Chapter 74: The Eve of the Great War (8)
Although Wang Kunjun, Zhang Weixin, and Yang Xin were already able to make resolutions on behalf of the committee, the presence of the heads of the intelligence, military, and security departments also made the proposal for marriage with the Yan family a condition to become a resolution of the committee's enlarged meeting. However, out of respect for the eldest brother Li Junwu and the team's decision-making methods on major issues, after dawn, that is, on the morning of the eighth day of the lunar month, Wang Kunjun still informed the "Liangyuan", "Yanyuan", and "Kaifeng Detention Office" and other places through the radio, and listened to their opinions - mainly the opinions on the time and scale of the wedding, and everyone agreed with the marriage with the Yan family.
Unlike several other places where the brothers called back only a few short sentences, Xu Shao'an's telegram from Kaifeng was long, not only expressing his approval of this family business, but also talking about many other issues.
The first one is about Zhang Yongde and his "Feiyan Hall". In the telegram, Xu Shaoan reported on Zhang Yongde's current performance in the DPRK and China, his attitude towards himself and other members of the "Kaifeng Detention Center," and expressed some concern about the current situation. However, unlike what the committee imagined, what made Xu Shao a little uneasy was not that Zhang Yongde had taken revenge on him or other members of the left-behind office, but that since the middle of September of the lunar calendar, after "Dark Feather" "ended the "Feiyan Hall" Youzhou Branch in one pot, Zhang Yongde's side has not made any obvious moves, as if the "Feiyan Hall" Youzhou Branch was wiped out at all. As the saying goes, "If you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves", for Xu Shaoan, he would rather Zhang Yongde be angry and fight against himself with a knife and a gun, rather than be so nervous for such a long time to guard against the other party's possible retaliation.
There was some confusion on the part of the Committee at first about this situation. However, after carefully studying Xu Shao'an's telegram and the relevant intelligence and information collected by the Ministry of Intelligence, the brothers still came to the conclusion that "the current situation is stable, and Zhang Yongde will not be unfavorable to the crossing team, especially the 'Kaifeng Detention Center' in the short term." Because according to the news reported by "Dark Feather", in the past two or three months, Zhang Fei, the righteous son and daughter-in-law Zhang Yan, who took care of the "Feiyan Hall" for Zhang Yongde, have spent all their thoughts on arresting Liu Yunyan, the original hall master of the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall", and it seems that they have no spare strength to launch a revenge against the crossing team.
According to the news from the "Dark Feather" Kaifeng Branch, Liu Yunyan, who was very lucky enough to avoid the "Dark Feather" to collect the net from the "Feiyan Hall" Youzhou Branch, was on the way to Kaifeng to report on her work, and when she was staying in the residence provided by the "Feiyan Hall" Zhaozhou Branch for the senior leaders who came and went, she received an urgent letter from Youzhou, and then suddenly disappeared, and the people of the "Feiyan Hall" Zhaozhou Branch searched for several days and did not find any trace of her.
Just when the hall master of the Zhaozhou branch was at a loss and was about to report this somewhat unbelievable situation to the main hall, news came from the Dingzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" near Nanjing Road in Liaoguo, indicating that several spies of the church who were closely related to the Youzhou branch reported that the spies and hidden piles of the Youzhou branch in Mo, Ying, Yi and other prefectures had not delivered important news to them in accordance with the previous rules for many days. The hall master of the Dingzhou branch felt that something was wrong, so he sent several spies to investigate.
Because the original action of "Dark Feather" to encircle and suppress the Youzhou branch of "Feiyan Hall" was both secret and fast, the local people did not know much about the secret war that happened some time ago. Even a few people who have seen or heard of the "Dark Feather" capture operation are vague about the fierce or prosaic capture scenes they have seen or heard of, and they are unclear about the identities of those who participated in the capture. Some say it is the official government of Liao, some say it is a good man in the green forest, some say it is the private soldiers of the local gentry, and some even say that it is the spies of the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" who usually do too much moral things, and they are taken in by the heavenly soldiers and generals sent by God, and so on.
Faced with this chaotic situation and unable to find a clue, the spies sent by the Dingzhou branch of the "Feiyan Tang" had to try their best to gather some of the idlers they knew who had worked for the "Feiyan Tang" Youzhou Branch, but did not really join the "Feiyan Tang" -- this is precisely why they were not arrested like those official members -- but only idlers and other idlers who had served as informants or provided valuable information for the "Feiyan Tang" and tried to find out as much information as possible from their mouths. On the one hand, he tried every means to spend money and make connections, in order to get some valuable clues from the local officials. ,
After such a move, although the spies of the Dingzhou branch got some more or less accurate news, they knew that Shili, the place of Nanjing Road in Liaoguo, had a conflict with the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall", and a fight broke out. Since the local shili has been operating in various states and counties of Nanjing Province for many years, it has a very close relationship with both the government and the green forest heroes. Therefore, when the struggle between the two sides intensified, in order to solve the problem once and for all, the local shili contacted many helpers and carried out a surprise attack on all the halls of the "Feiyan Hall" Youzhou that they knew, and destroyed them in one fell swoop. As for which place shili has such a deep hatred with the "Feiyantang" Youzhou branch, and there is such a means to attack all parts of Nanjing Road at the same time, and attack the "Feiyantang", there is no clear or fixed statement.
Just when the spies of the Dingzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" were worried that they could not draw a definite conclusion from the complicated news, whether true or false, they did not realize that their actions in the previous few days had attracted the attention of the local "Dark Feather" hall. The local members of the "Dark Feather" closely monitored the whereabouts of these people while reporting to the main hall of Youzhou. The relevant news was quickly sent to Liang Ziyue and Zheng Zhiwei of the Ministry of Intelligence -- Zhang Xiaofei was approaching her due date at this time and was no longer dealing with official business -- and the first reaction of Liang and Zheng after receiving the report was that these strangers from outside were probably spies sent by the "Feiyan Hall" to find out the news of their Youzhou branch. Therefore, on the one hand, the two of them ordered the "dark feather" halls in the prefectures and counties where these suspicious outsiders were found to step up surveillance, and were ready to follow the orders of the main hall to arrest them at any time. On the other hand, in view of the fact that the local "Dark Feather" reported that these suspicious strangers were very good, in order to ensure the smooth arrest, the two also sent Qingchen, who had been promoted to the "Dark Feather" Dharma Protector Elder (the leader of the action group), with his powerful detectives to Mo, Ying, Yi and other prefectures to arrest those suspicious characters.
With Qingchen's involvement, the arrest of these suspicious foreign strangers should have been a matter of hand. Unexpectedly, these people are the backbone spies of the Dingzhou branch of the "Feiyan Tang", not only have good skills, but also are die-hard members of the "Feiyan Tang". When they found out that their whereabouts had been exposed and they had been surrounded by the opponent's people, they did not rest on their laurels like the vast majority of their peers in the Youzhou branch not long ago, but put up a stubborn resistance, killing and wounding several "dark feather" agents who captured them. So much so that Qingchen, who was bent on catching the mouth alive, finally had to kill the killer, except for deliberately letting go of a "Feiyantang" spy who had been seriously injured, so that he could find out the exact origin of the other party.
It was this "Feiyan Tang" spy who was deliberately let go and escaped back to Dingzhou to bring the news of the annihilation of the Youzhou Branch to the master of the Dingzhou Branch, and when the news reached the Zhaozhou Branch, the owner of the Zhaozhou Branch, who was originally thinking about whether to report the news of Liu Yunyan's disappearance to the main hall, immediately linked the two things together, and came to the conclusion that "Liu Yunyan was very unsuccessful in the development of Nanjing Road in Liao, in order to avoid being punished when he went to the main hall to report on his work, he secretly communicated with Nanjing Dao and those who were There are contradictions in the Youzhou branch of Feiyantang, and Shili colludes with each other to wipe out the Youzhou branch of Feiyantang. In this way, she could not only take the opportunity to break away from the 'Feiyan Hall' and avoid the punishment of the main hall for her unfavorable affairs, but also get a large sum of money from the Liao people as a reward for betraying her companions.
Although there were many speculations and unreasonable points in the inference of the master of the "Feiyan Hall" Zhaozhou Branch, the news of the total destruction of the "Feiyan Hall" Youzhou Branch was too shocking for people to accept for a while, and therefore affected the ability to judge things.
Second, such a large-scale and well-organized Youzhou branch was not only found out by the opponent, locked all the halls, spies, and dark piles, but also had no power to fight back in the face of the opponent's siege, and it collapsed within a few days, except for Liu Yunyan, the hall owner who "coincidentally" went to Kaifeng on business, all the other members were captured, and none of them slipped through the net. If there is no person who is familiar with the inside story of the Youzhou Branch, it is obviously impossible for the opponent to achieve such a "brilliant" result.
Third, Liu Yunyan disappeared after receiving a letter from Youzhou. So what is the content of that letter, could it be related to the foreign enemy's attack on the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall". ,
If there is a relationship between these two things, then Liu Yunyan's correct choice should be to immediately report the truth of the attack on the Youzhou branch to the main hall, instead of fleeing when people are unprepared. Because according to the rules of the "Feiyan Hall", absconding in fear of crime is far more severe than the punishment that may be punished by taking the initiative to ask for guilt - unless she herself is the culprit of this fiasco, and she does not dare to return to the main hall at all. Moreover, since the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" was wiped out under the sudden attack of the opponent, and no one escaped, who was the person who sent the letter to Liu Yunyan. You must know that the owner of the Dingzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" found that the situation was wrong and sent people to Nanjing Dao to investigate more than ten days after the attack, but Liu Yunyan received the letter only one day later than the time when the "Feiyan Hall" Youzhou branch was attacked. And from Youzhou City to Dingzhou City, even if you ride a fast horse, it will take at least a day to a day and a half. In other words, when the person who delivered the letter to Liu Yunyan left Youzhou, the attack on the Youzhou branch had not yet begun. From this point of view, there is only one possibility, that is, the person who sent the letter to Liu Yunyan came from the opponents of the Youzhou Branch, from those who launched this attack.
If there was no relationship between these two things, then Liu Yunyan would not have any reason to escape, because at that time, everyone did not know the news of the attack on the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall".
Therefore, the documents sent to the main hall by the master of the Zhaozhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" about the annihilation of the "Feiyan Hall" Youzhou branch and the collusion of Liu Yunyan with foreign enemies and absconding in fear of crime were unanimously approved by the two leaders of the main hall, including Zhang Fei and Zhang Yan. So, while Zhang Fei and Zhang Yan reported the relevant news to Zhang Yongde, they had already ordered all the halls of the "Feiyan Hall" to go out, even if they searched the whole country and the whole world, they would find out the Liu Yunyan who deserved to die and send them to the main hall to be punished by the ten major tortures.
In order to find out Liu Yunyan, the "Feiyan Hall" side naturally would not send enough people to continue to investigate the "black hands" behind the raid on the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall". After Zhang Yongde received the report from his righteous son and righteous daughter, although he could not fully agree with the statement of the owner of the Zhaozhou branch of the "Feiyan Tang", and according to various indications, he had roughly judged that the place where the "Feiyan Tang" Youzhou branch was attacked must be related to the "Qingyuan" brothers - even if it was not the hands of the "Qingyuan" brothers, these so-called overseas returnees would definitely not be able to get rid of it. However, at this time, the matter of the Northern Expedition Youyun has been put on the agenda, and the whole court is preparing for this matter. Zhang Yongde, as the front of the palace, was inspected, and all kinds of things that needed to be dealt with every day were piled up, so he had no energy or time to think about how to find out the people who raided the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" or how to find out the evidence that the "Qingyuan" brothers were related to this raid, let alone how to retaliate against it after finding out the "real murderer".
Second, at this time, the halls where the "Dark Feathers" were distributed had already received the order issued by the main hall, and while stepping up monitoring and infiltrating the halls of the "Feiyan Hall", they began to take the initiative to provoke a fight with the "Feiyan Hall", which made the members of the "Feiyan Hall" who were already exhausted by the task of searching for Liu Yunyan even more exhausted, and they only had the ability to parry, but they had no power to fight back. At this time, even if Zhang Yongde ordered a thorough investigation of the main messenger who raided the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall", the halls below were also powerless and incompetent.
It can be said that with the launch of the "Sticky Net Operation" aimed at sweeping the "Feiyantang" Youzhou Branch, and after the victory, a series of actions were carried out, and the initiative in the intelligence war has been fully grasped. Not only did he clear the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" that was a potential threat to him, but he also kept leading the "Feiyan Hall" by the nose, so that in addition to being tired of dealing with the attack of the crossing team, there was no energy and personnel that could be used to launch a counterattack against the crossing team.