Liuzhou
Night falls so quickly, if the day is a piece of rice paper, then the night is the thick ink poured down from the sky by the hands of a great power, and it feels like the whole world is blackened in an instant. Ever since Tu Jiajun arrived in Liuzhou, this bustling city was surprisingly quiet at night.
There are no customers in the brothel, and there are no customers in the restaurant.
The wealthy households in the city did not dare to walk around indiscriminately, and did not dare to get together, for fear that they would be targeted by the Tu family's army. Everyone has heard that when the Tu family army came from the west, the 600-mile road was completely devoid of human habitation, and there was nothing left that could be plundered. However, it seems that Tu has not yet planned to attack the rich households in Liuzhou City. It seems that he intends to live here forever, instead of killing all the way like when he came.
Ye Jinnan dragged his two legs back from the camp, his steps as heavy as lead. He already knew what happened outside the city during the day, and his heart felt as uncomfortable as if he was dead.
Except for himself, no one believed that he had not betrayed Mu Li. When patrolling in the camp, he could feel the soldiers pointing at his back. This kind of pain was beyond words. He didn't know how Tu knew that Muli was going to take advantage of the opportunity to go out of the city for training to escape, but he knew that he never said a word, and no one knew better than him. But now, everyone is guessing that he told Tu the secret.
Now, Ye Jinnan finally understood.
Tu must have known about Mu Li's visit to his home. Then let people release this matter, let everyone know that Mu Li came to his house yesterday. Then, the next speculation does not need anyone to help point the way.
He couldn't explain it at all.
He didn't want to explain either.
Across the street, his eyes were on his feet. In the afternoon, the news that Tu personally led the troops to slaughter Muli's troops began to spread in the city. After he learned about it, he immediately rode out of the city to confirm that at the foot of Mount Tennuo, he saw dead bodies all over the place, mutilated dead bodies .
The street was so quiet that the moonlight dragged his shadow out. People are lonely, and shadows are so lonely.
He knew that there might be a thief in his family. Otherwise, even if Tu knew that Mu Li had come to find him, he would not know that Mu Li wanted to escape. Someone must have informed Tu, otherwise Tu would not have known Mu Li's plan so clearly. If it wasn't a problem in his own family, it was a problem among Mu Li's subordinates.
Ye Jinnan was more inclined to the latter, because only two or three trusted veterans in his family knew about it. Those few veterans followed Ye Jinnan through life and death, and Ye Jinnan didn't believe that they would betray him and Mu Li.
"Are you sad?"
The sound came from the front, seemed to be very far away but also seemed to be very near, it drifted into Ye Jinnan's ears, making his body tremble involuntarily.
Ye Jinnan raised his head and looked forward, and found a person standing in the middle of the street in front of him.
Butcher
"I'm sad too."
Tu looked at Ye Jinnan and said in a soft voice: "The reason why I haven't done anything is to give him a chance to repent. As long as he doesn't do it, I can pretend that I don't know about it. So I just Watching, waiting, hoping that this will not happen, but unfortunately... things backfired."
Tu raised his head and looked at the moon, as if he was really sad: "After all, he is also someone who has been friends with me for almost twenty years, so I don't feel sorry for killing him just like that. But, if I don't kill him, I will How many people learn from him?"
Ye Jinnan stared at Tu intently, if eyes could kill, then Tu would be a corpse now.
"Why do you have to be hypocritical?"
He sneered and asked: "Even if Mu Li didn't intend to leave, you would not let him go sooner or later, right? Not only him, you would not let those old people go, right? When you were in Jiangbei, Duan Bian When Xiong fought with the imperial court, the prince sent you to lead the troops to respond, but you deliberately delayed, so that Duanbian Xiong was outnumbered and died."
"On the day of the first battle with the Iron Armored Army, Zhu Quan led troops to attack the enemy's left flank, and you were in charge of responding. Zhu Quan clearly led his troops into the enemy's formation. As long as you led the troops to follow, the enemy's left flank would surely be defeated, but you didn't. You watched helplessly as the Iron Armored Army rolled back and killed all of Zhu Quan's troops who were trapped in the enemy's formation..."
"When Cui Lunhai died in battle, you were watching coldly, right?"
Ye Jinnan's smile was so cold: "Why did this happen? Because you guessed that the prince would be defeated, right? The prince and Yang Jian were seriously injured in the battle, and you were the only one who saw it. But you didn't protect the seriously injured prince back, but When I returned to the camp, the first thing I did was to snatch the commander-in-chief!"
"Now, there are only the three of us left among the ten heroes of Luomen. Even if Mu Li does nothing, you will kill him. Why do you have to pretend to be sorry?"
"Man..."
Tu smiled and said: "Actually, it's better to be stupid. If you can't see anything and don't worry about it, you can live longer. But... I don't intend to kill you. You must know why if you are so smart, right?"
Ye Jinnan smiled bitterly: "How could I not know? You deliberately made people think that I betrayed Mu Li, and now everyone in the camp believed it and scolded me behind my back. There is no way to make them trust me anymore, and I am no threat to you anymore, so it doesn't matter whether you kill me or not."
"It's not just that."
Tu smiled and said: "I have to keep one, otherwise people will call me heartless and righteous. You are alive, and when someone says that I am heartless to old friends, I can point to you and say no. Isn't there another one?" Don't you? Don't worry, I will not only keep you, but I will use you even more, at least it looks like this. People in the whole camp say I am ruthless, I know, so I need someone to stand up for me Being scolded, everyone is scolding you, I will be clean, how good it is."
"If you don't kill me, I can kill myself."
Ye Jinnan Road.
Butcher spread his hands: "You can do whatever you want, but after you die, everyone will probably say... Look, that Ye Jinnan must have committed suicide because of the condemnation of his own conscience. Such a person really deserves to die, and it is best to die." .”
Desperation flashed across Ye Jinnan's eyes, and he didn't know what to say.
"Live."
Tu turned and walked into the depths of the darkness: "I keep you, there is another reason... I need an old subordinate of Luo Yao to come and witness with my own eyes, I am better than him, I will do what he can't do. In the future you When going down, tell Luo Yao well how I surpassed him step by step. Whether it is cultivation or achievement, I will be higher than him."
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Mu Li took a sip from the water bag that Zuo Mingchan handed him. The water was poured from the river. It had been half a day and midnight, and he seemed a little astringent. Since he gradually struggled from a soldier in the left front, he It has been a long time since I drank raw water. With his status, even when he was going on an expedition, there were soldiers who would boil water and make tea for him.
The water is not only astringent, but also bitter to drink now.
Bitter mouth, bitter heart.
"Luo Tu is very close to the people of Tonggu Academy..."
He shook his head to make his thoughts clearer: "I heard from Ye Jinnan that he reached an agreement with the people of Tonggu Academy, and the people of Tonggu Academy helped him improve his cultivation and fight against that iron-clad general of the imperial court." , but he didn’t follow Tonggu Academy’s wishes after his cultivation was promoted, but brought his troops to Liuzhou. Now it seems that he came to Liuzhou to secretly train the firearms battalion.”
"The Iron Armored Army is unparalleled in combat power. The only weakness is that the speed is too slow. Today I have seen the power of muskets. It is not enough to destroy such a thick iron armor on the Iron Armored Army, but the artillery is powerful enough. Without defense Under such circumstances, facing the artillery and armored army will definitely suffer."
He recalled and said: "I observed during the day that there should be about twenty cannons in Luo Tu's hands. With this number, he still dare not fight with the Iron Armored Army. Although the artillery is the enemy of the Iron Armored Army, the number is too small after all. gone."
"He will definitely trade with foreigners again!"
Zuo Mingchan said, "He's going to stay in Liuzhou for a while, waiting for the next batch of firearms to arrive. As far as I know, that iron-armored general is heading south with at least fifteen thousand iron-armored troops. If he wants to defeat this army, he must at least It takes a hundred artillery pieces to be safe, the muskets are not powerful enough, they are used to deal with other armies.”
After confirming Luo Tu's purpose of buying firearms from Mu Li, Zuo Mingchan had an idea in his mind: "As long as we find a way to destroy the deal between Luo Tu and foreigners, so that his number of firearms will not increase, with his current strength Still can’t beat the Iron Armored Army.”
"It's easy to say, with these four people under your command?"
"In about ten days, dozens of subordinates will come to support me first."
Zuo Mingchan replied.
"Still not enough..."
Mu Li gritted his teeth: "After dawn tomorrow, I'll go out and see how many of my subordinates have escaped. If we can gather a group of people, we can rob Luo Tu's goods on the way. "
"It's not enough."
Zuo Mingchan suddenly asked, "Where's your sailor?"
Mu Li was startled: "What do you mean?"
"Instigate rebellion against the navy!"
Zuo Mingchan said solemnly: "General Mu, leave it to me to destroy the deal between Luo Tu and the foreigners. This is something we are good at. You need to do more important things. If you go to collect the old troops tomorrow, it will definitely happen." It was discovered by Luo Tu's people, so it is better to leave and go to the navy. As long as you can persuade the general of the navy to leave, it is tantamount to cutting off Luo Tu's arm! Without the navy, it will be difficult for him to go north, so he can avoid Do not open the imperial court's Iron Armored Army!"
"According to the current situation..."
Zuo Mingchan analyzed: "Whether the troops of Tonggu Academy win or the imperial armored army wins, the next target is Luo Tu. That's why Luo Tu is in a hurry to buy firearms. He is preparing to fight with Tonggu Academy The decisive battle between the imperial courts. Once he wins, he will be able to control the entire Jiangnan, and then gradually develop his strength, and finally cross the river north... "
"Even if he loses in the future decisive battle, he has nothing to worry about with the navy around. At worst, he will just go back to Jiangbei... So, I beg General Mu to take the navy!"
Zuo Mingchan clasped his fists and said: "If you can turn against the navy, General Mu doesn't have to come back, just take the navy to Huangyang Road to join my lord, and bring the navy there, General Mu will definitely be able to gain a foothold in the Black Banner Army easily. My family The lord is benevolent and righteous, General Mu should know what is the best choice!"
Mu Li was silent for a while and then nodded heavily: "Okay, I'll go east as soon as the day breaks, and now the navy fleet is docked on the Dahong River, about 170 miles away from here, if I hurry up three It can be arrived in four days. Although Zheng Qiu, the navy general, and I don't have any close friends, this person has long been dissatisfied with Luo Tu. I'm 60% sure to convince him, but you must go with me..."
Mu Li said: "You are from the Black Banner Army, your words carry more weight than mine!"
Zuo Mingchan nodded after thinking about it, feeling a little uncontrollably excited. He never thought that when he arrived in Liuzhou, he not only found out about Luo Tu's purchase of firearms, but also had the opportunity to make such a huge contribution. Once he can instigate Luo Tu's navy to defect, it will be like adding a huge force to the Black Banner Army.
He swallowed a mouthful of spit, and suddenly realized that he might change the pattern of the world.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help smiling, and muttered to himself: "I'm a small person... I want to do big things."