Chapter Seventy-Two: Night Operations of the City Defense Army
Tarot Stern's place of work is on the edge of the city defense camp, after finishing the day's affairs this day, he went home as usual, and when he passed by the city defense camp, he saw that the city defense battalion commander Lei Luo was gathering the city defense army to lecture the soldiers in the square outside, and saw his old friend passing by Lei Luo smiled and came forward, "Hey, Tarot, why did you go back so early today, the sun is still hanging high?"
Tarot Stern stopped when he saw Lei Luo walking towards him, "I don't have much work in a day, I'll go back to rest early when I'm done, what are you going to do with such a big battle today?" Tarot asked curiously when he saw that Lei Luo had gathered so many city defenders and looked like he had something important to do.
"What else can I do, it's the little thief who broke into my house and stole things I told you last time, and now I have finally found out where he is hiding, as long as it gets dark, I will take someone to arrest him."
Tarot Stern was surprised by the efficiency of Relo's work, and actually found out the hiding place of the night thief Arthas in such a short time, the two stood face to face and chatted for a while, seeing that the time was not too early, Tarot Stern said to Relo, "Okay, I won't delay your serious business of catching the night thief, I hope to hear your good news tomorrow, good luck", after saying goodbye, Relo continued to move in the direction of home, when he returned home, it was almost dark, dinner had been cooked, and he was waiting for him alone.
When Elena saw that Tarot Stern had come back a little bit, she asked him, "Didn't you say that you would come back early if you didn't have anything to do today?" "I just met Lei Luo on the road again, this time he has found out where the night thief is hiding, and is mobilizing the city defense troops in the city defense camp square, and he will carry out the arrest operation as soon as it gets dark," Tarot explained to Elena.
Stern had been staying at home all day, chatting with Yulia all day, and when he heard Tarot Stern say that the city guards were going to round up the nocturnal thieves, he immediately stood up and walked out the door, "You can eat dinner first, I'm in a bit of a hurry to go out", and walked out of the house and walked towards the stable.
"Andy, what are you doing in a hurry, take me with you," Yulia said to Stern.
"Xiaoya, it's inconvenient for me to take you with me this time to do business, just wait for me to come back at home", after saying that, Stern rode Xiao Ash and ran out, his destination was the City Defense Army Square, it usually takes about an hour and a half to walk, and it didn't take twenty minutes to reach the destination by riding Xiao Ash, the square was empty at this time, and it seemed that they had set off.
Seeing a shop near the square, he walked towards the store, this shop mainly sells all kinds of clothes and hats, both men and women, Stern bought a black men's hat and paid the shop owner, "Boss, I just saw the sergeants of the city defense battalion gathering in the square, the scene was really huge, why did those people disappear in a blink of an eye?" Stern asked the shop owner.
"They had just gone to the side, and had been gone for less than a quarter of an hour, when they heard that they were going to catch a very good thief," said the shopkeeper, pointing out his hand towards the main road to the west.
After Stern found out the direction of the city defense army, he immediately rode away on the little ash, he wanted to find the city defense army in a hurry, although the safety of the night thief had nothing to do with him, but Stern was a person who loved and hated clearly, and he would not let a caring person who could not hesitate to take risks in order to support the lives of the orphanage children be captured by the city defense army like this.
The starry night sky slightly illuminated the way forward, and Stern stood on the high ground and faintly saw a group of men and horses in front of him in sight, they should be the city defense army. After Stern took the ash, he took out a scarf and put it around his face, revealing only two eyes, and after hiding his face, he quietly sneaked after him, and followed the city defense army all the way to an independent manor in the suburbs, which was quiet all around, as if no one lived in the manor.
The group came to a halt at the edge of the house after climbing through the door, and one of them, who seemed to be the chief, began to divide the work among the others, and all of them, under the instructions of the chief, began to grope their way towards the places with doors and windows, and gradually guarded all the entrances and exits of the house, waiting for further instructions from the chief.
The door of the house was locked from the inside, and it was basically impossible to enter through the gate, so the city guards concentrated most of their personnel on the windows of the side walls, and they began to pry the windows in the light of the stars with the window picking tools that they had prepared long ago.
After a while, the window was successfully pried open, and at the same time, it did not alert the people inside, except for the personnel guarding the entrance and exit of the door and the window, everyone else crept into the house through the window. Judging from the scene just now, the city defense army is also a well-trained army, and perhaps the night thieves don't know that danger is quietly approaching now.
Stern quietly circled the manor and observed the distribution of doors and windows and other exits on all sides of the manor house, and then hid behind the big trees and watched the situation on the side wall windows. At this time, the second floor of the house sounded the sound of fighting, accompanied by the sound of various instruments falling to the ground, and the attention of several city defense soldiers outside the window was attracted to the house.
Taking advantage of the distraction of the city defense soldiers, Stern sneaked over, and while they were not paying attention, he raised his palms and slapped them heavily on the backs of the two soldiers, and with a 'bang' two people fainted on the ground at the same time, and then with a 'bang' the third soldier fell to the ground again.
Stern didn't kill the soldiers, he just knocked them out, and after putting them down, Stern got up and got through the window.
The fight in the house continued, and after Stern entered the house, he found the stairs and rushed up quickly, and when he came to the second floor, he saw that there were already five or six people lying on the ground screaming, but under the siege of so many people, the night thieves had retreated step by step, and were forced to a dead end by the city guards, and there was no way to escape, and it would not be long before they were captured.
"Arthas, you are surrounded, give up your resistance quickly, lay down your arms and surrender, and I will be a light blow to you", said the leader of the city defense army to the masked man in front of him, who was rushing left and right but could not escape.
"Don't talk nonsense, if you have the ability, rush up", what was revealed from the masked man's weak voice was the will not to give in, but the two fists were invincible to the four hands after all, and in the end, the city defense army still caught the masked man.
After they caught the night thief, everyone relaxed their vigilance, lifted the wounded and grabbed the masked man who was constantly struggling, and slowly walked towards the stairs, and when they came to the staircase, suddenly a dark figure jumped out of the stairs, and in the blink of an eye, knocked down the two soldiers who were holding the masked man.