Outside Jinyang City, Taiyuan County, Lao Li Tou, the city gate official of the South City Gate, stood on the city gate tower as usual this morning, cleared his throat and shouted: "Below, open the city gate~"

Lao Li Tou has been a city gate official in Jinyang City for 30 years, this sound of opening the city gate in the morning, has already practiced perfectly, his voice, the voice is thick and loud, the breath is long and long, and with his voice, a few soldiers who have been prepared below immediately worked together to hold up the solid wood door latch that is more than 60 catties on the city gate, as soon as the bolt was torn off, several other soldiers immediately pulled the knocker together, accompanied by a "squeak" sound, the two solid wood doors with more than 300 catties each were opened, The people who had been waiting outside and inside the city gate for a long time flocked to the city gate. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After hearing the sound of the city gate opening, Lao Li Tou shouted to the bottom again: "Below, carefully check the people who pass by, the word can be passed down from above, there have been thieves in the city recently, and the above said, strictly check everyone who goes out of the city and enters the city." ”

"I know~"

"You'd better go to sleep quickly."

"Why don't I dream of marrying a daughter-in-law for you?"

"Haha......"

The soldiers, who had long figured out Lao Litou's temper, carefully checked the people who came and went, while interjecting with Lao Litou, and laughed loudly without care, but this time their laughter did not stop, and Lao Li Tou on the city gate tower suddenly shouted "Alert", which frightened them to stop laughing suddenly.

Although the laughter stopped, the soldiers at the city gate were all stunned, they did not immediately react on guard, until the old man Li shouted a voice of vigilance again, they reacted, they pulled out their weapons one after another, more than a dozen people controlled the people who wanted to enter and exit, and dozens of other people ran out of the city gate with weapons, and a few people held the city gate and prepared to close the city gate at any time, and at this time those people also reacted, and some timid people immediately screamed.

Seeing that more than 100 people in the cave of the city gate were about to be in chaos, the elderly centurion under the city gate hurriedly shouted: "Everyone is calm, there are trespassers, and there is no mercy!" As long as you stand still, you are safe! ”

After listening to the centurion's words, although the people were very frightened, they still listened to the centurion's words, and one by one they stood in place and did not dare to move.

The soldiers outside the city gate were a little blind, because after rushing out, they did not see any enemy situation, just when the soldiers were puzzled, a centurion lying on the ground and listening attentively suddenly shouted: "It's cavalry, it's cavalry, everyone is on guard, swords and shields come forward, spearmen are arrayed, and archers are ready!" ”

With the man's order, more than fifty sword and shield men immediately set up the round shield in their hands and stood at the front, while the spearmen raised the spears of more than three meters in their hands and passed the spears between the sword and shield hands, while the remaining dozens of archers bent their bows and arrows one after another, and pulled the longbows in their hands to the full, and raised them diagonally above their heads.

When the soldiers guarding the city below lined up, Lao Li Tou above was still lying on the battlements and looking south, and at this moment his hand had already held the rope of the alarm bell, as long as he sounded the alarm bell, the entire Jinyang City would immediately enter a state of combat readiness, and it was precisely because he knew that he had a heavy responsibility, so Lao Li Tou had not sounded the alarm bell in his hand.

It's no wonder that Lao Li Tou is so nervous, because at this moment, on the official road outside Jinyang City, there is a team of black-clothed and black-armored cavalry, which is rushing towards Jinyang City, and those black-armored knights are lining up in a long marching procession, looking from a distance, it looks like a big black snake is rushing towards Jinyang City.

Outside Jinyang City, the leader of the team of black-armored knights was Pingbei General Zhang Yi, and the purpose of his coming here was to meet Ding Yuan, and secondly, to see the words on the silk.

With the rapid march of the team, Zhang Yi saw the soldiers waiting at the city gate from a distance, and knew that rushing to the city gate with his troops for no reason would cause misunderstanding by the other party, so Zhang Yi hurriedly pulled the reins of his horse, and at the same time raised his hand to signal the people behind him to stop advancing.

As soon as Zhang Yi raised his hand here, Dian Wei, who was following him, immediately roared "stop", after hearing Dian Wei's order, the five hundred light horsemen grabbed the reins of the horse, accompanied by the neighing of the war horse, the five hundred light horsemen stopped neatly, and the formation of all the cavalry was not scattered at all, and except for the neighing of the war horse, there was no other abnormal sound at all.

Seeing Zhang Yi and them stop from a distance, Lao Li Tou on the city gate breathed a sigh of relief, but his hand holding the police rope did not let go, but pulled the police rope with one hand and shouted down with the battlements with the other, asking people to go over and ask what was going on with the pair of cavalry.

Just as the soldiers of Jinyang City were walking towards Zhang Yi and them, Zhang Yi was also commenting on the defenders of Jinyang City with Chen Gong beside him.

Raising the horsewhip in his hand and pointing at the soldiers who were waiting outside the city, Zhang Yi smiled and said: "I really didn't expect that the guards of Jinyang City would react so quickly, and before we arrived, they set up a formation, I knew that this would be the case, and we didn't need to camp outside the city last night." ”

Zhang Yi actually approached Jinyang City yesterday evening, if he continued to hurry, it would not take half an hour to get to the city, but he chose to camp outside the city, the purpose is to take advantage of the fact that the city gate has just opened in the morning, and the soldiers guarding the city are not strong, directly lead people to rush into Jinyang City, first, he can show his strength, and second, he wants to give Ding Yuan a dismount, so that the next road to suppress bandits is smoother, but he didn't expect that his dismount was not successful, On the contrary, he was given a dismount by the other party, which is really a stealing of chickens and rice.

Listening to Zhang Yi's words, Chen Gong pursed his lips and smiled: "Lord, Ding Thorn makes perennial battles with Xianbei, although the soldiers under his command are not elite in a hundred battles, but this reaction is still there, the lord is here later, and he will go to negotiate with them in front of the public platform." ”

Nodding at Chen Gong with a smile, Zhang Yi said softly: "There is Mr. Lao." ”

Arching his hand at Zhang Yi on the horse, Chen Gong patted his war horse, and then rushed towards the soldiers who came over with a clip of the horse's belly.

Seeing Chen Gong running over from a distance, the soldier who was originally going to come forward to ask suddenly stopped, and shouted at the same time: "The one who comes stops and knows his name, otherwise we will release the arrows!" ”

As he said peace, the soldier's hand was raised high.

"Don't let go of the arrows, I'm Yong'an Xianling Chen Gong," after shouting and reporting his name first, Chen Gong continued to shout: "His Majesty the Emperor personally named Zhang Yi, the general of Pingbei, has come to visit Lord Ding Yuan, the assassin of the state, to discuss the matter of suppressing bandits in the state, and quickly inform Lord Ding." ”

Just when Chen Gong was negotiating with the soldiers, Ding Yuan, who had just finished washing, suddenly received a report that someone from his subordinates had attacked the city, and after hearing the report from his subordinates, Ding Yuan couldn't even take care of eating, so he immediately picked up his sword and drove out of the assassin's mansion in a hurry. (To be continued.) )