It's raining in Dongdu City.
The shouts of killing inside the square wall were loud, like two armies at war, but the Jing'antai Second Patrol Group Support Detachment where Zhang Xing was located stood solemn and silent on the sky street to the west of Zhengping Square, separated by a wall.
At this time, because of continuous rain, water flowed on the street.
"Why are you stopping here and not moving?"
Some people came to ask in a hurry because they were lagging behind due to the rain and did not know the whole story.
"Shang Shu Zuo Cheng, Zhang Shizhao, and Gong Zhang are here." Qian Tang, who had heard clearly before, turned around to explain. Perhaps to distinguish him from another minister of punishment, Zhang Gong, who had just joined Nanya, he also specifically mentioned his name. "Zhang Gong has Jun's order. After the support from various ministries arrives, they will be surrounded on all sides along the walls of the square. Waiting for his unified deployment...the inspection team has gone to the north gate to see Mr. Zhang."
When the following people heard this, they naturally stopped talking and stood up.
Zhang Xing, on the other hand, has always been curious: "Brother Qian, why is Mr. Zhang here? Even if the matter is serious, there is no need for Minister Zuo Cheng to come to the gate of the square to handle the matter in person, right? It's really a sign of attention, and it should be Is it convenient for Zhongcheng to come over?"
"We bumped into each other on the road." Qian Tang glanced at Zhang Xing and seemed not to want to answer, but he still said a few words casually. "Zhang Gong is in charge of the trade and diplomatic transfer affairs of the northwest Wu tribe in Nanya. The city has been closed recently and it has been raining, so Zhang Gong came out of Nanya at noon and went south along Datian Street at the main gate, preparing to go to the west where Wu merchants gathered. I checked over there in the city... but when I walked to Yirenfang, there was a commotion here, so I had to come over and control the situation."
"Then...this Mr. Zhang, has any military experience?" Zhang Xing continued to ask cautiously, but his true thoughts were revealed. He was worried that he would die if he met a layman, who happened to be a layman at the deputy state level. It's all in vain.
"Don't worry, Zhang Sanlang." Before Qian Tang could speak, Li Qingchen couldn't bear to answer. "You are not the only one with talent in this world... In his early years, Mr. Zhang crossed the desert alone on a camel, rode into the Western Wilderness alone, split the Wu clan into three, took over one part of the Western Region, and made Yangmou give up the other two. We have been at war so far that we have to surrender to the Wei Dynasty at the same time... Today's matter is a big deal in our eyes, but in Zhang Gong's eyes, I'm afraid it's just a kid playing in the mud!"
Zhang Xing nodded repeatedly, as long as he is reliable.
Qin Bao, on the other hand, looked puzzled: "Li Twelve Lang, don't you mock the Nanya princes every day? Why are you praising God today?"
Li Qingchen hesitated to speak, so he could only choke there and wait quietly in the rain.
I don’t know if it was because a deputy national-level leader came to the scene to direct Ruoding. After a while, the shouts of death in the square obviously weakened slightly, and gradually concentrated towards the northeast corner. This also made it appear that Tianjie was The sound of running water became louder.
And for some reason, Zhang Xing, the vanguard of the Fifth Army, who "climbed out of the pile of corpses" may be the "first time" to participate in such a large-scale paramilitary operation, but was inexplicably nervous.
Of course, it is impossible for a good commander to leave almost all the practitioners' armored patrols idle, not to mention that the battle situation has changed significantly.
"The important order from Duke Zhang is here." Bai Yousi came galloping in the rain as expected. "Everyone abandoned their horses and headed north, walked to the east side of the northeast corner of the square wall, and together with the other seven groups of Jing'an Tai Jinyi lined up, prepared to climb over the wall with short soldiers and attack... Don't worry about anything else, but there are armed resisters. Kill without mercy, just kill through the streets and join the oncoming Jin Wuwei formation!"
After saying that, Bai Yousi dismounted first, drew out his long sword, then threw the scabbard on his horse, held the sword in one hand, and headed north first.
Everyone had no time to respond and followed suit. They pulled out their embroidered scimitars, dropped the scabbard, then held the sword in one hand and followed closely behind. Within a moment, they gathered together with several other groups of warriors in brocade robes, totaling more than a hundred people. They lined up in a row about three to four hundred paces wide and crouched under the corridor on the west side of Tianjie.
"You all should be careful not to rush too far."
Under the obvious sound of running water, Bai Yousi took the opportunity to lower her voice to warn her subordinates. In fact, this should be the first time that Zhang Xing saw Bai Yousi acting like an enemy. She didn't even waste her energy to block the rain. So much so that the little crown on her head got wet, and everyone immediately understood the reason for her posture.
"Do you still remember the prisoner from last time? The one who was on the fifth floor with a cultivation level no less than mine before he was imprisoned? This person is He Ruohuaibao, the adopted son of the mighty Duke He Ruofu, and he has already shown his face... In this situation now, It would be wrong if he doesn't break his inner elixir and burn up his Qi sea later to try his best."
Everyone looked awe-inspiring, but Zhang Xing also felt guilty - he was too impressed by the 'Demon Hunter'. He thought that there was such a master at the same level as Bai Yousi on the other side of the wall, and he might risk his life at any time. When you magnify the move, it's strange that you don't sweat on the top of your head and soles of your feet.
"Inspection, don't rush too far."
After hesitating for a moment, Qian Tang suddenly spoke.
"I know." Bai Yousi glanced at the other person, just taking it as a routine concern. "If the other party really breaks his inner elixir and burns up his Qi sea to act arrogantly, there is no need to fight with him for a while. If you drag it on for a moment or three, he will die himself."
"That's not what I meant." Qian Tang was sweating continuously on his forehead. "Or it's more than that... What I mean is that if masters of your level get together and make Dongdu City unable to deal with it, Ziwei Palace might use something left by Emperor Bai. Fulong Seal... When the time comes, when the time comes, the cultivation of the masters within a hundred miles will be suppressed below Tongmai... Even a crossbow arrow must be inspected carefully."
Is there any other way to say this?
Zhang Xing's first reaction was not to worry about Bai Yousi, but to have an exciting feeling that there was indeed a magic weapon in this world. Then the next moment, everyone around them looked concerned and looked over. Only then did Zhang Sanlang remember to follow the crowd and cast a concerned look at his inspection master.
Unexpectedly, Bai Yousi, who was holding swords in both hands, saw his subordinates all coming to see him, but he raised his eyebrows in the corridor and immediately looked back with a sneer:
"If I, Bai Yousi, were afraid of death, why didn't I become a clerk in the Ministry of Public Affairs back then? I should be a clerk in the Ministry of Civil Affairs now, right?"
Amidst the sound of rushing water, everyone was first stunned and then excited.
There was no time to say anything more. As the formation of a hundred or so elites in uniforms was completed, a moment later the sound of horns suddenly sounded on Tianjie Street in the north. The sounds of the horns were three long and one short.
After the first sound, Jin Wuwei and Jingjiehu, both of whom had trembling hands, stepped forward to put the ladder up on the wall of the square. At the same time, a neat shout of killing was obviously heard from the wall. It should be that Jinwu Guard was also acting at the same time. Make cover.
After the second sound, Bai Yousi, led by Bai Yousi, several Zhu Shou and Hei Shou flew directly into the air from the corridor. Without touching the wall, they flew into the wall with their weapons. In conjunction with the display of their true energy, it was It was like several streams of light drifting by.
The third horn sounded, including Zhang Xing, a hundred and ten elite soldiers in Jinyi who had already transferred their true energy to their weapons followed the leaders of each group and jumped out, stepping on the ladder and climbing into the wall of the workshop.
And by the time the fourth horn flashed quickly, there was no one left in the corridor. Instead, there were shouts of killing that suddenly rose from within the wall, overpowering everything else, and some screams that were obscured by the shouts of killing.
Zhang Xing followed the brigade into the square wall, and lined up with other Jinyi patrols to sweep the streets and courtyard walls of the square. To be honest... Although the atmosphere was tense, and although there was intensive hand-to-hand combat, it was not as dangerous as imagined, because Bai Bai You Si and those Zhu Shou and Hei Shou are too reliable.
They took the lead in the front, and could fly over walls and walls with an easy leap. With a wave of long swords and short soldiers in their hands, they brought out all kinds of light. Those who dared to resist with weapons, whether they were cultivated or not, in groups or individually. , are often not their enemies. People like Zhang Xing follow them over walls, through alleys, and advance like a net, more like cleaning up the aftermath and doing last-ditch attacks.
Occasionally, if you encounter a fish that has slipped through the net, and everyone swarms up, it is also because you are lucky, and the battle can be quickly resolved with a single cut of the embroidered knife.
Just like this, in just half a quarter of an hour, the Jinyi patrolmen could see the dense Jinwu Guards troops on the opposite side of the courtyard wall. There, the Jinwu Guards Brigade, armed with shields, crossbows, spears and swords, was advancing head-on from the direction of the cross street under the command of officers.
And looking at the elite cavalry here, who were attacking from the rear with short soldiers, the Jinwu Guards formed a morale formation and advanced continuously, echoing it.
In sharp contrast to the officers and soldiers, there are the gangsters who have just revealed their scale in the middle. Although these gangsters and fugitives are large in number and fearless of death, there seem to be many masters among them. However, under the dense military formation and elite raids, At a loss, some people soon began to flee, but others began to occupy the residents' houses in small groups and resisted stubbornly, which attracted concentrated attacks from various groups of patrols and Jinwu Guards.
So far, I can only say that Zhang Gong's tactics of attacking from the west and attacking from both sides, although simple, were extremely practical.
And today's scene also verified the existence value of Jing'an Terrace from another angle... Zhang Xing was keenly aware that engaging in this thing was not just as simple as engaging in spy politics. In this world where the vitality of heaven and earth exists, The gathering of such a force is itself an indispensable and powerful violent organization.
It is impossible for any regime to ignore this force. They are a natural machine of violence and a ruling class, just like the early scholars in Zhang Xinglai's world, and even more natural than the scholars.
The situation was great, but the Jinyi patrolmen, at least Zhang Xing's group, became increasingly nervous as the war progressed, and they began to unconsciously gather around Bai Yousi, the strongest fighting force.
Even Bai Yousi was obviously extremely nervous.
The reason couldn't be simpler. The expert who was previously imprisoned on the fifth floor below the Black Tower was He Ruohuaibao, the adopted son of He Ruofu who was full of resentment towards the court, society and everyone. There was no movement at this time.
Where is he?
Which enemy is he hiding in, ready to rise up?
Or was there some other way to escape?
Or maybe he died in a sewer after trying to break the pill to burn energy but failed?
Or is the information simply wrong?
From Bai Yousi down, the entire patrol team, and probably even all the elite patrolmen participating in the raid, were probably nervous.
Zhang Xing, who had the frozen cuff knife in his hand, vaguely seemed to have caught something, but it was still blurry.
In the midst of random thoughts, there was a "crash", and next to a house seventy or eighty steps away, a Jinwu guard next to the courtyard wall suddenly flew up out of thin air for more than ten steps and hit the military formation beside him heavily. He took a big iron spear and saw that he would not survive.
And below him, it is unknown how many people can survive.
That's not all. Immediately, a dozen tough bandits, led by a well-dressed man in his forties, wearing a turban and holding a long knife, poured out from the broken courtyard wall and headed towards The Jinwu Guards, who were smashed out of their formation, launched a surprise attack.
The Jinwu guards were caught off guard and exploded instantly.
When Bai Yousi saw this scene, he did not hesitate. He jumped up high out of the air. After gaining a clear view of the situation, he flew sideways forward in a trajectory that violated common sense in mechanics. He was faster than her. , but several consecutive golden sword lights with different trajectories.
Sword light drifted past, and screams broke out one after another.
Qian Tang and below, including Zhang Xing, had already followed closely - only seventy or eighty steps away.
But when they arrived, half of the dozen or so gangsters had fallen. The burly man with a turban and a strong suit was chopped off at the waist. Only half of his body was left crawling on Jin Wuwei's body. Bai Yousi Half of his body was splattered with blood, like a ghost.
At the same time, behind the broken courtyard wall, there were actually loud cries of children.
This scene is so depressing that it makes people breathless.
But even so, everyone still didn't dare to think too much, didn't dare to care too much, they just stepped forward to fight hard and seriously hit the target.
After channeling enough Han Bing Qi to chop down a gangster in front of him, Zhang Xing instinctively shook his body in the drizzle as a stream of heat came towards him.
The next moment, he suddenly realized what he had been wondering:
"Inspection... Why is the sound of water on Tianjie Street so loud here? So much louder than that on Jiaqingfang? After entering the square, although it becomes quieter, you can still hear it?"
Bai Yousi was stunned and didn't reply for a while.
Even Qian Tang and others, whose faces were covered in blood, were also at a loss.
"Yes, it's the old canal!" At this moment, a middle-aged Jinwu Guards officer who had just recovered from the shock replied in the blood on the ground. "In the past, when the Eastern Capital City was being built, four million laborers were employed every month... The project was too big, so there were artificial canals used to transport materials from east to west, north and south to Luoshui... Many of these artificial canals were later laid out. Tianjie, but many of them are left under Tianjie as culverts and drainage canals... The canal below is the largest canal in Nancheng. It passes from the north of Zhengpingfang, turns to the east, and then can be walked along Tianjie. The street flows all the way to Luoshui, and during the summer rainy season, the sound of water is non-stop all day and night."
Halfway through hearing this, Bai Yousi looked at Zhang Xing, as if she had woken up, but for some reason, even she felt a little nervous and frightened at this time:
"Qian, Qian Tang! You go and report to...forget it, I'll go myself!"
Bai Yousi turned around and wanted to fly out of thin air.
But she had just jumped up and had not yet taken off in the air. To the north of Zhengpingfang, where Mr. Zhang was sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, there was suddenly a loud thunderous noise. The loud noise was like an explosion, shaking Zhang Xing and others' ears.
Bai Yousi, who was in mid-air, was stunned for a moment, then fell down. Then he stood up again and flew towards the north regardless of what was behind him. The other Zhu Shou and Hei Shou also woke up and immediately got up to follow.
After a while, the tinnitus disappeared. Listening to the shouts and wailings from the north, as well as the roars and laughter mixed in between, the Jinyi patrols also did not dare to neglect. Just looking at each other a few times, these elites They immediately moved closer together with a tacit understanding and concentrated on rolling to the north.
When Zhang Xing and others crossed the obviously damaged square wall, they saw at first sight three distinct figures in the air and on the ground, rolling in the stream of light and constantly hitting each other, and at the second glance they saw the figure with a radius of ten feet on the street. The big hole, and the gurgling water under the hole.
At this time, Zhang Xing and the patrols were really at a loss. There's no way, there's really no way. Even if they help first, they can't reach it. Even Hei Shou and the other Zhu Shou people didn't go up, but were looking around for something.
Soon, they found their target, and the two Zhu Shou quickly jumped over. The remaining Zhu Shou and Hei Shou hurriedly made an open space under the corridor on their side of Tianjie. Some even didn't even bother. He hesitated and brought a chair from the wall behind him.
"I lost my mind and actually forgot about this old canal."
As soon as the chair was released, an old man in cloth clothes who was about fifty years old and slightly wet walked over calmly under the guidance of seven or eight guards wearing strange armors and two Zhu Shou. The old man had a clean face and handsome appearance. , can be regarded as an old handsome guy, and when the old handsome guy faced the salutes of several people with red and black ribbons, he waved his hands again, twirled his beard and sighed. "Fortunately, the saint sent me Fulong Guards."
After saying that, he sat down calmly.
There is no doubt that this person must be the deputy national leader, Zuocheng Zhang Shizhao, one of the princes of the Nanya Dynasty.
Unlike the others who immediately stared at Mr. Zhang, Zhang Xing and the other two groups of patrolmen, who were both physically and mentally embarrassed, couldn't help looking at each other, but they only looked at the guards in strange armor, and those guards happened to look over.
At this moment, everyone finally knew who the third person flying in the sky was - Sima Erlong.
"Stand still." After sitting down on the new chair, the handsome old man in civilian clothes, that is, Mr. Zhang Shizhao, looked around and gave instructions calmly. "He Ruohuaibao, this thief, broke the elixir by force and burned his own Qi sea. Not even the gods could save him... Let Sima Erlang and Bai Sanniang resist him. After an hour or three, they can go up and pick up the corpse. The most important thing now is What is important is to stabilize the situation and let the other side of the house do whatever they want."
Several Zhu Shou and Hei Shou nodded one after another, but a general who was obviously from the Jinwu Guard system came belatedly and immediately bowed down outside the corridor and bowed his head in agreement.
The next moment, a figure with white light suddenly knocked away another figure with golden light, and then smashed towards the place from the air. Almost everyone of Zhu Shou, Hei Shou, and Fulong Guards glowed with light, trying to protect them. Lives in Zhang Shizhao.
But the white light just flashed outside the corridor, and then rose into the sky again.
Immediately afterwards, the senior Jinwu Guard officer was lifted into the sky, and finally fell into the big hole, making a 'plop' sound when he fell into the water.
"Zhang Shizhao!"
The man in the air knocked away a figure again, and suddenly stopped on the turret of the corridor opposite Tianjie. Zhang Xing could see clearly that the man was the prisoner that day, but he only had the blindfold on at this time, and he was holding on to the edge of the turret. , carrying a Jinwuwei standard spear and looking up in the drizzle and laughing. "I can't kill these two descendants of the Sima family and the Bai family. I can't kill you, but I can't kill anyone else? How many do you think I can kill in three seconds?"
The old handsome guy looked a little embarrassed and couldn't help biting his index finger joint.
As for the other people present, whether they were the Jinyi Patrolmen or the Jinwu Guards...especially the Jinwu Guards, almost everyone changed their expressions.
Probably seeing Zhang Shizhao not responding, the man took a long breath, held the eaves of the turret with one hand, and pointed around with a Jinwuwei spear in the other hand, and then shouted with all his strength, the sound shook the streets:
"I have been imprisoned for sixteen years. My brother, my father, and I have all died. What I want is this one and three moments! What I want is these one and three moments! And you, the killers, actually come in front of me at this time for a little salary? Isn't it a waste of death? However, this court doesn't take you seriously, so your death will be in vain! As for Zhang Shizhao, I tell you clearly, if you want to kill me, He Ruohuaibao! Either let these two juniors sacrifice their lives, or Let the two old dogs Cao Lin and Niu He roll over, or even use the Fulong Seal! Otherwise, do you look down on me, or do you look down on the Duanjiang Qi that I have hidden for sixteen years and released in one day?! "
After saying this, the man looked up to the sky and let out a long roar, like a tiger roaring in the forest, shaking the whole country, shaking the whole country in a literal sense, because the rainwater was obviously deflected by his roar.
Immediately afterwards, the man waved his spear and jumped into the air. As Bai Yousi was separated by his shot in the air, he then stabbed downward with all his strength. A patrolman in brocade clothes just had time to raise his hand and was killed. Nailed alive to the wall behind him.
But He Ruohuaibao got another move, but instead of drawing his gun, he took out the embroidered knife from the opponent's hand, blocked Sima Zheng's halberd with his backhand, and then rose into the air again.
Everyone was completely frightened, and the military situation was almost shaken.
"Hurry and invite Mr. Cao of Jingantai and Mr. Niu of Beiya." Zhang Shizhao, the minister Zuocheng who was surrounded by Fulongwei, Zhu Shou and Hei Shou, finally started to sweat and had his feet chopped off. "Tell these two old dogs to get over here quickly, otherwise Da Wei's face will be disgraced in Tianjie!"
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