During the melee, Lu Fengtai saw through the cell door that Nie Zhongyou was striding towards this side with a head in his hands, majestic.
His former life and death comrade beheaded his current boss... This surprised him.
Lu Fengtai knew that Nie Zhongyou was ruthless, but he was never so ruthless. He never expected that he would do such a thing today.
At this moment, what he was thinking was that this was too big a fuss. What would happen if the Luzhou Army outside the city mutinied...
Then, a loud roar came.
"I'm here too!"
Outside the prison, Liu Jinsuo and Lin Zi led more than a dozen imperial troops to charge forward, and when they encountered the Zhang family guards, they cut them down. Liu Jinsuo yelled, and charged left and right with his spear, which was really fierce.
Nie Zhongyou held He Ding's head high and shouted: "Nie Zhongyou, the Marquis of Yu, the commander in front of the Forbidden Army Palace, has been ordered to investigate carefully and capture these enemy bandits for me!"
But the Luzhou army in the courtyard surrounded Nie Zhongyou, looking at each other in disbelief, neither obeying Nie Zhongyou's orders nor daring to take action.
In the cell, Li Xia reminded: "Lu Dutou..."
Lu Fengtai finally came to his senses and ordered the Luzhou army outside to capture the Zhang family guards.
He has always had prestige in the military. Although his official position is not very high, he can still control the situation.
After He Dingyi's death, with both the imperial army as a deterrent and Dutou holding the market, the soldiers in Duyamen finally obeyed the order and the situation stabilized.
At this time, eleven of the thirty Zhang family guards were dead. Seeing that something was wrong, the remaining ones abandoned their swords and surrendered one after another. Two of them were about to surrender, but because Liu Jinsuo had no time to withdraw their guns, these two were innocent.
The ground was stabbed to death by this rude man...
Lu Fengtai panted, but immediately ran to Nie Zhongyou and shouted: "Are you crazy?! How dare you kill my commander..."
Nie Zhongyou said: "Then how do you think today will end?"
Lu Fengtai was silent for a moment.
He originally thought that since Zhang Rongzhi was dead, He Ding should first control the Zhang family guards if he had any sense of loyalty, but he did not expect that He Ding would kill him immediately.
That has nothing to do with state affairs, which shows that He Ding only wants to please the Zhang family.
"Aren't you afraid of changes in the Luzhou Army?"
"You are here, and there is a commander in the military camp outside the city. How can killing a commander change anything?" Nie Zhongyou said: "Li Xia and I have analyzed this matter beforehand."
"Li Xia?"
Lu Fengtai turned around and saw that the young man was carefully wiping the blood on his sword with a cloth while talking to the Zhang family guard who was being held down.
When he saw Nie Zhongyou waving, Li Xia walked towards this side.
"These Mongolian guards from the north will be examined. We will take away one or two who are familiar with the situation in the north, and leave the rest to Lu Dutou. I just asked, they are all slaves."
"Okay." Nie Zhongyou said.
Li Xia said: "Where does that Meng man live? Are there any people he brought with him in the residence? Send people to kill them all or control them, lest we just cross the Huaihe River and get the news to the north."
"good."
Li Xia pointed at He Ding's head and said: "Lu Dutou, get rid of your boss's confidant, control the soldiers, and control the situation."
Lu Fengtai did not answer, as if he was angry with Li Xia, he cut off his clothes and bandaged the wound with a piece of cloth.
Nie Zhongyou gave a rare smile, handed the head to someone else, and stretched out his hand to bandage it.
"Do you know where Gao Changshou has been hiding?"
"where?"
Nie Zhongyou said: "There is a big house in the south of the city. It was built by He Ding. He raised three fans in it. Gao Changshou has been hiding in this house from beginning to end. He Ding never dreamed of the person he wanted to find.
It's in his villa. It's a pity that you searched the city desperately, but you can't find it."
Lu Fengtai was silent for a while, then spat a mouthful of bloody phlegm on the ground.
"How does this end?"
"Li Xia just said it, how are you going to end it?" Nie Zhongyou said: "This matter is not big or small. Just say that the imperial army from Lin'an Prefecture took over your commander-in-chief.
Even if the traitor kills him, there is nothing you can do."
Lu Fengtai was speechless and turned his head to scan the faces of his soldiers.
"I have no way to explain to the rulers and envoys."
"Before I came out, the superiors told me that Yuan Jie from Huaiyou is looking for a way to be transferred to Jiangnan West Road. He will not hold you accountable."
"Why?"
"He is preparing to escape to the south of the Yangtze River. It's better to do less than to do more."
Lu Fengtai was stunned again, and suddenly felt a little discouraged...
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The next day, Yuan Jie, deputy envoy of the Huaixi system and training envoy of the Luzhou regiment, returned to Luzhou City.
For a long time, the "Jiedushi" Lu Fengtai mentioned was this person. Although Yuan Jie's official position was not as high as that of Jiedushi, this is the style of the Song Dynasty nowadays. Every military commander would be called "Taiwei".
, whenever a high-ranking official greets him, he says “Mr.
Yuan Jie was less than fifty years old at the time, with beautiful appearance and quite majestic appearance. As soon as he sat up, his aura of being a high-ranking official was heart-wrenching.
"What happened?"
Lu Fengtai hurriedly saluted, made a panicked look, and reported: "The Zhang family from the north sent a man named Zhang Rongzhi. This man asked Commander He to search for several Dali fugitives for him. Commander He then sent me to do it and told me that this
It's what you mean by Jiezhi..."
"That's nonsense." Yuan Jie chuckled and said displeasedly: "How could the Song Dynasty officials and troops be assigned by foreign enemies? How dare they be so bold."
"Yes." Lu Fengtai said: "There happened to be a group of Imperial Guards passing by Luzhou on official business. The leader was Nie Zhongyou, the Marquis of Yu, the former Sidu of the Imperial Army Palace. When Nie Zhongyou heard about this, he beheaded Zhang Rongzhi and Commander He."
After hearing this, Yuan Jie showed a righteous and awe-inspiring look on his face and said: "It is indeed a serious crime for He Ding to make friends with the enemy. But Yuhou, the capital of the imperial army, dared to kill the general of the Luzhou army and used lynching. It is also an unforgivable crime. You
Why not capture it and wait until the imperial court reports it to the public?"
Lu Fengtai said: "In the chaos, a low-level official was also injured, and it was really impossible to stop him. Moreover, Nie Zhongyou took out the warrant, which seemed to have a lot of background. His business trip was originally for the Central Government... Jia Shuxiang
destiny."
At this time, the words "Jia Shuxiang" came into his ears, and a wave of emotion flashed in Yuan Jie's eyes.
He twirled his beard and pondered, and in the end it seemed that he couldn't bear it anymore, so he snorted and cursed in front of his subordinates.
"He acts recklessly and commits treason and chaos to the country."
In the past, Lu Fengtai would have been impressed by Yuan Jiezhi's upright demeanor even if he just glanced at Yuan Jie from a distance.
But today he was finally close, but there was another ray of disappointment in his heart.
Li Xia analyzed the information given by Nie Zhongyou... The Yuan Jie envoy asked He Ding to hunt down Gao Changshou and hand it over to the Mongols. It was more trouble than less trouble. But as long as the matter got serious and the person was dead, he would still
It would be better to have one less thing than one more thing.
Sure enough, in the end, he just cursed in such a sanctimonious way and settled the matter.
Anyway, Yuan Jieshi was not in Luzhou when the incident occurred, so it had nothing to do with him; anyway, he was preparing to be transferred to Jiangnan, so Huaixi had nothing to do with him.
Thinking about this, Lu Fengtai lowered his head, thinking of Mr. Du who guarded Luzhou back then, and couldn't help but feel sore eyes.
In my ears, I heard Yuan Jie sighing deeply and saying with a tone of concern for the country and the people: "Let us report this matter truthfully. There are soldiers below colluding with foreign invaders, and the superiors have the power to act arbitrarily and wantonly. What can I do about the state's affairs? What can I do...
...Since He Ding is dead and you have always been able to do things well, I would like to offer you the position of commander, are you willing?"
"This is a humble position, and I am willing to die for the sake of the emperor!"
Lu Fengtai hurriedly knelt down and knocked heavily on the ground. When he raised his head again, his face was filled with tears...