Immediately afterwards, the wooden bolt of the window was cut with a knife, and the technique was clean and neat, and the ground made a clatter, like a rat devouring rotten wood. Two figures ghostly rushed in through the slit of the window, and one rolled on the spot, and the man had silently approached the couch, and the narrow sword in his hand stabbed out like a meteor. This set of actions is nothing more than a lightning stone fire, if there is a person lying on the bed, even Da Luo Jinxian will not be able to escape. Li Mao broke out in a cold sweat, held his breath, and didn't dare to say a word.

If it weren't for the fact that he accidentally fell asleep while lying on the recliner by the window, he would not have been able to hear the movement outside.

After missing the blow, the two assassins did not hesitate and turned over and exited through the window, the lattice closed, and everything returned to the same state. Li Mao felt like he was in a dream, and this kind of assassination was really unheard of. The two of them left for a long time, and when the outside returned to calm, the two of them had already walked away, Li Mao just slid down the pillar, he jumped out of the back window, flashed to the outside of Xiao Ru's room, knocked on the door lightly, and hit it three times in a row, there was no movement inside, Xiao Ru has been a maid since she was a child, and she has always felt very light, and she can detect the slightest noise.

Li Mao chuckled in his heart, knowing that something had happened to her, he hurriedly pushed the door in. There was a faint fragrance wafting in the room, and he felt dizzy after just taking a breath, Li Mao hurriedly covered his mouth and nose and opened the window for ventilation.

Turning around and picking up Xiao Ru and rushing out of the room, Xiao Ru's lips turned white and fell into a deep coma. Li Mao didn't know where the assassin was lurking, so he didn't dare to show up, so he woke up Qingmo and asked for Doctor Ge.

Ge Rixiu heard that Xiaoru was unconscious, so he hurriedly rode a donkey over, and after the diagnosis, he said: "This smoke is so powerful, if you are one step late, I am afraid that my life will be gone." Li Mao breathed a sigh of relief, Ge Rixiu prescribed a prescription and asked the accompanying disciples to go back to grab the medicine, Qingmo knew Xiaoru's position in Li Mao's heart, and hurriedly followed.

Li Mao asked Ge Rixiu again: "This kind of smoke smells a faint fragrance, like the smell of jasmine, sir, do you know its origin?" Ge Rixiu said with a smile: "The name of this medicine is Baihuasan, there are no less than 100 kinds of medicinal materials, it is extremely precious, 30 years ago in Luoyang, the price of a penny is 1,200 yuan, and it is often purchased by those prodigal children to **** women from good families." Li Mao said: "I asked myself if I didn't offend anyone, but someone spent such a lot of money to harm me?" Ge Rixiu smiled silently.

The medicinal materials were taken, and Ge Rixiu personally instructed his disciples to prepare the antidote, and Qingmo asked Li Mao: "What are you doing in the house, why did you make her like this?" Li Mao said: "It was cold, she burned charcoal in the house, forgot to open the window, and choked." ”

Qingmo blinked, as if he didn't believe it. By the time Ge Rixiu's medicine was ready, it was already the second half of the night, and Xiaoru woke up soon after taking the medicine, wondering why she was lying in Li Mao's room, and her face turned red after thinking too much for a while.

Ge Rixiu didn't want to stay overnight, rode away on a black donkey, Qingmo sent him to the back door of the medical school before saying goodbye, walked back a few steps, suddenly heard a chaotic footsteps, it seemed that there were a hundred and ten people marching, he hurriedly blew out the lantern, jumped into the ditch on the side of the street to hide, this night the sky was gloomy, there were no stars and moons, there was no light at all, Qingmo rubbed his eyes three times, and only saw a vague piece: there seemed to be hundreds of skeleton warriors, holding ordnance, staggering on the march.

There is a very peculiar unit in the Qing Navy, they wear skull masks when they fight, and the military flag is also painted with a white skull painted with white paint.

They reigned supreme and dominated the vast sea area from Beisha City in Liaodong in the north, to the mouth of the Yangtze River in the south, to Silla and Japan in the east, and were invincible. Ziqing Jiedu made Li Zhengji, Li Na and his son tried their best to entangle with it for nearly ten years but failed to defeat it, and the skull face was later incorporated by Yu Hualong, and Yu Hualong was incorporated by Li Na, and the skull face also went ashore to become the official health of the Tang Dynasty.

Since the Qing navy moved inward, this army has lost its usefulness, the establishment has been repeatedly compressed, the number of soldiers is not enough, the number of people is less than 100, and the vast majority of them are veterans over 40 years old, these veterans have been floating on the sea for half their lives, and it seems that they have not yet been able to adapt to life on land, drunk every day, and reminiscing about the glory of the past in the illusory world.

Although this army has gradually faded out of people's field of vision, it is the cornerstone and soul of the Qing Navy, and the conservative stubbornness of these veterans is absolutely beyond anyone's imagination.

Qingmo didn't dare to guarantee that his speculation was completely correct, but he knew that the "Skull Face" appeared in the city at this time, and there would never be anything good, so he took a shortcut and ran all the way back to his hometown to report the news.

The incident happened suddenly, and Li Mao couldn't figure out what was going on, so he asked Xiaoru: "Can you go?" Xiao Ru hurriedly nodded, and Li Mao said to Qingmo: "You quickly send her to the Military Supervision Academy, and I will go to the Military Academy to find Deputy Envoy Zhao." Qingmo said: "At this time, can he be trusted?" Li Mao said: "Regardless of character, he has no reason to harm me now." ”

Hearing that she was leaving, Xiaoru rushed back to her room and pulled out two heavy burdens. Most of the family's belongings were taken to Luoyang by Su Qing, a small part was deposited in Su Zhen's house in Su Nu Township, and some of the remaining cash was also sent to Xiaogu Mountain by Xiaoru a few days ago. Xiaoru's habit of keeping money is the same as Qinniang, where the money is not at ease, only by carrying it on the body can you feel at ease, although there is not much money left in the family, but there are dozens of times, Li Mao thought that she was carrying money in her baggage, and shouted angrily for a while: "When is it, what do you want these Laoshzi to do." ”

These two burdens were drawn by Li Mao according to the shape of the backpack of later generations and asked Xiaoru to sew them, looking at the bulging pile, but it was very light to start, not what is the money, Li Mao opened it and saw that it was full of two bags of books.

Xiao Ru evened out her breath and said flatteringly: "I know these paper books are not easy to buy, so I brought them all." Li Mao smiled and said: "No matter how precious they are, they are not as important as your life, put them down." Go ahead. Xiao Ru was still hesitating, and Qingmo suddenly exclaimed: "The military yard is on fire." "Looking up, the fire in the northeast of the city is raging, reflecting half of the sky, which is where the grass warehouse of the military academy is located.

"Whoever attacks the enemy will be saved." Li Mao muttered and sneered. He flew on his horse and urged, "You guys go quickly." And he rode out of the door.

Martial law in the city has not yet been lifted, but it has been slightly loosened compared to before, because many people stand in the streets and watch from the fire in the military stockyard. Some well-informed people had already learned the story behind the martial law, and when they saw the fire, their faces immediately changed dramatically, and they shouted: "Rebellion." "Rushing home, closing the door, trembling. The atmosphere of terror quickly spread, and the streets of Lonely Mountain Town were empty, not to mention that there was not even a nocturnal cat. The entire Lonely Mountain Town suddenly felt like it was dead, not a little lifeless.

When the guards of each battalion heard that the military stockyard was on fire, they were uneasy in their hearts, and the soldiers did not know why, so they clamored loudly, and the generals were afraid of causing a "camp roar".

Although the stars and moon were unknown, fortunately, the street was empty and unimpeded, and Li Mao Pegasus went straight to the military courtyard, all the way unimpeded. The fire was burned from the military material courtyard, and the clerk must have rushed over, as long as he can stabilize the people and horses in Gushan Town, no one can turn over the big waves, and after Shang He came to become a prisoner, the only one who can stabilize the people and horses is the clerk.

The fire was burned from the grass warehouse in the military yard, there were six stacks of grass piled up like a hill in the grass warehouse, someone sneaked into the grass warehouse at night, lit a pile of grass, and soon after the fire started, the clerk rushed over and was directing the firefighting.

Seeing Li Mao coming alone, the clerk was taken aback, didn't care about greetings, and asked directly to his face: "Maohua, what do you think?" Li Mao said: "The skull face has entered the city, and before that, an assassin came into the house to assassinate me, and someone is going to launch a mutiny." The clerk shouted: "It's not good, we have fallen into the trick of diverting the tiger from the mountain!" They must have gone to the prison of the military academy. Busy beckoning the generals to go to the prison of the military courtyard, Li Mao said: "It's too late, I'm afraid that they have already succeeded, for the sake of today's plan, we have to quickly inform the battalion guards, guard the camp, don't act without authorization, as long as the garrison is stabilized, no one can turn the wind and waves." ”

After thinking for a while, the clerk said, "I have General Yu's warrant, let's go to the Western Military Camp." ”

The West Military Camp is the largest of the six garrison camps in Gushan Town, located in the west of the military courtyard, hence the name, the soldiers of the West Military Camp are the children of Yu Hualong, with high training level, well-equipped, tough style, good at fighting evil battles, and are the mainstay of the Qing Navy, as long as they are not chaotic, Gushan Town will not be able to turn the sky.

At the beginning, Shang He wanted to instigate the northern military camp to launch a mutiny to hold Zhao Hede hostage, fearing that the western military camp would interfere, and asked an acquaintance to consult the opinion of Zhu Zhenyuan, the commander of the western military camp, Zhu Zhenyuan did not reply a word, nor did he go to Zhao Hede's high secret, Shang He came to get Zhu Zhenyuan's acquiescence, so he had the courage to join hands with Xun Bin to launch a mutiny.

A group of people out of the north gate of Gushan Town, detour to the west, from the north gate to the west military camp need to pass through a small pine forest, walking during the day does not feel anything, this night the stars and moon are nothing, looking at the gray road into the deep and dark pine forest, everyone does not feel goosebumps fell to the ground, is hesitating, the sky suddenly rained heavily, the rain of the winter night is surprisingly cold, out of the hurry without rain gear, the rain is not a joke, Li Mao gritted his teeth, urging the horse forward.

Only half a mile into the forest, the forward soldier suddenly fell to the ground, and it turned out that the war horse had stumbled. Before the landed soldiers could get up, countless arrows were shot out in the woods on both sides, and it was dark and rainy, and the arrows lost their accuracy. Seeing that the situation was not good, the clerk wanted to turn his horse and go back, Li Mao shouted: "The matter has come to this, and I can only fight." After saying that, the knife was opened, and there were seven or eight pawns walking out of the forest, holding guns and stabbing them, Li Mao's war horse was shot, and he roared loudly, Li Mao turned over and dismounted, waved his knife and slashed indiscriminately, the distance was too close, and the knife was handed out to collect a handful of blood rain.

The spear is not conducive to hand-to-hand combat, the soldiers hurriedly abandoned the guns and drew their swords, Li Mao gave them a chance, relying on the armor on his body, he slammed forward, and the three soldiers in front of him fell down together. At this time, Wen Cheng's horse fell to the ground with an arrow, and his feet were hung by the stirrups, and he couldn't dodge being pressed by the horse's body, and it was also a loss that he was not killed by the arrows.

Li Mao caught a soldier, took him as a shield and came to Wencheng's side, stuck a knife on the ground, and tried his best to lift the horse, Wencheng's ankle was dislocated, but the bones were not broken, and the crisis also stimulated a ruthlessness in his chest. Li Mao gestured to him, and the two leaned over under the corpse of the war horse, listening to the whining of arrows in their ears, but they did not say a word. The rain was too heavy, the bowstring was damp, and the arrows were getting more and more inaccurate.

The leader signaled to stop shooting, beckoned his subordinates to light the pine wax torches that could protect them from the rain, and slowly forced them towards the pile of corpses in the muddy field in the middle of the road. Li Mao glanced around with the light, found a way out, he glanced at the clerk, the clerk understood, and the two of them fell to the ground and waited. There were a total of twenty ambushers, four were slashed and wounded by Li Mao, and the rest formed an oval circle, slowly tightening towards the pile of corpses.