Chapter 394 Intelligence Support(1/2)
The royal city of Song Ting seemed a little chaotic because of the robbery of the Taimiao, but the main chaos was the upper class, and the people were more concerned about their own food, clothing, housing and transportation. No matter what the men above thought, everyone still had to live. Therefore, although there was a bit of a mess on the street, there were also a lot of people.
Tianyou and the others sneaked into the city without any danger, and then easily lived in a family.
This family is not a hotel, but an ordinary family in the city. There is an old woman over 60 years old and two children, one older and one younger. The older one is a boy, who looks like he is thirteen or fourteen years old, and has gradually become the pillar of the family. The little girl is just eight years old and is very sensible and busy helping with housework. In this kind of helpless family, the child will have to wait to starve to death if he doesn't have an early independence.
This house is actually pretty good, at least it has a pretty big house. Although the old and young are young, they are somewhat capable of working and living a little bit difficult, but it is not too difficult.
The reason why Tianyou liked this is because they are not regular hotels, so the probability of accepting inspection is relatively low. Of course, the excuse is that the price is cheap, so you can't tell them directly that they chose his family just to avoid inspection.
The one who brought Tianyou and the others back was the big boy. He met at the city gate before. He was very curious about Tianyou and the juggling team, so he came up to have a chat. After a while, he talked about where he lived, and then the child took the initiative to say that he could live in his house and explained the situation at home. When Tianyou thought it was indeed quite suitable, he agreed to go and take a look first. As a result, he lived there.
After cleaning up inside and outside the house, two wolf soldiers guarded the door. Only then did Tianyou and the others gathered together to start the discussion.
The information I received at the city gate before was summarized in one sentence: the Qin people robbed Taimiao, and the King of Song was furious and chopped down the guards of Taimiao. Although the content was simple, the information content was not low. If you disassemble it, you can get at least three useful information, namely: the Taimiao was robbed, the Qin people attacked, and the guards of Taimiao died.
The first piece of information is that the robbery of the Taimiao is the most important information. Because such a major event occurs, the guards must make adjustments to this situation. The horse team that Tianyou and the others encountered when they entered the city was the reaction of the robbery of the Taimiao. Judging from the current situation, the reaction of the Song State was obviously quite fierce. Then, the direct consequence of this reaction is that part of the guarding power of the Taimiao will be pulled away, no matter how many, it is still less than before. After all, the action policy of the national destiny task of the Song State was originally focused on robbery, and there were not many guarding powers. If a group was pulled away, the remaining ones would naturally be even smaller.
Let’s look at the third message. The Taimiao Guardian was cut down by the King of Song, which means that the Taimiao Guardian was replaced. It was originally a taboo for changing generals in the last battle, but the Song King had already cut down the people, so it was impossible to resurrect again, right? So, the Taimiao Guardian had changed.
No matter what the origin of this new guard general is, his mastery of the following personnel and the situation of the Taimiao will definitely not be better than that of the former guard general, so there must be loopholes in this ineffective command and unclear situation. If Tianyou and the others are lucky, the guard general may be a newcomer who doesn’t know anything.
The reason for such speculation is mainly to consider it from the perspective of human nature.
King Song has already cut down a guard general, so other generals will naturally be nervous. Now it is a mission in the national destiny, and the lost gold bricks have not been recovered. The first problem faced by the new guard general after taking office is to recover the gold bricks. It can be said that he has to take over the mess left by the guard general in front of him. Not to mention that the guard general of Taimiao is not a fat man, even at this critical moment, no one would be willing to take up this position. So after everyone blames each other, the real young newcomer who is unqualified and has no experience. Although this kind of person is more enthusiastic, it is actually far less difficult to deal with as old fried dough sticks. It will be relatively easier to find their loopholes.
These three or two pieces of information are questions about the Song State, but as for this second, it is from Tianyou and others.
The people who came were Qin, that is, there was a support team. Although the robbery operations in the national destiny mission mostly appeared in a strong attack, this does not mean that there were no early reconnaissance and later aftermath personnel. Although the group of people who just left left left, these support personnel usually did not leave so quickly. Some people even chose to live in the Song State so that they could better disguise and integrate into the local environment so that the enemy could not detect it.
Tianyou and the others decided to come to Song State to see the situation, but this does not mean that they do not have an official identity. Therefore, without a more proactive team occupying these peripheral resources, Tianyou and their request for support services is completely possible. In the action policy emphasized by Tianyou, intelligence has always been the top priority. Every action he designed, the real hands-on process can often end completely within a few hours, but before that, he would spend a few days or even half a month searching for information and familiarizing with external information such as terrain and environment.
If external personnel provide intelligence and various peripheral services this time, it means that Tianyou can save most of the preparation time. He can even launch an attack overnight to catch Song State off guard. You should know that the Song State Taimiao has just been robbed, and it is in a chaotic time. If you miss this opportunity, it will be difficult to encounter the second time again. Tianyou does not want to miss this opportunity, so this information is particularly important now.
Regarding the information obtained, the few people discussed for a long time together, but finally decided to find a way to find a contact with the local intelligence support staff. As a result, just as Bai Bingyu was sent away, Tianyou began to miss her again. It was not because of something else, but because he didn't know how to contact the intelligence staff of Qin.
Although Bai Bingyu may not know the intelligence personnel of Qin, the Bai family has a special identity after all, and Bai Bingyu should have known some ways to connect with local intelligence personnel. However, Tianyou now found that it was too hasty to send Bai Bingyu and the others away. Now the eight members of the team, Pang Dahai, Qi Xiaomei, and Zhao Lingyun, are all foreign players, and the two wolf soldiers are all foreign people. Even the people in the Shenzhou Continent are not considered to be half of the Qin people. Tianyou himself can only be considered half of the Qin people, and there are two left, but they are not even people. No one in this group knows how to connect with intelligence personnel.
"Or why we all go on the street and maybe we can find something?" Pang Dahai asked as he looked at everyone.
Tianyou shook his head. "No need to work hard. If those people can escape the search of the Song people, they will definitely make us find nothing. It is impossible to find them from the vast sea of people in the King of Song City, at least with our manpower and time."
"What should we do?"
"We can't find them, so we can ask them to come to us."
"But how do you ask them to come to us on their own initiative?" Everyone obviously did not agree with Tianyou's words.
...
"Tianyou, is this really OK?"
The next morning, eight people, including Hu Qingxuan, who was prone to trouble, appeared together near the busiest street intersection in the city. Several boxes surrounded a small performance venue against the walls. The puppet sea held a bamboo that was more than two meters long, and was covered with various colors of flags. It would flutter with a little movement.
Tianyou whispered to comfort Pang Dahai: "I've come here, I can't just go back like this, right?"
"What Tianyou said is that you have to try it before you know." Zhao Lingyun also cheered Pang Dahai on the side.
Helplessly, Pang Dahai had to nodded in agreement, and at this time Tianyou had already walked to the center of the venue and bowed. "Dear those who come from south and north, stop and take a look. We are a juggling team traveling around. Recently, we first arrived in Guidi, and I will show you an ugly appearance at this vegetable market. If you like it and are happy, please give me some rewards. I don't think there is too much ingots, and we don't think there is too little copper coins, so I can make a living..." After some scenes, Tianyou introduced Pang Dahai's performance, and then reached out and stepped aside and gave Pang Dahai to the center of the venue.
Although he had never learned juggling, Pang Dahai was a monk after all, and with his strength, the two-meter-long big bamboo and a pile of things on the mountain surface would have to be about a hundred pounds. However, in his hand, it felt as light as a reed pole. When he waved it, it was really booming. The flags on it were even louder and immediately attracted a lot of attention.
Pang Dahai, who had no rules, saw that he was waving randomly, and even cheered, he was no longer nervous. He deliberately lowered the bamboo pole and flew over the crowd's head, causing a burst of exclamation. However, when the flagpole flew over and found that no one was injured, everyone knew that this was intentional. As a result, because of the accelerated heartbeat and the excessive secretion of adrenaline when he was nervous, the crowd began to get excited. Some people who had just watched casually before simply put down their things and stood there to watch for a long time.
Although the Shenzhou Continent is not the earth, the two places are really similar, especially in China. At least the people in the two places have similar hobbies to watch the fun. After some people stopped to watch, they soon attracted more people to get a glimpse of the truth. As a result, Tianyou, their small juggling team, was surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside. From time to time, you can hear the crowds inside cheering with the performance.
Fan San was originally going to buy meat today. Today, he was in a good mood and planned to let the children eat some good food, so he could buy two taels of wine and enjoy it. However, when he walked to the entrance of the vegetable market, he found that there were a large group of people gathered here. Fan San originally didn't want to watch this lively, but just as he turned around and was about to leave, he suddenly saw a familiar pattern in the crowd and flashed by.
Fan San, who was obviously stunned for a moment, stopped leaving now, and began to squeeze in as he pulled favors. With his strength and skill, he quickly squeezed into the front of the crowd.
I saw a very young but well-developed girl in the crowd, lying on a bench at this time. The two men next to her seemed to have difficulty lifting a bluestone slab and put it on the little girl.
I have seen a big stone on my chest, but I asked the little girl to act. This is the first time I heard of it. However, sometimes the crowd likes to hunt for curiosity. Although some people show expressions of impatience and fear, no one makes a sound to stop it. Even those who pretend to cover their faces and dare not watch are secretly looking out from the gap between their fingers.
The stone slab was soon put down, and everyone had guessed what to do next. Sure enough, the strong man who was playing the banner had walked over with a sledgehammer and made a gesture to smash it. The strong man was so big and round, and looked like a blind bear with a head turned into a sperm. The sledgehammer was so huge that it could smash the ground out with one hammer. The little girl under the stone slab was so slender and petite. With such a small body, how could she withstand the sledgehammer that such an exaggerated sledgehammer was swung by such a strong man?
However, the huge sea in the field had already raised a large hammer and swung it hard. However, just when the hammer head was almost touching the stone slab, Tianyou suddenly shouted: "Wait a minute."
Dong...
Pang Dahai tilted his hand and hit the hammer head directly on the ground next to him, and immediately cracked the stone bricks on the ground. The people standing around felt their feet shaking violently.
"What are you doing? I almost flashed my waist!" Pang Dahai turned around and complained, but it caused a burst of laughter around him.
Tianyou came over while apologizing, bowed to the crowd around him and said, "I'm sorry, I forgot to verify it for you before. Now I'll ask a few fellow villagers to help verify whether our hammer is a hammer and whether our stone slab is a real stone slab."
"I'll do it."
"I'll come too."
“…”
Someone who had good things immediately came out to verify the situation. One of the young masters dressed up and hugged the big hammer, lifted it up first and didn't hold it up. Then he put his hands on it together, and his face turned red and his neck was thick. Tianyou hurried over and praised, "This young master is so strong. The young man was performing some other people before, and few people could lift it up. Unexpectedly, the young master looked weak and his health was not bad."
"That's natural." The man quickly put down the hammer and retreated proudly into the crowd. Someone asked him if it was true to take the hammer, and he immediately swears to describe how heavy the hammer is. If he doesn't believe it, he will still quarrel with people.
The stone slab on the other side was also confirmed by several perverts to verify that it was really a stone slab and thickened. The four people on the other side just lifted the stone slab a little bit.
Tianyou and the others used it as real guys, so of course they wouldn't be afraid of verification. As for the little sister Qi who was cushioned underneath... with the base of the King Kong skeleton and the body of a half corpse, it would be a little bit likely to hurt her at the level of a siege hammer. As for this kind of stone slab and iron hammer, it would be similar to the old man and the old lady holding a wooden hammer while walking, and at most it would just loosen her muscles and bones.
After the verification was completed, Tianyou brought a plate to ask for money. Everyone was anxious to see the big stones on their chests. They basically gave money if they had the conditions. After a round, they really collected a lot of money back. Of course, Tianyou and the others were not really here to make extra money. This little money was not enough to do anything, but they did a whole set of acting, which was so concealed by the snooping of those who were interested.
The performance soon continued. Pang Dahai swung his hammer and knocked it down. Not only did the stone slab crack, but the bench below also fell apart. However, Xiaomei Qi lifted off the gravel on her body, and a carp jumped up. Obviously, there was nothing wrong. She bowed her hand to salute the audience, and there was a thunderous applause from time to time. However, someone had a strange look and glanced at the flagpole inserted in the pile of debris by the wall, because the three flags on the top were obviously of no use.
At first glance, the three flags seemed to be hanging randomly on them like other flags, but apart from the complicated patterns, you can see that there was actually tiger pattern hidden in the top flag.
This tiger pattern is a symbol of Qin, like a national flag. Of course, the Shenzhou Continent does not have a national flag concept in the modern sense, but the tiger pattern is indeed used in various official activities of Qin.
If the tiger pattern is hidden in the flag alone, it is nothing. The key is that the two flags under the tiger pattern are embroidered with crooked alfalfa on one side, and a navy blue background is used, while the other side is purple-red.
Those who don’t know naturally did not respond when they saw these three flags, but those who know could tell at a glance that because, including the black flag embroidered with tiger patterns, the black, green and purple three-color flags mean "the army moves, and the scouts gather toward this". If the alfalfa logo of the "peasant army" in the Qin army and the tiger pattern logo on it, the meaning of the three-color flag is self-evident. This is summoning the Qin army scouts to gather.
Fan San, who was among the onlookers, looked at the flag and changed his mind. His first reaction was surprise, surprised at the courage of these people. His second reaction was doubt, wondering why these people had to hang up the flag to summon scouts in Song Realm. There shouldn't be scouts here. However, his third reaction soon appeared, that was enlightenment.
There are no scouts in the Song realm, but they are here. After leaving the Qin State, the scouts are doing things in detail. Summoning scouts here, isn’t that summoning them?
Fan San's mind changed a few times, but in the end he figured out what Tianyou and the others meant.
"We can't let them continue to perform like this, otherwise something will happen sooner or later." Fan San, who thought it through, determined, then turned around and squeezed out of the crowd, and soon came to the government office and asked to meet a Qin spy who he knew but had never contacted.
This man was surprised to see Fan San, but he also knew that Fan San was a spy like him. Although the two had never formally contacted each other before, they had met each other, so he knew that something must be wrong for Fan San to come here at this time.
The two of them soon came to a place where no one was around, and the man asked Fan San: "What are you doing when you come to me at this time? Didn't the team in front just leave? Is there another task?"
"I don't know if it is." General Fan San said to the man what he saw before.
The man thought about it, then frowned and pondered for a while, and finally said, "I understand. Don't worry about this matter first. Go back quickly. I'll deal with what you should do."
After parting with Fan San, Wang Wu turned around and crawled back to the yamen. After a while, he ran out with a group of yamen run away. Wang Wu's identity is not an ordinary yamen runner, but a patrol leader. This is a very strange position. He is a constable and has a low grade, but he has the right to walk freely across the country. He is not affiliated with a certain yamen, nor does he listen to the local prefect's orders, but only directly responsible to the Ministry of Justice. It can be said that this position is a central commissioner, with little official position and great power. Moreover, unlike those special commissioners who specialize in the current affairs of later generations, this patrol leader can manage everything big and small. As long as you break the law, there is nothing they can't control.
He brought a group of yamen runners to Caishikou. Wang Wu gave a wink. The yamen runners immediately stepped forward to disperse the crowd, and then rushed in to interrupt Tianyou and the others' behavior of performing arts.
"Stop, stop, who asked you guys to set up stalls here? Have you ever greeted the yamen? Have you ever signed a market sign?"
"This... Dear sirs, I don't know! I don't know what to do? The villain is willing to do it now." Tianyou hurried forward to explain.
Wang Wu just hung up a chain on Tianyou's wrist: "It's time to do it. Now you have made a mistake, which has affected the normal traffic in the market. Let's go back and explain it clearly to me first." I'm afraid that Tianyou and the others would discover the performance here, so Wang Wu was very anxious and wanted to take the person away.
Unfortunately, Tianyou didn't know that this was the person he was looking for, and he thought he was really in trouble. "No, sir. We are all suffering, so don't be as good as us. Look, this is all the income we earn today, and I'm honoring you."
Wang Wu looked back and his eyes changed several times in an instant, and finally decided to take a risk and try it. "Okay, it's not easy to come from other places. Our Song Dynasty is a country of etiquette, so we won't make things difficult for you." He collected the wallet in his hand, "This is a fine. Don't set up a stall here, hurry up and go back first. By the way, tell me where you live. I'll go to sign for you in person in the evening, and then you can perform normally. And..." Wang Wu said as he suddenly turned over and put down the bamboo pole and slashed it under the three flags on the top, chopping down the three flags on the top together.
Throwing the flag on the ground, Wang Wu continued, "This pole is too high and is suspected of violating the rules. You are not allowed to use such a long pole in the future. I see this flag, don't take it out again, let me see it again, and you want it to look good. Do you understand?" Wang Wu also pinched Tianyou's shoulders.
Tianyou felt the power on his shoulders and immediately realized in his heart that he had found an organization. He was afraid that he would expose his target and let him quickly escape.
After understanding this, Tianyou also relaxed and quickly stopped the people of Pan Dahai who were about to get angry. He sent Wang Wu away with a bunch of good words, left an address, and waited for the evening to get in touch.
After the yamen runners were withdrawn, Tianyou returned to the venue and bowed to the onlookers, said some apologies, and then hurriedly packed up their things and returned to their residence. Those who didn't know thought they were blackmailed by the yamen runners and dared not perform anymore, but in fact, Tianyou had achieved his goal and there was no need to stay here anymore.
As Tianyou left, Wang Wu also breathed a sigh of relief. Although the flag was a rule used in the Qin army, outsiders may not know it, it is difficult to guarantee that someone in the Song State could recognize it. Moreover, the tiger pattern was hidden under a bunch of messy patterns, otherwise Fan San, who came to report the news before, would not have recognized it at first sight.
Opening the purse that Tianyou got, Wang Wu flipped through it, took out the two largest silver slots, and threw the rest to the others behind. "Divid it."
"Thank you Brother Wu." "It turns out that I have meat to eat with Brother Wu."
The yamen runners later praised Wang Wu while sharing the spoils, but Wang Wu knew very well that these people were obsessed with his benefits and could not count on difficulties. However, he had been undercover in the Song State for many years, so he no longer cared about these things.
After get off work, Wang Wu walked to Ningcui Tower. After ticking the girl with good looks, he hugged her and hugged her into the house. After the girl inserted the door, Wang Wu jumped down from behind. The girl was not surprised, but naturally closed the window, turned around and put away the silver and letters on the table. After careful hiding, he came to the table. His mouth made a man's voice, and soon he changed to a female voice to ask and answered questions. It turned out that this girl could actually do verb skills, and she performed a conversation between two people alone. Of course, this was not an ordinary girl. She was also a fine work of Qin. She was sent here at the age of eight and lurking here for more than ten years. No ordinary people would have thought that she would be a fine work.
After carefully walking through the streets and alleys, deliberately avoiding the patrol soldiers, Wang Wu finally found the yard at the address.
He was very careful and entered the yard without any hesitation, thinking about observing it first. As a result, as soon as he arrived at the roof on the edge of the yard, he felt something strange behind him. He looked back in confusion, but was scared and almost rolled down from the roof. It turned out that a big monster bird fell behind him. When he looked confidently, it turned out to be a winged bird. His blood-red eyes and fine white teeth were all creepy.
However, the winged bird did not attack him, but stared at him like this. Seeing that he was not moving for a long time, he suddenly stretched out his wings, which scared Wang Wu so much that he thought it was going to attack. As a result, he hid more than ten feet away and found out that the person was not trying to attack, but just stretched his wings and pointed to the yard. This was clearly what he meant to let him go.
Wang Wu was surprised before that even if these people were not professional and detailed works, they should be a little alert. There was no secret whistle left on the roof in the middle of the night. Now I understand everything. It’s not that they don’t have secret whistle, but that they have the ability to command monsters to keep watch. With this monster, it’s more useful than any guard.
Since he had been discovered, Wang Wu could not observe secretly anymore. He jumped over and flipped down from the roof. There were three rows of houses in the yard. The lights on the east and south sides had been turned off, and only the candlelight on the north side showed through the room. Wang Wu took a look and walked straight towards the room with the lights on. When he reached the door, he wanted to knock on the door, but the door just opened from inside.
"Please, the master is waiting."
Wang Wu was stunned at the first glance after the door opened, because there was a pretty woman standing in the door who was not as beautiful as a stranger. Then he realized that this was really not a human being. The three snow-white tails swaying behind him had already revealed their identity. This was a fox demon, and he had reached the realm of the three tails.
"Get in." After a moment of silence, he was urged. Wang Wu hurriedly walked in.
To be continued...