The Pingjin City Lord's Mansion looks no different from the past.

There were no more soldiers patrolling than in the past, and as in the past, there were no stalls and few pedestrians in a large area in front of the City Lord's Mansion.

The area of Pingjin City is not the largest in the twenty cities of the East Palace, and it has been responsible for the army's war preparation materials, armor and weapons, so most of the shops in the city are blacksmith shops, generally issued by the East Palace, providing ore, and the blacksmith shop is responsible for refining, and then handed over, in exchange for income.

This model has been going relatively smoothly, but recently a large number of people have poured into Pingjin City, and there are more shops of all kinds, and the number of blacksmith shops has decreased a lot.

The graceful brocade-robed man turned around the street corner a few times, looked at the layout of the city lord's mansion intentionally or unintentionally, and then found a tea stall on the side of the street, sat down, asked for a pot of herbal tea, and drank it comfortably in the autumn breeze, unhurried.

Tonight's weather is exceptionally good. Although it is late autumn, it is not too cold tonight, and the crowds on the streets will gradually thin out until the night is getting darker.

The city lord's mansion is very tightly arranged, if you want to enter from the front, it is almost impossible, several teams of soldiers patrol from time to time, day and night, and each person has a whistle for alarm, once there is danger, it will be blown as soon as possible. The Wufu where the soldiers defending the city were stationed was nearby, and 10,000 defenders were stationed in Pingjin City, changing the guard day and night, ensuring that there were 3,000 defenders who could be dispatched at any time.

These are not secrets, the people who have lived in Pingjin City for a long time know the work and rest rules of the soldiers guarding the city, and the man in the brocade robe learned these news without much effort.

The night was dark, he drank the last sip of tea in his cup, put down the tea money, turned around, and soon disappeared at the end of the street corner.

In the castle lord's mansion, in the antechamber.

Yu Sheng and Xiao Yibo are no longer sitting in the front hall at the moment, the left and right wings are empty, and in recent days, both of them have lived in the wings.

There are many secret sentinels in the house, and there will be people on duty every night, so the protection must not be tight. But Yu Sheng and Xiao Yibo both understood that such protection may not have the slightest effect on the people who are coming.

Late at night, Pingjin City, which had been noisy for a day, fell into silence, there were no pedestrians on the streets, and everyone was busy all day, and they all fell asleep at the moment.

The patrolling army did not rest, they patrolled the city according to the deployment, step by step, to ensure that everything was foolproof.

Luo Bei, is an ordinary sergeant in Pingjincheng, there have been a lot of things in Pingjincheng recently, because he has joined the army for a long time, although he has no military merits, but he has also been promoted, promoted to a squad leader, leading six sergeants, responsible for daily patrols in the city.

Tonight, it's their team's turn to patrol at night.

Luo Bei has been fulfilling his duties since he became the captain of the squad, Dongwangfu is a place of military merit, he is a sergeant who has not been on the battlefield, he can rarely get the opportunity to rise, and now he has been promoted, and his motivation is more than before. In the Dongwang Mansion, the gold content of the officers is very high, not to mention the good treatment, and they are also very loved by the people.

The other members of Luobei's squad were all recruits, and they were several of the 50,000 recruits trained by Xiao Yibo last time. In order to consolidate the defense of the city, these recruits were sent by Xiao Yibo to send a thousand people into the city to be responsible for the garrison of the city, and most of the remaining recruits went to the imperial capital with Huang Yuanwu.

As we all know, only by killing the enemy can you have military merits, and as a defender, you don't know when you will be able to get out.

Looking at their captain Luo Bei, it is clear that he has been in the army for three years, and he has only mixed up the position of a squad leader, and every soldier who joins the Dongwangfu Army wants to be a general, but it is even more difficult to become a defender.

Naturally, such sentiments are common among the recruits left behind, and such emotions are often there, and they are not a big deal.

At this moment, it was the last shift of Luo Bei's squad tonight, and six sergeants followed behind Luo Bei, armed with spears and fully armed, patrolling the empty streets, and on the empty streets, only the sound of their military boots on the ground could be heard.

Luo Bei is very serious in his work, and he will personally investigate any suspicious places on the street, so the patrol speed of Luo Bei's team is not fast, but it can also be completed within the specified time. In this regard, several team members also have a lot of complaints, other teams can complete the inspection as soon as possible, and repair as soon as possible, only Luobei's team is the last to complete the inspection every time, and it is also the last to repair.

Originally, they couldn't go to the battlefield and didn't have a military industry, so these recruits had a lot of complaints, and they met such a captain, which made them complain more in their hearts.

Patrolling the streets, Luo Bei once again personally inspected the shops on the left and right, and gently pushed the doors of the shops to make sure that all the shops were closed and there were no problems.

Just as Luo Bei was checking the doors of the shops on the left and right, several sergeants inside began to mumble softly.

"I don't know what he's looking at again, there are so many defenders in our city, and there are more than 100,000 troops outside, is it possible that there are still people who dare to make trouble here?" a sergeant whispered to the sergeant standing in front of him.

"Who says it's not, other captains are all pretending, you see our captain, it's like a street patrolman, who has done all the things of land protection. ”

"Hey...... Follow him, I don't know when I will be able to get out of the way, and when the little prince will come this time, I am afraid that my comrades-in-arms in the same year as us have military merits, only a few of us have been guarding the city here. ”

Several sergeants were complaining, but they heard the captain in front of them, Luo Bei, shouting: "What person!"

Then, several sergeants saw a figure flash by the side of the street, and disappeared in an instant.

"Chase!" Luo Bei immediately drew his saber and gave orders to several sergeants, and then took a step forward and chased after the place where the black shadow had disappeared.

Several sergeants were stunned for a moment, and then they didn't think about it, picked up their spears, followed behind Luo Bei, and chased straight down the path on the side.

In the vast night, the bright moonlight sprinkled down, shining everything silvery. Luo Bei led his team to intersperse the various paths of Pingjin City, tracking the black shadow that had just appeared.

The speed of this black shadow is not fast, and it has been galloping not far from a few people, Luo Bei frowned, and he has been chasing after him.

In his opinion, this is also an ordinary thief, it is likely that he came out to steal in the dead of night, but he didn't want to be hit by himself, his thoughts were similar to a few sergeants, the current Pingjin City, there could be no big problem, the city was heavily guarded, and there were a large number of garrisons outside the city, and Pingjin City was not a rich city, let alone a Jiangyang thief with cultivation. Therefore, Luo Bei did not give the order to blow the alarm, just a thief, he thought that he had absolute certainty to take down this person.

Turning around in the path of Pingjin City, until he reached a dead end, the man in black finally stopped running away, and stood at the end of the road, quietly watching the Luo Bei team chasing after him.

The thief has been blocked in the dead end, Luo Bei let out a sigh, he held the saber in his hand, took a few steps forward, and said: "Big thief, how dare you steal in Pingjin City, and you can't be caught without restraint?"

Six sergeants were guarding the intersection, in their opinion, there were high walls on both sides, this person had already put wings and could not escape, but they all had some emotions in their hearts, their captain, who really regarded himself as a land protector, and now actually chased a thief.

Luo Bei slowly approached forward, holding a long knife, he has not relaxed his vigilance, although the other party seems to be an ordinary thief, it is possible that he is armed with a murder weapon, and he will not be caught if he is besieged here, and he is likely to strike a blow. Luo Bei slowly approached, but the man in black remained motionless.

"Arrest with your hands tied!" Luo Bei stood a few steps in front of the man and shouted: "If there is a reckless move, kill him!"

After Luo Bei shouted, the man in black on the opposite side slowly raised his head, and two essences shot out of his eyes.

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A moment later, a group of patrol sergeants came out of the alley in full armor, and slowly disappeared into the end of the street with neat steps.

In the alley, there is a pile of sundries, which are old or scrapped items used by the surrounding residents, and at this moment, from this pile of items, red blood slowly flowed out, and then under the night, like a black snake, slowly squirming forward.

At the same time, the Pingjin City Martial Mansion, the fire was great, and the flames rose to the sky.

For a while, the whistle in the city was everywhere, and the fire of the Wufu illuminated the sky, and I don't know where it caught fire, and the Wufu fell into chaos.

At this moment, a group of sergeants quickly ran to the front of the City Lord's Mansion, and they were immediately stopped by the garrison sergeants of the City Lord's Mansion.

"Who?" the sergeant at the door asked, holding a long knife in his hand.

"Hurry back to the city lord of Xiao, the Wufu is on the water, the fire is very strong!" The team of sergeants stretched out their hands and pointed to the sky on the side, and the sergeant guarding the door immediately followed the direction to look, only to see bursts of fire not far away, and immediately startled, just about to speak, but he felt a cold in his chest, and looked down, a steel knife was inserted in his chest, and the sergeant in front of him was expressionless at the moment.

There were a total of four fixed sentry posts at the entrance of the city lord's mansion, all of which were solved instantly, and after the team members who came quickly killed several sentry posts, they cleaned up the scene as fast as possible, the speed was amazing, and there was not even a trace of blood left on the ground, and the four corpses were quickly carried away and placed on the corner of the street on the side, and hidden.

At this moment, the patrol sergeant near the City Lord's Mansion came closer, saw the fire in the distance, and immediately was shocked, and hurriedly walked to the gate of the mansion to ask.

At this moment, in front of the gate of the mansion, the four of them turned into guards at the gate of the mansion, while the other three were talking to the sergeant guarding the gate like soldiers who came to report the situation.

"Look! There is a situation near the Wufu, hurry up and go in to inform the adults!" The patrol captain who had just arrived immediately stepped forward and shouted to the sergeant guarding the door, and the sergeant immediately showed a look of horror, went down the two steps, looked in the direction of the Wufu, and saw the fire in the sky, so he turned around, and then opened the door wide, and said to the patrol captain: "You go in quickly and inform the sir, we will immediately go and prepare to fight the fire!"

The patrol leader did not hesitate, and stepped into the door, and in the next moment, seven members of the patrol team were attacked at the same time, and in an instant, they were so weak that they died, and they didn't know what happened until they died.

The same thing happened again, the bodies of the seven team members were quickly hidden, and in the same way, four people continued to pretend to be the guards of the City Lord's Mansion, and the three who were born ran into the City Lord's Mansion in a hurry, shouting as they ran: "Go out of the water!

At this moment, Yu Sheng, who was in the wing room with his eyes closed and breathing, fought with Xiao, and when he heard this sentence at the same time, he opened his eyes directly.

"It's coming. A gleam erupted in Yu Sheng's eyes, and he said secretly in his heart.