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Chen Jingzhong and Chong Heihu are old acquaintances. They had cooperated a lot during the anti-Japanese war in Zhejiang.

Chong Heihu's decisive killing ability has left a very deep impression on Chen Jingzhong's mind to this day.

"Come here, open the city gate immediately. I want to personally welcome General Chong Heihu!"

In his joy, Chen Jingzhong waved his hand and issued an order to go out of the city to meet the enemy.

In fact, this was the first time in more than a month that he asked his men to open the city gate.

After a short while, Chen Jingzhong led thousands of cavalrymen and rushed out of the city.

At this time, thousands of cavalrymen led by Chong Heihu had already advanced to the positions outside the city wall.

Originally, those barbarian soldiers fled in all directions due to their fear of Chong Heihu.

But under the intimidation of many barbarian generals, many barbarian soldiers had to muster up their courage to intercept the cavalry troops led by Chong Heihu.

Even so, Chong Heihu and his cavalry were still able to move unhindered among the hundreds of thousands of barbarian troops.

Finally, the troops led by Chong Heihu and Chen Jingzhong met outside the city.

"General Chen, I haven't seen you for a long time. Why do you look so disheveled?"

The spear in Chong Heihu's hand leaped, and after another barbarian soldier fell in a pool of blood, his gaze shifted to Chen Jingzhong, and a burst of laughter came out of his mouth.

What he was talking about was naturally the blood-stained armor on Chen Jingzhong's body, which did look a bit dishevelled at first glance.

"General Chong Heihu, you are ashamed to kill me! If I had not lived in this war-torn place for a long time, how could I do this?"

Chen Jingzhong also responded with a laugh.

The two met again after a long separation, and there was no estrangement at all, and they started joking around on the battlefield.

"General Chen, I am here on the orders of the Marshal to break through the enemy's siege and join you. Let me clear these annoying bugs for you first."

As the words were spoken, he restrained his smile a little and resumed fighting with the increasing number of enemies around him.

"General Chong Heihu, the enemy has hundreds of thousands of troops. We cannot stay here for long. You should follow me back to the city first!"

Chen Jingzhong knew Chong Heihu's character very well. Without Xia Yun present, this guy was simply a madman.

It is no exaggeration to say that Chong Heihu could not even care about his own safety and continued to fight with these barbarian soldiers.

"Alright! Let's go into the city first!"

After raising his hand to kill another enemy, Chong Heihu looked at the endless barbarian army and remembered Xia Yun's warning in his order, telling him not to act rashly again.

You know, it was because of his greed for merit and recklessness that he wanted to destroy the barbarian troops and deliberately threw out the 50,000 baits.

This led to the 100,000 cavalry being trapped in the Mobei Mountains.

If Xiang Wentian had not led the troops to rescue them, he and Zhao Xinlei would have been buried in Mobei Mountain long ago!

Soon, under the command of Chong Heihu and Chen Jingzhong, thousands of cavalrymen fought and retreated, and finally successfully retreated back to Shuoxi City.

The large number of barbarian soldiers who were chasing after them had to retreat because of the rain of swords from the city walls.

After Chong Heihu and others returned to the city, they immediately went to the central military tent set up in the city.

"General Chong Heihu, where is the commander now? When can he lead the army to rescue Shuoxi?"

As soon as the two sat down in the big tent, Chen Jingzhong couldn't wait to ask the question that concerned him most at the moment.

"General Chen, don't worry. The Marshal has already led all the main forces to the outskirts of Shuoxi and will soon launch an attack on the barbarian troops from the east."

"General Xiang Wentian will attack from the north by then. In addition, our army has already controlled all the cities west of Shuoxi and completed the western line of defense. Under the siege from three sides, hundreds of thousands of enemy barbarian troops are already under heavy siege by our army!"

"I received an order from the commander-in-chief to rush into the city to meet the general. Once the battle begins, the general will lead the remaining troops to attack the center and form an internal and external alliance with the main army."

Chong Heihu spoke one after another and directly explained the current battlefield situation to Chen Jingzhong.

Hearing this, Chen Jingzhong was overjoyed and his eyes even became slightly moist!

"Great! I have finally waited for this day! There are still about 50,000 soldiers in the city who can go to the battlefield, and nearly 7,000 wounded soldiers."

"As soon as the commander-in-chief launches the attack, our army will open the city gates and fight outside the city!"

Chen Jingzhong's voice was quite excited. In the past month or so, although he led his army to block countless attacks from the barbarian troops.

But generally speaking, he had always been in a passive state of being beaten, which made Chen Jingzhong, who was used to fighting on the battlefield, feel extremely depressed.

If it weren't for the overall situation, he would have led his troops out of the city and fought a decisive battle with those northern barbarians!

"General Chen, you have worked hard. The Marshal ordered me to tell you that after this war, the Marshal will petition the court to confer you the title of Third Rank General of the Cavalry."

Chong Heihu then added.

Among the series of military positions in the imperial court, the third-rank General of Cavalry could already be ranked among the top fifty.

"Thank you for your kindness, Marshal. In this decisive battle, I will definitely lead the way and set an example for our imperial army!"

Chen Jingzhong nodded solemnly.

Although he had served under Xia Yun before, his rank was only that of a fifth-rank lieutenant general.

Now with Xia Yun's promise, after this war, he will be a third-rank general of the imperial court!

Time passes minute by minute.

As the saying goes, a storm is about to come.

The ray of sunset glow that was originally hanging in the sky quickly disappeared without a trace when the moonlight gradually enveloped the earth.

At the same time, it was replaced by a thick dark cloud!

This huge dark cloud came so quickly that even no one on the battlefield expected it.

"Boom!"

As the sound of thunder resounded through the wilderness, a silver-white lightning flashed across the sky, and in an instant, it illuminated the entire world!

"Three armies, listen up! Fight!"

On the outskirts of Shuoxi City, at the forefront of the hundreds of thousands of imperial troops that had emerged from the depths of the mountains, Xia Yun, the commander-in-chief of the army, raised a long sword high in his hand.

As an extremely loud voice came out of Xia Yun's mouth, the battle in the Hexi Corridor officially entered its climax!

The order to go to war had been issued, and nearly 200,000 imperial troops immediately poured out like a tide and launched a large-scale attack on the barbarian troops from the east of Shuoxi City!

At this moment, heavy rain fell from the sky. The sound of the rain, combined with the night sky, seemed to cover up all the noise in the world.

Hundreds of thousands of barbarian troops responded hastily. They had no idea that the imperial army was hiding in the mountains.

Faced with the sudden appearance of nearly 200,000 imperial troops, the barbarian generals began to command their troops to launch a counterattack.

In a flash, the troops of both sides launched a bloody life-and-death battle in the rainy night!