Guo Bin heard that a large number of Taiping Dao came to Yangzhai, and was surprised: "How can you be so arrogant? Is it a shame to come to my Yang Zhai so blatantly? ”

Xi Zhicai said: "Lord, I believe that Taiping Dao has reached the eve of the incident, and for the sake of the suddenness of the incident, it is even more necessary to act in concealment. Therefore, Taiping Dao came so aggressively, not intentionally, but because of the changes in my Yangzhai County that caught them off guard. ”

Guo Bin said: "Oh? What do you mean? ”

Xi Zhicai said: "Just a few days ago, there were homeless people inside and outside the city of Yangzhai County. The homeless people were ragged and lying down in no order, so the Taiping Dao people only needed to wear a tattered garment to hide in them. But now, there are no more displaced people in the city, and the more than 30,000 people have work to do, and there are no idlers in the county. Therefore, these Taiping Dao will be quickly discovered when they come to my Yangzhai. ”

Guo Bin nodded and said, "What Zhicai said is reasonable, I think that these Taiping Dao have some urgent matter to come to my Yangzhai, so I entered the city before I could inquire about the news, so that our intelligence department could get the news so easily." In normal times, these people were among the homeless, and no one would have recognized them. ”

Xu Shu said: "Yes, it seems that this is indeed the case. In addition, there is a piece of information here: At noon today, a man about thirty-six or seventeen years old came to the county Cheng Jia Ren's mansion, and he had a secret discussion in the study for about three quarters of an hour before Jia Ren sent the man away. As a result, Jia Ren's eating was delayed by about an hour. ”

Guo Bin glanced at Xi Zhicai and said, "I didn't expect that the intelligence work has been done so far, and Zhicai has worked hard." ”

Xi Zhicai hurriedly got up and said: "It's all a matter of loyalty, how dare you call it hard." ”

Guo Bin nodded, motioned for Xi Zhicai to sit down, and said: "However, if you can let Jia Ren personally send him out of the house, it seems that this man's status in Taiping Dao is not low." Immediately, he said to Xu Shu: "Is there any information about the appearance of that man?" Where did it go afterwards? ”

Xu Shu said: "Intelligence shows that although this person is skinny, he is quite tall, about eight feet. After he left the mansion, the intelligence officer in charge of keeping an eye on Jia Ren's mansion followed him, but he was too fast, and he disappeared after a few alleys. ”

Guo Bin said: "It seems that this person is not simple. ”

Xu Shu continued: "Staring at the report of the intelligence officers of the newly arrived Taiping Dao, these people are about 100 people, and after entering the city, they are scattered in groups of three or five people in various houses in the city, and they have been sent to monitor them separately. ”

"In addition, according to the intelligence officers in a village in Jia Ren outside the city, a large number of masters entered the village last night, and the specific number is unknown."

Seeing that Xu Shu closed the file recording intelligence, Guo Bin said: "It's hard work, pass the order, let the intelligence department send more manpower, monitor Jia Ren's Zhuang Yuan in all parts of Yangzhai County, and let the intelligence personnel find out the number of these masters and the purpose of this trip under the condition of ensuring their own safety." ”

Seeing that Xu Shu should make a promise, Guo Bin nodded.

Intelligence work was originally done by Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia, but since Xu Shu came, Xi Zhicai consciously let him get in touch with intelligence work. After all, it is a necessary ability for a qualified strategist to identify useful information from the complex ~ intelligence and rely on the information analyzed from the mixed intelligence. If there is not enough intelligence to support them, the so-called strategists will become deaf and blind, and if they can make good suggestions, it is just a joke.

Therefore, an efficient and accurate intelligence network is a weapon in the hands of a strategist, just as a military general must also fight with a divine weapon.

The establishment of an intelligence system requires a tremendous investment of human, material, and financial resources. Therefore, the so-called poor family can also produce excellent strategists, which is just a good wish.

For example, the famous Jingzhou strategist group in history (made up by the author), such as Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Sima Hui, Pang Degong, and Xu Shu, which one is not in high society?

Some people may say that Xu Shu is not, but Xu Shu was good at fencing in his early years, and later gave up martial arts when he got into trouble.

If he is really the lowest person in society, how can he have the money to read and write? Not to mention hiring a doorman martial artist to teach yourself swordsmanship! Practicing martial arts can be said to be more expensive than Xi Wen, why? A hungry child from a poor family who can't even eat all day long will go to boil his muscles and bones every day? Will you go to the station every day to practice martial arts? Eat the soil and eat it, right? The cow you herded is still in the mountains and hasn't been brought back!

And what about reading and literacy? Find an old Confucian student, offer a little restraint, and you can enter the school. A farmer's family, who has a little surplus and does not need their children to help the family, can barely afford to send their children to school. You don't need to buy a big sword, you can just scratch it on the ground with a branch.

Looking at Zhuge Liang's connections, the famous Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao is his wife's brother-in-law; Cai Mao, the general of Jingzhou, is his wife's maternal uncle.

What about Zhuge Liang himself? It is the descendant of the Zhuge clan of Lang Evil, the ancestor Zhuge Feng once served as the captain of the Sili School when Emperor Yuan of the Western Han Dynasty, and Zhuge Liang's father Zhuge Qi was a Taishan County Cheng in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, which can be regarded as a scholarly family.

Therefore, Xi Zhicai spared no effort to cultivate Guo Jia and Xu Shu, and Guo Bin only respected and trusted him more and more regardless of personal gains and losses, and focused on cultivating talents for himself.

It's just that everyone here is a little confused about why these Taiping Dao came from: if someone in the city, such as Jia Ren, sent the information and asked for reinforcements to be sent to control Yangzhai County, he should not have recklessly entered the city and exposed the target. However, it is not a matter of concern to say that these Taiping Dao, which are obviously several levels higher than Jia Ren, are in a temporary emergency, and they suddenly come to Yang Zhai, or if they want to borrow Yang Zhai.

However, this idea does not correspond to the actual situation. Why?

According to what Guo Bin and Guan Yu overheard in Xu Feng's mansion in the capital, Ma Yuanyi went north to the capital by the way, and what was the way? It was Taiping Dao who wanted to send a large number of Taiping Dao people from Yangzhou and Jingzhou to Yecheng to support the uprising in the coming year. However, according to intelligence, these people who came to Yangzhai came from the north. It can be seen that they did not want to go north to Yecheng from Jingzhou and Yangzhou.

Therefore, it can be inferred that these people came to Yangzhai County and had other major plans.

It's just that what can this small Yangzhai County be worthy of so many martial arts masters who come thousands of miles to find each other? If it is said that it is because Guo Bin drove Taiping Dao out of Yangzhai County, it is obvious that he values himself too much. And the timing is not right, Guo Bin's actions have only been carried out for three or five days, and so many masters will come to find fault immediately, so the efficiency of Taiping Road is too high, right? If this were the case, the Han Dynasty would have died long ago.

At that moment, Guo Bin got up and said: "Since the intentions of these masters can't be clarified, then closely monitor and report the situation at any time." They are not here for sightseeing in Yangzhai, and in a few days, they must have action. ”

The drama Zhicai and everyone hurriedly got up and promised.

At this time, another piece of information was sent, Xu Shu hurriedly went out to take it, glanced at it, handed it to Guo Bin, and said in a heavy tone: "The situation has made new progress, according to the close monitoring of Jia Ren's eight manors outside the city, the intelligence officers have sent news: dozens of young and strong men with accents from all over the manor suddenly came, and each of them seems to be very solid." Adding up the number of people in all the manors, I am afraid that only the Taiping Dao masters outside the city have reached more than 300, plus more than 100 people in the city, the number of Taiping Dao masters who came to Yangzhai County this time has reached nearly 500. ”

As soon as this remark came out, the audience was in an uproar.

Nearly five hundred masters of the Taiping Dao, what do they want to do? Do they want to take Yangzhai County Ya directly?

Seeing that the popularity of the crowd was not very high, Guo Bin said: "He has five hundred martial arts masters, so we don't have a trump card?" The winner has not yet been decided! ”

Xi Zhicai also said: "The lord is right, our Fulong Villa's accumulation of more than half a year, how can we underestimate it?" It is said that the purpose of those martial arts people is not clear, even if they come to Yangzhai County, we can also annihilate a drum! ”

Xi Zhicai's words raised everyone's morale, and Zhao Yun, who had not spoken, even spoke: "Yes, don't say that the three hundred special forces that Yun Chang is currently training in the valley outside the city are the 1,000 soldiers of Fulong Villa, plus the current more than 500 people in Yangzhai County, it is enough for them to drink a pot!" ”

Seeing that even Zhao Yun, who was usually gentle and amiable, and had an introverted temperament, burst into foul language, Guo Bin was amused in his heart, but he was also secretly moved.

After the intelligence meeting was gathered, it was difficult for everyone to rely on these analyses to find out the intentions of the Taiping Dao, and in the end, they could only order the intelligence department to increase their vigilance and work hard to investigate; On the other hand, they notified Fulong Villa to send another 500 soldiers to Yangzhai City to deal with emergencies that may occur at any time.

However, two days passed, and it was business as usual.

The construction of the new city in the west of the city is progressing rapidly, and the chassis of most of the houses has been filled in, and only the wall remains below; The masters of Taiping Road are also very calm, one by one in the manor or homestay, and do not come out to make trouble.

Just when Guo Bin and the strategists were scratching their ears and cheeks in a hurry, the person who was sent to the capital to deliver the letter came back and brought Yuan Shao's reply.

Guo Bin didn't care, opened the letter casually, read it, saw half of it, and said in a lost voice: "What? Yuan Benchu is coming to Yangzhai? ”

Seeing that everyone was confused and didn't know what to do, Guo Bin shook the letter in his hand and said: "Yuan Benchu's letter in Beijing said that the imperial court neither agreed nor issued an edict to reprimand us about our expansion of Yangzhai County, which can be regarded as acquiescence. After a pause, he said: "It's just that Yuan Benchu said in the letter that he was about to set off and come to Yangzhai in the near future." ”

Xu Shu listened and said, "Lord, could it be that Taiping Dao got the news that Yuan Benchu was going to come to Yangzhai and came to assassinate him?" ”

Xi Zhicai said: "It's not like, the fourth generation and the third prince of the Yuan family, the protégés and old officials are all over the world, this is true." But Yuan Shao is only a descendant of the Yuan family, and it is impossible for Taiping Dao to travel thousands of miles to set up such a big battle, just for one Yuan Shao. And the date is not right. Yuan Shao decided to come to Yangzhai for only three or five days, and the master of Taiping Dao arrived in Yangzhai three days ago, doesn't it take time for people to gather and travel? ”

Guo Bin nodded and said: "Zhicai's words are reasonable, I think that everyone who came to Taiping Dao should have nothing to do with Yuan Benchu's visit to Yangzhai." Immediately, he stood up and said: "Grasp the deployment of personnel and accelerate the arrangement, so as to respond to all changes without change." ”