On the second watch day, the restaurant is not very busy, and the guests who were still drinking themselves have also left, so on such a winter night, no matter how good the scenery outside, there is always a place waiting to go back.

The fire in the back kitchen has not been extinguished, the soup to be used tomorrow is still hanging, the apprentices brought by the two cooks themselves have already left after finishing their chores, and Su Yu also ran to the counter in a hurry:

"Shopkeeper, people are going back with their brother-in-law, see you tomorrow!"

"See you tomorrow."

Gu Huai smiled and watched Su Yu being pulled out by Lao Jia with a tense old face, and made a kind appearance while stroking the two stained mustaches.

When the figures of the two disappeared in front of the restaurant, Gu Huai put away his smile, Wei Laosan stepped forward and closed the door panel, and the guys in the restaurant walked out from all corners and sat down at the table without saying a word, waiting for Gu Huai to walk to the main seat.

"Let's talk about it, summarize the news I heard, and the information sent from all over the place."

"Hey, what's the news, what can these soldiers know," Gu Yu, who was in charge of buying vegetables, put a towel on his shoulder, "It's not that women are bragging, chatting about some days when they can't get on the stage, there is a guy who looks like a small colonel entered the restaurant and I went over to listen to it for a long time, but they complained that the barracks were too poor, a tent was crowded with three times as many people, and the smelly feet hurt people's heads..."

Wei Laosan also said loudly: "I also heard someone complaining about this when they were drinking, they also said that there were more faces in the barracks, and the two groups of people had a fight last night, tsk, if we changed our barracks, the fight would have been thrown out before the fight started, these southern soldiers are real waste, and they will only be in the nest." ”

Xiao Man, who was not very old but behaved extremely well, also nodded, indicating that he had not heard any useful news.

Mang Chong on the side took out a few secret letters, which were sent by several other groups of spies lurking in Texas, and they were also trivial things, and even the ones sent from the barracks were nothing worth noting.

Gu Huai thought about it for a while, and gently tapped the table to signal a few people to concentrate: "It seems that there are some things that you still haven't understood... Do you remember what I said about Jinling Jinyiwei? ”

Several people nodded.

Gu Huai continued: "As the most powerful spy yamen in the world, we can't learn the practice of Jinyi Wei's wealth, we can only learn ideas, they use countless spies from Shinong Industry and Commerce to stare at the big tomorrow, what do you think is the big news sent to Jinling every day?" Wrong! The commander of the Jinyi Guard, Master Pei Xipei, asked me to observe him sorting out information once, and on his desk, there was a pile of this kind of information that you think is useless, and the Jinyi Guard is using this means to monitor the world. ”

He looked at Gu Yu: "They said that there were three times as many people sleeping in a tent at night, what does this mean?" At least their military tent is certainly not enough, right? ”

Gu Yu was stunned: "Lord Chief, what's the use of this?" ”

"What's the use? First, this shows that Texas' military supplies are very scarce, and if the military tent is like this, will other things be the same? Is there a problem with the logistical supply line? Is it possible to find out how logistics are transported, and then burn such flammable items as military tents? Second, if they can't sleep well at night, their combat effectiveness will inevitably be affected, and Li Jinglong is stepping up training these days, and the fatigue has accumulated over time, will the soldiers sleep to death directly on which day? Will the defense of the barracks be affected? Wouldn't this provide great convenience for night raids? ”

He paused: "And the most important point, epidemic prevention in the army is extremely important, it is winter, if it is summer, a large number of soldiers gather, once the epidemic starts, what kind of scene will it be?" What would happen if you had known about this situation in advance and thrown some sick cats and dogs into the barracks, as long as a few soldiers were infected with the plague? This is just my hasty thought, do you think this information is useful? ”

Gu Yu was speechless, and slapped his thigh fiercely after a while: "So that's the case!" Humble duty understood! ”

Gu Huai looked at Wei Laosan again: "It's not all, there are more faces, the Xiangyang soldiers and the Fengyang soldiers are crowded in a tent, and even fight, is this because the defeated soldiers who were sheltered didn't have time to disperse and resettle, or is it because Li Jinglong deliberately disrupted the establishment and practiced?" Can we do something about this? ”

He took a few secret letters in Mangzhong's hand, and while recalling the things that Pei Xi was doing day after day in the small courtyard in the Jinyi Guard's Office, he slowly analyzed it, and he also answered the questions of several spies, and only when the candlelight dimmed did he conclude:

"Do you get it? An unintentional remark may reveal important information, we are spies, from the military situation to the people's livelihood, we have to pay attention, just with some seemingly inconsequential small things, we may succeed in turning the tide of the war, which is much greater than the role you used to wield a knife and kill people in the army. ”

He glanced at the three spies with the solar term code name: "Now that I'm here, I can still compile and sort out this information, but what if one day there are battlefields on all sides, and you need to be alone?" I know that you are the best in the secret spy department, otherwise you would not have this codename, but you must remember that there is still a lot to learn, and since this spy should have a keen sense of smell, it needs to be cultivated to make it work. ”

Several people nodded one after another, only Wei Laosan, who had been reduced from a secret spy to a personal guard, was a little aggrieved.

Gu Huai picked up the secret letter sent by the secret spy who accompanied the defeated army of the imperial court to the south and mixed into the southern army under the pretense of having a meal: "There is a lesson from Beiping last time, Li Jinglong will not make too many mistakes this time, the news they sent back is not much more than what you have heard, let them mix in it first, if they can't get an important position, they won't be able to get important military information after all, but at the critical moment, they should cooperate with the outside world, and they should also be able to play a big role." ”

After saying so many words, he was a little tired: "Is there anything else to say?" If there's no other news, go back to sleep. ”

In the end, I still didn't understand what the reason for the restaurant's poor business was, who the hell said that the wine was not afraid of deep alleys? Obviously, they all used monosodium glutamate, a secret weapon that can greatly improve freshness, but as a result, there were still not as many people who came to eat as expected, so that Gu Huai wanted to change careers to sell spirits, anyway, Qiu Ba was good at this bite, and the purification method made by perfume before can still be used, and now there is no need to consider the cost.

He waved his hand and motioned for a few people to go down, and saw Wei Laosan's black face suffocating uncomfortably, and he looked like he wanted to speak and stopped: "What, do you have something to say?" ”

Probably because the chief official's face was a little unsightly, Wei Laosan ate and said, "I... I also heard them talk to a girl before, I thought that the girl's business was nothing great, but after listening to these words of adults, I was panicked, and I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to sleep well tonight if I didn't say it. ”

Gu Huaiqi said: "Girl? What? ”

"They said that Li Jinglong brought a girl with him, who usually wore military uniforms and pretended to be a personal soldier, serving beside him, as if he had only come to Texas... By the way, that girl can't stay in the barracks, when Li Jinglong patrols the camp during the day, she seems to have secretly come to Texas City, and those soldiers seem to look down on Li Jinglong, scolding while talking... It's useless, is it? ”

Gu Huai was silent for a long time, took a deep breath, and stood up: "Third child, there is so much news tonight, this one..."

"It's the most useful."

……

Late at night, Li Jinglong finished his patrol and returned to his military tent, and after disarmouring him, the two personal soldiers bowed down and withdrew from the military tent, leaving him sitting on a chair with his butt left, his legs sinking as if they had been filled with lead.

After such a fiasco, and the ups and downs of that will, he is now much more sober and understands what the war is all about, this is not a night talk, nor a wind and snow, nor a lupine scarf that has insight into everything, but the creepy sound of the sword piercing into the body, the bright red blood splattered everywhere, the hoarse screams of the dying soldiers, and the trembling that night when he was in the middle of the army on the official road and watched the shouts of killing sound on both sides at the same time, without the slightest sense of security.

In fact, he has doubts about himself these days, and his ambition to cross the Yellow River from Yingtianfu has been half cold, and he can't help but ask himself, compared with the young friend Zhu Di who played with his life opposite, can he really win this cruel war?

But no matter what he thinks, Huang Zicheng has already followed him all the way to the dark, and the court has not removed the coach, so he can only go hard.

So these days he had to use camp patrols and training every day to suppress those fears, and he didn't dare to stop, just because he could see the tragedy of that night when he closed his eyes.

He stared blankly at the order arrow on the handsome case, he knew very well that although he could comfort and excuse himself with victory and defeat, but if he failed again, it would not be a common thing, holding hundreds of thousands of heavy troops but constantly losing to Zhu Di, who had much less troops than himself, not to mention that he couldn't explain when he returned to the capital, and those generals who were still afraid of Shuai Yin would not give him a good look.

After all, he is Li Wenzhong's son, after all, he wants face, and the only choice to save his reputation is to defeat Zhu Di, but how easy is this to say? Zhu Di's military ability is obviously stronger than his own, and most of the soldiers under his command have been in war for a long time, as well as those Mongolian cavalry who kill people without blinking, if he wants to defeat him, these hundreds of thousands of troops and the reinforcements that will arrive later may not be reliable.

I'm going to have to find some help... But who can you turn to?

Before he could come up with a result, the curtain in the military tent that separated the sleeping place was opened, and the figure in the ill-fitting personal guard light armor walked behind Li Jinglong and pouted playfully.

The figure took off his helmet, his black hair scattered, and it turned out to be a woman.

She gently wrapped her arms around Li Jinglong's neck, leaned close to his ear, and hit Li Jinglong's ear with the breath of orchids:

"I've got you, General."

Li Jinglong opened his eyes abruptly and grasped the sword beside his hand.