As Grand Eunuch Cao watched the reinforcements of the Capital Garrison flooding in, he suddenly felt that something was wrong. He hurriedly turned to his deputy commander, Pei Xie, and asked, "Old Pei, what is happening here? Why are Qian Yong’s numbers growing? Didn’t you say he only brought a few hundred men into the palace?"
Pei Xie shook his head. "Grand Eunuch Cao, could it be that the General has been planning this rebellion for a long time and deployed his men in the palace in advance?"
"Impossible!" Cao Zhengchun roared. "I have had the men of the Commander of the Nine Gates guarding this place day and night. How could he have possibly smuggled troops inside?"
Chapter 35