It costs money to set up a contact point, and there may be only a few people at a site, and their expenses are only a few taels of silver a month, but if there are many sites, the expenses will be large. And that's not the main expense, the main expense is the amount of money the site spends on buying and selling intelligence. They can't find out anything on their own, they have to deal with a lot of "people in society" as well as with official people. Dealing with these people requires the support of spending money, a lot of silver.

Therefore, there are only some important state capitals, such as Lin'an, Mingzhou, Xiangfan, Lizhou, etc., and some stations have also been built in Donghu, such as Nanjing Road.

However, because of his relationship with the Money Gang, it would not be so difficult for Ma Hanshan to seriously intercept a person who was exercising on the road. Because there are a lot of stores and branches in other industries all over the country, if the money gang mobilizes all the people from all walks of life who have their own cooperative holdings to intercept a person who is moving on the road, it is much more powerful than GPS.

Ma Hanshan knew that Meng Lianghui would definitely pass through Suishui County or Xinyang Army, so he didn't need to send money help, and he didn't need to go to the Ruyi Warehouse. He only had to tell the people of Suishui County and Xinyang Army to keep an eye on the inns, post stations and passes in their places at about the same time.

Ancient and modern times are different, modern people are very happy, to go to a place, there are a lot of roads to choose from, the ancients did not have many roads to choose from, many passes must be passed.

Li Ergou received a notice from the contact point in Zhuozhou, asking him to receive Meng Tiju, the sworn brother of the owner of the horse village, which made him very happy, and he could finally do something for the person he admired the most and his great benefactor, the master of the horse village. So, he thought it was clever and sent people to a place more than 300 miles away to find and greet him.

Another day, the next evening, Meng Lianghui arrived in Suishui County, Li Ergou and others greeted him thirty miles outside the city, and saw Li Ergou, the "kitchen god" who Ma Hanshan said was the best in the world to make pig ears, and only then did he know that the emperor had an edict for him, and the "Qin Mission" who announced the decree arrived yesterday.

I've heard a lot of roadblock complaints, but it's really the first time I've heard of "blocking the road", Meng Liangheng is a little confused, what will the emperor send to himself? It's not like he withdrew his promotion before he took office.

However, Li Ergou immediately answered the doubts in his heart.

"My lord, Hu Bing has attacked Jinzhou, and the owner of the village said that my lord is going to make a great contribution." On the way to the county office, Li Ergou whispered.

"Ahh Hu Dog is going south again? When was it? Meng Liangheng was really surprised, he was only in a hurry these days, and the news was blocked.

"The second day of the fifth month." Li Ergou said.

"Ahh Hasn't it been ten days? Do you know how the war is going now? Meng Liangheng was surprised again, and was very worried about the war in Jinzhou.

But why didn't you hear anyone talk about it along the way? It stands to reason that it has been so many days, and the people have already spread it all over the people.

It's weird, it's weird.

Of course, it's weird, both sides are controlling the spread of the news.

"The little one doesn't know, but it doesn't matter, the division commander knows." Li Ergou smiled and said, "Master Meng, go and receive the order, after receiving the order, the head of the division should also be here, he knows everything." ”

The commander of the division, of course, is the militia battalion commander of the tile pot village, Shi Hualong, and now that the number of militia has increased, he will naturally be "promoted".

Meng Liangheng saw the person who delivered the decree in the county office, and took the decree and returned to Li Ergou's Yigao Inn, where Shi Hualong was really waiting.

Li Ergou introduced the two of them to each other, and then retired to prepare dinner, one is an important person in the tile pot village, and the other is the benefactor's worshipper brother, he will personally prepare a sumptuous dinner to show his gratitude.

"Lord Meng, there is a letter from the owner of the village to the lord here, please read the letter first." In the room, Meng Lianghui sat down and didn't know what to say to this big man who exuded a unique military temperament for a while, and he saw the whole picture at a glance, he always had doubts about the militia in the tile pot village before, and he always had a little disbelief in his heart, how could the militia of one hundred and ten people capture more than twice as many Hu soldiers?

But now he believes it, he doesn't have to look at this so-called militia, just from the body of this militia leader, he can see that this team is the essence, strong soldiers, this kind of solemn, confident, calm, tough, gestures full of rules and strength temperament, he has never seen it, whether it is the Xiang Army or the Forbidden Army, the Royal Forest Army or the palace guard, he can't find this temperament.

This kind of temperament is too special, he found that when this division commander is quiet, when he is indifferent to him, he is like a knife inserted in the scabbard, but once the division commander's aura is released, it immediately becomes a knife that is extremely sharp and unsheathed, a knife that can be broken by blowing, and kills without a shadow.

It was so aggressive that he felt pressured.

After opening the letter and reading the letter, Meng Liangheng finally understood what was going on.

"Brother Xian sent the division commander to follow me to Shiquan to kill the enemy, can the division commander know?" Meng Liangheng was very excited, and in the letter, Ma Hanshan not only told him how to fight the enemy, but also gave him 300 militia elites and a batch of new weapons to defeat the enemy.

"I know that three days ago, I ordered the necessary weapons and materials to be transported to Shiquan, and two days ago, three hundred children also went in batches, if there is no accident, they will be able to arrive at their destination tomorrow, at the latest in the morning." With his hands on his knees, Shi Hualong, who sat up straight, said lightly.

"Tomorrow? I remember that it was nearly a thousand miles to reach Rao Feng Pass here, and they... Can you get there in four days? How do you transport the supplies? Meng Liangheng was taken aback.

"Naturally, it is a horse-drawn carriage to transport supplies, and the further west you go, the more difficult the road will be, otherwise, they will only need two days to reach it by eight or nine hundred miles, of course, just during the day." Speaking of carriages, Shi Hualong smiled, the carriage of Wagang Village is the fastest and most transported carriage in the world.

Shi Hualong is not bragging, the four-wheeled carriage of the tile pot village, if it runs on an asphalt road like Wawan Avenue, the speed can reach fifty or sixty miles per hour, a thousand miles away, if you can drive even at night, you can arrive in one day and one night. Of course, there has to be a rotation of horses on the road.

According to Ma Hanshan's arrangement, the "ammunition" transported to Jinzhou this time is actually not much. Spanning an unknown number of generations, the number of weapons does not need to be too much, whether it is Raofeng Pass or Meridian Valley, the terrain is very narrow, as long as they bury mines on the way back to blow them up, and then use burning flasks and grenades to burn them for a round to scare their courage, it is enough to make them surrender.

The willingness to fight is very much affected by the combat effectiveness, if Hu Bing knows that this trip to the south is not the will of the imperial court at all, but the commander privately transfers troops, then their combat effectiveness will be greatly discounted immediately, the combat will is fragile, the combat ability is discounted, plus when encountering weapons that have never been seen before, let alone three or four thousand people, it is thirty or forty thousand people, it is not a worry.

And Ma Hanshan had already arranged for someone to spread the news of General Hu's private transfer to Hu Bing, and when Meng Liangheng and them arrived, the news happened to ferment for two or three days, which was the time when Hu Bing's mood fluctuated the most, that is, when his combat strength was the worst.......

It is not a myth that an army with strong fighting spirit meets an army with the worst combat power and willingness, coupled with the superiority of weapons and terrain, and is ten times better than itself.

"Okay, got it." Meng Liangheng pinched the letter given by Ma Hanshan in his hand, and his heart was at a loss, as if... He didn't need to make any preparations, Ma Hanshan had arranged everything for him, he just needed to rush to Jinzhou to lead the troops.

In fact, he didn't even need to receive soldiers, he just needed to go to the port to hand over power, and then he could act directly according to the plan.

Of course, he still didn't believe that the 300 militia in Mahanshan could block thousands of Hu soldiers. Moreover, Ma Hanshan also made it clear that he had to lead a small number of border troops to move in order to hide people's eyes. The letter made it very clear that the militia of the tile pot village could fight, but they did not need the credit, and from the beginning of the war to the end of the war, the militia could not show it to others.

After all, it was the first time to lead troops, and this night, Meng Liangheng actually lost sleep, in addition to repeatedly deducing the tactics that Ma Hanshan said in the letter, he was also very entangled in why the emperor asked him to lead the troops to resist the enemy, and he didn't understand why the emperor suddenly ordered him to be the vanguard officer of extermination.

He has never led a soldier, why does the emperor trust him so much? I really can't figure it out.

In any case, he couldn't have imagined that it was recommended by Ma Hanshan, who would associate this kind of thing with Ma Hanshan, he was just a grass man, just a small businessman, and the emperor... This... Is that enough? One in the sky and one on the ground.

The next day, before dawn, Meng Liangheng called Shi Hualong up, hurriedly ate early and rode west.

In the past, Meng Liangheng was not in a hurry to arrive, and Meng Liangheng almost did not rush to the horse, but now it is different, he can rush to Jinzhou as quickly as possible.

The military situation is like fire, it must be fast.

In fact, Hu soldiers have been camping outside Raofeng Pass for more than ten days, and they knock on the pass every day, but the offensive is not strong, and the number of troops has not increased.

This was originally a private action of the border army, and the purpose was not to attack the city and plunder the wall, but only to make a posture in order to promote some political purpose.

The defenders of Jinzhou were very frightened at the beginning, thinking that the Hu army was about to invade the south again, so they were frightened to appease Lizhou and urgently transferred reinforcements from other local troops, and also borrowed troops from Jinzhou Mansion Road and Jingnan Road to .......

However, they soon settled down, because they found that the Hu army did not increase its troops behind it, nor did they desperately attack the fortifications, so the defenders of Jinzhou were not alarmed. After a few more days, the decree of the imperial court came, ordering them to only hold the pass, and as for how to drive the enemy, what vanguard ...... the imperial court would send.

Therefore, in the past few days, it is convenient for both parties to go to work for a while, to attack the pass on time for a while, and to keep the ......pass for a while on time.

are all waiting, the Jinzhou defenders are waiting for the vanguard officer of the northern expedition, and the Hu army is waiting for the news of the Song Dynasty.

That's right, just waiting for the news of the Song Dynasty. The capital of Jingzhao Mansion has sold his life to Beimeng, and he led his troops to invade Songjing, originally to force Song Chaolian Mengkehu, only Emperor Song agreed to this strategy, and he withdrew his troops ....... Of course, if Hu Ting's speed was faster than Songchao's speed and he was forced to retreat, he would have to retreat to .......