Delong

Chapter 309 Tiger Row (10)

On the fifth day of the battle, on the fourth day of Qitu Mountain.

The weather on this day is the same as the previous few days. It is still cold in the morning and hot at noon.As far as the battle between the two armies is concerned, it seems to have entered a certain "normality".

That is, both sides began to continuously expand the scope of the battle while trying to upgrade the corresponding large-scale fortification operations, which can be regarded as giving full play to their huge human resources.At the same time, both sides have also adapted to the battlefield, know how to start to imitate the opponent's tactics, or accept the opponent's tactics that quickly counter their own.

On the battlefield, there are ditches, fences, earth hills, huts, flames, water vapor, arrows and spears, flags and armor, occasional fluctuations of true energy, shouts of killing, and voices of persuasion. , There was shouting and cursing, and there was also preaching.

Of course, there was death and blood, there was dark soil and the occasional spring shoot.

The fight seems to be getting better.

Facing all this, Xue Changxiong seemed to have calmed down, and he no longer had the anxious attitude of the previous few days, but he didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

"General!"

At noon, the hottest time of the day, a horse galloped up. It turned out to be Luo Xin, the son of Luo Shu, the second general of Youzhou Daying. report. "My general asked me to report back... Pingchang County has been separated, and the camp in the middle of the connection has been broken."

Xue Changxiong smiled slightly: "I've seen it, but how did you win so easily?"

"The thieves gave up on their own initiative." Luo Xin didn't take the opportunity to brag. "The camp over there looks huge, but in fact it is almost equivalent to the tunnel connecting this place with Pingchang County. There are not many soldiers. Our cavalry carried the boards to the past, pulled out the fences, laid trenches, and they dispersed... Some entered Pingchang County, and some retreated here."

As guessed before, Xue Changxiong also nodded: "After all, it is a credit."

Luo Xin continued to report: "My general asked me to tell the great general... There is obviously a master in Pingchang County, and it was exposed when he went out of the city to meet the fleeing troops. Or those Wu brothers!"

Only then did Xue Changxiong become serious, but he only became serious, and then nodded: "It's been expected...Let your father and General Li clean up the corridor, and then go west along the corridor, and in the west After finding the pincer position, withdraw to find me."

Luo Xin didn't care to drink his saliva, turned around and left.

And Xue Changxiong thought for a moment, and simply walked down the dirt mountain with his confidants and personal guards.

In a four-storey bungalow diagonally opposite the earthy hill on the northeast side of this camp, the leader Sun Xuanzhi looked up at the scene from a distance, then turned around and went down the bunk, and when he reached the bottom floor, he jumped directly, but he jumped on a lump of mud I almost sprained my foot, and the cloak was also stained with mud. Fortunately, it was brown-black, so I didn't bother to pay attention to it, so I hurried back.

After walking only two steps, he grabbed a lieutenant general, told him to keep an eye on the front line, and communicated with the leader Wang who was in charge of the front line in time, and then continued to walk back.

There is another typography house at the back, someone is carrying out a basket of mud from inside, and after coming out, they don't dump it anywhere else, but directly pour it into a big pit behind, where auxiliary soldiers are pouring water and grass Mix with mud, and when the mud is pasted, send it to the front to make soil and reinforcement for the front line.

Sun Xuanzhi glanced at it, and didn't ask about the progress. He just walked back, passed the back door of the first camp, and came to the open space of the second row of camps, where there was an endless stream of transport teams.There are also various things to be transported, including water, fuel, wood, wheat straw, cowhide felt cloth, porridge, steamed buns, stale rice, ordnance supplements, and even dry soil. Most of the damage brought down from the front line included wounded soldiers, most of whom were wounded by falls and arrows.

After passing through the open space, they turned into the third camp, and as soon as they entered, they saw the leader Cheng Mingqi taking the headquarters to rest here, and nodded when he saw himself from a distance.

Sun Xuanzhi also nodded, walked straight through, and then turned to the west, and came to the general's platform in the middle of the chessboard camp.

Compared with the previous few days, it is obviously much more lively here. Many leaders are going back and forth like Sun Xuanzhi, and there are more military commanders and messengers. Below Zhang Longtou, the big leaders and leaders present are also different from the tension of the previous few days. , They have already started to actively initiate discussions, discuss countermeasures or suggestions, and then make suggestions to Zhang Dalong.

When Sun Xuanzhi came to Jiangtai, at the leftmost place, several leaders were obviously reviewing and arguing about the current situation.

"Things didn't happen like this for no reason... At first they attacked directly, using blocks as ditches, ladders, and shields. After all the hard work, we were able to break down the camps, but we found that our barracks were stacked, and we were not afraid of losing one or two camps, worrying about casualties, and then began to build up the earth mountain."

"I still don't understand, why don't you just take a bag of soil, fill the trench, and level the fence?"

"I've said it all, I'm worried about casualties... If we don't get rid of the mound and go directly to the fence to pile up the soil, all of them are auxiliary soldiers and civilians. If we concentrate our bows and crossbows on the front line and shoot intensively, we will inevitably suffer heavy losses. They are newcomers. It is very likely that there will be a wave Casualties destroy morale."

"This is..."

"But now that they've erected the earth hills, we've followed suit. They've added earth to the hills, and we've built up the brick houses... Can it be said that his earth hills are no longer useful?"

"That's the truth, otherwise we wouldn't have split up our troops to go to Pingchang to try."

"If you can't attack the camp, how can you attack the city?"

"It's not the problem. What's the use of attacking the city? He came to defeat us, so that we have no foothold in Hebei, but we are here. What's the use of him attacking other places? He can only touch us, so, I said at the beginning that the officers and soldiers will definitely find a way to attack us with a new way.”

"What's the way? It can't just be a two-day surrender, right? Who would believe it? Or attack the tunnel this morning?"

"There will be no letter from a fool!"

"If you ask me, at this time, the Hebei people are trustworthy. They are all killed by the opponent. Those Hebei battalions fought bravely, and Dou Lide's battalion family members all fought..."

After the Dengzhou incident, Sun Xuanzhi seldom communicated with other people, and he didn't have many friends. At this time, he just saw that there were still people reporting under the banner with the word "解" on the red background, and listened to it while waiting.

After a while, Zhang Dalong saw him with his head and beckoned, he didn't listen any more, but stepped forward immediately.

"Boss Sun, what do you say?" Zhang Xing asked seriously.

"Big leader..." Sun Xuanzhi looked embarrassed. "I just saw something on the front line. It seems that a team general in my battalion suddenly crossed the line and surrendered while Xue Changxiong was on a tour of Tushan, and was taken away by Xue Changxiong's confidants."

Zhang Xing was stunned for a moment, and then he comforted him: "What is this? It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, it's just that some people have shallow eyelids and can't see the situation clearly."

"I'm afraid that the strategy of digging the hole will be leaked..." Sun Xuanzhi's tone became more and more difficult. "He's a team leader and has some autonomy in the battalion."

"Didn't you just switch to the first row this morning?" Zhang Xing asked seriously.

"Yes." Sun Xuanzhi responded immediately.

"Then does he know the progress of the digging?" Zhang Xing continued to ask.

Sun Xuanzhi thought for a moment, then immediately shook his head: "I don't even know."

Zhang Xing also smiled: "It's okay, let's send someone to remind the front line, let them be careful, and then look at the reaction of the other side, if they want to cut off the hole, there must be some movement... At that time, we will abandon this road..."

Sun Xuanzhi nodded and walked away.

As soon as the people left, Zhang Xing became serious, and immediately called Xiao Zhou to ask: "After shouting these two days, how many surrendered to the officers and soldiers? How many surrendered to us?"

Xiao Zhou thought for a while, and immediately gave an answer: "It's hard to say, the main reason is that it's not clear whether it was because of spreading leaflets and shouting at each other, or because they were injured on the front line and surrendered because they were afraid of death... So, there are also insignificant things. Individuals are not popular... But the truth is that once the front line is not supported, there are indeed many people calling for surrender to save their lives, no matter the enemy or us."

Zhang Xing thought for a while, and he could only think of a way to make up for it: "If it is a temporary dispatch today, it will be easy to become suspicious. Go talk to Dou Lide, Hao Yide, and Fan Wang, explain the situation, and ask them to work hard. , Change camps earlier tonight, mainly tomorrow, and tomorrow they need to take their battalion heads to the top of the first row to protect the tunnel."

Besides, the soldiers and horses of each battalion head are of course broken up and reorganized, but the design that each leader is allowed to retain 200 core members still makes many battalion heads full of regional and personal colors. It is necessary to take advantage of the hatred of the Hebei Rebels against the Hejian Camp to eliminate the possibility of defecting to the enemy.

"Understood." Xiao Zhou immediately bowed and left.

For a moment, without waiting for Zhang Xing to discuss other matters, Dou Lide, who was supposed to be resting in the rear, suddenly came to look for him, but he didn't mean to do night work.

"Surrender?" Zhang Xing was surprised for a moment.

"Yes." Dou Lide reminded seriously. "Leader, I said it was not good to surrender before. There are two reasons. One is that I am afraid that the thieves will kill and surrender, and the other is that I am afraid that a large group of people will make a false surrender and be taken advantage of... But in the current situation, why not send some smart people, individually, or Surrender in twos and threes, so that not only can you find out the reality of one or two opposite parties, but you can also try to pass some false news... to make the other party mistakenly believe it is true."

"It's possible!" Zhang Xing nodded immediately. "You arrange this matter yourself, you only need to summarize it with me once a night."

Dou Lide also hurriedly saluted and left.

So far, although today's battles have become increasingly frequent and anxious, there is nothing particularly surprising in terms of mentality.

The so-called no war on the front line.

However, in the second half of the afternoon, when the officers and soldiers of both sides were getting tired, and the bravado in the morning gradually turned into perfunctory, and both sides were obviously in the mood to strike, there was a sudden change in the ranks of the officers and soldiers.

"What's going on?" Without the frontline troops reporting back, Zhang Xing had already noticed the sound of the drums and the movement of the flag on the opposite side, and then asked in surprise. "Is Xue Changxiong releasing his true energy? What is he going to do?!"

Without hesitation, Xiong Bonan jumped up from the rammed-earth commander's platform, and then replied before the front line reported back: "Xue Changxiong seems to have gathered high-level practitioners from the army on the middle earth mountain, and it seems that he is preparing to form an formation to attack !"

Zhang Xing immediately made the worst guess: "Is it true that someone saw the hole dug in the ground and thought it was a rare commodity to live in, so they cast it on the opposite side?"

Below Xiong Bonan, the surrounding leaders became a little anxious.

"Send someone to invite leader Xu Shiren quickly, and let him come here as soon as possible." Zhang Xing ordered immediately. "Recall all the leaders in the army except the six most in charge of the army, let Wang Xiongdan go to the second row in front of the battalion, and prepare to meet the enemy! Let Wang Wulang stay still for a while, and then enter the battle after we go there !"

The people around rushed away, preparing for each other.

Zhang Xing didn't have time to think too much, while waiting for the troops to assemble, he observed the situation ahead.

And soon, the supreme commander of the Dragon Army noticed a strange thing, and then his heart moved slightly, that is, the other party was actually a group of people gathered on the middle of the earth mountain.

You know, if someone exposes the front-line burrow attack, in line with the principle of not messing with the thread if nothing happens, it is very likely that Sun Xuanzhi's team will expose it, but the camp that Sun Xuanzhi is in charge of today is basically the rightmost in the first row.At the same time, although the burrows were dug by each battalion at the same time, due to the existence of Cheng Zhili and Shan Tong Haidan, the fastest progress was undoubtedly the two burrows on the left where they were.

In other words, if the government and the army are doing this to break through the hole at all costs, why do they break through from the front?
Just because the dirt hill is in the middle?Xue Changxiong is an obsessive-compulsive disorder?
With this thought in mind, Zhang Xing hurried down with the Dragon-Starling Sword in his hand. He just got on the yellow puma, and then encountered the dirty Shan Tonghai head-on in the second row of camps.

Zhang Xing took advantage of the situation and asked: "Is there any abnormality at the other end of the cave?"

Shan Tonghai shook his head in response, and then asked again: "I heard that some bandits from Hebei descended there and exposed the news?"

"It's too early to say this, let me test it a little bit." Zhang Xing said while releasing the ice true energy without hesitation.

Seeing this, the rest of the people also released their own true qi one after another. Among them, the ice true qi that came out first was thick and solid, and it connected with the true qi of the surrounding people in an instant, forming one body, while Xiong Bonan , Shan Tonghai, Cheng Zhili, Jia Yue, Xie Minghe, Xu Kaitong and other masters' true qi were then activated, so as not to overwhelm the host.

But when the formation was just formed, Zhang Dalong didn't wait for the leaders to assemble, he didn't even have the horses ready, he waved his sword and pointed, and moved the Zhenqi formation first, but it was between the second right battalion and the first right battalion in the first row Wang Shuyong, followed by Gao Shitong and other leaders turned to gather.

On the dirt hill in the middle, Xue Changxiong, whose body was gradually glowing, was condescending. Of course, he also noticed this scene, but he didn't hesitate to let out the glow and true energy on his body, as if forming a small sun. With the three alchemy masters Murong Zhengyan, Dou Pi, and Gao Zhan as the wings and tail, Qian Tang, Wang Yu, Cao Shancheng, Chen Bin, Wang Changxie, Feng Duan and other officers and soldiers were also surrounded almost instantly. The masters condensed into a large formation.

Then, regardless of the steepness of the situation in front of the earth mountain, he directly activated the formation, and came obliquely towards the Zhenqi formation of the Dragon Army.

He even took the lead, like a golden plate shining down.

Zhang Xing was stunned for a moment, he came to his senses, and immediately said to Xiong Bonan and Wang Shuyong: "It's still the same, I'll defend, you two wait for an opportunity to counterattack!"

As soon as the words fell, Xue Changxiong was already in the lead. Like a big sun, he ravaged along the way, grabbed dozens of steps away, and then slashed with the four-foot straight knife in his hand, and a golden knife several feet long, like the condensation of true energy, flashed out of thin air out, and then split down from top to bottom.

This move was extremely sudden, Zhang Xing's face was livid, he didn't dare to neglect, and he also lifted the startling dragon sword vigorously upwards.

Following this movement, a gust of white zhenqi several feet long rose from the formation out of thin air, and collided with the golden knife that had almost landed on the gray-white formation in mid-air, and the latter would touch the red-bottomed " Dissipate together with the former in front of the big banner with the word "解", as if the two sides are quite well-mannered.

But in fact, Zhang Dalongtou at this time already felt numb in his arms, and the sea of ​​​​qi in his chest and abdomen was churning... He only secretly regretted that he shouldn't be too big, knowing that it was a grand master who brought three Chengdans, and let him Xu Shiren and Wu Jingfeng were hiding in Pingchang City and Douzigang respectively.

Although it was a formation confrontation, and he had his hole card, but that hole card was obviously just a follow-up of deep zhenqi, but he couldn't change that he was just a condensed pill, and his method of using zhenqi was not good enough.

This sin... really deserves it.

Just as he was thinking about it, a second golden light flashed, and another golden knife appeared beside Xue Changxiong out of thin air, and then swung it vigorously, flatly cutting towards the formation of the Dragon Defeating Army.

Zhang Xing didn't have time to complain anymore, he also tried his best to counter the incoming force.

After this knife, the tiger's mouth of the right hand holding the startling dragon sword was broken. Many people in the formation were a little shaken, and some even fell off their horses on the spot.

But at this time, Xue Changxiong was followed by many officers and generals, but there were only a dozen of alchemy and alchemy masters, and nothing else. The formation seemed loose, but they followed their own generals and pressed straight.As for the Zhenqi Formation of the Dragon Destroying Army, many people had already lost their positions after passing through the previous two strikes, and the formation was a bit messy.

According to the laws of physics, it is absolutely possible for the formations of the two sides to mix at this time, and the true energy should also be mixed into one like fog.But in fact, the true qi outside the formations of the two sides had already condensed into one body. As the follow-up personnel of the formation of true qi from the officers and soldiers smashed down from top to bottom, the formations of the two sides collided head-on, like two living giants As if colliding out of thin air, the true energy directly agitated the surrounding fields, and wind and thunder were born on the ground, like the sound of a dragon.

In the Dragon's Army formation, some people who were not of high cultivation level were bleeding from the seven orifices in front of them, and died on the spot. Zhang Xing himself felt his chest and abdomen twitching continuously, and his ears were ringing and his eyes were dark.

In the opponent's formation, there were actually a few horses neighing, obviously frustrated or even dead.

At the same time, the entire battlefield fell silent.

The two sides settled down again. It turned out that the army formation led by Xue Changxiong went deeper into the camp, but it didn't move for a moment. Generally, rapid contraction and enlargement can be seen clearly.

Of course, the same is true for the gray and white formation of the Dragon Army.

Obviously, the intensity of the collision of these two knives, especially the last collision, made both sides a little unbearable.

After waiting for a while, just as Zhang Dalongtou, who was barely recovering his breath, was eyeing Xiong Bonan, suddenly, there was a clear burst of noise coming from the northeast side of the Qipan camp, that is, the direction of Pingchang County, and the southeast side of Zhang Xing and others. The ground was shaking, as if a large group of cavalry was coming.

In the formation of the Dragon Army, all the generals looked at each other, and Xiong Bonan quickly gave the answer: "It is Luo Shu and Li Li. After they broke through the corridor, they went to Pingchang City to threaten them, but they didn't go back... This is They wanted to attack our generals directly from the middle! We have been tricked, and we dare not react so hastily, and bring the elite of the Chinese army and the leaders of the practice!"

"Yes...but not." Zhang Xingchu nodded at the beginning, but soon, after he spit bloody saliva on the ground, he actually laughed out loud, and he didn't know if Zhensha was hit by the two knives just now. up. "This is Xue Changxiong, who is at the end of his skills... Li Li and Luo Shu are two guest troops, how could they fight for him?"

Among the generals in the formation, many of them were breathless, and some even obviously couldn't fight any more. Hearing these words, they all felt a little dazed.

Up to this point, Zhang Xing didn't look at the crowd at all, instead he took a deep breath, exhausted all his strength, and shouted with the true energy of the entire army formation:
"Did you hear that, Xue Changxiong? You old dog is out of skills!"

"Mad dog barking at the sun!" Xue Changxiong also laughed vigorously, without any fear, not only that, the radiance and true energy on his body became stronger and stronger, really like a big sun.

"Before you came, you thought you were a fierce tiger. Although you were tired, you still had the strength to fight!" Zhang Xingzhang seemed to be crazy, so he didn't pay attention at all, and just roared with all his might. "As soon as I came to the battle, I already knew that my family is actually just an old dog with poor skills! Look at you, you can't even gather the practitioners under the generals of your Hejian camp, but how can you count on it?" Luo Shu and Li Li, two Youzhou wolf cubs, are giving your life to this old dog?! I'm here to see if they can destroy my generals?!"

"If they can't take the general platform, I'll finish you little dog here!" Xue Changxiong confronted with awe.

"Then you come?!" Zhang Xing scolded vigorously. "Have you finished shaking your hands yet?!"

There was no response from the other side for a while, but the formation obviously began to organize and activate.

"Do you think it's a grandmaster with three elixirs against five elixirs? Have you ever thought that I still have 20 strange scriptures?!" Zhang Xing scolded. "You thought it was 20 against 40, [-] against [-]?! In fact, it was you, an old dog with a few puppies, against the enemy and us for [-]! Against [-] counties in Hebei! The violent Wei Dynasty is going down, and everyone in Hebei wants to see it You bring your own destruction, not to mention being a grandmaster, you are a great grandmaster, throwing all your troops on this trip is just bringing your own destruction!"

The glowing formation on the opposite side had already been restarted, and since the voice on this side fell, Zhang Xing was not just talking about it, but also urged the yellow puma under his crotch, holding the startling dragon sword, and started it in the opposite direction towards Xue Changxiong's formation Come over, the distance between the two sides is dozens of steps, before reaching the front, an arrow wrapped in Duanjiang's true energy is shot out in front of him.

In the opponent's formation, someone slightly raised his hand and blocked the blow.

Listening to the sound, it was as crisp as if some chopsticks hit the bottom of the pot.

But at the next moment, the speed of the Zhenlong army's zhenqi formation did not decrease, and the entire formation collided head-on. The two formations collided, and the surrounding fences and earth barriers collapsed. After the sound of rumbling horseshoes.

Not only that, after the collision, the two sides brushed past each other, and suddenly, a purple light wrapped around the big flag with the word "拍", turned around and stretched out, a purple light rolled up, and hit the officer's formation, It's like hammering a drum.

These two sounds with almost no gap, like a reminder, immediately aroused the agitation of the whole army. In the evening, the most intense battle in the five days since the war started completely broke out.

On the front line, the officers and soldiers tried their best to cross the earth hills and launch a strong attack.On the east side of the battlefield, thousands of Youzhou iron cavalry suddenly reached the flank with the mobility of the cavalry. The leaders of the battle formation joined forces to block it.Soon, one of the five leaders left by the former army, Sun Xuanzhi, who occupied the northeast corner of the Qipan camp, and his subordinates voluntarily gave up the camp at the corner, and also went to the rear for support.

What is even more eye-catching is that in the northeast corner of the battlefield, the coaches of the two sides, each leading the elites of both sides, started a deadly battle there like giant beasts wrestling.

The surrounding fences, ditches, and earth barriers, including the abandoned huts and barracks, were all destroyed by the drumming of true energy.

However, this kind of fighting state like a flashback, like a temporary drink of medicinal wine, is destined to be just a flash in the pan-no one can support such a fierce battle.

The two bytes that caused things to change were that the reinforcements in Banxian county came out of the city to help at the request of Wei Xuanding, and then, a streamer coming from behind the cavalry of Youzhou camp arrived on the battlefield.

The streamer flew across the air and landed in the army formation. He obviously hesitated for a moment, but headed towards the battlefield of the Zhenqi army formation in the northeast.

"The hero of Lu County is here." Li Cheng, the eldest son of the governor of Youzhou and the first middle man of Youzhou, watched Li Li go over, and suddenly laughed immediately, as if the fierce battle around him had nothing to do with him... It seems to be true . "General Luo, if you want me to say, the battle will be won or lost, and only the qi will collide over there. Why should we do it?"

Luo Shu was stunned and hesitated for a while: "Boss Xue treats each other with courtesy, so we can't go back empty-handed?"

Li Li didn't refute it, but just looked around, and then suddenly pointed to a place.

Luo Shu narrowed his eyes slightly, and when he saw a man in a dirty black cloak with his back leaning on a Sun Ziqi flag, shouting continuously, and ordering everyone to repair the camp, he suddenly came to his senses: "Take this man's life? "

"This person came from another place temporarily, and he was obviously the commander of the battalion, so he didn't dare to abandon the flag, but his cultivation was not enough. I looked at it, and there was absolutely no Congealing Pill...Why try to take this person's life? If you can't, go away , it depends on the reaction... If the thief retreats and collapses, why not fight as hard as he can?" Of course Li Li also had something to say. "But if it doesn't collapse, this person's life is enough to explain to Xue Changxiong."

"General Li is here to command." Luo Shu immediately ordered seriously. "My son holds my banner and goes to the west to charge... Laobai, Gongshen, you guys take off your hat tassels and replace them with ordinary iron spears, come with me."

After saying this, Luo Xin walked away with a silver spear on a white horse, which really attracted the attention of the entire front line. At the same time, a team of more than ten elite riders behind Luo Shu removed their conspicuous objects and replaced them with ordinary iron spears. , and then activated together with Luoshu, taking advantage of the chaos to move forward.

Li Li stared enviously at the backs of the dozen or so riders without taking his eyes off them.

After a while, this team of cavalry slowly moved to the front of the opponent's trench, and Luo Shu not only did not dismount, but accelerated, and at the same time released the cold zhenqi from his body, and the more than ten cavalry behind him also released their zhenqi, which was actually a faint connection It became a small army of true energy.

A dozen or so riders form a formation, naturally as if they were one body, and when the person is Pi Yi, more than a dozen riders have amazing equestrian skills, easily crossing antlers, earth barriers, and inclined logs in front of them.The leader in the black cloak didn't notice it at first, but when the other party's true energy burst and the horse came over, he was even more stunned and at a loss.And when he reacted, the opponent had already gone straight to the flag, so he hurriedly raised his sword with his true energy, and called out the guards around him.

Unexpectedly, when Luo Shu got in front of him, he didn't rush to kill at all, he just reined in his horse and raised his hand to throw it. The spear in his hand was wrapped in ice and true energy, and it was like a child's play, nailing the opponent to the flag.

The latter howled and screamed, shaking the battlefield.

Luo Shu didn't get off his horse to kill this person, but took advantage of the situation to turn his horse and leave.

Among the seven or eight riders behind him, three or four riders were on the outer side, all followed suit, threw their iron spears, and then left straight away.

When the soldiers of the Dragon Army around him went to look again, the leader Sun Xuanzhi had already had two or three iron guns inserted into his body, and he was out of breath on the spot.

On the other side, Zhang Xing didn't know what was going on here at all, but it didn't delay him, who was already red-eyed, when he saw Xu Shiren coming to help, he ordered from afar: "Leader Xu, go and sit on the stage, and I'll take care of the old dog here." !"

Xu Shiren heard the words, and immediately pointed to the ground and jumped over, then turned back without interfering.

But when he turned back and saw the situation here, he was finally depressed and regretted not being able to save the next leader.

However, Xu Shiren himself did not know that his return directly contributed to the rapid end of the sudden outbreak of the battle between the two sides-although the second general of Youzhou and his subordinates were obviously superior in strength, as Zhang Xing said, it seemed impossible He really worked his life for Xue Changxiong, so after seeing Xu Shiren, who had been entangled with him during the day, arrive, he didn't intend to take advantage of the situation and instead chose to retreat immediately.

After the Youzhou army left, the front line was also discouraged in person, and after Xue Changxiong and Zhang Xing collided with each other, although the momentum did not decrease, but seeing that the other party was also not weak, he finally put away his extra thoughts and saw a Seeing the opportunity, he led the masters of the army to withdraw together.

At this time, the sun has not completely set.

"So, three rudder masters, five sub-rudder masters, eleven team generals, and one leader died? There are less than five leaders, many of whom are either flawed or internally injured, and will not be able to fight again within a few days?"

The sky was dark, and in the last ray of sunlight, Zhang Xing leaned against the remnant wall of a house that had been obviously smoked, clutching the reins of a yellow puma, and finished listening to the report with a blank expression.

"Yes." Zhou Xingfan's mouth was obviously stained with blood. "Since arriving in Hebei, there has been no such damage."

"It doesn't matter." Zhang Xing responded with awe. "It's not bad as I expected. It doesn't take another ten days. Within three to five days, the battle will be like a torrential rain, and the result will be unstoppable."

No one around responded, it wasn't that everyone didn't believe it, and it wasn't that Zhang Xing didn't have much authority. In fact, after this battle, people who had always thought that Zhang Dalong would only recruit outsiders since the army was reorganized were a little convinced.

It's just that everyone is too tired, and the battle just now was too exhausting.

"Boss Shan, Chief Cheng." Zhang Xing swallowed, and turned to the two of them. "Are you two still strong?"

Shan and Cheng were already exhausted and had obvious hidden wounds, but upon hearing Zhang Xing's words, they were all shocked and each came to their senses.

"When?" Cheng Zhili couldn't hide his worry. "One collapsed, and the progress of the two is not enough. Only two barely reach the edge of the hill."

"Just these two." Zhang Xing said coldly. "Can it be dug up tomorrow?"

"I can't do it." Shan Tonghai replied seriously. "I really can't do it... But if it can be done, I will never refuse."

"That's one." Zhang Xing changed his request without hesitation.

"Okay!" Shan Tonghai gritted his teeth and agreed. "Tomorrow at noon, burn the supporting wood and give it a try."

The people around seemed to want to say something, so Zhang Xing simply took the initiative to turn around and explain:

"Everyone, saying that that guy is poor today is not because he is shouting at the battle, but because he is really poor... I can see that the fate of the officers and soldiers lies in the fact that Xue Changxiong and his son are not in the same way as the other generals at all. It is also because Hejian Daying is not the same as other parties! Under internal and external suspicions, he neither dared to let his family suffer too many casualties, so that he was bullied and coerced by other generals; The subordinates of the other generals in the Hejian camp suffered too much, so that those people jumped the wall in a hurry and stopped fighting; even when they couldn't see the other masters of Chengdan in our account, they didn't dare to give their full strength... So, We must cause a large number of casualties to them in a short period of time, or intimidate them, tell them that there may be huge casualties soon, create psychological deterrence, and shake some of them! Once shaken, they will lose their combat power and wait to collapse Already!"

Some of the people around probably understood it, some half understood it, but they all nodded together.

"I really didn't expect... the general looks so invincible, but he is powerless when he comes up." It was evening, under the candlelight, Wang Yu, whose arm was wounded, looked gloomy.

"I didn't expect that either." Sima Chen Bin, who was sitting across from him, was also a little helpless. "How can the army believe this much? Before the general came, he was worried that there would be many thieves and masters, and he, the master, would be powerless, so he put his hopes on military affairs, hoping to use the army to sweep in the flood season to create a military strategy. In order to prevent him, the grand master, from really going to a decisive battle with the opponent's master; but the reason why the generals below follow boldly is to hope that he, the master, can crush the opponent's master, create an advantage, and after the victory is guaranteed, Then send the army to roll over...the result is that no one is willing to work hard!"

"Now that I think about it, when the general came here and saw that the troops were unwilling to contribute, he was already a little bit awakened and guilty. Otherwise, he wouldn't have chosen the method of warfare like piling up mountains... and today he has not taken away the remaining hidden achievements. The general is actually a little frustrated when the Dan master is forced out, and the other generals are also a little uneasy." Wang Yu was a little anxious. "If this is the case, it is better to withdraw the troops earlier, so as not to lower morale and even be taken advantage of by the enemy."

"That's the truth, but the reinforcements from other counties haven't arrived yet, wouldn't it be more ridiculous to talk about retreating?" Chen Bin immediately retorted.

Wang Yu was silent for a long time and could not speak.

After a while, Wang Yu walked away directly.

Back in the camp, just as he sat down, Wang Yu summoned his confidants and whispered to each other: "Kill the general who came to surrender."

The confidant took orders, left in a hurry, and came back in a short while—the dragon thief who came to vote during the day today was seriously injured and died directly, without leaving any words.

(End of this chapter)