came back.

Chen Ze, who had been paying attention to Tang Tian's movements, finally relaxed.

Although he has absolute confidence in Tang Tianxing's strength, there is always an accident in everything, and now Chen Ze is afraid of that accident.

With things progressing to this point, he really couldn't afford any unexpected situations, let alone Tang Tianxing's help.

If something happened to Tang Tianxing, not only would he lose a master on his side, but it would also indirectly cause Tang Feng to go berserk.

Once the people's hearts are dispersed, it will be difficult to lead the team.

Furthermore, if Tang Tianxing and his son were missing, it would be difficult for Hua Lao and Mr. Luo to explain.

More importantly, without the help of these two fathers and sons, it is still unknown whether the hostages can be rescued in the future.

This situation did not happen. Tang Tianxing still did not disappoint Chen Ze and walked out of Dongping City smoothly.

As for whether he had completed the task, Chen Ze didn't want to think about it.

He knew about Tang Tianxing, and it hadn't been long since he entered. If he hadn't completed his mission, Tang Tianxing wouldn't have come back in such a dejected state.

Now just wait and see.

While waiting, Chen Ze was not idle. He sent five people from Gu Qingfeng out and planted five nails nearby so that he could observe the situation nearby.

At the same time, there is another purpose.

More or less, Gu Qingfeng's emotions should be taken care of.

Gu Qingfeng's dissatisfaction with Tang Tianxing has been transferred to himself, causing his loyalty to drop by as much as ten points.

Chen Ze didn't want Gu Qingfeng to feel psychologically unbalanced when he saw Tang Tianxing successfully complete the mission and come back, and if his loyalty suddenly dropped again, then the gains would outweigh the losses.

By sending Gu Qingfeng out, of course he would still know that Tang Tianxing had returned from completing his mission, but it would be better than seeing him face to face and it would be more exciting.

This was considered a helpless move by Chen Ze.

Not long after waiting, Tang Tianxing came back.

When everyone took a look, there was indeed someone tied up behind his back.

What Tang Tianxing didn't expect was that Tang Feng was the first to come over and help him untie the unconscious Huang Liang from behind.

"Brother Tang, thank you for your hard work."

Chen Ze also stepped forward, without even looking at Huang Liang, he smiled and bowed his hand to Tang Tianxing.

Tang Tianxing nodded, took out a pen and paper from his arms, and wrote out the situation with a few strokes.

Chen Ze took it and took a look, but it was Tang Tianxing who told him everything about his situation in Dongping City.

There were some speculations by Tang Tianxing himself, but not much. He only told Chen Ze that Huang Liang was the boss mentioned by the soldiers in Dongping City.

After seeing this, Chen Ze understood clearly.

He had been speculating like this before.

Given the strange situation in Dongping City, it was really difficult for Chen Ze to believe that it was Cheng Hong who had gone to occupy the city.

Not to mention Cheng Hong, even if any general came to occupy Dongping City, it would be impossible for him to have such a management method at this time.

Then, it should be a third party force.

But what is a third-party force?

The current situation is that the Zhu Yan Empire alone is facing off against the combined forces of the Bai Lie Empire and the Qingyang Empire. At this time, who else can be called a third-party force?

Could it be that the Xuanjia Empire also participated in the war?

No, it's not.

Chen Ze also had some guesses about the so-called third-party forces. They were most likely bandit forces operating in the Nantes or Fengqi provinces!

Every empire has rogues, which cannot be stopped.

Take the Qingyang Empire as an example. They even set up a forest of poisonous mist for those serious criminals to hide in the world instead of just killing them all.

This is because the current situation in the mainland is not stable, and the main energy of the four empires is still on external affairs.

Secondly, internally, as long as the bandits do not go too far, they will rarely directly use the army to suppress them.

This has resulted in a large number of bandits running rampant in almost every province.

But there is one thing: the power of bandits must not exceed a certain limit, otherwise the government will definitely intervene and will not give them a chance to gain power.

And here in Dongping City...

Chen Zeben was just guessing, but after receiving the information sent back by Tang Tianxing, he was able to confirm that the situation had indeed changed in the past few months.

In the past, the bandits could not grow in size. They could only occupy a small hilltop and rob the merchants who came and went.

On the contrary, once the defensive force hired by the merchants is too strong, the bandits who come to rob may even risk overturning.

One can imagine how miserable this bandit force was.

But the situation changed only a few months ago when Chen Ze led his troops to invade the province of Nantes.

The crisis in Nantes Province directly caused Ouyang Lixing to worry about the safety of Fengqi Province, so he rushed there in a hurry and assembled a large number of troops along the way.

You must know that those troops were the garrison forces in the cities along the way. This time, at least two-thirds were taken away by Ouyang Lixing, leaving only the minimum strength for each city.

In this case, how can they fight against the bandits?

Being able to protect one's own city is considered good.

It is also true that in Fengqi Province, the bandits who suddenly had no natural enemies began to join forces and their power began to gradually grow.

It was also because the people who occupied Dongping City were bandits, so they didn't care about strategic planning, what should be occupied and what shouldn't be occupied.

For them, taking possession means making money, and with the current situation in Fengqi Province, who can spare a hand to deal with them?

Dongping City is also a border city. It is not big, so it is more suitable for bandits who have just grown up to practice.

Perhaps they had been oppressed by the government for a long time. They should have withdrawn after breaking the city, burning, killing and looting, but instead they stayed in the city.

Taking advantage of the war during this period, I simply started to indulge in the addiction of being a city lord.

This is really...

Chen Ze shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Then he raised his chin to signal.

Meng Yang, who was standing next to him, immediately understood. He walked forward with a grin, and with a flying kick, he gave Huang Liang, who was unconscious on the ground, a hard blow on his stomach.

"Well!"

Even in a coma, the force of this kick made Huang Liang look painful. Before he even opened his eyes, he was already yelling:

"Which bastard dares to kick me because I'm so impatient?"

"Yo ho?"

Meng Yang raised an eyebrow, rolled up his sleeves immediately, and sneered: "Then let's see who is impatient?"
Chapter completed!