A lowly soldier becomes king, I slaughter my way through the late Tang Dynasty!

"General Li, why are you sending people to visit hunters in the surrounding area?"

Zhao Kuangyin didn't quite understand.

Not long ago.

Li Rui ordered that all one hundred of his men be dispatched to do one thing.

He visited hunters in several nearby villages, going door to door.

It doesn't have to be a hunter.

We visited every local resident who had ever been to this remote mountain forest.

At each household they arrived at, the soldiers would take out copper coins and inquire about matters concerning the deep mountains and forests.

With money to be made, the people naturally began to speak up.

Soon, a jumble of miscellaneous messages gathered in front of Li Rui.

There are hunting routes, locations where wild animals are spotted, and the course of streams and rivers...

Zhao Kuangyin stared at the messages scattered all over the ground, feeling utterly overwhelmed!

"General Li, you wouldn't be thinking of using these to find that band of bandits, would you?"

Li Rui smiled faintly and nodded.

"What else can we do? You said it yourself, going into the mountains makes it easy to fall into an ambush, so we can only find their location first."

Zhao Kuangyin looked completely bewildered.

"How do I find it?"

The floor is covered with all sorts of miscellaneous information!

The previous post was about where you can catch fish, and the next post is about which place is haunted!

They're not even touching!

Just organizing it is enough to give me a splitting headache.

How could we possibly find the bandits with this information?

Could it be that some ordinary people actually ran into bandits?

If we actually run into them, will we even come back alive?

Zhao Kuangyin watched helplessly as Li Rui threw himself into the papers, and felt a sense of despair.

He held his head and sighed inwardly.

People say that Li Yulong has the bearing of a great general.

But now it seems...

How could they act so absurdly?

At this moment, Zhao Kuangyin began to doubt himself.

Should we still join Li Rui in suppressing the bandits?

Just when he was filled with helplessness and self-doubt.

Li Rui spread out a large piece of cloth and began to write and draw on it.

Zhao Kuangyin stepped forward blankly and bent down to look.

I watched for a moment.

He was suddenly shocked!

He shouted.

"Are you drawing a map!?"

Li Rui nodded slightly, his hands still moving.

Zhao Kuangyin was even more dumbfounded!

"Maps can be drawn like this? Without on-site investigation and route exploration?"

Li Rui smiled and pointed to the information scattered on the ground.

"Isn't this information that the people have gathered for us?"

talking.

Li Rui scrolled through several messages and read them aloud.

"It says here that if you go into the mountains from the southeast corner and walk four miles along the mountain road, you can pick mushrooms every year."

Next, seven miles south of the mountain, you'll hear the howls of various wild animals every night; you absolutely must not go there.

Zhao Kuangyin, holding his head, asked blankly.

"so what?"

Li Rui glanced at him as if he were an idiot.

Zhao Kuangyin, with a sullen face, really did look like a fool.

It's not his fault.

after all.

Li Rui possesses top-tier map surveying skills in his mind!

"The fact that mushrooms can be found here indicates that this place is dark and damp, low-lying, and there should be an underground river passing through it. This place should be a valley."

Hearing various wild animal howls at night indicates that something here attracts a variety of animals; it's likely a pond where wild animals drink.

Top-tier map surveying technology involves a far wider range of knowledge than just this.

Topography, mountain range direction, river paths, plant distribution, animal habits...

All sorts of miscellaneous knowledge were in Li Rui's mind.

And it can be used flexibly!

As long as you see one piece of useful information.

Li Rui was able to deduce the terrain features hidden beneath this information in his mind.

Then all parties pieced together the information and corroborated each other's findings.

He then began to draw a sketch on the cloth.

of course.

Without on-site surveying, it is impossible to draw a detailed map.

But Li Rui had a clear understanding of the general situation in this remote mountain forest.

It's more than enough for finding people!

Zhao Kuangyin watched helplessly.

An ordinary piece of cloth, under Li Rui's pen, gradually emerges from the valleys and rivers.

It became a rough, yet remarkably detailed, initial map!

He glared with his tiger-like eyes.

Squatting to the side, I was completely dumbfounded!

"Maps... can actually be drawn like this!?"

Zhao Kuangyin muttered to himself.

Then Li Rui gave his analysis.

"This band of mountain bandits is quite numerous, and their hiding place won't be too small. They also need a stable and abundant water source."

Moreover, while maintaining concealment, they couldn't be in truly secluded corners, otherwise the miasma in the mountains would kill them all.

I just finished speaking.

Zhao Kuangyin, who was staring at the sketch, suddenly shuddered!

He opened his mouth, extremely excited!

My finger kept tapping on the map!

"I understand, I understand!"

Zhao Kuangyin swallowed several times.

He had absolutely no idea where the bandits were hiding!

But after looking at the map drawn by Li Rui and listening to the analysis,

Now, the fog in front of me has suddenly cleared!

He pointed to a river valley, full of anticipation.

Is this the place?

Li Rui gave him an approving look.

Seeing this, Zhao Kuangyin felt completely at ease.

"General Li is truly a divine being!"

……

It was afternoon.

Within the valley.

A group of bandits had gathered here, clamoring to divide the money.

The bandit leader was named Zhang Fu, and he used to be a woodcutter.

"Shut the hell up! We haven't even sold those two hundred armors yet, what's all the fuss about!"

Feng Yao's two hundred personal guards have all been killed by them.

The armor and weapons have been transported back to the valley, and they are currently contacting buyers.

In chaotic times, these things never lack buyers.

The crowd gradually quieted down.

Someone looked worried and couldn't help but say.

"Brother, Bianzhou is the emperor's stronghold. If we kill government soldiers here, won't we attract a large army to wipe us out?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Fu scoffed and cursed.

"You idiot, why did we leave Huazhou? Wasn't it because Huazhou wasn't safe? That's why we moved here!"

The person who spoke still looked dumbfounded.

Zhang Fu immediately spat in the man's face!

"Stupid, stupid, stupid!"

After cursing, Zhang Fu walked down the earthen slope, pointed to the valley, and shouted loudly.

"Listen up, all of you! The reason we Black Wind Stronghold chose to settle here is because no one can find this place!"

This valley is surrounded by mountains and dense forests, and even the most skilled hunters cannot find their way in.

The only path, which only I knew at first, is now roughly familiar to you all.

The bandits were surprised and asked.

"Brother, this valley is extremely well-hidden. How did you find the way?"

Zhang Fu stood proudly with his hands on his hips.

"Hmph, this road was carved out by my great-grandfather when he came here to illegally mine copper. He hired hundreds of people to do it!"

"Copper ore!?"

Zhang Fu slapped him across the face and laughed as he cursed.

"Don't even think about it. It's been completely destroyed long ago. This road has been abandoned for decades and is now completely hidden by weeds and trees."

Even if the officers and soldiers know we're hiding in these mountains, but don't know our exact location, what can they do?

After hearing this explanation...

The bandits, who had been feeling uneasy, immediately felt relieved.

They all laughed.

"The spot our elder brother found for us is narrow on both sides and wide in the middle—isn't it a treasure trove?"

"Haha, that's true, I've already earned two hundred armors just by settling in."

"For the officers and soldiers to find this place is like a blind man feeling his way across a river."

"Hehehe, we won't tell. Unless you're a god, you won't find us!"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

The atmosphere in the valley was joyful.

It's as if this is their ideal Happy Valley.

Unrestrained, lawless madmen.

I don't know.

Right above their heads.

Li Rui pointed ahead and said.

"It's right down here."