A fire started and spread to the sky in an instant.

The blood dyed the woods red and burned people.

"It seems to be Jiang Chong."

Li Jiuzhou looked in the direction Wan Nanshan was pointing and saw several people in the distance covered in blood, helping each other and walking over.

Taking a closer look, it turned out to be Jiang Chong, but there were only about a dozen people following him.

"You're not dead yet." Wan Nanshan rushed over excitedly and shot an arrow, but Wan Nanshan dodged it sideways and stumbled, almost falling.

Not far away, a group of enemy soldiers were chasing Jiang Chong and the others.

"It's great to see you all." Jiang Chong had already struggled to come over.

Li Jiuzhou took a look and asked, "Where are the others?"

"They are all dead." Jiang Chong pursed his dry lips: "It seems that we are all going to die here today."

Li Jiuzhou's eyelids dropped, "I can't send a message to Wang Yuying for you."

Jiang Chong laughed heartily and tragically, "She will know that our death is worth it."

Li Jiuzhou thought for a while, took off the peace charm hanging from his neck, and handed it to Jiang Chong.

"She gave this to you, please keep it." Jiang Chong pushed back, "Since she gave this to you, I guess you hold a very important position in her heart."

Li Jiuzhou didn't know what to say. He was going to die soon, and no one would know his last words.

There were about two hundred people left, sparsely sitting on the ground or leaning on big trees. A few people took the lead in getting ready for the army, hoping to look as good as possible after death.

Soon the fire will burn through the entire mountain. In fact, even if the military appearance is not restored, it will be the same even after death. What will be left is a charred corpse. No one will be able to tell who is who, and no one will care whether you die decently or not.

The group of people in the night were like ghosts, blurred by the smoke.

Some people even prayed that it would rain heavily at this time, although they knew that this would not save the lives of hundreds of people.

The enemy troops below began to retreat. Due to the direction of the wind, the fire burned from top to bottom first, and many people had been burned to death. They could not stand the burning of the fire, let alone the wails of their companions.

No one spoke anymore, everyone sat facing north as if they had agreed.

Although no one knows where the north is, they believe in this general - Li Jiuzhou.

Li Jiuzhou was the first to prepare his military appearance and sit facing "north". Soon, the smoke became so thick that he couldn't see anything. It seemed that there were only a few people closest to you left in the world.

Li Jiuzhou closed his eyes and waited for death to come.

The fire will slowly dissipate, and people born will die slowly.

Except for the crackling sound of burning, the world was quiet.

"General, I seem to have heard the sound of the Nanzhao people retreating." Jiang Chong beside him also closed his eyes and murmured.

"It's not retreat, someone is coming." Wan Nanshan stood up and shouted excitedly: "It's General Lu!"

Everyone was awakened by his words and stood up to take a look. Sure enough, there were flags fluttering at the foot of the mountain, and the big word "Lu" on the flag was faintly visible.

"Hey, we're here." The voices of hundreds of people echoed throughout the valley.

Jiang Chong looked at Li Jiuzhou excitedly, "General, we are saved."

"Wet your clothes, rush down with the wind, don't look back, and you will count as long as you survive."

Li Jiuzhou gave an order, and everyone hurriedly wetted their clothes with water bags, urine, and wrapped the important parts of their bodies, and ran down the mountain as hard as they could.

Fire spreads much faster than people running, and the head of the fire always runs ahead.

Moreover, there are so many thorns that if you stumble, you will never get up again.

Jiang Chong and several others formed a circle hand in hand, surrounding Li Jiuzhou in the middle, and hugged him vigorously as they ran down the mountain.

"Go away, who wants you to surround me like this?" Li Jiuzhou shouted angrily, but was choked to the point of suffocation by several people.

No one paid any attention to him.

Li Jiuzhou gradually felt out of breath and his vision went dark.

He slowly opened his eyes and gradually saw clearly the appearance of the person standing next to him, it was Lu Qianqian.

Li Jiuzhou's mouth slowly opened, as if he exhaled a long breath from his belly, mixed with a deep sigh: "Am I still alive?"

"Hurry, carry them back." Lu Qianqian was urging the soldiers. Seeing that Li Jiuzhou was awake, he smiled: "Fortunately, General Li is fine."

"How are they?" Li Jiuzhou asked with difficulty.

"The enemy has been temporarily defeated by us and may counterattack at any time. Let's go back to Yizhou first."

Li Jiuzhou was carried on a stretcher by several soldiers. Along the way, he saw only corpses in horrifying forms, and no one paid any attention to him.

"General Li has made a great contribution this time." Yang Guozhong personally greeted him in Sizhou City.

Li Jiuzhou was about to get up, but was pushed back. Yang Guozhong smiled broadly and said, "General Li's injury is not healed yet. Let's go back to recuperate. Come on, please find a doctor for General Li."

After the doctor saw it, Li Jiuzhou felt extremely tired and slept for a long time before waking up.

A soldier tiptoed over and brought a bowl of chicken soup, placing it gently on the table for fear of disturbing him.

"Where is General Lu?" Li Jiuzhou grabbed his hand.

"General Li is awake. General Lu is standing guard outside. I will invite him in right now."

After a while, Lu Qianqian came in, picked up the chicken soup on the table, and sat in front of Li Jiuzhou.

"Where are the people under my command?" Li Jiuzhou asked as he sat up.

Lu Qianqian handed the bowl to him, and his words were a little heavy: "When you rushed out of the fire, there were only a dozen people left."

"There are only a dozen people left out of a thousand people." Li Jiuzhou's hands were still shaking when he held the bowl. Lu Qianqian quickly stretched out his hand to help him hold the bottom of the bowl.

Li Jiuzhou brought the bowl to his mouth, opened his mouth and drank it in one breath.

Lu Qianqian looked at him closely.

"Wannanshan, is Jiang Chong okay?"

"They're all fine, they're fine..." Lu Qianqian's eyes flickered.

Li Jiuzhou sighed, "You don't even know who Wan Nanshan and Jiang Chong are, so you just said it's okay. It seems like something happened. Has the enemy army retreated?"

"You led people to burn the granary in the rear. The enemy's backyard was on fire. You had no time to take care of yourself. My 200,000 troops killed you and fled. They have no food, grass and baggage. I think they should retreat soon. Sizhou can be temporarily stabilized."

Li Jiuzhou asked again: "What does Mr. Yang mean?"

"Gong Yang advocated sticking to Sizhou."

"No!" Li Jiuzhou placed the bowl heavily on the table, "I want to see Mr. Yang."

"Okay, okay." Lu Qianqian pushed him back, "You have been sleeping all day. It is already late at night. Mr. Yang should have rested. There is no rush to do this now. We will do it again tomorrow morning.

Discuss."

Lu Qianqian stood up and said, "You need to rest and recuperate first. You can't fall down before the war is over."

After that, he walked out and closed the door.

Have you slept all day?

Li Jiuzhou rubbed his head, still feeling some pain. He walked over and picked up a bronze mirror to look at it. He was burned in several places on his body, but luckily his face was fine.
Chapter completed!