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Chapter 889 Yuan Zhong is in despair
Thanks to the heroic performance of Su Yao and others, this surprise attack came and went quickly.

The post station behind him was still burning fiercely, but the battle in front of him was already coming to an end, and it was time to clean up the battlefield and interrogate the prisoners.

As a result, before Su Yao could ask any questions, several captives burst into tears as soon as they were brought up:

"General, please spare my life, General, please spare my life!"

"You guys have been deceived too!"

"Oh? You got cheated?"

Su Yao looked coldly at the captives kneeling on the ground begging for mercy, shook off the blood beads on his spear, and sneered:
"Then tell me, who ordered you to assassinate this general?"

The captives looked at each other, and finally a man who looked like the leader spoke tremblingly:
"Replying to the general, it was Zhang Meng, the captain of Pei State! He lied to us that he was here to wipe out a group of bandits, and he also promised to reward each of us 5,000 yuan after the mission was accomplished."

"fart!"

Dian Wei kicked the man down:
"What kind of bandit can live in this government-owned post station? If you don't behave yourself, I will chop you to pieces right now!"

The man was so frightened that he fell to the ground, shaking like a sieve, and hurriedly changed his words:

"General, please spare my life. General, please spare my life. I dare not hide anything! Captain Zhang said that an imperial envoy has come from the capital."

"Imperial envoy?" Su Yao narrowed his eyes slightly, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.

"Yes." The man swallowed and explained tremblingly: "Captain Zhang said that the imperial envoy came to seize the power of the prime minister, and he also wanted to promote some new policies and investigate the illegal activities in the county in recent years."

"If we don't want to be purged and beheaded when we come back, we have no choice but to strike first."

"God has mercy on us, we really didn't know that this imperial envoy was you, the general!"

"If we knew that we were going to go against the general, we wouldn't dare to do it even if we had ten times the courage!"

This is indeed true.

General Su Yao's reputation spread far and wide, and his miraculous achievements and performance had long been passed on by word of mouth among the people. Few ordinary soldiers now have the courage to confront the general.

Therefore, Zhang Meng never mentioned anything about Su Yao.

This made the soldiers who discovered the truth feel extremely regretful.

"Huh, what a good plan."

"But even if it wasn't me who came, murdering the imperial envoy is still a crime of treason. If you guys perform your duties conscientiously on weekdays, why should you be afraid of the imperial envoy coming to investigate?"

"Come on, take these scum out and chop them up. Let's go meet this audacious Pei State Prime Minister."

Following Su Yao's order, several captives instantly turned pale, collapsed to the ground, and were roughly dragged away by the soldiers.

After a while, a few screams were heard in the distance, and then everything returned to silence, leaving only the crackling sound of the burning post station.

The next day, at the prime minister's residence in Pei State, it was three o'clock in the night.

Yuan Zhong tossed and turned on the couch, unable to fall asleep. The occasional chirping of insects outside the window made the night seem even darker.

Unable to sleep, Yuan Zhong simply got up, put on his clothes, and paced back and forth in the room, trying to calm the tension in his heart.

The capital city of Xiangcheng (now Huaibei City) was only a day's ride by fast horse from the ambush post. According to the time, there should be news by now.

There is still no news now, could something have happened?

As if to confirm his guess, there was a sudden and urgent knock on the door.

"Who? What's going on?!"

"Prime Minister, it is my humble servant, Xue Liang."

"But there is good news ahead?"

Yuan Zhong opened the door in a hurry, only to see Xue Liang, pale as a ghost, kneeling on the ground with a thud.

"Prime Minister, something terrible has happened!" Xue Liang's voice was trembling, "The plan has failed. Captain Zhang and his men have been wiped out." "What?!" Yuan Zhong seemed to be struck by lightning. He staggered back several steps and knocked over the table behind him.

"How can this be?!"

"Didn't you say he sent over a thousand elite soldiers? How could he fail against a hundred people?!"

Xue Liang rested his forehead on the ground, and said in a tearful voice, "According to the fleeing soldiers, the great general's power is unpredictable. Captain Zhang was surrounded right after he set the fire, and he couldn't even hold out for an hour. Now the great general is leading his men all the way, and the counties along the way have changed their flags. I'm afraid they will soon reach the outskirts of the capital."

Yuan Zhong's legs went limp and he fell onto the couch. He should have thought of this long ago. How could the killing god who could take the head of a general in a million-man army as easily as taking something out of his pocket fall into the trap so easily?

"Go and invite Captain Chen!" Yuan Zhong suddenly grabbed Xue Liang's sleeve, "Ask him to mobilize all the soldiers in the city to defend the city!"

still have a chance.

In the midst of the crisis, Yuan Zhong's mind became clearer.

Now that the plan has been exposed, there is no time to hesitate.

General Su Yao has only a hundred or so cavalrymen. Even if he recruits some garrisons from other counties along the way, he still has nearly ten thousand soldiers in his own capital. Even if he doesn't try to wipe out Su Yao, he can at least buy him some time.

That's right, buy time.

Are you kidding? Huangfu Song’s tens of thousands of troops are in the neighboring county, and Yuan Zhong didn’t expect to defeat Su Yao here.

What he had to do now was to take advantage of the chaos and escape, fleeing to the south to avoid that killer.

For a moment, there was chaos in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

The servants were running around packing up their belongings, and the ladies were awakened from their dreams and burst into tears.

Li, Yuan Zhong's wife, with her hair in disarray and her makeup smudged with tears, tugged at Yuan Zhong's sleeves, her voice trembling:
"Master, what should we do? Su Yao has a bad reputation. We are afraid that..."

Yuan Zhong fiercely shook off her hand and shouted angrily: "Cry! Cry! You only know how to cry! What's the point of crying now! Hurry up and pack up and run!"

Under Yuan Zhong's urging, the Yuan family did not have time to take too many things with them, so they hurriedly ran out of the east gate with torches, escorted by a few personal soldiers.

I have to say that Yuan Zhong's movements were quite quick.

The news of Su Yao's siege had not yet spread to the city, and most of the people were still in a deep sleep.

Yuan Zhong and his family rode in a carriage, galloping on the dark and wide road. As long as they reached the city gate and escaped, the current crisis would be largely resolved.

It was pitch dark and he didn't believe Su Yao could find his location accurately.

By the time they finish the siege, I'm afraid they will have already entered Shouchun City.

No, Shouchun is still too close and too dangerous.

No matter how you look at it, Yuan Gonglu doesn't look like he can stop the general.

It is still better to go further south, passing Danyang and then going to Kuaiji, which will be safer.

Yuan Zhong thought to himself that he seemed to have escaped.

However, he did not expect that at the intersection approaching the east gate, he would run into Xue Liang who was supposed to be waiting for him there.

"What's going on?" Yuan Zhong stood up from the carriage and asked loudly, "Didn't I tell you to take your men and wait at the East Gate? Why did you come here by yourself?"

Facing Yuan Zhong's urgent questioning, Xue Liang revealed an expression that was uglier than crying: "It's over, it's all over!"

"Captain Chen was shot dead by the general on the top of the city wall. His deputy general has already ordered the city to surrender."

"What did you say?!"

Yuan Zhong’s eyes went dark and he fell off the carriage with a thud.

(End of this chapter)