When Guan Zhuofan left the Guangang Palace, it was already a moment.

However, although the hour was late, Guan Beile had a ruddy face and a refreshed look.

This time, it was Lord Belle who took a good bath in the big white porcelain bathtub in the queen mother's bedroom "by the order of the Queen Mother" - speaking of the joy of bathing, the rough place of the Xiaozhan barracks and this palace built with a lot of money are really incomparable.

These two are Guan Belle and the Queen Mother, inside and outside the big bathtub, rippling and splashing, and doing something very pleasant. As for the specific "things" that are so good for physical and mental health, this time the lion has not been kind, so he will not make it up.

Ahem, there are some things that have a bad impact if you talk too much.

As soon as I went out, the cold wind blew on my face, and immediately swept a layer of slight chestnuts on the surface of the skin. Guan Zhuofan looked up at the starry sky, took a deep breath of clear air, and felt that all his internal organs were refreshed. I thought to myself: It's strange that some people just want to turn around and sleep with their heads covered after doing certain things; After Lao Tzu has done these things, he will inevitably be refreshed, what's going on?

Back to the small station barracks, but it was three moments.

After entering the house, the orderly made a cup of strong hot coffee for the marshal, Guan Zhuofan just took a sip, and Tulin hurried in, holding a briefcase in his hand, and said, "Master, Beijing's secret telegram has just arrived." ”

Guan Zhuofan took it, and saw that there was a small note of "top secret" pasted on the tightly sealed opening of the briefcase, and his eyebrows couldn't help but raise slightly.

Tear open the briefcase and take out the telegram; I opened the safe again and took out the codebook. The two are contrasted. Look at it. Guan Zhuofan's brows furrowed.

I'm done. He raised his head, thought quietly for a moment, then turned his head and said to Túrin: "Call back to Beijing: activate the 'red response'." ”

"Huh!"

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The reply was sent to the "General Grain Station Office of the Songjiang Army of the Xuanxuan Army in Beijing".

Xuanjun's storage in the Beijing area is roughly as follows:

The first is Wu Jianying's department stationed in Fengtai, a southwestern suburb outside Beijing. However, in terms of nominal establishment, Wu Jianying is subordinate to the Fengtai battalion. Although it is still the "Xuan Army", it is no longer counted as the "Songjiang Army".

The second piece is the Guards Regiment. Structurally speaking, apart from the infantry army commanding the yamen, there can be no formed army stationed in the inner city of Beijing. Therefore, the Guards Regiment was divided into two parts, most of which were stationed in Sanlitun in the east of the city, about three miles from the inner city; Another battalion of 500 soldiers was stationed in the inner city in the name of Guan Zhuofan's "pro-soldier team".

The five hundred soldiers were divided into two parts: one for one hundred men. stationed in Wicker Alley, near the Baylor House; A four-hundred. Located in Chaoyangmen Inner Street.

The garrison of the Guards Regiment on the inner street of Chaoyangmen was originally the barracks of the left battalion of the infantry commander Yamen patrol, and the Yamen of the left wing of the infantry commander Yamen was also nearby. It's not far from the wicker alley in the south of the city. The commander of the infantry army, the chief soldier of the left wing of the Yamen, is Alhatu, the wing captain of the left battalion is Cai Erjia, Guan Zhuofan's two brothers, the most authentic "own people".

However, no matter how "own people" are, the system is critical, and Guan Zhuofan's "pro-soldier squad" is not good to openly occupy the barracks of the Yamen, the commander of the infantry army. Therefore, externally, a sign is hung here, called "General Grain Station Office of the Songjiang Regiment of the Xuanxuan Army in the Beijing".

However, there is indeed such an organization as the "General Grain Station Office of the Songjiang Regiment of the Xuanxuan Army in the Beijing", which is not purely a cover for the 400 Guards Regiment. It's just that this "Songjiang Regiment General Grain Taiwan Office in Beijing" does not have any organizational relationship with the Guards Regiment, and the two are completely two departments. Although everyone also "lives together", there is a "wall separation", between each other, you do yours, I do mine, do not interfere with each other.

In fact, the "Songjiang Army General Grain Station Office in Beijing" not only has nothing to do with the Xuan Army Guards Regiment, but also has nothing to do with the "Songjiang Army General Grain Station". The work done by this department still has nothing to do with the "grain station" and logistics gods.

Within the Xuan Army, the "Songjiang Army General Grain Station Office in Beijing" has another official name, which is called "Beijing Station of the Investigation and Liaison Office of the Military Commission."

Within the Xuan Army, the "Military Commission Investigation and Liaison Office" is usually referred to simply as the "Military Investigation Office" - a name that even if Wall and Daniel Zhang heard it, their hearts would be slightly drummed.

Speaking of which, if you think about the famous similarly named institution of the thirties and forties of the twentieth century, book lovers can roughly guess what this department does. That's right, the "Military Commission Investigation and Liaison Office" - this is the newly established secret intelligence agency of the Xuan Army.

It was only after Guan Zhuofan arrived in the United States that he began to come into contact with spy intelligence work in the modern sense.

After the Battle of Chickmoga, Ross Krans was dismissed, and Guan Zhuofan took over as commander of the Tennessee Theater, and vigorously rectified and strengthened the intelligence work in the theater, which soon yielded results.

Guan Zhuofan is not an expert in intelligence work, but the intelligence department of the Tennessee Theater originally came from a system and talents, but Ross Krans has not paid attention to it, and it has gradually become sloppy and deserted. Guan Zhuofan changed his ways, appointed people appropriately, and increased resources, and the intelligence work naturally and quickly regained its vitality.

After Guan Zhuofan was promoted to joint commander of the Western Theater, he and Sherman made a division of labor, and Guan Zhuofan was in charge of intelligence work in the Western Theater.

With the experience of the Tennessee Theater and the intelligence work in the Western Theater, Guan Zhuofan paid more attention to it and did more and more excellent work.

In addition to sending his own spies, he more importantly "broke the prejudice", relying on the fugitive slaves in the South and the poor white people in the South who were dissatisfied with the Confederate government, and vigorously collected all kinds of information on the military, geography, and people's livelihood of the Confederate. When it went south, the northern army, as a guest army, was already familiar with the various military arrangements of the southern army, including the relevant mountains and rivers.

Not only that, but Kwan Zhuofan also successfully colluded with a group of pro-federal guerrilla groups - one or two of which he could say he had personally formed to spy on the military intelligence of the Northern Army, serve as a leading party, and attack the Confederate government and the army.

These efforts have paid off. For example, in the first battle of Atlanta in the south - the Battle of Dalton, the Forrest Division under Guan Zhuofan of the Northern Army crossed the shallows of the river valley without knowing it, attacked Snap Gap, and broke through the defense line of the Southern Army from the flank and rear. The secret route of the march was provided by fugitive slaves, and then surveyed by intelligence officers of the Northern Army and pro-Union guerrillas from the South.

For another example, in the process of "doxxing" Jacqueline and rescuing Mia's parents, a local anti-government guerrilla force in Georgia formed with the participation of agents of the Northern Army also played an important role.

One of the two main persons in charge of the "Investigation and Liaison Office of the Military Commission", Martin Brown. Martinez – no mistake: this guy has a "Martin" in his first and last names – from this guerrilla army. After the Battle of Savannah, he officially joined the intelligence department of the Northern Army and joined Guan Zhuofan's command.

Martinez is the most typical poor white man in the South, who hates his slave-owning government more than his compatriots in the North who advocate the abolition of slavery: Lao Tzu is already poor, and he is forced to bring his own dry food and weapons to fight for you slave owners and defend your power to squeeze - may I ask if I win, does Lao Tzu have the benefit of a dime?

Does Lao Tzu have half a slave? I can't even feed myself! Also, if the war is won and slavery is preserved, how can Lao Tzu compete with those cheap or even free slaves in the labor market?!

Some of these truths were conceived by themselves, and some were disseminated by the spies of the Northern Army, and Martinez thought deeply: Damn, decisively anti-government!

This young man who dropped out of school halfway is a rare "reader" in his class who can read and hyphenation. Not only that, but he is also a language genius - after mixing with Chinese for half a year, he was able to communicate with his Chinese colleagues in Chinese. Nowadays, one mouth is an authentic Beijing film - of course, it sounds a little weird, but the four voices are accurate, not stammering, and very fluent.

At the end of the Civil War, most of the American soldiers had to be rehabilitated, and Martinez had no savings in his pocket and no land at home, except for a few months' military pay. Commander-in-Chief Guan recruited troops, and he didn't want to think about it, so he followed Xuan's army across the ocean and came to China—Xiaoma was a porcelain man who wanted to grow up and never return to his poor, burned to the ruins of his hometown in Georgia.

*(To be continued......)