Delong

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. to report. "My general asked me to report that Pingchang County has been separated, and the camp in the middle has been broken."

Xue Changxiong smiled slightly: "I have 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 over there, pulled out the fences, laid trenches, and they dispersed. Part of it After entering Pingchang County, some of them 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 general that there is obviously a master in Pingchang County. He was exposed when he went out of the city to meet the fleeing troops. His cultivation level is obviously far superior to him, but I don't know whether it is Xu Shiren, the hero of Lu County or that What Wu Brothers!」

Only then did Xue Changxiong become serious, but he only became serious, and then nodded: "It's already expected. Let your father and General Li clean up the corridor, and then go west along the corridor to find When you reach the pincer position, withdraw and come back to 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 Shishan 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 Chief Wang, who was in charge of the front line, before continuing 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 platform in the middle of the chessboard camp.

Compared with the previous few days, it is obviously much more lively here, and many leaders

They all went back and forth like Sun Xuanzhi, with more military commanders and messengers, and below Zhang Longtou, the big leaders and leaders present were also different from the tension of the previous few days. They had already started to initiate discussions, discuss countermeasures or suggestions, and then Make a suggestion to Zhang Dalongtou.

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

"Things did not come to this for no reason. In the beginning they attacked directly, using blocks as trenches, as ladders, and as shields. If you use your strength, you can break the camp, but it turns out that our barracks are stacked, and we are not afraid of losing one or two camps, worrying about casualties, and then we started to build up mountains.”

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

"I've said it all. I'm worried. If we don't get rid of the soil and mountains, we come directly to the fence to pile up the soil. They are all auxiliary soldiers and civilians. If we concentrate our bows and crossbows on the front line and shoot intensively, we will definitely suffer heavy losses. They are newcomers. Bo casualties and morale is broken."

"This is down.
"But now that they have erected earthen hills, we have followed suit. They have built up earthen hills, and we have built up brickhouses. Does it mean that his earthen 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 take down the camp, how can you attack the city?"

"That's not the problem, but what's the use of attacking the city? He came to crush 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 from the very 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 is no letter from a fool!"

"If you ask me, at this time, the Hebei people are trustworthy. They are all killed by their opponents. The Hebei battalions fought bravely, and Dou Lide's battalion family members all went out to fight.
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 red banner with the word "拍" 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.

"Dalong." Sun Xuanzhi looked embarrassed. "I just came across an incident. 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 burrow will be leaked." Sun Xuanzhi's tone became more and more difficult. "He is a team leader, and he 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 you want to cut off the hole, there must be some movement, then 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 one side to ask: "After shouting these two days, how many surrendered to the officers and soldiers? And 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 is not clear whether it was caused by spreading leaflets and shouting at each other, or whether they were injured on the front and surrendered because they were afraid of death. Therefore, there are also trivial things. Others are not popular. However, the truth is that once the front is not supported, there are indeed many people who call for surrender to save their lives, no matter the enemy or us.”

Zhang Xing thought about it for a while, and could only think of a way to make up for it: "If you make a temporary dispatch today, you will easily 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 respective 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. In this way, not only can you find out the reality of one or two opposite parties, but you can also try to pass some fake news to make the other party mistakenly believe it is true. "

It's doable!" Zhang Xing nodded immediately. "You arrange this matter yourself, just gather it up with me every 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?" Zhang Xing had already noticed the sound of the drums and the movement of the flag on the opposite side without the frontline troops reporting back, and then asked in surprise. "Is Xue Changxiong releasing his true energy? What is he going to do?!"

Xiong Bonan jumped up from the rammed-earth general platform without hesitation, 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 seems to be preparing to form an formation to attack !"mouth
Zhang Xing immediately made the worst guess: "Is it true that someone saw the burrow 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 of battalions in front, and prepare to meet the enemy with a big formation! Tell Wang Wulang to stay still for a while, and then enter the formation when we pass by !"

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 that dirt mountain is in the middle? Is Xue Changxiong obsessive-compulsive?
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 out." Zhang Xing said, releasing the true qi of ice 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, then 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 face. Dissipate together with the former in front of the big banner with the word "解", as if the two sides are quite well organized.

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 secretly regretted that he should not have supported him. Wu Jingfeng 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 crime 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 Destroying Army, the generals looked at each other and changed color, and Xiong Bonan quickly gave the answer: "It is Luo Shu and Li Li. After they broke through the tunnel, they went to Pingchang City to threaten them, but they didn't go back. This is double material They wanted to attack our generals directly from the middle! We have been tricked, we dare not react so hastily, and bring the elite of the Chinese army and the leaders of the practice!"

But also not. Zhang Xingchu nodded at the beginning, but soon after he spit bloody saliva on the ground, he actually laughed out loud, not sure if he was stunned by the two stabs just now. "This is Xue Changxiong. The Qiandonkey team has poor skills. Li Li and Luo Shu are two visiting troops. How could they work hard 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.

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

'Before you came, you thought you were a tiger. Although you were tired, you still had the strength to fight!" If Zhang Xingzhang was crazy, he didn't pay attention to it at all, and just yelled hard on his own. '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 right here!" Xue Changxiong confronted with awe.

"Then you come?!" Zhang Xing tried his best to curse. "Have you finished shaking your hands yet?!"

There was no response from the opposite side for a while, but the big formation was obvious, and they began to organize and start.

Do you think it’s a grandmaster with three Chengdans against five Chengdans? Have you ever thought about it, I still have three hundred strange scriptures here?!” Zhang Xing scolded. "You thought it was 20 against 20, 40 against [-]?! In fact, it was you, an old dog with a few puppies, against the enemy and us for [-]! Against the twenty counties of Hebei! 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 The distance between the two sides was dozens of steps, but before they got there, an arrow wrapped in Duanjiang's true energy was shot out in front of them.

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 true qi formation slowed down, and the entire formation collided head-on. The two formations collided, and the surrounding fences and earth barriers collapsed. Overwhelmed 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. 1 These two sounds with almost no gap, like a reminder, immediately triggered 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, several Youzhou iron cavalry suddenly arrived at the flank by relying on the mobility of the cavalry, then dismounted and launched a surprise attack on foot, trying to cut into the center line of the chessboard camp along the previous corridor, but were defeated by Sun Xuanzhi, Yan Qing, Liu Zhouchen and others. The leaders of the battle formation joined forces to block it.soon,
One of the five leaders left behind 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.

"Here comes the hero of Lu County." Li Cheng, the eldest son of the governor of Youzhou, and the first Zhonglang of Youzhou, watched Li Li go over, and suddenly laughed on his horse, as if the fierce battle around him had nothing to do with him. .like indeed. "General Luo, if you want me to say, the victory or defeat in this battle is just a clash of true qi over there, why should we bother?"

Luo Shu was stunned and hesitated for a while: "Director Xue treats each other with courtesy, why don't we 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 policeman with his back leaning on a Sun Ziqi flag, shouting continuously, 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 he definitely didn't stop. Why? Why don't you try to take this person's life? If you can't, go away If the culprit retreats and collapses, why not fight with all his strength?" 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, hold my banner, go west
Laobai, Gongshen, you guys take off your cap tassels and replace them with Xun and Changtie guns, 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. The iron gun was then activated along with Luo Shu, taking advantage of the chaos and thrusting 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 came to the front, he didn't go 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 zhenqi, 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 surrounding soldiers of the Dragon Army went to look again, the leader, Sun Xuanzhi, had already had two or three iron spears on his body, and he was out of breath on the spot, and two guards died beside him.

On the other side, Zhang Xing didn't know what was going on here, but it didn't delay the red-eyed him. When he saw Xu Shiren coming to help, he ordered loudly from a distance: "Leader Xu goes to the stage to 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. He 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 captains, five co-rulers, eleven captains, and one leader died? There are less than five captains, many of them have minor injuries or internal injuries, and they 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 damage like this.

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.

"Shan Datou, Cheng Datou. Zhang Xing swallowed, and turned to the two of them. "Do you two still have the strength?

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 of them has collapsed, and two of them have not made enough progress, and only two of them barely reached the edge of the mound."

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

'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 try it."

The people around seemed to want to say something, so Zhang Xing simply took the initiative to turn around and explain:
"Everyone, today's saying that that guy is poor is not to shout and cheer, but that he is really poor. I can see it. The fate of the officers and soldiers lies in the fact that Xue Changxiong and his son are not the same as the other generals at all. 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; he did not dare to let Hejian The subordinates of the other generals in the camp suffered too much losses, so that those people jumped the wall in a hurry and stopped fighting; even when they couldn't see the other masters in our accounts, they didn't dare to give their best. Therefore, we must In the short term, cause them a large number of casualties, or intimidate them, tell them that there may be huge casualties soon, create a psychological deterrent, and shake some of them! Once shaken, they will lose their combat power and wait for them to collapse!"

Some of the people around probably understand it, some half understand it, but they all agree.

I really didn't expect that the general looked so invincible, but he was so weak when he came up. At night, under the candlelight, Wang Yu, whose arm was wounded, looked gloomy.

'I didn't think so either. Sitting across from him, Sima Chen Bin was also a little helpless. "How can the army believe so much? Before the general came, he was worried that there would be many thieves and masters, and he, the master, would be incapable of doing anything. So he put his hopes on military affairs, hoping to take advantage of the flood season to use the army to sweep and create a military strategy. In order to prevent him, the grand master, from going to a decisive battle with the opponent's master; but the reason why the generals below follow boldly is that he, the grand master, can crush the opponent.
Overwhelm the opponent's masters, create an advantage, and have a guarantee of victory, and then send an army to roll over, and 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 would not have chosen the method of warfare like mounding mountains. And today he has not taken away the remaining Cheng Dan that he has hidden. The general is actually a little frustrated when the 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, lest morale will be further reduced, or 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 even more ridiculous to talk about retreating?" Chen Bin retorted immediately.

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 said in a low voice, "Kill that general who came to surrender."

The confidant took the order, 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.

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