At five o'clock in the afternoon, when the smoke of the cooking outside the city was like a thick fog over the broad-leaved forest in the drizzle, lingering on the branches, the soldiers of the Second Army of the South of the Empire had completely blocked Lisbonto, and at the city gate, dense bayonets rose like a forest on the flat ground, and fully clothed sentries and rangers were at the city gates,

All exits of the city had a force of 1,000 men, enough to deal with any attempt to break through the city, and all entry and exit were prohibited, and the army began to march into the streets of the city, erecting barriers, controlling the city according to blocks, and issuing martial law orders,

At this time, any non-military personnel who appear on the street, the army has the power to kill directly,

No one knows why the army suddenly moved into Lisbonto, but the Imperial army's crackdown on smugglers speaks for itself, and the citizens of Lisbento can see black plumes of smoke rising into the sky in the southwestern blocks of the city, where the smugglers are most concentrated.

A citizen of Lisbento stood in front of the window, looking at the black smoke in the distance, his face showed not stunned and angry, but happy, Lisbento had been damaged, and then rose due to a large number of smuggling, the city is known as the city of gold, also known as the city of blood and tears, in this city, smuggling, fighting, slave trade are all above board, most of the people who can have the ability to organize smuggling are inextricably linked with all forces, the whole city is like a huge colosseum mixed with all forces,

In this case, not to mention that ordinary civilians are powerless to fight, even business alliances cannot contain it, smuggling syndicates are like a huge dark kingdom entrenched here, arrogant, although it has not yet reached the point of blatantly grabbing money, but it is already the norm to collect protection money in each block, and it is commonplace to make trouble for the sake of grabbing docks and turf, and ordinary small businessmen do not dare to provoke smugglers at all. The result of revolts is often either the smashing of the shop, or the next day it becomes a scarred corpse lying in a sewage ditch, the smuggling with underground forces has been collectivized, and the means of dealing with things have become more cruel and ruthless, even in complete disregard of the imperial decrees.

In Lisbonto, they are like the monarchs of the underground kingdom

In a huge villa in the southwest of the city, at the headquarters of the largest smuggling group, the Dark Serpent, a bald middle-aged man with a sturdy physique was walking back and forth with a solemn face, and there were more than a dozen people in the hall, all of whom were the leaders of his subordinates. The middle-aged man is Pahaira, the leader of the Dark Serpent, who planned this city closure.

After receiving the news that the army had entered the city, one of the biggest leaders of the Lisbonto underworld, immediately ordered all the subordinates who were making trouble outside to withdraw.

There seemed to be some people in the hall who were frightened, these leaders were frightened, the imperial army and the business alliance were two different things, one was a business organization. One is a naked violent organization that is a professional for slaughter, and everyone just wants to force out the shrinking turtle of the business alliance, but they didn't expect to hang a giant whale up

"My lord, what should we do now. If the army comes, everyone will die," one of the leaders looked at Pahaira with a hesitant expression, "What's the panic, the army has been in Lisbonto for three hours." Nothing was done except the usual blockade of the streets, which should have been an ordinary measure against the commotion in the city. It doesn't have to be specifically against us!" Pahaira threw the cigarette butt in his hand on the ground, kicked it hard, and said in a dissatisfied voice, "It's just a general martial law!" This situation is not unprecedented, every time there is a war on the front line, martial law will be lifted, and it should be lifted in two or three days" "But now there is no war on the front line!"

One of the leaders in the hall said with a hesitant expression, "Why did the army march into Lisbonto? The army is coming at us, as for why it didn't move, it's not clear, but this stalemate won't last long, once the army moves, everyone will die! This kind of thing is not less done by the Falcon Army!" "Don't mess with yourself until you understand the situation!"

Pahaira stopped, glared at him with some annoyance, and said in a solemn voice, "Judging from the armor signs of the patrol on the street, it is the Second Army of the Local Southern Army that is driving into the city, it is the regiment of the Thordon of the Virtuous people, it is not the main army of the first line in the Imperial Army, so the other party has not been so bold, and the tricky thing is that all the goods have been sealed, and some of the goods are very important, if the deadline is delayed, we will pay a large amount of compensation for this, it is a batch of goods worth 500,000 gold coins!" And it's a very sensitive thing! I've already sent someone to deliver the message, and as long as the Second Army Corps in the South doesn't do it within three days, someone will soon come out to help us!"

"Who are the people the leader is talking about?" the leaders perked up at Pahela's words, and one of them asked cautiously

"It's a bit of a trouble, but it should be solved!" Pahaira nodded slightly, his gloomy eyes looked out of the window, the drizzle was falling on the windowsill, which made him suddenly uneasy, until it turned dark and there was no sign of a large number of troops outside, which made him breathe a sigh of relief, "Come on, light the lights in all the rooms!" Pahaira pulled his collar and said to the butler, tonight made him feel very cold, and no one from the other leaders spoke anymore, and there was a bleak atmosphere in the hall,

"Squeak!" At this moment, the door of the hall opened from the outside, and a young man in a black cloak walked in from the outside, this young man's face was very pale, his arms were slender, and his body was thin, he took off the hood that covered his face and put it on the table, and in front of the eyes of everyone in the hall, he picked up a glass of wine on the table and took a sip of it, "Lu Lin, what's the matter? Why has it been so long, has the letter been passed out?" Pahaira looked at the young man who walked in, and asked anxiously, this young man is the person he sent to deliver the message. No, it was just some accidents, so it was delayed for some time!" replied the young man nonchalantly

"What kind of accident?" Pahaira tightened in her heart and asked eagerly, "I used a military crossbow that I had secretly stored to shoot the letter into the window of the small wooden house at the foot of the city wall, and I didn't return until I saw Lao Mu take the letter away, but on the way back, I accidentally saw a good show!" The young man smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, deliberately bought a pass, and under the eager gaze of everyone, he said proudly, "Do you remember that group of bastards at the corner of the street? Pahaira's eyebrows were raised, the blasphemers were another big smuggling syndicate in the city. Although the strength is not as good as the Dark Serpent, it belongs to the kind of hob meat that dares to kill and fight, so although the number is only more than a hundred, it is also very popular, especially in the slave smuggling There have been several frictions with the Dark Serpent, "They're finished!" Lu Lin grinned and said, "When I came back, I happened to see the army surrounding their headquarters" "What! The Blasphemer Headquarters was attacked?" Pahela's face changed, the Blasphemer and the Dark Serpent were not much different, the most important thing was that the army was attacking the Blasphemer! The army might attack the headquarters of the Dark Serpent, "Actually, they deserve it!" Lu Lin pursed his lips and said disdainfully, "Blasphemers, those idiots with muscles in their heads. I really thought how fierce you were, a group of military patrol cavalry wanted to inspect them, they thought that the army was here to exterminate them, and they actually gathered a crowd to attack the military patrol cavalry, which attracted thousands of regular troops, and when I left, the gate of their headquarters had fallen, and now I am afraid that it has been taken!" Lu Lin said with relish, and suddenly heard a sound of inhalation all around. The faces of the others were a little pale,

Lu Lin's body shuddered, and he looked at everyone in disbelief, "You...... You don't have such a plan, do you? That's just looking for death, and I'll pay a general attention when I come back. At least tens of thousands of Imperial regular troops have blocked the entire city, as long as there is a situation there, it will immediately attract thousands of Imperial regular troops, and now whoever moves will die!"

"Say so. The army is not specifically aimed at us, as long as it is not directed against us!" Pahaira's eyes flickered, and his voice slowly asked, "The military blockade of Lisbento now seems to have other reasons. Let's all disperse first! Don't do anything in the next few days!"

"Yes" the leaders left the manor one by one, and the army took control of the main road, but as gang members, they had enough hidden roads,

The rain washed the nearby streets, the sharp spear tips reflected a terrifying light in the rain, the cold faces of the soldiers revealed an eerie murderous aura, a group of cavalry passed by, only the sound of puffing low horse hooves and the crisp sonorous sound of armor, the rapid horse hooves sounded in front, a cavalry appeared in the corner of the street, he ran directly to a private house next to the city gate, jumped off his horse, saluted a general who was at the gate, and said, "Report to my lord, except for four people on the list who committed suicide, all the others have been captured!" ”

"Got it!" the general lifted the visor of his helmet, revealing Sallton's well-defined face, his thin lips pursed, his eyes slightly narrowed, the whole of Lisbonto was a huge cage, now waiting for the panicked prey to call, he believed that there would be a lot of superstition from inside the city to outside the city tonight,

Blockading the whole city by yourself is a show, and the real purpose is to force the backers behind these smuggling forces to be revealed!

It stands to reason that for the smuggling group that is holding the market hostage, the suspension of commerce and trade happens to be the result of its covert operation, but a large number of smuggled goods in their warehouses have also been seized by the army and cannot be smuggled out.

On the part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a deputy minister of logistics began to allude to the fact that the Second Army in the south of the empire was crisscrossing each other, making a fuss and misbehaving: "It is irresponsible to stop the operation of a million-dollar commercial center just because of a small commotion, and let the empire suffer heavy losses!"

The accusations of the undersecretary of logistics were like a drop of water in oil, and the accusations of the massacre of merchants by Varisian, the head of the Second Army of the South and the Putau region, quickly multiplied within the empire,

"Your Majesty, this is all the reports in these ten days that demand severe punishment for the massacre of merchants by Varisian"

Hu Keqili put a thick stack of texts on the young man's table, the fat man flipped it over casually, the coldness in his eyes was a little seeping, most of them were ministers from the Rui Erdian faction, and even the adjutant Prais was among them, the fat man looked at it again with some disbelief, and angrily threw the report of Prais in his hand on the table, "This guy is simply thinking that he is enough to be a bargaining chip, or he deliberately wants to die!" The young man cursed in an angry whisper, he believed that with Prais's acumen he would not have seen that this matter was a decoy, but the lieutenant of the empire, who had been entrusted with his heavy responsibility, still sided with the people of Ryordian at this critical juncture, and in Prais's report, he said about the massacre of Varisian: "There are enough dead people, even if it is to prune crazy vines." Please also pity the fragility of the vines!"

The young man's gaze swept over the half-foot-thick letter on the table, took a deep breath, and asked, "How many families are here?"

"One hundred and seventy families involved, about three thousand!" Hu Keqili's face was a little strange, and he read this number that shocked him a little,

Although he didn't want to admit it in his heart, Hukochili thought that Prais was not at fault in his position this time, and His Majesty was obviously preparing to kill on a killing spree this time, and the target was mainly the Rui Erdian faction, and the pit had been dug. The knife was also sharpened, just waiting for the order, countless heads fell to the ground, if Prais continued to remain silent in this matter, Hukochili would look down on this adjutant who had once resisted the iron hooves of the Dongting people from the heart, after all, he was also a compatriot of the same country, and the Ruil faction suffered irreparable heavy losses, who else would protect the interests of millions of Rui Erdians, I am afraid that the most powerful Wikia faction and the Eastern Court faction will be the most powerful at that time. Without hesitation, he will quickly engulf the share already occupied by the Ryordians, this is a national struggle that cannot be seen, and it is no wonder that Prais also has to pose at the cost of martyrdom

"Three thousand people......" The young man muttered to himself, and Hu Keqili stood in front of the young man and did not dare to speak

"On the part of Princess Haraudian. Is there a letter!" The young man's face was gloomy and he wanted to drip water, and his fingers tapped lightly on the table,

"There is no letter from the princess!" replied Hukochili, beads of sweat already on his forehead. He felt heavy and breathless, and he knew that Prais's expression had certainly made his lord angry, but everyone knew that Prais had nothing to do with it. It's completely desperate to be a knife,

If Princess Haraudian's letter is also in it, don't say 3,000 people, that is, 30,000 people, and his own monarch will not hesitate to sign his name on the execution order, as for Prais, at least he will be deprived of the position of adjutant general, this is not a battle of will between husband and wife, but a fundamental struggle for state power, according to the nature of the sovereign, he will inevitably use the blood of tens of thousands of people to sue the entire empire, and now it is the Falcon Empire that rules a qiē, not the Ruierdian Dynasty, the one who decides life and death is the emperor.

"If that's the case, then send the order down!" All those who report it are demoted to the third level" The young man's face finally improved a little, and he took out a copy of the document from the drawer, signed his name, and handed it to Hu Keqili, "Sue Sù Salton, close the net!" Lao Tzu is in a bad mood, and all those who are captured will be executed!"

"Yes!" Hu Keqili took the text with a respectful expression, and there was a little touch in his heart, His Majesty's heart really couldn't be as cold as steel, and he didn't know if this was the misfortune of the empire or the luck of the empire! By the time Salton had reached the order, he began to close the net, and the Second Army of the South, which had completely controlled the situation, began to march towards several targets in the city, because there was no movement for ten consecutive days, several major smuggling groups in the city had already relaxed their vigilance, and no one seemed to think of escaping, or rather, there was no time to escape!

Clusters of soldiers of the Second Army of the South flocked to the manor fortress of the smuggling group, and what made the commander of the team interesting was that in the face of the regular army of the empire armed to the teeth, the smuggling group also gathered hundreds of people, and the low manor exterior wall was suddenly brightly lit, and countless large lanterns, just like dating couples, were lit up in exactly the same rhythm, arrogant to the extreme,

"Forward!" The battle-hardened commander will naturally not be confused by these small means, the smuggling group put the lights to prevent the army's city-breaking equipment from approaching in the dark, who knows that the army that is accustomed to seeing strong walls will be there to make such a small earthen wall house Ah, the advance of the Nord warriors who constitute the Second Army in the South is the standard Nord style, rampage, and regard obstacles as nothing. The outer wall was wielded by a group of tall and strong heavy infantry wielding heavy hammers, and in the continuous cracking sound of "stabbing and stabbing", a large piece was smashed out, and the smugglers standing on the wall of the manor were a little stupid in this vast scene.

"What do you want to do, it's private property here!"

A fierce man stood under the night wind and roared wildly, the sound shook the four fields, in response to him, the regular army crossbowmen pierced the sound of winding, thousands of crossbow bows raised horizontally, countless pairs of eyes looked at him, the strong man was swinging all over his body, feeling like a withered leaf in the autumn wind at any time, deterrence! This is a typical deterrent! The Second Army of the South received an order not to leave prisoners, so the officer leading the team felt that it was pointless to be idle with these smugglers. Forward, charge, kill, and evacuate is the standard Nord mentality

Although only facing a wall of dirt, the Nord warrior swarm advance is very distinctive. At the beginning of the charge, the hoplites were walking in a positive step, and then began to slowly accelerate, cooperating with the captain's orders, the neat pace and majestic momentum could make the opponent with poor psychological elements rout without contact.

Now, for example, the hundreds of smugglers on the wall have begun to weaken their feet, and the carved iron bars that form the gate are cut off in an instant, "Forward, leave no prisoners!" The Nord officer who led the team drew his command sword, and the rain of arrows was like a black waterfall falling from the sky, flooding the poor manor. (To be continued......)