Xianbei goes south! There is no need to make any deliberate publicity. Say it in each county, and then the counties immediately enter a state of alert.

The people of each township immediately hid themselves in a special cave with their property and food, and then hid in the county town with about three months of food. The major families closed the fort and then relied on the fort to defend the fort. The county town began to prepare for the city guarding, and the stones and other preparations began. This proficiency was even more perfect than what Liu Tao arranged...

"I didn't do enough counterattack, and it seems that I'm completely skilled in defense." Liu Tao couldn't help but complain when he knew it.

"To a certain extent..." Lu Yan sighed a little, "This is the life that the people here lived before we came."

Being invaded and looted became a normal state, and how to defend became an instinctive reaction. Liu Tao felt that the court needed to reflect on why the people here were so insecure.

The problem is that it is troublesome to solve it. First of all, the enemies of the court, that is, these Xianbei people, can escape into the mountains and forests, rely on the mountains and forests to defend, and use cavalry to harass them. Their archery skills are also good, and they are at a disadvantage in shooting.

They could cross the Yinshan Mountains through the mountains and forests and go south to harass them, but the court could not rebuild a Great Wall around this mountain. Perhaps the court itself used this area outside the Great Wall as a buffer for the two tribes to fight.

People are also sent to garrison here, and people will live here. In contrast, if a war is fought, this place will become the earliest place of war. No matter what the battle is like, it will not affect the people within the Great Wall.

In other words, the court did not intend to make this place prosperous at the beginning, just like during the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was no longer a prefect here, but only a commander.

Yes, Liu Tao remembers that there was a prefect here, which was the case during the Western Han Dynasty. However, Yunzhong County was not the original territory of the Huns or Xianbei. If you really want to trace it, it should be set up by King Wuling of Zhao.

In other words, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, this place was originally an inherent territory of China.

Five thousand soldiers were approaching Beiyu, and Liu Tao had ordered Guan Yu to strengthen patrols around the surrounding area. Judging from the current results, it seems that no Xianbei troops who came to Dingxiang were found.

"Lord, how are the Xianbei people doing now?" Lu Bu stepped forward and asked. For the first time five days ago, Liu Tao could open his eyes and see the situation in the distance, and the range of the eyes was ten miles.

It would be great if it was so convenient to fight in the past, and you could have early warnings or even ambushing them in advance.

Sometimes I feel that Liu Tao should be the prefect of Wuyuan County, after all, his sky eye is more useful. If I ambush the Hu people four or five times, then they will not dare to come here casually.

"They have been in the mountains and forests these two days, and seem to be hesitating whether to go south. If I guess correctly, either they will go south in these ten days, or they will return north in more than ten days." Liu Tao replied.

During this period, it was still in the autumn harvest season. If you really think about it, there were still some people in the county, and after harvesting, the millet was still drying and not fully stored. At this time, you can naturally harvest a lot of food by robbing south.

After more than ten days, the grain will be put into the warehouse or even hidden, so it will be possible to obtain it. However, the cost-effectiveness is too low, so it is obviously a loss-making transaction, so naturally I will not do it.

"There is no intention to go south at all? No, they have no intention to move?" Lu Bu asked anxiously.

"It's true, but you also know that I have to concentrate on checking over there before I can see the situation there. For example, if I'm asleep or I'm not paying attention there, then I naturally don't know the situation there." Liu Tao had to explain.

If these Hu people move secretly in the middle of the night, or move when they are not paying attention, then he will not be able to notice it.

"This is nothing. They won't move around late at night. After all, in the mountains, the beasts are active late at night. But one thing needs to be paid attention to is that most of the Hu people can see everything clearly in the middle of the night." Lu Bu reminded.

This is because the Hu people also eat internal organs and blood from livestock, and perhaps supplemented with vitamin A, so there is no problem of night blindness. Anyway, naturalized Hu people with a single diet may experience night blindness.

According to Lu Bu, the early Hu people even thought that this was their betrayal of the Xianbei and the gods punishing themselves. There was no way, any strange things these days could be related to gods and ghosts...

"This habit is good!" Liu Tao praised after hearing this, "Since they won't move casually at night, should we take the initiative to go over and send them warmth? General Lu, you should mean the same, right?"

"Although I don't know what you mean by 'send warmth', the last general does have the idea of ​​a night attack." Lu Bu nodded, and he felt that Liu Tao's meaning should be the same as his.

"Of course I mean that, I have always been very kind." Liu Tao nodded, "I must be reluctant to see them leaving their hometown, trapped in the mountains and forests, lonely and helpless, and facing all kinds of beasts..."

"So he took the initiative to invite them to come and be a guest, which is also the right thing to do?" Guo Jia smiled. He had already begun to feel the evil taste in Liu Tao's words.

"That's certain. Since we see these poor Xianbei people suffering there, we should certainly treat them well. If they don't even have a place to go, should they provide a place to stay or even a job?" Liu Tao looked compassionate, "How can we, such a great man, do we act like a rude war?"

"So what I said..." Lu Yan also reacted, "Recently, various counties have needed many workers to build bridges and roads and expand irrigation canals."

"Are these scholars so insidious?" Wen Chou asked Cheng Lian beside him in a low voice.

"As far as I know... it seems like this." Cheng Lian Muran nodded. After all, the scholars he had met were really counted, namely Liu Tao. In terms of impression, it was indeed this feeling.

"Just fight, why do you have to find so many reasons?" Lu Bu couldn't understand.

"This is a matter of position!" Liu Tao replied. "We cannot take the initiative to provoke the war. Even if we have to fight, it must be their problem, not our problem. Otherwise, even if we win, the guys in the court will put the responsibility of starting the war on us... Of course, we cannot give them an excuse to criticize us!"

After all, it is to not even give the chance to slander those guys with ulterior motives in the court to falsely accuse themselves. This is called wisdom. The order has not collapsed, and many things are inevitably needed to be taken care of.

"So!" Liu Tao concluded, "I want to write a memorial to the court to indicate that at this time, and then you are ready to send them warmth tonight or tomorrow night. If you don't like this word, you can say that you are checking your household registration."

"Why do you think your lord is very skilled?" Guo Jia asked.
Chapter completed!