Chapter 1220: Under Your Nose
Fang Bu did not take Youzhou Avenue when he entered Jizhou, but went directly to Jingcheng Pass, because in terms of time, taking Jingcheng Pass is the most efficient.
Although the Jizhou army blocked the pass, but this is not difficult to Fang Bu, the people he led, all of them are masters with unique skills, over the mountains and mountains like covering the ground, they from a hidden mountain road in the south of the Jingcheng Pass to pass through, into the Jizhou Plain.
Although there is an intelligence network in Jizhou to provide Fang Bu with information about the Jizhou army, Fang Bu still has to verify the accuracy of the information one by one, after all, this information is related to the strategic arrangement of the Jizhou army, and once a mistake occurs, the consequences will be unimaginable.
In a few months, Fang Bu personally traveled to almost all the cities in Jizhou and drew a detailed defense map of the Jizhou army.
Although Zhong Hui repeatedly emphasized that it was necessary to strictly prevent the spies of the state army from spying on the military situation, Fang Bu was like a swimming fish, swimming freely in the vast sea, not only changing his identity, sometimes a woodcutter chopping wood, sometimes a blacksmith striking iron, sometimes disguised as an ordinary soldier, sometimes disguised as an officer on patrol, he even personally climbed the head of Yecheng to feel the deployment of the Jizhou army clearly.
Of course, there are critical situations, in Xindu, when Fang Bu sneaked into the city wall, he was discovered by the patrolling defenders, Fang Bu with more than a dozen men, alive and vigorously killed hundreds of troops of the Jizhou army, before the Jizhou army arrived, highlighting the encirclement.
Xindu's information did not arrive, Fang Bu naturally refused to give up, although their trouble, so that Xindu's martial law level increased a lot, but Fang Buyi was powerful, ambushed the messenger of Yecheng on the way, and intercepted Zhong Hui's letter to Lu Zhao, so he disguised himself as a messenger from Yecheng and entered Xindu in a grand manner.
Ordinary messengers are all fixed personnel, but this time it was an unfamiliar face, which naturally made Lu Zhao suspicious and interrogated.
Fang Bu was calm and calm, and his answers were fluent, and Lu Zhao saw that he had no flaws, so he naturally believed him.
In fact, Fang Bu had already done enough homework before this, and on that messenger, he had already tortured almost all the information, plus Fang Bu knew the situation in Yecheng well, so Lu Zhao's interrogation did not stump him.
This close contact with Lu Zhao, with Fang Bu's skills, it is completely possible to assassinate him, but Fang Bu did not do it, after all, he infiltrated Jizhou at the moment, and he has a more important task, and mastering the defense map of Jizhou is the most important thing.
Assassinating Lu Zhao is easy, but killing Lu Zhao, it is not easy to get out by yourself, after all, the Jizhou army in Xindu City is heavily guarded, and Lu Zhao's head is picked, how can the Jizhou army be willing to give up, it will definitely send troops to carry out a crazy search, even if Fang Bu can get away with it, it will also face the endless pursuit of the Jizhou army, and the task of spying on the military will be difficult to continue.
Therefore, Fang Bu still calmly stopped, I am afraid that Lu Zhao himself did not realize that he was only one step away from death.
Before leaving, he specially told the people of the Jizhou Military Division to pay close attention to the changes in the defense of the Jizhou army, and no matter what changes occur, they must try their best to transmit the information back to the state.
This point is particularly important, although Fang Bu now has mastered the deployment of the Jizhou army, but it is not excluded that Zhong Hui and Lu Zhao will adjust its deployment, if it is just a simple fine-tuning, it will not have much impact, but if the adjustment range is too large, it means that the previously drawn arming map is invalid, and new information must be supplemented or corrected to avoid mistakes
On the way back to Bingzhou, Fang Bu received the latest news that Cao Liang and other high-level military leaders had left Bingzhou and arrived in Youzhou, so he gave up his plan to return to Bingzhou and went north to Youzhou.
Although going north to Youzhou must pass through the northern defense line of the Jizhou Army, there is a certain risk, but there is no need to go around a big circle from Bingzhou to Youzhou, and in terms of time, it is necessary to save a lot.
At the same time, Fang Bu also knew that Cao Liang and other high-level personnel arrived in Youzhou, which meant that the Bingzhou army was ready to start the attack, and the information in his hands at this time was particularly critical, and it must be delivered to Youzhou as soon as possible.
Therefore, Fang Bu finally decided to go north from Jingcheng Pass and once again cross the northern defense line of the Jizhou army.
After the New Year, the situation in the Jizhou region suddenly became tense, and perhaps Zhong Hui also realized that the war was coming soon, so he issued an urgent mobilization order to put the Jizhou army in various places on high alert and ready to meet it at any time.
And the inventory of all intersections has also become stricter, especially the roads leading to Bingzhou and Youzhou, which have been completely forbidden to pass, which makes the business travelers who have been going to and from Jizhou for many years are full of complaints, but the sentry is ruthless, and anyone who tries to smuggle will be punished on the spot.
The main road was impassable, and Fang Bu and his party could only walk, passing through secluded places.
The fields of Jizhou have been abandoned for more than two years, the fields that were originally wide and horizontal are now full of wild grass, in some places, the wild grass has grown to waist height, and they often walk on the road with square cloth, and they can't find the road, only an endless wild grass, they can only walk through the school in the wild grass
However, the half-tall barren grass can provide them with cover, and when they see the patrol of the Jizhou army from a distance, they can squat down and avoid the Jizhou army.
But the further north you go, close to Zhuo County, there are more and more sentry posts in Jizhou, and the inventory has become more and more rigorous, the people in this area have long been moved, almost from here to Youzhou within a hundred miles, it is already a no-man's land, only the patrolling army patrols back and forth, once someone tries to cross the line, they will shoot them mercilessly, and even the process of the inventory is omitted.
Because there are no ordinary people here, except for the meticulous work of the columns, there is no other person to speak of, in order to prevent the leakage of information in Jizhou, Lu Zhao has ordered the sentry posts along the way to be strictly guarded, not a person, even a mouse, and do not think about crossing the line.
After Lu Zhao met with Fang Bu, he soon found out that this fake messenger was a spy of the Bingzhou army, which made Lu Zhao angry, and the spy of Bingzhou actually lurked in front of his eyes and couldn't detect it, if this person was an assassin, how could he die?
Annoyed and angry, Lu Zhao drew a picture wanted Fang Bu, and ordered that even if he dug three feet into the ground, he would dig out this spy.