"Your Highness!"

Zhou Qingyang didn't expect that the Seventh Prince was standing at the door waiting for him. He was very frightened and quickly dismounted.

"I guess you will come, how about it?"

Zhou Qingyang nodded and followed the seventh prince into the tent. The seventh prince sat on a high position and signaled that his personal soldiers would retreat first.

"What does the letter your highness passed to me mean? Can you ask?"

The Seventh Prince nodded, and he could naturally ask. As the guard of Miancheng, he could move his whole body with one move. Such a big move could not be done rashly.

"Yes, I can also help you solve your doubts, but General Zhou, I want to ask first, do you trust me?"

Zhou Qingyang still believes in the Seventh Prince. He is not only His Majesty's biological son, but also the garrison of the border. There is no need to deceive himself, but the impact of this matter is too great, so he must be cautious.

"Does Your Majesty really want to give up Miancheng? There are still tens of thousands of people and soldiers in Miancheng. Do you ignore it?"

The Seventh Prince sighed. Zhou Qingyang was also a rare pure minister. He never doubted Emperor Wu at this time.

"General Zhou, when I say this to you, I hope you forget whose son I am. I am just a general, talking to you in such an identity."

The seventh prince's words were a bit rude, but Zhou Qingyang understood it, nodded, and signaled him to say.

"I think you know our Majesty's attitude towards human life. If he really cares about the tens of thousands of lives in Miancheng, then I will not be on the border and fight against a group of civilians now, and it will be so hard to fight."

Zhou Qingyang sighed, knowing that the Seventh Prince was talking about Emperor Wu's killing refugees. He didn't believe it when he first heard the news, but His Majesty's actions made people have to believe it.

"Although Your Majesty has a bad attitude towards refugees, the people in Miancheng have no guilt. Why are they abandoned?"

The Seventh Prince glanced at Zhou Qingyang, but he didn't expect that he still didn't understand Emperor Wu's temper. No wonder he had been in Miancheng for so long.

"Because of face!"

"face!"

Zhou Qingyang could not accept such an answer and looked at the Seventh Prince in shock. Could it be that so many lives are not as proud as the superior?

"How is this possible? This is a living life. Is it important to have no face?"

The Seventh Prince smiled bitterly, yes, anyone would not believe it if he heard such words, but he knew that the lives of these common people were not as important as his father's face.

"If you defend Miancheng, can you defend Zheng Chi's army?"

Zhou Qingyang shook his head, and naturally he could not defend it. The Shucheng guarded by Zheng Chi was one of the cities with a large population, and the Miancheng he guarded was just a small city with a small population, so there were naturally even fewer troops.

"Of course I can't defend it. If Miancheng faces Zheng Chi now, I'm afraid it will be impossible to resist it."

The seventh prince nodded. Zhou Qingyang was still very self-aware and knew that Zheng Chi's army was numerous.

"If you can't defend Miancheng, then you are destined to be sacrificed. Then Miancheng will be held in Zheng Chi. At that time, at most people will say that you are incompetent and cannot defend the city."

Zhou Qingyang thought about it and found that this is indeed the case, but no matter whether he was incompetent or not, Miancheng would definitely not be able to resist Zheng Chi's army.

"But if Your Majesty issued an order to retreat from Miancheng and hand over Miancheng to Zheng Chi, what would the people in the world say?"

Zhou Qingyang thought for a moment and believed in what the Seventh Prince said, "They would say that His Majesty was afraid of Zheng Chi and gave such a city to him!"

"Yes!" The Seventh Prince nodded. Didn't his father give up on Miancheng if he was worried about this?

"Even if they didn't think of it at the beginning, wouldn't Zheng Chi say something? A good city was given to him without any guards. Do you think he would say that? The conclusions of the world's people are useless and cannot affect anyone, but the words of the world's people are very important. This is what an emperor cares about the most!"

There was sweat gradually on Zhou Qingyang's forehead. The seventh prince's words were indeed horrifying, but they were indeed the truth.

"So, General Zhou, I hope you can listen to my opinion and withdraw all the soldiers and civilians in Miancheng. You should understand which one is more important, face or life!"

Zhou Qingyang nodded solemnly. He had been guarding Miancheng for so long, so he naturally valued the lives of the people in the city more.

"Your Highness, I'll forgive my subordinates for being rude and I'll take my leave first."

The Seventh Prince nodded, sent Zhou Qingyang out in person, and then reminded him to meet the big tent with peace of mind.

"Send a message to Wen Qihua. Wei Xianzu came prepared. His message channel was robbed. Be prepared!"

As expected, Zheng Chi arrived in Miancheng. When the vast army arrived at Miancheng's feet, it was like a dark cloud, so dark that it made people breathless.

"General, are we leaving?"

Zhou Qingyang looked back at Miancheng. Most of the people in the city had been quietly transferred to borders or other cities. Now the only one of them is the only one who comes.

"Close the city gates, and prepare the scarecrows you asked you to prepare before. The military flag must not fall down easily. Nine out of ten rooms are empty, do you understand?"

The personal soldiers nodded. When they were transferring the people, they ordered them not to leave anything useful to the other party.

"Let's go!"

Zhou Qingyang finally looked back at Miancheng that he had been guarding for so long. He could have defended it here, and as long as Emperor Wu was willing, he would send troops to support him.

Unfortunately, Miancheng is too small and cannot be found if you don’t look carefully on the map. Such a small place will not be thought of by Emperor Wu, nor will he consume his precious troops to come to support him.

The Seventh Prince led his men to meet Zhou Qingyang at the border gate and settled the people he brought with him. In the blink of an eye, he found that he looked at the direction of Miancheng with a sad face.

"What is General Zhou thinking?"

Zhou Qingyang was called out by the seventh prince, and pulled him back from his thoughts and shook his head.

"I have one thing, I want to ask Your Highness."

The seventh prince glanced at Zhou Qingyang, probably understood what he was going to say, and signaled him to go to the tent to talk.

As soon as Zhou Qingyang walked into the tent, he fell to the ground. No matter how much Prince Ren Qi pulled him, he couldn't get up. "What is the general doing? Get up quickly!"

Zhou Qingyang shook his head and brushed the seventh prince's hand away. "Your Highness, I know it's a dead end. Please take good care of these brothers for me!"

Zhou Qingyang abandoned the city and left. According to the law, he would be beheaded immediately. His confidants would also be assigned to death camps and stand in front of the death row as suicide squads.

"General Zhou, this matter has not been concluded yet, why bother like this now? What if His Majesty………”

Before the Seventh Prince could finish his words, Zhou Qingyang cut off his words.

"Your Highness, your Majesty should not even save his life just to protect his face. Now that I have abandoned the city and handed over Miancheng to Zheng Chi, will he save my life?"

The Seventh Prince was stunned when he heard this and put himself in the air back. Zhou Qingyang's words were very correct, and Emperor Wu would not let him go.

"General Zhou, this matter is still uncertain. Don't think of the worst outcome. This king and Wen Qihua will definitely plead for you in front of His Majesty."

Zhou Qingyang smiled bitterly, he would die. How could Emperor Wu, a person who cares about face so much, let him go easily?

"Your Highness also asks you to agree to my request. As long as my brothers are safe, Zhou Qingyang will die without regrets!"

The Seventh Prince sighed and finally nodded. In fact, he was indeed not sure about this matter.

Wen Qihua looked at the seventh prince's message and felt a chill in his heart for the first time. He didn't expect that Wei Xianzu was such a person.

"What's wrong?"

Min Sheng had never seen Wen Qihua's expression like this before, and he was a little confused. Such expression made him feel that something big had happened.

"Hanyi!"

An Yi was the first to see Wen Qihua's expression. He became famous at a young age and encountered many strong storms, but he was always confident.

"grown ups."

Wen Qihua wanted to open his mouth several times, but felt that he didn't know how to say this. "Please restrain all the manpower and shops outside, don't have any news during this period. All the lines must be broken for me within one day!"

Min Sheng looked at Wen Qihua in surprise. What does his words mean? He grabbed the letter from Wen Qihua's hand, and after reading it, his expression was also very subtle.

"It's actually like this! Wei Xianzu actually intercepted your communications!"

Wen Qihua nodded. This was the first time someone had intercepted his correspondence. He didn't know whether Wei Xianzu had only intercepted this time, or whether his previous interceptions were not discovered by his own people.

"I underestimate the enemy too much. Wei Xianzu is very dangerous. I don't know how much he knows about us now, or is he just starting to take action now."

Min Sheng suddenly felt cold, and Wen Qihua's correspondence has gradually replaced his intelligence network.

He always felt that the two intelligence networks did not have much effect, because the messages they received were from a few people at the border, so there was no need to ask Si Chi Chi and the others to write two letters.

But now it seems that Wen Qihua has obviously been targeted by others, and his intelligence network can no longer be used.

"All the secret guards?"

An Yi was a little unbelievable. Their intelligence network was established in Wen Qihua in his early years. It has been very mature after so long. How could it be intercepted by others so easily?

"Yes, all the secret guards, although we only know that we have intercepted Zhou Qingyang's line at present, this line is actually the most irrelevant, but if this continues, every step of our arrangement will be known to others, so we must be cleaned all of them."

I sighed secretly. This was the first time I was forced to cleanse all my power.

"You go down and do it."

Anyi originally wanted to ask Wen Qihua again. After all, such a sudden cleaning is a very big deal for the organization, and it is not easy to be stable in the hearts of the people. But Wen Qihua said so, so he couldn't ask anything more.

"Wei Xianzu is indeed very dangerous, but the words of Anyi make sense. It is indeed a big deal to clean all the secret guards."

Wen Qihua waved his hand. If they didn't clean the secret guards and make plans again, their news would only be intercepted again and again.

He is willing to take this risk, even if it is temporarily suspended by the power of the secret guard for a period of time, it is worth it.

"Wei Xianzu didn't know when he attacked the secret guards, but now it is certain that he already has a very good understanding of the situation on our side. It is always easy to avoid open guns, but it is difficult to prevent hidden arrows. If we are not careful in such a situation, it will not only affect us at that time."

Min Sheng thought about it. If Wei Xianzu had always regarded Wen Qihua as an enemy but had never been revealed, then no one knew how much information he had received.

"Master, the secret guard has been cleaned."

Wei Xianzu looked at the subordinate in front of him in surprise and smiled, but he didn't expect Wen Qihua to be so decisive.
To be continued...