Chapter 491: The Spy War between Sima Yi and Pang Tong (2)

Liu Ye didn't know that this year's time had allowed Pang Tong to completely lock him down, and even his online and dialogue incisions had been mastered.

Immediately afterwards, Pang Tong sent someone to secretly capture Liu Ye, and then interrogated him severely, but unexpectedly, this person turned out to be a tough guy, no matter what kind of torture he suffered, he always refused to confess, and Pang Tong had no choice but to put him to death.

What was announced to the public was that Liu Ye was released as a county magistrate because of his outstanding talent, and his adventure caused the envy of many people in the palace.

In fact, Liu Ye is just a pseudonym, even if he is upline, he doesn't know his identity at all, and he can't even see his face clearly, because in order to avoid revealing his identity, Sima Yi specially stipulates that all personnel who carry out espionage work must be masked or disguised when they come into contact, and never show their true faces, and the only basis for their contact is the incision to confirm their identity.

Two months after Liu Ye's secret execution, Pang Tong sent his most powerful meticulous workman, the "Candle Dragon" who had covered Xun You's retreat to Xuzhou, and asked him to impersonate Liu Ye and deliver the "gunpowder" technology to Sima Yi.

Because Liu Ye is very cautious, every time he depicts a schema, he hides in a secret room, even if the people of the Pang Tong faction know what he is doing, they can't see the specific situation, so they don't know what this person's handwriting is, and the handwriting he usually writes is likely to be disguised, once Sima Yi finds out the clues, the problem will be serious @,.. Therefore, Pang Tongning could obtain a schematic tracing copy of Liu Ye's handwriting in Yecheng Palace through secret channels, and then ordered someone to forge it and draw an incomplete version of gunpowder.

This kind of gunpowder is a semi-finished product of Huang Yueying's previous research, and its ignition point requirements are very high, and the speed of explosion is slow, if nothing else. As long as Cao Wei successfully developed the gunpowder, he would definitely kill most of the craftsmen who were responsible for developing the gunpowder, so that Sima Yi not only wasted a lot of time, but also continued to spend time researching the improved version of gunpowder, and that's all. It is absolutely impossible to succeed without ten or eight years.

But where will Liu Qi give Cao Wei ten or eight years? As long as another year or two later, when the vitality lost due to the conquest of the three states of Henan, Yanqing and Qingdao has been restored, Liu Qi will mobilize his army to launch a general attack on Cao Wei.

At that time, I am afraid that even if Sima Yi is reborn in vain and the overlord comes again, it will definitely be difficult to have the power to return to heaven.

When the "Candle Dragon" sent the gunpowder technology to the line, he whispered: "Now that the Han Palace is very tight, our people will be hidden for a period of time, and they will not be able to carry out operations for at least half a year, please reply to the upper peak." Don't bother for half a year. ”

The voice of the "candle dragon" heard on the line was a little different from the usual Liu Ye, and he was suddenly puzzled in his heart, and asked, "Why is your voice different?" ”

But I heard the "Candle Dragon" say coldly: "The adult who contacted you before was suspicious of the Han Palace and couldn't act in person, so he had to hand over this matter to a certain person, this matter is not something you should ask, please don't do it again next time." Otherwise, Hugh blames him for reporting this crime. ”

After all that is said. The "candle dragon" floated away, leaving only the silent "upline" with a silent face. This person knew that the "candle dragon" was telling the truth. As an intelligence transit officer, he really has no qualifications to care who the person who delivers the information to him is and whether there will be any changes, he is only responsible for checking the incision and receiving and sending the information, and then finding a way to send the information out.

So. He just sighed softly, then left slowly, uploading the information in his hand one by one, and finally passed it on to Sima Yi.

Sima Yi couldn't help but feel overjoyed after receiving the information, because it had been a year. The repeater crossbow he got from the Han army was just finished, and after the test firing, he found that it was really as sharp as the legend, ten thousand crossbows fired together, and 500,000 crossbow arrows were thrown out in an instant, such a density, such a powerful collision force, even if the enemy army came to 50,000 cavalry, it could be defeated in an instant.

"Hehe, it's a pity that the consumption of iron ore is too great, 10,000 pairs of repeaters need at least 500,000 iron crossbows, and if you want to have follow-up launch capabilities, you also need 500,000 iron crossbows, as soon as I think about the need for at least 500,000 iron crossbows for each war, I feel a heavy pressure, alas, I have to say, the Han army is wealthy, I don't care about this consumption, I can't, so, good steel should be used on the blade, our army's crossbows need to be used after encountering the enemy's main force, This is the only way to be able to win by surprise, but fortunately we have the wheels and catapults, and when it comes time to attack or defend the city, we only need to use them. It will definitely be a great blow to the morale of the Han army. And what makes me even more pleased is that the kid 'Xuanwu' actually got the formula for gunpowder, which is really gratifying. ”

Whenever he thought of the explosion that he had encountered in the heart of the Yellow River, as well as the two explosions in Runan and Puyang that he had heard about before, Sima Yi couldn't help but admire this huge lethal siege weapon that captured the heavens and man-made feats, as long as there were enough weapons and were ambushed on the traffic arteries where the enemy army was advancing or retreating, as long as there was an explosion, it could definitely make tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of enemy troops fall into pieces in an instant, and as long as he experienced such an ambush, he might be able to change the balance of strength between the Han and Wei sides.

Since gunpowder production technology is so important, why doesn't Sima Yi pay attention to it? How could he not be ecstatic that he had calmly deployed spies to infiltrate the Han Dynasty several years ago, and now he had finally borne fruitful results and stolen the gunpowder technology he had been trying to obtain day and night?

"Pass the order, no, General Ben will go to General Cao in person and tell him the good news, hehe, as long as we make gunpowder, it will definitely become a sharp weapon to recover the Central Plains, maybe we can directly attack Luoyang, blow up the Luoyang Palace, and kill Liu Qi directly......"

Sima Yi came to Cao Hong's house with the information with great interest, and asked Cao Hongping to go left and right, saying that there was something important to report.

When Cao Hong saw that Sima Yi actually came to the door in person, he knew that something big had happened, but when he saw the joy on Sima Yi's face, he knew that it was a great good thing, so he asked with a smile after retiring the left and right attendants: "Zhong Da came to the door in person, I don't know what good things are?" ”

Sima Yi stroked his beard, and replied with a smile: "This is a great thing, general, look, what is in my hand?" ”

"What the hell is a good thing? It made Lord Situ so excited. Could it be Liu Qi's death? Cao Hong took the piece of paper with a smile, looked at it, and then grabbed Sima Yi excitedly, his face showed a huge look of ecstasy, and said in disbelief: "This, this." Gunpowder crafting schema! Where are you from? ”

I saw Sima Yi smile and say nothing, and after a while, he said slowly: "This is the secret between me and Emperor Wu back then, that year Liu Qi attacked Puyang, using powerful gunpowder, Emperor Wu ordered the official to secretly send fine work, pretending to be surrendering troops to the Han army, as a result of the development of the past few years, they gradually gained the trust of the Han army, and participated in the production of various weapons as craftsmen. The subordinate ordered them to steal the production map of some important weapons, and this gunpowder was our greatest gain. ”

"It turns out that this is the case, alas, Emperor Wu and his old man are far-sighted, I can't wait. It's just a pity that he was injured by gunpowder back then, and finally died of serious injuries and left me, otherwise. How did my Great Wei become what it is today? However, defeat is also gunpowder, and success is also gunpowder. Although Emperor Wu died due to gunpowder, he finally let my Great Wei obtain the production technology of gunpowder, as long as we also develop such a powerful gunpowder weapon, we will definitely be able to let the Great Wei recover the Central Plains and re-realize the desire to dominate the world. ”

Cao Hong's face was full of embarrassment, and there were tears in his eyes. He sighed softly, as if he was talking to himself.

Next, Cao Hong solemnly said to Sima Yi: "Zhongda, this matter will be handed over to you, and the day when the gunpowder is made." Ben will definitely go to congratulate him. ”

Sima Yi's face was also full of solemnity, and he nodded and said, "General, please rest assured, Yi will definitely not live up to the trust." ”

After finishing speaking, Sima Yi carefully took the gunpowder schema in Cao Hong's hand, and then took it to the palace to meet the fifth brother Sima Sui.

"Xianda, the matter of making gunpowder is fully entrusted to you, I hope you can live up to the expectations of being a brother, premature ejaculation to make gunpowder, and make a name for our army."

After finishing speaking, Sima Yi solemnly bowed to Sima Sui, and Sima Sui hurriedly returned the courtesy: "Second brother, what are you doing?" Your business is my little brother's business, are we still divided between each other? Please rest assured that the younger brother will definitely follow what is said above and develop a sufficient amount of gunpowder as quickly as possible. ”

Seeing Sima Sui like this, Sima Yi was naturally very satisfied, and returned to the mansion with a happy face, and ordered people to inquire about the progress of the development of gunpowder day and night, and asked them to inform him as soon as the development was successful.

When he heard that the "gunpowder schema" had been successfully delivered to Yecheng and was immediately delivered to the palace to start production, he asked the soldiers of the Ten Thousand Cavalry and the Praetorian Guards to cooperate and arrest all Cao Wei Xizuo who was lurking in the palace.

So on the night of the same day, 20,000 emperors surrounded Shaofu Temple with their own soldiers, and each assigned a task to arrest the hidden works in it.

Although those detailed works didn't know how their identities were exposed, they saw that a large part of the people who were captured had surrendered from the Wei State, so how could they not know that they had been exposed? So these people have tried to hide, but because all their relationships have long been controlled by the authorities, even their families are also controlled, and the palace is heavily guarded, not even a fly can fly out, where can they escape?

It's just half an hour's effort, dozens of hidden in the palace were all found out, and then they were locked in prison for interrogation, although most of these people are hard bones, but there are still people who can't stand the torture and confess, through the confessions of these people, Pang Tong has obtained a long list of them, most of these recruited are those ordinary sergeants who surrendered to the Han army before, and some are ordinary traders, and even there are individual officials who are greedy for profit.

After Pang Tong consulted Liu Qi, he immediately searched for Ji according to the map and wiped out all the people on the list. In fact, it is not difficult to arrest people, but the difficulty lies in the fact that this time Pang Tong asked that no one slip through the net, because once someone escapes to Yecheng, and the incident that happened tonight is reported to Sima Yi, I am afraid that it will also arouse Sima Yi's vigilance, so that Sima Yi is likely to suspect that there is something wrong with the information he got from the Great Han, so as to suspend the manufacture of those new weapons.

Fortunately, Pang Tong has been preparing for this matter for nearly two years, and has already sent troops to surround all suspicious people, plus the next day the Luoyang city gate and palace gate are closed, and the detailed work is searched vigorously, and then he ordered to block the Yellow River, and finally all the fine works are all wiped out, and no one has missed the net.

Hearing the battle report, Pang Tong couldn't help but be overjoyed, this time after his own strict control and dragnet search, Sima Yi's painstaking deployment in the Han Dynasty was all wiped out, it was really a gratifying thing, he hurriedly invited Liu Qi to give a generous reward to all the soldiers and civilians who had made contributions to the search and arrest, and this move immediately stabilized the hearts of those who were afraid of confusion inside and outside the palace.

Liu Qi couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard Pang Tong talk about the result this time, and praised Pang Tong's meticulousness in doing things and decisiveness in decision-making: "Shiyuan's shot this time was clean and neat, as fast and decisive as the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, and he pulled out all the fine works for my Han. ”

This time Liu Qi's reward is not ungenerous, because although the young master of the prince is only an honorary title, and the official product and his right servant of Shangshu are generally from the second grade, but he can further assist the prince, which will mean that he will be the second teacher of the prince in the future, once the prince ascends the throne, he will be a veritable important minister of the country.

However, Pang Tong doesn't care about the position of the important minister of the country in the future, because now Liu Qi is in the spring and autumn period, and it is impossible for the prince to ascend the throne for thirty or fifty years in the future, but since this reward is out of Liu Qi's favor, he naturally wants to thank him.

Liu Qi ordered Pang Tong not to be polite, and then smiled happily: "Hehe, this time we have taken action to eradicate all the fine works of Sima Yi, Yecheng is like a blind man to us, and will never know about the changes that have occurred here, and before Shi Yuan has ordered someone to report to Sima Yi through the channels of Wei State, he will not contact his country again within half a year, Sima Yi will definitely not be suspicious, and once it is half a year later, he finds that all his fine works have been eradicated by us, and his domestic gunpowder is estimated to have been almost produced, I wonder if he should believe or doubt the original gunpowder schema? (To be continued......)