As the sun sets, the earth is bathed in the afterglow, and the thin dark clouds of yesterday have now vanished, and the blue sky has been replaced by large white clouds, showing a flame-like red under the glow of the setting sun, and the clouds flutter in the air, as if in a light veil-like dream.

This is a simple military village built under a desolate earth mountain, almost the size of six or seven football fields, the camp is densely packed with large and small cowhide military tents, and the bows and arrows and weapons piled up like a hill on the edge of the camp abound.

About 300 steps ahead is the bed of the Heihe River, which flows to the east day and night, and there are seventeen or eighteen such military villages along the desolate earth mountain to the west and east, some of which have been filled with soldiers of the Right Route Army, and some of which are still empty.

Four or five groups of soldiers in full armor, with horns in their waists and swords and guns in their hands, slowly patrolled back and forth on the dirt hill and on the path in front of the military village.

Liu Fan, Uncle Su, and Qu Yongping were now sitting on the grass next to the military tent, each holding a large bowl of steaming fat noodles and noodle soup just sent by the heavy soldiers, plus two black flour cakes for one person, and they were sweating profusely.

Except for those killed and seriously wounded on the western city wall, the armored brigade of the Jincheng Army is now eating, drinking, and resting in this camp tent while waiting for further orders from the general headquarters of the Right Route Army.

Since Shen Shi broke through from the city to the present, not only the soldiers of the First Brigade have been a little puzzled, but even several officers have complained about this decision of the Right Route Army Command.

Qu Yongping and Geng Dawei now had their own opinions on how the command headquarters would issue this order, and they discussed it in a whisper next to them, Liu Fan glanced at it and said, "Okay, don't argue anymore, big viagra, look at how much spittle you put in the noodle soup of Captain Qu." ”

As soon as Qu Yongping heard Liu Fan's words, he looked at his half bowl of noodle soup, and his face was full of constipation for a while, and he didn't know if he wanted to eat this half bowl of noodle soup.

Liu Fan continued while admiring the beautiful scenery of the autumn fire clouds under the afterglow of the sunset: "Don't worry about us, I heard that the Shenwu Army Wang Lvshuai was injured by a stray arrow again, Lvshuai Sun and Deputy Commander Qi went over to visit together, maybe everything will be clear as soon as Lvshuai Sun comes back." ”

In fact, Liu Fan knew very well why he was retreating, but even if all the strategies were designed on the basis of his suggestions, Liu Fan couldn't say it, because this was an iron law in the army.

Speaking of the injury of Wang Kai, the commander of the Shenwu Army, several people were smiling in their eyes, and Qu Yongping said: "I heard the brother of the Shenwu Army say that yesterday in the city, fortunately Wang Brigade Shuai flashed quickly, otherwise his head would have been split in half by a Khitan soldier, and this was how he also left a scar more than two inches long on his face. ”

Geng Dawei continued: "What is that, when it comes to casualties, he is not a little injured fart, his thigh is also scratched by the loss, I heard that I walked like a bandage, just now when Lao Zhu sent food over, I talked to him nonsense, I heard him say that when the Shenwu army retreated from the west city wall, after leaving five hundred people to break, they couldn't get rid of each other at all, and let the Khitan soldiers stick to fight all the way, and finally got out of the east gate, and there were not many people left who could breathe." ”

Hearing this, several people shook their heads silently, and involuntarily thought in their hearts: "It's really fucking miserable." ”

In the silence, Zhang Ting, the captain of the ugly battalion, sighed with emotion: "Brigade Liu, to be honest, I remember that I haven't seen anyone use the gun throwing thing since I ate this ration, fortunately, Zhu Sentinel is careful, and he can still remember that there is that thing in the library, tell me how did you come up with that method?" ”

Liu Fan said casually: "Alas, in fact, I knew from yesterday that the command wanted us to withdraw from Ganzhou City this afternoon, and since that moment I have been thinking about how to retreat, you also know that 'thinking about the day and dreaming at night', because I really can't think of a move, I will simply hand over the city defense to you, and I will go to sleep in a hurry, sure enough, not long after I fell asleep, a gold-armored god holding a long knife in his hand, flying towards me from the sky, I immediately knelt down to ask him for advice, he said, ' I am the Divine Monarch of Gukou Erlang, guarding the heavenly court for the Jade Emperor, and now I hear that you have doubts, and I hereby grant you a volume of the Book of Heaven......'"

Before he finished speaking, all the school guards laughed and scolded: "Full of nonsense, you don't even believe pigs!" ”

As he was talking, he saw a guard running quickly, so he saluted Liu Fan and said, "Brigade Liu, Lv Shuai Sun asked you to go to the big tent of the headquarters immediately, and Commander Guo asked to see you by name." ”

After speaking, he immediately led the horse over and said: "Liu Lu, ride over, it will take half an hour to walk over." ”

Sure enough, from this side, it looked like it was not far from the tenth military village where the big tent of the headquarters passed all the way from here, but Liu Fan felt that the two of them had been running for several minutes on horseback.

Because it is a temporary military village, in addition to meeting a few teams of patrol sergeants along the way, they can only dismount at the gate of the military village to be inspected and sign in at the entrance of the big tent.

Turning an inner hanging door, I saw a firelight in front of me, and I saw that there was butter wax on the wooden lamp stands on the left and right sides of the camp tent every few steps, not to mention twenty or thirty sticks, and the air was filled with a heavy smell of wax smoke, Liu Fan came in from the outside at once, his eyes were stirred by the dazzling firelight, and he couldn't see the situation in the tent for a long time.

When his eyes adapted to the environment in the tent, he saw that compared with the last military meeting, there were many fewer people in the tent today, and there were only three people sitting at the top, with Commander-in-Chief Guo Huaide sitting in the center, and on the left and right sat Deputy Commander-in-Chief Qi Boyuan and the military Chinese book called Shijun, three people sat on the right, and only Sun Wannian, Wang Kai, and Li Min sat on the left.

As soon as Liu Fan came in, except for Guo Huaide and Qi Boyuan and a few other people, the rest of the people got up to greet them, Liu Fan didn't dare to hold it up, and took a few steps over to solemnly salute Guo Dehuai and Qi Boyuan, and then greeted several generals and captains sitting one by one.

Guo Huaide said with a smile: "Hurry up and sit down, I was talking about you just now." Liu Fan took a look and saw that the first three people on the right were unfamiliar, so he hesitated a little and sat next to Li Min.

Seeing that he was hesitating, Li Min lowered his head and whispered, "What's the matter, don't you want to sit with me?" ”

Liu Fan replied in a low voice: "Don't dare, it's just that General Li is heroic, I'm a vulgar person, I'm ashamed of myself when I see you, and I'm afraid that the little self-confidence I've built up in the past two days will be lost in an instant."

After Li Min heard what he said, he chuckled and said, "General Xiao Liu is not only resourceful, but also clever and eloquent, I really can't see it!" By the way, do you know what happened to Wang Kai, he has a sad face since he quit the city, I have never seen him have a heart before. ”

Liu Fan smiled: "I can almost guess, you'll know after a while." ”

I only heard Guo Huaide joking: "Just now we have been discussing some of the tactics you have adopted to defend the city in the past two days, and now that the protagonist is here, what is it, are you interested in telling us about it?" ”

Liu Fan immediately stood up and said in fear: "The commander-in-chief has raised me, how can I have tactics as a hairy boy, what do you need me to say, please ask the commander-in-chief to show me." ”

Guo Huaide paused a little and said, "Then tell me how you managed to retreat with almost zero casualties!" ”