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The tiger-character banner army once again occupied Xinping Fort.
One day later, a fast horse galloped in from a city gate of Datong Mansion.
"You don't have eyes! Didn't you see I'm here?" A soldier guarding the city gate was almost hit by the horse rushing into the city, and he immediately yelled at the back of the horseman who was retreating.
An older city gate guard on the side hurriedly grabbed the other person and said: "You don't want to live anymore. The person who dares to ride into the city like this is either a powerful person or someone with important affairs. No matter what, he is not you." People like me can be offended.”
"But he almost hit me just now!" the soldier said angrily.
The older guard comforted him: "Didn't he miss him? And when he passed by just now, I saw that he was a soldier of some family. It looked like something had happened."
"You don't need to ask. It must be related to the Tiger Flag." The soldier said disapprovingly.
The elderly guard looked at him and asked in a low voice: "Did you hear something?"
"You still need to hear about it?" The soldier curled his lips and said, "It has long been spread in the city that the imperial court is going to suppress the tiger-character flag. Besides, apart from the tiger-character flag, what other major events can we have in Datong?"
The elderly guard twirled his beard and said thoughtfully: "It seems that something shocking has happened. I don't know if Datong Mansion will be affected."
"No matter how big the matter is, it has nothing to do with little people like us. We still guard the city gate honestly and earn a few hard-earned money in exchange for drinks." The young soldier leaned on the city gate with a long gun in his hand. on the wall.
The elderly guard nodded, leaned aside, and then shouted to the people outside the city gate: "Everyone who wants to enter the city should line up. Don't crowd. Each person gets a penny."
The crowds of people scattered around the city gate gathered together again and lined up to enter the city.
The rider who rushed into the city from the city gate galloped all the way to the gate of the General Military Mansion.
He jumped off the horse and stumbled to the door of the mansion. He shouted to the guard in front of the door: "Something happened in Xinping Fort. Quick, take me to see General Yang."
The guard outside the door verified his identity.
One of the guards turned around and ran towards the General Military Mansion, while the other guard helped the rider who could barely stand and walked inside.
The man was helped into the General Military Mansion, and the guards placed him in the gatehouse.
Not long after, a middle-aged man with a mustache wearing a long gown walked into the concierge under the leadership of a guard.
"You said something happened in Xinpingbao. What happened?" The middle-aged man with a mustache asked straight to the point when he saw the rider in the concierge.
The rider stood up from his seat, bowed and saluted, and said: "The young one is the servant beside the guerrilla general on Datong East Road. My general got the news. Huang An, the guard of Xinping Fort, opened the city gate and let out the tiger-shaped flag. The army entered Xinping Fort, now Xinping Fort has fallen into the hands of the Tiger Character Banner."
"You said Huang An surrendered the rebels?" The expression of the middle-aged man with a mustache changed.
The rider said: "I don't dare to lie. Now the city of Xinpingbao has been replaced by the black flag of the rebels."
"Follow me to see the commander-in-chief and tell him what you just said again." The middle-aged man with a mustache turned and walked out.
The rider hurriedly followed.
The middle-aged man with a mustache walked very fast, almost trotting, and the rider followed closely behind him.
After passing through a courtyard, the middle-aged man with a mustache took the person to a room next to the cloister.
"Dong Weng, I've brought you here." The middle-aged man with a mustache cupped his hands towards Yang Guozhu, who was sitting on the main seat, and then stood aside.
When the rider saw the person on the main seat, he knew it was the General Soldier of Datong. He hurriedly knelt on the ground, kowtowed and said, "I have seen the General Soldier."
Then, he told Yang Guozhu what he had said to the middle-aged man with a mustache.
After Yang Guozhu, who was sitting in the main seat, listened, his expression changed several times and he didn't speak for a long time.
"Dong Weng!" the middle-aged man with a mustache whispered.
Yang Guozhu exhaled and said to the rider kneeling on the ground: "You go down and rest first. When I write the receipt, I will give it to you to take back."
A servant in the room came up and took the rider down.
"I didn't expect that this Huang An was so useless that he actually lowered the tiger flag to rebel against the bandits." The middle-aged man with a mustache said after the people left.
Yang Guozhu said with an ugly expression: "Xinping Fort is connected to the grassland. Less than twenty miles away, there is a fort built with the Tiger Flag. Such an important place must not be missed."
"Then Huang An is also useless. He surrendered without even fighting. I'm afraid he has secretly colluded with the Tiger Flag." The middle-aged man with a mustache said.
Yang Guozhu nodded and said immediately: "Mr. Xue, please go and inform the generals of several camps now and let them prepare to send troops to Xinping Fort. I will go to see Li Xunfu now."
"Students are rushing to several camps." Xue Mu saluted, turned and left.
Yang Guozhu picked up the tureen on the table, drank all the tea in one gulp, and then shouted: "Come here, change my clothes."
A quarter of an hour later.
Yang Guozhu, wearing official uniform, appeared on horseback outside the gate of the General Military Mansion, leading a group of soldiers to the governor's Yamen.
The Governor's Yamen is not too far from the General Military Mansion.
Yang Guozhu rode a horse and quickly arrived outside the governor's office.
There is never a shortage of officials and squires visiting the governor outside the gate of the governor's office. Only a few of these people are officials with merit, and most of them have no merit.
Most of these people came to visit the governor to show off their face, so that the governor Li Guangyi would have an impression of them, so that they could get a job with real power in the future.
"Is the governor in there?"
Yang Guozhu walked into the governor's Yamen while asking the yamen servants who were on errands. He did not wait outside like the officials waiting to be summoned outside the yamen.
"The governor is handling official business in the back office. I will take Mr. Yang over there." The office servant smiled and walked in front to lead the way.
The yamen servant, who had already been alert, ran in first to deliver the message.
Yang Guozhu had been to the governor's Yamen countless times, so he naturally knew the way to the Hou Yamen.
So he ignored the yamen servant next to him and walked quickly towards the back yamen.
The yamen servant did not dare to let Yang Guozhu wander around alone, so he followed him a few steps to lead the way.
Come to the door of Houya.
At this time, Hu Mingyi, the governor's staff, was standing outside the door to greet Yang Guozhu.
"General Yang, why are you here in such a hurry? Could it be that something happened?" Seeing Yang Guozhu's heavy expression, Hu Mingyi stepped forward and asked.
Yang Guozhu did not hide anything and said directly: "Something happened in Xinping Fort. I want to report it to Li Xunfu in person. Is Li Xunfu inside?"
"Please come with me." When Hu Mingyi heard that something happened in Xinpingbao, he did not dare to delay and entered the back office together with Yang Guozhu.
