Lord, your mask fell off

Chapter 981 A Sudden Urgent Order
Pang Huang and Xiao Xu fought against each other, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner for a while.

However, the Nancang army was exhausted from the long journey, and was retreating steadily at this time.

Pang Huang was terrified. If this continues, their people will soon be wiped out by the Xixuan army. He made a decisive decision. After separating from Xiao Xu's last move, he did not continue to attack Xiao Xu, but flew away with his strength , snatched the horses of the Xixuan army, and then yelled at the crowd, "Withdraw!"

As soon as the Nancang army heard the order, they immediately retreated quickly.

Because they had already walked this road before, they were more familiar with Xixuan's army, and quickly fled far away.

Xiao Xu led his men to chase after him, but was thrown away for a while.

A cable bridge spanned two mountains, and Pang Huang ordered the ropes to be cut after everyone had crossed the bridge.

When he saw Xiao Xu and others arriving and could only look at each other across the mountain, Pang Huang smiled smugly.

When he was fighting just now, he had already thought of this path, but he just couldn't find the opportunity.

Xiao Xu calmly watched Pang Huang leading the people disappear from the other side of the mountain, as if he was watching a trapped animal walking into the cage they set up.

The rain had slowly stopped, and he looked up at the white belly that was gradually brightening in the sky, and it was almost time to draw the net.

The Nancang Army lost nearly one-third of its troops this time. Pang Huang was depressed, but he had nowhere to vent his anger.

"Your Highness, the spies came to report just now. The encirclement has been basically completed in seven directions. Except for the southeast direction, shall we take advantage of this opportunity to march northeast?" Lei Luo rushed to report as soon as he received the news.

Hearing this, Pang Huang immediately stood up from the stone and ordered everyone, "Go!"

On this side, Xiao Xu was waiting for news from other leading soldiers, but he received a secret letter from the capital.

As soon as Xiao Xu opened the letter and scanned the contents, his face darkened.

Huo Ling was cleaning the weapon, and planned to greet those Nancang people well after dawn, but after seeing his master's expression, he couldn't help but stop his movements and walked over.

"Master, something happened in Kyoto?"

"No, Father ordered the withdrawal of troops." Xiao Xu's voice was as cold as ice.

"Why? We're going to send the Nancang Army back to their hometown. It's strange that His Majesty came with this order at this time!" Huo Ling was furious and confused.

Xiao Xu said, "The king of Nancang submitted a peace agreement to the capital a few days ago, and he is willing not to fight against us within ten years, and the emperor agreed."

"What? We are sent away like this? How could those people in Nancang abide by this agreement? Didn't they still say that the two countries have good relations and will not go to war? Now they are the ones who took the initiative to tear up the agreement?" Huo Ling was even more angry. I understand, it doesn't mean that someone as smart as His Majesty can't figure it out!
Xiao Xu was not in a good mood at this time either, he was holding the letter in his hand tightly with a cold expression.

"Master, what should we do next? Do we still want to fight this battle?" Huo Ling couldn't help but ask the master's mind.

"Order, let everyone not act rashly, and wait for the order." When Xiao Xu issued this order, his eyes were as deep as the sea.

This time, it was very difficult to capture Pang Huang, but because of this order, he let the tiger go back to the mountain, which is really very annoying.

But His Majesty's order is the imperial decree, no matter how courageous they are, they cannot disobey it.

"Yes," Huo Ling replied aggrievedly, and then said, "Master, are we going to let the tiger go back to the mountain like this?"

Xiao Xu was silent for a moment, then said, "Fire spirit, pen, ink, paper and inkstone."

Hearing this, Huo Ling immediately went down to prepare, and brought it up quickly.

Xiao Xu dipped his ink, picked up a pen and wrote on the rice paper. After a while, he put away the pen, and when the paper was dry, he folded it up and handed it to Huo Ling, "Have someone deliver it to Father Emperor as quickly as possible." .”

"Yes." Huo Ling left.

When the sound of footsteps faded away, Xiao Xu looked up at the rising sun jumping out of the horizon with his hands behind his back. The rain on his body was slowly evaporating, but his heart sank little by little.

Father's actions may not be understood by others, but he can see the meaning behind it.

He couldn't help but think of what Pang Huang said during the battle last night.

He was right about one thing.

"Even if you don't want to fight, do you think those people can let you go? Will the Ninth Five-Year Lord let you go?"

He pursed his lips into a line, his eyes were dim and hard to see.

Pang Huang led his people to flee all night, heading southeast.

"His Royal Highness, Xiao Xu and the others are not chasing after him." Lei Luo looked back, only seeing lush green trees, and the sky was already bright at this time.

Pang Huang still didn't dare to relax his nerves, he said without turning his head, "Everyone must race against time. According to the area occupied by this mountain forest, in about an hour, they will be surrounded on all sides. At that time, we will have a chance to gamble nothing."

When Lei Luo heard this, he immediately shut up and hurried on his way.

An hour later.

Chu Qingyan and Tu Ling met.

"How is your situation?" Chu Qingyan asked with a smile.

Tu Ling showed a hearty smile, "When they met, they didn't dare to fight head-on, and quickly turned around and ran away. We haven't fought yet."

Hearing the slight regret in Tu Ling's tone, Chu Qingyan winked at him and encouraged him, "What are you afraid of? Just now when the spies came to report, Pang Huang has already brought people towards us, planning to break out from here. Then we will be able to Let's have a quick fight with them, but we have to let the soldiers guard and don't let them take advantage of the loopholes."

Tu Ling raised his eyebrows confidently, cupped his hands and said, "Okay! This subordinate will tell the brothers to keep their eyes open!"

Chu Qingyan nodded, and was about to go out for inspection, when a soldier hurried over, "Young Master Chu, the Nancang Army is just one mile away, and will soon be coming towards us."

Chu Qingyan and Tu Ling looked at each other, and their eyes lit up excitedly as if seeing a prey.

"Alright, Earth Spirit, you and I will go immediately—"

Before Chu Qingyan could finish his sentence, at this moment, a brave rider came in a hurry and handed over a letter.

"Master's urgent order!"

Chu Qingyan didn't understand why there was an order at this time?It was clearly agreed before.

She didn't think much, and immediately opened it to watch with the earth spirit.

Stand still.

There were only these four words on it, and both of them were shocked.

Chu Qingyan flipped through the entire paper and said nothing else, "How could His Highness give such an order? The enemy is already in sight."

But the handwriting on it cannot be faked, it is indeed the words of the big ice cube.

"Does the master have other plans?" Tu Ling was puzzled.

Chu Qingyan shook her head, "I don't know either."

"My lord, what should we do now?" Tu Ling also had no idea at all.

Pang Huang's army will arrive in a quarter of an hour, is it possible to just watch him escape like this?
This is a game that everyone finally set up.

　(Wood spirit count: the second update is here!)

　　
　
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