Dong Ce answered, walked around to Liu Ruozai, and looked at the table.

That scroll is a map, in later generations, Dong Ce is no stranger to the map of the Ming Dynasty, I don't know how many times, is this map into the eye, he can see, this is roughly the northwest region, including the Shanxi political envoy division, Shanxi Xingdu Division, Shanxi political envoy division, Shanxi Xingdu Division.

The map area is not small, and it occupies most of the desktop. Compared with the map of the Ming Dynasty drawn by later generations, this map is much rougher and simpler, but the general outline is correct, and in Dong Ce's opinion, there is no error in the labeling of the routes, mountains, rivers, and military forts of the city guards.

Overall, this level of drawing is already very good.

In this era, the map is a heavy weapon of the military state, and it is easy not to show it, and Liu Ruozai is willing to give it to him, which shows his trust.

"Let's take a look, how we should go from Zhenhe Fort to Suzhou." Liu Ruozai now clicked on the location of Zhenhe Fort on the map, and then clicked on Suzhou Wei.

Dong Ce glanced at it and sighed. If you want to say that this errand has been completed, the credit must be great, but the difficulty is also big enough, not to mention anything else, the distance alone is enough for people to eat a pot.

The destination they want to go to is the big grass beach outside Jiayu Pass, so they have to go to Jiayu Pass first, and Jiayu Pass is in Suzhou Wei, which is the northwest corner of the entire Shaanxi Xingdu Division, and it is also the northwesternmost corner of the entire Ming Dynasty. Zhenhe Fort is at the northern end of Shanxi, from Zhenhebao to Jiayuguan, I am afraid that there are always four thousand miles up and down.

Four thousand miles! It's eight thousand miles back and forth! Even if they are all carriage cavalry, it will take dozens of days to become successful, and people don't know what it's like to think about it.

Dong Ce stared at the map carefully, and after a while, he had some ideas.

"My lord, in the opinion of the last general, if we go west, there are roughly two routes."

Dong Ce looked at Liu Ruozai and said in a deep voice: "The first line is called South Road by his subordinates. We can go directly south from Hebei Road, take Datong, then enter Taiyuan Mansion, then go to Fenzhou, then take Pingyang Mansion, and enter Shaanxi from Tongguan. Enter Xi'an Mansion, and then follow the Silk Road to the northwest, go to Fengxiang Mansion, go to Gongchang Mansion, go to Lintao Mansion, enter Shaanxi Xingdu Division, and then go to Xining Wei and so on, until Suzhou Wei. ”

"The second route is that we go southwest from Zhenhebao, take Datong Zuowei, Pingyuwei, Hequ, cross the Yellow River from Baodezhou, arrive at Fugu, enter Yulinwei from Yan'an Mansion, and go all the way to the west along the military fort south of the border wall of Yansui Town. Then from Ningxia Town to Lintao Mansion, and then into Shaanxi Xingdu Division, the next route is the same as the first one. ”

"The biggest difference between the two routes is mainly in Shanxi and Shaanxi, one is almost through Shanxi from north to south, and then goes west through Guanzhong, through the south of Shaanxi. The second is that as long as you go half of Shanxi, in Shaanxi, it runs through the northern part of Shaanxi, and it is not extremely long. According to the general's estimates, the second line will be at least 800 to 1,000 miles shorter. ”

In fact, there is a third road, this road is closer, that is, according to the route of the second road to arrive at Yansui Town, and then go to Yinchuan, from Yinchuan to the west, after crossing the Yellow River again, all the way out of the border wall, to the territory of the Mongols, and then straight through it, to the northwest, you can directly reach outside Jiayu Pass.

But Dong Ce didn't mention this at all, he knew that what he said was in vain. The route is fairly close, but a large section is in Mongolia. Their group, hundreds of cavalry, was not a small man, and it was a considerable sin to cross the border wall and enter enemy territory without permission. Once someone is caught and sued in front of the emperor, even if the emperor has the intention to protect him, there is no way.

Liu Ruozai categorically would not do this.

"Well, that makes sense."

Liu Ruozai nodded and praised.

He looked at it for a moment, wrinkled his brows and asked, "Now that Shaanxi is at war, you say, which of these two roads is safer?" ”

He wanted to do a good job this time, but he didn't want to have more rights and wrongs, he just wanted to arrive in Gansu as soon as possible and come back as soon as he did his errand.

"From the point of view of the last general, these two roads are not easy to walk." Dong Ce looked at the map and said with a wry smile: "You should also know that after the Chinese New Year, in the land of Henan in Shaanxi, the rogue is rampant and unscrupulous. Some time ago, the Liukou returned to Shaanxi again, and now in the land of Guanzhong, the Liukou are almost everywhere. ”

The eight years of Chongzhen were not a good year for the Ming Dynasty.

Just after the Chinese New Year, in the first month, the rebels broke Fengyang and dug up the ancestral graves of the old Zhu family, shocking the world. Emperor Chongzhen cried when he heard the letter, and felt shameless to face his ancestors. The rebel army swept through the Central Plains, and the number of thieves was in the millions, and its power expanded dramatically. Hong Chengchou was ordered to lead the Shaanxi soldiers out of Tongguan to encircle and suppress, but as a result, he came out on the front foot, and the peasant army returned to Shaanxi from Tongguan. Hong Chengchou had no choice but to lead the army back to Shaanxi.

But according to Dong Ce's memory, it should have been in April of the eighth year of Chongzhen, and now Hong Chengchou's army is still in Henan, the land of Guanzhong in southern Shaanxi, but it is still the world of the peasant army.

"Governor Hong was ordered to encircle and suppress, but the Liukou is cunning, Lord Hong and his elite Qin soldiers are still in Henan, after he learns the news, he will definitely return to Shaanxi, when the time comes, it will definitely be a chaotic battle. If the official army has the upper hand, then the Liukou will not be able to go to Yansui Town in northern Shaanxi, Ningxia Town, or even Xiningwei in the west, if the two sides are equal or the Liukou have the upper hand, then Guanzhong is still erosive, and the Liukou may not be able to divide their troops to the north and west. Therefore, this situation is really too difficult to say. The subordinates did not dare to speak falsely. ”

Dong Ce's words made Liu Ruozai impressed with him again. He used to know that Dong Ce could fight and train soldiers, but later he knew that he was literate and could govern the people, which could already be regarded as both civil and military. But today, I realized another side of Dong Ce - it turns out that this young man has such a good view of the overall situation!

He just analyzed the current situation of the official army and the rogues, and analyzed the battle situation in Henan and Shaanxi.

"He's a talent!"

Liu Ruozai sighed with emotion, and had already made up his mind in his heart, after coming back this time, he must write a good book to give him good words, so that he can be grateful to himself and hold this talent in his sleeve.

But for now, the most important thing is to decide which route to take.

Liu Ruozai sat on the chair, wrinkling his brows and pondering for a long time, he suddenly patted the table and said loudly: "Just take the north road!" Since both sides are equally dangerous, pick up the one that is close to you. Even if the rogue flows north, how many can come? Besides, there are also hundreds of thousands of troops in Yansui Town and Ningxia Town, is it just an ornament? ”

"Yes, my subordinates understand." Dong Ce hurriedly responded, but he secretly slandered himself in his heart.

Governor Hong Chengchou was the governor of the five provinces of Shaanxi before, and before that he was the governor of Yansui, the most elite soldiers in Shaanxi were all taken out by him, and now the soldiers who stay in Yansui Town and Ningxia Town may still have more than 100,000 on paper, but how much combat effectiveness can there be? There is simply no evidence.

……

Coming out of the Bingbei Dao Mansion, it was already late at night, and the stars were shining, dotting the sky.

There was no way to go back now, so Dong Ce and the others found an inn in the city to stay, and left the city early the next morning.

But he didn't go back to Panshi Fort, but went to Anxiangdun.

Speaking of which, Dong Ce hasn't lived here for a while. Anxiangdun has completely changed. The camp in the Rock Fort has been completely completed, and although there are only about 50 of them now, the scale of the camp is not inferior to the camp of the Rock Fort Army. Mainly because there are many war horses, there needs to be a large enough place to walk the horses and build stables. The camp was surrounded by a high wall, made of wood and stone, not the wooden fence of the Rock Fort military camp. Sitting north and facing south in the camp are four rows of barracks, a total of 40 large rooms, enough to accommodate more than 500 families. Instead, it should be placed in front of the horse walking field, and the other three sides of the horse walking field are stables and some other supporting measures.

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