Chapter 13

Eighth day, early morning.

The northwest corner of the Imperial City of Haojing is separated by a wall from the Hanzhang Hall, where the emperor's daily reading and office work. It is a huge urn city.

Wengcheng encircled nearly two thousand acres of land, among which the heavy palaces were pitch black, like cast iron, majestic like an iron wall, and the aura was like a hell cave.

This huge building, at first glance, can't even find a single grass or tree. Between the single-body palaces, there are all smooth ground paved with three-foot-square boulders, with seepage between the stone cracks. With iron juice, it is really airtight, and its defense is extremely strong.

The Wengcheng is only on the west side, and there is an entrance and exit of the city gate.

The city gate, which is only two zhang high and thirty zhang wide, looks extremely cramped compared to the city wall that is as high as [-] zhang, which makes people feel extremely depressed.

Lu Yan stood at the intersection of the street, across a square of dozens of acres, opposite the narrow city gate.

Lu Rui's eyes flashed with blue light, and he could clearly see the small black iron plaque above the city gate. There were three big characters with a sharp breath like slashing with an axe - 'Guardian of the Palace'.

The sky was about to dawn, and there were footsteps of the patrolling guards and the sound of armor rubbing in the distance.

It was the most sleepy moment of the day, and suddenly there were hurried footsteps, heavy breathing, and deliberately suppressed cursing on the street.

The three figures staggered and ran along the street to the south.

Every time they took a step, they ran forward seven or eight feet away, the corners of their clothes moved the air and made a rushing sound of breaking wind.

Behind them, dozens of sturdy figures in black clothes, rhino leather soft armor on the upper body, hats on their heads, and short cloaks also ran wild. The standard lancets in their hands flashed coldly, and some people held exquisite short crossbow.

While running and chasing, someone behind the pursuers suddenly jumped into the air and jumped onto the houses on both sides of the street.

They raised their right hand, 'whoosh' the wind exploded.

The short crossbows used by these chasing soldiers are all powerful repeating crossbows forged from fine steel. The small crossbows are shot with three arrows, and dozens of them are fired at the same time. With a piercing whistle, he shot through the air, hitting the three fleeing in front of him.

The three of them cursed in unison, and three long whips with strangely shaped scorpion tails swayed. Three groups of black lights and shadows hit the crossbow bolts with the dull sound of breaking wind.

Dozens of crossbow arrows scattered and exploded, and one of the three behind suddenly stumbled and cursed with a hiss.

"Sikotai's son of a bitch, grandpa joins your grandma!"

Lu Rui put his hands in his sleeves and shrank his body towards the street.

Si Kou Tai, the official yamen in charge of the Great Si Kou of the Great Yin Wu Dynasty, is responsible for arresting the unscrupulous people and suppressing Liang Hao Heng.

In short, Si Koutai only handles big cases, ordinary petty theft, murder and arson, and they are too lazy to deal with them.

Someone who can be hunted down by Si Kou Tai.

In particular, those who could be chased and killed by Si Koutai with great fanfare outside the Imperial City of Haojing.

Basically, it can be guaranteed that they are all a bunch of bastards who have killed a thousand knives.

The man who cursed loudly, his calf was hit by a crossbow arrow, and his speed suddenly slowed down.

He jumped forward with one leg and struggled for a few steps. Seeing the blood on his calf, a long blood mark was drawn on the street.

His two companions gave a whistle at the same time and accelerated forward sharply, leaving their companions behind.

Si Koutai's pursuers in the rear rolled by like the wind, and the four Si Koutai subordinates with long knives scolded softly and surrounded the man with the arrow in the calf.

The light of the sword flashed for a while, and the subordinates of Si Koutai cooperated tacitly. The man who was hit by the arrow was unable to move, and he was knocked off the long whip in his hand in three or two strokes.

In just a few breaths, the other two fleeing people had already run across the long street, across the small square, and all the way to the gate of the palace guard. One of them kicked and kicked heavily. On the gate of the palace guard.

'Boom' loudly.

Right above the gate of the palace guard, at a height of five or six feet above the ground, the lights flickered. On the metal lamp stand on the city wall, a row of more than one hundred huge butter lamps lit up suddenly, and the bright lights illuminated the guards. The small square in front of the gate of the palace prison is bright.

The sound of 'kaka' sounded, and at a height of six or seven feet above the ground, metal secret doors on the city wall opened, revealing shooting holes one foot wide.

Nearly [-] strong armored soldiers wearing iron armor and holding strong crossbows showed their upper bodies from behind the shooting holes expressionlessly. The strong crossbows in their hands pointed to the affiliation of Si Koutai, who had just run to the middle of the small square.

"end!"

A Si Koutai subordinate wearing a bucket hat with blood on his body suddenly raised his left hand, clenched his fist hard, and scolded.

Dozens of Skotai affiliates stopped at the same time.

They were lined up, standing in the small square, looking up at the soldiers behind the shooting holes.

"I, Si Kou Tai Tie Qian Jun, have been ordered to hunt down the three brothers of the three-tailed black scorpion, the Jiang Yang robber, and I would like to ask you all to make it easier."

In the sound of 'gu dong', the two men who fled to the gate of the palace guard fell to their knees at the same time, and kowtowed heavily towards the closed gate of the palace guard: "The three of us, brothers, sincerely join the palace guard. , I am willing to serve as a running dog under the sect, and sacrifice my life for the supervisor!"

"Rules, we understand!"

The two men roared almost piercingly.

Among the members of Si Koutai, several men abruptly took two steps forward.

Inside the city wall, in the shooting hole, the sound of heavy bowstrings exploded, and several one-and-a-half-foot-long pure steel crossbow arrows pierced through the air and landed heavily in front of the toes of several Skotai.

The force of the crossbow bolt was too great, and the ground paved with bluestone was forcibly shot through two inches by the crossbow bolt.

Tie Qianjun scolded, and the men who rushed forward gritted their teeth and took two steps back unwillingly.

'Quack quack', the harsh rubbing sound of the door shaft sounded, the iron wood clad steel, the gate of the palace guard with a thickness of two feet opened. 'Giggle' smiled and trotted out with a quick trot surrounded by a large group of people.

Behind the little eunuch, the men in white are all dressed in white brocade robes, embroidered with the pattern of the three-clawed gecko (gecko) on the sleeves of the robes, wearing square black hats, heavy-soled black boots, and an inch-wide black belt around their waists. , wearing a three-foot-six-inch long goose ling knife.

Some white-clothed men also had iron chains, shackles and other objects hanging from their waists.

There are more than a dozen men in white behind them, with heavy crossbows and strong bows on their backs, and quivers on their waists.

Lu Yu also saw that the men in white behind the palace, in addition to their sabers, were actually holding heavy weapons such as a [-]-foot lance, a gilded tiger-headed spear, and a bronze mace.

Compared with those of the Shougongjian, the dozens of men like Sikoutai are tough and elite, like a forbidden army.

And this subordinate of the guard.

The breath of each of them is very strong and fierce, and even many of them have a faint suffocating aura, all of them are tigers and wolves, but there is no tacit understanding between them. .

The little eunuch ignored the two brothers who were kneeling on the ground. He waved his whisk and swayed before Tie Qianjun, and patted Tie Qianjun's shoulder with his whisk with a smile.

"Come on, our family has taken over the affairs here."

"Go, go, don't make fun of yourself!"

Tie Qianjun gritted his teeth, and the sound of 'quack' gritted his teeth, and even Lu Yu who was behind him could hear it clearly.

The little eunuch took two steps back abruptly, and he exclaimed with a fuss: "Oh? Do you still want to hit someone?"

Higher up, above the hundred-zhang-high city wall, more lanterns and torches were lit, and more iron-clad soldiers stuck their heads out of the city wall.

The hundred-zhang-high city wall was leveled for almost a mile, and ordinary people would have to walk for a long time.

At such a high height, it is difficult for ordinary people to see what the people above look like.

With such a high city wall, dropping an egg from the top can kill a person.

The bowstring sounded, and the armored soldiers on the city wall drew their strong bows and set up hard crossbows.

Tie Qianjun's face turned pale, he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, let's... let's go!"

The little eunuch took two steps forward and grabbed Tie Qianjun's shoulder: "Hey, there is another person, stay. Leave him, or you can stay together!"

Tie Qianjun's body trembled violently, he gritted his teeth and said coldly: "They are scoundrels who kill countless people and harm countless people!"

The little eunuch didn't speak, he just slapped Tie Qianjun's face with a slap in the face.

'Snapped'!
The little eunuch's slap was not powerful, but the slap was extremely insulting.

Several Si Koutai affiliates beside Tie Qianjun drew their swords angrily.

The arrow fell, and the momentum was like a thunderbolt. Several Si Koutai who drew their swords belonged to each of them. The arrows were hit in the right shoulders. The arrows were extremely powerful. Three inches from the entrance, the arrow penetrated the shoulder.

Several Si Kou Tai affiliates cried out in pain, retreating several steps!
The little eunuch smiled and looked at Tie Qianjun, and said slowly: "You dare to move the guards of the palace prison, can you rebel?"

Tie Qianjun coughed, was silent for a while, and bowed to the little eunuch with difficulty: "Don't dare, don't dare, my company Koutai belongs to, and is loyal to the imperial court wholeheartedly, dare not."

Raising his left hand, Tie Qianjun waved lightly: "Let go, let's go back... The case of the three-tailed black scorpion is considered closed. Go back and submit the case file to the palace guard."

The spirit of Si Koutai disappeared in an instant. They lowered their heads one by one, returned their swords to their sheaths, followed Tie Qianjun weakly, and left step by step.

The man who had just been stabbed more than a dozen times and was still bleeding from the arrow wound on his calf laughed 'haha', struggled hard, and walked towards the gate of the palace guard step by step.

"Big brother, second brother, in the future, we will be able to eat imperial food!"

"Haha, haha, Si Koutai, and other yamen's bastards, there is no way they can take us any longer!"

Amidst the man's wild laughter, Lu Ru gently walked out of the street, quietly came to the little eunuch, and bowed his hands to him.

"This little father-in-law, the boy Lu Yan, has always heard that the palace guard is eager for talents. He only asks about his strength, regardless of his background. The boy is not talented, so he came to join the palace guard today."

"Excuse me, what should I do?"

The little eunuch was startled by Lu Yan who suddenly appeared beside him. He took two steps back abruptly, and was about to scold him when he suddenly saw Lu Yan's resolute and masculine face, as well as his burly and tall body, the little eunuch His eyes suddenly lit up.

"Yo, we are guarding the palace prison, but we don't accept all the bad stuff."

"However, looking at your body, you look like a good man."

"Come on, come in with us!"

 There is one place between 'Sikoutai' and 'Shou Gongjian', there is an error, please correct it!
  
 
(End of this chapter)

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