When Dong Ce heard this, he couldn't help but be shocked.

Only now, the scouts he sent out had found a thousand rogues, which was already quite a large team. Dong Ce is also very clear about the details of the rogues, although they often claim to be hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and even once claimed to have two million, but their elite strength is only tens of thousands. And among the tens of thousands of rogues, how many cavalry are there? Twenty thousand or thirty thousand?

The maximum is not more than 50,000.

According to Dong Ce's guess, Ding Potian is this number, and it is the total number of the various departments of the Liukou.

And now, so many cavalry have been found here, so many rogue cavalry hedgehogs are gathered here, what are they going to do?

There is only one possibility - they are preparing to ambush Cao Wenzhao.

In the evening, Dong Ce was sure that his guess was indeed correct. With the return of this afternoon, the number of rogue cavalry found around Zhenning County reached tens of thousands. Ten thousand is the most conservative number, it can only be more, and it can never be less.

Dong Ce couldn't help but secretly rejoice, thanks to the fact that he led people to retreat to the north bank of Lushui in advance, these rogue cavalry were basically found on the south bank of Lushui, that is to say, their sphere of influence only reached Lushui, and did not set foot on the north bank of Lushui. Dong Ce had already guessed that there should be a considerable number of rogues here, but he didn't expect that it would be all rogue cavalry, and there were so many of them, if he didn't retreat to the north bank of Lushui in time, but handed over a rogue team and was entangled, and then surrounded by a large army of rogues, he was afraid that there would be no more than a few of the three or four hundred people left under his hands.

Dong Ce's heart gradually sank, and the number of Liukou's troops was far more elite than he had expected.

Seeing that it was getting late, Dong Ce ordered to camp on the north bank of Lushui. This is still relatively safe, after all, there is a lushui in the middle, although the lushui is very shallow, it can be said that the horse can be beaten, but after all, it can still delay the enemy. Moreover, he sent a large number of scouts to the south bank of Lushui, and if the enemy made any disturbances—such as gathering forces to attack his side—Dong Ce would know at once.

On the evening of the same day, Dong Ce sat alone in the tent. In front of him, he drew a map of the surrounding areas of Zhenning County with a charcoal pen, and then he marked the places where the Liukou cavalry was found. And the reason for this is because in the southern part of Zhenning County, the scouts under his command haven't had time to go anywhere.

If he goes, Dong Ce estimates that he will also find a large number of rogue cavalry in the south.

In other words, this Zhenning County has simply become a huge urn.

Dong Ce thought for a long time and asked himself where he should go.

The enemy's strength is far beyond imagination, and if he is not careful, he will sink in the sand here, not only will all the troops in his hands be destroyed, but he is afraid that others will also die on the battlefield. At this time, facing tens of thousands of rogue cavalry was completely different from facing the tens of thousands of intrusive troops in Chengcheng County, because it was defending the city at that time and now it is a field battle. The difference between defending the city and fighting in the field is too great, and sometimes the situation is a world of difference with or without the support of that city wall. And although there were a large number of invading troops he faced at that time, most of them had little combat effectiveness, and there were only a small number of elites, but now all of them were elite intruders in front of him.

The next day, Dong Ce simply didn't move again, and still stayed here. It's just that he sent more people south of Lushui to find out the news.

The news came back one by one, and he had a more intuitive and clear understanding of the situation, and the clearer he knew, the more desperate he became. Now the number of rogue cavalry found by the scouts in Zhenning County has reached at least 20,000, and this is only within a radius of these dozens of miles!

Now the density of the rogue cavalry around Zhenning County is quite large, so the scouts under Dong Ce's command have bumped into the rogue cavalry several times, fighting each other a few times, each with casualties, but in general, Dong Ce's side has some upper hand. The elites of the Chahar Department entered the state of war unexpectedly reconciled early, and they fought with the rogues under the leadership of the military chiefs who had war experience and were played by Dong Ce's original family, and they were not stage frightened. And after one or two such battles, these people who went to the battlefield for the first time became veterans!

About half of the scouts who had been released had seen the battle with the enemy, and when they returned to the camp, they were very excited to say that the elite of the Chahar tribe who had not yet fought the enemy were quite envious after hearing about it. They didn't have the slightest fear of emotion, but hoped that the adults would be gracious and let themselves out tomorrow, so that they could also fight with those rogue cavalry.

The soldiers were eager to fight, and Dong Ce knew it very well, but he had to strictly restrain them and let them have as little contact with the rogue cavalry as possible. After all, the more contact with the other party, the more fights, the more casualties there are, and his subordinates can't afford to wear out. Moreover, once there is more contact with more, the other party will be more clear about their details. And Dong Ce is now unwilling to let the other party find out the most detailed about himself.

He now guessed that the enemy should have known that such a cavalry suddenly appeared on the left, but it should not be clear who he is, but it should be certain that it is an officer and soldier.

Although he was restrained in words, Dong Ce still praised these elites of the Chahar Department in his heart.

The growth of these Chahar elites is gratifying, but Dong Ce is more worried about the current situation. More than 20,000 cavalry, my God, this is really too much, almost a hundred times the strength of his own troops!

In the next few days, Dong Ce stayed here and did not leave, and the information he got in the past few days and the mutual confirmation he had obtained before confirmed one thing - these rogues gathered here, and they really had a plan, and their target was very likely to be Cao Wenzhao.

Because, through these few days of contact, the other party must have known his existence, and even the specific location of the camp he set up was also clear. Because once, Dong Ce saw a rogue cavalry team on the south bank of Lushui from a distance at the gate of the camp, and looked over here, but they quickly left and didn't care about themselves.

In other words, the other party already knows his specific location, but no action has been taken against him.

Why didn't they do anything?

Then there is only one reason, that is, they have bigger plans, and Dong Ce is not put together by them at all. Who has such a great value in this realm? Only Cao Wenzhao is only. What Dong Ce urgently needs to do now is to determine the specific location of Cao Wenzhao, but unfortunately, the people he sent out found a lot of rogues, but none of them found Cao Wenzhao's allies.

This made Dong Ce very uneasy.

After pondering all night on the second night, Dong Ce finally decided to make a big deal. He decided to arrest an important person on the other side, at least at the level of a middle-level officer, and asked them who they were, what they were doing here, and what was their real purpose?