"Brother Mu, how about calling it a day? Sister Yun is much better than you thought."
Pulling Yun Luoxi, who was full of excitement, back to her companions, Nie Xiaoyu winked at Li Mu and said playfully, as if to express, "There are times when your vision is not accurate."
"Haha, this younger brother and sister's methods really opened my eyes. Li Mu, I'm starting to envy you."
At this time, Liu Long and Fang Yan had also cleaned up the entire village and wiped out all the bandits. Young Master Liu, who returned to the door, also praised Nie Xiaoyu's ability, completely unaware that his smooth address made the three people present look pale.
Change.
"Ahem, Brother Liu is right. This is Xiaoyu's first achievement, but our Miss Yun is also very powerful. She deserves to be the daughter of the head of the Yunlan Sect."
Seeing Lin Qingzhu and Nie Xiaoyu's embarrassed expressions, Li Mu could only quickly interrupt and bring the topic to Yun Luoxi. This action was immediately noticed by Liu Long, who realized that he seemed to have said the wrong thing.
He quickly followed Li Mu's topic and gave Li Mu an informative look during the conversation.
In fact, no matter how stupid Li Mu is, he will not know how Lin Qingzhu and Nie Xiaoyu feel about him. One is a childhood sweetheart who has been together for almost twenty years, and the other has fought alongside him and almost died because of it.
, it is an extremely difficult decision for Li Mu to choose, so it is not that he does not understand, but has been avoiding it. At this time, Liu Long mentioned it, and looking at the two beautiful faces, Li Mu was even more entangled.
He can excuse himself with the childish excuse that the current situation is unstable and it is not appropriate to talk about the love between children.
After the group burned the entire bandit village to the ground, they quickly returned to Shuangliu Town. Along the way, Li Mu secretly glanced at Lin Qingzhu and Nie Xiaoyu behind him from time to time, and found that the two women were also looking at him. He was so frightened that he quickly turned around.
It took him a moment to understand what it meant to be carrying something like a light on his back. Sure enough, the only thing in the world that was troublesome was love and debt.
"Are you telling the truth? Then did you really wipe out my bandit?"
Facing the mayor's eyes that were bigger than bells and his hands that were shaking to the extreme, Li Mu smiled and recounted the general process of suppressing the bandits on his side. The mayor immediately burst into tears and said that he was 20 years old.
He had given all of his youth to Shuangliu Town. If he had not wanted to protect the town's hard-earned and prosperous life, he would never have turned a blind eye to the actions of those soldiers and gangsters without conscience.
Now that the bandits threatening the town have become a thing of the past, the soldiers stationed there will have no leverage to threaten him. Moreover, Liu Long also promised that new troops will be ordered to come to replace the defense within three days, so Shuangliu Town will no longer have to
We no longer have to worry about safety issues, and every citizen can truly live and work in peace and contentment.
"Okay, it's getting late, we should go."
After declining the mayor's extremely enthusiastic offer to stay, Li Mu and his party set foot on the road to Qinglan City again with a large number of specialties sent by the people of Shuangliu Town. As the horses' hooves rushed, the shadows of the green trees on both sides quickly retreated.
Flashing, the town gradually disappeared from sight, but this encounter sounded the alarm for Li Mu.
When he first read Yun Lier's letter, Li Mu felt that the imperial army's inaction and even decadence were a bit exaggerated. After all, the Cangyun Empire relied on force to build its country and had fought tens of thousands of battles over the past millennium.
The battle has been able to stand in the fairy world to this day because of its extremely powerful army.
Although the royal family is now dissatisfied and wants to compete with the Yunlan Sect behind them, and coupled with the sequelae of the system reform, irreconcilable conflicts have indeed arisen within the empire, but it is true that the imperial army has fallen and cannot withstand the power of the Penglai Immortal Kingdom.
Shocked, Li Mu really didn't believe it.
But the situation in Shuangliu Town completely woke him up from the fantasy of the old dream. Not only did these soldiers in the Central Military Region not protect their homes and country, they could not even do the most basic thing of protecting the people. Instead, they treated the people who supported them with taxes as
The fish and meat on the cooking plate can be slaughtered at will, and the small ones can be seen as big ones. It can be seen how many Shuangliu towns there are in the entire empire.
Even excluding the Eastern Military Region and the Southern Military Region controlled by the Liu family and the Ji family, the remaining 60% of the country is probably already out of control, and the reason for this is the decentralization of power and the inaction of the royal family in the past thirty years.
"Brother Liu, I'm really worried. If war comes, will we only be able to rely on this kind of soldiers? The gap between ordinary people and monks cannot be smoothed out simply by relying on numbers, let alone these soldiers from the Central Military Region. I'm afraid
My body has long been drained by alcohol and sex, and I am vulnerable."
As he got closer to Qinglan City, Li Mu became more and more worried about the situation. The most famous thing about the Penglai Immortal Kingdom was the Penglai Army. The 30,000-strong army was all composed of monks in the Core Formation Realm. Such strength can be said to be enough.
Sweeping most of the forces in the fairy world, if the geographical location was not too dangerous, I am afraid that the fairy country would have become the overlord of the fairy world long ago, instead of just being on one of the islands.
A monk in the pill-forming realm needs to be restrained by an army of a thousand people, and this army must also be well-trained and well-trained, and coupled with the help of various one-time attack magic weapons, can it compete with the monks.
Based on this calculation, the Cangyun Empire would need at least 30 million people if it wanted to simply use its army to withstand the impact of the Penglai Army, and the five major military regions combined would only have a size of about 10 million.
"Don't worry, at least our Eastern Military District and Ji Tianyu's Southern War Zone are not unprepared. We Liu family members can use their fighting spirit to increase the combat effectiveness of the army, and the Ji family also has their secret method to narrow the gap between the mortal army and the monks. The situation is very
It’s bad, but it’s not hopeless.”
Liu Long's comfort made Li Mu feel a little relieved. The group stopped talking and galloped their horses. Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and they arrived at the outskirts about thirty miles away from Qinglan City. In the distance
The horizon has come into view, and the bright pearl above it is the only port city in the eastern part of the Cangyun Empire, Qinglan City.
"Brother Liu, we are almost arriving at Qinglan City. The troops you contacted earlier are also arriving soon, right? How should we deal with the pro-royalty troops in the city?"
The familiar air of his hometown made Li Mu feel more comfortable. After seeing that there were no signs of patrolling troops nearby, he asked Liu Long next to him about his future plans.
"Those troops can't move yet. All the intelligence now is based on inference. At least we can't really attack the royal family before the peace talks. Although the two father and son of the Huangfu family are stupid, they are by no means idiots. They dare to take chestnuts from the fire and challenge Yun
Lan Zong must have made a lot of preparations, we can't just scare the snake away."
Li Mu thought about it carefully, and what Liu Long said made perfect sense. This state machine is interconnected, and any wrong step may cause a chain reaction. Fortunately, he has met a military wizard like Liu Long, otherwise he would not have paid attention to many details.
If not, he might even do bad things with good intentions.
The distance of thirty miles is just a blink of an eye for their small team. The magnificent city gate of Qinglan City is in front of them. The broad commercial road in front of the city is still full of people, with countless carriages, horses and caravans passing by. These people are still there.
Living these most familiar days, no one knew that this Pearl of the Orient had fallen into the haze of war.