Chapter 657: No plan

Since Yan Yun's army surrounded Chang'an City, the patrol team in the city has increased from one batch every hour to one every half hour. Almost as soon as the patrol soldiers in front walked over, the patrol soldiers behind came up again. You should know that the patrolers were not only sent by the city defense army, but also from the Jingzhao Yin Yamen and the soldiers in the military preparatory office. A curfew was imposed five days ago, and the people were not allowed to go out of the house at will, otherwise the soldiers who patrol the city had the right to kill them directly.

When you pick up a remote place or your own home during the day, the people can use the siege of the King of Yan as a pastime for fun, but at night, no one dares to try whether the Tang Dynasty's ban is really effective.

Jingzhao Yin's number of officials is relatively small, with each fifty people in one team, and two teams are rotated every night. In fact, there are not many ten or twenty real officials, and the others are idle thugs raised by these officials. These people are basically rascals on the street, relying on the backing of officials as their backers to bully ordinary people more blatantly. But after all, this is at the foot of the emperor, and they dare not be too presumptuous.

In the past few days, Yanyun's army besieged the city, and the ban in the palace suddenly came to a large extent. Without the explanation from the above, they would never commit suicide at this time. What if the public anger arouses at this critical moment, they would not be skinned by the angry emperor?

Shihu, the captain, was an authentic Chang'an man. His father once became a fourth-rank official in the Great Sui Dynasty. However, he had no real power. Although his official position was much lower, his wealth was more than twice as good as his father. At least he went out for a walk, the filial piety money received by the people of Chang'an City was enough for him to spend money.

He has more than 40 disciples under his command, all of whom are young men in their twenties and thirties. He is idle on weekdays, but although he is always energetic, he is still listless in the second half of the night. He makes them have the energy to rush in the brothels and gambling houses in the middle of the night, but how can there be any interest in the chores like patrol the city?

After midnight, Shi Hu and his men walked slowly on the street. After arriving at this trip, they had to get up and patrol for a while before dawn, so everyone was a little depressed.

"Master"

His disciple Sun Erbao came over, took the wine bag from his waist and handed it to Shi Hu and said flatteringly: "Drink a little wine to cheer up. This is the middle of the night, and nothing will happen."

Shi Hu wanted to scold him, but when he thought that the inspection team of the City Defense Forces had just passed, no one would notice it, so he simply took it and took it and took it.

"You are all mom and keep me energetic. If something goes wrong when we are on duty, let alone I am not easy to explain, even Lord Fujun is not easy to explain. Now at this critical moment, whoever causes trouble for me will destroy his three clans. You are the same. Be honest these days. Don't urge the families who owe gambling debts. If you really have a lawsuit for life, Lord Fujun is furious, and I will strip you of your skin."

"Master, don't worry, we are not fools."

Sun Erbao is the smartest among all his disciples and is the most favored. He dares to speak more than other brothers. Of course, he respects his master Shi Hu the most on weekdays.

"That's a fucking!"

Shi Hu took another sip of wine and suddenly cursed, but he didn't know who made him angry. Everyone dared not ask, and they followed behind and didn't dare to show up.

"First it's King Qin, then the King of Yan..."

Shi Hu spat and muttered, "I really don't know what those big men think. Today I will surrender to rebel tomorrow. Once they change their minds, we will have to suffer with it!"

"That's it!"

Sun Erbao agreed, "This is the business of the Tian family. If it were my son, I would have broken his legs."

"Shut up!"

Shi Hu was shocked and then said angrily: "You dare to say such things!"

Just as I was about to give my disciple a mouth, I suddenly heard footsteps coming from a distance. The sound was very thin, and I was definitely not the one who was the city defense force.

Shi Hu immediately made a gesture, and more than 40 men stopped immediately. He listened for a while, confirmed that the sound was coming from the alley not far away, and then pointed. The ruffians immediately ran towards it. There was nothing wrong in the middle of the night, and they were all listless as if they were addicted to drugs. There would be movement and all of them were energetic.

More than a dozen people stayed by Shi Hu's side, and the others rushed into the alley with great energy. According to Shi Hu's instructions before, these ruffians did not make loud noises. Even if something happened, they could not be loud or shouted. Try to solve it quietly. This was the order of Lord Fujun, so Shi Hu naturally did not dare to disobey. In his eyes, the group of disciples under him were just like a fart, and in the eyes of Lord Fujun, he was not much better than a fart.

After more than twenty people rushed into the alley, he did not make a shout, which made Shi Hu feel more satisfied. There was no other sound except the sound of footsteps, which meant that these guys were still very obedient to his words. A sense of accomplishment arose, and Shi Hu enjoyed the wonderful taste brought to him by his power and status at this moment. It was precisely because of what he thought of at this moment that he couldn't help but wonder again, if he reached the height of Lord Fujun, would he enjoy something more fascinating? If he reached the emperor...

He didn't dare to think about it next, and this thought scared him. But then he thought that the emperor was afraid that he would be more troubled than himself, so he calmed down again.

After waiting for a while, he didn't see his subordinates entering the alley, Shi Hu gradually frowned: "Don't have anything wrong, let's go over and take a look. The knife is revealed to me. If there is something wrong, don't worry about who it is. If I ask you to chop you, you will swing the knife for me!"

"knew!"

"Don't worry!"

His subordinates responded for a while, and everyone rushed into the alley quickly. The light of the torch quickly dispelled the darkness in the alley...

Shi Hu was stunned. Where are the twenty or so men who came in just now? Where are the torches? Why are they gone?

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A large group of people in black suddenly rushed in from the entrance of the alley, and their steps were like spirit cats and they didn't make any sound. Each of them had a sharp black iron chisel with no torches. They appeared like ghosts behind the crowd, and started killing people very quickly.

The twenty or so people who had entered the alley before had turned into lonely ghosts. There were dozens of men in black robes hidden on the walls in the dark alley. The robes were wide and black scarf covered their faces. They were hidden in the night and were hard to detect. As soon as Shi Hu's men entered the alley, they saw a thin old man in thin smirk at them. When they were stunned, the man in black robes jumped down like a harrier eagle on the wall, and quickly poked these people to death one by one. His movements were extremely ruthless and he only stabbed the throat, so that the twenty or so people didn't even have time to shout.

After the murder, these men in black robe quickly threw the bodies to the wall, then turned over and jumped up to hide. Shi Hu rushed in with his people and saw nothing, and even blood was not discovered. Just when he was surprised, those men in black robe appeared again, this time from behind them.

The man in black robe quietly pressed it on, covering the mouths of the idle thugs from behind and poked their throats with an iron chisel. After the four or five people behind fell to the ground, Shi Hu in front realized something was wrong. He turned around suddenly and saw that the ghostly men in black had killed half of his subordinates.

"Varied……"

Half a syllable came out of his throat, and a crossbow arrow penetrated into his throat accurately. He reached out to try to grab something, but he could only fall down softly.

More than a dozen people were slaughtered in an instant.

The old man, who looked outrageously thin, walked over with a giggle and told someone to change his clothes quickly. The men in black robe were quick to peel off the clothes from the dead body. Before they could finish the work, they suddenly heard footsteps outside the alley. The thin old man's face changed and he made a gesture to his subordinates to be on guard. Before the people had arranged the arrangement, they saw at least one team of city defense soldiers blocking the entrance of the alley. The man in the lead walked towards them with the hilt of the horizontal knife.

"It's so damn slow. I took people to knock down a team of elite city defense forces. It's so hard to deal with dozens of rascals!"

The man in the military uniform of the team said coldly, and walked to the torch and showed a white face.

"It's so scary for people to be scary! Just your face is so white, he's really like a ghost!"

Wang Qinian, who was as thin as a bamboo pole, glared at Wu Bushan with a white face, and then asked in surprise: "Why are you moving so fast?"

Wu Bushan smiled very cheaply and said, "It happened that this team of city defense forces smashed my shop door panel and asked me to steam buns to make him a midnight snack... If I don't poison it, I'm sorry for the conscience of heaven and earth."

"Okay, stop talking. Move quickly and don't let the city defense troops discover it. We are not rich in time, so we will run away after setting fire, and then hide each other! The fat man is still waiting for our signal. After all, we only cooperate in this big event, and he is the key!"

Wang Qinian waved his hand and turned around to instruct his subordinates, "I have calculated the time, go around and go directly to the yamen. When I enter the door, I cut over the person on duty and set fire, and then ran away immediately. If any of you legs fall slowly into the hands of the Tang army, you will be blessed."

Wu Bushan sighed and said, "When it comes to running, I'm afraid no one in this world can compare to you except that fat man."

"Get out!"

Wang Qinian cursed: "Don't compare me with that ugly fat man with me. This is an insult to me and a compliment to him."

Wu Bushan looked at Wang Qinian helplessly and seriously and said: "You know, even if I have my head on the door panel, I will never insult or praise you, because you two never take it seriously. As for praise... You know that I rarely do things that are unconscience..."

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June 18th night.

Four or five places in Chang'an City were in full swing, and people even lit the fire in Chang'an Mansion, Jingzhao Yin, and even the military government offices. One of them was actually close to the imperial city.

The fires in these places were extremely strange, and no one noticed who lit the fire. The city defense force immediately sounded the trumpet, and all the people on duty immediately came to the city for alert. The imperial guards in the palace quickly set up defense. Taiji Palace, Imperial City, East Palace, and Yeting Palace were heavily guarded. Almost all the officials of the six ministries and nine ministers were alarmed. Liu Hongji sent general Xu Shengqi to lead three thousand troops to attack the city and protect the enemy, and then dispatched troops to put out the fire.

In order to prevent any thieves from taking the opportunity to cause trouble, the emperor personally issued an order, but the palace gate did not open!

The secret spies who had been busy in the middle of the night had no gains, and the imperial guards did not leave the city at all!

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