Hearing the noise, several guards outside rushed in again with weapons.
The two personal guards hurriedly stood beside Shen Xu, acting as if they were ready to protect him at the risk of their lives.
"Pei Zhiyuan." Shen Xu quickly pulled out the hairpin on her head and threw it into Pei Zhiyuan's hand.
Pei Zhiyuan caught the hairpin and the butterfly knife suddenly unfolded. He slashed the neck of one of the men on the spot and quickly moved behind the other man, with the hairpin-shaped butterfly knife already against that man's neck.
He lowered his voice and threatened, "Tell your people to get out."
"Father, brother!" The man struggled in panic, shouting angrily, "You, you dare to assassinate my father and brother! Capture them all!"
"Whoever dares to step forward will lose the life of your young master!" Pei Zhiyuan shouted and pushed the hairpin in his hand deeper. Blood came out from the man's neck, staining his brand new and shiny silver armor red.
Shen Xu stood calmly beside the already incapacitated Su Yi, showing the imperial token and sternly reprimanding him: "Grand Marshal Su was passive and lazy in his duties, indulging in women while leading the army, delaying military operations and causing the loss of 150,000 troops. Internally, he colluded with the evil concubine, causing chaos beyond his authority and plotting to murder the emperor.
He has now been executed by my prime minister, and the traitor has not yet been eliminated. The court is willing to show leniency to the remaining followers of the national teacher and pardon them to atone for their sins.
If anyone still disobeys the imperial order and openly provokes or attacks an official of the imperial court, they will be killed without mercy!"
The leading soldier shouted and rushed forward. The guard beside Shen Xu snatched his knife away swiftly and cut the man's neck with his backhand.
Chen Xu shouted, "This is the Grand Marshal Pei. All the military pay and supplies are distributed after his approval. Since you are all eating the emperor's salary, you can't share the worries of the thieves!"
Several soldiers from the Marshal's Mansion were in an uproar, holding their weapons and not daring to move.
Seeing that the situation here had stabilized, Shen Xu ordered one of the guards, "Go, call all the generals currently guarding this city to the command camp. I want to personally supervise the repulse of the enemy."
Shen Xu asked Pei Zhiyuan to hold Young Master Su hostage and search out Su Yi's tiger talisman, asked the people in the mansion to block the news that Su Yi died of poisoning, ordered someone to hit Su Yi's head, and then went to the training ground.
When they arrived at the training ground, they saw Song Lin fighting with several soldiers for some unknown reason. He was holding an embroidered spring sword, dancing with it with a ping-pong sound. He was fighting against three armored soldiers at the same time, but he was not at a disadvantage at all.
The soldiers around were still cheering: "Okay, okay, beat him, beat him!"
Shen Xu frowned and asked, "What happened?"
"They are sparring with Mr. Song. When they heard that you killed the Imperial Preceptor, some people didn't believe it and wanted to test his martial arts.
By the way, my lords, have you met Marshal Su so soon? "The soldiers who received them were former subordinates of General Yu, and they were polite to them.
Shen Xu nodded slightly and said calmly: “Well, it’s solved.”
The soldier didn't seem to understand her words and said blankly, "The people have been gathered at the command camp. What are your orders, sir?"
Song Lin on the open ground quickly turned over and slapped one of the soldiers with the back of his knife. After jumping over the other soldier, he withdrew his hands and feet and quickly knocked both of them to the ground.
He put away his knife, clasped his fists and said, "Thank you."
"I'm convinced." The three soldiers climbed up from the ground, patted the dirt, and praised repeatedly: "Song Langjun is really good at martial arts!"
"The two swordsmen of the Wang family are here to seek instruction." Two more people emerged from the crowd, each holding a large gold-threaded ring knife.
Shen Xu interrupted, "Husband, let's go into the tent to discuss matters."
Song Lin looked at Shen Xu who was standing not far away, clasped his fists and said, "Excuse me."
"Mr. Song, let's fight for a while longer." The two men seemed to feel a little disappointed. They twirled the knives with their wrists and quickly attacked Song Lin.
Song Lin turned around swiftly, punched one of them in the abdomen, and used the handle of a knife to hit the other man's waist, and quickly dealt with both of them.
He walked over amid the laughter of the onlookers and asked with concern, "You came out of the General's Mansion so quickly, are you hurt?"
"No, things went pretty smoothly."
Shen Xu raised her eyes to look at him, smiling gently and comfortably. She gently wiped the sweat from his forehead with the corner of her sleeve and said gently, "Are you tired? Don't be so arrogant, you will get hurt."
"Please bandage my injury, but you can't use paper money anymore, or you'll have a fever." Song Lin lowered his head slightly with a smile in his eyes, letting her raise her hand to wipe the sweat off his face carefully.
Pei Zhiyuan looked at Song Lin's happy face with great confusion, thinking to himself, you have never seen her evil smile, who knows how sinister and scary her expression was when she poisoned Su Yi just now.
Even a man who had been through hundreds of battles and killed countless people felt horrified just by looking at it. Even in the hot summer, he felt cold sweat running down his back.
Pei Zhiyuan seemed to have foreseen the fate of Xue Yan, the leader of the Xue army, and secretly felt lucky that he was not her enemy.
But you must not make an enemy of her!
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Several people entered the command tent together. A dozen soldiers were already sitting around a table with a sand table in the middle.
Someone saw Shen Xu and Pei Zhiyuan enter the tent and quickly stood up to praise: "This weapon is really well designed. With this weapon, we will definitely be able to defeat the Xue army!"
Shen Xu glanced at the person who stood up to praise him, then glanced at the person who sat on the chair with a look of disdain, and the person who simply didn't come.
She asked her personal guards to place the three boxes of Master Hua and others on the table, and asked the general next to her to introduce the names and positions of the people present, and she wrote them down carefully.
He immediately produced the Tiger Talisman and said, "Everyone, Marshal Su claims to be seriously ill and can no longer lead the troops. He has handed the Tiger Talisman to me and Lord Pei. From now on, Lord Pei and I will have full command of this battle."
At this moment, one of the men sitting on the chairs slammed the table, stood up, and said, "Why should we obey your orders? You are a woman, a noble from the capital, how can you understand warfare? I want to see the Marshal and ask him personally!"
I saw Shen Xu's lips slightly raised, and he said calmly: "Okay."
Whoosh—
The two secret guards behind her quickly raised their arms, and two hidden arrows shot out from their sleeves, one hitting the man in the face and the other hitting the man in the neck.
The man's body tilted and he fell on the person next to him.
"Come here!" Seeing this, several generals stood up from their chairs excitedly and shouted for the guards to enter the tent.
Shen Xu had his men display the tokens and tiger talismans, and shouted, "The imperial golden seal and tiger talisman are in my hands. Are you planning a rebellion?"
"They are assassins, trying to kill the commander of the right army. Capture them!" The leader stood behind the guards who rushed forward and gave orders loudly.
"Wait a minute!"
Shen Xu calmly had the box on the table opened and said, "This head belongs to Master Hua, and I killed him. This head belongs to Cao Jing, the commander of the Third Battalion of the Imperial City Guard, and I also killed him."
"This head... belongs to Su Yi, the Grand Marshal of the Royal Army," she gently stroked the new wooden box and slowly opened it, her voice as cold and ruthless as a ghost.
"It was this little girl who killed him!"
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