Upon hearing this, Jiang Tian was immediately enraged.
These despicable people are using increasingly worse methods.
They will stop at nothing to achieve their goals.
"Shen Lian... I'm leaving the rest to you. Arrest all the people cooking porridge. Once this rebel army is wiped out, I'll deal with them."
"promise……"
With a wave of his hand, Shen Lian led five hundred Imperial Guards and quickly rushed down the city wall.
"My lord, should the city gates be closed?"
"No," Jiang Tian said without hesitation. "A bunch of rabble, I don't even consider them a threat."
"Chen Feilong, lead the brothers and get ready to mount up. Follow me and charge out; I'm going to meet Li Chuang."
"Yes, sir!" Chen Feilong rushed down the city wall and blew a sharp whistle. "Brothers, mount your horses and prepare to leave the city."
Han Xin: "My lord, the enemy is surging in. Look at their banners covering the sky, their swords and spears like a forest, their numbers are numerous."
The scouts sent out by his subordinates said that Li Chuang's main force numbered as many as 200,000.
They are all like wolves and tigers; if you rashly leave the city, the consequences will be unimaginable.
"Han Xin, select two thousand cavalrymen, have them carry fire arrows, and prepare to set fire."
"Set it on fire?" Han Xin glanced at the withered grass and dry willows in the distance. "It's not very realistic to expect those withered grasses to drive the troops back."
"Do as I say."
"After the fire starts, you lead your troops out to fight. I want to see your skills in ambushing from all sides, just like Han Xin."
"Yes," Han Xin quickly cupped his hands and said, "Your subordinate will certainly not disappoint you, my lord."
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Below the city gate, inside the porridge shop, there was a great commotion.
Shen Lian led the Imperial Guards straight to the porridge shop.
The moment these Imperial Guards, dressed in flying fish robes and with embroidered spring knives at their waists, appeared, the scene became much quieter.
"Arrest everyone involved in cooking the porridge." Shen Lian pulled out his waist token and said to the patrolling soldiers, "The Embroidered Uniform Guard is handling this case; you must fully cooperate."
"Yes..." The city guards quickly cooperated with the Imperial Guards.
"Did you all hear that? Take control of everyone involved in cooking the porridge. No one is getting away."
The ground was littered with the remains of victims who had been poisoned; their deaths were gruesome.
Many of the survivors who had not been poisoned lay on the ground, shouting and yelling.
"Who was it that was spreading rumors and slandering our Lord Jiang just now?"
"Arrest them all." Shen Lian said without hesitation.
"Sir, we've been poisoned. It hurts, it hurts so much!"
"My lord, we are living a life worse than death. These... Jiang Tian... are trying to kill us."
"My lord, Jiang Tian is a beast in human form; he will not die a good death."
"My lord, Jiang Tian killed my brother, and I'm going to die too. I'll haunt Jiang even as a ghost."
Upon hearing this, Shen Lian roared, "How dare you... Lord Jiang is kind-hearted and took you in, yet you are so ungrateful!"
Those who are poisoned should be taken to a clinic for treatment.
Those who poisoned him will not escape; we will bring them to justice.
“If we adults wanted to kill you, would we need to resort to such despicable methods as poisoning? We would just line you up and behead you, or expel you from the country.”
"Lord Jiang, why go to all this trouble, providing you with food and drink?"
The Imperial Guards quickly dispersed.
Shen Lian raised his voice and shouted, "Fellow villagers, rest assured, those murderers will not escape the pursuit of our Embroidered Uniform Guard."
Those with ulterior motives were plotting to help that scoundrel Li Chuang seize my lord's Dragon City, but my lord didn't even close the city gates; he didn't take Li Chuang seriously at all.
"Those who kill my people will only have one fate: to be executed by slow slicing and their entire families will be exterminated. I will not let any of them go."
The people then realized what was happening.
"Yes, if Lord Jiang wanted to kill us, he wouldn't need to poison us at all. He could just ignore us and we would fend for ourselves."
“An army is coming from afar; those must be the rebels.”
"The person who poisoned us was a member of Li Chuang's rebel army. This land is where Li Chuang's rebel army and spies were buried!" Shen Lian roared.
At this moment, some of Li Chuang's spies could no longer contain themselves and panicked.
These spies, in their panic, fled haphazardly towards Li Zicheng's rebel army.
If one spy loses his composure, there will be two; if two spies lose their composure, there will be ten.
More and more spies, in a panic, ran wildly into the distance.
"Lord Shen, kill them!" The nearby commoners and the staff of the porridge shop were enraged upon seeing this.
"Lord Shen, we cannot let them go."
"They killed so many brothers."
Everyone was eager to charge forward.
The Embroidered Uniform Guards were also preparing to take action.
"Don't panic," Shen Lian said, his eyes like those of an eagle, fixed on the people running into the distance.
In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, five or six hundred people had run several hundred steps.
"Kill..." Shen Lian swung his embroidered spring knife forward, "Kill them all."
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
A volley of arrows pierced the air, heading straight for the backs of Li Chuang's spies.
Puff puff puff...
The arrows pierced the traitor's back.
"Giddy up..." Shen Lian and his men quickly spurred their horses forward, heading straight for those who had not yet been shot and cutting them down.
"Leave one-tenth alive, kill the rest." Shen Lian charged ahead, taking the lead and cleaving a spy in two with a single stroke.
Shen Lian looked at the Embroidered Spring Blade in his hand and said with a happy expression, "The Embroidered Spring Blade that our lord provided us with is truly a treasure."
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
The Imperial Guards responsible for hunting down the spies quickly pulled out their folding crossbows and fired a barrage of shots at the legs of the fleeing spies.
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