Jia Xu looked worriedly at the man whose expression he couldn't see clearly.
He knew the relationship between father and son. Some people would believe it if they said they were father and son.
In the past few months, he had seen the black-armored general carrying his sleeping son back to his room countless times.
When he passed by him in the corridor, his face was expressionless, but his ears were red.
Jia Xu was worried that Xie Lige would lose his composure.
He said, "… … General!"
Xie Lige raised his hand to stop Jia Xu from continuing. A calm voice came from under his palm, "Pass down the order.
"Close the city.
The others will search outside the city. Fengxian will definitely leave clues on the way. "
"Yes!" The soldier immediately replied.
Then he took his leave to inform the others. All the generals obeyed the order.
Some soldiers were left to guard the city gates. The rest went to the forest outside the city to search.
After a series of orders,
Xie Lige raised his head and looked at Jia Xu. He glanced at the latter's face and smiled.
He smiled and said, "Sir, are you worried that I will lose my composure?"
Jia Xu saw that Xie Lige's eyes were clear and knew that he was thinking too much. The latter was very clear-headed.
When he heard this, he couldn't help but sigh. "I'm thinking too much."
"Ha?" Xie Lige raised his eyebrows. "How do you know that I won't lose my composure?"
"General?" Jia Xu frowned.
Xie Lige leaned against the back of the chair and habitually tapped the back of the chair with his finger.
He said playfully, "Sir, you are so smart. Why are you pretending? Fengxian is young and can't see the details. You can't possibly know who the culprit is."
Jia Xu saw that Xie Lige was silent for a moment and said, "General, do you know the consequences of exposing this layer of paper?"
They all knew that the cause of this matter was not Emperor Han Ling, but the eunuchs.
The ones who borrowed military power were those insatiable fellows.
Jia Xu knew that the latter's actions had touched Xie Lige's bottom line.
He didn't say anything to stop him. Instead, he looked at the seat of honor very seriously.
Xie Lige looked straight into Jia Xu's eyes.
He raised his eyebrows and said, "So what?
Can he, the Emperor, attack us? "
In the end, even if the Emperor attacked, he would not be afraid. The Emperor's power was weak and could not suppress the surrounding warlords. Xie Lige wanted to save this big man, not the big man of the Liu family. He did not care how many Emperors he replaced. To Jia Xu, the people of this mountain and river were the most important.
To Xie Lige, a few eunuchs who were only favored by the Emperor were nothing but clowns.
Jia Xu's mouth twitched when he heard this. He felt helpless at Xie Lige's words. The Emperor was counting on this person to guard Liangzhou. How could he attack? No matter how muddle-headed Emperor Han Ling was, he would not do something like destroy his own walls.
"The general is right." He couldn't argue with the shameless behavior of the person in front of him, so he simply ignored the topic.
Outside the city, the crowd was bustling.
A group of soldiers in black armor passed through the city walls into the forest outside the city. They kept looking for something with their heads lowered. The people quickly scattered. As long as they saw something, they would immediately report back. A steady stream of information was sent to the general's residence in the city.
Xie Lige looked at the information that the soldiers continuously sent over. He closed his eyes and listened to the soldiers narrate what they had seen. After a while, he dismissed the soldiers. His mind was constantly adjusting the information he had received. A moment later, he opened his eyes.
At the same time, Jia Xu, who had been frowning all this time, showed a smile of sudden understanding.
Their gazes met in the air. The similar tacit understanding allowed them to immediately understand each other's thoughts. Jia Xu smiled slightly and said, "It seems that the general also understands."
Xie Lige snorted coldly. He looked outside the city and said, "I underestimated these people. They are usually very rash, but now they have come up with such a scheme."
If the target of the scheme was not him, Xie Lige couldn't help but sigh at the other's meticulousness. Just by paying a small price, they could cause him to encounter such a large problem. Step by step, they had calculated the situation of the Great Han. From the Emperor's indifference to the greed of the eunuchs, the subordinates doing their own thing, and the indescribable suffering of the border generals. The person who came up with this scheme had a terrifying grasp of the human heart.
The cause of the entire incident was the resentment of the Qiang people towards their leader being killed on the battlefield. Some of the people loyal to the Qiang leader bribed the eunuchs favored by Emperor Ling of Han and sent them all kinds of gold, silver, and jewels. The eunuchs were greedy by nature and naturally agreed to everything. They already had power in their hands and the Emperor trusted them very much. Naturally, they could use underhanded means to obtain military power from a border general.
The Qiang people were also waiting to see what happened. When they saw the messenger from the capital take out the General's residence in a panic, they immediately understood that the messenger had failed in his mission. They followed the messenger to the relay station, killed the messenger with one blow, and then hid, waiting for the father and son from the General's residence to come over after hearing the rumors in the city.
As expected, Lü Bu, who was worried about his father's reputation being damaged, came over.
They immediately began the next step of the plan. They indeed lured the messenger to the outside of the city and used this opportunity to capture him.
As if to verify Xie Lige's thoughts, a soldier at the door came to report. As soon as he entered, he said, "Bad news, general, the young general has been taken away by the Qiang people."
Jia Xu and Xie Lige looked at each other. Just as they had expected, the entire incident was caused by the Qiang people.
Xie Lige said savagely, "These people are courting death!"
Although he already knew of the Qiang people's plan, when it really happened, Xie Lige still wanted to kill these reckless people.
Jia Xu frowned at the side and was in a very bad mood.
"General."
"Men, order the Cangyun Army to prepare and follow this general to the foreign territory outside the city."
Xie Lige coldly stood up and ordered the soldiers below him. His eyes were filled with suppressed anger. His expression was cold, but his hands seemed like they were about to crush the chair in his hands.
Jia Xu watched as Xie Lige left the room with a gloomy expression and a murderous aura. After hesitating for a while, he finally spoke up to stop him and silently followed behind him.
The group of people quickly fought their way to the martial arts field outside the city. Because they knew the news of the Little General, Guo Si knew that it would not be of much use to continue searching. Thus, he led the Cangyun Army back here and waited for Xie Lige's next order.
The training grounds were silent.