How much Mao Xiang's name has to do with himself, Ma Du is not sure, but it is certain that he is the first big leader of Jinyiwei in the future, and the first butcher knife that Lao Zhu waved to the ministers.

But now he is still a small inspector, a humane ordinary person, and after a long time, he can still remember Ma Du's kindness in saving his life.

Since defeating Chen Youliang, Lao Zhu began to turn his attention to Zhang Shicheng, and the focus of Mao Xiang's inspection work has also shifted to Pingjiang.

Mao Xiang is a senior inspector in the end, and he finally got into Zhang Shicheng's palace after a lot of hard work, and was responsible for emptying the toilet.

Yesterday, when he came back from delivering the toilet outside the city, he happened to see that Ma Du was sent to the palace by the guards, and he took the initiative to contact Yang Shuping that night.

Although Mao Xiang and Yang Shuping are both placed in Pingjiang's inspection school, they are not under the same leadership.

By chance, Mao Xiang discovered Yang Shuping, who had abnormal behavior, and after several contacts and confirmed the relationship, he developed into a work partner.

Ma Du listened to it with a big head, how could there be such a spy who took the initiative to expose his identity, with such a quality, and I don't know how he became the head of the spy in the future.

Yang Shuping was very surprised when he learned Ma Du's identity and began to investigate his life in Pingjiang.

The cousin of Shen Wansan, the richest man in Pingjiang and the sister-in-law of the famous man Song Ke, surprised him even more because of the news brought by Mao Xiang, and Ma Du became the doctor of the palace overnight.

Without saying a word, he immediately reported to Ying Tian, and received a reply from Ying Tian yesterday, and there was also a letter from King Wu himself.

Opening Lao Zhu's reply, Ma Du only glanced at it, and before he finished reading it, he threw the letter on the table, and shouted in a suppressed voice: "I won't do it!" I'm about to leave Pingjiang, I'm going to leave now! ”

Lao Zhu arranged a new errand for Ma Du with a clear conscience, and he was a spy by Zhang Shicheng's side, it was really a shame that he could think of it, this was something that could lose his head at any time, and Ma Du didn't dare to do it.

As he spoke, he walked outside the house, and Yang Shuping didn't stop him, but said: "You can't go back to Yingtian now, don't look at the calm in Pingjiang City, but martial law has begun outside the city, and Zhang Shicheng has already begun to send people to harvest summer grain." ”

"What do you mean? At this time, the wheat should not be fully ripe, could it be that Ying Tian has already sent troops to attack! ”

Seeing Mao Xiang and Yang Shuping nodding in unison, Ma Du asked again, "Really?!" ”

This is not quite in line with Lao Zhu's habits, generally when fighting a big battle, Lao Zhu waits for the autumn harvest when the soldiers are full of grain and horses are fat, but now it has just entered the summer, and even the wheat has not been harvested.

In history, Lao Zhu's final attack on Zhang Shicheng was indeed launched after the autumn harvest and lasted until September of the following year.

Now it has changed suddenly, of course, it is to blame Ma Du's little wings for fanning out the Shenji Camp in advance.

The Shenji Battalion also existed in history, but it was much later to actually form an army, and the size of the army, the quality of the soldiers, and the firearms and equipment were not comparable to Lao Zhu's current Shenji Battalion.

When the Shenji Battalion was only dispatched during the expedition to Huaidong last year, it was originally just wanted to be pulled to the battlefield to try, but it played a very positive role in the war.

Lao Zhu's attack on Huaidong originally took more than half a year in history, but it was precisely because of the appearance of the Shenji Battalion that it ended in only four months.

First, it saved a lot of food and grass for Lao Zhu, and also reduced countless casualties of soldiers, and he could return to the battlefield without too much time to recuperate, and the powerful firearms gave Lao Zhu great confidence.

Of course, Lao Zhu also has an even more evil plan, that is, to besiege the city before the summer harvest.

He has been fighting with Zhang Shicheng for a long time, and he knows that Zhang Shicheng is not good at field battles, and he is not very good at siege warfare, but he is definitely a good hand at defending the city.

When he was in Gaoyou, Zhang Shicheng dispersed the million-strong army of Detached; The city of Changzhou also made Xu Da in a dilemma; When the expedition to Huaidong last year was accompanied by artillery, it still took almost two months to go under Gaoyou City.

Pingjiang is Zhang Shicheng's old nest, and it is even more time-consuming and labor-intensive to fight. But it doesn't matter, now that the spring famine has just passed the summer grain harvest, it is the time when the food is in short supply, and the city will not let you collect the grain, and see what the Pingjiang soldiers and civilians in the city eat are.

On the second day after Ma Du entered Zhang Shicheng's palace, Lao Zhu had already ordered Xu Da to be the general and Chang Yuchun to be the deputy general to lead an army of 200,000 to conquer Zhang Shicheng.

Coach Xu Da went straight to Huzhou, where Pingjiang had a lot of wings, and Li Wenzhong, who was in eastern Zhejiang, led his army to contain the forces of Hangzhou.

Slightly different from history, Deputy Marshal Chang Yuchun swaggered to Pingjiang, in order to grab grain with Zhang Shicheng. Changzhou guard Tang He couldn't wait to attack, and just yesterday he pulled out Zhang Shicheng's water village in Taihu Lake and made his first contribution.

Ma Du didn't expect that he had only stayed in Zhang Shicheng's palace for five days, and there was already such a big movement outside.

No wonder in the past few days in the palace, I have never seen Zhang Shicheng's shadow, I only heard that he was busy with military and political affairs, and it is estimated that it was because Lao Zhu did not play according to the routine this time, and he was caught off guard.

Ma Du asked unwillingly: "Really can't get out?" ”

Yang Shuping shook his head and said, "It's not easy to get in and out now, and the messenger I sent to Yingtian almost couldn't enter the city." Unless there is a warrant issued by the palace, do you think Zhang Shicheng will give it to you at this time? ”

Mao Xiang also persuaded: "It's better to stay in Zhang Shicheng's palace when you go out of the city now, just wait for Xu Xiangguo to break the city." ”

Don't really say it, it seems to be really like that, if there is a real war, Zhang Shicheng's palace may really be the safest existence, just wait for Xu Da to enter the city, and his identity will be revealed.

However, Lao Zhu Ke also arranged a task for him, spying on intelligence in the enemy camp to deliver news, but he pinned his head to the waistband of his pants to work.

Hearing that he couldn't get out of the city, Ma Du patiently read Lao Zhu's letter, and he raised his head and asked, "King Wu only let me stare at Zhang Shicheng and didn't let him run away?" ”

Mao Xiang and Yang Shuping shook their heads together, "We don't know about this, we just said that we should cooperate with the correction when necessary, and try to protect the safety of the correction." ”

Madu breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good, I thought I would spy on intelligence or plot to assassinate." ”

Yang Shuping said with a smile: "When the time comes, the city wall will be heavily defended, and no matter what, you won't be able to send out information." The eunuch is the prince's closest relative and in an important position, how could the prince let you do such a thing as assassination. ”

"Hmph......" Ma Du sneered: "How do you know that my Wu Wang Zhi personally holds an important position, you shouldn't know so many things about me in Pingjiang for a long time." I believe that Ying Tian's side will not tell me my identity in such detail, and King Wu did not mention it in his letter. ”

"The supervisor is really careful, Xia Guan really didn't get the news from Ying Tian, he told me." Yang Shuping stretched out his hand and pointed at Mao Xiang.

Mao Xiang was puzzled and said: "He is his own person." ”

"You're ......!" Ma Du is almost dying of such popularity, and he doesn't know how Mao Xiang became a spy leader, but this Yang Shuping is more suitable to be a spy.

"Let's talk about the situation of the two of you, I can make some rules, so as not to be burdened to death by the two of you one day!"