Frontier Hero: From Receiving a Convicted Woman to Becoming an Emperor for All Time

Ironically, Wang Chongyi's secret letter fell into Lin Shang's hands as soon as it was sent out.

The messenger, Sun Si, thought he was being meticulous. He deliberately wandered through the streets and alleys of the city, avoiding regular checkpoints, and quietly made his way to the north gate to leave the city. Little did he know that Lin Shang had already arranged hidden sentries everywhere in Ling Shuang Pass. He was arrested on the spot as soon as he stepped out of the city gate.

The perpetrator was caught red-handed.

Lin Shang quickly delivered the letter to Shen Chuxiao's tent.

Shen Chuxiao unfolded the secret letter and glanced at it.

"Eliminating dissidents, amassing military power, colluding with barbarians..." He read it aloud one by one, and couldn't help but laugh when he got to the end. "Wang Chongyi is really trying to kill me."

Lin Shang sat opposite him, holding a wine bowl, his expression solemn: "If this letter reaches the military governor of Shuofang, you won't be able to clear your name even if you jump into the Yellow River."

"So we can't let him deliver it." Shen Chuxiao folded the letter and stuffed it into his pocket.

Shen Chuxiao picked up his wine bowl, took a slow sip, and said, "Wang Chongyi knows the letter was intercepted. What do you think he will do?"

Lin Shang thought for a moment: "He will write another letter and have someone else deliver it."

"right."

"Because he's afraid, and the more afraid he is, the crazier he becomes."

"and then?"

"Then, once he sends out his second letter, intercept it again." Shen Chuxiao put down his wine bowl. "With both secret letters in my hands, it won't be me who has to deal with him; it will be the general who can take action against him directly."

Lin Shang stared at him for a long time, then suddenly smiled.

"Is your brain made of a fox's brain?"

Shen Chuxiao didn't reply, but stood up and walked to the window.

"Shouldn't Wang Chongyi be going to find Liu Wenzhao by now?"

"If nothing unexpected happens, they've already gone."

at this time,

Wang Chongyi was sitting in Liu Wenzhao's tent, the tea in front of him had gone cold, but he didn't drink a drop.

"Brother Liu, Shen Chuxiao is going too far! You weren't there just now, so you didn't see his face—he demanded to poach 120 of my soldiers, and he specifically wanted to take the elite ones!"

Liu Wenzhao was a tall, thin man in his fifties with a gaunt face and three long wisps of beard. He sat in the main seat, slowly turning his teacup without saying a word.

Wang Chongyi continued, "He's trying to destroy my foundation! He'll dig up 120 today, and another 100 tomorrow. Before long, my Western Camp will be an empty shell!"

"Brother Wang."

Liu Wenzhao finally spoke, "I know all that you're saying. But what do you want me to do?"

Wang Chongyi leaned forward.

"Let's join forces and put pressure on the general. She's an outsider; without us veterans supporting her, Ling Shuang Pass would have long since lost the Lu family name. Now, look what's happened—this troublemaker Shen Chuxiao has come along, and she wants to use us as a scapegoat. Can't you see that?"

Liu Wenzhao picked up his teacup, took a sip, and said nothing.

"Brother Liu!" Wang Chongyi exclaimed anxiously, "Shen Chuxiao is just a dog she keeps! He bites me today, he'll bite you tomorrow!"

Liu Wenzhao put down his teacup and glanced at him.

"Brother Wang, you're absolutely right." He stood up and walked to the window. "But have you ever considered—why did the general choose this particular time to make his move?"

Wang Chongyi was taken aback.

"She even killed the imperial envoy Han Shi'an; what wouldn't she dare to do?"

There was a moment of silence in the tent.

Wang Chongyi's face began to turn pale.

"Brother Liu, what do you mean...?"

"What I mean is," Liu Wenzhao walked back to his seat and sat down again, "I won't interfere in your affairs. You'd better take care of yourself."

Wang Chongyi suddenly stood up, his face flushed red: "Liu Wenzhao! You—"

"see a visitor out."

The guards lifted the curtain and entered, gesturing for Prince Chongyi to enter.

Wang Chongyi stared intently at Liu Wenzhao, his chest heaving violently.

After a while, he flicked his sleeve and strode out.

A cold wind blew in from outside the tent, chilling him to the bone.

He glanced back at Liu Wenzhao's tent, gritting his teeth.

"Old fox... doesn't want to offend either side... just wait, once Shen Chuxiao poachs your people too, let's see if you can still sit still."

Inside the tent, Liu Wenzhao picked up his teacup, then put it down again.

"Someone come here."

"exist."

"Go and find out where Lin Shang is."

The guards obeyed and left.

Liu Wenzhao sat in a chair, his fingers tapping lightly on the table.

Shen Chuxiao came on strong.

They're not to be trifled with.

He didn't want to get involved, but he also didn't want to be dragged into it.

"It's tough," he sighed.

Negotiations failed.

Wang Chongyi, who was seething with anger, had just returned to the camp when he saw Sun Si looking disheveled.

"What the hell is wrong with you now?"

Sun Si knelt on the ground, trembling all over, and told them about intercepting the letter.

Wang Chongyi was so angry his nose almost twisted; he paced back and forth with his hands behind his back. The letter falling into Shen Chuxiao's hands was tantamount to handing a knife to the enemy.

"They let you go?"

"They locked him up for an hour, and then...they released him."

Wang Chongyi stopped in his tracks, his gaze turning sinister.

"How about... we just forget about it?"

"Forget it?" Wang Chongyi gritted his teeth. "If we don't write it, the letter in his hand is a ticking time bomb. If we do write it, we'll have someone else deliver it via a roundabout route through the mountains! I want to see if he can intercept the second one!"

"Find Old Zhang, have him disguise himself as a peddler, and go out from the south gate and take the mountain road."

Sun Si got up, took the order, and ran out.

the next morning,

Shen Chuxiao was training new recruits on the drill ground when Lin Shang walked over quickly.

"Wang Chongyi has sent out his second letter."

Shen Chuxiao wiped his hands: "Sniped it?"

"I intercepted him. The funny thing is that Wang Chongyi found someone to disguise himself as a merchant and went out of the city through a deserted small gate on the south side. He thought he had avoided the city's defenses, but I still caught him."

Lin Shang pulled a letter from his pocket. "It's even harsher than the first one. It's almost like it's accusing you of rebellion."

Shen Chuxiao took the letter, unfolded it, glanced at it, and smiled.

"Release the messenger and let him go back and tell Wang Chongyi that the letter has been lost again."

Lin Shang laughed: "Are you trying to drive him to his death?"

"It's not to the point of being furious."

As the two were talking, Tie Niu ran in from outside the camp, panting heavily.

"Captain! There's movement from the western camp!"

"explain."

"This morning, Wang Chongyi summoned the entire battalion and said that the scout battalion had no right to transfer troops from the western camp, and ordered his men not to go with us. He even sent people to block the camp gate and prevent us from entering."

Shen Chuxiao glanced at Lin Shang.

Lin Shang frowned: "He's going to confront us head-on."

"A direct confrontation is fine," Shen Chuxiao laughed. "If he's going to confront me directly, then I have a reason to take it by force."

He turned to Tie Niu and said, "Gather a hundred men and come with me to the West Camp."

"Fight?" Tie Niu's eyes lit up.

"It's not about fighting," Shen Chuxiao patted his shoulder, "it's about poaching people."

As expected, Wang Chongyi personally led his men to block the entrance to the West Camp.

Behind him stood more than two hundred fully armed soldiers, swords drawn and arrows nocked, each with a tense expression.

When Shen Chuxiao arrived with his men, this was the scene that greeted them.

He reined in his horse and looked down at Wang Chongyi.

"General Wang, what does this mean?"

Wang Chongyi sneered, "Captain Shen, you have no right to transfer troops from my Western Camp. If you dare to step into my Western Camp today, don't blame me for being impolite!"

Shen Chuxiao dismounted and walked to Wang Chongyi, the two of them only three steps apart.

"General Wang, you know I have a general's warrant to select men, right? What, trying to break the rules?"

Wang Chongyi's face stiffened.

"I was just following the rules, but you brought your troops to stop me."

Shen Chuxiao took a step forward. "General Wang, are you trying to rebel?"

The moment the word "rebellion" was uttered,

The soldiers behind Wang Chongyi all took a step back in unison.

Wang Chongyi's face turned pale instantly.

"You—you're spouting nonsense!"

"Am I making baseless accusations?"

Shen Chuxiao pulled two letters from his pocket and waved them in front of Wang Chongyi. "The secret letters you sent to Shuofang Road are all in my hands. Do you want me to read them to everyone? Let's see how you're making up stories about me?"

Wang Chongyi's pupils suddenly contracted, and his whole body began to tremble.

"You—you—"

Shen Chuxiao put the letter back in his pocket and said calmly, "General Wang, I'm going in to select people now. If you stop me, I'll take it as disobeying orders. If you draw your sword, I'll take it as rebellion."

"You choose."

Wang Chongyi stood there, his face turning red and then white.

The people behind him also began to shrink back.

Shen Chuxiao didn't even glance at him, and strode into the West Camp.

Behind him, Tie Niu led a hundred soldiers in single file.

As Tie Niu passed by Wang Chongyi, he deliberately sighed:

"General Wang, why are you doing this? I said yesterday—our captain will be here again today."