Xu Kang looked at the officers and soldiers retreating like a tide in surprise. The order he wanted to issue was forced back into his stomach, and he stared blankly at everything in front of him, as if he was in a dream.

It was Sun Guan who came to help. Of course, his force was definitely not as strong as a thousand cavalry. After resolving the crisis at the east and north gates, Sun Guan borrowed 100 cavalry from each of them, and then went straight to the west gate.

From a distance, Sun Guan ordered ten of his cavalry to run back and forth dragging tree branches, making it appear that a large group of cavalry had arrived. Then he personally led more than 200 cavalry in front of Liu Yan, making Liu Yan think that they were a large group of cavalry coming to help.

Finally, all these illusions succeeded in deceiving Liu Yan into retreating.

When many people see the strict formations, dull military discipline, and blood sprayed in war, they will think that war should be a serious and suffocating thing. But in fact, sometimes war is like a child's play. For example, in history

In the famous Battle of Feishui, 800,000 former Qin soldiers led by Fu Jian fought against 80,000 Eastern Jin soldiers led by Xie Xuan. The result was that 800,000 soldiers were defeated just because Zhu Xu, a surrendered general, shouted from behind, "The Qin army is defeated."

The army collapsed without a fight, trampling on each other and killing countless people. Although later generations found countless reasons for it, such as the grass and trees were all soldiers, the wind and the roar of the cranes, etc. But this inexplicable failure still makes people feel incredible, but it happened at that time

.

The situation that now appears in front of Xu Kang is equally incredible. Because just now, as long as the army persisted for even one second, he would have announced his withdrawal first. But the result is that he is still guarding the city wall stupidly. Sometimes history

The appearance of is actually so ridiculous.

Liu Yan was defeated. He was defeated because of his suspicion and lack of confidence, and also because of his inertial thinking after being defeated by Xu Kang. Just like the cavalry, in fact, if you think about it carefully, Taipingdao has sent 500 cavalry from Gu'an. They

Wherever there are soldiers and horses, a thousand-man cavalry team can be organized. But just like many people used to think it was incredible for Taiping Road to have cavalry, but they just organized a 500-strong cavalry team. So when Liu

Only when Yan saw the impossible appearance of 1,000 cavalry did he believe it without hesitation.

Sun Guan's cavalry joined Zhao Bahu. When Zou Jing and others saw that they only had hundreds of poorly equipped cavalry, they were so angry that they almost vomited blood. But there was nothing they could do. It was impossible for them to start another siege.

, had no choice but to retreat slowly.

Seeing the officers and soldiers retreating slowly, Xu Kang finally breathed a sigh of relief and slumped on the city wall. Regardless, Liu Yan retreated, and he lived to change history. But Xu Kang did not feel any relaxed.

This war has exhausted all his energy. It is strange that he has obviously won the victory, but he no longer has the confidence to continue fighting. It should be time to resolve all this as soon as possible.

"Bring He Si." Xu Kang ordered. He Si is now his peace negotiation representative.

After He Si was brought in, he immediately knelt on the ground.

Xu Kang said: "Go to the military camp again and ask Master Liu Yan for a piece of paper, and I will believe you."

He Si immediately cried: "Sir, please spare my life. Now that the army has just been defeated, if I let them know that I am working for you, I will definitely be hacked to death by them." He has not forgotten the last time he was beaten.

What's going on.

Xu Kang said: "It doesn't matter. You just need to say that you have an important military report and you want to see Liu Yan in person. They will let you go." Seeing He Si still kowtow and beg for mercy, Xu Kang sneered: "If you go, the most you will die is you.

.If you don’t go, the whole family will be killed. It’s your choice.”

What other choice could He Si have? He could only agree with tears in his eyes, and then walked back towards the army camp like an abandoned little daughter-in-law.

In the Zhangjiazhuang camp, there was no longer the morning's mutual accusations and blame-shifting, only deep reluctance and deep frustration.

Liu Yan glanced around at the generals around him and knew that his error in judgment this time not only cost him the best opportunity to capture Zhuocheng, but also caused his generals to lose confidence in him. He said with tears: "My officer

Incompetent, I fell into the bandit's plan, betrayed the trust of the generals, and even betrayed the sacrifices of thousands of soldiers. I should die to forgive my sins. I only hope that you can kill more thieves in the future to repay the court's kindness.

You can rest your eyes under the fountain of wine." After saying that, he wanted to draw his sword and kill himself.

Zou Jing hurriedly stopped him and said, "My lord, why are you doing this? Victory and defeat are common matters in military affairs. How can we judge a hero based on one victory or defeat? Everyone here hopes that your lord can regroup and lead us to wash away today's shame and avenge the fallen soldiers."

.”

Regardless of whether they were sincere or not, all the generals stepped forward to advise Liu Yan to take care of himself and fight again in the future.

Just when the generals were trying to persuade Liu Yan, someone outside reported that someone from Zhuocheng had come to report important military information.

Liu Yan took advantage of the situation and asked the generals to stand up, revealed the matter, and announced that they were coming to meet him.

When the generals saw that the person who came was He Si, they all threatened to kill him. Liu Yan knew that the anger of the people was hard to come by, and immediately shouted: "Zou Jing listened to the order, take this man down, and kill him to thank all the soldiers for their spirit in heaven."

"

Zou Jing clasped his fists knowingly and said: "As ordered."

He Si was shocked when he heard this, and shouted like a pig: "Sir, please spare my life, my lord, please spare my life. I am not a spy, nor am I a Taoist priest."

Zou Jing said: "Stop his mouth and take him down." Immediately, two people came forward and tied up He Siwuhua.

He Si was taken down, and the fear in his heart hit his fragile nerves like waves one after another. Although he had imagined his own death countless times, when death actually came, the kind of feeling that came from his heart

The fear still made him unbearable. His whole body went limp and he muttered to himself, but even he didn't know what he was talking about. Until a general with a white face and a long beard walked up to him and threw him a letter,

He said: "Give this letter to the leader of the thieves on Taiping Road." After saying that, he walked away. The soldiers who were originally escorting him also untied the rope from his body and let him go.

He Si stumbled and ran in a daze for a long time before he thought, weren't they going to kill me? Why not kill me? Letter? What letter? He Si suddenly woke up and started groping all over his body, but finally found that the letter was there.

With this letter in his hand, he should be fine. Thinking of this, He Si immediately ran back to Zhuocheng.

Xue Keer was almost half pulled and half dragged to him by Xu Kang's soldiers. At this time, Xu Kang was lying quietly on a wooden bed, as peacefully as if he was asleep, with one hand weak

It hung down to the bed. The mottled iron armor, especially the black hole on her chest, swallowed up her light like a devil's mouth, causing patches of darkness to appear in front of her eyes.

Xue Keer cried and rushed forward, hugged Xu Kang to her chest and shook her, saying: "Brother Xu, you can't die." Xu Kang woke up with a burst of pain and said: "Let go, let go."

Xue Keer threw Xu Kang away with a sound of "ah", took a step back and said: "You, you are not dead."

With a "clang" sound, Xu Kang's body came into close contact with the wooden bed. The intense pain made him unable to speak clearly. "Do you want to kill me? It hurts me to death."

"

The heavy plate armor was thrown on the ground, and the "soft" fish scale armor was folded and placed aside. Although the silk clothes inside successfully stopped the blood from the gunshot wound in the chest, it also condensed with the wound. So

When the silk clothes were forcibly torn off, a heartbreaking pain spread rapidly in the chest.

Xue Ke'er looked at the numerous scars on Xu Kang's body with distress. Although the hard plate armor blocked the sharp blade, it could not stop the strong impact. There were countless bruises on Xu Kang's body that were bruised and purple.

This is the testimony left by these traumas. No wonder he was in terrible pain when I shook him twice. Xue Kerer couldn't help but scolded: "Really, after only learning kung fu for a few days, I imitated others and went to the battlefield to kill the enemy.

If it weren't for this plate armor, I don't know that you would have been killed dozens of times."

Xu Kang grinned and said, "I am the general of the Steel Sword Battalion and the commander of the entire battalion. Naturally, I have to be the first to kill the enemy in battle."

Xue Kerer said disdainfully: "He's just a kid, what can he do?"

Xu Kang said dissatisfied: "Who said I was a child? Now I am the hero who took Zhuocheng."

Xue Keer said angrily: "Hero? Really?" After saying that, he stretched out his fingers and touched the wound on his chest lightly.

"Ah!" A scream suddenly echoed through the sky.

"Do you want my life?" Xu Kang roared with his whole body trembling.

Xue Ke'er joked: "You are the hero who took Zhuocheng, why can't you bear this little pain? You'd better stay here and stop playing tricks on me as a general.

style."

Xu Kang looked at Xue Ker's leaving back and was speechless for a while. He touched the gauze on his chest again. This wound was left by Zou Jing. It was difficult for ordinary swords to penetrate the plate armor Xu Kang wore, but

The power of Zou Jing's spear was too powerful. If Xu Kang hadn't worn another layer of fish scale armor inside the plate armor, I'm afraid he would have been pierced by that spear. Thinking of the hatred, his teeth could not help but itch, and he secretly swore

I must avenge this shot.

He Si came back and brought a letter with only a dozen words. It was unsigned, but Xu Kang still believed that this letter was written to him by Liu Yan.

The content of the letter was very simple, it was an appointment with Xu Kang five miles away from Ximen.

As the sun set, Xu Kang looked at the red sky in the distance in surprise. It was strange that there was sunset in February. By the way, the folk proverb said whether it was morning glow rain or sunset rain, I couldn't remember clearly.

Just when Xu Kang was struggling with this issue, dozens of cavalry appeared in his field of vision in the distance. Judging from their attire, they were undoubtedly officers and soldiers.

Xu Kang immediately put aside the problems that bothered him and waited for the approaching of these officers and soldiers with a smile. Although there were less than ten cavalry behind him, he had already deployed hundreds of cavalry within several miles to monitor the officers and soldiers.

movement, so I’m not worried at all.
Chapter completed!