Xu Jingcheng was the commander of the Eastern Route Army of the Wuxing County and the Northern Expedition Army of Chen State! Last year, in order to cooperate with the attack of the main force of the Northern Expedition led by Wu Mingche, Xu Jingcheng also led a partial division of more than 10,000 people to cross the Yangtze River and attack Guangling County, successfully containing part of the defenders of the Huainan Qi Army, and after Wu Mingche's Middle Route Army captured Shouyang City, Xu Jingcheng also led the East Route Army all the way north in the Huaidong area, and even crossed the Huai River to capture Supre County in the east of Xuzhou, always threatening Xuzhou, the important town of the Qi army in Huaibei!

And at this moment, in Chen Shubao's preparatory plan, the target of Wei Xiangyuan's assassination turned out to be Xu Jingcheng, the commander of the Eastern Route Army of Chen's Northern Expedition, because there was a handwritten letter written by Chen Shubao to him in Xu Jingcheng's hand!

At the beginning, Xiao Yao used the East China Sea military training as an excuse, and once made a big fuss in Haiyan County and exterminated the Salt Gang, and Chen Shubao prevented Xu Jingcheng, who was then the Taishou of Wuxing County, from intervening in the dispute between the General Commercial Bank and the Yinhai Commercial Bank, and once wrote a personal letter to Xu Jingcheng, which mentioned that he had sent someone to Haiyan County to deal with the dispute between the Salt Gang and the General Commercial Bank, and warned Xu Jingcheng not to meddle in his affairs, so as not to cause trouble for himself!

Originally, this letter was an ordinary threatening letter written by Chen Shubao, and it would not bring death to Xu Jingcheng at all, but the problem was that the final result of this Haiyan County incident was that Xiao Yao reversed black and white, and said that the reason for sending troops to Haiyan County and exterminating the Salt Gang was because of the Salt Gang's rebellion!

Moreover, this salt gang rebellion case has now been determined by the imperial court and made an iron case, which means that the prince sent people to Haiyan County to solve the dispute has become sending people to Haiyan County to assist in the rebellion!

Therefore, this letter in Xu Jingcheng's hand will become direct evidence of Chen Shubao's rebellion against him, the prince of Chen Guo!

If this letter suddenly appeared in front of Emperor Chen Xu, or Xu Jingcheng didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, he accidentally slipped out in front of the emperor and told this matter, then Chen Shubao would be in a big disaster!

Because in this society where imperial power is greater than family affection, as long as it threatens his throne, even his own son Chen Xu will not hesitate to die! After all, in the eyes of the emperor, there are a lot of sons, but there is only one throne!

So Xu Jingcheng has always been a piece of Chen Shubao's heart, even though Xu Jingcheng has hinted to Chen Shubao several times that this letter has been destroyed, he has always been loyal to Chen Guo, and he doesn't want to get involved in the party struggle of the imperial court, and he will never say anything unfavorable to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in front of His Majesty!

But even how Xu Jingcheng explained and showed his loyalty, in Chen Shubao's eyes, he Xu Jingcheng still couldn't believe it, because in these years, his own brother Xingwang Chen Shuling has always coveted his position as the prince of the East Palace, and he has always been against him in the court, and Emperor Chen Xu seems to be happy to see the two brothers in the court forming their own gangs and attacking each other!

Therefore, in Chen Shubao's opinion, as long as he has not sat on the throne for a day and become the emperor of Chen State, even if he is now the prince of the East Palace under one person and above ten thousand people, there are still great variables in inheriting the throne of Chen State! Miao

Therefore, Xu Jingcheng, a hidden danger that will explode at any time, must be completely eradicated, and only the dead are the best able to keep secrets!

Therefore, Chen Shubao's so-called preparatory plan is actually the ranking of the people he wants to kill in his own heart! Now that Wei Xiangyuan and they can't kill Xiao Yao, they can only retreat and let them help them solve Xu Jingcheng, the bomb that will kill them at any time!

Hearing Xu Jingcheng's name, Wei Xiangyuan was also stunned for a moment, of course he had heard of Xu Jingcheng's name, after all, when Wei Xiangyuan was stationed in Xuzhou with Gao Changgong, he received a battle report that Xu Jingcheng also led a partial division to attack Huaidong!

And compared to Wu Mingche's Middle Route Army and Huang Faqu's Western Route Army and Qi Army, which had fallen into several bitter battles, Xu Jingcheng's East Route Army was invincible all the way, in addition to successfully capturing various important towns in Huaidong, but also incorporated a large number of righteous troops, so that his strength of the partial division, which was only more than 10,000 people, exceeded 20,000 troops, and after entering Supre County, and the Qi army in Xuzhou has been confronted!

"This Xu Jingcheng guest is the commander of the Eastern Route Army in your Chen State's Northern Expeditionary Army, and the information you provided shows that this Eastern Route Army has to undertake an important task in this attack on Huaibei, and it is necessary to cooperate with Wu Mingche's Middle Route Army to flank our Xuzhou, if Xu Jingcheng suddenly dies, it will definitely cause chaos in the morale of the Eastern Route Army! In this way, it will completely disrupt your Chen State's operation against Huaibei! This is a military matter, how can as the prince of Chen Guo, he actually pull his father's hind legs like this! Xiao Yao acts arrogantly and domineeringly, opposes you everywhere, and is too wicked, and will become a big disaster in the future, so we understand why your prince wants to kill his head, but this Xu Jingcheng, I heard that he has never wanted to get involved in the party struggle of the imperial court, and now he is an important combat mission, why does he have to die? Wei Xiangyuan looked at the information in his hand and found this important inside information, and couldn't help but say curiously.

"Hmph, because he offended His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he must die! Let you kill and kill, don't ask why, knowing too much will not do you any good! Zhang Dai glanced at Wei Xiangyuan fiercely, and continued: "And his death caused a great chaos in the Eastern Route Army, and then disrupted this Huaibei operation, isn't it better for your Qi State!" ”

"Indeed it is! The reason why our prince took the risk of sending us to lurk in Jinling City, in addition to Xiao Yao, the most important reason is because of your Chen Guo's battle against Huaibei this time, because recently our Qi State's General Hu was suddenly executed by His Majesty, which caused great shock within our army, if we have to fight a decisive battle with your Chen State in Huaibei at this time, our Qi army will definitely be defeated! Therefore, the information you provided is indeed very important to us, and killing Xu Jingcheng will also benefit us without harm! Good! This deal is closed! Although Xiao Yao couldn't kill him this time because he was too insidious and cunning, but with Xu Jingcheng's words, it would be easy for our army to kill him! Yu Xiangyuan said with a confident laugh.

"I hope you can do what you say this time! Don't be like this time, more than a hundred people can't kill Xiao Yao, and he is killed and fled! Okay, the information has been handed over to you, you hurry up and cross the river for me, return to your Qi country, and then plan how to kill Xu Jingcheng! Zhang Dai said in disgust, because although he is the prince's confidant, he is also a native of the Chen State, but now he is doing the act of a traitor, helping the enemy to attack the generals of his own country, which makes him very uncomfortable!

"Then Boss Lao Zhang sent us to Jiangbei, and under the banner of your Yinhai Commercial Bank, we will definitely return to Huaibei safely!" Boss Zhang rest assured, we will definitely keep our promise and successfully kill Xu Jingcheng, I hope we have a happy cooperation! Wei Xiangyuan said shamelessly.

"After this time, I believe we won't cooperate again, and you guys will do it when the time comes!" Zhang Dai said coldly, then turned around and went out, arranging for the ships to send this group of Qi killers disguised as dock coolies to Jiangbei and leave Jinling City!