Chapter 203

Inside the van.

Old Man Gui clutched his chest, whispering instructions, "Xiao Er, call Old Huang at the house. Tell him to find a chance to take the women to your place, and say I'll be joining them."

"Understood," Gui Mengzheng nodded in response.

...

In the alley outside the Gui family compound, Gui Mengxiong sat in his car, phone in hand, telling Wu Ziliang, "Didn't work out. The old man arranged things in advance. He got away!"

"What happened? We prepared for so long. How could we fail?" Wu Ziliang replied urgently.

"I don't understand either." Gui Mengxiong shook his head. "Only we and the Xue family knew the specific details of tonight's plan. Before we started, I even had someone sweep the compound, and there was no one suspicious. I don't know how they knew we were going to make a move, and the timing was so precise!"

"There's no point in saying all that now. Since the plan is exposed, we have to finish it."

"That's what I mean." Gui Mengxiong immediately replied, "We're not like the Tai family. Internal strife is a matter of life and death! Now that I'm exposed, I have to get rid of him!"

"Am I exposed?" Wu Ziliang asked.

"If I'm exposed, you'll be exposed soon. Is there even a need to think about that?"

"I'm urgently gathering manpower at the factory. Tell all the executives and senior managers who are with us to show their faces. Even if we can't get rid of the old man tonight, we have to force him to step down." Wu Ziliang said rapidly, "You find out where the old man ran off to, and we'll all converge there."

"Okay!"

"Also, to avoid any mishaps, call the Tai family and have them send people too! We have to get a result tonight!" Wu Ziliang instructed.

"Got it."

After the two ended the call, Gui Mengxiong urged the driver to leave, and then he and Wu Ziliang quickly mobilized their men.

Before this, Wu Ziliang didn't want to be exposed, and he especially didn't want to be personally involved in assassinating the old man. He wanted to reap the benefits cleanly, so he and Gui Mengxiong had incited the Xue family to do it. Once the old man was dead, they could push the blame towards The Dragon City, and he wouldn't be tainted at all.

With Gui Mengjun dead and the old man also dead, the Gui family would be without a leader. Then, they could just collude with the other senior members of the Gui family and force Gui Mengzheng and the others to step down, thus completing the "usurpation."

But Wu Ziliang didn't expect that the first wave of attacks in the Gui family compound would fail, exposing Gui Mengxiong's ambitions. Since the other party was exposed and something had happened, he definitely couldn't stay out of it, so now he had no choice but to go all the way.

After making a series of calls, Wu Ziliang's henchmen, Gui Mengxiong's henchmen, and even the Tai family who had just been contacted had all started gathering their forces, intending to take advantage of the chaos to assassinate Old Man Gui.

...

About fifteen minutes later, the van stopped at a small materials factory managed by Gui Mengzheng.

Lao Hei stepped out of the car, holding a gun, and instructed Gui Mengzheng rapidly, "The old man can't be moved, or they might not believe he's here! You notify the people in the compound who can handle guns and get them ready. We're definitely going to run into them later!"

"Got it," Gui Mengzheng replied hastily.

After the conversation, the group strode into the building. Lao Hei called Su Tianyu again, "The Xue family should be coming too!"

"I know, don't worry about it!" Su Tianyu replied immediately.

...

Tai Family.

The Tai family patriarch, Tai Zhengkang, sat on the sofa, frowning as he assessed the situation, "Something that was supposed to be a sure thing still went wrong. This Gui Mengxiong is still too young and immature."

Beside him, Tai Zhengkang's eldest son replied softly, "His immaturity means we have even more reason to support him."

Tai Zhengkang deliberated for a moment, "Don't let any familiar faces from our family show up. Send those people you keep around you over there, and get it done quickly."

"Okay!" The eldest son stood up, took his phone, and walked to the side.

Tai Zhengkang tapped his cane, his eyes complicated as he said, "The body wasn't found on the ship. I still feel a little uneasy!"

...

Ten more minutes passed.

Gui Mengxiong received a call, "Hello, speak!"

"The old man is at the Second Son's factory. There aren't many people there," the other party replied in a low voice. "He's having the women go over there now too."

"Got it!"

Gui Mengxiong hung up and immediately dialed Wu Ziliang's number, "The man is at the Second Son's small factory!"

"Let's go together!"

Dozens of seconds later, Wu Ziliang's men, the Tai family's men, and the henchmen Gui Mengxiong kept were all driving towards Gui Mengzheng's small factory.

At the same time, the rebels in the Gui family who supported Wu Ziliang and Gui Mengxiong also left their homes and got into cars.

The subordinates of these people were mostly desperate criminals recruited from the Fifth District border. They were all unregistered residents, either deserters from the Fifth District or criminals with blood on their hands. In any case, they had no scruples about doing things here, and many of the Gui family's and Tai family's unsavory deeds were carried out by this group of people.

These people took firearms directly from the small armory and headed menacingly towards the southern suburbs of Hanoi City.

...

On the way to Gui Mengzheng's factory, Xue Pingan shook his head and cursed, "I just don't understand. How could the people on the other side have gotten into the compound before us?!"

"Screech!"

Just as he finished speaking, the car in front suddenly stopped. Xue Pingan looked up and glanced around, "What's wrong?!"

Ahead on the road, Su Tianyu sat in a car blocking the road, licking his lips as he asked Lao Hei's lookout brother, "The person is in the car, right?!"

"Yes!" Lao Hei's brother replied.

Upon hearing this, Su Tianyu immediately hung up the phone, grabbed a Remington shotgun, got out of the car, raised his arm, and shouted, "You Cnm?! Aren't you looking for me?! Aren't you avenging your son?! Come on, get out of the car!! Let's have a go!"

Xue Pingan was completely dumbfounded when he saw Su Tianyu.

"Bang!!"

The sound of gunfire exploded, and the windshield shattered instantly!

Xue Pingan reached out and pushed open the car door, grabbing the gun in the canvas bag inside the car and roaring, "Get out of the car, I'm going to chop him into pieces!"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone from the Xue family rushed out of the car, not even bothering with Xue Baolai's ashes, which were still warm in the car.

...

At the same time.

Inside the headquarters of the Southwest Theater Command of the Hua District, a young man in a white shirt sat in an antique study, drinking coffee.

Xiao Qinglong pushed open the door and said softly, "They've indeed made a move over there. There should be people from the Tai family involved!"

Just now, Old Man Gui had personally spoken with the young commander in the villa, claiming that his son wasn't dead and that the Tai family was manipulating everything.

The young commander put down his coffee, raised his eyebrows, and said, "If the person is dead, I can't interfere, but if the person is alive, that's a different matter. To move against my people and then put on a show in front of me, hehe, the local families are a bit too hostile to outsiders!"

"You mean...!!"

"Uncle, take some people to the city. I want to tell the Pu family that I'm not like the old generation of generals, who were all cozy with them! My uncles and grand uncles are all retired. If you piss me off, I don't know anyone!" The young man waved his hand with a tight frown.

Once, a capable person established the first self-defense force in the Ninth Special Zone that was not influenced by the politics of the First District!

Once, a young leader, in order to promote unification and allow hundreds of millions of Chinese to rise in the East after the disaster, even broke with his father and went abroad.

Once, a general joined forces with Wu Wangye to defend Beifengkou, blocking 600,000 invading enemies. In the end, the casualties among his core subordinates exceeded 80%...

There was also a general who once fought abroad, planting the banner of the Chinese Expeditionary Force on the southern battlefield, causing the Eastern Rising Sun to officially ascend and shine brightly!

They were all the same person. His name was Xiang Zehao!

After his death, he left behind only two sons.

Therefore, the Qin Emperor had said, "Gather all the merits of my generals and return them to his two sons! They should be crowned kings before the age of forty!"