Chapter 896 Analysis and Speculation
The existence of Siqin is a threat to him.
Luo Ji was extremely determined to kill him.
Otherwise, it would not have just settled the war in the west and the north, and hurriedly launched this expedition.
Because Luo Ji knew in his heart that he couldn't let this threat continue to develop.
So he wants to take advantage of the time he can kill the opponent in one breath.
Looking at the situation now, Na Siqin undoubtedly prepared a way out for himself in advance.
He didn't escape back to the main city at all, but he took a group of people and didn't know where to escape.
And just yesterday, a wolf cavalry soldier under Li Min came back to report.
A heavy rain a few days ago made their tracking more difficult.
No trace of the other party has been found so far.
This situation made Luo Ji frown.
Could this boiled duck still make him fly?
Staring at the map found in the Chaerhan grassland in front of him, Luo Ji frowned deeply and fell into deep thought.
Until Wang Kai's voice rang in his ear...
"Your Majesty, the Secret Spy of Der Spiegel has arrived."
Hearing this, Luo Ji regained his senses and rubbed the between his brows, then slowly opened his mouth...
"Let him in."
While talking, a ragged man walked in quickly.
"Spy Blue Magpie, see Your Majesty!"
"Get up."
While raising his hand to signal the other party to get up, Luo Ji asked straight to the point...
"In the past two or three months, has this main city transported a large amount of grain and grass? Of course, in addition to grain and grass, there may be other resources, such as ordnance equipment."
Faced with this question, Lan Que didn't know what to say for a while.
During the war, it is too common and too frequent to send food and grass resources to the front line.
If you count them one by one, you won't be able to count them at all.
After asking this question, Luo Ji himself seemed to realize that this question was not very accurate, so he decided to change the way.
"Nine times out of 10, the other party transports food and grass resources, but they may cover these things up, such as covering them with thick sackcloth, disguising them as other things, and transporting them quietly. Do you have any impression of this kind of thing?"
Siqin is a smart and cautious person.
And such people often know how to leave a way out for themselves.
At the same time, on this road of retreat, he must hoard enough food and capital to make his comeback!
Therefore, if the other party did not return to the main city, it must have been hidden in a hidden camp prepared in advance.
And food has a time limit. If you store it for too long, you can't eat it after it rots.
Under this premise, the food problem of the Chaerhan Prairie State was not particularly abundant.
Therefore, Si Qin has not been prepared for that condition.
It is too troublesome to transport back and forth, and at the same time, frequent entry and exit, it is easy to expose the location of this hidden camp.
So even if you want to prepare, it will only be in two or three months.
At this time, Luo Ji had already narrowed down the entire range to a minimum based on his own analysis and speculation in the extremely limited information.
Faced with this more precise question, Lan Que also fell into a brief contemplation.
Then, as if he remembered something, his eyes suddenly lit up!
"Your Majesty, about a month ago, the night was not very peaceful for a while. There were often sounds similar to the dragging of carriages to the mine. The city gate seemed to have opened, but I couldn't hear it clearly, so I couldn't hear it. 100% sure."
To sneak things out of the city in the middle of the night, this completely fits the characteristics that Luo Ji mentioned in the question just now.
Therefore, when Luo Ji heard this, he was also refreshed, and he waved to Lan Que, while pointing to the map in front of him and asked...
"Which mine is it?"
"Your Majesty, this is the one."
"Are you sure?"
Just in case, Luo Ji had to confirm this.
In this regard, Lan Que nodded affirmatively.
"Sure! For the past few months, I have been disguised as slaves and hidden in this mine."
"very good."
While speaking, Luo Ji's eyes quickly panned across the map.
Located in the mine, but the sound of the carriage being dragged can be heard.
That means that the street where the other party dragged the supplies was very close to the mine.
According to the map, there is only one street that meets the requirements!
And that street leads directly to the north gate of this main city!
When doing that kind of thing, the other party will definitely choose the shortest route when it is confirmed that no one is following, so as to avoid extraneous problems.
So, that Siqin's hiding place was arranged in the north...
The distance will not be too close, otherwise they will be found soon.
But it will definitely not be too far. If it is folded halfway, it will put the cart before the horse.
According to Luo Ji's estimation, it would take no more than ten days to ride a horse from this main city.
This is a relatively reasonable distance.
With the newly acquired information, Luo Ji kept filling in the clues in his mind.
After a while of estimation, he circled a place directly on the map!
Then the next morning, he called Bai Ze and Burigude directly, and ordered them to lead a cavalry team to the north to search for Siqin who had escaped.
While the cavalry team set off, Luo Ji himself was of course not idle.
When he first started, he didn't want to occupy these four broken cities, which were better than nothing.
Although there are two or three veins in the Chaerhan grassland.
However, the ore resources are the more common ones, such as copper mines...
It can't be called a bad street, but it won't make Luo Ji too excited.
According to Luo Ji's idea, fill up the mines first, and then leave them here.
When he pushes the territory here in the future, he will officially take over.
However, the existing resources in the city, and the hundreds of thousands of grassland people, he will definitely take away.
Not to mention resources, those hundreds of thousands of grassland people are all cheap labor.
He is now at the time of development of the civilization of the world, and there is a shortage of people everywhere. How can he let go of such a large wave of manpower?
With an order, decisively ordered the troops under his command to start transporting resources and transferring these populations.
At the same time, over the grassland city, he also issued a warrant.
Let them send someone over to meet them.
The season has only just entered the autumn, and in the early winter, it should be able to transfer all this group of people to the three grassland cities of his Wanjie civilization.
On the way to the transfer, the secret agents of Mirror City who had penetrated into the interior cooperated with them in their actions.
Those prairie people and slaves basically did not resist much.
Even the rebels, who made Siqin almost mad some time ago, behaved very calmly, and didn't jump out to make trouble at all.
It can be said that it saved Luo Ji a lot of trouble.
So far, except for the whereabouts of Si Qin, other things have been going very smoothly.
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