Chapter 475 [New plan]
Letters are the communication method mainly used by the military world of the second-level civilization, which is not much different from the ancient main world. Although there are creatures like the pigeons in the main world, such as the Pigeons, and even better than the pigeons in terms of speed and accuracy, the Pigeons are just ordinary birds with unclear intelligence and cannot compare to humans. Therefore, only some emergency situations can be transmitted in this way. Generally, letters are transmitted by special people riding horses.
Each town has its own station. Most people's letters are handed over to the station, and the station staff will then classify them in different directions. Then, letters from one direction will be delivered to the next station regularly. After such layers of transmission, the letters will eventually be delivered to the recipient. This is considered a public service, with almost no charges and is relatively accurate. After all, the public can grasp the information of almost everyone, but the corresponding speed is astonishingly slow. Even adjacent towns will take several days to deliver, let alone a little further.
Of course, in addition to this slowest method, there are some other things, such as handing the letters to acquaintances of the caravan. Usually when the caravan leaves the local area and goes to other places, they will collect all the letters sent by acquaintances to the destination they want to go to next, and then deliver them after they arrive at the local area. This service charges are not fixed, and it depends entirely on the situation of the caravan. When encountering particularly familiar customers, it is possible not to charge money. If someone is not very familiar, it is possible to charge a high price to quarrel.
In addition to these two types of people, there are of course other ways of delivery, including high and low fees, and fast and slow speed. These are the methods adopted by ordinary people. As for the army, in each army that has reached a certain scale, there are special institutions responsible for delivering messages. What this institution usually mainly does is to train fast horses and raise petals and other creatures that can deliver messages. Once they receive the order, they must immediately ride horses to deliver messages in person, or let petals and let petals deliver messages. As for which method to choose, it depends on the situation of the message itself.
It is indeed very urgent and no longer cares about other news. I can only let the Hualing Bird come and send it. Even if the Hualing Bird cannot reach its destination 100%, it is also beaten down by others or hunted by some birds of prey. Even if it is frightened, it may lose its target. It flew wildly, and sometimes it even turned around and then turned back. But it has to be said that in the military world, the Hualing Bird is already the fastest way to convey complex news.
If it is very important but not very urgent, people will be sent to deliver messages on horseback, and usually two people will be sent at one time. Depending on the distance, you should take more horses or transfer halfway through the journey. In order to ensure that the information is not affected at all, it will be delivered to the recipient as quickly as possible. Generally, daily military newspapers are in this way, and most of the time they are encrypted.
The team leader also mentioned before that even if big names like Qi Lin and Qi Lie send private messages to each other, they must discuss things that are very important to ordinary people. Therefore, of course, they cannot write them as plain letters as ordinary people, but write them into secret letters through various means. Only the other party can decrypt and view the real content, so even if they write a fake letter to one party, the other party will definitely not believe it.
Therefore, the team leader sneered at the idea of his companion, so outsiders did not know how to write a secret letter between Qi Lin and Qi Lie, so it was impossible to write a letter that made Qi Lin or Qi Lie believe was from the other party. The role of such a forced letter could only make the other party feel suspicious, so that they either ignore it or strengthen vigilance. No matter which one it was, it would not help He Ping and Wen's side's next actions.
"It is indeed not a reliable thing to mobilize Qi Lin or Qi Lie through letters and keep them together, but..." He Ping thought about it and said the idea he had just flashed his inspiration and then thought about it: "If we do the opposite, we might really do something, at least there is a certain possibility. Even if the plan is not successful, as long as the timing is right, it will be no problem to kill one of them, which is also a good result."
"Perform the opposite? How do you say it specifically?"
"If we write a letter to Qi Lin and say that there is a problem with Qi Lie and Qi Lie alone cannot solve it. If Qi Lin wants Qi Lin to come here, Qi Lin will definitely not believe it. Because it is not a secret letter, Qi Lin can easily think that this may be a conspiracy to transfer him over, but what if the above content is the opposite? Simply put, if the letter we passed to Qi Lin says that Qi Lie has no problem, does Qi Lin need to worry?"
"Then Qi Lin is not worried..." A small team leader next to him blurted out without thinking, but before he finished speaking, he was slapped on the head by another small team leader next to him, interrupting his words.
"You idiot!" The captain who clapped his hands looked at the captain who was slapped in disgrace and explained: "Qi Lin received all letters reporting safety, but they were all letters. Not secret letters. Qi Lin would definitely be suspicious, thinking that there was something wrong with Qi Lie, and the person who caused the problem did not want to intervene, so he sent such a letter. Even if Qi Lin thought further, it would only make him more confused and thus create flaws."
He Ping nodded. The team leader said it well. Qi Lin is old and even though he was young, he must be suspicious now. If the letters are reported to be safe, Qi Lin will definitely not sit idly by. Even if he thought that these letters made him suspicious, he would definitely think too much, so he began to pay attention to the situation on the front line and prepare to go to the front line for observation. Moreover, He Ping's plan was obviously more than that.
"Sending these letters to Qi Lin for safety is only the first step." He Ping continued: "We can also intercept Qi Lie's messenger and intercept the real letters. Such an action is not difficult for us. In this way, Qi Lin cannot receive real letters from Qi Lie, and can only receive a large number of letters to safety. Qi Lin believes that there may be a problem with Qi Lie, and the possibility of Qi Lin personally going to go to the front line where Qi Lie is located is even greater."
"Good idea!" Wen Fang listened to the explanation of the team leader and He Ping, and quickly understood the power of this move. It was not only helpful for mobilizing Qi Lin and Qi Lie together, but also did not have much hinderment to the previous plan even if the plan failed. He could continue to implement the beheading plan and kill the head coach of the Qi family's troops on the front line. Even if there was a backup head coach, he could also give the Li family some buffer in terms of time.
"The general idea has been confirmed, and the next step is a specific action plan." Wen Fang was not a vegetarian. With inspiration, he immediately formulated a very complete action plan: "Next, brothers He Ping will continue to station at the camp here to ensure that we have a base camp. At the same time, we will continue to observe the Qi family and the Li family troops fighting here. I will take the other half to Pinghua Leader to intercept the Qi family's messenger halfway, and find a way to deliver a letter to Qi Lin, who is in the Qi family."
"No problem." He Ping also understood that Wen Fang's action plan was very reasonable. Wen Fang was more familiar with the terrain of Pinghua Territory, and was also very clear about the habit of sending letters in the military community, so he could better intercept Qi Jia's messenger. If He Ping was the one, maybe he would not even recognize which messenger was: "I must take the people here to complete the task, and Brother Wen Fang must be careful. When there is news that Qi Lin went out to rush to the front line, he would quickly approach us and we would still meet at the camp here."
Chapter completed!