At night, somewhere in the north of Ganzhou

This is a small ordinary house, only one street away from the general soldier's yamen, the appearance is old, it seems that there is no difference between the surrounding houses, and the two faded lanterns at the gate are swaying slightly in the night wind, and no one passing by will look at it more. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

But no one would have thought that there was a large underground chamber in this humble house. At this time, more than a dozen people were standing quietly in the secret room, their faces looming in the faint light of oil lamps. No one spoke, no one moved, and the atmosphere was very stagnant.

"It's not like you're really going to join Jiannu! Are you so? As a somewhat annoyed voice sounded, a person came out of the shadows, only to see that this person was Ma Yuancheng, the new director of the Ganzhou Town Intelligence Department.

The dozen or so people in this secret room were the first batch of eyeliners selected by Ma Yuancheng to be sent to the enemy-occupied area. These people are all veterans who have been in the army for many years, and half of them are still Pang Yue's personal soldiers, and almost all of them have a deep hatred for Jiannu, and they are absolutely reliable in terms of ability and loyalty. Originally, they were all extremely excited when they learned that they had been selected into the Military Intelligence Service, because after all, this was a team that Pang Yue personally designated and was directly responsible for him. Out of admiration for Pang Yue, everyone felt honored that they could do things for the Chief Soldier. However, now they are all gloomy, and various feelings such as sadness, resentment, and anger in their hearts are violently intertwined.

The reason is very simple, in order to make things easier, Ma Yuancheng asked them to shave all their hair into the money rat tail style of Jiannu. After hearing this order, everyone couldn't understand that he followed General Pang to fight thousands of miles, isn't it just to sweep away Jiannu one day and return the people of China to a bright future? Why do you want to change the French style handed down from your ancestors to an ugly money rat tail now?

"Lord Director, you don't need to say it! We don't shave our hair! What the unarmed people of Jiangyin City can still do, we can also do! A thin black veteran who was not good-looking said coldly, and his tone was very resolute.

"You!" Ma Yuancheng glared at the veteran, wanting to reprimand him but didn't know how to speak, he had already made it very clear, this was just to facilitate the lurking and intelligence collection in the future, not to really surrender Jiannu. But no matter how he persuaded and explained, everyone was unmoved.

"What's going on?" At this moment, another person walked into the secret room. Everyone present looked up and saw that it was Pang Yue.

"I've seen my lord!" Everyone clasped their fists and saluted.

Pang Yue nodded and asked Ma Yuancheng, "What's going on?" How are you preparing for the departure? ”

"It's almost ready," Ma Yuancheng sighed, "It's just that everyone doesn't want to shave their hair." ”

Hearing this, Pang Yue was silent, who could follow him all the way to this point and be selected for the Military Intelligence Department, who was not full of bitter hatred for Jiannu? Now it's a bit too difficult for them to keep money rat tails. However, as a member of the intelligence department, he will have to go in and out of the Jiannu control area often in the future, and even have to lurk for a long time, if he still retains the Han hairstyle, wouldn't it be tantamount to telling Jiannu: Is the Ming secret agent here?

At this time, the veterans present turned their eyes to Pang Yue, hoping to get a satisfactory answer.

In the expectant eyes of everyone, Pang Yue slowly walked up to the veteran who spoke just now, and said with a smile: "Tian Liuzi, you just walked out of my pro-soldier team. If I'm not mistaken, you're from Shandong! ”

Tian Liuzi didn't know why Pang Yue was asking this, but he still replied, "That's right, my lord." ”…,

"You don't want to shave your hair?" Pang Yue asked again.

Tian Liuzi asked without hesitation: "I don't want to." ”

Pang Yue nodded: "This is also understandable. Because, I have heard you say that in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Jiannu entered Koushan Mountain, causing your family to be ruined. How can you forget such hatred that does not respect heaven? ”

"Your Excellency!" Tian Liuzi's voice was a little choked.

"So you joined the army and vowed to avenge your loved ones." Pang Yue continued, "Moreover, you also once said that as long as you can kill all the Jiannu to avenge your hatred, you will not hesitate to break your bones, right? ”

Tian Liuzi nodded silently.

"Then since you're not afraid of practicing to death, why are you still afraid of shaving your hair?" Pang Yue stared at Tian Liuzi's eyes and said solemnly, "I know, you are all good sons of my Han family, and you all regard shaving your hair as a great shame!" That's right, for any Han person with a conscience, it is undoubtedly a great shame to shave the hair bun handed down from the ancestors into the money rat tail of Jiannu! However, you must know that your shaving is very different from that of those traitors who are greedy for life and afraid of death! The traitors shave their hair in order to survive a cheap life! You shave your hair to better cover yourself and gather intelligence for the army, so as to annihilate more Jiannu! ”

Tian Liuzi was speechless for a while.

Pang Yue's words did not stop: "Today, you will shave your hair for the time being, so that more people of the Ming Dynasty can keep the clothes of the Han family in the future!" Could it be that for the sake of resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the country, and for the well-being of the people, you are not even willing to make this sacrifice? Can't even put up with this humiliation? The so-called people who achieve great things are not informal, as long as your heart is bright, hair will always grow! ”

After listening to Pang Yue's words, all the veterans present fell into deep thought. After a long time, Tian Liuzi finally sighed and said, "Okay, adult, small one listens to you." But the little one has a request, please help save the shaved hair. If the little one can come back alive in the future, I will come back to pick it up, and if not, I will ask the adults to send someone back to my hometown. ”

"I promise you!" Pang Yue nodded.

"Thank you, sir!" Tian Liuzi hugged his fist towards Pang Yue, and after getting up, he hugged his fist at Ma Yuancheng and said, "Lord Director, I'll come first!" With that, he sat down in the corner of the chair specially prepared for the shaver.

Ma Yuancheng sighed and waved his hand back, and a soldier with a razor stepped forward.

With Tian Liuzi's cooperation, the rest of the veterans also gave up their original insistence, sat on the chairs one by one, and silently waited for the razor to shave their hair little by little. During this time, almost all of them closed their eyes in pain, bit their lips, and even shed tears in silence.

Seeing this kind of scene, Pang Yue didn't feel very comfortable in his heart. This is indeed a bit too much for these loyal veterans, but there is no way, if the intelligence agency of Ganzhou Town wants to develop, it is absolutely impossible not to make some sacrifices. Besides, what is such a sacrifice compared to the greater setbacks that may be encountered in the future?

This is the first batch of intelligence personnel to be dispatched by the Military Intelligence Department, who will be sent to different places in the enemy-occupied areas to take charge of intelligence collection work in various localities and to develop down-line operations, so as to gradually establish Ganzhou Town's own intelligence network. In addition, Pang Yue also personally specified some preliminary principles, such as the one-line communication between superiors and subordinates, the transmission of intelligence must use code words, intelligence personnel can use various ordinary occupations to cover themselves, and even join the traitor army, and so on.

In fact, when it comes to intelligence work, Pang Yue is a complete layman. Not only him, but there are probably few people in the entire Ganzhou Town who have really had experience. As for the traditional intelligence agencies of the Ming Dynasty, Dongchang was closed as early as the Chongzhen period, and the power of Jinyiwei has been drastically reduced, and it has long since lost its glory, and most of its personnel have been lost. Although Pang Yue also wanted to recruit a few experts who had done this work, he had no choice but to wait for time to find talents in this area slowly, just to see if he could meet them in the future. …,

After everything was prepared, early the next morning, the first batch of intelligence officers secretly went to the enemy-occupied area and began the first step in weaving an intelligence network.

In the following days, all the work in Ganzhou Town was carried out in an orderly manner. After the recruits were trained individually, they were divided into soldiers and auxiliaries according to their physical fitness and performance, and were added to the battalions. With the addition of a few hundred young and strong laborers, the output and quality of the iron works have increased significantly. The Ordnance Bureau is also constantly transporting all kinds of weapons and armor. Everything has made significant progress compared to when Ganzhou Town was first formed.

However, Pang Yue still did not seem to be satisfied, and not only increased the amount of training for the officers and men, formulated more detailed reward and punishment measures, but also took out a part of the small fortune issued some time ago as a bonus to encourage the craftsmen of the iron factory and the Ordnance Bureau to increase their production efficiency.

Although this approach tasted of quick success in the eyes of most people, Pang Yue still did not waver in the slightest, because he clearly knew that the increasingly severe situation no longer allowed him to develop his strength slowly and methodically. At present, the vast area in the northern part of Jiangxi has fallen into the hands of the Qing court, and is being occupied by the traitor army of Jin Shengheng and Wang Deren, and only the southern regions such as Nan'an, Ganzhou, and Ji'an are still in the hands of the Ming court. And, if nothing else, at the beginning of next year, Jin Shengheng and Wang Deren's troops will attack Gannan on a large scale after meeting up with another traitor army led by Gao Jinku, and the Ming and Qing dynasties will start a big battle for Gannan.

In the original history, before the battle of Ganzhou, the Ming army transferred to Ganzhou by the Longwu Imperial Court from all over the country included Zhao Yinxuan and Hu Yiqing from Yunnan, Tong Yizhen and Chen Jiaobu from Guangdong, Cao Zhijian from Hunan, Wu Zhifan and Zhang Guozuo from Jiangxi Province, etc., with a total of no less than 40,000, which even had a slight advantage over the traitor army of Jin Shengheng and other troops. However, due to the lack of the spirit of one heart and one mind in the Ming army, the superintendent Wan Yuan Ji was also indecisive, and finally missed the opportunity in vain, and was broken by the traitor army, and the strategic place of Ganzhou also changed hands.

Pang Yue, who was familiar with this period of history, understood that if he wanted to change that defeat, it was not possible to rely entirely on the guest army from other provinces, and only strengthening his own strength was the king. Although the combat effectiveness of the traitor army of Jin Shengheng and others is not as good as that of Manchurian Jiannu, it is also a regular army, and if a group of rabble goes to meet it, it has no chance of winning. Therefore, if you want to be able to take the battle in stride, you need to hurry up and prepare now.