With the end of autumn and the approach of winter, Liangzhou, the most northwestern part of Daning, is getting colder every day, and the official roads to and from the Central Plains are getting deserted day by day, and caravans are rarely seen along the way.

But on the pipeline leading to Zhiguzang City in Liangzhou Prefecture, a caravan appeared. They braved the severe cold and wind and sand to march towards Guzang City, looking a little lonely and abrupt in the vast world.

At this time, at the end of the official road, the tall outline of a city loomed.

The sharp-eyed person walking in the front of the caravan rode to the middle of the caravan as soon as he saw the city, and reported to a man about 30 years old: "Boss Han, Guzang City is ahead."

The Boss Han he was talking about was Han Yue. Ever since Xiao Jie decided to disband the eighteen dead soldiers, they all restored their real names. The 18 of them, headed by the original Jiayi, naturally changed their name to Boss Han.

Eighteen of them were ordered by Xiao Jie to go to Liangzhou to rob Xiao Huang's son Xiao Jing. In order to deceive others, they pretended to be a caravan. Although it took a lot of time to set off, I just didn't want people to find out that they were from Luoyang, so as not to arouse unnecessary suspicion from interested people.

They trekked all the way, and finally arrived outside Guzang City, but Han Yue couldn't see any excitement on his face. Instead, he glared at Hong Song who came to announce the good news, and shouted in a low voice, "You want to kill me?" Everyone, how many times have I told you to call me Shopkeeper Han."

Hong Song knew in his heart that he had made a big mistake, so he lowered his head and dared not speak any more, and did not dare to defend himself at all.

Han Yue glanced around, his eyes flicked over everyone's faces, and then he said earnestly: "It's not that I'm too harsh on you, but why did His Highness let us dispatch eighteen people together this time? It's not because this trip is too dangerous. Cheng has been running Liangzhou for more than [-] years, and Guzang City is full of their eyes and ears, if we make a slight mistake, none of the eighteen people may survive, so we must be extremely careful, and we must not reveal the slightest flaw."

"Since His Highness promised us to serve as generals in the army in various places and live a normal life from now on, you don't want to die in Liangzhou at this juncture, right?"

After listening to Han Yue's words, the expressions of the others all became solemn, and Hong Song felt even more ashamed, pleading guilty in a low voice: "I'm sorry, shopkeeper Han, I was careless for a while."

Han Yue's expression softened a little, he nodded heavily and said, "Well, let's not take this as an example."

Afterwards, the group of them continued to drive their mules towards Guzang City, and finally arrived at the city gate before the city gate closed at dusk.

Perhaps because of the delicate situation today, the inspections of the soldiers at the gate of the city are much stricter than they imagined. Not only did they open and inspect the goods they carried one by one, but the guards also checked their customs certificates and other related documents over and over again. In the end, they were taken down one by one and searched and interrogated separately like prisoners, as if they wanted to find any clues on them.

Fortunately, there was nothing wrong with the declarations and documents that Xiao Jie had prepared for them in advance, and there were no contraband on them or in the accompanying goods. Eighteen of them had also checked their statements one by one in advance, and they even made a fool of themselves deliberately. The accent in the Bashu area, so in the end the guard didn't find any problems with them, so he could only let them enter the city with a big hand.

But Han Yue and the others didn't dare to relax in the slightest because they clearly saw a Liangzhou army soldier following them far away, as if to see where they were going to stay.

Because of this, out of caution, Han Yue did not follow the original plan to stay in the restaurant opened by Qilinwei lurking in Guzang City, but stayed in the most lively inn near Dongshi. He didn't do anything, just wandered around the city to inquire about the trading prices of various goods. He really looked like a merchant who traveled thousands of miles from Yizhou to Liangzhou to do business.

The next day, although the Liangzhou army did not appear near the inn again, Han Yue and his party still did not dare to be careless at all. They really took the goods to the nearby East Market to sell them, and only quietly dispatched a few people to go there at dusk In the city, in the name of inquiring about market conditions and negotiating deals, they contacted the Qilin Guards lurking in Guzang City.

But after dark, the person in charge of contacting Qilinwei brought bad news to Han Yue——

Every Qilinwei stronghold in the city was sealed up by the Liangzhou Army in the name of fornicating the Dihu people, and all the spies that Qilinwei placed in Guzang City were missing.

At this moment, Han Yue screamed in his heart that it was not good. Since Wang Cheng and Xiao Huang thought of sealing up the Qilin Guard strongholds in the city, they might also think of sending people to watch around these strongholds, to see who would appear nearby, and not to let them go. Any suspicious person who may be a spy of Qilinwei.

At this moment, Han Yue realized that they were likely to be exposed soon, and they might be caught by Wang Cheng and Xiao Huang if they stayed here, so he planned to leave the inn immediately overnight, and scattered to different places in the city to hide, waiting to avoid the limelight Think again.

But at this moment, there was a sudden commotion downstairs in the inn. Han Yue couldn't help but change his expression. He walked quickly to the window and opened a small crack to look down. Armed with knives, guns and torches, they surrounded the small inn tightly.

At this time, Xue Liang also looked down from the other window, and his expression changed: "No, the back street is also surrounded by the Liangzhou army."

There was a depressing and dignified atmosphere in the whole room.

In order not to arouse the suspicion of the soldiers at the city gate, they did not carry any weapons on their bodies or in their cargo. They are really unarmed in their current situation. Even if they want to fight the Liangzhou army, they don't have the strength, let alone break out of the siege. .

At this point in the situation, Han Yue's eyes flicked across the faces of the other 17 people, his face was serious, and he said in a deep voice: "Everyone, Your Highness has always treated me well, today is the time for us to be loyal to Your Highness."

The other seventeen people nodded heavily without any hesitation on their faces, with determination on their faces.

At this time, there was a sound of dull footsteps on the stairs outside the door, and the 18 people in the room secretly clenched their fists...

The sound of footsteps stopped outside their room door, but the other party didn't seem to intend to force their way in. Instead, the soldiers on the second and third floors and the screams of the residents kept coming and going. It seemed to be the Liangzhou army. Drive all the other guests downstairs and take them out of the inn.

As all the other residents of the inn were driven out by the Liangzhou army, the entire inn gradually fell into a deathly silence, and the air was so oppressive that it was suffocating.

But at this moment, a cold voice came from outside the door: "Are you from Qilinwei or Xiao Jie?"

Seeing that the other party had already guessed his identity, Han Yue also gave up the idea of ​​sophistry, and responded coldly through the door: "What if it's someone from Qilinwei? What if it's someone from Xiao Jie?"

The voice outside the door became more and more interesting: "If you are from Qilinwei, I have no choice but to kill you to serve as a commissioner for Wang Dadu, but if you are from Xiao Jie, maybe I can let you live."

(All my readers are not only smart, but also good-looking and nice-sounding, so they should be able to guess who is outside the door.)

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