Xue Jinyao is still the female general who takes the lead and moves forward bravely, but the soldiers behind her are no longer warriors who are inspired by the "ancestral king" and are willing to stain the battlefield with blood.

Xue Jinyan launched three attacks in a row, the first time the two armies clashed, a short time of melee, she was in full swing, but the descending army retreated inexplicably, and when the number was too small, she had to retreat, and lost her temper to the generals, but it had no effect, the next two attacks, not even contact with the enemy, a round of arrow rain landed, and the descending army invariably turned around.

The generals who were trained before the battle were red-faced, but they couldn't help it, they couldn't even draw their swords to intimidate, the soldiers just didn't dare to come forward, and they couldn't find the leader, as if everyone had made an appointment, at the same time, in the same place, and turned around at the same time.

Xue Jinyan had to line up to defend and wait for the enemy to attack.

The people of Jingzhou were very cunning, and every time they made a posture of pressing the formation, they only sent a small number of people to rush forward to provoke, repeated several times, and lasted for nearly two hours.

The battle was not fought much, and the army was already sleepy and lacking, Xue Jin shook his anger, encouraged the soldiers to attack one last time, and rewarded those who dared to fight.

The two armies clashed again, and the descending army relied on the large number of people and rushed up, but the Jingzhou army was thrown into the battle one by one, and was at a disadvantage at the beginning, gradually reversing the situation.

Xue Jinyan finally kept a clear line, ordered the withdrawal of troops before the situation became irreparable, personally pressed the back, retreated to the camp before dark, and held out.

She didn't even eat, so she immediately summoned the generals, took out the incarnation stick and put it on the table, and asked everyone as a golden saint, why did the soldiers cowardly the enemy? The Descendant Army is obviously outnumbered and has an advantage.

The generals humbled me, and at last someone regained the courage to say, "The brothers are not afraid of the enemy, but of the ...... It's the rear. ”

"Rear? The rear is all their own people, there are no ambushes, what is there to fear? ”

"It's going to have to be a little bit later."

Xue Jinyan finally understood that before the expedition, Liu Jiu's words of persuasion to her were not groundless, although she was rejected, she had a wide influence among the Incarnation Army.

"Wu Bing is the vanguard, are you still worried that King Wu will use the Descending Army as bait?"

The general who spoke hurriedly said: "I'm not worried, I believe King Wu, it's the brothers below, they don't know where they heard the rumors, they all say that King Wu wants to reuse the people of Luozhou, think that our soldiers are too much of a hindrance, and they think that Wu soldiers are not subject to control, and they can get rid of a little bit is a little." It is also said that the people of Jingzhou actually have a private deal with King Wu......"

"The more you talk about it, the more excessive, how can King Wu have a deal with the people of Jingzhou?"

The general just laughed and didn't dare to go on.

Xue Jin rolled his gaze and looked at a more trusted general, "Monk Wang, come on, to be honest, I won't blame anyone, I just want to ask for clarification." I am the commander of an army, so you will not all understand, and I will be kept in the dark alone. ”

Monk Wang is not a monk, but his hair is a little less, and he is more honest, listening to the golden saint Maiden call his name, he said: "It's nothing, it's just ...... King Wu can also be regarded as the son-in-law of the king of Jibei, the Jingzhou army was invited by the king of Jibei, and it is normal for the father-in-law to have private contacts with his son-in-law. ”

Xue Jinyan thought for a while before she understood, she knew that King Wu had married a wife before, and King Wu had explained that it was a marriage of last resort, and the county lord wrote a letter of divorce and divorced her husband.

"You guys, it's not okay to fight, it's a set of cranky thoughts. When King Wu married the daughter of the king of Jibei, he was still surnamed Lou, and now his surname is Xu, and he broke with his biological father, not to mention a wife in name only? ”

The generals nodded their heads, but they didn't look really convinced.

Xue Jinyan had no choice but to disband the generals first, let them restrain their subordinates, and prepare to fight again in the coming day, "You suspect that King Wu is using the army as bait, but if you continue to fight like this, the Jingzhou army will eat away little by little, and we will suffer more casualties." Tell everyone, you must give me a win, if you win, I will take you back to the eastern capital, and let King Wu send Luozhou soldiers out, if you don't win, you will continue to consume it here. You all know my temper, and I would rather die than retire in the name of defeat. Don't try to escape, we now have military law, fugitives will be beheaded, property confiscated, and families will be enslaved. ”

Xue Jin shook the incarnation stick and banged on the table, looking like he would not give up.

The generals should be, and several cronies stayed, including Monk Wang, who persuaded: "Don't push everyone too hard, the Jin Holy Maiden has suffered heavy losses in these days, and he fought for the ancestral king before, and ascended to heaven after death, and he should die as much as he wants." Who is this battle for? Is it just for King Wu? ”

"What's wrong with King Wu? When he wins the world, you are all the founding heroes. ”

Several generals glanced at each other, and Monk Wang said: "I'm afraid that we won't survive that day, King Wu is a noble son, we are poor people, and we are not all the way at all." Jin Shengnu, don't look at King Wu marrying you, if you want me to say, he didn't treat you as a real wife, just because of this, we ......"

"What does the matter between our husband and wife have to do with you?" Xue Jin was furious, picked up the incarnation stick, and drove Monk Wang and the others out, leaving only one person, but the more he thought about it, the more angry he became.

At last she calmed down, and she summoned the generals and said, "You have no evidence of this and that. I'll send people back to the Eastern Capital, and let King Wu send more troops, especially those Luozhou people, since they have surrendered, they should listen to my assignment, let them fight with the Jingzhou army first, and then the descending army, you don't doubt it, right? ”

The generals nodded sincerely this time, and someone said: "If King Wu is really willing to send Luozhou soldiers here, we will no longer have any suspicions, and it will be easy to speak when we go back to supervise our brothers, but if King Wu agrees verbally, and does not even send the horses from Piluozhou, then the golden saintess should also think more." ”

"I naturally think about what I need to think." Xue Jin said coldly, in front of the generals, he sent someone to return to the Eastern Capital quickly.

Xue Jinyan was really a little uncertain about whether King Wu could send troops over, but she had no other way to stop the rumors in the army, and she was a little selfish, wanting to find out whether King Wu cared about the relationship between husband and wife.

The next day, Xue Jinyan did not force everyone to fight, but sent more scouts to check the enemy's situation in all directions.

The Jingzhou army also had no intention of fighting, and the two armies were separated by less than thirty miles, and each of them retreated.

At noon that day, someone from the eastern capital came, Xue Jinyan was taken aback, he didn't expect King Wu to react so quickly, but once he counted the itinerary, the messenger should not have seen King Wu yet.

King Wu sent people, not many, only one, and more than a dozen guards, but this one was the person Xue Jinyao urgently needed.

Cao Shenxi was ordered to come overnight, after all, he was old, and his face was not very good, Xue Jin ordered him to rest for a while and come back to meet, and said to the generals: "King Wu is also worried about the war here, and the letter for help has not been delivered yet, and he has sent someone over yesterday." What is the identity of General Cao, and how King Wu treats him, you all know. ”

Cao Shenxi was a general of the defeated army, but he was appointed as the governor of the Eastern Capital by King Wu, and was once sentenced to death and released.

It is estimated that Cao Shenxi is almost resting, and Xue Jinyao dismissed the generals and went to visit in the tent in person.

Cao Shenxi regained some strength a little, and when he saw the descending general, he got up to worship, Xue Jin shook forward and said: "General Cao is my master, I have said it many times, how can there be a rule for a master to salute his disciples?" Please take a seat, Master, and bow down to me. ”

Cao Shenxi was not polite, and sighed after sitting down, feeling strange in his heart, King Wu was wooed many times, he was unmoved, and the golden saint just called "Master" a few times, but he was willing to teach the art of war he had learned.

"Master's ability to come is really a relief for my urgent need." Xue Jinyao urgently needs someone who can answer the many doubts in his heart.

Cao Shenxi understood that the reason why he liked Jin Shengnu instead of King Wu was because this female general had a sincerity that matched her age, ruthlessness is ruthlessness, admiration is admiration, and seeking advice is seeking advice.

If in danger, Cao Shenxi knows who to turn to.

"I've heard about it on the road, and you haven't remembered a word about the taboo of soldiers I told you before." Cao Shenxi took out the master's style and counted the roads.

Xue Jin stood with his hands down, "Yes, I'm stupid, Master said too many things, I didn't remember much, and when I got to the front of the formation, I forgot all of them all at once." ”

"No matter how much you can't forget this point: as a commander, you must ensure that you have troops available at all times. You haven't remembered such a simple truth that the armies take turns to fight? ”

Xue Jin shook his face and blushed, "The Jingzhou army fought like this, as soon as I saw the enemy, ......"

"I want to go into battle in person, I want everyone to follow you into battle. If you want to be a fierce general, you can, but don't call me 'master', an old man, any martial artist is more useful than me. If you want to be a commander-in-chief, you have to be patient, grind little by little, observe the enemy's movements at any time, act when the opportunity arises, and don't be careless until the end. Alas, I am the general of the defeated army, and you may not like to listen to my words. ”

"I love to listen, every time I listen to it, I know that the previous defeat was not Master's fault."

Cao Shenxi's expression darkened, "If you think about it carefully, it's indeed my fault, and it's also a big taboo for the coach to be unstrong-willed, and this thing can't be learned." You have this benefit alone, and you can easily change what you recognize, and as for the art of war, you can learn it slowly. ”

"Actually, I'm not so firm, there are rumors in the army, saying that King Wu used Wu Bing and the Descendant Army as bait, and also said that King Wu and King Jibei were originally father-in-law and son-in-law, and secretly colluded ......"

"Do you believe it?"

"I don't know." Xue Jinyan was very distressed, "It stands to reason that the content of the rumors is not new, no one took it seriously before, but now suddenly everyone takes it seriously, I don't understand the reason, I ...... It's a bit confusing. ”

"Things are often like this, when one or two things are alone, it seems to be meaningless, and once they are combined with a certain key, it can make husband and wife turn against each other and make kings and ministers suspicious. For the descending army, this key is that they don't want to fight, and with this idea, everything in the past has been rethought and become evidence against King Wu. ”

"But I played well last time......"

"Fought well, but also died a lot of people, the so-called prosperity and decline, that's what it means. Then the general was assassinated, the Luozhou army was defeated, and the descendant army tasted the sweetness, and naturally hoped that the enemy would collapse again. ”

"How can you be so lucky?"

"It's good to have hope, but sometimes it blinds your eyes."

Xue Jinyan was much more cheerful in his heart, "I haven't asked Master why he came here?" King Wu has come up with a strategy to break the enemy? ”

Cao Shenxi nodded, "King Wu personally brought the Luozhou soldiers to support and was on the way." King Wu wanted to take the Jingzhou army by surprise, but he needed the descending general to entangle the Jingzhou army and lure them all out, so that he could break the enemy in one fell swoop and no longer need to fight. ”

Xue Jin shook his face with joy, and the haze in his heart was swept away, "When?" This time, I will take my own life, and I will also restore the fighting spirit of the Incarnation Army! ”

Cao Shenxi sighed secretly in his heart, he had roughly guessed King Wu's intentions, but he couldn't say anything.