Chapter 899: Nine One Seven: Enemy Tracks
"Good!"
Dong Ce laughed loudly and personally pulled Alatan Ula up, and Alatan Ula also stood up, otherwise, with his weight of three or four hundred catties, and his extremely strong strength, even the three Dong Ce were afraid that they would not be able to drag him.
Dong Ce glanced at Alatan Ula, the corners of his mouth hooked slightly, and he chuckled in his heart: "Alatan Ula, if I can't subdue you with my means, then I'll find a piece of tofu and kill you." ”
After redistributing all the establishments, Dong Ce explained the tasks that he needed to do, such as that one of them was a scout. The three armies of this capital are all scouts, which means that when the army is marching and fighting, these three armies must be released.
These scouts are only available in the first, second, and third generals, and there are no in Dong Ce's direct headquarters.
A team of more than 350 people, three of them are nine soldiers, and the total of forty or fifty people is scouts. The number of scouts reached more than one-tenth of the total number, which was already quite a huge proportion.
In addition, after encamping every night, each of them had to send two to patrol the night, which added up to six and eighteen troops. These eighteen troops will be divided into two groups, one for the first half of the night and one for the second half of the night, so as to avoid negligence due to the fatigue of the soldiers who are too tired from patrolling the night.
In this way, Dong Ce has roughly laid out what his brand-new family team will do during the march and battle, as well as after setting up camp and returning to Rock Fort in the future.
By the time everything was said and done, it was already nightfall. Dong Ce waved his hand and let everyone disperse, and then returned to his camp.
Back in the tent, he took a branch and drew on the ground, and after a while, a map of the southern part of Qingyang Mansion was presented in front of him. This map is very rough, the mountains and rivers are just a few horizontal and vertical lines on it, and it is estimated that only Dong Ce himself can understand it, and it will only be confusing if someone else comes.
There's no way, Dong Ce really lacks everything in his hands now, and he can draw it like this, so he still relies on looking around, according to everyone's impression of this area, and blending all kinds of sayings together to draw such a thing. Due to everyone's cognition and knowledge, some statements are even very different, and for those who are really unclear, Dong Ce can only vaguely pass it. So there are quite a lot of errors in this map, but the overall is still fine, such as the two rivers between Ningzhou and Zhenning County. Dong Ce and the others are now on the north bank of the Jiulong River, and there is another river after the Jiulong River, called Lushui, and after the Lushui, it is not far from Zhenning County.
The branch in Dong Ce's hand clicked heavily on the south side of Lushui, which was the location of Zhenning County.
On the second day, the team continued its journey. Arriving at Lushui at about noon, Dong Ce once again experienced the devastated scene that was common in the late Ming Dynasty.
This area has the moisture of the Jiulong River and Lushui, which was originally quite rich, and you can also see along the way, there are quite a lot of towns and villages distributed here, densely populated, and the people are longitudinal and horizontal. As you can imagine, it was a fertile place not so long ago, but war has changed everything.
Most of the villages and towns have been burned to the ground, and even the displaced people are not much to see here. Because the people here have almost escaped if they can escape, and those who can't have escaped have been killed by the rogues and the official army. The bones almost filled the ravine, and the bones of corpses could be seen everywhere.
There are traces of war everywhere.
Dong Ce looked at it, only to feel that his heart was blocked for a while, like a big stone was stuffed.
After passing the Lushui, Dong Ce immediately became nervous and ordered the generals to disperse their respective scouts.
These dozens of scouts walked around the large army for more than ten miles, and within these ten miles, the slightest disturbance could not be concealed from them.
Sure enough, Dong Ce's vigilance worked, and about an hour after the scouts were dispersed, he was rewarded: a scout had spotted a stream of rogues in the southeast.
This immediately aroused Dong Ce's vigilance.
Then Dong Ce received reports from the scouts one after another, saying that they had also discovered the rogue.
After receiving this successive retribution, Dong Ce slapped his high-fives fiercely, and the uncomfortable emotions that had just risen were forcibly suppressed by him, making his emotions become invigorated and agitated.
Sure enough, the rogues were operating here, and the scouts they sent out in a short period of time had already found so many rogues, which showed that the total number of rogues here was definitely very large. Then there is an eighty percent chance that the battlefield reserved by the rogues for Cao Wenzhao is here.
I thought it was right.
Dong Ce said in a deep voice to a scout who came back to report, "You take me to take a look." ”
"Yes!"
The scout answered, leading the way.
Dong Ce ordered the first, second, and third general to wait here, and he took his direct general manager to follow the scout.
After climbing a small mound, Dong Ce rode his horse and saw the rogue in the distance.
There were about one or two hundred people in this group, and what shocked Dong Ce was that most of these rogues were cavalry, whistling across the plains in front.
The rogue had apparently spotted them as well, and immediately a small tributary of about a dozen of them had split out of the group and rode their horses towards this side.
At this time, Dong Ce rode his horse on top of the hillock, and his direct subordinates were always behind the hillock. Therefore, these rogues who came over didn't see the team behind Dong Ce, and thought that Dong Ce was the same people here, so they thought about coming over and strangling them, probably also wanting to find out the origin of this team that suddenly appeared by the way.
The reactions of these people were quite astute, Dong Ce glanced at them, and replied: "Let's go, don't entangle with them." ”
Then he beat his horse and left.
After returning to the main army, Dong Ce immediately ordered all the staff to go north again, all the way to the north bank of Lushui. Everyone was a little puzzled by this order, but they still obeyed. Alatan Ulla glanced at Dong Ce and was a little surprised in his heart. If someone else does this, he may think that person is cowardly and afraid of the other person. But along the way, he also knew Dong Ce quite well and knew that he was by no means this kind of person. He secretly guessed, not knowing what Dong Ce was calculating.
The large force withdrew to the north of Lushui and marched east along the north bank of Lushui. And Dong Ce put three more as scouts on the south bank of Lushui to let them inquire about the news.
The news continued to be passed back, and the scout who reported said that almost all of the rogue teams found had war horses, and there were very few foot soldiers.