Daming Prefecture is the largest garrison in the Jin Dynasty except Yanshan Prefecture, with 30,000 Jin soldiers stationed. In the repeated battles of the south, Daming Prefecture was a major logistics location for the Jin soldiers. Even after the Jin soldiers captured Bianliang, they could not shake the status of Daming Prefecture.

This is also because the geographical location of Daming Prefecture is extremely important. Daming Prefecture controls Hebei in the north, central plains in the south, and borders Shandong in the east. It is the core place where the Jin Dynasty controlled the Song Dynasty.

Like other big cities, after being swept by the Jin soldiers like locusts, Daming Mansion has long since its people's livelihood has declined, its business has declined, its population has plummeted, and its population has dropped from nearly one million to more than 200,000 today.

Outside the northern city of Daming City, there is a military camp covering an area of ​​nearly 10,000 acres. This is the largest Jin army camp in the entire Hebei and Central Plains region, with a maximum capacity of 50,000 cavalrymen. Currently, there are 30,000 cavalrymen commanded by Wanyan Zonggan.

The Jin soldiers did not like the narrow military camps in the city, so they circled a large area of ​​land outside the city as their military camps. The racecourse alone had more than 7,000 acres, and there were woods and rivers inside.

However, because the military camp was too large, the Jin soldiers were unable to build a wall or a camp, so they dug a trench around them. At the same time, Wanyan Zonggan ordered that no one was allowed to appear within three miles of the trench. Violators would kill each other. There were countless ordinary people who died under this trench in the past two years.

That afternoon, in the woods about two miles away from the military camp trench, a thin man climbed on a big tree and looked at the military camp from afar. At this time, those who knew that there was a killing order and dared to disobey, except for the Song army's intelligence scouts, would not be anyone else.

For half a month, the Song army's intelligence station in Daming Prefecture has sent people to secretly monitor the Jin soldiers' camp almost every day, usually hiding in large woods in the northwest corner, coming and leaving at night, so that they will not be discovered by the Jin soldiers' patrols.

The intelligence scout who was hiding in a big tree today to monitor the Jin army camp is Chen Jiang, who is a native of Daming Mansion. He joined the Jingzhao Army scout camp two years ago and is now a escort team. Every soldier in the Jingzhao Army scout camp has his own unique skills. Chen Jiang's unique skills are good at climbing. He can climb the city wall with his bare hands and won third place in the scout camp climbing competition last year.

It was the third day that Chen Jiang came here to observe the Jin soldiers. He wore a dark warrior suit that was almost the same as the trees. He climbed on a tall pine tree. The dense pine needles covered his body and could not see him at all below. He could only be discovered after climbing the pine tree.

Before dawn, Chen Jiang climbed up the pine tree and had been on the pine tree for almost five hours, which really made him a little exhausted. He leaned against a branch, took out the kettle and drank water. At this moment, a low trumpet sound suddenly came from the military camp. The trumpet sound came too suddenly, which shocked him, and the kettle almost fell down the tree.

He quickly stuffed the kettle into his back bag, climbed up to the top of the tree, and looked into the military camp two miles away.

Condescendingly, he could see very clearly that he saw a group of Jurchen cavalry gathering quickly. This was not training, but real gathering, and it was the first time he had seen it since he monitored the military camp.

Chen Jiang was very excited. He suddenly realized that the superiors asked them to monitor the Jin army camp, perhaps for today's gathering.

There were more and more cavalry gatherings, more than 10,000 people had already assembled. After the general's orders, they ran out, and then the second cavalry gathered with 10,000 people.

Chen Jiang was shocked. In just half an hour, 30,000 cavalry had already rushed out of the camp, which means that the entire army in the camp was pouring out.

He immediately realized the importance of this information, climbed down the tree and ran towards the city.

At the end of an old street in Daming City, there is a tea shop called Yangji Tea Cake Shop. The shop is not big and sells all kinds of tea cakes and tea bricks. Most of them are transported from the south. The tea shop has regular customers. There are not many people who come to buy tea at home, which looks a bit deserted.

Another identity of this tea shop is the intelligence site of the Song army in Daming Mansion. There are six people, together with the shopkeeper and the staff, plus more than a dozen local intelligence scouts living in Daming City. There are a total of twenty intelligence scouts in the entire Daming Mansion.

Chen Jiang is also the friend of this tea shop. He is pushing a wheelbarrow for transporting goods, and it seems that he has just returned from delivering goods.

He parked the wheelbarrow outside the door, walked into the tea shop and whispered: "Shopkeeper, business is very good today!"

This is a code word. Business generally means that intelligence gains are average. If business is not good, it means that there is no intelligence. If business is good, it means that there is major intelligence.

One person leaned out of the room. It was the shopkeeper Wang Yan, who was also the leader of the Daming Mansion's intelligence point, and a member of the unit. He was about 30 years old this year. He waved to Chen Jiang, and Chen Jiang immediately walked into the room.

"How many cavalrymen have set out in the camp?" Wang Yan asked.

Chen Jiang smiled and said, "All 30,000 cavalrymen were dispatched."

"Good, a big deal!"

Wang Yan was so happy that he rubbed his hands straight, "No wonder Daming Nanku transferred a million tracts of hay to Yunzhou."

"Is this new information?"

Wang Yan nodded, "It has just started this morning, and we will also collect 100,000 civilians from Daming Prefecture, Xiangzhou and Bozhou to transport grain and grass. It is estimated that our store will be closed for a few days."

Chen Jiang thought for a while and said, "It's better to burn these million tracts of forage in one go!"

"No!"

Wang Yan denied his dangerous thoughts on the spot, and he emphasized: "These 30,000 cavalry must arrive in Yunzhou safely, and there will be no problems in the middle."

"But do they have so many boats?"

"There are enough ships on the Yellow River. The key is that I am worried that Gao Qingyi will increase his troops to Daming Mansion?"

"We don't have time to worry about this. Let's tell Yan Dutong the news of sending troops first!"

Wang Yan nodded, "You are right, this is the top priority!"

The intelligence scout from Daming Prefecture sent two pigeon letters at the same time, one to Xucheng, Yunzhou and the other to Lin'an.

When the pigeon flew to Pingjiang Prefecture for a transit, night had already fallen and the pigeon could no longer fly. The prefect Mo Jun saw that he was using a purple message tube and knew that the information was extraordinary, he immediately ordered the three messengers to run to Lin'an overnight and be sure to send it to Lin'an before dawn.

Three messengers changed their horses all the way, and finally arrived at Lin'an City at the fifth hour. The three of them shouted under the Yuhang Gate: "Send emergency military information!"

The soldiers guarding the gate of the city quickly opened the city gate, checked their documents, and then let them into the city. They ran all the way in the city and soon came to the Military Information Office, which is equivalent to the post office in Lin'an. There are two places in total, one is called the Military Information Office, as the name suggests, which is where military information is received, and the other is called the Political Information Office, which is where the imperial information office is received.

Both the letter offices are located in front of the gate of the imperial city, with the left and right words. They are two buildings with the same appearance, but there is still a difference. The biggest difference is that the letter office has erected a large flag of the Song army.

Although it was not dawn, there were still troops on guard. Every night, an officer was on duty. The soldiers handed over the emergency message sent to the generals on duty. When the general saw that it was a purple message, he was also shocked and hurriedly sent someone to the Regent's Mansion to deliver the message.

In the middle of the night, Zhao Fujin was awakened by the sound of footsteps, and then she said a faint voice. She pushed her husband, "Husband, it seems that something is happening outside."

Li Yanqing opened his eyes. At this time, a female guard outside the tent reported: "Your Highness, a purple pigeon letter has been sent here!"

Li Yanqing quickly sat up, put on an outer robe and went to the outer room. The female guard handed him a pigeon message. Li Yanqing sat under the lamp and opened the pigeon message. The word "Da Ming" was engraved on the tube. He actually understood what was going on.

He opened the pigeon letter and said only one sentence, 'Thirty thousand Jurchen cavalry have gone to Yunzhou, transferred one million forages, conquered one hundred thousand civilians, and looked at the date, which happened yesterday."

Li Yanqing was completely sleepy and immediately came back to put on his outer robe. Zhao Fujin put on his outer robe and asked, "At the fifth time, where are you going?"

"If there is an emergency military situation, I'll go to the study."

"Then I will prepare the tea!"

Li Yanqing nodded, "Be prepared more, and there are still a few generals coming."

"I understand!"
Chapter completed!