Soon after accepting the appointment, Fan Ning set up a staff battalion composed of more than 300 people in the capital, and the staff battalion had two functions, one was to give advice and provide various combat plans, such as the sneak attack on Tokyo by the navy of Liao, this idea was put forward by Fan Ning, but the specific combat plan was planned by the staff battalion.

For example, through various intelligence records in the past, they found that there is a section of the sea dozens of miles west of the mouth of the Liaohe River that does not freeze in winter, which provides the basis for the implementation of the Tokyo surprise attack plan.

Another important function of the staff battalion is the acquisition and analysis of intelligence.

Fanning attaches great importance to the role of intelligence, and he has always advocated planning before acting, and in his view, the accuracy and adequacy of intelligence is the guarantee of victory in the war.

The art of war is also cloudy: "Stay together for several years, fight for a day of victory, and love Juelu Baijin, do not know the feelings of the enemy, unkind, non-human generals, non-lords, non-victorious masters." ”

Since a lot of resources have been expended to fight a protracted war with the Liao army, Fanning will not care about the expenditure on intelligence, and he approved a fund of 30,000 taels of silver in the first phase.

By the end of December, the intelligence department had established seven intelligence networks in Youzhou, Yizhou, Jizhou, Pingzhou, and Liaoyang Prefecture and Baozhou in Tokyo, through bribery, inducement, and threats.

At the same time, the Intelligence Department also receives a large amount of information from the army scouts, analyzes and sorts out this information, and forms a useful basis for military decision-making.

In the official office of the Hebei Xuanfu Embassy, Fan Ning was listening to the report of Sima Liu Kui of the staff battalion.

The information that Liu Kui got was sent from the capital, and the intelligence department had a branch in the capital, about 20 people, and their task was to fight back, that is, to discover and destroy the intelligence network of the Liao State in the capital.

The Song Dynasty had long been in charge of the military by civilian officials, who had barely established any intelligence network in the enemy country, and were not interested or interested in this aspect, so much so that Fanning did not know anything about the situation in Youzhou and Liaoyang Province after sending his troops.

However, the Liao State and the Western Xia State were the opposite, they attached great importance to the intelligence of the Song Dynasty, and established a large number of intelligence points in the capital and border cities to explore the intelligence of the Song army and seek the latest military technology of the Song army.

"The brothers of the Intelligence Department found that the Baohe Restaurant located on West Street was very suspicious, and many of the customers in their store were from Liao, but the shopkeeper and the guys of this store did not have any Liaoguo background, but they had attracted so many Liaoguo guests for a long time, which was a bit unreasonable."

"Then how did you find out that this Baohe restaurant has a relationship with Liaoguo?"

"The brothers monitored the Liaoguo Pavilion and found that within a month, there was a middle-aged man who entered and exited the Liaoguo Pavilion five times, carrying a package when he entered, and he did not need to be reported, and when he came out empty-handed, it was very suspicious, so the brothers monitored the middle-aged man and found that he was the shopkeeper of the Baohe Restaurant."

Fan Ning nodded, "Keep an eye on this Baohe Restaurant, if it is found that he is indeed an intelligence point of the Liao State, then we can use it to carry out our Wanyan plan." ”

"Humble duty understands!"

Liu Kui also really admired this young commander, although he was a civilian official, he was far-sighted and not pedantic at all, and he actually thought of using countermeasures to provoke civil strife in Liao.

"Go ahead! Go back and sort out the information of Yanshan Mansion, I want to take a good look. ”

Liu Kui nodded and retired.

Fanning began to write his notes again, although the express report of the burning of Tokyo had been transmitted to the capital, but he still had to write a detailed report, and he had only received Han Wang's detailed battle report this morning, and he was about to rush out a new report.

It stands to reason that he copied Han Wang's report and then forwarded it to the Son of Heaven and the imperial court, isn't it the same!

It's really not that simple, Fanning not only has to write about the battle and the battle report, but also write about the cause of this sneak attack and its impact on the Liao State.

What's more, the sneak attack on Tokyo is only a part of the entire Bohai Campaign, as well as the occupation of Juehua Island, the water battle with the Liao army, etc., to the Battle of Juehua Island and the sneak attack on Tokyo together, it is a complete report.

Fanning quickly finished writing the report, read it, signed his name, stamped it, put it in a wooden box along with the list of loot, and arranged for someone to send it to the capital.

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In early December, several days had passed since the newspapers reported the success of the Song army's sneak attack on Liaoyang Mansion, but the excitement had not completely dissipated, and the teahouses and restaurants were still discussing the matter enthusiastically, but the discussion was more in-depth and more looking forward to the future.

At noon, the Baohe Restaurant on West Street in Beijing was full of guests.

Baohe Restaurant belongs to the classic pattern of the former restaurant and the back inn, covering an area of six acres, of which the restaurant occupies two acres and the inn occupies four acres.

Like other restaurants, the drinkers of the Baohe Restaurant were also enthusiastically discussing the Song army's sneak attack on Tokyo, Liao.

"It turns out that there is no navy in Liao at all, so our Great Song navy is not doing whatever it wants?"

"It's not that there is no navy in Liao, I heard that Liao has also built a navy, but on the way to Kunzhou, he was wiped out by Xiao Fan Xianggong and his navy."

"Liao actually has the idea of fighting Kunzhou, no wonder it angered Xiao Fan Xianggong, isn't Kunzhou created by Xiao Fan Xianggong?"

"Not only Kunzhou, but the entire overseas is created by Xiao Fan Xianggong."

"Hey! Hi! Where are you two going, we're talking about the Liao Kingdom and Tokyo! ”

An old man shook his head with a wine glass and said, "Last night, I suddenly heard the victory drum, and the Song army changed from a pig to a tiger, which is rare!" Our army was able to enter the capital of Liao, burn down their palace, and wash away a hundred years of shame. ”

"Uncle Huang, could it be that the Liao Kingdom has also entered our capital?"

The old man pointed to the two young men and said: "That's what you don't know, the Khitans also occupied Bianliang back then, but it was not the Great Song Dynasty at that time, it was the Later Jin Dynasty, the Khitans destroyed the Later Jin Dynasty, Yelu Deguang changed the name of the country to Liao in the Khitan, and the people of the Central Plains revolted one after another, attacking the Liao State, Yelu Deguang was forced to retreat to the north, and when he left, he burned down the palace of the Later Jin Dynasty and took away thousands of palace maids and imperial concubines. ”

"So your old man heard that the Song army also burned the palace of the Liao Kingdom, and he was also very relieved, right!"

The old man smiled, "Of course, I can't wait to rush to the Liao Imperial Palace myself and catch a few palace concubines to relieve my anger." ”

Everyone laughed, and a young man shouted: "The old man is so old, and he is still majestic, in my opinion, the queen mother of the Liao Kingdom is the most worthy of you!" ”

Everyone laughed again, and the shopkeeper's face was red and white, and he stepped forward and explained: "Liaoyang Mansion is just accompanying the capital, and the Empress Dowager lives in Shangjing!" Tokyo is actually an empty palace, covering an area of 100 acres, not even an imperial palace, these generals like to exaggerate their merits and receive rewards, just listen to it, don't take it seriously. ”

"Yo! Could it be that Shopkeeper Zhou has been to Liaoyang? Know it all this way? ”

"No, I have a lot of guests here, and I can hear a lot of news, so I know a little more."

Another middle-aged man said: "But I heard that hundreds of imperial ministers have been arrested, I think it's true, and you can exchange a lot of captive people with Liao." ”

"In addition to arresting ministers, I heard that he also made a lot of money........

The more the drinkers talked, the more energetic they became, and Shopkeeper Zhou couldn't listen anymore, and returned to the inn in the back alone in anger.

This Baohe Restaurant and Baohe Inn are indeed important intelligence points of the Liao State in the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, and the information they collected was handed over to the envoys of the Liao State in the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, and they sent eagle letters back.

Shopkeeper Zhou is a Liao native with a Han face, a native of Youzhou, his ancestors were officials of the Liao State more than a hundred years ago, and he himself was also a counselor of the Southern Privy Council, serving in Tokyo, Liao State, and was sent to the capital of the Great Song Dynasty a few years ago and became the intelligence chief of the capital.

So when he heard that Tokyo was attacked by the Song army, the palace was burned, and the officials were arrested, his heart was like a knife, but he couldn't show it, and he could only try to correct some excessive discussions, such as topics involving the Empress Dowager and the Imperial Princess.

Shopkeeper Zhou sat alone in the room sulking, at this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside, this footstep was very familiar, which lifted his spirits, I am afraid that the news he was waiting for came.