The defeat of Jiagu Asu was no longer something that could be concealed.
If you are not careful, Shandong will overthrow. Once the rebels and the Song Dynasty unite, the Central Plains will be in danger, and the Jin Kingdom will face a great threat!
Although Yelu Chenghui has been responsible for logistics work for a long time and does not actually hold military power, he still has certain talents and strategic vision.
If he didn't have such talent, how could he get Wan Yanliang's appointment as the chief executive of a place?
Not to mention that he is still a Khitan and does not have the advantage of a Jurchen's background, so he needs the help of talents.
He realized that the Song State was a huge uncertainty. Once the thieves in Shandong became powerful, the Song State would see that they could take advantage. As long as they spread their official positions, they could quickly win over people's hearts.
The official position in the Song Dynasty is still very attractive, and it is just a job. It will not cause the Song Dynasty to suffer any substantial losses, nor will it make any substantial contributions.
But it can make the Shandong thieves turn to the Song Dynasty and fight to the death.
Once Shandong returned to the Song Dynasty, it would be difficult to say where Henan and Shaanxi were.
The Jin Kingdom has a shallow foundation in the Central Plains. Once the military coercion fails, the fragile rule is likely to collapse completely.
Yelu Chenghui thought about it and felt very uneasy. He felt that Shuhu Siji and Tu Danjing would be finished sooner or later, and he must not be bound to them, otherwise the whole family, not to mention himself, would suffer.
All the relatives of the Jurchen Emperor were killed by Wan Yanliang, so as a Khitan, he had no possibility of immunity.
Therefore, even if you risk your life, you must tell the emperor the truth. You must not let the emperor think that he is complicit in these dying people.
With uneasiness, Yelu Chenghui made up his mind and wrote a secret letter in person.
In the secret letter, he elaborated on the story of how Shuhusiji, Tudanjing and Jiagu Asu conspired to hide it from their superiors, and also made up the story of how he had no choice but to follow them.
Yelu Chenghui described himself as a tragic minister who was under de facto house arrest and could only sign the issued order documents.
He endured the humiliation and finally found an opportunity to tell the emperor the truth. He also asked the emperor to send troops to help immediately, punishing the traitors while rescuing Zhongliang and restoring the situation.
Loyal ministers like Yelu Chenghui are eagerly awaiting His Majesty the Emperor's rescue.
In fact, Shuhu Siji did not restrict Yelu Chenghui's freedom.
He felt that Yelu Chenghui and he were like grasshoppers on the same rope. They were on the same boat with him. If the Shandong Military Region capsized, he would have no good fruits to eat, so he could only follow him to deceive others.
Therefore, Shuhu Siji did not think that Yelv Chenghui would be stupid enough to reveal the true situation to the capital and let the emperor know.
Originally, Yelu Chenghui had indeed planned this. He did not feel that he should tell the emperor the truth. That would be too risky, and he could not guarantee that he would escape unscathed.
But now the situation has changed drastically. Jiagu Asu has been defeated, and the future is not good. Even if Shuhu Siji wins, he cannot declare that the rebellion on Shandong East Road has ceased. There is too much uncertainty.
In this way, Shu Husiji and Tu Danjing narrowly escaped death and obviously had no future.
If Yelu Chenghui doesn't jump ship as soon as possible and become a tainted witness, the probability of survival will definitely be much lower than if he is a tainted witness.
So after weighing the pros and cons, Yelu Chenghui decided to jump ship and secretly report the news here to the emperor in exchange for his own safety.
I'm sorry for the dead fellow Taoist but not the poor Taoist!
But it doesn't matter. Anyway, Yelu Chenghui never thinks that he is on the same side as them. Whether it is cooperation or betrayal is forced by the current situation, no one should say anything about it.
After writing the secret letter, Yelu Chenghui found his absolute confidant and ordered him to send the secret letter to the capital at an expedited speed of three hundred miles. He also ordered him to enter Hebei through Bozhou and Enzhou, and then quickly go to the capital. Deliver secret messages.
There were no Liberation Army troops there, so it was safe.
The confidant quickly ordered four escort knights to leave Dongping Mansion with him and the secret message, and quickly headed north.
Connected with the previous two important pieces of information, a total of three pieces of information were sent from Dongping Mansion Office, one to the west, one to the east, and one to the north, and they acted together in three directions.
The messenger knights who are responsible for delivering the information will work hard. Apart from changing horses and sleeping at the inns along the way, they will not do anything else and will not be blocked by anyone.
They will be focused on their journey and reach their destination as quickly as possible.
If everything goes well, they will arrive at their destination soon and complete their mission.
But the situation is that they are being targeted.
Targeting them was the intelligence unit of the Shengjie Army commanded by Su Yin.
Ever since Su Yonglin ordered them to create the tactic of intercepting and killing the messenger knight, Su Yin began to study this tactic seriously.
He found that there was no need to go deep into the government to find out any news. As long as he kept an eye on the stations around various transportation thoroughfares, he would surely find some interesting things.
There are frequent wars in Shandong, and the daily delivery of military affairs is in high demand. There are post stations every twenty miles on the transportation highway, with post and post horses for the messenger knights to change horses, drink water, eat and rest, as well as prepare replacement orders. knight.
As long as it is an important official document from the imperial court, it must follow the prescribed official route, change horses and rest at the prescribed inn, otherwise neither man nor horse can survive.
Therefore, as long as the inn on the official road is used as a breakthrough point, the official messenger knight will definitely be found.
Su Yin has been active in Jinan and Dongping Prefectures for several months. After figuring out the number and location of the stations on each traffic artery, he even drew a map, and he has a thorough understanding of the traffic conditions in this area.
Although I don't know what news they will deliver, according to Su Yonglin, it will definitely be negative.
Therefore, as long as there are conditions, intercept and kill as much as possible to interfere with the government's message transmission and create better conditions for the Liberation Army to rebel.
This trick had been of great use before. Before the Liberation Army launched the second attack, it messed up the message transmission on the entire Shandong East Road. The officials on Shandong East Road did not know where the Liberation Army was and what they were doing until the last moment.
Afterwards, Su Yin accumulated a wave of experience and began to delve into the methods of intercepting and killing the messenger knights and the methods of destroying corpses and eliminating traces, and gained some experience in this.
He often chooses to send people to hide around several inns near the mountains and fields between the cities, and secretly prepare trip ropes and other items. Once he encounters the messenger knight, he will immediately go out to intercept and kill them.
The location he chooses is far away from the city, often in a place with no access to villages or shops, and it is difficult to be discovered when he does it.
Generally speaking, the imperial court's post station system will not encounter any danger.
Officials didn't dare to stop him. That was the rule. It was normal for him to be beaten and killed if he tried to stop Baili Jiji.
Bandits did not dare to rob, for fear of angering the government and triggering an all-out suppression campaign.
Unless during wartime, the post system near the war zone is easily attacked, the safety factor of the post system in peacetime can still be guaranteed.
So once there is someone with a strong head and a special focus on the messenger knight, it will be really difficult to deal with.
There is no camera surveillance system these days, the population is not that dense, and the Jin Kingdom's control over household registration is also quite poor. The area under its control is a vast uninhabited land in deep mountains and old forests. Going into the mountains is no different than disappearing from the world.
Su Yin and his intelligence unit had already made a lot of achievements, confusing the Shandong Jin government's intelligence information and providing a large amount of important intelligence to the Shengjie Army.
Faced with such a situation, the response of the Jin government was quite weak and weak, because they simply had no more energy to spend on dealing with such matters.
However, there were several reports of knights disappearing without a trace, which attracted the attention of the government. People were also sent to the surrounding areas to investigate, but nothing was found.
The military situation was urgent, so the government could only bite the bullet and increase the number of escort knights to ensure that the message could be delivered on time.
This doesn't mean much to Su Yin.
One will be killed, two will be killed, three will be killed. As long as they encounter each other, their hearts will twist, and the stumbling rope will be pulled, no matter who they are, they will fall to pieces.
Of course, interception operations by intelligence forces are not always successful.
It would be better to say that due to the lack of manpower and lack of experience, the probability of not catching someone is higher.
But this time, it happened to be successful.
