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Chapter 111 Crossing the River
A hint of admiration flashed across Bilge's eyes, but it was quickly replaced by contempt.

"Che Xuan Formation!"

"charge--"

After Wang Zhi left.

Zhao Kang became the only one who had mastered the bone training. He stood at the front, holding a long knife in his hand, and roared loudly: "Charge!"

Under the incredulous gaze of the five thousand cavalrymen, the enemy's mere three hundred cavalrymen rushed up without any hesitation. Although their equipment was simple, the cavalry formation they deployed was well organized.

As it runs, it looks like a huge wheel with sharp blades.

"Bilge, let me come!"

Another barbarian general stepped forward and also led his cavalry to break through the ranks, forming a "human" shaped charge formation, with about three hundred people in total.

This is what forced them to come to the trail.

The two met on a narrow road, offsetting the advantage in numbers.

The barbarian general Lian Zang took the lead, holding a meteor hammer in his hand, and was about to smash to death the man in front of him who shouted "Charge". However, just when the two armies were about to come into contact, Zhao Kang suddenly reined in his horse and stopped. Behind him, a white horse rushed out, holding a spear with a terrifying momentum, and arrived in front of him almost instantly.

After being stunned, the barbarian general immediately swung his meteor hammer. He clearly thought he should have blocked the attack, but he still felt a chill in his heart and was pierced with a transparent hole.

The master will die.

The barbarian cavalry were all frightened and retreated in chaos, with more than thirty of them killed in succession. Fortunately, there was a large army in the rear to support them, so they did not collapse. They quickly regrouped and arranged their formation again.

"A white horse refining his internal organs, and a general being killed with one shot? Could this be the one that Master Amugu was chasing after, and he came back alive?!"

Bilge's pupils trembled, and he couldn't help but ask, "Where is Master Amugu?!"

"Killed by Commander Sun!"

Chen Sanshi said in a loud voice: "General Sun will lead the Youzhou Army to this place within half an hour. If you don't surrender, you will die!"

"Sun Xiangzong, Youzhou Army?!"

Bilge was strong and calm: "You are talking nonsense, Youzhou has no time to send people here!"

"Because you have already been defeated in the three northwestern states!"

Chen Sanshi said with a strong voice: "Otherwise, why do you think we dare to block the way here?"

"Failed?"

Bilge looked at the other party's confident look and felt doubtful and uncertain.

Theoretically speaking, the possibility of Sun Xiangzong appearing here is very small.

However, it cannot be ruled out that the three northwestern states will withdraw their troops ahead of schedule. After all, the transmission of any information is delayed, and what everyone gets is not real-time intelligence, but often news from several days ago.

Or maybe the man surnamed Sun discovered something about the blood sacrifice and came over to check it out.

After all, if there hadn't been a master above the level of Tongmai here, how could Amugu still be missing? !

"Sun Xiangzong..."

"He came to Yunzhou?"

"Why did he come here?!"

"..."

After hearing this name, the barbarian team suddenly exploded, and everyone became uneasy and terrified.

The most important thing is to attack the enemy with troops and attack the heart.

Just like what happened in Poyang, half-true and half-false news is the most effective in intimidating the enemy.

Chen Sanshi knew that in the current situation he couldn't scare the other party with just a few words, but even delaying for a minute would be good.

He brought everyone here, but he wasn't really coming to die.

It’s mainly about delaying time.

Wait until time is almost up, then find a way to break out.

"What are you panicking about?!"

Bilge still had some sense left in him, and angrily shouted, "You believe whatever he says? If that were the case, why would these defeated soldiers come here to die?"

"You're right!"

The other Lian Zang generals said: "It's just bluffing, the last gasp of a spent force!"

"Everyone obey orders!"

"You are not allowed to retreat even a single step. You must charge the battle line in turns. Whoever kills the White Horse General will be rewarded with 10,000 cattle and sheep and 100 slaves."

"Kill me——"

When we meet on a narrow road, there is nothing we can do.

"Chariot formation, charge!"

Chen Sanshi raised the reed spear in his hand and spoke word by word. He looked at several generals in the enemy's crowd and suddenly felt that there might be a way out.

Very simple.

Wouldn't it be enough for him to just kill all the main generals?
……

Hongze River.

Tens of thousands of people finally arrived at their destination.

In front of them was a vast and turbid river. Looking ahead, the mountains on the opposite bank looked like green eyebrows. Under the green eyebrows was a small city, which was Huanwen County.

To reach Huanwen County, they still need to cross a river that is three hundred feet wide.

Fortunately, there were boats prepared in advance and ferrymen at the riverside ferry.

People from Poyang lined up and began to board the ship one after another.

"Why don't you see Lord Chen and the others?"

"..."

Soon someone noticed something was wrong.

The Poyang soldiers who escorted them all the way here have not been seen until now.

"Cross the river, cross the river!"

Xu Wencai finally learned how to ride a horse. He held a feather fan in his hand and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Why don't you hurry up and cross the river? The adults can only retreat when you are almost halfway across the river!"

"What?"

"Master Chen and his men can only leave when we are halfway across the river. Why?"

"..."

"Why else?"

Xu Wencai was so anxious that his face turned red and his neck became thick: "There are 20,000 barbarians behind you. In order to buy you some time, Lord Chen led a thousand men to counterattack!"

"Twenty thousand people?"

"Isn't that almost as much as our entire county?"

"..."

It was not until this moment that they suddenly realized that the words their husbands or sons had suddenly returned home not long ago might have been their last words.

The sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month.

On this day, it finally snowed in Yunzhou.

The cold wind was howling, and heavy snow was falling, dyeing the sky and the earth white.

On the banks of Hongze River.

More than 40,000 people, dragging their families with them, carrying the elderly and children, walked weeping, and the cries of pain could be heard on both sides of the strait.

"Faster, faster!"

On a small boat, Sun Li paddled hard, not daring to stop for a moment even though every movement would pull at her wound and cause severe pain: "Sister Lan, don't worry, there are still defenders after we get ashore. I'll try to see if I can ask them to send troops for support."

In fact, she knew it was just a psychological comfort.

Not to mention that he had no power to mobilize troops. Even if he could convince them, most of Huanwen County's troops had probably been taken away by the Youzhou general, and there would be at most a few thousand people left. He would also need to cross a distance of dozens of miles and cross a river, and there would not be enough time.

Sun Li really wanted to turn around and go back to help.

But she was injured and her personal strength was weak. Besides, she had promised to settle Sister Lan first, so she had to keep her word.

Gu Xinlan sat on the edge of the boat, holding the note left by her man.

There were only five words written on it - let's call it Cross the River.

"Shi Ge'er will definitely come back..."

Gu Xinlan still did not cry or make a fuss, quietly wiping away her tears: "If he doesn't come back, I will go downstairs to find him."

"Where are you from?!"

"In reply to the military commander, we are from Poyang County, Yunzhou..."

As we approached the shore, a powerful voice continued to ring out.

I saw a general standing on the shore. He was seven feet tall and as strong as a mountain. He was wearing red and black heavy armor. He held a Fang Tian Hua Ji in his hand and asked everyone he met: "Have you seen a woman in red?!"

"No……"

"How many people are waiting to cross the river behind you?"

"Tens of thousands of people."

"Big Brother! No, Master said before he left that we must stay in Liangzhou and not leave at all!"

"Don't say anything more. Yunzhou is in such a big mess, and Junior Sister Li is here. How could I not go find her?"

"Big Brother!"

"Step aside."

The general holding the Fang Tian Hua Ji leaped up and jumped fifty feet away. He landed on the surface of the Hongze River like a meteorite, splashing waves several feet high. Then he jumped again, recreating the scene just now.

"boom--"

Every time he landed, more than a dozen small boats around him would be overturned by the huge impact force, and dozens of people would fall into the water.

"I'm sorry, everyone! I have something important to do!" "Third Junior Brother, please save them quickly. Don't let them drown. If anyone drowns, I'll hold you accountable!"

"..."

"Big Brother!"

Sun Li, who witnessed this scene, showed an incredible look: "What are you doing?"

"Junior Sister Li?

"Great, it seems you are okay. I was planning to go to Yunzhou to find you!"

Lü Ji hurried over the waves and stepped on a small boat nearby. He looked at the people who fell into the water and said awkwardly, "Junior sister, I don't know Qinggong. It's not intentional. I will help them cross the river! Wait, Junior sister, are you injured? Is it serious? Where are you injured?"

"I am fine."

Sun Li clasped his fists and saluted, and said with a clear sense of distance in his tone: "Big Brother, please help me save someone."

Lv Ji looked at the woman's respectful manner and was slightly displeased, but he quickly adjusted himself: "Junior sister, just tell me who you want to save."

"A junior fellow apprentice who has not yet formally entered the sect."

Sun Li pointed his scabbard at the other side of the river: "In order to escort us across the river, he led more than a thousand people to counterattack more than 20,000 barbarian bandits. He will definitely not be able to hold out for long. I hope that Senior Brother can dispatch troops to rescue him."

"Junior brother?"

Lu Ji was stunned for a moment: "There are not many soldiers in Huanwen County. Even if we mobilize them, it will be too late. I will go myself. It should be no problem to save him alone. By the way, has Junior Sister seen Master?"

"Father?"

Sun Li shook her head, hope flashing in her eyes: "Is my father here?"

"I don't know, but I'm not in Liangzhou. I'm leaving."

"boom--"

With just a few leaps, Lu Ji crossed the 300-zhang-wide Hongze River and disappeared from the other side in an instant.

-

Loess Ridge.

"Pfft-"

"Stop him, stop him!"

Bilge watched with his own eyes as the other side killed another Lianzang general, and was horrified in his heart: "Quick, fire the whistling arrows and notify the infantry and the other 3,000 cavalry to come here first to surround and kill this man, and then go after the rest of the Sheng people!"

He couldn't imagine why none of them could be a match for this man in a three-way combination since they were all practicing internal organ refining!
Among the crowd.

Chen Sanshi used the chariot formation as a cover to prevent himself from being surrounded by heavy troops. The spear and Zhenyue sword in his hands were already stained with the blood of countless enemies. He had only one goal.

Commander!

From the very beginning, he found

Among the five thousand cavalrymen, there seemed to be no masters of Hua Jin or Tong Mai.

this means.

He has a chance to kill the general!

After killing the general, the enemy army will be defeated and they will still have a chance to survive.

It certainly wouldn't work if it were just one person.

But he has two hundred cavalrymen and more than seven hundred soldiers behind him, who can help him disperse most of the siege. This is enough!
"Stop him—"

No matter how Bilge shouted, the White Horse general still charged towards this side alone with unstoppable force.

He was facing a powerful enemy: "Wulihan, Narisong, let's fight together. We can't let him kill any more generals!"

In a situation where one thousand men were against five thousand men, they killed two generals in a row.

What’s even more terrifying is that not only the general is like this, but the remaining soldiers behind him seem to have no fear of death!

Especially this battle formation that rotates like a wheel. From the beginning to now, no matter how many people are killed, it will not be disrupted at all. At most, it will reduce the scope of the formation. Until later, when too many people died, it turned from a large formation into more than 20 small formations.

Including the soldiers, they cooperated perfectly, both offensively and defensively. Even if many people died in front of them, they would immediately replace them without even blinking an eye. They were simply waiting to die!
[Death in battle]!
Only the elite among the elite can have such terrifying fighting power and willpower.

But they were clearly defeated soldiers who had fled from a small county!

If his cultivation wasn't too weak, Bilge would have probably thought it was the mighty army of the Eight Battalions.

As a result, the mood of the barbarian soldiers changed significantly. In addition, they were unable to form a siege here. If this continued, and if another leading general died, they might really be defeated by them.

"Kill Bai Ma! Once he dies, these people will become a mob!"

The three barbarian generals attacked together.

Scimitar, mace, great axe.

Three ferocious weapons struck from different directions almost simultaneously.

They are all refining their internal organs, and have all achieved some success in refining their internal organs. They are not far from achieving great success in refining their internal organs!
One who has just started to refine the internal organs is against three who have achieved a small level of refinement!

The White Horse general's spear skills are strange and fierce. Even if several people are no match for him alone, their explosive power when working together is absolutely hard to resist, especially when they attack from all directions at the same time.

Chen Sanshi blocked the giant axe with his spear, and blocked the mace with the long sword at his waist. He then dodged the scimitar in front of him with a bizarre posture, and then forcibly bounced the two heavy weapons away. In the gap, the spear turned into a giant python that swallowed the sky and went straight to swallow the user of the scimitar.

"clang!"

Bilge was frantically blocking the attacks, knowing full well that he would be killed within three rounds, but fortunately he was not alone. The other two brothers who were temporarily repelled came back to attack him, with giant axes and maces coming from behind him in an instant. If he did not dodge, he would almost certainly die. If he dodged, it would mean having to hide endlessly.

As long as they can hold off, it's fine.

General Bai Ma's subordinates are not afraid of death, but they are not invincible, and people are dying all the time.

In such a short while, there were only about 700 people left from the initial thousand people, and the number was still decreasing rapidly. Not to mention that after the signal was sent, the rest of the pursuers would also gather here. By then, there would be a siege of 20,000 people, and the entire army would be wiped out soon. Then Bai Ma would be trapped in a heavy siege and be exhausted to death.

In one word, drag!

However, they could not have imagined.

Chen Sanshi had no intention of hiding, and let the mace and the giant axe hit him behind with tremendous force, making a dull "bang" sound, as if striking a huge bell. His internal organs were shaken in great pain, and blood spurted out of his mouth, but the speed of the spear in his hand did not slow down at all, and he finally succeeded in piercing Bilge's throat in the third round.

Kill quickly!

He has no right to drag it on!

The only way to survive is to kill quickly!
"Vajra body?!"

Wulihan and Narisong were horrified.

Without Bilge, the pressure of defense suddenly dropped sharply. Holding a spear in his right hand and a sword in his left hand, Chen Sanshi endured the attacks of dozens of soldiers who were chasing and besieging him from behind, as well as countless swords, spears, axes, halberds, and hooks. In front of them, he killed the last two generals within ten rounds. He was covered in blood, like a killer god in the sky.

"Crash, lala, lala -"

After killing the enemy commander, he was like a beast out of a cage. No one could stop him. He killed nearly two hundred cavalrymen in succession like cutting melons and vegetables. Finally, he made them afraid, frightened, and defeated!
The remaining 4,000 cavalrymen retreated like the receding tide. In the panic, countless horses collided with each other, neighing and causing the cavalrymen on their backs to roll over and die.

Chen Sanshi looked at the remaining 600 people, and rode ahead to clear the way. Wherever he passed, the dense enemy troops automatically made way for him, and no one dared to catch up with him.

"Breakout!"

He shouted at the top of his lungs.

After thinking it over, it’s about time.

At least more than half of the people had completed crossing the river.

As long as they left this place before being surrounded, there would be great hope of crossing the river smoothly.

however……

It seems too late.

Because he could hear that behind the earth slope to the side and rear, there were at least tens of thousands of infantrymen taking a shortcut and would block them at the fork in the road ahead.

Chen Sanshi's injuries can still be sustained, and he has about half of his blood and energy left. As long as there are no generals above the Lian Zang level, he can still rush out with Qianxun's speed. I just don't know how many people will be left behind him by then.

One hundred, ten people, or just him?

Just as he gripped the gun tightly, ready to fight to the death, the footsteps of the pursuers stopped almost at the same time, as if there was suddenly no road ahead, or it was blocked by something.

This allowed them to successfully reach the bank of the Hongze River and begin crossing the river.

"No more chasing?"

Everything came to an abrupt stop. Chen Sanshi was a little bit unbelievable, as if he had just dreamed.

……

"Good boy, good boy!"

"Master, fly slower!"

The middle-aged scholar clutched the handle of the wheelchair tightly, his face distorted by the strong wind: "Slow down!"

"Did you just see that?"

The old man in the coarse linen clothes looked pleased: "How dare this kid, he went to block 5,000 people with just one Lian Zang, and he actually stopped them. He is quite like me when I was young."

"That's not the point."

The middle-aged scholar nearly fell from the sky several times: "The key is, he could have gone alone, but he chose to resist the army in order to help the people cross the river. Who else in the world can do that?"

"Old Four."

The old man looked deep in his eyes: "Can he do it?"

"has hope."

"Okay, as long as there is hope."

"Master, do you want to take action? Your life span..."

"It's okay to block it for a while."

"Anyone who can help common people cross the river should also have someone help him cross the river."

"..."

Right in front of the barbarian army of more than 10,000 people.

Suddenly two figures appeared, blocking the road.

An old man in coarse linen clothes was pushing a disabled scholar in a wheelchair.

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