Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 80
Sanqi was dragged outside the courtyard by Zhang Zhe to speak.

"Do we have Orion in Taowan?"

"Orion has never existed." Sanqi thought for a while, but he thought of a person, "But at this time, the beasts are fat at the beginning of autumn, and Brother Li often goes into the mountains with people at this time. However, Mr. Lang wants to find him Unfortunately, he has gone to the mountains a few days ago."

Zhang Zhe also thought of Zhang Li, a big guy in the village.

"Just go and ask, when will the man come back?" Zhang Zhe held back Sanqi who was about to go out to ask, "Ride on the donkey, and ask the hunters in the nearby village if they are at home. If anyone has come back, remember Tell me. If they don’t come back, you just remember how long they’ve been there, and how long they usually go to the mountains? Did they all go to the mountains in the west?”

When Sanqi rode out on a donkey, Zhang Zhe walked around the courtyard a little anxiously.

The enemy army he guessed was like a sharp knife hanging in his heart, making it impossible for people to have a moment of peace.

If Zhang Zhe's guess is true, the soldiers and horses from Shangyin County who came to support the Song family will be stationed at the water intake point in the upper reaches of Huxi.Then this soldier and horse can enter Taolin County through Huxi or the mountain path west of Taolin at any time.

"No, no, the upper reaches of Huxi can't even float bamboo rafts, the rocks on both sides stretch for more than ten miles, the forests are deep and the mountains are high, it is almost impossible to go downriver of Huxi, people with a little common sense would not send soldiers to this dead end , then it is the herb-picking path from Taolin to the mountains in the west.”

Zhang Zhe lowered his head and drew a picture on the ground with his feet. After thinking for a while, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Uncle Fifth and Sixth said that only people who gather herbs dare to go on that trail, so the most people who can come here are only an elite team of a hundred people. Besides, their mission is the food of the Song family, and it seems impossible to enter the Taolin to rob. Even in Taolin robbed the food, but couldn't transport it away through the trail of the herb pickers."

Zhang Zhe looked at the mountain road leading to the northwest of Yanmen County on the other side he drew on the ground. This mountain road is the only one that can be used by vehicles and horses.

After a long time, Zhang Zhe, who gradually calmed down, figured out a few key points.

Firstly, the two counties of Lanke and Shangyin where Zou Tianyang occupies are barren, and the food stolen from Wuling County by the Song family every year is his lifeblood;Therefore, if he really sent soldiers and horses to support the food and grass, then the person leading the team must be a cautious and thoughtful person, and it is impossible for him to be a brutal and tyrannical person.

It can be inferred from this that under normal circumstances, the commander-in-chief of this army will never let his soldiers enter Taolin County, so as to avoid complications.As for capturing Wuling, it was even more impossible, because Zou Tianyang's lair was separated by hundreds of miles of mountains, and the backup was cut off. Attacking Wuling would be a dead end.

This army did not pose any threat to Zhang Zhe.

But the Song family's plan obviously included the Wuling government office and the army raised by Zou Tian.

Without food and grass to feed the army and the people, Zou Tianyang's downfall would be instant, so this batch of food was essential.The Song family must have thought of a way to force the soldiers of the Zou family to kill the government's interception team.

To be honest, Zhang Zhe was not familiar with Fuya, even if Yan Fuzun and Sun Tongzhi were trapped in the mountains, it had nothing to do with him.But in his judgment, the person leading the troops must be a thoughtful person.

Once these people are forced by the Song family, they will kill everyone in the government office without hesitation.If Zhang Zhe did it, he would pretend to be a bandit, and then blame everything on the bandit.

In order to be more convincing, he would also send people pretending to be barbarian bandits into Taolin and Yanmen counties to plunder.

If that was the case, the "barbarian bandits" would have two paths to Taolin.One is to harass the villages in the northwest of Taolin by taking the path of herbal pickers. There are at most a hundred people on this road.And the second is to take advantage of the hot weather to send troops to wading out of the upper reaches of Huxi, and cut wood in the lower reaches of Huxi to make simple rafts to attack the unprepared Taowan and surrounding villages.

Zhang Zhe finally drew on the ground with his hands for a long time before finally deciding that it is extremely difficult to go along the Huxi to the northwest, but it is much easier to wade from the upper reaches.This lake area is far away from the county seat, hundreds of soldiers and horses can run amok, and they can also capture small boats from various villages and return westward along the big river. Although it is slow, it is the safest.

Damn politics!
Zhang Zhe stood up, Da Zheng was too strong, once the opponent was forced to do something, he would definitely blame the barbarians in the mountains.The probability of the "barbarian bandit" attacking Taolin and Yanmen counties happening is more than [-]%!
And Taowan is placed under the opponent's mouth!
About an hour later, Sanqi came back on a donkey.

"Lang Jun is disappointed. The hunters and mountain hunters in the surrounding villages are not at home, and they all went to the mountains to the west. It's really hard to say the days when they come back from the mountains in early autumn. Some short ones will take three or four days, and they will go for a long time. The ones will come back before winter."

While bathing the donkey, Sanqi reported what he had learned.

"However, it's strange to say that a few herb collectors from the neighboring village have gone to the mountains for half a month, and they should have returned a few days earlier, but it was too late."

The speaker has no intention, the listener has the heart.

Zhang Zhe suddenly looked bitter, needless to say that these people were either captured or killed.

When she closed her eyes and thought, Meng Xiaowan came out and stuffed a cup of heat-relieving soup in his hand.

"Wan'er saw that her husband seemed to be in trouble, and she hesitated in the courtyard all afternoon. She didn't know if she could talk to me. It is said that a wise man who worries a lot will lose something, and a fool who worries a lot will gain something. Maybe I can figure it out. Here are some things for my husband to judge."

Zhang Zhe held Meng Xiaowan's hand, and he realized that his palm was cold.

Meng Xiaowan was also taken aback, she hurriedly held Zhang Zhe's hand with both hands, and asked in a low voice, "Why is your husband so discouraged?"

Zhang Zhe stared blankly at his wife, and his first thought was to immediately send Meng Xiaowan to Wuling County, no, to Nanyang County!

But what about the people in Hecun?
At this time, Sanqi led the donkey and went to the back, Zhang Zheqiang smiled: "I really regret not taking the county house that the Song family gave me. I have been figuring out how to buy a house in the county just now. You don't need more Think! I think, you and I can live here from time to time, to get some smog from the world. I'm really afraid that if you stay here, your popularity will fade, and you will be full of fairy spirit, and you will also fly to the moon like Chang'e. "

Meng Xiaowan knew that he was deliberately joking and was changing the subject.After looking at him for a while, he said seriously: "Although you and I have only been husband and wife for more than ten days, I can hardly understand you. If it weren't for the big thing, with your temperament, you would never be so sad. Just now You want Sanqi to go out and inquire about the Orion's family. I just heard his report in the room. Husband thought that there were thieves in the mountains? But even if they were thieves, how could they kill so many Orion hunters and herbalists who eat mountains and forests? people?"

Guessing this, Meng Xiaowan's voice trembled a little.

(End of this chapter)