There is a tiger in my heart, but I still need to smell the rose.

It's like having made all the psychological preparations, and you already have the consciousness to fight a tough battle, and you already have the courage to die with the enemy and the strong self-confidence to defeat the other party.

Naturally, this is not enough.

The next task is to make sure that on the way to defeating the enemy, we try to clear all the obstacles that stand in front of the team.

By now, Qi Zhen naturally wouldn't get carried away to the point of thinking that just by relying on the fearless hearts of seven people, he could successfully complete the next task.

He doesn't underestimate how difficult it is for the system to come up with problems.

After the pre-war mobilization, Qi Zhen still got into his own simple tent in full view of everyone, everyone knew that he had a lot to think about, and did not keep him for the team's rare "fireside night chat".

Qi Zhen still maintained her familiar posture, her left hand clasped around her chest, her right hand resting on top of her left hand, and her index and middle fingers tapping her forehead rhythmically.

From the rise of the rest of the team chatting outside, to the fading of the voice, and finally everyone fell asleep, Qi Zhen still maintained this position, almost motionless.

Before Qi Zhen and the three came back, Li Qiang should have been on duty in the first half of the night, and Li San was in charge of the second half of the night.

directly excluded the man Qi Zhen.

Li Qiang walked outside Qi Zhen's tent and said softly, "Sleeping? ”

"How can you sleep?" Qi Zhen smiled bitterly and shook her head.

"How sure are you?" Li Qiang asked,

"Counting Zhao Xuance, coupled with the actual combat power that Sang Snake currently has, the probability of winning may still be less than fifty percent." Qi Zhen did not hide it from Li Qiang.

"So low?" Li Qiang was also shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked.

"If I follow the path of Plants vs. Zombies, I can be 100% sure of this guarding mission, but this time is different." Qi Zhen sighed, not too optimistic.

"I need to think again." Qi Zhen said sincerely to Li Qiang.

Li Qiang patted Qi Zhen's shoulder again, knowing that he might not really be able to help him, so he didn't bother him anymore.

Nothing was said all night.

According to the original plan of Lord Yin Liu Fang of Suzhou Prefecture, the task of assembling the officers and soldiers of Suzhou City this time must fall on Zhao Xuance.

Without him, just because Zhao Xuance had delayed the encirclement and suppression of the mulberry snake in the past, and then it was not good for him to guard the land and the people as the chief official of the first division, so he let his deputy be assassinated in the mansion.

What's more, that person is a close confidant of the prince.

Liu Fang knows that he and Zhao Xuance are grasshoppers on a rope now, and the prince is really to blame, he can't lose you, and he can't run away from me.

Therefore, the very prescient Lord Liu first asked Zhao Xuance to arrange the specific affairs of assembling and marching, and then waited for a while before arriving at He Yuanwai's house, which is the current residence of King Xiangli.

But what Liu Fang didn't expect at all was that after listening to Liu Fang's report on Liao Xunli's death and the speculation of the murderer, King Xiangli did not immediately express his anger, and asked Zhao Xuance to dismiss and wait for the fall, so that Liu Fang's pre-prepared rhetoric did not come in handy.

King Xiangli waved his hand at Liu Fang, indicating that he already knew about it.

Liu Fang also reported to the prince on the assembly of the official army, probably to complete the departure arrangements required by the prince, and the matters were in order.

He originally wanted to use this to reflect Zhao Xuance's hard work and achievements, so as to compensate for the possible blame of the prince.

King Xiangli didn't even raise his eyelids except for the occasional hum, and he didn't look at this Suzhou Mansion Yin with his eyes at all.

After Liu Fang finished reporting his work, he didn't dare to add any more snakes, so he hurriedly retired.

Although King Xiangli has never walked out of the courtyard that originally belonged to He Yuanwai, whether Suzhou Mansion has him here or not is completely different.

Perhaps those who had been hiding their camp could finally raise their eyebrows at this time, or perhaps it was to show their loyalty to the court and the royal family in front of the nominal minister and the actual imperial relatives.

In short, since King Xiangli came to Suzhou City, the orders of the Suzhou Prefecture have never been carried out so smoothly as they do today.

Zhao Xuance didn't say anything, Suzhou Mansion Yin sat in the main hall of the mansion and couldn't help but feel emotional.

Sure enough, under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister.

Early in the morning of the second day, the soldiers who had received the notice assembled on time at the school field of the city patrol division.

The reason why he gathered in the City Patrol Division was not because Zhao Xuance had any superfluous ideas, whether it was Zhao Xuance or Liu Fang, it was clear that all the conspiracies and tricks at this time had no effect except to make the two of them die faster.

I believe that King Xiangli knows this better than they do.

Mainly up and down the city, only the Yamen of the City Patrol Division has a venue that can accommodate so many people.

The neatly assembled were two phalanxes, one of which was a battalion.

This also emptied almost all the existing forces in Suzhou Prefecture.

Suzhou Prefecture only has three battalions of permanent soldiers and horses, and this number will be reduced by another third before the discovery of Yuemeng Silk.

Three battalions, one brigade.

Probably even the emperor would never have imagined that because of the dream of silk for a month, in this land of fish and rice in the Central Plains, there were so many soldiers.

This is equivalent to the permanent strength of a border town.

And the most incomprehensible thing is that in addition to the foot soldiers of this brigade, there is actually a cavalry army in Suzhou Prefecture.

When did the cavalry come from Suzhou Prefecture?

At this point, even Zhao Xuance was a little unbelievable.

Looking at those somewhat faceless faces, Zhao Xuance gradually had a conjecture in his heart, these people were afraid that they were the pro-soldiers around the prince.

Although this cavalry army was also assembled and on standby like other soldiers at this time, they did not communicate with other soldiers, which gave Zhao Xuance a feeling of being a little cold.

Coldness is naturally a feeling, and if the style of an army is expressed in the same sense, it is iron and blood.

This silence and discipline made Zhao Xuance's heart slightly awe-inspiring, and he began to worry about Qi Zhen's team.

Zhao Xuance's worries were not only brought about by the discipline of these cavalrymen, but also by the horses.

Although he had never seen the cavalry of those border towns, what kind of majestic posture they had, but the horses raised in Suzhou were categorically unable to reach this level.

Not only that, Suzhou as an important trade town, Zhao Xuance has seen a lot of various types of horses in recent years, and the Yunnan horse and the Sichuan horse are completely incomparable to it, and these horses may only be those horses on the northwest grassland.

In addition to the combat ability of the soldiers, the combat power of the cavalry can also play a decisive role in the quality of the horses.

And the horses under this cavalry are actually the same as the style of these soldiers, that is, silence.

But anyone can see the rebelliousness in the eyes of those horses.

When the subordinate soldiers of Suzhou Mansion were assembled, everyone invariably kept a safe distance from these cavalry.

This kind of unanimity or tacit understanding makes it more and more obvious that these cavalrymen stand out from the crowd.

According to the requirements issued by the Suzhou government, all the soldiers set off from Suzhou City and arrived at the Yuemengshan camp on time before noon.

Although the cavalry was still nominally assembled with the soldiers under the jurisdiction of the Suzhou Prefecture, they did not listen to the announcement, and fell at the rear of all the marching soldiers.

But Zhao Xuance was helpless.

Because behind this cavalry is the prince's carriage, and the cavalry led by the prince himself guards his own safety, and no one can say anything.

The most important thing is that Lord Qincha supervised the battle, which was a scene that had never been seen in three years.

Zhao Xuance's heart also became more and more depressed under the influence of this incident.

It wasn't until the time of the Yuemeng Mountain camp that Zhao Xuance's heart finally fell to the bottom.

"On the order of the prince, take over the camp of Yuemeng Mountain, and Zhao Xuance, the commander of the Suzhou Prefecture City Patrol Division, temporarily lead the affairs of the original battalion of Yuemeng Mountain, Qin this!"

Walked out of the cavalry and said loudly to Zhao Xuance and all the soldiers stationed in Yuemeng Mountain.

Zhao Xuance's true emotions were well concealed by himself, and he clenched his fists and said, "Minister, obey the order." ”

Zhao Xuance has no way to seize power in an open and honest manner, if he chooses to disobey the order at this time, then what happened a few days ago will also happen to him.

Fortunately, he had made sufficient preparations beforehand, and I believe that the soldiers who were originally stationed in the Yuemeng Mountain camp at this time were already monolithic at this time.

More crucially, he believed that the Qi Zhen Seven would definitely find a better way to avoid the impending war between the humans and the Mulberry Snake Clan.

He wanted to try again, if he could buy Qi Zhen and them some more time.

After all, the so-called yang and yin are violated, or they don't contribute to work, in Zhao Xuance's view, one more time will give one more chance.

That night, the sound of commotion in various parts of the camp woke up Zhao Xuance, who was already sleeping very lightly.

The foreboding in his heart prompted him to reach his tent as fast as he could, only to see the camp lit up with fires far exceeding the number of soldiers on patrol at night.

The sound of the commotion did not come from the sound of the mouth, but the sound of voices everywhere that made Zhao Xuance unfamiliar but by no means unfamiliar.

It was a sharp blade piercing through the human body, making a sound of grinding against the skeletal muscles.

A soldier walked up to Zhao Xuance, stopped his forward steps, and said in a deep voice: "There are thieves entering the camp, please return to the camp." ”

Zhao Xuance thought to himself, could it be Qi Zhen and they are here? But if you think about it carefully, it's not right, with the strange shape and infiltration mode of Qi Zhen's team, how could they make such a big fanfare?

Just as Zhao Xuance was about to move forward again, the soldiers didn't give an inch, and said emphatically again: "Please return to the camp." ”

Zhao Xuance realized at this time that the appearance of the soldiers in front of him was so unfamiliar.

He suddenly became alert in his heart, nodded, didn't say anything, and turned back to his own tent.

The commotion continued for half the night, and finally subsided.

Zhao Xuance didn't sleep all night.

On the morning of the second day, when the school field in front of the Yuemeng Mountain camp was assembled, Zhao Xuance's worst fear still happened.

It's not just that he is worried, Zhao Xuance looked at all the commanders and captains of the battalion under his jurisdiction, and all the hopes in his heart were killed at this moment.

It was also at this moment that Zhao Xuance really realized that in the face of absolute power, any conspiracy and trickery was so vulnerable.

How to complete absolute control over the officers and men of a brigade in one night?

King Xiangli taught Zhao Xuance a good lesson.

First of all, it is necessary to know enough which people are not their own people, this kind of intelligence collection and personnel infiltration is far from what Zhao Xuance can imagine.

Then, kill those who don't belong to you.

That's it.