Late at night.
Pingquan Mansion, East Gate.
A large, luxurious carriage slowly drove towards the city gate, preparing to leave the city.
"Stop, stop, what are you doing?" The leader of the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate came over and asked loudly.
"Master Jun, please be accommodating, I want to leave the city!" Lu Zhendong said.
"It turns out it's Master Lu." The leader of the officers and soldiers guarding the city was named Li Wu. He also knew Lu Zhendong. When he saw it was him, he became polite, "What are you doing out of the city in the middle of the night?"
"Because my mother is not in good health, she has a severe cough and a high fever tonight. I am afraid that her life is in danger, so I will take her out of the city to see Dr. Zhu who is forty miles east of the city." Lu Zhendong said.
"Cough, cough, cough!" At this time, his mother's violent coughing sound came from the carriage.
"Master Lu, if it were normal times, there would definitely be no problem. However, the situation is different tonight. Qin Liang, the commander of the fifth battalion, was assassinated tonight. The assassin is still in the city and has not been captured. There is an order from the top. Everyone The city gates are not allowed to be opened, so please understand that if you must leave the city, wait until dawn." Li Wu said.
"Leader Li, I also know that you have military affairs and responsibilities, and I understand. However, look at my mother's coughing. If it weren't for her coughing so badly, I would not have gone out of the city at this time. , do you think you still have any worries about me?" Lu Zhendong said, taking out a bag of silver taels from his pocket and stuffing it to him, with more than a hundred taels in total.
"Master Lu, you are so polite, and I always spend your money!" Li Wu said a little embarrassed.
"We are all brothers, why are you talking about this?" Lu Zhendong said, "How about I open the carriage and check it for you."
"No, no, Master Lu, I still can't trust you? Who are you? How could you collude with bandits and assassins? Well, then I will make my own decision and let you go out of the city!" Li Wu said , waved his hand and ordered his men, "Open the city gate."
However, at this moment, a group of officers and soldiers came to the street. The leader was Guo Maojun, the former captain of the artillery team, who was now appointed as the temporary person in charge of the case.
"Close the city gate quickly. Who asked you to open the city gate?" Guo Maojun came to the scene on a tall horse, stared at Li Wu and Lu Zhendong, and said coldly, "What's going on?"
"Sir, Master Lu's mother is sick. She has a high fever and a severe cough. She has to leave the city to see a doctor. Therefore, I am going to open the city gate and let them out." Li Wu felt guilty when he saw Guo Maojun's tigerish face. .
"Audacious! Don't you know what happened tonight? I have ordered that all city gates be closed tightly. At this time, the assassin has not been captured yet. The bandit leader is still in the city. If you open the city gate and let the bandit leader escape, , what should I do?" Guo Maojun said gloomily.
Li Wu was so frightened that he didn't dare to express his anger and said nothing.
"Captain Guo, can't you trust me?" At this time, Lu Zhendong came over and saluted him.
It turned out that they also knew each other.
"Master Lu, we are all friends personally. I will let you out of the city. It's just a special situation 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. If there is no problem, then open the city gate and let us out. How about it?"
"Wait until I finish checking." Guo Maojun said, turning over and dismounting.
He came to the front of the carriage, took out the flashlight from his pocket, opened it, opened the curtains of the carriage, and looked inside.
The carriage was very big, with two rows at the front and back. Lu Zhendong's mother was sitting in the front row, while Zhang Tianhe was hiding under the seat in the back.
"Cough, cough, cough!" Lu Zhendong's mother was sitting inside, looking very haggard and exhausted. "Master Jun, what are you doing? 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 make things difficult for you, but that in order to protect your personal safety, this assassin was very cruel and killed Qin Liang, the commander of our fifth battalion. He is still in the city at the moment, so we have to guard against him. ." Guo Maojun said.
He looked carefully to make sure there was nothing in the front seat, and then moved to the corresponding position in the back seat. The back seat was empty.
Guo Maojun put his hand into the carriage and was about to lift the back seat.
Lu Zhendong's heart tightened when he saw it. He was about to be betrayed and didn't know what to do.
"Pah! - Pah! Pah!" At this moment, gunshots were heard outside the East City Gate.
"Where was the gunshot?" Guo Maojun also heard the gunshot, and quickly retracted his hand, pointing at Li Wu and others, "Hurry up and follow me to the city wall to take a look."
"Yes." Li Wu agreed.
As soon as they climbed onto the city wall, Zhang Tianhe took advantage of the chaos and jumped out of the carriage under the cover of night, said hello to Master Lu, and then disappeared into the night.
It turned out that the people who shot outside the city gate were none other than Tang Dalong, Ma Longtan, Sun Baojin and others.
Tang Dalong had a fiery temper. When he saw that Zhang Tianhe had disappeared for no reason, he thought that Captain Zhang must have gone for revenge. He was anxious, so he and Li Tieniu, Murong Wuying, Cai Yongzhen, and Ma Longtan , Sun Baojin, Chen Jia and others came with their troops to respond.
Tang Dalong wasn't stupid either. When 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 had not been arrested.
So, they fired guns randomly and used bluff to support Zhang Tianhe.
Guo Maojun didn't know how many bandits were coming, and it was so dark outside, so he didn't dare to act rashly and open the city gate to attack them without permission.
They just hid in the city and wanted to wait until dawn.
However, at this moment, Zhang Tianhe suddenly appeared on the city wall, pulled out the seven-star sword, and killed several guards. He took off the belts of these guards, tied them together, and then lifted them from the top of the wall. Tie it on myself.
It was still about a foot high from the ground, and there was a pile of rubbish below. He jumped and landed on top of the rubbish.
"Captain, there he is! He has already gone down!" By the time Guo Maojun and others reacted, Zhang Tianhe had already fled.
Zhang Tianhe didn't go far when he met Tang Dalong and others who came with a large team of people to pick him up.
"Captain, are you okay?" Tang Dalong asked.
"I'm fine," Zhang Tianhe said, "Brother Tang, I'm surprised, how did you know I'm here?"
"Captain, I am the roundworm in your belly," Tang Dalong laughed, "Do you think I can't guess it if you don't tell me?"
"Oh? So you all know how to make clever calculations and become Zhuge Liang?" Zhang Tianhe said.
