After Wang Ying took the token, she immediately handed it to Wang Ji respectfully.

In the light of the not-so-bright candle flame, Wang Ji raised his eyes slightly, scanned every inch of the token very carefully, and finally gently stroked the surface of the token, and his fingertips swiped over the small lines on the token to prove the identity of its owner.

Ming Mengyang garrison.

Wang Ji let go of his hand and handed the token back to his son, his eyes slowly closed. As his eyes slowly closed, his eyes appeared with the simple and resolute face of Bai Qianfan when he took the token from his hand.

The first time I met Bai Qianfan was nine years ago. At that time, he succeeded the head of the Mu family as the secretary of the military department, served as the governor of Yunnan, and followed Jiang Gui to Luchuan, who was only a thousand households in Qujing at that time, but because of his exploits in the previous battle with the Luchuan army and covered the withdrawal, he played a leading role as the vanguard in the second Ming attack on Luchuan.

Suddenly, nine years have passed, and he was named Jingyuan Bo because of his military exploits in Luchuan, and he is no longer one of the generals who once followed Dingxibo, but the highest commander in charge of Luchuan's military; Bai Qianfan, who used to be a thousand households, was also promoted to the commander of Qu Jingwei because of his hard work and meritorious service in many years, replacing the old commander who died in battle.

In this war, because of Wang Ji's trust in Bai Qianfan, he let him serve as the garrison of Mengyang, commanding Qujing, Pingyi, Yuezhou and Luliang four guards, 7,000 elite soldiers, 5,000 craftsmen and a large number of logistics materials, and took on the important task of guarding Mengyang City.

But is it a failure? Bai Qianfan, in this war, if you could survive with meritorious service, you would have had a chance to be promoted to another level in your official position.

Wang Ji sighed silently in his heart, although he is a civilian official, he has spent no less time in the army than any general in his life, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the first general in the world.

He has seen too many ups and downs, life and death separation, and no matter how big the changes are, they can't shake the veteran's heart.

The fall of Mengyangcheng will not be the end of the Battle of Luchuan, the rear of the army was damaged, the material and grain routes were cut off, and there were corresponding ways to deal with it. He immediately collected his mind and began to check the information of the other letters.

Wang Ying saw that her father's face gradually became ugly, and she couldn't help but ask worriedly, "Father, is this token real or fake?" ”

“··· If the token is true, this information also needs to be treated with caution. Wang Ji coughed lightly, did not say much, but opened the second envelope and took out the information in it.

The fall of Meng Yangcheng so quickly was something he didn't expect.

If Bai Qianfan's first request for help was blocked, then he could understand it, after all, the current situation of the army in Jiangtou City was not good, and it was really difficult to divide troops to return to help-but what he couldn't figure out was that if he really couldn't defend it, then he could send more soldiers to ask for help, how could he ask for help so late, and once the intelligence response was not in time, Meng Yangcheng was captured?

After fighting with the Luchuan army for ten years, Wang Ji did not believe that the Luchuan people had such a high organizational efficiency and such strong organizational ability, and could organize a large number of troops without Bai Qianfan being aware of it, and then capture Mengyang City in a very short time.

Historically, the Luchuan army did achieve a miracle, relying on the last big gamble, gathering all the manpower that could be mobilized north of the Indoci Great Lake and north of the Mengyang region of Ava at a very fast speed, and taking advantage of the collapse of the various defensive lines of Mengyang City, and captured Mengyang City in one fell swoop.

In the battle of Luchuan, for Wang Ji's battalion, Mengyangcheng almost inexplicably fell, and until the whole line of the rear organization collapsed, Wang Ji did not even get a single intelligence from Mengyangcheng.

In the end, although Wang Ji relied on his familiarity with Luchuan to achieve an almost miraculous withdrawal, although it was a retreat, and because the grain and grass materials were about to run out, he always maintained the suppression of the Luchuan army throughout the march in the jungle at a very fast speed.

But this time and space, with the arrival of Jiang Yugang, everything has changed, when Mengyangcheng's defense line was on the verge of collapse, it gradually received the support of the bottoming out force from Manggu Mountain, and maintained it with difficulty, so it maintained the basic organizational and operational ability of Mengyangcheng, and was able to detect the intelligence of the Luchuan Army's secret assembly in time, and finally carried out two intelligence transmissions in advance.

Although the Luchuan Army's army was also pressed by the same time and space as before, Jiang Yuyan undoubtedly won extremely valuable room for maneuver for everything that was going to happen.

When Wang Ji took out the information from the second envelope, he saw that there were many maps and other pieces of paper in it. It seems that this is more detailed information, he thought to himself.

But when he really took a rough look at the information in the second envelope, a sense of confusion came to his mind - what was this information all about?

The information in the first envelope is much more concise than the information in the second envelope, mainly describing the occupation of Mengyang City by the Luchuan army, the serious damage of the defenders of Mengyang City, and the retreat and escape; The information in the second envelope was quite detailed, with many maps depicting the villages, mountains, rivers and jungles near Mengyangcheng, as well as the distribution of the Luchuan army.

In particular, the description of the distribution of troops, at a glance, it is clear that a great deal of effort has been put into a deep investigation, which includes both relatively accurate numbers of people and estimates that are not clear enough, and in addition to that.

Wang Ji was first impressed by the meticulousness of the reconnaissance of the distribution of troops, and then discovered the problem: Didn't it mean that Mengyangcheng had fallen? Why are all the troops distributed outside Mengyang City, most of the Luchuan troops are not even close to Mengyang City at all, and they are all distributed outside the defense line outside Mengyang City.

Why are all the locations of the Luchuan Army branch recorded in the map outside Mengyang City? Now that Mengyang City has fallen, what's the point of gathering this information?

Could it be... Is this an old piece of information that has gone beyond its time limit? But what is the use of Bai Qianfan asking someone to bring such an old piece of information here? Isn't that misleading? Wang Ji was puzzled, but there was a lot of hidden content in the various annotations on the map, so he continued to read it with doubts.

In addition to the annotation of the number of troops, what caught Wang Ji's attention the most was the description of the movement of troops. Next to the indication of the number of troops in each place, the direction and time of the movement of the troops in that place are indicated in smaller characters.

Wang Ji looked at it at a glance, and soon felt a sense of disobedience that he couldn't tell what it was, and he patiently checked it carefully, but found that all the activities were after tomorrow, and they were concentrated in the next two days.

"On the twenty-first day of June, 3,000 people from Namangzhai moved to Yewei Village."

"On the twenty-first day of June, a group of 5,000 people from Longdong Village moved to Namang Village."

"At night on the twenty-first day of June, 10,000 people from the Sihan Department of Heping Town went to Nanmazhai."

"Before dawn on the twenty-second day of June, 8,000 people from the Sizhao Law Department of Ye Weizhai moved to Heping Town."

"On the morning of the twenty-second day of June, 20,000 people from the Siya Department of Namangzhai attacked Bilu Village."

"On the morning of the twenty-second day of June, Sizhaofa and Sihan attacked Nanmazhai with a total of 20,000 people."

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Wang Ji saw these points in time, he couldn't help but feel a little dizzy, although he was in the Luchuan jungle, but he still knew the time clearly, now it was still June 20th, why were all these investigations of the Luchuan Army in the last two days?

Didn't it mean that Mengyang City had been captured by the 40,000 Luchuan army? Why is it that the Luchuan army recorded in this detailed information has not yet moved?

After sorting out his thoughts, Wang Ji discovered a problem in Meng Yangcheng's intelligence: the information sent was divided into two envelopes, and the contents of these two envelopes were obviously different. In the other envelope, not only did Mengyang City not fall, but even the battle did not take place, and at the same time, it provided detailed reconnaissance records of the Luchuan Army outside Mengyang City that were not in the first information.

Regardless, the information in the latter envelope is more reliable.

So what is the purpose of the disinformation in the first envelope?

Wang Ji asked silently in his heart, and faintly had an answer: judging from the intelligence records in the second envelope, the Luchuan army gathered an unimagined number of troops in a short period of time beyond imagination, and their request for help has been rejected once, if it is rejected again this time, judging from the time of the Luchuan army's actions learned from the reconnaissance, the reinforcements will not be able to rescue Mengyangcheng in the future, and they will not have the opportunity to send intelligence to ask for help again.

From outside Jiangtou City to Mengyang City, it takes two days and two nights to walk at the earliest, which is a theoretical speed to a certain extent, because it can be done to this extent

"Ying'er, you said that General Zhang told you once before that there was information sent by Meng Yangcheng, do you know the specific contents?" Wang Ji suddenly remembered a piece of information sent by Meng Yangcheng, at that time Meng Yangcheng had not yet fallen, if there was intelligence, it must be the military deployment of the Luchuan army before the attack.

If we can get the military strength deployment in the previous intelligence and compare it with the military strength deployment of the Luchuan Army in the current intelligence, we can further confirm the authenticity of the information.

Wang Ying heard her father ask about the initial information, and hurriedly replied: "General Zhang only told me about this at that time, and he didn't show me specific documents and letters, and now, I can't remember it clearly." ”

"What about the movements of the Luchuan Army? Did you mention when they marched? Wang Ji saw Wang Ying's confused face, and simply pointed to the key to the matter.

"No... No," Wang Ying shook her head.

Wang Ji sighed, but his eyes quickly became cold and resolute, and he said: "You immediately go to Zhang Rui in person, be sure to come to check the information with me, in addition, send someone to inform Gong Ju, immediately dispatch all the cavalry of the Chinese army, select another 10,000 elite soldiers, and prepare to set off immediately." ”

"Out of the army?" Wang Ying was about to leave, but was shocked by her father's determination.

"The information in the second envelope should be true, Meng Yangcheng has not yet fallen, but it is already facing great danger, I asked you to go to Zhang Rui, just to check the details of the information, to ensure that nothing goes wrong, if there are really too many fallacies, then we can also take another action." Wang Ji explained.

"The information in the first envelope is fake?" Wang Ying asked.

Wang Ji nodded: "Actually, whether it's true or not, this Mengyang City must be saved, it's just a matter of how many people are sent, and when you get Zhang Rui's information to check, you can determine the absolute truth or falsehood." ”

"The information in that first envelope is nothing more than a front to deceive the officer who receives the information, and to get the information that needs to be conveyed to me." A trace of anger flashed on Wang Ji's face: "This Bai Qianfan is so bold that he dares to use this method to beg me to send troops." ”

"Isn't he afraid of misinformation and causing chaos in the camp?" Wang Ying thought of herself who was flustered before, and couldn't help but be angry: "Actually using such an inappropriate method, it is simply a child's play to treat the important tasks of the military aircraft!" ”

Although Wang Ji could understand that Bai Qianfan's method was too extreme, the mixture of true and false information did put real pressure on the big boss.