Chapter 317 - 307
The night was deep and quiet.
Salt Transport Department.
At this time, all the officials of the Salt Transport Department were still imprisoned in the rooms within the government office, and Luo Fu and his family were all detained here as well.
Song Dashan had arranged one hundred cavalry and five hundred soldiers to guard the government office day and night.
These past few days, the city had been quite stable, especially the Zhang family, who were incredibly compliant. Hence, Yang Zhenshan had reassigned some staff from the Zhang family to enhance the defense at the Salt Transport Department.
As the night grew deeper, the entire Liao’an Prefecture city fell into tranquility, and many soldiers responsible for standing guard couldn’t help but start to doze off.
Standing the night watch was the most exhausting, as it not only involved duties, but also resisting the torments of sleep demons.
Battling sleep demons was an extremely difficult task, a defiance of one’s instincts.
Even trained soldiers found it hard to resist, but the cavalry soldiers effortlessly warded off the attacks of the sleep demons.
Let us not forget that during their time in the Northern region, they had launched nighttime raids continuously for seven days, mostly moving at night.