Wu Jie looked at the knights who dismounted from their horses and crossed the river at the floating bridge, then remounted. He nodded repeatedly and continued calmly, "That's exactly the reason. No matter what, the commander-in-chief should explain the matter of Wang Jinglüe to the angel. Otherwise, wouldn't the twenty or so generals on Jingyuan Road be implicated by the commander-in-chief and then regarded as traitors by the court? Wu was born in a good family. He worked hard for seventeen years, but he never thought of rebelling."

Qu Duan, who was riding on the iron elephant, was slightly stunned, and then his face suddenly changed. Just as he was about to speak, he followed the other party's gaze and suddenly looked towards the bridge entrance.

It was only at this time that Qu Duan noticed that Wu Lin, who was supposed to turn back directly to the other side of the river, had followed him at some point. Not only that, when he was talking with Wu Jie just now, Wu Lin's guards and his, Qu Duan's guards, were mixed together to cross the river. At this moment, half of the guards, about a hundred people, who had just crossed the river, were Wu Lin's troops and his own guards.

In other words, there were only a few dozen of Qu Duan's personal guards on this side of the river, but they were surrounded by the Wu brothers' guards, which were more than three times their number.

"Don't cross the other side again!"

At this time, Wu Lin at the bridgehead also jumped on his horse and raised his voice to the bridge: "The commander-in-chief is a general from the outer garrison. He is going to the city to meet the envoy from the government. According to the rules, he cannot bring too many guards... There are enough people. The rest of you should wait on the other side of the river. I will bring you food later."

Complaints arose from the other side of the river, with some even questioning why Wu Jie had to go through all this empty formalities when he clearly had his troops stationed in the city?

However, several guard officers who were familiar with Wu Lin soon came to the rescue, asking if the imperial envoys had any rewards, would they share them equally? Would there be wine and meat later? And so on.

As soon as these words were spoken, the people on the other side burst into laughter, and no one paid any attention to the previous complaints.

Qu Duan turned around and looked at him coldly: "Da Wu, what are you brothers doing?"

"It's not that we want to do anything, but the angel is very clever. He pointed out that you suggested killing Wang Jinglie and said that you wanted to rebel, and then he took the opportunity to blame me." Wu Jie answered frankly. "I was forced into a corner, and I don't want to be wronged, so I can only use this method to ask the governor to meet the angel in person!"

"You idiot angel!" Qu Duan came back to his senses and sneered. "Nine out of ten, Yuwen Xu got a few eunuchs from Tokyo and used them to take over the top. You have been in the army for 17 or 18 years, and you have become the commander of the army. You are the first general under my command. How could I control you like this?"

"They are not some eunuchs, but the Chief Censor and the Deputy Chief Military Officer of the Privy Council." Wu Jie continued calmly. "These two were the emperor's confidants who fled from Nanyang City at the beginning of the year and went to Yanling to fight the battle... These two are the emperor's original intention!"

"Just because I was beaten by Xue Feng, they said I wanted to rebel?" Qu Duan was stunned when he heard the previous identity introduction, but then he became resentful.

"General, there is no point in saying more now. Why don't you go to the city to meet with the Chief Censor and explain things face to face?" Wu Jie also became impatient.

Qu Duan was stunned and said nothing.

"The commander-in-chief doesn't think that I, Wu Jie, want to harm you, right?" Wu Jie was getting more and more impatient. "If so, you can just go to the floating bridge and order a fight... But if you do that, I'm afraid everyone in the world will know that you want to rebel."

"I am no match for despicable people like you brothers!" Qu Duan finally sneered, but rode his horse towards Zhiluo City.

Wu Jie's face was grim. He also turned around and mounted his horse, then galloped after the knights on the north side of the bridge.

After walking two or three miles, they arrived in front of the city, but saw Qu Duan riding a fast horse and arriving at the city gate early. However, he did not enter the city, as if he was on guard and wanted to wait for the dozens of guards who followed him before entering.

However, when they arrived in front of the city, before Qu Duan could speak, Wu Jie simply turned around and shouted: "Half of the people who came with the commander-in-chief will stay, and only the other half can enter!"

Qu Duan was furious, and turned around on his horse and pointed at him with his whip: "Wu Jie, do you really want to rebel against me?"

At this point, Wu Jie was too lazy to pretend to be nice to him, so he simply raised his head and whipped his horsewhip to confront him: "General Qu, the Censor-in-Chief is here with the emperor's order. You are the Prime Minister, if you don't obey my orders, do you really want to rebel against the Song Dynasty?!"

The guards around were already stunned, but the two sides were one family, and when they looked at each other, they were all panicked.

Qu Duan was furious, but there was nothing he could do. He just sneered and urged the iron elephant under his crotch to gallop into the city. The remaining guards looked at each other, and indeed, half of them were left behind under Wu Lin's pressure, and only about twenty riders followed into the city.

However, that was not all. After entering the city, Qu Dutong had only taken a hundred steps when he was intercepted by an armed group at the first street intersection.

Qu Duan turned around and saw Wu Jie leading a hundred cavalrymen. He was completely furious: "Great Wu! You are not going to rebel against me today, you are going to kill me, right? I, Qu Duan, have been in Guanxi for twenty years, but I am going to be killed by my subordinates in the army?"

"Does the commander-in-chief also know that subordinates should not threaten their superiors?!" Wu Jie reined in his horse and approached him, still fearless. "Qu Da! Think carefully, what I am doing to you today is no different from what you did to Wang Jinglue in the camp of Diaoyin Mountain? Didn't he come to see you, his subordinate, just like that, but half of the guards were gone after passing through a checkpoint... If you, Qu Da, didn't have the intention to kill your superiors and rebel, how could I, Da Wu, have such an intention? What I did today was just to make you sober up!"

Qu Duan was stunned and speechless, then he rode his horse silently through the street checkpoint.

And then, just as Wu Jie said, Qu Duan suffered the same fate as Wang Shu did in his camp that day... At every street corner and gate, half of the guards were left behind, and when they arrived at the gate of the county prison, only one was left.

Seeing that the only guard on horseback was also forcibly stopped by Wu Jie's soldiers, Qu Da dismounted and continued to move forward. But as soon as he stepped into the prison, he suddenly felt cold all over and could no longer suppress it. Then he stopped and looked up at the sky, sighing.

"Now that we've come this far, what do you want to do?" Wu Jie followed behind him, looking at him coldly.

"I feel sorry for Tiexiang. This horse can travel 400 miles a day. It is the best horse in Guanxi." Qu Duan looked up at the sky. "I will give it to you in the future. It won't be a disgrace to him."

This time it was Wu Jie's turn to be furious: "Qu Da! No one wants to kill you! We just asked you to defend yourself! If the Chief Censor wants to kill you without any evidence, I will let you go even if it costs me my life!"

Qu Duan shook his head slightly, without making any excuses, but finally stepped proudly into the prison.