The city of Pei, where Hongwu is located, is just the tip of the iceberg. Similar things continue to happen in the seventy-six cities in the north. The wild Eagle Banner soldiers and the disciplined troops of the gendarmerie had a serious conflict. In the past, things that were turned a blind eye to each other or even acquiesced to have suddenly become serious violations of discipline, and no one can adapt to it.

In the following month, more and more military police rushed from Chang'an to work in the northern border. They held the power of the central government and ruthlessly killed the power of the Eagle Banner Army. Anyone who violated the discipline was punished with severe punishment. Countless people were sentenced and imprisoned, and many people were expelled from the military camp. For a time, everyone was in danger and the road was clear.

Among these seventy-six cities, there are generals who want to resist all this, but the Supreme Commander Leng Yuan's response has always been very negative. She focused her work on destroying the cubes, and once her physical strength recovered, she would destroy the cubes. As for the military below, she just reminded all localities to cooperate with the command of the Central Committee of Chang'an and not to cause trouble.

And what is surprising is here. The more cubes Leng Yuan destroyed, the more military police sent by the central government of Chang'an, and the more tight the pressure, as if an invisible hand was blocking her.

In the end, the military police in the north even conveyed a strict ban, and the scope of activities of the Eagle Banner Army in various places was reduced to that of the stationed cities, and they could not leave the city without the permission of the military police.

The military police's actions cannot be considered unreasonable, because in terms of the consequences, the Eagle Banner forces in the northern border have indeed become much more honest, and the soldiers' bloodiness has been suppressed. They are not as wild as before. They know that they should salute when they see the superior, ask for instructions before taking action, and do not fight privately, and be laid off on time every day.

But this also brought some disadvantages. Due to historical problems, public security in the north has been poor. The wilderness has been cleared several times but the wilderness forces have not been exterminated. Not to mention that there were serious defections in the past two years because of Luo You’s incident.

The northern border has always been suppressing the riots by the barbaric butcher knife of the Eagle Flag Army. Now this knife has become civilized and dull, and it has not been the stability of the wilderness, but the increasingly rampant riots.

One day at noon, Hongwu was taking a nap when he suddenly heard an alarm sounding in the city. He woke up from his dream. This was the alarm that the sentry in the city wall observed the wilderness forces!

Hongwu immediately put on his armor and rushed to the city wall with his personal guards.

Qin Sheng was patrolling the city before, but when he heard the alarm, he later stood on the wall early, touching his beard and looking into the distance.

Hongwu took the stairs to the wall, wiped off the saliva that was stained when taking a nap on his mouth, and asked in a deep voice: "How many people have come?"

"Hundreds are not worth worrying." Qin Sheng narrowed his eyes and looked at the wilderness forces gathered outside the city leisurely, saying, "The city is as solid as a soup, and you don't have to pay attention to them."

If it were before, Hongwu would have gone out to kill the other party. He was a man who hated evil. For the domineering wilderness forces, let alone attacking the city, these evil men would dare to approach the city wall and kill them all. But now without the orders of the military police, he could not leave the city at all and could only sulk on the wall.

At this time, an observation whistle suddenly frowned, put down the telescope in his hand, and shouted: "General! They are chasing refugees in the wilderness!"

Hongwu quickly took the telescope and took a look. Sure enough, he was thinking just now that the wilderness forces of hundreds of people attacked Peicheng, and the number of people was not enough to kill them. It turned out that these people were not trying to attack the city at all, but were just chasing a wave of displaced wilderness survivors, and happened to chase near Peicheng.

Through the telescope, Hongwu observed that it was a convoy with about twenty members, both men and women, and a woman holding a child in her arms. They looked in a bad state, covered in dirt and dirt. Many people were injured and bleeding. Running for a few seconds would involve the wound and let the blood flow out.

The leader of the convoy pressed the wound, raised the horn, and shouted heart-wrenchingly: "Save us! We have women and children here, please ask us!"

The wilderness forces have already divided a group of evolutionists to chase refugees and will soon catch up. Hongwu was shocked in his chest when he saw this, and he was furious: "Just rats, dare to make trouble under my nose, come! Open the city gate! Put the convoy in, I want to see which bad guy dares to continue chasing!"

The defenders were about to do it, but Qin Sheng suddenly twitched, looked at Hongwu sideways, and said impatiently: "What door is opened? Come back!"

Hongwu pointed at Qin Sheng's nose and scolded: "What the hell do you mean!"

"What is going on now? Can you figure it out?" Qin Sheng looked at Hongwu coldly and said sternly, "If this convoy and the wilderness forces are in the same group, deliberately pretending to be miserable and deceive us into opening the city gate. When the time comes, we will cause civil strife, and even create a car bomb. Cooperate with the wilderness forces outside to attack inside and outside to capture the city, who will take responsibility for this?!"

Hongwu smashed the cover of the city wall with one punch and roared, "I'll take it! OK?! So what if only a few hundred evolvers are really attacking inside and outside? I'm as easy as killing these evil people!"

"Haha, what a big tone. Now the wilderness forces are rampant. If the hundreds of people outside are just eye-catching and there are actually a large number of ambushers, how should you take responsibility? Have you forgotten how Sanjiangyuan was captured by the Wings of Freedom?!" Qin Sheng waved his hand and snorted coldly, "Besides, the wilderness clearance order has been issued more than once, allowing the survivors to return to the city early, and they are delicious food and drinks. Which refugees who are still in the wilderness are good things? Either they are spies from the wilderness forces, or some fools who have earned their own fruits! They didn't enter the city and stayed outside to seek death, what do they do?"

Hongwu was furious and his eyes turned red: "That's also human beings! They are all living people! They are compatriots! We are imperial soldiers, and we must save them if we are compatriots!"

Outside the city, the convoy was almost caught up by the wilderness forces. Several evolutionists riding off-road motorcycles were holding up their guns and laughing wildly, like hunting hunters. The leader of the convoy saw that the walls of Peicheng were filled with eagle flags and soldiers were like clouds, but no soldiers left the city. His voice began to become desperate: "Save us! Eagle flag army! Please, save us! Why don't you save us when you see death?!"

A few soldiers couldn't help but want to rush out of the city. Qin Sheng's harsh shout came: "If I don't order anyone who leaves the city privately, they will be punished as defectors and will be executed on the spot! The descendants of three generations should not join the army and go to politics!"

The word defection is extremely deterrent to any soldier. This not only means that his life is in danger, but also affects his family. For a moment, the most bloody soldiers stopped in place.

In this gap, the wilderness forces caught up with the refugees...
Chapter completed!