Suddenly there was a commotion in the crowd, and someone shouted, "The Lord of the City is here!"
The crowds on the streets leading to the city lord's palace hid on the side of the road.
The city lord, Cai Ying, rode a red pure-blood galloping horse and came galloping down the street with more than a hundred personal guards.
Jiang Nan led the Jiang family's personal guards to the gate of the carriage house and waited quietly for the menacing Cai Ying, with a very calm look on his face.
When he ran more than ten steps in front of Jiang Nan, Cai Yingcai pulled the reins in his hands, lifted the front legs of the galloping horse off the ground, kicked a few times in the air, and followed the inertia of the hind legs to take two steps forward, and then left the ground.
Gao stopped while running.
Cai Ying raised the riding whip in her hand, pointed at Jiang Nan who was standing in front of the carriage house, and shouted in a deep voice: "But Jiang Nan, the captain of Duke An Guo's personal guard, is in front of you!"
Jiang Nan half-closed his eyes and carefully looked at Cai Ying in front of him.
Cai Ying wears a blue satin gown, a crown with double thorns pointing toward the sky and a cauldron on her head, and round-toed gang-stepping cloud boots.
His eyebrows are wide, short and thick, like two upside-down orange petals, his single-lidded monkey eyes are sunken into the eye sockets, his face is pale yellow, his mouth has a five-inch goat's beard, and his sharp chin is slightly curved inward.
"I am Jiang Nan, captain of the First Squadron of Anguo Gong's Guards, and you are His Excellency Viscount Cai Ying, the Lord of Kengzhu City?" Jiang Nan took out his identity token from his arms, raised it to Cai Ying, and said in a neither humble nor arrogant tone.
Cai Ying glanced at the token and continued to say to Jiang Nan: "Although I am not as good as Mr. Jiang, I am also a noble of the kingdom and the majestic lord of the city. Why did you lead people to trespass on my carriage house? Is it?
Do you want to humiliate me?"
"I have been ordered by the Duke to arrest those who dare to oppose our Jiang family. I have obtained conclusive evidence a few days ago. The mastermind behind the scenes is hiding in this carriage house. In order to prevent the thieves from getting the news and escaping, I can only do my best to arrest them.
, I did not mean to humiliate the Lord of the City." Jiang Nan said with luck, word by word, and it spread clearly to the surroundings.
"Nonsense! Even if you have conclusive evidence, you should tell me. If the matter is true, I will personally hand over the person to you. What you are doing is arrogant, and you will be guilty of the following." Cai Ying felt angry and couldn't help it.
scolded Jiang Nan.
Even if you have evidence, you can't just rush to my property without saying hello and arrest my family members in front of outsiders. You completely ignore the unspoken rules among nobles. Moreover, you are just a personal guard and don't care about me at all.
I take it seriously.
"Don't be afraid to say something that offends the Lord of the City. This person who is the mastermind is not qualified to do such a bold thing. I am interrogating this person. Who in the end instigated him to do such a crazy and disrespectful thing? Lord of the City, I am afraid that you cannot escape suspicion."
." Jiang Nan sneered at the corners of her mouth, staring intently at Cai Ying's face.
When Cai Ying heard this, he was so angry that he trembled all over: On my territory, he rushed into my property, arrested my people, and even suspected me of being involved in illegal things. I will have the face of a city lord in the future.
Where to put it? Even if you Jiang Tong comes, you can't bully people like this.
Cai Ying whipped her horsewhip in the air and yelled at Jiang Nan: "How brave! You, a lowly servant, dare to falsely accuse a nobleman and interrogate my men privately. Unless this matter is made clear, you will never leave Hangzhu City!"
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The personal guards who came with Cai Ying drove the onlookers away, and then surrounded Jiang Nan's group in a semicircle. Cai Ying's personal guards also kept coming from the direction of the city lord's palace.
Behind Jiang Nan, there were two squads of knights on each side forming a cone-shaped battle formation. Two squads of Jiang family guards also stood on the wall of the carriage house, with their long swords unsheathed and staring at the Cai family members eagerly.
There is a large stable inside the Hangzhou Carriage and Horse Racing Shop. The horses that Jiang Nan and the others rode over were pulled into the stable. There were special knights who fed the horses, drank water, and washed the mud from their bodies, so they guarded the door.
The Jiang family's personal guards outside have all become infantry.
A personal guard of the Jiang family walked out of the carriage house and came to Jiang Nan to report: "Squadron leader, Deacon Wu confessed, just as you expected." After saying this, he glanced at Cai Ying.
"Okay, bring him out." Jiang Nan cheered up.
"Lord City Lord, whether I have falsely accused you or not, the matter will be clarified immediately, and you won't be able to say anything at that time. I will still be stuck in this bamboo city." Jiang Nan seemed more calm and leisurely.
Cai Jing's heart tightened. He didn't know what trump card the other party had. He called a guard behind him and said in a low voice: "Inform Commander Cai and bring someone over as soon as possible."
There are two armed forces in Kengzhu City. Viscount Cai Ying's bodyguards have 200 people, and the city defense army has 1,000 people. The guards belong to Cai Ying's private armed forces, and the city defense army belongs to the local security corps. Within the scope of Kengzhu City, Cai Ying can
He can mobilize these two troops at will. If he wants to go elsewhere, he can only bring his own bodyguards.
Deacon Wu, who had his hands tied behind his back, was brought to Jiang Nan's side.
"What on earth did he commit that made you go to great lengths to catch him?" Cai Ying pointed at Deacon Wu and asked.
"This man bribed the bandits from Funiu Mountain, secretly traveled to Xiaxi Town, Heitucheng, and assassinated Ding Kui, the legitimate son of the Protector of the Country. Ding Kui was the Right Guardsman of the Internal Security Department of the current dynasty, and he was also the only grandson of my Duke!"
Cai Ying was so shocked by Jiang Nan's words that she was speechless for a moment.
He knew very well who Ding Kui was, his son's younger brother. He also knew a little bit about the relationship between the Ding and Jiang families. Since the Jiang family and the Ding family had not been in contact for many years, the nobles of Shaodian Kingdom ignored Ding Kui.
The fact that he is Jiang Tong's grandson.
Jiang Nan turned around and said to Deacon Wu next to him: "Don't worry, I will send you back to the capital to be handed over to the Duke. Before that, no one can harm you. After I return, I will also plead with the Duke to let you go."
He will spare your life. Please tell me clearly who ordered you to murder Ding Kui?!"
Deacon Wu knelt down in front of Jiang Nan with a plop and shouted: "Sir, please be clear! Even if the villain has great courage, he would not dare to murder Ding Duhu. Yes, yes, it was City Lord Cai who hinted the villain to do it.
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Deacon Wu is a veteran spy of the Cao Kingdom. He has been lurking in the Shaodian Kingdom for many years. He got into the Kengzhu City Carriage and Horse Racing Shop more than 20 years ago. Because of his experience and tact in dealing with things, he was eventually appreciated by Cai Ying and promoted to...
deacon.
Originally, if Deacon Wu didn't want to tell, it would be difficult for Jiang Nan and the others to get the truth no matter how they interrogated him. However, Deacon Wu remembered the last words Poisonous Scorpion No. 5 said to him: "If this operation fails, you will be captured by the Ding family again."
, then you argue that Cai Ying was the instigator to provoke conflicts among the nobles of the Shaodian Kingdom, and it is best to let them fight and cause internal strife in the Shaodian State, and you can be considered as having made a contribution."
The reason why Deacon Wu shouted so loudly was to openly bite Cai Ying and make it difficult for Cai Ying to speak.
Even though Cai Jing is a wealthy man, he was so angry that he was so angry over the unexpected events again and again today that he was almost on the verge of madness.
He had never hinted to Deacon Wu at all, and Cai Ying had never even thought about plotting against Ding Kui. But now that one of his subordinates had revealed it in public, he was immediately shocked and shocked, and his nostrils were filled with smoke.
When Cai Ying saw that his two hundred personal guards had arrived, he sat on his horse and straightened his back and roared: "You vicious thief, how dare you spit blood on others, come on! Take it down quickly!"
Cai Ying's personal guards drew their weapons one after another and were about to step forward and snatch away Deacon Wu.
Jiang Nan drew out his long sword, and a foot-long crimson sword light erupted from the tip of the sword. A pair of dark red full-body armor appeared out of thin air on his body.
The personal guards of the Jiang family also drew out their long swords in unison, and red sword light of different lengths erupted from the tip of the sword. The difference was that they were wearing metal armor.
Cai Ying and his guards froze in action.
What kind of rhythm is this? There are all shield-breaking knights on the opposite side, and the terrifying fearless knights alone. If there is a fight, can my own people last for five minutes?
The Cai family is a hereditary viscount. There are examples of ancestors in the family who have broken through to the fearless knight. However, Cai Ying is forty-two years old and has only cultivated fighting spirit to the late stage of the shield-breaking knight. The bottleneck of the fearless knight is unknown in this life.
Looking at the dark red armor on Jiang Nan's body, Cai Ying felt bitter in her mouth and began to calm down.
What else could he do? With the Cai family's considerable financial resources in Kengzhu City, they could only recruit more than forty shield-breaking knights. Together with the sword-fighting knights and trainee knights, Cai Ying could barely scrape together a two-hundred-person knight bodyguard.
Just the sixty shield-breaking knights in front of the door and on the wall can disperse his personal guards. You must know that there are more than a hundred knights in the chariot and horse shop, even the fighting blade knights inside. In a fearless knight
Under his leadership, it would be easy to kill his own people.
"How dare you! Cai Ying, my Duke asked me to bring you a message, 'If you dare to murder my grandson, don't blame my soldiers for attacking you!'" Jiang Nan pointed at Cai Ying with a long sword.
This sentence really frightened Cai Ying. He had no doubt that Jiang Nan would fake Jiang Tong's words. No personal guard of any family would dare to pretend to be the head of the family and issue a declaration of war.
Jiang Tong indeed confessed to Jiang Nan and found out who was the mastermind behind the scenes, so he said this to the person.
Ding Kui's name, following Jiang Nan's words, quickly spread to the ears of the nobles of the Shaodian Kingdom.
Aristocratic war is the most bottomless war in the Shenyuan Continent. It can be a war between domestic nobles, or a war between nobles between countries. As long as one side has sufficient reasons, it can be started.
Domestic aristocratic wars can be initiated only if the reasons are approved by the Senate; aristocratic wars between countries must be approved by the Senates of both sides. As long as one party does not approve, it will evolve into a national war.
Why is there no bottom line in noble war? Because there are no restrictions on the number of troops participating in the war. You can mobilize all the subjects of your territory to participate in the war, you can also spend money to hire troops, invite friendly nobles to send troops, and even the troops of nobles from other countries.
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In addition to the regular armies of various countries, all local legions formed by nobles can participate in the war. As long as you are strong enough, have enough face, and recruit enough nobles, you can form an army of more than one million for conquest.