After receiving the news that the prince had been found out from the auditorium, the guards began to toss and turn, having trouble sleeping and eating.
On the one hand, facing the failure of the mission, they will be severely punished by the above. On the other hand, facing these people who are observing the academy and falling into the hands of Dongchang, they don’t know what to make.
"There is no need to break out. The people who are watching the academy will not betray us. However, if we want to rescue them, we have no chance of winning against the heavily prepared Daning Dusi." Qianhu, the guard, stopped.
He stopped walking and shook his head helplessly.
This person was Zhang Ping, the chief of the Baoding Guards. The one who asked him what to do was Sun Li, the deputy of the thousand households.
"If we can't rescue them, I still suggest that it would be more appropriate to find a suitable time and take the brothers lurking in the guard to leave Baoding City." Deputy Qianhu Sun Li said in a low voice.
"Are you afraid that the people who observe the academy will eventually betray us?"
"If it were someone else, my subordinates wouldn't be worried. But the person who found the prince and captured the Auditing Academy was the purple-clothed captain of Dongchang. We have to be careful about this person's abilities and methods. Keep him.
Qingshan is not afraid of running out of firewood. If all our forces in Baoding City are wiped out, it will not be the result the higher-ups want to see." Deputy Qianhu Sun Lidao.
"Captain Ziyi never leaves a way out when doing things. Before this operation against the Auditing Academy, we mobilized the Daning Dusi to control the entire Baoding City. Even if we want to leave, I'm afraid we won't be able to leave for a while.
Tell the brothers below, don't panic, stay calm. Don't mess up the position before Dongchang discovers us." Guardsman Qianhu Zhang Ping said slowly.
"Report..." A voice came from the gate. Immediately afterwards, the figure of a guard soldier hurriedly ran into the hall.
"Baoding Prefecture sent someone to deliver the order." The soldier hunched over, holding a piece of letter in both hands, and handed it forward.
Qianhu Zhang Pingyuan did not move, and nodded to Sun Li, the deputy Qianhu next to him.
Sun Li stepped forward, took the letter, and said to the soldier: "Okay, let's get down."
"Yes." The soldier responded, cupped his fists, took three steps back, then turned around and hurried away.
After opening the letter and reading a few lines, Deputy Qianhu Sun Li could not help but frown.
"What did Baoding Mansion say?" Zhang Ping from Qianhu on the side asked casually.
"Baoding Prefecture requires our guards and military attachés from more than 100 households to gather at the government office."
"The military attachés are gathering at the government office. Is the magistrate full of food?" Zhang Ping of Qianhu waved his hand disdainfully, "Ignore him."
"But, the people signing below are not just Baoding Prefecture." Deputy Qianhu said nervously.
"Is it the Daning Dusi? Even if it is the Daning Dusi, they have no right to dictate to our Baoding guards. We are directly under the Baoding Prefecture and do not belong to any guard post of the Daning Dusi." Qianhu Zhang Ping snorted coldly.
"It's not Daning Dusi, it's Dongchang." Deputy Qianhu whispered and slowly handed over the letter.
"Dongchang?" Zhang Ping was startled and hurriedly took the letter.
At the bottom of the letter, there are two lines of font. The top one is Baoding Prefecture, and the bottom one is Dongjishi Factory.
"Dongchang actually came to give orders to our guards. What do they want to do?" Zhang Ping of Qianhu gritted his teeth, and the order in his hand was gradually crushed into a ball.
"Did Dongchang discover something? Otherwise, arrange for the brothers to disband first and lurk among the people of Baoding in advance?" Deputy Qianhu Sun Li said nervously.
"No." Zhang Ping raised his right hand, "If Dongchang had discovered a problem, he would have brought Daning Dusi's troops over long ago. They may have done this to use the power of my guard army to do things for them. If so,
Let us go to the city gate to continue guarding, but it gives us a chance to escape. Gather all the military attachés from more than 100 households to the government office."
"What if Dongchang wants to catch us all in one go?" Deputy Qianhu Sun Li said in a low voice.
I don't know why, but he always has a bad feeling in his heart that a big disaster is coming.
"Even if it's a trap, we have to go. In this situation, what choice do we have? Dongchang is not Baoding Mansion. The consequences of disobeying orders is to be killed on the spot."
"Yes, my subordinates will gather all the military attaches now." Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Deputy Qianhu slowly walked out of the hall.
On the street leading to the government office, Duan Tianming and more than 20 Dongchang captains were already scattered around.
As long as all the military attachés of the guard army enter the government office compound, the Dongchang Colonel will tightly control the government office gate so that they will never come back.
In the government office hall, the prefect Li Huaigu had already gotten up from the ground and was placed in the seat opposite him by Xiao Chen.
The fragrant tea in front of him was steaming, but Li Huaigu didn't dare to pick it up casually and taste it carefully as usual.
Today, in front of Dongchang, I have completely lost the prefect's face. How can I still dare to act like a court official? How can I still have the nerve to pick up the fragrant tea on the table?
Xiao Chen ignored him and just picked up the hot tea and took a sip. He kept staring in the direction of the door, waiting for the other party's arrival.
The establishment of the Baoding Guard Army consists of two chief officers and deputy officers from Qianhu, followed by seven officers from Qianhu, for a total of nine military attachés.
According to the instructions of Qianhu Zhang Ping, everyone did not wear armor, but each wore matching military attaché uniforms, walked through the crowd and walked towards the government office.
The Baoding government office is still some distance away from the courtyard where the prince lives. Although the gate of the city is controlled by Daning Dusi, no one can enter or leave. But on the street in front of the government office, pedestrians are rushing around without being disturbed at all.
Busy with what you are doing.
"I don't know what happened over there at the Auditorium. The people from Daning Dusi controlled the area like an iron barrel."
"Who knows, the city gate is only accessible and cannot be exited. I'm afraid something big is going to happen to us in Baoding City."
"Aren't that group of people from hundreds of households guarding the army? What are they going to do?"
"Looking at the direction they are heading, it should be the Baoding government office. It is estimated that the guards will also take action."
"It should be a big operation."
"Why do you say that?"
"The two people at the front are Qian Hu from the guard army. We don't usually see people like this. Now they gathered together and walked towards the Baoding government office. It must be a joint operation between the government office and Daning Dusi.
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"Daning Dusi, who controls tens of thousands of troops, can he value the 'common soldiers' of the guards?"
"That's right. Apart from bullying the people, our guards in Baoding City have never accomplished any feats."
"Whatever, that's all a matter for the government. We ordinary people can just live our lives well."
"It's gone, it's gone. My wife's breakfast has been prepared and I'm going back to eat."
"Let's go, let's go, I'll go back too, let's go together."
Watching the military attache team of the guard gradually disappear from the street, the pointing people stopped talking and gradually dispersed.
At the gate of the government office, two government officials holding water and fire sticks stood on the side of the gate, looking at the crowd in the distance and chatting wordlessly.
"What happened to our Baoding Mansion? People from Daning Dusi controlled all the city gates." A government official said.
"Who knows, is there a conflict between Daning Dusi and the guards?"
"The guard army is directly under our government office. A conflict with the guard army means a conflict with the government office. But in the past few days, I haven't seen anyone from Daning Dusi come to the door. Have you seen it?"
"No." The officer shook his head, "However, this guy from Dongchang came here twice. I don't know what the captain in purple is going to do. He hasn't seen him out for a long time."
"Aren't the people who left just now the people from Dongchang who came with Colonel Ziyi?"
"Yes, all the followers have left, but the captain in purple has not left, so I feel strange."
"Maybe the prefect will host a banquet for him. Last time I bought wine for the prefect, a jar of wine cost ten taels of silver. I really don't know what the taste of wine will be in your mouth."
"You also want to drink the prefect's wine? You have a beautiful idea."
"hey-hey..."
While the two were talking, a group of nine military attachés from the guard army had arrived three feet away from the gate.
"Stand still, stand still." The yamen official who spoke first quickly straightened up and closed his mouth.
