?Quanyou led his comrades on the snowy street. They had just finished their New Year's Eve dinner and were now at the front city gate to replace the shift. Today is New Year's Eve. They were on night to let the comrades in the previous comrades go home and reunite with their families.

The snowflakes fell like catkins. The group of people walked on the snow on the street with their lanterns facing the cold wind, making creaking footsteps. Because they were wearing boots, their feet did not feel cold. The military uniforms were very warm, making the cold wind unable to penetrate, making people feel cold all over.

'This is much better than last year' Quanyou thought so. The poor military households were deducted so much that they had left their military pay. They owe a lot of debts. Not to mention having enough food, even their military uniforms were ragged.

Fortunately, it's not enough to do it. I'll be shirtless. If it's winter, especially when it snows, it's windy and leaking everywhere, you have to stuff some straw into it to travel in order to brave the wind and snow. I don't know how many state soldiers are frostbite when on duty every winter night.

The new Yuwen envoy sent Yang Sima to reorganize the state soldiers and generals who usually deduct military pay and drink soldiers' blood were dismissed. The military uniforms and boots were newly made with enough materials and no corners were cut, so the state soldiers were finally able to have a warm winter.

Quanyou and some of his comrades were promoted to manage the army. Thanks to the favor of Yuwen Envoy, the family and all other military households were free from the debts that had been paid for in life. In view of this, he decided to be loyal to his duties and repay the kindness of Yuwen Envoy and Yang Sima.

New Year's Eve is the day for the whole family to reunite. Although they were arranged to guard the city gate, they all had no complaints. The four city gates in the southeast, west and north of Xiyang City, except for the south gate, the other three city gates were guarded tonight by the envoy Yuwen, and the only southern gate was the state soldiers led by Quanyou. Being entrusted with important responsibilities at this critical moment shows that Yang Sima trusted him very much, so he lived up to his entrustion.

After the handover, Quanyou and his colleagues successfully took over the night. They will not be able to go home to rest from now until tomorrow. Although it is more difficult, the double "night pay" has been sent to everyone in advance, so no one mentioned any complaints.

I have eaten the New Year’s Eve dinner anyway, I have nothing to do. I will have double the night fee for one night to get it. Is there any bad thing? I am a little sleepy, but I just need to go home tomorrow to make up for my sleep!

"Come on, this is what I brought from my home, everyone will try it." Quanyou took out some cooked cakes and pickles from the food box and distributed them to the soldiers. Although everyone had eaten the New Year's Eve dinner first before coming to take the shift, many people may not be able to eat anything good from a poor family.

This is the pickles I just sent today, only the team and above are qualified to be divided. I thought that everyone worked hard tonight and distributed some of their own cakes to the comrades who were watching the night together.

Everyone was eating pancakes in the wind. As the pickles were pickled, three people slowly walked up the street ahead, two of them seemed to be carrying something. When Quanyou was about to send someone to ask, he saw clearly the lantern leading the way ahead with the Bazhou Prefecture Office.

"It seems that the envoy sent someone to reward us?" A soldier expressed his opinion. He called Liang Ding and Quanyou's family three families separated, which were considered old acquaintances. Quanyou frowned and looked at the carriage slowly approaching the city gate. After pondering for a moment, he signaled several people to come forward and ask what was going on.

"Everyone is careful. Today, the prefectural yamen has never said that they will send someone to reward the army at this time."

Liang Ding said that it must have been arranged by Yang Sima. He often did surprise inspections on weekdays, emergency gatherings and other "big surprises" tonight.

Seeing that his companions were a little relaxed, Quanyou couldn't help feeling uneasy. Tonight was a special city defense, and he could not tolerate any slackness. I don't know how many people Yuwen had offended during this period to prevent the other party from counterattacking.

Some of the big families in the city were rectified and they must have resentment in their hearts. Outside the city, the head of the Tian clan was not much better. If the other party had a cooperation with the outside on this New Year's Eve, it would probably cause a big problem.

There is also the Lu family in Bahe City, Bakou, east of Xiyang. Seeing that Yuwen envoy moved the powerful Tian family, it may not be ashamed of the fact that the rabbit died and the fox was sad. If someone took advantage of the situation, it would be a big deal.

So tonight, the west gate, the north gate, and the east gate are the first thing to do to prevent people from entering the city. Outside the south gate is the riverside, it is said that if people outside go around, it is easy to send them to the east. The defenders on the city gates on both sides of the west can find it but they still cannot be careless.

The soldier who came forward to interrogate said a few words to the visitor and showed joy. He immediately asked the other party to come to the city gate to stop. The two carrying a shoulder pole and said, "Yang Sima asked us to send it here. This is the freshly warm wine, everyone is still hot!"

Everyone looked at the soldiers with anticipation and complained in their hearts. Now it was the time to send wine to reward him. What if he was drunk and delayed his business?

He used to be a big soldier and didn't take much care of people. Now he is in charge of a team. If the No. 50 person in the team is loose, there will be trouble. But if it is severe, everyone will bow their heads and look up. They are afraid of being hurt.

I often struggle with this matter nowadays, now it is a dilemma: if I am afraid that someone will get drunk if I don’t let me drink it, then it’s so cold that I don’t let my subordinates drink some wine to warm my body.

"The whole team, if there is a token, it must be the wine sent by Yang Sima. Everyone will definitely not overdose." Liang Ding said. Seeing Quanyou's entangled look, he knew why it was for. The other few were around him and kept persuading: "The whole team, I will drink some of it and I will definitely not miss the problem."

When he saw that the soldiers said this, he was reluctant to be evil people, and he saw that he was expecting, and he couldn't make up his mind to be evil people: "Then... just drink a little, don't overdo it."

"But the head, but the head!" Everyone nodded quickly and said yes. Quanyouwei was changing and pressed his knife to walk forward and watched the other party open the wine jar.

Flows of warmth emerged from the jar, and the person who delivered the wine quickly explained that the wine was specially warmed before it was transported. After all, it was cold and cold to come over with cold wine. Everyone had to drink it with warmth.

All were worried that the other party would try it out after taking medicine in the wine. He stared at the man with a gourd and drank it all. After a while, there was no abnormality and he asked a soldier to come forward and drink it. After a while, he was a little hesitant to see that he was fine.

"The whole team. This is definitely no problem. Let everyone be while it's hot." Liang Ding said from the side, Quan nodded and signaled everyone to come over and drink warm wine immediately.

The sentry at the city gate also came down to drink while it was hot. After a while, all the soldiers guarded the gate had warmed their stomachs. The last one wiped the corner of their mouths after drinking, but suddenly found two gourd ladles in the wine jar.

‘It was obvious that there was only one gourd when I was trying the wine. What was going on?’ Quanyou was confused and was about to say something but he felt dizzy. The soldiers around him fell down like drunkenly.

"Wine is there..." Quanyou fell to the ground before he finished speaking. Seeing this, the three people whistled and then a group of figures surged out from the street in the distance. They ran towards the city gate and jingled the sound of the jingle of the armor.

"Hurry up, hurry up..."

Before the man finished speaking, Quanyou, who had already fallen beside him, suddenly got up and rushed towards the steps of the city. He had already run five or six steps before the three of them realized.

He just drank alcohol but only half a cup of so he was dizzy just now but not fainted. When he found out that his companions all fell to the ground, he knew something was wrong, so he pretended to fall down.

The other party did this just to seize the city gate. His comrades had fallen and could not stand up to the city tower to warn when the other party was negligent in the precautions. If there were gongs and drums on the city tower could be sounded, or even just sounded, they could be warned.

Sima Yang entrusted me with an important task. Even if I die, I must not let the city gate fall silently!

Quan's movements were soon to come to the foot of the city steps, but was knocked down by a man from behind and then the two of them rolled on the ground and tore against each other. He struggled to knock the other person down with a punch, but he was about to get up but saw that the man turned out to be his comrade Liang Ding.

He didn't bother to be surprised that he was about to run forward when he got up, but was surrounded by the three people who rushed over. The other party wanted to rely on the number of people to rush up to subdue him, but was knocked to the ground by a few strokes. Everyone turned around and saw that the people attacking the city gate were about to run to the front and ran away in a hurry, but they were hugged by Liang Ding and pulled down his legs again.

"Ading, what are you doing! Why are you their lackeys?" Quanyou tried hard to kick Liang Ding away but failed to do so. He could shout, but he could not make it far by just rushing up the city tower to beat the gong to serve as a warning.

After being delayed, the three people rushed up and subdued Quanyou. Quanyou looked at Liang Ding and shouted: "How dare you collude with thieves! Are you worthy of Yuwen Envoy and Yang Sima! Ingratitude. Ingratitude...ah!"

Before he finished speaking, he was kicked and his stomach hurt so much that his body curled up. After finally recovering, he saw someone standing in front of him looking down at him. The man's face was illuminated by the lanterns by the city gate, which made him recognize that he was his old boss, the military leader Tian Yuansheng.

"Ungraceful?" Tian Yuansheng said and kicked everyone in his stomach, "You are the ungrateful white-eyed wolf!"

Quanyou was raised and pulled his hair and raised his head to look at Tian Yuansheng. He watched Tian Yuansheng's group of people running towards the city gate. When he was about to struggle, he was punched in the face: "Be honest!"

He looked at the chubby and seemingly kind-hearted old boss in front of him, spitting hard but was avoided. Tian Yuansheng then punched him in the abdomen: "Bloody wolf!"

"Who borrowed money from you who can't afford to buy food on weekdays?" "Who is the only one who can't afford to pay back the profits?" "Dare to help outsiders deal with me? Ignorance!"

Quanyou's abdomen was beaten a few times and he was so painful that he retching. He barely looked up at Tian Yuansheng and understood everything in his heart: one of the masterminds behind those who deducted military pay and loan sharks was Tian Yuansheng.

You failed to pay military salaries and forced our family to make a fortune without any money, so they could only find someone to borrow usury. As a result, you did the usury. How many people were forced to destroy their families and their families and their families were still saying how much kindness they said!

When Yang Sima was rectifying the state soldiers, he just put Tian Yuansheng in abdicated way because he couldn't catch a big handle. The other party was also very honest and willing to accept everything and did not complain. Now it seems that this cunning local snake is the worst person. It's like a poisonous snake that is tying people today!

One of them pulled out the dagger and wanted to wipe Quanyou's neck, but Liang Ding stopped him: "Military Master! Everyone was confused for a moment, so please don't go to heart. If he lost the old one in the family, there was no place to stay..."

"If you are a Bodhisattva, just be able to save his life!"

"How about letting him see how you taught Yuwen Wen a lesson?"

Tian Yuansheng looked at Quanyou and sneered, then signaled his subordinates to tie him up and stuffed cloth into his mouth. The sound of metal hitting came from the direction of the city gate. It was his subordinates who were splitting the lock. Since Yuwen Wen took office, the copper lock of the Xiyang City Gate lock has been replaced with the previous keys and has been useless. This is also to prevent some people from backing up the keys privately.

Quanyou was puzzled in his heart and was thinking that the other party was going to open the city gate to lead Tian Zongguang in? But if Tian’s private soldiers had to come over, they would not be afraid of being discovered by others?

"Quick, send a signal to the city tower!"

With Tian Yuansheng's order, several people ran along the steps along the stairs to the city tower. The sentry that was originally on the night had already fainted after all the people came down to drink, so the city was now empty.

‘Send signals? What’s the use of sending signals here?’ All thoughts like this.

While he was puzzled, he was escorted to Tian Yuansheng and walked towards the city. After a while, he came to the city and was pressed on the bush and looked outward.

"Bazhou was originally the hometown of the Southern Dynasty." Tian Yuansheng, who was standing next to him, suddenly spoke. "Yuwen Liang led the Zhou army to rob the territory of his surname Yuwen, and asked his son to do something wrong."

"Tonight, Yuwen Wen's whole family will be extinct! Hahahahahaha!"

I was shocked by the scene before my eyes: under the hazy moonlight, the dark shadows on the river were all warships coming from the south bank of the river.
Chapter completed!