Outside the east gate of Dengzhou, it is now a prosperous settlement, a large number of troops and tun households in Dengzhou have brought a steady consumption, as a commercial place that radiates the entire Denglai, businessmen see the business opportunities here, many merchants in the south of the Yangtze River buy houses in Dengzhou, all kinds of shops are lined up one after another, similar to many cities in the Ming Dynasty at this time, and streets have also been formed outside the city. *.com*

Today it was a different story, with the streets crowded with people, throwing stones and clods of earth into the middle of the road, and in the middle walked many bare-headed people, all of whom were prisoners of Jiannu in the Battle of Lushun, and those with hair were Mongols.

There was a lot of shouting and scolding on the street, and after the news of Lushun's victory came, Dengzhou was jubilant, and many tun households spontaneously set off firecrackers. The routine procession of captives was even more exciting for the common people, who were able to express their sense of justice and not be in danger.

With the march of the captives, the crowd poured into a spacious street, and the street was tightly embraced, this street is usually called Lao Ye Street, because many of the houses on the street are owned by the officials of Dengzhou Town, because of the strong purchasing power, so there are many small stalls and vendors, but as soon as the captive marchers arrived, the vendors were afraid that the crowd would collapse the stalls or loot, so they quickly put away and hid in the alley.

When the crowd was gone, the streets were in shambles, littered with discarded clods of vegetable leaves. Hawkers on the streets came out of the alleys and set up their stalls again. Some of the hawkers were scolding, and although they were dissatisfied with the people who were marching, the hawkers were still talking excitedly, all talking about Lushun, and some were bragging to each other about how many oilfruits they had just hit. Several of the hawkers were talking and looking at the gate opposite and the alley on the side, and the gate on the opposite side had two big characters written on it.

A beggar came slowly from a distance, begging all the way, and finally reached the door of the house opposite, and the beggar stood in front of the porter for a moment. Spread a broken porcelain bowl full of gaps and asked the porter for food, the porter scolded twice, but the beggar did not go away, put down the bowl and hit the bamboo board and sang the lotus fall.

The porter rummaged in disgust for a while, and threw out half a multigrain cake. The beggar quickly picked it up, nodded his head in thanks, and limped forward.

There are also a lot of beggars in Dengzhou, and some of them are unwilling to enter Tunbao, so they live in Dengzhou City. Some of them are doing some evil things with Qingpi, but they don't dare to go to the territory of Dengzhou Town, there are imperial court institutions in Dengzhou, but it is better to mix than in the countryside, so there are many beggars near Dengzhou.

A pair of eyes on the other side quickly swept over the beggar. He turned back to chat with the other vendors, his eyes wandering through the crowd between talking and laughing, and he didn't notice anything unusual.

The beggar was slowly moving away, and the vendor pretended to be talking and laughing, and whispered to one of the people next to him, "How many beggars came yesterday?" ”

"Three, none of them were fed, but ...... No accomplices of his accomplices were found around. Do you want to go and have a look? ”

The peddler took the opportunity to observe the beggar for a moment, then turned back to the man next to him: "This beggar may have a problem, although he has a stiff back, but his legs and feet are strong when he walks. The lower plate is stable, not like a lack of food and drink, so that the second group follows the beggar. ”

The hawker then went to the other vendors and had a lively discussion about the Battle of Arthur. The person who was instructed pretended to be sorting out the goods, and made a few brief gestures as he picked them up. Twenty paces diagonally opposite, a farmer who had bought salted fish immediately got up and followed the beggar. The herald observed the other people passing by on the road, especially whether there were any nearby farmers who got up and followed the farmers, and did not notice anything abnormal, until the farmers were about to disappear into the crowd, and the heralds did not clean up again, and another persimmon seller got up and rushed to the front with his burden.

The two of them followed one after the other unhurriedly. Both of them were dark-skinned, dressed in ordinary coarse cloth clothes, and walked very steadily with their burdens, and their shoulders were slightly hunched, just like those skilled peasants, who did not have any characteristics in their appearance, and they were not recognizable at all when thrown into the tunhu.

The beggar walked very slowly, begging all the way, and whenever he begged at the door, he took the opportunity to turn around and look, although his movements were very hidden, and in the eyes of the two spies, it was even more unusual. The spies did not stop, and continued on their way to the previous one, waiting in the street ahead of them. When the beggar passed, alternate the positions between the two.

When he walked halfway to the Chunsheng Gate, the beggar suddenly turned around, his face was black, and he looked at the pedestrian's face stupidly, and the fruit farmer who followed him for more than ten steps did not panic, but made a look of disgust, and took a few steps to the side, and the reaction was very appropriate, and several pedestrians around him almost reacted in this way, the beggar did not suspect, and immediately pretended to have lost something, looked east and west on the ground, and then grabbed his head and continued in the original direction.

The moment the beggar turned around, the fish vendor further behind did not pay attention to the beggar at all, but quickly observed in the surrounding crowd.

A tea merchant in the teahouse on the north side of the street caught the eye of the fruit farmer, who noticed that the man's gaze was twenty paces behind the beggar, and his eyes scanned the passer-by. The cold light flashed in the eyes of the fruit farmer, and he quickly regained his expression, and walked naturally with his burden.

This discovery made him a little excited, and the person who had cover showed that the beggar did have a problem, and it could be deduced that the deputy director of the business department in the house had a problem, and maybe it was the person they were looking for. This task was personally grasped by Zhou Shifa, and the nerves of the whole situation collapsed. The middle-level intelligence officers all know the reason, and the lower-level ones only know their own tasks, but the orders from above are very clear, keep an eye on the target, and if there is a mistake or omission, it will be dealt with according to the strictest military law.

The intelligence bureau spends 200,000 taels a year, enough to support an army of 10,000, which is also more than Liu Min's education funds. Although the Intelligence Bureau has made a lot of contributions to Chen Xin, most of them are unsightly, so there are very few things that can be said, if something goes wrong, it will be used to make a big fuss, Zhou Shifa has a strong personality, which is absolutely unacceptable to him, so Dengzhou's counter-espionage has always been the signboard of the Intelligence Bureau, and it has always done a good job, this time there is such a big mole. Can be counted as an omission on the part of the Intelligence Agency.

Therefore, the top and bottom are very tight, and the reward is also high. Because this operation is against internal thieves, the goal is not clear. In addition to Qin Ronggang's absence in Linqing, even Wu Jianzhong was transferred back from Qingzhou Mansion, and Zhang Dong, who returned to Dengzhou, was also ordered not to rest and immediately devoted himself to the operation of catching spies.

The fake news was released one after another by Liu Minyou's civil affairs meeting, which lasted for five days. Hundreds of people are dispatched every day, a lot of intelligence is collected, and countless people are tracked, but there is no useful information to this day, but today's discovery is enough to determine Chen Jingdan's suspicion. Casting a wide net can become a key point of defense, which can save a lot of manpower.

The beggar walked and stopped, still begging from house to house, taking the opportunity of begging to stop and look around. He stopped again in front of a house, nodding and begging, and the seller of dried salted fish was following him, and the beggar had apparently noticed him. Because the beggar saw him at least twice, the dried fish vendor passed by directly, and when he walked behind the beggar, he felt the beggar turn his head slightly. Keeping an eye on his movements, the vendor went straight south into an alley, and the beggar breathed a sigh of relief, this time not insisting on getting something. Continue to walk forward amid the shouting and scolding of the family.

The peddler walked into the alley and lowered his pick, and lifted the dried fish off it. Grabbing a dustpan, his bamboo basket was covered with two layers, and the bottom was hollow, with fine clothes, he quickly tore off his turban and changed his clothes, and his belt sachet turned into a well-dressed merchant in a blink of an eye. He didn't even look at the bamboo basket, he recognized the direction, dropped the dried fish and left, ran wildly in the alley, estimated to the front, and walked to an alley to stop, a moment later the beggar's figure passed by the front alley, the peddler adjusted his breathing, changed his walking posture, slowly walked out of the alley, and followed the beggar again.

When the other peddler saw this, he immediately turned into the alley, and after a while he turned into a porter, and all that remained was a pole. Modified with simple clothing, is commonly used in tracking and counter-tracking, intelligence agency spies often have to train, seemingly simple, but in the intricate streets, but can play a great role, the enemy's observation on the street often does not focus on the five senses, easy to form an impression of body shape, clothing, hats, luggage, walking posture. It is only necessary to modify these items in a simple and targeted manner, try to use the most common way, and do not have obvious features, so that it will be difficult for the enemy to identify them.

The two alternately covered and followed until the Chunsheng Gate, the beggar suddenly changed direction several times halfway, the two spies were experienced and did not show their stuffing, but they still appeared twice in front of the beggar, and if they continued to follow, they might arouse the alarm of the other party.

The gate of Chunsheng City is slightly crowded, and there are many people entering the city in the market of the dense bridge today. According to the direction in which the beggar walked, the merchant predicted that the other party was going to enter the city, and he accelerated his pace and squeezed to the front, and entered the city in front of the beggar, and there were several tooth shops in the place where he entered the city, and the merchant came to one of the tooth shops and talked with each other affectionately.

"Brother Peng is free at night? Xicheng Mianchun Building has a new red man today, I heard that ......" the merchant smiled and leaned over, "beggars, black clothes, short sticks, important things, staring to death." ”

The tooth smiled lewdly, "Then I will go with you, and I will find you later." ”

The merchant bowed his hand and walked away, heading straight north, a few tooth rows laughing and talking, until the beggar came into view.

At this time, there was a mobile team of the intelligence bureau at each of the four gates of Dengzhou, and there were also mobile teams on standby in the bell tower and grass bridge in the city, all for this operation. The Intelligence Bureau took over at the city gates, and the porter in the back pointed out the man who was covering, and several men in different costumes took turns following the beggar and the tea guest.

The beggar, though he didn't notice anyone, seemed to sense something inappropriate. He seemed very careful, after crossing the Mifen Bridge, the beggar first walked one street to the north, then walked one street to the west, and then turned around and crossed the Bell Tower Avenue to the south.

The captain of the mobile team in charge of scheduling is even more nervous, he has to constantly judge the actual intentions of the beggars and tea customers according to the situation, and then mobilize the people of the other groups to arrive at the relay position in advance. The target is very cautious, and the route taken is likely to be an illusion, changing direction at any time, and if the manpower is not properly mobilized, it may cause old faces to appear again and again, and then be discovered by the other party.

As the beggar wandered around the city without a goal, the captain's brain cells were drastically depleted, and many groups were empty, but the number of groups that gathered for reinforcements was also increasing.

The elite of the intelligence bureau are all concentrated on a beggar in Dengzhou City, although it is not clear who this beggar is, but everyone is sure that there must be something wrong with this beggar who has no goal, otherwise there would not be such a meaningless consumption of the beggar.

The beggar turned around, and finally came to the vicinity of Chaotianmen in Nancheng, there were not many people on this street, in order not to be so conspicuous, many tracking groups could only distance themselves, and the beggar walked slowly on the street. There is a group of people in front and behind him, each group is two, the captain of the mobile team has shown excellent skills, he has a lot of treasures about the streets of Dengzhou City, according to the direction of this beggar, it is estimated that this beggar will come here, because this street has a lot of courtyard walls on the side of the road, there are not so many pavements, and there are few pedestrians on the road, which is the most suitable for observing whether it is being followed.

Of course, he didn't notice the group in front of him, and his energy was focused on the behind, and the two new people on the road were obviously paying attention to the arrival of the beggar. A group of people who followed behind quickly spotted the two covering men, and immediately abandoned the target, and walked past the beggar while chatting.

A senior spy in the back slowly followed, but the distance was still far away, and there was no flaw in sight, and the beggar seemed to relax, gasping for breath and resting for a while, and walked dozens of steps south, on the way the two people covering followed him, and then the beggar suddenly turned west into an alley, and the two people in cover also followed, one of them blocked the alley, keeping an eye on the pedestrians on the street behind.

The senior spy who had just followed complained bitterly, there was only this one alley near here, and the group in front of him had to go fifty or sixty steps away from the next alley, and they couldn't speed up to chase after him under the gaze of that person. The beggar had gained time by this alley, and to the west was another street, and there was also an alley there, and if the beggar had escaped the tracking during this time and continued to walk the alley, he would probably have escaped from the tracking.

A member of the team behind him suddenly shouted, "That guy, pay back the money." ”

The senior spy breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and shouted angrily: "Fuck off, you slept with Lao Tzu's concubine a long time ago." ”

The two quickly rushed together and fought, the people around them watched the excitement, and the eyes of the person at the entrance of the alley were also attracted, and in his other direction, the two spies who began to walk in front of the group were running wildly towards the next alley.

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