Lin Yu was known as the old fox, so he knew what he would choose, and he finally gave in, not only did he agree to move his family to Shangdang County like the Mao family, but also contributed more than 2,000 good horses domesticated by his family. It is worthy of Xihe County, just a stone city, and a few horse families can contribute nearly 10,000 good horses a year. Liu Bi could fully imagine what Chu Yun would be excited about when he brought back more than 9,000 good horses, and Chu Yun's plan would increase the success rate by three percent, this is not a joke, the cavalry is really so important.

In addition, under the call of the Lin family and the Mao family, there are thousands of people who have defected to the iron-blooded army, these northern men, a little training is a good soldier, and even many Hu people who are proficient in riding have also joined, these Hu people have no concept of a nation-state at all, whoever gives them food and drink, they will follow, and there are even many Huns.

The Lin family is the big landlord of Xihe County, and in order to make up for their offense, they contributed a full 50,000 quintals of grain, which made Liu Bi and Guo Shuzi overjoyed, they didn't expect that Chu Yun's unintentional move had received such great results, and with these grains, there would be no famine in Shangdang County at least in the next year. No one could have imagined that a family on the border would be so powerful. If it weren't for the urgency of time, the two of them would really want to go to the rest of the cities in Xihe County to fight the autumn breeze. But one-third of the three months stipulated by Chu Yun had passed, and they didn't dare to delay.

So Liu Bi and Guo Shuzi ordered that they had newly collected more than 5,000 strong men, drove nearly 10,000 war horses, and returned to Shangdang County with tens of thousands of loads of grain on their backs, and the old and weak of the Lin family and the Mao family and some of the clansmen also went back together. And Lin Yu volunteered to stay, on the one hand, to build the city wall of Lishicheng, on the other hand, to absorb the displaced people for the Iron Army, waiting for the Iron Blood Army to come again, his family followed back to Shangdang County, Liu Bi was not worried about Lin Yu's betrayal at all.

Liu Bi and Guo Shuzi also explored the terrain, and if the Huns did not dare to directly attack Jinyang from Pingyang, they needed to build positions in several dangerous places in Xihe County. From the map, Pingyang, the capital of the Huns, is on a basin, which is called the Linfen Basin in later generations, and the terrain here is dangerous, and it is much safer than the capital city of Luoyang, which has no danger to defend, and it is not surprising that the Huns built the capital here. Jinyang is located in the Taiyuan Basin, between the two basins is a long and narrow river valley, this river is a tributary of the Yellow River Fen River, as long as the position is built on this terrain, then the Huns will be strangled from this road to attack the state. In this way, if the Huns wanted to attack Jinyang, they could only attack from Shangdang County, which had steep terrain, or take a long detour from Xihe County, no matter which method, they would give Chu Yun time to deal with it.

Liu Bi and Guo Shuzi, who had completed all the tasks, slowly hurried back, but the Fourth Brigade of the Iron and Blood Army was in trouble, at the beginning they relied on their stronger combat effectiveness to achieve a great victory over the mountain bandits in Luliang Mountain, and they captured more than 2,000 prisoners, which made Fang Ai very happy. But as the battle progressed, these mountain bandits also knew that they were not the opponents of the Predators, and they began to play peek-a-boo with the Predators in the mountains.

He was stationed for more than half a month, consumed a lot of grain and grass, and even asked five hundred cavalry to come to help, and finally there was no way to take the Luliang Mountain bandits, of course, if he was given time, he could completely blockade Luliang Mountain and let these people all starve to death, but what he lacked most was time.

Fang Ai, who was in his thirties, used almost all of his connections, he invited cavalry, and even asked his cousin Fang Qing to find a few lieutenants for advice, and also asked Zhang Tong and others, but so many people didn't come up with any way. His fair skin kept shuttling in the dense forests of Luliang Mountain, and he became like an old farmer. But where does he have time to care about this, since he has decided to put pen to paper, he has decided to say goodbye to his previous son-in-law's career.

It's a pity that he really can't help it, although Chu Yun didn't say it explicitly, but he knew that his position as brigade commander was promoted by Chu Yun in order to compensate his cousin Fang Qing, if he couldn't complete the task, then his position and future would all disappear.

Just two days ago, he launched a major offensive, nearly 3,000 people, divided into ten groups, entered Luliang Mountain from several directions, searched for two whole days, although killed dozens of mountain bandits, but also killed more than a dozen people, still did not find any trace of the enemy.

"A bunch of mountain rats, damn it. "Fang Ai was furious, their grain and grass were exhausted because of this offensive, Wang Lian and Jun Cheng Mohan, who were in charge of logistics, were already very dissatisfied with him, if it weren't for Fang Qing's face, the two of them would have refused to provide them with grain and grass a long time ago, and now the grain in Shangdang County is not rich, and they have to provide it to the Fourth Brigade, everyone is very dissatisfied.

At this time, the Luliang Mountain bandits actually sent someone to contact Fang Ai, and Fang Ai was overjoyed, but even so, he was still dressed neatly, so he called the person in unhurriedly.

"Who are you?" Fang Ai sat on the handsome seat, looked at the man kneeling below him and asked knowingly, this man looked dark, thin and dry, but a pair of small eyes were still very godly, he did not have the fear of ordinary people when they saw officers and soldiers, although he was forced to kneel on the ground, but he still looked Fang Ai up and down, which showed that his courage was not ordinary.

"The adult is General Fang, the villain's legs have been injured, so he can't bend for a long time, I hope the adult will let me get up and speak." The man said neither humbly nor arrogantly, Fang Ai wanted to give him a dismount, but he thought that this person might have come to surrender, and he was afraid that the other party would change his mind, so he got off the donkey and let him stand up.

"What's the matter with you?" Fang Ai said seriously, but the man laughed instead, they are all soldiers, you are the same as me and the children of the family, can't you talk well?

"The general has been lingering for a long time, I don't know if the mountain scenery is good?" the man suddenly asked, Fang Ai's face fell, isn't this directly sarcastic to himself?

Fang Ai said angrily: "You thief, if you have something to say, you can let it go, and if you dare to talk nonsense, I will kill you." ”

The man laughed when he heard Fang Ai's threat: "General Fang, I'm a rough man, since I came here with sincerity, let's talk well." You probably haven't had a good time here during this time, you have also seen it, even if tens of thousands of people come to attack us, we can retreat with our whole body, we did attack your army with lard some time ago, but we not only did not get benefits, but lost thousands of people, this is considered a punishment, why should your army be aggressive, we are just poor people who have fled, I hope your army will let us go, and we promise not to attack your army again. ”

Fang Ai was disappointed after hearing this, it turned out that he was not here to surrender, so he was polite: "Come on, drag this person out and cut it down, and hang it at the gate of the village." ”

Fang Ai stood up and wanted to leave, but the man behind him spoke: "General Fang, don't be in such a hurry, I know that the side of the couch will not allow others to snore, and you will definitely be willing to destroy us, so the purpose of my coming this time will definitely not be achieved." Okay, now that the task on the surface has been completed, I will carry out the mission in the dark, I think General Fang will definitely be interested. ”

Fang Ai heard his words and walked back, to be honest, now Fang Ai is like a gambler who has crushed all his net worth on the gambling table, whoever can give him a little hope of winning, he will hold on tightly.

ps: Don't be angry dear ☆ ♂Snailcn, you also know that the data in this book is not very good, and I am not motivated. I'll give you a change first, and then I'll add a chapter later.

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