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Chapter 110 Why should I endure
"Sanshi, they are not my father's people. My father's people can't be like this."

Sun Buqi was afraid that the young man in front of him might have misunderstood something: "The man surnamed Cao is the son of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and the lackey next to him is the son of the Minister of Works. The Youzhou Army is not one of the Eight Battalions, but is affiliated to the Left Army Commander's Office and is under the command of the Ministry of War.

"The three states in the northwest, Youzhou, Liangzhou and Yanzhou, each have their own generals.

“Although my father was able to coordinate the deployment of all personnel during the war, he only followed orders and not announcements.

"Only the Eighth Battalion are truly our own people.

"Even so, in recent years they have been trying every possible way to decentralize power, sending governors and transferring people away. The eldest brother also..."

"He's right."

Sun Li said weakly: "The Eight Battalions are not soldiers from one place. Although they were originally recruited and organized in Liangzhou to fight against the barbarians, they were later transferred to wherever they were needed. They stayed in the south and later went to the east to fight against the Qing Kingdom.

“Later, three years ago.

"The barbarians are ready to make a move, so they transferred the eight battalions to the northern border."

Chen Sanshi understood this approach.

This is to prevent yourself from staying in a state for too long and becoming a local tyrant.

Maybe every time they leave, the noble families and clan officials of the Eight Camps who dare to support them will be purged again...

Everything must be under the control of the court.

This is in line with the emperor's style of using despicable means such as poisoning to silence people.

But that's really the case.

Can you bear it?

Chen Sanshi asked himself, if it were him, he would definitely not be able to endure it.

Why could General Sun endure it?
unless……

dying.

Only a dying person who has something to worry about would have to choose to endure.

Although it's just speculation.

But Chen Sanshi felt that only in this way could all the logic make sense.

if not.

He was one of the most powerful fighters in the world, and he had 80,000 elite soldiers under his command. Why should he endure?
Besides.

And the identity of the people involved in the forward selection this time.

Identity is so precious.

The prince's son.

In other words, he is the next emperor in name only.

Would such a person lack resources and skills?
Why would you want to come and participate in the selection of forwards and become a disciple of Commander Sun? What could be so tempting?
These are not things to consider now.

"Counterattack?"

Soon, all the martial arts schools were gathered together, and after hearing the order given by the "commander", they all looked at each other in confusion.

Obviously, some people don't understand the meaning of this sentence.

The purpose of counterattack is naturally to kill the enemy.

But they only had a few thousand people, and they were going to kill 20,000 people?
There is no guarantee how many of them are involved in refining internal organs.

How to counterattack?

"one day."

Chen Sanshi said in a deep voice: "It will take another day for the villagers ahead to start crossing the river. We want to delay for a day, but it is impossible on the plains, so we have to go into the mountains and counterattack!
"Xu Wencai, I'll give you half an hour to come up with at least three blocking points. If you can't find them, I'll chop off your head!
"The rest...

"Go and see your family again.

"This may be your last words, so you can choose not to come back. If you choose to come back in half an hour, be prepared to die."

So speaking.

Only then did the others understand.

"Follow your orders!
No one raised any objection.”

Everyone dispersed one after another.

"Junior brother..."

Sun Li looked at him and asked, "Aren't you going to talk to Sister Lan? She's in the carriage in front."

"Don't go."

Chen Sanshi took out the pen and ink that the old scholar carried with him, wrote a few words in haste, sealed it and handed it over: "Sister Sun, please help me give the things to Sister Lan, and then make sure to take care of her yourself."

"You really aren't going?" Sun Li emphasized.

Chen Sanshi still shook his head.

He didn't tell Sun Li that he was afraid.

Afraid of seeing his only relative in this world, he dared not stop the enemy anymore.

To be honest, he himself didn't know how he ended up like this.

Perhaps, it was because his family was ahead.

Perhaps, it was because his brothers were willing to die for him, and out of a sense of responsibility or other reasons, he really couldn't abandon them.

Or maybe...

Because he comes from another world.

This sounds pretentious, very pretentious, but it is true.

If there is any motivational logic, this is it.

In Chen Sanshi's eyes, there are no superior or inferior people, only people who should die and people who should not die.

Kill those who deserve to die.

Do your best to help those who don't deserve to die.

He also knew that if news of this battle were to spread, there would definitely be people who would accuse him of being hypocritical and false.

But Chen Sanshi didn't care.

At worst, he can just pretend for the rest of his life.

"you……"

Chen Sanshi looked at Wang Zhi's nephews and nieces who stayed behind. Together with their men, there were about 200 people. "Do you want to stay too? There are no families of yours ahead."

"We won't embarrass General Tang!"

Everyone said in unison. "Okay!"

Chen Sanshi nodded.

Finally, there was Sun Buqi, who showed no intention of leaving.

In this situation, kicking him out would be an insult.

As for Xu Wencai, he had no relatives or friends and was lying on the ground studying the map.

……

Half a day later.

Loess Ridge.

"Boost!"

"We must stop them before the Sheng people cross the river!"

Several Wushen followers were mixed in with the army, all of them holding vajra for collecting blood.

The leader of the Refining Organs acted as the commander: "Don't leave anyone alive. After killing everyone, remember to collect the heart blood in time!"

"Where is Master Amugu?"

The cavalry commander, Bilge, asked, "Why don't you see him?"

More than 20,000 pursuing troops, all of whom were above the level of Hua Jin, were transferred to attack Anding Prefecture.

There were only a few of them left, and they were afraid to command such a large army.

The only Wushen Cult master of meridians disappeared again
"Master Amugu has gone after a young general who is refining internal organs. We don't know where he is going yet. He may be waiting for us ahead."

The helmsman urged: "Speed ​​up!"

"Refining the internal organs?"

Bilge thought it was interesting: "In the words of Shengren, this is called 'killing a chicken with a butcher knife'. Amugu Hall Master is really ruthless. He personally took action and left no chance for Shengren to survive."

"I received a letter from a pigeon, ordering us to collect the blood of about 10,000 people as a backup within two days, and then retreat quickly and leave Yunzhou directly without any lingering battle."

The helmsman said coldly: "After the death of that White Horse Lian Zang, there is no Lian Zang commander ahead, and he can no longer pose any threat. Only the Lian Gu realm is left, so we can pursue him."

"Quick retreat?"

Bilge pondered: "The Northwest is going to withdraw troops so soon?"

A war, especially a life-and-death battle, would last at least a year and a half.

The withdrawal after just over two months shows that they had never made up their minds to fight to the end from the very beginning.

"We just have to obey orders."

The Wushen Cult leader warned, "The people ahead are about to cross the river. If we don't speed up, they will probably escape. If we fail to complete the mission, both you and I will be guilty of a serious crime."

"Don't worry, we can catch up with them in half a day if we get out of the mountains!"

"Shut up!"

While the two were talking, the vanguard troops suddenly stopped, accompanied by the sound of people and horses falling.

"what happened?"

"Sir, there is an ambush ahead!"

"There are traps everywhere!"

"Get off!"

Bilge went to check it out himself.

I saw that the narrow road between the mountains was full of deep pits filled with crude traps. Apart from that, the rest of the passable areas were blocked by rocks.

The most troublesome thing was that there were many carts carrying food and fodder stuck in the middle. They were filled with dry firewood and grass, and clusters of flames were burning, making it impossible for the vanguard cavalry to pass.

Bilge was not in a hurry and shouted, "Clear the roadblocks!"

"Shhhhh-"

Just as a group of soldiers went over to deal with the situation, a group of enemy archers emerged from the front and shot arrows all over the sky.

"Little tricks!"

Bilge said calmly: "Call the thick iron shield soldiers in the rear army to the front to hold the line!"

It is impossible that all 20,000 people are cavalry.

Among them, the vanguard consisted of 5,000 cavalry.

Behind them are infantry.

The infantry held up their shields, covering the others as they cleaned up.

Half an hour later, the road was reopened to traffic.

However, they had not walked far when they encountered a similar situation again, two or three times in a row, each time delaying them for more than half an hour. Before they knew it, it was a full half a day.

"General Bilge!"

The leader of the Wushen Cult said anxiously, "We can't do this any longer. They are stalling for time."

"Can't I see that?"

Bilge gnashed his teeth and said, "They are obviously forcing me to take the side road, but I don't understand. This place is not like the canyon before. The hillsides on both sides are short and not suitable for an ambush. Even if they go through as they wish, they will have to fight head-on in the end.

"They have no more than a thousand men and three hundred horses. Even if our cavalry cannot spread out on a large scale to form an encirclement, we only need to lose a few soldiers and horses to crush them. What do you want to do..."

"General, the situation is urgent. Since you think there will be no ambush on the path, go there quickly."

The leader of the Wushen Cult said anxiously, "As long as we can leave Huangtu Ridge quickly, it doesn't matter if we lose some soldiers."

"Ok."

Bilge made a quick decision: "The cavalry will follow me on the small road, and the infantry will bypass the obstacles and continue on the main road. I want to see what they are up to!"

The barbarians divided their forces into two groups.

In order to save time, the five thousand cavalrymen all took the small road. Together with Bilge, there were a total of five internal refining masters.

Bilge walked in the front, advancing slowly and cautiously, thinking hard in his mind about what kind of ambush there could be in this terrain. When he came to the fork in the road about to exit the mountains, he finally encountered Sheng's army at the end of the path, on a wide flat ground.

There is no ambush here.

Yes, but there were only a cavalry formation of no more than three hundred and a few hundred soldiers. Many of them did not even have their own armor. What they wore were those stripped from the Xihe tribe. The weapons in their hands were all of grassland style, which looked extremely conspicuous. They were blocking the exit of the mountain, ready for battle.

this moment.

Bilge finally understood why the other party tried every means to force them onto this road.

They planned to use their lives to delay the time for the people ahead to cross the river as much as possible!

(End of this chapter)