The dishes have a unique flavor, and the news that Ning Shijun brought back is even more gratifying, and the taste of the wine is even better. When the meal is eaten, it is time to go home.

Long Qian and Ning Shijun returned to the courtyard where they lived, ready to talk about the reception of the two states again. Xiao Xue was still waiting for him and saw him come back. Said hello and went to boil the footwater. Long Qian said leave me alone, you go to rest, turned around and went to the confinement room at the head of the south room, a few rays of light came out of the small window, this room was originally a firewood room, the window was small and high, standing outside, Rao is Long Qian's height could not see the scene in the house clearly.

"Who's locked up?" Ning Shijun asked in a low voice.

"Open the door." Long Qian said to the guard.

The door is locked from the outside, as is the rule in the confinement room. The guard pulled out the key and unlocked it. Long Qian said to the guard, "His confinement is over, your post has been revoked, go back and rest." ”

The guard saluted Long Qian and Ning Shijun, turned around and left.

Long Qian pushed open the door and saw Jiang Yun standing in front of the table, "It's so late, what are you doing without sleeping?" ”

Seeing that it was Long Qian, Jiang Yun straightened up, "Report to the commander, I'm making up the password." Then he saw Ning Shijun behind Long Qian, "Ah, the chief of staff is back?" ”

Ning Shijun didn't expect that it was Jiang Yun who was confined, so he didn't say anything and smiled at Jiang Yun.

Long Qian didn't say anything, walked to the bed made of wooden planks and sat down, "I've locked you up for the past few days, have you figured it out?" ”

"Figured it out."

"Figured out what?"

"You can't make a big deal of catching ghosts, my method is not good."

"That's all?"

"And it's not good for the conversion of captives__"

"What else?"

"It's gone."

"Looks like I'm going to leave you alone for two days. Jiang Yun. You're already my highest intelligence director, and I'm going to ask a few more questions about whether it's appropriate or not. The reason why I am upset is that what you do is sowing the seeds of mistrust among the senior officers of the unit. The army is growing, and there must be a healthy environment where everyone is at risk, and the damage is worse than one or two internal demons lurking inside. ”

"I see."

"Those who engage in intelligence should suspect that everything is not a mistake, but they must calm down. The people who revealed my whereabouts were not necessarily people from the army. Got it? ”

In fact, Jiang Yun had already thought of this, otherwise he would not have started around Zhengjiazhuang.

"Alright. Your confinement is over. The sentry has been evacuated. You can go back to your room and rest. Long Qian looked at the confinement room, a bed made of wooden planks, a lame table, and a pair of chopsticks on the table. And then there's an oil lamp. "You said you were making up a password. Show me? ”

Jiang Yun brought over a few pieces of straw paper.

"That's your password?"

"I don't have a book, and I can't remember some of them."

Long Qian once taught Jiang Yun a simple password making method: take a book and base it on the page number, the number of lines, and the number of words on the book. Make up a group of four numbers, and follow the numbers to find the word it represents. Of course, there is also the idea of making up a key, pre-designed multiple, triple or quadruple, to add a layer of insurance to the password.

"What book are you going to use as a base book?"

"Three Hundred Tang Poems" and "Ancient Texts"

"What do you think of yourself?"

"Well, I think the average reader has these two books."

"The book selection is good. But have you thought about it, if your password falls into the hands of the enemy, he will not be able to unlock it, but at a glance he can see that it is the password. You have to pry open your intelligence officer's mouth. I'm not quite convinced that your intelligence agent can keep a secret under torture, or at least he'll find out who is passing the information to whom. You can't use a dead mailbox, people will stay there to fish, and your people will be caught. The line you run is exposed. ”

Jiang Yun pondered.

This kind of password is generally used for wireless transmission. Now our technical conditions are not up to standard. Therefore, it is necessary to learn to use methods such as compiling family letters to compile the information to be transmitted. This requires you to find a few people with high education to do it. This is the most important way to transmit MeSign at this stage. With this, you can achieve secrecy from the sender. Therefore, you kid must read a few books well, and learn how to write articles from the chief of staff when you have time. ”

"Yes."

Ning Shijun didn't understand the conversation between Long Qian and Jiang Yun, it was certain that this was one of the top secrets of the Mengshan Army, and Long Qian didn't intend to hide it from himself.

"Have you decided on the plan for the preparation of the intelligence department?"

Jiang Yun took out a piece of paper from under the straw mat that was used as a mattress. Long Qian took it and held it in his arms, "The chief of staff is going to Yizhou soon, I originally wanted Wang Mingyuan to go with him." After thinking about it, it's better for you to go. So end your confinement early. Now come with me, let's work together on the problem of the trip to Yizhou. ”

Three days later, Ning Shijun stood at Li Chun's headquarters with Long Qian's handwritten letter, getting rid of Li Chun, and Tang Shaoyi, the prefect of Yizhou.

Li Chun didn't want to hand over Yizhou to the Mengshan Army so easily. After reading Long Qian's handwritten letter brought by Ning Shijun, Li Chun said coldly, "The imperial court ordered our department to withdraw from Yizhou, but it did not say when it would withdraw from Yizhou. When we are ready to stop, we will naturally withdraw. As for Zheng Cheng who Long Qian asked, I'm sorry, we don't have this person. ”

Ning Shijun didn't expect Li Chun to be so cheating.

"In this way, General Li is not listening to the orders of the imperial court." Ning Shijun asked calmly.

"Who says I don't respect the will?" Li Chun squinted at Ning Shijun. He has a national character face with a well-trimmed mustache, which can be regarded as dignified, but when he squints at people, he destroys the beauty, and brings a flow of anger and gangsterism, "The imperial court did not give me the will to withdraw the army, I was ordered by Yuan Dashuai." Yuan Dashuai didn't say when he would withdraw from Yizhou. Long Qian was in a hurry to enter Yizhou, okay, let him wait. After I clean up, I will naturally give him this Yizhou City! ”

Yuan Shikai's military order to Li Chun did not stipulate a specific time for the withdrawal of troops, and Li Chun grasped this point. He expected that Long Qian would never use force because of this. If you want to use force, you have already moved, when did Long Qian return to Lunan? Since he can endure it for two months, he can continue to endure it.

Li Chun really couldn't swallow this breath. If it counts as eligibility. Li Chun is second only to Wang Shizhen, Duan Qirui, and Feng Guozhang among the generals under Yuan Shikai. Of course, he can't be compared with Xu Shichang, but Xu can't be regarded as a general. However, after Li Chun was stationed in Yizhou, it was extremely unsmooth, and he almost became the laughing stock of the new army of Xiaozhan Station. Two years ago, he laughed at Cao San's fool for losing to a group of grass cowards, but he didn't expect his turn to be even worse. Not once, but defeat after defeat, losing Cai Chengxun, Tian Zhongyu and other pipe belts that were quite valued by Yuan Dashuai, after defeating the most ruthless, even Lu Yongxiang was killed, and Wang Shizhen actually became a prisoner of others.

Li Chun made a big mistake in his career because of this. After the fiasco of the attack in February of the year of Gengzi. Li Chun was pushed to the end. It took a few months to transfer back to Jinan and face the wall. The defense of Yizhou was handed over to Duan Qirui for a period of time. With the Mengshan Army, the great enemy who made Li Chun disgraced, accepted Zhao'an, the situation in Yizhou eased, Feng Guozhang, who presided over the Yanzhou military, and Duan Qirui, who presided over the Yizhou military, were successively transferred back to Yuan Shikai's side, and Feng Guozhang went to arrest the vanguard of the Wuwei Right Army. Duan Qirui mainly trained artillery. Yuan Shikai once again handed over Yizhou to Li Chun, who had been idle for several months. Before leaving, Yuan Shikai taught Li Chun earnestly for an hour. Let him be ashamed and courageous. Lie down and taste the guts, in order to be ashamed.

Li Chun didn't understand why Yuan Shikai didn't allow him to take advantage of the main expedition of the Mengshan Army to destroy the Mengshan Army's nest. But Yuan Shikai's military orders could not be disobeyed. Li Chun and Cao Kun still need to hone their political insight. Although they lived peacefully for a few months, Li Chun's hatred and humiliation hidden deep in his heart did not disappear due to the change of identity of Mengshan Army. The opposite is more intense.

"You're quibbling. General Long Qian is the envoy of Yizhou Town appointed by the imperial court! It is a matter of course that the right wing of the Weisheng Army occupies Yizhou. General Long put the overall situation of the imperial court first, and endured it for more than two months, and the officers and soldiers of the department did not take a step out of Fei County! It shows sincerity. It was the incident of the ambush on Yizhou Road, which caused General Long and Zhang and Wu to be in danger, but General Long still suppressed the anger of his generals and did not pursue it__I didn't expect General Li to be so ignorant__"

Li Chun was furious, "A bunch of grass cowards who are causing trouble in the place! Dare to accuse this official of ignorance! I don't know the general situation, so what can you do? ”

"My general has his own countermeasures, so let's see!"

"Sending off!" Li Chun roared. He wanted to detain someone from here, but Tang Shaoyi next to him stepped on his foot and reminded him to calm down, so Li Chun blasted Ning Shijun out. Not only that, Li Chun's subordinates simply put down the weapons of Ning Shijun and the two guards he brought, and drove out of Yizhou City blindfolded.

"Xiushan, isn't this a bit reckless?" Seeing the guards take Ning Shijun out of the city, Tang Shaoyi frowned.

"I want to see what he can do with me?"

"Xiushan! The size system is the ancestral system of the imperial court, and the establishment of the right wing of the Weisheng Army is aimed at our Wuwei Right Army! Now that Li Zhongtang has died, the situation in Beijing is delicate, and the marshal is plotting big things, at this critical moment, we can't breed trouble in Lunan and add variables to the marshal! Tang Shaoyi stomped his feet.

Yuan Shikai's plot against the governor of Zhili Li Chun was well aware, and it was Yuan Shikai's established strategy to give up the two prefectures of Lunan in exchange for control of the hinterland of Shandong. After coming to Shandong for more than two years, Yuan Shikai was quite laid out in Jinan and Qingzhou, and he was ready to go through Shandong, but the situation took a turn for the worse, and the court revealed that the Queen Mother intended to let Yuan Shikai serve as the governor of Zhili. Of course, this is in the hands of Yuan Shikai, and the gold content of the governor of Zhili is much higher than that of the governor of Shandong. During this time, Yuan Shikai was planning the throne of the governor of Zhili, and at the same time he was bothering to choose the person to succeed him. He didn't want the territory he had worked so hard to build in the hands of someone else. Provoking a conflict with the Mengshan Army at this moment is definitely not the situation that Yuan Shikai hopes.

So Tang Shaoyi blamed Li Chun for being reckless. After speaking, Tang Shaoyi pulled out his feet to chase Ning Shijun, hoping to ease the situation.

"Shaochuan stays! Why show weakness to the enemy? Since the Weisheng Army is a thorn inserted into the heart of the handsome man by the imperial court, it is necessary to let them know who is the real master in Shandong! I do this for the sake of the handsome! Li Chun guessed Tang Shaoyi's purpose and grabbed Tang Shaoyi, "Long Qian's plan is very big, Shandong's geography is important, even if the handsome man is high, Shandong will never give up!" Although Yizhou is barren, it is a mistake for our army to abandon Yizhou because it controls Sulu and is the throat of north-south transportation. ”

"But we can't occupy Yizhou anymore. You know that. If you leave the impression that the court is handsome and difficult to control, you will lose a big one because of a small one. At the beginning, if Long Qian was angry because of the Yizhou Road incident, we could also use this to make a good article. But Long Qian's guy couldn't bear it, and let Zhang Lianfen and Wu Yong come forward to accuse the marshal, we will be passive, and if you make things difficult for no reason at this moment, it will inevitably make the court unhappy. ”

"Even if you withdraw your troops from Yizhou, you can't lose your prestige! Yizhou was defeated by Long Qian's department, and the morale was difficult to mention, so it was necessary to use this to boost the morale of the army. Otherwise, in the future, we will be cowardly before fighting, and big things will go! It's okay, let's dry him later. Forgive him Long Qian didn't dare to use force, if he raised troops to capture the city, it would be a good thing. ”

Tang Shaoyi was stunned for a moment, feeling that what Li Chun said was not unreasonable. The matter of Yizhou Road was indeed not done by Li Chun, Tang Shaoyi was clear about this. After the incident, I was particularly worried about the Mengshan army for a while. And the morale of the Yizhou troops has also been exposed, and there is indeed a situation where Li Chun is afraid of the Mengshan army, so the starting point of Li Chun's motivation to boost the morale of the army is not Hu Lai__

"That's good. Xiushan, you have a sense of proportion. Take it when you see it. ”

"I'll take care of that."

On the third day after Ning Shijun was driven out of Yizhou, news came from Fei County that the main force of the Mengshan Army was advancing eastward, blocking all roads from Yizhou to Jinan, and all business travelers were not allowed to pass. The other part of the Mengshan Army joined the troops from Yixian and pressed from west to east along the official road from Yizhou to Yixian. (To be continued......)