On both sides of the wooden bridge, there are two rows of wooden fences three feet high. In this way, the crocodile can not climb the bridge, no matter how crowded the people and horses on the bridge can not fall into the river, and once after the evening, the bridge is pulled up and erected on the city wall, the whole pond city becomes an island in the crocodile pool, as Huang Longhu said, it is impossible to cross the river without knowing it, after all, no matter how many people go down the river, it will become food for the crocodile.

Fang Ling slowly walked across the wooden bridge, observed all the details outside the city, came to the city gate, and handed over the road guide. The road guide is the proof of leaving the hometown, all countries on the earth have this rule, all the hundred miles away from the hometown, need the local government to give a pass and other documents, that is, the road guide, so that you can prove the identity.

Fang Ling's guide is naturally forged, to the point that the king has a lot of resources at his disposal, just one sentence, a pair of road guides issued by the official can easily fall into his hands, and it will not arouse the suspicion of others at all.

This road leads to indicate that Fang Ling is a person from Dingzhou in the north, the family is a wang family, has been doing business for generations, and the carriages brought by his entourage are also carrying more precious silk and other materials, because Tanzhou is mainly wary of people from Xingzhou, so Fang Ling and others entered the city very easily.

Tancheng is a relatively small county, the population of the entire county is only a few hundred thousand, as the county seat of Tancheng its population is only a hundred thousand, and now there is a sudden influx of 150,000 Yizhou troops, making the whole town seem quite crowded, and you can see patrolling soldiers everywhere.

After finding the inn where they were staying, and after the group chose a room, Fang Ling asked Lu Bei to take the waist card to find Huang Longhu's spies.

It didn't take long for Lubei to come back with a lean young man, who was only twenty-seven or eighteen years old, and looked as thin as a monkey, but he walked briskly, which showed that he was quite accomplished in light skills.

Fang Ling couldn't help but secretly appreciate, he had already read the list of spies, and he felt that Huang Longhu still had some capable people, this young man's name was Hou Qi, he was a lieutenant in the army, and he was good at light espionage and shouldered the task of espionage in Tancheng.

As soon as the young man entered the door, he immediately knelt on the ground and shouted respectfully, "Hou Qi greets your lord!"

As soon as Fang Ling heard this, he knew that Huang Longhu's secret letter to the spies did not mention his identity, so it was okay, the less people knew about the fact that he was the King of Shicheng, after all, this was in the camp of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, and the slightest leak of the news would cause death.

He waved his hand slightly and said, "It seems that Brother Hou has received a secret letter from General Huang, so I won't have to explain." ”

Hou Qigong arched his hand and said: "The general's secret letter instructed me and my twenty-nine spies to obey the orders of the adults. ”

Fang Ling bowed his head and said: "Very good, then Brother Hou, you can tell me about the distribution of the enemy army in Tancheng." ”

Hou Qi took out a prepared map of Tancheng from his arms, spread it out in front of the table, and then pointed while saying: "My lord, the total strength of the enemy army is currently about 150,000, commanded by the southern general Chang Bai, Chang Bai lives in the county lord's mansion, there are 3,000 defenders inside and outside the mansion, which is very tight, there are two large military camps on the left and right sides of the mansion, with a total of 40,000 troops, 10,000 troops are stationed at each of the four city gates, and the remaining more than 60,000 troops are scattered in important parts of the city. ”