Not everyone can be a general, and most people can't command a hundred people without experience.

Jiang Tao, the deputy director of the barracks and the commander of the city defense battalion, could not mobilize the defeated and remnants of the city defense battalion, and could not complete the leadership instructions of the whole city to search for assassins. He understood that the more he used his position to force him before the soldiers recognized him, the more those loose "soldiers" would resist him.

Yuanyang City was in chaos, and his tenure lacked rationality and standardization.

There were only a hundred people on the right side of the guard battalion, and the rank of the captain of the right team was equivalent to that of a thousand household officers of the city defense battalion, and a thousand household officers led more than a thousand soldiers. The three thousand-household officials of the city defense battalion did not buy Jiang Tao's account at all.

What to do? How to get these soldiers to obey the command?

Jiang Tao said loudly: "Brothers, just now, Master Ma was assassinated. "Ma Baiyu used to be the deputy chief and the head of the barracks, in charge of the city defense battalion.

"What?" "Really assassinated?" "How is that possible......?"

The three thousand-household officials coughed and coughed a few times to their respective soldiers before suppressing the discussion in the queue.

Jiang Tao's voice choked, "We must avenge Lord Ma." ”

"Revenge. "Whom to get revenge?"

"There are four assassins. One was killed, one was captured alive, and two escaped. ”

"And two?" "Brewed by the pole and tower, to avenge the great master." ”

"Today, Director Ma Da unfortunately died, Director Zhou has taken over Yuanyang City, and Director Sun Tusun has been transferred to Yuanyangwei and acted as the commander of Yuanyangwei. Whether you accept me as a newcomer or not, I'm already one of you anyway. I was appointed deputy chief of the barracks and commander of the city defense battalion, acting as the head of the barracks. If you don't want to avenge the great boss and don't want to listen to me, I won't force you, let alone punish you for this. If you do not listen to you today, I will not withhold your money for this. If you don't want to be a soldier, you can leave on your own, and I won't embarrass you. ”

The soldiers in the queue were noisy, and some soldiers who were far away immediately felt that Jiang Tao, a newcomer, was a good official after listening to the relay of the soldiers next to them.

Jiang Tao said a lot of words, both grace and power, reasonable, so that the captain and the officials of the hundred households were a little uneasy, after all, it is not easy to eat in a year of great drought, and it is even more difficult to be a captain and an official of a hundred households. Once the ideological work of the middle-level officers and men has been done well, the other soldiers will be like a finger and will not be restrained.

Seeing that the atmosphere had turned, the three Qianhu managers hurriedly walked in front of Jiang Tao and instructed the officers and soldiers under his control to be quiet and listen to Jiang Tao's lecture.

Jiang Tao saw that the attitude of the three thousand-household officials improved, and he suddenly relaxed, he looked at the three thousand-household officials standing beside him, and said: "The three of them have worked, I am still young and have shallow qualifications, and I still have to rely on the guidance of the three seniors to lead the troops." ”

"Commander Jiang is young and promising, and he is modest. "It's too humble. ”

"I'm too young, and I think we need a deputy commander in the city defense battalion. I will ask Director Zhou to pick an assistant from the three as soon as possible. ”

Absolutely good news.

"I'll assign a little bit, Zuo Qianhu led the sergeants under his jurisdiction to go to the city gates to assist the city gate officials to check out the suspicious people who left the city; Right Qianhu contacted various squares in the city to search for suspects in the city; and Zhong Qianhu followed me out of the south gate to pursue. ”

In the early hours of the morning, the eastern sky had just revealed the "white belly of the fish", and Jiang Tao ran to the south gate with five or six hundred people. There was not a single guard under the south gate, and he was astonished: what was the matter? The guards at the city gate were so sloppy, and the defenses at night were so weak?

Not far from the south gate, Eleven, Twelfth, and Thirteenth found their horses in a hidden place, turned over and rode away.

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It was already dawn, and more than a dozen soldiers of the city defense battalion poured in in the small inn "South Gate Laughing House" near the south gate, and they checked the guest register, intimidated the innkeeper and his men, and embarrassed the early guests. Got a lot of oil and water.

Corruption at the grassroots level is everywhere.

One of the chiefs kicked open the door of the lower room, shouted loudly, and shouted, "Get me up on horseback, and let me get out into the courtyard." Get out of the way out of your hometown!"

More than a dozen people came out of the house.

Shi Chang checked in the house, and saw that there were still three people lying on the bed, and said angrily: "Hurry up, do you hear it, and ride the horse for me to sleep." Oops...... "Shi Chang and the soldiers around him were thrown into the courtyard by Mao and Wen.

Shi Chang was frightened, what is going on? There is a master in the room?

After Shi Chang got up from the ground, he didn't dare to scold anymore, he stood at the door and said politely: "Listen, the people in the house, the city defense camp is searching, you ...... The three of you must come out. Oops......"

Shi Chang was thrown into the courtyard again out of thin air, "Maya, there is a ghost in the house." Little Wuzi, you go quickly, go and call someone. ”

Shi Chang stayed away from the door, and angrily asked people to check the "way out of their hometown" of everyone in the courtyard one by one. After the people in the courtyard who had "road guides" were checked, they quickly sorted out their belongings and left the inn in a panic.

Shi Chang covered his buttocks and asked, "Red-faced, what are you two talking about? How could Lu Yin lose it? ”

"Don't, sir......" Xue and Liu's faces turned even redder, and they hurriedly took out a few pieces of broken silver, in a vain attempt to avoid prison. In the Great Xuan Kingdom, if you go out without a way, your sin can be big or small.

Shi Chang took the money, "Don't step on the horse nonsense, I think you two are like assassins, you must go to the principal's mansion to verify your identity." ”

The big man surnamed Xue flew up and kicked Shi Chang, who lay on the ground and covered his abdomen, unable to speak in pain. Xue and Liu are Wusheling grass cowards, and they dare not go to the principal's mansion.

When his subordinates saw that Shi Chang was kicked, they shouted loudly, "bold", "dog thief", and "looking for death", and surrounded him. Two fists are difficult to defeat four hands, four hands are difficult to beat a group, and heroes can't beat many people.

Xue and Liu lay on the ground with their heads in their hands, kicking and beating each other.

Li Xiao hurriedly said: "The two Dao Masters don't care?"

Mao Dao said, "We Qi refining cultivators can't take care of these things. ”

Wen Dao said: "They don't let me talk to my senior brother, and I should be beaten." ”

What logic?

Li Xiao walked to the door and said in a trembling voice: "It is a crime to beat someone to death." ”

Shi Chang straightened up slightly, and inhaled heavily, "Stop, don't fight." Take them away. ”

Li Xiao felt inappropriate and asked, "Why did you take them away?"

"They are suspects, suspects in the killing of the main master. ”

"They didn't kill them, they didn't go out at night. It was two other people who killed the killers. ”

"What?"

"You can ask the guys in this store, the last two people who stayed in the store last night were the murderers. ”

The innkeeper's face was extremely ugly, and he took the initiative to walk up to the chief and said, "Indeed...... It does. ”

"Hmm, take in the Assassins! Someone, take them away. "He" refers to Li Xiao and the innkeepers.

Li Xiao secretly screamed that it was not good, is there anything that can't be said here, I have to go to the principal's mansion? "I'm not going?"

Shi Chang smiled cruelly: "If you don't go, you have to go." Take. ”

Wen Daochang said half a sentence in the house, "He said not to go", and his figure flashed to the courtyard, and then half a sentence, "Why let him go?"

Shi Chang and his soldiers were taken aback when they saw the speed of the white-bearded old man.