In just seven or eight days, Guo Song's soldiers built more than 20 wooden houses, each wooden house is long and wide, and can be used for 100 soldiers to sleep in the house at night.

In addition, Guo Song also ordered the soldiers to build a small wooden house on a big tree as a guard tower, and sent soldiers to set up a guard at the entrance of Wagang Mountain, once the enemy attacked, they would immediately light a beacon smoke to give an alarm.

But there is a question that makes Guo Song feel deeply embarrassed, how to arrange the intelligence of the outside world? Without sufficient intelligence, it was difficult for him to judge how to send troops.

He either sent out his soldiers and pretended to be merchants, or he waited for news from the imperial court.

Guo Song had discussed this issue with the prince before leaving, and the prince said that he would consider it, but Guo Song had no news about how to decide.

Guo Song paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, and a map rested on a large makeshift table made of pine wood.

Xu Jingnan said on the side: "Envoy, either send five groups of brothers, one group in Baima County is in charge of Huazhou, one group in Zhencheng County is in charge of Puzhou, one group in Chenliu County and one group in Kaifeng County is in charge of Bianzhou, and then one group in Songcheng County is in charge of Songzhou, I think it is almost enough." ”

Guo Song sighed, "The spies we sent can only see the appearance and know that the army is coming and going, but it is difficult for us to grasp how the other party decides, in fact, Li Lingyao I am not worried, what I am worried about is Li Zhengji and Tian Chenghei's army, how can they let go of this opportunity to expand their power?" ”

At this moment, a soldier outside the door reported: "Envoy Qiqi, the Yamaguchi guard soldier brought two people, saying that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sent to find you." ”

Guo Song was stunned for a moment, and immediately ordered: "Bring them in quickly!" ”

His footfall in Wagang Mountain is top-secret information, and only the prince knows about it, and he actually sent someone over, he must be an important person.

Not long after, a middle-aged man and a teenager were brought into the barracks, Guo Song was already waiting at the door, and the middle-aged man saluted Guo Song respectfully, "See Guo Yuanjun!" ”

"You know me?" Guo Song asked with a smile.

The man smiled and nodded, "When I received Lu Sigong's fleet in Puzhou, I saw the envoy on the one hand, and Xie Zhen in Xia, the master of the intelligence hall of the Hidden Sword Pavilion in the Central Plains region. ”

He pointed to the young man behind him again, and said with a smile: "This is our pigeon slave, very good at pigeon training, he brought five carrier pigeons, ready to establish a connection between Shanzhai and Kaifeng County." ”

Guo Song was overjoyed, he didn't bring the fierce son over this time, and he was still a little remorseful in his heart, but he didn't expect that the Hidden Sword Pavilion even thought of the carrier pigeon.

Guo Song asked Liang Wu to arrange for two soldiers to learn how to manipulate pigeons from pigeon slaves, and he invited Xie Zhen to the room.

Since Yu Chao'en was ambushed, the function of the Tibetan Sword Pavilion has gradually changed from the previous assassination to the collection of intelligence, a large number of intelligence manpower, and the establishment of intelligence points in various feudal towns, such as Guo Song's senior brother Yang Yu, who was sent as the master of the intelligence hall in the Ziqing region.

This Xie Zhen Hall Master, Guo Song also heard Yang Yu say that he is one of the five elders of the Tibetan Sword Pavilion, don't look at him short and fat, but his swordsmanship is very skillful, and he has been joining the Tibetan Sword Pavilion for almost twenty years.

The two sat down separately, and Guo Song said with a smile: "Is it His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who arranged for Hall Master Xie to come over?" ”

Xie Zhen shook his head, "It was the order that the Gongsun Pavilion Lord gave me directly, I think it should be an order conveyed by the Son of Heaven." ”

Guo Song was relieved in his heart, what the prince said to himself was to solve the intelligence problem, which was to refer to the intelligence agency of the Hidden Sword Pavilion in the Central Plains, which was good and solved a big problem for himself.

"How is the intelligence hall in the Central Plains?" Guo Song asked with a smile.

Xie Zhen bowed slightly and said: "The Central Plains Intelligence Hall is located in Kaifeng County, it was established ten years ago, it was to monitor Tian Shengong, after ten years of development, now there are branches in the eight prefectures of Biansong and Song, with more than 200 members, using restaurants, inns, shops and other shops as cover, and there are many people serving in the state and county offices. ”

Guo Song really didn't expect the scale of the Central Plains Intelligence Hall to be so large, no wonder the Son of Heaven could know the news of Li Lingyao's rebellion in the first place, and Li Mian definitely didn't have the support of the Intelligence Hall, otherwise he wouldn't have been caught off guard by Li Lingyao.

"What is the situation of Li Lingyao and a few other feudal towns now?" Guo Song asked again.

"Li Lingyao is desperately transporting all the grain and grass materials from various counties to Chenliu County, his army is not good, they are all rogue ruffians or landless peasants who are temporarily recruited, and they do not pay attention to training, although there are many people, but I feel that it is far worse than Tian Chenghe's army before, and it is not vulnerable at all."

"Since Tian Chenghe's army is good at fighting, why doesn't he stay by his side, but scatter it and scatter it to various counties?" Guo Song asked puzzled.

"It is said that it is Tian Chengsi's own intention, Tian Chengsi wants to control all parts of the Central Plains, so he scatters the army, but on the other hand, Li Lingyao also does not want to be controlled by Tian Chengsi, this is what Li Lingyao personally said to his subordinate officials, all troops and officials must be loyal to him, not to other forces."

"It's kind of interesting, the feudal town has not yet been established, and the spoils have begun to be unevenly distributed."

Guo Song smiled again and asked, "What is the situation of the other feudal towns?" Li Zhengji and Li Zhongchen, does Hall Master Xie know the information? ”

"I probably know a little bit, it is also the information transferred from Ziqing, Li Zheng has already assembled an army of 80,000 in Qizhou, and the army is in Yunzhou, Li Zhongchen's tens of thousands of troops have crossed the Huai River, and are currently assembled in Sizhou, as well as Tian Chengsi's army, Tian Chengsi sent his nephew Tian Yue to lead tens of thousands of elites to gather on the north bank of the Yellow River, ready to cross the river at any time."

"What about the imperial court?"

"Returning to the envoy, the imperial court led an army of 100,000 from Luoyang to the east, and Li Mian's 20,000 army has now left the Tiger Prison Pass and is stationed on the front line of Zhengzhou, and Ma Sui also led an army of 20,000 to cross the Yellow River in the three cities of Heyang.

Xie Zhen said while Guo Song stood in front of the map and kept checking, in fact, Li Lingyao had been surrounded, he wanted to break through, and he could only break out from the southwest side and occupy Xuzhou, Yingzhou and Dengzhou, but Li Lingyao seemed to have another strategy, Guo Song also guessed, he wanted to gather the money and grain from the states and counties of the Central Plains in Chenliu County, and then defend Chenliu City, let the families kill each other, and he finally came out to pick up the profits of the fisherman.

He had a good idea, but the question was, would the other feudal towns really kill each other as he wanted?

Especially Li Zhengji and Li Zhongchen, one of them is in the east and the other is in the south, and they have no conflict of interest, will they join forces to deal with Tian Chenghe?

Guo Song thinks it's very likely.

Xie Zhen stayed in Wagang Mountain for a long time and then left with the pigeon slave, he mainly told Guo Song about the situation, the key is to establish a pigeon letter line, so that the news can be transmitted in time.

After sending Xie Zhen away, Guo Song smiled at Xu Jingnan and said, "Intelligence collection and sorting, it's better to work hard for Xu to join the army!" I'll find a few more literate soldiers to join the army as assistants, intelligence is too important to us, without intelligence, we are blind, there is no way to start. ”

Xu Jingnan nodded, "I have no problem, in fact, I am more concerned about whether the carrier pigeon can succeed now." ”

"How's the pigeon doing?"

"It has been put back in Kaifeng County, and if they can come back at dusk, it will be a success."

"What if it doesn't work out?" Guo Song asked.

Xu Jingnan smiled bitterly, "If it is not successful, only the pigeon slave will come again, and then continue to experiment until it succeeds." ”

Of course, Xu Jingnan was prepared for the worst, and it turned out that he was too worried, and before dusk, five hovering carrier pigeons appeared in the sky, making a buzzing sound, and the soldiers cheered.

.........

In Licheng County, Qizhou, 80,000 troops set up a company camp for dozens of miles outside the city, and Li Zheng had already received the holy decree of the Son of Heaven, ordering him to lead the army to participate in the pacification of Li Lingyao's rebellion.

Li Zheng was overjoyed, he had been waiting for this opportunity for many years, and finally waited for the time to send troops to the Central Plains.

In the tent, Li Zhengji's eldest son Li Na had just delivered grain and grass, so he rushed to the tent to meet his father.

"Father, the child feels a little strange, it stands to reason that the imperial court has always been worried that we will send troops to the Central Plains, and we should try to restrict us, how could the Son of Heaven order us to participate in the war, will there be any problems in this?"

Li Zheng is about 50 years old, with burnt skin, a slender face, and a goatee on his chin, and he looks like a shrewd bookkeeper, and not many people will pay attention to him when he walks on the street, who would have thought that he would be one of the best warlords in the world.

Li Zheng already stroked his beard and smiled: "You underestimate Li Yu too much, you won't be worried about him?" He knew very well that I would send troops no matter what, so he simply did a favor and asked me to kill Li Lingyao for him, and more importantly, Li Lingyao also had Tian Chengsi behind him, and the Son of Heaven hoped that I would fight a vicious battle with Tian Chengsi, and it was best to lose both. ”

"Didn't my father fall for Li Yu's plan to send troops?"

Li Zheng said lightly: "Tian Chengsi wants to rob the Central Plains, I also want to rob the Central Plains, sooner or later there will be a battle between the two tigers, rather than me and Tian Chengsi fighting alone at that time, it is better to use Li Zhongchen and the army of the imperial court to destroy Tian Chengsi's dream of getting involved in the Central Plains, and then I take what I deserve, I know in my heart, as long as I don't affect Caoyun, the imperial court will acquiesce to my partial occupation of the Central Plains." ”

Li Na is convinced, and his father is still scheming.

At this moment, there was a report from the soldiers outside the tent, "Marshal Qiqi, Li Zhongchen sent an envoy to ask for a meeting!" ”