Licheng County, Qi County, is the central city in Qingzhou area. Regardless of the size, strategic importance, population or economy, it is the largest city in Qingzhou.

Although Yidu County, Beihai County, has gradually become more powerful with Licheng County in recent years, it is still slightly inferior to Licheng County in terms of population and business, and its strategic importance is not as good as Licheng County.

Since Zhang Xuan led his army to Qingzhou, Qi County has become his main garrison, with one military camp in Licheng County and Zhua County, each stationed 10,000 troops.

There are people coming and going on the streets of Licheng County, which are extremely lively. There are shops on both sides of Jishui Avenue. As the afternoon approaches, the business of several big restaurants is particularly prosperous. There is a restaurant near the west gate of the county town called Wanjing Restaurant. Because the restaurant is not large in size and is not close to the main street, the business has been not very good. The owner has changed several times, and no one knows who the owner is now?

Although the business of the restaurant is not good, there are many bartenders, with only twenty or thirty people, far more than the average medium-sized restaurant with about ten people.

This restaurant is not large in size, but it occupies a large area, covering an area of ​​ten acres. In addition to the two acres of land in the restaurant itself, it has bought several houses and open spaces in the alley behind it. It is said that it is preparing to open an inn.

On such a sunny early summer noon, something that no one expected happened. Hundreds of soldiers rushed in from the West Gate, and they surrounded the Wanjing diner from all directions.

This Wanjing Tavern is the intelligence station of the Bohai Association in Qingzhou. It was only established last year. After Zhang Xuan left Qingzhou and went to Jianghuai, Qingzhou had no troops stationed in Qingzhou and was in a blank state. Although the Bohai Association did not dare to occupy Qingzhou openly, they began to infiltrate important counties in Qingzhou, not only bribed officials, but also established intelligence points.

Last fall, this tavern was officially acquired by a Jiuye Commercial Bank under the name of the Bohai Association and became the Bohai Association's intelligence station in Qi County and even Qingzhou.

Information from all over Qingzhou must be summarized here and sent to the Bohai Association’s nest in Hebei.

This time, Zhang Xuan took over the Bohai Association's nest in Gonggao County and seized a batch of important documents, including Bohai's intelligence points in various places in Qingzhou and a list of bribed officials.

The Wanjing Tavern was not aware of the danger coming. More than a dozen guests were whispering and drinking and chatting. The smart shopkeeper was sitting at the counter and was thinking about something. The bartender lazily served wine and food to the guests.

At this moment, the sound of running footsteps suddenly sounded outside. Everyone turned around and looked at the door. A bartender rushed in and shouted in horror: "Shopkeeper, there are many Sui troops coming outside, surrounding us!"

As soon as he finished speaking, an arrow shot towards him and hit the bartender's back shoulder. The bartender screamed and fell to the ground immediately.

The restaurant was stunned for a moment, and suddenly there was chaos. The bartender immediately slid the window and fled in scattered areas. The drinkers were stunned, wondering what had happened?

The shopkeeper's face turned pale, and he turned around and ran towards the backyard. At this time, a large group of Sui soldiers broke into the restaurant through the gate, and all the windows were blocked by the soldiers. A side general shouted: "Whoever dares to escape, kill you no matter how hard you do!"

The words were shouted, and more than a dozen bartenders squatted down in despair and hugged their heads. Several drinkers who had just stood up were also scared and sat down dejectedly. The lobby was silent.

He swept around but didn't see the shopkeeper. He grabbed the injured bartender at the door and shouted sternly: "Where has the shopkeeper gone?"

The bartender pointed to the counter timidly, and then he realized that there was a small door under the counter, leading directly to the backyard. He was furious and drew his sword to rush into the door. Dozens of soldiers followed him and ran outside the door.

Under the instructions of the two bartenders, the soldiers led the soldiers to a woodshed in the backyard. The two soldiers kicked open the door and saw the shopkeeper burning a stack of documents with fear on his face. Several soldiers rushed forward and pressed the shopkeeper to the ground.

The general stepped forward and slapped him in the face, "You bastard, do you want to die? I will help you immediately!"

He kicked him hard again, put away the documents that had not yet been burned, and ordered: "Take them away!"

At the same time, the whole city of Licheng County was searching for a large number of searches. The Sui army had already grasped the list. More than a dozen shops, brothels, inns, martial arts halls, and pharmacies were all seized, and more than 300 undercover agents who were installed in Licheng County were captured.

Half an hour later, Zhang Xuan came to Wanjing Restaurant surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, which was the intelligence station of the Bohai Association in Qingzhou and the material reserve warehouse of the Bohai Association in Qingzhou.

The soldiers had found the underground warehouse and moved out thousands of pairs of Sui army armor, swords, spears, armor, shields, etc. from the underground warehouse. They piled up like a hill in the yard, and there were hundreds of boxes of copper coins, neatly placed on the open space.

Zhang Xuan walked in front of the armor, picked up a pair of armor and looked at it, turned around and smiled at Shen Guang, "Did you find out the strangeness of these armor?"

Shen Guang was the chief responsible for this clearance operation, not only Qi County, but also Beihai County and Lu County. He also looked at the armor carefully and smiled and said, "It's exactly the same as our armor."

"Gao Lie is a person who is interested! He actually created the same armor as us. What do he want to do?" Zhang Xuan sneered.

Shen Guang understood the commander's meaning, and he nodded, "I guess Bohai will also want to learn our old ways and pretend to be our army as an insider."

Zhang Xuan pondered for a moment and said to Shen Guang: "Since the Bohai Sea has the ambition to capture Qingzhou by force, then several important counties relying on the Yellow River, Zhua County, Jibei County, Bochang County, etc. should be the primary targets that the Bohai Sea will seize. It is very likely that they already have soldiers lurking or storing weapons. To increase the search of these counties, it is necessary to catch them all in one place without leaving any hidden dangers."

"I understand, and immediately expand the search!"

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At the same time when the Sui army was searching for undercover in Qingzhou, the special envoy of the Bohai Association, Gao Lie, the leader of the Bohai Association, also arrived in Qi County.

A carriage slowly drove into the west gate of Licheng County under the escort of more than a dozen Sui cavalrymen. Inside the carriage was Gao Hui, who had just come from Ye County.

Gao Hui is the general intelligence leader of the Bohai Association and is fully responsible for all external affairs. Whether it is information transmission or exchanges between the powerful, he must report to her.

Although she has done quite failures over the years, Zhang Xuan’s large-scale purge of Qingzhou this time has nothing to do with her. When she received the urgent news from her brother, she had already broken off contact with Qingzhou. The key is that she was one step slower in time.

Gao Hui certainly knew what would happen in Qi County. At this time, she looked at the Wanjing Restaurant not far from the city gate and saw that the alley where the restaurant was located was full of soldiers.

Gao Hui couldn't help but sigh secretly. As she expected, she already knew Zhang Xuan very well. As long as she felt it was beneficial to her, she would never hesitate and be cruel and vicious.

In contrast, her brother was still a little too proud. Even without Zhang Xuan's surprise attack, how could he feel at ease to put his nest on Dou Jiande's territory? There were only more than a thousand guards.

Needless to say, Gao Hui could guess that it was probably Dou Jiande who betrayed their nest, otherwise how could Zhang Xuan find such a hidden manor? This also shows that Dou Jiande is very clear about the secret of that manor, and is definitely not as ignorant as he pretends to be.

Gao Hui was really worried. Fighting with Zhang Xuan, her brother was really no match for her.

The carriage slowly stopped in front of the Qi County Yamen, which was also Zhang Xuan's temporary military Yamen. A follower opened the car door and the maid helped Gao Hui slowly walk off the carriage.

At this time, a young scholar waiting in front of the steps stepped forward and smiled, "In the lower house Xuanling, welcome Mrs. Gao."

"It turns out that he is Junshi Fang. I have been reliant on him for a long time. I wonder if General Zhang can be in the county yard?"

"General Zhang is not in Licheng County for the time being, so I specially told Mrs. Gao to talk first. If the negotiation is done well, he will not have to come forward again."

Gao Hui couldn't help but secretly scold Zhang Xuan for being cunning. He hid behind the scenes, but asked his subordinates to talk to him, putting himself in an unfavorable situation from the beginning.

But Gao Hui had no choice. Now she is here to ask Zhang Xuan, and she has no choice.

"Okay! I'll talk to Military Commander Fang first."
Chapter completed!