The Weiming City Government Office was in ruins, with only Luochuan, Jiang Qingyun and the red-robed child on top of the ruins.
But the groups of soldiers who formed military formations slowly approached from the streets outside the ruins, but they all felt as if they were facing a powerful enemy and did not dare to slack off at all.
They carried shields and spears, and were well-armored. Although they numbered less than a hundred, their military formation was solid.
The three of Luochuan just watched quietly without speaking.
The military formation not far away also stopped in the open space on the street outside the ruins. Then a slightly rough male voice sounded from the battle formation, "This is Weiming City, Yongchang County. Who are you, and why did you destroy our government office?"
Luo Chuan chuckled when he heard the words, reached out from his arms and took out the prefect's order that he had shown to the granary officer before, and threw it in the direction of the military formation, "According to the order of the prefect, we will go south to kill the rebellious demons and barbarians."
The prefect's order drew an arc in the air, fell to somewhere in the military formation, and was grasped by a big dark hand. The scene was quiet for a moment, and the man who had spoken before spoke again, "It is indeed the prefect's order, hurry up spread!"
The man gave the order, and the hundred-man military formation retreated like water, leaving a way. A tall man wearing heavy armor and a heavy helmet walked out of the military formation. He opened his visor with a click. Revealing a dark, middle-aged face like an old farmer, he was full of joy and strode forward. He walked to the ruins and stopped two or three feet away from Luochuan and the three of them. He made a "dong" sound and gave a military salute. , "My unnamed urban and rural adjutant Yaozaburo has met two adults!"
After saluting, he held the Prefect's Order in both hands, bent down and raised it above his head, with an extremely humble attitude.
Luo Chuan stretched out his hand, took the prefect Ling Xukong into his hand, stuffed it into his arms casually, looked at the hundreds of soldiers still forming formation not far away and asked, "Yao Sanlang, you trained these one hundred soldiers." Soldiers?"
"I don't dare," the black-faced soldier straightened up a little, "This subordinate is just a rural adjutant. How can he be qualified to have hundreds of soldiers? These are the government officials and soldiers of Weiming City, but they are indeed It was trained by my subordinates.”
Luo Chuan took a look at the armor he was wearing and suddenly asked, "Are you from the Mountain Shaking Army?"
The black-faced soldier stood up straight when he heard this, and said with a naive smile, "My lord, you have good eyesight. This subordinate really came out of the Mountain Shaking Army. When I was in the Mountain Shaking Army, I was only a hundred generals."
"You are pretty good if you can reach the hundred generals in the Shanshan Army," Luo Chuan smiled back, "A few months ago, I had an encounter with Meng Cao'er, the chief general of the Shanshan Army."
When the black-faced soldier heard Luo Chuan calling Meng Cao'er by his first name, he immediately stopped smiling and stood up straighter, "Thank you for the compliment, sir."
Luochuan nodded, walked three feet in front of the black-faced soldier, and lowered his voice slightly, "When we found that the government office gathered the demonic energy and rushed here, the place had been blown into ruins, and the big demon only left The next clone was captured by us, but the real body has escaped." He looked sideways at the shocked and confused face of the black-faced soldier, and asked, "Who is on duty in this government office tonight?!"
The black-faced soldier was stunned for a moment before he suddenly came to his senses, and hurriedly lowered his voice and replied, "To my lord, tonight... Tonight, most of the officials in Weiming City..." He He looked at Luochuan with some fear, "Everyone should be here!!"
"Oh?" Luo Chuan's face didn't change at all, still looking calm, "are all the township magistrates, township assistants, and township officials here?"
The black-faced soldier nodded quickly.
"Then why aren't you here?" Luo Chuan had a smile on his face.
The black-faced military man immediately said, "Sir, before dark, the township commander suddenly summoned the civil and military officials to gather in the government office. He said that they had important matters to discuss, but at that time, my subordinates happened to..." He looked at Luo The smile on Chuan's face became slower and slower, until he finally stopped talking. In an instant, his expression changed several times, and then he gritted his teeth and said, "I don't dare to deceive you, sir. I feel that Sir Xiangling There may be something fishy about this summons, so... I found a reason!!"
The smile on Luo Chuan's face became more and more playful. He took another step forward and was very close to the black-faced man. His voice became lower and lower, "Tell me, tell me what's strange."
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The soldier did not dare to move. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He lowered his voice as well and said, "Back to... Sir, in addition to training soldiers, my subordinates have other things to do in this Weiming City." The thing is to be responsible for the transfer of military rations from Yicheng to Heyucheng. In recent months..." When he said this, he couldn't help but pause again. It seemed a little hard to say, but he finally continued, " In recent months, He Yucheng’s military quota seems to have changed."
"What change?" Luo Chuan asked.
"Sir... I don't know something. As long as it is not a war, the military demand in Southern Xinjiang is relatively stable. At present, there is no war in Southern Xinjiang, but Heyu City suddenly behaves like this. I think... My subordinates thought..." The black-faced soldier couldn't go on at this point.
Luochuan looked at him sideways, "Do you think He Yucheng... has changed?!"
The black-faced soldier could not help but tremble when he heard the word "change", but he gritted his teeth and did not deny it.
Luo Chuan asked again, "Since you noticed this change in Heyu City, have you reported it?"
"Yes!" The black-faced soldier said quickly and firmly this time, "A few months ago, my subordinates informed the country scholar about this matter, but the country scholar never cared about it. The subordinate felt uneasy, so he secretly I handed the letter to the Yicheng Military Affairs Office, but nothing happened. The subordinates had no choice but to secretly send someone to Heyu City. After the person returned, he said that everything was fine in Heyu City, so the subordinates stopped worrying about it. It was not until a few days ago that my subordinates heard from the caravan returning from the north that many people had died for unknown reasons outside Heyu City recently, and then I felt again that something was probably wrong after all."
The black-faced military man spoke faster and faster, "My subordinates sent people to Heyu City again. This time they found that there were some abnormalities in the movement of troops in the city. They said that there was an attack by monsters. You can see the local news from the Yicheng Military Affairs Office. However, he did not mention this matter. His subordinates felt more and more strange and wrote to the Yicheng Military Affairs Office again. This time they also sent a private letter to their colleagues in the Shanshan Army. Within a few days, something happened in Weiming City. "Such a thing," he looked at Luochuan and others with stern eyes, "Fortunately, Yicheng has finally sent all the adults to eliminate the demon this time. Presumably, no matter what happens in Heyu City, it will end peacefully. "
"What if I say I can't?" The smile on Luo Chuan's face slowly disappeared. He looked at the horrified expression of the black-faced soldier and said calmly, "Yasaburo, you are from a civilian background, so you can sit in this position. Some of you are smart. Choosing to tell the truth to me may be the best decision you have ever made in your life, but trying to get some information from me... is not smart."
"I understand," the black-faced military man was truly frightened into a cold sweat this time. He no longer acted like before, but became very solemn, and his face also had the look of an iron-blooded elite.
"We do extraordinary things in extraordinary times," Luo Chuan looked around, "Since an unknown urban and rural scholar died in the government tonight, then you... are the new rural scholar...!" "
