Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 200 194. Outbreak
"Quick! Follow up! Surround this place!"

Han Da acted very quickly. He immediately gathered a group of soldiers and after reorganizing them, he immediately rushed through the main street in the city to the homes of several landlords and powerful people who had made unusual movements last night.

"Who are you? Why are you trying to fish in troubled waters at a time of internal and external troubles?"

Soon, from within the tall walls of the Qian family's courtyard, an old, trembling voice loudly shouted at the soldiers outside who were surrounding their compound.

"According to the order of the governor, we will wipe out the Tongshu rebels in the city!"

The captain in charge was as brief and to the point as Han Da. He simply stated the reason for sending the troops and without further ado, he immediately ordered his soldiers to attack.

"Damn it... do as the Zhao family says! Light the signal fire in the courtyard!"

The old patriarch of the Qian family saw that the other party was completely ruthless and knew that he would have to compete with the Han family today. So he decided to go all out and, according to what the Zhao family's housekeeper said last night, he lit a pile of charcoal fire in the yard. Thick black smoke rose up, and two servants covered it with a sheet to make the black smoke appear in different lengths.

After a while, the noise outside became even louder, and the old patriarch of the Qian family couldn't figure out what was going on.

Finally, it was a nimble servant who climbed onto the roof and saw clearly that there was chaos in Changsha city for some reason, and it seemed that there was a melee everywhere.

The servant hurried down to report the situation to the old patriarch of the Qian family, who was also confused. After all, he did not have time to agree to the Zhao family's proposal last night, so the Zhao family's housekeeper only told him that if Han Teng was alert to their conspiracy, he could light a signal smoke, and the city would make arrangements. At the same time, he told the old patriarch of the Qian family the pattern of the signal smoke.

Although Patriarch Qian felt that this was an exaggeration, he still took note of it. After all, no one would complain about having too many means that could potentially save their lives.

The old master Qian had no idea what the situation was in the city at the moment, and could only order his servants to guard the courtyard walls and the gate and wait until the storm died down before making any plans.

Han Teng's side was also not at peace. After the Qian family lit the signal smoke, several more signal smokes appeared in the city. As the signal smoke rose, many soldiers who behaved like everyone else actually picked up their weapons and slashed at their comrades.

Similarly, many people who had long been dissatisfied with Han Teng also took advantage of the situation, so the scene was very chaotic for a while.

"Damn it! What on earth is going on? Who is rebelling? Is it those powerful people? Or the soldiers defending the city?"

Han Teng kept listening to his soldiers reporting the current situation, but no one could tell what was going on outside for a while, it was too chaotic.

"Suppress them immediately! No matter who they are, as long as they are traitors, they will all be killed!"

Han Teng didn't bother to care about any of that. In his opinion, anyone who dared to disobey him and commit treason at this time would be treated as a rebel and executed.

Unfortunately, Han Teng's order was completely counterproductive. The army, which was already in chaos due to the fighting between multiple parties, became even more chaotic because of this order.

"Are you a rebel?"

"I think it's you, look at the knife!"

Fights broke out frequently due to a glance or a word, and even internal strife occurred within the Changsha army.

As for the mastermind of the incident, the Zhao family, they were completely confused about the situation at this time.

The head of the Zhao family received a letter of persuasion to surrender shot into the city by the Han army yesterday, and he felt that what was said in the letter made sense. His Han family and the Han army had a deep hatred, but he had no hatred or grudges against the Han army, so he might as well find an opportunity to open the city and surrender. However, before the plan of opening the city and surrendering was even started, the news that the county magistrate was killed in the street immediately reached the head of the Zhao family's ears, which immediately made him a little uneasy. The county magistrate was Han Teng's own confidant, and he could be so cruel, so he might really just throw outsiders away.

The head of the Zhao family did not hesitate and immediately contacted his trusted confidants stationed in the army.

As we all know, Changsha changed hands several times in the past ten years. After Han Xuan was killed by Wei Yan, the Han army took over Changsha. Liu Bei had always been generous, so although Changsha was repeatedly harassed by the Eastern Wu, it was still relatively peaceful. Therefore, the power vacuum after the Han family left was quickly divided up by other landlords and powerful people.

As a result, the Zhao family had the opportunity to place some of their trusted confidants into the most critical city defense forces.

Later, under the command of Lu Meng and the planning of Lu Xun, the Eastern Wu launched a surprise attack on Jingzhou and Changsha was also captured by the Eastern Wu. However, these had no effect on the local powerful people. Serving someone was not serving them, and the Eastern Wu also needed these people to stabilize the local area.

Unfortunately, Han Teng brought the Han family back to Changsha, and quickly took back many of the rights that had been divided up more than ten years ago.

Originally, the Zhao and Qian families would have tolerated this. After all, Han was an acquaintance in the past and they were friends who had played together. Now that you're back, we're willing to let you continue to play with us. Isn't it good for everyone to be happy?

But now that Han Teng is doing this, we guys are not very happy.

Your Han family wants to die, but we don’t.

Therefore, the Zhao family's original plan was to contact the city defense army first, and then contact the other families. If Han Teng noticed it, they would directly launch an uprising, open the city gates to welcome the Han army into the city, and cooperate with the Han army to kill the remnants of Han Teng.

Therefore, the Zhao family did not act rashly during the day yesterday, but quietly mobilized the secret lines in the city defense army, and then contacted the other families at night.

The Zhao family was also a little more cautious, so they informed the other families about the smoke signal to prevent Han Teng from launching an attack in advance.

Now the development of things is just as the head of the Zhao family expected. Han Teng has indeed been secretly monitoring them, worried that they will collude with the Han army, and intends to strike first.

The secret agents deployed by the Zhao family would immediately raise the banner of opposing Han Xuan after seeing the smoke of war in the city, and directly incite other people who were dissatisfied with Han Xuan to resist together.

Unfortunately, both Han Teng and the head of the Zhao family took things for granted.

Han Teng thought he could control Changsha's internal and external troubles, and the head of the Zhao family also thought things were too simple.

The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.

Although Han Teng is cruel and unpopular and everyone is willing to attack him, it does not mean that there are no conflicts between them.

There were conflicts between several captains, conflicts between some powerful people, and even conflicts between several neighbors.

In this situation, although everyone was under the banner of "resisting Han Teng's tyranny", they were actually fighting on their own, and some even labeled each other as "Han Teng's running dogs" and started attacking each other.

Although many soldiers and civilians who were unaware of the situation wanted to resist Han Teng together to fight for a way out for themselves, there was a very simple but difficult question before them.

Who is Han Teng's running dog?
Therefore, the situation in Changsha City broke out in this muddy water situation, and then it was out of control.

(End of this chapter)