Guo Huai and Liao Hua tossed and turned in Xiangping City, but it was not for nothing. They captured nearly 100 unidentified and suspicious elements from Yanzhou, Yangzhou, Wuzhou, and even Yizhou, in addition to dozens of people from the Jin State and Youzhou, which also made people very suspicious.

Since you feel suspicious, let's take them all first. As for Liu Fu, a fur merchant who Guo Huai was suspicious of, he planned not to alarm him for the time being, and secretly observed and paid attention to it for a while. According to Guo Huai's intuition, Liu Fu is either not a spy or a key figure among the spies.

In today's chaotic situation, it is very common for various forces to send secret agents to each other, so Gongsun Du did not dare to really kill all the more than 100 suspects whose identities were suspicious and could even be classified as spies. If he really dares to do this, it is clear that he will completely turn his face with other states, then he is afraid that the detailed work he sent to other states will also be cleaned up.

Except for the suspicious people from Youzhou, Jizhou, and Jin who were detained, Gongsun Du expelled the fine works sent by the other states.

The dozens of suspicious people from Youzhou, Jizhou and Jin who were cleared by Guo Huai and Liao Hua, most of them were indeed meticulous. But they were only one branch of the intelligence officers sent to Xiangping by the Jin State, mainly to cover the real Shadow Members, who were not at all part of the same system as the Shadows, but belonged to the Crouching Tiger Security Bureau and the Security Service.

Gongsun Du caught them, and the damage to the Jin Kingdom was almost negligible. According to the prior explanation, these fine works floating in the upper echelons soon confessed their identities and let Gongsun Du fall.

How could Gongsun Du be released? It was not quietly escorted to Liaoxi County, close to Youbeiping, to be released. There is no evidence that Zhao Xing was preparing to attack Liaodong, and there was no conflict between the Jin State and the Liaodong region. If Gongsun Du's brain is hot and he kills all these spies with a few knives, only God knows what kind of thing the angry Jin Kingdom will do next.

Yuan Shao also killed a hundred and ten merchants of the Jin Kingdom, and now the ending is clearly there. Gongsun Du didn't have the courage to turn his face with Jin Guo now, so he had to let him go.

Even so, Gongsun Du was still happy that Guo Huai and Liao Hua had achieved such results in such a short period of time. In his opinion, the spies in Xiangping City should basically be clean after this investigation. Therefore, he appointed Guo and Liao as his envoys, and personally went to Liaoxi County, Xuansu County, and Lelang County to continue to guide the work of cleaning up spies there.

Guo Huai and Liao Hua felt that they could not find out anything new in Xiangping City for the time being, so they accepted Gongsun Du's assignment and went separately to the important towns of Gongsun Du's garrison, where they continued to carry out operations to eliminate Jin spies.

During this period, Yang Yi and Liu Yi, who represented Gongsun Zhan's envoys, arrived at the domestic city and Rao Leshui respectively, and conveyed Gongsun Du's proposal to stop fighting or be willing to make friends.

The lord of Goguryeo, who originally didn't want to provoke the Gongsun Du family, which is now strong and strong, happened to get off the donkey, proposing that as long as the Liao General's Mansion maintained restraint and did not easily provoke a war at the junction of the two sides, Goguryeo would naturally not send troops to attack Liaodong.

The patriarch of the Karasuma people was more aggressive, because they had been bullied by Gongsun Du a little ruthlessly before, so this time a lion opened his mouth. It was not impossible for the Karasuma people to ask for a truce between the two sides, but the eastern direction of Liaodong needed to provide the Karasuma people with a batch of weapons and arrows so that they could resist the invasion from the direction of Youzhou to the west of Karasuma. Liu Yi didn't dare to make an assertion without permission, so he prepared to return to Xiangping with the conditions of the Karasuma people.

And Gongsun Kang, who went to Liaoxi County on behalf of Gongsun Du to comfort the troops, also successfully completed the task assigned by his father, and the next thing was to be stationed near Linyu to supervise the local nearly 100,000 soldiers and civilians to urgently build a fortress barrier to hold Liaodong.

Guo Huai suggested to Gongsun Du the place to build a fortress, which was very famous in later generations. Because during the Ming Dynasty, a garrison fortress known as "the first pass in the world" was built there, which is also known as the famous "Shanhaiguan" (Note 1).

With the ink in Gongsun Kang's stomach, he would never have thought of naming the newly built fortress Shanhaiguan for a while, so the fortress under construction was named "Linyu Pass".

Linyu Pass is adjacent to Yanshan in the north, and the Bohai Sea in the south, just on the throat road leading to the eastern Liaodong region in Liaoxi County.

Although Gongsun Kang's qualifications are mediocre, it doesn't mean that he can't prioritize, so he showed enough severity and carefulness in supervising the construction of Linyu Pass.

According to Guo Huai's suggestion, now the 30,000 horses stationed on the front line of Lingzhi and Haiyang have all withdrawn to the vicinity of Linyu, and these soldiers and the 50,000 people who were temporarily recruited carried on their shoulders and hands together, and the huge stones polished by the stonemasons are built upwards one by one, and the five-flower rammed earth is piled up layer by layer behind the stones, as if to build a strong fortress that the Jin Kingdom "thunder" cannot blast.

It will take at least two months for the entire Linyu Pass to be completed from the beginning of construction. During this period, the changes in the situation in various parts of the world, after being analyzed and sorted out by the Shadow Headquarters in Crouching Tiger City, were quickly sent to Zhao Xing, who was still in the Dunhuang area.

When Zhao Xing saw Zhao Hu's latest report on the latest developments in Xiangping City, as well as the information reported by other team members about Gongsun Kang's construction of a fortress in Linyu, he immediately made several decisions and approvals.

First, Zhao Xing instructed Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao and others on the Qingxu battlefield to temporarily focus on stabilizing the situation and not to pursue expanding their territory. As for the operation of "borrowing troops" from Yuan Shu in Yangzhou and Liu Yan in Yuzhou, it is necessary to seize the time to ensure that there will be enough troops to carry out the sea-crossing operation in June this year.

Second, step up the rebellion against some of the generals under Gongsun Du, and find a way to make the struggle between Gongsun Kang and Gongsun Gong for inheritance hot, and completely disrupt the situation in Xiangping City.

Third, operations against Goguryeo and Liaoxi Karasuma can be carried out, but they must be concealed and skillfully so that once a war breaks out between several forces, it will become an endless situation, and it is best to be able to consume a large amount of the living forces of these forces.

Zhao Xing's reply is undoubtedly very clear and has strong guiding significance. But what makes people feel puzzled is that it seems that he has been running to Xiliang for a long time this time, and he has done everything he needs to do, why hasn't he returned to Crouching Tiger City to command in the center until now?

Note 1: Shanhaiguan was called Yuguan in ancient times, also known as Yuguan, also known as Linlu Pass, in the 14th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1381), Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, was ordered to repair Yongping, Jieling and other passes, and created Shanhaiguan in this place, because it leans on Yanshan in the north and connects the Bohai Sea in the south, so it is named Shanhaiguan. There is a pair of couplets: "The two capitals lock and key are incomparable, and the first pass of the Great Wall." "It can prove the importance and historical status of this pass.