He sneered, threw away his military papers, picked up the teacup, and took a sip of tea.

The officer next to him looked embarrassed, stuttered a bit, and provided a more detailed witness statement.

Zhu Lingxu still shook his head and sneered.

At this time, a guard suddenly ran in, approached Zhu Lingxu's ear, and lowered his voice:

"Commander, General Zhao died. On his way back to report on his duties, it happened at noon yesterday... on the streets of Longcheng County..."

Zhu Lingxu's hand was unstable and the tea cup fell to the ground.

Crackling——!

The whole place was silent, and all the officers looked sideways.

Zhu Lingxu looked at the fragments of the tea cup, suddenly raised his head, and said to the guard who reported the message:

"Go and report the murder of General Zhao to Governor Wang and Chief Ouyang. This is a matter within their authority. Although I am very sad and angry, my duty is to focus on military affairs."

After saying that, he bent down and picked up the military information document that had just been dropped on the ground. He lowered his head and looked at it again. After a quiet moment, he smiled faintly and calmly said to the generals in the lobby:

"This Cai Qin is quite powerful, and he is a deceiver in military intelligence, but does he really think he can deceive me? Hey, don't panic, the arrangements for today remain the same, and we will set off as usual in the afternoon.

"I don't know if it would be bad to use my brain to think about when this news came. It happened to be today. It is too coincidental. It is just to disturb the morale of our military, lead the imperial supervisors to doubt this general, delay the expedition, and win over them.

Time for reinforcements?

"Haha, just like our eight thousand soldiers and horses but claim to be a hundred thousand king's army, Cai Qin and others also played the trick of using troops to attack, but they are nothing more than trivial."

Zhu Lingxu pouted and shook his head:

"Let's do this, someone, go and call the female historians. I will be waiting for her here. Some things must be explained clearly, otherwise the morale of the army will be unstable."

Zhu Lingxu raised his head and said with dignity.

All the soldiers looked at each other and said, "Hey, go back."

Zhu Lingxu was calm and composed, watching them leave one after another, drinking tea patiently and waiting.

After lighting a stick of incense, a military camp clerk ran into the lobby in small steps, ready to report military affairs, but his expression was stunned.

Seeing that the lobby was empty, I couldn't help but look around blankly.

Where is the steward?

A quarter of an hour later.

The back door of Zhu Lingxu's new house opened, and the housekeeper's servants watched a beautiful concubine who was favored by the master go out in a carriage for an autumn outing.

The carriage was very low-key and traveled alone, passing through the market square and heading towards the west city gate.

In the car, there was a burly "beautiful concubine" wearing a black gauze curtain hat.

The owner of the curtain hat bowed his head tightly, with fists as big as sandbags clenched on his knees.

This burly body hidden in the woman's clothes was constantly trembling.

"Could it be that Yuheng's old ways have sprouted, and he refuses to repent and defect to Li Zhengyan... It's impossible, there's no way Yuheng can betray me, it's absolutely impossible...

"Zhao Ru died yesterday, and Yu Heng rebelled this morning. It seems so coincidental that there must be a connection."

Zhu Lingxu was frightened and confused, and a voice came out from the gap in his mouth:

"Yu Heng will not betray me. It can only be someone who falsely spread the news, possibly through Zhao Rushi's mouth, but why would Yu Heng be so gullible?!

"It's over, it's all over... Yu Heng mistook me... Yu Heng mistook me!"

Zhu Lingxu trembled all over, and his old face looked sad and haggard under the curtain.

The matter was urgent, he sensed the crisis, and without any time to think about it, he slipped out immediately, put on this woman's clothes and escaped.

The carriage was a little bumpy as it drove towards the west city gate. Zhu Lingxu's heartbeat in the carriage was so fast that it seemed like it was about to jump out of his chest.

This is both panic and nervousness, as well as detached anger.

As a former military commander, he had full authority to take charge of the counter-rebellion military affairs on the front line before the arrival of the Jiangzhou Road Marching Commander. However, the eldest son who led the vanguard on the expedition defected halfway!

This is an unheard-of example among the thousands of wars that have occurred since the founding of the People's Republic of China, including Dazhou and even Daqian!

The old empress who was sitting alone in the highest place of the Luoyang court would definitely be furious when she found out.

The two kings of the Wei family who recommended him will be deeply implicated, so no matter how innocent Zhu Lingxu explains, even if he severs the father-son relationship with Zhu Yuheng, it will be useless.

Don't argue with anyone.

So if you don't run away now, then when? Only the Kuangfu Army in the southwest can reluctantly contain him.

Zhu Lingxu was sweating profusely and his mouth was dry. He carefully opened the car curtain and glanced outside the car. He looked at the West City Gate that was getting bigger and bigger in front of him. When he was about to pass by, he breathed a sigh of relief and lowered the car curtain.

But the next moment, a curious and kind voice came from the top of the city:

"Director Zhu, where are you going by car?"

I saw a figure of a young man with a weak crown who happened to be on duty for the city defense, slowly walking down the city with a waist sword in his hand, followed by a group of melon-eating people:

"Why is Mr. Zhu wearing women's clothes in broad daylight? Could it be that he has a weird habit of wearing women's clothing? Coincidentally, I also have a friend who also has this private fetish. I have the opportunity to introduce him to Mr. Zhu.

"However, when women's clothing is not good, it's strange. Didn't you lead the army to go on an expedition in the afternoon? Master Zhu didn't prepare military affairs well, how could he change his clothes and leave alone?"

Having said this, Ouyang Rong, who walked down the city with his sword in his hand, spoke with some admiration:

"Wait a minute, are we going to defeat Hongzhou alone with our bare hands? Well, that's probably not the case."

He looked around and asked in a probing tone:

"Could it be that Hongzhou Cai Qin surrendered, so the general manager went out alone without any soldiers? Hmm, have you received any news from the front line?"

Zhu Lingxu's body stiffened, and after a while, he slowly opened the car curtain, and was immediately greeted by Ouyang Rong's calm gaze, and the strange looks from Xie Lingjiang, Yan Liulang, Chen You and others among his entourage behind him.

Even though he had been a domestic slave with three surnames several times, Zhu Lingxu was still calm and composed. His blood suddenly surged and his face turned red.
Chapter completed!