After that, Zhao Yun rode the white horse and turned around, and quickly disappeared into the night, leaving Xu Chu alone in the same place, stunned and pinned the two big iron halberds in the halberd sleeves on both sides of the horse, and then scratched his forehead, full of anticipation, looking forward to meeting this person next time, so as to fight with him again.

On the Chang'an side, a few days have passed, Zhang Duan has left the territory of Hongnong and arrived here with his army.

In the nameless valley not far from Chang'an, Li Dao and Guo Yan have been fighting each other here all day long since they fell out, and both sides have suffered heavy casualties, especially Li Dao's side, the 50,000 horses he led, at this time there are less than 10,000 people left, and the rest of the people are all corpses all over the valley, and there is no one who is even responsible for collecting the corpses.

Only the families of these dead soldiers in Chang'an City, taking advantage of the dark night, would come here in company of each other, light faint oil lamps, look at the faces of each corpse, and come to find their relatives and friends.

As for the commander of the unified army, that is, Li Dao himself.

According to the report of Zhang Duan's subordinates, they were already seriously wounded at this time, and their large battalion had been hanging up the battle exemption card for several days, and the morale of the entire army was extremely low, and the combat effectiveness was almost completely lost.

For this situation, in fact, it was expected by Zhang Duan, and he didn't have to think about it to know this.

After all, because Li Dao and Guo Yan are one thing different, that is, Li Dao is a typical profit-driven activist, who only knows how to move in the direction of interests, so the combat effectiveness of his soldiers is relatively low.

However, Guo Yan is different, he is different from Li Dao, who inherited Dong Zhuo's extravagant enjoyment, he inherited Dong Zhuo's domineering and bravery.

Therefore, the soldiers under him are all strong in combat, and almost all of them can defeat one against ten, which is quite the demeanor and courage of the Xiliang warriors.

It is true that Zhang Duan is from Dong Zhuo's command, but if the division is more detailed, he is from Li Dao's command, so compared with Guo Yan, Zhang Duan is more favored by his top boss.

So this time he led the army to come, and he entered the Dazhai of Li Daojun's army at the first time.

"General Zhang Duan is back!" The soldiers under Li Dao were wrapped in gauze, sat with their backs to the grain trucks in the camp, leaning on each other to rest, and when they saw Zhang Duan coming back, they actually struggled to stand up one by one, with happy smiles on their faces.

Zhang Duan didn't care to greet these soldiers, and on the one hand, he ordered Gao Shun to clarify all aspects of the handover, and on the other hand, he went straight to the camp where Li Dao was recuperating.

The soldiers guarding the camp knew Zhang Duan, and after a little hesitation, they directly let Zhang Duan in.

Zhang Duan came to the tent and found that the entire tent was filled with a strong sandalwood fragrance, and he always had a strange feeling in his heart. This spice comes from the Western Regions, and it is mostly used on occasions after the death of a person with a prominent position, and when he heard it here, Zhang Duan couldn't help frowning.

Looking at the whole tent, there is nothing else at all, the dress is very simple, and the surrounding curtains are mainly decorated in black and white.

There was only a huge bed in the middle, and a thin black veil was wrapped around the outside of the bed!

"Where is this the place where Lord Li is recuperating, this is clearly a mourning hall! Are you cursing Lord Li Dao to die early? Zhang Duan shouted indignantly, his face full of vicissitudes and the beard on his chin, it could be seen how much experience he had on this trip to Hongnong.

It's just that those heroic, eagle-sharp eyes have never changed.

In the tent, the two little children waiting by the bedside kept their heads down, silent, and couldn't see the expressions on their faces clearly, and when they heard Zhang Duan's angry shout, they raised their heads, blinked their eyes, and said slowly in a weak voice: "General, do you know that Lord Li Dao was shot in the chest with a bow and arrow by Guo Yan a hundred meters away, although the doctor had taken out the arrow, but that night, Lord Li Dao died......

Zhang Duan was taken aback, he never expected that the information of his subordinates to explore the horse was actually wrong, and this news was so closely concealed that it was as if no one in the whole army knew.

"That ......" Zhang Duan stuttered a little for a while, gently raised his right hand, pointed to the bed, and asked in confusion, "Then what's going on?" ”

"It is a plan that Mr. Zhong Xuan, a strategist under the adult, said that this can stabilize the morale of the army, and only need to hang up the free battle card, and you can drag it to Lord Zhang Duan, and at that time, we will have hope. Now not many people in the whole army know the news, my lord, you are finally back. ”

Xiao Tong explained honestly at first, but in the end, he couldn't help but kneel on the ground, support the ground with his hands, and sobbed softly.

Zhang Duan took a deep breath, he knew this Zhong Xuan, he had been under Dong Zhuo before, at that time, he served as Chang'an Sima in Chang'an, after Dong Zhuo's death, he did not take refuge in Wang Yun, but chose to defect to Li Dao.

I really didn't expect that this literati, who only knew how to write some so-called calligraphy on weekdays and looked sour and rotten, would have such a plan, Zhang Duan held his chin with his hand and thought seriously.

Since then, Zhang Duan has carefully analyzed the ordinary people left behind by Li Dao, and there are two generals surnamed Zhang and their generals on the general's side.

As for these two generals surnamed Zhang, they are both from Longxi, they are two brothers, one is the younger brother, named Zhang Xiu, and the other is the eldest brother, named Zhang Ji, these two brothers are the children of the nomadic people who are good at riding horses, and their general is named Hu Chi'er, who is also a strong man with extraordinary skills.

As he spoke, Zhong Xuan, who heard that Zhang Duan had arrived, rushed into the big tent in a hurry, and at the moment when the curtain was lifted, he knelt down directly, and almost didn't see anyone coming, so he pressed his forehead tightly against the cold ground.

"General Zhang Duan, you're back!" Listening to Zhong Xuan's voice, as if he was about to cry, Zhang Duan knew that he must have suffered a lot for the whole army and suffered a lot.

Thinking about it, it is really a huge problem for a powerless civilian official to manage the military affairs of the entire army after the death of the main general, and to face the provocations of the enemy army all day long.

Although Zhang Duan is a military general, he also knows that Corporal Tixian, seeing Zhong Xuan so polite, he hurriedly ran over, squatted down on one leg, supported Zhong Xuan with both hands, and helped him up, "Mr. Zhong Xuan, you have really worked hard, Zhang Duan has heard of your name before, but he has never looked at you directly, this time, you are really the benefactor of Lord Li Dao, the benefactor of Zhang Duan, and the benefactor of my whole army!" (To be continued.) )