"Report, General Huyan, the forward encountered resistance from the Central Plains soldiers and horses, and was defeated. Five thousand people and horses, only a few hundred people escaped..."
"Did the general rush in because of greed for merit? Who led the troops?" Hu Yanluo was a little angry.
"Return to General Huyan, the forward general has died on the battlefield!" The spy was aware that the general was familiar with him. He hid his name and did not report it. Everyone is dead, so don't harm your wife and children.
Hu Yanluo has been with Hu Yanlan for a long time, and has long been tainted by Hu Yanlan's exquisite thoughts, and knows the spies' thoughts very well. He said in a deep voice: "I know, since the person is dead, forget it."
"Where to fight?"
"Forty miles ahead, not even close to the Yellow River." The spy felt a little grateful and reported the location in some detail.
Hu Yanluo nodded: "Send the order and the whole army will pursue them until they reach Baicheng! Then send a message to Mr. Hu Yan, saying that our army has been defeated for a while and lost 4,000 men and horses. Please ask for more troops!"
The spy took the order and left. Hu Yanluo waved his hand: "Advance the troops!"
Li Dingxing was leading the Nanhuai Army on the road. After a great battle, only about 7,000 of the 10,000-strong Nanhuai Army were left. While he was on the road, a wave of people suddenly appeared on the road ahead.
Li Dingxing instinctively touched his star bow and shot three arrows today. However, Li Dingxing felt that he was in good condition. As long as the opponent's general dared to show his head, he was sure to kill him on the spot with one arrow.
"Is it Li Dingxing?" The leader on the other side was Yi Xiaodao, coming over alone.
"Brother? Brother, why did you rush in front of me instead?" Everyone parted ways outside Fengcheng. Li Dingxing didn't know where Yi Xiaodao was. He expected him to come to meet him from behind, but unexpectedly he ended up in front of him.
Yi Xiaodao came over and said, "I'm driving non-stop, but you're fighting and retreating, so I'm naturally in front of you."
"Mumu, are you okay!" Yi Xiaoling followed closely behind Yi Xiaodao and looked at Li Dingxing nervously: "You're bleeding!"
"Where is it? It's all other people's blood." Li Dingxing smiled. He didn't know whether it was the blood of the Northern Yi soldiers or the blood of the Southern Huai soldiers.
Yi Xiaodao passed by Li Dingxing and patted him on the shoulder: "Thank you for your hard work. Let's take the brothers to the back to rest for a while. I have already set up the camp."
"Brother, you..." Li Dingxing hesitated, thought for a while and continued: "You only have 20,000 troops and your morale is low. I'd better stay and help you."
Yi Xiaodao smiled and patted Li Dingxing's horse on the butt: "Let's go, I'm fine."
The war horse carried Li Dingxing forward quietly. When they passed Yi Xiaoling, the two looked at each other.
"protect yourself."
"The same to you!"
After the Nanhuai Army left, Yi Xiaodao was riding alone in the middle of the road. He looked at the exhausted people and asked with a smile: "Are you tired?"
No one responded, maybe everyone was too tired to speak.
"I'm tired too... I want to ask you something. How long have you spent with me? In the past few years, have I, Yi Xiaodao, spoken to me without counting?"
"No!" Everyone who could hear Yi Xiaodao's voice replied in unison.
Ask yourself, everyone sees what Yi Xiaodao does, and he almost always resists dangerous things. Food, grass, wages, silver, and even rewards were never in arrears.
"What I said last night still stands. When daybreak, you will decide for yourself where to go." With this sentence, Yi Xiaodao channeled his inner strength and his voice echoed through the entire army.
"Master Yi is benevolent and righteous!" Everyone's faces showed a hint of joy.
One of the generals said with a smile: "Mr. Yi, if the Northern Yi soldiers had not come..."
"If you don't come, you can leave! I will never force you to stay!" Yi Xiaodao's words were loud and clear.
The sky is getting darker, and many people understand that it is almost dawn.
No one is smiling anymore. Everyone knows in their hearts that whether they live or die, go or stay, this is the last battle for many people with Yi Xiaodao.
In the distance, the figure of the Beiyi army appeared, their footsteps falling to the ground in perfect order.
Many people clenched their weapons, and their palms began to sweat. Even the war horses were panting heavily and tapping their hooves uneasily.
Yi Xiaodao chose the location well. There were some trees on the side, and the shadows just covered the soldiers and horses. The Beiyi Army did not notice anything unusual.
"Wait a minute!" Hu Yanluo suddenly waved his hand to stop the army: "There are lush woods ahead and the road is unclear. Let's go and find out with two spies!"
The two spies rode out in response and headed straight for Yi Xiaodao.
Everyone on Yi Xiaodao's side couldn't hold back anymore and wanted to fight.
"Fang Qianlong, Mo Pengju." Yi Xiaodao called the two of them.
Two figures ran out from both sides of Yi Xiaodao's horse, lurking all the way to greet the Beiyi spies.
As soon as the Beiyi spies got closer, they were shocked to find a large group of soldiers and horses waiting here. Just as they were about to speak out to warn, Fang Qianlong and Mo Pengju stepped forward.
Fang Qianlong stretched out his arms, hugged the horse's neck, and turned over. The other hand had already reached the scout's throat, and with a strong hook, the scout opened his mouth but could not say a word.
Mo Pengju took the matter directly, stepped on the scout's instep, pushed hard, climbed onto the horse's back, and sat face to face with the scout. As soon as the scout opened his mouth, a dagger was inserted into his mouth, blocking his unsaid words.
"Hey, what's going on ahead?" The general next to Hu Yanluo asked loudly.
Yi Xiaodao quickly replied: "Sir, there is nothing wrong, but there seems to be some people at the corner ahead."
"Keep moving forward to investigate!" the war general continued to order the "scout".
Yi Xiaoling whispered from the side: "Brother, you scared me to death..."
Yi Xiaodao smiled softly: "Oh, if he didn't say there were soldiers and horses in front, what would he do if he asked these two people to go back and recover?"
The Beiyi army moved, firmly believing in the "scout's" words, and slowly moved towards this side.
"The whole army is ready!" Yi Xiaodao did not dare to speak loudly and ordered in a low voice. Only Yi Xiaoling, Bai Xinglong and others nearby could hear him.
The entire army was hunched over and ready, as if everyone had heard Yi Xiaodao's order.
"kill!!!"
When the Beiyi soldiers walking in the front spotted Yi Xiaodao and others, the sky turned slightly brighter. Yi Xiaodao was the first to shout, and even shouted the word "kill" before the Beiyi soldiers gave a warning.
Yi Xiaodao took the lead and swept across with his sword. His sword energy was as condensed as white practice. He killed dozens of people in a row before being blocked by a Beiyi general.
The Beiyi general chopped off the sword energy with a strike of his mace. When he looked up again, he saw another more generous and solid sword energy coming, neatly cutting off the head of the Beiyi general. "Gululu" rolled to the ground.
The broad sword energy continued to sweep across, seeming to have the momentum to span thousands of miles.
One sword can destroy an army, one sword can kill a thousand!
"Hahahahaha, so happy!" Bai Xinglong laughed loudly, flew up from his horse, and rushed straight into the enemy formation of the Beiyi Army.
Also flying into the enemy formation was Yi Xiaoling, who entered the enemy formation with two swords.
Hu Yanluo was surprised. He was extremely lucky. Both Yi Xiaodao and Bai Xinglong's sword energy passed him by. It was just this sudden attack that disrupted the vanguard of the Northern Yi soldiers.
As the commander-in-chief of the army, Hu Yanluo was completely exposed to Yi Xiaodao and others. He wanted to turn around and withdraw from the formation, but the withdrawal of the commander-in-chief would inevitably shake the morale of the army.
However, there were many generals around Hu Yanluo. When they saw Hu Yanluo being exposed, they quickly gathered around him and protected him in the middle.
Yi Xiaodao saw the clues at a glance and slapped the horse's back with one palm, channeling enough energy into his hand. The scorching fire caused the war horse to suffer unbearable pain, and after neighing, it rushed towards the enemy formation.
Yi Xiaodao jumped into the air, drew his sword out of its scabbard, pointed the sword and fell down, attacking from mid-air.
One man and one horse, one in the air and one on the ground, attacking from both sides.
A Beiyi general jumped up and stood in front of Hu Yanluo's horse. He raised a large copper hammer and hit the horse's head with all his strength.
The war horse's skull was smashed on the spot by the copper hammer, and the horse's neck was twisted behind it in a weird way, but its body still hit Hu Yanluo.
The Beiyi general threw away his copper hammer, opened his hands, and hugged the horse. He was driven back a few steps by the momentum of the horse, until he retreated in front of Hu Yanluo.
"rise!"
The war general blushed, picked up the war horse, and threw it into the air.
Beside Hu Yanluo, several generals also raised their weapons and attacked Yi Xiaodao together.
Yi Xiaodao glanced down and saw the war horse flying towards him. Without changing his expression, he stepped heavily on the horse's corpse and kicked it hard.
"How dare you refuse what is given to you?"
The horse corpse fell at a faster speed and hit the general on the ground.
The Beiyi general had just thrown away the horse corpse. Before he could take a breath, he found that the horse corpse fell from the sky again. It was heavily pressed down and was smashed to death on the spot.
As for the remaining half of his life, he could only be trampled down by the two soldiers.
Look at Yi Xiaodao again, using the horse corpse to step on, he deflected the direction in mid-air and landed behind Hu Yanluo.
A ball of fierce fire burst out, knocking back the surrounding soldiers several feet, killing and injuring countless others.
Yi Xiaodao left a large open space beside him and looked at Hu Yanluo: "Leave a name so that a monument can be erected."
"Hu Yanluo." Hu Yanluo saw the fire bursting out from Yi Xiaodao's body and guessed Yi Xiaodao's identity first: "Is Wu Dinggong going to fight in person?"
"Ha, looking at your skinny look, I know your surname is Huyan. What is your relationship with that...silly dog Huyanlan?"
Hu Yanluo was laughed at by Yi Xiaodao, but he was not angry and replied calmly: "Hu Yanlan is my brother-in-law."
"Okay, then I will capture you first, and then I will go and settle the score with that silly dog!" As soon as Yi Xiaodao finished speaking, there was only a burst of rising dust left on the spot. When he looked again, he had already approached Hu Yanluo.
"How brave!" The generals beside Hu Yanluo immediately separated two people and attacked Yi Xiaodao.
In the distance, a group of soldiers from Shangwu Camp also rushed over and started fighting with the Beiyi soldiers.
The sun has emerged a little, and its dazzling light has dispelled the endless darkness thousands of miles in the sky. The next day has arrived.
But no one turned around and fled, and no one was timid about fighting. Some people were even unable to engage in battle with the Northern Yi soldiers and did not hesitate to take detours from both sides.
The battlefield is getting bigger and bigger, and the soldiers and horses of the two sides are intertwined like canine teeth, biting each other, and they are inseparable.
…
"More troops?" Hu Yanlan listened to the spies who reported the news with some confusion, and said with a smile: "Oh, the rabbit bites people when it is anxious! It must be that Luo Di was too impatient and chased those Central Plains soldiers and horses with no way out. It doesn't matter, let's go again Ten thousand more troops!"
Ten thousand soldiers and horses marched out of Fengcheng in a mighty manner and rushed south.
After the ten thousand soldiers and horses left, in a lush forest not far from Fengcheng, Zhou Ziru slowly showed a smile.
Behind him, there were about a hundred thousand soldiers smiling like this...
