Traveling through time and space and becoming a deposed prince, he just wants to survive!

Chapter 498 Hong Kui is here again

Just when Yelu Qing and others were ambitiously planning to advance into Jinzhou, Hong Kui had already galloped to Jinyang, Bingzhou, exhausted.

After entering Jinyang, Hong Kui went straight to the governor's mansion to meet Du Ziqing.

When Du Ziqing saw Hong Kui coming, his heart suddenly skipped a beat and an ominous premonition came to his mind.

He forced a smile, but it was extremely stiff, and his tone was filled with trepidation.

"General, you have come with His Majesty's imperial edict. I believe I have failed in my duties. Please, General, please announce the edict as soon as possible."

Du Ziqing was in a terrible mood at the moment. He had just taken the position of governor when the Huns brazenly invaded the border. As the governor of Bingzhou, he knew that he was bound to be to blame.

Hong Kui looked at Du Ziqing's nervous expression, and felt a little emotional. He stepped forward and comforted him softly:

"Haha, Governor Du, please don't panic. Although my visit this time is related to you, His Majesty has not issued an edict to reprimand you. He only has an oral instruction that needs to be received in private."

When Du Ziqing heard that there was a secret decree, he knew that it was indeed inconvenient to speak it out in public, so he hurriedly and respectfully led Hong Kui to his study.

After entering the study and waiting for Hong Kui to take his seat, Du Ziqing stood respectfully to one side and asked in a low voice, "Old General, please announce the decree."

Hong Kui sat down steadily. Seeing that Du Ziqing was still cautious, he stretched out his hand to signal him to sit down as well.

Afterwards, Hong Kui carefully looked around and confirmed that there was no one else around. He then felt relieved and said slowly:

"Your Majesty sent me here to help you properly handle this Xiongnu invasion. Ostensibly, I came here as an inspector, but in reality, I wanted the Wang family to send troops to assist you."

"Send troops? This..."

Du Ziqing was full of doubts, but when the words came to his lips, he didn't dare to ask further.

Hong Kui looked serious and continued, "Have Daijun and Mayi send troops together to cut off the Xiongnu's retreat. On your side, you must organize your forces and make every effort to recapture Shizhou."

"Oh! In this way, the Xiongnu army was forced to retreat because their retreat was cut off. However, Jinyang is now facing a real shortage of weapons.

When they reinforced Shizhou, they had already taken away all the weapons in stock, and when Wang Biqing returned, he also left a lot of weapons with the Shizhou army."

Du Ziqing hurriedly told Hong Kui the actual situation in Jinyang truthfully.

Hong Kui nodded slightly, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "That's fine. On the one hand, you can discuss with the Wang family and see if you can get them to squeeze out some weapons and ammunition.

On the other hand, the imperial court has also sent you a batch of weapons. Although they can only be used as a makeshift for the time being, if it really doesn't work, His Majesty will definitely find another way."

When Du Ziqing heard that the imperial court had sent weapons, he was overjoyed and his gratitude was beyond words. He immediately bowed respectfully and said:

"In that case! Thank you, Lord!"

Seeing Du Ziqing's delighted face, Hong Kui quickly warned him:

"This matter must be kept confidential for the time being. You will personally arrange the relevant matters. The distribution of weapons will also be handled later."

After explaining these important matters, the two walked out of the study together.

As soon as he left the study, Hong Kui immediately put on a serious expression and showed no good face to Du Ziqing in front of everyone.

Even the welcoming dinner carefully arranged by Du Ziqing, Hong Kui ruthlessly refused to attend.

After staying in Jinyang for one night, Hong Kui set off for Dai County early the next morning.

The news that Hong Kui had gone to Dai County was soon known to the Mayi side.

Wang Shixiong had a vague feeling that something was wrong.

At this moment, a guard came hurriedly to report: "Sir, the imperial envoy's carriage appeared outside the city, coming from the direction of Dai County."

"Oh, then I should go out of the city to welcome you." Upon hearing this, Wang Shixiong immediately stood up and prepared to leave the city.

Just as he reached the door, he suddenly turned around and asked the guard who had delivered the message, "Where is that useless Wang Changhe?"

The guard was confused by Wang Shixiong's sudden question and replied blankly:

"Sir, I really don't know the whereabouts of the County Magistrate."

Seeing that the guard was indeed unaware of the situation, Wang Shixiong stopped making things difficult for him.

He then went out, mounted his horse, and prepared to leave the city to welcome the imperial envoy.

I had just walked a short distance when I saw Wang Changhe, who was drunk and was being supported by someone, staggering towards the yamen.

Wang Shixiong was furious when he saw this. He urged his horse forward and came to Wang Changhe's side. He raised his whip and lashed at Wang Changhe's head fiercely, shouting:

"What a bastard! He's actually drinking and having fun while on duty! Come, take this guy to jail!"

Speaking of Wang Changhe, he was originally the prefect of Dai County.

But in the last battle, he missed the opportunity and the situation got out of control.

Later, the Wang family adopted the strategy of using a substitute and sent Han Jiacai to Dai County to take up the post, while Wang Shixiong took over the position of county governor in Mayi.

Wang Changhe was demoted to the position of county magistrate of Mayi and became Wang Shixiong's deputy.

All this was possible thanks to Wang Danwang, who was the prefect at the time and had the ability to make such arrangements.

At this moment, Wang Changhe was instantly sobered up by Wang Shixiong's whip. When he heard that he was going to be imprisoned, he turned pale with fear. He knelt down with a plop and begged bitterly:

"Uncle, please forgive me this time. I won't dare to do it again next time."

"Asshole! There's no uncle here, only the governor of Mayi County! Take him away, I'll deal with him when I come back!"

Wang Shixiong's eyes widened as he shouted in anger. Without even turning back, he whipped his horse and galloped straight towards the city gate.

Cao Youde and Su Dingshan had already been waiting at the city gate.

Seeing Wang Shixiong coming from afar, the two of them hurried forward and saluted respectfully.

Wang Shixiong waved his hand and said, "No need to be polite. Do you know how far away the imperial envoy is?"

Cao Youde hurried forward and replied, "County Magistrate, the imperial envoy's carriage was about two miles away and was about to arrive, but for some reason, there is no sign of it yet."

Wang Shixiong nodded slightly and said gravely, "We'll go forward to meet them. At most, we'll have to walk two miles."

Upon hearing this, Cao Youde clasped his fists and said, "As you command!"

Su Dingshan also saluted without saying a word, then jumped on his horse and followed closely behind Wang Shixiong.

In fact, Hong Kui had already arrived. When he saw Mayi City from afar, he saw many artillery muzzles protruding densely on the city wall, and tiger-barrel cannons of different calibers were neatly mounted at the city gate. The entire city defense looked heavily guarded.

Hong Kui had an idea and decided to walk around the city wall to get a better understanding of Mayi’s city defense situation, to see if it was only the north gate, or if the other gates were equally impregnable.

So he temporarily changed his route and headed towards the east gate along the city wall.