Xie Ming

Chapter 544 Confrontation
Earlier, Ma Weimin took advantage of the chaos to do tricks and spread nonsense. He exaggerated the words of the dwarf Cao Gang and made his crime unforgivable.

Later, Xiao Jingchuan took advantage of the situation and used this as an excuse to break the deadlock and take action!
"Cao Gang and Tian Wenyi openly defied the imperial order, humiliated their superiors, and offended the emperor. They are truly guilty of disrespect!"

"The second culprit will be arrested on the spot! We will discuss his punishment later."

Xiao Lang moved quickly. While he was speaking, he took big strides with a determined look in his eyes. He had already taken a few steps in front of the two generals.

Judging from the posture, it was clear that he had planned this in advance and did not give Guo'er and the other two any chance to react.

"Hey! You, you guys!"

"Who dares?! Let's see who dares!"

"All soldiers of the Second Battalion."

Hearing Jin Xiaolang's move suddenly, the short general Cao Gang was stunned.

By the time he came to his senses, it was already too late. He saw that the troops on both sides of him, for some unknown reason, had already surrounded him and Tian Wenyi at such a fast speed.

What's going on? This guy is clearly trying to get out of control and use violence!
Then he gave a loud shout, drew his sword, and roared out the order he had just given.

However, he wanted to issue an order quickly to call for a battalion of soldiers to go forward and rescue.

How could Xiao Jingchuan be willing to give him such an opportunity?
In a flash, or in a split second, at the moment Cao Gang roared and drew his sword!
Xiao Lang took a step forward and arrived there.

With a direct kick, Cao Gang pulled out the half-drawn sword, but after this push, it made a click and was pushed back into the sheath.

At the same time, Xiao pulled out the blade from his waist, and in just a moment, he had already put the blade across Cao Gang's shoulder.

Cao Gang saw that he was about to suffer a loss and refused to sit still and wait for death.

Twist your waist horizontally and step back to avoid it!
However, no one expected that at this moment, Gu Changting had already come down from the side and went behind the person without anyone noticing.

With a knee strike from the front, Cao Gang was completely at a loss as to how to move forward or backward, and was unable to escape!

Then he kicked the shorter man in the knee.

Cao Gang felt pain and immediately knelt on one knee.

All these actions happened in a flash. Cao Gang was captured alive and escorted to the back of the hall, with Xiao Lang holding a knife against him.

While Tian Wenyi was still trying to struggle subconsciously, Qin Jing suddenly emerged from the dark and stood in front of the others, preventing them from getting help or making any moves.

"Hey, hey!"

"Fuck you!"

"The people from the second battalion are all dead!"

"Come on, I'm here!" Cao Gang was captured, furious and unwilling to give in.

At this moment, I can’t fucking care about so many things!
They cursed at each other and started to look for trouble, and then started fighting and bayonets were used to draw blood!

Moreover, when they heard and saw that the commander of the camp was suddenly attacked, the officers and soldiers of that camp, who had just seen it, naturally refused to do anything!
They grabbed their weapons, threw away the food bags they were carrying, and suddenly, thousands of people rushed over here.

The situation is critical. If things go wrong, the Yangzhou soldiers will mutiny immediately!

Zheng Huai'en also gritted his teeth and held on, and surrounded the outer layers of Xiao Jun's garrison and personal guards.

When the two armies met, their swords were drawn and they all shouted at each other to show their strength.

The scene suddenly became chaotic and was about to get out of control!
at this time!

But suddenly, I heard the sound of a short gun being fired!

With a bang, the sound shook the whole area!

The more than a thousand people present were all startled. They stood there in a daze, then turned their gazes to stare towards the place where the loud gunshot came from.

At this moment, there was deathly silence in front of the granary. Ma Weimin was seen covering one of his ears with his other hand tremblingly raised above his head. The muzzle of the short gun in his hand was still emitting wisps of white smoke.

The old man fired the shot at the right time.

In fact, it was just what Xiao did just now because he understood the meaning of the look.

At this moment, everyone was stunned and there was no movement around. However, the feeling of thousands of eyes looking at him at the same time was really too much for Old Ma to bear.

After he fired his gun with courage, he saw that he had become the target of everyone's criticism, so he hurriedly put down the gun tremblingly, and carefully put it back on Xiao Jingchuan's belt in front of everyone. "Those present, soldiers of Liu Zeqing's army, the second battalion of the left army, listen up!"

"I am the former Northern Expedition Shandong Military Commander-in-Chief, Xiao Jingchuan!"

"Marshal Liu, you are stationing troops in Jining City right now. This is my order!"

"This time when I return to the capital, I will be assigned by the emperor to provide disaster relief and grain."

"I don't care which commander ordered you to come here!"

"Tonight, if anyone dares to mess around here, I will punish them all, including you, Marshal Liu!"

"Let the soldiers go against the imperial court and the emperor's order. Who has the guts to do that?"

At this moment, Xiao Jingchuan first looked at Chang Ting, and then handed Cao Gang to him.

Afterwards, he turned around, straightened his face, took a deep breath and shouted a few words to the black mass of Yangzhou soldiers in the outer circle.

Hearing the sound, the soldiers froze in place and dared not move for a while.

This order obviously played a big role.

After calming down, everyone paused for a moment. Tian Wenyi, who was standing next to them, thought carefully about the pros and cons before speaking again.

But this time, others changed their mind.

Thinking about what he had just done, Tian Wenyi glanced at Ma Weimin with disgust, then looked back and decided not to act rashly anymore.

"Uh, yes!"

"Brothers of the Second Battalion, please obey my orders for the time being and put down your weapons! Put down your weapons!"

As Tian Wenyi finished speaking, the Yangzhou soldiers, who were very stunned, looked at each other. They were stunned for a long time before they responded to his orders. With a clanging sound, some people took the lead and threw their weapons in front of the formation.

Seeing that it was working, Tian Wenyi, who was in charge of logistics in the central army, gritted his teeth and hid his hatred, but he breathed a sigh of relief and turned back to face Xiao Jingchuan, still feeling quite dissatisfied.

"General Xiao!"

"You are a powerful person, and we, as subordinates, have no choice but to bow down to you!"

"Our people are under control for now!"

"You and the people around you couldn't have noticed anything about the situation just now, right?"

"He, Cao Gang, was just talking nonsense, and when he got irritated, he just cursed a few times."

"He's not as good as that old guy named Ma in bluffing!"

"General Xiao is kind and generous."

"Can you forgive Cao Gang for once? I'll ask him to apologize to you. No fight, no friendship. We are both trying to be your friends, but we sincerely want to be friends!"

"I just don't know what Governor Xiao thinks?!"

Tian Wenyi changed his mind and offered to mediate.

He gritted his teeth and lowered his head to give Xiao Lang a way out, and also intentionally pointed out that he wanted to use the soldiers in the camp before him as a trump card to force Xiao Lang to make concessions.

The confrontation with swords drawn is just ahead!

At this moment, even if Xiao Jingchuan tried to hide it, he was determined not to panic.

Moreover, he came here with some plans in mind, and did not want to let the situation get out of control.

While he was thinking about it, Xiao Yesong came and talked.

“You’re in charge of logistics.”

"Tian Wenyi, right?"

"I don't quite understand why you soldiers from Yangzhou don't stay in your own little piece of land and run to Zhenjiang to steal food."

"Tian Wenyi, was this something that your Marshal Liu personally instructed, or did you do it on your own?"

(End of this chapter)