As twilight fell, in the council hall of the City Lord's Mansion, Kong Houhu, the deputy commander of the Tongzhou garrison, was reporting to Kong Ji on today's search situation with a tired face.

"My lord, more than half of the eastern part of the city has been searched, and the whereabouts of the county lord have not been found. The people are complaining, and the soldiers are tired, is this night operation ......?"

Kong Houhu wanted to speak and stopped, the current commander of the defenders, Fang Xin, was still cultivating at home, and the other deputy commander, Lin Kui, was not trusted by the city lord, and now the military power of Tongzhou could be said to have fallen on him.

This was a great opportunity to establish his prestige and carve up Fang Xin's power. But the city lord Kong Ji has to intervene hard, and every two hours he has to arrange 500 people to come to the city lord's mansion to guard in turn, and there will be as many as 3,000 soldiers coming in and out of the city lord's mansion on this day, but the total number of defenders in Tongzhou is only more than 4,000 people.

In addition, Kong Ji also ordered the defenders to search for the whereabouts of the Xiao family county lord day and night, which made the already tired defender soldiers even more complaining.

Unlike Kong Houhu, who was tired, Kong Ji at this time, under the escort of many soldiers, swept away his earlier embarrassment, and said with a radiant expression: "We are only one line away from capturing the county lord, and we must not relax at this time." If you stop acting at this moment and let the other party take the opportunity to slip to another area, won't the previous hard work be wasted?"

Kong Ji is not really a straw bag, although he is not from the military, but he can still see the fatigue on the faces of the soldiers and generals under his command at this time. It's just that as the lord of a city, sometimes he really has to pretend to be confused, if he doesn't catch the county lord now, how can he settle down.

Not to mention that King Li, who is far away in Tiansheng, will not let him go, even the mysterious great master in Tongzhou City can threaten his life at any time, so he must not let the people under his hands relax for a moment now.

"However, the brothers have really worked hard these days. After a pause, Kong Ji added, "In this way, this month's salary will be given to everyone from the treasury as a reward!"

"Order!" Kong Houhu said solemnly, as the actual commander of the current Tongzhou garrison, he naturally knew the importance of the current search, since the other party was forced to enter the city lord's mansion, this means that they are about to touch the clue of the county lord, otherwise it will not stimulate the other party to jump over the wall.

However, as the head of the three armies, the posture that should be done is still to be done, not only to show the city lord above, but also to the soldiers below, at least during the time when he replaced Fang Xin, he did not let his brothers work in vain.

No, after Kong Ji said that he wanted to increase the military salary, the faces of the guards who could hear the conversation inside and outside the conference hall slowly became a little energetic.

After continuing to give some inconsequential spurs, Kong Ji went back to his room to rest, he slept at the door last night and blew the fishy wind all night, so he naturally had to sleep earlier today.

Kong Ji's bedroom was also under the bag of many guards at the moment, and there was a team of thirty people outside the door to guard at any time, and there were also four guards in the room who were waiting all night in case of accidents.

Repeatedly check the number of defenders inside and outside the door, and before going to bed, he didn't forget to tell the guards to cheer up, so that they would give a reward, Kong Ji slowly lay down on his couch and fell asleep quietly.

Soon after Kong Ji fell asleep, Cheng Ziyi also summoned a group of Tiangang-level killers again to come to Qin Sixteen, and after seeing the new pavilion master of the Dark Key Pavilion, these killers saluted respectfully: "My lord!"

Qin Sixteen sat on the main seat, his face expressionless, and after glancing at the killers present, he said indifferently: "Take off your masks!"

Hearing this, Cheng Ziyi hurriedly turned his head and stood in the corner. This Dark Key Pavilion has its own rules of the Dark Key Pavilion, and although Tiangang-level killers can enter the stronghold, no one trusts each other.

Who said that killers don't have wives and children? Therefore, in addition to guarding against the tracking of the enemy, the killers of this Dark Key Pavilion also have to be careful of the black hands of their colleagues, so it can be said that survival is also quite difficult.

Therefore, when each Tiangang-level killer enters and exits the stronghold, he will bring his own mask, and the mask is engraved with golden lettering to distinguish their identity, and the only person who can see the true face of all the killers in the Dark Key Pavilion is only one, and that is the Pavilion Master Qi Qi of the Dark Key Pavilion, but now that the Pavilion Master has been replaced, they also need to let the new Pavilion Master re-understand themselves!

As soon as Qin Sixteen's words fell, the killers who were still standing side by side immediately changed from horizontal to vertical, lined up in order, led by the top-ranked Tian Meng, took off their masks one by one, and only after the new pavilion master nodded and signaled, they brought back their masks and retreated to the back row of the team.

There are a total of twenty killers called by Cheng Ziyi today, which are the top twenty among the existing Tiangang-level killers. In less than a moment, Tian Meng, who was originally at the top, returned to the top of the team, and Qin Sixteen also recorded the appearance of the killers.

"This operation, the right protector should have also explained to everyone, there are as many as five hundred guards in the City Lord's Mansion tonight, and the task is quite arduous. ”

At the same time that Qin Sixteen opened his mouth to speak, the killers at the head of the place consciously stood in a row again and listened carefully to his orders. The movements were swift and orderly, showing the professionalism of a Tiangang-level killer.

Qi Ling's training under his command is still very good, at least much better than Ma Ban's Yu Huaiyin. Seeing everyone's performance, Qin Sixteen nodded with satisfaction and continued.

"You don't need to fight for credit, this is a team task, just complete the overall goal, and everyone's bounty will not be less! However, in order to prevent individual people from slacking off and affecting the efficiency of the team, I have also arranged a few overseers among you.

Once the mission is over, the Overseer reports to me that someone is slacking off or hurting a teammate, it's not just a matter of no bounty, so let's do it ourselves!"

The so-called "overseers" that Qin Sixteen planted among the killers were none other than the six people who had only gone on a mission yesterday, Tianmeng, Tianwei, Tianying, Tiangui, Tianman, and Tiangu.

Although Qin Sixteen was very close to Tiangu, he was not at ease to put the right of supervision in the hands of Tiangu alone, and it was not a good thing for the people below to be in charge alone, so he also adopted the same method as Qi Ling, appointing a few Tiangang-level killers in the lead, and then using them to suppress the killers at the bottom.

"Tianmeng, you are responsible for leading the team tonight, be sure to complete the task and come back. Qin Sixteen slowly stood up, glanced at Tian Meng who was the leader with deep meaning, and said in a deep voice.

Qin Sixteen, who grew up in the national capital since he was a child, although he was not carefully cultivated by his family, his own ears and eyes, as well as his experience of entering and leaving the imperial city many times, have greatly inspired him to control people's hearts at the moment.

He still understands the most basic principle of decentralization, and besides, there is Cheng Ziyi, the right protector, who advises him, and there are not many things he needs to worry about.

"Obey the orders of the Pavilion Master!" Tianmeng's eyes showed a hint of joy, and he hurriedly bowed down and replied, last night's commander was Tiangu, who ranked sixth, and he was still a little dissatisfied, but he didn't expect it to be his turn today.

Qin Sixteen stopped talking, waved his hand slightly, and everyone retreated, leaving only Cheng Ziyi to lean forward: "Pavilion Master, I have inquired about the things you arranged, so ......"

"Let's go out and talk!" Stretching out his hand to interrupt Cheng Ziyi's words, Qin Sixteen stood up with a solemn expression and said in a deep voice.