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Chapter 253 Zeng Pan's Counterattack

"That's strange!" The first officer frowned, looking at the box with a solemn expression, "Who can come and go without a trace in a heavily guarded military camp without anyone noticing?"

This is no longer something top assassins can do. If this person is still hiding in the barracks, the situation will be serious.

The second lieutenant general immediately said: "General, this subordinate will send people to search now, and we will definitely find the culprit."

Zeng Pan didn't stop him, he stared at the box for a while, and was about to reach out to touch it, when the third lieutenant immediately stopped him, "General, this subordinate is willing to help."

So it didn't matter whether Zeng Pan agreed or not, he let it go.

I thought there would be a hidden weapon or something popping up inside, but there was nothing, just a small thing and a letter.

Zeng Pan directly opened the letter and read it carefully, his brow became colder the more he looked at it.

The three lieutenants sensed that something was wrong and hurriedly asked: "General, what happened?"

Zeng Pan didn't hide it from them, and handed the letter into their hands.

After the three of them finished watching, they all looked like they were gnashing their teeth.

"What did I say just now! It's better for the general to be an emperor of the land by himself, than to be stabbed in the back for his life!" The fourth lieutenant said fiercely. Seeing the way his fists were clenched, if the third prince and others Here, I'm afraid he can't help but kill him.

The first officer shook his head, "This matter is not that simple. If what the person who wrote the letter said is true, then the deaths of the eldest prince and the second prince must have something to do with the third prince. Such cold-blooded, ruthless, selfish people, How can he sit on the throne of the emperor."

The third lieutenant general struggled for a while before making a decision, and suggested: "General, we can't sit and wait for death, the third prince must not take over!"

"Then what do you want?" Zeng Pan calmed down after being shocked, even a little abnormally calm.

The fourth lieutenant general jumped up anxiously, "General, you should be nervous when you are on fire! As long as you give an order, the subordinates will definitely bring your brothers to fight with you! There are mountains of swords and seas of fire, and death is like home! I would rather be a heroic Han Zhan!" Even if you die on the battlefield, you will never use it as a stepping stone for a villain and live aggrieved!"

At this moment, the second lieutenant general came in and reported solemnly: "General, my subordinates searched the camp, but found no suspicious person, not even anything suspicious."

It has just rained, so it stands to reason that the other party should have left traces, but in reality there is nothing, which is really weird.

Zeng Pan said: "The other party came prepared, so naturally he won't let us catch him, but at present, it seems that he has no malicious intentions, and he even kindly reminded me to beware of the third prince. Since he didn't come to harm me, he will find him Not at all."

This is too generous!
The four lieutenants peeped at each other, and they couldn't understand what the general was thinking.

After they left, Zeng Pan picked up the box to check carefully again, stared at the letters and keepsakes for a long time, finally got up and took out a letter from the hidden compartment, combined with what was written in the letter, he shook his head in disappointment, muttered He muttered: "Forget it, since that's the case, I can only watch from the sidelines, and I can only pity these innocent people!"

After a night of inner struggle, Zeng Pan woke up and immediately recruited the four lieutenants, saying: "I have decided, we are in a difficult situation, and I cannot survive alone, since the third prince has already planned to deal with me Of course, I can't sit still, but I can't do anything that hurts Da Zhou.

After much deliberation, I have decided to dismiss all the refugees and pass on an order that all refugees can choose to flee to the Southwest or Lingnan. This general can give them a certain amount of money. At the same time, I will write a letter to the third prince to hand over the military power and leave the barracks. . "

After saying these words, Zeng Pan felt that his heavy heart became much lighter.

The four lieutenants did not stop them this time, following Zeng Pan's order to disperse all the refugees on the pretext of fighting. Reason to go.

The refugee issue here was almost settled, and Zeng Pan also ordered people to hurry up and send the letter to Jiangnan.

The third prince was surprised when he learned that Zeng Pan voluntarily resigned from office and handed over his military power. He suspected that there was a conspiracy in this matter, but the dog-headed staff of the third prince said: "Your Highness, no matter what conspiracy Zeng Pan has, it doesn't matter. No matter what happens, as long as you hold the army in your hands, you will surely win."

The third prince nodded heavily, "You are right, the goal of this Palace is the army, not Zeng Pan. Now pass the order, and General Zuo Hu will immediately take over the army."

General Zuo Hu listened to the order and quickly rushed to the barracks with his troops. He took off his armor and handed over tokens and other tokens to General Zuo Hu very cooperatively. He also gave many precautions.

This made General Zuo Hu, who was going to have a few tricks with Zeng Pan, not know what to do, as if hitting cotton in a circle, it was useless.

In the end, General Zuo Hu impatiently told Zeng Pan to leave quickly.

Once Zeng Pan left, the four lieutenants also came to resign the next day. General Zuo Hu wanted them to leave quickly so that his confidant could intervene, so he agreed without the slightest bit of embarrassment.

In the next few days, some young generals left the barracks with various departures.

General Zuo Hu approved all of them. His idea was very simple. These people must support Zeng Pan, and they must have second thoughts about him. Now it is not easy to move these people. Since they are wise and go on their own, they must support.

As a result, after Zeng Pan's men left seven or eight times, and General Zuo Hu had completely controlled the troops, he realized that the military pay was gone.

"Where is the military salary! How could so much military salary disappear inexplicably? Did Zeng Pan embezzle all of it? No way! I want to tell the third prince about this!" trembling.

The cronies around him went out to inquire, and when they came back, their faces were very ugly, "General, my subordinates were wondering why Zeng Pan handed over the military power so easily, but now I know that he took in many refugees from Jiangnan, but he couldn't afford them." They embezzled military pay for disaster relief before resigning from office. The local people know about this, and they hate that we were careless before and didn't send people to investigate.

All that is left to us now is the troops, and the military pay."

"Damn it! Hate it! How dare he! How dare he Zeng Pan! Come, pass on the general's order to arrest Zeng Pan and everyone in the Zeng family and send them to the south of the Yangtze River, and hand them over to the third prince! I want to see what he will do." What's the end!" General Zuo Hu's face was distorted due to anger.

The cronies immediately took a large group of people to Zeng's house to arrest people.

Zeng Pan used to guard the south of the Grand Canal, and his mansion was located nearby. Now, arresting people is quite fast, but his cronies rushed there with his men, but there was no one in sight. The gate of this Zeng Mansion was closed.

(End of this chapter)