In the early morning, hundreds of Song soldiers surrounded an inn near the East Gate. The Song army was reported that there was something abnormal in this inn. Zhang Shun soon discovered the abnormality. There was no customer in this inn, and there were only three people, including the shopkeeper, but they purchased a large amount of grain and mutton, which made people suspect that there were other people hiding in this inn.

Soon, Zhang Shun discovered another suspicious place. There was a yard behind this inn, with no doors or roads, and it seemed to have nothing to do with the inn. Such a structure was really unreasonable.

After three days of surveillance, the spy Song Jun confirmed that there were people of unknown origin hidden in the yard and had a great relationship with the inn. Zhang Shun immediately decided to destroy the inn and arrest the suspicious persons.

In the night, a soldier rushed over and whispered to Zhang Shun: "There are lights in the room on the third floor of the inn, but they are blocked by the curtains!"

The lights were still on at this time, so it was definitely not a good thing. Zhang Shun smiled at the deputy general Ruan Xiaoqi and said, "We divide the work, you take people to the third floor to arrest me, I'll go to the backyard!"

"No wonder Yan Qing doesn't like to work with you!" Ruan Xiaoqi curled his lips and really despised Zhang Shun's rebellion.

"I will give you my first lessons back, now it's OK!"

"It seems like I want this first-class merit very much, but since you are sincere, I won't say much about my brother."

Zhang Shun smiled and immediately turned around and ordered: "Go on attack!"

The order was issued, and hundreds of soldiers rushed to the inn from all directions.

The Song soldiers broke open the inn gate and immediately divided into two groups. One was led by Ruan Xiaoqi and rushed to the third floor, while the other was led by Zhang Shun and rushed to the backyard.

The backyard of the inn was empty, and it was not as close to the small door as imagined to be connected to a yard outside. Zhang Shun's eyes fell on the woodshed in the corner of the wall. He pointed to the woodshed, and two soldiers kicked open the woodshed door and rushed in.

"General, there is a small door here!"

They finally found the small door connected to the yard behind. The soldiers broke open the door and rushed into the next yard. Hundreds of soldiers also climbed up the high wall and pointed the crossbow at the room in the yard.

This is a very square yard, covering an area of ​​about one acre, and a row of five or six rooms were built along the courtyard wall. At this time, a man happened to open the door and saw the soldiers. He was shocked and shouted, "There is an enemy situation."

Before he could finish calling, the leader Song army soldier carried the crossbow and had an arrow. The man screamed and fell to the ground on his back. His scream immediately woke up the people in the room. They shouted loudly, and Zhang Shun said coldly: "Shoot the arrow!"

A hundred soldiers immediately fired arrows at once, and dense crossbow arrows shot into the room from the window. Screams were everywhere in the room. The soldiers shot two rounds of arrows, and there was no rest in the room.

The soldiers in the yard rushed into the room and for a moment, they captured several men hiding under the bed without being shot.

"General, he is a Jurchen!"

Several men's hats were swept off, revealing their bare heads and small braids on both sides.

The soldiers quickly carried out forty bodies from several rooms, and together with the three arrested people, there were a total of forty-three people. The soldiers found hundreds of pairs of soldiers from the cellar, which could equip nearly five hundred people.

Zhang Shun turned around and returned to the inn. The shopkeeper and the three men were all pulled down from the upstairs by Ruan Xiaoqi, "Brother Shun, I actually found thousands of taels of silver and rewarded them to my brothers!"

Zhang Shun's face was very serious. Wuxin joked with Ruan Xiaoqi. He ordered him to say, "No matter what interrogation method you use, they must immediately explain how many hidden Jin soldiers are in Taiyuan City. We must find these people before dawn!"

Zhang Shun found that there were hundreds of pairs of soldiers who were searching for. A intuition told him that there were more than 43 Jin soldiers hiding in Taiyuan City.

As soon as dawn, Zhang Shun rushed to the large tent of the military camp and said to the personal soldiers at the door: "Please tell the governor, just say I have an urgent matter!"

In the big tent, Li Yanqing was sitting at the table and writing a letter, one of which was to Cao Xing of Tongguan and Liu Ziyu of Jingzhao City. In particular, he would like to remind Liu Ziyu to make the three thousand Song troops stationed in Shangzhou Wuguan to be vigilant and prevent the Jin soldiers from going north from Dengzhou to Shangzhou and sneak attacking Wuguan.

Another letter was to Wu Jie of Yan'an Prefecture, and he also asked him to be vigilant and not be careless, and he should also send people to pay attention to the situation of the Jin soldiers on Luoshuidao.

Of course, the Xin did not send someone to send him off, but flew to Jingzhao Prefecture and Yan'an Prefecture with Xinying.

As soon as he put down his pen, his personal soldiers reported at the door: "Report to the governor, General Zhang Shun has an urgent matter!"

"Let him in!"

After a moment, Zhang Shun quickly walked into the big tent, knelt down on one knee and bowed, "I'm lucky to be a humble job and have completed the mission!"

Li Yanqing smiled and said, "How many Jin soldiers have been captured?"

"We captured 350 Jin soldiers at four points, including twenty-six Jurchens, and the others were all the Han army in the Jin Kingdom."

Speaking of this, Zhang Shun took out another list and handed it to Li Yanqing, "This is a list found in the Sifang Inn. It should be a spy from the Jin army of the Song army, with a total of eighty people. Please check it out."

Li Yanqing was not surprised. It would be strange if they were recruiting soldiers publicly, but there were no Jin soldiers and spies involved. He took the list and looked carefully. The name above was specific to the team level and could be arrested according to the roster.

"How come there are more than 400 Jin soldiers in the city?"

Li Yanqing was a little puzzled. Not long ago, Taiyuan City was still under the control of the Jin Kingdom. It was necessary for them to ambush so many of their own people in the city? Did they already know in advance that Taiyuan would be lost? This was obviously impossible, so Li Yanqing was a little confused.

Zhang Shun bowed and said, "I have already interrogated the reason."

“What is the reason?”

"These more than 400 Jin soldiers are the internal affairs army of Wanyan Loushi. They are responsible for capturing the Song army in Taiyuan Prefecture. They are not in the military camp and usually disguises themselves as various identities and mingle in the Taiyuan Prefecture market. So when we capture Taiyuan City, they transform into the fine works of Jin soldiers hiding in Taiyuan Prefecture. In fact, they are both positive and negative sides of the same identity."

"This explanation is interesting. The positive and negative sides of the same identity. In short, they changed from cats to mice. Is that true?"

“That’s exactly that!”

Li Yanqing nodded, "It is very important to catch them, otherwise they will cooperate with the Jin soldiers to attack the city. The situation will be bad. Each soldier who participated in the operation will be rewarded with five taels of silver. The first person will be rewarded with three turns of merit, and the rest will be rewarded with one turns of merit."

The army emphasizes the accumulation of merits and promotions. Every time they make military achievements, the Sima will remember one to two turns of merits according to their merits. When they accumulate to twelve turns, they will be promoted to one level or receive a considerable reward.

Li Yanqing gave the first meritorious person three turns to remember the merits, and obviously attached great importance to this action.

"Thank you for the promotion of the reward!"

Li Yanqing thought about it and asked again: "Have they contacted Wanyan Chang?"

"I have contacted me. Two days ago, they sent someone south to deliver a letter and reported to Wanyan Chang about our situation. Wanyan Chang knew that their army existed."

Li Yanqing thought something, he walked a few steps behind his hands, and then turned to Zhang Shun: "Don't slack off, you can continue to dig deeper, and understand their eagle letters or pigeon letters thoroughly. I need to send a letter to the other party's chief general!"

"I understand!" Zhang Shun bowed and stepped down.

Li Yanqing handed the list to his personal soldiers again, "Leave this list to General Wang Gui and tell him that he should not let a spy go, but don't wrongly accuse an innocent person!"

"Abide by the order!"

The personal soldiers hurried away with the list. Li Yanqing stood up and walked to the entrance of the tent with his hands behind his back. Their military camp was located in the north city, two hundred steps away from the north city wall. You can clearly see the catapults on the top of the city. Catalogs stood like giants. At this moment, Li Yanqing felt as clear as a mirror. If he persisted in Taiyuan this time, he would completely change the fate of the Song and Jin countries.

Two days later, Wanyan Chang led an army of 50,000 to Jiexiu County and entered Taiyuan Prefecture. The Song army scout immediately discovered the Jin army and sent detailed information to Taiyuan City.

Following the Jin soldiers to the north, there were also 80,000 civilians who forced to conquer. They transported a large amount of food and supplies and established a logistics supply area for the Jin soldiers in Jiexiu County.

Jiexiu County has an extremely important strategic position. Yangliang Bei Pass was built three miles south of Jiexiu County. This pass is the entrance to the Shique Valley in the middle of Hedong Road. It guards Yangliang Bei Pass and almost cut off the land connection between Taiyuan Prefecture and the prefectures in the southern part of Hedong Road. To the south of Shique Valley, there is also Yangliang Nan Pass, two passes, one south and one north, guarding the central key of Hedong Road.

Of course, the transportation of bulk materials from north to south of Hedong Road was completed by the Fen River. The Jin soldiers placed the logistics base in Jiexiu County, because they were afraid that the Song army would seize Jiexiu County and cut off their retreat.

But Wanyan Chang did not expect that the reason why Li Yanqing did not occupy Jiexiu County was that he hoped that the Jin army would go north and make them hate them under the city of Taiyuan.

‘Dong!Dong!Dong!’ As soon as the sky was dawn, the defenders at the southern city of Taiyuan faintly heard the sound of skin drums coming from afar.
Chapter completed!