"Is something wrong?"

Looking at the people who were still talking and laughing at the wine table before, their faces were already heavy at this time, Xiao was slightly stunned, and he already noticed that something was wrong.

Qi Zehui was silent for a while, then waved his hand, signaling Xian Zare to go out first, and in the whole room, only Xiao ?, Qi Zehui and Dong Gao were left.

"It's a long story...... But I'll try to make a long story short......" Qi Zehui played with the wine glass in his hand, "Over there in Nanning, what happened to His Royal Highness King Zhang, have you listened?"

"Listen, it seems that there is a powerful new person, named Liu Fuan, right?" Xiao nodded thoughtfully, "With 50,000 soldiers, he repelled 400,000 iron cavalry in the Western Regions, and now there are voices praising him everywhere, and when His Royal Highness King Zhang arrives, the battle has already been fought - although it is a little bizarre, it is generally reasonable, what is this?"

"Heh, reasonable, very wrong!" Qi Zehui sneered, "This whole thing is simply unbelievable!"

"Unbelievable...... "Xiao scratched the back of his head, obviously not understanding.

"Now in Xia Rao's eyes, I only see this Lord Liu winning with less, and winning by surprise, but I don't know how this battle was fought and how it was won-" Dong Gao on the side shook the folding fan lightly, and said slowly: "Coincidentally, our brother in Nanning happens to be a member of the Nanning defenders, and he personally experienced the whole battle in that battle, and in his original words in the letter, this battle was won in an extremely 'absurd and bizarre way, and it is extremely scary to think about'!"

"Why did Brother Dong say this?" Xiao asked with interest.

"In the approval document under the notice, it is the 50,000 elites of the Nanning defenders, who took advantage of the danger to send out cavalry, broke the enemy's 400,000 troops, and beheaded more than 10,000 people, but in our brother's report, it was clearly mentioned that the 50,000 defenders in Nanning were not the so-called elite backbones, but a group of old, weak, sick and forcibly recruited recruits, and the 10,000 vanguards who went to the battlefield were not based on any danger, but on the plain ten miles outside the city...... "Dong Gaozai's voice gradually became heavy.

"Is there such a thing?" Xiao was immediately shocked when he heard this, "If this is the case, how can such an army defeat the 400,000 Western Regions iron cavalry armed to the teeth in the most disadvantaged plain?"

"It's strange here!" Dong Gaozai took a deep breath, "This should have been a one-sided slaughter, but according to the informant, when the war began, when 10,000 vanguard troops rushed to the battlefield, what was waiting for them was not the menacing iron cavalry spear, but a large group of people who were tied hand and foot, like prisoners of war, fell to the ground and let them slaughter!"

"Actually...... Could it be that there is such a thing?" Xiao was also taken aback, "Could it be that those prisoners of war who were slaughtered by others are the 10,000 Western Regions troops who have been beheaded by word of mouth today?"

"Exactly, but what's even more terrifying is that those prisoners of war are probably not all from the Western Regions......" Dong Gao shook his head, his eyes becoming more and more fierce.

"Why do you say this?" Xiao's eyes froze, and an ominous premonition appeared in his heart.

"Because those people's mouths are all in the Chinese dialect of the Central Plains!" Qi Zehui on the side said coldly, "Someone put our Central Plains compatriots on the Western Regions Rao armor and became their substitute ghosts!"

"What?" Xiao heard like five thunderbolts in his ears, and his mind immediately buzzed and dizzy, and before he could slow down, he heard Dong Gao continue:

"And the letter also mentioned that after the end of the battle, Lord Liu Fuan Liu ordered the closure of all the information hubs in Nanning City, which seemed to be deliberately concealing something - if it weren't for the flying pigeons of the beggar brothers in Nanning, I am afraid that we would not be able to receive this letter......"

"That'...... What happened then?" Xiao's body had begun to tremble slightly.

"Later, heh, there is no later......" Dong Gao sneered and waved his hand, but Qi Zehui continued with a calm face: "Just today, the Hongzhou City Government issued a document and a pension to the family of that brother, and the document mentioned that that brother died heroically in the battle with Rao in the Western Regions......"

"It's obvious that the battle has ended, but someone suddenly died,......" Dong Gao reminded silently.

"Then we contacted the beggar gang rudders in various places and confirmed one thing," Qi Zehui's eyes stared directly at the wine glass on the table, "The vanguard of 10,000 people who killed the enemy was all sacrificed in that battle in the mouth of the Nanning Military Department......

"This ...... Whose is it true?" Xiao was a little confused for a moment, "Isn't it easy to cut off those heads, how can there be casualties?"

"Wood, don't you understand?" Qi Zehui slapped the table and said angrily and funny:

"Those 10,000 people didn't die under the sword of the Western Regions at all!

"Na ......" Xiao only felt a chaotic flow of thoughts in his mind, and a huge amount of information came like a tide, which made his mind dizzy for a while.

The people of the Western Regions who came by surprise, the prisoners of war who were slaughtered by others, the famous Liu Fuan, and the vanguard of 10,000 people who were regarded as heroic martyrs......

Pile after pile of things that seemed to be unrelated and fantastical happened, but at this time, the piles were buckled into connected copper rings, as if to pave the way for a huge and horrific conspiracy.

Nanning...... Nanning......

What's going on there?

"And the reason why martial law is now imposed in major states and counties is because of His Royal Highness King Zhang, who is 'belated'......" Qi Zehui coughed twice, and then said, "...... I'm about to be escorted, passing through here......"

"The emperor has issued a decree that His Royal Highness King Zhang should be arrested and returned to Beijing," Dong Gao replied, "According to reliable sources, it has been determined that he will be imprisoned for felonies such as leaving his post without permission and delaying military aircraft......

"If there is no turnaround, one of these charges will be singled out...... It was enough for him to be beheaded for public display. ”

The glass slammed on the water-stained table with a crisp sound.

Die...... Is it a death penalty......

Xiao's pupils contracted suddenly, he would never have thought that His Royal Highness, who was called a hero by every family in his childhood, this man who had experienced life and death with him and called each other "friends", would actually face death because of this bizarre and strange incident.

"Now sort out all the clues and information...... Dong Gaozai's fingers kept tapping on the table, and his deep voice pulled Zhong Rao's thoughts back to before:

"First of all, His Royal Highness King Zhang, who has always been conscientious in his duties, left his post for no reason, and it happened that at this time, the army of the Western Regions raided here, but only captured a few insignificant cities, and then wandered outside the city of Nanning, waiting for the opportunity to ......"

"At the same time, the imperial court was in a catastrophe, and there were no generals available, so in a hurry, two people who had never heard of it were elected to come out, and they were ordered to go to Nanning to ......"

"Lord Zhu Panyan Zhu attacked Yumen Pass with heavy troops, but the people of the Western Regions were like unpredictable prophets, which made him pounce in the air......;

"The 10,000 Rao vanguard troops, facing the cavalry on the plain, should have been an operation to send them to death, but it was like receiving a gift, and they effortlessly cut off 10,000 heads disguised as Rao Zhongyuan people in the Western Regions, and then they were secretly exterminated, and at the same time, Nanning City was under martial law and blocked all news......"

"It's weird...... This is too strange...... "Xiao listened in a trance, and muttered in his mouth.

"Yes, it's so strange, even Qinglou's words don't dare to talk like this......" Qi Zehui sighed, raised his head, and drank all the water and wine in the cup.

"Ah Hui, do you have any clues?" Dong Gao asked with a frown.

"I don't have any clue...... Qi Zehui shook his head, pondered for a moment, and then said coldly: "However, I do smell a smell......

"What does it smell like?"

"The smell of conspiracy ......" Qi Zehui raised his head faintly, "It's very pungent, very spicy eyes, it won't be a good thing after all......"

The three people at the table fell silent together.

After a long time, Dong Gao flicked the folding fan and sighed: "This whole thing is really too bizarre, what is the purpose of doing this? What is the significance? Who is the biggest beneficiary? We don't know all of this......

"However, ......there is not much time to find out," Qi Zehui sighed faintly, "Casual layout, it has already made a big mess, the chessboard overturned, no matter what, that Liu Fuan will definitely not be a real person, right now King Zhang's life is not guaranteed, if you can't find evidence to prove all this, when the time comes to return to Beijing to try the case, the head will fall to the ground, but it will be very bad......"

"No, maybe we know what the meaning of this is...... "Xiao has been chaotic all the time?, but at this time, he said coldly, as if he had discovered something.

"What?" Qi Dong and the others cast their eyes at him.

"Along the way, I heard people talk about how Liu Fu'an was clever and how he turned the tide...... Xiao said with a wry smile, "It seems that in the past, King Zhang led his troops to defend the territory, which was already a matter of the previous dynasty......

"What do you mean......" Qi Zehui's gaze gradually became solemn.

"That's right," Xiao's eyelids jumped, "I'm afraid that the real purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes is to use Liu Fu'an's chess piece to completely replace the position of His Royal Highness King Zhang!"

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