Eight hundred horses is a great fortune, but it is a lot more trouble to travel with it.

Next, the family unloaded their baggage from the cart and began to set up the tent. There were more than 10 carts accompanying him, which were used to transport baggage.

While the soldiers were working, Dong Ce suddenly heard a terrible cry from the direction of Ningzhou City.

Dong Ce hurriedly looked, but saw a large number of people kneeling at the gate of Ningzhou City, and on the city wall, there were many defenders with bows and arrows, shooting downward. Many of the homeless people were shot by arrows, crying one by one, and the others were frightened, so they quickly got up and ran out in terror. A man who looked like an officer was standing on the rampart, yelling at himself.

Dong Ce's brows furrowed, and his expression was cold.

He can guess what is going on. It must have been the exiles under the city who asked to enter the city, but the defenders at the head of the city not only did not allow it, but shot them with arrows.

Seeing this scene, Dong Ce's teeth creaked, his face was hideous, and he clenched his fists fiercely. However, in the end, Dong Ce could only sigh deeply, and then turned away.

It is impossible for him to turn against the Ningzhou defenders, who are also members of the Ming army, because of these displaced people, and now this way of dealing with the displaced people, from the imperial court to the local officials, has almost acquiesced. Along the way, are there still fewer people who treat displaced people like this? Is there only one place in Ningzhou?

In the system of the Ming bureaucracy, Dong Ce was also powerless, so he felt that his heart was pressed like a big stone, and his body seemed to be entangled with layers of desire, which made him breathless. He only felt that his body was stagnant, and it was difficult to move around!

That's why he made a big wish, to punch and kick, and shatter the shackles up and down!

When everyone settled down, Dong Ce sent people to find out the news, these displaced people came from all over the world, and gathered the information in their mouths, and they could roughly have a certain understanding of the situation in front of them.

For example, Bai Yiqing, Liu Ruozai and other high-ranking officials, every once in a while, they can get a special military report, which gives a very detailed description of the current situation and even some war situations. But Dong Ce's current status is not up to this level, and he is now on the march, and he can't go to Liu Ruozai to borrow it, and now Dong Ce is very urgent need for information.

In order not to let his eyes be blackened, he sent a large number of people to find out the news everywhere he went, otherwise, he might not even know the names of those Ming Dynasty generals who were almost completely wiped out in Xiangle Town, Ningzhou!

In the evening, the people who went out to inquire about the news came back one after another, and the news gathered on Dong Ce's desk. The rest of the soldiers had already fallen asleep, but he was reading the information in his tent. Most of the information was useless, and he glanced at it and tossed it aside, but one of them caught his attention.

This news was learned by the people who went out to inquire from the mouths of several displaced people from Xi'an Prefecture in Shaanxi Province, and these displaced people ran all the way from Xi'an Mansion to this place is considered to have run quite far, and they told the people who went to inquire that they saw a large army on the official road on the way over, and these armies were all cavalry, and they were very well equipped, and the people in them were all fierce and vicious, and a glance at people seemed to be able to scare people to death. The number of this cavalry army is also extremely large, there are two or three thousand people, and this news aroused Dong Ce's idea.

A light flashed in his heart, and he immediately realized that he was afraid that there was a rather important person in that cavalry ranks. In the Ming Dynasty, cavalry is quite rare, and a cavalry army with a scale of more than two or three thousand people is quite rare in Shaanxi, and even in the entire Ming Dynasty, that is, Liaozhen Jizhen has such a strength to form. And in the northwest region, in the three towns of Shaanxi, there is only one person with such a cavalry team under his command.

That is Cao Wenzhao.

Cao Wenzhao is a general under Hong Chengchou, and his team has more than 3,000 people, all of whom are cavalry. According to the descriptions of those homeless people, this team must be Cao Wenzhao's.

Thinking of this, Dong Ce's heart suddenly felt cold, and he patted his knees with hatred, and his face was a little gloomy. He remembered that according to the progress of history, in the eighth year of Chongzhen, after Ai Wannian, the deputy chief soldier of Gushan, and others were killed in battle, Cao Wenzhao led more than 3,000 cavalry from Shaanxi to Gansu in order to avenge them.

As a result, he was ambushed by the rogues, the ambushes were everywhere, Cao Wenzhao committed suicide, and this cavalry force, which was considered the most elite in the entire northwest, was also killed.

As for the specific location of the ambush, Dong Ce can't remember.

He immediately gave an order for his subordinates to bring in the homeless people and prepare to inquire carefully.

After about half an hour, several homeless people were brought over, and they were all quite anxious, and their eyes were full of fear, and they did not know what they had suddenly brought here. This is also normal, anyone who is asleep but is suddenly woken up and taken to a strange place, and there are soldiers wearing armor and holding sharp blades around him, and he will be afraid in his heart.

Bai Zhongqi brought the person to Dong Ce's tent and said in a low voice: "My lord, the person has been brought." ”

Dong Ce waved his hand, Bai Zhongqi understood, and quietly retreated, lowering the curtain of the big tent.

Dong Ce looked at the homeless people, he stood up and said with a gentle expression: "Don't be afraid, this official asked someone to bring you here, just to ask you something, and there is no other meaning." ”

These homeless people were a family, one boy and one girl, two in the prime of life, and two boys of thirteen or fourteen years old. The middle-aged man quickly knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and said, "Master, if you have anything to ask, the little one will definitely tell you." ”

Seeing him kneeling, the other three also knelt down, Dong Ce helped them up and smiled gently: "Don't be so restrained. ”

After a pause, he said the questions he had just thought of one by one and asked them to answer.

For example, how is that army equipped, what is it like? How many people are there? After all, two thousand or three thousand, the gap is quite large. Where are they going? Did you hear a few words from their conversation?

The man in the prime of life knew everything and told everything he knew, and Dong Ce also got a lot of valuable information. A quarter of an hour later, the question was almost over, and Dong Ce asked Bai Zhongqi to get them some silver taels, which was regarded as a reward. The family couldn't help but leave with a thousand thanks.

Dong Ce got the information he wanted from these people, and after thinking about it all night, early the next morning, he ordered everyone to set off immediately. It's just that the direction they were going in before was southeast, because Ningzhou, Qingyang Prefecture, was just north of Guanzhong, and Dong Ce's original plan was to go south from this place to enter Guanzhong, go around Chengcheng County, and then go from Guandong. But Dong Ce suddenly ordered to change the direction of his advance, and no longer went to the south but to the southeast.

From Ningzhou to the southeast, there is a city less than a hundred miles ahead, called Zhenning.