The swallows on the river stand on the horse, looking at the little stone city that was beyond recognition in the distance, and felt a lot of emotion.

More than ten years ago, he served as the garrison general of the city. At that time, Cheng Wuben was the commander of the eastern border army of Great Chu. Here, he fought with the Qi people for many years. Zhou Jiyun was once one of his most important opponents. Unexpectedly, he came to this small city again more than ten years later, and the task he was responsible for was to save Zhou Jiyun.

Life is sometimes ridiculous.

The tragic battlefield was beyond his expectations. The layers of corpses outside the city were all over his vision. Some of them were obviously places where the Bian department specially used to place the bodies of the dead. They walked too hastily that even the bodies of the dead could not be buried, burned or taken away, and they could only be left to be abandoned on the battlefield. The closer they were to the city wall, the more bodies there were. With Jiang Shangyan's battlefield experience, there were only 5,000 dead outside the city.

These are all elite soldiers of the Bian tribe. Looking at the broken and collapsed siege cars and other large siege tools, Jiang Shangyan couldn't imagine how Xiaoshicheng persisted until now.

He knew that the real soldiers in Xiaoshi City were only related to Ning, and in the previous stage, this group had a considerable casualties and had no time to replenish the attack of the Qi army in Luzhou.

I'm afraid there are not many living people in the city. Jiang Shangyan looked at the broken Mingwei flag floating above the city wall, looked at the sparse crowd standing cheering on the top of the city, stroked his right hand and bent down to express his respect.

He jumped off his war horse and led it towards Little Rock City. He used this method to express his admiration for the fighters in this town.

Jiang Shangyan climbed to Xiaoshi City along a cloud ladder still leaning against the city wall, because several gates of Xiaoshi City were blocked from the inside with big stones, and now no one in the city has moved these stones away.

"General Jiang, you came too timely." Guan Ning said: "If you come one day later, the place will change hands, and my old Guan will die."

"What a hero!" Jiang Shangyan patted his shoulder, "Guan Ning, I know you. When you were still in Canglang Camp, I knew there was a person like you."

Guan Ning grinned and smiled happily. To him, Jiang Shangyan was a senior. When Jiang Shangyan was still the commander of the Baoqing camp, he was still a grassroots officer. Later, he was promoted to the lieutenant step by step, but there was still a big gap from a senior officer like Jiang Shangyan. Jiang Shangyan said that he had heard of his name at that time, which was the greatest recognition of himself.

"General Jiang, I will never thank you for your kindness!" Yue Kaishan bent down deeply to greet him.

Jiang Shangyan narrowed her eyes, but her eyes looked a little cold when she looked at Yue Kaishan. Yue Kaishan was Zhou Jiyun's number one strategist and his biggest confidant. General Jiang Tao finally died under Zhou Jiyun's pursuit.

Yue Kaishan straightened his waist and saw the cold light in Jiang Shangyan's eyes, he was stunned, but he immediately remembered something and his face was a little pale.

After a long time, Jiang Shangyan let out a heavy breath and said lightly: "There will be a family in the future, and there is no need to say whether to thank you." He turned around and wanted to leave, and Yue Kaishan said: "General Jiang stayed."

"Is there anything else?" Jiang Shangyan turned around suddenly.

"I know the knot in General Jiang's heart. No matter when General Jiang wants to make this sigh, he can come to find Yue, and Yue will follow." Yue Kaishan said frankly.

Jiang Shangyan Heran said: "Scholars are just too sensible. Yue Kaishan, I know what you are thinking. I can tell you clearly that it is impossible. The only thing I can make myself do is to take revenge without publicizing it. Do you understand?"

Yue Kaishan said sadly: "Since we will be a family in the future, can't we be friends?"

"No!" Jiang Shangyan said decisively. "Even if we are in the same palace in the future, I will hate you. You can tell Zhou Jiyun about this."

"I understand!" Yue Kaishan nodded: "I will tell General Zhou."

Jiang Shangyan turned around, strode to the city wall, looked at the soldiers from his troops who were climbing up, and shouted loudly: "Hurry up, open the city gate first, the military doctor, all the military doctors in the team came here, there are many soldiers who need treatment."

Guan Ning walked to Yue Kaishan and asked in a low voice: "Mr. Yue, you have an old grudge between General Jiang. I think you two are not going to deal with each other?"

"We fought him for many years."

"What's this? In the war of the country, it's not like who is right or wrong. Everyone is the master, right?" Guan Ning said.

"Although that's it, some grudges, love and hatred cannot be resolved no matter what. The person General Yan respects the most can be said to have died at the hands of General Zhou and me. The person is Jiang Tao." Yue Kaishan said.

"General Jiang Tao, I know that when General Cheng brought the two rivers that he brought to us during the Ming Dynasty, Jiang Shangyan was invincible and Jiang Tao had no choice but to be famous among our Ming army. So that's the case. No wonder General Jiang Shangyan hates you, but you don't have to worry. Even if he hates you, he will not secretly attack you. If he really wants to trouble you, he will come to the door directly." Guan Ning nodded and said understandingly. Over the years, the four countries have fought each other. Today you kill me, and tomorrow I will kill you. The grudges and hatreds in this are really a mess, and they can't be cut off and still messy.

Yue Kaishan sighed, took off his armor, tore off a clean cloth from his underwear, dipped his fingers in the blood on his body, and wrote a line of words. With this cloth, he walked to Jiang Shangyan: "General Jiang, can you lend me a few cavalry? I want to send the news to General Zhou. There is really no one here who can do this task."

Jiang Shangyan turned around and saw Yue Kaishan, whose wounds were still bleeding. Her cold eyes seemed to melt a little bit. She turned her head and shouted loudly, "Zhao Simazi, come here."

A man with a numb face ran over and ran over.

"General, what's the matter?"

"Look for a few smart scouts and send this thing to General Zhou Jiyun in Luzhou." After saying this, he looked at Zhou Jiyun and asked, "Is there any token?"

Zhou Jiyun nodded repeatedly, took out a small jade sign from his arms, and handed it to the big man Zhao Simazi.

Seeing Zhao Simazi getting off the city neatly, a moment later, several cavalrymen turned over and horses, and Yue Kaishan, who was running towards Luzhou, said to Jiang Shangyan: "Thank you."

"This is official business, so how can I get it?" Jiang Shangyan dropped this sentence and walked away coldly again. Only Yue Kaishan stood there and smiled bitterly. A dizzy came, and he fell to the ground with a loud bang.

Mawang Town, Luzhou, is the location of Zhou Jiyun's central army camp.

Zhou Jiyun was already in extreme anxiety. The news of the attack on Xiaoshi City was shocked by everyone in Zhou's army. If Xiaoshi City was cut off, they would become an isolated army and would be surrounded by Bian Wushuang's army and Luzhou Qi army.

Xu Junsheng, the new commander of the Qi army in Luzhou, was not Zhong Ai, who was extremely experienced in military use. After he took office, he fought and retreated with Zhou Jiyun. While constantly stretching Zhou Jiyun's supply line, he also divided his troops into several groups. Of course, Zhou Jiyun could also see the intention of the other party, but he didn't care. If Xu Junsheng formed military strength advantages in various war zones in this way to seek a decisive battle with him, he would not only not be afraid, but would be happy because he had strong confidence in his troops. You should know that the Zhou army has been fighting for many years, and it is not an exaggeration to describe his troops as a troop. However, the Qi army in Luzhou is mainly county soldiers, and its combat effectiveness is much worse than that of the Hengduan Mountain Army in Cangzhou. If he really wants to fight to the decisive battle, he is confident that he will defeat his opponent.

But the news about Xiaoshi City caused chaos in the Zhou army. Everyone knows what it means to them if they lose Xiaoshi City.

Zhou Jiyun wanted to retreat, but at this time he had already gone too far into Luzhou. Xu Junsheng was reluctant to stick to it. Even though Zhou Jiyun had a lot of cunning tricks, Xu Junsheng suffered a little loss, but Xu Junsheng still did not relax at all in pursuit of him.

At this time, Xu Junsheng's seemingly unreasonable division measures made Zhou Jiyun particularly uncomfortable. It was very difficult for Zhou Jiyun to concentrate his separate forces to retreat. One side's morale rose sharply, but the other side's morale fell to freezing point. As soon as one step forward, the combat effectiveness of both sides was brought to the same level. At this time, the number of troops became a decisive factor.

Zhou Jiyun regretted his decision to attack the entire army. If he had left enough troops in Xiaoshi City, he would not have been so embarrassed now.

In short, he had suffered two great losses under Bian Wushuang's men. Once in Wanzhou, Bian Wushuang became famous in the battle of Chu, and forced himself to eventually lose the other five counties in the six eastern counties except Kunling County. This time, the loss is likely to end him completely.

"I'm not as good as him!" Standing in the central army's tent, looking at the his own army divided into several areas on the map and the Qi army under the command of Xu Junsheng, Zhou Jiyun sighed.

He believed that Xiaoshi City could not be defended, and whether it was from Jinghu or from Ming Dynasty, reinforcements could not arrive at Xiaoshi City in time, and Guanning's troops of Xiaoshi City could not withstand Bian Wushuang's attack. In other words, Xiaoshi City was finished, and he was finished.

"General!" A lieutenant suddenly rushed straight into the central army's tent like crazy. "There is news, and news comes from Xiaoshi City."

Zhou Jiyun stood up suddenly, but sat down dejectedly, "Is Xiaoshi City lost?"

"No, Xiaoshi City is safe and sound!" The captain was so excited that his face turned red. "Please look, this is the news sent by the governor of Yue County."

Zhou Jiyun jumped up suddenly, took the small package from the captain with trembling hands, and opened it, a small jade token and a blood-stained strip of cloth.
Chapter completed!