Chapter 148 There is no good chess

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After hearing the guards' words, Wu Fan's suspicion increased greatly.

The suspicious businessman had a Hebei accent, which reminded Wu Fan immediately with Dong Cheng's trip to Yuan Shao in Hebei by the imperial edict.

Afterwards, Wu Fan, led by the city gate guards, came straight to Luoyang East City Gate. Zhang Liao said goodbye and went back to the restaurant because he had something to do.

After arriving at the East City Gate, he saw five people dressed in a merchant standing in the city gate with their backs against the city wall. Wu Fan glanced at the five people, and they were as strong as the guards said. When they looked closely, they even saw a slight shiny in their eyes, and one of them had a deep scar on their necks. Seeing Wu Fan looking over, the man pretended to be afraid of the cold and pulled up his collar to block it.

Just seeing his calm appearance, Wu Fan knew that these people were definitely not businessmen.

In terms of personal attributes, the four words "first climb to the death" are clearly marked.

Wu Fan has some knowledge about the first-row death warrior. It is said that this is the most elite force under Yuan Shao. He was selected from hundreds of thousands of troops. Each of them is unstoppable and fearless. He can even be a hundred people against ordinary soldiers.

The lowest force attributes of these five people are 71, and the highest is 76, which shows that rumors are true. Although in addition to force, the command, intelligence, politics, charm and other attributes of these five people are pitifully low, as an elite soldier, their force value of up to 70 or more is enough

The military value of ordinary civilians is 10~25, the ordinary soldiers are 25~40, the soldiers who have transferred their posts once are 40~55, and the Qingzhou fighters are 50~65.

Although Yuan Shao was unable to support the army's expedition due to insufficient military and food, sending dozens or even hundreds of dead soldiers first had nothing to do with military and food, and it was no problem at all. Since this is the case, he really had to be careful.

However, what should we do with these five first-time death warriors? Should we release them? Or should we put them in prison? or even be executed directly? Wu Fan pondered for a moment and finally made an adventurous decision: if we release these five first-time death warriors, we will pretend to be completely unknown. I want to see what tricks you, Dong Cheng, play.

After thinking about it this way, Wu Fan said to the city gate guards:

"These businessmen are not the main criminals we want to arrest, so let them go."

Wu Fan deliberately described the reason why the people entering and leaving the city gate were arresting important criminals to dispel the concerns of these five first-time death row soldiers.

After these five dead soldiers left, Wu Fan secretly told the city gate guards: Pay close attention to the people entering the city with a Hebei accent, record the strong and healthy ones, report to me sooner or later, and the guards take the order.

After explaining to the guards, Wu Fan looked at the backs of the five death soldiers who had gone away and stared at them for a long time.

The reason why these five people were released was that Wu Fan did not want to alarm the enemy. Because Wu Fan knew very well that since the first death warrior was the elite one in a thousand, and in order not to attract his own attention, Yuan Shao would definitely not send many; since there were not many people, they would have to concentrate their efforts against themselves, rather than disperse their power to deal with others under their own hands. In other words, except for themselves, the rest of their own people are safe.

Wu Fan is now quite confident about his own military power. Since these first-time death warriors are going to deal with him, then he will give them a chance to make a trick. It would be best if Emperor Xian can also bring in this matter, and then he can use this as an excuse to cut off the only little military power in Emperor Xian's hands. In the future, if he leads his troops out of the battle, he will no longer have to worry about the possibility of civil strife in Luoyang.

As the saying goes, how can you get a tiger's son if you don't enter the tiger's den? This time, Wu Fan decided to take a dangerous move to play a dangerous chess move.

Three days later, Dong Cheng returned to Luoyang, and two days later, according to the city gate guards' records, there were about 200 strong men who entered Luoyang with a Hebei accent. These people were then followed by spies sent by Xun Yu and scattered in various inns in Luoyang City.

Two days later, Wende Hall, morning court.

After Wu Fan assigned the military and political instructions, he bid farewell to Emperor Xian. Just as he was about to leave the hall, Emperor Xian suddenly called Wu Fan and said:

"Wu Aiqing stays out. I want to play chess with Wu Aiqing in Zhaoming Palace today. Wu Aiqing can follow me to Zhaoming Palace."

Wu Fan turned around and observed Emperor Xian's expression carefully. He found that Emperor Xian was nervous but he was complacent and calm. He knew in his heart that this chess might not be a good chess.

After writing a collection of Emperor Xian, Wu Fan said:

"Your Majesty, it's the end of the year, and the government affairs are complicated every day. And the minister Rong returned to the mansion and explained to his subordinates, and then he would come."

Emperor Xian did not dare to say anything to Wu Fan, so he could only say:

"Your dear, go and go back quickly, don't let me wait for a long time."

Wu Fan responded, bowed and left the hall gate.

After quickly returning to the main hall of the palace, Wu Fan ordered the soldiers to retrieve Hua Xiong, Cao Ren, Xiahou Yuan, Zhou Tai, Lu Lingqi, Guo Jia, and Xun Yu, and discuss important matters. The soldiers left like flying.

Not long after, the above-mentioned people returned to the main hall one after another. Wu Fan and others arrived. They first asked Xun Yu:

"Wen Ruo, please send spies to monitor those Hebei people. Will there be any news back?"

Xun Yu said:

"I just received the information that all the people in Hebei have left the inn since last night and have not returned until now."

Wu Fan nodded and said bluntly to everyone:

"According to the information we have obtained, these Hebei people who have been infiltrated into Luoyang are actually the most elite troops under Yuan Shao: the first to climb the dead soldiers; the secret decree of Dong Chengming, Yuan Shao sent them to Luoyang. Now these 200 first to climb the dead soldiers have not returned all night, and His Majesty asked me to go to Zhaoming Hall to play chess with him in the Dewen Hall. From this point of view, these 200 first to climb the dead soldiers must be ambushing near Zhaoming Hall and wanting to assassinate."

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Hua Xiong even said angrily:

"This emperor is so ignorant, how can he shock the princes at a young age? How can he pacify the world? Our Cao army soldiers were fighting bloody battles outside and were desperate. He was wearing rich clothes and eating in Luoyang, resting with peace of mind; but now he is going to assassinate Meng Xuan. What is the reason? Why don't I lead my troops directly into the palace and destroy this useless emperor."

Hua Xiong has a reckless personality and speaks straightforwardly. When he heard that Emperor Xian wanted to harm Wu Fan, he immediately became angry. He didn't care about the crime of rebelling against the ministers, and he directly poured out his thoughts.

Fortunately, these people in the main hall were all officials under Wu Fan and their own family members. Hua Xiong said this and no one would go to report to Emperor Xian.

Wu Fan waved his hand and said:

"The emperor cannot be abolished. With him here, our Cao army can at least sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives of soldiers to pacify the world."

Guo Jia then continued:

"However, the emperor still has military power. Although there are not many people, it is difficult to feel at ease if the governor is on an expedition. Now, since the emperor has set up an ambush, the governor is trying to use the plan to seize the emperor's military power on this ground, and let the palace be controlled by our Cao army. Only then can the emperor truly reassure the governor."

Wu Fan laughed and pointed at Guo Jia with his hand:

"Those who know me are filial piety."

Xun Yu said:

"But, those first-time death-taking soldiers are not ordinary people. The Governor must be extremely dangerous. You need to find an excuse to bring a powerful general and set up heavy troops outside the palace to make an agreement in advance. Once the Governor is surrounded, you can also rescue him in time."

Wu Fan nodded and said:

"This is why I brought you here this time."

As soon as Wu Fan finished speaking, the five generals Hua Xiong, Cao Ren, Xiahou Yuan, Zhou Tai and Lu Lingqi stood up almost at the same time and took the initiative to ask for the order to follow Wu Fan into the palace.

Wu Fan's eyes swept over the five people and said:

"Brother Hua, Zixiao, Miaocai, Youping, you four are famous generals, and the emperor has long recognized you. If you take you into the palace, the emperor will definitely give up summoning an ambush because he is not sure that he can kill me. In that way, everything I have done before will become useless."

Instead, in the disappointed expressions of Hua Xiong and the four of them, Wu Fan had already said to Lu Lingqi:

"Only Lingqi, who just joined our army, was not familiar with the emperor; he was fifteen years old and a woman again, so taking you into the palace would not arouse Emperor Xian's alert. However, this entry into the palace is extremely dangerous. Lingqi, have you figured it out?"

Wu Fan saved Lu Bu in the front, and Lu Lingqi was worried that she would not have a chance to repay her. This time she finally got a chance to play for Wu Fan, but how could she let it go. She quickly bowed to Wu Fan and said solemnly:

"My minister Lu Lingqi was the governor who went through fire and water, and she would never refuse to die."

Seeing that Lu Lingqi had expressed her determination to get to this position, Wu Fan stopped saying anything and nodded, both admiring and agreeing, so he asked Lu Lingqi to change her clothes first, cover her armor, and then come to the gate of the palace to meet her.

After Lu Lingqi left, Wu Fan made an arrangement with Hua Xiong, Cao Ren, Xiahou Yuan and Zhou Tai. After everyone took the order and left, Wu Fan also changed his clothes and also covered the Western Dragon Armor inside. He left the palace city and came to the palace with Lu Lingqi waiting here.

When entering the main gate of the palace, Lu Lingqi did not encounter any obstacles; but when entering the west courtyard where Zhaoming Hall was located, the four heavy infantry guarding the gate blocked Lu Lingqi outside after Wu Fan walked over, saying that His Majesty only invited Governor Wu to play chess, and other idle people were not allowed to enter.

The purpose of this order was too obvious. Wu Fan glared at the time and pointed at the four heavy infantrymen:

"You bastard dares to stop the governor. Are you impatient to live?"

The four heavy infantrymen were frightened by Wu Fan and said with a bitter face:

"Governor, the young people are here to stop the idle people. If we let this woman in, we will be in danger of protecting the heads."

Wu Fan said angrily:

"Do you think this governor is ruthless? Then stop the governor's men and immediately call you different from your head."

After hearing this, the four heavy infantrymen looked at each other. Before they could come back to their senses, Lu Lingqi had already separated the four long spears blocking in front of him, and entered the yard with Wu Fan.
Chapter completed!