Chang'an.
Jia Xu hurriedly arrived at the martial arts training ground at the Prince Regent's Palace.
At this time, Liu Cheng was practicing boxing and kicking in the martial arts training ground.
Jia Xu could not interrupt rashly and could only keep walking back and forth on the edge of the martial arts training ground, looking quite anxious.
After half an hour, Liu Chengcai stopped.
Before he could wipe away his sweat, Jia Xu quickly walked over and cupped his hands and said, "My lord, Cao Cao sent Le Jin to lead an army of 10,000 garrisoned white horses.
I think they are ready to cross the river and attack."
Hanoi’s intention.
Now that Hanoi is empty, if Cao Cao’s men and horses invade, they will be caught off guard.
If Cao’s army and Yuan’s army attack from the north and south, not only Hanoi will not be protected, but also Wei County will be finished.”
"Cao Cao sent troops.
Who did Yuan Shao send to convince Cao Cao?"
Liu Cheng was quite surprised.
After speaking, he took the towel handed by the waiter to wipe his sweat.
"According to the information sent by the spies, it is Xu You, Yuan Shao's counselor."
Jia Xu hesitated for a moment, then continued: "There is news that Xu You may be lobbying Cao Cao to form an alliance with Yuan Shao, Sun Ce, Liu Biao and others to fight against the imperial court."
This news made Liu Cheng feel strong pressure, "Is the news reliable?"
Jia Xu said: "It has not been confirmed yet."
Liu Cheng immediately gave instructions: "mobilize all hands to verify the authenticity of the news as quickly as possible."
"yes" "As for Cao Jun's garrison of white horses, have Han Hao's troops been sent out to reinforce Zang Hong?"
Liu Cheng asked.
Jia Xu said: "We should send out troops.
After all, Zang Hong only has 10,000 troops.
If he wants to defend the city, there is no problem.
But if he wants to capture the city, 10,000 troops are too few.
Han Hao's troops should be there."
On the way to Zhuoxian” Liu Cheng thought for a while and immediately said: "Send an order to withdraw Han Hao's troops and ask him to personally lead his troops to Hanoi to garrison and stop Le Jin."
"Yes, lord."
Jia Xu agreed, then remembered something, and said with cupped hands: "There is another news coming from Cao Cao.
Cao Cao is planning to assassinate an important figure in our side, but he doesn't know the specific plan and the target of the assassination.
Spy We have not received any further information after many inquiries.
Cao Cao has become more and more wary of our spying.
It is already very difficult for our spies to continue to spy on us as before."
Liu Chengdao: "Continue to inquire.
If you want to find a way to increase financial investment, go ahead."
"Yes" Jia Xu cupped his hands, took a few steps back and turned to leave.
Liu Cheng wiped away his sweat, returned to the room, took a shower, put on clean clothes and told his attendants: "Go and find Zhao Rui."
"yes" Liu Cheng walked around in the corridor and thought about it.
Not long after, Zhao Rui walked over quickly and clasped his fists, saying: "My lord, I heard that you are looking for a subordinate."
Liu Cheng did not stop and continued walking, saying: "Recently, Cao Cao seems to have taken a series of measures against the imperial court, including planning to contact and lobby other princes to form an alliance against the imperial court, assassinate important ministers or generals of the imperial court, I want you to deploy manpower to investigate, It seems that they have some conspiracy.
I want you to allocate manpower to investigate this matter and give me a result as soon as possible."
"Yes, my lord" Zhao Rui felt that he was under a lot of pressure.
Over the years, although the Bronze Mirror Division had also sent many spies around other princes and within the country to find out information, the main business of the Bronze Mirror Division was to investigate internal problems and defend against external infiltration.
Most of them were in advance.
They were all placed inside the court, but now he had to focus on the outside.
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He felt a little powerless.
However, this is not too difficult for him.
Since getting information from the outside is too cumbersome, it is better to start from the secret camp, obtain general information from them, and then send special personnel to investigate one by one.
This can indeed save money.
Go a lot of time.
A few days later, Han Guang from the Film and Security Department reported to Liu Cheng what Cao Cao had done these days.
Although it was not very specific, the information he received became much clearer.
"Currently, Cao Cao has sent three groups of envoys, one to Jiangdong, two to Jingzhou, and the envoy to Jiangdong must be to lobby Sun Ce.
One of the two envoys to Jingzhou may be to lobby Liu Biao and Jingnan.
Several prefects, as for the destination of the other envoy is not clear, the subordinates have sent people to approach the other party's convoy to try to find out the information."
Liu Cheng nodded and asked: "Who is Cao Cao's target for the assassination?"
Han Guang said: "We still can't find out who it is, but we can be sure that the target is not in the court.
It should be the general in Bianzhen.
Cao Cao keeps this matter strictly confidential."
The news brought by Han Guang was similar to the information collected by the Bronze Mirror Division and the secret camp, but more detailed.
Liu Cheng thought for a moment and asked: "Do you know the current location of the three envoys sent by Cao Cao?"
"My subordinates have sent people to keep an eye on them."
Liu Cheng's eyes condensed and murderous intent burst out, "Use all means to kill these three envoys so that they cannot reach their destination.
Also, monitor Sun Ce, Liu Biao and others closely, and report any unusual movements immediately."
"yes" Peiguo, Guyang County.
A group of more than a dozen people stayed in an inn.
Yanggu was now an enclave.
Although it was under the jurisdiction of the county magistrate and the government, it was not inferior to any force, indicating that it still respected the imperial court.
"Hey, sir, you're here.
Please come quickly.
I wonder if you want to stay in a hotel or have a meal?"
The shop came up to greet me and asked with a smile.
The leader said: "We will stay in the hotel and have meals.
Prepare four rooms for us."
When the boy saw that there were more than a dozen people, he asked, "Sir, including you, there are thirteen people in total.
Isn't four rooms too few?"
"It's quite a lot, just arrange it like this."
"Okay, okay, sir, please come with me."
The child arranged the group of people in four rooms on the second floor.
The master said to the child: "We won't go down anymore.
Prepare some meals and send them to our rooms."
"Just a moment, it will be delivered soon."
After the child agreed, he went downstairs to the kitchen and asked the cook to prepare food for thirteen people.
He quickly turned around to greet other guests.
A guest walked into the kitchen and was doing a lot of cooking.
The cook who was cooking turned around and said quickly: "Oh, sir, there is too much oil smoke in the kitchen.
I'm afraid it will stain your clothes.
If you have anything to do, just ask the waiter."
No need to come here."
The guest smiled and said, "I just took a look."
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The cook thought it was funny.
What was there to see in this kitchen?
No one with any status would come to the kitchen.
There was oil smoke everywhere.
Little did he know that the gentleman was far away from the kitchen.
The cook ignored the guest and continued cooking.
The guest walked around the kitchen and left, and the cook didn't pay attention.
Soon, the waiter brought the food and wine to the guest room on the second floor.
The master was looking at the bamboo slips and asked his followers to eat first.
The followers were already hungry.
The four followers immediately picked up the bowls and chopsticks and started eating.
They were full.
The waiter quickly brought a second plate of food, and the second group of four people also started eating.
As soon as these four people finished eating, the four people who ate first almost fell down together, foaming at the mouth, and turning blue.
Immediately afterwards, the four people who ate later also suffered from the same symptoms as the four people who ate first.
"Sir, what's wrong, the eight people who ate first are all dead."
A follower ran into the master's room and shouted.
"What?"
The master dropped the bamboo slips and followed the entourage who reported the news to the room of one of the entourages.
The four attendants lay motionless on the table.
There were only leftovers of the food on the table.
The master found that the faces of the four corpses were blue, "They must have been poisoned.
Let's go and take a look in another room."
Coming to another room, the master found that these four people had died of poisoning just like the four people just now.
There is no doubt that there is something wrong with the food "I'm going to arrest the child for interrogation.
Someone must have deliberately poisoned us," said the captain of the guard, Deng Zhan.
The master quickly stopped Deng Zhan: "Lieutenant Deng, wait a minute and don't make this matter public.
Once it becomes public, the local government will soon send out government officials and soldiers, and we won't be able to leave.
Our mission is to rush to Jiangdong as soon as possible to see Sun Ce." " Deng Zhan said angrily: "Are we going to let these brothers die in vain?"
"Everything is about completing the mission," the master said.
He looked at Deng Zhan and said, "After this incident, Captain Deng still doesn't understand.
Someone doesn't want us to reach Jiangdong and wants to intercept and kill us all on the way."
When Deng Zhan heard this, his expression changed, he pointed to the west and said, "Is it from the imperial court?"
The master nodded: "Who else can be here besides Liu Cheng?
We are afraid that this trip will be extremely dangerous.
What I didn't expect was that the court received the news so quickly.
This was too fast.
I suspected that there was something wrong."
A message from a ghost" Deng Zhan said: "Sir, what should we do now?"
The master thought for a moment with a solemn expression and said, "Don't make any noise about this matter.
You go out to buy some food and come back.
You can't eat the food sent by the inn anymore."
"Yes, I'll go right away."
Deng Zhan agreed and asked the remaining three followers to stay in the room to protect the master.
Not long after, Deng Zhan brought back several large pancakes, two roast chickens, and two kilograms of braised beef.
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They ate them all, and the food brought by the waiter was not touched at all.
After dinner, the master said to Deng Zhan: "Tonight is particularly dangerous.
I suspect that someone may come back late at night to assassinate you.
Lieutenant Deng, you must be more vigilant."
Deng Zhan patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, sir.
As long as I, Deng Zhan, am here, I will never let you hurt a hair."
Five people were crowded into a room, and the master slept alone on the bed.
The remaining four people were divided into two shifts and took turns keeping watch.
Because they were worried that assassins would come back at any time to kill, these four people did not sleep well.
There was no movement all night long, and the assassin who was expected to appear did not show up either.
Instead of breathing a sigh of relief, these people were even more worried.
If they didn't take action at night, they would probably be unable to prevent it if they did.
After dawn, the five people quickly left the inn after paying their bills and left the city as quickly as possible.
The eight corpses left in the inn room were quickly discovered by the waiter, who inevitably reported them to the government.
When the government officials arrived, These five people have been out of the city for a long time.
On the official road leading to Ru County, Deng Zhan was riding on horseback next to the carriage and asked: "Sir, we have been walking all morning, and the assassin has not appeared yet.
He must have got rid of it."
A voice came from the carriage: "Don't be careless.
The assassin didn't poison us all.
How could he just give up and maybe wait for us somewhere?"
"Yes" Deng Zhan agreed, his expression more alert, instead of observing the woods and grass on both sides of the road.
I don’t know how long it took, but Deng Zhan and others on horseback were all a little drowsy.
At this time, three arrows suddenly shot out from the woods beside the road.
"Swish, swish, swish", the three arrows shot and killed the driver and the two attendants, and the bodies rolled down from the carriage and the horse respectively.
The undriven horses stopped moving forward.
Deng Zhan was shocked.
He drew his sword and shouted: "Who can come out?
If you dare to come out and fight face to face, how can you be considered a hero by hiding and firing cold arrows?"
At this time, a man with a sword slowly walked out from the trees beside the road.
He was about thirty years old.
His face was indifferent, and his eyes were like a pool of stagnant water.
His steps were light and steady when walking, and the distance of each step was the same, without any difference. .
Deng Zhan held his sword and shouted: "Who are you?"
"You can call me Shi'a, the person who killed you."
The person reached out and slowly pulled out the sword on his back.
"If you want to kill me, Deng Zhan, it depends on whether you have the ability."
Deng Zhan said, flying up from his horse and rushing toward Shi A.
"Dang, Dang, Dang!"
Shi A quickly came forward with his sword, and the two sides fought for several rounds in an instant.
Suddenly, the two people passed each other and passed each other, and they stopped for an instant.
A blood mark appeared on Deng Zhan's neck, and blood spurted out from the blood mark.
Deng Zhan fell to the ground with a plop.
Shi A walked up to the carriage with his sword and opened the curtain with his long sword.
The master sat in the corner with a pale face and trembling, saying: "Zhuang, Zhuang, what do you want to do?"
Shi A asked: "Wei Jin" "Yes, yes, the strong man lets me go.
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I can give you as much wealth as you want, one hundred gold and one catty, no, ten thousand gold."
What answered him was Shi'a's sharp sword, which pierced Wei Jin's chest.
Shi A took out a piece of cloth and wiped the sword clean, sheathed the sword, turned around, mounted a horse and drove away.
At the same time, a killing incident also occurred in Xincai and Anyang in Runan, involving two caravans.
The two caravans were not large in size, but they did not look like merchants.
Both caravans were killed and no one was left.
It was not until two days later that the local government sent someone to arrive.
Xiapi, Wei Xu's residence.
Wei Xu poured a glass of wine for Song Xian and said, "Old Song, have you noticed these days that General Xu seems to look down on our brothers?"
Song Xian picked up the wine cup and drank it all in one gulp.
He placed the wine cup heavily on the table and hummed: "Humph, isn't it normal for him to look down on us?
He is a direct descendant of the regent of the dynasty.
He has tens of thousands of troops and can command the army himself."
He has never been defeated since the beginning of the campaign.
How can such a person not be arrogant and arrogant?
Even General Lu was defeated and captured by him.
It’s no wonder he doesn’t take anyone seriously.”
Wei Xu continued to pour the wine and sighed: "I'm afraid it will be difficult in the future.
These days, I found that someone from Xu Rong came to contact our generals.
I then thought about whether Xu Rong wanted to ignore us and seize us. our military power” Song Xian was furious, slapped the table and shouted: "He dared to anger me, I will rebel against his mother" At this time, a soldier came in and reported: "General, there is a scribe outside the door asking to see him, saying that he has a treasure that he plans to dedicate to the general."
Wei Xu became interested and immediately said: "I would like to see what kind of treasure it is and let him in":