Volume 2 Demon Ridge Jingyanggang Chapter 25 Night Road
After the life and death friend left, Lord Lu smiled at Wang Liang and said, "I'm sorry to make you, Senior Duocai, laugh at me."
"No, this is official business, of course official business is important. In fact, I also came from Yangjinggang in Monster Ridge today. I also saw the situation along the way. I didn't expect that there would be such a monster land outside such a good city like Yanggu County."
"Yes, we have been troubled by this demon land for the past few years, but what can we do? The original demon tiger was just a vicious tiger, and we didn't take it seriously. Five years ago, for some reason, the vicious tiger suddenly turned into a demon and its strength increased dramatically.
Even if we wanted to deal with it, it's too late.
To be honest, we have only been able to keep Yanggu County safe over the years."
Listening to Lord Lu's words, Wang Liang could only persuade him: "You have done a good job. At least you have confined the demon tiger to the mountain . Otherwise, with the strength of the demon tiger's troops, it is possible for them to capture one or two cities. Then the people will be the ones who suffer."
"It's no use. There was chaos in Demon Ridge today. It seems that Demon Tiger is no longer satisfied with the current situation and wants to leave the mountain.
I didn’t dare to agree to this life-and-death friendship before, because I was worried that we couldn’t win the battle, and I was also worried that if we took all the troops from Yanggu County out, we might not be able to defend the city.”
Since Lord Lu expressed his concerns, Wang Liang naturally offered some advice.
In Wang Liang's dream, he had been both a civil official and a military general.
He is quite strong in some insights, and he does not persuade from other perspectives, but analyzes from a military perspective.
Wang Liang started by talking about the marching and deployment of troops, and went on to talk about how to attack Yaoling.
He even suggested a possibility: if Demon Ridge was difficult to attack, could we lure the enemy out from outside the Ridge and fight them?
This feasibility made Lord Lu's eyes light up.
However, he did not answer immediately, but said seriously: "I need to discuss it with them, but this is a really good idea."
Seeing that Lord Lu had made up his mind, Wang Liang stopped trying to persuade him and instead suggested leaving first.
Originally, Lord Lu was planning to keep Wang Liang, but because of this incident and Lord Lu had a lot of things to deal with, he did not want to keep Wang Liang any longer and had someone send Wang Liang out.
When sending Wang Liang away, Wang Liang said to Lord Lu: "Lord Lu, if you are interested in the matter of Yaoling, I can help you. Before I became a Taoist, I was the Chief Censor and the Governor of Hexi. I have a record of opening up 900 miles of land and beheading 7,000 people.
If needed, I can be a warrior. "
After hearing what Wang Liang said, Lord Lu's eyes lit up.
"Okay, I will ask Senior Lu to come and help us then."
Wang Liang said nothing more and just walked out of the City God Temple.
This time, Lord Lu did not arrange for anyone to send Wang Liang out, but instead gave him a token so that he could deal with the Night Wandering God and the patrolling Wu Hou.
There were also life-and-death friendships with these tokens before. They were able to fight those monsters at night, relying on the support of these tokens.
Carrying this token, Wang Liang left this underworld city. There was a flash of light in front of his eyes, and the sky quickly darkened.
He found himself standing at the gate of the City God Temple in the Yang World.
Compared with the underworld which occupies an entire city, the City God Temple in the world of the living is not that big.
This is just a small courtyard with two entrances. In the main hall in the middle, there is a golden clay statue.
That was the statue of Lord Lu. Lord Lu in the statue was wearing a civil servant robe and an earl's crown on his head, exactly the same as when he had seen him before, except that his body was covered with gold paint, and in order to make Lord City God look more majestic, they also gave him a beard, which looked a little weird.
Wang Liang appeared at the gate of the City God Temple, and before he took a few steps, he heard footsteps in the distance.
"Who's there?"
Wang Liang turned his head and looked over there, and saw five warriors, rangers, and soldiers who were patrolling at night rushing towards this side.
The five of them should not be under each other's command. The one walking in front is holding a bamboo clapper and a gong, carrying a white lantern, and wearing ordinary black clothes. He is the night watchman nearby and the only one who is allowed to walk at night.
Behind them followed two people wearing red jackets and armor, with swords on their waists and holding a strange crossbow in their hands. The bow of the crossbow was three feet three inches long, and the string was two feet five inches long, with arrows already loaded on it.
This is the most distinctive weapon of the Song Dynasty, the Shenbi Bow.
These two were soldiers sent out to patrol at night, and they were considered regular troops in the patrol team.
The two people following behind them were wearing black yamen runners' uniforms, holding iron rulers in their hands, with ropes and chains hanging around their waists. They were yamen runners sent by the county government.
The last one was wearing ordinary clothes, with a dagger hanging on his waist, and looking around. He was a ranger who ran errands to eliminate pests and had the lowest status among the five people in the group.
Of course, this is just a patrol in the world of the living. Wang Liang could tell at a glance that behind these five people, there were two ghost soldiers. They did not have any combat power, but when they encountered demons and ghosts, they could notify the Night Wandering God.
As soon as he saw the Divine Arm Bow facing him, Wang Liang immediately took out the token.
However, the five men did not relax their vigilance. Instead, the night watchman raised the lantern in his hand, and a soldier stepped forward, took the token and looked it up and down.
Then he returned the token to Wang Liang and took a step back.
"Don't stay outside for too long, and don't follow us. You know the rules. If you encounter a patrol team, take out the token immediately. Otherwise, don't blame our fast bows if you get killed. Also, if you enter someone else's house and get killed, no one will pity you. Be careful."
After saying this, the five of them retreated into the shadow of the corner. If it weren't for the lantern in the night watchman's hand still glowing in front of them, Wang Liang would have thought they had all left.
At this point, Wang Liang also gave up the idea of finding some ghosts and monsters to fight in Yanggu County.
He confirmed the direction and headed towards the Lion Tower.
With the token leading the way, Wang Liang encountered several patrol teams on the road but none of them made things too difficult for him.
He just looked at the token, warned him, and let him go.
But just as he was about to reach the Lion Tower, he suddenly heard the sound of urgent gongs coming from a nearby alley.
Several patrol teams nearby were heading that way. At the same time, Wang Liang felt a cold wind blowing, and it seemed that some ghost soldiers and ghost messengers were also heading that way.
Wang Liang hesitated for a moment, then he stretched out his hand and the knife fell into his hand. He ran towards the direction where the gong sound came from.
