The army marched all the way north, marching thirty miles in one morning, resting and having lunch at noon by a forest, and at the current pace of marching, it would take two days to reach the vicinity of Yanghu.

Each soldier carried two days' worth of dry food, and after eating the dry food, he just rushed to Yanghu, which had been calculated a long time ago, but in order to cope with the sudden invitation, the baggage troops also carried a day's food to prepare for emergencies.

After eating lunch and resting for half an hour, Xiao Zhenlei looked at his pocket watch and was about to order the army to continue to advance, at this time Zhou Chuandong brought over a person, this person was sent by Wang Yaqiao to report the situation, fortunately today is after Zhou Chuandong led the third battalion to break down, otherwise this person is afraid that it will not be easy to see Xiao Zhenlei.

"Secretary-General, my name is Niu Qingming, I am the assistant to Section Chief Wang, this is the letter that Section Chief Wang asked me to bring to you" This person is wearing a smart short suit, leading a horse, his expression is a little haggard, thinking that he must be tired and tired from running around this way and can't take a break. The reason why Wang Yaqiao is called Section Chief Wang is because the special task force in charge of Wang Yaqiao has been officially renamed the Iron and Blood Action Section of the Administration Department of the Iron and Blood National Salvation Society a few months ago, and Wang Yaqiao has assumed the post of section chief.

Xiao Zhenlei took the letter and didn't immediately open it, but asked, "Assistant Niu, when did you set off?" ”

Niu Qingming said: "I set off after lunch at noon yesterday, and when I arrived in Zhoujia Town this morning, I heard from the people in the town that you had gone north, so I chased after you non-stop!" ”

Which one is stronger to read novels on mobile phones? Xiao Zhenlei nodded, called to the orderly pony not far away and ordered: "This is a calf, you take him to eat something and drink some water." Take a break! ”

"Yes, Captain!" The pony agreed. Hurriedly said to Niu Qingming: "Brother Niu, follow me." Please! ”

After the two left, Xiao Zhenlei opened the letter and read it, Wang Yaqiao said in the letter that from three days, Cai Naihuang sent people to openly recruit troops in the Chinese realm, it is said that this time to recruit 3,000 people, according to speculation, Cai Naihuang is likely to be worried about the lack of troops to garrison Shanghai Beach, after all, there are only three battalions now, but it may also be because he is worried that Xiao Zhenlei will use this crackdown on bandits to recruit bandits to expand their strength. Therefore, they wanted to recruit enough troops, on the one hand, to garrison Shanghai Beach and surrounding counties and towns, and on the other hand, to restrain Xiao Zhenlei.

Wang Yaqiao also said in the letter that he had sent people to pretend to be peasants to go to the recruitment office set up by Cai Naihuang to join the army, and had mixed in with Cai Naihuang's recruits, but the people he sent had only received spy training, not formal military training, and he was afraid that he would not be good at leading troops.

Xiao Zhenlei understood Wang Yaqiao's idea when he saw this, and he very much appreciated and agreed with Wang Yaqiao's idea, that is, to send some formally trained military personnel to pretend to go to the recruitment office to join the army and blend in with the recruits. In the future training, he gradually showed that he was extraordinary, mixed with an official position, and they provided some financial support to buy off Shangguan to find a good position, and it was best to be a chief official. Either the platoon commander or the company commander is better, and then vigorously envelop the soldiers under him after taking office. In the future, if you have the opportunity, of course, you can be promoted to a higher position, and when the time comes, you can do it. Let Cai Naihuang help them train the army, and he doesn't have to spend a penny. This is tantamount to letting the mother dog help feed the lion baby, and when the time comes, Cai Naihuang will make wedding clothes for them, this kind of business is really wanted, it can be said to be a million profits.

Xiao Zhenlei immediately brought Chen Jizu, Wu Shiyou and others over, and asked them to find a few people from their respective teams who were both shrewd, military-skilled, and very loyal.

Xiao Zhenlei asked Chen Jizu and the others to leave, and he met with these eight people alone, two of these eight people were squad leaders, two were deputy squad leaders, and four were deputy platoon leaders.

"Stand upright, salute, good sir!" Seeing Xiao Zhenlei coming over, the eldest deputy platoon commander among the eight immediately shouted loudly, and immediately stood up and saluted, and the others quickly stood in a row with him and saluted.

Xiao Zhenlei walked up to them and changed his salute, and said, "Take a break!" These eight of you have been carefully selected by me from among the more than 1,000 people in the whole standard, and I have called you here today to give you a glorious and arduous task! ”

Everyone said in unison: "Please give the order of the chief, and the subordinates will wait to complete the task!" ”

"No hurry!" Xiao Zhenlei waved his hand and asked, "Do you know the person Cai Naihuang of Shanghai Daotai?" ”

One of them raised his hand, and after getting permission to speak, he said: "Report to the chief, I have heard that Cai Naihuang was a person before he became an official, and I heard that he became a Taoist by settling with Yuan Shikai, this person's ability is there, but after all, he is the minions of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and Yuan Shikai's loyal dog!" ”

"Not bad!" Xiao Zhenlei nodded and affirmed what the deputy platoon commander said, and said: "A few days ago, Jiang Guodong's two battalions were raided by horse bandits led by Zeng Qinglin, and suffered heavy losses, and he himself was killed, and less than 200 people could escape back, so the garrison force in Shanghai is insufficient now, and Zeng Qinglin has no one to control it, so Cai Naihuang asked me to lead the troops to encircle and suppress Zeng Qinglin, and he recruited troops in Shanghai on the one hand, on the one hand, to strengthen the local garrison, on the other hand, I am worried that we will not lose our strength after we grow. Therefore, I want to recruit more soldiers and horses to restrain us, I understand his approach, if it were me, I would do the same, but we are not all the way with him after all, he is the loyal dog of the Qing court, and what we have to deal with is the Qing court, so we and him are destined to be enemies, so we want to sabotage his plan, I plan to send the eight of you to the recruitment office he set up to join the army, and mix in the recruits he recruited, at first you don't want to be found out that you are originally soldiers, and after a few days of formal training, you can gradually show your differences, Keep a distance from other recruits, so that you can be valued by the officials who train you, and you will have the opportunity to serve as a shed or platoon officer in the recruits, and after you do the shed or platoon officer, on the one hand, you must vigorously encircle the soldiers under you, and find a way to follow you wholeheartedly, on the other hand, you must tie up the officials, as long as you have the opportunity, you must strive to climb up and control more troops, get more power, if you need money or other support in the process, we will find a way to help you help you, After that, someone will take the initiative to contact you, your task is to take good soldiers, and keep them firmly in your hands, without instructions, you must not reveal your identity, and when the time is ripe, there will be orders for you to do something, you must obey it, and wait for the time to return, you have all understood? ”

"Yes, sir, we see!" The eight agreed in unison.

Xiao Zhenlei nodded, and said: "Okay, remember your mission, after you infiltrate Cai Naihuang's military camp, someone will definitely check your identity, but don't worry, someone will solve this trouble for you, you now leave all the things on your body, including the military uniforms of the escort team, here are eight sets of ordinary people's clothes for you to change into, and someone will take you away to Shanghai Beach to meet a person who called a car to go straight, and after seeing him, all of them obeyed his arrangement, I don't want to see you guys returned for not being qualified! ”

"Yes, sir!" The eight agreed in unison and began to change their clothes.

Originally, according to the principle of sending spies, these eight people could not be allowed to look at each other, because once one of these eight people was identified by Cai Naihuang's people, it was very likely that the other seven people would be dug out together, but if you think about it carefully, these eight people have not received real spy training, and their task is not to spy on intelligence, but to find a way to become an officer in Cai Naihuang's army, control the army, find a way to climb up, so as to control more troops, as long as they are not engaged in intelligence gathering, It should not be discovered by anyone, but let them count each other, they can also help each other in Cai Naihuang's army, and they can support each other at a critical time.

In fact, like this kind of thing of sending undercover agents to the Qing court army, Xiao Zhenlei had a long talk with Wang Yaqiao before coming to suppress the bandits, and both of them had this idea, and now the problem is that it can no longer be limited to Shanghai Tang, but to look at the whole country, and to penetrate into the army of every province in the country, so as to achieve the purpose of monitoring and controlling the local army, even if you can't control the local army, you must be able to keep abreast of the movements of the local army in each province. If you can control the army is the best, to achieve this goal, there are two ways to do, the first is to send their own side of the military, military literacy to go, start with recruits, and then find a way to gradually climb up, in addition to the six towns of Beiyang, now many of the new troops in the provinces have just begun to train, there are many opportunities, if there are acquaintances to introduce or have backstage support is the best, as soon as you go in, you can be an officer, of course, this situation is very rare after all, The other is to send people to rebel against the officers or generals who hold military power, so as to achieve the goal of indirectly controlling the local army, which requires the rebels to have superior intelligence and strong ability to adapt to changes.

Now that this idea has been put into practice, before that, Xiao Zhenlei and Wang Yaqiao jointly formulated a plan, which is to send people into the new army in the provinces to control the military power of the local army, which is called the "Heavenly Divine Soldiers" plan. Except for Xiao Zhenlei and Wang Yaqiao, no one else knows how many people are involved in this plan, how many undercover agents have been dispatched, and where these people are now. (To be continued......) R1292