of others.

And from the perspective of interests, the leader of the horse thieves has no reason to warn these moths, these people can still provide him with all kinds of information when they are in their respective positions, but if these people get the news and escape, it has nothing to do with him, and they can't help him in the future, so why bother.

For the spies under his command, the information sent, it was naturally destroyed a long time ago, after all, there are many spies of horse thieves, and there are many news sent to the nest every day, if these news are preserved, it is estimated that ten boxes will not fit, and the news that does not have much value will naturally be destroyed casually, only the news is significant, or it is a letter written by a court official, it is necessary to preserve.

"Lao Guo! If you're not afraid of 10,000, you're afraid of what if, it's better to be cautious. ”

Li An said.

"The leader of the horse thieves has fled, and if he tries to pass on the news, we can't stop him! You can't block all the roads around Xiazhou City! There are so many caravans and people coming and going every day, and it may not be possible to find out who the horse thieves are spies after one by one, and if they use pigeons to deliver news, they will not be able to stop it. ”

Lao Guo said helplessly.

Li An pointed in the direction outside the tent and said, "The horse thieves who were captured outside, can you use them to let them break into the horse thieves and provide us with information, and at the same time, skillfully tell the leader of the horse thieves the news that the letter was burned. ”

This idea was also just come up with, after all, the resources of the surrendered horse thieves are not used in vain, so many surrendered horse thieves, there will always be those who can be used, and Li An is convinced of this.

"These horse thieves have just surrendered, let them break into the inside of the horse thieves, this is not a small risk!"

Lao Guo frowned and said.

For these horse thieves who have just surrendered, Lao Guo is not very trusted, he always feels that these horse thieves are not so reliable, in case of collusion with the leader of the horse thieves, it will lead the officers and soldiers into the ditch, this risk is not impossible, you must know that a false intelligence, it is possible to bring disaster to the troops.

And Lao Guo's heart, for these horse thieves, naturally there is no trust at all, he doesn't believe in these horse thieves who have just surrendered, he doesn't believe that they will be willing to serve the court in a short time, however, he also thinks that he can give it a try, after all, how can he know that these horse thieves are not available without trying?

Subsequently, Ang Lee and Lao Guo discussed the specific details of the action together, and tried to do this thing well.

First of all, the selection of the first step is very important, there are many captured horse thieves, but not all horse thieves are suitable for being rebelled, some horse thieves are extremely stubborn, and they can't rebel at all, and some horse thieves are forced to go to Liangshan, so they naturally have the possibility of being rebelled, this is to be carefully selected.

At the same time, in order to prevent yourself from being clumsy and seeing the wrong horse thief, you must also take certain measures to control the people that the horse thief cares about, so as to achieve the goal of controlling the horse thief, and also do something to mislead the horse thief, so that the horse thief will take the lie as the truth.

There are as many as a dozen captured horse thieves outside the tent, and the first thing to do is to conduct a strict examination of these dozen or so people, find out their identities, whether there are still relatives alive, where the relatives are, and what the relationship with their relatives is.

If it is reviewed together, there will be situations where some people are afraid to speak, so it is necessary to conduct a quarantine review.

The specific review work was naturally handed over to his subordinates to complete, and Lao Guo only needed to wait, and by the way, he would visit some of the horse thieves' lairs and visit all the places that could be visited.

After leaving the big tent, Li An and Lao Guo went to visit the houses on both sides, and they visited each room one by one, not letting go of any room.

There is only one courtyard directly south of the lobby that is not too large, maybe for the sake of concealment! This is not easy to spot, and there are more houses on both sides, but slightly smaller.

Most of the houses in the far south are functional houses, while the houses in the north are residential houses.

For example, there are weapons rooms, firewood and grass rooms, storage rooms, kitchens, etc. in the south, and most of them are houses in the north, and in a slightly farther place on the east side, there are dense stables, these stables are only sheds and a wall, and the other three directions are ventilated, so that it is convenient to disperse the smell, after all, there are a large number of horses in the stables, if the ventilation is not good, the smell inside must be very unpleasant, and it is easy to cause the horses to get sick, and then cause real losses to the horse thieves.

At this time, there are a lot of horses in the stables, but these are basically not the horses of the horse thieves, but the horses of the Tang soldiers.

There are small warehouses next to the stables, which are used to store grass and fodder are the most favorite food for horses, pasture is very simple, it can be obtained in the wild, and the feed is mainly black beans and other grains, because the appetite of black beans is not very good, so it is used to feed horses.

In fact, the nutritional value of black beans is very high, and it is sought after by many people in later generations, and in the era of the Tang Dynasty, and even in the entire ancient society of China, black beans have always been used to feed horses, and people generally do not eat black beans, unless they are particularly poor, in the case of extreme hunger, they will choose to eat black beans.

There are a large number of black beans in the small warehouse next to the stable, Li An just entered one of the small warehouses, and saw a thousand catties of black beans, and the remaining pasture grass is also thousands of catties, and such a small warehouse, there are many in the horse thief's lair, and the black beans and pasture grass in it should be indispensable.

Black beans are naturally easy to preserve, and the grass must be dried before it can be preserved, otherwise it is easy to rot, however, when the grass is dried, it is also skillful, if the grass is too dry, the horses do not like to eat, and if the humidity is too large, it will cause serious mildew, and the horses will get sick if they eat.

The grass is generally more lush in summer and autumn, and it can be harvested and dried at this time, and after it is dried to a certain extent, it can be stored in the room.

Of course, this is not enough, it also needs to be checked regularly, if it is found that there is obvious moisture inside the accumulated grass, then it is necessary to take these grasses to the sun and then dry, and the moisture inside the grass must be dried.

Therefore, breeding is not an easy thing, every step must be carefully prepared, any small negligence may cause serious consequences, even unbearable serious consequences.

It is precisely because breeding is hard and tiring that the horse thieves who are responsible for taking care of these horses are the lowest status horse thieves, and they do the dirtiest and most tiring work, but they are the least paid.

And this time, most of the horse thieves who were captured were the lowest status at first glance, and their stature was obviously not as strong as the horse thieves captured in the ruins of the old White City, and even looked a little thin, but the calluses in some areas of their bodies were obvious, which was enough to show that they worked a lot.

In any group is hierarchical, hierarchy exists in the animal kingdom, not to mention the high human society, the horse thief group is also a group, and the hierarchy naturally should exist.

And it is also because these captured horse thieves are the lowest horse thieves and have not been taken seriously for a long time, so Li An can rest assured and boldly rebel against them, so that they can serve themselves and help themselves deal with the remaining horse thieves.

Li An personally put his hand into the inside of the pasture, and personally felt it, the inside of these grasses was dry, and he couldn't feel any moisture, and grabbed a piece of grass at will, but found that the grass was very green and soft, not like hay at all, so these grasses are all high-quality forage grass that is very well dried, and it also shows from the side that the horse thief who is responsible for drying the grass is level, and such a horse thief has a high plasticity, as long as he returns to normal society, with his own hard-working spirit, he will soon be able to adapt to normal society, And those horse thieves who know all day long to go out to rob, although they are very strong, but the level of farm work is not high, it is difficult for them to adapt to normal society, and they must spend great efforts to reform.

"Lao Guo! Look at these grasses, and then look at the neat furnishings in this house, these horsemen in the den of horse thieves are not simple! They are all good talents, and it would be a shame to feed horses to horse thieves. ”

Li An put down a lump of grass in his hand and sighed.

Lao Guo is naturally an expert, he has never left horses in his life, he has been extremely familiar with horses since he was a child, and he is clear about every step of raising horses, so he only needs to look at it to know whether the horse breeder is professional, he is much more powerful than Li Anke.

"It is true that they are all good talents, and there is no problem in joining the army in the future, as long as they are willing to reform themselves, I am willing to give them a chance."

Lao Guo is also a person with a strong love for talents, for talented people, naturally unwilling to miss, moreover, these people who have been horse thieves, when they return to normal society, will inevitably be discriminated against, in case of returning to the old business, it will not be good, and there will not be so many problems when entering the army.

After all, in ancient times, there was a kind of punishment called confiscation, a person who committed a crime, can be forcibly sent into the barracks, so that this person can have a chance to make meritorious service, and the person who confiscated the army will definitely not serve in the capital and prosperous areas, so there is no punitive meaning, and in these prosperous places in the capital, there is no opportunity to make meritorious service in the capital, so the best place to confiscate the army is the border pass, and the general confiscation of the army is to send prisoners to the border to serve as soldiers.

And the army under Lao Guo is the border army, and there are many prisoners who have violated the law and have been confiscated into the army, and even some young generals are former confiscated criminals who have been promoted after meritorious service, so he does not discriminate against prisoners at all, as long as they can reform themselves, Lao Guo will give them a chance.

"To have a general like Lao Guo is really a blessing for these horse thieves! Don't worry, these horse thieves are all for you, as long as you can see them, take them all! ”

Ang Lee said with a smile.

After all, there is still some smell in the stable, and it is not a good smell, so Ang Lee naturally will not stay in the stable area for too long, who will be bored enough to go to the stable to play, and besides, there is nothing fun in the stable.

After getting out of the stable, Ang Lee and Lao Guo walked to the northernmost cave, which was more hidden and a good place to hide important supplies.

At this moment, five or six officers and soldiers stood at the door of the cave, saw Lao Guo and Li An, and hurriedly saluted.

"What's in the cave?"

Lao Guo asked.

"General, most of it is grain, tens of thousands of catties, and in addition, there are some sundries."

The soldier reported.

"Haha! It turned out to be a grain store, and I had to go and see it. ”

Lao Guo walked in with a smile, and Ang Lee followed.

The cave is deep and narrow, but when you go inside, the space seems a little opener, and the further you go inside, the more open it becomes.

The openness of the space is secondary, the key is that the environment inside is very good, the temperature outside is still a little cold, and the temperature in the cave is very warm, which makes people very comfortable in it.

This is the case with caves, which are cool in the summer and warm in the winter, making them warm in winter and cool in summer, making them an excellent place to cool off and escape the cold.

In summer, the air is very hot, the surface temperature is also very high, and the underground temperature is much lower, and the cave can also be understood as underground, the temperature inside will naturally be much lower than the outside, and in winter, the outside temperature is very cold, and the underground temperature is relatively high, the cave will naturally be very warm.

"Wow, what a big cave! These should be all food, it's a lot, look at what kind of food. ”

Li An said as he walked over to the grain bags one by one and stroked them with his hand.

There is no need to open the bag, nor do you need to make a cut on the bag, as long as you gently touch the bag, Ang Lee can know what grain is in the bag.

Because these bags are very thin, you can feel what kind of grain is in them with a light touch of your hand, as long as you are a farmer who works a lot, you have this ability.