"Old horse? Aren't you patrolling the edge of the square? This is our patrol range, what are you walking around? The man heard Lao Ma's voice, and the popularity of a person like Lao Ma was actually quite high, because he was the object of ridicule and sarcasm by all the bandits, and naturally everyone knew him.

"This ......," the old horse did not know how to answer.

Ma Bin shouted: "We were sent by the Holy Father to inspect the situation of the city gates, and this old horse only led the way. Where are we going? We were about to go up to the castle tower to have a look. How? You're going to stop us? ”

Lao Ma hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, they were sent from above to check the city gate, and Sect Servant Zhang asked me to show them the way to Sect Servant Zhou." ”

"Patrol the city gates? How did I not know? Why didn't anyone notify us? It's weird. The officers and soldiers are attacking the city, and the Holy Father has time to send people to inspect the city gates? The servant of the week said in confusion.

"Fool, it is precisely because the officers and soldiers are attacking the city that the Holy Father attaches great importance to the safety of the city gates. Don't the brothers in the west collect the solid gold, and the other city gates are carefully managed, won't it be a failure? How? Do you want me to explain more to you? Do you want the Fathers to consult you first? It's ridiculous. Ma Bin shouted coldly.

Although the servant of Zhou had doubts in his heart, he didn't dare to ask more. Now the orders in the entire cathar army are inconsistent, and there is a lot of confusion. Many things cannot be communicated smoothly, and it is not impossible for people to suddenly appear to inspect the city gates. What the other party said also makes some sense. Since it is to inspect the city gates, let him inspect it, and he doesn't have to worry so much.

"In that case, find out." Zhou Jiao servant said.

Ma Bin snorted, and was about to lead people to the stone steps of the upper city tower when Sun Dayong suddenly grabbed him. A few words were muttered in his ear. Ma Bin was stunned and nodded slightly. Suddenly, he turned to Zhou Jiao and the others who were about to retreat into the city gate hole: "I will check in the city later, and I will check you first." The Holy Father received news that some officers and soldiers had entered the city, and that we were going to check what was going on at the city gates. ”

Sect Servant Zhou frowned and said, "What is there to check here, we have been staying here." It's been a few days and nights, and I haven't left. ”

"When you want to talk about it, should you check it or not? Joke. Brothers, go, go and see. Ma Bin waved his hand and led the people towards the city gate.

When the people at the head of the city heard the commotion, someone came down and shouted, "What has happened?" The Dharma Protector asks you what's going on down there? ”

The servant of the Zhou sect raised his head and shouted: "Back to the Dharma protector, someone came to check the situation at the city gate, saying that the Holy Father asked them to investigate. What to do? ”

The head of the city retracted and stretched out again after a moment: "The Dharma Protector said, tell them to check." ”

The servant of the Zhou sect shouted, "Obey! ”

Ma Bin listened to the answer from the head of the city, and a stone fell to the ground in his heart. Sun Dayong said that the method of checking the city gate under the name of the leader of the cult really worked. Pulling the tiger's skin as a banner really scared these people. So far, the other party has not even had the slightest suspicion.

"Tell your Dharma protector to wait on the city tower, and we will go up to the city to check later." The brothers on the tower of the city are gathered in the tower and waiting. Ma Bin simply raised his head and shouted at the city tower.

Everyone was sweating, Master Ma was really bold, and this was already anti-guest. He began to command the people on the towers of the city. Not to mention, Ma Bin is used to being an official after all, and there is a majesty in his tone of voice, and the bandits are really a little bluffed.

Everyone walked to the entrance of the city gate, the bandits lit torches, Ma Bin led more than ten soldiers in front, Sun Dayong led others behind, and everyone walked inside. The city wall is several zhang wide, and the city gate can accommodate hundreds of people, and the forty or fifty bandits and more than thirty people of the forbidden army do not seem crowded inside. Ma Bin walked in, until he reached the tightly closed city gate with dozens of logs, stretched out his head through the torch and looked around for a long time, nodding thoughtfully.

"Good, good. It's solid. There are slight flaws though. What about the Zhou Sect Servant? Come on, I'll tell you what needs to be improved. ”

Sect Servant Zhou kept frowning and walking in the crowd, and when he heard the words, he had to stand up, Ma Bin pointed and said, "No, here...... Sandbags should be piled up to block it and piled up to the top, so that even if the city gate is opened, the officers and soldiers will not be able to enter. And here, put some giant rejection horses to block the opponent's charge. The officers and soldiers had cavalry, and as soon as the gates were opened, they rushed in at once. And there...... Should ......"

Sect Servant Zhou frowned and looked at Ma Bin's constant fingering, and suddenly asked, "This brother, why do I look at you." I don't think I've ever seen you before. Dare I ask you under the seat of the Guardian of the Protector? By the way, I haven't seen any of you here. Your robes are stained with blood. What's going on? Old horse, why don't you dare to look at me? What do you do with your head down? ”

The servant had been suspicious that week, and he had been observing the group of people who claimed to have come to check the city gate on the orders of the Holy Father. Although they were all wearing uniform Qingjiao robes, the aura on their bodies was obviously different. There has never been such a burly and tall apologetic army with a straight waist and a strong momentum in the Qingjiao, and even the officers and soldiers who surrendered to Tianfu did not have the momentum of this group. They carry crossbows on their backs. The bow and the long knife worn at the waist were not available to ordinary cultists. There are very few of these things in the cathars, and most of them are captured by seizure. The standard scimitars supplied by the Liao people were commonly used in the apologetic army, which were very different in shape and length.

Therefore, after a close observation, the doubts in the heart of the Zhou sect servant increased a lot. But he clearly didn't think deeper, and he didn't realize anything else. Perhaps it was the old horse in the crowd who confused his judgment and made him not think deeply about other aspects. Moreover, the servants of Zhou Jiao were also a little more straightforward, and if they had doubts in their hearts, they should observe them secretly, and not say them easily. Perhaps out of confidence in the numerical superiority of his subordinates, he actually asked in person.

Ma Bin laughed out loud when he heard this. The space in the city gate was closed, making the laughter extremely harsh.

"Sect Servant Zhou, what do you mean by that? Do you doubt our identity? Ma Bin said with a smile.

"I don't dare, I just think it's a little weird. You'd better show the Catholic Token to clear my confusion. Sect Servant Zhou frowned.

Ma Bin smiled again: "Okay, I blame me for this, I forgot to show you the Holy Princess's token." No, the sign is here, I see it clearly. ”

As soon as the waves sounded, Ma Bin pulled out the long knife at a very fast speed, the cold light flashed, and the servant only felt a pain in his shoulder and neck, and the next moment his head had already flown out obliquely, spurting blood and hitting the stone wall of the city gate cave to the ground, his eyes were still open, and he wanted to see it clearly when he was dying.

At the same time as Ma Bin made a move, Sun Dayong and others in the rear also did it immediately. The light of the sword flickered, the crossbow arrows buzzed, and a killing scene was set off in the cave of the city gate. Before the bandits could react, more than a dozen of them were knocked down. The remaining more than 40 people wanted to run but found that they couldn't run out at all, Sun Dayong in the rear took more than a dozen forbidden soldiers to block the way to the city gate, facing everyone with a crossbow, Ma Bin in front of him stood with a knife and a smile, and more than ten people with bows and arrows next to him were glaring at everyone fiercely.

"Squat down with your heads in your hands, put down your weapons and surrender, otherwise, you will be killed." Ma Bin shouted coldly.

The two bandits were about to move, poof, several crossbow arrows shot through their bodies, and two more corpses on the ground.

"Listen to me, three breaths, if you don't surrender, you will be killed. We are officers and soldiers of the imperial court, and Ying Tianfu is no longer guaranteed, and surrendering at this moment can avoid the death penalty. Ma Bin shouted.

It's not that Ma Bin has to force them to surrender, Ma Bin doesn't want to make too much noise in the fight and alarm the enemies on the city tower. There was a lot of chaos, and I was afraid that it had already alarmed the people on the city tower, so we needed to control the situation.

Someone slowly lowered his blade and squatted down with his head in his hands. The bandits are vicious to the people on weekdays, but when it comes to critical times, they are all cowards. These bandits were recruited from among the ordinary cultists, and they weren't even cathars. All the elite instructors have been dragged into the bloody battle in Xicheng. They can only look at the city gate here. So they chose to surrender after the dead bodies on the ground and the people who took the lead in surrendering. Although there were more than a dozen of them outnumbered each other, their hearts were only the spirit of a rabble.

"All tied up and gagged." Ma Bin commanded.

The crowd tied the bandits who were squatting on the ground with their hands and feet in their clothes and gagged their mouths. Thrown into a pile behind the city gate. After finishing all this, Ma Bin glanced back at the old horse standing there and found that there was another puddle of water stains on the ground between the old horse's feet.

"Waste stuff, scared to pee again." Ma Bin scolded.

"Master Ma stayed here, and my brother led people up to solve the enemy of the city tower." Sun Dayong said in a deep voice.

Ma Bin waved his hand and smiled: "You said the opposite, you should stay here." Give you ten brothers, who will be responsible for guarding the gates. There is also a patrol under the city, which may be in a moment. It won't be easy for you then. As for the eighty bandits in that city, naturally I should deal with them. ”

Sun Dayong wanted to argue, but immediately shut up, nodded and said: "Okay, in this case, I will listen to the arrangement of the adults, Master Ma must be careful, success or failure is in this move." ”

Ma Bin nodded slightly, Sun Dayong is a person who does things, he acts decisively and never drags his feet, he will not waste time arguing with himself here for who went to the city tower.

"Liu Dake, you take your people to stay down and listen to Brother Sun's orders. The rest of the brothers came with me. Ma Bin quickly dispatched his men, and then walked out of the city gate cave with twenty brothers.

The sound coming from the cave in the city gate really alarmed the bandits at the head of the city, and someone poked his head down and asked, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? Servant Zhou, what's going on? It's a lot of noise. ”

"It's okay, it's okay, it's just a few arguments about how to block the city gate." Ma Bin walked to the stone steps and raised his head.

The soldiers at the head of the city sighed and retracted their heads, presumably to report their heads. Ma Bin didn't stop for a moment, and rushed to the city wall on the west side of the city tower with twenty forbidden soldiers. The night breeze on the tall and wide city wall was cool and pleasant, and the hot sweat on the body was blown clean at once. Ma Bin looked at the city tower, only to see the pupils of human figures, and dozens of people were standing at the entrance of the corridor of the city tower watching the approach of himself and others. A tall Qingjiao Dharma Protector stood in front of the person with his waist crossed, looking at Ma Bin.

"You were sent by the Holy Father to inspect the guards at the gates?" The Dharma Protector asked aloud.

Ma Bin smiled: "Exactly." ”

"How did I not know there was such a thing? What about the token ordered by the Holy Father? I'll see. The expression on the man's dark face was not clear, and he stretched out a hand towards Ma Bin and the others who were walking quickly.

Ma Bin was about to speak, when suddenly there was a sharp and piercing sound of bamboo whistle in the square below, and then, from the darkness on the northeast side of the square, a terrifying shout came: "There is an enemy!" There are enemies. Be careful in the city and under the city, Zhang Jiao's servants are all dead. There are enemies! ”

In the quiet of the night, the shouts and shouts were particularly piercing and terrifying. Ma Bin's heart tightened, knowing that the matter was exposed. The bodies in the alley were found by another patrol of bandits. It all happened too quickly and too unfortunately. At this moment, the enemy of the city tower is still twenty steps away, and I am afraid that the early tea kung fu has already been handed over. But now that there is a commotion down there, these guys in the city are afraid that they will understand immediately.