Of course, these are just a plan in Dong Ce's heart, he has never told others, but he will secretly plan and think about its feasibility in the dead of night.

Wait until the time is right before you can start implementing it.

And once this place prospered, the valley prospered, and then a military fort was built here, and a few soldiers were stationed, then this trade route could be directly controlled in your hands, and gold and silver really rolled in.

Build a military fort and garrison soldiers, and there are natural advantages here.

The last time Dong Ce came, he had already observed that the soil in this valley is deep, suitable for farming, and there is a river flowing through it, and there is no concern about water shortage. This valley is not small, twenty-five or six miles long from north to south, and almost ten miles wide from east to west, and the terrain in the valley is flat, so it is not a problem to produce tens of thousands of acres of land in such a large valley.

Once there are enough people to farm here, it will not only be able to support itself, but also feed thousands of soldiers.

And once there is a military fort in the valley here, and there are thousands of soldiers in the military fort, then if anyone wants to go from the north of the mountain to the south of the mountain through the river valley, it will not be so comfortable. The existence of this military fort will be like a thorn in the back, making the troops passing through the river valley feel extremely uncomfortable.

For example, Jiannu.

If they want to pass smoothly, they must first pull out this military fort.

But is this nail good to pull?

Dong Ce looked at the terrain of the valley mouth and just smiled slightly.

The valley is shaped like a shuttle lying diagonally, the valley is very large, but the mouth of the valley is very small, and the two mountains are sandwiched, like two protruding arms, and the side facing the official road of the valley is a steep cliff. The width of the valley mouth is only about a dozen zhang.

If a tall wall had been built at the mouth of the valley and a few small attached fortresses had been built on the hills on either side, it would have been possible to defend it with only a small number of men.

Want to beat it down? That would have to pay the price of blood!

Dong Ce exhaled softly, he stroked his forehead and twisted his temples, as if to expel these thoughts from his brain.

I don't know why, when I came here, all these things popped up.

He laughed, these are all shadowless things, and it is the right thing to take care of the present first.

Squinting his eyes and looking ahead, the large army of the infantry army had already passed through the valley mouth. At this time, they were no longer in a long snake formation, and the space in the valley was large, so Shi Jin made them change to a formation similar to a phalanx. The first killer team is walking in the first row, the team is walking on the far left and protruding a step, the second killer team is in the second row, and so on.

The householders, on the other hand, had already entered the valley a quarter of an hour earlier, fearing that by this time the valley would have been filled.

They wanted to find out if the Hutou Cottage had planted an ambush somewhere in the valley.

In the march and battle, Dong Ce has never been afraid of taking risks, and is even a little happy to do so, but that is when there is no way. And once he has the advantage, grasps the initiative, and only needs to take a solid step by step to win, then Dong Ce will be extremely cautious and will not let go of a detail.

If someone is attacked from behind when you attack the cottage later, it's not a joke.

The infantry marched forward slowly but firmly, not only the white pockmarks on the platform, but also Hou Jiawei hidden in the dense forest, and they all saw the moving red rectangular block.

"Master, those dog officers and soldiers are coming quickly, if we don't leave, we will be entangled by them, maybe we won't be able to leave."

Hou Jing persuaded on the side.

Hou Jiawei and all the family members have already ridden their horses, packed up, and can leave as soon as he gives an order.

Everyone could already see that several knights were riding towards this side, and they were not very fast, and seemed to search as they went, but it would not take long to find this side.

Time is indeed running out.

Regardless of whether it was Hou Jiawei or Hou Jing, when they saw the formation of the officers and soldiers, they couldn't help but jump in their hearts.

Hou Jiawei was more fortunate in his heart, fortunately he had just listened to Hou Jing's words, otherwise, now he was trapped in the cottage, and he really had to wait for death.

Seeing the formation of the officers and soldiers, neither of them thought that the horse thieves had any chance of winning.

"Let's go!"

Hou Jiawei looked at it for a while, and said expressionlessly.

Everyone turned around, Hou Jiawei turned his head, looked back at the majestic and tall Hutou Mountain, and sighed.

The people rode their horses to the northeast, beat their horses and galloped away.

It was Dong Zhongkang's team who was searching for this side, they were riding on horses, the long grass on the ground was too long, and their war horses were all small Mongolian horses, and it was the long grass that almost reached the position of the horse's belly. This is actually quite dangerous, the grass on the ground is so long, there is no problem in hiding a person, if it really breaks out, it is impossible to prevent it.

They were very careful, and the spears in their hands kept poking forward, tossing and turning in the grass to make sure there were no hidden enemies.

At this time, suddenly seven or eight cavalry sprang out of the large forest in front of the right, all the way to the northeast.

Everyone was startled, those people went quickly, and disappeared in a blink of an eye. Dong Zhongyong looked at Dong Zhongkang: "Big brother, can we chase after it?" ”

"Where else can I catch up?"

Dong Zhongkang replied angrily and said, "Let's search first, you go and report to the adult." ”

"Yes." Dong Zhongyong replied and beat the horse back.

This is also Dong Zhongkang's promotion of him, in order to let him show more in front of Dong Ce, if strictly speaking, going back to report the news can be regarded as a credit.

Dong Zhongyong arrived in front of the army and told Dong Ce carefully, Dong Ce pondered for a long time, and he was a little uncertain in his heart.

Listening to the report, it can be assumed that the men had been hiding in the woods all along, only to see that the searchers were approaching them before they fled. So where did they come from? What is the purpose of hiding in the woods?

"Forget it, don't worry about it."

Dong Ce waved his hand and ordered: "Go back and tell Dong Zhongkang that they don't have to care, just search carefully." In addition, the forest should also be searched. ”

Dong Ce will not bother to calculate things that can only be guessed and uncertain, because the information obtained is too little, and the more careful and serious the speculation, the easier it is to be far from the truth.

Dong Zhongyong answered and went by himself.

After another stick of incense, the large army of infantry arrived at the foot of Hutou Mountain.

At the foot of Hutou Mountain, there is a small river meandering through, and in the gap between the river and the foot of the mountain, there is a narrow open space about 100 zhang wide from north to south, and this flat land has been reclaimed by the horse thieves into a considerable area of cultivated land. Looking at the scale of thirty or forty acres, and it seems that the wheat is also planted, the ground is a little green at this time, and it is the first green seedlings.

I don't know when the cultivated land was opened, but it is estimated that the Hutou cottage at that time was really unfazable. Otherwise, they would not have sold their coolies to farm their own land.

Due to the direction of the river, the soldiers did not have to cross the river to reach the cultivated fields.

To the north of this cultivated land, there is a small village. When there was a patrol, the place where the patrol rested was in this small village.

There are only a dozen adobe houses in the village, and although there are few of them, it is a sheltered area. However, Dong Ce did not let the soldiers enter the village. Once in the village, the team is divided into sections, and it is inconvenient to assemble, and in case of emergency, the response becomes very slow. Although he knew that Bai Mazi probably didn't expect this layer, Dong Ce still had to take precautions, what if Bai Mazi suddenly led people down the mountain to sneak attack, or arranged an ambush in the forest on the hillside?

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