An Qing nodded, with a trace of murderous intent flashing in his eyes, "Once it is found out, there is no need to report, just kill directly, understand?"
Xiao Tian quickly responded, and then quickly left the palace.
Xiao Tian returned home, his face still gloomy.
The defeat at Heguan made him look big in front of An Qing.
What's even worse is that An Qing now suspects there is a traitor.
Once this kind of thing is investigated, I don’t know how many people will die.
Xiao Tian’s wife saw his sad face and asked worriedly, "Master, what happened?"
He needs to think carefully about who this traitor is.
Logically speaking, not many people know about the plan to attack Heguan.
Apart from him and An Qing, there are only a few confidants.
Could it be one of these confidants?
Xu Tao, that’s impossible. He is the general in charge of the attack. If he collaborates with the enemy, isn’t he setting himself up for trouble?
Zhou Shen and Lu Chen... That's even more impossible.
Wait a minute! Xiao Tian suddenly thought of something. This matter might not have been done by his people at all.
It was done by Wenren Muyuan's fellow disciples or Yun Zhongzi's people.
These two people have quite a bit of criticism about his overwhelming power, especially his recent performance can be described as a disaster.
This gave them even more opportunities to disrupt the situation. "These two bastards, the country is in danger and their survival is not guaranteed, yet they are still doing things behind the scenes." Thinking of this, Xiao Tian angrily tore up the paper and began to think about how to get revenge on those two people.
However, Xiao Tian never imagined that Ye Cheng's quick reaction had nothing to do with the mole.
On the way back from Fangcheng, Ye Cheng guessed that An Qing would go back on his words.
So...Ye Cheng separated from An Ning and the others directly in Ye County.
An Ning took Zhou An, Wang Minfeng, Su Ling and others back to Phoenix City, while Ye Cheng took An Xin directly to Heguan.
On the way to Heguan, Ye Cheng received news from Xu Tao and learned that except for Su Daji, the other demon kings were bewitched by An Qing and agreed to join forces with him.
Him also told Ye Cheng that the demon clan's army was being organized, and the number of troops expected to participate in the battle was far more than the 600,000 previously estimated.
Hence, Ye Cheng decisively transferred Yu Zhong back to Phoenix City, and Heguan was directly handed over to An Xin.
After doing all this, Ye Cheng immediately used his secret method to teleport to Guangzhou and talked with Kong Xuandai about assisting in the defense of Heguan.
Dai Li refused because of the small number of people in his tribe, but Kong Xuan agreed and recruited a hundred thousand peacock soldiers. Ye Cheng immediately used secret methods to send them to Heguan.
This was the defeat of Xu Tao's army.
Three days later, Ye Cheng rushed to Heguan. The first thing he did when he arrived at Heguan was to hold a banquet to thank Kong Xuan.
That night, in the Heguan County Magistrate's Mansion, people were drinking and drinking.
Ye Cheng raised his glass and toasted to Kong Xuan, "Peacock King, thanks to you this time, otherwise the river pass would have been in danger."
Hong Xuan waved his hand, "Mr. Ye is very polite. Since we have chosen to cooperate, we will naturally advance and retreat together."< br/>
"But..." Kong Xuan paused, "I have a request."
Ye Cheng put down his wine glass and looked at Kong Xuandao curiously, "But it doesn't matter."
"I want to learn your human race's technology of building city walls."
Kong Xuan's tone was very serious, "Although our demon race is strong individually, we are indeed not as good as the human race in terms of defenses."
"This time An Qing sent 30,000 troops to test, and the next time he comes, it may be 300,000. And as far as I know, except for Su Daji, all the other nine demon kings of the Great Zhou Dynasty have been Qing was convinced. "
"The army is being organized in the past few days, and there may be demon troops coming next time."
"By then, we will not be able to defend the poor city defense of Heguan, so..."
Ye Cheng thought for a moment and nodded.
Monsters do not know how to build cities, but compared to humans, the biggest advantage of demons is their physical strength.
How can you not do physical work if you have good physical strength? Therefore, Ye Cheng must of course teach them how to build the city wall.
This kind of work is just right for them.
"I will bring someone to guide you tomorrow."
Seeing Ye Cheng's promise, Kong Xuan's eyes flashed with surprise, "Thank you, General."
"Your Majesty, you are welcome, we are allies, aren't we?"
In the next few days, Ye Cheng personally guided the peacock demons in building the city wall.
Peacocks are originally the king of birds. They are not very intelligent, so they learn easily. Within a few days, they learned how to build city walls.
Three days later, a solid city wall that began to take shape was built.
The city defense at Heguan has become much stronger as a result.
After the city wall was built, the first batch of immigrants also came.
When Ye Cheng was about to leave, Zheng Hao saw a group of people queuing up for inspection.
Ye Cheng was originally ready to take one look and leave, but at this glance, he saw a problem.
The first batch of immigrants were all old people, women and children.
There is not a single young and strong man in the team.
Ye Cheng immediately called over the official responsible for accepting immigrants, "Tell me, what's going on?"
The official was a little helpless, "Guo Gong, this is not our problem, it is the Puppet Zhou who set the immigration standards."
"All lightly-dressed men between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five do not meet the immigration standards, so, Mr. Guo, you have also seen it."
Hearing this, Ye Cheng was so angry that he almost laughed out loud.
What an Anqing! This loophole is beautifully captured!
The agreement does say that free movement is allowed, but it does not stipulate that standards cannot be set.
An Qing actually used this skill to block all the young adults!
But now, who can be blamed? It is true that he did not write that immigration standards cannot be set.
Ye Cheng had no choice but to suppress the anger in his heart and focus on the present first.
"Settlement these people, provide them with food and shelter. None of the things we publicized before should be missing."
"In addition, send people to sneak into Runzhou to investigate and see how many people want to immigrate but are unable to leave."
"Yes."
After dealing with the immigration matter, Ye Cheng returned to his room.
An Xin is waiting for him there.
"How is it? Are you disgusted by my imperial sister?"
Ye Cheng smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Her move is indeed cruel enough.
She complied with the agreement on the surface, but actually kept all the useful people."
An Xin sneered, "This is the style of my good imperial sister."
"But if she does this, it can be regarded as a complete break-up, right?"
An Xin nodded, "Brother-in-law, isn't this what you want? If An Qing doesn't abide by the contract, then we have an excuse to fight them?"
Ye Cheng sneered and nodded, "The problem is, this excuse is not enough."
"Then, what about the fact that Da Zhou has already recruited a million human soldiers to organize 1.4 million monster soldiers to prepare for the entire northern expedition? Is this enough?"
"How did you know this?"
"The intelligence just sent by your insider is absolutely true."