A young woman dressed in black and wearing a black hat walked to the north gate of Dunhuang City and stopped.

She stood for a moment, lifted her veil, and looked intently at the stone carving of the word "Dunhuang" on the tower of the city gate.

The woman's gaze refused to take off for a long time, and finally she gritted her teeth, put down the veil, helped the hairpin with the word "Hong" on the top of her head, and continued to walk north.

Gradually, her figure disappeared from people's sight.

At this time, someone ran to tell Chen Mu that Zhong Lixiang had left Dunhuang City.

Chen Mu nodded, with a hint of reluctance in the corners of his eyes.

As soon as the messenger left, Zhang Han walked in quickly and said in a low voice, "The person sent to buy sulfur in the country of Gulan has returned." ”

Chen Mu motioned for Zhang Han to act as originally planned.

Some simple experiments are about to begin now.

"I don't think the fire thunder used by the Liang Dynasty is very powerful, maybe there is a problem with the material ratio."

Because Chen Mu can't remember the ratio of sulfur, nitrate, and carbon, he has to go through experiments to get the best data.

This step is very important to Chen Mu.

At night, the ninth division of Xuanjia, the dungeon of the division headquarters.

Yuan Hong lay in the gloomy dungeon, surrounded by deathly silence, and the air was filled with the smell of wet earth.

The skin on the body is ulcers and rotten, and as long as the body moves slightly, it is a sharp pain like tearing.

The old general lay on the grass, shivering from time to time.

Not long after the completion of the headquarters of the Ninth Division, everything in the dungeon was still new, and Yuan Hong was "lucky" to be the first "guest" here.

At this time, Yuan Hong had sold his insect factory to Liu Dong, but Liu Dong did not fulfill his promise to make Yuan Hong a deputy general, but put Yuan Hong in prison.

Yuan Hong knew that Chen Mu would definitely save him, and he would dig tunnels.

But now he was afraid that someone would really dig through the tunnel, because Cao Zhi had already made arrangements here, and ten soldiers armed with light crossbows were guarding inside and outside the cage, just waiting for someone to dig through the tunnel.

Yuan Hong secretly prayed something in his heart, and at the same time he was worried about Chen Mu, because this time General Chen really ran into an opponent. Cao Sui's meticulousness can be described as "pervasive", and there is almost nothing he can't think of.

The Xuanjia army is strictly disciplined, and ten soldiers are guarding here, it is like ten wooden stakes, and they seem to hide even the sound of breathing.

"Knock Knock"

Hearing the long and short orderly knocking sound, Yuan Hong said in his heart: It's broken, the person who saved me is here.

The ten soldiers immediately raised their vigilance, and the sound of several crisp arrows winding came into their ears, and Liang Chun, the centurion of the Ninth Division's general guard, asked Yuan Hong in a low voice: "This is your code, quickly, reply to them, otherwise I will make your life worse than death." ”

Yuan Hong suddenly slammed on the ground and knocked indiscriminately.

Liang Chun was furious, stepped on Yuan Hong's wrist, and ordered his subordinates: "Take Yuan Hong away first." ”

The two soldiers dragged Yuan Hong all the way out of the door, put him in an iron cage, locked it, and then returned to the dungeon.

The whole process was as if it had been rehearsed, without a single word of nonsense, not even a single superfluous action.

The ten soldiers continued to hide in the dungeon, but they waited for a full hour, and no sound came from the ground.

At this time, everyone knew in their hearts that the people who came to rescue Yuan Hong had been startled away by Yuan Hong's crazy knocking sound.

I can't help but feel a little sorry.

Centurion Liang Chun asked the other soldiers to continue staring at the dungeon, while he himself walked out and stared at Yuan Hong.

Yuan Hong raised his head and smiled at Liang Chun: "I disappointed you." ”

The muscles on Liang Chun's face twitched, reached out and grabbed Yuan Hong's hair, and hit the iron cage twice in a row.

The new and old injuries hurt together, and Yuan Hong was dizzy in pain.

"If you don't come today, you'll come tomorrow." Liang Chun withdrew his hand: "I will always wait." In addition, our General Cao said that now he has changed his mind and does not want you to die in the dungeon. ”

Yuan Hong sneered: "Where is death not death?" ”

Liang Chun had a grim smile on his face: "Feed you to the worms." ”

With that, Liang Chun laughed and left the dungeon.

Yuan Hong leaned his head on the iron cage and fell into despair.

In the middle of the night, in the Zhonglang General's Mansion of the Eighth Division of Shence, the lights were still on in Chen Mu's living room.

There were three people sitting under the light, their faces solemn.

A gust of wind blew, and the sound of leaves was heard outside, which instantly drowned out the chirping of crickets.

Hurried footsteps came from far and near, and a dead man in black burst in, with the smell of dirt on his body.

"Report to the General."

"Speak." Chen Mu's eyes were deep.

"We went deep into the dungeon and knocked on the stone wall, but got a reply that Yuan Hong had fled. We have abandoned our rescue plans and have all escaped from the tunnels. ”

Chen Mu frowned, turned to Zhang Han and said, "Start the second plan." ”

"Whoa!"

Zhang Han ran out quickly.

When Zhang Han ran out, the three messenger soldiers also ran away, they already had orders on their bodies, just waiting for Chen Mu's order.

Looking at the backs of everyone leaving quickly, the lame man smiled treacherously: "Cao Su must not have imagined that Liang Chun was the dark pile we just bought." ”

Chen Mu shook his head regretfully: "Originally, he was a good opponent. It's a pity that Cao Sui, who is as meticulous as a hair, has a lustful problem. It's just that it's just lustful, but he likes to flirt with his wife. instantly lowered the level of this opponent. There are many legends in the history of barnyard officials that failed due to lust. For example, Cao Mengde back then, if it weren't for staying overnight with Zhang Xiu's aunt, he would not have lost the general Dian Wei and his eldest son Cao Ang. ”

The lame man smiled bitterly and shook his head: "What a painful lesson, but unfortunately people who listen to stories are often unwilling to put the lessons of the losers on themselves." Only when the matter is approaching, will it be too late to regret it. ”

Between the two divisions of the Eighth Division of Shence and the Ninth Division of Xuanjia, there is a green building. It is the Peacock Tower controlled by Chen Mu behind the scenes.

Until the time of the child, the peacock upstairs was still singing and dancing.

Li Xian and Jiang Wei were hugging left and right in the building to have fun, but one of Li Xian's burly subordinates was secretly hiding next to the dog hole in the backyard.

A head suddenly poked into the dog's hole, and the burly man grabbed the man's head and pulled it in, and pulled the man in.

As soon as the person was pulled in, he let out a few painful snorts in a row, this person was not someone else, it was Yuan Hong who was smuggled out by Liang Chun.

After confirming his identity, the burly man picked up Yuan Hong and ran, broke through the back door, and put Yuan Hong in a carriage.

As soon as the carriage started, Zhang Han's cavalry had already arrived. With the carriage, he ran to the headquarters of the Eighth Division of Shence.

But at this time, he heard the sound of weapons colliding behind him.

Zhang Han was stunned for a moment, ordered the carriage and the guards to continue to run back, and returned to the backyard wall of the Peacock Tower with ten people. I saw that Liang Chun had fallen in a pool of blood.

The person who killed Liang Chun hadn't gone far, Zhang Han took off the crossbow on his shoulder, aimed, shot, and the arrow made a sound of splitting the air, and the man fell to the ground in response.

"Catch it alive."

"Whoa!"

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