Leaving Fishing Bend, He Ran went straight to Geqiong City. He arrived outside the city three days later. After asking the soldiers guarding the city, he learned that there was no news about the Phoenix King.
Along the way, we divided the 2,000 people into dozens of groups and spread a large net of nearly 200 miles.
He marched in the middle with the four hundred disciples of Zangxian Valley, lighting a red beacon every fifty miles. He knew that if Xiao Xiao came back, she would be extremely cautious when approaching Geqiong City. She would have to act like King Fan and defeat Xinyan's troops.
He has already planned to kill him.
After traveling for more than two hundred miles, there was still no news. He began to panic. That night he ordered his people to choose a high hill to light a large bonfire.
Xi Qun frowned greatly and advised: "Military advisor, it is no longer appropriate to mark the marching route with beacon fire. We are not familiar with the place here. It is too dangerous to light such a big bonfire. If Wang Jia comes back safely,
Sooner or later we will meet each other, there is no rush in these two days, if the enemy soldiers are really summoned, then..."
"How can there be so many enemy soldiers? This place is only two or three hundred miles away from Geqiong. It belongs to the hinterland of King Fan. Nothing will happen."
Xi Qun knew that the military advisor was anxious and did not dare to say any more, so he had to secretly send more checkpoints to strengthen the alert.
This time, Xi Qun really got it right. Two shrill bone whistles sounded in the middle of the night, causing all the disciples of Zangxian Valley to jump to their feet and immediately set up formations to guard the military advisor's sleeping quarters without waiting for orders.
He Ran was secretly frightened. As soon as he put on his armor, Xi Qun came in with a knife and reported: "Commander, there are enemy soldiers from the north, back and west. The number is unknown. It seems that they want to sneak attack us. They retreated after being noticed by the secret sentry."
He Ran frowned. He had asked the army guide before that there were no other hostile tribes nearby. Could it be that the White Lotus came back? Thinking of this, his heart suddenly tightened. If it was really the White Lotus, how could Xiao Xiao
no…….
He suppressed his panic and ordered one of his guards: "Secretly climb up to the high hill and look around." Then he went out of his tent and said to a captain: "Blow the horn and summon the nearby troops. Keep blowing to recall as many as you can."
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"Commander, please turn back to Geqiong from the east immediately. I will lead people to hold them back." Xi Qun said anxiously.
He Ran said to himself: "It can't be White Lotus's troops. We haven't encountered any defeated troops. She doesn't have this ability."
Xi Qun was so anxious that he almost got angry, "It doesn't matter whose soldiers and horses it is, the safety of the military advisor is important, and it's too late to delay any longer!" Seeing that he was still frowning and thinking, Xi Qun stopped waiting and ordered Zhong Zong and other personal guards.
: "Your escort division will leave quickly from the east!"
At this time, Xi Qun had supreme authority, so Zhong Zhen and others came up to pull He Ran away and left.
He Ran struggled hard and said: "Let me go!"
Xi Qun urged: "Go quickly!"
Zhong Zong and others hesitated for a moment and continued to pull He Ran out.
"There is an ambush in the east!" He Ran shouted.
Only then did Zhong Zong and others stop, but they still held on to him tightly, looking at the military advisor and Xi Qun at a loss.
"How do you know?" Xi Qun asked urgently.
He Ran pushed Zhong Zong and others away and said: "The enemy army may have been targeting us during the day. Knowing that we are coming from Gqiong, they will definitely retreat after being attacked. They are surrounding us to the west and north.
The two sides are trying to force us to go to the east, so we know that they don’t have many troops, otherwise they could surround us from all sides, and their main force is in the east.”
"Oh..." Xi Qun thought for a moment and said, "Then I will lead my men to fight out from the north. After scattering the enemy troops, you and your protective military advisors will return to Gqiong City while I block them."
He Ran glared at the few guards who were about to pull him away again, and scolded: "What's the hurry?! Can you win against the enemy by running away in a hurry? I said they won't have too many people. Our advantage is to fight in formation.
, their advantage lies precisely in galloping and chasing, how can they sacrifice their strengths for the sake of their weaknesses? No one can survive if they run away!"
At this time, Xi Qun no longer obeyed orders, but contradicted: "What if these are just the vanguard? Wouldn't it be worse to wait for their army to arrive?"
"The vanguard will not alert the enemy when they know they have little chance of victory."
"But what if the person leading the army is greedy for merit? This is impossible to say."
He Ran looked at him quietly for a while and said: "This possibility is not high. We may be 50% sure if we fight in formation, but not even 30% sure if we run away. Needless to say, the enemy will see us
Fudo will probably charge for a while and force us to flee to the east. You go out and let the soldiers disperse in formation and make a panic. One hundred people block the enemy in the west, and the remaining three hundred people are always ready for the Anbu Tobute formation.
Ambush the enemy in the north and tell the brothers that they must fight with great momentum and kill the enemy in fear but don't pursue them too far."
Xi Qun hesitated for a moment, then nodded vigorously and went out to set up.
After almost half an hour, the sound of horses neighing was heard from the west and north, which made He Ran even more convinced that the enemy forces on both sides were bluffing. How could a sneak attack fail to rein in the horses' mouths?
The moonlight outside was dim, and all the bonfires were extinguished. He immediately stood in front of the tent, with Zhong Zan and others closely guarding the surroundings.
A moment later, with the sound of galloping horse hooves, the enemy troops from the west and north appeared at the same time. They roared and rushed over. A captain of thousands said to He Ran through Wan Jin's interpreter: "There are less than two hundred people on both sides."
He Ran trusted the judgment of these generals who were experienced in battle and ordered him to go to the east to monitor the movements there.
The enemy army rushed more than ten feet in front of them, and the one hundred Zangxian Valley disciples who were hiding in the west fired the first round of sharp arrows. Then the bowstrings kept ringing, and one hundred people actually fired a dense rain of arrows. The wailing sound was immediately remembered.
, after three rounds of arrows, three of the one hundred Zangxiangu disciples rushed out for a small group, holding spears and wielding knives like wolves and tigers.
On the northern front, which was tens of feet apart, Xi Qun's defensive formation was not suddenly launched until the enemy was in sight. The disciples of Zangxian Valley ambushing on both wings quickly surrounded and encircled them. The enemy did not expect that the enemy would not panic under such circumstances.
They set up an ambush without any hesitation. Although they felt panicked as they felt surrounded, these people were all tough desperadoes and they knew the number of people on the other side, so they resisted desperately.
But once they got started, they quickly became frightened. Not only were the opponents skilled in swordsmanship and they cooperated extremely well with each other, but what was even worse was that their opponents seemed to be more desperate than they were, and their moves were all designed to lead to the same death. If
It was daytime, and they would see that the eyes of the disciples of Zangxian Valley were red, and the military advisor was behind them. Who would care about their own lives?
Originally, this group of enemy soldiers could hold out for a while based on their strength, but after just a cup of tea, they lost their fighting spirit. After leaving behind hundreds of corpses, only more than fifty people were able to escape. When they turned to the west to help in the battle, this group of enemy soldiers lost their fighting spirit.
The enemy troops on the side also retreated. Under the leadership of Xi Qun, the disciples of Zangxian Valley issued bursts of unique shouts, using the victory to once again boost the morale of the army.
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