"Why should you take such a small piece of information from the head of the Criminal Department so seriously? You can just send it back. Who handed it over when they were full and had nothing to do?" Liu Yan asked angrily.
"Master Liu, this He Qizhou is not just a boss. Besides, his secrets are for the sake of the people of Li. He must be seen by the emperor." Chen Yu said in a strange tone.
"Master Chen, can you clearly read the contents of the folder?" Liu Yan asked.
"certainly."
"Aren't you afraid that the emperor is really tempted?" Liu Yan asked again.
"Hasn't His Highness the Crown Prince always wanted to do this? Oh, someone really mentioned it, but he was restrained?" Chen Yu said with a smile.
"Such a suggestion is just a child's whim. It's enough to go back and scold him. Now that the war is going on, why bother to cause trouble again." Liu Yan's tone softened slightly.
Chen Yu also smiled kindly and said: "Mr. Liu, I thought you would definitely push forward this proposal, so I didn't dare to suppress it. I have already asked people to copy it into the East Palace. There will be a discussion about it tomorrow morning. It's too late to talk about it now."
"Mr. Chen, do you want to take revenge for last year's attack?" Liu Yan was really angry this time.
"Master Liu, why do you need to be so protective of He Qizhou who is not related to you? Your Highness will be unhappy." Chen Yu was still smiling.
"Master Chen, please don't make yourself self-defeating!" Liu Yan said angrily.
"We'll see!" Chen Yu didn't give in.
…
He Qizhou stared at the piece of tissue paper in his hand, which was enough for a stick of incense. It was an IOU for the Military Intelligence Office to access the files. Apart from the date, there were only a few words on it: Retrieval of the Youzhou Northern Territory Customs and Defense Map and the past ten years
Battle report.
The IOU is divided into two parts, the upper and lower parts, which are almost identical. The only difference is that the upper right corner of the upper part has the word "A" printed on it, while the lower part has the word "B" printed in the same position. The files to be retrieved are written on the upper and lower couplets respectively.
Once again, there is the signature of the caller and the stamp of each military intelligence office.
The archives office will leave an IOU and issue the file. When the borrower returns it, the "A" copy will be filed, and the "B" copy will be torn off and handed over to the borrower for retention. Both parties will have a borrowing record.
After Huazhu handed him the task, he also went to deliver the documents. At this time, footsteps were heard outside the door. Huazhu should have come back to take charge of the mailroom. He Qizhou stopped thinking about it and took advantage of the fact that there was only one person in the room to pick up the pen.
After correcting two words in a row, he put down his pen and left the house.
"Why haven't you sent him off yet? The people in Room A have the worst tempers!" Hua Zhu reminded him kindly when he bumped into He Qizhou who was about to go out.
"Oh, let's go." He Qizhou quickened his pace and walked towards the archives room. But after turning a corner, he immediately slowed down again. He had to wait for the ink to dry, otherwise he would be able to tell something strange at a glance. That picture
The word "ten" in the "Battle Report of the Past Ten Years" on the IOU has been changed to the word "twenty"!
The Battle of Shangmapo ended in the 33rd year of Tianxi, exactly twenty years ago! He Qizhou tried hard to convince himself that after reading so many IOUs, this one was the easiest to change and he couldn't miss it again! Now he can only hope for military intelligence.
The person in the room ignored the stub with the word "B"!
He Qizhou has observed many people, and few people will look at the stub carefully. They just find a random place to stuff it, just to prevent liability when the file is lost. His changes may not be discovered, so the risk is worth taking!
"Fuck! Twenty years? You're still in such a hurry! Then you have to wait for me for a while. We only have ten years here. I have to go to the inner courtyard to look for them." The academician in the archives room screamed strangely.
Because He Qizhou was delayed for only half a moment, he wanted others to hurry up. He didn't expect that after ten years turned into twenty years, it would be even harder to get up faster. But now he was riding a tiger and couldn't stop, so he hurriedly said: "Uncle, how about I help you?"
You go and dig it together."
"Little Marquis, is that a place you can go to casually? Forget it, forget it, I'll help you find it first!" The middle-aged man put down what he was doing, hunched his back, got up and walked towards the inner courtyard.
go.
"Thank you, how long will it take?" He Qizhou shouted towards the man's back.
"One stick of incense! We're lucky, Master Zhang just returned it! Otherwise we wouldn't be able to find it all in an hour!" someone from the archives shouted from a distance.
He Qizhou was a little dumbfounded by the files he was waiting for. The ones from the past ten years were only two inches thick, while those from ten to twenty years were two feet thick!
"Can't wait any longer!" He Qizhou bravely picked up a large pile of documents and walked quickly back to the hair room. Fortunately, the people he passed didn't care how many things he took, and at most they just nodded and said hello.
In the past two days, He Qizhou's diligence has also won the favor of the older academicians, so the archives are willing to help him pick up the documents first. Of course, most people are still happy to show their kindness to the person who has just been praised by the emperor.
He Qizhou tried to keep his expression as natural as possible, and walked into the mail room with the files and maps. Huazhu was not there, but two people were sitting and drinking tea. He Qizhou and Xu Mu joined in, giving them a moment of leisure.
"There are too many things. Let's put them away and deliver them separately." He Qizhou was afraid that the two of them would be suspicious, so he explained first, then put the file in the corner of the room. Then he picked up the two-inch thick ten-year war report and map, and went straight to
He left the military intelligence room.
"We're going to work too." The two people sitting there probably saw that the newcomer was so busy and they were still drinking tea and chatting, so they felt embarrassed to sit down. They picked up the letters in their hands and followed the person who left the mail room.
Door.
He Qizhou rushed back to the hairdressing room as quickly as possible, took the files in the corner into the back room, and stuffed them under the bed. That was where the people on duty slept, and there was no one there at night.
Just now, the academician in the Military Intelligence Room did not blame him for the slow delivery. What was bad was that Hua Zhu came back again. Seeing He Qizhou coming out of the back room, he handed over a bamboo tube with a guilty look on his face and said: "Sending to the East Camp, this is more
Important, ask six guards to escort you when you leave the palace. Remember to get the receipt."
"Okay." He Qizhou wiped his face with a towel. The clothes he brought in the morning had been placed in the back room. It felt like he was taking a towel from the back room to wipe his face.
"Thank you for your hard work." Hua Zhu felt even more sorry when he saw that He Qizhou was sweating from the work.
"It doesn't matter. Didn't we call four guards to escort us last time we went to West Camp? The most important thing is, how many people can be called to escort us?" He Qizhou asked before leaving.
"Not necessarily. Maybe it's more important not to be escorted. We just do as requested." Huazhu said.
"understood."
At midnight, only three or four rooms in the Privy Councilor's mansion were still lit. There were no footsteps in the corridors. He Qizhou had been looking through the files for an hour. The two-foot-thick battle report was one foot long.
They are all related to the battle of Shangmapo.
He Qizhou didn't care about the course of the war, he only cared about the part where the scouts reported back. The Privy Council organized the files in an orderly manner, so it only took more than a quarter of an hour for He Qizhou to turn to the part he wanted to read.
Compared with the descriptions in history books, the files in the Privy Council are much more detailed. In particular, all the people involved are listed by name, and even the departments and personnel involved in the investigation are included in the files without exception.
Back then, the emperor personally gave the order, with the Privy Council taking the lead, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Jin Yiwei, Criminal Department, and Dali Temple jointly participating. The final process and conclusion were in his own hands, which made He Qizhou's hands tremble slightly.
[Records of the Pioneer Reconnaissance Cavalry Battalion], this is the first document that He Qizhou carefully read, recording the reconnaissance cavalry testimonies of communications during this battle. Opening the slightly yellowed cover, the first page is a table of contents, clearly
Give an example of the content of this record. It is divided into three parts:
1. Testimony of the Pioneer Big Tent Scout Rider
2. Relay detective testimony
3. Evidence from other personnel
He Qizhou read it in turn. The first part was the shortest, with only one person's testimony. Ye Xu, the commander of the reconnaissance cavalry battalion, said that he was informed by the general's order that the enemy's army was less than ten miles away from Shangmapo. There were about 30,000 horsemen.
They will retreat while fighting, and arrive at the preset ambush location in about an hour.
Ye Xu said that after receiving the order from Deputy General Wenting, a total of six reconnaissance riders from the vanguard camp set off. After running for about fifteen miles, they met the relay reconnaissance riders. There were also six of them, all of whom were familiar colleagues. From the camp
The six people who set off conveyed the news and returned to the big tent. After that, five people died in the battle, and only Ye Xu escaped.
The second testimony was given by a total of three people. Among the six relay testimonies, three rushed to the rear army camp to report the message, and the three continued to stay where they were waiting. The three who continued to stay behind were all killed in battle, and the three who went back to report the message
The testimonies of the people were consistent, and they all said that the enemy situation reported from the front was that the enemy army had arrived with a total of 60,000 elite troops!
The third witness was more numerous, including Yang Zheng who returned from the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Yang Zheng said that he asked deputy general Wenting to send reconnaissance cavalry to report the enemy's situation. Indeed, there were only more than 30,000 cavalry. When the two armies fought, he also asked Wenting to send reconnaissance cavalry to report the enemy's situation.
The two men reported the battle situation to the camp.
There were several other people in the vanguard army who could confirm Yang Zheng's words, indicating that the order received by the reconnaissance cavalry at the beginning was indeed that the enemy would send 30,000 cavalry. Wen Ting, who gave the direct order, was killed in that battle.
The commander-in-chief of the rear army, King Cheng Jiang Gui, and the deputy commander-in-chief, Prince Jiang Shan, were all elites of the imperial army, and the supervisor was Xu Xuan sent from the palace. Many people in the rear army's tent confirmed that the relay reconnaissance cavalry reported the arrival of enemy troops.
He had 60,000 cavalry, including Helian Qingfeng's absolute elite - the Wangzhang Cavalry Yu Linwei.
Xu Xuan strongly requested to retreat. After some hesitation, King Cheng decided to retreat. While withdrawing from the ambush site, he sent six reconnaissance cavalry and notified the vanguard Yang Zheng to break out and retreat. Among the six cavalry, four were killed and two were killed.
He rode back.
Seeing this, He Qizhou discovered another familiar name. One of the two riders who escaped was Liu Bozhou!
Liu Bozhou and Wang Zhiyi, another reconnaissance rider who ran back, claimed that after traveling for more than 20 miles, they discovered a small group of enemy soldiers, numbering in the thousands, crossing the flanks. Two of them were sent back to report the news, and the other four continued to perform their tasks.
He went to inform Yang Zheng to break out of the encirclement, but there was no news from him since.
When Jiang Gui, who was slowly retreating, learned that an enemy vanguard was approaching, he couldn't resist Xu Xuan's repeated urging and quickly retreated to the pass, leaving only three thousand cavalry at the rear to serve as a response team for the vanguard. However, the three thousand cavalry later did not return.