The news of Yangwuhou’s defeat at Taiping Field soon spread throughout the city. Zhuchengmen in Chengdu continued to be martial law.

The troops of Li Rang, the commander of Chengdu defender, were all transferred to the front line, but the generals who commanded the defender were replaced, so he failed to follow Xue Lu to join the battle.

Early in the morning, Li Rang slowly used breakfast, put on his clothes and armor, and walked to the doorstep surrounded by slaves and soldiers. At this time, two men in civilian clothes were already standing next to the doorman waiting. They came up and took out a piece of paper with seals and a sealed waist sign. One of them said, "Please ask Commander Li to go with us."

Li Rang's face turned pale immediately. He stood there for a while without saying a word. There were a group of guards and slaves around him, but no one spoke at this time.

"Commander Li?" The soldiers of the Jinyi Guard called out.

Li Rang said: "Today I will go to the Ministry of Commander and Commander Office to discuss the city defense and military affairs, and I have agreed."

The soldiers of the Jinyi Guard said coldly: "We will say hello over there. Commander Li doesn't have to worry, and there is no need to go."

"Okay." Li Rang nodded, and then lowered his head and looked at him, "Then I'll change my clothes first."

The two soldiers of the Jinyi Guard looked at each other and said, "Please General Li as soon as possible."

Li Rang turned around and walked towards the mansion, came to a wing room, and asked the servants beside him to take his official uniform. He then grabbed his shoulder scarf, wiped his forehead, took a strong breath, and exhaled it long.

He sat stiffly for a moment, took off the sword from his waist and placed it on the table, staring at the scabbard with his eyes intently. After a while, Li Rang suddenly grabbed the scabbard, stretched out his right hand, and pulled out a knife with a "snail", but immediately stopped moving again.

He frowned, staring at the blade, thinking about something.

Li Rang sat in the room for a long time without doing anything. When the slave came out of his official uniform, he changed into it. Then he walked to the door of the wing room and suddenly turned around and said to the slave, "Tell your wife..."

The slave bent down quickly.

Li Rang finally continued, "Don't worry, Madam, I'll go home soon."

The slave choked and said, "Yes."

Li Rang obediently followed the two soldiers of the Jinyi Guard to leave the house and got into a carriage. He did not resist at all, mainly because he could not resist. All the main troops of the Chengdu guards were taken away by Xue Lu, fled, surrendered or died. Now Li Rang is a bare-headed man; even if there are soldiers, if there are sudden changes, the consequences will probably be worse and more people will be affected!

He was taken to the Sichuan Provincial Administration and arrived at a study room. No one was embarrassed for the time being. Li Rang noticed that there was an airtight curtain hanging behind the study room. He couldn't see anything behind, but it was difficult to check it out. He always felt that there was someone behind!

After a while, a big man came in, a man who had never seen before. The big man sat down casually on a chair and said, "I am from the Jinyiwei, my surname is Di."

Li Rang clasped his fists and said, "General Di, lucky to meet."

The man named Di clasped his fists and replied, "I want to ask Commander Li for advice. More than a month ago, I made it clear that it was September 28th, at the hour of You. Commander Li went to the mansion who was over 20 years old. Who was that person?"

Li Rang swallowed a mouthful and slowly spoke, "Cousin, my cousin, my surname is Zhang."

The great man nodded in all his thoughts.

Li Rang had already prepared his speech and thought that the man wanted to ask in detail what the relationship was. Unexpectedly, the man bowed and said, "Commander Li may not know much about the situation. During the deadly days, more than one general in the Sichuan garrison had seen the secret envoy of the King of Han, and many people admitted it. Mrs. Zun's cousin happened to arrive mysteriously in those days. Such a thing is indeed strange. Are you right?"

Li Rang nodded and took a deep breath in secret.

The great man said, "The King of Han sent secret envoys to persuade the surrender. This was as expected by us, and it was not a general who blamed him. The King of Han wanted to send traitors over here. What can you do?" He paused and continued, "Don't worry, those generals did not agree to the conditions of the King of Han's traitors, so there is nothing wrong now..."

"Horse Yangwu, he is more ruthless in his work, but he has left Chengdu City. Don't be scared by what Marquis Yangwu did." The tone of the Han Dynasty was very good. "Now the governor, Guo Butang, is in charge of the military and political affairs of Chengdu Prefecture. Guo Butang is a well-educated scholar who reads the books of sages. He is polite and reasonable in everything, and will never make things difficult for Commander Li."

Silence fell in the study. Li Rang's mind was surging. At some point, he wanted to admit it. After all, the other party was really polite and what he said made sense. If a spy came to find him, there was nothing he could do about it!

But Li Rang finally said nothing.

The big man said, "Actually, that spy has been caught by us. Guo Butang thinks that General Li is understandable, it depends on what General Li means."

Li Rang closed his mouth, clenched his teeth and loosened it, "That man is really not a spy. I'm afraid Guo Butang and General Di have misunderstood!"

"Bang!" The man suddenly slapped the table with a palm, and the teacup on it bounced up. The man pointed at Li Rang and said coldly, "I don't know the methods of the Jinyiwei? If you don't eat toast, you will be punished for wine!"

Li Rang hurriedly said with a sad face: "I have ruined my future for the woman. I have been trying to find trouble for me more than once..."

"Okay! OK!" The big man stood up, "General Li would not be willing to do it without passing the water first."

"Cough, cough." Two gentle coughs came from behind the curtain.

The man immediately walked behind the curtain. After a while, he opened the curtain and said, "Commander Li, go home and stay in the mansion. Don't go anywhere, and don't send people out to have an affair with irrelevant people. Just do it yourself!"

...Three days after the Taiping Field Battle, Xue Lu had arrived in Chongqing Prefecture. The people from the Jinyiwei immediately came to the army to see him and asked him to lead the army to assist in suppressing the rebellion if necessary.

Only then did Xue Lu realize that the Chongqing Guard Commander Xu Hua was arrested by the Jinyi Guard Captain.

The general of the Jinyiwei called Xu Hua to the prefect's office and spoke, showing his identity, and asked Xu Hua about meeting the traitors of King Han. But Xue Lu knew in his heart that the people of the Jinyiwei had no idea whether Xu Hua had any private information | He must have wanted to cheat Xu Hua!

No one in the Jinyiwei soldiers in the capital could control the civil and military officials from other courts. However, except those sent to the local area, most of the Jinyiwei soldiers were controlled by the emperor's trusted ministers, such as Guo Zi and Xue Lu, who could control them; because the Jinyiwei's responsibilities in Sichuan were assisting the emperor's trusted ministers, and at the same time, they also needed supervision and help from ministers with great power.

So Xue Lu knew that the generals of the Jinyiwei in Sichuan had never sent anyone to Chongqing Prefecture. They wanted to cheat Xu Hua because they had caught several traitors and found out that there were traitors from the Han kings in Sichuan to contact the generals, and found out from the file that Xu Hua was once Qu Neng's old subordinate.

Xue Lu listened by the window behind the yamen office room. After talking in it, Xu Hua admitted: "I have indeed seen that person, but I am a military officer from the Ming Dynasty, not a military general of the vassal king. I did not agree to him anything and refused in one go!"

The general of the Jinyiwei asked, "Why didn't General Xu arrest the traitorous spy and report to the commander of the capital?"

Looking in through the crack in the window, Xu Hua was not tall, had a long face, had very little hair on his forehead, but had a lot of beard, and looked like a carrot that had just been pulled out of the ground. Xu Hua glared with his round eyes and said, "Brother, we are all military officers, you don't know, how can we do things too well? The King of Han rebelled, but he was still the priest's brother. Why do we offend too much?"

The general of the Jinyiwei Guard said: "If you are in the army, you will be lazy and you will lose your first battle."

"He|mother|!" Xu Hua was furious, "Then Xue Lu was fighting in Chengdu, hundreds of miles away from Chongqing Prefecture, and I didn't go at all! He was defeated, and he could still be on my head?!"

The general of the Jinyiwei said coldly: "You personally admit that you are a traitor to the king and the spy, and you don't report it secretly. You have something to say? If you are not loyal to the court, you will be a traitor sooner or later!"

"Ge, I just met and did nothing. Didn't you say it's okay just now?" Xu Hua pointed at the nose of the Jinyiwei and cursed. The more he scolded, the more he couldn't understand it. It was all in dialect.

Xue Lu turned his head and gave a wink. A group of soldiers next to him lifted the back door, rushed in, and pushed Xu Hua straight to the ground.

Xu Hua twisted his neck vigorously, his face flushed, and cursed in strange official words mixed with a strong Sichuan accent, "If I had known this, I would have just joined the King of Han! He is | Mother |!"

The general of the Jinyiwei said: "Didn't you admit this? Who are the same party as you?"

Xu Hua said: "Your mother and I are a member of the party. We slept together and gave birth to you a turtle | son!"

The general of the Jinyiwei was furious: "Drag it into the prison and beat it to death until he confesses!"

Xu Hua was tied up and dragged out of the room, and it was foggy outside. The winter in Chongqing was cold and wet, as if it was covered in fog all day long, and the fog never dissipated.

...At this time, in Chengdu City, hundreds of civil and military officials were standing in the lobby, and the seat was the governor Guo Zi. Guo Zi was not only the governor, but also the Minister of Revenue in the court, holding an imperial edict that could control the military and political affairs of Sichuan. Now General Xue Lu left Chengdu, Guo Zi took over the power of Chengdu City's defense.

A group of civil and military officials bowed to the lobby, and the room was full of people. Guo Zi said in the upper hand: "The city walls of Chengdu are strong, with sufficient food and fodder, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians; at most, two months! The reinforcements of the 500,000 troops of the imperial court will definitely arrive. As long as you are loyal to the court and do your best, your official will be in front of the emperor and ask for your merits!

This official is not humble, and this official is one of the important officials whom the emperor relies on. At this important time, whoever does his best for the official will be his benefactor, and his future will be without worries. There will be no false words!"
Chapter completed!