Lieutenant Sun led the cavalry and immediately set off from the military camp. Sure enough, they were about to arrive at Yiheli in less than an hour.
When the villages along the way saw these cavalry dispatching, they closed their village gates tightly. The brave men in the villages also gathered together and looked at the officers and soldiers with vigilance.
Colonel Sun was used to these looks. When he first joined the army, the reputation of the army was not as bad as it is now.
But now when the officers and soldiers go out, the people watch them with wary eyes, fearing that these officers and soldiers will rush into the village and rob them.
The military discipline of the officers and soldiers has been lax for more than a day or two. When Guo Jiedu first took office, he punished a large number of generals who committed plunder, killed good people and took credit for their merits, and the Hexi army took on a completely new look.
However, after Guo Ziyi concurrently served as the Jiedu envoy of Shuofang and focused on the defense of the Hetao area, the military affairs of Hexi were handed over to the Jiedushi envoy Liu Hou.
This deputy commander did not have the prestige of Guo Ziyi, nor was he a man who was ruthless enough to rectify military discipline. Military discipline in various parts of Hexi was rapidly weakening, and soldiers now have similar reputations as bandits.
However, Sun Xiaowei didn't care. After he became the school captain, the Sun family went from a shabby settlement in Zhangye City to a big family with hundreds of servants. Sun Xiaowei himself also had several concubines and became a wealthy family in Zhangye City.
A person with a head and a face.
The brigade commander below naturally followed his example. You can imagine the reputation of this cavalry team in Zhangye City.
Zhang Hun also rode behind this group of cavalry. He did not want to deal with these vulgar soldiers, but if he wanted to change his horse into a mulberry, he still had to rely on these guys.
When they arrived at the gate of Yiheli, Lieutenant Sun said to the two soldiers beside him: "Take a group of troops and go to the village entrance to make a statement. Tell them that Masanlang is colluding with the bandits and ask them to kidnap Masanlang out!"
But when Sun Xiaowei's soldiers went in to shout, the village in Yiheli was extremely quiet, and there was no sound at all.
What happened to Yiheli?
The soldiers shouted a few more times, but when they saw that Yiheli still didn't respond, they rushed into Yiheli on horseback.
When they rushed into Yiheli, they found that every household was closed and there was no sound of anyone in the village.
These officers and soldiers, who usually bully men and dominate women, felt a little embarrassed at this time.
They dismounted and walked into a thatched house, only to find that the house was empty, even the chickens in the chicken coop were gone.
The soldiers entered several more houses, and the situation was the same as this one. The houses were all empty, there was no one in the house, and all the livestock and poultry in the backyard were taken away.
The soldier rushed back to Lieutenant Sun and said: "Officer! Yihe is empty, there is no one there!"
No one?
Colonel Sun looked at the empty village and couldn't help but feel a chill.
He held up his riding whip and said: "Such a big village, even if there is a rumor, can everyone run away so quickly? Search it for me!"
The soldiers immediately rushed into Yiheli again. This time they carefully raided almost every house. They were horrified to find that there was no one in Yiheli. All valuables, including livestock and poultry, had been taken away.
In fact, before the arrival of the government troops, Li Daoyuan had already conducted several evacuation drills with the people of Yiheli.
The gangsters led by Li Daoyuan and Masanlang constantly attacked the scribes who had changed their horses into mulberry trees, and disrupted the work of several horse farms.
Based on Li Daoyuan's understanding of these officials, he would definitely kill them if he ruined their good deeds.
Li Daoyuan studied geographical surveying and mapping, and after graduation, he worked in a state-owned surveying and mapping company.
Although he was very skilled, he couldn't adapt to the intrigues of state-owned enterprises, so he resigned and became a wilderness survival blogger.
Although Li Daoyuan is not good at officialdom, he still knows the lower limits of being an official very well, that is, there is no lower limit!
Changing the horse to the horse involves the interests of too many people.
If this great land is really sold, how much money can be made and how many favors can be sold.
It can be said that from Fang Guan, the governor of Hexi Province, to Wu Chudao, the governor of Ganzhou, and to Cao Zhanghun, the governor of the governor, as long as the horse is converted into a mulberry, the family can earn one or two generations of wealth.
It is bound to happen that people cut off people's wealth and kill their parents, and that officers and soldiers come out of the city to clear out bandits.
So Li Daoyuan arranged for Zhou Shi to take over a small wine shop next to the military camp, and used the distillation and purification method of spirits provided by players on the forum to obtain the qualification to supply wine to the military camp.
As soon as the army was dispatched, Zhou Shi had already notified Li Daoyuan in Yihe. Li Daoyuan immediately rang the bell in the center of the village and arranged for the villagers to retreat according to the acting process.
After a search, there was no one in Yihe, not even a chicken or a cow. Now the soldiers were completely panicked and ran out of the village crawling and said to Captain Sun.
: "Captain! What's wrong! There's not a single living thing in the village. Could it be that we encountered something dirty?"
The soldier suddenly remembered a strange story told by the wine shop owner named Zhou Shi.
This is what they heard from Zhou Shi when they were drinking, saying that there was a young scholar staying in a village in the wilderness.
There are rules in the village: you must not go to the river at night.
This young scholar was young and energetic, so he had to climb over the wall at night to go to the river.
The scholar saw a strange head in the river. Although it looked like a scholar, there was no body under the head. He looked straight at the scholar and showed a strange smile.
The scholar crawled back to the village, only to find that there was no one in the village. Not only was there no one, but even the livestock and poultry had disappeared without a trace.
The scholar became even more frightened and left the village overnight. However, just before dawn, a head caught up from behind and bit the scholar in the back!
The scholar screamed and struggled, but the flying head devoured all the flesh on his back. Finally, his heart was bitten into pieces by the flying head and he died.
Zhou Shi's story about this flying man is very vivid, as if he has experienced it himself.
The soldier thought of this story and immediately backed down.
However, Lieutenant Sun had not heard this story. Even if he had heard this story, he would have ordered the soldiers to shoot Feitouman down.
Evil ghosts are more afraid of evil people. Sun Xiaowei has done so many bad things, but he has never seen an evil ghost take his life.
However, something strange happened in Yiheli. Captain Sun waved his whip and rode into the village to check it out in person.
Sure enough, as the soldiers said, all the living creatures in the village were taken away.
However, Colonel Sun still saw some traces of his life.
At Malizheng's house, he touched the stove that was still warm and said, "They just left. They must not have gone far. Go outside the village and see if there are any traces!"
Captain Sun's words finally dispelled the fear of the soldiers. It seemed that these villagers ran away on their own.
After careful inspection, the cavalry soon found the traces of ruts.
"Chase me!" Captain Sun immediately waved his whip and ordered.
Even if the people in Yiheli had just set out, they had no horses, so how could they outrun these cavalrymen?
Captain Sun thought, and started chasing the people in Yihe along the ruts.
But he didn't expect that these ruts were left intentionally by Li Daoyuan.
Most of the people have scattered to several nearby villages and are hiding in the homes of villagers who have joined the mutual aid association.
Masaburo and several other young men hid in the woods to observe the movements of the officers and soldiers.
Seeing that the officers and soldiers had indeed been fooled and chased him along the ruts, Masanlang immediately urged his companions to take a shortcut in the forest to meet Li Daoyuan.
Li Daoyuan and his party had already arrived at the foot of the Qilian Mountains on horseback. These ruts were deliberately left by them to lure the officers and soldiers into taking the bait.
Shandan Racecourse is close to the Qilian Mountains. This racecourse was founded by Huo Qubing, a general of the Western Han Dynasty. It was the most important horse breeding base in the Central Plains during the Han Dynasty.
In the Tang Dynasty, Taipu Temple established the Qunmu Yuan in Shandan and dispatched Hexi Qunmu Supervisory Officials to run the Shandan Horse Farm.
Before the Anlushan Rebellion, Shandan Racecourse was also the most important racecourse in the Tang Dynasty.
Most of the horses needed by border towns in the Tang Dynasty were produced in Hexi and Hedong horse farms. Shandan Horse Farm accounted for nearly half of the horses in Hexi.
However, Shandan Racecourse is already in an abandoned state. Standing on the edge of the racecourse, you can occasionally see groups of wild horses galloping on the racecourse, but there are no riders to capture them long ago.
When passing by Shandan Racecourse, Li Daoyuan also sighed.
"New Book of Tang" records that before the Anshi Rebellion, the entire Longyou had 320,000 war horses.
When Datang lost the land in Hexi, it completely lost the racecourse in Hexi.
In the first year of the founding of Tang Dezong, Tang Dezong spent a lot of money and food to build a horse farm in the Guanfu area and enrich the stables of the imperial army. However, the Tang court spent a lot of financial and material resources and only bred less than 50,000 war horses. In the end, because
Due to financial difficulties, the racecourse in the Guanfu area was abandoned.
During the reign of Emperor Wenzong of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court once again set up a horse farm in Yinzhou, but only 7,000 horses were bred. It was actually said in the "New Book of Tang" that Wenzong revitalized the horse administration. Thinking about the 320,000 horses before Longyou, it is not surprising that
I know where the inferiority lies.
Li Daoyuan continued on the front line and arrived at the foot of the Qilian Mountains when it was almost dark.
The local heroes from the mutual aid association had already gathered here. When they saw Li Daoyuan coming, these local warriors immediately surrounded him.
Li Daoyuan asked: "Are you all ready?"
"Everything is ready! The river at the foot of the mountain is the most suitable place to camp. We have prepared an ambush in the woods by the river as instructed."
Li Daoyuan nodded and said: "Very good, remember to ensure everyone's safety and wait until dark before taking action. Also remember to harass the officers and soldiers. We have no weapons, so even a night attack cannot be defeated."
"Understand! We just want to keep them awake!"
Li Daoyuan nodded and said: "We will deal with them after we lead them up to Qilian Mountain tomorrow!"