Zhao Qian's arrest did not attract the attention of the military camp. Generally, if he did not show up the next morning, it would not make people feel something was wrong.

At night, three black-clad knights finally arrived at the west gate of Songcheng County. At this time, the gate was closed. The leader shouted to the city head: "We are coming from the capital. If there is an emergency military service, please report to the prefect Fan. Please open the door quickly!"

Immediately, a soldier guarding the city went to inform Gu Changwu. Gu Changwu received Fan Ning's instructions and stayed at the city gate to wait for the news about the capital. He estimated that people from the capital would go to the west gate, so he deliberately stayed at the west gate. Sure enough, the city gate was closed and waited soon after it was closed.

Gu Changwu rushed to the top of the city and asked loudly, "But you give items to Prefect Fan?"

"That's right, we were sent by Mr. Han."

Gu Changwu immediately turned around and said, "Open the outer city!"

Soon, the suspension bridge of the outer city gate was lowered, the city gate opened, and three black-clad knights rushed into the city. There was a urn city inside, and there was an inner city gate to fully enter the city. Gu Changwu ran down from the corridor and said to the leader black-clad knight: "Please wait a moment, I have already informed Prefect Fan, and he will arrive soon!"

The three black knights breathed a sigh of relief. They ran all the way and changed their horses three times in a row, and they were really exhausted.

Soon after, the inner city gate opened, Fan Ning rushed over on a horse, following Zhu Bao, and the other three escorted Zhao Qian to the capital secretly.

Fanning turned over and dismounted and asked, "Where is the thing?"

The man in black met Fan Ning, and he stepped forward and bowed, "Golden Han ordered us to send this iron box to Prefect Fan, and we don't have a key."

He took out an iron box from the package and presented it to Fanning.

Fanning took the iron box and saw that it was locked. He pulled out the dagger and pried open the iron box. It was a gold medal for the dispatch of troops wrapped in yellow silk, and a letter from Han Qi.

Fan Ning put away the gold medal, finished reading the letter, and then told Gu Changwu: "Take more than a dozen people with me to the imperial guards' camp!"

Time was tight, and Fan Ning couldn't wait for dawn. He got the gold medal, so he immediately took Gu Changwu and more than a dozen soldiers to the imperial guards' camp.

The Imperial Guards are located ten miles outside the north city. The magnificent Hongqing Palace is facing Songcheng County. On the right is the Imperial Guards covering an area of ​​2,000 acres. They are heavily guarded. There are guard posts at the gate and there are a sentry tower on both sides of the gate. The sentry at the door can see dozens of steps away. Patrol soldiers are constantly patrolling back and forth in the military camp. If they enter the wartime state, there will be patrolling cavalry outside the military camp. The enemy situation can be discovered by miles away, but now there is no one.

Fanning rushed over on a horse, and the rushing sound of horse hooves alarmed the soldiers of the whistle tower, and the soldiers shouted, "Who is it?"

"We are Yingtian's Mansion!"

Zhu Bao shouted, and the soldiers on the whistle tower put down the military crossbow. After a moment, Fan Ning and others rushed to the gate of the military camp. Gu Changwu turned over and dismounted, and went up to the guard and said to the soldiers on guard: "Please inform General Linghu, just say that the prefect Yingtian Fan has an emergency military situation."

I heard that the prefect Yingtian was coming, and the officers on duty did not dare to neglect and ran into the military camp.

Soon after, a tooth general ran over and said loudly: "Prince Fan, General Linghu is welcome!"

Fan Ning turned over and dismounted and said to his entourage: "General Gu and Zhu Bao just accompany me, you can wait outside the military camp."

After saying that, he took Gu Changwu and Zhu Bao quickly to the barracks. There were no galloping horses in the barracks, and they walked all the way to the central army tent.

The system of the imperial guards is slightly different from that of the Xiang army. The Xiang army is the Jingdong Route Pacifier as the head commander, while the imperial guards have nine independent military camps on Jingdong Road. There is no head commander on the entire Jingdong Road. The head generals of the nine military camps are all affiliated with the Sanya and are also controlled by the Privy Council.

Although the general Linghu Jin was a fourth-rank official, his status as a military general was lower than that of a civil servant, so Linghu Jin was extremely polite to Fan Ning and personally welcomed the tent.

"Which gust of fragrant wind blows Prefect Fan to my small temple?"

Fan Ning apologized: "The incident happened suddenly, I hope General Linghu will forgive me!"

Linghu Jin smiled and nodded, "Prince Fan is polite. I just reported the message that what emergency military affairs does Prison Fan have?"

Fan Ning took out the gold medal and put it in front of Linghu Jin, "Can General Linghu know this?"

Linghu Jin recognized the gold medal of the imperial guards in transferring troops at a glance. Seeing this gold medal was like seeing the emperor. He was shocked and knelt down on one knee to salute, "I am not good at teaching the emperor to transfer troops in the gold medal!"

Fan Ning asked lightly: "This gold medal may be used to transfer General Linghu's army?"

"The prince of the Mansion held the gold medal and ordered that the humble officer and ten thousand soldiers would absolutely obey the military orders and would never refuse!"

Fan Ning nodded, "I want to disarm the Three Thousand Chamber Army. Please ask General Linghu to immediately mobilize troops to surround the Xiang Army's barracks!"

"Abide by the orders!"

Linghu Jin immediately ordered: "Gather drums!"

‘Dong!Dong!Dong!’

The earth-shaking gathering of soldiers and drums were heard very far away in the middle of the night and shockingly.

Fan Ning didn't stop him. He couldn't wait until dawn. It was probably time for Zhang Yaozuo's express letter to be delivered.

At this time, Linghu Jin asked Fan Ning in a low voice: "But something happened to Zhao Qian?"

He was very smart. Since he wanted to surround the Xiang Army camp, something must have happened to Zhao Qian.

Fan Ning nodded and said, "The emperor gave me a secret order to arrest Zhao Qian. I am afraid that Zhao Qian will be defeated by the military power and will cause unnecessary turmoil. Therefore, we must disarm the armed forces of the wing army and eliminate Zhao Qian's supporters."

Linghu Jin agreed: "The concerns of the Fujun are very reasonable. Jiang Chenghua, the commander of the Xiangjun, is Zhao Qian's son-in-law. This person is prone to impulsiveness, and it is indeed necessary to disarm the Xiangjun."

The gathering of the imperial guards was not as fast as the soldiers of the border army. It took a full incense stick of time before all the soldiers assembled. Many soldiers were not uniform in uniform and were yawning. Although they were nominally ten thousand soldiers, in fact, there were only nine thousand people. The gap of one thousand people was naturally the welfare of generals at all levels in the army. This is a common phenomenon in the army, and Fanning also paid attention to it.

With Linghu Jin's order, a team of nine thousand people rushed out of the camp gate and rushed to the Xiangjun camp three miles away.

At the same time as the imperial guards gathered, the senders sent by Zhang Yaozuo also arrived at the Xiangjun barracks. They were led to the camp and the commander Jiang Chenghua received them.

After all, Zhao Qian is a civil servant. Although he also serves as the commander of the Xiang army, his actual leader is his son-in-law Jiang Chenghua.

Jiang Chenghua was about 30 years old and from Gushu County. He was big and round and had a very strong physique. He was very skilled in martial arts. In a very short time, he was promoted from a soldier to the team leader. Zhao Qian took a fancy to him and promised his widowed second daughter to be his wife. Jiang Chenghua then became famous and was promoted to the commander-in-chief in just two years, in charge of the Three Thousand Chamber Army in Yingtian Prefecture.

Jiang Chenghua didn't see Zhao Qian this afternoon. He was a little surprised. Generally, even at dusk, even if his father-in-law Zhao Qian didn't come, he would send a personal soldier to deliver him a letter, telling him whether he should continue to guard the Zhang family's grain shop tomorrow, otherwise it would be too late to deploy again tomorrow morning.

Jiang Chenghua couldn't wait for his father-in-law and his personal soldiers. He sent someone to the mansion to find him, saying that the master had not returned to the mansion and went to several other possible places, but he disappeared everywhere. He began to feel uneasy in his heart. Will something happen to his father-in-law?

You should know that the relationship between father-in-law and Fan Ning was very tense these days. He did not hesitate to break the rules of the Xiang army not entering the city, and seriously violated the interests of Yingtian Mansion. Jiang Chenghua felt that something would happen to his father-in-law and Fan Ning sooner or later.

At this time, the drum sounds from the imperial guards' promise passed by a while, making Jiang Chenghua's uneasy feel stronger. He could no longer help but disassemble the 100,000-year-old letter.

The first sentence in the letter made him jump up, and the official ordered Fan Ning to secretly arrest his father-in-law.

Jiang Chenghua immediately understood why his father-in-law disappeared, he must have been secretly arrested by Fan Ning, so where would he be detained? Intuition told him that he was very likely to be detained in the government office.

He hurriedly finished reading the following content, and he was immediately anxious and immediately ordered: "It is said that the commanders of each battalion came to my tent to discuss the emergency military information."

The imperial infantry was a battalion of 500 people, and the commander in the army was the commander and Jiang Chenghua's direct subordinate.

At this time, Jiang Chenghua did not realize that the assembly of the imperial guards had something to do with him. His idea was to immediately go to the city to snatch his father-in-law back.

Soon, six commanders rushed to the tent, "What happened?"

"The custodian is missing and is likely to be seized by Fanning."

This sentence suddenly made the tent burst into flames, and the generals were furious. The little prefects dared to arrest the pacifier. Did they take the courage to take the leopard?

"Everyone will, what should we do?"

"Everyone will, order it!"

Jiang Chenghua did not tell the truth to the generals. He was vague and made the generals think that it was Fan Ning's personal conflict between the pacifier. Although the Xiang army could not afford to offend the imperial guards, they had always been disdainful of the local rural soldiers. The leaders of the village army dared to capture the leaders of the Xiang army, and the general's proud self-esteem made them unacceptable.
Chapter completed!