After receiving the pardon and reward from the Later Zhou court, Meng Chang and his subordinates finally put back in their stomachs after traveling all the way from Chengdu. After Meng Chang and his family moved in, the large mansion that the Zhou court had already prepared for them became neighbors with Li Yu's family, who came two years earlier than him. The Shu officials who came with them were scattered throughout Kaifeng City under the arrangement of the Later Zhou Dynasty and began to start their lives again with their new identities and positions.

Later Shu monarchs settled down in Kaifeng and began to live their new lives in a down-to-earth manner, but Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo and others who were far away in Xiazhou, the military administration of Dingyan in the northwest, were a little restless during this time. Although they were in Xiazhou Tongwan City, their hearts had already flown to Kaifeng City, which was thousands of miles away.

The reason why Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo and others were so restless was naturally related to the fact that they left the Dingyan Army and returned to Kaifeng. Although the original agreement with the crossing team was that the latter would strengthen the intelligence work against the Dingyan Army, after its intelligence agents had established a firm foothold and established a reliable "line of communication", Chen and Qiu and their families would be taken out of Xiazhou and sent to Kaifeng when the time came. Moreover, all the personnel involved in this operation, including Chen, Qiu, and others, are well aware of the difficulty of the operation and the complexity and long-term nature of the process, and they have certain ideological preparations for this. But waiting is always the most torturous, especially when the benefits that you may get after the success of the action will be very large, and the eagerness of the waiter to implement the action as soon as possible is even stronger.

Now, seeing that he has returned to Xiazhou with the Dingyan Army Mission for more than half a year, the spies of the Xiazhou Branch of the Dingyan Army Intelligence Station of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence (the Xiazhou Branch of the "Dark Feather" Dingyan Army Branch) have communicated and exchanged with him many times through various means, and have established a stable and secret communication channel between himself and the local intelligence personnel, and have conducted serious discussions and studies on taking his party out of Xiazhou. However, for the specific action plan and the time and steps of the final action, the local agents who passed through the team's intelligence department did not give a substantive plan, but kept saying that the time was not ripe and that they still needed to wait. In addition, it is definitely a matter that will not be accepted by the party members to return to Kaifeng after breaking away from the Dingyan army, and now he is secretly in contact with the agents of the intelligence department of the crossing team under the noses of the party members, which is itself a certain risk. As the saying goes, "the night is long and there is a lot of money" and "there is no impermeable wall", this kind of secret contact may not be a problem in a short time, but with the passage of time, it may not be possible to be known. At that time, once the party members launched a ruthless attack and prevented their people from leaving by force regardless of the breakdown of relations with Hou Zhou, whether they could safely withdraw from the Dingyan army was between the two sides. Therefore, in the face of the answers of the local agents of the Ministry of Intelligence again and again, "the time is not ripe", how could they not make Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo and others anxious, and therefore began to complain in their hearts that the work of the local agents of the Ministry of Intelligence was inefficient and had no true character of agents.

Speaking of which, Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo and others really wronged the agents and agents of the Dingyan Army Intelligence Station and the Xiazhou Sub-station of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence. In fact, with the support of the Later Zhou court and the crossing team invested a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources, and from beginning to end, in the past six months or so, the construction of the intelligence station of the Dingyan Army of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence and the intelligence sub-stations of Xiazhou and Yinzhou (the branch of the "Dark Feather" Dingyan Army and the branches of Xiazhou and Yinzhou) has been fruitful. With the cooperation of those agents who entered the Dingyan Army in the early days, and with the huge investment of manpower, material resources, and financial resources, the agents who arrived later not only gained a firm foothold in the prefectures and counties of the Dingyan Army, but also effectively infiltrated all strata and forces of the Dingyan Army, and successfully established a huge and efficient intelligence network. Today, they can not only ensure the safety of the intelligence station, the various sub-stations, and Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo, and others who have secretly contacted them, but also establish a safe, stable, and smooth "communication line." Even if the party members really discovered the secret that Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo and others were in contact with the Later Zhou court and intended to break away from the Dingyan Army, the Dingyan Army Intelligence Station was sure to withdraw Chen, Qiu and others and their own agents from the area controlled by the Dingyan Army unscathed.

As a matter of fact, even the plan to take Chen, Qiu, and others out of Xiazhou and even from the Dingyan Army has been drawn up by the Intelligence Department's Dingyan Army Intelligence Station and the Xiazhou Sub-Station, and they are still two sets of plans of "one article and one martial arts." Among them, the set of plans of "Wen" was relatively peaceful, and when the party members were not aware of Chen, Qiu and others' intention to break away from the Dingyan Army, they used the "dark feather" in the secret "communication line" of the Dingyan Army to send these two people and their families out of Xiazhou unknowingly and unknowingly, and then they walked day and night, acted secretly, avoided the possible pursuit of the party members, and sent their party safely to the junction of the Dingyan Army and Lingzhou, and then Lingzhou observed and disposed of Yang Ye sent people to answer and escort them to Kaifeng.

As for the "martial arts" plan, it is much more popular and intense. It was under the circumstance that the party members might have been aware of Chen, Qiu, and others' intention to break away from the Dingyan army, and first of all, the elite units of the "Flying Dragon Army" such as the "Ranger Battalion" and the "Wolf Tooth Battalion" led by Muttel or other generals to carry out a fierce surprise attack on the secret firearms production base set up by the party members in Dijinze and the so-called "Thunderbolt Army" stationed there, so as to completely destroy the foundation for the party members to manufacture firearms and the conditions for using firearms. At the same time, with the support and cooperation of the agents of the intelligence station of the Dingyan Army and the Xiazhou sub-station of the Ministry of Intelligence, the special operations team of the "Flying Dragon Army" that secretly infiltrated Tongwan City protected Chen and Qiu and their families and left Xiazhou, and went to Lingzhou under the help of Yang Ye, and finally arrived safely in Kaifeng. In this way, even if the party members found out that Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo and others had left Tongwan City, they would have no time to take care of it because of the "Flying Dragon Army's" raid on Di Jinze, so as to create conditions for Chen, Qiu and others to get out of the Dingyan army. If the party members are desperately chasing, the "Flying Dragon Army" will also directly participate in the escort and completely use force to snatch Chen, Qiu and others out of the Dingyan Army.

Although the two sets of plans drawn up by the intelligence station of the Dingyan Army and the Xiazhou sub-station of the Ministry of Intelligence are seamless and foolproof, they are also feasible and reliable plans. If this is done, the chances of successfully taking Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo and their families out of the Dingyan Army and escorting them safely to Kaifeng are still quite high. However, the problem is that the intelligence station and the Xiazhou sub-station of the Ministry of Intelligence are only responsible for formulating plans and providing reliability and feasibility analysis reports, and whether and when they can be implemented will need to be decided by the crossing team committee or the committee's enlarged meeting.

In the current situation, the attention of the crossing team, the Later Zhou court, and even the entire world is on the strategic action of the Later Zhou Dynasty sweeping across the north and south of the Great River, when it will be able to unify the world and restore the old mountains and rivers, in terms of importance and urgency alone, it is impossible to compare Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo and their families from the Dingyan Army at all. For the crossing team, the joining of Chen, Qiu and others is just the icing on the cake for the brothers. If the contradictions and conflicts with the Dingyan Army are intensified because of this, so that the crossing team has to invest more forces in the northwest direction to suppress it now, so as to affect its strategic goal of reorganizing the rivers and mountains and unifying the world, it will definitely outweigh the losses. Therefore, they would rather let Chen, Qiu, and others wait a little longer, and listen to a few more of their complaints and grievances, rather than prematurely implement the plan to take the other side out of the difficult army -- especially the "martial" plan in it.

Therefore, the committee agreed in principle with regard to the report of the intelligence station of the Ministry of Intelligence on the plan to safely take Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo, and others out of the army, but it needs to wait for orders when it will be implemented. Before the order was issued, he could only tell Chen and Qiu that the time was not yet ripe, and they would continue to wait, in case they could not wait with peace of mind because they knew that the crossing team had already made a plan, and they were eager to break away from the difficult army, so as to arouse the vigilance of the party members, and then disrupt the entire strategic arrangement and deployment of the crossing team.

It's just that several members of the committee overestimated the patience of Chen Baoqiang and others, especially Qiu Mingbo. If it is said that before the Later Zhou conquest of Houshu, Qiu Mingbo was able to endure for a while, temporarily press his restless heart, and wait for the agents and agents of the intelligence department of the crossing regiment to contact him, paving the way for his group to leave the Dingyan Army. Then, with the increasing number of contacts with the agents of the Ministry of Intelligence, especially the complete victory of the Zhou army in Houshu, but in more than 50 days, at the cost of only more than 2,000 casualties, the result of destroying the enemy 140,000, and destroying the Houshu regime that had existed for more than 40 years in one fell swoop, Qiu Mingbo became more and more unable to hold his breath.

Although he had reached a consensus with the crossing team during the trip to Kaifeng, he must be patient on his side to take the deployment and arrangement of the crossing team as the standard. However, with the arrival of various news of the Zhou army's attack on Shu, especially after getting some more detailed information about the Shu attack through various channels, and feeling the true strength of the Zhou army, Qiu Mingbo's thinking also changed. On the one hand, he realized that the strength of the crossing team was much stronger than he had imagined, and it could be said that it was a transcendent being in this era. It is said that it is an impossible task to reorganize the rivers and mountains and restore the homeland of the Han and Tang dynasties, even if it is to sweep the world and unify the world. As a result, he broke away from the Determination Army and switched to the crossing team, with a stronger and more resolute heart.

On the other hand, he also realized that in the eyes of the crossing team, whether he and Chen Baoqiang and others could join the team and whether they could be used for it was far less important than their cause of reorganizing the rivers and mountains and pacifying the world. Otherwise, with the strength of the crossing team and the strength of the Zhou army, why be afraid of a small Dingyan army, why worry about the firearms troops of the party members, the strength that is not worth a dash in their eyes, and delay the time for their group to leave the Dingyan army and return to Kaifeng.

Thinking of this, Qiu Mingbo regretted that he had sacrificed Xin Feiyu for a little face and a little selfishness, and now his status and importance in the eyes of the leaders of the crossing team are far less important than the guy who was once degraded by himself to nothing. At the same time, it also made him determined that he must no longer sit back and wait for others to send the opportunity to him, but to create an opportunity for himself to break away from the difficult army and return to Kaifeng City.