Duan Xi, who lazily leaned on the recliner to meet Guo Chong, didn't even bother to do superficial work this time.

He looked at the three people sitting in the hall with a smile, and said, "Why are you two so troublesome?" Didn't I let you train your soldiers? ”

This first sentence was not greeted by the imperial court, but by Chong's two sons and nephews, who expressed their deep dissatisfaction to them.

"Patriarch, we thought what Lord Guo said was right, this is really an opportunity for our Duan clan." Duan Siguo lowered his head and replied.

Duan Sizhou followed again: "Patriarch Mingjian, our Duan family has become weaker and weaker over the years, not to mention compared to the beginning, even compared with the current Mu family, it is also very different, why is this?"

"It's not because the Mu clan seized the opportunity at the beginning, was valued by the imperial court, supported them, and allowed them to expand rapidly...... Patriarch, can't our Duan clan rise again? ”

"Presumptuous!" Duan Xi listened to the more they talked, the more excessive, and immediately sank his face and scolded, "What do you two know? Don't think that some military training methods can dictate in the clan, the major affairs in the clan, is it as simple as you think?

"My Duan family has been in peace for two hundred years, and everyone's life is also very good, why do you have to go to that troubled water? Do you know what it means to transfer tens of thousands of military horses to my Duan family?

"Don't listen to a few words of incitement and don't know what your surname is, this matter has already been decided by me and the elders of the clan, no need to say it again! If you dare to indiscriminately instigate the people below, be careful that I will punish you strictly with clan law! ”

Being reprimanded by him, Brother Duan Siguo's face turned red and blue, and his eyes were even more annoyed and resentful, so he didn't agree, just sat there with his head bowed in a daze.

It was Guo Chong, who snorted at this time and said, "Patriarch Duan, please calm your anger, this Kunzhong is also concerned about the future of your Duan family." Actually......"

"Lord Guo, you don't have to pretend to make peace, our southern Yunnan barbarians are not as twisted and twisted as you Han people, and we like to say anything directly. They're also moved by your rhetoric, right? ”

Duan Xi interrupted Guo Chong's words with a wave of his hand, and sneered: "It's okay to fool them with your words, but I won't be fooled."

"My Duan family is just a little bit of a soldier and a horse, and they have to be divided into more than a dozen large and small cities, if they are all handed over, even if there is no threat from the Mu Gao family, the other tribal bandits who covet the wealth of my Duan clan will be enough for us to have a headache.

"Since I am the lord of the Duan clan, I should think about the stability of the entire Duan clan, not for the sake of the court, and fight for the life and death of the clansmen for a so-called future!

"So you're dead of this heart, let's go to the Gao family and the Mu family to try and see if we can get them to send troops......"

This time, he really made his attitude completely clear, and there was no room for manoeuvre, that is, he told Guo Chong that he would not agree to let the Duan clan send troops to help the imperial court.

Then he stared at Guo Chong with some threats, as if to warn him that if he wanted to make trouble again, he would be polite to him.

Faced with such a situation, Guo Chong could only smile bitterly, sighed and stood up: "It seems that Patriarch Duan is determined to refuse to return to the imperial court?" ”

"If you don't send troops as you say, even if you refuse to submit to the court, that's right!" Duan Xi replied forcefully.

Anyway, Duan's location is far away from the Central Plains, and he really doesn't believe that the imperial court will be desperate to use troops against his own family when the Central Plains is turbulent and the southwest is unstable.

"Then there is no way......" Guo Chong whispered with some regret, a sharp flash in his eyes, and with a flick of his hand, he swept the teacup on the coffee table next to him to the ground, making a crisp sound.

And at the moment when he said this, Duan Siguo and Duan Sizhou, who were still sitting at the bottom, had moved rapidly.

The former rushed straight at Duan Xi like a cheetah, and when the person came to him, a cold light had already smeared from his sleeve, and it just happened to cross the throat of the Duan clan patriarch who was completely unprepared.

He really didn't expect that these two nephews would unite with an outsider to suddenly attack him, and only the word "you" came out, but the words that followed him could no longer be spoken.

Large streams of blood gushed down his throat, staining the chaise longue beneath him scarlet.

His eyes were full of surprise and anger, but his life passed quickly, and after only a few breaths, his eyes were wide open, and there was no more movement.

The dignified patriarch of the Duan clan was actually killed by the younger generations of the clan he trusted in his mansion, Duan Xi really didn't blink his eyes to death, and he didn't believe that this would happen to him until he died.

Also, don't be caught off guard by this sudden change, as well as the guards and servants outside the hall.

When they understood what was going on in the hall, screamed, and rushed inside, wanting to make the last save, Duan Sizhou blocked their way like a wall.

He also had a short knife flying out of his sleeve, and with a pop he pierced the throat of one of the guards who rushed to the front, and then snatched the saber in his hand, and with two snorts, he split the two guards behind him backwards in succession, and as for those servants or something, they didn't even dare to take a step forward.

This period of Siguo brothers not only trained and commanded the troops well, but also skilled in martial arts, and now they can kill, how can those subordinates dare to face them?

After quickly forcing back a few guys who wanted to pour into the hall, Duan Sizhou flipped his left wrist again, flicked it, and with a whoosh, a sleeve arrow had been shot into the air by him.

As soon as the departing Hidden Arrow rose a section, it whined in mid-air and spread far away, passing through the courtyard until it reached the gate of the mansion.

At this time, in front of the gate of the mansion, dozens of guards brought by Duan Siguo's brothers were talking and laughing with a considerable number of guards at the gate, and this strange roar suddenly sounded inside, which immediately made the guards stunned for a while.

Just when the leader wanted to send someone in to ask what was going on, the robe that was still talking and laughing with them just now suddenly changed.

Almost in the blink of an eye, they had flashed their weapons and pounced on them fiercely.

Before the guards could react, a blade sank into their chests and throats, causing them to fall to a pool of blood in a scream, full of doubt.

And after killing all of Duan Xi's most trusted subordinates, one of the guards shook his hand again, and also shot another sleeve arrow into the air, which was also a ringing arrow.

In a short period of time, sudden killings occurred all over Tongya City, and those who were completely defenseless in power of the Duan family were assassinated by the guards and subordinates around them one by one, and they didn't understand what happened until they died.

In just half a day, more than 20 powerful figures of the Duan clan in Tongya City have all died, and now the people with the highest status in the city are none other than Duan Siguo and Duan Sizhou's brothers!