At that moment, a soldier came rushing over.
"Milord, a large army launched a night raid on Hanzhong! This is disastrous!"
"What? How is that possible? Hanzhong City is impregnable, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Who could possibly take it?" Zhang Lu refused to believe it.
"It's absolutely true, Milord! Not only Hanzhong—soldiers from the other cities have also come seeking reinforcements. They're asking you to send troops at once!"
"Who did this? Who did this?" Zhang Lu's face flushed with rage.
"Hahaha, Governor Zhang, now that things have come to this, why didn't you heed my advice?"
Fa Zheng entered Zhang Lu's governor's residence, grinning as he looked at him.
Zhang Lu immediately pointed at him furiously. "You!"
"More accurately, it was my lord."
"It was Jiang Bei! Jiang Bei is a wolf with wild ambitions! I merely refused to serve him, and he wants to seize my cities!" Zhang Lu cursed.
Fa Zheng snorted. "Under Heaven, all land belongs to the king; within the borders, all people are the king's subjects. My lord is acting under His Majesty's decree to reclaim Hanzhong. A mere Zhang Lu, despite being a subject, wishes to raise an army and establish himself independently. How could my lord spare you? You're the one with wolfish ambitions, aren't you?"
Zhang Lu was furious enough to half die, yet he could not find a word to retort.
Fa Zheng's tongue was truly formidable. His eloquence was first-rate.
"Men, seize him and behead him as a warning to the rest!" Zhang Lu ordered.
The guards beside him had just moved to act when a volley of arrows turned them into pincushions.
Dozens of Black Armored Army soldiers stood behind Fa Zheng. There were even many of Zhang Lu's own subordinate officials among them.
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