Not every horse thief has its own separate base, such as some pony thieves. They just have their own residence in Ak City, because for them, it is safer and more convenient here. Their number is only a dozen, or even twenty or thirty, so there are not many people in their families or other people.

The things they stolen need to be sold quickly, and their daily necessities also need to be purchased, so they all choose to have their own station in Ak City.

When these horse thieves were dispatched, almost all of them were dispatched, and there were not many people left in the garrison, just a few people.

The location of Ak City is not far from Huo Gang and the others at this moment. If we use the terrain of later generations, Yangguan is located in a small mountain range attached to the Qilian Mountains. From Yangguan to the south, the Qilian Mountains are then the Aljin Mountains are all the way west.

The Alkin Mountains are the branch of the Kunlun Mountains, and the Kunlun Mountains are the bottom of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Tarim Basin, which is the dividing line between Xinjiang in later generations. In this era, the Kunlun Mountains are an absolute barrier!

So why Yangguan is so important in this era is because after Yangguan, there is the Qilian Mountains to the south, and to the north, all the way to Yumen Pass, and the adjacent mountains of the Tianshan Mountains are there.

In other words, if the Han Great Wall is still there between Yumen Pass and Yang Pass, then if people in the Western Regions want to invade, they can only cross the Qilian Mountains or the Tianshan Mountains, which is extremely difficult in this era.

For example, Hami, Urumqi and others in later generations were all north of the Tianshan Mountains. In this era, the reason why the Yumen Pass and Suoyang City of the Tang Dynasty were placed north of Dunhuang County was because it was the northern line of the Silk Road, which followed the line of Hami in later generations.

The southern line is along the edge of the Tarim Basin. This road is very dangerous because it is Taklamakan Desert in the middle.

The Black Mountain bandits' resident Heishan is located in the Qilian Mountains southwest of Yangguan. This mountain range is not high, but because it itself is a plateau, it is not so easy to cross.

This mountain range and the Qilian Mountains on the south side are facing westward. There are about 50 miles of ditch between the two. Of course, from the height, this is a gully sandwiched between the two mountains, but in fact it is more than 50 miles wide, so it is no longer considered a ditch.

Later generations had a provincial road through here.

Ak City is actually about 40 miles west of Heishan Mountain. Because this mountain range attached to the Qilian Mountains is not high, it also blocks the water vapor of some Qilian Mountains, so there is relatively much water drop in the foot of this mountain range, and there are sparse pastures at the foot of this mountain, rather than the pure Gobi Desert.

The location of the Black Mountain bandit is located in the ravine at the foot of Black Mountain, a mountain peak in this mountain range. This ravine crosses the mountain range, but is not completely connected. There are streams in the ravine, and in summer there is a humid environment formed by the melting of snow water on the top of the mountain. Therefore, the aquatic plants in the ravine are still lush, and some land can even plant crops.

The same is true for Ak City. There is also a ravine next to Ak City. The difference is that Ak City is not in the ravine, but is built on the south side of the mountain range and north by the mountain range. The environment near it is also good, not a complete Gobi Desert, with water sources.

At this moment, Huo Gang and his team were repairing less than 10 miles from Ak City, mainly to let the war horses under their crotch replenish water and forage.

But Huo Gang, Gongsun Lin and Huo Zheng had already observed it several miles away from Ak City along the mountainside.

Although it is a city, it is actually not even as large as a small town in later generations, and most of the houses are accumulated by stones. There is no city wall here. After all, Ak City has no nominal government ownership, so there is no city lord or something like that.

It is called a city, but it is more like a gathering point where all kinds of refugees, robbers, bandits, horse thieves, merchants and others gather.

It’s just that the special nature here has led to countless people flowing here, because even caravans on the Silk Road will basically pass here.

Of course, most caravans will never rest in the city unless they are necessary. Even if they buy things, they will send people to buy them and leave quickly.

After reading the entire layout of Ak City, Huo Gang had already remembered all its terrain with the early warning function of the Spirit of the Jade Gate.

This means we have to talk about the early warning function of the Spirit of the Jade Gate. Whenever an enemy enters Huo Gang's territory, the early warning of the Spirit of the Jade Gate will immediately remind you. However, this requires a large number of enemies. One or two enemies cannot be done, nor can it be said that it is completely impossible. To be precise, if the number of enemies is small, Huo Gang must be close to a certain distance.

After leaving Huo Gang's territory, the early warning of the Yumen Spirit is only 5 kilometers in radius. Huo Gang didn't quite understand it before, but now he understands that after he leaves the territory, a complete virtual three-dimensional topographic map with him as the center will appear in his mind. The terrain on it can be described in detail.

Therefore, at this moment, the entire Ak City was displayed in Huo Gang's Yumen Spirit, and I don't know if it was because these horse thieves took the lead in attacking Huo Gang. At this moment, in the Yumen Spirit, there were a few red dots in Ak City that were extremely conspicuous.

"Let's go back." After Huo Gang took a few glances, he turned his horse's head and returned to the place where they gathered.

The corrected place of Huo Gang and others happened to allow Ak City to be within Huo Gang's warning range. When he returned to the gathering place, Huo Gang directly found a piece of sheepskin, then took out something and quickly outlined it on the sheepskin. Soon, the layout of Ak City appeared on the sheepskin.

Huo Gang did this in front of Wang Daoba. When Huo Gang drew the entire Ak City, the shock on Wang Daoba's face could not be concealed... Could General Huo just glanced at such a few times from a distance and remembered the layout of the entire city? This...

But before he could be shocked, he saw Huo Gang directly drew several circles on the map of the sheepskin with his pen and said, "Are those horse thieves' stations here?"

Wang Daoba was so stupid. How could this be possible?! He could understand how to draw Ak City, but... but how could he even know where the horse thieves' station were? Because Huo Gang drew a map that resembled it! So Wang Daoba could immediately confirm that these locations were really the stations of those horse thieves in Ak City.

This... Wang Daoba looked at Huo Gang incorrectly. He could never imagine how Huo Gang knew... Could it be...
Chapter completed!