Running wildly all the way, Zheng Peng launched a search while hurrying, and it took half a day to arrive at Wada Village.

The reaction was very fast, but no miracle appeared, and the incident in Wo'er Village was repeated again, with corpses all over the field and devastation.

Seeing Zheng Peng coming, Guo Ziyi shook his head at Zheng Peng, saying that there was no gain.

"Li Qianqi, have you gained anything?" Zheng Peng asked Li Xiancheng, who was commanding at the scene.

"No" Li Xiancheng said in a hoarse voice: "It's strange to say, everyone will reinforce at full speed as soon as they see the alarm, there is no delay on the way, those people seem to be tricks, no, the people in Khotan's northern camp found a group of bandits, and when they chased to a canyon halfway through, they were ambushed, killing and wounding nearly 200 people, and when they gathered people to find them again, this group of people had fled into the territory of Tibet." ”

Zheng Peng said with a wry smile: "It's a failure again." ”

"There is no way, the land here is vast and sparsely populated, and the border line is long, so it is too easy for the enemy to take advantage of the loopholes." Li Xiancheng said with a wry smile.

After a pause, Li Xiancheng added: "The bandits are all on horseback, they are very fast, and the incident point is far away from the station, and now I can finally understand that it is not easy for General Tang." ”

The terrain and defense range of the Western Regions are too different from those in the Forbidden Garden, in the past, in the Forbidden Garden, it was not a problem to patrol ten times a day or eight times a day on that one-acre and three-point land, but in the Western Regions, if you really want to patrol once, it is estimated that it will take ten days and half a month, and you will not get lost.

Zheng Peng pointed to the front and said: "As soon as Cao Cao is said, Cao Cao will arrive, look, it is the handsome banner of General Tang." ”

Li Xiancheng looked up and saw that it was really Tang Kuan's handsome banner.

I didn't expect him to come too.

After some etiquette, Tang Kuan watched the scene while understanding the situation, he was very personable, and he couldn't help but scold several times halfway, and called Zheng Peng, Li Xiancheng, Guo Ziyi and several deputy generals aside, and said a little heavily: "Everyone, you have seen everything, so don't mention it, and if you have any good suggestions, let's talk about it." ”

"It's too rampant, catch them, you must cut them with a thousand knives."

"I've seen shameless, but I've never seen such shameless, and I will only attack the defenseless people."

"This group of people, I don't know how much of their real ability to fight a war is, but this ability to escape and harm people is really not small."

When everyone was scolding, Tang Kuan interrupted and said: "Enough, what I want to listen to now is how to deal with this group of scum, not to let you scold them, understand?" ”

Recently, the bandits have been very active, the tragedy of Wo'er Village only happened three days ago, and now another Wada Village was slaughtered, Tang Kuan didn't know how to write a song, and his mood suddenly became irritable.

An adjutant general named Hong Ming said: "We can't let this gang of bandits continue to run rampant, general, and my subordinates suggest that patrols be strengthened so as not to give the enemy a loophole." ”

Tang Kuan waved his hand, frowned and said: "Patrols are indeed indispensable, there are many places to patrol, the land is vast and sparsely populated, this month, in addition to Wo'er Village and Wada Village, which has just been attacked, there are five patrol teams ambushed, more than twenty dead and wounded scouts, patrolling is only a method, but it cannot be cured." ”

Li Xiancheng hesitated for a moment and said: "It is not safe outside the city, and it also increases the difficulty of the defense of the soldiers, General Tang, why not move the people outside the city into the city, and then the bandits will have no target if they want to attack." ”

"Inappropriate" Tang Kuan immediately vetoed: "The cities in the Western Regions are not as good as the prosperous Central Plains, the scale is small, the acceptance capacity is limited, the vast majority of the wealth of the people in the Western Regions is livestock, livestock is the most valuable wealth of the people in the Western Regions, ordinary herdsman families also have thousands of livestock, where can they be crowded, and many people are not willing to leave their homeland easily." ”

Everyone put forward a few more suggestions, but Tang Kuan vetoed them one by one.

"General Tang, in a foolish opinion, we have to change our strategy." Guo Ziyi suddenly spoke.

Tang Kuan saw that the person who spoke was Guo Ziyi, and immediately said, "I don't know what Guo Baiqi thinks?" ”

Guo Ziyi said loudly: "All along, we are thinking about how to find this gang of bandits, how to eliminate them, after nearly a year of lessons, this strategy is not effective, the main reason is that the enemy is too cunning, good at calculation, there may be a lot of intelligence support, plus the land is vast and sparsely populated, even if tens of thousands of people are scattered in the vast suburbs, it is difficult to have any effect, there are many people, and the bandits are scared before they arrive, and there are few people and they are afraid of the bandits' attack, so people lead the nose away." ”

"To change the situation, we should first start with a change in strategy, first give up the idea of finding this group of people as soon as possible and exterminating this group of people, and switch from offense to defense, such as making the garrison camp more reasonable and expanding the scope of protection; It is very difficult for the people outside the city to move into the city, but the villages and tribes outside the city can be grouped together as much as possible, the nomadic tribes can graze together as much as possible, the small villages can temporarily live in the big towns, and the young and strong people from several neighboring villages can form a defense team, and the bandits can resist and delay time when they come, so as to create favorable conditions for us to surround and exterminate the bandits. ”

"What if the bandits don't show up or run away?" A general named Jiang Yu said suspiciously.

Guo Ziyi said in a deep voice: "If you don't show up, the people of Datang can rest assured, and you don't need to increase casualties, as for running away, it may not be necessary, everyone knows that this gang of bandits, unlike robbing houses and houses, seems to be deliberately making trouble and pulling hatred, and they don't leave after tossing for so long, they must have their purpose, and they will definitely not give up easily before they achieve their goal." ”

Hong Ming said a little depressedly: "Guo Baiqi's analysis is very correct, the question is, are we too depressed in this way, and we won't fight back just by being beaten?" ”

Zheng Peng, who had never spoken, suddenly said: "Not really, in addition to defense, we also have to wait for the opportunity to move, and if we find an opportunity, we will give him a head-on attack." ”

"Zheng Qianqi, tell me what you think." Tang Kuan gestured while talking to silence everyone.

Liancheng is so strong, known as the first pass in the Western Regions, Zheng Peng said that he would take it, I don't know how many good sons of the Tang Dynasty were saved, and I don't know how many families were saved from grief.

Like Li Longji's point of view, Tang Kuan regarded Zheng Peng as a lucky star.

Zheng Peng smiled indifferently: "General Tang, do you remember the hot air balloon used to attack Liancheng?" ”

"Remember" Tang Kuan said with some surprise: "The problem is, we don't even know where the enemy is, so what's the use of having a hot air balloon?" ”

"Useful" Zheng Peng explained: "Hot air balloons can help siege cities, but also help defend cities, we all say that climbing high and looking far away, you can send people to release hot air balloons at high places, so that you can monitor a larger area, and you can also find enemies faster." ”

Tang Kuan said with some pity: "Zheng Peng's suggestion is very good, it is good to climb high and look far, the problem is that the world is vast and infinite, and people's eyesight is poor, and they can't see far." ”

It's not just about standing tall to see far, in addition to the height, you also need factors such as the weather and the size of the target.

In the pure air, the human eye can see a candle 27 kilometers away. You can see ships from 16~25 kilometers away from the sea. If you are on the top of a high mountain, your vision can expand to 320 kilometers. If you look up at the starry sky, you can see artificial satellites 1,000 kilometers away, and you can also see constellations that are tens to thousands of meters away.

Zheng Peng said confidently: "General Tang, I am confident that I can solve this problem. ”