Luxian, the sky has darkened, the original noisy street market, when the sun sets, began to become no pedestrians, walking through the street, is the sound of the boots of the bag patrol team, a team of ten people, under the leadership of the team leader, with a pistol under the armpit, the gun neatly pointed upward. The soldiers of the patrol squad, each with a solemn and vigilant expression, immediately carried out interrogation and arrest as soon as they saw any wrongful pedestrians.

When he first arrived, there were no complete sources in the counties and districts, and this strange situation made Xu Jie very vigilant, so he announced a city-wide curfew at the first time.

Xu Jie has moved his office to the barracks, and in the strange situation, the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, which must still be done.

Under the dim oil lamp, Xu Jie was writing hard, and right at his hand, the original decorative sword of the scribe was also replaced by a real weapon to kill the enemy, in this strange period, everyone must be ready to go to the battlefield at any time.

Cao Meng, the commander of the thousand-man team who stayed behind, grabbed his command knife and knelt not far from Xu Jie, the light dimly shining on his serious face, making him feel that the burden on his shoulders was extremely heavy.

At night, there is an oppressive silence.

In this oppressive night, a group of patrolling soldiers had just walked by, and in a dark alley, a figure appeared in the brain, and after looking around, he tied a dark yellow cloth belt to his head, and then whispered to the bottomless alley behind him: "Have the people from the Zhangjia business arrived?" ”

Not far behind him, a low answer came: "There are 20 people in their business, and they have all arrived." ”

"Is someone from Li Yuanwai's family here?"

Another voice replied: "Our Li family is fifteen." ”

This person asked unhappily: "Your Li family has 200 slaves, why are there only 15 people?" ”

As a result, the voice behind him replied quietly: "That old Wang's family, there are 300 slaves in his family, but there are only ten people, and we are stronger than him." ”

As a result, as soon as he said this, another voice retorted: "Our Wang family is a real master, while your Li family is old and weak." ”

So the two of them began to quarrel in the dark alley, and at this time, the leader standing in front said impatiently: "Shut up for me, when is this happening, and I am still chirping here." Then he whispered to an entourage in the darkness behind him, "Go and count the number of people." ”

The attendant quickly turned around, pulled the human body she could touch along the way, ran back at the end, and said a little breathlessly: "Our team has 271 people. ”

The leader poked his head out again and looked left and right, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "The rabble is a rabble at all times, I think everyone discussed it at the beginning, according to the number of slaves in each family, at least half of the people, but now, but they are all taking out a little to fill the number, according to the original regulations, they can at least lead a thousand people, but the result is only a few hundred people, I don't know how many other teams have made up of people." If the other teams are also lonely with people like themselves, they use these people to snatch the south gate, and the chances of success are indeed very small. ”

Then he sighed: "Actually, the eldest brother doesn't say that the second brother is bad, his own master obviously has 200 slaves, but the ones handed over to him are only 30 people, and the slaves are the property of the masters, and they all want to lose as little as possible themselves, but now at this critical time, Mingzhe is definitely the way to lose!" In case you can't win the county, it will be a situation where you will lose everything, and when the time comes, with Lu Peng's character, you will fight back frantically, and no one will have good fruit to go, but at this time, these ideas can only be thought about by yourself, those guys who are full of fat brains, only have money and interests in their eyes, where do they have long-term plans?

"Little Sanzi." The leader whispered behind him.

"Big brother, I'm here." A capable man quietly came behind the leading big brother.

"As long as the fire on the tall building of the Zhao family is together, when the patrol team comes over in a while, we will kill it together, and then you show me a little, if anyone dares to cringe, you will take our brother and cut him directly."

The eerie words reached everyone's ears in the silent alley, causing chills to run in everyone's backs.

And in another alley, the same situation is happening, groups of ghostly things, lurking in the shadows, waiting for the time to come out immediately.

Cao Meng sat at Xu Jie's head, looked at the hourglass, and suggested to Xu Jie in a deep voice: "My lord, now that it's the second watch, do you want to evacuate our brothers who patrol the streets?" Let them go up to the city to tighten the guards of the city defenses? ”

Xu Jie raised his head, glanced at the hourglass, and nodded lightly: "The Jingjie patrol was originally intended to keep the people from going to the streets at this time to cause danger and chaos, but now that our goal has been achieved, we should indeed regroup the soldiers who are scattered on the patrol posts to strengthen our city defense strength, so as not to be broken by the enemy." ”

The gentry and merchants in the city are about to move, Xu Jie is not unobserved, when this army is stretched, it is true that he should not disperse his own forces, besides, if the patrol sentry of a team of ten people really faces the onslaught of those powerful people, it will not play any role in suppression, but will be broken by each person, weakening his own strength.

With Xu Jie's permission, Cao Meng nodded and called over a herald of his own outside the door, and commanded softly: "You go to the Bell and Drum Tower to give an order, and order to sound the gong five times as agreed, and summon those patrolling brothers, each of whom will return to his own team, and strictly guard against the four cities." ”

The herald said yes and ran away. After a while, on the bell and drum tower in the center of the county, there were five crisp gongs, and the various squads patrolling the streets, after hearing this gong, immediately gathered to the city gate tower they had specified, and the streets of the entire county suddenly became the same as the ghost domain, only the cold wind picked up a cloud of garbage, circled, and flew on the street.

"General Zhang's team has been out for half a day, and the messenger we sent to ask for help from the base area Zhao Quan has also been out for a day, and now counting, our messenger should have arrived at our base area, and now we can only hope that the enemy's offensive is not very fierce, so that we can hold out until the arrival of reinforcements."

Cao Meng stood up and threw his hand at Xu Jie: "Rest assured, even if my thousand brothers fight to the last man, they will definitely be able to hold out until the arrival of reinforcements." ”

Xu Jie also stood up, paced to the windowsill, looked at the south, and didn't know what the situation was with the lord? This time our enemy is absolutely desperate, we win, Luxian will truly become our world, defeated, all our plans will be completely lost, this is a battle that will determine our fate. ”

(End of chapter)