"General Cheng, the Fourth Support Army will arrive tomorrow morning. General please be ready to respond!"
Soldiers hurried in, and then hurried out. The entire city lord's palace was in a busy state, with soldiers running back and forth everywhere.
The person responsible for guarding this city is the Eighth Army. The commander of the Eighth Army is located in Jiuyuan County. The deputy commander of the Eighth Army, Cheng Ming, leads 80,000 people of the Eighth Army to garrison around the city.
Their task is not only to defend, but at the same time, they also need to coordinate other surrounding troops and coordinate the surrounding militia to keep these people in order so that materials can reach their destination as quickly as possible.
Therefore, Cheng Ming's tasks are very heavy these days. No, the second batch of troops has just been sent away, and the third batch of troops is about to arrive.
With the experience of the first two batches, and a temporary resting point for soldiers has been built outside, there is no need to be as worried and exhausted every day as before.
When doing things for Xiliang, they cannot tolerate negligence, so everyone is tense, fearing that they will make a mistake in any aspect and be scolded by their lord.
With the experience of the first two times, when the third batch of troops comes, there is no need to be as busy as before.
However, the third batch of troops came out much larger than the previous two batches, and they were also followed by a large number of war machines, which required them to deploy various troops.
For example, the army responsible for attacking the small grassland, the troops responsible for blocking the Bingzhou army, and the war machines responsible for blocking the Youzhou side. Different war machines are allocated to them according to different needs.
And all these things are in his hands, and he can mobilize them personally. This is the greatest right he has obtained since becoming the commander of the Eighth Army, and it is also the only right he can establish a relationship with the Xiliang headquarters army.
If he does well this time, won't the relationship between their Eighth Army and the two headquarters armies be even better in the future?
Now among the three major armies in Xiliang, the one with the best relationship among the external legions is the Seventh Legion, because the Seventh Legion has a very strong fighting capacity and has fought side by side with the main legion for many years. The weapons and equipment retired from the main legion are
Will be armed to the Seventh Legion for a while.
Therefore, the relationship between the Seventh Legion and the main legion is very close, which makes other legions very hot and has no choice.
The better the relationship with the headquarters legion, the better it will be for their future development.
After Cheng Ming ordered his men to get ready, when he was preparing to rest, a soldier ran into his room: "General, let the Zhang family we have been watching take action."
Cheng Ming, who was still very tired, suddenly became energetic: "What action can we take?"
"They hid it from most people, secretly sent the servants in charge of raising ducks, put some letters on the ducks, and then drove the ducks to the river beach 50 miles outside the city.
If someone poisons the duck carrying the letter, the unsuspecting servant will pluck the feathers from the duck and throw it into the river...
Anyone who raises ducks knows that sometimes one or two ducks die due to other reasons, so those who are responsible for driving ducks will take care of these ducks as soon as possible to prevent the disease from being transmitted to these ducks.
to other ducks.
Those goose feathers that were plucked and thrown into the river contained various information collected by the Zhang family in the city."
Cheng Ming frowned: "According to what you said, if they were so vigilant, how did you find out?"
The soldier listened, with a look of shame on his face: "We didn't discover this, but someone told us, and when the Zhang family sent news recently, we were allowed to go and witness it all with our own eyes."
The soldier was hesitant to speak, but Cheng Ming sternly said, "Tell me everything you have to say."
"Yes!" the soldier replied loudly: "We feel that they should be from the Lord's side. They know our whereabouts well and can find our location very accurately.
Although our intelligence department was established very late, from the beginning until now, our personnel have been selected from the military, so very few people know about our existence.
The other major forces may be aware of it, but they will never know where our stronghold is.
And only the master knows all the information about us!"
Cheng Ming squinted at the soldier: "This is not what you should think about. Go down and rest and continue to keep an eye on the Zhang family for me."
The soldier's expression remained unchanged and he turned around to leave. Cheng Ming looked at the soldier's back for a long time and did not look back until the soldier disappeared.
"Tell the headquarters that Zhuyeqing has appeared."
A figure left quickly in the darkness behind. Cheng Ming took back his thoughts and looked at the mountains of documents above. There were still so many things to deal with, but the headquarters was really a mystery, and it had not been known to other major forces until now.
Found a little bit of information.
Just after Xiliang declared war with several major surrounding forces, a lot of information about Xiliang was leaked, but the top management didn't say anything about it. Everyone continued as usual, as if they were not affected by the spies' meticulous work.
Because these things that Xiliang is putting out in the open now are just for others to see and for the enemy to know.
As for other aspects, even the commanders of the 7th, 8th, and 9th legions don’t know.
They only need to obey orders from their superiors and complete various instructions issued by their superiors on time, just like Fang Cai.
The headquarters realized that there was a high-ranking spy hiding in Sanshui City, so they took advantage of the curiosity of the major forces about the intelligence department of the Xiliang headquarters to lure the snake out of the hole.
However, he never expected that there would be a problem with the commander sent from Jiuyuan City.
However, this is no longer under their control. Although the commander is under his command, there is no affiliation between the two parties. It is just that the other party needs to obey his orders when they are in Sanshui City.
Not long after leaving the city lord's palace, the intelligence commander sent from Jiuyuan County stiffened. He felt that five or six eyes were staring at him closely, like hungry wolves.
Gulu!
Exposed? The commander pretended not to notice anything. At this time, he couldn't panic any more.
He tried to recall whether he had done something wrong or said something wrong.
He tentatively asked the intelligence department at the headquarters? Like everyone else, he often tried this, and it had been fine before.
So, what went wrong!
He couldn't figure it out, but with a calm expression on his face, he walked back to the stronghold, a military camp, step by step as usual.
After walking into the military camp, those eyes disappeared...
