Inside the big tent, four soldiers were brought in, and these four people selected the first batch of fine works from the five hundred soldiers, and they will follow the Qiao caravan to infiltrate the Western Xia and spy on the intelligence of the Western Xia people. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

For a long time, the Great Song Dynasty attached far less importance to intelligence than the Liaoxia and Xia countries, and the Liaoxia fine works penetrated into every corner of the Great Song Dynasty, but very few Great Song Dynasty fine works entered the Liao State and Western Xia, so that the Great Song Dynasty never lacked a comprehensive and rational understanding of Liaojin and Western Xia, and was strategically passive again and again.

However, Li Yanqing was well aware of the importance of intelligence, and he entered the Northwest Army in order to establish an intelligence system, so he was willing to give up the opportunity to join the army as a recorder with more power, and continued to join the army as the director of the intelligence department at a lower level.

"See the Commander!" Four soldiers knelt down on one knee and saluted.

"Get up, please!"

Li Yanqing asked the four of them to get up and said to the four gently: "This time I went to Xixia, the four of you have a heavy responsibility, but my biggest requirement for you is safety first, don't expose yourself easily." ”

"Humble duty understands!"

Li Yanqing waved his hand and said: "Listen to me, safety first is not a casual talk, this requires you to do something and not to do something, not all intelligence needs to be collected by you, but major military information needs your attention, Qiao's firm has a flying eagle to spread information, when encountering major military information, you can also use it, understand?" ”

The four of them nodded silently, and they all understood what the commander meant.

Li Yanqing smiled again: "You are mainly stationed in two places for a long time, one is Xingqing Mansion, and the other is the Left Wing Divine Brave Military Division, which is currently lurking in Qiao's Commercial Bank, but I hope that you will gain a firm foothold as soon as possible, open your own shop, and expand your strength, and I will fully support you in terms of finances." ”

The four of them glanced at each other, all eager to try, wanting to throw off their arms and do a big fight, at this time, Chen Hua, the leader of them, asked, "May I ask the commander, how many people know that the four of us have infiltrated Western Xia?" ”

"At present, only me and the Qiao brothers know, and even Chongshuai doesn't know who it is, you only have one-line contact with me."

Speaking of which, Li Yanqing took out four bronze medals and handed them to the four people, this is the standard of Qiao's firm, you go directly to Qiao's firm next to the north gate of Yangqu County to find their brothers in the afternoon, and set off early tomorrow morning, as for your family, I will arrange it, and your money will be doubled to them, which is enough to ensure their lives. ”

The four of them took the bronze medal, Li Yanqing told them a few more words, and the four of them bowed and retreated.

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The Hedong Army camp is about three miles away from Fenshui, but the army built an exclusive military wharf on Fenshui, and as the imperial court continued to increase troops to the Hedong Army, huge weapons and equipment and military materials began to be transported to Yangqu County in a steady stream.

The warehouse in the camp could no longer bear so many materials, so the planter had to order the construction of another material warehouse north of the wharf, and after two months of construction, the new warehouse was completed, which was a warehouse group composed of hundreds of warehouses, covering an area of thousands of acres, surrounded by high camp fences, and guarded by three thousand army commanders.

On the morning of that day, Li Yanqing rushed to the new warehouse with a team of 50 cavalry of the intelligence battalion, and since the intelligence battalion completely uprooted the Xixia fine work on the Hedong Road in a thunderbolt operation, the seed master Dao also gave the intelligence battalion a rich reward, one of which was that all the 500 war horses temporarily seconded were distributed to the intelligence battalion, which made all the officers and men of the battalion happy, and at the same time made the intelligence battalion the first fully mobile army of the Hedong Army.

Today, Li Yanqing came to the new warehouse to investigate a theft incident, when the soldiers of the intelligence battalion searched the black market of Taiyuan weapons, they accidentally found a batch of military crossbows of unknown origin in a dilapidated warehouse, the number of which was about 500, this news made Li Yanqing immediately vigilant, there was no theft in the big camp warehouse, and all the weapons of Xixia were also seized, where did these military crossbows come from?

No one claimed this batch of crossbows, and there were no clues, as if they had fallen from the sky, but judging from the numbers on the crossbows, this batch of crossbows should have just come out of the weapons prison, and it is likely that they are the new batch of weapons and equipment sent by the imperial court.

It's just that there are three possibilities here, the first is that it was stolen on the way from the capital, and the second is that it flowed out of Jingzhao Mansion, after all, half of the weapons from the capital were sent to them, and there is also a possibility that there are loopholes in the new warehouse.

Li Yanqing turned over and dismounted in front of the camp, showed his military badge to the soldiers guarding the door, and the head on duty hugged Li Yanqing and said: "Li Senjun is very sorry, the marshal has a rule that no more than ten people can enter the warehouse at a time, and Li Senjun has too many subordinates, I'm afraid I can't all go in." ”

Li Yanqing turned back to the team leader and said, "You take the brothers to wait outside for a while, and the first group will come with me!" ”

Li Yanqing took ten soldiers into the warehouse camp, the supervisor in charge of the new warehouse was Yan Jiuling, Li Yanqing single-handedly promoted the chief to join the army, because the scope of the warehouse was too large, Zong Ze divided the troops into two ways, the chief officer Zhang Qu was in charge of the old warehouse of the barracks, and Yan Jiuling led fifteen people to join the army to be in charge of the new warehouse.

"Welcome Lee to the army!" Yan Jiuling greeted him with a smile.

Although Li Yanqing has been transferred out of the Military Division, Yan Jiuling has always been grateful to Li Yanqing for his promotion and is extremely enthusiastic about Li Yanqing.

"Lao Yan, it's been a long time."

Li Yanqing exchanged a few words with him, and the two walked into the official room, Li Yanqing sat down, and then said his intentions, Yan Jiuling was suddenly shocked, five hundred crossbows, this is not a joke.

"There are more than 20,000 crossbows, we just sorted them out, is there a number for Li to join the army?"

"I brought it!"

Li Yanqing took out a piece of paper and handed it to him, "It's five hundred crossbows with a serial number." ”

The bottom of each military crossbow is engraved with a set of numbers, it is easy to find out its origin, Yan Jiuling took a thick account book, opened the account book to check the number provided by Li Yanqing, and said after looking at it for a while: "This batch of military crossbows is not within the scope of our warehouse crossbows, you can check the number when you join the army, they are in front of us, at least 20,000 more than us, but it should also belong to one of the materials allocated by the imperial court to the Northwest Army." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"I mean, this batch of crossbows should flow out of Jingzhao Mansion, and they belong to Jingzhao Mansion."

"Is it possible that someone stole it from the transport ship on the way?"

Yan Jiuling shook his head, "This is unlikely, because the transfer must be the same, if there is a list, but there is no real thing, this matter has already started, a military crossbow can be sold for thirty yuan on the black market, and five hundred military crossbows are fifteen thousand, this is a very serious event in any army, and the main general will also be removed." ”

Since there was a problem on the side of Jingzhao Mansion, Li Yanqing could no longer investigate, but he had to report to the seed marshal, and the seed master Dao would communicate to Tong Guan that the theft of the crossbows of the five hundred armies was by no means a trivial matter, but a big case that was enough to alarm the imperial court.

Back in the barracks, Li Yanqing walked quickly to the big tent of the Seed Master Road, and met a personal soldier and said with a smile: "Is Li joining the army looking for a seed marshal?" ”

"Yes! Can you do that? ”

"I'm really sorry, I joined the army one step late, and the marshal went to the Suide army at noon."

"But the marshal didn't have this thing in the morning, was it a temporary decision?"

"Captain Tong's side sent people to ask for silver every day, and the handsome man was so annoyed that he temporarily decided to inspect the former enemy."

Li Yanqing's seizure of the wealth of the results of the results beyond everyone's expectations, the son of heaven Zhao Ji with a stroke of the pen, the batch of gold and silver all the reward to the Northwest Army, this news made Tong Guan's eyes red, hurriedly sent someone to Taiyuan to ask for silver, his meaning is very clear, the land belongs to the Hedong Army, and the silver and gold belong to him.

He had already given Tong Guan 16,000 taels of gold, equivalent to 160,000 taels of silver, at most 100,000 taels of silver, and the Hedong Army left 200,000 taels, both sides refused to give in, so Tong Guan sent people to ask for silver every day, which made the seed master extremely bored.

"Where are the men who ask for money?"

"Currently in the tent of General Zonglao."

Li Yanqing rolled his eyes, and walked quickly towards Zong Ze's big tent.

In the big tent, Zong Ze sat at the table and was engrossed in reviewing the report on joining the army below, and there was a man sitting next to him, this person was called Dai Yunyi, who was a staff member under Tong Guan's tent, he could speak well, and he was thick-skinned, so Tong Guan sent him to ask for silver, and at present, 300,000 taels of silver were in Zong Ze's hands, of course, this person stared at Zong Ze.

At this time, Li Yanqing walked in, and out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the Tong Guan envoy next to him, and pretended to be surprised: "Old general, I have already found out the theft of the crossbows of the five hundred armies. ”

Zong Ze was taken aback, how could he say this in front of outsiders, he hurriedly gave Li Yanqing a look, but Li Yanqing didn't seem to see it, and continued to say loudly: "I found that the five hundred army crossbows actually flowed out of Qin Fengjun's side. ”