Puyang City

Jian Xin sighed and said: "I didn't expect that things would develop like this, I shouldn't have made this plan if I knew it would be like this, and it was my fault."

"Jian Junshi, you don't have to blame yourself too much, Lin Zhaoqi appointed these martial artists to govern the county, even if we didn't plan to make a move, they would definitely not treat the people well, so only by occupying Qufu can the people be rescued at the moment."

After Jiang Chen finished speaking, Liu Xiao nodded and said a few words to Geng Wu, and sent Lin Yao, Qiu Hao, and Han Chao to sneak into Qufu City with them.

Geng Wu willingly led the three of them and a pair of soldiers to dress up in disguise, and after a while, they entered the city of Qufu and joined the liaison station.

At this moment, Jiang Chen also offered Liu Xiang a plan to be arrogant, and Liu Xiang ordered a multi-way army to attack the stronghold checkpoint outside Qufu City.

Lin Zhaoqi sent troops and horses in the city to gallop to help, and when the two armies fought for a short time, the Qin army retreated without many casualties, and the Qi army pursued all the way, capturing many enemy items along the way.

In the following day, the Qin army continued to attack near Qufu City, but they were all repelled by the Qi army under the command of Lin Zhaoqi, and a lot of supplies and some soldiers were captured.

Liu Xiang took the opportunity to send people to preach the situation of the war, claiming that the victory of the Qi army over the past few days had become invincible, the people in the Qin army were panicked, and the military spirit had been shaken, and Lin Zhaoqi's exploits surpassed all the Qi generals.

Hearing the message from outside, as Jiang Chen expected, Lin Zhaoqi began to be proud of his achievements, and he was drunk every day at a big feast.

The generals in Qufu City had long known that Lin Zhaoqi was very happy, so they all took advantage of the banquet to praise his achievements, and Lin Zhaoqi was very happy to reward them all.

Despite this, Lin Zhaoqi didn't like literati at all, he thought that in the troubled times, there was no use for scholars, and only these generals could calm the troubled times, so except for the original county guard Xu Wang, who was still entrusted with reuse, the other literati officials were all left out in the cold.

Due to Lin Zhaoqi's tiredness of material government affairs, the power in Qufu City fell to Huang Yi, Yue Pingxiao and Xu Wang.

Huang Yi and Yue Pingxiao saw that Lin Zhaoqi was so decadent, and told him many times, but unfortunately he just didn't listen, and there was no way for the two of them to say anything anymore.

Seeing that Huang Yi and Yue Pingxiao were in control of the city's political affairs, Lu Jing and Zhang Xiang knew that these two people were very tricky, and they were afraid that the massacre of civilians and the looting of finances would be exposed, so they threw themselves into Xu Wang's door, and Han Bao, Zhang Min, and Zhong Jin were also Xu Wang's cronies.

On the other hand, Geng Wu saw that the time was ripe and began to take action, and ordered people to spread the news of the massacre of civilians in the city, but did not say who did it.

Huang Yi, who was in charge of political affairs, was taken aback when he learned about it, and hurriedly reported it to Lin Zhaoqi for his consideration, although Lin Zhaoqi had a somewhat radical personality but loved the people very much, and when he heard that the people were brutally slaughtered, he immediately ordered the personal guards under the command of Yue Pingxiao to investigate the matter.

Yue Pingxiao first started with the authenticity of the matter, and personally led people to visit the place where the incident occurred, and sure enough, he found that these people had a lot of abnormalities, so he ordered people to investigate these people, and it turned out that they were all prisoners who were released from prison.

Yue Pingxiao did not get any reliable information about these people in batches, so he had to report the matter to Lin Zhaoqi for the time being.

Lin Zhaoqi was furious when he heard this, slapped the table and stood up and said: "Actually, all the prisoners live in this private house, it seems that the original people may have been killed at this time, who actually rushed under the nose of the siege to commit murder day after day, and killed hundreds of people."

"Big brother, this method is already extraordinary, it should be done by the people who led the troops in the city, but we don't know who it is."

After listening to what Yue Pingxiao said, Lin Zhaoqi said: "You and Huang Yi are both my confidants, except for the two of you, I don't worry about any of them, and there are many generals who were originally born as bandits, and they are all very likely to be involved in this incident, in this case, except for the two of you, everyone else should be tried."

"Big brother, at this time, the Qin army is still making trouble outside, should we focus on them."

Seeing Huang Yi's puzzled expression, Lin Zhaoqi said: "The outside must be safe, and this matter has spread in the city, if it is not solved as soon as possible, it will definitely lead to bad consequences, how to deal with the enemy at that time."

Then, Lin Zhaoqi ordered someone to vacate a prison and transfer many generals here for interrogation, seeing that the interrogation speed was unspeakable, Lin Zhaoqi ordered the generals to be executed one by one.

Many generals in the city were beaten for no reason, so they all had a grudge against Lin Zhaoqi, and hundreds of generals and schools in the entire Qufu city were arraigned, only Zhang Xiang, Lu Jing and others were spared under the protection of Xu Wang.

As the saying goes, if you want to make it perish, you must first make it crazy, Geng Wu learned that Lin Zhaoqi had reached such an extreme, so he decided to directly attack him.

Coincidentally, at the same time, Lin Yao heard that the mastermind of the massacre was Zhang Xiang and Lu Jing, the generals of the county left and right, Geng Wu said to everyone: "Although these two people have made great achievements, Zhang Xiang was born as a thief Lu Jing used to be a butcher, but they are both bloodthirsty and murderous people, if Lin Zhaoqi continues like this, it will inevitably make the two of them have a stronger desire to survive, and soon Lin Zhaoqi may be in danger of his life."

"When I came, the lord secretly ordered me, although Lin Zhaoqi is like this, he is also a fierce general, this time we are also rushing to subdue him, but we must not let him have any danger to his life before he submits to us."

"General Lin, don't worry, Zhang Xiang and Lu Jing are all unscrupulous, and with us, the two of them will definitely not pose any threat to Lin Zhaoqi."

After speaking, Geng Wu continued: "When I came, the lord also instructed me, Xu Wang is the umbrella of many generals in Qufu, if you get rid of Xu Wang first, it will definitely put everyone in the city in danger, if you find a way to get rid of this person and blame Lin Zhaoqi, it will definitely cause a mutiny in the army, and Qufu will be able to get it then."

Midnight - the first moment of ugliness

A Qin soldier came to Geng Wu and said, "I found out near the county government that more than a dozen black-clothed people sneaked into the courtyard and wanted to do something wrong."

"It's really fast."

After that, Lin Yao led five dead soldiers and quickly infiltrated the county government compound, at this time, all the twenty sentry posts in the courtyard were put down, and a group of people were constantly marching towards the yamen.

Lin Yao took the lead in chasing after him, and eight short knives flew out at the same time between his hands, and the eight people on the opposite side fell to the ground at the same time, and the five dead soldiers also arrived and pulled out their short crossbows and released arrows at the same time.

The group of black-clothed people on the other side didn't expect this at all, and before they had time to take precautions, they were put down by more than ten people with random arrows, and the leader withdrew with the remnants when they saw this.

The five dead soldiers wanted to chase but were stopped by Lin Yao, who said, "Let them go, we still have to rely on these people to take over the next thing."

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