"Your Highness, did you deliberately withdraw these 'Imperial Guards' and 'Nightmare Cavalry'?" Yao Guangxiao asked, pointing at the silent "Nightmare Cavalry" who exuded a chilling aura.

"Haha, that's a brilliant move!" Yao Guangxiao continued, "Not only did it deceive a wolf in sheep's clothing like Huo Minggao, but it also kept me in the dark."

"Heh!" Lin Mo grinned. "You thought I was deliberately setting a trap, didn't you?"

But to be fair, Lin Mo's actions did have that kind of meaning.

They inexplicably wiped out their most elite troops.

"The greatest credit this time belongs to Guangxiao," Lin Mo praised. "It was you who saw through their tricks and protected my beloved concubine and the others in advance. Otherwise, this would have been a huge problem."

After exchanging pleasantries, Yao Guangxiao said, "Your Highness, the rebel Huo Minggao and his four sons have been captured. What are your plans for dealing with them?"

Lin Mo dreaded hearing this. "Bring them up first."

Soon, the two men, one on each side, shoved Huo Minggao in front of Lin Mo.

"Your Highness, the traitor Huo Minggao has been brought here," a soldier announced unnecessarily.

Huo Minggao raised his head. "Your Highness, Regent," he said, kneeling, a wound on his head from which blood flowed down one cheek, the pale morning light illuminating his face. "It would be my pleasure to serve you, but unfortunately I've forgotten where I put my sword."

Even in defeat and capture, Huo Minggao still tried his best to maintain his pride!

“I don’t need your service!” Lin Mo told him. “I want you to tell me the whereabouts of your men, and the whereabouts of all your sons!”

Although Huo Minggao was captured, Liangzhou remained under the control of his many sons, posing a significant threat.

"Hey, I'm afraid I don't know where they went either," Huo Minggao said. "Your Highness, as you know, I have too many sons, and I'm old and my memory isn't good."

If you want Liangzhou instead of caring about my son, then you'll have to pay a price.

Hey, you've planted elite troops in the capital, and you're also feigning an attack on Dongpango.

That was a brilliant move.

Even I was fooled by your little trick.

But, Liangzhou.

"Heh heh, your plan to conquer Liangzhou won't be so easy."

"My attack on Dongpango is a pretense? You really know how to think!" Lin Mo laughed.

"Otherwise what? A mere tens of thousands of troops were able to easily defeat Dongpan Ge's 300,000-strong army," Huo Minggao said. "And that was with my son as an inside man! You won so easily!"

Hey, if you hadn't already discussed it with those bastards in Dongpango from the beginning, how could you have done it!

Lin Mo really wanted to applaud you. "According to you, it was I who colluded with Dongpan Ge? And betrayed Great Xia?"

“Isn’t that so?” Huo Minggao retorted. “I reached an agreement with the Northern Barbarians, and you, Regent, reached an agreement with Dongpan Ge. In a way, you’re not much better off than me!”

"Kill him, my lord!" Xiang Yu reverted to the ruthless Xiang Yu with his cold gaze and icy tone. "Cut off his head!"

“No,” Yao Guangxiao quickly advised, fearing that Lin Mo might do something foolish again. “He’s more useful alive!”

"Haha, this Mr. Yao is a smart man!" Huo Minggao said, "Upright and honest."

“Take him away and put him in shackles,” Yao Guangxiao said.

"Wait, he hasn't confessed what he needs to confess!" Lin Mo stopped him.

"Explain what? The whereabouts of my son and his men? Forget it!" Huo Minggao said. "Don't say I don't know; even if I did, I wouldn't be able to tell you."

Hey, that's my lifeline! I have to hold on tight!

"Hmph!" Not in the mood for a verbal argument, Lin Mo asked, his anger seeping into his voice. "Where exactly are they?"

Although the capital had fallen, before that, Huo Minggao had his men infiltrate the populace and carry out assassinations every night to create chaos.

It has caused unrest for everyone.

"Hahaha, getting angry now?" Huo Minggao revealed a victorious smile. "Your Highness, if you're so capable, go find it yourself!"

Lin Mo suddenly felt an urge to punch the other person's mouth until it was smashed open. If he lost a few teeth, he wouldn't be grinning like that anymore.

For someone who would spend the rest of his life as a prisoner, Huo Minggao was far too smug.

"I invented a kind of tight prison in Shu, just big enough to hold one person, as tight as plate armor," Lin Mo said. "In the prison, you can neither turn over nor sit up."

Even when a mouse is gnawing at your toes, you can't feel it. So, would you like to reconsider your answer?

Huo Minggao trembled at first, but quickly regained his composure. "Then let me stay and see!"

"He's like a brick in a latrine, smelly and hard!" Lin Mo thought to himself. "But you're a stubborn old man, your son might be different, right?"

So Lin Mo turned his head and looked at Huo Jie, the one who had cut Huo Churan.

"Young Prince? Would you like to give it a try?"

Huo Jie, who had been mocking Lin Mo along with Huo Minggao, immediately stopped smiling. "No, don't!"

"Then please tell me!"

"You promised me that you would...you would treat me with respect and in accordance with the standards."

“I will keep my promise,” Lin Mo said. “Those who died weeping in the abandoned southern district of the capital include not only many princes and ministers who are more noble than you, but also many princes and even imperial princes.”

"If you like, I can arrange for your concubine to live next to you; I don't want to forcibly separate you."

"Don't believe him, he's a man of his word!" Huo Minggao said. "He promised Li Hu and Wei Maozhen that he would let them go and spare their lives, but what happened in the end?"

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