Chapter 201: Something seems wrong

"These bandits, they bully me too much!" Liu Xuecheng looked at the letter in his hand and, in a fit of rage, threw the teapot beside him.

"Bang!"

The servant delivering the message knelt on the ground, trembling, fearing he would touch Liu Xuecheng's bad luck.

Liu Xuecheng tore up the letter, calming down only after a long time, and ordered the servant: "Send another letter to the Prince of Zhenbei!"

"Yes!"

This time, Liu Xuecheng didn't even write the letter himself, and the content was extremely brief.

The general meaning was that Panjiang City had been broken, the commoners were in dire straits, and Liu Xuecheng requested 10,000 troops to suppress the bandits.

Rather than a request for troops, it was more like a notification. Liu Xuecheng had lost all patience. If the Prince of Zhenbei replied with the same excuse this time, he wouldn't care anymore and would just send troops to suppress the bandits directly.

As for the Prince of Zhenbei or the Crown Prince holding him accountable afterward, he could stand his ground. After all, the bandits were "harming" the commoners, and as a good official serving the country and the people, he naturally couldn't tolerate sand in his eyes.

By then, he would spread the matter to all the Juns in Beijiang. Presumably, facing the public opinion pressure from the commoners, the Prince of Zhenbei and the Crown Prince wouldn't punish him.

The reason he chose to break the pot was simple: he had already sensed that something was wrong.

Based on his understanding of the Prince of Zhenbei, his first request to suppress the bandits couldn't have been rejected, and the reason given was extremely far-fetched.

But he still chose to believe the Prince of Zhenbei and waited for a period of time before making the second request. Unexpectedly, despite frequent reports of victory from the front lines, the same excuse was used to reject him.

This series of strange reactions made Liu Xuecheng feel uneasy, but he didn't know which part had gone wrong.

However, there was one thing he was very clear about: now that Yangguangzhai could take Panjiang City, it was already a threat to him.

Before, they were just small cities, and it didn't matter if they were lost. After all, it was just a bandit stronghold of a few hundred people; he figured they couldn't stir up any waves.

Now that they could break Panjiang City, he couldn't turn a blind eye anymore.

After all, these bandits were attacking cities one after another; did he have to keep praying in Guangwu City that they wouldn't come?

The best opportunity had already been missed. This time, he wouldn't let Yangguangzhai develop any further. If he missed this opportunity, his position as a Jun Governor would be in name only.

"Pass the order! Assemble 10,000 garrison troops and prepare for battle."

Liu Xuecheng had made up his mind; he was just waiting for the Prince of Zhenbei's reply to send troops to suppress the bandits.

The merchant caravan's return journey was much faster than the trip there because they were only carrying ten carts of timber, which was much lighter.

Passing by Baiyan City, Jiang Jinshi took a group of bandits and left the team. After all, they had reached their own territory and wouldn't encounter any danger.

Currently, Jiang Jinshi needed to find Luo Feng to understand the situation and hand over the bandits behind him to him.

So many people entering the city naturally attracted the attention of the city defense squad leader. When Jiang Jinshi approached the city wall, he saw Wang Sixi standing respectfully at the city gate.

"Welcome, Great Master!"

"Sixi! Where is Luo Feng?"

Wang Sixi replied: "Great Master, Captain Luo is in Panjiang City! Even Captain Zhang and Captain Jiang are there."

"Good!"

Jiang Jinshi was naturally no stranger to Panjiang City. After all, Luo Feng had asked him for instructions, but he only knew the name of the city; he had no idea where it was or how big it was.

"Sixi! Find a brother who knows the way to take me to Panjiang City, and then take these people to register. They are all brothers who have newly joined Yangguangzhai."

Jiang Jinshi ordered Wang Sixi, while he prepared to turn and go to Panjiang City.

"Good!" Wang Sixi first stood straight to respond, then said with some hesitation: "Great Master... I'm sorry, I let you down!"

Jiang Jinshi naturally knew what Wang Sixi meant, and immediately patted him on the shoulder and said.

"Laziness is not terrible; what's terrible is that you cannot recognize your own laziness! I believe in you, keep training hard. Next time there's a promotion, I hope to see your name!"

"Definitely!"

Wang Sixi nodded heavily. When he was first sent to Shixian Mountain to guard, he was actually still maintaining daily training.

But after only a few days of flattery from his subordinates and a life without anyone to restrain him, he gradually became slack.

He even developed a thought in his heart: he was a veteran-level figure of Yangguangzhai, and with the blessing of divine power, his future days would certainly be smooth sailing, and no one could replace his position.

Once such a thought was born, his whole person became exceptionally relaxed. He stopped his daily training and did nothing but drink or sleep with his subordinates.

Except for the salt mine matter, which he still managed, everything else was thrown to the back of his mind.

It wasn't until he saw Yangguangzhai again after coming down the mountain that he realized how stupid his thoughts were.

The internal struggle within Yangguangzhai was very intense now, and everyone wanted to get ahead and become a small squad leader or even a medium squad leader.

He used to be proud of his identity as a small squad leader, but now small squad leaders were as common as hair on an ox.

But the "veterans" who were once with him had now all become medium squad leaders or even large squad leaders.

Even latecomers like Nie Fengyun and Jiang Ze had gone further than him, yet he was still marking time.

Xiexiezi was the same; after obtaining divine power, not only did he not slack off, but he trained even more fiercely, becoming one of the capable generals under the Great Master now.

He was deeply hit, and Luo Feng had also talked to him for several hours, making him deeply understand his ideological error.

Now he started training and started learning to grab missions and fight for credit with everyone, determined to restore his position as a capable general.

Jiang Jinshi didn't care about everything Wang Sixi was thinking. Now he was riding a horse to Panjiang City.

At this moment, Panjiang City was still in the first stage after the city was broken, and even the matter of registering household deeds for the commoners in the city hadn't been completed.

There was no way; this really wasn't Luo Feng being lazy, but the population of Panjiang City was truly too large, at least three times more than Jiangcheng.

Of course, the area of the city was also much larger, and it was no problem to accommodate the thousands of bandits of Yangguangzhai.

Luo Feng was handling city affairs. Although there were many people in Panjiang City, the commoners were very cooperative, so settling down was just a matter of time.

"Captain Luo, the Great Master is here!" At this time, a subordinate came to report.

Luo Feng stood up with a "swish." This large squad leader, who hadn't panicked even when leading 5,000 bandits to attack Panjiang City, was now visibly panicked.

There was no way; he had lost nearly a thousand brothers the first time, and he really had no confidence in his heart, but he still braced himself to go out of the city to welcome him.

Jiang Jinshi was looking up at Panjiang City at this moment, lost in thought.

The scale of this city...

It seems a bit wrong?! ===== CHAPTER 202 =====