In the middle of September of the lunar calendar in the eighth year of Liao Yingli (the fifth year of Zhou Xiande), the struggle between "Dark Feather" and "Feiyantang" in the sixteen states of Youyun basically came to an end. Although the first meeting between the two sides ended in a complete victory for "Dark Feather", it was clear to both the Committee and the brothers in the Intelligence Department that this victory was only temporary. Perhaps Zhang Yongde may not be able to react immediately from the fiasco of the almost total annihilation of the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" for a while, and find out the direct connection between this incident and the crossing team. But with Zhang Yongde's IQ, it is only a matter of time before he can see the connection. Judging from the current relationship between the crossing team and Zhang Yongde, once the other party understands the ins and outs of the matter, then it will definitely take retaliatory measures against the crossing team.

Moreover, with the strength of the "Feiyan Hall" that has developed for many years, has a large number of personnel, and has tentacles almost all over the north and south of the river, its revenge against the crossing team will never be limited to the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun - after all, when the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" is uprooted, it is extremely unwise to take retaliatory actions against the crossing team in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun. In the eyes of the crossing team, the first targets of their revenge should be Xu Shao'an, who was an official in the Later Zhou Dynasty alone, Lu Yue, who had been helping Xu Shao'an in Kaifeng City, and Cheng Fei, who was stationed in the "Hidden Garden" of Chenqiaoyi fifty miles outside Kaifeng City, and the guards of that platoon - if Zhang Yongde's "Feiyan Hall" had the ability to discover the relationship between the "Hidden Garden" and Xu Shao'an. As for Lin Xiaoyu, although she is also in Kaifeng, she is now a concubine of the Great Zhou Xian, no matter how reckless Zhang Yongde is, he will not directly target the favored woman next to the emperor.

Therefore, after a short celebration, the committee, together with the Ministry of Intelligence, the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the Ministry of Security, discussed Zhang Yongde's possible retaliation actions, and reached an agreement on the follow-up response plan for Operation Sticky Net:

First, immediately send an early warning to Xu Shao'an, Lu Yue, Cheng Fei and others, and tell them to be on guard in case Zhang Yongde is unfavorable to them. At the same time, they were also required to pass the relevant news into the palace through the corresponding channels, so that Lin Xiaoyu could understand the general process of the matter, so that he could adapt to the situation, and when Zhang Yongde wanted to be unfavorable to Xu Shaoan, Lu Yue and others, he could influence Chai Rong's judgment and decision-making in an appropriate way.

Second, immediately send additional reinforcements to the "Hidden Garden," increase the number of guards there from one platoon to one company, and equip them with light and heavy machine guns in accordance with the standards of the "Qingyuan" and "Jingyuan" guard units, so that when there is an unfavorable situation in Kaifeng City that is unfavorable to the "Kaifeng Guardhouse," they can provide armed support for Xu Shaoan and others and cover their safe withdrawal to Youzhou.

Third, immediately order all the Tangkou of "Dark Feather" to step up the search for Liu Yunyan's whereabouts, and at the same time, strengthen the monitoring and infiltration of the "Feiyan Tang" Shili within their respective areas of responsibility, so as to strike at the branches of the "Feiyan Tang" in various places at the right time and place when necessary, so as to disrupt Zhang Yongde's thinking and judgment, so that he cannot focus on dealing with the "Kaifeng Detention Center".

Although Zhang Yongde and his subordinate "Feiyantang" are likely to retaliate against the crossing team, the crossing team has formulated a perfect response plan for this purpose, and is sure to crush any conspiracy of the other party. Second, with the collapse of the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall", Youzhou, as the main battlefield of the future Youyun War, has firmly grasped the initiative of the intelligence war in the hands of the crossing team. Therefore, while conscientiously implementing the follow-up response plan of the "Sticky Net Operation", a considerable part of the "Dark Feather" in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun have turned to actively participate in assisting and supporting Zhong Youpeng, Zhong Shiwen and his son, who have been traveling back and forth between the states and counties of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun since the beginning of the year, acting as lobbyists for the crossing team.

Although "Dark Feather" had also contributed a lot to the persuasion work of the Zhong family father and son, because many members of the "Feiyan Hall" Youzhou Branch at that time used the "Dark Feather" in the halls of Youyun as a cover to carry out their work, so the spies of "Dark Feather" had some concerns and inconvenience when carrying out the task of supporting the Zhong family father and son, so they could not let go of their hands and feet to serve the Zhong family father and son.

Now, the "Feiyan Hall" Youzhou Branch is in ashes, and the "Dark Feather" Youzhou Branch is naturally able to free up its hands and invest enough manpower and material resources to provide various support and assistance for the persuasion work of the Zhong family father and son. In this way, the progress of the persuasion work of the Zhong family father and son began to accelerate, and in the three months of the eight years of the Ying calendar, the progress of the Zhong family father and son visiting and even persuading officials at all levels in the sixteen states of Youyun and the gentry and wealthy families in various places was greatly accelerated. Not only has the speed of the Zhong family's father and son visiting Han officials, generals, and squires and wealthy families increased a lot, but the proportion of them who were persuaded by them to express their willingness to join the anti-Liao alliance has also increased much compared with before. Therefore, when the Zhong family father and son ended nearly a year of running back and forth and returned to the "Qingyuan" in the middle of the eighth year of the Ying calendar, they had not only traveled to all the states and counties of the sixteen states of Youyun, visited almost all the Han officials, generals, squires and wealthy families in each state and county, but also won the support of more than nine of them. These people were either drawn into the camp of the anti-Liao alliance by the Zhong family father and son, or said that although it was not convenient to join for the time being, they would definitely not oppose the anti-Liao alliance and would maintain a neutral attitude when the anti-Liao alliance clashed with the Khitans. ,

The persuasion work of the Zhong family father and son can be said to have been quite successful, and the brothers of the crossing team must take action to express their gratitude to the father and son. Therefore, when the Zhong family father and son came to the "Qing Garden" and walked into the gate of the "Qing Garden" accompanied by Wang Feng, almost all the people living in the "Qing Garden" were already waiting there to welcome the arrival of their father and son, including Wang Kunjun and Zhang Weixin.

In the face of such a grand welcome ceremony, the Zhong family father and son were naturally deeply moved. First, the current strength of the "Qingyuan" brothers is there, whether it is facing the Khitans or the Zhou court, they are not inferior, and they have faintly had the momentum of a powerful prince. Second, although the father and son of the Zhong family have been running around for nearly a year, Wang Feng, who is in charge of the safety and security of the father and son, often meets with them. On the one hand, he wants to know about the recent progress of the father and son, and on the other hand, he will also inform the father and son of some important news about the crossing team. Therefore, the father and son of the Zhong family not only knew that the "Flying Dragon Army" was equipped with a variety of powerful new firearms, but also knew that Lin Xiaoyu was crowned a concubine in the Zhou State and the brothers of the crossing team took advantage of this official position to be promoted several levels. has such strength and such an official position, but he values his father and son so much, and he can't help but be moved by the Zhong family's father and son.

Therefore, when Wang Kunjun led the brothers to hug their fists and bow their hands to welcome the dusty Zhong family father and son, Zhong Youpeng hurriedly hugged his fists and returned the salute, and walked a few steps to Wang Kunjun, and said in a panicked tone: "How can the old man dare to let Dr. Wang and all the adults greet him here, it is really a torture to kill the old man." ”