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When the guard heard this, he knelt down on the ground, kowtowed loudly to Lin Yuan on the screen, and said, "Even if I borrow a hundred thousand guts from the villain, the villain would not dare to lie! Everything the villain said is true, Why do you say I'm lying?"

Lin Yuan said angrily: "Since your duty is to inform and deliver information, my troops have already arrived in Jiashan Town, have you not received any news?"

The guard said: "I got the news!"

Lin Yuan said: "Since we got the news, why are you still caught by us? Why don't you run away? Do you still want to block my tens of thousands of elite soldiers with only forty of you?"

The guard replied: "I don't dare, it's just that your subordinates came down too fast, we didn't take precautions."

In fact, Lin Yuan did this just to frighten him on purpose. The purpose was to make him dare not tell lies. Seeing that the guard was pale with fright, Lin Yuan thought: "He must not dare to play tricks with me." So he said: "You guys How did you get the news?"

The guard said: "We have told the chiefs and Baozheng of each village to report your news as soon as we find out about you. If you are a few minutes late, the whole village will be executed. So as soon as you enter the border of Zhejiang, our people will be punished." news."

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "In the past, the Qing army was very indifferent to intelligence work. For example, in previous battles, our troops swaggered into the Qing army's defense area, and they didn't come until we launched an attack. Now they have entered the area under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang. , The Qing army in Zhejiang actually knew how to rely on the people to build intelligence, it seems that the guards here are quite capable."

Lin Yuan asked: "What kind of news do you get? Tell me."

The guard said: "The villain said without saying a word: I am Baozheng Wang Dabao of Wangjia Village, Jiashan Town. Today, I found that Lin Yuan's troops, thousands of people, passed through our village and went to the center of the town."

Lin Yuan asked: "Then who will you give this news to?"

The garrison said: "Originally, it was necessary to report to the governor level by level, but now the governor led the troops to the Huaihe defense line, so we reported the news to the Hangjiahu sub-road patrol platform, Mr. Xu Shanxu."

Lin Yuan thought: "Xu Shan? Who is this? Why have I never heard of it?" So Lin Yuan asked, "Who is this Xu Shan?"

The guard said: "You should be able to know Mr. Xu."

Lin Yuan asked, "Why can I know him?"

The guard said: "Master Xu said he knew you, and he also said that you once fought against each other in Shanghai. This matter is well known here, and Master Xu will bring it up from time to time."

Lin Yuan tried his best to recall the scene of fighting against Xu Yingku's troops in Shanghai, thinking: "At that time Xu Yingku led the troops, there were indeed many officers, but I never paid attention to those officers, how could I know who Xu Shan was? What? These officers of the Qing court must be using my fame to boost themselves."

Lin Yuan then said: "He is just a military officer the size of a sesame mung bean, how can I know him! Well, let's not talk about that, tell me about Xu Shan's situation."

The guard said: "He is Xu Yingku's clan relative, a martial artist in the tenth year of Guangxu's reign, he can draw a strong bow with both hands that even a few strong men can't pull, and he can read and write. It was he who came up with the idea of ​​the village-to-village co-guarantor to pass the news to the Hangzhou-Jiaxing-Huzhou Sub-Road Patrol Station, commanding the defense of Hangzhou, Jiaxing, and Pinghu.”

Lin Yuan asked, "Then where is this Xu Shan stationed?"

The guard said: "Stationed in Hangzhou."

Lin Yuan asked, "How many troops have you deployed in Hangzhou, Jiaxing, and Pinghu?"

The guard said helplessly: "This villain doesn't know. I only know that a few months ago, when you just raised your army, Xu Shan asked every village to organize men over 15 years old and under 50 years old to train for an hour every day. Waiting for wartime use."

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "This garrison won't know more." So he said to Liu Jinkui: "Put this garrison in prison first, and you continue to investigate the information in Jiaxing."

After finishing the video call, Lin Yuan thought: "I didn't expect the Qing army to establish such a wide-ranging intelligence. Can I use this information to do something?" : "Although the Qing government's concept of establishing intelligence is advanced, it has a fatal problem, that is: the personnel involved in the intelligence have not received special training, and the intelligence they report is not very accurate, and it is very likely to be misinterpreted and misjudged."

"Today's report is an example. The first is the time of the report. 'Today' is obviously not an accurate time. Maybe various intelligence transfer agencies will add a clear time, but it is easy to make mistakes; the second is the number of people in the report: several thousand People, three thousand is several thousand people, and nine thousand is several thousand people. After seeing this information, the general cannot judge whether the enemy army is the main attacking force or the auxiliary force based on the number of enemy troops, and even the direction of the enemy's main attack. If you can’t judge clearly, how can you fight?”

Lin Yuan had an idea when he thought of this, and thought: "Yes, I will let the Eighth Division send a small group of troops to wander around the surrounding villages and towns. The enemy army will definitely not be able to see the direction of my main attack. When the enemy army is confused, When I am exhausted, I will make another move to conquer Jiaxing, so that we can win the greatest victory with the least cost!"

Lin Yuan thought of this and immediately contacted Liu Jinkui, saying: "You immediately go to the Baozheng of each village and ask them how to judge the number of troops, and then move in Jiashan Town and the surrounding towns to create an illusion for the enemy that we are sending troops everywhere. ,do you understand?"

Liu Jinkui said: "The strategy of suspicious soldiers? Lin Shuai is really clever, I understand, I will prepare now." Soon Liu Jinkui contacted Lin Yuan and said: "We have already inquired about those who have not been judged. They don’t know how to judge the number of people. When they judge the number of people, they all rely on their feelings. If they think there are many people, they will write thousands of people, and if they think there are few people, they will write hundreds of people.”

Lin Yuan laughed out loud when he heard this, and thought to himself: "The officials of the Qing court are very different from me. They established a piece of intelligence, but they didn't perfect the key nodes in the intelligence. In this way, the intelligence will become a piece of paper. It has become an intelligence that can only provide false information, and false information is worse than no information."

Lin Yuan then asked Liu Jinkui to carry out this plan of suspicious soldiers. Liu Jinkui quickly dispatched the Seventh Route Army. They relied on trucks and moved very fast. They deployed suspicious soldiers within a width of [-] kilometers in front of Jiaxing. A group of troops drove on the post roads between various villages and towns, and Lin Yuan's troops even appeared in Pinghu, [-] kilometers west of Jiaxing.

Lin Yuan was quietly waiting for news of the dispatch of the Jiaxing garrison, but one day passed, and the Jiaxing garrison did not move at all. The next day, on October [-], Lin Yuan suddenly received a message from Liu Jinkui: The suspected soldiers heading to Pinghu were suddenly surrounded by the enemy in Guangli Town on the north side of Pinghu Lake. When Lin Yuan heard the news, he was surprised and thought: "How could my troops be surrounded?"