The killers they sent did not dare to openly carry long-pole arquebuses and flintlock pistols or bows and arrows...... Such behavior was easy to detect in the Xinbianjing City of the Great Song Dynasty, and it was a felony.

It is possible to carry only short weapons such as short-roded flintlock pistols or daggers, as well as the most important tools in assassinations...... Pull-out wooden-handled grenades!

Over the years, they have not blackmailed the Great Song Dynasty in vain, whether it is civilian or military items!

They were also smart and used military weapons from the Great Song Dynasty and did not use their own counterfeit products.

However, the princes of the Federal Empire were too heavily guarded, and as soon as they went out, there must have been four guards standing at the four corners of the four-wheeled carriage, together with two coachmen, which were six men.

Two triangular leather boxes hung from the belts around their waists...... Killers everyone knows that it is a five-wheeled pistol that can fire five bullets in a row and can kill targets within twenty paces at will!

This is much more powerful than a short-roded flintlock pistol that is effective within ten steps.

The killers also wanted to get their hands on such weapons, but there was really no way to ...... The Federal Empire did not sell to the Great Song Dynasty on a large scale, at most it gave away dozens of gold-plated or silver-plated revolver pistols!

Those have become the most beloved weapons of the Great Song Dynasty generals or high-ranking officials, and ordinary people can't see them if they want to see them.

I heard that the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty could not imitate the bullets of the pistol, and the armory of the Great Yuan died of heart...... But they are confident, as long as the Great Song can start to officially equip this weapon, the army of the Great Yuan will definitely be able to have it!

The six guards of the crown prince of the Federal Empire looked like the best of the best, and they could be seen from the way they jumped on and off the car, from their figures, and even from the way they looked around!

But it's not just these six guards...... The crown prince's carriage was always followed by a smaller four-wheeled carriage, and no one knew what was in the carriage.

The hateful Great Song government also provided them with twelve mounted policemen, who would inevitably accompany them on both sides of the carriage whenever the crown prince's chariot came in and out.

The killers could only helplessly watch the other party's convoy come out of the embassy of the Federal Empire, and then repeatedly went to the imperial officials of the Great Song Dynasty...... There was a lot of contact between them, but no one knew what they were talking about.

That young crown prince didn't even have the habit of going out to play!

This invisibly undermined their carefully conceived method of personal assassination...... I heard that the Badaohe area of the Federal Empire is far more prosperous and lively than the Xinbianjing area.

Of course they didn't know that the young crown prince didn't want to come out to play, but that he was too busy with the task of recruiting zero-score authors for the Great Song Imperial Examination, so he couldn't be distracted at all!

The killers could only arrange their actions at the scene of Jia Yidao's condolences...... However, on that day, they found that they couldn't, because everyone who went to the mourning shed to participate in the collective mourning could not bring their entourage, and even Wang Sui could not participate because of his lack of rank, let alone those killers.

In fact, this is just a means for the Great Song Dynasty government to show off its specifications, and the higher the official position of the personnel participating in the condolence activities, the more Jia Nidao's status can be displayed...... The Empress Dowager Xie is bent on making him the first minister of the ages.

Perhaps this will inspire later successors to be loyal to the Great Song Dynasty and to her grandson, Zhao Xian.

Dayuan's crown prince Zhenjin may really have a chance to assassinate the crown prince of the Federal Empire, but can the other party's identity be worthy of his attack?!

After the whole condolence event was over in the mourning shed, the crown prince Zhenjin didn't even look at the guy, and went directly to the Bianjing Hotel in his four-wheeled carriage.

In the carriage, the king leaned on the window behind the curtain and glared viciously at the crown prince of the Federal Empire into his car...... If it weren't for the desire to arouse mutual suspicion between the Great Song Dynasty and the Federal Empire...... He stepped forward with a short-roded flintlock pistol and ended up with the other party's life!

But he couldn't.

Crown Prince Zhenjin said: "Send them, and when that Han dog cub walks back, you can disguise yourself as a Great Song officer and soldier in the wild......"

This is actually a method that Wang Sui came up with, and it is too easy to expose his actions in Xinbianjing City.

It is pointless to simply kill the other party's crown prince, and it seems that it cannot cause chaos among the enemy if he hears that the enemy's big boss also has a son and does not let the other party die.

Only by provoking mutual suspicion between the two of them is the most cost-effective means, and if Da Yuan is given ten to twenty years, Da Yuan's new generation of lancers may become stronger and stronger.

Unfortunately, Dayuan's lancers are different from those pirates...... According to the spy reports sent to the Shandong region, they were able to shoot on horseback and load bullets...... Until melee combat can swing the saber!

The pirates have completely abandoned bows and arrows!

But the lancers of the Great Yuan could not, and the flintlock pistols could be fired on horseback, but the best riders had to dismount and reload...... So it can only be said that it is an infantry on a war horse, so the lancers are not separated from the bow and arrow at all.

However, the practice of a flintlock pistol was far easier than that of a bow and arrow, and a qualified gunner could be quickly trained.

Therefore, as long as the more time given to Da Yuan, the Great Khan will definitely be able to train more lancers.

In the middle of the night, Wang Sui said gloomily: "Da Song is lukewarm to me Da Yuan, but he keeps flattering that little guy...... We've been here for a month, and we've only met their officials once at the court, and the rest are all courtesy officials to deal with us, treating us as if we were Japan and Goryeo, where is there a little bit of brotherly friendship??

Their officials received him four times in ten days...... Even the Empress Dowager Xie met him in the backyard of the palace!

If you can kill him in the palace, it will be the best strategy, so that the Great Song Dynasty can't tell whether he is alive or dead......"

Crown Prince Zhenjin sighed, this is just thinking about it...... The palace of the Great Song Dynasty is also like the embassy of the Federal Empire, which is lit everywhere in the dark and will not be extinguished, and even patrols with hunting dogs!

Even the dead can't sneak in...... If it is feasible, by the way, kill the official family of the Great Song Dynasty again, and design it to die in a hurry...... Well, it's all about thinking about it.

Therefore, they can only arrange the assassination on the way back of the other party.

What they don't know is that when they are counting the crown princes of the Federal Empire, someone is also counting them.

Fa Ke, the commander of the firearms army in front of the Great Song Dynasty, was also summarizing the information he had gotten...... He did not believe in the efficiency of the Privy Council's speed room at all, and set up a firearms military intelligence department himself, which was responsible for military intelligence in Gyeonggi, especially during periods of major activities.

Here's a brief introduction.

The Great Song Dynasty had a complete set of strict spy organizations from the central to the local.

The central espionage and intelligence agency is the Privy Council, which is in charge of the nation's military intelligence.

After the Great Song Dynasty went south, in the era of Song Duzong, a special intelligence agency "speed room" was set up, and Jia Pingzhang was directly responsible for it.

The local intelligence agency of the Great Song Dynasty had the "Pacification Department", which was mainly in charge of local military intelligence and also carried out the recruitment and selection of espionage personnel.

The pacification department has the power to arrest and dispose of enemy spies first, and then report to the imperial court. When wars are frequent, there will also be wartime intelligence agencies in the localities.

Here we also have to mention the "Imperial City Division" of the Great Song Dynasty.

It was a special agency for the officials of the Great Song Dynasty, whose main task was to monitor the activities of the ministers inside and outside, spy on the movements of the people, and report to the officials at any time information that was not conducive to their rule.

The scope of the Imperial City Division's investigation is very wide, almost all-encompassing.

The big and small affairs of the people in the capital, the Imperial City Division must report to the official family.

However, the activities of the Imperial City Division are restricted by the Privy Council and cannot do whatever it wants...... Therefore, the Privy Council was the highest central espionage intelligence agency in the Song Dynasty.

Secondly, in addition to spying on intelligence, Song Dynasty spies also took on more other tasks.

For example, as a messenger, Song Taizu and the Northern Han Dynasty used spies to spread the word.

Penetrate into the enemy's interior, carry out counter-division, discord, such as Chong Shiheng once sent Wang Song to break into the interior of Western Xia, successfully separated Yuan Hao and Yeli Wangrong brothers, and prompted Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty to negotiate peace.

In addition, there are missions such as plotting against enemy personnel, leaking and transmitting false information, as well as assassination and assassination.

During the Great Song Dynasty, there were very strict criteria for the selection of spies.

The following conditions must be met: strong physique, not afraid of life and death, good at detecting the enemy's situation, strong will, able to endure pain, etc.

In addition, they also need to have certain specialties, such as proficient in Tibetan language, certain geographical knowledge and painting ability, and certain mathematical knowledge.

In order to ensure the confidentiality of intelligence and the safety of spies and their families, spies often use other identities as cover.

Such as merchants, monks, ordinary people, indigenous residents, cronies of enemy generals, favorite concubines, etc., their identities are all over all walks of life.

It is said that Song Taizu personally sent a spy to infiltrate the Southern Tang Dynasty as a monk, obtained the portrait of the enemy general Lin Renzhao, and implemented a counter-plot and a discordant plan, successfully eliminated Lin Renzhao in the main battle, and thus destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Long before the Federal Empire, the Great Song was the first in the world to create cryptography.

The cipher was called "character verification" in the Privy Council of the Great Song Dynasty and was pioneered by Fu Yanqing.

According to the military textbook of the Great Song Dynasty, "Wujing General Essentials", at that time, there were 40 actions in the army, such as bows, swords, armor, horses, forage, marches, many thieves, surrounded by thieves, invincible, and so on.

The so-called "character test" is to find a five-character poem, each corresponding to a word as a code, and 40 words correspond to 40 military activities.

For example, in "Spring Hope", if the word "gold" in "family letters are worth 10,000 gold" means "there are many thieves", then when the front-line commander dispatches intelligence personnel to deliver intelligence to the rear, he will make a special mark on the word "gold".

After receiving it in the rear, it was checked according to the codebook, and it became known to the enemy a lot of information.

In this way, even if the information is intercepted, the enemy will not be able to understand the meaning because the enemy does not have a code book. Even if the intelligence officer was tortured, it was in vain because he was only responsible for the delivery and did not know the content of the intelligence representative.

In this way, the security of the intelligence is guaranteed to the greatest extent.

Therefore, in times of frequent wars, a five-character poem that you may read in the middle of the day is very likely to be an important piece of military information.

In addition, the Great Song Dynasty also appeared advanced technology of ciphering.

According to the record of the "Three Dynasties and Northern Alliances", as early as 1126, when Kaifeng was besieged by the Jin army, Song Qinzong "took the alum book as the edict". Because "with alum calligraphy, enter the water to see", only by immersing the cloth in the water, the handwriting on it will be revealed.

Jin Ren didn't know this inside story, so he had no way of knowing the content of the information.

Other espionage techniques, as well as homophony, wax books, urn listening, empty floating, arrow books, etc., can be described as full of tricks, pushing espionage and counter-espionage warfare to the peak at that time.

Although the combat effectiveness of the army of the Great Song Dynasty is not very good, it is really impressive that there is such advanced espionage technology.

Commander Fa Ke thought that the information of the speed room was too slow, the information of the pacification department was too miscellaneous, and the Imperial City Division was only a ...... for the insiders Therefore, he formed the Military Intelligence Department of the Firearms Army, which only played a fixed-point role during periods of major activities.

The MIA did not disappoint him and sent him a lot of intelligence.

PS: Thank you for the tips of the book friend Australian Lao Wu and Qingfeng Mingyue.