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On the contrary, the soldiers guarding the city were showing nervous expressions one by one at the moment, and some even stood on a high place and watched from afar.

Although Yangzhou Prefecture is located in the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River, there is no foreign invasion. It can be said that there has never been any war in the century of Taiping.

Under such circumstances, there is almost no need to worry about any sudden appearance of foreign enemies. It is precisely because of this that even though they sensed that there seemed to be a large group of people approaching, the soldiers guarding the city did not choose to close the city gate, but chose to wait and see.

Suddenly someone shouted loudly: "Here we come, everyone, take a look."

Hundreds of people came on horseback, and the speed was naturally quite fast.

At this time, Li Huan naturally played a guard of honor as an imperial envoy.

Before revealing their identities, perhaps some people could pretend to be unaware of Li Huan's identity.

But when Li Huan revealed his status as an imperial envoy, if there were any accidents, Li Huan could use his status as an imperial envoy to deal with him upright, if nothing else.

While the flags were fluttering, one after another the flags flew in the wind, and the letter of Li Huan's official position could be said to be majestic, especially surrounded by hundreds of royal guards, the scene was great.

As Li Huan and his party approached with the guard of honor as imperial envoys, they were naturally stunned by the people at the gate of the city.

For these people, most of them have never even seen their parents and officials, so why have they ever seen such a big scene of imperial guards of honor.

The Jin Yiwei who opened the way in front shouted loudly, and many people who were above the official road were obviously taken aback, and almost dodged aside immediately, for fear of blocking the imperial guard of honor.

Of course, although these Jin Yiwei who cleared the way looked like menacing gods, they didn't do much to the people who blocked the way, and they didn't even need to do anything.

A group of common people who hid on the side of the official road secretly looked at the large group of people roaring past them. Some people secretly looked up and saw a black mass of guards in fine clothes surrounded by several officials moving forward.

Because surrounded by Jin Yiwei, few people could see Li Huan, Chen Ke and others.

At this time, Li Huan was riding on the horse, looking at the approaching Yangzhou City, a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth and said: "Yangzhou City is here, send a few brothers to inform the Yangzhou Government Yamen."

Chen Ke heard the words and responded, Dang even sent a few guards in Jinyi to gallop towards the city of Yangzhou.

At this time, there was a dense darkness at the gate of the city, almost all of them were people who were slowly queuing up to enter the city.

Several city guards greeted them tremblingly, bowed to Li Huan and his party who had stopped, and said, "I have seen you, my lords."

Li Huan just glanced at the few people indifferently.

I don't know why, but when Li Huan glanced at them, the hearts of these officials jumped, and cold sweat even broke out on their foreheads.

In fact, Li Huan and his party had just fought with a group of desperadoes not long ago, and many of them were even stained with blood, so it could be said that the evil spirit was in full swing.

Not to mention the officials guarding the city, even the common people subconsciously hid away when they saw the blood stained on some Jin Yiwei's bodies, coupled with the invisible evil spirit.

One of the inspectors suppressed the fear in his heart and said tremblingly: "The little one will clear the city gate and make way for the adults."

Speaking of which, the inspector will order his subordinates to drive away a group of people who are blocking the gate of the city and entering the city.

Li Huan couldn't help frowning when he heard the words. Noticing the change in Li Huan's expression, Ma Ming took a step forward, looked down at the few gatekeepers with frightened faces and said, "Who gave you permission to drive away the people? How can you make these people go away?" Just enter the city first."

Ma Ming was naturally aware of Li Huan's purpose, they did not plan to enter the city immediately, otherwise they would not have sent someone to inform the officials of Yangzhou Prefecture.

The officials were stunned for a moment when they heard the words, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, there are so many people crowded at the gate of the city at this moment, it may not take a while to drive them away.

Especially once they are expelled, no one can guarantee that there will be any troubles. In case of another accident, they cannot bear the responsibility.

Fortunately, these people in front of them did not insist on clearing the people and making way for them, as they feared.

Because of the arrival of Li Huan and his party, so many people gathered at the gate of the city were somewhat chaotic. Fortunately, Ma Ming stopped these officials from driving the people away, otherwise there would be chaos.

Yangzhou government office.

A group of people who had been waiting for news from Xu Wei in the garden of the Xu family gathered in the mansion with red eyes.

In the huge meeting hall, the government office headed by Xu Lin and more than a dozen officials with names, surnames, grades and ranks are all fidgeting.

Xu Lin, who hadn't closed his eyes all night, looked quite tired, but at this moment, Xu Lin stared at Jia Yuan who had just rushed back and said: "Master Jia, I want you to contact Commander Pang, did Pang Hui ever Take people into the city?"

Jia Yuan's expression seemed to be a little bit wrong, and he said bitterly, "My lord, Pang Hui has indeed entered the city, but...but..."

Xu Lin frowned and said, "But what!"

Jia Yuan gritted his teeth and said, "But Pang Hui just brought dozens of personal soldiers."

With a bang, Xu Lin slapped the table with his palm, his face was full of anger and he said, "Pang Hui, is he going to sit on the wall and watch?"

According to Xu Lin's idea, Pang Hui should lead a part of the guards into the city, and then find an opportunity to repeat the event of the extermination of the thousand households of the Jinyi Guards in Yangzhou.

It's just that if you want to destroy Li Huan and his party, you must have enough force. After thinking about it, Xu Lin thinks that only the soldiers and horses in the guard under Pang Hui have such ability.

But what Xu Lin didn't expect was that Pang Hui only brought dozens of personal soldiers into the city, which made it clear that he didn't want to get involved.

"Damn it, really damn it!"

Xu Lin, who was cursing Pang Hui, had a grim look on his face.

There is no news from Xu Wei, but no news has come since he didn't return overnight. No matter how slow the reaction, Xu Lin and others can realize that Xu Wei and his party are already in danger.

The two teams brought by Jing Kui and Xu Wei can be said to be more than half of the strength they can mobilize. As for at least trying to gather a group of reliable people, it is not impossible.

But it may not be so easy in a short time.

An official tremblingly said: "My lord, does Pang Hui think that our sincerity is insufficient? If he thinks that the money is less, we can increase the price. If hundreds of thousands are not enough, then one million. Things money can't do."

When he said this, the official's eyes flickered with a look of madness.

And Xu Lin also looked towards Jia Yuan when he heard the words.

On the contrary, Jia Yuan smiled wryly when he heard the official's words, slowly shook his head and said, "Pang Hui is completely stubborn, and he didn't even accept the 20 taels of silver note I brought. "

The official murmured with a bit of surprise on his face when he heard the words: "How is this possible? Pang Hui even dared to swallow the food and salaries of his soldiers. How could he not be tempted by a lot of gold and silver?"

An official said coldly: "Because Pang Hui is afraid, everyone should know who Li Huan is. He has his life to take the money, but he also has his life to spend..."

Many officials' faces turned pale when they heard the words, and their hearts became more frightened.

"It's over, it's over now!"

"I just said that I shouldn't have done everything wrong in the previous episode, so now I've recruited Li Huan, the murderous god!"

All of a sudden, the hall was in chaos, and it can be said that the reactions were different.

At this moment, Xu Lin, who had been sitting there with a fluctuating expression, suddenly slapped the table and shouted: "Enough, Li Huan hasn't come here yet, you are in a mess, and when he comes, are you going to fight?" Grab your hands and wait for death!"

Seeing Xu Lin's appearance, an official said to Xu Lin as if grabbing at a straw, "My lord... My lord, do you still have a way? As long as we can save our lives and let everyone escape this catastrophe, we will all listen to you." Your."

Thinking that after Li Huan's arrival, he would definitely not let them go, and even the family members behind them would be implicated, and the closest relatives would inevitably accompany them on the execution ground.

After all, they are not fools, as long as Li Huan is willing, no matter how clean the things they did before, they may not be able to escape Li Huan's clutches.

One after another looked at Xu Lin earnestly. They could only hope that Xu Lin, who had always been resourceful, could figure out a way.

Xu Lin took a deep breath, glanced over everyone and said, "Don't worry, everyone, it's Li Huan, I have my own countermeasures."

Seeing Xu Lin's confident appearance, everyone couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief, and said to Xu Lin full of expectation, "I wonder what my lord can do?"

Just when Xu Lin was about to speak, he suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps from outside: "My lord, my lord, Jin Yiwei... Jin Yiwei's people are here!"

"What, people from Jinyiwei are here!"

"How can it be so fast!"

"When did Li Huan enter the city? Why was there no news beforehand!"

Jin Yiwei's words were like a spell, and many officials present jumped up in shock, with panic on their faces.

Xu Lin frowned, glanced at the guard and snorted coldly, "Why panic, where are the guards in Jinyi?"

The officer hurriedly said: "Go back to your lord, the people from Jin Yiwei are waiting in the front hall to be summoned by your lord."

Xu Lin frowned and said, "Bring someone to see me."

Soon, several Jinyiwei came over, the leader was a Jinyiwei Xiaoqi officer.

The little banner officer of Jinyiwei walked over with a few of his subordinates, his eyes swept over the officials, and finally fell on Xu Lin who was in the middle and was dressed in an official uniform.

Xu Lin's identity can be determined only from Xu Lin's official uniform, so the little banner officer gave a slight salute to Xu Lin and said, "Jin Yi Wei Di Ping has seen the magistrate."

Xu Lin stroked his beard and looked at Di Ping, staring at Di Ping, as if he wanted to see through Di Ping.

"I don't know if your Excellency came to see this officer, but what's the matter?"

Di Ping said with a calm expression: "At the order of the imperial envoy, I'm here to send a message to all the lords. The imperial guard of honor has arrived outside the city of Yangzhou..."

Xu Lin got up suddenly, with a bit of surprise on his face, and said: "It turns out that the imperial envoy has arrived. Okay, okay, that's great. Ever since I received the order from the imperial court, everyone in Yangzhou Manor has been looking forward to the arrival of the imperial envoy. I think the imperial envoy will arrive today."

As he said that, Xu Lin said to the officials who were confused by Xu Lin's reaction: "What are you all doing in a daze, why don't you go with me to greet the imperial envoy."

When I came back to my senses, although the officials said they couldn't figure out what was going on with Xu Lin, they were all elites in the officialdom. It was almost their instinct to talk nonsense when they saw people.

Immediately, an official smiled and said to Di Pingping: "It turns out that the imperial envoy has arrived, and I will greet him personally."

Di Ping just glanced at the crowd, then cupped his hands at the crowd and said, "I will take my leave."

After saying this, Di Ping turned around and took a few of his subordinates under the surprised gazes of the officials before leaving without hesitation, as if he didn't want to stay here for a moment.

When Di Ping turned around and led the people away, Xu Lin, who had been smiling all over his face, suddenly became indifferent, and just watched Di Ping and the others disappear from sight.

"grown ups……"

At this moment, all the officials looked at Xu Lin.

There was cold sweat on the forehead of an official, his face was full of panic and he said: "My lord, the imperial envoy is at the gate of the city, what should we do, what should we do!"

Xu Lin took a deep breath and said slowly, "I'm still here, don't panic, everyone!"

city ​​gate
As time passed, and under Li Huan's signal, Ma Ming sent some people to maintain order. With many people entering the city to go to the market, it took only half an hour, and the gates of the city were sparsely populated. Sparse, no longer many people coming in and out.

It can be said that Li Huan and his party are left at the gate of the city at this moment.

At this time Xu Ying stood beside Li Huan, and said with a bit of curiosity on her face: "Master Hou, what do you think the officials in Yangzhou Mansion will react to when they hear the news of our arrival?"

Li Huan glanced at Xu Ying and said with a light smile, "Tell me, how will these people react?"

Xu Yingdang immediately said: "The things these people have done are enough for them to raid their homes and exterminate their families several times. Now that their deeds have been revealed, why don't they run for their lives quickly? If you want me to say, these people may not be trying to find a way to escape far. If I borrow their courage, I am afraid they will not dare to come to see the adults."

There is a saying that Xu Ying didn't dare to say in front of Li Huan, that is, how many people in the officialdom don't know how ruthless Li Huan's methods are in killing those officials who have committed the most heinous crimes? Read the so-called comradeship.

Anyway, if he were these officials of Yangzhou Prefecture, he would definitely find a way to escape as soon as possible, so as not to send him to the door stupidly.