After chatting casually with shopkeeper Li for a few words at the restaurant, Zhang Wu said goodbye and then wandered around the street with his hands behind his back. Whenever he met a familiar shopkeeper, he couldn't help but say hello if the other person was not busy.

, and then chat for a few words.

Although there are many shops on the street, if you look carefully, you can find that these shopkeepers with whom he has a good chat are all doing business with the camp.

From restaurants to vegetable vendors, they must have some connection with the military camp anyway. That is to say, Zhang Wutan heard a lot of the information he needed from their mouths.

Throughout the ages, the most important thing in marching and fighting was Yongjian. The reason why the Qing Dynasty was invincible was closely related to Yongjian, and he was here just to gather information for the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, the Qing Dynasty will not treat him badly. If he can find out important information, he will get at least a few hundred taels of reward. The Qing Dynasty is very generous with money. I don’t know how many people have made a fortune because of this.

After wandering around the street, Zhang Wu went to a dung farm in the east of the city, where the collected excrement from people and animals was spread out to dry, made into fertilizer, and sold to farmers for planting.

The land use is basically equivalent to the fertilizer factory in later generations.

This industry existed as early as the Southern Song Dynasty. For hundreds of years, a well-established and highly profitable excrement recycling industry has existed in urban and rural areas of China. During the Jiajing period, the missionaries who came to China were very surprised by this:

"Human excrement is also used. It needs to be purchased with money, or exchanged for vegetables, and the excrement must be collected at the door. They have to pay or pay an equivalent value before the other party allows them to clean the toilet."

This line of business may not seem very eye-catching, but not everyone can do it. Not only does it require a large amount of investment, but it also requires a lot of investment in drying, drying, purchasing, and processing. It also requires a very strong background to divide the sphere of influence and ensure quantitative acquisitions.

If you can do it, you are a "dung tyrant", a master of both black and white.

And Mr. Liang Wu is the "dung tyrant" in the east of the city. He is in charge of the whole area in the east of the city. However, you don't need to go to the dung dump outside the city to discuss business. The smell there is too strong, not to mention anyone else but Mr. Liang himself.

He was not happy either, so Liang Wuye's Fengdengxing was located at the east corner of the city. When Zhang Yong walked into Fengdengxing, he didn't notice that someone in the building was staring at him.

It wasn't until Zhang Wu left again that he gave a few instructions in a very low voice to the people around him, and then left Fengdenxing silently. The man went to a nearby teahouse and went directly to a private room in the building.

"That man did go to Fengdenxing."

"Okay, I understand, keep staring at him!"

Shi Lei, who was drinking tea, ordered that the prince was responsible for fighting, he was responsible for intelligence, and he was also responsible for digging out the Qing army's informants.

Just as he guessed, those people did go to several places he had prepared. After all, if you want to inquire about the military camp, those places are undoubtedly indispensable. And the dung yard is one of them.

"You don't seem to understand why I let you stare here, do you?"

Seeing that his subordinates seemed a little unclear, Shi Lei explained.

"In every military camp, there are people like Liang Wu who collude with the camp officials and sell excrement in the camp, thousands of horses, tens of thousands of people, tens of thousands of jins a day, and want to find out what is going on in the camp. Through

These things can be detected, so if you want to keep them secret, you have to start here and keep an eye on Liang Wu to make sure nothing goes wrong!"

Not only must we keep an eye on him, but more importantly, we must use him. The reason why we keep this person is to use this informant to pass some information to Jiannu. After all, some things cannot be achieved just by keeping them secret.

Keeping these eyes now, we can use them to convey some false information. This trick is called "building the plank road openly and concealing the warehouse secretly". Thinking of this, Shi Lei couldn't help but sneer.

"Pay attention to your side in the past two days, and casually reveal to them what they need to know. Remember, you must wait until they ask themselves."

After giving some instructions to his subordinates, Shi Lei raised his head and looked outside the building. Looking at the ice and snow outside the building, he silently muttered to himself.

"Your Majesty, don't worry. There is a little one here. What's real and what's fake, what's fake and what's real, for example, even if it's theirs, even the little ones may not be able to tell clearly..."

…

Zhu Guoqiang, who had been away from Yangzhou for two days, did not know about the invisible secret battle in the city. In fact, what he was concerned about at the moment was not Yangzhou, but how to hide the troops marching. Even the march itself was an exercise. In order to avoid being

When the people discovered them, in addition to sending out rangers to conduct reconnaissance to ensure the safety of the route, they also used disguises themselves.

White!

On the land covered with snow, it would be difficult to spot the group of people and horses standing on the river embankment without getting closer. Their white clothes and white horses were completely hidden in the snow. Zhu Guoqiang, who was standing on the river embankment, looked at the river embankment.

The officers and soldiers who were marching next to them,

If you don't look carefully, you won't be able to spot them. Without exception, they all wear white camouflage uniforms - in fact, they are white cloth cloaks. Not only the officers and soldiers wear camouflage uniforms, but even the horses pulling the sled are also wearing camouflage uniforms.

Wearing a white cloth cloak.

The white camouflage clothing makes it difficult to detect their presence in the snow, and those wooden sleds with simple structures are an extremely unfavorable existence. It is relatively difficult to move on foot or in a carriage on the snow.

Therefore, the horse-drawn sleigh became the best choice because it traveled very fast.

"My lord, these sleighs are really amazing! With them, you can march on the snow even faster than a horse-drawn carriage. We traveled a full 150 miles yesterday! It's much faster than the horse-drawn carriage we used to use!"

"

Zhu Guoqiang smiled at Chen Wudi's praise.

"There has been a heavy snowfall in the past few days. It can only be used when the snow on the ground is thick. The most suitable place for it is Liaodong."

Thanks to the experience gained from another world, Zhu Guoqiang chose a horse-drawn sled to carry the military supplies during the battle, and faced the reality that Liaodong was covered with ice for thousands of miles in winter. Of course, it was also the main tool for soldiers to march. In another world,

The Russians relied on it to conquer Siberia. In many military operations in Siberia and Northeast Asia, the Russians often like to go out in winter instead of summer, which seems more suitable for combat. In winter, a horse-drawn sled is used.

It can pull several tons of goods, and its use is not restricted by roads or rivers. It is simply a perfect "multi-purpose transport vehicle". For such a good thing, Zhu Guoqiang of course chose to use it directly.

.No matter in any era, on the battlefield, sometimes mobility is the key to combat effectiveness. And the mobility of this Northern Expedition is even more related to the success or failure of the entire operation.

"No, Sir, if Marshal Mao had had this thing back then and put it in Liaodong, wouldn't he have been able to fight the Tatars wherever he wanted in the winter! He would have gone wherever he thought of it?"

For Mao Chengzhi, who had followed Mao Wenlong to launch countless attacks on the Manchu and Qing hinterland in Liaodong, he realized what it would bring to the army's actions in the ice and snow from the first time he saw these horse-drawn sleds. Such convenience.

Mao Chengzhi's sigh fell on Zhu Guoqiang's ears, and his brows furrowed slightly.

"The most important thing is to hide your whereabouts during the march. No matter how fast the horse-drawn sled is, if you want to hide it from the sky, you must ensure that you can hide your whereabouts after landing. After all, we have to make a time difference with Jiannu and wait until Jiannu reacts. , before moving the troops back, we must first attack Shenyang City!"

Time difference!

In fact, the core of this Northern Expedition was the time difference. To catch Huang Taiji off guard, he had to conceal his whereabouts. Only by suddenly approaching the city of Shenyang could Huang Taiji destroy the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty before Huang Taiji returned to Shenyang to aid!

"Master, don't worry. Liaodong is different from here. It is a vast land with sparsely populated areas. Moreover, so many Han people in Liaodong have been killed by slaves in recent years. With fewer people, there will naturally be less exposure. Even if there are people, nine out of ten they are our own. When Mao Shuai used troops to build the slave hinterland..."
Chapter completed!