Although he had already made up his mind to the defense of Hedong in the future, Li Bing did not start immediately after entering the country. Today, Hedong, as a key hub for connecting and revitalizing the entire Western Front strategy, the situation will become complicated. All aspects of the impact must be taken into account, especially in the details, and to be fully sure to achieve the ultimate.

In the following days, Li Bing did not stay in Puban camp, and left the camp and went straight to the back of the border within Hedong to inspect.

Because Xue Tao was busy with the reorganization of the Hedong Military Mansion, he could not get out of the way to accompany him in person, so he arranged for a general of the military mansion, and his clan brother Xue Liang, to accompany him.

As for the Hedong Prefect's Office, the prefect Liu Shi did not dare to neglect Li Bing's arrival. Although civil and military affairs were not in control, Li Bing's subsequent military operations still had a great impact on the overall atmosphere in Hedong. They also needed to communicate fully. They sent the county chief clerk Ma Xingzhi to accompany Li Bing, and at the same time expressed some of the prefect's requests in detail.

Between Hedong and Pingyang, the Fen River is bounded in the west, to the south is Fenyin where the Xue family township in Hedong is located, and to the north is Pi County of Pingyang County. The two places are connected by plateaus, and Fenyin can also be said to be the northern gate of Hedong.

From this point, it can be seen that the Xue family of Fenyin was quite excluded in the Hedong local order in the old year. Although Fenyin is located in Fen and the intersection of the rivers, the key points of Jin are far less than those of the Fenglingdu and other Dadukou in the lower reaches. The upper reaches of the Yellow River flow straight down the Longmen Hukou. In addition to mountains and high plateaus, there are also large tidal flats on both sides, which restrict the development of Jindu.

From Fenyin to the south is a mountain hill, and to the east is also blocked by Jishan Mountain. Crossing these two mountains is the heart of the true essence of Hedong. Wenxi, where the village of Pei in Hedong is located, Anyi where the village of Wei is located is located, and Jie County where the county where the Liu in Hedong is located is located is located in the south, and Fenyin is located in the northwest corner.

If it weren't for the natural boundary of Fen River, it would have been more appropriate to enter Pingyang County, which is similar to the embarrassing situation in the rural area of ​​the Xue family in Hedong in the past year.

As for the eastern border of Hedong, there is Wangwu Mountain as a barrier. The so-called mountains and rivers are compared from a large perspective. The terrain of Hedong is similar to the entire Bingzhou, with mountains and rivers surrounding it and dangerous to follow the situation.

As a guide, Xue Liang was very enthusiastic and led Li Bing and others to first go to the wall of Fenyinwu where they were. Xue’s dock was built on a high plateau. From here, you can see the rolling waves of the river Longmen in the west, and the undulating Jishan Mountains in the east. The dangerous mountains and rivers are vividly expressed.

"In the past year, wars were plagued and Hu cavalry often passed by here. Since my family lived in this area, we should have the important task of protecting the countryside. Hu feathers were brutal and the country was suffering from hardships. We could make this dock, and the people were surviving..."

Standing at the top of his own wall wall, Xue Liang could not hide his pride when he talked about this. After thinking about it, he would leave his foundations in the countryside, and he felt a little reluctant to leave.

Li Bing stood in the wind and nodded slightly after hearing this. It is still second to his recognition of Xue Tao or not, but it is indeed admirable that Xue's family can be isolated from the local area and be able to be fully qualified and righteous.

Moreover, the so-called integrity of his family is not a remote place beyond the chaos. The village is separated from the north by a water where the royal courts of various Han and Zhao are located. It can be said that it is a thorn pierced under the noses of Han Zhao. It is really not easy to exist.

Today, Xue Family Wu is still the residence of the Xue Family. After knowing Li Bing's identity, the eyes of all the people looking at them are a bit unkind. This is also human nature. No matter who grows up here, the local family business that is hard-working will be taken over by others, it is difficult to have any open-minded thoughts.

Li Bing didn't care much about this. The main members of the Xue family must follow Xue Tao to leave their hometown afterwards. The remaining families and the tribesmen of the other branches also had to choose a different place to resettle, but these are all things that the Hedong Prefect needs to consider, and he is only responsible for receiving the dock wall in Fenyin and a series of defense matters.

The Fen River is an important tributary of the middle reaches of the Yellow River, but the water conditions and navigation conditions in this section of the river between Pingyang and Hedong are not good. The forks are like spider webs, and there are many silts on the beach. It is still the flood season of the river. Looking down from a high place, river silts are everywhere, and it is difficult to have plain roads for passage.

"In the past year, Liu thieves occupied Pingyang and frequently used all sides. They should be the key to Fen Shuijin, so they also built a large-scale camp, but they were not allowed to do so..."

Xue Liang smiled bitterly and explained to Li Bing why this state was like this. In the early years, Han Zhao occupied Pingyang. Whether it was entering Guanzhong west or going south to Heluo, the Fen River was an important important Caoji road.

These barbarians also have a bit of heroic spirit of conquering nature, and their use of the river can be said to be one by one.

For example, in the past year, when Liu Yao attacked Guanzhong, he was careful to set up a large ferry at the intersection of Fen and Rivers. Because the rivers and canals where the intersection is flooded, it was difficult to transform. He suddenly wanted to divert into the river from the plateau to bypass the river and canals. He worked hard to work nearly 100,000 people. He was dug, but for two consecutive years of drought, the rivers and canals were all piled up with bones and could not come in handy.

There are countless constructions that are not hydrological and geography at all. Not to mention that they failed to fully explore the strategic value of the Fen River, even the original canal transport capacity that connected Jinzhong was greatly weakened. Such a destruction of man-made disasters has set up an inaccessible isolation belt between Hedong and Pingyang.

But this so-called isolation is only for the army's departing. For local villagers who are familiar with the roads in the countryside, they can still find some small paths. The bandits in Hedong are mainly from this.

In the past year, the Han Zhao generals moved a large number of Border Hu and placed them around Pingyang as barriers. Afterwards, with the collapse of the Han Dynasty, although they were also plundered and dispersed, the remaining Hu soldiers had no power and were constrained by order, and they were scattered in their own countryside and gathered as enemies.

"The bandits in this area are as many as dozens of squads, with thousands of people ranging from dozens of people. They are like foxes and rats running around, and it is really difficult to suppress and appease. At present, the villagers can only build villages and protect each other and help each other..."

Leaving Xueshiwu, everyone continued to travel east along the Fen River. This section of the terrain is relatively complex. On the north side is a barren mudflat with branches and vines. It looks lush and green. Below is it is very likely that there is a rotten swamp that can sink people and horses deep. On the south side is the high and low Jishan Mountain, with dense forests and thick paved between the mountains and fields, and there is even no road.

Similar roads stretch for dozens of miles, but from a macro perspective, they are not long, but if you want to defend completely, you may not be able to make it hard. Once some loopholes are taken advantage of by the bandits and rush into the Hedong realm, the turmoil caused can be big or small.

Li Bing walked along the way, listening to Xue Liang's introduction, and was not keen on expressing his opinions. He occasionally encountered some villages distributed in the wilderness along the way. Those villages were not large in size, with dozens of households and three or five households in a small family.

This environment is different from the prosperity and prosperity along the river in the east. It is rare to see the villagers who are in this journey, and they all seem extremely frightened when they see hundreds of men coming. Some even ignore the thatched cottage doors, pick up their children and run straight into the dense forest. It can be seen that they are particularly resistant to any form of contact with the outside world.

Seeing this scene, Li Bingcai was moved and signaled to turn around and observe the villages. The villages were set up in this rarely visited place, and their application was based on nature and full of primitive atmosphere. There were some harvests of woodcutters, fishing and hunting, or a small piece of land was opened around the house, with sparse green seedlings growing.

"There are many wildernesses in this type of village?"

Li Bing turned his head and looked at Xue Liang and asked.

After hearing this, Xue Liang nodded: "The mountain people are withdrawn and fearful. Although Hedong has been governed for a long time, this situation is not enough to convey information..."

"The disasters of war are still difficult to eliminate. In recent years, the county government has frequently recruited pacification orders to spread the countryside, but it is difficult to cover all these remote areas. As well as the wild indulgence for a long time, it is difficult to win the trust..."

Ma Xingzhi, the chief clerk of the county government on the other side, also spoke, and when he talked about this, he was quite helpless. The county government also had a lot of affairs, so it was impossible to invest a lot of manpower and energy to search and seek these scattered and dispersed people all over the mountains. The people in the mountains, the kinder ones may even be self-sufficient, while the more evil ones are bandits.

"General, is it necessary to set fire to the mountain..."

Suddenly, a soldier behind Li Bing spoke. Before the man finished speaking, Xue Liang and Ma Xingzhi both changed their faces and said, "I can't do that."

Although Li Bing also prefers direct and rough solutions, he also shook his head and waved his hand: "This is too harmful to the world, and a few bandits are really not worthy of self-destruction of the mountains, rivers, and soil."

Even though this is the case, the factual problems are clearly in front of you, that is, the troubles in Hedong Township are too scattered. If powerful bandits are really organized and planned, they may gather heavy troops and defeat them in the array. However, this area is like a sieve that leaks into the net. Even if there are any traces of bandits, they will spontaneously flow into small groups, which makes people unable to defend themselves.

"In fact, if it is just such a thief and bandits who invade continuously, it is not a big problem. The countryside has its own village, Yiqu, and Qu, who has built a village to protect each other, but it is more than enough for thieves. The real big problem is still in Pingyang. Although the Jie thief Shi Sheng retreated to Taiyuan, there are still tribes left in Pingyang. His tribe is afraid of the royal army and dare not invade the territory in large numbers, but he has formed bandits and bandits, mixed in and secretly robbers, which is the most disturbing!"

Xue Liang continued to preach with a angrily voice: "Previously, the supervisors were in the camp, and they had the idea of ​​gathering heavy brigades to fight against the Jiehu pirate army on Hebei. However, the Fen River was flooded and the army was difficult to gather people to engage in the operation. If they divided the troops, they would inevitably be taken advantage of by the thieves, and some partial troops might suffer from disaster..."

Although Shi Sheng's main force retreated to Taiyuan, there were still generals in Pingyang. In fact, they were the original Pingyang thief, Ding Ling, Hu Chief Zhai Gui. This Zhai Gui was surrounded by thousands of people, and was originally a bandit who fled in southern Shanxi. After joining Shi Sheng, he was awarded the general's title and called on some bandits around the territory to invade Hedong continuously.

Originally, with Shi Sheng's evacuation, the military strength of the Hedong town's military government alone was not afraid of the Pingyang bandits, but it was difficult to attack outside. The reason was as Li Bing saw that the area between the two sides was not allowed to pass through.

If you march from the side, the local defense of Hedong will inevitably be empty. Compared with Hedong, although Pingyang is the former capital of Han and Zhao, it has long become a wasteland and has no defensive meaning. Those Pingyang thieves can be broken into pieces and rushed directly into Hedong's heart. They can get a full of oil when they take a handful of fishing and leaving. They want to do this.

Those who are barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes. Those Pingyang thieves may have never heard of this saying, but they have brought this taste to the extreme. They are a group of poor and greedy people who are greedy and have no business in their own way, so they just circle around the fat piece of meat in Hedong, and they even end up in a stalemate.

After such a patrol, seven or eight days passed quickly. The elite kings from Tongguan north also settled in the northeast border with Pingyang, filling the empty defense left by the Hedong Prefecture troops withdrawing.

However, after all, the Wang Shi Qianglong entered the country, and it was difficult to cover everything like the Hedong Prefecture soldiers who were rooted in the country. In the past few days, the active thieves on this area between the two sides were more than several times more active than before. If the state continues to develop like this, these sporadic bandits may have expanded, decay will turn into disaster, and then affect the stable situation in Hedong.

After Xue Tao learned about this in the camp, he couldn't help but sigh. He would not look down on Li Bing's talent because of this. It can only be said that those Pingyang thieves have become extremely cunning after a long confrontation, and can keenly grasp the chaotic details of the Wang Shi's defense adjustment and use it.

Even if Xue Tao is about to leave the country, this is no longer his responsibility, but he has no reason to gloat. Therefore, in addition to the reorganization department, he also plans to take time to meet and discuss with Li Bing again, hoping to get through this adjustment period as soon as possible.

However, before he had time to go here, an astonishing military order came from the Royal Army camp located in Fenyin: the Fen River line was transformed into a military forbidden zone, and all residents of the living were retreated within a specified period of time. At the same time, the orders for all parties in the county to mobilize manpower and gather material resources in Fenyin. Soon after, the King Army would cross the Fen River north to attack and kill the Pingyang bandits!

After learning the news, Xue Tao was shocked and hurriedly put down his affairs and headed towards Fenyin. He did not doubt the strength of the King's Army. In fact, the Pingyang thieves were just a group of mobs. As long as the Hedong Prefecture soldiers could cross the Fen River on a large scale and entered Pingyang, it would not be difficult to defeat them.

But the problem is that the current situation is difficult for Fen River to pass. Xue Tao believes that Li Bing is also very clear about this, but why he still acts like a big fight? Perhaps it is because he has suffered many troubles after entering the country, so he loses his mind and wants to make a risk.

Regardless of Li Bing's victory or defeat, Xue Tao was worried that the situation in both places would intensify because of this move, and his Hedong army would not be able to calmly transfer it from his hometown. Perhaps he would have to stay in the country to defend together to prevent the Pingyang bandits from taking advantage of the emptiness of Hedong and fleeing into the country. This opportunity was given by the general. Once he was reluctant to lead the army to leave, even if there were such twists and turns, it was always a fact that he would miss the military period, and he would be afraid that he would not have such a good opportunity in the future.
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