There is a medicine shop in the south of Daming City called Anjiantang. This is a branch of the Western Army's intelligence point in Daming City. There are several carrier pigeons kept in the backyard of this medicine shop. Pigeon messages from the Daming City Intelligence Station are sent out from here.
In the afternoon, a strong Jurchen general and several of his men walked into the medicine shop. The shopkeeper did not dare to neglect and hurried forward to greet him, "Excuse me, what medicine do you want to buy, general?"
"Are you the shopkeeper Zhou of the pharmacy?"
"That's right, villain!"
The general said coldly: "Did you raise the homing pigeon behind?"
The shopkeeper was shocked and said quickly: "The store has prepared eucalyptus in the county government according to regulations. The store needs to prepare medicine and must use carrier pigeons."
The general sneered and said: "But your carrier pigeons are all flying to Bianliang. Are you buying medicine from Bianliang?"
"This..." A cold sweat broke out on the shopkeeper's back, and he realized that he had been exposed.
The general continued: "Don't think of us as fools. Marshal Du will let you go this time and disappear as soon as possible tomorrow."
After speaking, he handed him a piece of paper and said, "Follow what the note says, otherwise you won't survive."
The Jurchen general turned around and left with two of his men, and shopkeeper Zhou Hua was in a state of confusion. He didn't understand why they let him go since they had already discovered them."
Zhou Hua opened the note and took a look. The content inside shocked him. After thinking about it, he slipped out of the back door. After making sure that no one was following him, he got on an ox cart and headed north.
He entered a restaurant near the North City Gate, left through the back door of the restaurant, and got on another ox cart. After driving around a few times, it was impossible for anyone to follow him. Zhou Hua then took the ox cart to the east of the city.
Yuanhe Restaurant is the intelligence headquarters of the Western Army on Hebei Road.
The big shopkeeper Liu Zhen was the intelligence chief. After listening to Zhou Hua's report, his face became very serious. Zhou Hua had been exposed long ago, but the other party had not taken action. Did he use them to send false information?
Liu Zhen finally looked at the note, and there was only one sentence on it, "Fifty thousand reinforcements from the Jin Kingdom will go to the east to cross the river two hundred miles away."
What does this mean? You actually told yourself such an important military secret. Is this false information? Impossible. There is no reason to send false information like this. If it is true or false, you can just send someone to follow it.
Liu Zhen thought for a while and asked, "What else did the other party say?"
"He first said that I must disappear tomorrow, and Wan Yanchang let us go this time, and then asked me to do what was written on the note, otherwise we would not survive."
Zhou Hua was also surprised and asked: "The other party told us this important military secret. Isn't he afraid that we will intercept the reinforcements and move south?"
"Maybe that's what he meant. He didn't want the reinforcements to support Wanyan Wushu, and wanted to keep the reinforcements for himself."
Liu Zhen vaguely guessed Wan Yanchang's intention. He wanted to send someone to report the news and use the Western Army's warships to intercept the reinforcements heading south.
But now he is also very confused. Zhou Hua has been discovered a long time ago, so has he been exposed?
Probably not yet, otherwise they would come to him directly and not go through Zhou Hua. The good thing about Liu Zhen is that he has a single line of contact with Zhou Hua. It was through a female subordinate who pretended to be a sick woman and went to the drug store to buy medicine and handed over the information.
Send it to Zhou Hua.
Zhou Hua and his men are in danger, and his female subordinates are also in danger and must be dismissed immediately.
Liu Zhen immediately made a decision. He ordered Zhou Hua to evacuate immediately after returning. He also led his men to close the restaurant and evacuate outside Daming City. He only burned the important information and did not even have time to pack up his belongings. He only took the
Gold and silver, everyone quickly evacuated.
Half an hour later, more than twenty Western Army intelligence spies, including Zhou Hua, all evacuated Daming City.
This time, Wan Yanchang paid a heavy price. He had long discovered that Anjian Drug Store was an intelligence point for the Western Army by monitoring carrier pigeons, but he never alerted the enemy.
It could have been possible to uproot the Western Army's intelligence point in Daming City and kill all the Western Army's spies. However, in order to prevent Ba Lisu from supporting Wanyan Wushu, Wanyanchang gave up the opportunity to deal with the Western Army's intelligence spies.
However, now that the favor was done, he did not want to waste it, so he immediately wrote a letter to Chen Qing, telling him that he would send the Western Army spies out of the country as a gift, and he hoped that Chen Qing could do this.
Of course, Wan Yanchang also stationed new spies in Jingzhao. This time they no longer probed for the secrets of Tie Huolei, but instead monitored various movements of the Western Army. This way, they would not be easily discovered by the Western Army's internal guards. Even if they were discovered, they would be completely
Yan Chang also hoped that Chen Qing could send them out of the country as gifts.
...
In the afternoon, a Western Army spy with excellent water skills jumped into the old channel of the Yellow River holding a sheepskin bag and swam towards a Western Army sentinel ship in the Yellow River.
Li Qinggong's warship has been cruising near Daming City. He has been a little confused in the past two days. He knew that they were still trying to build a pontoon bridge nearby, as if he was afraid that they would not destroy it.
What made him even more confused was that the boats hidden deep in the bay were set on fire one after another. The villagers said they were burned by the Western Army. Li Qingong Lake was painted. He had never sent anyone to do it. Who could it be?
Could it be Liu Zhen and the others, but even if it was done by intelligence spies from the Daming Mansion, they would not wear the armor of the Western Army!
Li Qingong was sitting in the cabin writing a military report. At this time, soldiers outside reported, "Liu Zhen sent someone to ask for an urgent meeting!"
"Let him in!"
After a while, the soldiers brought in a wet scout, knelt down on one knee and reported, "See Governor Li!"
"No need to be polite, do you have any urgent information?"
The soldier took out a bamboo tube and handed it to Li Qingong. It was a waterproof bamboo tube with a tight wooden stopper. Li Qingong pulled out the stopper and took out a letter. He read it hastily and was stunned.
Wan Yanchang actually revealed military secrets. Fifty thousand Jurchen reinforcements would build a pontoon bridge two hundred miles east of Daming Mansion to cross the Yellow River.
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He read on and found out that Liu Zhen analyzed that Wanyanchang and Wanyanwushu had deep personal grievances. They did not want the reinforcements to go to Shandong Road, but wanted the reinforcements to stay on Hebei Road. This was a typical fight for military resources.
Li Qingong suddenly understood. Isn't the abnormal phenomenon that happened in the past two days a manifestation of Wan Yanchang's unwillingness to support Shandong Road?
But could this be Wan Yanchang's plan? To trick himself into going east.
Li Qingong thought for a while, and he probably wouldn't. He could completely divide his troops into two groups, half staying here and half heading east, with the same effect.
Anyway, he was going to give it a try.
Li Qingong made a prompt decision. He left fifty warships behind, while he himself led fifty warships to sail eastward. He also sent several scouts to monitor and track the fifty thousand reinforcements on the north bank to determine the location of the enemy's crossing of the river.
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Two days later, fifty warships tracked the pontoon bridge that was being built. Bazhisu tried to build the pontoon bridge using the simplest method, which was to string rafts together on the shore, and then put the one-mile-long rafts into the pontoon bridge.
In the water, with the impact of the current, the raft automatically reaches the other end, and then simply lays wide wooden boards, and the pontoon is complete.
In order to shorten the time of building the pontoon bridge, Jin Bing also cut down a large number of trees and made wooden boards in advance. Calculating, it actually only took more than an hour to build the pontoon bridge.
When the Western warship discovered the pontoon bridge, the rafts had been laid, and hundreds of soldiers were laying binding planks on the rafts.
"dash forward!"
The boats rushed forward, firing arrows at random, and the sheepskin rafts were shot through one after another. The golden soldiers on the pontoon were already so frightened that they rolled over and ran for their lives. Many of them lost their feet and fell into the water, struggling in the water.
Wanyan Balisu, who was resting in the woods, was horrified. He rode to the river and saw blazing fire on the river. The pontoon bridge he was about to build was once again set on fire by the Western Army.
The soldiers on the shore were furious, shouting and shooting at the Western warships with arrows, but it was useless.
Ba Lisu's eyes were filled with hatred, and his heart became more and more angry. Could it be that what Wan Yanchang really said was right, that the Western Army's warships had blocked the Yellow River, and they could not cross the river? There was no such thing, he Ba Lisu