Chapter 62: The Pigeon

After Zhou Ping read the list, he smiled and passed the list to the generals.

All the ministries will congratulate Zhou Ping one after another and make this great achievement. This time, it not only successfully completed the task of rescuing Zhang Wuwu, but also destroyed more than 1,000 Fucheng cavalry, greatly weakening the strength of Fucheng.

Zhou Ping's face flushed, accepting the congratulations of the generals, especially Zhao Gong's contribution to the world, laying a net of heaven and earth, designing an ambush for Xiao Daocheng, and successfully beheading the enemy's main general, which can be said to be the first merit of the generals.

"General Zhao, why are you so preoccupied, presumably the marshal will not treat you badly." Zhou Ping saw that Zhao Gong's brows were tightly locked, and he seemed to be thinking about things.

"General, I am thinking that the standing army of Fucheng is about 5,000, and more than 1,000 cavalry battalions have been destroyed. It can be said that Fucheng no longer has many troops to conduct field battles, so it can only be passively defended. With the addition of 2,000 officers and soldiers who are supporting Si County, the garrison of the capital city is now empty, and the remaining defensive forces are weak."

Zhao Gong stopped and did not continue, although Zhou Ping was brave but not stupid, but sensitive. I already understood what Zhou Ping meant.

After weighing it in his heart, he felt that what Zhao Gong said made sense.

"The Nanyang city wall is high and thick, how can we overcome it with our more than 1,000 meager troops!" Zhou Ping saw Zhao Gong's faint smile with his peripheral vision and understood that he must have a countermeasure.

"Could it be that General Zhao has a clever plan!? Come on."

Zhao Gong saluted Zhou Ping with a fist.

"General, there are now armor and weapons of officers and soldiers everywhere, and we can disguise ourselves as Imperial cavalry. Now that the strength of Nanyang City is weak, he will not doubt that as long as he opens the city gate, he will immediately send a large team of cavalry to attack the city gate, and then lead the army to attack the city, so that he can conquer the city in one fell swoop. ”

Zhou Ping looked overjoyed, then pondered and said: "Our army is now short of cavalry, and I am afraid that even a team of cavalry will not be able to make up it. How to pretend to be the officers and soldiers who returned victoriously, how is this good. ”

Zhao Gong frowned, it was indeed a problem, there were too few people in the rebel army who could ride now, and they couldn't form a scale at all.

At this time, Zhang Wuwu and Lei Chuan strode in, "This is easy to do, at least 100 of my subordinates can ride horses, so they will pretend to be officers and soldiers and deceive the city gate." ”

"Good! However, this plan must be informed to the marshal, and his consent can only be obtained in advance. ”

"But, General, the soldiers are fast! Again" Zhou Ping waved his hand to interrupt Zhao Gong's words.

The task assigned by the marshal was only to cover General Zhang, and he immediately withdrew to Si County. If we disrupt the marshal's plan because of our private actions, have you considered such consequences? At the end, his tone became colder.

The generals knew the possible consequences of their own actions.

"General, what you say is very true." The generals said in unison.

Zhou Ping looked at Zhao Gong and said warmly: "I know that you are eager to make meritorious contributions, now that the empire has not been destroyed, there is time for you to make meritorious contributions, and you must not disobey the orders of the commander." ”

Zhao Gong suddenly woke up and understood that if he angered the marshal, then his future in the army was slim.

"It's a good plan, but there are still many details to be discussed."

Zhou Ping chopped back and forth a few times and said, "Now send the detective to Si County, and come back, at least two days." The cavalry of the official army only brought food for three days, and they had to go back on the third day, otherwise, the people of Fucheng would inevitably be suspicious. Time is running out, what can I do! ”

At this time, Zhou Ping thought of the Black Flag spies, maybe they had a way to quickly deliver the news. Although the matter of the secret agent department is very secretive, all the generals are aware of it, and Zhou Ping is one of the generals who knows the truth.

Zhou Ping sent a personal guard to call the secret agent of the Black Flag, because the secret agent of the Black Flag needs to pass the information to the generals of various departments, so there are many people who know the existence of the Black Flag.

A sturdy man in black, with vigorous steps, walked over.

"My lord, I don't know what to do when I call a lowly position!" Zhou Ping looked at the resolute face, deep eyes, and fierce temperament of the man in black, and he was also amazed in his heart, he was really a tiger man.

"That's right, I called you here because I wanted you to help us deliver the news to Dashuai." Zhou Ping gave him a brief explanation of the action plan.

"The little one understands, this is going to pass on the news, and there will be news tomorrow morning at the latest."

"Very well, you go down."

The black-clothed spy clenched his fists and took a few steps back, then turned around and left. In a hidden place a kilometer away, pick up the fallen leaves, split the bushes, and take out an iron cage from inside.

The man in black tore open the black cloth on the cage, revealing two carrier pigeons. This is deliberately set up for the urgent delivery of messages.

The carrier pigeon of the black flag flag is a strange person who is good at raising pigeons in the armed camp, and its breed is carefully selected, although the pigeon speed is not fast, but the endurance is strong, and it is suitable for long-distance transmission of messages.

The black-clothed spy tied the note to the pigeon's leg respectively, and now there are not many carrier pigeons, so only two can be placed. Later, Black Flag breeds its own carrier pigeons, and each time the news is delivered, three carrier pigeons will be released, which is to avoid accidents.

It was almost dusk, and the trees were reflected in the afterglow of the setting sun. There was a chirping, clucking sound, and a carrier pigeon mixed in with the flock, which made people ignore it directly.

Vibrating his wings, he flew from afar, swept over the sky above the blue-tiled mansions, and flew into a deep mansion compound without being noticeable.

Coo-coo, the pigeon landed on a green tree, purred, and lowered its head to eat the wheat grains on the green tree.

Its cry soon attracted the attention of the owner of the courtyard, and a handsome man walked out of the house, saw the pigeon on Aoki, smiled slightly, and stepped forward to carefully grab the carrier pigeon.

"I don't know what important news I brought this time." Gently stroking the pigeon, the handsome young man said to himself that because of his work, he often dealt with the pigeon, so he was more intimate with it than with people.

The pigeon would not answer him, he smiled self-deprecatingly, skillfully took out a letterhead from the pigeon, and quickly poured out a thin piece of letterhead from the letterhead. Unfolded it and took a look, and the originally smiling expression suddenly converged.

The young man said to himself seriously: "It's actually a secret letterhead, even I can't understand it, so I can only hand it over to Jiang Junmen." ”

There is also a hierarchy of correspondence, and at present, there are only two kinds of codes, plaintexts, and coded letterheads are important information.

The young man put away the letterhead, patted the pigeon, turned and went into the house, and when he came out again, he had put on his clothes with a black flag, and had put on his belt tag, and went out.

Sitting on an ox cart, I walked a little down the street and came to a military camp.

He and the soldiers in front of the door were acquaintances, so he said hello and went straight in. Walking in front of an inconspicuous door, inside is Jiang Feng's office, which is specially used to receive Black Flag's secret agents.