In the twelfth lunar month of that year, the allied forces of the Western Chu League successively entered the country of Hubei.King E was overjoyed, and sent people to reward a lot of New Year's goods.Those who celebrate the new year send the soldiers out, and the king of E will have a reward, and the king of this country will also have a reward.The first batch of supplies from various countries to the army stationed in Hubei was on the road in a mighty way.

The state of E was originally close to the state of Hunan, and there were not many luggage, and the officers and soldiers who escorted them did not take it seriously.On this day, seeing that the King of Xiang's reward was still less than half an hour away from the Hunan army's camp, suddenly a soldier and horse rushed forward, also escorting the luggage, and they fought under the banner of Cai Guoqi.

General Cai, who was the leader, bowed his hands to General Hunan, and said with a smile, "Are the troops from Hunan on the other side?"

General Xiang was startled slightly.When he was traveling, his boss told him that the people in E were poor and there were many bandits.Seeing that the New Year is coming, there is fear that some vicious people will take risks.In order not to cause trouble, let them not have to show their banners.I don't know how General Cai on the opposite side saw that he belonged to the Hunan Army.However, he didn't show it on his face, but he cupped his hands and said, "Exactly."

General Cai looked at the luggage of Xiang State, and enviously said: "Your Xiang State is rich and prosperous. That's why we have such an idea."

The Xiang general said proudly: "Seeing that the New Year is coming, I suddenly sent my brothers out. Our lord felt sorry for him, so he rewarded some things." Looking up, Cai Guo's New Year's goods are really pitiful. There are only a dozen or so small cars and sheds. It was also broken, revealing two dry pig heads.Nai waved his hand and said, "We meet on a narrow road, your army will pass first. You have few cars, so go faster."

Cai Jiang cupped his hands and said, "Thank you very much."

The Xiang general then ordered the soldiers to dodge the roadside and let Cai Jun go first.General Cai stood beside General Xiang and urged his men to hurry up.

When the two armies crossed each other, a whistle was heard in the ear.Cai Guo's officers and soldiers suddenly took out guns from behind.Before General Xiang could shout, General Cai aimed his gun at his throat.General Xiang said with a cold face, "General, what's going on?"

General Cai said triumphantly, "I'm sorry. We Cai Guoguo's young king is poor, and he doesn't even have an idea to express it during the Chinese New Year. The brothers are so hungry that they come out to get some wild food. Your Hunan is big and rich, and the king of Xiang must be too. I don't care about such an idea. Just trouble the old man to send some more."

The Hunan general who escorted the luggage is the son of the general of Hunan.Although young, do not panic.Seeing that his robe was caught off guard and the situation was over, he faked a smile and said, "So it's just for ideas. It's easy to say. Why use a knife or a gun."

General Cai smiled and said, "You people from the rich country are still generous. Last time, it was like dying to get ideas from the Luo country."

The Xiang general said: "Speaking of which, we didn't put up a banner, how did the general know that we are from Hunan."

General Cai said, "Isn't your station just ahead in Taihe Town? The military defense map is clearly marked. From Hunan to deliver New Year's goods to the Hunan army station, we must take this route. We have surveyed it several times."

General Xiang scolded inwardly.The defense map of the coalition army is a secret, even he has never seen it, and only the garrison general knows it.Cai Guo, who co-authored the top secret of Xiang State, used it to set up an ambush for his allies.This is the end of the matter, only surrender for the time being.Fortunately, General Cai didn't want to kill them all. He didn't hand over the firearms and guns of the Hunan Army, but only searched for all the bullets.Then happily snatched the New Year's goods from Xiangguo and ran away.General Xiang ordered his scouts to follow them to see where they were going, and led them to the station empty-handed.

The general garrisoned in Xiang State, surnamed Li, was shocked and furious when he heard the words, and immediately wanted to send troops to take back the things.One of his staff members hurriedly stopped him and said, "The general calms down for the time being, and wait until the matter is clarified."

The scout didn't come back until dusk.Said that he followed Cai Jun around a lot of mountain roads, so that they would be aware of it, but fortunately there was no danger.Seeing that a small town was about to arrive, Cai Jun relaxed and chatted happily, and the scouts guessed that his station was coming soon.However, at this moment, he was stared at by two Cai Jun for interrogation, and it was difficult to cover it up.The scouts didn't dare to follow any more, so they walked back.It didn't take long to meet two old farmers carrying burdens, so he asked what the name of the town ahead was.The old farmer told him it was called Miaoling Town.

General Li hurriedly took out the military defense map to check, and Cai Jun was indeed stationed in Miaoling Town.This matter was confirmed, and General Li immediately led his troops to Miaoling Town to find Cai Jun's theory.Unexpectedly, General Cai Guo didn't recognize half a word, and said that there was absolutely no such thing.He also allowed General Li to search the camp.General Li searched for half a day but failed to find any flaws, so he had to return angrily.After returning to Taihe Town, the staff thought: "Maybe it was the scout brother who showed his signs just now and made Cai Jun alert, so he hid the luggage elsewhere." The king reported back.

When the king of Xiang heard the news, he sneered and said, "You poor man." He wrote a letter to King Cai, ridiculing him.He wrote another letter to Meng Changfu and had someone send it to Chao Xun.

When the eunuch who delivered the letter arrived, Chao Xun was doing the experiment alone, and his hands were not free, so he ordered the eunuch to put the letter on the desk.The eunuch left, and when he reached the door, he heard him call, "Ah Gui, Ah Gui, come in." Kou Agui immediately entered the study.

Seeing Chao Xun, the eunuch said, "Here, take that letter to Sang Ye."

Kou Agui said: "Unfortunately, Miss Sang was called away by Mrs. Lin just now."

"Then you keep it first, and give it to her when she comes back."

"Yes. What is the third master doing?"

"You don't even know what you said, go out and don't get in the way."

"Yes."

Tai listened to this and immediately strode away.

After about a stick of incense, Sang Ye came back, and Kou Agui hurriedly handed the letter to her.Sang Ye thanked her and took it back to her room, and went out after a while.She came to Guanmao Street to look for a fortune teller, and whispered the story.The fortune teller took a handkerchief from her, closed the stall and left.

The fortune-teller walked a few streets, when two groups of idlers were fighting, and they immediately surrounded him.People who are fighting can't tell who is on which side, so they just punch and beat.The fortune teller couldn't dodge in time, he was punched in the back of the head, and immediately passed out.When he woke up, he was kicked to the side of the road, and the fighters were still beating him.He felt all the important things on his body, hurriedly got up and wanted to slip away, but there were people around him and he couldn't leave.Fortunately, the yamen servants arrived at this time and dispersed the idlers.The fortune teller picked up the cage he had dropped on the ground and found that it was not damaged. After a little tidying up, he could still go to the street to tell fortunes tomorrow.

Not long after, the two letters were listed together.One is a letter copied by Kou Agui from the King of Xiang to Meng Changfu, and the other is a coded letter written by Sang Ye, copied by the idler from a fortune teller.The number of words in the encrypted letter is several times that of the King Xiang letter.The first few words of the King of Xiang's letter read "Respect Letter from the Lord of Hunan", and the first line of the password letter is a lot of unknown things, but it is a single line.The head of the idle man pondered for a long time but couldn't figure it out, so he sent it to his superiors.

Meng Changfu was in E country at this time, and he also had a headache.It turned out that Luo Jun also claimed to be robbed by Cai Jun, but Cai Jun refused to admit it and had no evidence.After being robbed, Luo Jun had nothing to celebrate the New Year, so he went to rob Chu Jun again.Chen Jun didn't know where to get the news, so he robbed the Lu army according to the gourd painting.Now the garrisons of various countries are robbing me and robbing him, and they are in a mess.The chief general of Pian Cai's army claimed that he did not show the general's defense map to his subordinates, and the same was true of Luo and Chen.And the robbed luggage of all countries were all in ambush, some pretended to be ordinary people, and some simply pretended to be caravans of the robbed country.The robber obviously had a military defense map in his hand.

An aide next to Meng Changfu thought, "My lord, that's not right. If it was just Cai Jun who robbed and hid the stolen goods, it would be fine. With so many robbers, none of them could find the stolen goods. Wansheng finds it strange. Could it be the special gangsters of the Federation?" Come in and frame up and muddy the water."

Meng Changfu thought: "If so, they must have a military defense map in their hands. This map is confidential, could it be leaked out? Theoretically, only eighteen princes, seventeen generals from other countries, and three important ministers from the E state know , there are no more No.30 nines."

The staff said: "39 people, with different temperaments and a lot of involvement. The federal government is pervasive, and there are loopholes everywhere. My lord, there are too many. Only three or four big countries should know about this kind of thing, and the rest of the small countries are like Cai Luochen. Wait, why do you need to understand so much?"

Meng Changfu thought for a while, then waved his hands and said, "No. The reason why these eighteen countries can form an alliance is because big and small countries are all fair. If it is not fair, small countries will easily be won over by the Federation." The staff waited to persuade, Meng Changfu had made up his mind, I had to give up.

On the other side, Jia Xu has arrived in Changsha himself.He, a cryptography expert, has been analyzing for a long time, but still can't find the pattern.I just guessed a few words with a relatively high repetition rate in the letter, such as "zhi", "ye", and "Xiang".So he simply copied several copies and sent them to the capital for everyone to guess together.

Now that the new year is approaching, the government affairs hall is so busy that everyone is on their backs, but the regent Jia Cong is the most free.Lin Daiyu swiped a pen, and the two letters were sent directly to the Prince Regent's Palace.How can Jia Cong have this talent?Staring at the letter in a daze.

Chen Ruijin brought his two daughters to visit his sister's house and came back when he saw Prince Jia was about to fall asleep with his chin resting on his hands.It was a little funny, so the daughter stepped forward and pushed their father to wake them up.Jia Cong rubbed his eyes, and brought the daughters to him one by one with each hand: "Come here, Miao Miao Yaya, let your father guess what these things are." Then he pointed to the line of code books. "These symbols represent Xiang, and these symbols represent it. The middle ones represent the country. The latter pile represents the three characters Zhu, Jing, and Shu. Can you two guess which symbols represent which? Three words?"

After the two children discussed the meeting, Jia Dingbang asked, "Are there any other clues?"

"Yes." Jia Cong pointed to the words that Jia Xu had deciphered, "These." Pointing to the complete coded letter, "These are the ones I haven't guessed yet."

Jia Xingguo frowned and said, "It's such a big project. Dad, we don't have enough manpower, can we ask Brother Lin and the others to join us?"

"Yes." Jia Cong said, "Find both of your children."

After the two sisters discussed the meeting, Jia Dingbang began to post posts to each family, and even took out his jade unicorn seal to affix it.Chen Ruijin stared at Jia Cong for a long time: "There are still fathers like you."

Jia Cong said: "Children have rich imaginations, maybe they are stronger than us adults." Nai yawned, "It's too brain-intensive, my wife is sleepy, let's sleep for a while."

"Sleep yourself! I have to watch these little bastards."

"Oh, children and grandchildren have their own blessings, so don't care about them." Jia Cong grabbed Chen Ruijin's shoulder and said to his daughter, "There is another clue, that is, the person who translated the text version into the code version quickly translated it. Personally, I think , This shows that there is no need to consult reference books such as Shuowen Jiezi, as long as the translator is familiar with the code, he can write a coded letter facing the original text."

Jia Dingbang thought: "Could it be a minority language."

"No." Jia Cong said, "This possibility has been ruled out. According to the number and position of repeated words, each set of passwords corresponds to the words one by one."

"understood."

Jia Congsui left the work to his daughter openly, and he half dragged his daughter-in-law back to the house to rest in the afternoon.It was cold and lazy, and the couple woke up to the darkness outside the window, and were startled to feel hungry.Jia Cong turned on the lamp by the bed, took out the pocket watch next to the pillow, and saw that it was already the second watch, so he said, "Why don't you just eat some snacks and go to sleep."

Chen Ruijin thought for a while: "Alright."

Jia Cong then put on his clothes and poured some hot water from the kettle.The couple ate snacks with plain water, and went to sleep after eating.

It wasn't until the next morning that I found out that Jia Dingbang had summoned children from more than a dozen families yesterday afternoon, and they didn't get picked up one after another until the third watch.After breakfast, the two boys from the Lin family came first, and all the deciphering team had arrived before Sishi, and three or four of them obviously didn't sleep well last night.

Jia Cong looked at the two daughters, all of them had enough sleep and were full of energy, so he reassured: "These two children are with me, so I am relieved."

Chen Ruijin looked at the dark circles under the eyes of those people and nodded, "It's a good thing to follow you."

The oldest of this group of children was less than 12 years old, and the youngest was only four years old. They came to join in the fun and gathered in the inner study of the Prince Regent's Palace for seven or eight days of meetings.On the 21st day of the twelfth lunar month, Jia Dingbang announced that the code was successfully deciphered.

It turns out that these passwords are nothing more than taking apart all the radicals of the characters and replacing them with irrelevant symbols.The password compiled by Jia Xu is a phonetic password, with many prompts for one-to-one correspondence; Meng Changfu's password is entirely a font password, and it is not comprehensive.After dismantling each word, it is connected together like foreign language words, and it can only be decoded by guessing and connecting with the context.The children were young, so they were not as careful as Jia Xu and other secret agents, but they guessed it.

The password table was shown to Lin Daiyu, Zhan Kun, Feng Ziying and others, and everyone was convinced.Immediately, he sent someone to deliver it to Jia Xu in Changsha.When Jia Xu saw it, he was overwhelmed.

When it comes to the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, every household is busy preparing for the New Year worship.The seventeen allied forces stationed in E State suddenly received an order to change their defenses, and immediately pulled out their camps and moved to other places.Although the generals were confused, and the military order was inviolable like a mountain, they all followed the military order honestly and left.The king of E, together with the officers and soldiers of the state of E, had no knowledge of this.

On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, with only one day left before the [-]th of the new year, Chao Xun and King Xiang asked for leave to go home for the New Year.The king of Xiang thought that there must be nothing to do during the Chinese New Year, so he agreed.Chao Xun led the Kou family and his father back to Yueyang, while Sang Ye stayed in Changsha to guard the courtyard.And hundreds of miles away, all the coalition soldiers and horses stationed in Hubei have completed their defense, and they have all changed from towns to barren villages and wild mountains.The Hubei army has already handed over the important points to the allied forces.

In a small farm outside the city of Ezhou, Li Hautou, who used to do farm work with Kou Agui to burn charcoal kilns, surrounded Pan Xigui with many farmers.

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