Muli was lying in a grass, his blood had soaked his clothes. He breathed so hard that he coughed from time to time and blood spilled out of his throat. After a short rest, he struggled to get up and saw the fire shining in the distance, and then the sound came from a distance.
He can't imagine that his team is gone.
He heard the sound of horses' hoofs. The pursuers had not given up their search. He kept rolling down the high slope. For the first time in his life, he was so embarrassed. In the distance was a forest, not big, but it was the most appropriate choice to avoid the pursuit of cavalry.
"General, you go first!"
Behind him came a scream deliberately lowering his voice. It was Hao Ren's voice. Muli was stunned. He quickly looked back, but found that Hao Ren had run out to the other side with the remaining dozen soldiers. They deliberately exposed themselves to the eyes of the pursuers in order to distract the enemy for themselves.
Muli opened her mouth and felt her heart broken. He raised his hands to shout, but there was no sound in his throat.
Under the high slope, he lay down in the grass and watched the cavalry go round and chase Hao Ren. Muli knew better than anyone that his decision killed these subordinates. For a moment, he thought of Ye Jinnan, and a strong hatred came out of his eyes!
It's him!
He must have betrayed me!
The voice roared in Muli's heart, dripping blood.
"Get down!"
Just when he applied for trance, a voice suddenly came around him, very close, which startled him. He just looked at the direction Hao Ren and their escape, and didn't notice when someone was close to him. Muli subconsciously cut back with a knife, but the knife was blocked by the people behind him. Then he felt that his neck was pressed by people, and the whole person was pressed to lie down in the depths of the grass.
The man who knocked him down quickly pulled out a lot of weeds to cover Muli, and then he got into the grass.
Lying in the grass, Muli saw an eagle fluttering its wings in the sky through the gap between the grass leaves. After hovering in the sky for a while, it flew in the distance.
"Don't move. There's a mastiff in the back."
The man lying next to him whispered, "slowly take off your clothes. What's next to you is wheel grass. It tastes the strongest. It's crumpled and coated on yourself, and then run with me. The mastiff's nose is too smart. If you don't cover it up, you can't escape."
Muli didn't know who the person around him was, but he immediately determined that the person was trying to save himself. He immediately did as the man said. First, he took off the broken armor, and then took off his clothes without hesitation. As a man who has fought many times in the sea of corpses, he knows that there is no time to hesitate at this time.
After stripping off, he smeared himself with the juice of wheel grass. The pungent smell soon covered the bloody smell on him. Just as he was finishing this, the man next to him threw a coat, got up and ran towards the woods. Muli grabbed the dress and ran to wear it. At this time, he had no time to pay attention to the pain on his body.
Not long after entering the forest, the mastiff roared outside. Muli knew that Tu had a hobby of raising hawks and dogs. There were several hawks and falcons in the military camp, and a haidongqing bought with a lot of money from the people of northern Liao. And those mastiff dogs were found by the Butcher at a high price.
These animals, after training, are even more troublesome than the best scouts.
"Go to the river. After a while, don't swim down the river. Let the river swim down. The long feathered beast in the sky will see us. As long as he doesn't move, he will wonder. Whether he can escape next depends on his luck. If he can't deceive the beast, we'll all die."
The man said a few words quickly before, and then took the lead to run out to the other side of the forest. Muli found that there were several other people in the forest, including five who had saved themselves before. Looking at the appearance of these five people, it is obvious that they come from a distance. Their clothes are very dirty, but everyone's eyes are so bright that they obviously reach out.
He consciously fell a little behind and ran at the back.
The five men jumped into the river after they got out of the woods, and then let the water rush away without moving. Muli knew he had no other choice and did as they did. To tell the truth, lying in the river doesn't feel good. The water keeps pouring into your ears and nose. When you get to a place where the waterway is narrower, the water flow is too fast, and people's minds are buzzing.
However, their luck is really good.
The Falcon in the sky didn't make a sound. It was obviously uncertain whether they were living or not. This trained falcon is extremely sensitive to living creatures, but has no strong response to motionless things. It was trained to track living people. Unexpectedly, this method really deceived it.
"Who are you?"
After climbing to the shore, Muli couldn't help asking. The man who saved him smiled first, threw himself on the grass on the bank, gasped and replied, "in short, it's not your enemy, of course, it's not your friend, because we don't know... But it's your benefactor. There's no need to doubt it?"
The man lay down for a while, leaned out his head and looked out: "it's getting dark. We must find a safe place to hide now. As for who we are and who you are, there's plenty of time to say after hiding."
"Where are we going?"
Muli asked subconsciously.
"Outside Liuzhou"
At dusk, the man's eyes were particularly bright: "even if the one who wants to kill you is a demon, I'm not sure you dare to run back. The riverbank outside Liuzhou is very dense, and there must be a suitable hiding place in that place. Let's go. We must hide before those people go back before dark, or we'll be flat when we leave the river. We can't hide when we meet cavalry!"
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late at night
Muli, sitting on the fork of a big tree, sighed heavily, and his mind was full of the tragedy of the war in the daytime. He did not expect that his men would lose so quickly and powerlessly. He dared not close his eyes. As soon as he closed his eyes, he could see that those old subordinates who had been with him for many years fell down one by one, and the blood mist hit by that strange weapon was floating there all the time.
When he saw the Tu flag at the foot of tengnuo mountain, he knew there was no need to hide anything. Obviously Tu already knew what he was going to do and intercepted here with people and horses in advance. However, at that time, Muli did not feel any despair, because he had observed that Tu was carrying no more than 10000 people, and his troops were a little more.
Muli is confident in the combat effectiveness of his subordinates. These Yongzhou veterans have very strong combat experience and skills. These soldiers, any general will treat them as treasures.
So Muli gave the order to attack. At first the soldiers had not recovered, but soon they understood that the general was going to betray with them. These veterans from Yongzhou are more or less disgusted with the current slaughter. In addition, it is their habit to obey military orders. Therefore, after a short hesitation, the soldiers launched an attack on the army blocking the road under the leadership of the general.
As usual, the archers began to form an array before the attack, ready to suppress the opponent's defense with arrows and rain. This is a routine that these soldiers are no longer familiar with, so they change formations very quickly. But just when the arrow array had just assembled, a continuous roar came from the hillside. Immediately after that, they saw dozens of fireballs flying here. Before they could react, the explosion began to spread in the arrow array.
After a round of artillery salvo, Muli's arrow array was blown upside down. The soldiers had not seen such a thing and were in a mess in an instant. Next, the general who commanded the archers issued an extremely wrong order, allowing the archers to gather again and prepare to fight back.
This order is fatal.
The second round of artillery exploded again in the group of archers who had just barely formed an array, and flesh and blood flew everywhere. The archer commander who has no experience in dealing with such attacks is also stupid and doesn't know how to order. Just as the arrow array collapsed, the enemy began to attack.
Thousands of people are armed with firearms. The speed is faster than that of the fastest spearmen in the infantry, and they are not weak! The enemies rushed down the hillside and soon ran within 50 meters. At this distance, the enemies opened fire. After reaching about 50 meters, they stopped and no longer ran wildly. Instead, they approached step by step in rows, firing alternately in front and back rows. Obviously, they have had good training.
Muli saw clearly that the soldiers were commanded by people he had never seen, with yellow hair and strange clothes.
Muli shook his head and let himself struggle out of the memory. The scene was so tragic that every scene was gouging out his heart.
"Who the hell are you?"
He asked.
The man sitting on the branch above him smiled and said, "I'm afraid you don't believe it... I'm a scout under the general of the black flag army. I tracked down some things. Unexpectedly, I came here. I didn't expect to encounter your infighting... Speaking, it's a kind of fate."
"Black flag army?!"
Muli was stunned when she heard the answer, and her sadness became stronger. He took the team out of Liuzhou and was going to take refuge in Fang Xie. But now he did not know how many soldiers had escaped the disaster.
"I'm Muli."
He said.
"Muli?"
The man was stunned: "the Muli among the Ten Heroes of Roman?"
"Yes"
"I've heard a lot about you."
"Why did you come here? The fangxie sent you to watch the butcher army?"
"No"
It was Zuo mingchan who saved Muli. He rubbed his sour eyes and said, "we have another task. It's a pure coincidence to meet you. But since we met, we naturally want to save you."
"Why?"
"Because we want to inquire about luotu and those firearms, and it's good for us to save you no matter who you are."
Muli was silent for a while and said, "send me to the black flag army. I will tell Fang Xie everything I know. I want to avenge my more than 10000 brothers!"
"It's OK to take you back, but it's not now. At least we have to avoid it for a few days. If luotu can't catch you, he can't find your body. He will send someone to search everywhere. When my backup arrives, I'll arrange someone to take you to Huangyang Road. But... Why did luotu kill you?"
"Because he's crazy!"
Muli bit his teeth and said, "this man is completely crazy. It's not just me. The old generals in the army were executed by him. Those who are still alive are also groveling and surviving!"
"You don't know the deal between him and the foreigner?"
Zuo mingchan asked.
"I don't know... But now it seems that I can guess what his purpose is to buy so many firearms."
"Armored army!"
Muli and Zuo mingchan said in unison, and then they looked at each other.
Muli smiled coldly: "his heart is completely wild. He wants to defeat the armored army... Be the emperor."