Mu Li was lying in a patch of grass, his clothes were already soaked in blood. He was panting heavily, even breathing so hard that he coughed from time to time, and blood overflowed from his throat. After resting for a while, he struggled to get up, and saw the fire flashing in the distance, and then the sound came from a distance.
He couldn't imagine that his team was gone like this.
He heard the sound of horseshoes, which meant that the pursuers had not given up their search. He rolled and crawled down the high slope, this was the first time in his life that he was in such a mess. There is a forest in the distance, not big, but for avoiding the pursuit of cavalry, the forest is the most suitable choice.
"General, you go first!"
There was a deliberately lowered roar behind him, it was Hao Ren's voice. Mu Li was stunned for a moment, and quickly turned around to look, only to find that Hao Ren had already taken the remaining dozen of his own soldiers and ran out towards the other side. They deliberately exposed themselves to the eyes of the pursuers in order to distract the enemy away for him. .
Mu Li opened his mouth, feeling his heart was broken. He raised his hand to shout, but there was no sound in his throat.
Under the high slope, he crouched in the grass and watched the cavalry go around in a circle and then chased towards Hao Ren and the others. Mu Li knew better than anyone that it was his own decision that killed these subordinates. For a moment, he thought of Ye Jinnan, and a strong hatred appeared in his eyes!
It's him!
He must have betrayed me!
This voice roared wildly in Mu Li's heart, dripping with blood.
"Get down!"
Just when he was in a trance, a voice suddenly came from beside him, very close, which startled him. He just looked in the direction where Hao Ren and the others were fleeing, and he didn't even notice when someone was approaching him. Mu Li subconsciously slashed back with the knife, but the knife was blocked by the people behind him, and then he felt that his neck was being held down, and his whole body was pressed into the depths of the grass.
The person who knocked him down quickly pulled out a lot of weeds and covered Muli's body, and then he also got into the grass.
Mu Li, who was lying in the grass, saw an eagle flapping its wings in the sky through the gaps in the grass blades. After hovering in the sky for a while, it flew towards the distance.
"Don't move, there's a mastiff behind you."
The person lying next to him said in a low voice: "Take off your clothes slowly. The one next to you is wheelweed, which smells the strongest. Crush it and apply it all over yourself, and then run after me. Mastiff's nose is too sensitive. , if you don’t cover it up, you won’t be able to escape.”
Mu Li didn't know who the person beside him was, but he immediately determined that this person wanted to save him. He immediately did as the man said, first took off the broken armor on his body with great effort, and then took off all the clothes on his body without the slightest hesitation. As a person who has fought many times in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, he understands that there is no time to hesitate at this time.
After stripping off, he smeared himself with the juice of the wheel weed, and the pungent smell really quickly covered the bloody smell on his body. Just when he had just finished doing this, the man next to him threw a coat, then got up and ran towards the forest. Mu Li grabbed the clothes and put them on while running, and he didn't have time to pay attention to the pain on his body.
Not long after entering the woods, there was the sound of a mastiff barking outside. Mu Li knew that Tu had a penchant for raising falcons and dogs. There were several falcons in the barracks, and there was also a sea dongqing bought with a lot of money from the people of Beiliao. And those mastiffs were all found by Tu Pai at a high price.
These beasts, after training, are more troublesome than the best scouts.
"Go to the river, don't swim when you get down the river, let the river rush downstream. The long-feathered beast in the sky will definitely see us, as long as you don't move it will be confused. Whether you can escape or not It depends on luck, if we fail to deceive that beast, we will all die."
The person before said a few words quickly, and then ran out to the other side of the forest first. Mu Li found that there were several other people in the forest, including the five people who saved him before. From the appearance of these five people, it was obvious that they came from a distance, and their clothes were terribly dirty, but everyone's eyes were so bright, and it was obvious that they had a good hand.
He consciously lagged a little behind and ran at the end.
The five people jumped into the river after they got out of the woods, and then let the current wash away without moving. Mu Li knew that he had no other choice, so he did as they did. To be honest, lying in the river was not a pleasant feeling. The water kept pouring into the ears and nose, and when the water flow was too fast in the narrow part of the channel, the brains of those who rushed there were buzzing.
However, their luck is really good.
The falcon in the sky didn't make a sound, obviously not sure if they were alive or not. This trained falcon is extremely sensitive to living things, but it doesn't have a strong reaction to things that don't move. It was trained to track living people, but it didn't expect that this method really fooled it.
"Who are you?"
After climbing to the shore, Mu Li couldn't help asking. The person who rescued him first smiled, and threw himself on the grass beside the bank while panting and replied: "In short, I am not your enemy, and of course I can't be considered your friend, because we don't know each other at all... However, there is no doubt that it is your benefactor, right?"
The man lay down for a while, then poked his head out to look out: "It's getting dark, we must find a safe place to hide now, as for who we are and who you are, we'll have time to say after hiding."
"Where are we going?"
Mu Li asked subconsciously.
"Outside Liuzhou City."
In the twilight, the man's eyes were particularly bright: "Even if the one who wants to kill you is a monster, it's not certain that you dare to run back. There are dense forests on the embankment outside Liuzhou City, there must be a suitable place to hide there. Let's go, we must hide before those people go back before dark, otherwise, if we leave the river, we will be in a flat place, and we will not be able to hide when we encounter cavalry!"
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late at night
Mu Li, who was sitting on the branch of a big tree, sighed heavily, his mind was full of the tragic battle during the day. He never thought that his troops would be defeated so quickly and so weakly. He didn't dare to close his eyes, as soon as he closed his eyes, he could see those old subordinates who had been with him for many years falling down one after another, and the blood mist from the strange weapon on their bodies was always floating there.
When he got to the foot of Tennuo Mountain and saw the big banner with the word Tu, he knew that there was no need to cover up anything. Obviously, Tu already knew what he was going to do, so he led his troops here to intercept it in advance. But at that time, Mu Li didn't feel any despair, because he had observed that Tu's troops did not exceed 10,000 people, and his men had slightly more troops.
Mu Li is very confident in the combat power of his subordinates. These Yongzhou veterans all have extremely strong combat experience and skills. These soldiers, any general will treat them as treasures.
Thus, Muli gave the order to attack. The soldiers didn't come to their senses at first, but soon they realized that the general was going to take them to defect. These veterans from Yongzhou are more or less disgusted with the current Tu, and they are used to obeying military orders, so after a short hesitation, the soldiers still launched an attack on the army blocking the way under the leadership of the general. .
According to the usual practice, the archers began to form an array before the attack, preparing to suppress the opponent's defense with a rain of arrows. This is already a routine that these soldiers are so familiar with that they can no longer be familiar with it, so they change formations extremely fast. But just when the arrow array had just assembled, there was a continuous roar from the other side of the hillside, and immediately after, they saw dozens of fireballs flying towards this side, and before they could react, The explosion began to spread in the arrow array.
After a round of artillery salvo, Mu Li's arrow array was knocked tottering. The soldiers had never seen this kind of thing before, and they were in chaos in an instant. And then, the general commanding the archers issued an extremely wrong order, asking the archers to gather again and prepare to fight back.
This order is fatal.
The second round of artillery exploded again in the archer team that had just barely formed a formation, and blood and flesh flew everywhere. The archer commander, who had absolutely no experience in dealing with this kind of attack, was also stupid, not knowing how to give the order. Just as the arrow array collapsed, the enemy began to attack.
Thousands of people are holding firearms, and their speed is not weaker than the fastest spearman among the infantry! Those enemies rushed down the hillside and quickly ran within fifty meters. At this distance, those enemies opened fire. They stopped after reaching about 50 meters, no longer running wildly, but advancing in a row, approaching step by step, and firing alternately in the front and rear rows, obviously they had been well trained.
And Mu Li could see very clearly that the commander of these soldiers was someone he had never seen before, with yellow hair and strange clothes.
Mu Li shook his head vigorously, letting himself struggle out of the memories. That scene was too tragic, and every scene was tearing his heart out.
"Who are you guys?"
he asks.
The person sitting on the tree branch above him smiled: "Tell me, I'm afraid you won't believe me... I'm a scout under Fang Jie, the general of the Black Banner Army. Internal strife... Speaking of it, this can be regarded as a kind of fate."
"Black Banner Army?!"
After hearing the answer, Mu Li was stunned for a moment, and the sadness in his heart became more intense. He led the team out of Liuzhou, originally intending to seek refuge with Fang Jie. But now, he didn't know how many soldiers escaped this catastrophe.
"I'm Mu Li."
He said.
"Muli?"
The man was stunned for a moment: "That Muli among the ten heroes of Luomen?"
"yes."
"I have long admired your name."
"Why did you come here? Did Fang Jie send you here to keep an eye on Tu Jiajun?"
"no."
It was Zuo Mingchan who saved Mu Li. He rubbed his sore eyes and said, "We have other missions. It was a pure coincidence that we met you. But since we met, we will naturally save you."
"Why?"
"Because we want to inquire about Luo Tu, we also want to inquire about those firearms, and you were hunted down by Luo Tu, no matter who you are, saving you is good for us."
Mu Li was silent for a while and then said: "Send me to the Black Banner Army, and I will tell Fang Jie everything I know. I want to avenge my ten thousand brothers!"
"It's okay to send you back, but not right now. At least you have to avoid it for a few days. If Luo Tu can't catch you, he can't find your body. He will definitely send people to search around. When my backup arrives, I will Arrange for someone to take you to Huangyang Road. But...why did Luo Tu kill you?"
"Because he's a madman!"
Mu Li gritted his teeth and said, "This man is completely insane. It's not just me, it turns out that the veterans in the army were executed by him in sevens and eights, and those who are still alive are also groveling and groveling!"
"You don't know about the deal between him and foreigners?"
Zuo Mingchan asked.
"I don't know... But now, I can also guess what his purpose for buying so many firearms is."
"Iron Armored Army!"
Mu Li and Zuo Mingchan said in unison, and then they looked at each other.
Mu Li sneered: "His heart is completely wild, he wants to defeat the Iron Armored Army...and become emperor."