Chapter 1,755 Intelligence

"Really?!" Pu Shan suddenly became excited: "Situ, you are Yixi Weishe, you don't want to deceive others to make them happy!"

"Kill the talent!" Su You couldn't help but cursed: "Military plans must follow changes in the current situation. Even I can't say it accurately. I'm just talking about the general trend!"

Pu Shan was already satisfied, and the Tibetan people were also thoughtful and knew that the truth could not be found out from the mouths of big men. What Su You said could basically be regarded as the truth.

When they returned to the castle, Liu Yun had already returned and was taking off his camouflage. When he saw Su You, he immediately ran over and stood still. He put his right hand on his eyebrows and said, "General Liu Yun, salute Situ!"

At first glance, he looked like an academy soldier. This year, the imperial court changed the military system, the military salute was changed to a hand-raised salute, and the honors were changed to a "honor list" similar to later generations' qualification plaques.

Civil servants such as Su You who have outstanding military achievements are not qualified to wear military uniforms and display medals when the court has not awarded them military titles. In theory, the four-way transport envoy is still a civilian, so although Su You

I am so envious of him, but in formal occasions, I can only wear the purple robe of a civil servant.

Su You smiled and said, "What's your idea of ​​running a blackboard newspaper?"

"Yes!" Liu Yun said: "It is mainly used to teach soldiers how to read."

Su You nodded with satisfaction: "There are a lot of innovations in this castle. You guys like to use your brains. You don't have to wait and think of solutions. There are many ideas in them. I want to promote them in the four directions."

Liu Yun said: "Actually, I think we, the military, should also run a newspaper."

"Eh?" Su You happily patted Liu Yun's shoulder: "Good boy! It's really good to have such knowledge!"

"But I am a foreign minister now, and I only have the right to make suggestions. I will report your suggestion to the court truthfully. I don't know whether the court will adopt it or not."

Liu Yun smiled and said: "Situ's suggestion, the court will definitely listen to it. By the way, during this investigation, some things were discovered, and we need to report to Situ."

Su You said: "Let's go to the combat staff room."

When he came to the operational staff room, Liu Yun pointed at the map: "Last month, we discovered that there were abnormal movements of the Liao people on the opposite side, so we led five soldiers to investigate."

"Now it has been found that there are still three thousand garrison troops in Maitreya Village, one thousand troops in Feihu Village and one thousand troops in Yingyang Village in the other two villages, and most of them are old and weak."

"The Emperor's uncle of the Liao Kingdom took away more than 20,000 people from the Feihu front line!"

Su You asked: "Did you send a telegram to Daming Mansion?"

Liu Yun nodded: "We have already asked the telegraph team to do it."

"Then your mission is completed. Come on and accompany me to stew soybeans."

"..." Liu Yun was stunned: "Situ..."

Su You smiled and said: "I know what you are thinking. Let me ask you, Liu Yun, what are the duties of the defenders of Huatazipu?"

Liu Yun stood at attention and said: "Report to Situ! Our military mission is to strictly prevent the Liao people from infiltrating and breaking through our borders! If there is any military deployment and mobilization, it is necessary to promptly find out the changes in its military strength, military trends, generals, warehouse supplies, and combat capabilities.

, infer its general military intention, and report it to the Fourth Route Capital Strategy Department and the Fourth Route Capital Transport Department in a timely manner for the two departments’ detailed information!”

"If the Liao army attempts to break through our defense line, it must be resolutely attacked. If necessary, the battle line can be advanced to the enemy's territory that is beneficial to our army!"

"Stop talking nonsense! You always add fuel to the fire!" Zheke was very dissatisfied when it was his turn: "Liu Piaopiao, let me tell you, the second task is my job, and your child's task is the first!"

Su You smiled and said: "You can use your subjective initiative. In addition to general military reconnaissance, you can also think of pretending to be merchants to go deep into the Liao territory to investigate. This is already within the scope of Jiyi Division's espionage activities. In fact, it has exceeded your duties."

"However, I am not the military commander, and my military responsibilities are not within my jurisdiction, so I can only comment on the results of your move."

"To be honest, you have successfully or even exceeded the tasks assigned to you by the summit. I appreciate it very much."

"But what I want to tell you is that on the entire Song and Liao front lines, the intelligence sources are not just your flower tower shop. There are countless front-line military camps like yours along the thousands of miles of border, as well as countless secret spies, and

Merchants, herdsmen, and even Liao officials who provided intelligence..."

"Therefore, the information you know is limited and single-point; and the four-way general strategy department is the most complete, global, and network-like."

"Come on, accompany me to cook a few pots of mutton for the soldiers. I can tell you some overall things."

There was a lot of flour and salt in the village, so Su You asked the cook to save the mutton for frying onions and potatoes, and first prepare the mutton blood and offal for lunch.

Hang the mutton bones into soup, boil the soybeans in water, wash the inside and outside of the belly twice with flour and salt, remove the mutton fat in the intestines, scald it in the soup until it is set, then put it in a pot to cool and cut into strips

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Put vegetable oil in the pot, then add mutton oil and simmer until it becomes a residue, add ginger slices and garlic slices and fry for a while, then add mutton soup, soy sauce, salt, star anise, senna, grass fruit, cinnamon, tangerine peel, onion, green onion and simmer

Make soup.

After the medicinal smell is boiled out, add the haggis and the sheep scorpions that have been cooked in the soup. Pour in the soft boiled soybeans and mix well. Cover the pot and start simmering.

This time is actually very fast. It is said to be stewing, but in fact it is just to get a yellow stew flavor. Then remove the heat, add the oyster sauce and "flavor" brought by Su You, and mix well to make the already soft ingredients become semi-dry.

Soak them in the juice to let them absorb the flavor.

Su You didn't need to direct the rest, and the cooks started making noodles.

While Su You was instructing the cooks on the operation, he explained to Liu Yun the situation surrounding Song and Liao.

Obviously, September is here, and the offensive will start again on the grassland. After another year of integration, the familiar Tatar tribes have basically formed three visible military groups and one invisible military group.

On the surface, the Zu Bu, Bai Ta, and Zhun tribes have formed an alliance.

Among them, the Zubu tribe had the greatest record of destroying 100,000 Liao troops and received the largest dividends. However, there was actually an invisible military group within the Zubu tribe, namely the Che Army commanded by Li Kui, the Ugu Dilie Thirteen Tribe Army and the former slaves.

The "Resurrection Army" they formed.

Li Kui controlled the trade between the Song Dynasty and the Tatars. The Thirteen Tribes were originally defeated by the Liao people. After the great war, Li Kui re-armed them and transported grain and herds. These tribes are now basically

Only Li Kui looked forward to it.

As for the Resurrection Army and the Chariot Army composed of elites drawn from the Resurrection Army, they are Li Kui's core strength.

There are quite a lot of people in this group, currently numbering 160,000.

However, the combat strength is only half of that of the Zubu, Baita, and Zhunbu tribes, because many of them are procrastinators and talkative, and only one-third, about 50,000, can fight.

Li Kui is also an important link between Jeddah and Menggantulak. Li Kui's earliest identity was Menggantulak's master, and now he is Jeddah's military advisor. The relationship between Menggentulak and Jeddah is still relatively close.

Harmony.

Nowadays, the army that resists divination is actually stationed in the traditional pastures of the former Bai Ta, who then moved south and occupied a large area of ​​land in the northwest and southwest of the former Liao Kingdom. Not only did the pasture expand a lot, it was even further away from the Song Dynasty.

Recently, this exchange is actually not a loss.

The warworthy army of the Bai Tar tribe, after a year of recruiting various tribes, numbered 50,000.

The one who suffered the most was the Magusu tribe, which was the first to start the uprising, suffered the longest period of attack, and did not benefit from the Western Expedition.

But the individual combat power is the most powerful, and they are all soldiers capable of hundreds of battles.

Magusu and Menggentulak are Anda, and Menggentulak is also interesting enough to introduce his master Li Kui to his sworn brother. There is also the intention of brothers to unite to check and balance the divination.

With Li Kui's strong help, Magusu used a large number of war horses stolen from the Qunmu Division of the Liao Kingdom to exchange for a lot of materials from the Song Dynasty, including crane-shank crossbows, bows and arrows, battle armor and long and short weapons.

The weakest in terms of economy and population, with an army of only 30,000, but its military strength is stronger than that of the White Tartars.

The internal conflicts between the three groups were actually not small. Fortunately, Li Kui, a master, was able to mediate them. As soon as September came, Li Kui began to organize military operations. Jinshan Three Roads were once again at war.
Chapter completed!