Hexing Town, in a blue brick courtyard

Dong Yueping, the patriarch of the Dong family, clenched his right hand into a fist, his left hand became a palm, his hands unconsciously kept patting, and the expression on his face changed from time to time, walking back and forth in the living room.

"Hurry up and invite Mr. Liu to come!"

After a long time of churning in his mind, Dong Yueping spoke out and instructed a servant waiting outside the hall.

"Whoa!"

"Patriarch Dong!"

After a while, a thin young man dressed in a cyan robe stepped into the hall, glanced at Dong Yueping, who was restless, and saluted indifferently.

"Mr. Liu, I just received news that our assassination operation failed!"

Seeing the thin young man who entered the door, Dong Yueping's face flashed with a hint of jealousy, and he quickly came to the young man and said urgently.

"Oh? We all missed under such a careful arrangement? ”

When the thin young man heard this, a fine light flashed in his eyes, and it disappeared in a flash, and then quickly turned indifferent, and a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes when he looked at Dong Yueping.

The assassination plan was carefully designed by him, and the reaction of the other party and the surrounding situation were taken into account, and the task could not be completed in this case, and a family engaged in business was really unreliable.

"Well, according to the last news from the dead man, the guards around that woman are really powerful, all of them are martial artists above the middle stage of body refining, and under the defense of these people, our people failed to take them down before the brocade guards arrived!"

Dong Yueping shook his head with a gloomy face and said, the questioning and contemptuous tone in the thin young man's words made the anger in Dong Yueping's heart almost burst out.

But when I thought of this thin young man's methods and the power behind it, I had to endure it again.

"Mr. Liu, since the assassination has failed, now is not the time to think about this, that woman is assassinated, the upper authorities will inevitably be furious, Jin Yiwei is afraid that we will soon find out, and we need to come up with a countermeasure as soon as possible."

Holding back the anger in his heart, Dong Yueping said in a low voice.

"Patriarch Dong, why should you worry, it's not just your Dong family who is involved in this incident, most of the members of the business alliance in the entire Qilin City are involved, and those crossbows and dead soldiers are even involved in the Seigong Workshop and the middle and high-level of the Yangwu Army. Now is the critical moment for the Yangwu army to attack Su Dingfang and other remnant three counties, could it be that Sima Yu will cut off the supply line of the army because of a woman? So we don't have to do anything, just quietly disclose this news to them, and someone will help us take care of the rest of the matter, and if necessary, we can push the Xu and Hu families out."

A hint of cruelty flashed in the thin young man's eyes, and he said lightly.

Dong Yueping opened his mouth when he heard this, but in the end he didn't say anything, but the fear in his eyes was even stronger.

For the next two days, the entire prefecture was calm, and the reconstruction and construction of basic roads continued in an orderly manner.

However, in the seemingly calm situation, there is a tense and oppressive atmosphere.

Secretly, there are members of the Business League who planned to assassinate Sima Yu's woman, and the news of Liu Yunling, the chief deacon of the Business League, has spread, and a large number of Jinyi Wei Ti cavalry in various towns in Wujian County also indirectly corroborates the authenticity of this news, and the major caravans that went out with the army have also lowered their profiles a lot, for fear of being approached by the Jinyi Guard.

Shimen Town, located on the bank of the Yangtze River in the northwest of Yongzhou, close to the southwest border of Jumei County, covers an area of dozens of square kilometers and a total population of nearly 70,000.

Although Shimen Town is next to Jumei County, it is neither under the jurisdiction of Yangwu Army nor Li Dingguo's army, and is occupied by Kong Youde's forces.

There is a natural port nearly 1 mile long outside Shimen Town, which was occupied by Kong Youde on the other side of the Yangtze River at the beginning of the collapse of the Onishi regime, and there were nearly 8,000 troops stationed there. On the other side of the Yangtze River, it controls the two counties of Baisha and Shiji in Jinzhou, with nearly 100,000 troops under his command, and he calls himself the marshal of the capital, and his strength is strong.

In the face of this strong neighbor, the major forces in Yongzhou, including the Yangwu Army, did not dare to provoke easily, and Shimen Town has been isolated until now.

"Wow~"

After winter, the weather quickly turns cold, the wide Yangtze River is shrouded in a thin layer of white mist, and a slight paddling sound is faintly heard in the air.

As time passed, the sound of paddling became louder and louder, and soon a huge fleet broke through the mist and appeared on the surface of the Jianjiang River outside Shimen Town, and the huge building ships slowly moved forward like water fortresses, with countless small fighting ships shuttling in between.

In the center of the front of the fleet, a huge five-story ship of the fleet's flagship, a large flag engraved with holes waved in the wind.

Not far away, on the riverside port, hundreds of soldiers lined up in two rows to guard the road, and at the front of the road, the armored Shimen Town guard Qu Cheng stood solemnly.

"Shimen Town Guard Qu Cheng, meet General Zhang!"

The huge fleet docked on the riverside, and the flagship of the fleet just stopped at the intersection of the harbor, and a general in armor slowly walked down surrounded by a group of generals.

Zhang Wenhuan, one of the main generals under Kong Youde, had followed Kong Youde across the Daliao River before coming to this world, and was good at water warfare, and is now a guerrilla general under Kong Youde.

"Get up, Qu Zhenshou, you and I are both working under the marshal, so you don't have to be so stubborn!" Seeing this, Zhang Wenhuan hurriedly stepped forward to help Qu Cheng up, and said with a friendly attitude.

As Kong Youde's confidant general, Zhang Wenhuan knows very well that he can't treat Qu Cheng as an ordinary guard.

Due to the superior geographical location of Shimen Town, it is an important bridgehead for Kong Youde to conquer Yongzhou, and it is also the reason why Kong Youde also had to allocate manpower to seize Shimen Town when he was conquering Shiji. After occupying Shimen Town, it continued to strengthen and expand the combat readiness of the soldiers in the town.

Qu Cheng was able to sit in such an important place and take charge of an army of 8,000, which shows that he is very valued by Marshal Kong Youde.

Moreover, in the short period of time after getting off the ship, Zhang Wenhuan carefully observed the hundreds of soldiers on both sides behind Qu Cheng, all of them were full of energy and high morale.

"General Zhang is the commander-in-chief of this operation, and all military and political matters in Shimen Town are subject to the general's dispatch, how dare his subordinates trespass!" Qu Cheng still said respectfully when he heard this.

Qu Cheng knew his current identity, and he would be under the command of Zhang Wenhuan before the end of this war, so he naturally did not dare to be negligent in etiquette.

Zhang Wenhuan shook his head helplessly when he heard this, but there was a hint of appreciation in his eyes, and then everyone introduced and greeted him.

"Qu Zhenshou, is the camp ready?"

After a period of greetings, Zhang Wenhuan quickly cut to the point, and asked Qu Cheng with a straight face, on the banks of the harbor on both sides of the road, groups of soldiers were quickly starting to land on the troop carrier.

"Back to General Zhang, the camp is set up on Shimen Mountain, the entire Shimen Mountain has been completely blocked from the outside world since a month ago, outsiders can't detect the situation inside at all, I have also sent troops around the port and along the way to blockade martial law, after the landing of the army can rest for a while, you can rush to the camp!" Qu Cheng Dao.

"Good! Qu Zhenshou really lived up to the marshal's expectations, so we just had to wait for the news of the military division! ”

The color of appreciation in Zhang Wenhuan's eyes when he heard this was even stronger, this Qu Cheng was really cautious and steady, no wonder the lord was relieved to hand over Shimen Town to him to guard.

While walking and talking, Qu Cheng quickly led Zhang Wenhuan and others to the port camp and waited for the army to land.