It wasn't until dusk that Chen Ao returned to Luli, he was still in ragged clothes, and there were fine scars under his clothes, but his steps were brisk, and today should have been his death, but it became the day of his rebirth. Full of joy, he walked quickly, and the journey that usually took an hour and a half was now an hour.

"Weng, Weng." Before he could enter the lu, a child's voice called out to him, and a small person rushed over and crashed directly into his arms.

"Beloved ......" followed by the cry of his wife, and the fire, and behind the backlit wall were all people who were also waiting for him.

Chen Ao picked up the child under the fire, and the undead maid looked at everyone puzzled, from Lu Xu to his neighbors, when his eyes fell on a philistine woman, he said: "Qi Niang, this is the corn money last month......

"This, this," Chen Ao took out the silver cake from his arms, everyone looked at Qi Niang, Qi Niang's face changed greatly, she knelt down, "How dare the villain accept the nobleman's corn money?" How dare the villain accept the corn money of the noble? The nobleman eats the corn of the villain, which is the wealth of the villain......"

Geng Zheng said bluntly, it is not easy to die. How can I eat rice without paying? Chen Ao said something that he had never said before, put the silver cake in Qi Niang's hand, and then shook it at the Lu people, and the Lu people didn't dare to accept it, so they avoided it.

"Why is that?" Back at the dilapidated home, the house was full of objects. Corn, chickens and ducks, cloth, bundles ......, the most exaggerated is the box of gold, even if the room is dim, the golden luster is still dazzling.

"This is, this is the deaconture sent by the clan teacher, Lu Xu, Bichang, and neighbors." The wife bowed down and looked at her husband with some fear and some joy. Her husband kills people, and she deserves to die when she kills, and she has no other way than to cry as a woman, but today is miraculous, first saying that her husband is not dead, and then the neighbors who usually speak ill of each other have sent gifts, and even sent gold. She had never seen gold in her life, and now, fifty pounds of gold were placed in this dilapidated house, heavy and golden.

"Where's the gold?" Chen Ao didn't understand what was going on, and now he felt that it was in a dream.

"The gold and gold were given by the people of the county, and they said that they were ...... said yes," the wife actually forgot who sent the gold, but fortunately, the child did not forget, he spit out the meat that was gnawing in his mouth, and said with a smile: "Weng, the gold was given by a son named Zimu in the county." ”

"Go back!" Zimu is the master of the lowly servant, and before going home, Chen Ao had killed the lowly servant. "All of them are returned, and these deacons are also returned, and I have no merit, and I cannot accept the gifts of my neighbors."

"No, Zi Ao." The broken house leaks air and sound. There were a lot of people outside, and there were some things they hadn't been able to say just now, and now they wanted to say them. Lu Xu was the first to rush in, and he bowed, "Zi Ao is the king's honor, this is the blessing of Ben Lu." It is reasonable for us to worship Zi Ao. Today, Ziao will not be treated by us, and if someone insults us in the future, we will wait, we will wait......"

"yes. If Zi Ao is not courteous to us, if someone insults us in the future, how dare we ask Zi Ao to be the master. After Lu Xu, followed by Bichang and the neighbors, they looked at Chen Ao blankly, for fear that he would return to the object.

"There are two paths in front of you...... the king's voice echoed in Chen Ao's ears again, "One is the way of glory and light, but also the way of death, you need to be the enemy of the deceitful and shameless, you are brave and superior to him, but he is outwitted ...... you, you still need to protect the women and children around you, but he can use the women and children as a threat to force you to be in a disadvantageous position......"

"Okay, I'll take it." Looking at the neighbors of Lu Xu who were bowing in front of him, Chen Ao nodded solemnly. From now on, he is the protector of his own people, even his own party and his state. But he wondered: Why did these people rush to worship him and ask him for protection after a few days of not seeing him?

Chen Ao was puzzled in his heart, and the neighbors who bowed to Lu Xu in front of him were all relieved when they heard that he had agreed to accept the ceremony. The vast majority of them are the weak in Xiong Jing's mouth, and now that they don't kill or die, they can only worship the strong people around them in order to get his protection. Ironically, just yesterday, when it came to Chen Ao, they were still laughing at the reputation and didn't boast much, and the treasure knife would only cause trouble.

It was late at night, and Chen Ao, who had finished grooming, was still wiping the treasure knife, ignoring the box of gold that was close at hand. Although he had just killed someone, there was no trace of blood on the shiny mirror-like blade, and finally wiped it again, and the treasure knife slowly entered the sheath.

"The enemy is strong, fearless!

Brave and faithful, reverence for heaven and earth!

Geng Zheng said bluntly, it is not easy to die!

Protect women and children, don't blame heaven!

This oath will never be abandoned......"

Chen Ao, who was under the main steps of the day, naturally recalled, and at this moment, he felt that there was light all around him.

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"Lu Gao, Lu Xuan." It was the commander of the pawn, and the battlefield after the war was still noisy, and his voice was extremely high in the night.

"Yui!" Lu Gao and Lu Chan agreed loudly, their voices hoarse and extremely firm.

The killings that began at noon did not end until sunset. The Qi army was defeated. Not defeated under the huge iron spears of the Chu army's foot soldiers, but defeated in the hands of the 1,200 knights - the Qi army's wild goose marching array was about to encircle the Chu army, and after driving out the Qi army's cavalry, they suddenly lined up and rolled back, rushing to the rear of the Qi army's infantry array.

Everyone has seen the chariot charging formation, but the knight charging formation is extremely rare. The 1,200 knights were like 1,200 hammers, they smashed the abdomen and back of the Qi army, even if the rear team of the Qi army was not an inferior soldier, even the hammer with men and horses weighing 2,000 catties struck, and the entire army formation still collapsed in an instant. The ensuing war was a one-sided massacre.

This is the king's 'sword tactics', with the spear array as the sword and the knight as the sword. Although it was applied for the first time in actual combat, Fei Jing and Xiang Chao still easily completed this tactic, and except for a small number of the 19,000 Qi soldiers, most of the rest collapsed and surrendered, including Tian Ying, the defender who did not flee into the city.

"The Qi army has surrendered, but there are still some losers in Zicheng, you wait to bring one or two people over, and if you don't surrender, you will be killed." Under the fire, there are the figures of the Chu soldiers everywhere, and the inside and outside of the city gate are the chaotic footsteps and Chu Yin, the commander who gave the order is biting a piece of cake, he saw the eyes of the two involuntarily looking at the cake he bitten, and immediately smiled: "Go after eating the cake." ”

"You don't need to eat bread, we will eat bread after we have wiped out Qi Kou." Lu Chan said fearlessly, swallowing his saliva vigorously.

"You're ......," the pawn laughed. Wang Zu was originally the army of the Gong family, but in the past two hundred years, most of the soldiers in the army have been selected, and there are not many children of the Gong family. "Go ahead. The Great Priest will bless you and so on. ”

"Yui!" The two bowed before leaving. Soon ordered one or two horses from the pawn, merged into a new pawn, and entered the south gate under the leadership of a brigade commander to the innermost sub-city of Ju County.

Jucheng city is forty miles, larger than Chen Ying but smaller than Shouying, the inner city is about twenty-five miles, and the sub-city, that is, the royal city, is only a pitiful twelve miles. The length and width of the forty-mile city are ten miles, and when he walked to the inner city gate, Lu Gao's stomach suddenly growled, and Lu Qian smiled and said: "Jucheng is actually three floors, so lofty, how did the Qi people pull it out?" ”

"I won't say much to you." Lu Gao wants to eat the cake before leaving, even if he doesn't eat the cake, he has to eat two on the road, but ......

"Why don't you talk to me?" Lu Xun knew that his heroism had caused Lu Gao's stomach to growl, but he didn't want to admit his mistake. "But the bread has not been eaten? Do not forget, we want to be honorable, and we are not afraid of death, but how can we be afraid of hunger and thirst......"

Before Lu Chan finished speaking, his stomach also growled, causing his fellow soldiers to laugh. The march in the city, although it did not contain a coup, it was also forbidden to make noise, and the laughter provoked the angry rebuke of the commander in front: "Who is making noise? Silence! ”

'Purr...' Lu Chan's stomach seemed to be unable to stop, and before the pawn's voice fell, the grunt started again, and his comrades laughed again. The commander in front of him was finally angry, and his chariot rushed over, and the fire shone on everyone's face.

"What's the noise?" The voice of the brigade commander, the line of five hundred people is not long, only sixty or seventy meters.

"When someone is hungry, everyone laughs." The chief probably heard the truth and reported it.

"What's so funny. Silence. "After winning the battle, now it's just to purge Yu Kou, and the brigade commander doesn't want to severely punish his subordinates. His eyes were always fixed on the front: there were some dark shadows standing under the towering sub-city, and those were also Chu pawns, who had surrounded them since they entered the city.

"Who's coming? Password! Seeing the fire from afar, the Chu soldiers under the city were obviously very nervous.

"The one who came was in custody. Password: Stone-throwing ...... "Jing Jian is the brigade commander of the king's pawn, although his clan has a rebellious cousin. When he answered the order, there was a sudden bright light somewhere in Zicheng, and a crowd of people poured out of the light, it was Qi Jun.

"Qi people! Array! Rapid Formation!! Outside the city, there was an exclamation, and the figures were swaying in a disorderly manner, followed by the screams of fighting. The Qi army that rushed out of Zicheng engaged the Chu army in a blink of an eye, and the Chu army, which was caught off guard, immediately fell into chaos.

"How can this be?" The sky was dark, and the fires of the Chu army outside Zicheng were extinguished one after another. The commander didn't know what to do, and the brigade commander Jing Jian was also a little at a loss.

"Dare to ask the brigade commander, are there other gates in Zicheng?" The reactions of those who have read books are completely different from those who have not read books, let alone the students who came out of Lantai Palace. Lu Gao asked, Jing Jian was shocked, and shouted: "Go to the West Gate quickly!" ”

The sub-city is twelve miles, and the length and width are no more than three miles. It is not far from the south gate to the west gate, when the south gate is fighting frantically, the west gate is quietly opened, there is no fire, dozens of chariots first slowly go out of the city, and only after crossing the moat do they rush to ride their horses, I didn't think that there were people in the darkness in front of them shouting: "Where to escape?" Kill! ”

"Kill ——!" The chorus of five hundred people was unusually loud, and the horses in front of them were frightened and neighed. Taking advantage of this moment, a spearman rushed forward and stabbed to death all the horses in front of him, and another soldier quickly seized the city gate. At this time, the fire was ignited, and Jing Jiao, who was holding a huge blade, pointed to the middle car and shouted loudly: "Do you want to descend?" ”

"Down, down!" A few people came out of the car, first two strategists, and then a Qi general dressed in the armor of the Chu army. The surprised Jing Jian looked at the other cars and found that the soldiers on each car were actually dressed as Chu soldiers, and the cars were also planted with Chu flags.

"What do you call?" Ambushed the convoy of the Qi army that was attacking the east and west, trying to confuse the pearls, and ordered the surrendered Qi generals to go to the south gate to say that the Qi soldiers who were still fighting fiercely, Jing Jian finally came over to ask Lu Gao.

"Tell the brigade commander, my name is Lu Gao." Lu Gao was eating the meat of the liquor, which was handed over by the Qi people.

"Tell the brigade commander, my name is Lu Chan." Jing Jian didn't ask, Lu Qian also answered, he felt that he and Lu Gao were together.