The news of the defeat of Marquis Yang Wu in the Taiping Field soon spread throughout the city. The gates of Chengdu were under martial law one after another.

The commander of the Chengdu guard made Li Rang's men and horses all transferred to the front line, but the generals who commanded the guard were replaced, so he failed to follow Xue Lu to participate in the battle.

Early in the morning, Li Rang slowly had breakfast, put on his clothes and armor, and walked to the door surrounded by slaves and soldiers. At this time, two men in cloth clothes were already standing next to the porter and waiting. They came up and took out a piece of paper with a seal and a brocade guard card, and one of them said, "Please ask Commander Li to go with us." ”

Li Rang's face immediately turned white, and he stood there for a while without saying a word. There was a group of guards and servants around, but no one said anything at this time.

"Commander Li?" The Brocade Guard sergeant called.

Li Rang said: "Today I was going to go to the capital to command the envoy Yamen to discuss the military affairs of the city defense, and I said that it was okay." ”

The Jinyi Guard said coldly: "We will say hello over there, Commander Li doesn't have to worry, and he doesn't need to go." ”

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

The two brocade-clothed guard sergeants glanced at each other, and the other said, "General Li, please, as soon as possible." ”

Li Rang turned and walked towards the mansion, came to a side room, and called the servants around him to fetch his official uniform. He then grabbed the shoulder scarf, rubbed it on his forehead, inhaled hard, and exhaled a long breath.

He sat stiff for a moment, then took the saber from his waist and placed it on the table, his eyes fixed on the scabbard. After a while, Li Rang suddenly grabbed the scabbard, stretched out his right hand, and pulled out a knife with a "cymbal", but immediately stopped moving.

His brow furrowed, his eyes fixed on the blade, pondering something.

Li Rang sat in the room for a long time and didn't do anything, and when the slave came out with his official uniform, he changed into it. Then he went to the door of the chamber, and suddenly turned to the servant and said, "Tell the lady ......."

The slave hurriedly bent down.

Li Rang looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, and finally continued: "Tell Madame to rest assured, I will go home soon." ”

The servant choked up, "Yes." ”

Li Rang obediently followed the two Jinyi guards out of the house, got into a carriage and left. He didn't resist at all, mainly because he couldn't resist, all the regular troops of the Chengdu guard were taken away by Xue Lu, or fled, surrendered or died, and now Li Rang is a bare pole; Even if there are soldiers, if there is a sudden change, I am afraid that the consequences will only be worse, and more people will be affected!

He was taken to the Sichuan Political Envoy's Office and went to a study, but no one was embarrassed for him for the time being. Li Rang noticed that there was an airtight curtain hanging behind the study, he couldn't see what was behind, but it was not easy to check, he always felt that there was someone behind!

After a while, a big man walked in, a man he had never seen before. Dahan sat down on a chair at random and said, "I am a person from Jinyiwei, surnamed Di." ”

Li Rang hugged his fists and said, "General Di, fortunately." ”

The big man surnamed Di returned the salute with his fists and said, "There is something I want to ask Commander Li." More than a month ago, to be clear, it was September 28, unitary time. Li commanded the embassy to go to a man who was estimated to be in his twenties, who was that? ”

Li Rang swallowed a mouthful of saliva and slowly spoke: "Cousin, cousin of the cheap, surnamed Zhang." ”

Dahan nodded thoughtfully.

Li Rang had already prepared his words, thinking that this big man wanted to ask what the relationship was, but the big man owed and said, "Commander Li may not know much about the situation. In those days, the generals of the Sichuan Zhuwei Institute and more than one person had seen the secret envoy of the King of Han, and many people admitted it. And Mrs. Zun's cousin happened to come mysteriously in those days, and this kind of thing is indeed strange. You're right? ”

Li Rang nodded and took a deep breath secretly.

Dahan said: "The king of Han sent a secret envoy to persuade us to surrender, and this kind of thing was already expected by us, and we don't blame the generals." The king of Han wants to send a spy over, what can you do? He paused, and then said, "Don't worry, those generals didn't agree to the conditions of the Han king's traitorous spies, so it's okay now......

"Yang Wu Hou, he is more ruthless in doing things, but he has already left Chengdu City, don't be frightened by what Yang Wu Hou has done." Dahan's tone was very good, "Now the political envoy Guo Gong and Guo Butang are in charge of the military and political affairs of Chengdu Prefecture, and Guo Butang is a well-educated Confucian who reads the books of sages and sages, and he will be reasonable in everything, and he will never embarrass Commander Li." ”

There was silence in the study. Li Rang's mind was turbulent, and he wanted to admit it at a certain moment, after all, the other party was indeed very polite, and what he said made sense, and the spy wanted to come to him, and there was no way to do it!

But Li Rang finally didn't say anything.

Dahan opened his mouth and said: "Actually, that traitorous spy has been caught by us, Guo Butang feels that General Li is excusable, it depends on what General Li means." ”

Li Rang closed his mouth, his teeth clenched and loosened, "That person is really not a traitor, I'm afraid that Guo Butang and General Di have misunderstood!" ”

"Bang!" The big man suddenly slapped his palm on the table, and the teacup on it bounced up. Dahan pointed at Li Rang and said coldly, "Look at you, don't you know Jinyiwei's methods?" Toast without eating and eating penalty wine! ”

Li Rang hurriedly cried and said with a sad face: "Ben's future was ruined by the woman, and the mother's family in the cheap place has found trouble for Ben more than once......"

"Good! Good! Dahan stood up, "If you don't cross the water first, General Li will not be reconciled." ”

"Ahem, ahem." Two soft coughs came from behind the curtain.

The big man immediately walked behind the curtain. After a while, he opened the curtain again and came out, and said, "Commander Li, you go home, so that you can stay in the mansion, don't go anywhere, and don't send people out to fornicate with irrelevant people." Shape up or ship out! ”

…… Three days after the Battle of Taipingchang, Xue Lu had arrived in Chongqing Prefecture. The men of the Jinyi Guard immediately went to the army to meet him and asked him to lead the army to help put down the rebellion if necessary.

At this time, Xue Lu knew that Xu Hua, the commander of the Chongqing Guard, was being arrested by the captain of the Jinyi Guard.

The Jinyi Wei military general first called Xu Hua to the prefect's office to speak, revealed his identity, and asked Xu Hua about meeting the traitor and spy of the King of Han. But Xue Lu knew in his heart that the people of Jinyiwei didn't know whether Xu Hua had any private knowledge of the Han King, and they must be trying to deceive Xu Hua!

The brocade guards in the Beijing Division, no one can control the civil and military affairs of the foreign dynasty. However, the people sent to the localities, except for those with secret missions, most of the Jinyi guards had to be controlled by the emperor's cronies and ministers, such as Guo Zi and Xue Lu, who could manage them; Because Jin Yiwei's errand in Sichuan is to assist the emperor's cronies, and at the same time, he also needs the supervision and help of ministers who hold great power.

So Xue Lu knew that the Jinyi Wei generals in Sichuan had never sent anyone to Chongqing Mansion at all. They wanted to deceive Xu Hua because they had caught a few traitorous spies, found out that there were traitorous spies of the King of Han in various parts of Sichuan to contact the generals, and found out from the file that Xu Hua was Qu Neng's old department.

Xue Lu listened by the window behind the room of the government office. After talking about the phone inside, Xu Hua admitted: "The general has indeed seen that person, but he will be a military attache of the Ming court, not a military general of the vassal king, so he didn't promise him anything, and he refused!" ”

General Jinyi Wei asked: "Why didn't General Xu arrest the traitorous spy and report to the commander?" ”

Looking through the crack in the window, Xu Hua was not tall, his face was long, there was very little hair on his head, but there was a lot of beard, and he looked like a radish that had just been pulled out of the ground. Xu Hua glared at the round eyes and said, "Brother, we are all military attachés, you don't understand, how can you do things too well?" The king of Han rebelled, but he was still the brother of the saint, why did we people stake to offend too much? ”

The military general of Jinyi Wei said: "If there are people like you in the army, dereliction of duty, and the officers and soldiers will lose the first battle." ”

"He's a mother!" Xu Hua was furious, "Then Xue Lu was fighting in Chengdu, hundreds of miles away from Chongqing Mansion, and I didn't go at all!" He suffered a defeat, and he can still rely on me?! ”

The Jinyi Wei military general said coldly: "You personally admit that you are a traitor to the king, and you don't report it secretly, what else do you have to say?" If you are not loyal to the court, sooner or later you will be a traitor! ”

"Ge Laozi, I just met and didn't do anything, didn't you say it was okay just now?" Xu Hua pointed at Jinyiwei's nose and scolded, the more he scolded, the more people couldn't understand it, it was all dialects.

Xue Lu turned his head and gave a look, and a group of soldiers next to him opened the back door, rushed in, and directly knocked Xu Hua to the ground.

Xu Hua twisted his neck vigorously, his face was flushed, and he scolded in a strange official dialect mixed with a thick Sichuan accent, "I knew this was the case, Lao Tzu simply went to the King of Han!" He's a mother! ”

The Jinyi Wei military general said: "Didn't you admit it? Who are you in the same party? ”

Xu Hua said: "Your mother and I are in the same party, we slept together, and gave birth to your turtle son!" ”

The Jinyi guard was furious: "Drag him into prison, beat him to death, and beat him until he confesses!" ”

Xu Hua was dragged out of the room by all kinds of tie-ups, and it was foggy outside. Winter in Chongqing is cold and wet, as if shrouded in fog all day long, and the fog never dissipates.

…… At this time, in the city of Chengdu, hundreds of civil and military officers stood in the lobby, but the official seat was the political envoy Guo Zi. Guo Zi is not only a political envoy, but also the head of the central government of the imperial court, holding a holy decree that can control the military and government in Sichuan; Now the general Xue Lu has left Chengdu, and Guo Zi has taken over the defense of Chengdu.

A group of civil and military personnel stood in the lobby, and the room was full of people. Guo Zi spoke at the top: "Chengdu City is strong, the grain is sufficient, and there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians; Two months at most, two months! Reinforcements from the imperial court's 500,000 troops will definitely arrive. As long as you are loyal to the court and fulfill your duties with your heart, this official will be in front of the saint and ask for credit for you!

The official said that he was not humble, and the official was one of the several important ministers that the saint relied on. At this critical time, whoever does his best for the official is the benefactor of the official, and the future is worry-free. No lie! ”

Then Guo Zi waved his hand, and several generals came up and began to deploy the responsibilities of various civil and military guards.