Li Congjing opened the book and carefully examined its contents. As Tao Xiaoxiao said, the confession of the Khitan spy was very different. For example, some people say that the number of the Khitan army in Yannan is 20,000, while others say that it is 30,000, and they are all very positive. As for the purpose of the Khitan army sending them to Jizhou, some people say that it is to prepare for the big war and find out the truth of Jizhou, while others say that they know where the tuntian and granary of Jizhou are located, and the Khitan is ready to launch a raid on elite cavalry.

This kind of information is more troublesome than nothing.

When Li Congjing put down the book, Tao Yaoyao spread his hands, "How about it, General Li, what do you think of this situation, how should we deal with it?"

Li Congjing thought about it, and didn't dwell on the Jizhou spies, but turned to another question, "What is the situation of the eyeliner you put in the Khitan territory, especially the eyeliner in the West Building, has it been dug up?" ”

Tao Yao shook her head firmly, "No, not one." Yesterday I received information that it was clear that everything was business as usual. ”

Li Congjing's face was not as relaxed as Tao Yaoyao's, and he then asked a question that made Tao Yaoyao annoyed, "Is it possible that the activities of the military intelligence department in the Khitan are all controlled by the Khitan?" ”

"It can't be!" Tao Yaoyao decisively denied, squinted at Li Congjing, snorted, and was a little unconvinced, "Our military intelligence department is careful and hidden, not only is the concept advanced, but also the sharp soldiers of the military intelligence department are all equipped with unique skills, if you want to say that it is possible to be discovered by the Khitan, how can there be a situation where all the whereabouts are mastered?" That's outrageous! And this is even more impossible if we are not aware of it. ”

Li Congjing groaned, and only said slowly after half a sound: "Compared with the border army scouts, the importance of the military intelligence department in intelligence collection is more prominent, especially these manpower who go deep into the enemy's territory are not only our eyes to spy on the movements of the Khitan barbarians, but also an important weapon that we rely on." Once it is uprooted by the Khitan at a critical time, we who have become accustomed to the intelligence provided by the sharp soldiers of the Military Intelligence Department, as the basis for the planning and action of the army, will surely fall into unprecedented chaos. ”

Tao Yaoyao sat up straight, her chest was very high, and said solemnly: "But this is obviously impossible!" ”

Li Congjing also knew that this was impossible, but when he thought of this possibility, he felt a little chill down his spine, so he took it out to remind Tao Yao. Tao Yaoyao is right, the military intelligence department not only comes from Li Congjing's acting philosophy, which is an advanced thing in this era, and the personnel of the military intelligence department are all strictly trained, they may fail in action, but it is absolutely impossible for the Khitan to grasp their whereabouts without knowing it.

Rubbing his sour eyebrows, Li Congjing said: "The Khitan spies in Jizhou continue to grasp, and the things that should be tortured still have to be tortured without relaxation, although the Khitan spies are acting strangely this time, but the spies' tone is different, and it is obvious that the person in charge did it deliberately." I was thinking that even if these Khitan spies were caught, it was possible that they 'took the initiative' to expose their whereabouts. The other party acts like this, and there are only two possibilities. First, they want to use this to confuse our judgment, so that we cannot know the true intentions of the Khitan army in Yannan and Yingzhou; Second, if we want to cover up, we should first use these spies to paralyze us, so that we can relax our vigilance against these spies, so that they can send real spies at a critical time to spy on the information they want. ”

Tao Yaoyao listened to Li Congjing's words, and calmly analyzed the possibility, "If it is the first possibility, it is not difficult to deal with it; If it is the second possibility, then the Khitan principal, who can accept such a large-scale loss of Khitan spies, is too terrible, and it is too vicious. ”

"This time the two countries are fighting, hundreds of thousands of troops are crisscrossing the battlefield, and the final casualties are thousands, tens of thousands? Even tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of casualties are possible. For the sake of the later even larger number, sacrificing the lives of one hundred and ten spies is not a small price, but it is also acceptable. Li Congjing said, "Everything is always a comparison to highlight the gap, so that it is easier to see the severity." ”

Tao Yaoyao was silent.

Li Congjing finally said: "Before the war, the scouts will die first, the armies will clash, the spies will be compared first, and if you want to win the war, you will win the intelligence first, this has always been an unbreakable law of conquest." Yelu Abaoji is a veteran of the big war, through his hands, the big chess under the arrangement, how will it not be simple, and it is normal to not be able to see the chess game clearly for a while. In a time-consuming and protracted war, there is nothing wrong with taking one step at a time, just take it step by step. ”

"The order is that in the military intelligence department in the Khitan, while collecting intelligence, it must always pay attention to concealing itself, and at the same time, it is also necessary to pay special attention to screening the authenticity of the information obtained. Since Yelu Abaoji is a veteran of the war, it is very likely that he will set up a suspicious array, so that our spies will find out false information with great difficulty, so that even if we do not fall into the trap he arranged, the gains will outweigh the losses. ”

Tao Xiaoyao nodded, "Got it." ”

……

Wang Jian, the lord of Shu, is a rare person in the world, he divided one side, the road is blue, in the Central Plains, when Liang and Jin were fighting for hegemony, he took the opportunity to establish Shu and set up a great business. But Wang Jian was not a good person, not long after becoming the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, he died with a whimper, and the burden of preserving and prospering the Shu Kingdom fell on his successor, Wang Yan.

There seems to be a curse in the troubled times of the five generations, most of the sons and heirs of the male lords are not helpful, and their old fathers have worked hard to build the country and accumulate a lot of wealth, which is often easy to be corrupted in their hands. The splendid mountains and rivers will eventually be reduced to a dowry and marry the sons of other families.

There are talents in the country, each with its own coquettishness, especially in this era of decay of etiquette and morality, the strong soldiers and horses can be the son of heaven, and the iron country has a master like flowing water.

Zhu Wen, who established the Liang Dynasty, what a hero, although his character is flawed, but he is not a hero, but his heirs are too bad, Zhu Youzhen has fought with Li Cunmiao for many years, and even let Li Cunmiao, who lives in a remote corner, grow stronger and stronger, expand his territory, and finally have to give up the Central Plains. Yang Xingmi, who seized Huainan, was a cattle man who had made Zhu Wen deflated and did not dare to go south to use troops, but his son Yang Wu was turned around by the powerful minister Zhu Wen, and he saw that the country was about to change hands.

This is the sorrow of a reckless hero, the founder or the heroic, can lay down a country, but can not compete with the latecomers are mediocre and incompetent, and they want to cut off the country. This is also helpless, compared with those profound gate valve families before the Tang Dynasty, in terms of the education of heirs and the cultivation of talents, the reckless characters are indeed more than one and a half points behind.

In this regard, Li Congjing once sighed: Jiangshan fights well, but it is not as good as his son. That Zhu Wen and Yang Xingmi don't say anything, although Li Keyong has some skills and has made some achievements, he basically suffers losses in the second half of his life, otherwise he would not have left Li Cunmiao three mortal enemies when he was dying. But these hardships and hardships are no match for Li Cunqing's talent, he not only pulled the Jin Kingdom back from the edge of the cliff, but finally achieved one of the best achievements of the five generations of monarchs.

Wang Yan took over Wang Jian's class, succeeded to the throne for several years, did not think about his son inheriting his father's aspirations, rectifying the society, and winning the Central Plains, but he was blinded by the prosperity of the world, indulged in pleasure all day long, and achieved a lot of achievements in this way.

Wang Yan likes luxury, loves female Taoists, he often orders the palace maids to wear golden lotus crowns, wear female Taoist clothes, sit and drink, every time he is happy, invite his close ministers to have fun, often regardless of men and women, take off their crowns and show their buns, wanton and noisy, without scruples. This guy also likes heavy makeup, and is called drunk makeup. When he took the concubines to visit Qingcheng Mountain, the concubines' clothes were painted with clouds, fluttering, like heavenly immortals descending to earth, so that the entire Shu Kingdom went up and down, and imitated it one after another, and it actually formed a kind of atmosphere.

In order to travel to Qinzhou this year, Wang Yan actually changed his Yuan Xiankang and traveled around the country with tens of thousands of soldiers to have fun.

However, it was said that Wang Yan traveled to Hanzhou, and suddenly heard that Wang Chengjie was in an urgent report from Wuxing Jiedu, saying that the Tang army was coming west.

When Wang Yan heard this, he didn't believe it at all, he thought that he was friendly with the Tang Dynasty, and Li Cunmiao would not attack him for no reason. Facing the accompanying officials, Wang Yan said unashamedly: "The soldiers of Shu are strong and strong, I am about to show off the prestige of our army, the Tang army came just in time, what are you afraid of them doing?" ”

It wasn't until he arrived at Lizhou City that Wang Yan received news that Tang Jingsi, the defender of the mighty city, had surrendered to Guo Chongtao, that Wang Yan realized that something might have happened, and hurriedly sent troops to reinforce the front line.

The Tang army marched westward, and the troops were like a bamboo, and the Shu army could not resist it at all. The vanguard of the Tang army was Li Shaochen, who received Guo Chongtao's order to surrender the mighty city, and then captured the four prefectures of Feng, Xing, Wen and Fu, and then surrendered to the guide, connecting Kexing Prefecture, Shaozhou and Chengzhou, and the soldiers went straight to Sanquan.

In Sanquan, Li Shaochen met with the 30,000 Shu troops who came to the front. The two encountered, the Tang army was at a disadvantage, but with a sharp spirit of successive victories, under the leadership of Li Shaochen, rampage, killing the Shu army, it was like a bamboo, that many years have not experienced the war, the Shu army that is negligent in training on weekdays, where is the opponent of the Tang army, was killed at the moment, leaving more than 5,000 corpses, embarrassed and defeated.

Guo Chongtao received the good news of Li Shaochen's victory over the Shu reinforcements in Sanquan, and immediately told Li Jiqi about it, Li Jiqi was very happy when he learned about it, and greatly praised Li Shaochen, and said to Guo Chongtao: "General Guo is really the pillar of the country, the western expedition is less than a month, has been Lianke City, everywhere the Shu army is not scattered, it seems that the success of this trip is already in sight!" ”

Guo Chongtao's face was not sad or joyless, he was not moved by the battle in front of him, after listening to Li Jiqi's words, he took out a letter, handed it to the other party, hugged his fists and said: "This is a letter sent by Song Guangbao to hand it to the minister after Wude stayed, he said in the letter, asking my army not to enter the territory of Wude, he will persuade all places to surrender, otherwise they will fight a decisive battle against the city." ”

After Li Jiqi finished reading the letter, it was indeed exactly what Guo Chongtao said, and he asked Guo Chongtao in a deep voice: "Song Guangbao's letter, what does General Guo think?" ”