Zhang Yue met Tuoba Fanjin in the temporary military tent, and after hearing him, he was still in a daze, feeling like time and space were out of order, and his heart was very entangled. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAt this time, we should take advantage of the unstable establishment of Qingtang Qiang to quickly march into the army, but the logistics can't keep up.

Originally, Qingtang Tubo was only restored in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty, because the Western Xia expanded sharply to the Hehuang area, so that the Qingtang and Qiang tribes felt a huge existential crisis, and the major warlord chieftains left behind by Tubo had to return to the country due to the situation.

But now, he only conquered Liangzhou, which caused a huge backlash from Qingtang Qiang, which must have been instigated by the Ge Zhi and the Uighur princes, plus several battles before and after, which aroused the vigilance of the Qingtang Qiang people.

can be calculated carefully, the Qingtang Qiang people's intention to restore the country is by no means impulsive, it should have been planned in advance. Then Tuoba Bogu has known for a long time, but now that Qingtang Tubo has successfully established the country, Tuoba Bogu has informed himself, indicating that his heart is not sincere, and he still has thoughts at both ends of the first rat, but fortunately, this time it came in time, which made Tuoba Bogu feel pressure.

Zhang Yue immediately left Tuoba Bojin behind, and ordered Tuoba Bogu to come to see him and forcibly bring them back to Huining to prevent him from rebelling again. On the same day, a military meeting was held, and it was ordered that Huizhou should step up preparations for war, and that Zong Jingcheng should order martial law and defense, and prepare grain and grass to gather troops.

On August 20, Zhang Yue ordered Xue Wenqian to be the border defense envoy of Huizhou, Quan Daojin as the deputy envoy, and led the first regiment of the Zhenyuan Army, the sixth regiment of Zhang Zhixing and Gao Liren, and the second regiment of the horse army led by Jin Fu, the deputy head of the regiment, to build a pontoon bridge on the bank of the Yellow River outside the west gate of Huining City, and 3,000 soldiers crossed the river to deploy along the border.

It happened that on this day, Hou Zhang took his entourage into Beijing and passed by Huining, Zhang Yue deployed these emergency measures, and then wrote a chapter and handed it to Li Duoshou, the secretary in charge, and asked him to return to Beijing with Hou Zhang.

As soon as the affairs were handed over, Zhang Yue still couldn't be idle, and the Jingzhou government was in charge of Feng Qianhou, and there were often some reports sent for approval, or a copy of his approval, so that Zhang Yue could have an understanding.

Zhang Yue couldn't control the affairs over there, so he devoted himself to the development of gunpowder, and by the end of August, Le Pingyang and He Ju had transported a large number of raw materials such as sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal from Luoyang and Guanzhong. Zhang Yue was overjoyed, sent someone to receive it, summoned Yang Xuanli, and personally met the three in the gunpowder workshop.

"You two are very good, and you are a big and small deacon of the merchant house, and I have a big and private matter here, and I want to leave it to you to do, and all the money will be withdrawn from the merchant house. The business between Luoyang and Kanto can be presided over by Wen Dayou, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. ”

Zhang Yue said with a smile that he had learned a lesson from the matter of Qingtang Qiang's restoration of the country, if he had learned the news earlier, he would have been able to deal with it calmly, so that Qingtang Qiang could not succeed, but now that Tubo Zanpu is in power, it has formed a certain appeal, and it is too late to say anything.

"Although the lord has something to order, his subordinates dare not do their best to serve their lives!" Le Pingyang smiled, speaking of which he was Bian Ji's person, and he had nothing to do with Zhang Yue, but Zhang Yue was in a high position, and Bian Ji had become his relative and subordinate, of course he was willing to obey orders.

"I decided to establish an underground organization with an unofficial situation, whose function is to find out all kinds of intelligence information at home and abroad, named the Condor Hall, and has two institutions under its jurisdiction, one is the Military Intelligence Department and the other is the Pedestrian Department. The Military Intelligence Department is in charge of the preparation by Li Duoshou and Yang Xuanli, and the Pedestrian Division will be handed over to the two of you. Zhang Yue said with a serious face.

The three of them looked at each other, and Yang Xuanli wondered: "Isn't there a scout for spying on the military?" Isn't this duplication of functions? ”

"No overlap! Scouts are to collect military intelligence with the army in wartime, and the military intelligence department has been engaged in espionage activities for a long time, and there are five uses: the cause, the inside, the anti, the dead, and the living. Zhang Yue explained.

"According to the lord, this so-called Condor Hall only obeys the lord's orders, although we have a position, we still only report to the lord like we used to manage things in the business bank, right? What kind of information does the Pedestrian Division collect? Le Pingyang immediately realized and asked cautiously.

"That's right! That's it! The Military Intelligence Department only collects matters related to the military, while the Pedestrian Department spies and collects some trends in the administrative work of the courts, courts, local feudal towns, prefectures and counties of various countries in the world, as well as rivers and lakes, and folk customs. The information of the two divisions was summarized and reported to Mr. Feng, who was responsible for the overall planning. ”

"Then there are still a lot of people down there, if you are not loyal, you don't dare to use it." Le Pingyang is very alert and has already thought of some details.

"Whether the talent can be used or not, you can identify it yourself! One of you is from the rivers and lakes, and the other has followed me for a few years, so you don't need me to teach you how to employ people, right? Of course, there's a lot of tricks in there, so I'll write a strategic plan outline later, and you can just follow it. Zhang Yue said quite confidently that these were not new to him.

At the moment, I talked to the three of them about some general ideas, and that night I brewed a copy of the "Condor Hall Management System and Code Secret Book", which involves the use of various spies, internal layers of control, and the operation mode of the main and secondary branches or single and double lines, etc., and attached the code secret book, so that several people can copy a copy and apply it.

Zhang Yue then continued to develop gunpowder, grinding charcoal into powder and mixing sulfur and saltpeter in proportion, which was black powder. It can be used as guns, bullets, ******, mines, bombs, etc., and the explosive performance is not very good, but it is still barely usable for mining and road repair. Yellow explosive trinitrotoluene needs to be ********, this is a bit difficult to refine, and the current black powder is enough.

But how to use it is worth paying attention to, it is very difficult to keep it secret, once it spreads, the court will definitely ask for the formula, if it is carefully poached by the Liao State, it will be a disaster, so Zhang Yue only intends to apply it to mining for the time being, and the military will talk about it later.

Under his personal teaching, the craftsmen quickly mastered the technology, and the assembly line was separated by grinding, and the finished products were mastered by two craftsmen, and then handed over to the craftsmen to make paper cylinder explosives bags like super fireworks cannons. This is not **** at first, because mercury thunderate can not be refined in a while, and Zhang Yue is still experimenting.

In order to test the detonation performance of explosives, Zhang Yue found Zong Jingcheng, specially ran to Huining Pass, found a rock wall, and asked the stonemason to make a deep hole from the cracked place on the cliff face, and then put it into the explosive bag to leave a lead, seal the hole, and leave a small air inlet hole, because the moment of explosion, a large amount of oxygen needs to be involved.

Zhang Yue personally instructed the craftsmen to complete a series of preparations, and then pulled out the lead and lit it himself, and ran away two miles away with the craftsmen, when there was a muffled sound behind him, and then there was no movement.

After waiting for a while, Zhang Yue led the craftsmen to come forward to inspect, and saw that the cliff stone was blown out of two or three cracks, but the entire cliff face did not burst, which was the reason why there was no pipe and the amount of gunpowder was not enough.

"In the future, you will have to personally supervise the use of this thing, and no one shall use it without your approval. Now this is almost the case, and you can pull it out to the iron ore for mining, but every time it is blasted, you can only assign a special officer and soldier to take a few craftsmen there. ”

Zhang Yue carefully instructed again, explained the matter, returned to the workshop to complete the development and assembly of the ****, and then set off from the military city to Guangxiang Fort back to Jingzhou. (To be continued.) )