After Li Su was beaten with fifty military sticks, his back was already bloody and he was unconscious.
Fortunately, Zhao Cen carried him back to the camp and called doctors to treat him carefully, and he slowly woke up from his coma.
"Thanks to Brother Zhao for your help, otherwise I would have died under that Hua Xiong soldier's army stick!" Li Su said gratefully.
"Brother Li, you are out of town now. You and I are friends, how can I not help you?" Zhao Cen said calmly.
"Hua Xiong is valued by the Prime Minister. Now he wants to falsely accuse me of collaborating with the enemy. If the Prime Minister blames me, I will probably die. I'm afraid that because of your action of saving me, Hua Xiong will hate you and implicate you." Li Su said sadly in his heart.
"Brother Li, since you can't escape death, why not risk your life and find a way out!" Zhao Cen said to Li Su with determination.
"Hua Xiong is a narrow-minded man, but he is brave and reckless. It is better to do as he said and cooperate with the enemy to survive."
"Okay, if Hua Xiong is unkind, don't blame me, Li Su, for being unjust!"
Immediately, Li Su and Zhao Cen conspired to offer Guan Guan.
...
The next day, Gongsun Zan's army camped in front of Sishui Pass. Zhao Yun and Gongsun Yue led five thousand soldiers to challenge.
The soldiers who guarded the city hurriedly came to the governor Hua Xiong to report.
Hua Xiong was angry because of the defeat in last night's night attack. When he heard that Gongsun Zan's army was coming to challenge him, his blood immediately surged. He immediately picked up his long sword and was about to leave the city to fight.
"Commander, wait a minute, you can't kill a chicken with a bull's knife. The last general is willing to raise his troops to meet the enemy. The commander only needs to go to the city to watch the battle, and watch me take the enemy general's head and present it to the commander!" Zhao Cen hurriedly stopped Hua Xiong.
"In that case, you will go out of the city first to meet the enemy." Hua Xiong ordered.
After a while, Zhao Cen led 5,000 troops out of the city to fight. Governor Hua Xiong stood at the top of the city to watch the battle.
"You help this evil man, why don't you come and surrender early?" Zhao Yun said loudly.
"I am Zhao Cen, a subordinate of the Commander-in-Chief Hua Xiong, and I am here to receive advice." Zhao Cen shouted loudly.
"Zilong, wait a moment, let me go and get his head." As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Gongsun Yue beside Zhao Yun running out on horseback with a long sword and rushing towards Zhao Cen.
The two generals fought for several times, and Zhao Cen knocked away Gongsun Yue's long sword with one shot, then returned to his horse and retreated from the battle circle.
Gongsun Yue was about to pursue him when he suddenly saw Zhao Cen bending his bow, setting an arrow, and shouting loudly.
"Watch out... for the arrows!"
That arrow was aimed at Gongsun Yue's mount. Gongsun Yue and his horse fell to the ground. Zhao Yun saw that Gongsun Yue was injured by the hidden arrow, and immediately rushed towards Zhao Cen's army formation.
Seeing that his goal was achieved, Zhao Cen saw Zhao Yun's attack and immediately took the opportunity to retreat back to Sishui Pass.
As soon as Zhao Cen returned to the city, he saw Hua Xiong coming to greet him in person.
"Zhao Cen, you shot down the enemy general today, which can be said to have greatly boosted the morale of our army!" Commander Hua Xiong praised.
"The general returned to the army in embarrassment without making any great achievements. It's really a shame!" Zhao Cen immediately made a look of shame.
"It doesn't matter, you go and rest first and see how I kill the enemy."
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Speaking of which, Gongsun Yue checked his injuries. Except for some scratches when he fell off his horse, they were not serious. However, he was quite confused as to why the enemy general Zhao Cen used a hidden arrow to warn him loudly.
When he immediately checked the mount, he found that the left front leg of the horse was pierced by a hidden arrow. After pulling it out, he found a line of small words on the arrow.
It turned out that this was the case. At this time, Gongsun Zan hurriedly came to visit.
"Shrui, how are you injured?" Gongsun Zan asked worriedly.
"My lord, the traitor shot my mount with an arrow from behind. I was only slightly bruised when I fell off the horse, nothing serious!" Gongsun Yue bowed his hands and bowed.
"Lord, I found a line of small words on the hidden arrow fired by the enemy general. Zhao Cen shouted a warning when he fired the arrow, but it only hit my mount."
Gongsun Yue then held the arrow in both hands and handed it to Gongsun Zan to read.
Gongsun Zan saw the small characters on the arrow and did not say anything. Instead, he immediately sent an order to the generals to discuss matters in the big tent.
The Chinese military tent.
Gongsun Zan and the other generals sat down in sequence.
"Everyone must have known that Shurui was shot with a hidden arrow by an enemy general just now. There is another reason for calling the generals here today." Gongsun Zan said slowly.
Immediately, Gongsun Zan ordered his soldiers to pass the hidden arrows to the generals for inspection. After a week of circulating them, Gongsun Zan spoke.
"What do the generals think?"
"Ming Gong, I have written a secret letter, 'Xiong is domineering, Su and Cen are willing to abandon darkness and surrender to the light, and we will open the gate at midnight tonight.' We don't know whether it is true or not. There are more enemy troops in the city than ours. Don't trust it easily!" Cheng Yu was the first to say! .
"Hua Xiongfang was ambushed by our army last night. The authenticity of this news is not known yet. We need to verify the authenticity before we can make a decision." Chen Gong also admonished from the side.
"What Zhongde and Gongtai said is not unreasonable. According to my words, who among the generals is willing to go to the pass to challenge again, capture a few prisoners and interrogate the truth in Sishui Pass, so as to determine whether Li Su and Zhao Cen are true or false. "Gongsun Zan said immediately.
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a fierce general in silver armor standing up and marching out of the queue, it was Zhao Yun.
"The general is willing to challenge again before going to the pass."
"Lord, I am willing to go with Zilong!" Gongsun Yue couldn't help but said.
"Surui, you are recuperating in the camp. This time, Zilong will go to Guanqian to challenge!"
