coobybook Chapter 312: Ghost City, Return City, and Remnants of the Previous Dynasty.
Chapter 312: Ghost City, Return City, and Remnants of the Previous Dynasty.
Hearing this, Li Mu's eyes showed shock, and he blurted out:
"Is there really a palace?"
King Yan looked at Li Mu with a strange expression and said unhappily:
"Would you have noticed?"
"Grandpa, are you saying that place is exactly the same as Jing'an City?"
Li Mu said with some uncertainty.
"Pretend to be stupid!" King Yan snatched Shuo Lei away, turned around and jumped towards Donglai Pass, saying,
"I'll give it to you after I die!"
Li Mu smiled bitterly and shook his head, and hurriedly caught up with the King of Yan:
"The old man hasn't told me yet, what exactly is that place?"
"Ghost City! But those guys in the city also claim to be returning to the city privately."
"Return to the city?" Li Mu muttered to himself after hearing the words of King Yan. Then he looked at King Yan fiercely and said uncertainly,
"Previous dynasty?"
"Just thought of it? I remember when you first arrived at the mansion, you asked Ling'er for many history books."
King Yan glanced at Li Mu and said in a calm tone.
"This old guy..."
It was obvious that Prince Yan must have found out everything that had happened to Li Mu since he entered the Prince Yan's Palace, even these trivial matters.
Li Mu raised his eyebrows, thinking of the history books he had read, which did mention the escape of nobles from the previous dynasty, and asked:
"But don't those books say that most of them fled in the direction of Jiangcheng? I guess they may have gone out to sea."
The King of Yan looked at Li Mu as if he were a fool, and said unhappily:
"Are you stupid? Can something like this be written in history books?"
Li Mu was stunned, and thought to himself, "Yes, that's right." But he still said stubbornly, somewhat unconvinced:
"Writing it backwards doesn't seem to be that much smarter!"
Jiangcheng is in the northwest and Guicheng is in the southeast, which are exactly opposite locations.
Li Mu couldn't help but feel puzzled. Logically speaking, these remnants of the previous dynasty should be considered a major threat to the royal family. Since he knew that these people were here, why didn't Emperor Hongwen take any action?
Then, the King of Yan glanced at Li Mu and said in a leisurely tone:
"Ran Nu can't have more than 100,000 men at best. Even if all the people were soldiers, they couldn't break through Donglai Pass. But Donglai Pass has 200,000 defenders..."
Li Mu frowned and blurted out, "Is it to protect the nobles of the previous dynasty?"
But as soon as he said this, he felt something was wrong and asked doubtfully:
"That Guicheng can have 10,000 people?"
King Yan shook his head and sighed:
"But what if there are many masters like Mu Zhen Daru?"
Hearing this, Li Mu narrowed his eyes. He naturally understood what King Yan meant.
The top combat power in this world has been refreshing Li Mu's cognition.
But if the city is full of experts, how could he and King Yan get out so easily?
The King of Yan seemed to see Li Mu's doubts, a cunning look appeared on his face, and he smiled and said:
"They are also fighting among themselves. Besides, the place where I am imprisoned is rented out to outsiders. Those guys only take money and don't care about anything else."
Looking at Prince Yan's expression, Li Mu could conclude that the infighting in Guicheng was probably related to the royal family of Xing Dynasty.
Li Mu suddenly felt that he was still young.
Instead of going to great lengths to encircle and wipe out a large number of strong men like Mu Zhen, it would be a wiser choice to keep them here and let them fight among themselves.
Seeing that Li Mu seemed to understand, the King of Yan showed some admiration in his eyes, but then said with some annoyance:
"You and I don't need to worry about the matter of Guicheng. Third brother... um, His Majesty has his own decision. I just didn't expect that he would almost fall into the hands of Ran Nuren this time."
Li Mu nodded. He had had doubts before. Masters like Ran Nu obviously appeared suddenly and had never appeared before.
Since the founding of the Xing Dynasty, there has been no outward expansion, and an army of 200,000 is obviously a bit exaggerated...
"No! Jiangcheng is said to have an army of 500,000. What are they guarding?"
Although it is said that the Ran Nu army still invades the Donglai Pass every year, the Rongyi have not shown up for more than ten years.
Li Mu had ignored this problem before, but now he thought, could there be something outside Jiang City that requires 500,000 troops to guard it?
"According to the map, there seems to be a sea outside Jiangcheng..."
Li Mu was thinking about it when he heard the King of Yan ask:
"Mu'er, have you ever heard your teacher mention any quick-learning external martial arts techniques?"
"Quick? I want it!"
Li Mu was secretly complaining in his heart but did not show it on his face. He just shook his head slightly.
Then, after hearing the explanation from King Yan, Li Mu realized why he asked that.
The young master Ran Nu whom Li Mu had met in Guicheng before was not an isolated case.
The hundred people who sneaked into Donglai Pass this time were almost all from the first-class outer families, but they were all young faces.
Including the Ran Nu army composed of warriors stationed outside Donglai Pass, they also seemed to be composed of young people.
"Could it be that Ran Nu really has a way to mass-produce external masters?"
Li Mu couldn't help but mutter to himself.
Hearing Li Mu's words, the King of Yan seemed to have thought of something and said in surprise:
"That's right, those people don't seem to have come here through self-cultivation."
"Have you noticed that the martial arts of those people seem to be much weaker than those of ordinary external martial artists?"
King Yan turned his head and looked at Li Mu with expectation in his eyes, as if he was eager to get Li Mu's approval.
Li Mu thought about it and thought to himself, "Really? It seems to be similar to you."
However, the King of Yan obviously saw through Li Mu's thoughts, and as if someone had stepped on his sore spot, he said angrily:
"What's with that expression on your face, you little brat? I can fight two or three of them alone, and it's no problem. If it weren't for the civilians entering the city at that time, I would have made sure that none of them could leave Donglai Pass."
Hearing this, Li Mu was stunned. Thinking of the strange blood-colored cage, he hurriedly asked:
"That cage-like thing, what exactly is it?"
King Yan was stunned for a moment, and after a while he seemed to understand what Li Mu wanted to ask, and said in surprise:
"You don't know the military formation?"
"Military formation? That thing is a military formation?"
As expected, Li Mu's cognition was refreshed again.
It was also Li Mu’s fault that he returned to Linglong Waterside a little late last time and missed the scene of Ying Yu fighting against Song Chi with his army.
"What is the combined attack technique?"
Li Mu asked uncertainly.
"You kid, you should come to the army for some training. You don't even know these things. All military formations are combined attack techniques."
King Yan looked at Li Mu with some displeasure, as if he was disappointed with his friend.
"How is that possible? I clearly saw Wei Pingran performing it by himself before."
Li Mu said with some disbelief.
When Li Mu saw Wei Pingran just touching the token on his waist, he thought it was some kind of magic weapon.
Immediately, King Yan slapped Li Mu on the back of his head.
Li Mu hesitated for a moment, and did not dodge, nor did he use his true energy to block, and was hit hard.
Li Mu swore that he definitely did not have this strange attribute, but the feeling of being taught a lesson by his elders made Li Mu a little dazed.
When the King of Yan saw that he had hit Li Mu, he stared blankly at his palm, then quickly reacted and said unhappily:
"You and the great scholar only learned some romantic things?"
Hearing this, Li Mu smiled awkwardly and cooperated by admitting his mistake.
"External cultivation techniques, internal cultivation of Qi, but these are the paths of warriors. Although soldiers also follow the external path, they cultivate blood and Qi..."
The King of Yan patiently explained the relevant information about the military formation to Li Mu.
Li Mu originally only knew that if the army wanted to use a combined attack, they needed to use specific armor, but he didn't know there were so many tricks involved.
All the large cities in the Xing Dynasty have their own defensive military formations to some extent. They can be activated by mobilizing the blood and energy of the soldiers in the city and using special tokens.
But even the large formation of Jing'an City can only cover the imperial palace. In other prefectures and counties, at most only the local government offices have such military formations to detain warriors above the second level.
Only at Donglai Pass, the formation covers the entire city. That is why there must always be 200,000 garrisons in the city.
Li Mu secretly thought that it was no wonder. Just as he was about to ask again, his ears moved and he frowned, saying, "There was a sound of fighting, at least a thousand people!"
King Yan looked at Li Mu fiercely, with a conflicted look on his face. He hesitated for a while and said, "Let's... let's go back to the city first..."
However, seeing the embarrassed expression on King Yan's face, Li Mu smiled and stretched out his hand, saying, "Old man, I want to try Shuo Lei again."