Chapter 148

The Captain guarding the gate immediately greets Liu Wei and Chen Ye.

Liu Wei is frowning, and Chen Ye is hanging his head.

Seeing the tightly closed city gate, Liu Wei's expression becomes even uglier.

"What is going on? Why close the city gate?" Liu Wei scolds.

The Captain quickly puts down the straight sword in his hand and bows, replying: "Reporting to the Commandery Governor, several dozen riders suddenly arrived outside, carrying hundreds of heads, and your subordinate did not know who they were."

"To avoid causing unnecessary panic in the city, I ordered the city gates closed."

"Hmph," Liu Wei snorts coldly: "It's only a few dozen people; there are two thousand soldiers in the city, are you afraid of these few dozen?"

"In broad daylight, hanging heads to show off, they are definitely not good people."

"Men, open the gate for me, send out troops, arrest them all, and if there is any resistance, kill them without mercy."

Liu Wei, with his hands behind his back, says in an unfriendly tone.

By now, hundreds of soldiers have gathered at the Dongmen.

Instead of the hundred or so from before.

Now that Liu Wei has ordered the gate opened, the Captain naturally has much more confidence.

So he immediately orders the city gate to be opened.

Hundreds of commandery soldiers, holding long spears, block the city gate tunnel, and the moment the gate opens, they swarm out like a beehive.

Liu Wei and Chen Ye take the opportunity to climb onto the city wall.

In the distance, in Duan Yu's direction.

"Brother Duan," Tie Shitou looks at Duan Yu standing not far behind him: "Brother Duan, the city gate is open, there are so many commandery soldiers."

"Brother Duan, they..." Wang Hunu stands on the other side and says: "They seem to want to fight us?"

Duan Yu nods upon hearing this, but is not surprised.

In fact, all of this was within his expectations.

He returned alive, and even slaughtered the Longshan bandits; this news would surely fly to County Magistrate Chen Ye.

Chen Ye, knowing he cannot hide the matter, would certainly tell Commandery Governor Liu Wei.

If Liu Wei does not want his dirty dealings with Lishan Feng exposed, he will definitely choose to kill to silence him.

However...

He still has one trump card he hasn't revealed yet.

This trump card is...

Boom—!

Boom—!

Just as the Dongmen of Jinyang City was opened.

And hundreds of commandery soldiers, holding long spears, were pouring out of the city with murderous intent.

A dense sound of horse hooves, like thunder, rang out on the long street.

The leading general is wearing armor and holding a long sword.

Behind him are dozens of elite cavalry.

Behind the dozens of cavalry are two carriages.

Following the carriages are over a hundred soldiers.

"Move aside!"

"All move aside!"

Before the dozens of cavalry, Hua Xiong, holding a long sword, looks majestic with a cold gaze.

The people on the long street immediately scatter to avoid them.

On the city wall, Liu Wei and Chen Ye, who had just climbed up, clearly hear the sound behind them and cannot help but look back.

When he sees the attire of the dozens of cavalry and the general on horseback, Liu Wei's brow furrows instantly.

Dong Zhuo.

In this Jinyang City, the only one who can have so many private soldiers is Dong Zhuo.

"Why did he come?" Liu Wei mutters to himself, frowning in confusion.

Beside him, Chen Ye quickly lowers his voice and says: "My lord, could Dong Zhuo be here to... snatch the people?"

"My lord, Dong Zhuo has always been at odds with you; he wanted to exterminate the Longshan bandits before, but was interfered with by you."

"Now, I fear Dong Zhuo has heard some rumors."

"If that Lishan Feng really said something, or if Lishan Feng is still alive, falling into the hands of that little Patrol Officer wouldn't be much."

"But if he falls into Dong Zhuo's hands..."

Liu Wei's expression changes drastically upon hearing this.

Chen Ye is right.

Dong Zhuo is not that little Patrol Officer.

If Dong Zhuo really gets his hands on some incriminating evidence, even if he doesn't find a way to deal with him, he will have a handle on him in the future.

Then in this Taiyuan Commandery, wouldn't he be at Dong Zhuo's mercy?

So Liu Wei immediately turns around and shouts at the Captain who has already left the city: "Immediately arrest those bandits, no mistakes allowed!"

The Captain, who had just led his troops out of the city, receives the order and commands his soldiers to prepare to surround Duan Yu and the others.

In the distance, Tie Shitou, beside Duan Yu, also hears Liu Wei's shout.

His eyes widen: "Brother Duan, that man says we are bandits!"

"We were ordered to suppress the bandits, how did we become bandits instead?"

Duan Yu smiles and looks at Tie Shitou, comforting him: "Just because he says so?"

The reason Duan Yu dares to say this is because he has already looked past the city gate tunnel and seen the cavalry unit inside the city.

The leader is the very general he saw that day when he met Li Ru.

There is no need to guess; this must be Dong Zhuo's troops.

And this is exactly the trump card he was waiting for.

Borrowing strength to strike.

He can only borrow Dong Zhuo's strength to strike this Taiyuan Commandery Governor now.

Borrowing Dong Zhuo's strength to strike Wang Yun is not very likely.

But to strike such a Taiyuan Commandery Governor, it is currently enough.

"The Inspector has an order: no one is to move, those who disobey will be dealt with by military law!"

Hua Xiong, riding on his horse, shouts almost immediately after Liu Wei's voice fades.

The voice passes through the city gate tunnel and reaches the ears of the city-guarding Captain.

The Captain is stunned on the spot.

Commandery Governor Liu Wei told him to arrest the bandits.

But the Inspector told him not to move troops?

Who should he listen to?

The Captain is in a dilemma.

An Inspector is a provincial supervisory official, responsible for supervising the officials of the province and commanderies, with a rank of six hundred shi.

While a Commandery Governor is the chief official of a commandery, with two thousand shi.

In terms of rank alone, although the Inspector is one level higher than the Commandery Governor, the Inspector only has the power to supervise officials and no administrative power.

So on this point, the Captain should undoubtedly listen to the Commandery Governor.

However, Inspectors are not all the same.

Bingzhou is a borderland, and Dong Zhuo is a military man with troops in his hands.

In the borderlands, it has always been that whoever has troops and the biggest fist has the final say.

And Dong Zhuo also supervises all officials.

The Captain is therefore in a difficult position.

On the city wall, Liu Wei, upon hearing Hua Xiong's shout, confirms that Dong Zhuo is indeed trying to snatch the people from him.

"Bold! Who are you to casually countermand my orders?"

"Do not listen to this man, arrest those people outside the city for me."

Liu Wei first scolds Hua Xiong, then issues the order to the Captain again. ===== CHAPTER 150 =====