"What are you waiting for? Let's go back!"
Jiang Pengji pulled out her God Slaying Sword. Her eyes were fierce.
The deputy general said, "Yes, sir!"
Jiang Pengji wanted to rush out and kill to her heart's content, but she still needed to command the army to defend against the enemy's sneak attack and seize the opportunity to counterattack. The enemy seized the initiative. As soon as they arrived, they rained arrows and disrupted the army's formation. Under such circumstances, if there was no chief commander to command and dispatch, the casualties would be terrible when the enemy rushed in. Jiang Pengji was reckless, but she never delayed important matters.
"I wonder how Feng Jing and the others are doing …"
These troops were indeed elites who had been trained for many years. Jiang Pengji often arranged military exercises and rehearsed all kinds of unexpected situations. Therefore, even though the enemy seized the initiative this time, they reacted after the first wave of arrows. They shrank their formation and adopted a defensive formation.
This was the method of minimizing losses. At the same time, it could reflect the true combat quality of an army.
At the same time, the scouts sent by Jiang Pengji also desperately chased after Qin Gong and Bai Ning's troops.
Unfortunately, it was night and visibility was limited. It took them a lot of effort to find the route of the two troops. They hurriedly chased after them, which wasted a lot of time.
By the time they caught up with the two troops, the situation had changed.
Bai Ning was cautious by nature. Even if he led the troops to chase after the enemy, he would still consider his surroundings. Therefore, he was slower. When the scouts caught up, the army had not yet been ambushed. Bai Ning was also very surprised by the appearance of the scouts. The scouts did not have time to turn over and dismount from their horses. They directly conveyed the order.
Retreat!
Bai Ning was stunned at first, then he immediately understood something. He immediately ordered the army to turn around and retreat.
However, the enemy was secretly watching them. The army's retreat was obvious, so they could not sit still.
The originally pitch-black col suddenly lit up with countless orange flames, and countless fire arrows descended from the sky.
Bai Ning was shocked, but he still looked calm on the surface. The soldiers also seemed to have taken a tranquilizer. They defended and retreated in an orderly manner at the same time.
Was he not panicking?
How could it be? He was panicking to death!
He never thought that this was a trap set by the enemy! However, Bai Ning knew that as the chief commander, he could not panic. Once he panicked, the army would be like headless flies. They would run around without order and be surrounded and killed by the enemy sooner or later.
If Bai Ning's luck was considered good, then Qin Gong's side was quite unlucky. He had completely stepped into the enemy's trap.
When the scouts arrived, the scene was already in chaos. The two armies were fighting each other.
The light of the fire spread, almost turning this part of the world into daylight.
The soldiers' battle cries were sharp and resounding, as if they were about to pierce through one's eardrums.
The enemy's sneak attack was quite sudden. Although Qin Gong was not injured, he remembered the time when he followed Yang Si and was blocked by Han Yu in the Lonxu Canyon.
He couldn't help but laugh bitterly. What kind of lousy luck did he have to be ambushed time and time again?
It used to be Han Yu, and now it was Wei Yong.
However, they were lucky to have been saved by the lord last time. Now, they could only rely on themselves and the soldiers around them!
If he didn't fight for a way out, he would probably be buried here.
At this moment, Qin Gong was still thinking about what his lord had said before he sent out the troops.
[It's better not to say things like 'I'm going to get married after this battle, so that my wife and children can stay by my side'.]
[I don't know where I heard this before, but those who said this before the war basically never came back.]
Never to return?
The enemy had set up this sneak attack with the intention of making them never come back.
Qin Gong didn't want to die here. He still had to make contributions and accumulate merits, so that he could go back and marry the eldest lady of the Xu family and protect her for the rest of her life.
In the distant rear, Xu Yanxiao suddenly woke up in the middle of the night. The maid who was sleeping outside put on some clothes and came over.
"Is the eldest lady going to get up at night?"
When the maid brought the candle closer, she saw that Xu Yanxiao's nightgown was almost soaked with sweat.
"No … I just had a very scary dream, but now that I'm awake, I can't remember what it was …"
The maid also said, "Look at the eldest lady's face covered with sweat, it must have been a nightmare. I'm going to ask the kitchen to prepare a bowl of soup for you."
Xu Yanxiao shook her head, "No, it's the middle of the night. I won't be able to sleep after drinking soup."
The maid said, "If that's the case, I'll stay and talk with the eldest lady for a while."
Xu Yanxiao nodded lightly.
The maid beside her was sent by Qin Gong. She was careful, considerate, and efficient. She quite liked her.
When she thought of Qin Gong, an unexplainable panic rose in her left chest.
"Eldest lady, are you feeling uncomfortable?"
The maid saw her raising her hand to cover her chest, frowning slightly, and her lips pale. She suddenly became nervous.
Xu Yanxiao said, "The dream I had just now … seemed to be related to Qin Sanlang. Did something happen to him at the front?"
Since the two of them had a tacit understanding, Xu Yanxiao changed the way she addressed him and called him Qin Sanlang.
It was neither too intimate nor too distant.
The maid said, "Old people always say that dreams are the opposite of reality. Qin Langjun is good at fighting, how could something happen to him?"
Xu Yanxiao was skeptical, but she still felt uneasy.
The maid tried to coax her to sleep. Xu Yanxiao couldn't help but put her hand under the pillow, and her fingertips touched a cold jade hairpin.
"… I learned it from the craftsman. This fox hairpin is crudely carved. When the war at the front is over, I'll give it to the eldest lady."
Xu Yanxiao couldn't help but hold it tightly, as if it could absorb some strength.
"You said you would come back and marry me …"
She had been embroidering a wedding dress these days, and it would be finished in half a year, just in time for her hairpin ceremony. After that, they would get married.
The maid heard her whisper and laughed, "Apart from the eldest lady, who else could Qin Langjun have in his heart?"
Xu Yanxiao couldn't help but blush, and her flustered mood calmed down a lot.
The situation on Qin Gong's side was indeed not that bad. Relying on the valiant fighting quality of the army, even if the enemy's attack was fierce, they could still maintain their formation and not collapse. As the battle dragged on, the situation gradually stabilized. After all, Qin Gong was a mortal, and he couldn't be invulnerable. He was seriously injured in the chaos, but he didn't seem to feel it. He commanded the enemy to kill, and seized the opportunity to break out of the encirclement.
"We shouldn't continue fighting. Since this is the enemy's trap, the longer we delay, the more disadvantageous it will be for us!"
Qin Gong was injured, but his mind was very clear.
In the face of the enemy's ambush, they could only try to reduce their losses. Of the thirty-six stratagems, retreat is the best!
The deputy general on the side said, "General, do you feel that something is wrong?"
Qin Gong covered his arm, and his expression was somewhat fierce. "The number of the enemy's troops is strange. They most likely divided their troops to attack Zhanjiang Pass."
Since this was a killing trap set by the enemy, it meant that the previous retreat of the Nie family due to internal strife was fake.
The enemy still had more than 200,000 troops. Even if they divided their troops into three groups, the number of troops lying in ambush was obviously not that many.
It was not difficult to speculate that the enemy was very likely to transfer the remaining troops to attack Zhanjiang Pass.
Luring the enemy into the trap, luring the tiger away from the mountain, one was linked to the other, and it was clearly a killing trap.
The deputy general said, "General, what should we do?"
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