Chapter 0151 Order Hades
There was a scream behind him, Li Mo knew that it was the front team that was fighting, and his heart was beating suddenly, but he didn't have time to think about anything at this time.
At this time, the rear team had received the news from the front team, the road was in chaos, people shouted and neighed, several carts were pulled by frightened mules and couldn't help but spin in place, and a group of people were like headless flies crashing everywhere, I don't know what the reason was, the foot soldiers in the back of the camp also seemed to have lost their command, and the chaos also lost order.
"General Liu has an order: the rear team reinforces the front team......... "One of his own soldiers shouted as he rode into the clearing.
Within a few minutes, another personal pawn issued an order, saying, "Admiral Liu's order: Gather the cart and return to the rear team!" β
In a few moments, two contradictory orders were issued, and the soldiers were even more confused, and the leaders of the ranks shouted at each other, each ordering them to move forward or backward, which was even more chaotic.
Calling someone the main general may be better than Liu Sanqing, Li Moyi slandered viciously in his heart, what is he, he is also helpless, he has met such an incompetent bandit general, and this time it really affected his life.
When Li Moyi saw Liu Sanqing again, he was startled, at this time, Liu Sanqing actually changed his team uniform, wearing a set of porter's short shirts, his face was pale and covered with beads of sweat, but a foot soldier opposite him was red, angry and helpless, as if he had a big quarrel with him just now, as soon as they saw Li Moyi, both of them were like being amnestied.
The head of the foot soldier shouted angrily, "Mr. Li, you came just in time, Admiral Liu ......... him."
"Okay, I know, you go and restrain the team and .........stand by for the time being" Before the sentence was finished, Liu Sanqing suddenly pounced, trembling and holding Li Moyi's arm tightly, but he couldn't say a word in his mouth, Li Moyi turned his head and waved helplessly at the head of the foot pawn.
"Obey!!"
The stepman clasped his fist and saluted, turned around, and scolded in a low voice, "A grandfather, he won't let him go, he won't stop, it's really his mother's waste dim sum........."
At this time, Liu Sanqing didn't have time to care about this, he grabbed Li Mo's arm, and said in a trembling voice, "Defeated in front?" β¦β¦β¦ The guards are coming? β¦β¦β¦β
"General Liu, and calm down, I have just given an order for you, call the garrison and foot soldiers to line up, even if you come, you can temporarily block it!!" Li Moyi said casually.
"Ahh It's really coming!! β¦β¦β¦β
Unexpectedly, the words just now had the opposite effect, Liu Sanqing rolled his eyes and almost fainted on the spot, let go of Li Moyi's wrist, and sat down on the ground with a thud.
As soon as Li Mo smelled a strange smell, he sniffed vigorously, and suddenly saw the water traces on Liu Sanqing's trousers, his heart was startled, and he hurriedly took his hand and said, "General, don't panic, just sit in the back team, I'll go to the front to command!" β
This Liu Sanqing is his backer, and his future depends on him, thousands of deaths, your old man can't die at this time.
Liu Sanqing suddenly jumped up, as if he had just woken up from a big dream, and suddenly his agility was unusually fast, which surprised Li Mo, he shook off Li Mo's arm violently, and called out loudly, "Erlengzi, Erlengzi, how can he prepare a horse for the master!" - Where the hell did he hide!? β
"General, what are you? ........." Li Mo said in surprise, could it be that he dared to go into battle in person?!
Liu Sanqing pulled the saddle, climbed onto the horse with difficulty with the help of Erlengzi, and turned his head to Li Mo with a smile that was more embarrassing than crying, "I'll go back......... Ask for help from other forces, Mr. Li, please take care of you and the soldiers here........." he shouted, preparing to beat his horse and flee.
Li Mo immediately secretly said that it was not good, knowing that if he went, the whole team might be scattered, and if he didn't do it well, he would die here, so he couldn't help but feel anxious, and stretched out his hand to drag his arm, "General, the guards haven't come yet, General......... You can't go, General........."
Liu Sanqing struggled a few times and didn't break free, and suddenly seemed to remember something, turned his head and smiled and said, "Or......... Why don't we go back to a foreign country together to ask for help?! β¦β¦β¦β
Running away together?
This idea seems to be good, Li Mo was stunned for a moment, his heart was a little moved, and he was hesitating, when suddenly the porters of the rear team were in chaos, and they all threw down their burdens and rushed forward, shouting bitterly, "......... Weizi is coming, Weizi is coming........."
Li Mo was dumbfounded, how could this be possible, wasn't the defeated pawn in the front team? They should be behind the losers, could it be that these provocateurs are coaxing themselves and scaring themselves?
In his heart, Liu Sanqing suddenly let go of his hand at this time, and threw Li Moyi on his heels, he slapped the horse vigorously, and galloped away with a few of his own pawns.
Before he could take a few steps, a long arrow burst through the air, piercing his forehead with extreme accuracy.
"Bang!!"
With a loud bang, Liu Sanqing fell heavily from his horse.
Li Mo looked at Liu Sanqing's body dumbfounded,.........
"Whoosh~~"
There was another sound of breaking the sky, a long arrow was deeply embedded in the wooden fence of the cart next to him, Li Mo shook violently, hurriedly squatted behind the car, and looked back, those porters fell to the ground one after another, and the corpses were all over the field in an instant.
The guards are really here?!!
The sound of hurried horses' hooves hit Li Moyi's eardrums like muffled thunder, and looking through the crossbar of the carriage, several black shadows not far away were riding on horses, galloping back and forth in the field next to the road, constantly sending out powerful arrows to this side, dusty and approaching.
It's really a guard!! How did they come running behind us!!
Li Moyi didn't know that the cavalry in the world was very elite, good at light riding and wearing, hundreds of miles a day and night, scattered and gathered, guerrilla interference, entering a heavy encirclement without being surprised, and hitting heavy pawns without fear, which was a tactic that crisscrossed the sand and sand to rely on.
The guards flew a few arrows, and seeing that there was no intention of counterattacking and resisting here, a large number of people fled for their lives in confusion like headless flies, and seeing that there was a bargain to choose from, they immediately rode their horses and attacked, brandishing their sabers, and fled to the last few pickers and were killed.
The heart was extremely flustered, at this time, Erlenzi pulled Liu Sanqing's body and fled back, the horses had already been killed by the bows and arrows of the guards, and the second stunned man cried loudly, "The general is dead......... The general is dead........."
The already panicked rear team collapsed in an instant.
Li Mo was wrapped in a flow of people and hugged backwards, but his body was a little weaker than those soldiers and porters, and after a while, he was touched and sore, his head was in chaos, and he suddenly seemed to have tripped over something, and fell to the ground violently, just about to get up, a big foot stepped up, and he screamed in pain.
"Mr. Li?"
Hearing his voice, Erlenzi suddenly found Li Moyi lying on the ground, and hurriedly led a few strong guards to squeeze people away and pull Li Moyi up, "Mr. Li, General Liu is dead, what should we do?" β
Li Moyi was almost stepped on by a messy foot just now, and at this time he was furious in his heart, and he wanted to say, damn it, there is no life on the left or right anyway, it is better to fight with his mother, anyway, if he falls into this team, he has no intention of retreating.
At the moment, Li Mo couldn't help but say, Li Mo snatched the waist knife of the stunned man one by one, rushed forward, and blocked the way with a horizontal knife.........
Seeing this scene, people's hearts were a little calm, looking at the stunned faces, Li Moyi's heart suddenly moved, turned his head, and shouted to the guards who were in a daze next to him, "Two stunned!!" β
"In!!"
"You lead people to guard here, the enemy is current, who dares to escape and deal with it according to discipline......... Those who retreat will be beheaded!! He turned his head and saw the head of the foot soldier before him at a glance in the crowd, and couldn't help but shout angrily, "Who is that, what kind of team are you leading?" Immediately bring someone to the top for me, and then take a step back, Lao Tzu will break you first!! β
At this time, Li Mo held a long knife in one hand, his fighting intent rose all over his body, his face was hideous, the head of the foot soldier felt weak in his heart for a while, and he didn't dare to have any thoughts of resisting, so he hurriedly responded, took out his waist knife and brandished it to command his subordinates to gradually form a formation.
"The porter also went up, and took a flat pole and a stick......... What do you have to ........." Li Mo stood on a carriage, suddenly flew up, kicked a silver box under the car, and scattered the white silver on the ground with a bang.
"Defeat a guard soldier and reward a hundred taels of silver!!"
Li Mo screamed loudly, "Whoever wants to get rich, just show everyone with one hand, reward silver for meritorious service, cash on the spot, and no deception!" β
Looking at the white silver, the porters and soldiers couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and suddenly their courage increased, and they overwhelmed the fear of death, and rushed towards the chasing cavalry.
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In fact, the number of cavalry in this guard station is not large, less than 100 people in total, originally they were just scattered cavalry on the task of guerrilla scouts, just now I saw that this team was just planning to disturb it, but unexpectedly, the other party was defeated before fighting, and only flew a few arrows and fled in all directions.
So, they came to mix up some team skills with the intention of picking cheap, but unexpectedly, the enemy team that had just bombed the battalion suddenly attacked back viciously, and one by one they seemed to have changed their appearance, and became extremely vicious, and they were caught off guard at once, and they didn't know whether to meet the battle or retreat.
Before they could react, the surging crowd had already drowned out the few dozen horsemen, slashing swords and stabbing sticks, beating sticks and sticks, and in an instant, all the battles were fought on this narrow mountain road.........
Li Mo was anxious for a moment, if this sentry ran away and reported the news to the brigade, it would be troublesome, but at this moment, his cavalry was in the front team, and there was nothing he could do for a while. At this time, the head of the foot soldier had already drawn his bow and arrow, and an arrow flew out, and hit the back of the sentinel, who fell off his horse when he landed.........
The head of the foot soldier whistled and said triumphantly, "Grandpa, want to escape?" Don't you see who I am? The arrow is not missing, hehe........."
Everyone was in an uproar, and the momentum was even higher.........
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"It's a local horseman." Wu Wujian fiddled with the corpse on the ground, and nodded affirmatively, "And it's a subordinate under Lord Nian of Suzhou Prefecture........."
Li Mo was surprised, but he didn't expect that the first battle he took the lead to fight was with the subordinates of the Changnian Lord of Suzhou Mansion that he was familiar with before, and his heart was a little complicated for a while.........
On the other hand, this Wu Wujian seems to be a bit knowledgeable, after all, it is not difficult to recognize the color of a corpse, but it is really a bit unbelievable to judge the other party's Venerable Master based on this, "Wu Shoubei, how do you know that this is a person under the command of Lord Changnian of Suzhou Mansion?!" β
Wu Wujian pointed to the corpse of the sentinel, "This kid is the pawn of the old man, and the ......... I fought with him before" As he spoke, his expression was indifferent, obviously disapproving, and after many years of fighting, he had long been indifferent to the matter of life and death.
"I see......... Li Mo suddenly turned his head and patted the head of the pawn, "Who is that, what does the situation ahead say?" β
"It's not good." The head of the foot soldier smiled bitterly and said, "After careful investigation, I found that the cavalry of the guard was chasing ......... along the way Ahead......... I'm afraid there is still an ambush ........."
Li Moyi's prediction finally came true, the bandits around him turned pale, and they all sat down, and turned their heads to look at Li Moyi in unison, now everyone's only hope is this master of scheming.
The battle situation is like this, now this half-team, half-civilian brigade has entered the center of the encirclement, and it is possible to hit a certain guard soldier at any time, if it encounters the main force of the guard, then there is no need to fight this battle, I am afraid that only one or two thousand cavalry soldiers need to rush back and forth twice, and everyone will definitely finish it together.
Everyone looked at each other with burning eyes, just hoping that Li Moyi could come up with some clever plan, and there was reverence and trust in their eyes.
Li Moyi's heart became more and more anxious, these people were ignorant and always thought that he had some "unpredictable opportunity", and he could predict the situation of the brigade hundreds of miles away, but how much ability he had, of course he knew it, but it was impossible to tell them that he was just saying it right now, right? Although Li Mo didn't care too much about the life and death of these thousands of bandits, if he was included, it would be another matter.
Li Mo frowned, carried his hands behind his back, and paced back and forth left and right in front of everyone, and suddenly thought, didn't he originally plan to escape? It's better to surrender here, but first we'll have to probe the bandits.
"I said who, who is who, you said that according to the rules of your foreign country, this surrender before the battle......... It won't be too difficult, right? β
The bandits opened their mouths wide and looked at each other, Wu Wujian was stunned for a long time, and said in disbelief, "Mr. Li, don't you know? They call us 'rebels', and what good fruit can we eat if we surrender, according to the usual practice, even if we surrender, we have to send remote areas to the armoured people as slaves!! β
Li Mo was stunned for a moment, sighing in his heart, he was really unlucky, he was not lost sooner or later, but he caught up with the bandit brigade to enter the mountain, now it is good, it is not easy to run, and it is impossible to surrender.
The head of the foot soldier said, "Mr. Li, we just killed the relatives of the Changnian adults of Suzhou Mansion, I'm afraid they will send someone to chase after them in a few hours, and if we are defeated at that time, I'm afraid ......... I'm afraid ........."
Li Mo was irritable in his heart, and said impatiently when he saw this, "Nonsense - don't spit out, ......... have something to say."
"Sir, the mayor of Suzhou Mansion is very short-tempered, if my team loses, I'm afraid ......... I'm afraid he'll take revenge by slaughtering us all........."
Li Mo's eyes were dark, he had seen Suzhou Mansion several times, and he had originally promoted him, but now, he did not return to Anqiu Town to take up his post, and he was in the company of a stick of bandits, and even killed one of his relatives.........
If the adults had known about it that year, they would have destroyed him without even thinking about it.........
This is really not your average bad luck.
Thinking of this, Li Mo couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "What are those cavalry soldiers who fought with my team today doing?" Why don't you follow the brigade and come behind us to do something? Isn't it possible that the scenery is very good? β
"They are light cavalry, outflanking the retreat, fighting and defeating, just now we exterminated them, which means ........." Wu Wu saw that he was born as a cavalry, and he was no stranger to basic tactics, at this time he had a worried face, "The other team's people and horses have not seen the return of the light cavalry at this time, and most of them will bring a large group of cavalry to search for ........."
Li Mo was immediately shocked, and hurriedly asked, "That's ......... When are they coming? β
Wu Wu saw a bitter face, stretched out a finger, "The most time to ......... the hour"
It's over, and now it's full of guards, like an iron wallβyes.........
Li Moyi was suddenly stunned.
remembered what I had seen in movies and TV series, a way to deal with the enemy's encirclement and suppression, and I couldn't help but smile in my heart, which made the bandits next to me stunned.
"I have a plan to keep ......... safe"
Although Li Moyi put on a full posture and tried his best to pretend to be unfathomable, he was not very confident in his heart, the guards were not ordinary mountain bandits, and he didn't know if they ate this set.
In contrast, these bandits were more confident in Li Moyi, and their spirits were greatly lifted when they heard the words.
"That's who's who........."
"Humble!!"
"You disperse all the foot soldiers, a team of soldiers to monitor a team of porters, drive them all to the hill next to them, lurk in the grass on the mountain, hide tightly, be sure to let them know, even if the guards come in front of you, you are not allowed to make a sound........." Li Mo thought about it for a while, and felt a little uneasy about those porters, "It's best to stuff a group of weeds in everyone's mouth, and don't take it out without an order........."
Although it is strange in his heart, most of the masters in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms give some strange orders like this, and although the head of the foot pawn is a little inexplicable, he doesn't dare to ask, "Obey the order!" β
"What kind of dumbfounded.........
"Humble in ........."
"I heard you say the day before yesterday, you used to be a cattle herder on the mountain, so listen to me now, you take a team of people and horses, and after everyone goes up the mountain to hide, clean the hillside, and don't show the horse's feet, remember, even if you fall a piece of grass, you have to help me up!!"
"Humble ......... Obey!! "With so many people going up the mountain, how can they lift up all the grass? Although the two people were embarrassed in their hearts, they saw that Li Mo was glamorous and calm, and the colleagues next to him were all submissive, but they didn't dare to reply.
"Wu Wujian!!"
"Humble duty."
Hearing Li Moyi's last order to himself, Wu Wujian felt a little bright.
"I heard that you have been through a hundred battles and crawled out of the pile of hundreds of people several times........." Li Mo dragged his voice, and there seemed to be some doubt in his tone.
Wu Wu saw that he was simple and unsuspecting, so he rushed up angrily and said angrily, "If Mr. doesn't believe it, I'll show you........."
ββ¦β¦β¦ Okay, I'll just say it casually........." Li Mo eased his mind and continued to speak: "Wu Wujian listened to the order: I order you to lead all the horsemen and all the horses and mules in the team to chew tightly, and not allow a horse or mule to make a sound........."
ββ¦β¦β¦ After that, this hillside was placed as a battlefield after the war, and the corpses were placed in order as our team fleeing to the rear, and six large carts were vacated, and the carts were filled with stones, and a way was found to make the mules pulling the carts run back desperately, and then go back to the mountain to hide ........."
For these little things, Wu Wu said in his heart that I have seen a lot of battlefields, what is there to be embarrassed about, and he promised loudly at the moment, "Obey the order!" β
After that, the three of them went their own way.
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Since everyone knew that the guards would soon return and exterminate all the people here, they were all nervous and acted very quickly.
Less than half an hour.
The porters were organized, carrying their burdens under the watchful eye of the soldiers, and one by one they hid in the bushes.
And Wu Wujian also completed the entire battlefield according to the order, he was obviously experienced, guiding the soldiers to camouflage the battlefield as if it were like a look, and at a glance, it seemed like a melee after the encounter between the team and the light cavalry, and after the lucky victory, he fled in a hurry, several carriages were filled with stones, and the road surface was pressed out with a few obvious dents.........
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Just after the camouflage was properly disguised, the sound of horses' hooves was faintly heard.........
From afar, it became louder and louder, and the boom was like a muffled thunder rolling across the sky.
The grass pole in front of Li Moyi was trembling, and a large group of men and horses in the distance appeared on the horizon, galloping like lightning and thunder, and stepped over like a tide in an instant.
A roaring voice, a mournful scream of a short phrase that I don't know what it means, and then the voice was repeated in an orderly manner by several voices.
Suddenly, the cavalry of the brigade rushed into the center of the battlefield and pulled the reins fiercely, and stopped together, and thousands of horsemen slowed down at the same time, and the formation was actually tightly organized, and they were indeed well-trained elite soldiers.
The hill was not too high, Li Moyi tried his best to press down his head in the grass, this was the first time he saw the legendary cavalry force up close, but he was not very scared in his heart, but he was a little more excited. Due to the long-term relationship of riding horses and galloping, the skin on the faces of these horsemen was dark and cracked, all of them had serious expressions, their lips were pursed, and their eyes were full of fierce light.
In the middle of the strict team, Li Moyi vaguely saw that a big black-faced general was sitting on a tall white horse, surrounded by his own soldiers. He looked at Wu Wujian, who nodded affirmatively, signaling that he was the leading general of this cavalry team.
The guards on the left and right of the leading general rode out, inspected the surrounding battlefield respectively, and rode straight towards both ends.
Returned after a short time.
Loudly reported a few words on the battlefield situation, the leading general immediately shook his head and said a few words loudly, but it was a little too far away, and the general was inarticulate, Li Moyi couldn't hear it clearly, as if he was giving some order.
After a while, the whole team ate dry food on horseback, and immediately set off in pursuit, as if a heart had been burned by the great work of capturing the enemy general, and for a moment it did not occur that the real enemy was peeping at his own brigade on the hill hundreds of meters away.
This elite cavalry force came and went like the wind and lightning, and with the order of the leading general, with a boom, thousands of horses' hooves suddenly trampled up and down, like black clouds sweeping across the sky, and after a while, they were all gone.
Li Mo stood up as soon as he got up, shook off the camouflaged dead grass and leaves on his body, turned around, and faced a pair of adoring and excited eyes.
"This team is now going straight in that direction, and the back road of our team has been completely cut off, what are the plans of everyone?" Li Mo sighed and said lightly.
Unexpectedly, all the bandits, together with those porters, didn't even think about it, and shouted in unison, "I'm waiting for Mr. Wei to take the lead!! β
Li Mo let out a sigh in his heart, and went to go, he had to take these thousands of stupid beggars with him to escape for his life, and now it seems that he can't get rid of it, what should he do now?
The south is the rear, and now the black-faced leading general has led thousands of people to attack it, looking at the momentum of the cavalry brigade just now, relying on this half-pawn and half-civilian troops, Li Mo felt that even if Xiang Yu came to break the cauldron again, most of them would not be able to defeat it at this moment.
The north is the forward defense line of the guards and cavalry, and it must be heavily guarded, and if you hit this point, you must have no return.
After thinking for a while, Li Mo made up his mind, and did not discuss with them, and waved his hand, "Go east, over that mountain........."
Looking at the dumbfounded Wu Wujian, Li Moyi smiled bitterly and said, "After eating the dried vegetables for so long, my mouth has faded into taste, everyone come with me to taste the seafood ........."
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The following days can be described as dark, under the leadership of Li Moyi, this team that had just won the battle climbed into the deep mountains and old forests.
Because they were afraid of being discovered by the guards and cavalry, the troops specially selected those remote paths and marched teams, and the wind and noise along the way were panicked, but under the huge survival pressure, the morale was not too bad, so they crossed the mountains and crossed the mountains and stayed overnight.
Staggering along the trail that the mountain people have stepped on for hundreds of years, the excellent physical fitness of the bandits here has opened Li Mo's eyes, it is really unbelievable, the physical strength of human beings is not inferior to any kind of beast, in some rugged areas, Li Mo was stunned to see that these strong and strong people can actually carry a large number of heavy carriages with their shoulders, and then they are still burdened with a large amount of food, And the vanguard led by Wu Wujian also fully demonstrated the strength of a field brigade at this time, opening roads and building bridges in the mountains and rivers, basically without Li Moyi having to worry about it.
But these are not the most painful for Li Moyi, who is fleeing for his life, after thousands of people wandered around this mountain for a few days, they suddenly found themselves in a predicament - they were lost, this problem was a big surprise to Li Moyi, because according to convention, there must be some ancient temples and deserted villages in the deep mountains and old forests like this.
It's a pity that Li Moyi was very unlucky this time, after the team walked for a day or two, they didn't encounter anything similar to an artificial building, which made the entire army fall into a state of confusion.
The solution to this puzzle was made possible by Wu Wujian's luck.
Because he was exploring the way one day, he caught a local mountain hunter, unfortunately, the hunter was tracking an injured leopard, but accidentally bumped into Wu Wujian's horseman, so he was immediately arrested on the charge of being a spy of the guard, after a violent beating, this unlucky hunter agreed to lead the way aggrieved, Li Moyi also did not treat this hunter badly, and advanced twenty taels of silver in advance to lead the way, the hunter reported anger and then surprise to open the way.
According to the interrogation of the guards scouts (innocent hunters), Li Moyi knew that in fact, the previous direction was not wrong, and now the brigade is about to walk out of this mountain, and the current location is the remnant of this mountain, which is under the jurisdiction of Suzhou Prefecture, and now the closest county seat to Li Moyi is called Lingyingcheng, which is only more than 200 miles away from the brigade.
Although Li Moyi's subordinates are all strong men, but after so many days of long journey, they are now very tired, thinking that if they don't find a place to rest, I'm afraid that in a few days, this brigade will collapse, looking at this exhausted face, Li Moyi decisively ordered to attack Lingyin City.
When Li Moyi led more than 2,000 soldiers to lurk near Ling Ming City, the sky had completely darkened, looking at this so-called "Ling Ming City", Li Mo let out a long sigh, he couldn't imagine that his first siege battle was actually dedicated to such a small projectile land, this town was simply a bomb against the city-building technology of the current civilization.
Said to be a city, Li Moyi felt more like a village or town or something, the wall of the earthen fortress was actually less than a zhang high, in terms of the size of the town, it is estimated that there will be no more than 10,000 people, Li Moyi was worried and thought of a lot of tricks to attack the city, it seems that this is impossible to use at all.
After that, things became very simple, just when the old, weak, sick and disabled people at the city gate were about to close the gate, Wu Wujian rushed in directly with his two hundred cavalry, and the guards in the city were very familiar with each other, and they directly put down their weapons without any resistance.
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When Li Mo led a large group of foot soldiers into the city, the entire city was closed.
"Da......... Dada........."
The sound of horses' hooves trampling on the empty street made it look unusually lonely, and at first there were a few dog barks to harmonize, but unfortunately a few barks stopped abruptly.........
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