Lu Yuanzhi and Han Feilian led the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, inspect the corpses of the White Lotus Sect, search the small courtyard, and interrogate the captured prisoners, while Huo Chonglou kept dragging the shotgunners to ask questions, and then picked up the shotguns to study, as if they wanted to figure out where this thing came from so powerful, and easily killed a master of Duan Haiping's level.

Everyone was busy, but Qin Lin teased the pigeons in the pigeon loft in the backyard with great interest, and fed them with fried rice and wheat with three fingers, making the pigeons coo, it seemed that the deputy of the Jinyi Guard, who commanded Xiao Cao, was really leisurely.

"Brother Qin teases the flying pigeon, is he learning from Jiang Taigong to avoid water fishing, or do you want to follow Liu Xuande's example of irrigating the garden?"

Zhang Zixuan had already wiped off the turmeric water on her face, her skin was as white as jade without applying fat powder, her eyebrows were graceful, her cherry lips were slightly opened, and she looked at Qin Lin with a smile.

Li Qiu, Huang Gonggong, Zhang brothers and others have already arrived, and Zhang Zixuan saw Qin Lin teasing the pigeons, so he made this joke.

Qin Lin raised his eyebrows, looked at her and said with a smile: "I was about to sprinkle the golden hook to catch the incense!" ”

The daughter of the Prime Minister was immediately embarrassed, and her face was red on both sides.

Qin Lin changed his words: "The White Lotus Sect is a human being, not a god, and they will also make mistakes, but I didn't expect that it would leave me a chance to catch them all!" ”

"You mean?" Zhang Zijiao blinked.

Li Qiu was very puzzled, and stepped forward and arched his hand: "General Qin won a complete victory, cracked the conspiracy of the White Lotus Sect, recovered Caoyin, destroyed an enemy's lair, beheaded one elder, three incense masters, and captured two incense masters. ”

As for cracking the higher-level White Lotus Sect Chief Sect and arresting the sect leader, Li Qiu didn't expect it at all, thinking that the Ming Dynasty had never been caught in the two hundred years since the founding of the country.

During the Yongle period, Tang Sai'er, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, advocated rebellion in Shandong and Weizhen Heshuo, defeated one marquis chief military officer, two commanders of the two ranks, and killed the commanders of the same knowledge of the following countless, although he was pacified by the imperial court, he did not catch Tang Sai'er in the end, and even ordered tens of thousands of nuns and Taoist aunts from all over the north to be arrested, which was also in vain.

Li Qiu secretly wondered, could it be that this Qin general really had the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, and even the unsympathetic White Lotus Sect Master could be able to fight it?

Qin Lin teased the pigeon and said unhurriedly: "If we send completely wrong information to the people and horses pre-arranged by the White Lotus Sect to induce them to fall into the net? ”

Zhang Zixuan smiled slightly, and when Qin Lin said that the White Lotus Sect had made a mistake, she understood what she meant.

There was a cloud of ashes in the middle of the hall, thinking that the White Lotus Sect had hastily burned the documents, but they remembered to burn the documents, so why didn't they kill the pigeons.

Since you can use Master Bai's pigeons to find this headquarters, through the large number of newly discovered pigeons here, you can send wrong information to the ambush soldiers of the White Lotus Sect from all walks of life, and induce them to go to a dead end!

Zhang Zixuan felt more and more that Qin Lin was resourceful, and the two brothers of the Zhang family also glanced at each other and praised Qin Lin.

Li Qiu even shook it to the ground, and said in a continuous voice: "Brother Qin is talented, admire, admire!" ”

He is the governor of Caoyun and the governor of Fengyang, and if there is a problem in Caoyun this time, he will definitely be punished by the imperial court, but the Wen Governor and Wu Governor Yun, his responsibility is much smaller than Chen Wangmo, and he is not as stupid as Chen Wangmo and used the White Lotus Sect as his master, almost causing a big disaster, so he still has a chance to keep his official position.

If you want to keep your official position, you have to dig out your heart to make meritorious contributions, obviously Qin Lin's plan is a great opportunity, if you can wipe out the large number of people mobilized by the White Lotus Sect, not only can you offset the previous sins, maybe there will be a reward!

Li Qiu's gratitude to Qin Lin is really difficult to describe, although the civil official likes to hold the shelf in front of people, it is no problem to ask him to kneel down and lick Qin Lin's boots behind his back.

When the people saw him like this, they didn't know what to say.

Chen Wangmo and Li Nao, a Caoyun commander-in-chief Pingjiangbo, and a Caoyun governor, Fengyang, were slightly teased by Qin Lin in the Caoyin case.

The battle just now killed many White Lotus cultists, only five of them were alive, and all of them were wounded, but fortunately the person in charge of raising the pigeons was still alive. ,

No matter how cowardly a person is in the face of death, and with the encouragement of his companions, he often bursts out with amazing courage: but when he witnesses death and finally escapes by accident, that courage dissipates quickly and completely.

For example, this White Lotus Sect, Qin Lin only promised not to kill, he kowtowed gratefully, and told the truth desperately.

The pigeon is indeed used to communicate with the various people mobilized by the White Lotus Sect, as long as the pigeon cage is opened, they will fly to their respective targets and transmit information.

However, this information is not a simple word, but a secret language personally mastered by Elder Duan Haiping, which others do not understand at all, only the incense master who accepts the order knows what is written on it, so that if the pigeon is caught by someone along the way, the secret will not be leaked.

Qin Lin asked him why Master Bai didn't use secret words, and this person told Qin Lin that Master Bai was in one-line contact with Elder Duan, the distance was short, and there were many pigeons in Yangzhou City, so he would not be suspicious, so he just used cryptic words: and Elder Duan dispatched people from all walks of life, which involved a large area, and the pigeons flew a long distance, so they must use secret words to prevent leakage.

What the White Lotus Sect Disciple said was not very clear, but Qin Lin had already understood, in the design of the White Lotus Sect, Master Bai was completely an independent faction with a high degree of secrecy, and it was separated from the various grassroots rebel forces, and it only intersected with Elder Duan, which was a means of secrecy.

This time, Master Bai sent a signal, and thirty pigeons flew out to notify all walks of life to launch on schedule, and it would be too hasty to write the secret message after receiving the signal, so Duan Haiping wrote all the secret messages in advance, tied them to the pigeon's legs, and just waited for Master Bai's pigeon to send news, so he opened the cage and released the carrier pigeon, and notified all parts of Jiangnan and Jiangbei to take action.

Thanks to this, Qin Lin saw the secret words of the White Lotus Sect with his own eyes.

"Three-one, five, one**two, three, five", "nineteen, one-two, eight-eight"...... It's an all-numeric password.

Li Qiu came up and looked at it for a while, there were thirty pieces of paper, Qin Lin simply handed him one, the three brothers and sisters of the Zhang family, the prefect of Yangzhou. Qiu Baihu and the others each took one to look at.

Li Qiu looked at it for a long time and was puzzled, he probably thought that Qin Lin was a military attaché, and he wouldn't have any research on this, so he asked the Zhang family brothers: "The two brothers are rich and have five cars, do you know what this means?" ”

Zhang Jingxiu frowned: "If it is a hidden poem or quoting allusions as a hidden language, it is effortless to crack it, but this kind of secret language composed entirely of numbers is not enough, and it is like a book from heaven." ”

Zhang Mao was a strong cultivator, refused to admit defeat, grabbed his hair and thought about it, but he didn't come up with a clue in the end.

Qiu Baihu, Huo Chonglou and the others were completely ignorant, so they had to scold the White Lotus Sect demon cubs one by one, and they would do everything they could to get this sneaky thing, which was too unfair.

Li Qiu was depressed, and he was bent on making meritorious contributions, but he couldn't find the key to open the door when he touched the door, you said that he was in a hurry.

Niu Dali was quite self-aware, he didn't have a basket of big characters he recognized, and he didn't even look at the paper scroll that caused everyone's headaches, and waved his hand to suggest: "Just no matter what is written, let's learn the method of Chief Qin chasing after him, release the pigeons, and chase them, and we can find the demons of the White Lotus Sect!" ”

The officials are not enough, the soldiers who participated in the battle heard that their bodies were weak, and they almost didn't flash their waists, and secretly said that you stupid big man don't know how to be tired, and the men are almost tired and lie down after chasing the pigeons for ten miles, maybe the layout of the fucking White Lotus Sect is in Zhenjiang, Changzhou, and Songjiang, the pigeons are flying in the sky, and the people and horses are chasing in the ground, and they can't run for thirty miles, and everyone is tired to death!

Li Qiu also thought of this layer, and his face became sad.

Zhang Zixuan knew that her father intended to win over this person, so she whispered to him: "Uncle Li, Qin Lin didn't say a word, I'm afraid he already has a plan, why don't you ask him." ”

Li Qiu suddenly realized, and secretly said that he was stupid, how could he still look at this Qin general with the style of being a noble and a lowly martial artist, and a martial artist who was vulgar and unincomprehensible? He is brilliant and resourceful, and the whole case is almost entirely up to him!

Dressed neatly, Li Qiu respectfully saluted Qin Lin: "This secret text, dare it be that General Qin has already made a plan?" The lower officials are not talented, and they are willing to hear the details. ”

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Qin Lin smiled, just now he did basically know the method of cracking the ciphertext, and the reason why he was so focused was that he was thinking about how to wipe out all the people of the White Lotus Sect, and try not to slip through the net.

Shaking the paper scroll in his hand, Qin Lin disdainfully: If it is any Enigma in the future, what computer algorithm encryption, Lao Tzu is really dumbfounded, fortunately, you are only the White Lotus Sect, not the head of the mustache!

This kind of simple ciphertext, if it can stump a criminal investigation expert, it is called a strange thing.

Everyone gathered around and listened to Qin Lin's explanation with great interest, only to see him shake the paper scroll and say loudly: "Everyone, please see, as I understand the number words on this, each group should correspond to a number, right." ”

Everyone nodded in agreement, because this was the most obvious rule, and no matter how complicated it was, it would be too inconvenient for the White Lotus Sect to deal with it by itself.

Zhang Zhixiu hurriedly said: "Brother Qin, I won't tell you, I have been thinking about the number of strokes, the meaning of the characters and the harmony for a long time, but I have found nothing!" ”

Qin Lin explained seriously: "You look at the characteristics of these numbers, there are ten groups of numbers on the note, of which the first number in each group is from three to five seven, the second number is from two to one three, and the third number is from two to one seven, what does this mean?" Got an idea? Under what circumstances can three numbers represent a word, and this rule is followed? ”

Zhang Maoxiu was still thinking about it, and his sister had already answered.

Zhang Zixuan's deep and charming eyes flashed with wisdom, and her charming face was radiant, so Qin Lin was embarrassed to look at it directly, she said happily: "The page number is the page number, the number of columns, and the first few words of each column of the book!" ”

The page number of a book is dozens or hundreds, so the number of pages is from three to fifty-seven: at this time, the book engraved by engraving has a larger font and vertical typesetting, and a page is often printed with more than ten columns, so the number of the column is the largest to thirteen: and the page is rectangular, and the number of words in each column is slightly more than the number of columns per page, indicating that the number of the first few words in this column is the largest seventeen.

Everyone suddenly realized that it was not a stroke, nor a homonym or an anagram, and the answer was so simple! Why didn't you think of it?

So, which book is it, exactly?

Qin Lin had already made up his mind, like this kind of relatively primitive password, it was unlikely that the White Lotus Sect would use a special code book, it was very likely that it would be a common book, and for the White Lotus Sect, of course, it was a certain scripture that was the most convenient.

Scriptures such as "Golden Lock Hongyang Great Policy", "The Book of Robbery", and "The Salvation of the Lifeless Old Mother" were moved out of the room and placed on the ground. There was no need for Qin Lin to order, everyone held a copy and looked at it very actively.

Li Qiu's hands were fast, and he preemptively recited: "The Buddha has no great things to do...... It doesn't seem to be the golden lock Hongyang strategy! ”

"And it will