All the soldiers watched as Mu Jin rushed out of Su Yi's tent as if she had gone mad, and then ran straight towards the mountain behind the camp.
Mu Jin ran all the way to the back of the camp, where there was a huge pit filled with the abandoned garbage from the Southern Shu camp. As she approached, she saw soldiers dumping baskets of garbage into the pit.
"Wait!" Mu Jin shouted breathlessly. The soldiers stopped immediately and turned to look at her when they heard her voice.
"Where did you put the clothes that were taken from my tent today?" Mu Jin asked the soldiers anxiously, her eyes wide and her face flushed.
The soldiers were taken aback by Mu Jin's sudden appearance, which left them somewhat disheveled. They stood there, stunned, but no one responded to Mu Jin.
"Speak!" Mu Jin shouted anxiously.
"General Mu, Vice General Mu, we...we don't know where your clothes went."
A soldier replied tremblingly, "The soldiers take all the trash in the camp to the camp gate and leave it there. We are responsible for carrying this trash here twice a day, at noon and in the evening, to dispose of it."
Upon hearing this, Mu Jin felt anxious, eager to know the whereabouts of the clothes in her tent.
So she didn't ask where the clothes went. Instead, she knocked over the basket the soldier was holding and started rummaging through the trash for her own clothes.
When Mu Yan caught up from behind, he saw Mu Jin rummaging through the trash on the ground. Just as Mu Jin finished searching through the trash under her feet and was about to jump into the trash pit, Mu Yan grabbed her.
"Ah Jin! What are you looking for? Those tattered clothes are gone, so be it."
With red eyes, Mu Jin shook her head desperately: "Brother, there's a longevity pill that Min gave me in those clothes. It can save Su Yi."
Mu Yan was taken aback, but quickly seemed to realize something. "The longevity pill shouldn't be here. The medicine in your tattered clothes has been taken out and placed on the cabinet next to your bed in your tent."
As soon as she finished speaking, Mu Jin's eyes lit up and she immediately ran into the tent.
The candlelight in the tent illuminated Mu Jin, who was sitting beside Su Yi's bed. Her hand was bleeding profusely from rummaging through the trash, and the army doctor had just finished bandaging it.
Mu Jin muttered to herself with a look of annoyance, "How could I have forgotten Min's medicine? If I had given it to him in time that night in the valley, everything would have been fine."
She couldn't help but blame herself. When she found Su Yi that night, she instinctively took out the healing pills from her body and fed them to Su Yi, because she usually carried the kind of medicine she had prepared herself.
The longevity pill that Nangong Min handed to her when they parted that night was casually put into her bosom. After several days of fighting with Su Yuntian, if the army doctor hadn't suddenly mentioned the pills of the Nangong Divine Sect, she would have completely forgotten that Nangong Min had given her the longevity pill.
Mu Yan comforted him, "It's not too late now. Just half an hour after taking it, the Emperor's complexion has gradually become rosy, and his breathing has become much calmer. He might wake up tomorrow."
"I hope so." Seeing Su Yi's gradual improvement, Mu Jin's tightly furrowed brows relaxed considerably.
"Ling Feng thanks Vice General Xie Mu for saving His Majesty's life." Ling Feng kowtowed several times to Mu Jin.
Mu Jin turned to look at Ling Feng and said, "Get up." Seeing Ling Feng covered in injuries, Mu Jin asked the soldiers next to her to bring a stool for Ling Feng to sit down.
How did you escape the landslide that night?
Thinking of the tragic scenes of that night, Ling Feng still felt lingering fear. He slowly said with reddened eyes, "At the beginning, I protected the Emperor, but because there were too many Dongyue soldiers, they pushed me away from the Emperor."
"Later, a landslide occurred, and I tried my best to walk towards the emperor, but I was knocked unconscious by the surging rocks."
"When I woke up, the landslide had stopped, but the valley was deathly silent. I called out to the Emperor a few times, but received no response. I searched the valley for a long time. I didn't know if the Emperor had escaped the landslide, so I planned to return to Liangmen Pass to make further plans. However, I fainted due to exhaustion halfway there. When I woke up, I found myself in the camp."
Mu Jin nodded and smiled, "That's fine too. If you had been by his side back then, you might be crushed by rocks right now." Then, as if she had thought of something, she asked, "What about Ling Yu?"
Mu Jin hadn't seen Ling Yu around Su Yi for several days.
Ling Feng replied, "That day, Deputy General Mu told the Emperor that saltpeter and sulfur could be used to make gunpowder, so the Emperor sent Ling Yu to find saltpeter and sulfur."
Speaking of gunpowder, Mu Jin suddenly frowned and said to Mu Yan, "Brother, on the day of the landslide, I smelled a strong gunpowder in the air. This time, such a huge landslide doesn't seem to be caused by the continuous rain. It seems to be caused by gunpowder blasting the mountain."
Upon hearing this, Mu Yan frowned: "Are the gunpowder that A Jin mentioned really that powerful?"
Mu Jin nodded and said, "I saw that the place where Su Yuntian stationed his troops was also like a valley. I did have the idea of using gunpowder to blow up the rocks and trap the Dongyue soldiers inside. I just didn't expect that Su Yuntian would have mastered the production of gunpowder."
Upon realizing that Su Yuntian possessed gunpowder, Mu Jin's expression suddenly changed. She abruptly stood up and exclaimed, "This is bad! Liangmen Pass is in trouble!"
As Mu Jin finished speaking, a soldier came from outside the camp to report: "Report! Liangmen Pass has suffered a great defeat."
"Why is that?" Mu Yan stood up, his face full of astonishment.
The messenger soldier said, "Dongyue got weapons from somewhere and blew up the Liangmen Pass gate, allowing them to break into the city without lifting a finger."
The soldier continued solemnly, "The ten thousand soldiers we left behind at Liangmen Pass have all been killed because they were no match for the large number of Dongyue soldiers."
Mu Jin quickly asked, "How are the people of Liangcheng?"
The soldier bowed his head and said, "Those who follow live, those who betray die. The entire Liangcheng is now a living hell."
"How could this be?" Mu Yan said in disbelief, "How could they suddenly come up with such powerful weapons? If Dongyue really had such powerful weapons, when I was fighting for the old emperor in Dongyue, it wouldn't have taken so long."
“It’s Nangong Ce.” Mu Jin said with a slightly cold look in his eyes, “This gunpowder formula was originally discovered by alchemists by accident while they were making pills. It is likely that the secret formula for this gunpowder came from the Nangong Divine Sect. It’s just that the people of the Nangong Divine Sect do not participate in wars between countries, so they did not let the world know that they have such a powerful weapon.”
Mu Yan's eyes were filled with resentment as he said, "Now that Dongyue has such powerful gunpowder, are we just supposed to sit here and wait to die? If that's the case, then Dongmen Pass will soon be breached by Dongyue, and then Father..."
Mu Jin turned to Ling Feng and asked, "Do you know where Ling Yu went to find saltpeter? Do you know when he will return?"
Ling Feng replied, "The Emperor ordered Ling Yu to return to Southern Shu to gather information. Judging by the time, they should be on their way. However, they do not know where we are, so we need to send out carrier pigeons to guide them."
After hearing this, Mu Jin felt a little anxious. She could make gunpowder using the gunpowder recipe she had learned in the real world. She believed that the gunpowder she made would be more powerful than Su Yuntian's. However, Ling Yu had not returned, and she felt helpless.
Mu Jin turned to Ling Feng and said, "Release a carrier pigeon and send a letter to Ling Yu, telling them to return quickly with the saltpeter they have."
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