Once the drums are sounded, they pass along the Weishui to the east and west, with the west end being just Chencang City and the east end stretching out of sight. Fifty miles on both sides of Weishui has long been a forbidden area, and Hugo Walla can run into this forbidden area, because Yongcheng, which is more than forty miles away from Weishui, is already in this forbidden area.

Wei Yi, who was in Yongcheng, also heard the drums outside the city, and the news said that the cavalry was hunting and killing the Jing people Hou Spy, and he was not at ease, so he went out of the city in person and came to Chencang in person.

"Captain, please see." The pigeon that had been shot down from the city was brought up, and there was a secret letter written in Greek beside it. Time is too short to use ciphertext, and the text is directly exposed on the paper.

"What do you say on paper?" Wei Wei did not turn over the dove and the secret letter, he did not recognize the text.

"This ......" was crooked in Greek, and no one knew what was written on it.

"Only the eldest son in the country knows Bai Diwen." There are difficult colors on the left and right, and the only thing they know is that this is Bai Di script.

"Where is the spy of Jing Renhou?" Wai Yu stopped asking about the words on the paper, and asked about Nggo Vala.

"Captain Yuguo, this person has been shot by his subordinates." A rider stepped forward, and this was Li Bi, a rider.

"Where's the head?" Wei Yu asked. From the moment he entered the city until now, he has not seen the head.

"Captain Yuguo, after this person was hit by an arrow, he rode his horse into the camp and fell into Weishui, and his subordinates did not get his body." Li Bi said again.

"Falling into Weishui?" Wei Yi was skeptical. "If the person is dead, let the body float on the water."

Wei Yi's questioning made Li Bi unable to answer, but fortunately, he recalled the appearance of Ngago Vala and remembered the bronze armor he was wearing, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Captain Yuguo, he is wearing bronze armor and bronze armor, and it is difficult to float in the water. ”

"Yes." When he left the city, he was wearing armor and carrying soldiers, and the Hou Chang remembered this clearly, so he whispered to Wei Yi.

"When they go out of the city, stop them." Wei Yi also remembered that Hou Chang had said that Hou Ge Vala was wearing armor and went out of the city, and he no longer asked Li Bi but glared at Hou Chang fiercely.

Hou Chang was stunned by Wei Yi, and the unspeakable grievances in his heart. He was the head of Lord Bai Di's guard, and he was holding Lord Bai Di's talisman, how could he dare to stop him? And everyone doubted that it was unscrupulous, but they didn't expect that Bai Di was also a spy of Jing Renhou.

Hou Chang was aggrieved, and Wei Yi looked at the dead pigeon and secret letter in front of him and gradually relieved his heart. He didn't recognize the Bai Di text on the secret letter, but he believed that even if the secret letter was sent, Zhibisi could only come to a contradictory conclusion—like the Governor's Office, the problem faced by Zhibisi was not how to obtain the news, but how to distinguish the authenticity from the many contradictory reports. He knew that it was those traitors of Great Qin who were in charge of the Qin spy report, but what could they do?

Ten days ago, dozens of news pigeons flew to Guanzhong, and a few days later, news pigeons successively crossed the Qinling Mountains and flew to Yingdu. Within a few days, Kung Fu Zhi received twenty or thirty pieces of news, and eighteen of them reported that the Qin army in Kwantung had been transferred to Guanzhong, and the military camp was set up on the bank of Weishui from Chencang to Meixian; Twelve reports reported that the Qin had been able to make gunpowder, and that they were searching for soil particles in the latrines of various counties; Twenty-two reports reported that the Qin had created large-winged warboats, which were identical to those of the Chu army......

Looking at this pile of news, Huan Qi and the others, who boasted that they knew everything about the Qin people, also began to have a headache. The Hou spies who have news pigeons are all high-level Hou spies, and the credibility of the news from the high-level Hou spies should be very high. However, many of these highly credible reports are contradictory and do not know which one to believe.

Analyzing the contents of the news, three situations were confirmed: first, the Qin people did build three-oared wings, and built quite a few of them, about dozens or even hundreds; Second, the Qin people did know the secret of gunpowder, and knew that the most important ingredient in it was saltpeter, and also knew where saltpeter generally appeared, and was now collecting saltpeter in these places; Third, the Qin army under the command of Wang Jian and Li Xin in Kwantung had indeed moved westward, and their camp was along the Weishui coast east of Chencang.

At the clear morning meeting, when I informed everyone of the news, everyone was amazed and surprised, but they asked, "Why did the Qin people hit me?" Is it a war boat, a Yang or artillery, a Yang or hundreds of thousands of Qin troops? ”

"The National Governor's Mansion is extremely well fortified, so if you know it, you can't spread it, and you don't know it." Don't let me be distressed.

"In this way, we can only tell the armies to be careful with the equipment." Lu Yangjun looked at Nao Cunning. Zhibisi got a lot of news, but unfortunately all of these reports had no effect, and Da Sima Fu could only tell the front line to be cautious again and again.

"What's the use of that?" He waved his sleeves. "If you want to be more cautious, our army should stop at the canyon and the blue valley."

Li and a sentence made the morning discussion cold. The current situation is that the plank road in Lantian Valley has been repaired, and the Yingshi scouts have left Lantian Valley, and in a few days at most, when the concrete pillars are dry more, the baggage and gun carriages can go to Lantian through the plank road; The Qin army dredged the canyon of Chencang Road immediately after retreating, and the Qin people did not block the entire canyon, but only blocked a section of the lower reaches of the canyon.

Shangqi has also been uprooted by the Chu army, but Di Dao is 500 miles away from Shangqi, and Shangqi is 300 miles away from Chencang. It will take time for the Qiang people who have uprooted Di Dao to converge with the Chu army that has uprooted Shangqi, and it will also take time to kill Chen Cang from Shangqi after the convergence. The Qin army controlled this Weishui, and the Chu-Qiang coalition army could only rush to Chencang by land.

He thought that the best thing to do was for the whole army to stop on the spot and stop advancing, but this was impossible. The Great Sima Mansion was able to contact the Chu army on Lantian Valley and Chencang Road, and the rugged mountain roads in the direction of Shangqi Road were interspersed with the Qin army from time to time, so it was impossible to contact the Chu-Qiang coalition army in Shangqi Road. Once the offensive in the direction of Lantian and Chencang Road is suspended, the Chuqiang coalition army in the direction of Shangqi Road is likely to become a lone army.

It is impossible to stop, and the enemy situation is unclear when it advances, and this is the current dilemma.

"What does the king say?" Nao cunning, the Fu Yin, didn't dare to make a decision, he asked about Xiong Jing.

"The king? The king asked if there was any news of the Bai Di people. Lu Yangjun replied that the Baidi person he was talking about was the Ngago Vala.

"Is there any news from the Bai Di people?" Nao sly turned to ask me not to be.

I was silent for a while, and finally nodded, "Yes, but this news is different. ”

"Something different?" Nao was puzzled, "How is the news different?" ”

"Bai Diwen's three-oared large-winged war boat should be written as τρι?? ρη??, "Don't let me read with difficulty the Greek pronunciation of the triremes, which he learned from the general. However, it was written in the news report as τριρ?? η??,His handwriting is the same as the previous interrogation, but his subordinates thought it was ......"

"How?" Although I don't know Bai Diwen of the three-oared large-winged warboat, the pronunciation of the two writing methods is obviously different.

"Something has happened to the Baidi people." Don't let me say. His statement surprised Nao Cunning. "It was the Qin people who imitated his handwriting and wrote a message to send it to Yingdu."

"What's on the message?" Bai Di is also his own spy, and he didn't know until late, but he didn't think that soon after he knew, this person died.

"Xun Wenyan said that the Qin people have three-oared and big-winged war boats, and we want our army to be cautious." It is estimated that he is worried that there will be many mistakes, and the message is very brief.

"If this news is indeed false...... Nao thought slyly, but after a while he was relieved. Before every battle, Zhibisi and Da Sima Mansion had such confusion, and only when the battle began, this confusion could be resolved.

What if the Qin army has a war boat? What if the Qin army has artillery? How about the Qin army, which has an army of hundreds of thousands? The real decisive role played by the two armies was on the battlefield. On the battlefield, the Chu army has repulsion cavalry, these repulsion cavalry can be at least fifty miles of guard, if the general who leads the army is intentional, the reconnaissance range is hundreds of miles, and the warning of hundreds of miles is enough for the main general to make arrangements.

"Tell all the armies that the enemy situation is still unclear, so you must be cautious." The relieved Nao Cunning could only issue such a warning, and when the news reached Xiong Jing's hand, he shook his head again and again.

"The Qin people are very well fortified this time, and I can't hear about it." Naoxin people are not in Zhibisi, but they are also aware of Zhibisi's helplessness.

"The Qin people actually know how to get saltpeter?!" Xiong Jing did not know the news of the martyrdom of Nggo Vala, and he was shocked that the Qin people collected nitrate in places such as latrines and old walls. "This, this, how can it be!"

"Craftsmen in the extreme west only know how to build boats." Nao Xin talked about the craftsmen who built war boats for the Xiongnu and Donghu.

"But ......" Xiong Jing wanted to speak and stopped, Nao Xinzhuang didn't know gunpowder, and it was useless to tell them. He couldn't figure out how the Qin people knew that there was nitrate in the latrine and the old wall, was it like the exposure of the Ngago Vala, was there a traitor on his side, or was it the extreme western craftsman who cracked the gunpowder after analyzing it?

The latter is obviously impossible, how do they know that it is saltpeter? Saltpeter was not introduced to the West until the Mongols conquered the west, otherwise how could the Arabs call saltpeter 'Chinese snow'?

The latter can't be, so it must be the former. However, all the nitrate used in the soup is the nitrate produced in the nitrate fields of the island, which is drenched with urine, and it is not collected in the latrine and the old wall at all, so how can the news be leaked?

"Could it be that Chang Jiang and Gong lose taboo?" After thinking about it, he finally locked on to two people, one living and one dead.

Before the nitrate field on the island, the saltpeter with gunpowder was collected by Changjiang near the latrine; Gong Yiji had been to the island before his death, and had found that there was also nitrate in the latrine and the old wall, and the two had talked about it, but why did they do it?

Changjiang is a temple man, has no children, no daughters, and no relatives, what did the Qin people buy him? The public loser is the Lu people, and the Lu people are naturally hostile to the Qin people. And the Gongyi clan has been a Chu minister for more than 200 years, and now the Chu army is attacking like a rainbow, and the Qin state is about to fall, what reason does the Gongyi clan have to take refuge in the Qin state?

Xiong Jing couldn't figure it out after thinking for a long time, he couldn't imagine that saltpeter could be cracked by others, so he could only summon his confidant Si Si Yin Ele, and then issued a military order and a royal order, in addition to asking scouts and divisions and brigades to pay attention to the Qin people's artillery and gunpowder, the whole army should also pay attention to the Qin people's use of artillery and gunpowder.

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