I have been a county magistrate for ten years. My subordinates insist on giving me a yellow robe.

Jiang Yuan couldn't believe what he said.

Long Guangxian was stationed in Caiyun City. Even if he was defeated, could he travel thousands of miles to Luoyun City?

This doesn't make sense no matter how you look at it.

"Sir, this may be a bit outrageous, but they are really here. I estimate they will arrive in a few days." Li Hu said from the side.

Jiang Yuan stroked his chin, pondered for a moment, and then said, "That's not a problem. Long Guangxian is able to defend Caiyun City. Whether it's deploying troops or his own strength, he must be very good. Saving him is not a loss."

"Li Hu, continue to send people to keep an eye on them. Oh, and those barbarian birds, have them trained as soon as possible. Relying on manpower is still too slow."

In this day and age, communication methods can be roughly divided into two types: human and bird.

Birds are carrier pigeons as the name suggests, but the barbarians did not use carrier pigeons, but a bird unique to the grassland, called the lightning bird. It is said that this bird can travel a thousand miles a day.

And compared with ground communication methods, it has great advantages.

The first point is to save manpower and material resources. The fastest communication on land is 800 miles at a speed of 1,000 miles. I don’t know how many horses would have died along the way to achieve this.

Moreover, it is very likely to be intercepted by the enemy during wartime, and air communication is much safer.

The only drawback is that you can't write long articles, you can only transmit a note.

"Sir, I didn't train this thing, so it's no use urging me." Li Hu said with a pout.

"Stop talking nonsense to me! Get out of here!"

Jiang Yuan waved his hand and continued walking along the city wall.

After walking around for a while, Jiang Yuan turned around and walked towards Taiping County with a lack of interest, but he was already thinking in his mind.

Who is the informant that the old man from Chenliu planted in Taiping County?

After asking Wang Yuan that day, Jiang Yuan couldn't say that he got nothing, but he could only say that he had no clue.

I couldn't even find a suspect.

"Li Hu and Wang Gang are impossible. These two guys grew up with me naked."

"Ma Zhi is unlikely. This guy has been working here for a long time. Who else could it be?" After struggling for a long time, Jiang Yuan shook his head, still having no clue.

Never mind, it’s not very urgent at the moment anyway, there’s no need to think about it so much.

Let’s figure out how to deal with the upcoming rebels.

In the blink of an eye, several days passed.

In a mountain range near Taiping County, Long Guangxian looked at the bark in his hand with a wry smile. Although it was part of the inner side of the bark, it was still difficult to swallow.

"General, how about I take my brothers into the mountains to hunt?" Wang Kuo looked at the bark in his hand that he couldn't chew with a complicated expression.

Long Guangxian shook his head decisively: "No, we are now in the wilderness and the enemy may catch up with us at any time. The group behind us has been chasing us for several days. It is not worth the risk for such a small amount of food."

"The important thing now is to speed up and enter that small town."

Wang Kuo opened his mouth and tore off a piece of bark, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Just say what you want to say." Long Guangxian said unhappily.

Wang Kuo then nodded and said, "Sir, I think that small city will not be able to withstand the rebels behind us, right?"

"The scouts we left behind have at least two to three thousand men. I've never heard of that small town, so it's hard to say how many people are inside, or how many soldiers there are."

"Don't worry, if we arrive, there will only be a few hundred people in the city. Wouldn't that be the end of us?"

Long Guangxian was also silent for a while. What Wang Kuo said made sense. The small town could be without soldiers, but there must be many civilians, at least two to three thousand people, so that there would be enough food left to feed their thousand people.

After all, why did they go to that small town? Wasn't it because they didn't have any dry food with them and needed to find a place to fill their stomachs?

"Okay, we have to go and take a look first. Anyway, we have nowhere to go now." Long Guangxian said, biting off a piece of bark, mixing it with mountain spring water, and finally swallowing it down his stomach.

After a moment, Long Guangxian clapped his hands, stood up and called on Wang Kuo and others to continue moving forward.

So, a few days passed.

The silence of the mountain path was broken by the rhythmic sound of horse hooves.

Ding Yin took the lead, galloping on the road with a calm expression.

"General Ding, when will we have dinner? It's already noon and my stomach is growling with hunger." Chen Xudong complained while holding his stomach.

"Hahaha! Don't worry."

Ding Yin laughed heartily, looking up at the sky. Without even looking, he raised his whip and pointed ahead: "Just climb over two more mountains ahead and we'll be there."

"Don't worry, it's just a small town. We brought more than 3,000 people with us this time. We can resolve the battle in a short time."

Chen Xudong looked up and immediately looked at Ding Yin with suspicion.

"General, have you taken the wrong road? There are no mountains ahead, and..."

"How can it be!"

Before Chen Xudong could finish his words, Ding Yin interrupted him: "I came along this road three years ago. It's surrounded by mountains..."

Halfway through his words, Ding Yin opened his mouth blankly.

There were no mountains in sight, but instead a fortified city standing in the wilderness.

"This this……"

"General, if you still don't admit it, I'll just say you took the wrong path." Chen Xudong was complacent and had no idea of ​​the seriousness of the problem.

"Stop advancing!" With Ding Yin's loud shout, the troops quickly stopped.

"It doesn't make sense. This is clearly the road. Did I remember it wrong?" Ding Yin also looked ahead with a puzzled look on his face.

A huge city that seems to have no end in sight. Even from a long distance, it still gives people a sense of solidity.

"Bring the feng shui map here." Ding Yin said with a frown.

After a while, several soldiers spread out the map in front of Ding Yin.

"Well, let me take a look..." Ding Yin muttered to himself and began to slide down along the location of Luoyun City. When Ding Yin's finger slid to his own position, he couldn't help swallowing, and turned his head to look at the city behind him in disbelief.

"What the hell! When did a city appear here?"

"Where has Taiping County gone?"

Ding Yin shook his head in confusion. He would never have thought that the city before him was Taiping County.

"You guys go ahead and scout out what's going on in this city. Be careful to stay hidden and don't get discovered."

"The rest of you, hide in the dense forest for now. Do not act without my order."

After giving a few instructions, Ding Yin was the first to dismount and hide in the dense forest nearby.

"It's really strange. It's one thing that Taiping County is gone, but the key is that this city seems to have appeared out of nowhere."

Ding Yin kept muttering to himself that if anyone dared to say that this city was Taiping County and was built in the past two or three years, Ding Yin would never believe it.

What a joke! How could Taiping County, a place so poor that can't even afford to eat dry biscuits, have the money to build such a city?