is a very, very small probability.

Li Mengxi figured it out. It was indeed possible that an officer's sentinel cavalry had discovered an anomaly, which would have frustrated the Zhuozhou Army's capture of the city. However, the possibility that the officer's army would have noticed the Zhuozhou Army's intention after just two encounters with the cavalry was extremely slim.

So don’t go too deep into it.

The point about the officers and soldiers' sentry cavalry was finally revealed.

Then, when Zhuozhou Army's light cavalry met the official army's sentry cavalry, there should be two subsequent behaviors. One is to pretend to have military affairs and continue walking directly; the other is to turn around and leave, pretending to see if Julu City is stable.

, seeing that Julu was safe, he pretended to go back to report the military situation.

Li Mengxi thinks that both of these two methods are acceptable.

After that, the key is how to capture the city.

With Guan Yu's troops only having a few hundred troops, if the officers and soldiers were well guarded, the success of the siege would be extremely low.

Therefore, attacking the city is the next best option, but if you have a choice, you will definitely not choose to attack the city.

The most difficult part is here.

What Li Mengxi was thinking was that if a large group of people approached during the day, no matter how stupid the officers and soldiers in the city were, they would still be on guard.

As for pretending to be officers and soldiers, successfully sneaking into the city, and then taking the opportunity to fight and capture the city, although this method has a chance of winning, it is too clumsy.

We still have to fight, and we still have to make decisions.

It is best to try to climb up to the top of the city quietly in the dead of night and the city is empty, open the city gate from the inside, and then capture the city at night.

The crux of the problem is how to climb in along the outer wall of the city wall at night. Julu City is a big city with a very high wall. Where is its weakness...

Thinking of this, Li Mengxi suddenly remembered something, "By the way, General Guan, do you know how the defense of Julu City is and what its weaknesses are?" Li Mengxi looked at Guan Yu with wide eyes and asked.

Li Mengxi asked inexplicably, Guan Yu was stunned for a moment, and then said, "...I don't know."

The reason why Li Mengxi suddenly asked this question was because he suddenly remembered that some time ago, the Zhuozhou Army was chasing Zhang Jiao's army and actually passed through Julu City. However, at that time, Zhang Jiao had already fled north, and Julu City had become a

There was no need to stay in an empty city, so I left without making any further stops.

Now he found that he had to go back and attack Julu City again. When he needed detailed information about the city defense of Julu City, Li Mengxi realized belatedly that if he had sent three or two cavalrymen into the city to collect the details of Julu City while passing through Julu City,

Now I don’t know everything about Julu City.

Combined with the ambush prepared in the past two days, in fact, the Zhuozhou Army also walked through the direction where the army was retreating to the southeast.

I have already walked through it once. If I had paid attention to collect the details of the road, the topography and geography near the road when I was marching, then now I have to lay a lot of ambushes. I don’t need to hold the rope and measure it bit by bit. I will have the details directly.

intelligence.

After this incident, Li Mengxi deeply realized the importance of intelligence.

[Every time we visit a place, a mountain, a valley, a forest, a river, a city or a village, we must collect detailed information.

The shape of the army is unpredictable, and information is worthless until it is used. However, when it is used, information is worth thousands of gold.

Or you can recruit traders and pawns to go in and out of cities in various places on weekdays, and collect detailed information about the length and width of the cities in each place, the height and width of the walls, the number of arrow towers, the number of city gates, the number of wells in the city, the nearest woods outside the city, and other related things about the city.

When there is an attack on the city, there is no need to spy on the military situation at the last moment. You have already prepared it, so you attack ten cities. You know all the ten cities in detail, so you can attack them all.

This should be regarded as the method of using time in the art of war.

Use the method of time, light room, dark room, life room, death room, etc.

Collect detailed information about the guests from cities and towns in various places, so that each room of light and darkness, life and death, can have its place.

A spy who specializes in spying on the city can be called [Jianchengshi].

The military may set up a separate battalion specifically for spying on military intelligence."

This was originally to discuss how to capture Nanhe City. Unexpectedly, one question led to more questions halfway. Li Mengxi realized that the Zhuozhou Army did not have the habit of collecting intelligence, had great deficiencies in intelligence, and had no professional knowledge.

One of the intelligence agencies has another major shortcoming.

Li Mengxi wanted to give the Zhuozhou Army intelligence department a powerful name, such as Jinyiwei.

After much thought, I decided to ask Liu Bei.

Liu Bei thought carefully for a long time, "How about calling it [Jianying]?" Liu Bei said.

Li Mengxi opened his mouth and said to himself, Liu Bei's naming skills are really bad.

Furthermore, agencies responsible for intelligence collection will generally not be named XX Intelligence Agency directly, but will use a very common and inconspicuous name as a cover to reduce the possibility of exposure.

If we name it "Jian Ying", not only the enemy's wise men, but also the enemy's ordinary soldiers, as soon as they hear the name, "Jian, Yong Jian", they will know that they are Yong Jian.

Therefore, it should be a very ordinary name that no one would recognize as unusual.

Based on this, Li Mengxi suddenly asked Liu Bei, "Mr. Xuande, how many battalions of infantry and cavalry soldiers do you have?"

"One team of cavalry, one team of infantry, several flag bearers and messengers," Liu Bei replied.

That's it, Liu Bei personally had escorts of infantry and cavalry, as well as flag bearers and other scattered personnel.

“One battalion is made up of infantry, another battalion is cavalry, and one battalion is composed of messengers and flag bearers.

[Intercamp], let’s call it [Fourth Camp].

This [Fourth Battalion] is organized for our army’s spies to confuse the enemy’s eyes and ears and hide their traces.”

Li Mengxi thought about everything, and Liu Bei nodded and agreed to the establishment of a spy camp in the army.

－－－－－－Digression－－－－－

Many friends said that the plot is slow and they are still fighting the Yellow Turban.

Let me explain, the plot of the Yellow Turban is the focus of this book. The growth of the protagonist, the growth of Liu, Guan, and Zhang, the establishment of the Zhuozhou Army, the expansion of Liu Bei's power, the formation of the protagonist's political ambitions, etc. are all in the plot of the Yellow Turban.

Completed.

There are so many aspects to write about, and if you mention a little bit about each aspect, you have to write a lot, so I write slowly.

The plot of Yellow Turban is almost over, and the rest will come soon.

[Camp 4] is not too domineering. Do you guys have a name that is both secretive and domineering?
Chapter completed!