"What do you mean?"
General Qiu smiled smugly, "General Gao and the others are in my hands, as well as the few people you left in the barracks. If you don't want them to die, let me go immediately!"
Hearing this, Lu Yunting's face changed.
When he returned to Beijing, he left a few people from the Shadow Pavilion in the Lu family army camp to keep an eye on the situation.
As for the others, they would not set foot in the military camp without his order.
Lu Yunting could tell that General Qiu was not lying, but he still asked, "Why should I believe you?"
Hearing this, General Qiu slowly took out a colorful sword tassel and a jade pendant from his waist.
Lu Yunting recognized those things at a glance. The sword spikes were woven by General Gao’s daughter, and General Gao never took them off.
The jade pendant belonged to another general and was also a personal item.
"How is it? Do you believe it now?"
As General Qiu's voice fell, Lu Yunting burst out with terrifying murderous aura, and veins on his arms bulged.
He gritted his teeth and said sullenly, "What did you do to them?"
"Don't worry, they are still alive and well. However, it is not certain whether they can survive until dawn."
The two confronted each other in silence.
After a while, the two sides ended the fight. All of General Qiu's assassins fell to the ground, and Lin Ji and several others were also injured.
Seeing this situation, General Qiu frowned. He didn't expect that Lin Ji and his men would be much more powerful than the ones Lu Yunting left in the barracks.
Fortunately, he had a backup plan, otherwise he would have died here.
At this time, Lu Yunting slowly said: "I can let you go, but you have to let them all go."
General Qiu smiled, "My dear nephew, you are too greedy. However, since you have Yu'er's blood in your veins, I can promise you one life in exchange for another.
Otherwise, you will have to wait for them to collect their bodies tomorrow. As long as I don't go back, I will kill one of my men and send him to you every day!"
Lu Yunting clenched his fists, then slowly loosened them after a moment.
Quarter of an hour later, Lu Yunting, Ye Wuhen and others followed the instructions of General Qiu and arrived outside a house not far from the city gate.
General Qiu blew a whistle, and a group of men in black walked out of another house in front. One of them was holding the unconscious General Gao hostage.
General Qiu said, "My dear nephew, please don't act rashly. I have more than one hostage."
The implication is that if you save General Gao, several others will die.
"In this case, uncle, you are not afraid to let him go first, right?"
General Qiu was not afraid. He immediately raised his chin towards the man in black opposite him and ordered, "Release him."
The man in black slowly walked over with General Gao, and Lin Ji also stepped forward to pick them up at Lu Yunting's signal.
Soon, Lin Ji successfully took over the unconscious General Gao from the man in black.
Lu Yunting did not dare to gamble with the lives of several generals, and finally released General Qiu as agreed.
General Qiu got on his horse, looked at Lu Yunting with a victorious attitude and said, "I'm waiting for you to kill me."
Afterwards, General Qiu rode away on horseback under the protection of a group of men in black.
Lin Ji followed secretly.
After a while, the unconscious General Gao was rescued by Qingge, who had some knowledge of medicine.
General Gao had just woken up and was in a daze, not knowing where he was. He kept shouting that General Qiu was ungrateful and a traitor, and that if he didn't die, he would behead him and display his head in public!
Lu Yunting asked worriedly: "General Gao, how do you feel?"
Hearing the familiar voice, General Gao suddenly became more sober.
When he saw who was in front of him, he immediately said, "General, Qiu Jian wants to rebel!"
"What?"
"He arrested General Shan and me shortly after the general returned to the capital, and secretly sent the Lu family army led by him back to the capital."
Lu Yunting asked urgently: "How many people did he send back?"
"I don't know. I only know that there were 50,000 soldiers who secretly followed him back to the capital."
"Not good, go to the city gate quickly."
When Lu Yunting and his men arrived at the city gate, all the soldiers guarding the city had been killed and Lin Ji was seriously injured.
If Lin Ji hadn't been worried that Lu Yunting would notice and catch up with him, he would probably have been killed.
Lu Yunting looked grimly at the soldiers at the city gate lying in a pool of blood, his eyes full of murderous intent.
The Lu family army cannot be charged with rebellion!
"You guys guard the city gate." Lu Yunting grabbed the spare horse at the city gate and jumped on it. "I will go to the palace to see His Majesty."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Yunting rode his horse as fast as he could to the imperial city, risking his life to knock on the palace gate at night.
Emperor Yuan was awakened from his sleep by Li Fuquan. When he heard Lu Yunting knocking on the palace gate at night, he immediately had a bad premonition.
As expected.
Lu Yunting knelt before Emperor Yuan and reported everything that had happened tonight.
"You said Qiu Jian intended to rebel?"
"I am guilty, and I am willing to lead the troops to wipe out the rebels!"
Emperor Yuan stared at him expressionlessly for a while and said, "I will let General Zhenguo lead the troops with you."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Afterwards, Emperor Yuan summoned the left and right prime ministers, General Xie Xu and General Zhenguo and others into the palace overnight.
After discussion, they unanimously decided that the 10,000 Lu family soldiers brought back by Lu Yunting were not allowed to participate in the war, and they could not leave the royal training ground until the rebellion was quelled.
In addition, Lu Yunting also had to lead his troops to fight in the front to prove that this rebellion was caused by Qiu Jian alone!
After everything was agreed upon, Lu Yunting and General Zhenguo organized their troops overnight and prepared for war at any time.
At this time, the people in the city were still asleep and had no idea what was about to happen.
It was not until they woke up in the morning and found that the city gates were closed, no one was allowed to enter or leave, and the city was under martial law that they realized something was wrong.
In the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
Emperor Yuan informed all civil and military officials that Qiu Jian had rushed out of the city gate with the intention of rebellion.
After hearing this, all the civil and military officials were shocked and looked at Lu Yunting who was standing in the hall in armor.
Jiang Yueyang lowered her head to glance at the bamboo basket at her feet, which contained the "Thunder Whip".
Last night, Ye Wuhen came to her and told her everything, including that General Qiu was a reborn person.
At this time, the eunuch came hurriedly to report.
"Your Majesty, the city gate reports that the traitor Qiu... has led 30,000 elite soldiers to form a battle array outside the city."
When Emperor Yuan heard this, he immediately turned his head and looked at the two men in armor, "General Zhenguo, General Lu."
The two men stepped out in response, "I am here."
"I order the two of you to lead the troops out of the city immediately to quell the rebellion and capture the traitor!"
"I obey the decree!"
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