The next day, Chen Su secretly arranged for people to secretly monitor the officials and family members of the Beiqianhu Office, fortunately, none of these people fled from Ulzhou, maybe the time has not come, maybe this matter is a rumor.

Wang Dan did not dare to take it lightly, in addition to sending additional soldiers at the three city gates in the name of strengthening the city defense, he also ordered his cronies to bring a lot of supplies to Jiang Bin's camp outside the city to inquire about the news in the name of the labor army.

Jiang Bin brought people to receive the supplies and said a lot of polite words of thanks, but he resolutely refused to let the troops of the labor army enter the barracks, on the grounds that the battlefield was important, and for safety reasons, no non-headquarters personnel were allowed to enter.

This kind of news made Wang Dan's mind hang again, and all kinds of suspicious things were indicating that Jiang Bin was trying to hide something.

On the night of February 15, Fang Datong visited again late at night, this time he brought even more surprising rumors, the Jinyi guards in the military camp outside the city released pigeons to send a message back to the city, saying that Jiang Bin had reached a surrender agreement with the Tartars, and the Tartars would mobilize 3,000 heavy troops to go to the outskirts of Ulzhou, and Jiang Bin was responsible for opening the gates of Ulzhou and assisting the Tartars to seize the important town of Ulzhou. At present, Jiang Bin is waiting for the Tartars to deploy his troops, while Jiang Bin is blocking all roads in the north of the city, prohibiting the city sentinels from going to the north to listen to the news, in case the news of the arrival of the Tartar army is detected by the city.

Fang Datong's words were like a thunderbolt from the sky, which paralyzed Wang Dan's body, although Fang Datong still repeatedly emphasized that these were all rumors of his lieutenants in the barracks, all of which were unconfirmed; Wang Dan thought: Of course, it can't be confirmed, Jiang Bin has blocked the military camp and all the passages in the north, how can he confirm the news? Fang Datong's lieutenant Jinyi Guard is afraid that even his actions will be restricted, and it is quite difficult to spread the news of the investigation, so how can he confirm the truth of the news?

It is no wonder that the sentinels in the city were blocked south of the Huhe River in the past two days, saying that Jiang Bin ordered that no one should cross the Huhe River to the north, and the men and horses sent to the labor army were also blocked ten miles north of the city, and they could not approach the barracks at all; After a few comparisons, Jiang Bin's surrender to the enemy is almost a foregone conclusion.

After Fang Datong left, Wang Dan hurriedly called Chen Su to discuss, this matter has not yet reached the time to be made public, because everything is speculation and speculation, and he does not have a trace of evidence in hand, and the news sent by Fang Datong is all emphasized to be unconfirmed, and he can only discuss this matter with Chen Su at present.

Chen Su listened to Wang Dan's narration in horror, and said in a trembling voice: "Brother-in-law, Jiang Bin is here for you, he must have felt that he would die this time, so he took a risk, and one of the conditions for negotiating with Tartar is to ask for your head, which can be seen to be completely because of personal grievances." ”

Wang Dan said angrily: "This guy actually ignores the righteousness and corrupts his integrity for personal grievances, he is really a bad person." ”

Chen Su said: "Whoever dies will not take into account any righteousness, brother-in-law, if you don't force him to be cornered, I am afraid that there will be no predicament today." ”

Wang Dan reprimanded: "I called you here to discuss countermeasures, but I didn't ask you to come and put an afterthought. ”

Chen Su spread his hands and said, "What can I do?" Otherwise, if we all gather the men and horses to catch him off guard, we still have more than 4,000 horses on hand, and he only has 1,600 horses, and he should be able to annihilate them in one fell swoop. ”

Wang Dan shook his head slowly and said: "I'm afraid it's not time yet, there is no evidence, the teacher is unknown, and Jiang Bin will not admit it to death in the future, how can I explain to the imperial court?" ”

Chen Su smacked his lips and said: "It's true, damn it, it would be nice if I could catch the evidence, by the way, otherwise, my brother-in-law recruited Jiang Bin back to the city in the name of supervising the war." ”

Wang Dan said: "How can he come back?" Isn't that a joke? ”

Chen Su said: "If he dares to come back, my brother-in-law will control him with reason, if he really reaches a refuge agreement with the Tartars, this move will just disrupt their plans, shackle Jiang Bin in the city, and then send someone to take over the soldiers and horses outside the city and return to the city. ”

"He's not coming back." Wang Dan repeated.

"If you don't come back, won't my brother-in-law have a reason to send troops to strangle him? He is blatantly disobeying the military order, and on this ground, no one has anything to say, and the court will not blame his brother-in-law afterwards. ”

Wang Dan slapped the table and said: "Yes, I'm confused, I didn't expect this layer, this is a good way, I will send an order to Jiang Bin to return to the city early tomorrow morning to report on his work, and see how this guy reacts." ”

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As Wang Dan expected, Jiang Bin refused to return to the city on the grounds of tight military affairs, and at the same time, the people sent by Chen Su to monitor the families of the officers came back to report that Jiang Bin and the families of his generals were secretly packing up their belongings, and seemed to have plans to flee Ulzhou.

On the evening of 17 February, Wang Shi summoned a meeting of thousands of households and the generals of the personal guard battalion at the Ulzhou Guard Office, preparing to announce Jiang Bin's disobedience to military orders, asking everyone to assemble troops and horses, and follow him out of the city early the next morning to ask Jiang Bin for his punishment.

However, just half an hour before the start of the meeting, when the generals of various ministries arrived in the yamen hall one after another, Fang Datong urgently asked for a meeting for the third time.

Wang Dan is tidying up the armor on his body in the inner house, he has not worn this armor for a long time in front of outsiders, the armor has spots of rust, and the red tassel on the hat is also corrupt and discolored, Wang Dan ordered people to polish it everywhere, this is the first time in nearly three years that the armor has appeared in front of everyone, he must pay attention to the image.

Hearing that Fang Datong suddenly came again, Wang Dan hurriedly summoned him, and said as soon as he met: "Fang Baihu, the old man is going to exterminate Jiang Bin, the thief, you have contributed a lot to this matter, do you want to follow the old man, after the matter settles down, the old man will also give you a note on the Ulzhou Jinyi Guard Yamen in the report to the imperial court." ”

Fang Datong's face was extremely ugly, and he sighed repeatedly: "I can't help it, I can't help it, it's because of this matter." ”

Wang Dan was surprised: "What? I have summoned all the generals to attend the meeting at Yamen, and the four thousand soldiers and horses set off, so that I can go straight to Jiang Bin's military camp at dawn and smash this anti-thief conspiracy. ”

Fang Datong took out a small bamboo tube from his arms and handed it to Wang Dan and said, "This is the secret report that I just received, my lord, take a look." ”

Wang Dan opened the small bamboo tube suspiciously, and took out a small note inside, but saw a line of words written on the note: "The Tartar has arrived, set up an ambush." ”

"What does that mean?" Wang Dan didn't turn the corner for a while.

Fang Datong sighed: "My lord, your act of summoning Jiang Bin back to the city has already startled the snake, since Jiang Bin disobeyed your military order, he understands that you will definitely lead the army out of the city to deal with him next, isn't this information obvious?" The Tartar soldiers are already in place, and they are waiting for you to drill into them with their pockets open. I can't help it. ”

Wang Dan is like a scoop of ice water poured from the head to the bottom, cold and clear bone marrow from the outside in. Sitting on the chair, his face turned pale.

"This ...... This guy is simply too insidious and cunning, too vicious, the old man wants to break this guy into pieces. ”

Fang Datong lit the note on the lamp, burned it to ashes, and said softly: "My lord, let's think about it in the long run, I have taught Jiang Bin to be on guard, things have gradually become out of control, you should carefully consider how to deal with it." ”

Wang Dan muttered, "What should I do? What now? ”

Fang Datong shook his head and said: "I think it's better to report to the Datong General Military Mansion as soon as possible, if it drags on, if you really lose Ulzhou, it will be all over." ”

Wang Dan said blankly: "Yes, yes, report, report...... Come on, cancel the meeting...... Prepare the horse overnight, and I will go to Datong Mansion to meet the chief soldier Wang Xun. ”

That night, Wang Dan set off overnight, with dozens of horsemen and guards went straight to Datong Mansion, the next afternoon, arrived at Datong, the capital of Shanxi, more than ten hours of uninterrupted galloping, all the way to the wind and frost sword abuse, a pampered Wang Dan made people not ghosts, the bones of the body seemed to fall apart.

But he didn't dare to delay at all, and without even drinking saliva, he went straight to the general soldier's mansion to ask to see Wang Xun, the chief soldier of Datong; Wang Xun heard that the commander of the Ulzhou Wei sent Wang Dan to ask for a meeting in the starry night, and he knew that the recent attack on the border of the Ulzhou Tatars was very disturbing, and he thought that something was wrong in Ulzhou City, so he urgently pushed off the military meeting to summon Wang Dan.

Wang Dan cried and reported everything to Wang Xun with a sad face, so shocked that Wang Xun almost jumped up from the chair.

"You mean Jiang Bin took refuge in the Tartars and intended to capture Ulzhou?" Wang Xun was so shocked that his black beard flew up.

"Back to the chief soldier, exactly, the lower officer felt that this matter was important, so he came to report in the starry night, and implored the chief soldier to help solve it, the lower official originally wanted to lead the soldiers and horses in the city to attack him unprepared to capture the traitor, but Jiang Bin and the Tartars colluded to set up an ambush, and the lower officials did not dare to act rashly."

Wang Xun said: "Impossible, I have seen Jiang Bin, he is a brave and fierce general, it is impossible to surrender to the enemy, is it wrong for you to have the news?" ”

Wang Dan hurriedly said: "There is Fang Datong from the Ulzhou Jinyi Wei Hundred Households as proof, if you don't believe it, you can go to him for verification." ”

Wang Xun asked again: "Do you have real evidence?" ”

Wang Dan said: "This ...... Not really, but everything has become clear, Jiang Bin's actions have been revealed, and the lower officials are 100% sure that Jiang Bin has betrayed my Daming. ”

Wang Xun thought carefully for a while and said: "Okay, this matter is important, if it is true, the court will also be angry, but based on your words alone, and there is no evidence, it is really difficult for this official to believe it; In this case, this official will lead 2,000 men and horses to Ulju with you, and if it is verified, he will work together to annihilate the traitors and the Tartars in one fell swoop. ”

Wang Dan said gratefully: "Thank you, Lord General Soldier, Lord General is willing to go, and the lower officials will have a bottom in their hearts." ”

Wang Xun said solemnly: "But the official also wants to remind you that if the facts are not what you say, you will be fully responsible, and don't blame the official for being unsympathetic when the time comes." ”

Wang Dan was beating a drum in his heart, but the matter had come to this point, and he couldn't allow him to hesitate, plus he had already come to the conclusion that Jiang Bin had surrendered to the enemy, so he was even more bold.

"Don't worry, the commander-in-chief, the subordinate understands."