The gatekeeper of Wu Yue Town was a middle-aged man in his forties, with a strong figure and a hideous silver armor wrapped around his body.

At this moment, the gatekeeper was looking solemnly at the city wall.

"Big brother, Zhou Gang, this guy is not good!" said the adjutant beside him.

The adjutant was a young man who looked to be in his twenties, and he did not call the gatekeeper "adults" because they were not from the government in the first place.

They are the private army of Wuyue Town, the common private army of the three major forces! In the official government's copywriting, they are only the people and township regiments of Wuyue Town, and even the status of the county's catchers and soldiers is higher than theirs, and their direct leader is the county's patrol inspector, a military attache of the lowest rank, whose rank is much lower than that of the vanguard officer riding a horse downstairs at the city gate.

Of course, these are all things on the official side, and even the soldiers on the field who are leading their horses and kicking will not take these things seriously.

"The blind man can see it! Even the crash is brought with him, do you expect him Zhou Gang to have any good intentions?" the rough voice of the gatekeeper sounded.

"I'm afraid that he will be a fool! Even if he Zhou Gang really dares to attack the city, how can our Wuyue Town be so easy to conquer! It's not that I look down on him, just rely on the gang of old soldiers in his hands, and he won't be able to touch the battlements of the city wall for a year!" said the adjutant arrogantly.

The adjutant's rhetoric is not false at all, the city wall of Wuyue Town was originally made by a master craftsman at a great cost, even if it is besieged by hundreds of thousands of troops, it can hold on for a long time. And there are two wharves in the northeast and northwest to deliver a steady stream of materials and soldiers to Wuyue Town, ensuring that Wuyue Town can always hold on. Unless the world is in turmoil, with the financial resources of the three major forces, the delivery of such materials and personnel is absolutely endless, at least no force in the world can afford to consume it!

Therefore, if you want to take Wuyue Town, you must first take these two docks! But what other naval army in the world can defeat the escort force of Wuyue Town? Maybe the Great Food Navy of the same period can be comparable to it, but they are still thousands of miles away......

It can be said that as long as Datang is not chaotic for a day, or only needs the south to be chaotic, then Wuyue Town, the source of maritime trade, will not be able to be taken down in a day! Because behind Wuyue Town, the entire south!

Zhou Gang's small fold is naturally impossible to accomplish this feat!

Of course, Zhou Gang was not stupid enough to attack the city by force, and came over with great fanfare, just to put some pressure on the defenders of Wuyue Town!

After all, even if the generals are not afraid of death, those ordinary soldiers still cherish their lives! Although the three major forces in Wuyue Town have given a huge amount of pensions to the soldiers who died in battle, and this is the kind of amount that as long as you die, the whole family will be rich and prosperous for a lifetime! However, there is only one life! After staying in Wuyue Town, a place full of flowers, who wants to die? Although there are many pensions, they usually have a lot of money! Not to mention that they can often take on some private work......

In a word, Wu Yue Town is such a good place, they will never want to lose it! Someone wants to hit Wu Yue Town's attention, and these people will naturally ruthlessly smash a qiē enemy, but once there is a life and death crisis, they will also hesitate...... If there were a better choice, these people would not really be able to make up their minds to fight to the death.

And Lu Zongbao's previous actions were to give these people a better choice!

"Where's the gatekeeper?"

The pioneer officer downstairs at the city gate had already circled in front of the city gate several times, and the sturdy gatekeeper upstairs walked out of the city gate tower slowly, and came to the edge of the city wall, rubbing his eyelids with a pair of big hands, yawning, and saying in an urn voice: "Who is this? What time is it!

The pioneer officer downstairs looked at the neatly draped armor on the doorkeeper's body, and was speechless for a while, could it be that you are wearing armor when you fucking sleep!

As if sensing the strange eyes of the pioneer officer, the gatekeeper replied with a smile: "Haha! Don't be surprised! The family is poor, just such a dress that can see people, and a certain family is not good at sleeping naked, so I have to wear it! Not to mention, this thing is really sturdy, and if you accidentally roll off the bed at night, you are not afraid of bumping into it, why don't you try it too?"

"You!" The pioneer officer downstairs saw that this tasteless and unranked reckless man dared to make fun of himself, and he was immediately furious.

Hang the lance on the saddle, take off the longbow hanging on the other side, and shoot it with an arrow.

"Stop!" Zhou Gang's majestic voice sounded in time.

Only then did the vanguard officer remember the general's explanation in advance, so he had to put down the longbow in his hand angrily.

Zhou Gang immediately asked the pioneer officer to come back, and changed the person next to him to step forward.

"You're the town's gatekeeper?" the newcomer had learned from the past, and it was not good to be too domineering, so he had to ask.

"Haha! This adult is serious, the villain is the leader of the Yixiang regiment, and he can't deserve the word 'official'!" the gatekeeper laughed.

The newcomer smiled and said, "General Zhou, the commander of Zhichong, is here, and I hope that Brother Tai can open this city gate!"

When the gatekeeper heard this, his big head shook like waves, and he said: "No, no, no! This is a problem for a certain family! It is so dark, and there are so many of you, and you are all carrying weapons, if this is a strong man pretending to open the city gate by fraud, then the sin of a certain family will be great! After all, it is the duty to defend the land!"

"Then I wonder how Brother Tai can be trusted?" the newcomer asked with a smile.

"Uh...... What's this...... Anyway, there should be a token or something, right?" said the gatekeeper, scratching his head.

The newcomer didn't dare to answer, so he had to turn to look at Zhou Gang.

"Dad! What are you talking about with this man! Look at me shooting him with an arrow!" Zhou Bin rode to his father's side, this was his first real expedition, Zhou Bin was very excited, and he couldn't wait to rush forward immediately and start a killing spree, this verbal exchange between you and me was naturally irritated in his opinion.

Zhou Gang glared at him fiercely when he heard this, and didn't say a word, but turned to the other side, facing a soldier dressed as a personal guard, and asked, "What does the second son think?"

The guard raised his head, and in the dim firelight was a young man's face, but it was Lu Zongbao, the second son of the Lu family!

The children of the family have learned some martial arts, and even if they don't seek to fight on the battlefield, they can also strengthen their physique. Lu Zongbao looks like a weak scholar, but he can also pull a bow and dance, although his kung fu is not very good, but that posture is still there.

This time is the final decisive battle, not only Lu Zongbao is present in person, but even the eldest brother Lu Zongtai has already arrived at the predetermined position and is waiting for the news here.

Lu Zongbao pondered for a moment and replied, "They are stalling for time!"

Zhou Gang nodded and replied, "That's true......!

Lu Zongbao did not answer, but asked: "Does General Zhou think he can take Wuyue Town? And before reinforcements arrive!"

Zhou Gang smiled and said, "How is it possible? I don't know how many times I've been here to Wuyue Town, and I already know the layout of its city defenses, but because of this, I can't do anything about it!

Lu Zongbao didn't have the slightest extraordinary, and said: "Since this is the case, then we can only wait!"

Zhou Gang asked, "When will it be?"

Lu Zongbao looked at the southeast of Wuyue Town, which was the location of the ghost market, and said, "It should be soon!"

Zhou Gang frowned, and asked with a solemn expression: "Second son, is this going to put all his hopes on those rivers and lakes?"

Lu Zongbao smiled bitterly: "Now that the matter is over, can you and I have other chips in our hands?"

Zhou Gang was silent.

Lu Zongbao continued: "Even if that side fails, General Zhou can use the excuse of going out to practice and retreat calmly! As long as he doesn't really do anything, he can get everything done!"

Zhou Gang nodded silently, although he didn't know the truth of Lu Zongbao's words, but before he really did it, Zhou Gang was safe! Although his own handle was in Lu Zongbao's hands, and in the way of Fan Yang Lu's survival, Zhou Gang did not dare to be ruthless to Lu Zongbao, but the reason why Zhou Gang happily responded to today's matter may not be without his own considerations in his heart.

It is true that Lu Zongbao cannot die at his own hands, but if he dies at the hands of thieves in the brawl, even Fan Yang Lu cannot blatantly say irresponsible things. What's more, the Lu family brothers are just the abandoned sons of the Fan Yang Lu family, as long as they don't do it themselves and lose the face of the Lu family, it is naturally impossible for those people of the Lu family to deal with themselves for the sake of the two abandoned sons.

For this reason, Zhou Gang happily took out a token from his arms, but it was a token of the commander of the fold and handed it to a guard beside him.

After the guard took it, he stepped forward and handed the token to the man who was waiting in front of the battle.

After the man took it, he held up the token and shouted at the city gate: "The token of the commander is here!"

"What? It's so dark! I can't see clearly!" the gatekeeper craned his neck and shouted helplessly at the castle floor.

The man in front of the battle clearly saw that on the round face of the gatekeeper, a mole was swaying up and down with the twitching of the muscles of the gatekeeper's face, so he smiled, and also reached out to take the longbow, and quickly tied the token to the shaft of the arrow, and opened the bow to the arrow.

This time, Zhou Gang didn't stop it again, and a streamer flashed. There was a "bang", and the arrow grazed the gatekeeper's head and pierced deep into the wooden window of the gatehouse.

The smile on the gatekeeper's face vanished, and with a wave of his hand stopped the archer who was about to return fire, he glanced deeply at the man in front of him, and then stretched out his hand to his side.

Then the adjutant took the bow and arrow, and handed it to the gatekeeper along with the token.

The gatekeeper took it off and saw that it was really the token of the Commander!

"This Zhou Gang is really bold! Aren't you afraid that we will keep this thing as evidence?" asked the adjutant.

"What evidence? Is there any evidence that he brought his troops to go around under the gate of Wuyue Town? He is the head of the government army, and in this Yuzhang County, as long as he attacks the city blatantly, his soldiers can go anywhere!" replied the gatekeeper.

"But he crashed the car, can't we let the proprietors go to the court to sue him?" asked the adjutant.

The gatekeeper glanced at the young and innocent adjutant, but sighed in his heart: "This child is still too young!"

"He can be said to be transporting supplies, passing through Wuyue Town, not only can we not close the door, but we have to help as much as possible according to the rules!" said the gatekeeper.

"What are we going to do, can we really let him in?" asked the adjutant.

"Originally, we could have pretended to be deaf and dumb, but now that we have just sent out the token so decisively this week, we can't do nothing!"

After the gatekeeper finished speaking, he shouted at the city tower: "Haha! I didn't expect that General Zhou was really coming, General Zhou was not training soldiers in the barracks, and he came to Wuyue Town in the middle of the night, I don't know what happened?"

Zhou just wanted to answer, but found that now that the riot has not started, if he takes out Wang Xian's warrant at this time, it will inevitably be too prescient!

So he took a few steps forward and replied loudly: "This marshal is escorting military supplies, passing by Wuyue Town, if it is dark today, he can't go back to the barracks! I want to spend the night in Wuyue Town, so that my sons and daughters can have a hot meal to eat." ”

"Well...... the gatekeeper didn't expect Zhou Gang to really say that, and he was speechless for a while!

According to the rules, they should indeed provide some help to Zhou Gang's troops, but the imperial court also stipulated that Cheng Jianci's army could not enter the city at will without an order, let alone be fully armed.

However, Wuyue Town is not a city! According to official data, Wuyue Town is just a small town with a population of only a few dozen households! It is not a city at all!

The gatekeeper didn't have time to think about it, so he had to reply stubbornly: "General Zhou worked hard for the country, and he really made a certain family admire, but the imperial court had a rule that the army could not enter the city without an order, not to mention that the general's soldiers were all in armor, and it was a little inappropriate to let the soldiers enter the city......

"There is indeed such a rule!But if Ben Shuai is not mistaken, Wuyue Town doesn't seem to be a city, right?" Zhou Gang said with a playful smile.

Seeing that Zhou Gangguo really replied like this, the gatekeeper was speechless for a while.

Fortunately, the entanglement of the city gate officials did not last long, almost just when Zhou Gang was about to speak again.

As soon as the sky-high firelight rose in the southeast of Wuyue Town, accompanied by billowing smoke, suddenly, the sky over there was dyed red by the firelight, and then there were bursts of shouts of killing.

"What's going on!" said the gatekeeper, shocked.

"I don't know!" the adjutant shook his head in confusion.

"Look in that direction, it's a ghost market!" the lieutenant continued.

"That's right!" the gatekeeper nodded, his brows furrowed deeply, and he said with a solemn expression: "The mountain rain is coming!

The light of the fire spread far away, and Lu Zongbao outside the city gate naturally saw it clearly, and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart: "It's finally here!"

No matter what happens to Guo Wei and Tong Meng, as long as this riot starts, then they will have an excuse!

Zhou Gang glanced at the sky-high fire, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and then his face changed to full of doubts, and he asked at the top of the city tower: "What's the matter! Why is there such a big fire?"

According to the statement on the surface, the guards of the township regiment in Wuyue Town also had to obey the orders of Zhou Gang, the deputy commander of the army, because the inspection in the county also belonged to the military attache system. Although the highest military and political governor of Jiangnan West Province is Wang Xian, but now Wang Xian is not there!

So before completely tearing his face, the gatekeeper can't ignore Zhou Gang's storage!

Seeing Zhou Gang asking, the gatekeeper had no choice but to reply: "Back to General Zhou, I don't know what happened to a certain family!"

Zhou Gang then said: "It's okay! Then you can open the city gate first, let me wait in, and if something happens, I can also help you." ”

"This ...... Wu Yue Town doesn't seem to be under the jurisdiction of General Zhou, right?" said the gatekeeper.

"Ben Shuai is the head of the Yuzhang Military Government, and this Yuzhang County is the jurisdiction of Ben Shuai!" Zhou Gang said.

"But there was no such practice before, and the army could not be mobilized without an order, so please forgive a certain family for not being able to obey orders!" replied the gatekeeper.

Zhou Gang didn't get angry, and asked calmly: "You want to appoint?

When the gatekeeper heard this, his heart tightened: "Oops! Wang Xian that guy is a person with five surnames from the Seven Sects, these days they have been fighting to the death with the family of Yuzhang, this week is so abnormal today, could it be that he actually stood on the side of the Seven Sects and Five Surnames?"

The original source of the defenders of Wuyue Town was very complicated, and they basically belonged to three major forces. But this kind of mountainous situation is really a fatal thing for an army!

The sources are different, each has its own mind, how can it be possible to enforce orders and prohibit it in a war? And how can the generals command? At the same time, in order to compete for control of the army, the three parties are constantly fighting openly and covertly. For this reason, in the first few years, the combat effectiveness of the defenders of Wuyue Town has been unsatisfactory!

In view of this situation, the three major forces had to gather in one place to discuss the way out of the defenders, and finally after difficult negotiations, they came to a unified opinion.

The three major forces jointly decided that the three parties would only contribute money, money, and materials, and that they would pay a lot of money to invite generals who did not belong to any of the forces to train their troops, and that the source of soldiers had nothing to do with the three major forces. Even if the children of the three major forces enter the garrison, they can only act as a small soldier, and they must not be in charge alone, and the commander of the defenders must be absolutely neutral. The mutual supervision and restraint between the three major forces created the extraordinary combat power of the defenders of Wuyue Town.

As a result, the gatekeeper does not belong to any of the three major forces, but is only a commoner, so he only knows a rough idea of the battle between the seven sects and the five surnames and the local wealthy families in Yuzhang, so he can't react to Zhou Gang's intentions.

Although he is not a member of Yuzhang's wealthy family, the balance between the three major forces has long been deeply rooted, and the order he maintains is the source of all the interests of Wu Yue Town, and it is also the job of the gatekeeper. If the people of the Seven Sects and the Five Surnames defeat the Yuzhang Wealthy Family and insert a leg in Wuyue Town, God knows if he can still have his current net worth status after changing the boss?

So, the gatekeeper hurriedly glanced at Adjutant Chong, and when the adjutant got closer, he whispered to him: "Quick! Go and report to the owners, just say that Zhou Gang has already stood on the side of the Seven Sects and the Five Surnames! Let the owners prepare early!"

Just now, the gatekeeper also sent someone to report, but at that time, Zhou Gang's intention was not clear, and after he found out at this moment, he naturally had to report again.

Seeing the gatekeeper's solemn expression, the adjutant also knew that something was wrong, and then left quickly......