When he was worried, Bi Zilun took the initiative to find Liu Kezhuang, the two were originally far apart in knowledge and opinions, but they were both guests who had just arrived under Zheng Yunming's tent, and they always had to say a few words of greeting.

Here, Wei Liaoweng said to Zheng Yunming: "The students nominated on the same list as you, on the contrary, you were the first to make contributions, a double master, a tiger in the door, and the Duke of Qing will definitely be proud of you."

While the two were talking, an officer and soldier suddenly reported outside the door: "There is a young woman who asks to see Chief Zheng." ”

Wei Liaoweng, Liu Kezhuang and Bi Zilun all cast strange glances at Zheng Yunming. Zheng Yunming's face turned red, the gentleman was respectful, and it was inevitable that the young woman and the young official had anything to do with it.

Of course, he knew who the Tao came from, and he also knew that the intention of the person who came from the Tao had absolutely nothing to do with Peach.

Walking out of the cabin to the bow of the boat, I saw that in the middle of winter, a fair girl led a white horse to stand under a locust tree, and her delicate figure was like a snow lotus blooming in the harsh winter.

Zheng Yunming jumped off the boat and went straight to the locust tree.

The fast horse galloped over, and the lady of the Lai family, who was only half a day behind Zheng Yunming, was already panting for breath at this time, and she didn't care about the girl's posture at all.

The white horse trembled uncontrollably, and the Han water dripped down the long hair, fell to the ground and bloomed into petals.

This person must have come from Xiangyang in the starry night, and if it wasn't for something big, it would never have been like this.

Sure enough, the lady of the Lai family only said one sentence while breathing:

"The jackal has moved!"

Shi Wenhu leaned his back against the city wall and gasped for breath. The blood dripping from the wound on his right arm stained his shirt red.

He held his sword in his hand and stared intently at the enemies who surrounded him.

Six men dressed as ordinary people, each with their blades, stood in a semi-circle of encirclement, and slowly approached him.

Shi Wenhu knew two of them, that was the detailed work under the account of Wanyan Puchanu, the deputy marshal of the late Jin State, and when the Song and Jin clashed in previous years, they also went south to spy on the military aircraft and had a face-to-face with Shi Wenhu. Now that the Kingdom of Jin has been destroyed and Puchanu has died in battle, he thinks that he has turned around and cast himself at the door of the Mongols, still acting as a spy to the south.

Although the rest of the people have never met, they also know that they are not the people of Xiangfan, but spies from the north.

These Mongol works have been arrogant to the point of openly besieging Shi Wenhu in the daytime.

Since the jackal entered Xiangyang City, the hidden battlefield in Xiangyang City has undergone great changes.

First of all, the goals of the Mongolian spies have changed from chaotic to clear, and before the jackal entered Xiangyang City, the Mongolian spies were concerned about almost everything. Some people are responsible for exploring the Song army's garrison and number, and some are responsible for inspecting the Song army's grain reserves and property collections. Some people are specifically watching the whereabouts of local officials, some are responsible for contacting the Northern Army soldiers in the Song army who are dissatisfied with the imperial court, and some people even record the types and prices of daily necessities in Xiangyang Market!

This is the bad rules of the Jin State spy system in previous years, the Jin people started from Baishan and Heishui, and after entering the Central Plains, their spy network was probably established according to the system of the old Song Dynasty. In the form of a war in which the two sides are deep and strong, and the cities are opposed, the more detailed the various information collected from the other side, the more conducive it is for the general to make a detailed offensive and defensive plan.

But for the Mongolian iron horsemen who came and went like the wind, this set was out of place and inefficient.

After the jackal presided over the spy affairs in Xiangyang, he ordered the Mongol spies to concentrate their efforts on three things.

First, it was necessary to conduct a detailed survey of the terrain of Jingxiang and locate the strength, stationing location, and movement rules of the Song army in the Jinghu area.

This was to point out the attack route and key targets for the large force of cavalry that had invaded the Jinghu area. With the support of the jackal's intelligence, Tath's main army easily bypassed the strongly defended Xiangyang City and led him to Shatou City, where Zheng Yunming was stationed. All these actions were stirred by the invisible hand of the jackal, but he did not calculate that the son of the eunuch he despised at the beginning would hinder the movement of the army in both directions.

Secondly, the jackal ordered to focus on collecting information on where the Jinghu area was rich, where grain was hoarded, and where there were herds of cattle and sheep, and the first thing the Mongol army was to fight economic warfare, and from Mobei, they focused not only on destroying the enemy's army but also on plundering the enemy's economic base. Cattle and sheep, women and children, gold and silver, and cloth, all things of value were to be plundered. In this way, the Mongol army became stronger and stronger, and the enemy was not only weak but also demoralized.

And the basis of the plunder is to fully grasp the details of the other party's wealth. This invasion of the army severely damaged the farms and fields on the outskirts of Jinghu, the hope of the Song army for the autumn harvest was dashed, and even the treasury collection was looted by the Mongol army. Naturally, there is a part of the jackal behind this.

But Jackal's ambitions didn't stop there, he focused his work on inciting the Northern Army to rebel.

The discord between the northern and southern armies in the Gyeongho area is a fact that everyone in the country is clear to everyone in the Gyeongho area. After the defeat of the Jin Kingdom, hundreds of thousands of refugees from the north poured into the south, including large and small generals and their troops who surrendered to the Song Dynasty.

More than half of the 45 armies in Jinghu were composed of troops from the north.

Whether it is the Son of Heaven, the court officials or the local people, no one really believes in these generals from the north. Of course, they had the right to be vigilant, and these so-called northern armies were the local Hao armies that emerged after the Mongol invasion of the Jin Kingdom. There was no word of loyalty in their eyes, and the Song army was eager to attack them, so they surrendered to the Song Dynasty. The Mongol cavalry was approaching, and they became the forerunners of the Great Khan. When Jin Guo freed up his hand to deal with them, they became the hardcore loyal servants of the Jurchens in the blink of an eye.

The so-called three-surname house slaves, no matter what era they are in, will not be really looked up to by the world. It doesn't matter if they are the victors who have taken refuge in the last place.

But there are still people who need them.

It was the generals of Jinghu who accepted these lost dogs with all their might.

Needless to say, Hebei and Shandong were one of the important sources of soldiers for the Central Plains regime. Yan Zhao Qilu's athletes are tall, united and obedient, and have always been a source of core combat effectiveness of the empire since the Qin and Han dynasties. The children of Jiangnan are cowardly and sleek, tending to be utilitarian and less courageous, and the generals are more willing to use northerners to fight than them.

Among them, the most active in fighting for these northern military horses, the first one was Zhao Fan, the ambassador of Jinghu pacification, who always had a great strategy in his heart and took the restoration of his ancestors as his own responsibility. These tens of thousands of northern troops are the capital of his northward advance, how can he not be careless to protect them?

The second is Wang Min, the commander of Jing'e and Hubei, who himself and Jianghuai are in charge of Jianghai, Meng Heng, the official of the guard Ma Junsi, Li Hu, the commander of Zhenjiang, and Liu Hu, the commander of the Yangtze River, are all in competition, and the more military horses, the heavier his weight in the heart of the imperial court.

Wang Min can't be blamed for this kind of entrapment policy, even Meng Hui, who is loyal and majestic and the first in Jinghu, also sent people to bribe the generals of the Northern Army with 100,000 yuan and 100 acres of fertile land in Jinghu, so that they can serve under their own accounts.

The question is how to complete the integration of the northern and southern armies after taking these proud soldiers under their own accounts, and integrate the two armies that are suspicious of each other into a powerful fist.

Zhao Fan and Wang Min did not make any efforts in this regard, but only rewarded the generals of the Northern Army with wine and meat every day. And this can only aggravate the suspicion in the hearts of the officers and men of the Northern Army and the further dissatisfaction of the already disgruntled Southern Army day by day.

This gives the jackal the opportunity to operate from it.

He doesn't even need to really do anything. The differences in the living habits of the north and the south, the huge sense of instability in the northern army, and the complaints of the southern army that they felt that they were being treated differently by their superiors intensified the internal contradictions of the Jinghu army all the time.

You only need to do a little thing inadvertently, and it will be enough to ignite this huge powder keg that has been cultivated.

For example, the tea shop owner refused to allow northerners to come in to drink tea, or deliberately splashed feces at the gate of the Southern Army. Any small detail of life will slowly widen and become a chasm that pits the two armies against each other.

Of course, in this process, he also has to deal with the obstruction of spies under the Jinghu generals and spontaneous patriots from Jianghu heroes such as the Lai family.

For example, he once sent people to assassinate the little lady of the Lai family five times, but the lady of the Lai family herself is excellent in martial arts, and she is in and out of the yamen, the head of Zhiyingtian, who is heavily guarded, is of course not easy to succeed.

The jackal's solution is to take a two-pronged approach, light a fire elsewhere, let the spies and Jianghu people in the south rush to go, and by the way, set some traps and wait for them to take the bait. It was in casual conversation that the efforts of the underground organization of the Song Dynasty were resolved.

Today alone, Mongolian altars are setting fires in three different places. Shi Wenhu followed them to this armory in the west of the city, and was about to start to stop them from continuing to commit crimes, when they were suddenly ambushed by the other party's heavy troops. Despite several fights, he finally did not escape the encirclement of the jackal's men.

He raised his sword and posed, and said proudly: "The rats who work for the Tartars, will they only rely on numbers to win?" Come on! Let you see the power of the wind knife technique! ”

The six people on the opposite side each raised their swords and stepped forward, intending to quickly eliminate this southerner with extraordinary martial arts.

Suddenly, one of them took a few steps forward and fell to the ground.

He clearly had a broken arrow stuck in his heart.

The Mongolian spies were not flustered, the two continued to face Shi Wenhu and maintained a confrontation, and when the other three turned to look, not far from the mouth of the alley, a young man with arrow sleeves and a scarf held a crossbow in his left hand, and slowly approached with a sword in his right hand, and said coldly: "Six people besieging one person, isn't it too embarrassing to the master?" ”