Chapter 582 Top Secret
Tan Bin also felt busy when he was running in the Jingxi area before. He would either learn various trades and crafts, not seeking perfection but seeking knowledge, which would take a lot of time. You have to practice martial arts every day to prevent your skills from regressing. Unless it is the rest and bath in January every year, there is basically no leisure time.
But after arriving at Tanshi, Tan Bin realized that the past life was not very busy at all, but the life he lived without touching the ground is really busy.
I have to get in the car before dawn in the morning, and then I have to help with the loading of the goods. I have to work until dark. Except for the rest, I have to deal with dry food in the car for meals.
In the past half month, Tan Bin's appetite has nearly doubled, and his whole body is shiny and tanned.
The food is not bad, but the rest is not good. Tan Bin has martial arts skills, and his physical fitness is quite good, but after more than half a month, he has become a little unbearable. Fall asleep in bed in no time.
"Persist for another two days, and you will be able to take turns to rest when the convoy behind arrives. You can grit your teeth these few days. Don't you think those military masters haven't rested yet? They still get paid, and your money is based on the number of trips." Thinking about it, the money earned in this half month is probably not more than the previous half year, right? If you make money, cheer up!"
The head of the team has been encouraging people like this since five days ago. In the final analysis, money is the most exciting thing. If you don't see the daily money in your pocket every day, at least half of the people in the team will not be able to persist. Tan Bin's body has been trained a little too much, let alone others?
"Let me tell you the truth, you are talking about taking a rest every day, where is your turn? When will the carriage and horse dealer send people over? If you continue like this, the horse will be exhausted, let alone the man."
"Don't worry, the horses have already arrived for a group of rotations. You will change horses when you arrive at the transit village in Shankou today."
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What does it mean that a man is not as good as a horse? That's it.
But Tan Bin found something different in the afternoon. They went all the way to the transit village to change their horses and started on the road again, but this time the direction was not towards the Kunduo Pass, but the direction of Xiaochuan, which Tan Bin had visited once.
"Why do you go this way? There is a sea of bamboo for thousands of miles, do you need so much food and grass?" Tan Bin murmured inwardly.
This time, Tan Bin's convoy was full of food, both human food and horse chews.
These things now occupy the main content of the transportation of Tan Bin's convoy. Based on what Tan Bin saw at the Kunduo Pass, the camps closed for dozens of miles have grown wildly in the past half a month. Every time he passes by, he can see new camps rising from the ground. to the end.
Tan Bin doesn't know exactly how many soldiers gathered under the Kunduo Pass, but he guessed from the flags on the military camps he saw and the rules of the Jingjiu Dynasty's establishments that there were at least 150,000 soldiers.
How much is it consumed by so many people eating horse chews under the Kunduo Pass? This is why Tan Bin's convoy mainly transports food these days.
But now the food is not sent to the Kunduo Pass, but to Xiaochuan?
Along the way, Tan Bin concentrated on observing secretly. He had to guess whether there were any pests in the Ministry of War that hadn't been cleaned up after Xu Hong? At this juncture, someone is greedy for Mexican military funds and wants to transfer them to the barbarians through the Wanli Bamboo Sea? Of course, this is the worst guess, but there are precedents for the dirty things of the Ministry of War, no wonder Tan Bin speculates so maliciously.
After bumping all the way to Xiaochuan, Tan Bin found that there were actually quite a lot of hoarded military resources and gathered soldiers stationed here. Judging from the size of the camp, there might not be less than 30,000 people in it.
Why are there so many troops on Xiaochuan's side? Tan Bin didn't quite understand, but he was relieved in his heart. At least so many soldiers stationed here dispelled his previous doubts. As for the reason for stationing troops here, this is not something Tan Bin needs to delve into.
However, Tan Bin found an opportunity to pass this news back from Xiaochuan on the way back to Tanshi. He himself didn't know that this piece of information was not calm in the analysis of the fourth department.
Moreover, Tan Bin didn't know that in the area under the jurisdiction of the southern frontier army, apart from the first few dozens of coachmen and spies including him, as Hengshun Chariot and Horse Company sent more people to stay in the The number of Blackwater spies in the south has already exceeded a hundred. Every day, more than a dozen pieces of various information are collected into the file library of the Blackwater core of Fengri City, and then sorted out and constructed by the three analysis departments, and then deduced from these clues. The actual movement and strategic objectives of the military.
This is the mission request that Shen Hao conveyed to Wang Jian after arriving at Tanshi. He hoped that the Blackwater Project could use this battle with the barbarians to speed up the tempering of its intelligence capabilities. Not only collection, analysis and collation are equally important, but these require a certain amount of experience.
In order to achieve this goal, Wang Jian secretly recruited some unarmored veterans into the Blackwater Project, in order to give reference to some military matters. They even found some old hundred households and deputy thousand households in the former army. They used various methods and took a lot of effort.
In addition to those in the army, many literati who had learned military art in the school were also taken into the urn by Wang Jian, in order not to miss any useful information.
The information that Tan Bin sent back about "over 30,000 troops stationed in Xiaochuan" was not the only one, it was just the first report, and other spies later reported the same information.
At the beginning, no one paid much attention to it, but when the three analysis departments went through a set of procedures, the information jumped from the initial C-level to A-level, and was marked top secret.
In the end, the information that was transmitted in less than 300 words was added with 15 pages of deduction, and then sent to Shen Hao who was in Tanshi through the top-secret channel of the Blackwater Project.
Before getting the rubbings of the information, Shen Hao got through with Wang Jian on the Thousand Miles Note. The rubbing book in his hand has three bans, and Shen Hao's waist card, mana fluctuation, and soul fluctuation are all required to be opened. If there is any mistake or omission, the text inside will be lost and there is no possibility of recovery.
This kind of magic circle is difficult to get, and the cost is very high, so it will not be used under normal circumstances. But the advantage is that you don't have to be afraid of prying eyes by high-ranking monks, because this is a rare ban effect that can ignore cultivation, and it is the only choice to transmit top-secret messages.
After reading the content, Shen Hao put away the copper bar and sat on a chair to meditate.
According to the analysis on the copper bar, Xiaochuan has more than 30,000 troops stationed, and the hoarded materials have exceeded the normal needs of "garrison troops", which is most likely not "garrison" but "assembled and ready to go".
Where to send it? So much food and grass are needed, even enough for an army of 30,000 for more than a month.
The topographic map of Xiaochuan that he had been to appeared in Shen Hao's mind. To the southeast of Xiaochuan is the Sea of Bamboo, and across the Sea of Bamboo is the land of Nanman