Country and Beauty

Murong Ke did not wait to check on the horses, but waited for Gao Xu, who was supervising the battle at the front line.

Gao Xu gasped for breath as he said to Murong Ke, "General, leave quickly.

Murong Ke was definitely a famous general in history. Although he did not have the courage to remain calm despite being pressured by Tai Shan, he still had the ability to endure such a sudden situation. Murong Ke took a deep breath and asked, "Sir. "What's going on?"

Gao Xu half knelt on the ground, covering his face, as if he was lowering his head in tears. It's all my fault, it's all my fault! "

Murong Ke asked in confusion: "Sir, do not blame yourself. The Han people have a saying, "A wise man always misses something."

Gao Xu then stood up and said: "General, I have fallen for the Qin's evil scheme!"

"What do you mean?"

"So, before this, the Qin Army purposely showed weakness. They hid a large number of elite troops inside the pass, and the siege troops were defeated the moment they came into contact with the enemy!" Then, Gao Xu explained the scene on the battlefield in detail to Murong Ke.

Murong Ke let out a long sigh, and said helplessly: "Oh my great Yan, such a great opportunity, actually flipped Qin Army over."

Gao Xu asked: "Then what about our army's food?"

"Qin Army simply did not use a ground assault, but instead used the aerial man to ignite the flames. They were originally at their wit's end in the face of such a situation. Now, over two hundred thousand stones and fodder have all been burned, and over a hundred thousand soldiers do not even have a single day's worth of rations. " This was the first time Murong Ke felt so powerless.

Gao Xu said: General, the only thing we can do now is to return to Chengdu, gather and replenish food supplies.

Murong Ke nodded. "I guess that's the only way."

However, Zhangsun Yan realized that the rebel army's fighting strength was far from what he had imagined. Zhangsun Yan then took the initiative to change the order that he had to defend and not let go, and with a portion of his military power coming out of seclusion during the night, he burned the rebel's food in the form of a surprise attack. He used the scrofula's defending army and the Zhuge crossbow, to give the rebel army a greater amount of damage, and after the arrows were exhausted, he created the illusion that the Qin Army's remaining strength was insufficient to attract the rebel army to attack the city at full strength.

When both sides were exhausted, they would counterattack with the elite imperial guards.

Other than the people of Qiang and other minorities who were preparing to take advantage of the situation, there were more than a hundred thousand of rebel troops in the sky. To be honest, the rebel soldiers had not made any progress while attacking scrofula for more than two months. All the nomadic peoples had the same national characteristics, they were as despicable and shameless as an island nation. They were all bullying the weak and afraid of the strong, facing Qin Army's tenacious resistance, facing such a suicidal tactic, all the rebel soldiers naturally knew that the one who was in front was the worst.

Some of the more timid and astute tribal leaders felt sorry for their tribe's forces, so they secretly commanded their troops to retreat, but in the eyes of the rebel army (which was now converted into an alliance), they actually fled. Some of the more powerful military forces were not too bad, while some of the more severely injured forces immediately commanded their troops to retreat. The more people retreated, the less pressure the Evil Shadow Army would be under, and the stronger their counterattack would be. As this cycle continued, the enemy army started to retreat in secret and gradually collapsed. In the end, it became a landslide and everyone tried to run away. Perhaps in the beginning, some of the enemies just didn't want to face those crazy troops and only wanted to play some tricks to preserve the strength of their own army, but in the end, they were not allowed to do so. Everyone began to retreat or even flee.

Zhangsun Yan brandished his blade and shouted: "Attack with all your strength, and try to disperse the enemies' Formation, if you don't accept surrender, kill them all!"

Zhangsun Yan was born with great strength, and was able to pull away strong arch s with six stones. His strength was naturally incomparable to that of ordinary people, and although Heaven Bombing grenade s were five kilograms in weight, which normal people couldn't throw far, Zhangsun Yan was different. He alone was able to throw Heaven Bombing grenade s over eighty steps away. The shiny horse-chopping knife blade emitted a blood-colored cold light, bringing out line after line of strange arcs of light. Wherever he went, all the allied soldiers would fall down, and no one would be able to stop Zhangsun Yan.

The imperial guards under Zhangsun Yan's command also rushed forward crazily, like sharp blades, unhindered within the enemy's formation. Due to the fact that all of the Imperial Guards' war horses were left in scrofula Pass, in the beginning, they only pursued them on foot. As the Alliance's rear army was blown up and their horses were running around due to the aerial bombardment, Zhangsun Yan managed to grab a lot of the war horses.

However, although the people of the Qiang had a large number of cavalry, they did not have a pair of stirrups. If the imperial guards could ride on their horses and equip their horses with a pair of stirrups, their fighting strength would increase by 30%. Do not underestimate this thirty percent of combat strength. In the battlefield, this is enough to create a tremendous amount of power. But it was better to have cavalry than nothing.

Zhangsun Yan felt that he owed Xie Fei a lot.

The imperial guards under Zhangsun Yan's command were also very brave and fierce, but there was a huge disparity in their numbers. From noon till sunset, nearly three thousand imperial guards died, leaving behind only about seven hundred people. They were all wounded and exhausted.

The Heaven Bombing grenade s and arrows beside Zhangsun Yan had all been used up, and blood had long drenched his armor. Zhangsun Yan gathered the remaining 700 odd people and stopped his pursuit.

When they had set off for battle, they had over three thousand soldiers. Now that there were only six or seven hundred loose families left, Zhangsun Yan could not help but feel a little sad looking at them. Needless to say, the imperial guards already had two thousand two hundred long sleeps on their way out.

Zhangsun Yan looked up into the sky and sorrowfully shouted, "Brothers, have a good trip!"

The scrofula was defeated, Murong Ke fled in a sorry state for more than a hundred Li. Seeing that there were no more pursuers, she stopped and rested. The Allies had been ambushed by the imperial guards and had suffered heavy casualties. The morale of the entire camp was low, and many soldiers dragged their armoured weapons and broken banners into the camp, staggering and supporting each other.

The two hundred thousand warriors of the Qiang, Bai Yi, and Nightingale Tribes had fought for more than two months and had less than a hundred thousand casualties, but in just a day and a night, there were less than sixty thousand troops left. Including the injured, there were more than a hundred thousand warriors who had died, and although they were not part of Murong Ke's tribe, he could still accept it, but for the minority of the tribe, losing a large number of strong warriors was not a small price to pay. Right now, their fighting spirit was not very good either.

Murong Ke sat in the tent, and gathered all the generals who had enough strength after the battle, and listened to the report of the spies being sent, adding a sense of seriousness to her tone, she asked anxiously: "Sir, what should we do?"

"Sui Ning, Nanchong, Pang An, Yi Long and the other six County cities are still in the hands of our allied forces. If I'm not wrong, the Qin Army should be counterattacking at full force now." Gao Xu whispered into Murong Ke's ears: "Right now, we don't have any news of Liaodong. If Xie Fei were to retreat, he would have returned a month ago.

"Don't tell me …"

Gao Xu said with a grave expression on his face, "Even though I'm not certain, there's still an eighty percent chance of it happening."

Murong Ke relaxed and leaned on the back seat, laughing bitterly: "I never expected the Qin Army to be so strong, with only so few people, she actually stopped us for more than two months, and now that the main force of the Qin Army is back, we are all severely injured, hehe Xie Fei is sure that he already knew my intentions, he knows that I was only trying to force him to retreat, but he actually ignored me and allowed the people of the Yizhou to cause chaos, now that the army of the Qin Army is counterattacking, not only can they suppress us, they can also lay down the foundations of the Qin Army.

Gao Xu laughed sadly, and said unhappily: "In the face of strength, all schemes are useless."

Murong Ke was startled, then said: "If we go now, will we still have time?"

Gao Xu said: "scrofula has already been blocked off the entire way, if I am not wrong, the armies of the Western Region are definitely close by now, there is nowhere to go south, so we can only head east. But if we head east towards the Jin State's territory, will they allow us to travel?"

Murong Ke said: "What benefits do we get if we lose?"

"Sigh, even Sima Chi is afraid!"

"What is he afraid of?"

Gao Xu sighed: "Of course he's afraid that Xie Fei will use the excuse of annihilating our army to occupy Jing Prefecture."

Thinking about it, Murong Ke sat on the chair helplessly. She was speechless for a long time.

What was about to come would eventually come. Whether it was fighting to the death, or submitting to the Qin Army, Gao Xu hesitated in his heart.

Along the river, there was a tribe of Qiang people. The tribe wasn't very big, only about 200 to 300 people. There were more than 1000 people. Yet, this camp had already been turned into ruins! The big tent was still smoking, and the small tent was lying on the ground. In the distance, there were scattered cattle and horses, which were probably the property of this camp. Over a thousand corpses lay scattered in the pool of blood, some of them even showed signs of being trampled by the horses' hooves. From the looks of it, it seemed like a surprise attack.

As he continued heading east, he saw many more of these tribes along the way, all the way to Chengdu.

In a forest located in the west side of Chengdu, countless black-armored soldiers were resting. Some of them were eating rations while others were chatting in groups of three to five. Some were wiping their weapons. Other than a slight sound, the whole camp looked lifeless.

A man who looked like a general was leaning against a rock, his head resting on his hands, looking up at the stars. Observing his appearance carefully, he realized that this man was Li Nong, one of the generals of the army. Li Nong was currently the commander of the Western Region Army and commanded 50,000 troops and horses. His official residence was of the fourth rank and he rode the Cockroach bravely. Li Nong closed his eyes and suddenly heard the sound of rapid hoof steps. Li Nong sat up and looked in the direction of the sound of the horse's hooves.

A group of cavalrymen dressed in black clothes and armor were charging over at high speed.

Li Nong heaved a sigh of relief. "How is it?"

The man immediately mounted his horse and cupped his fist, "General, I will not disappoint you."

The man wiped the sweat off his forehead and said: "East of the River Qu, there are a total of 680 tribes in total. All of them are cleared and returned to the three paths that must pass through the Qinghai Highlands. The simple city stronghold has already been built, and each stronghold is guarded by 6000 troops and horses.

Li Nong nodded and said, "You've worked hard."

"Rest on the spot. Prepare to storm Chengdu tomorrow." Li Nong said.

The moonlight shone like water, and the land was silent. After midnight, approximately seventy to eighty people from the Qiang and the Shi Clan, who were part of the scouting party, dashed towards their location at a rapid pace. At the same time, he let out a series of laughter.

"General, a rebel squad is coming this way!" A Western soldier reported.

Li Nong smiled calmly. Capture them alive. "

"Yes sir!"

These seventy to eighty scouts didn't feel that death was going to fall on their heads at all. When they arrived at the edge of the forest, they also didn't sense anything unusual. In the darkness not far away from them, a pair of bright eyes flashed.

The scouts continued down the road into the woods.

Suddenly, dozens of shadows descended from the trees without a sound. They pulled on ropes and sat on the backs of the scouts. The sharp blades in their hands were pointed directly at the neck of the scouts. These black clad soldiers who were not weak were the Qin Army's scouts. It was also the quasi-special forces trained by Xie Fei.

Seventy to eighty scouts were captured alive without any resistance.

Li Nong looked at these captured scouts and thought carefully.