Chapter 55: The Road Ahead is Dangerous

Since Peng Lie was arrested, the Tiger Division can be said to have suffered badly, first the two hundred-man teams that were covering were all killed, and then a group of unidentified people attacked the General's Mansion at night, snatching all the items related to Peng Lie.

First, he was burned down by the base camp of the Battle Guards, and now he was attacked by the generals at night, and the commander of the corps, Nangong Bo, was furious like thunder, and immediately recruited fifty internal strength masters from the Tiger Division to pursue the mysterious people along the way.

Those masters are also powerful, and they really tracked the enemy's whereabouts, but after the other party found out that his whereabouts were leaked, he turned around and attacked the person who was tracking, and the two sides had a big battle, and the fifty masters sent by Nangong Bo were killed and injured more than thirty people.

Although the price was extremely high, the remaining people brought back a piece of information, and the infiltrators all had a mark similar to a banner on their arms, which showed that the other party was not an independent force, but a mysterious organization.

Although most of the mysterious people were killed, the remaining people still took away the items they had stolen from the General's Mansion, and among those items was an envelope with a handwritten warrant from the Governor of the Praetorian Guard ordering the arrest of Peng Lie.

Therefore, the matter was too big, and finally the news leaked out, and some well-intentioned people launched an investigation into the whole incident according to Peng Lie's arrest and the 100-man team responsible for covering up, the mysterious people attacked the General's Mansion at night, and the Janissary Governor issued a warrant.

When these people found out that Peng Lie originally belonged to the Zhongmiao Provincial War Guards and was under the jurisdiction of Wu Zhenshan, they also found out that the War Guards had borrowed the road from Feifengling to meet the Yin soldiers at night, and then Wu Zhenshan led his troops to attack the Praetorian Guards.

It was also at this juncture that the content of the order written by the Governor of the Praetorian Guard was announced, and after the Governor of the Praetorian Guard asked Nangong Bo to capture Peng Lie, he sent someone to send him to the Three Law Divisions of the Imperial Capital for interrogation, so as to find out the real mastermind behind the attack on the Janissaries.

Knowing that Nangong Bo had arrested a military general from the fifth rank level without asking for instructions, Xia Yuanxiao, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was furious, and he accused Nangong Xiongba, the governor of the Praetorian Guard, of interfering in the military affairs of the Ministry of War, and reprimanded Nangong Bo and asked him to report Peng Lie's whereabouts.

After receiving the order of the military department, Nangong Bo no longer concealed it, saying that he had sent a team of 100 people to escort Peng Lie to the Three Law Division, and it was expected that he would arrive in the imperial capital in four months, but he refused to say the name of the centurion.

Nangong Xiongba, the governor of the Praetorian Guard, was very dissatisfied with the aggressive attitude of Xia Yuanxiao, the secretary of the Ministry of War, saying that he was investigating the case of the attack on the Praetorian Guards, and Peng Lie was involved in the case, and he ordered the arrest of Peng Lie to be considered ultra vires at all.

Xia Yuanxiao, the secretary of the Ministry of War, believes that Peng Lie is a military general appointed by the Ministry of War, and his transfer and appointment and dismissal should be decided by the Ministry of War, and the Praetorian Guard is responsible for the safety of the forbidden city of the imperial capital, and intervening in the arrest of local war guard generals, which is ultra vires.

In this way, the two military giants made a lot of trouble for Peng Lie, who was from the fifth grade, Nangong Xiongba and Xia Yuanxiao put pressure on Nangong Bo at the same time, asking him where Peng Lie was at the moment? Let him report the route of the 100-man team escorting Peng Lie into the imperial capital.

In the face of the inquiries of the two, Nangong Bo reluctantly told the truth, he told the two that he really didn't know Peng Lie's location at this time, and he didn't know which line Peng Lie went to the imperial capital, because the hundred-person team responsible for escorting Peng Lie lost contact after going out.

Knowing that Peng Lie's whereabouts were unknown at this time, Nangong Xiongba sent a full fifty batches of Praetorian Guards to respond along the way, and Xia Yuanxiao was not far behind, and Feige ordered the generals of the War Guards in the provinces to directly detain and send them to the Liberation Department as long as they saw Peng Lie's figure.

Now there are a total of three groups of forces staring at Peng Lie, the two forces of the military department Shangshu and the Governor of the Praetorian Guard are on the surface, in addition to them, there is also a group of mysterious forces hidden in the shadows, and the target of the other party is also Peng Lie.

In addition to staring at Peng Lie, everyone also focused on the Ling Xia 100-man team, the military department Shangshu had already issued a military order, as long as the 100-person team responsible for escorting Peng Lie handed over Peng Lie to the military department, all the officers' ranks would be promoted by one level.

If the 100-man team responsible for escorting Peng Lie handed over Peng Lie to the Praetorian Guard, the military department will remove all officers from their posts, remove all the generals of the 100-man team, and register them, and they will not be allowed to join the army for three generations.

Soon after the promotion order of the Ministry of War was issued, the Governor of the Praetorian Guard also issued a military order, as long as the 100-man team responsible for escorting Peng Lie sent Peng Lie to the Sanfa Division for trial, all members of the 100-man team were assigned to the Praetorian Guard, and the ranks and positions of all officers were promoted by one level.

If the 100-member team escorting Peng Lie is derelict in their duties and hands over the escort suspect to the Ministry of War, all members of the 100-member team will be regarded as accomplices in the Wu Zhenshan case, and everyone will be interrogated in isolation by the Three Law Divisions.

In addition to sending troops to block and encircle, the military department and the Praetorian Guard also waited for the escort team to take the bait themselves, and both sides gave enough bait and showed their sticks.

However, in the current situation, it is really difficult for ordinary people to make a choice, because no matter who the 100-man team chooses, they will inevitably offend the other party in the end? Both sides are strong departments, and it is not easy to offend anyone.

In order to prevent the escort team from being pressured to let Peng Lie go, or deliberately handing Peng Lie over to that mysterious force, the military department and the Praetorian Guard added a military order at the same time, Peng Lie must be sent to the imperial capital safely, and the violators will be killed.

Now that the entire Xia Dynasty knows that the military department Shangshu and the Praetorian Guard are fighting, everyone wants to know which force can take Peng Lie away? At the same time, everyone was also curious about the hundred-man team responsible for escorting Peng Lie, and wanted to see what choice they would make in the end?

After listening to Su Jing'an's narration, Ling Xia was stunned, he didn't expect that so many things had happened in just a few days, he had been in a hurry for the past few days, and he had no time to listen to the news from the outside world, and now after listening to it, he couldn't come back to his senses for a while.

"What the hell is this? I'm just in charge of escorting a prisoner to the imperial capital, so why am I somehow involved in the struggle between the military department and the Praetorian Guard? After complaining, Ling Xia felt a little strange, why did this kind of thing suddenly happen?

It stands to reason that the military department and the Praetorian Guard belong to the same military forces, even if they had some contradictions before, but they will not suddenly turn their faces, you know, there is a civilian group opposite them, don't those high-level military leaders consider this?

Looking at the causes of all this, they were all triggered after Peng Lie was arrested, and before Peng Lie's accident, there was no abnormality in the military department and the Praetorian Guard, even if the higher-ranking Wu Zhenshan was arrested, there was no such a big fight.

But as soon as Peng Lie was arrested, these problems appeared, and the military department and the Praetorian Guard couldn't sit still, what does this mean? It shows that in the eyes of some people, Peng Lie is more important than Wu Zhenshan, or Peng Lie's value is greater than Wu Zhenshan.

But now the problem and contradiction has occurred within the military, and the two camps of civilian officials and military generals were originally incompatible, but now the two giants of the military have disputes.

Rubbing his forehead with a headache, Ling Xia didn't know what to do next? If he sent Peng Lie to the military department, he would offend the Praetorian Guard, but if he handed Peng Lie to the Praetorian Guard, he would offend the military department.

In fact, Ling Xia really planned to let Peng Lie go halfway, and then find a random reason to go to the imperial capital to make a business, but at the moment this plan will not work, because the military department and the Praetorian Guard have all issued death orders, and Peng Lie must be sent to the imperial capital.

Ling Xia's military order of the legion commander Nangong Bo, it stands to reason that he should hand over Peng Lie to the Praetorian Guard in accordance with Nangong Bo's military order, but he and the other members of the hundred-man team will be managed by the military department. But if he really carried out the military orders of the military department, how would he face Nangong Bo after he went back?

"By the way, you haven't said what happened to me? Is there anything I need help with? Just when Ling Xia was anxious, Su Jing'an asked Ling Xia the purpose of coming here.

"Can you help me send Peng Lie to the imperial capital?" Saying this, Ling Xia suddenly came to his senses, and looked at Su Jing'an with a look of encouragement: "You see, the military department Shangshu and the Governor of the Praetorian Guard value this Peng Lie so much, which shows that he has an important secret hidden in him."

This is a good thing for the civilian clique, we have to cut off the Hu from it, and get Peng Lie, who they are competing for, to the side of the civilian officials, so that we can not only investigate the forces behind Wu Zhenshan, but also take the military forces off guard, how about it? That's a good idea, isn't it? ”

"You're such a good soldier." Su Jing'an looked at Ling Xia speechlessly.

"Generally average, third in the country." Ling Xia Tian responded shamelessly, and then continued to instigate Su Jing'an to accept Peng Lie, he planned to transfer Peng Lie's hot potato to the civil official group.

But Su Jing'an is not stupid, now that the military generals' forces are already fighting, he doesn't want to set himself on fire at this time, if he collects Peng Lie at this juncture, not only will it not hit the generals' forces, but it will also have side effects.

At that time, the struggle between the military department and the Praetorian Guard will stop, and the two sides will turn to attack the civilian clique, so that he will help the military generals resolve the internal contradictions, and lead the war to the civilian clique.

Seeing that he had been talking for a long time, Su Jing'an was unmoved, and he didn't even dare to use Peng Lie to lure the forces behind the scenes, Ling Xia realized that Su Jing'an had let himself go inside the military camp to help him investigate the plan of the forces behind Wu Zhenshan, which was simply nonsense.

Ling Xia understood that he was used by Su Jing'an, Su Jing'an didn't want to investigate the forces behind Wu Zhenshan at all, and he didn't have the ability to investigate the other party, in fact, his real purpose was to use himself as a pawn to insert himself into the army, and when he needed to deal with the military in the future, let himself sabotage from the inside, which was called undercover in later generations.

Although he figured all this out, Ling Xia pretended to be confused and groaned for a while, he lied that he came here to ask Su Jing'an for help, and then, Ling Xia made his own request to Su Jing'an.