Shortly after accepting the appointment, Fanning formed a staff battalion composed of more than 300 people in the capital. The staff battalion has two functions. One is to provide advice and provide various combat plans, such as the navy's sneak attack on Tokyo, Liao Kingdom. This idea was proposed by Fanning, but the specific combat plan was planned by the staff battalion.

For example, through various intelligence records in the past, they found that there was a section of sea dozens of miles west of the estuary of the Liaohe River that did not freeze in winter, which provided the basis for the implementation of the Tokyo surprise attack plan.

Another important function of the staff camp is intelligence acquisition and analysis.

Fanning attaches great importance to the role of intelligence. He always advocates planning before acting. In his opinion, the accuracy and fullness of intelligence are the guarantee of victory in the war.

The military strategy also says: "If you stay together for several years, fight for victory in one day, and love titles, wealth, and gold, and do not know the feelings of the enemy, you are the most unkind, not the general of a human being, the assistant of the master, and the master of the victory."

Since he had spent a lot of resources to fight a protracted war with the Liao army, Fan Ning would not care about intelligence expenditures, so he approved 30,000 taels of silver in the first phase.

Thanks to sufficient funds, the Intelligence Department of the Staff Camp was quickly established and expanded. By the end of December, the Intelligence Department established seven intelligence networks in Youzhou, Yizhou, Jizhou, Pingzhou, Tokyo Liaoyang Prefecture, Baozhou and other places in the Liao Kingdom through means of bribery, inducement, threats, etc., to establish seven intelligence networks in Youzhou, Yizhou, Jizhou, Pingzhou, Tokyo Liaoyang Prefecture, Baozhou and other places to understand the trends of the Liao Kingdom at any time and transmit intelligence through eagle letters or merchants.

The Intelligence Department also accepted a large amount of information from the military scouts, analyzing and sorting out these intelligences to form useful military decision-making basis.

In the official room of the Hebei Xuanfu Envoy's Office, Fan Ning was listening to the report of Liu Kui, Sima of the Staff Camp.

The information Liu Kui received was sent from the capital. The Intelligence Department had a branch in the capital, with about twenty people. Their mission was to counter-espionage, that is, to discover and destroy the Liao Kingdom's intelligence network in the capital.

The Song Dynasty was in charge of military affairs for a long time. They had almost no intelligence network in the enemy country and were not concerned or interested in this regard. So much so that Fan Ning knew nothing about the situation in Youzhou and Liaoyang Prefecture after sending troops.

But the Liao Kingdom and the Western Xia were the opposite. They attached great importance to the intelligence of the Song Dynasty and established a large number of intelligence points in capitals and border cities to explore the intelligence of the Song army and seek the latest military technology of the Song army. Like the leakage of a large number of firearm technology in the Song Dynasty, it was related to the lack of confidentiality, which led to the Liao army and the Western Xia army having advanced firearms like the Song army.

"The brothers from the Intelligence Department found that Baohe Restaurant located on West Street was suspicious. Many of the customers in their store were from Liao Kingdom, but the shopkeepers and the staff of this store did not have any background in Liao Kingdom, but they have attracted so many Liao Kingdom guests for a long time, which is a bit unreasonable."

"How did you find out that this Baohe Restaurant has a relationship with Liao Kingdom?"

"Brothers monitored the Liaoguo Pavilion and found that within this month, a middle-aged man entered and left the Liaoguo Pavilion five times. He carried his bags when he went in and did not need to inform him. He left empty-handed when he came out, which was very suspicious. The brothers monitored the middle-aged man and found that he was the shopkeeper of Baohe Restaurant."

Fanning nodded, "Focus on this Baohe Restaurant. If you find that he is indeed an information point in the Liao Kingdom, you can use it to implement our Wanyan Plan."

"I understand!"

Liu Kui also really admired this young commander. Although he was a civil servant, he was far-sighted and not pedantic at all. He actually thought of using counter-espionage to provoke chaos in Liao.

"Go! Go back and sort out the information from Yanshan Mansion, I want to take a good look."

Liu Kui nodded and dismissed.

Fanning began to write his memorial again. Although the news that burned Tokyo was passed to the capital, he still had to write a detailed report. He only received Han Wang's detailed battle report this morning and wanted to kick out a new report.

Logically speaking, he copied a copy of Han Wang's report and transferred it to the emperor and the court. Isn't it the same!

It's not that simple. Fanning not only had to write about the battle process and the report, but also the cause of this sneak attack and its impact on the Liao Kingdom.

More importantly, the sneak attack on Tokyo is only part of the entire Bohai Battle, as well as the occupation of Juehua Island, the water battle with the Liao army, etc. The Juehua Island Battle and the sneak attack on Tokyo are combined to be a complete report.

Fanning quickly finished writing the report, read it, put the name on the note, stamped it with the seal, put it in a wooden box together with the list of spoils, and arranged for someone to send it to the capital.

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In early December, several days have passed since newspapers reported the news that the Song army had successfully attacked Liaoyang Prefecture, but the excitement has not completely dissipated. The teahouses and restaurants are still discussing the matter warmly, but the discussion is deeper and more looking forward to the future.

At noon, the Baohe Restaurant located on the West Street of Beijing was filled with guests.

Baohe Restaurant belongs to the classic front, restaurant and inn pattern, covering an area of ​​six acres, of which the restaurant occupies two acres and the inn occupies four acres.

Like other restaurants, the drinkers at Baohe Restaurant were also enthusiastically discussing the Song army's sneak attack on Tokyo, Liao Kingdom.

"It turns out that the Liao Kingdom has no naval army at all, so why don't our Song Dynasty naval army do whatever we want?"

"It's not that the Liao Kingdom has no naval army. I heard that the Liao Kingdom also built a naval army, but on the way to Kunzhou, Xiao Fan led the naval army to be completely wiped out."

"The Liao Kingdom actually had the idea of ​​Kunzhou. No wonder it angered Xiao Fan's husband. Wasn't Kunzhou created by Xiao Fan's husband?"

"Not only Kunzhou, but also overseas, it was created by Xiao Fan."

"Hi! Hi! Where are you two talking about? We are talking about Tokyo, Liao Kingdom!"

An old man shook his head with a wine glass and said, "Last night, I suddenly heard the victorious drum, and the Song army turned from a pig to a tiger. It's rare! Our army can actually enter the capital of Liao, burn their palace, and wash away the shame of a hundred years."

"Boss Huang, has the Liao Kingdom also entered our capital?"

The old man pointed to the two young people and said, "That's because you don't know. The Khitans also occupied Bianliang back then, but it was not the Song Dynasty at that time, but the Later Jin Dynasty. The Khitans destroyed the Later Jin Dynasty. Yelu Deguang changed the name of the country to Liao in the Khitan. The people of the Central Plains revolted one after another and attacked the Liao Kingdom. Yelu Deguang was forced to retreat to the north. Before leaving, he burned the palace of the Later Jin Dynasty and kidnapped thousands of palace maids and imperial concubines."

"So, when you heard that the Song army also burned the palace of the Liao Kingdom, it was very relieved, right!"

The old man smiled, "Of course, I wish I could rush to the Liao Dynasty Palace and catch a few palace maids and concubines to relieve my anger."

Everyone laughed, and a young man shouted strangely: "The old man is so old, and he is still as strong as ever. In my opinion, the Empress Dowager of Liao Kingdom is the most worthy of you!"

Everyone laughed again, and the shopkeeper's face turned red and white. He walked up to explain, "Liaoyang Mansion is just a capital, and the imperial concubine and the queen mother live in Shangjing! Tokyo is actually an empty palace, covering an area of ​​100 acres, not even an imperial palace. These generals like to exaggerate the merits and receive rewards. Just listen to it, and you can't take it seriously."

"Oh! Could it be that Manager Zhou has been to Liaoyang? He knows so clearly?"

"Not that, I have more customers here and I can hear a lot of news, so I know a little more."

Another middle-aged man said, "But I heard that hundreds of royal ministers were arrested, I think it is true. I can exchange many captured people with the Liao Kingdom."

"In addition to arresting the ministers, I heard that I have also made a lot of wealth..."

The drinkers became more and more excited as they spoke. Manager Zhou couldn't bear to listen and returned to the inn behind angrily.

This Baohe Restaurant and Baohe Inn are indeed an important intelligence point for the Liao Kingdom in the capital of the Great Song Dynasty. The information they collected is handed over to the Liao Kingdom's envoy to the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, and they sent a letter to the eagle back.

Manager Zhou was a Liao Dynasty with a Han face, a native of Youzhou. His ancestors were officials of the Liao Dynasty more than a hundred years ago. He himself was a counselor of the Southern Privy Council. He worked in Tokyo, Liao Dynasty. A few years ago, he was sent to the capital of the Song Dynasty and became the head of the capital.

So when he heard Tokyo was attacked by the Song army, the palace was burned, and the officials were arrested, his heart was cut off, but he could not show it. He could only try his best to correct some excessive discussions, such as topics involving the Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother.
Chapter completed!