"No one stopped me, and no one asked me about it. It turns out that the punishment is as expected!" On the cargo ship, Zhang Fan wiped the rain off his forehead and raised his thumb with admiration.
"The Liao Kingdom has too few people, and the speed of moving south is too fast. The only places where the Khitans can really control it are the prefectural and prefectural cities where the Khitans are stationed. When they reach the county towns below, their control power is reduced by more than half. Further down, the forts and towns
, most of them are still controlled by local wealthy families, but the Song flag has been replaced by the Liao flag." Han Qing, dressed as a merchant, smiled, raised his voice slightly, and explained to the brothers who were following him.
Zhang Fan, Liu Hong, Wang Wu, who had completed his mission and returned from Ding Wei, and the three major archers of Jinniu Village all changed into ordinary people's clothes. Each one of them nodded repeatedly after hearing this.
The rest of the brothers from the Jingdong East Road Crane Control Bureau pricked up their ears and their eyes were shining. It was as if someone suddenly opened a window in front of them, allowing them to see a completely different scenery.
Yelu Longxing was exhausted by the "beating the tail" tactic adopted by everyone. He led the Liao Kingdom's East Route Army and retreated to the name. Jingdong East Road was completely safe.
The Xiang army was not a standing army, and it could not leave Jingdong East Road without official orders. And the generals at the grassroots level were unwilling to watch the Khitans harm the people in Hebei, so they accepted Han Qing's invitation and entered Kanghe.
Agency appointment.
The Crane Control Office is a government office that has been restored after being abandoned for many years. It lacks rules and regulations and there is not much experience from the past to follow.
What can be done and how to do it all depends on Han Qing, the crane-controlling judge, and everyone.
Therefore, everyone discussed and simply got a few cargo ships and quietly sneaked behind the Khitan East Route Army along the canal.
There is definitely danger, but it is not much higher than on the battlefield. The situation is just as Han Qing said just now, the Khitan army advanced too fast and failed to establish effective control over the newly captured areas in Hebei during the Song Dynasty.
The lack of people in the Liao Kingdom was also a big problem. For the newly conquered areas, it was simply unable to provide enough qualified officials to govern. In most cases, they still relied on local powerful families.
Wang Wu and others, who are archers, know what the big families in those places are like. When working for the Song Dynasty, they would do whatever they can to fool them. The interests of the family always come first, let alone for the big people who just came over.
Liao?
"You have to eat in one bite. Our trip this time is just to explore the road. So I will set an example for everyone." Seeing that everyone listened to what he said, Han Qing thought for a while and continued to add, "It is different from fighting against the Liao army in the past.
, what we need to do next is not to fight desperately with the Liao army. It is to spy on the news and find out the deployment position of each Liao army, the supply of food and grass, the route of baggage supply, and the morale of the army. When we are fully prepared, we can capture it easily.
Or slaughter a few Liao generals who are extremely angry with the people, or Hebei officials who are willing to be dogs for the Liao army, to serve as a warning to those who come after them!"
"I am willing to fight to the death for the punishment!" Everyone's hearts surged when they heard this, and they all raised their hands.
"I don't want any of you to die. If you encounter danger, your first priority is to protect yourself. Even if you fall into the hands of the Liao people, as long as you save your life and don't betray your own people, I will definitely find a way to catch you.
Officials of the Liao Kingdom, exchange you back!" Han Qing cupped his hands in front of everyone and added with a smile.
To be honest, he really has no idea how to build an intelligence system from scratch.
Fortunately, the Liao Kingdom's espionage system was also in its infancy. He had just "reimbursed" half of its backbone in Pingyuan City and could not operate normally in a short period of time.
Therefore, the two sides are now evenly matched, and no one needs to look down on the other.
But on his side, he still had the knowledge from his previous life, and he could draw a picture from the gourd. On the Liao side, there was no "gourd" at all. The officials in charge of the Pingren Department in the south had an idea, or they could try to figure it out on their own.
Therefore, although the team was formed in a hurry, Han Qing was still confident.
However, I don’t even have to think about what I saw in movies and TV shows in my previous life, such as infiltrating the enemy’s interior and commanding the enemy to surrender, having a cup of wine with the enemy’s commander, and falling in love with the enemy’s female spy.
Think about it.
Even if Han Qing takes action in person, he can't do it, let alone the brothers around him.
At the moment, he can only make do with the simplest things, and start with the simplest things based on everyone's abilities. For example, dressing up as a merchant and finding out the true and false status of each Liao army.
This is not true. In the past, the Song Army scouts disguised themselves and went out to find out where the Liao Army was stationed.
Rather, we need to have a thorough understanding of the temperaments of the Liao generals, the number of infantry units under their command, their troop usage habits, their weapons and equipment, and their food and grass supply routes.
If you encounter local officials along the way who were forced to surrender to the Liao Kingdom but still did not forget their conscience, you can also send someone along the way to contact them and form a "good relationship" with each other.
Of course, if he ran into a reckless guy like Xiao Moke again and offered to kill him, Han Qing wouldn't mind accepting it.
Who told the Queen Mother of the Liao Kingdom that she had to send people to target him when she had nothing to do? If she didn't let the monarchs and ministers of the Liao Kingdom feel the pain, they would not be able to avoid the other side from making another dirty move.
Of course, if he repeatedly attacked areas controlled by the Liao army and cut off the heads of Liao generals too much, it was not within the scope of Han Qing's consideration whether it would scare some people in the Song Dynasty to death.
Already.
He believed that he was not qualified to be an emperor, and he had no interest in promoting the Song Dynasty to dominate the world. However, if anyone dares to harm him for no reason, don't expect him to accept it.
Although the canal is also running water, there are no winds and waves on the river, and the flat-bottomed cargo ships move very steadily.
Han Qing pretended to be the head of the caravan and led everyone to explore the enemy's situation along the way, while instructing Wang Wu, Zhang Fan and others, who were pretending to be clerks, on which direction to start, which was quite enjoyable.
The brothers around him were all low-level officials and knew nothing about the writings of saints and sages. But they were all very knowledgeable about the ways of the market.
Therefore, everyone pretends to be more and more similar, traveling across the state and county, rarely showing any flaws. Even if they occasionally do, those who see them will adhere to the principle of doing more than doing less and are unwilling to inquire about their true identity.
"Where are you going to stop? Are you going to go all the way to Nanjing (Beijing) in the Liao Kingdom?" After passing Linqing, they walked north for more than 150 miles, and everyone went to rest at night.
When the time came, Dou Rong quietly reminded Han Qing.
The place where they are now is called Liting. They have penetrated more than 500 miles behind the Eastern Route Army of the Liao Kingdom. Going further down, they will reach the territory of the Yongjing Army.
Another famous general of the Song Dynasty, Yang Yanzhao, was leading his troops in a stalemate with a partial division of the Liao army here.
Yang Yanzhao had only just over 20,000 soldiers under his command. To ensure that Hejian and Cangzhou were not captured by the Liao army, they could not spare any strength to support the Zhending battlefield.
However, the Liao army's attack was too large and they did not have many troops to deal with Yang Yanzhao, who was not on their way south.
Therefore, although the two sides have been fighting back and forth in recent months, the results have been lackluster.
Yang Yanzhao was worried about Hejian and Cangzhou, and even if he won, he would not dare to pursue the Liao army too far.
The Liao army occasionally found a loophole in Yang Yanzhao's defense line, but they took advantage and left. They did not have enough troops to expand their results, and they were not interested in occupying the newly occupied city for a long time.
Therefore, as the war lasted, the generals on both sides lost the strength to carry out major operations. They only sent small groups of troops and scouts to cause trouble for each other.
Under such circumstances, Han Qing and others entered the war zone rashly, and could easily be mistaken for opponents by both sides, and were attacked mercilessly.
"Tomorrow I will walk further north and separate from Wang Wu and others when we arrive near Anle Town. The two of us will disembark from the boat and take the land route, pretending to be a couple seeking refuge with relatives, and travel fifty miles to Mijiadu on the east side of Texas.
Han Qing knew that Dou Rong was worried about taking risks. After thinking about it, he responded softly, "I arranged in advance for Zhang Shouzhong to sail upstream along the Xiaoqing River and pick me up there. Calculating the time, he should be here too."
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This is also one of the reasons why he dared to take a cargo ship to travel through the small half of Hebei East Road.
The canal starts from Daming City and turns diagonally to the northeast. It is nearly parallel to the Xiaoqing River for a long period of time.
Although Liting, where he anchored tonight, is more than 500 miles behind Daming Mansion, if we take a straight line from the land, it is only 30 miles away from Pingyuan City, which he led his troops to attack last time.
If he encounters trouble here, he can abandon the river boat, ride his horse to the Xiaoqing River, and send out a distress signal. Naturally, Zhang Shouzhong and his brothers dressed as fishermen will drive a boat to respond.
The water surface of Xiaoqing River is wide, and the lower reaches lead directly to the sea. The Liao army neither has suitable warships nor is it familiar with water warfare. Even if they knew that he was sitting on the boat, they could only look at the river and sigh!
"Just the two of us? What about Wang Wu and the others? Why don't you go back together?" Dou Rong let out a sigh of relief when she heard that Han Qing was about to return, and then she couldn't help but worry about the others.
"They took the cargo ship back the same way, and then went to Yongji Town and turned into Xiaoqing River, just around the name. Yuan Kun led another group of brothers and sailed to pick them up." Han Qing never minded Dou Rong caring about his official duties.
After thinking about it, he added with a smile.
Dou Rong breathed a sigh of relief again, smiled and patted her chest. When her body moved, the boomerang, steel needle, and musket hanging on her waist collided with each other, making a sweet sound.
Recently, although Han Qing behaved calmly and calmly in front of others, as Han Qing's pillow, she was clearly aware of her husband's nervousness.
Therefore, this time she took the boat to the north, no matter what, she insisted on going with her husband. She also brought with her all the weird weapons that Han Qing and he had built to deal with the pursuit of the Red Lotus Sect.
Although these weapons have not been used once so far, they gave her a great sense of security, and allowed the couple to inadvertently recall the days of adventure together, with a bit of tenderness in their eyes.