Cao Wenzhao tore off a piece of mutton and put it in his mouth to taste it carefully. He felt that this roasted mutton was very delicious. It tasted many times better than the mutton I had eaten before.

"By the way, I forgot to ask my nephew something. Is there any news about Jiannu coming to the near future?" Cao Wenzhao suddenly asked.

Li Guodong quickly put down the mutton at hand, turned his head and replied cautiously: "Lin Danhan robbed Xuanda area a while ago, robbed a lot of food, and is now raising his energy and will rush east to the Korqin tribe next year. If Lin Danhan attacked Korqin, Huang Taiji would definitely try his best to save Korqin tribe, and even try his best to chase Lin Danhan! My younger generation judged that if Huang Taiji did not destroy Lin Danhan first, he would no longer take the initiative to use troops to our Ming Dynasty. However, once Lin Danhan was destroyed, Huang Taiji would definitely invade! But I estimate that it would take at least four years for Jiannu to solve the problem of the Mongols."

"Why do you judge that it will take four years for Jiannu to destroy Lin Danhan?"

"After all, it is the world of the Mongols. Jiannu went deep into the grassland and simply relied on other Mongolian tribes to lead the way to chase Lin Danhan. But Lin Danhan could run away and escape all the way to the West Sea. Before Lin Danhan's threat was completely eliminated, Jiannu dared not invade the capital again. In fact, we can take advantage of the opportunity when Jiannu sent troops to Mongolia to conquer Shenyang in one fell swoop."

Cao Wenzhao sighed: "Even if Jiannu goes to 90% of his troops to chase Lin Danhan, our Ming soldiers dare not take the initiative to attack Jiannu! Since the Battle of Sarhu, the Ming Dynasty has suffered more defeats and fewer victory, and he dare not fight against the Jurchen Tartars in the field."

"Since I am outside the Great Wall, I will definitely find a way to make Jiannu lose his troops and generals in Mongolia! Let Chahar Mongolia, Mobei Mongolia and Tumote all unite to fight with Jiannu!" Li Guodong said. He thought to himself: When Huang Taiji chased Lin Danhan and burned Guihua City, the Tumote people would be dissatisfied with the Later Jin Dynasty. As long as Li Hong chooses the right time to kill Yuetuo, the Tumote people can only choose to be enemies with the Later Jin Dynasty.

Although Yue Tuo had no power to tie a chicken, his strategic plan was worth tens of thousands of soldiers.

The next morning, Li Guodong and others handed over the waist card to Cao Wenzhao for temporary storage, and the three of them set foot on the official road to Hequ.

Starting from Guangchang, we pass by Yingzhou, Shanyin, Shuozhou and other places. After passing Shuozhou, we go westward. The terrain ahead is extremely complex, with gullies and ripples in the loess mountains and winding roads. Sometimes the road ahead seems to be very close, but we have to bypass the entire mountain. It took a long time to walk to the road I saw a long time ago.

The three of them left for seven days before entering Hequ County.

When he approached Hequ, it was almost dark. After another mountain road, Li Guodong found that more than a dozen bandits were rushing in front of him. It was obvious that the thieves also discovered Li Guodong and three others who came.

One of the bandits wore a red tassel felt hat, a mandarin duck battle jacket, and a piece of leather armor, looking like a small leader; the other bandits wore red turbans and wore tattered cotton coats.

"Who is coming?" asked the thief who looked like a small leader.

"The horses outside the border are coming to join the rebel army!" Li Guodong replied.

In the past few days, Li Guodong and others rode horses on the mountain road, and they let the war horses walk slowly, and never consumed their horsepower to run. They could easily run away when they rode horses slowly, and there were two horses. At this time, the horsepower was abundant. As long as they speeded up and charged, the three people could completely eliminate more than a dozen bandits in front of them.

Although there were twelve thieves and only three of them were on the side of Li Guodong, there was a chain mail in their cotton coats. Except for the leader, the rest were all without armor.

Although these bandits were fleeing military households and ordinary people who could not survive, Li Guodong felt no guilt at all to kill them. Since he was a thief, he basically had blood debts. In order to spy on military information, Li Guodong had to kill these small thieves.

Li Guodong and the two brothers looked at each other and gave a wink. Then the three of them rode their horses slowly towards the bandit. When they entered within fifty steps, Li Guodong carefully observed the ground and found no traces of tripping ropes or traps. So he grabbed the horse's belly with both feet, and the horse quickly raised its speed and rushed towards the bandits.

Cao Lei and He Xing followed behind, also raised their horse speed and rushed towards the thief.

Since He Xing followed Li Guodong, he also learned to fight on horseback.

The three riders began to accelerate, and their speed quickly increased, galloping away towards the thieves.

"What are they going to do?" Seeing the three cavalry rushing towards him quickly, the thief had a very bad premonition.

Li Guodong had already taken out his riding bow, and put on an arrow, and an arrow pointed at the thief's head's throat and whistled. It was only twenty steps away, and the thief's head had no chance to react, so he was shot through the throat with an arrow.

Cao Lei also took the bow and took an arrow, and shot a thief overturned with one arrow.

In the end, He Xing did not use a riding bow. His archery skills were not very good, let alone using a riding bow on the horse's back. However, there was a short javelin in the backpack on He Xing's back, and he took out the javelin and used the horsepower to throw a javelin.

The javelin pierced into a thief's eyes with the whistling sound of wind. The spearhead pierced through the skull and drilled out from the back of the head.

Li Guodong shot out the second arrow again at lightning speed, and one arrow shot through a thief's chest. The arrow pierced into the body without armor protection, nailing the thief to a tree. At this time, the distance was too close and there was no time to use the bow and arrow again, so Li Guodong put away his bow, pulled out the tiger-toothed sword, and entered the enemy group.

Cao Lei also shot out the second arrow, drew out the tiger-toothed sword, and followed Li Guodong into the thieves. The two of them rushed past the remaining seven thieves with the help of horsepower. The sword light flashed, and four more thieves fell down in an instant.

He Xing also threw three javelins in succession and shot three thieves. Afterwards, he pulled out his sabre, but found that the last thief was also chopped off by Li Guodong.

All the twelve thieves guarding the intersection were killed, leaving no living gust.

Li Guodong jumped off his horse: "Hide the body, let's continue walking."

The three of them dragged the thief's body into the woods from the side of the road, hid it, then rode on horseback and walked along the mountain road towards Hequ. After walking for about an hour, they arrived at the open space fifteen miles away from Hequ. They could already see the roadside full of yellow-faced, thin-skinned and ragged refugees.

Cao Lei saw more than a dozen refugees surrounding a bonfire and were roasting something, and the smell of barbecue floated in the air. When the distance was close, he realized that those people were roasting one human leg!

A corpse was lying among the hungry people. Both legs of the corpse were gone, there was no clothes on their bodies, their stomachs were cut open, and their internal organs had been hollowed out long ago, looking like white pigs. Cao Lei suddenly felt disgusted.

Cao Lei had killed a lot on the battlefield before, but it was the first time he saw the roasted human flesh. It felt really disgusting. He felt uncomfortable in his stomach and almost vomited.
Chapter completed!