The second half of the night.

Hiraizumi House, East City Gate.

A luxurious carriage slowly drove towards the city gate, ready to leave the city.

"Stop, stop, what's going on?" The leader of the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate came over and asked loudly.

"Master Jun, be accommodating, I'm going out of the city!" Lu Zhendong said.

"It turned out to be Young Master Lu," the leader of the officers and soldiers guarding the city was named Li Wu, who also knew Lu Zhendong, and when he saw that it was him, he became polite, "It's the middle of the night, what are you going to do out of the city?" ”

"It's just that my mother is not in good health, she has a bad cough tonight, and she has a high fever, I am afraid that her life is in danger, so I want to take her out of the city to find Dr. Zhu forty miles east of the city." Lu Zhendong said.

"Cough, cough, cough!" At this moment, his mother's violent coughing was heard in the carriage.

"Young Master Lu, if it is in normal times, then there will definitely be no problem, but tonight the situation is different, tonight Qin Liang, the commander of the fifth battalion, was assassinated, the assassin is still in the city, and he has not been caught yet, there is an order from the upper peak, and all city gates are not allowed to be opened, therefore, please understand, if you must go out of the city, wait until dawn." Li Wu said.

"Leader Li, I also know that you are in military affairs and your responsibilities, I understand, but you see that my mother is coughing too badly, if it weren't for her coughing so badly, I wouldn't have gone out of the city at this time, do you have anything to worry about me?" Lu Zhendong said, took out a bag of silver taels from his pocket and stuffed it to him, which was more than a hundred taels.

"Young Master Lu, you are so polite, and you usually spend no less of your money!" Li Wu said a little embarrassed.

"It's all my own brothers, what are you talking about," Lu Zhendong said, "or I'll open the carriage and check it for you." ”

"No, no, Young Master Lu, I still can't believe you? Who are you, how can you collude with bandits and assassins, well, then I'll take matters into my own hands and let you out of the city! Li Wu said, waved his hand, and instructed his subordinates, "Open the city gate." ”

However, at this moment, a group of officers and soldiers came to the street and led the leader of the former artillery team, Guo Maojun, who was now appointed as the temporary person in charge of the case.

"Close the gates, who told you to open them?" Guo Maojun came to the scene on a high-headed horse, stared at Li Wu and Lu Zhendong with his eyes, and said coldly, "What's the matter?" ”

"Sir, Young Master Lu's mother is sick, with a high fever and a bad cough, and she is in a hurry to go out of the city to see a doctor, so I am going to open the city gate and let them out." Li Wu saw Guo Maojun's tiger face, and his heart was also weak for a while.

"Presumptuous! Don't you know what's going on tonight? I have decreed that the gates of the city be closed, and that by this time the Assassin has not yet been caught, and that the leader of the bandits is still in the city, what if you open the gates and let the leader escape? Guo Maojun said with a gloomy face.

That Li Wu was so frightened that he didn't dare to come out, so he didn't say a word.

"Captain Guo, can't you believe it?" At this time, Lu Zhendong came over and saluted him.

It turned out that they knew each other.

"Young Master Lu, we are all friends in terms of personal relationships, I should let you out of the city, but the situation is special tonight, I hope you can understand." Guo Maojun also nodded to him.

"Captain Guo, it's easy to say," Lu Zhendong said, "Then please check my carriage, and if there is no problem, open the city gate and let us out, how about it?" ”

"I'll wait until I'm done." Guo Maojun said, turned over and dismounted.

He came to the front of the carriage, took a flashlight from his pocket, opened it, and opened the curtain of the carriage again, and shone it inside.

The carriage is very large, and it is divided into two rows, Lu Zhendong and his mother sit in the front row, and Zhang Tianhe hides under the seat in the back seat.

"Cough, cough, cough!" Lu Zhendong's mother sat inside, looking very haggard and tired, "Master Jun, what are you doing here?" Is it illegal to go out of the city to see a doctor? ”

"Old man, don't be surprised, it's not that we want to embarrass you, but, in order to protect your personal safety, this assassin is very cruel and killed Qin Liang, the commander of our five battalions, and he is still in the city at the moment, so he has to guard against it." Guo Maojun said.

He looked very carefully, the front row made sure that there was none, and then moved to the corresponding position of the back seat, and the back seat was empty.

Guo Maojun put his hand into the carriage and was about to lift the back seat.

When Lu Zhendong saw it, his heart tightened, and he was about to goof, and he didn't know what to do.

"Smack! - Smack! Syllable! At this moment, I suddenly heard the sound of gunfire outside the east gate.

"Where's the gun?" Guo Maojun also heard the gunshot, and hurriedly retracted his hand, and pointed at Li Wu and the others with his hand, "You wait as soon as I go up to the city wall to take a look." ”

"Yes." Li Wu agreed.

As soon as they landed on the city wall, Zhang Tianhe took advantage of the chaos, under the cover of night, jumped down from the carriage, said hello to Young Master Lu, and then disappeared into the night.

It turned out that the person who shot outside the city gate was none other than Tang Dalong, Ma Longtan, Sun Baojin and others.

That Tang Dalong is the temper of a hot man, he saw that Zhang Tianhe disappeared for no reason, he thought, Captain Zhang must have taken revenge, he was in a hurry, so he and Li Tieniu, Murong Wuying, Cai Yongzhen, Ma Longtan, Sun Baojin, Chen Jia and others came to meet with people.

That Tang Dalong was not stupid, as soon as he saw that the gate of Pingquan Mansion was closed and heavily guarded, he knew that Captain Zhang must be safe and sound at the moment, and he was not arrested.

So, they put their guns indiscriminately, bluffed, and responded to Zhang Tianhe.

Guo Maojun couldn't figure out how many bandits came, and it was so dark outside, so he didn't dare to act rashly, and opened the city gate to meet him without authorization.

They just hid in the city, wanting to wait until dawn.

However, at this moment, Zhang Tianhe suddenly appeared on the city wall, pulled out the Seven Star Treasure Knife, and killed several guards in a row, he took off the belts of these guards, tied them together, and then tied himself down from the top of the wall.

It was still a foot above the ground, and there was a pile of garbage right below, and he jumped and landed on top of it.

"Captain, he's there! He's gone down! By the time Guo Maojun and others reacted, Zhang Tianhe had fled.

Zhang Tianhe didn't go far before he met Tang Dalong, and they came to meet him with a large team of men.

"Captain, are you okay?" Tang Dalong asked.

"I'm fine," Zhang Tianhe said, "Brother Tang, I'm strange, how did you know I'm here?" ”

"Captain, I'm the roundworm in your stomach," Tang Dalong laughed, "Do you think I won't be able to guess if you don't say it?" ”

"Oh? In this way, you will all be clever and have become Zhuge Liang? Zhang Tianhe said.