Early in the morning, news came from Geling City, news that made people excited instantly.
General Lin Ye, the Protector General of the Three Norths, was attacked when he entered the capital.
The one who attacked this team was actually the protective black knight from Shangyang Palace.
As soon as the news reached Geling City, it was like boiling a large pot of water, and the entire Geling City was boiling.
Originally, the Three North Protector General had become the focus of attention here in Geling City since he left Yunzhou.
Intentionally or unintentionally, it seems that many people are always spreading all the news about this general. Now that he has been attacked, the news will naturally spread faster.
Some people say it's because he is too presumptuous and has been preaching that the Tianshui Cliff Massacre could not have been solved without him, and that without him it would have been impossible to catch the real culprit.
That's why Shangyang Palace Fengyu Temple sent people to greet him. They said they were greeting him, but in fact they were there to beat him.
As a result, the people from Fengyu Temple saw Lin Ye, and many protective black knights gathered from all directions, and directly launched an attack on Lin Ye's team.
The Guardian Black Cavalry was extremely good at fighting, and it seemed that he had no reservations from the very beginning, just rushing to kill all Lin Ye's team.
You must know that the people from Feng Yuguan are still in Lin Ye's team, and it is even more strange for the black knight to come out like this.
In the afternoon, another news reached Geling City.
I don't know where the protective black cavalry came from, but they were able to fight, but they were counterattacked by the elite of the personal barracks brought by Lin Ye.
The result after hundreds of black cavalry charged was that they were beaten to pieces by a counter-charge from the personal barracks.
When it was getting dark, there was new news in Geling City.
It is said that the reason why the Shangyang Palace Protector Black Cavalry attacked the Sanbei Protector General was because he couldn't stand Lin Ye's publicity.
The Tianshui Cliff Massacre was actually used by Lin Ye as a means of showing off, which angered the people in Shangyang Palace.
But the people in Geling City didn’t believe this. They even thought that only a fool would believe this news.
Lin Ye is almost at Geling City. Will the people in Shangyang Palace cause such a big case? Even if they want to do it, they won't do it at this time and in this place.
Moreover, they dared to directly wear the uniforms of the Protector Black Cavalry to attack the Guard General's team. This kind of thing would be impossible even if everyone in Shangyang Palace had their heads kicked by donkeys.
However, early the next morning, news came again, saying that the personal battalion of the Protector General had come to Geling City with the body of the black knight.
Someone calculated the time and found that if the guard general's team arrived day and night, they would be able to reach Geling in the afternoon.
As soon as the news spread, countless people came to the city gate to wait.
Before noon, the Beiwu Gate to the north of Geling was completely surrounded.
According to convention, officials returning to Beijing from the north to report on their duties have to go through Beiwumen, so the people came here early to wait.
They were not disappointed until the afternoon, and they saw the cavalry of the Sanbei Protectorate.
This is the first time people from Geling City have seen cavalry with murderous intent.
The people of Geling City have been at peace for too long, and it has been almost twenty years since they last felt the breath of killing.
But that time, ordinary people did not feel the murderous spirit very clearly, because the rebellion did not involve the life and death of ordinary people.
"Oh My God......"
When some people saw the cowardly cavalry entering the city, they couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
Bloodstains could still be seen on the armor of those soldiers, but the bloodstains did not scare anyone. What scared them was that every soldier had a human head tied to his belt.
That scene immediately made people's scalp numb.
When the cavalry of the Cowardly Army enters the city, it is customary to dismount and walk.
So the moment they walked through the long street, people could see clearly that every one of them was covered in blood, and each one had a hideous human head on their belt.
"Too cruel."
"Yes, didn't you say that the most powerful cavalry in the world is the black cavalry guarding the Shangyang Palace?"
"You know what the heck, although the Protector Black Cavalry is powerful, it has never actually been on the battlefield. The Guard General's personal soldiers followed him from Northern Xinjiang to Guzhu, and from Guzhu to Dongdong.
Bo, the evil spirit who went to Lou Fan to kill, who is not killing people like hemp?"
"Yes, I also heard that those who kill less than a hundred people are not qualified to be the personal soldiers of the General Protector."
The people talked a lot, but no one dared to speak loudly.
Those cowardly soldiers who walked into Geling City silently brought fear to the people of the capital for the first time.
"Why don't you see the General Protector?"
Someone in the crowd asked.
"Yes, the soldiers have to walk into the city, but the Protector General has the privilege of riding a horse in the capital."
"Did you see it?"
"No, I haven't seen anyone wearing the clothes of the Protector General."
"Do you see those horses in the back?"
"I saw it, I was scared to death."
The common people saw it, and it was obviously different from the war horses that came in behind the cowardly army.
Those were the war horses of the black knights guarding the teachings. Each war horse also carried a headless corpse on its back.
Many onlookers exclaimed, and some were so frightened that they turned their heads away and did not dare to look any further.
All the blood on those corpses had been drained, and the broken necks were white. The flesh was turned over and the bones were exposed. The timid ones would be too frightened to look at them again after just one glance.
Among the crowd, Xu Xinshu's face became even more ugly. She stared at the cavalry of the cowardly army passing by, then turned around and left silently.
An hour later, she returned to Shiqiao Villa.
Wang Luoshen was standing in the yard at this moment, feeling the still hot wind in September.
No matter how hot it is, his heart is not calm. There is an evil fire in his heart. If it is not vented, it will burn him out.
The servants seemed to sense the abnormality of the father-in-law, and they all stayed far away, but even if they hid far away, they still didn't dare to let out any air.
At this moment, Wang Luoshen suddenly clapped out with his palm.
With a bang, the lotus pond and rockery disappeared in an instant.
After the violent smoke and dust, there was a heavy rain, which was the lotus pond water that was blown away by his palm.
Xu Xinshu walked silently through the chaotic rain, walked slowly to Wang Luoshen, then lifted her robe and knelt down.
"My lord, my subordinates are not doing things well, please punish me."
Lin Ye's team was attacked, but it had nothing to do with her.
The strategy she came up with was to mobilize the protective black cavalry in Jingzhou to attack Lin Ye's team.
Those protective black knights have been infiltrated by the Wang family a long time ago, and most of them are junior members of the Wang family.
Originally, this team was of great use to the Wang family, but because it was exposed in Yunzhou, this team should not be used in the future.
Shangyang Palace would inevitably secretly investigate the black knights guarding the teachings in each branch, so Wang Luoshen ordered that all the young Dengke officers from all over the country be transferred out and lurk in Jingzhou.
This time, Xu Xinshu wanted to use Xiao Dengke to do it again and cause the conflict between Shangyang Palace and the court to break out.
One of the purposes of Wang Fenglin's plan was to make the emperor no longer have any doubts about Shangyang Palace.
Putting aside other things, Wang Fenglin actually succeeded for this purpose.
Didn't the emperor want Xin Yanque to be the headmaster first and then ascend to the throne of the emperor? Then before that, Shangyang Palace should be dismantled.
He did not hesitate to expose Xiao Dengke, making the emperor suspicious of Shangyang Palace, and thus making Xin Yanque's so-called centralization of power in the future come to nothing.
After such a big thing happened, the emperor still refused to punish Shangyang Palace, simply because the master leader was still there.
Xu Xinshu's plan was to use the protective black cavalry to ambush Lin Ye to intensify the conflict and make the people begin to doubt Shangyang Palace.
Now, it's done, but it has nothing to do with her.
"what happened?"
Wang Luoshen asked in a deep voice.
Xu Xinshu knelt there and replied: "After I left Geling, I went to mobilize Xiao Dengke's people and prepared to ambush and assassinate Lin Ye south of Suxian County. Even if I can't kill him, I have to trap the people from Shangyang Palace."
"However, when I arrived at one of the hidden halls where Xiao Dengke was, and mobilized enough manpower to prepare for an ambush, another group of black cavalry actually took action."
She raised her head and looked at Wang Luoshen: "I didn't give the order at all. I didn't mobilize those black knights."
Wang Luoshen glanced at Xu Xinshu: "Where did the person get transferred from?"
Xu Xinshu replied: "I have sent people to various hidden halls in Jingzhou to see where the team is that is not respecting orders."
Wang Luoshen said: "If we can't find out, he probably isn't one of ours."
Of course Xu Xinshu had thought of this, but if Lin Ye directed and acted all of this, what was he trying to do?
Just trying to put Shangyang Palace on the edge of a knife?
The feudal official was ambushed on his way back to Beijing. No matter how special Shangyang Palace was, it was impossible not to make an explanation for this kind of thing.
"Continue to send people to investigate. If it is our people, then cut off the line."
Wang Luoshen said slowly: "If it was really Lin Ye who did it himself, it seems that the emperor used him to make the first blow to Geling, not against us, but against Shangyang Palace."
At the same time, Zhenyuan Palace.
The emperor sat there and looked at Lin Ye, who stood obediently at the door of the study like a child.
Standing there with him was Xin Yanque, the master of Fengyu Temple, who would become the master of Shangyang Palace in a few days.
"Tell me about it."
The emperor threw aside the memorial he was reviewing and was too lazy to read the memorial anymore. He just wanted to hear Lin Ye's explanation.
Lin Ye replied: "I am...a victim."
The emperor was slightly startled.
He looked at Lin Ye: "Huh?"
Lin Ye stood up straight and said with a serious face: "I also want to know what happened, and why the black knight guarding the Shangyang Palace attacked me."
Xin Yanque was also stunned. He turned his head and looked at Lin Ye with an expression that said, "What the hell are you doing?"
The forest leaves were unmoved.
"I request a thorough investigation."
Lin Ye lifted his robe and knelt down: "In the important place of Jingzhou, outside the imperial capital, the black knights guarding Shangyang Palace are so blatantly trying to attack and kill court officials without any cover-up. Why are they so rampant?"
Xin Yanque looked at Lin Ye: "What...are you talking about? Those black knights who are protecting the teachings are obviously not real."
Lin Ye said: "If the master of the temple says it is not true, then it must not be true, but Your Majesty, the people do not know that it is not true, so..."
The emperor said: "So, how do you think we should check?"
Lin Ye said: "Please ask your Majesty to investigate this case."
The emperor was silent for a moment and nodded: "Then let Xumi Pianruo go check it out."
Xumi Pianruo, who was standing aside, had a buzzing sound in his head, thinking that I had offended someone.
He quickly leaned over and said, "I just returned to Geling a few days ago and received His Majesty's decree. Zhan Ning's crime of dereliction of duty and corruption has not yet been concluded."
The emperor said: "Things have their own seriousness, I would rather put Weimo's case aside first."
Xumi Pianruo: "I... obey the order."
After he said the words "obey the decree", he couldn't help but look at Lin Ye, who still looked angry.
"His Majesty."
Lin Ye leaned over and said, "I want to go to Shangyang Palace to see the master."
The emperor asked: "You want to see the master? Do you want the master to give you an explanation in person?"
Lin Ye said: "Yes, I...why can't I ask the master to give me an explanation?"
The emperor waved his hand: "Go and run, I support you from the bottom of my heart."
Everyone in this room wanted to laugh, not to mention that those black knights were definitely not real. Even if they were real, they couldn't be sent by the real master.
The masters of the temple are here, but the general still wants to ask the real master for an explanation. That is really brave.
"I obey the decree."
Lin Ye stood up, turned his head and walked away with a long stride.
Not long after, another news broke out in Geling City, and the people rushed towards the Shangyang Palace Fengyu Temple.
They did not expect the general to protect the city at the city gate. At this time, he was standing alone outside Fengyu Temple, cursing in the street.