The noise and chaos in Dongshan City, with the collapse of the city lord's mansion in the second half, the sparks flying in the sky and the smoke and dust rising from the hustle and bustle, slowly dimmed the firelight, and entered a new stage of limited holding.

Although the troops who rushed to intercept and block only caught a little tail of the defeated enemy. In the direction of the western city wall, the enemy's remaining troops had to retreat in a hurry after paying corresponding casualties in the attempted attack.

However, with the regrouping of forces in the city, it seems that the superiority and dominance of Dongshan Castle have once again shifted to the Huaidong-Luo Domain.

And I decided on the spot to take the initiative to stop the further offensive and turn to the clean-up and rectification of the remaining enemy positions in the control area.

After all, after this night battle, although the troops I brought were still elite, they also reached hundreds of casualties under the melee and fierce fighting encountered in the dark.

Now, with the return of the feudal lord Luo Zhanji, the situation to which the Luo clan belonged has also been initially stabilized because of the backbone.

At least in the absence of more interest guarantees and conditions exchange, there is really no need to use these precious and limited strengths around you to sell the icing on the cake for other people's affairs.

On the other hand, because of the return of the feudal lord Luo Zhanji, the reasons and motives for the various forces of the Luo domain to continue to unite and unite with the enemy and cooperate with the offensive under the temporary command and coordination system led by me suddenly disappeared.

All that remained was the motive and purpose of continuing to take revenge on the Xue clan and launch a crusade, and after the change in the hearts of the feudal lords when they returned to their hearts, it became less urgent.

After all, they are not the majority of regular ranks, and when this vigor and momentum are relaxed, it will be difficult to drive them back to the old outlook in the short term, or it will be impossible to continue to do so.

Our side, for the sake of this war, which originally belonged to the Luo clan, continued to ask the other side to provide corresponding coordination and cooperation in unified command.

At this time, the rear reported to me, a small episode about what happened outside the city, and I found a better reason and excuse,

The process of going to take over the camp outside the city was very smooth, but when he wanted to get the follow-up baggage supplies, he was rejected by a deputy official named Li Guandao who refused the corresponding request in disguise on the grounds that the person in charge was not there and was not named.

Although I don't know why there is such a stupid person who can't see the form and situation clearly, and picks out the existence of the troublemaker. But this news obviously made me laugh instead of being angry.

Now things are easy to do, and there is a reason to stop. After all, this is no longer a problem of our side being unwilling to contribute as an alliance, but the internal squabbling and procrastination within the Luo Domain, which made this good momentum powerless to continue to make a difference.

In this way, no matter where it is placed, our army has really done its best to be benevolent and righteous, and people can't find fault with it.

Such a thoughtful idea is mainly for some kind of reputation consideration. Although before the greater good, fame is such a thing as being sold. But a good reputation as an ally with superior strength can sometimes be exchanged for more long-term and hidden things.

At this time, it was already late at night, and Xue Huiyan, the marquis of Yu, reported a new news to me, who was sitting in the city lord's hall.

There are some survivors in the city lord's hall who are beating and scolding the Xue clan captives under the control of their own army, and even abusing them with their hands, until they are stopped by my people.

At least in the disposition of prisoners, my Huaidong army has a first-class priority, and they have nothing to say.

Although there had been a Luo clan army in the past, for the defeated enemy army, retaliatory massacres and basically did not leave prisoners; But in the enemy formation, which was broken head-on by our army, there were still some wounded who were picked up from the pile of corpses and left there to fend for themselves; Later, in the skirmish of the city area, some live mouths were captured;

Therefore, in the end, seven or eight hundred prisoners were obtained, most of whom were Xue's soldiers and horses scattered everywhere, and only a small number of Northern Dynasty soldiers from Pinglu Dao. Therefore, he was encircled and supervised in one place, and was waiting for follow-up identification and interrogation one by one.

However, this little episode made by Roche had another unexpected result. All of these captives were terrified of their own danger, and some even took the initiative to reveal their identities to my people, hoping to be sheltered and treated better.

He is a retainer of the Xue family, and he has a lot of kinship with those military towns in Pinglu Road in the Northern Dynasty, and in terms of identity and social relations, it is inevitable to die when he is handed over to the Luo family. Therefore, according to his rhetoric, he would rather pin his hopes on Huaidong Town, an outsider.

In exchange for self-preservation and improvement of the situation, he can provide us with all kinds of inside information and details related to this turmoil, some information and even speculation that most people do not know for the time being.

Although most of it is nonsense and conjecture that cannot be judged, and really useful information, the name he said at the end is related to it, but it makes people pay a little attention to it.

Because, the other party is one of the few important ministers in the northern country, the new seven-sided ambassador. In the past, many Andong princes, under the inducement from the Northern Dynasties, took the opportunity to attack the empty grassland hinterland, which was due to his strategy.

"Su Yuanjing, it's actually his ......"

"This old thing...... It's really ghostly."

"Didn't he go out of the jam......

The name that came out in the end, unsurprisingly, made Luo Sijin at the top of the Luo clan, unabashedly gritting his teeth but like facing a great enemy, with all kinds of jealous and painful expressions.

Obviously, the mastermind behind the scenes planned all this, and even the people in power within the Xue clan were calculated.

At the same time, in a large house in the east of the city that had been temporarily set aside for safety.

"The Lord ......"

"Vassal Lord......"

"The Lord's 、......"

"Patriarch ......"

"Big Brother......

In the midst of the shouts and calls of everyone on the left, the feudal lord Luo Zhanji also slowly regained his consciousness in a coma.

What happened before was like a nightmare and bad luck that people didn't want to recall, but had to face, so many people close to them died, and how many Luo clan's children went forward to succeed on the spot.

"Speak for me,"

After all that was so chaotic and flustered, he finally regained his old composure and returned to his role as the head of the Great Domain.

"Let's just say that I have a vital interest, and I want to discuss it with Huaidong Luo Shuai in person......"

After hearing about the series of things that were passed on from the left and right, he just turned his head to a certain cronie with a sinking face

"Take the rear camp management on behalf of Li Guandao, and give me the ...... in the name of the foreign enemy."

"Beat him to death in front of the army with a stick, and ...... the canon and the hearts of the people with a clear light"

Li Guandao can also be regarded as a close person he picked up with one hand, and he only felt that although this guy was a little straightforward, he was loyal and reliable in his work.

But I didn't expect that at this critical juncture, it became the key to a bad thing in a sense. Therefore, it is not important whether this person is a foreign enemy in the town, but what is important is that the feudal lord wants to use him to establish authority and show his attitude; Cooperation with important allies is a basic intention that cannot be interfered with or compromised.

And no matter who it is, anyone in the family or any force behind it, or instigates Li Guandao to do this kind of thing, he must pay the corresponding price for it......

In another place, in the urban area where the Xue clan retreated, there was a gloomy and bleak taste and atmosphere from top to bottom.

Among them is also the highest-ranking member of this temporary camp, Xue Dingfeng, the deputy envoy of Yanjun who is full of bitterness.

The former Andong Xue Domain, known as Liaoxi Town, under the vassal lord of the Governor of Anton, is the sequence of the highest ministers of Liaoxi, Ruluo, Yanjun, Xiangping, and Huaiyuan, and then the local sequence of those city lords, town generals, Zhizhai, and military chiefs who stand side by side.

And almost all of these chief and deputy guards and envoys are under the control and control of generations by outstanding people from close branches of the Xue family. Only in some special circumstances can there be a few foreign surnames or particularly powerful confidants who can occasionally win this honor.

Xue Dingfeng, who came from the branch family, is one of the most typical examples.

But now after a sudden chaotic battle and fierce fighting, in addition to the feudal lord and a few close ministers and acting officials, the three major guards and four deputy envoys who came to send them off for marriage are still missing;

In the end, he was left with only one bare-rod deputy envoy, who was still intact, and was pulled out to unify the situation and stabilize the hearts of the remnants.

And after this chaotic battle, the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses that the Xue clan came to send off their relatives and declare their strength were only the three or four thousand damaged soldiers in front of them; It can be said that the elite force that the Xue clan easily drew out was suddenly lost more than half of it here because of inexplicable reasons and factors.

At this point, even if he escaped most of the deaths because he was placed relatively low in the ranking and was arranged to guard the dowry, he knew very little about the reasons and was involved, but how could he not see the wrongness and abnormality.

How could the Luo clan and the Xue clan suddenly turn their faces into enemies in the banquet hall, and how did those people and horses from the four major towns of Pinglu have been prepared to become the backup of the sudden kill.

But under the current situation, no matter how much resentment and unwillingness he has, he can only grit his teeth and swallow blood.

faced Luo Fan, who turned his face back into hatred and became even more undying; The Xue clan, which also suffered a great loss of strength and territory, had to rely more on these forces that had mastered the rear and retreat, so that it was possible to barely protect itself in the next extremely deteriorating situation.

Instead of letting these remnants of the Xue family's children be rightfully sent to the lead in the desperate revenge and liquidation of the Luo Fan in the next desperate revenge and liquidation, and as for the dead and wounded, they will eventually be unable to maintain the foundation of the family and gradually become the puppets and vassals of others.

This is also an upright conspiracy, using the fait accompli to let the Xue family, who secretly surrendered to both ends of the rat and had no abnormal movements, be taught and punished; In order to survive, the weakened Xue clan had to be tied more closely to the chariot in the west, with grandiose means and calculations.

It is even more self-evident who is behind this. Even if that person is temporarily far away from Anton, he can still rely on the chess pieces and layouts left behind, and still indirectly provoke and influence the many forces in the northern country.

Even the little rebound and self-preservation methods planned by the Xue family in private could not be avoided, and they were used by people with intentions and turned into a catastrophe that was completely damaging others and hurting themselves......

As soon as he thought of this, he couldn't help but feel even more disappointed and discouraged about the young feudal lord who had been pinned on by most people.

However, the sudden and unexpected rise of Luo's foreign aid during this period, the famous Southern Army from Huaidong, turned around and gave these northern athletes a painful and profound lesson.

At the same time, it also gave him an opportunity to gather the soldiers of the Xue clan who had been scattered in the chaotic battle on the grounds of resisting the enemy, and once again become a decisive independent force.

During this period, on the side of Pinglu Road, there were at least seven or eight battalion leaders, which disappeared forever in response to the counteroffensive launched in Huaidong. Even the veteran battalion leaders who were also famous in Pinglu Road were almost half damaged.

This can't help but make him secretly have some different thoughts and faint expectations in his heart.

At this time, a report secretly discovered by someone below made his original entanglement in his abnormal mind a little chaotic again.

Because, among those Xue clan troops, more than one person saw and reported that he saw a suspicious figure.