Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Whole City Is in Turmoil
The lord of the city, Emir, stood on the lookout of the mansion and looked at Dushant in a state of disarray.
He regretted it now. knew that he would not agree to Gu Liman in anything, and launched a city-wide search.
It's just that it's too late to regret it now. It is imperative that the riots be quelled immediately, otherwise the whole city will be plunged into a great catastrophe!
This is by no means alarmist!
Any city, under normal conditions, is like a small stream, smooth and clear. But in fact, under the water of the creek, there is actually a lot of sediment. If no one stirs the stream, the sediment under the stream will not rise, and the water will remain smooth and clear.
In the same way, the city is calm if no one opens the dark corners of the city. But unfortunately, this time Gulman acted as a-stirring stick, stirring up all the sludge that had been precipitated by Dushant for hundreds of years.
In the afternoon, the riots in Dushant had begun to show a state of multi-point eruption. The city defenders began to take care of themselves.
In the evening, the riots escalated further, and the clashes became more and more numerous, and the clashes were no longer limited to the limbs, and some used ordinary weapons.
By the time it got dark in the evening, the riots did not subside. Instead, the rioting crowd began to shout slogans, "Down with the mighty city lords and drive out the wolves of the Canaanite Federation!"
Under the instigation and guidance of these two slogans, the originally purposeless and unorganized riot immediately became targeted. It's as if streams flowing from various places are channeled into rivers and lakes by diversion canals.
The rioting crowds, starting from all sides of Dushante, marched towards the city lord's palace.
The leader of the city defense army immediately reported the situation to the city lord Emir. As soon as the emir heard this, he immediately ordered all the city defense troops to abandon the search and concentrate all of them in the city lord's mansion, the Oriental Hotel, the granary, the water supply station and other key departments to prevent destruction by the rebels.
After giving the order, the emir's mind calmed down. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that these riots were not accidental, and that there must be someone behind them.
But who will it be?
If Emir wanted to break his head, he would not have thought that it was Hua Ziyu who fanned the flames for the rebels behind the scenes!
When the city defense army was still preparing to conduct a city-wide search, this news was first passed to Durban by the inner line planted in the city defense army.
Durban didn't dare to slack off, and immediately informed Xia Xianlong through emergency channels. Xia Xianlong immediately went to look for Yu Wanlai first, but found that Yu Wanlai was missing. He could only tell Hua Ziyu the news first.
Hua Ziyu, who was born in the military, is very keen on capturing fighters, and immediately realized that there is an article to be done!
However, he is not a professional after all, and he does not know how to operate it. But he knew that Xia Xianlong's side must have professionals in this area.
So, Hua Ziyu told Xia Xianlong about her thoughts, and put forward a specific task, "Anyway, our purpose is to bring the princess and the visiting group out of Dushant safely. In order to achieve this goal, all means can be used if necessary. ”
Xia Xianlong, who has always had no lower limit for doing bad things, immediately came up with an extremely vicious idea, "With so many soldiers all dispatched, searching from house to house, it will definitely cause a riot." If we take advantage of the chaos and incite those people to storm the city lord's mansion, the city defense army will definitely take care of itself, and when the time comes, we will concentrate our forces and seize the city gate and rush out. ”
Hua Ziyu hesitated for a moment. At first, he was a little unbearable, but then he thought about it, anyway, Dushant is not his own country, he can do whatever he wants, and he will ask for it if he is bad! So he nodded and agreed with Xia Xianlong's idea.
Although Xia Xianlong had an idea, they were not familiar with the place, and no matter how good the idea was, they couldn't implement it. He immediately thought of Durban and immediately went to ask him to consult.
As soon as the three of them met, Durban immediately hit it off and immediately took care of it, "No problem, leave this matter to me." When to start and where to start. As soon as you settle down, I'll send someone to do it right away. ”
When Hua Ziyu and Xia Xianlong heard this, they immediately brought paper and roughly drew a map of Dushant on it.
Then, one by one, Durban pointed to the location of the city, and told them what place it was, who lived, what conflicts existed with the lord of the city or a powerful person, and how to take advantage of them.
This information is trivial, but crucial. This is what Durban has accumulated little by little over three generations of grandparents. It is not something that can be obtained in three or two years after coming to Dushante. With this information, Durban could easily and effortlessly incite the residents and merchants who had old grudges with the city lords and the nobles in power to join the ranks of the rebels.
The trio conspired for an hour, and then Durban left, mobilizing the hermit organization that his ancestors had painstakingly run for three generations.
Raise soldiers for a thousand days and use them for a while. The efforts of three generations are about to bear fruit today. Durban knew very well that after tonight, the vast majority of the members of the hermit organization in Dushant would be completely exposed, and under the nose of the emir city lord, they would no longer be able to accommodate themselves in Dushante.
The best thing to do is to evacuate as soon as possible. Leaving only a few seeds, continue to lurk, and grow in secret.
Durban did not think about killing the emir or expelling him. Because behind the lord of the city is the Canaanite Federation. Expelled him, he will come back. Even if he is killed, the Canaanite Federation will cultivate a new puppet as the lord of the city.
What's more, he is a hermit. Rushing to occupy a key city without the consent of the organization's top brass is tantamount to betrayal!
What happened a few hours later proved that the trio's strategy was very effective. The whole of Dushant has become a mess.
Not only the merchants and residents who were instigated and mobilized by them were going to gather and attack the city lord's mansion with great vigour. There are even some criminals who take advantage of the opportunity to infringe on the people, rob property, rape women, and even kill people and set fires.
Dushante, once peaceful and prosperous, has now become a lawless and chaotic city.
A large number of rebels, led by the people of Durbandu, fought fiercely with the city defense army on the street outside the city lord's mansion.
Although there were many people on the rebels' side, and there were some cultivators, most of them were actually ordinary people, with little equipment and no effective organization. In the face of the well-equipped and specially trained city defense army, they could only hide behind the cultivators, cheer them on, and gain momentum.
And the number of those cultivators is too small.
When the caravan doing serious business saw Dushant in chaos, the first thing they did was definitely not to take advantage of the fire to rob, but to take care of their belongings. Only those who do not have many goods and do some part-time business trips that have no capital to buy and sell will send people out to make extra money.
In the hearts of these people who come out to make extra money, getting rich comes first. There are a lot of rich people in Dushant, so why bother to gnaw on the hard bones of the City Lord's Mansion? Isn't it good to make money easily?
Therefore, there are not many cultivators among the chaotic people, and a large part of them are subordinates who have been cultivated by Durban for many years. The loss of one will make Durban feel distressed to death. How could he be willing to let these people fight with the city defense army?
Therefore, on the street outside the city lord's mansion, although watching the chaotic people menacing, the city defense army passively faced the battle, and the battle between the two sides was fierce, and the city defense army was about to be defeated.
However, in fact, the offensive of the rebels was blocked, and it was the end of the crossbow. If the fighting continues, the rebellious people will definitely be defeated.
However, for Durban and Hua Ziyu, as long as the two sides are at war, their goal will be achieved.
Just when the chaotic people gathered at the City Lord's Mansion, Hua Ziyu and the others had already set off in full gear and quietly rushed to the east city gate.
The soldiers of the city defense army at the east gate saw the fires in the city and the bursts of killing shouts from time to time, and they all raised their hearts to their throats.
They are all Dushantes, and their families, relatives and friends are in Dushante. When they saw the riots in the city, they must have feared for the safety of their relatives, friends and family. However, due to disciplinary constraints, they were not allowed to leave their posts without being ordered. Therefore, they can only stay at the door with anxiety.
This is, a large group of people hurried towards the city gate. The captain of the team immediately became alert and shouted: "What kind of person, stand there, or release the crossbow!"
The crossbow is a powerful weapon that ordinary people can use. The power of this weapon was so powerful that even a fifth-level cultivator would not want to be hit by a crossbow.
The only drawback to the crossbow is that it is too large to move around, and it requires at least three strong soldiers to operate it. Therefore, the machine crossbow is generally only used for the defense of a fixed area. For example, the city gate, the city lord's mansion and other key places.
On the east and west gates of Dushant, thirty crossbows were arranged in a row. In peacetime, only ten of them were used for duty, and the soldiers in other posts took turns to rest. In the event of an emergency, all thirty crossbows are on standby.
Now it's an emergency. With the captain's shout, the thirty machine crossbows on the city tower were all aimed at those people in the distance.
Xia Xianlong immediately stepped out of the crowd, and said with a smile on his face: "Hello military masters, we are serious business travelers, just now I heard the shouts of killing in the city, I was scared to death, and I wanted to go out of the city as soon as possible to hide." Please also make it convenient for all military masters. ”
The captain listened impatiently and said, "No one is allowed to leave the city without the order of the city lord. Go back quickly. Otherwise, I'll let people release their crossbows. ”
When Xia Xianlong heard this, he immediately took down a half-foot-high leather bag from the camel, untied the tie of the pocket, revealed the yellow gold coins inside, and showed it to the soldiers, "Ladies and gentlemen, we are really afraid of getting into trouble, so please make it convenient." Even if we honor the tea money of the military masters. ”
When the captain saw a bag of yellow gold coins, he couldn't help but be moved. He looked greedily at the gold coin and couldn't help but swallow.
As the saying goes, people die for money, and birds die for food. When you don't see that much money, many people can say no. But if you really put so much money in front of you, the vast majority of people will not refuse.
This captain is such a person. He was very keen to keep the money for himself. But what to do?
The captain rolled his eyes and thought about it. He shouted, "What are you holding in your hand?"
Xia Xianlong immediately carried a bag of gold coins and came to the captain. He saw in the captain's eyes an uncontrollable greed. He felt there was a door.
The captain looked at the bag full of gold coins and asked, "What is this?"
Xia Xianlong smiled and said, "This is a little bit of our heart. Please drink tea. ”
"What the hell is this?"
Xia Xianlong was a little confused, and smiled again: "A little heart." Please laugh at it. ”
The captain looked serious and said solemnly: "This bag of gold coins is the stolen goods that you tried to bribe me! Now, I will confiscate it." ”
As he spoke, he didn't wait for Xia Xianlong to react, and grabbed the gold coin bag.
Xia Xianlong was puzzled when he saw this. It's not the same as a designed plot. When the gold came into his hands, he said it was confiscated. In this case, did you promise to let us out, or did you not agree?
So, Xia Xianlong asked, "This military master, you also received the money." Can we get out of town then?"