Lanzhou is vast and sparsely populated. Most of the military family members live in cities or camps. However, as long as they do not stay in cities, they will be unaware of the eyeliner of the Cai Mansion from behind.

However, in order to prevent flaws from appearing on the itinerary, Xu Huai and his team set out from the villa early the next morning and rushed to Lanzhou Stoneyard along the post road in the afternoon.

The stone yard is located in a stone valley halfway up the northern foot of Guancen Mountain, with blue-gray mottled rock formations everywhere.

Xu Huai and his team stopped on a slope, and they could clearly see the quarry mining in the stone yard:

Thousands of people in the work area were ragged and covered in dirt. They were obviously all thorns to Lanzhou to act as relocation prisoners. At this time, they were driven to the stone work area and knocked down the blue-gray stone with simple tools such as iron picks and other simple tools. They carried the baskets on their shoulders and backs, and carried them to the stone piles outside.

At this time, hundreds of mules and horses that were so thin that they were skinny were led to the stone yard, but there was no load yet. Most mules and horses bowed their heads and mouths to eat grass stems on the roadside.

Most of the two or three hundred soldiers in charge of transporting stones looked too thin. They were responsible for loading the stones from the stone yard into bamboo baskets and transporting them to the north side walls with mules and horses to the fort construction site.

Although the Xiang army is a regular army in various states, it mainly serves as hard labor such as road construction, city construction, transportation, etc., and is mostly thin, old and weak.

If the old soldiers of the wing army get the opportunity to work in the inn and the government office, they will have a good time. They don’t have much training in their daily lives and their armor and equipment are extremely simple.

At least the generals and soldiers in the wing army who were responsible for transporting stones, except for several battalions and generals, Xu Huai did not see ordinary soldiers carrying weapons.

In addition to these wandering prisoners and the transport wings, there were more than a hundred soldiers with a well-equipped armor inside and outside the stone ground, wearing the uniforms of the Tianxiong Imperial Army.

In order to plan the joint forces to attack Yan, the court began to attack the abducted prisoners from various states in Bianliang to Lan Dai and other border states on a large scale. On the one hand, the number of prisoners who were attacking him increased sharply. On the other hand, the stone field in Lanzhou is too close to the border line. In order to prevent prisoners from escaping to Yan and even prevent the risk of riots, Lanzhou also called the imperial guards to supervise and guard the soldiers. This is something Xu Huai and the others knew when they were in Taiyuan.

On the outside of the stone pile yard are the stone court official house and the stone court prison camp.

Everyone stood on the hill and could see the layout there.

The stone court official house is a courtyard with more than ten rooms, connected to a heavily guarded warehouse; the prison camp is built near the official house, with sparse walls. The barracks inside can be said to be basically made of a few pieces of wood and a pile of thatch, which is extremely simple.

The village city of Caocheng Inspection Department is located outside the valley entrance, only more than a thousand steps away from the stone yard.

Unlike the inspection departments of the mainland prefectures and counties, the inspection departments of the border prefectures take into account border defense, bandits and other matters, and the scale of military and military personnel under their jurisdiction is far beyond the size of the inspection departments of the mainland prefectures and counties. The inspection envoys usually serve as both the imperial guards and officers.

The Caocheng Inspection Department shall not interfere in border defense and prepare for border prefectures and counties other than the enemy. However, the stone yard is used to supervise prisoners and to work as a prisoner and to transport stones, and the ban army responsible for transporting stones, and they are all under the jurisdiction of the Caocheng Inspection Department and they will also return to Caocheng Village to camp at night.

"We took some effort to get the roster of the sect and prisoners, but we have not been able to arrange people into the stone yard yet. There is no flaw in the roster alone..." Su Laochang said on the back of the horse.

Not to mention the imperial guards, the generals and soldiers of the wing army are basically fixed, and the source of the roots and feet is relatively clear. As long as the generals and officials who lead the lead have no problem, there is no need to worry about the Cai Mansion assassin in ordinary generals and soldiers for the time being.

At present, nearly 2,000 bandit soldiers were recruited in Tongbai Mountain, and nearly 2,000 people were disbanded and incorporated into the imperial guards of Lanzhou. However, Zheng Hui, Dong Qifeng and others were killed, and one of them was clean. Dong Cheng was full of war with the thief chiefs such as Chen Zixiao, Zhong Changqing, etc. Xu Huai, Su Laochang and others can also confirm that after these bandit soldiers of Lanzhou, they were assigned to the imperial guards of Lanzhou. No one was stuffed into the nails by Dong Cheng.

However, the source of the stinger is complicated, and a new batch will be sent over every once in a while, which is the easiest to be passive.

Su Laochang and the others secretly focused on the sting-mate prisoners with as many as thousands of people, but no problems were found yet.

"Cai Ying is confident that the alliance will succeed in attacking Yan, and his achievements will be made for the future. By then, my Wang Bing will become a clown."

Wang Bing felt that Xu Huai, Su Laochang and the others were too careful and said with bitter feelings.

"He kicked me to Lanzhou this time, probably to open my eyes to see how his achievements were made. He may not even want to take my life. Don't worry too much about me..."

"Maybe, we did it with ease, and it won't hinder anything!" Xu Huaifeng said lightly.

Su Laochang just smiled faintly and did not refute or persuade Wang Bing.

Xu Huai did not want to reveal his true life experience, nor did he want to mention old grudges again, but even to be able to satisfy his father, Xu Wuli, and Su Laochang's tolerant and tragic sacrifices and efforts over the years, he would not let Cai Ying go if he had the chance.

What's more, after Xu Wuli rebelled against Dong Cheng after the Tongbai Mountain Bandits rebelled, he insisted on finding opportunities to lurk with Cai Ying, which made them unable to stand by.

To put it bluntly, Zhufengtang no longer fought with Cai’s mansion simply to protect Wang Bing.

This time they actually went to fight with the Cai Mansion under the name of protecting Wang Bing.

There is a huge difference between the two.

The purpose of the former is to protect Wang Bing, while the latter's secret struggle with the Cai family is their real purpose.

Protecting Wang Bing became a means for them to hide their true intentions, which made Cai Ying and his disciples not think of Xu Huai's life experience.

Xu Huai would not reveal his life experience to Wang Bing, and Lu Xiong would not explain their purpose.

Of course, Xu Huai took advantage of all opportunities to grow and temper the power of Zhufengtang, and prepared for the tremendous disaster that would come with the first year of Jianhe.

He did not hide this purpose with Wang Bing, Lu Xiong and others, but Wang Bing, Lu Xiong still felt that he was worrying about nothing.

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There are only three veteran officials in the stone yard, which was the direct deployment of Wang Bing after taking office.

The Caocheng Inspection Envoy was a commander of the Tianxiong Army. In addition to controlling the township and wing soldiers, he himself also led the first battalion of 500 soldiers of the Tianxiong Army to station here, and he was responsible for the public security in the stone court in Lanzhou.

In addition to many subordinate officials, the Caocheng Inspection Office also has a commander of the wing soldiers, which is sent by the Naizhou Military and Horse Commission, which is specifically responsible for the transportation of stones and other matters.

At this time, the State Administration Office set up a prison camp in the stone yard, which received more than a thousand slaughter-mate prisoners sent from all over the country to serve as hard labor in the stone yard.

The prison camp is under the jurisdiction of the State Administration and is responsible for the participation of the state manager; the prison camp also has dozens of soldiers acting as prison guards.

Although the relationship is complicated, since Guo Zhongxiong is in charge of military and political affairs in Lanzhou, he has the right to designate Zeng Run to coordinate all matters related to the stone field in the center.

Zeng Run had not yet come out to interfere. Wang Bing entered the stone yard to take over the post and did not encounter any obstacles.

Seeing that there was nothing unusual here, except Han Qi and Tang Qing, who stayed there, took care of Wang Bing, who was young and not as good as before, and Xu Huai took Xu Xin'an, Tang Pan and his ladies and then left the stone field and headed towards Fuzhou from the mountain road west of the stone field.

All this made them look like this. This trip was just to escort Wang Bing to Lanzhou Stoneyard for his post safely.

After leaving Langu County, Liu Qiong'er took the girls with Su Laochang to the villa secretly, Xu Huai, Xu Xin'an, and Tang Pan took advantage of the situation where the Yueyan border was not completely nervous at this time, and disguised himself as he crossed the border line, entered Shuozhou, and watched the situation in Yunzhong.

Dayue decided to join forces with Yan, and the Khitans would not be completely unaware of the movements in Lan Dai and other places.

In Lanzhou, to the north of Daizhou, the Khitans used the ancient city of Datong as Xijing, and set up the Xijing Road left-behind department to take charge of military and political affairs in Datong, Yun, Shuo and other places.

Xu Huai and the others did not see signs of the Khitans sending more troops on Xijing Road, but the patrol was much tighter than they thought, so they did not dare to spy on the deep areas of Datong and Yunzhong.

All signs show that the Khitans were already vigilant enough about the movements of Dayue, but it is very likely that they were under great military pressure exerted by the Chihu people in the northern border and could not be able to mobilize more reinforcements to Yunzhong and Datong came.

To be honest, if it weren't for the more than a year that the combat effectiveness of the Dayue Imperial Army and the disadvantages of the Dayue's civil and military regulations over the past hundred years, and if the memory fragments that came to mind were so clear, Xu Huai would have thought that the moment was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to recover Yanyun's old place.

Even so, before the Chihu people completely annihilated the main force of the Khitans, seized and digested their thousands of miles of territory, Xu Huai did not feel that the military operations in Dayue were really big, and the military operations in the Lan and Fa were really problematic.

After all, the Khitans had limited guards on Xijing Road. Even if the Privy Council organized troops from Lan, Dai and other places to attack north, the Khitans did not have the ability to counterattack on the Western Front.

This is called Xu Huaian's anxiety. I feel that the first year of Jianhe should be a little older now. Even if the Chihu people seized the entire Yan State, it would take some time to digest it.

Seeing that they continued to take risks to the north, Xu Huai and Tang Pan and Xu Xin'an crossed the border from the junction of Fuzhou and Lanzhou again half a month later, back to the Lanzhou Stoneyard, but there had been changes that they had not expected on the Lanzhou Stoneyard.
Chapter completed!