Chapter 428: Execution

Although the border is only a few hundred miles away from Ancheng, there have been constant battles of all sizes over the years, but as long as the border is not broken, Ancheng will always be safe.

The border is like a solid wall that blocks all dangers. Ancheng is like a child protected by adults, safe and worry-free.

Therefore, although the soldiers of Ancheng are well-equipped and trained every year, they usually only patrol and suppress bandits, and have never really been on the battlefield.

Now, when they suddenly heard Yu Cheng say that he would transfer them to reinforce the border to fight against Mobei, they were inevitably a little panicked.

Wang Yuan stood aside silently.

Didn't Yu Cheng say that he couldn't do it, so he gave the orders himself? He wanted to see how Yu Cheng mobilized the garrison.

Wang Yuan sneered in his heart, but his face did not show the slightest bit.

The commander-in-chief Chang Qing was not there, and the governor Wang Yuan did not speak. All the generals stared at Yu Cheng in a daze, and no one responded.

Wang Yuan was very satisfied with this.

Yu Cheng glanced at everyone present, and finally set his eyes on the four generals, and asked solemnly: "General Chang is not here, can you lead the army to the border?"

This... The four generals looked at each other and said in embarrassment: "Please forgive me, Your Highness, without the general's seal and military token, we cannot mobilize the army." The general

's seal and military token again...

Yu Cheng said in a stern voice: "Ancheng is the city of Dazhao, and the garrison troops are the generals of the court. I am here, can't it be that the general's seal and military token are not as effective as the general's seal and military token? My order is not as effective as the general's order?"

The generals were silent after hearing this.

Yu Cheng's expression turned cold when he saw this, and he asked sternly: "What? Has the Ancheng garrison left the court?"

The garrison was just an army that followed orders, how could it leave the court? Unless their commander left the court.

Wang Yuan heard something wrong and said quickly: "Your Highness, calm down. I and the generals are just following the court rules."

"Your Highness, calm down." All the generals knelt on the ground.

"Humph!" Yu Cheng waved his sleeves, glared at Wang Yuan and the four generals, and said: "The court rules are set by the emperor. Now I am here on behalf of the emperor, but you don't obey orders. What do you want to do?"

Facing Yu Cheng's fierce questioning, the generals did not dare to speak out.

After all, they were just following orders from their superiors.

Wang Yuan looked at Yu Cheng with a very intimidating gaze and whispered, "As far as I know, the emperor only appointed you as the commander of the border, and did not give any instructions to Ancheng."

How dare he say that he was pretending to be powerful and passing on the emperor's will? What a prefect of Ancheng.

Yu Cheng sneered, stared at Wang Yuan and took out a token from his arms, put it in front of Wang Yuan and said, "Master Wang, why don't you take a look at what this is?"

As if I were here in person!

The emperor's golden order.

Wang Yuan's face changed drastically after seeing it clearly, and he knelt down and kowtowed.

Yu Cheng took the golden order and slowly moved it in front of the generals so that they could all see it clearly.

"The emperor's golden order is here, and the generals must obey it!" Yu Cheng shouted.

The generals looked at Wang Yuan hesitantly.

It's not that they don't obey orders, but that Yu Cheng can only command them for a while, not for a lifetime. When they return to Ancheng, they still have to obey the orders of Wang Yuan and Chang Qing.

As the saying goes, it is better to offend a gentleman than a villain.

Having served under Wang Yuan and Chang Qing for many years, they know their personalities too well.

Noticing the gazes of the generals, Yu Cheng asked sternly, "Why, the emperor's golden order is not as effective as the governor's words?"

"I am terrified." Wang Yuan was sweating coldly, he couldn't bear this crime!

Yu Cheng stared at Wang Yuan and said, "Then will Lord Wang obey your orders?"

Wang Yuan fell to the ground and said in a panic, "Of course I will obey your orders, but... the garrison is not under my command." He

is still stubborn.

Yu Cheng lost his patience, walked up to Wang Yuan and the general, and said with a cold face, "Since you are useless, you don't need to exist."

What does that mean?

Wang Yuan and the generals were puzzled.

"Swish!" The sound of a sword being unsheathed.

Wang Yuan looked up in shock, and saw a knife with a cold glow coming towards him, landing directly on his neck. The

cold blade pressed against his warm skin, and Wang Yuan's hair stood on end instantly.

"Your Highness..." Wang Yuan opened his mouth in panic to beg for mercy, but as soon as he opened his mouth, Yu Cheng moved his wrist and slashed hard.

The sharp blade easily cut Wang Yuan's neck, and blood gushed out along the blade and splashed all over the ground.

Wang Yuan's eyes widened in horror, and he subconsciously raised his hand to cover the wound on his neck. The blood gushed out from the gaps between Wang Yuan's fingers, shocking the eyes of all the generals.

"Bang!" With a muffled sound, Wang Yuan fell to the ground unwillingly and died of suffocation.

No one expected that Yu Cheng would suddenly kill Wang Yuan, and there was no time to stop him.

He was the governor of a city, and Yu Cheng killed him just like that.

One of the generals lowered his head and looked at his empty scabbard, a little dazed.

He was kneeling beside Wang Yuan, closest to Yu Cheng, and it was his knife that Yu Cheng reached out to pull out just now.

The sudden change made everyone present dumbfounded, and they didn't know how to react.

Especially Wang Yuan's guards.

Their duty was to obey Wang Yuan's orders and protect Wang Yuan's safety.

But now Wang Yuan is dead suddenly, and the person who killed him is the prince. They are at a loss and don't know what to do.

If he wanted to avenge Wang Yuan, the 40,000 generals and guards present could easily kill Yu Cheng.

Yu Cheng only brought a group of guards, and no matter how powerful his martial arts was, he would never be able to defeat so many people. But... no one does that.

When Yu Cheng came, he held the emperor's golden order, as if the emperor were here in person. If the king wants his minister to die, he must die. If they avenged Wang Yuan, it would be treason and regicide.

Secondly, Wang Yuan is already dead, so killing Yu Cheng will not help, and will also affect his family.

Thirdly, they were not convinced by Wang Yuan.

Yu Cheng looked at Wang Yuan's body, calmly pulled out a brocade handkerchief from his sleeve, carefully wiped off the blood on the knife, and then returned the knife to its sheath.

Afterwards, Yu Cheng walked slowly back to the center, looked down at the generals and said in a deep voice: "If the border is breached, Ancheng will be in danger. A cold mouth leads to a cold tooth, don't you understand such a simple truth?"

"Now the generals at the border are still defending, and you can still hide in Ancheng and live in peace. But once the border is breached, the Mobei army will surely attack Ancheng immediately. By then, how long can the 40,000 garrison troops of Ancheng hold out? Is there any chance of winning?"

The generals knelt on the ground, and there was silence.

"Grandmaster Wang Yuan has repeatedly obstructed and resisted orders, and has now been executed by this palace. As for Commander Chang Qing, he will be dismissed from his position as Commander and arrested and punished." After

Yu Cheng finished speaking, he turned to look at the four generals and said, "Can you lead the army to the border?"

The four were hesitant and did not answer immediately.

Yu Cheng asked again, "Who is willing to lead the army to the border?"

Someone said boldly, "May I ask, Your Highness, why do you want to arrest and punish General Chang? If we do not obey the order, will we be treated the same as General Chang?"

Yu Cheng looked at the man and said, "I have been in the army for a long time, where is General Chang?"

"This..." The man could not answer.

Yu Cheng said: "Lord Wang told me that General Chang's mother was seriously ill and went home to take care of her. She is not in Ancheng. You know better than me whether this is true or not." They

did know because they had seen Chang Qing this morning.