Mortal Mage

"A few days now."

"Half moon."

"Cut it off." Zhang Mingxuan raised his hand and was about to walk out of the hall.

"Ten days! Ten days! Your Majesty, no less! Ten days is already enough to do your best and work hard!" Li Xucheng looked horrified.

"Did you include the time spent sleeping?" Zhang Mingxuan stopped and turned around to ask.

There was a strange light in Li Xucheng's eyes and he blinked in surprise.

Zhang Mingxuan held a top-grade spirit stone in his hand and rolled it in front of Li Xucheng with a clanging sound.

"I just heard from Lingyu Guard that you want to take me as your master?" Zhang Mingxuan turned around and said with a smile on his face.

Li Xucheng nodded heavily, and picked up the high-quality spirit stone thrown in front of him with his shackled hands.

"If you can finish this within five days, I will agree." Zhang Mingxuan glanced at Xiao Feizi, who immediately took out a folded piece of new rice paper from his sleeve and spread it in front of Li Xucheng again.

Li Xucheng looked down in shock, then raised his head and looked at Zhang Mingxuan with an extremely embarrassed expression; "Your Majesty... don't be so false..."

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Five hundred miles west of Taihe City.

"crash"

A storm blew through, driving the icicles hanging in the woods into the deep snow.

A group of light cavalry wrapped in white cloaks stood in the forest.

"General, there is an order from the palace."

An old general with a big beard adjusted the helmet on his head with his calloused hands. There was a large scar between his cheekbone and right ear.

This person is Diao Yun, the governor who retreated from the western border of Taicang Empire.

He held a crescent-shaped knife in his right hand, took the wax-stamped envelope with his left hand, and tore it open with his yellowed teeth.

"Contain feints, harass and ambush, make a feint to the east and attack in the west, avoid the enemy's main force."

After reading it, he handed the note to a short and strong deputy general riding on a horse behind him. The deputy general had a big black mole on the right side of his cheek, with a tuft of long black hair on the mole, and held a longbow in his hand.

This deputy general's name was Diao Feng.

"Hehe, this new emperor is quite interesting."

After reading the note, General Black Mole Diao Feng stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it, and swallowed it. "Then do you want to join forces with other old subordinates?"

"No need. The Tianze Empire is strong in military and military, and the new emperor is not a simple person. Just act according to the orders."

"Report! Two hundred Tianze scouts spotted ahead."

"Then try the new emperor's diversionary feint!"

"Gee!" Diao Feng took the longbow from his back and rushed forward.

Raise your arm and draw the bow.

"Whoosh!"

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"Withdraw! Withdraw!"

"Hurry up and report to the central army that the remaining 5,000 Taicang troops are coming to kill our border troops!"

"Chirp!"

A red arrow flew over quickly and pierced the neck of a golden-armored soldier.

"thump……"

The soldier in golden armor fell backwards off his horse, with hot blood gushing out of his neck, staining a large area of ​​snow red, and then slowly solidified into ice.

Two hundred Tianze scouts wearing golden armor reined in their horses, turned around and galloped away.

Diao Feng and Diao Yun led five thousand light cavalrymen, wearing leather armor. Their speed was faster than the soldiers wearing golden armor. In just a dozen breaths, they were less than a hundred steps away from the team of scouts.

"Fire arrows!"

"Wow!" The rain of arrows instantly overwhelmed the two hundred Tianze scouts.

"Quickly retrieve the arrows and continue harassing Tianze's scouts."

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In Taihe City, the door of a house on the street corner was wide open.

Seven soldiers in black armor rushed in with long swords in hand.

Inside the house, there was nothing but a burning brazier.

A young woman, holding a baby in her arms, squatted in front of a brazier. She stared at several soldiers with a terrified look on her face.

"Boss, this pretty lady is unwilling to leave the city despite being driven away three times."

"If we don't leave the city, we will die sooner or later. It's better to let our own people take advantage of it than to let Tianze's soldiers take advantage of it."

"No, no, my husband hasn't come back yet, I have to wait for him!"

"In this chaotic time, we can't wait!" The soldier grabbed the woman's clothes with one hand and grabbed the baby's breast with the other hand and threw the baby to the ground.

Several soldiers tore the young woman's clothes and dragged her into the inner room. The young woman grabbed the doorpost with both hands and pulled hard, breaking out in cold sweat.

"Bah..."

The coarse linen clothes on her body were torn open, and her snow-white body brightened the dark faces of several soldiers.

The baby rolled to the ground and cried "wa wa wa" for a long time before finally bursting into tears.

"Hahahaha"

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Wisps of green smoke rose from the burnt-out brazier.

"Quickly evacuate the city. It won't be so easy for us to come back next time."

Seven soldiers walked out of the courtyard holding swords.

"Boss, don't we have to kill him?"

"Idiot! You should kill them outside the city first. How will you explain if someone dies in the city?"

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The young woman struggled desperately to sit up from the bed, walked out of the inner room with her legs clamped together, trembling all over, picked up her baby, shook her head, and returned to the messy bed.

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