Within the Ningguo Manor's Xuancheng County Yamen, all the gentry in the Ningguo Manor who had a close relationship with the Donglin Party had gathered.
Qian Qianyi's face was ashen. He had planned everything out, but he never expected Yang Jing to strike first.
The gentry Old Master Wang glanced sideways at Qian Qianyi and snorted coldly."Lord Qian, we spent so much money and effort to help you work with Roaming King Li Zicheng, but this is not what we wanted.”
"In just one night, Nanling County has fallen into the hands of evil people. You have to give us an explanation for this.”
As soon as Old Master Wang finished speaking, the other gentry in the hall echoed.
"That's right. You said that you wanted to offer Li Zicheng five million taels of gold and silver and beg him to send troops to support us. Now that we've taken the money, where is Li Zicheng?”
"Could it be that Lord Qian and that Roaming King are working together to scam us?”
Qian Qianyi's expression turned even uglier when he heard this. He was also worried that Li Zicheng would betray him and take the money without doing anything.
However, now was not the time to fuss over this matter. Yang Jing's army had already taken down Nanling County. With this person's temperament, he would definitely strike while the iron was hot and continue to move north with all his might.
Although he did not know exactly how many elite soldiers he had, he definitely had at least 200,000 soldiers.
200,000 soldiers was not a small number. The entire Ningguo Manor only had 20 soldiers, which was comparable to the strength displayed by Yang Jing.
If Li Zicheng's reinforcements did not arrive, it would be troublesome.
More importantly, why would Yang Jing suddenly send troops? Did he hear something?
Could it be that he knew about the cooperation between the Donglin Party and Li Zicheng?
Qian Qianyi felt that the arrangement was flawless. He could not figure out which part had gone wrong.
The intelligence from Liu Rushi was still being updated. She was definitely not the mole who exposed the plan.
Could it be that Yang Jing had already planned to send troops today?
Thinking of this, Qian Qianyi could not help but heave a sigh of relief.
It would be best if Yang Jing did not know about his cooperation with Li Zicheng.
Then, as long as Li Zicheng's 200,000-strong army could arrive on time, the strength of the Ming army would definitely soar. At that time, even if Yang Jing could send troops out of thin air, he would not be able to survive for long in the face of absolute strength.
Although they had lost a county, it did not affect the battle situation. Now that the 200,000 strong army in Ningguo Manor had gathered, they could send troops at any time.
The most important thing now was to quickly organize the troops and immediately send out troops to fight. They had to do their best to delay Yang Jing and wait for reinforcements to arrive.
Qian Qianyi ignored the noisy gentry in the hall. He directly raised his hand and summoned Li Dajun, the commander of Xuancheng County.
"General Li, quickly gather your troops and head to the Little Anshan Mountain in Jingxian.”
"Yes, sir!"
Li Da Jun cupped his fists and left.
The battle officially began.
An antique shop in Xin 'an County, Hui Prefecture.
Li Yun kicked open the door of the antique shop, and a group of soldiers behind him split into two lines and quickly ran in.
Seeing this, Boss Leong of the antique shop hurriedly dragged his fat body over.
"Milord, I wonder if you have something important to tell me today?”
As he spoke, he untied a bulging money bag from his waist and forcefully stuffed it into Li Yun's hand.
"My small shop is doing proper business. Sir, you have to investigate it clearly.”
Li Yun casually threw the money bag to a soldier behind him and waved his hand with a cold face.
The soldiers saw the gesture and nodded. They then scattered and rummaged through the antique shop.
As he rummaged through the items, he heard banging sounds from time to time, which made Boss Leong's heart ache.
Boss Leong waved his hands anxiously." Sir, sir, please be gentle. You must be gentle. These are all old treasures in my shop.”
"It's worth a lot of money."
Although he was anxious, he still carefully glanced at Li Yun's expression and did not dare to move.
A moment later, a soldier found a note in an antique vase. He quickly walked forward and handed the note to Li Yun.
"Milord, I found this."
Li Yun nodded, took the note, and glanced at it a few times. Then, he pulled out his big knife and placed the blade on Boss Leong's neck, who was frightened by the note.
Boss Leong, who had a sharp blade against his neck, knelt down.
"Sir, please spare my life. I'll confess, I'll confess everything!”
"Qian Qianyi forced me. He threatened my family with their lives.”
"He asked me to pass the news from the Hui Prefecture to the brothel in the city, the Warm Spring Pavilion.”
"Sir, I really have no choice. You must find out the truth, sir.”
He confessed so quickly?
Li Yun glanced at Boss Leong. He raised his saber and slapped Boss Leong's fierce-looking fat face twice threateningly.
These two slaps scared Boss Leong so much that his tears and snot flowed down his face.
Seeing that things were going smoothly, Li Yun no longer made things difficult for him. He raised his hand and sheathed his saber.
"Leave him alive."
As he spoke, Li Yun took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and handed it to the guard behind him.
"Find them one by one according to this list.”
"Be careful not to alert the enemy."
"In addition, the Grand Marshal has ordered that all of them be kept alive.”
"Yes, sir!"
The bodyguard took the name list and led a group of soldiers away.
Things were going much smoother than he had imagined.
In order not to arouse suspicion, Qian Qianyi had planted spies in the Hui Zhou government, mostly merchants with no backbone.
Only a few of them were professional spies that he had painstakingly trained. These people were indeed more sharp-tongued than Boss Leong and the others. A few of them even wanted to take poison and commit suicide the moment they found out that the matter had been exposed.
Fortunately, Yang Jing's personal guards were all professionally trained people, so they saw through their tricks at the first moment and successfully left Yang Jing alive.
It would be a lie to say that she was unperturbed when these twenty plus people were tied up and sent to Yang Jing and Liu Ru.
She didn't expect Yang Jing's men to move so quickly. It had only been half a day since she submitted the list.
In just half a day, Yang Jing had uprooted the intelligence network that Qian Qianyi had painstakingly set up.
This efficiency was not high!
After Yang Jing captured these people, he did not kill them. Instead, he kept them all for other purposes.
He beat her at her own game and ordered Liu Ru to continue to pass on the relevant news from the Hui Prefecture to Qian Qianyi.
Some of them were real and some were fake. It was to make Qian Qianyi let down his guard, to numb him, to let him know that the Donglin Party and Li Zicheng's plan was still going smoothly.
As such, Qian Qianyi would not report this to South Zhili's Yingtian side in a short period of time and request them to send reinforcements.
This bought Yang Jing a lot of time to prepare the gift for Li Zicheng's 200,000-strong army.
(Please, please, please! Please, please, please!
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