Chapter 226 Meeting Ah Man on the road

After the Liangzhou officials sent the news of Wei Yuanpi's death to Fujiao Fort, they quickly received a reply, but the reply was not written by Li Qin, but by Liu Sheng.

Before Chang'an was obtained, Li Qin appeared immediately, and he had to wait a little longer, so he could only ask Liu Sheng to write a letter for him. In the letter, Liu Sheng told the officials in Liangzhou that the Fujiao soldiers had learned about Li Qin's current position and would soon find Li Qin, so Li Qin's temporary role as the governor of Liangzhou will not be delayed. They just come to welcome him. At worst, they could stay in Fujiao Fort for a few more days!

After receiving the reply, the officials in Liangzhou gathered together to discuss and decided that since they wanted to surrender, it would be better to go early. Now Li Qin is "sayed" not in Fujiao Fort, so they went to Fujiao Fort to comfort the two elders of the Li family. Isn't that a good way to show sincerity!

The officials set off immediately and rushed to Fujiao Fort, where they planned to stay. They stayed until Li Qin came back, and then got close to the people of Fujiao Army, so that they could take care of them in the future!

Li Qin was of course very happy to be the governor of Liangzhou, but Liangzhou is already his own thing, so he is not in a hurry to be the governor. What he is anxious about now is Chang'an. Sizhou is a very important state. According to the rich and densely populated areas, Chang'an is even easier to defend and difficult to attack. If he can move the base camp to Chang'an, he will have the capital to be able to see the world.

After staying on the border for a few days, Jia Xu from Chang'an sent a letter telling Li Qin that the original plan had changed. Jingzhao Yin and Sili's lieutenant didn't care about anything. As long as the Fujiao Army did not enter Chang'an, they would do whatever they could. The two high-ranking officials could pretend that they could not see anything.

After reading the letter, Li Qin felt very happy. Jingzhao Yin and Sili Captain were both very important officials, but he was such an official, and he was really a strange thing. He was about to start a troubled time, and he was indeed full of monsters!

How these two officials reacted very much to his next plan. If they reacted fiercely, it would be difficult to deal with it. However, although it was not expected to respond, it would be much simpler to deal with it.

Li Qin immediately wrote a reply to Jia Xu, saying that he would not have to wait outside Chang'an City. It would be meaningless to block the city gate or not. If Gai Xun and Zhang Wen wanted to send people to ask for help, the walls of Chang'an City were so long that people could be sent anywhere, and there was no need to go through the city gate. Blocking the city gate would easily make local officials nervous, and even the army in Sizhou would become nervous, which would cause unnecessary trouble.

Li Qin ordered Jia Xu to disperse the army, divide it into small parts, and go to various counties to promote the Fujiao Army. He said that the Fujiao Army is a glorious army, an invincible army, which made the local soldiers and the people think that the Fujiao Army is invincible, and then talk about the various benefits of Fujiao Fort, so that the soldiers and the people will have a good impression of Fujiao Fort, and finally spread rumors that he would become a Sili school lieutenant. The court still intends to let him serve as the Jingzhao Yin, but he refuses, but he is certain that he comes to Sizhou to be an official. It is just a matter of time. Once he comes to Sizhou, the people will have a good life, and local soldiers can also join the Fujiao Army. Please stay tuned when it is specific.

After the letter was sent out, Li Qin did not set off to Chang'an immediately, but instead asked someone to return to Fujiao Fort, mobilized another 10,000 Fujiao soldiers to join him at the border, and then went to Chang'an together.

Before the army was mobilized, Li Qin and others were at the border, but he was not idle either. Instead, he took his subordinates and wore ordinary people's clothes and wandered around. He was not wandering around. He was not very good at traveling around in the winter. He drew maps near the border and used modern mapping methods to draw maps. He found that the maps of this era were too rough, and only important places were drawn, and the proportions were not uniform. Often, there were several versions of maps in one place, and even no maps. The maps with different versions were often very different. If the maps used by the generals when sending troops to fight, it would be over and it was easy to cause unscheduling.

Li Qin planned to train a group of soldiers who specialize in drawing maps, treat making maps as a big thing, make a good scale picture, and then print them in batches to generals at all levels. This work cannot be completed in a short time, so it can only be done slowly, but the first thing to do is to train a group of soldiers who can draw maps.

Since we wanted to draw a map, we would have to go from simple to difficult, so we would have to go everywhere. Li Qin and a hundred people walked back and forth in various villages on the border to investigate the terrain.

On this day, Li Qin and Fujiao soldiers came to the small road from Sizhou to Liangzhou. The terrain here is relatively complex, with no mountains, but there are many hills. There are small paths in the middle of the hill, which is a little far away from the official road. This path is only for local people to walk on, and there are few teams passing by.

Li Qinzong rode a hill, pointed to the path below, and said to Fujiao Bing: "Look, there are few people walking on this path, and there are few footprints on the snow, which means that even local people rarely walk on this path. Why do you think this is?"

The general who followed him was Zhao Zheng. Zhao Zheng was the best at running and didn't talk much. Among the generals, he was the most abiding by the rules, and he was superb in gun skills and good archery skills, so Li Qin asked him to follow him.

After hearing Li Qin's question, Zhao Zheng thought for a while and said, "Usually, the path is always closer than the main road. Although the path is always hard to walk, because it is close, there are not fewer people walking than the official road. This path is rarely visited. Except for the local people, there are only two main aspects. First, the weather is cold and the people are unwilling to go out. Second, it is because this path is not close, but on the contrary, it is farther than the official road, and it is farther away, and it is difficult to walk, so there are so few people walking!"

Li Qin nodded and said, "The first one is not the key. Even if the weather is cold, as long as pedestrians need it, they will still follow this road. The second one is the key, because this path is not only not close, but also goes far away, so pedestrians will naturally not choose it. However, the more this way, the more military value this path will be."

Zhao Zheng said: "I understand that this is the same as building a plank road openly and crossing Chencang secretly. Because there are few people who know about this path and walk on it, the more important it is for marching and fighting, the more we should draw a good map here."

"Odd!" Li Qin nodded and smiled: "The purpose of using terrain is different, so the importance is also different. This is one of the differences between military and civilians."

The soldiers of the Fujiao went down the hill and began to prepare for drawing pictures. Li Qin and Zhao Zhengze stayed on the mountain, which was a work to look at the overall situation.

After a while, a soldier from the corner ran back and shouted at Li Qin: "Li Lang, there are teams coming from the east, and there are several large cars inside. It seems that they are all soldiers. Do you want to go over and ask?"

Li Qin followed the direction of his finger and looked east. Due to the obstruction of trees, there was something behind the mountain bag in the distance. He didn't see too clearly that he could not see a convoy coming.

Li Qin waved his hand and said, "It's better if our whereabouts are not discovered. There is no reason to take the initiative to provoke us."

After saying that, he thought something was wrong. The one from the east was the direction of Sizhou. If the people in the team were all soldiers, why didn’t they take the official road and instead walked away on the small path? Is it to avoid war? The situation in Sizhou now cannot be said to be war-torn, it’s just Jia Xu’s struggle inside. Then is this team of soldiers hiding Jia Xu? If they want to hide from the Fujiao Army, they have to investigate it clearly.

He waved his hand and said, "Call all the brothers back, don't let those people discover us. Also, Zhao Zheng, go and ask clearly what the team of people came to Liangzhou for. Now is the time to test your ability to adapt. In the future, you will always lead troops alone. The ability to act randomly is very important."

Zhao Zheng agreed, took the horse down the mountain bag and faced the unidentified convoy, while Li Qin hid in the woods with the horn-helping soldiers.

The leader of the convoy from the east was Cao Cao. Before Li Qin's life and death was clear, he did not dare to contact the generals of the Fujiao Army, nor did he dare to walk the avenue, for fear that someone would inform Jia Xu that his convoy would be easily caught up, so he could only walk on the small road and inquire with the locals. He led the convoy to pass here and go to Longxian first. Cao Cao wanted to rest in Longxian first, contact the governor of Liangzhou first, and then discuss about Li Qin.

Cao Cao thought about all kinds of possible things along the way, and his ideas changed again and again. There were even a few times when he really wanted to go back to Luoyang alone without any hesitation, but he still didn't do this. It was not because he had any sympathy for Wenrou, a weak woman. He was afraid that after he went back, he would be repaired by Zhang Rang and He Jin.

Cao Cao rode on the horse and kept sighing. Although he had ambitions, his future was uncertain. No matter how capable he thought he was, the current situation really made him upset.

While sighing, the Yulin Army in front shouted: "Emperor Cao Du, there is a horse riding man in front of him. He looks very fierce. Maybe he is a Qiang person. He has reached the border of Liangzhou."

Cao Cao whispered, sat upright immediately, and looked at Zhao Zheng who was running from afar. He saw that he was a strong man in ordinary clothes. He said, "There are many Qiang people in Liangzhou, and it is not surprising that there is one here. I am afraid that this man is a robber's whistleblower. This place is so desolate, and it is the place where strong people appear!"

The Yulin Army beside him immediately became nervous, and they all picked up weapons and looked at Zhao Zheng who was running over.

Zhao Zheng arrived and thought to himself: "If I ask directly, I'm afraid they won't tell the truth. Since they may be avoiding my Fujiao Army, I might as well pretend to be the enemy of Fujiao Army. Li Lang often said that the enemy's enemy is a friend, and maybe I can find something out."
Chapter completed!