Chapter 816 Targets of Firearms

Mu Li was lying in a bush, his clothes soaked with blood. He gasped for air, even breathing so hard that he coughed from time to time, and blood spilled out of his throat. After a short rest, he struggled to his feet, and saw that the fire was still shining in the distance, and then the sound came from afar.

He couldn't imagine that his team was gone.

He heard the sound of horses' hooves, which meant that the pursuers had not given up the search. He rolled down the high slope with a rolling belt, and for the first time in his life, he was so embarrassed. In the distance was a grove of trees, not large, but the woods were the most suitable choice to avoid the pursuit of the cavalry.

"General, you go first!"

There was a deliberately muffled roar behind him, it was Hao Ren's voice. Mu Li was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly looked back to find that Hao Ren had already run out to the other side with the remaining dozen or so personal soldiers, who were deliberately exposed to the eyes of the pursuers, in order to lure the enemy away for themselves.

Mu Li opened his mouth, feeling his heart broken. He raised his hand to shout, but he couldn't make a sound in his throat.

At the bottom of the high slope, he crouched in the grass and watched the cavalry go around in a circle and chase after Hao Ren and them, Mu Li knew better than anyone that it was his own decision that killed these subordinates. In an instant, he thought of Ye Jinnan, and a strong hatred immediately 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 as he was applying for a trance, a voice suddenly came from beside him, very close, startling him. He only looked in the direction of Hao Ren's escape, and he didn't notice when someone was approaching around him. Mu Li subconsciously returned his hand and slashed over, but the knife was blocked by the person behind him, and then he felt that his neck was being held down, and the whole person was pressed into the depths of the grass.

The man who knocked him down quickly pulled down a lot of weeds and covered Mu Li's body, and then burrowed into the grass himself.

Mu Li, who was lying in the grass, saw through the gap in the blades of grass that an eagle in the sky fluttered its wings, hovered in the sky for a while, and then flew into the distance.

"Don't move, there's a mastiff in the back."

The person lying next to him whispered: "Take off your clothes slowly, the grass next to you is the wheel grass, the smell is the strongest, crumple it and coat it all over your body, and then run with me." The mastiff's nose is too smart, and if you don't cover it, you won't be able to escape. ”

Mu Li didn't know who the person next to him was, but he was immediately sure that this person was trying to save him. He immediately did as the man said, first laboriously removing the broken armor from his body, and then stripping off his clothes without the slightest hesitation. As a person who had crawled and fought many times in the sea of corpses and blood, he knew that there was no time to hesitate at this time.

After stripping, he smeared the juice of the wheel grass on himself, and the pungent smell quickly covered the smell of blood on his body. Just as he had finished doing this, the man next to him threw over a coat and got up and ran towards the woods. Mu Li grabbed the dress and put it on as he ran, and he didn't have time to pay attention to the pain on his body at this time.

Not long after entering the woods, the sound of mastiffs roaring was heard outside. Mu Li knew that Tu had a penchant for raising eagle dogs, and there were several eagle falcons in the barracks, as well as a Haidongqing that was bought with a lot of money from the people of Northern Liao. And those mastiffs were all found by the Tupai people at a great price.

These brutes, after training, are even more of a headache than the best scouts.

"Go to the river, and when you get down to the river, don't swim and let the river rush downstream. That long-feathered beast in the sky will definitely see us, and as long as it doesn't move, it will be confused. Whether we can escape or not is a matter of luck, if we fail to fool that beast, we will all die. ”

The man spoke a few quick words, and then ran out to the other side of the woods. Mu Li found that there were several other people in this forest, including the five people who saved him before. Looking at the appearance of these five people, it was obvious that they were coming from a distance, and the clothes on their bodies were dirty, but everyone's eyes were so bright, and they obviously stretched out their hands.

He consciously fell a little behind and ran at the rear.

The five men jumped into the river as soon as they got out of the woods, and then remained motionless and let the current rush along. Mu Li knew that he had no other choice, and did as they were. To tell the truth, the taste of lying in the river is not pleasant, the water is poured into the ears and nose, and when the waterway is narrower, the water is too fast, and the heads of the people who rush are buzzing.

Still, they did have good luck.

The falcon in the sky didn't make a call, apparently unsure if they were alive or not. This trained falcon reacts extremely sensitively to living creatures, but does not react too strongly to motionless things. It was trained to track down living people, but I didn't expect this method to really fool it.

"Who are you?"

After climbing to the shore, Mu Li couldn't help but ask. The man who had saved him smiled at first, and threw himself on the grass on the shore and replied while gasping, "In short, it is not your enemy, and certainly not your friend, because we don't know each other at all...... However, there is no need to doubt that it is your benefactor, right? ”

The man lay down for a while, poked his head out 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 will be time to say after we dodge." ”

"Where are we going?"

Mu Li asked subconsciously.

"Outside Liuzhou"

In the dusk, the man's eyes were exceptionally bright: "Even if it is a demon who wants to kill you, I am not sure that you dare to run back." The forest on the embankment outside Liuzhou City is very dense, and there must be a suitable place to hide in that place. Let's go, we must hide before it gets dark before those people go back, otherwise leaving the river will be a place where the horses are flat, and you can't hide when you encounter cavalry! ”

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late at night

Mu Li, who was sitting on the branch of a big tree, sighed heavily, and his mind was full of the tragedy of the battle during the day. He didn't expect that his men would be defeated so quickly and so powerlessly. He didn't dare to close his eyes, and as soon as he closed his eyes, he could see the old subordinates who had been with him for many years falling one after another, and the blood mist on his body that had been hit by the strange weapon had been floating there.

When he arrived at the foot of Teng Nuo Mountain and saw the Tuzi banner, he knew that there was no need to hide anything. Obviously, Tu already knew what he was going to do, and he took his men and horses to intercept him here in advance. However, at that time, Mu Li did not feel any despair, because he had observed that Tu had no more than 10,000 men and horses, and his troops were slightly larger.

Mu Li is very confident in the combat power of his subordinates, and these Yongzhou veterans all have extremely strong combat experience and skills. These soldiers, any general will treat them as treasures.

So, Mu Li gave the order to attack. At first, the soldiers did not come to their senses, but soon they understood that the general was going to defect with them. These veterans from Yongzhou were more or less disgusted with the current slaughter, and it was already their habit to obey military orders, so after a short hesitation, the soldiers still launched an attack on the army blocking the road under the leadership of the general.

As is customary, archers begin to form formations before attacking, preparing to overwhelm the opposing defenses with a rain of arrows. This is already a routine that these soldiers are so familiar that they can't be more familiar with it, so they change formations extremely quickly. But just as the arrow array was just assembled, there was a continuous roar from the 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 volley of artillery, Mu Li's arrow array was staggered. The soldiers had never seen such a thing, and in an instant it was chaotic. And then, the general who commanded the archers gave a very wrong order for the archers to regroup and prepare to return fire.

This command is fatal.

The second round of artillery exploded again in the ranks of archers who had just barely formed a formation, and flesh and blood flew everywhere. The commander of the archers, who had absolutely no experience in coping with such an attack, was also stupid and did not know how to give the order. Just as the arrow array was shattering, the enemy began to attack.

Thousands of men were armed with firearms, and their speed was no weaker than the fastest spearmen in the infantry! The enemies rushed down the hillside and soon ran to within fifty meters, at which point they opened fire. They stopped after reaching about fifty meters, and no longer ran wildly, but marched in rows, approaching step by step, alternating between the front and rear rows, and apparently had had been well trained.

And Mu Li saw very clearly that the soldiers were commanded by people he had never seen, with yellow hair and strange clothes.

Mu Li shook his head vigorously, allowing himself to struggle out of his memories. The scene was so tragic that every scene was ripping out his heart.

"Who the hell are you?"

He asked.

The man sitting on the branch above him smiled: "Say it, I'm afraid you won't believe it...... I'm a scout under the Black Flag Army's general Fang Jie, and I came here unexpectedly to track down some things, but I didn't expect to encounter your infighting...... Speaking of which, this can be regarded as a kind of fate. ”

"Black Flag Army?!"

Mu Li was stunned for a moment after hearing the answer, and the sadness in his heart became even stronger. He led the team out of Liuzhou, and originally planned to go to Fang Jie. But now, he didn't know how many soldiers had escaped the catastrophe.

"I'm Mu Li."

He said.

"Mu Li?"

The man was stunned for a moment: "That Mu Li among the Ten Masters of Luomen?" ”

"Yes"

"I have admired the daimyo for a long time."

"Why are you here? Did Fang Xie send you to keep an eye on the Tujia Army? ”

"It's not"

It was Zuo Mingcia who saved Mu Li, he rubbed his sour eyes and said, "We have another mission, and it was pure coincidence that we met you." But since I have encountered it, I will naturally save you. ”

"Why?"

"Because we want to find out about Luo Tu, and we also want to find out about those firearms, and you are being hunted down by Luo Tu, no matter who you are, it will be good for us to save you."

Mu Li was silent for a while and then said, "Send me to the Black Flag Army, and I will tell Fang Xie everything I know." I want to avenge my more than 10,000 brothers! ”

"It's okay to send you back, but not now. At least you have to avoid it for a few days, Luo Tu can't catch your people and can't find your body, and 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 person has gone completely crazy. It's not just me, it turns out that the veterans in the army will be executed by him, and those who are still alive are also groveling and surviving! ”

"You don't know about the deal between him and the foreigner?"

Zuo Mingcia asked.

"I don't know...... But now it seems that I can guess what he bought so many firearms for. ”

"Ironclad!"

Mu Li and Zuo Mingcia said in unison, and then the two of them glanced at each other.

Mu Li sneered: "His heart is completely wild, he wants to defeat the Iron Armor Army...... Be the emperor. ”