The dark night was broken, and the originally sleeping Anqing City was like a red-hot iron pot being poured with a scoop of lard, and the whole city began to boil.

Many people got up from the bed, looking at the fire that suddenly became bright in the distance, and their mood was extremely heavy as if they had pressed a big stone, and many children were even more frightened and cried.

As early as the first time of the Liukou attack, Wang Jinguo had already woken up from his sleep, and without too much nonsense, he immediately put on his clothes and took dozens of officials from the yamen to the city wall.

It's just that as soon as he got up to the city wall, he was stunned by what he saw in front of him, and with the help of the light, he could see that countless ragged rogues were pouring out of the darkness with all kinds of weapons and even farm tools, and then began to climb the city wall frantically along the ladder.

Seeing those hideous-looking and crazy rogues climbing up the city wall like ants, and then being stabbed down by the officers and soldiers on the city wall and the young men with bamboo poles, spears and other weapons, Wang Jinguo was a little stunned for a while.

It was the first time he had seen such a scene before, and he knew that in war appointments were so humble and worthless, and people were fighting desperately, almost all of them had never known each other, but they were going to kill or be killed by each other at the first moment of meeting.

The ground originally paved with blue bricks had become slippery because it had already been stained red with blood, and Wang Jinguo, who was wearing official boots, slipped several times after just walking on it, if it weren't for the official next to him to help him in time, I am afraid that he would have fallen several times.

The head of the yamen, who had already been frightened and turned pale, said to him in a trembling voice: "My lord, it's too dangerous here, why don't you let the villain send you back to the yamen?" ”

"Go down!"

Wang Jinguo laughed miserably.

"Where can we go? If the thieves invade the city, can they avoid death by hiding in the yamen? ”

The squad leader was dumbfounded for a while, turned his head to look at the rogue who was attacking like chicken blood under the city wall, and then looked at the officers and soldiers who were guarding the city weakly, he sighed helplessly, "My lord, the villain escorted you to the city gate tower to meet with the king guard, at least it is safer there." ”

Wang Jinguo did not refuse, and the group came to the city gate tower in a hurry.

When they arrived at the city gate, they found that the gate was already full of wounded soldiers, and there were wailing voices everywhere, and the few doctors and apprentices who had been temporarily recruited were busy sweating profusely.

Outside the city gate, there were dozens of soldiers in leather armor resting, most of them were covered in blood, it was obvious that all of them had gone through a bloody battle, and Wang Jinguo immediately recognized these people as the family members under the command of Wang Quan.

And what surprised Wang Jinguo the most was that even the garrison Wang Quan was injured and was sitting on a stool for a doctor to bandage his arm.

"Wang Shoubei, why are you injured?"

Wang Jinguo was taken aback when he saw this, and hurriedly walked over to look him up and down, and found that he was only injured in his arm, and everything else was fine. Don't look at the ability of the king, it doesn't seem very good, but he has been a garrison in Anqing Mansion for more than 20 years, and the entire Anqing Mansion is almost all his people, from the soldiers to the officers, if anything happens to him, the entire defense of Anqing City may immediately collapse.

"Prefect, why are you here?"

Wang Quan, who was grinning and asking the doctor to bandage his wounds, was also stunned for a moment when he saw Wang Jinguo's arrival, and then grinned: "You don't have to worry, it's just that your arm was injured by an arrow, and it will be fine in a few days." However, the prefect is a parent, if he goes up to the city wall without authorization and is injured by a stray arrow, the court blames it, and the lower officials can not afford to bear the crime. ”

Wang Jinguo shook his head and said, "When is it now, Wang Shoubei, you still say such things." We are now grasshoppers on a rope, you can't run and you can't jump me, just now this mansion came up, and I saw the fierce attack of the rogues, but the soldiers defending the city were young and strong but had no intention of fighting and flinched, so the situation is worrying. ”

"It's not just worrying."

Wang Quan smiled bitterly.

"In less than an hour, there have been several dangers in the city, if it weren't for the lower officials who took their families out to fight a few times, the city head may have fallen."

"How so?" Wang Jinguo was shocked, "No matter how bad the soldiers are, the city will not be in danger so soon, right?" ”

"How not." Wang Quan snorted coldly: "There is no military salary, no silver reward, and even the food is wild vegetable dumplings, who will work for us?" Aren't those people reluctant to get the money, and when the city falls, let them resist the rogues themselves! ”

Wang Jinguo was silent, Wang Quan's heart was full of resentment, he didn't know, those gentry and rich families in the city promised to give 20,000 taels of silver, but the next day there were moths, one by one said that it would take time to raise silver, and hoped that the officers and soldiers defending the city would first beat the rogue back and then give them the silver, making Wang Jinguo so angry that he almost vomited blood.

"Report!"

An officer and soldier, covered in blood, ran over and said loudly.

"My lord, the thieves are attacking too quickly, and the west side of the city can't hold on, Wang Bai always asks the villain to tell you, please send reinforcements over to reinforce it!"

"The official knows, go right away! Damn, it really doesn't stop at all. Wang Quan stood up scolding, casually lifted the ghost head knife placed at his feet and shouted, "Brothers, those who can still move will follow Lao Tzu and hack those thieves to death!" ”

"Let's go!"

The family members who were originally staggering or lying down or sitting and resting stood up one after another, picked up their weapons and followed the royal power towards the west city wall, and the city gate suddenly became a lot empty.

"Lord Prefect, shouldn't we go back now?" The team leader next to him asked cautiously.

"Back to the fart!"

Wang Jinguo let out a rare foul mouth, only to see him snatch a waist knife from the hand of a servant and said loudly.

"The king is gone, we can't watch here, everyone goes with the official to kill the thief!"

After speaking, Wang Jinguo ran towards the west of the city with his waist knife......

"Kill......"

When Wang Jinguo came to the west of the city, he found that hundreds of rogues had come up on the city wall in the west of the city, and the original guards and young men had either died in battle or had been dispersed.

"It's not good, everyone goes up with the official to guard the ladder, and the rogues must not be allowed to climb the city wall again."

Although Wang Jinguo had never fought, he also knew that if he let the reinforcements of the Liukou come up again, there would be no room for recovery, so he rushed over without saying a word.

As soon as he reached the mouth of a ladder, he saw a rogue poking his head out of the battlements, and without thinking, he grabbed his waist knife with both hands and slashed at the rogue's head.

I only heard the sound of "wave", and under surprise, half of the rogue was actually cut off, and the brain and blood suddenly spurted out......