"Fan Xiu" stared at the map on the low table and took a closer look, especially the terrain around this abandoned camp that was originally used for field training.

After making sure that all the details could be fully reproduced under the "sunset", "Fan Xiu" grabbed the big knife stuck in the ground.

After waving and familiarizing himself with the tent for a while, "Fan Xiu" took a deep breath, lifted his tired body slightly, and muttered softly, "Behind you is home." ”

As he spoke, he raised his head and walked out of the tent with a majestic and calm expression.

Outside the tent, the relatively complete guards were already lined up and waiting here.

Originally, there were only 500 guards left in the battalion.

They are the veterans personally selected by "Fan Xiu" one by one, and they are also the seeds that "Fan Xiu" intends to train into elite characteristics.

However, after this battle, I wonder how many of them will be left? Or just accompany yourself to the battlefield to the death.

Listening to the shouts of killing from the middle camp and the screams of the soldiers when they died, their eyes reflected the anxiety, panic and despair on the faces of the guards in the front row.

"Fan Xiu" looked at them quietly with a calm face, until the look on the guard's face calmed down slightly.

At this time, Vice General Zhao rode over with the only seven remaining detectives.

"Fan Xiu" turned his head to look at Vice General Zhao, who bowed slightly, and the scout who saluted behind him. Then he looked at the herald beside him, and his hoarse voice sounded with majesty:

"Passing on the Lord's Order."

The herald and Vice General Zhao and the others looked solemn.

"Fan Xiu" looked at the remaining seven scouts and said with a majestic expression:

"Order the seven scouts to quickly withdraw to 'Xiuyuan City', and inform the remaining deputy city lord and other main responsible persons of the order of the city lord."

After a pause, he continued: "There are three orders. First, the 'Tinder' plan was implemented, and all 'Tinder' was immediately evacuated from the safe passage, and no return was allowed without the order of the city lord or the successor city lord appointed by the Alliance. ”

"Order 2: Order all the remaining troops to guard the city gate, and no one shall open the city gate without authorization if anything happens, and those who violate the order will be 'beheaded'."

After a slight pause, "Fan Xiu"'s voice became as cold as iron: "In any case, including all the troops of our army out of the city. That is, if you see any rout of our army, you must not open the door. ”

His eyes calmly looked into the eyes of the seven scouts and said, "The rout army, including the city lord." ”

Vice General Zhao, the heralds and the guards were all stunned when they heard the order from "Fan Xiu", and then they were shocked.

However, "Fan Xiu" ignored it, and continued: "Only when the city lord and the deputy city lord order at the same time can the city gate be reopened. ”

"Order 3: In case the enemy army enters the city with a rout," Fan Xiu said with an indifferent expression, "Order the deputy city lord to use all means of communication to request the alliance to stop all rescue operations as soon as possible." If communications are blocked, the 'Death Together' operation will be launched, detonating the city and dying with the enemy. ”

Closed his eyes, let the people who heard the order digest it, and when he opened his eyes again, he looked at the seven scouts with a calm expression and said, "Did you hear clearly?" ”

The seven of them looked at each other, clasped their fists and said solemnly: "Swear to complete the task!" ”

Fan Xiu shook his head and said in a serious tone: "I don't need you to die. I want you to live to pass on the order to the deputy city lord and all those in charge completely and accurately. ”

"Yes!" The seven of them answered in unison again.

"Go, while the enemy forces are still close." "Fan Xiu" waved his hand to let the detective leave.

"Your Excellency!" Vice General Zhao went up and saluted, and stopped talking a little.

"Fan Xiu" waved his hand to stop Vice General Zhao's words that were about to be spoken, looked into his eyes seriously and said, "We have no way back. ”

After speaking, without waiting for the other party's reaction, he turned around and walked to the front of the pro-soldier array, looking at the veterans who were a little commotion after hearing the order of "Fan Xiu" and quickly calmed down.

All the guards were selected by Fan Xiu one by one to go to the barracks, and the youngest had been with Fan Xiu for at least three years.

From the expressions on the faces and the emotions conveyed in the eyes of these pro-soldiers, "Fan Xiu" knew that even in the face of the desperate situation of death that anyone could see now, and "Fan Xiu", as the city lord, personally cut off the last retreat, they were still willing to believe Fan Xiu, the city lord.

"Fan Xiu" looked at the familiar figures in front of him, looking at their eyes with strong self-composure and trust, his chest was like a stone.

Although his chest was uncomfortably blocked, he was still majestic and calm on the surface.

"Fan Xiu" glanced at the corner of his eyes, and after hearing the sentence "there is no way back", he was stunned for a moment, and then calmed down for a moment, and Vice General Zhao, who had a steady expression on his face, nodded slightly.

To say that this Fan Xiu's vision of seeing people is still good. Whether it was the 500 guards or this Vice General Zhao, even if he heard that Ning Yuan's possessed "Fan Xiu" gave an order that was equivalent to digging his own grave, he would be able to maintain his apparent composure. Even the "military spirit," which symbolizes morale, has not fluctuated much, and even the morale, which was originally at a low point, has risen slightly.

("I really don't know whether to say that this Fan Xiu's personality is charismatic or that these people have firm confidence in Fan Xiu?") Either way, at least the options can be slightly more viable. ”）

("Without strong control over the armies under us, the current situation is not in a position to be executed, even if there is an idea.") OK! OK! ”）

Ning Yuan, who possessed Fan Xiu, muttered happily in his consciousness.

"Fan Xiu" looked at Vice General Zhao and the 500 personal guards, and said with a hint of relief in his majestic voice: "I think everyone heard the order just now. I'm glad to hear that you can still stand here calmly as the lord of the castle and as your general. ”

"We have no way back." "Fan Xiu" said as if stating the facts, "At the beginning of the war, Xiuyuan City was already doomed. ”

Everyone looked at "Fan Xiu" and was silent without any emotion.

In fact, the victory or defeat of the war has been known to all the residents of "Xiuyuan City" since the "Iron Childcare City" suddenly issued a war notice.

The wars between medium-sized and small city-states are inherently unequal. Without a special killer feature, few small city-states can defeat medium-sized city-states.

"Big eats small, strong swallows weak" is something that everyone is almost accustomed to.

The existence of the city-state alliance is a self-attack and defense revolved around the phrase that all beings are accustomed to.

Weak city-states join forces to resist the bullying of powerful city-states, and powerful city-states absorb weak city-states as their own subordinates in order to obtain resources and benefits more effectively.

However, because of their habit, the aborigines of the Nino continent basically didn't care about war. Whether it's attacking someone else or someone else attacking you, no matter how strong or weak the city-state is attacking you, no matter how many dead and wounded there will be in the war. For most of the city-state residents, because of the rules, they are willing to fight for the city-state as long as the city-state has not changed hands. Even if the city-state changes hands, most of the aborigines don't care who is sitting on their heads, except for those who have already developed hatred. At most, when you encounter tyranny, you feel sorry for your predecessor, and then pray for the next city-state war.

The same is true of the citizens of "Xiuyuan City". It's just that because the reputation of "Tiezhi City" in a radius of thousands of miles is not good, coupled with the rumors that the city may be "slaughtered", and the city lord of "Fan Xiu" is also quite popular, so most of the city residents still hope for a "miracle" even if they know that "Xiuyuan City" is doomed to failure.

"Originally, as the city lord, I didn't plan to struggle much." "Fan Xiu" seemed to be talking about something that had nothing to do with him, and continued without any ups and downs: "If you fight, if you lose, I will leave with the city that lowers the quality of the city and the people who are willing to follow me." ”

"Go to the Qin Alliance to find a suitable position and start again. That might be better and safer for us. ”

"If the goal of Iron Childcare City is the city in my hands, the heart of the city. If I lose, I'm willing to give up as long as the conditions are sufficient. As long as they are kind to the people of the city. ”

"Fan Xiu" stated with an expressionless face and an undulating tone: "As a ground-level cultivator, even if you have just entered the earth-level level, as long as you don't die, I can afford the loss of a city's heart. ”

"But!" "Fan Xiu's eyes sharpened, and his voice became cold and angry, "However, there is no announced city-state war in the Nino Continent that is so inexplicable. ”

"No matter how powerful you are, Tiezhi City should at least give an excuse for war, right? Even if it's just a reason to see that my cultivation of Yuan City is not pleasing to the eye, it can be accepted. ”

"However, no." "Fan Xiu" 's voice was angry and low, "Tiezhi City just issued a war announcement. A war notice without any casus belli. This is a kind of ignorance that is worse than being seen as an ant. ”

"Angry?" "Fan Xiu" looked at the faint indignation on everyone's faces, and his voice calmed down, "I was also angry at first. Not only angry, but deeply humiliated. ”

Fan Xiu paused, and said in a calm tone: "However, I am not angry now. Then he looked at the crowd, "50,000 troops, four strong troops." Destroying the mountain, characteristic elite troops; War Behemoths, Deterrent Forces; Wood Spirit Troops, Elite Troops of Pure Cultivators; Gun refining troops, mass destruction troops. ”

"Tsk, tsk, tsk." "Fan Xiu" sighed as if he was self-deprecating, "To deal with us, a small Xiuyuan City Tiezhi City actually sent such an exaggerated luxury lineup, how does this not pay attention to us?" This is obviously when we are a medium-sized city-state to fight! ”

"Shocked! What a shock! Although Fan Xiu said that he was shocked, neither his tone nor the look on his face had the slightest meaning of "shock", but instead carried indifference and ridicule, "At that time, the city lord gave birth to this treatment with the iron childish city, and we can admit defeat." Then, "the tone turned cold again," the rumor-like piece of information came. ”

"Fan Xiu" looked at everyone in front of him and suppressed his anger, gritted his teeth, and said coldly word by word: "After Tiezhi City captures Xiuyuan City, it will be forced to open the city slaughter mode through sacrifice. No matter the race, men and women, old and young, mortals or cultivators, all of them will be killed in Xiuyuan City, and no one will be left! ”

All the guards, including Vice General Zhao, opened their eyes wide in an instant, their pupils contracted, and their scalps were numb and their whole bodies were cold.

Vice General Zhao couldn't help but say, "My lord, this information? ”

"Fan Xiu" looked at Vice General Zhao's eyes and said lightly: "This is the information given by 'Di Ting'. ”

Hearing the words "Di Ting", whether it was Vice General Zhao or the guard, he immediately stopped questioning the authenticity of the information. In a word, the information given by "Di Ting" has never been wrong.

"Fan Xiu" looked at the disbelieving expression on everyone's face after receiving the information of the "Slaughter City", and said calmly without any ups and downs, "I can't figure it out, right?" ”

Vice General Zhao looked at "Fan Xiu" and nodded.

"I couldn't figure it out just before I was ambushed." "Fan Xiu" looked at everyone's expressions and said calmly, "But just now I figured it out." That's why I gave that order. ”

Then he looked at the expressionless faces of everyone and said, "We have no way out." ”

"Listen!"

"Fan Xiu" pointed to his ears and pointed to the direction of Zhongying.

Looking at Vice General Zhao, his expression was puzzled and he said without any fluctuations: "It's very loud, isn't it?" ”

Vice General Zhao nodded in confusion, because the position of the battle had retreated from the front camp to the middle camp, and the voice was naturally loud.

"Don't you think it's been a little long?" "Fan Xiu" said expressionlessly.

Vice General Zhao was stunned.

A person who can be the deputy general of the city lord in the city-state army system will naturally not be a fool, looking at the meaningful eyes of "Fan Xiu", and then thinking about the order issued, Vice General Zhao turned his head and reacted completely.

"Stealing the city?!"

"Fan Xiu" nodded expressionlessly, "The Tiezhi Army is waiting for us to collapse on our own, and then take advantage of the opportunity of the rout army to overturn the city in one fell swoop." ”

Vice General Zhao's face instantly became ugly.

"Fan Xiu" ignored Vice General Zhao's ugly face, and said to himself: "We originally collected less than 3,000 defeated soldiers, right?" ”

Vice General Zhao nodded with some difficulty.

"That number has been rising since the first hour before the battle began, isn't it?" "Fan Xiu" asked expressionlessly.

"Not bad." Adjutant General Zhao nodded, "According to the report of the former battalion commander, the number of defeated troops we gathered an hour ago has reached 6,000, which is basically half of the number of people on the expedition, and according to feedback, this number is still rising." According to the figures on the last briefing, the number of our troops has been restored to 7,500 troops. ”

"But it's mostly the recruits who come back." "Fan Xiu" said affirmatively, "Judging from the situation when the middle of the Chu was in the middle of the ambush, the Tiezhi Army was definitely capable of reducing the number of troops by one-third or even more in an instant. And judging from the faintly visible squadron of wolf cavalry, at least half of our army will be killed by tailgating after the rout. ”

After a pause, "Fan Xiu", who spoke calmly but had a mocking expression on his face, said: "But the actual situation is that the number of casualties in our army is less than 2,000, and the number of people killed in the rout is only about 500. This is not the record that a crushing army should play. ”

"Although the Iron Child's army pursued our army after defeating it, it is now that I think that their purpose is not to annihilate us completely. It's more about driving us away, leaving us exhausted and recoiling back to the city. ”

"But my lord," Vice General Zhao's face furrowed, "There's no need for Tiezhicheng to do this?" ”

Many of the pro-soldiers in the line nodded in agreement.

"Fan Xiu" sighed lightly, and said in an inexplicable tone: "Because their goal is not us. ”

Without waiting for everyone to change colors, he continued, "They just need a Xiuyuan City that looks 'intact'. ”

"Why?" Vice General Zhao said in a difficult voice.

"Fan Xiu" looked at him, then at the soldiers who were lined up to listen, and said in a low voice: "Because their real target is reinforcements from the alliance, it is the entire Qin Alliance. Then he said with some difficulty: "Even, this war is just the prelude to a series of alliance wars. And we are now at the juncture of the history of the Alliance. ”

Hearing the speculation of "Fan Xiu", everyone was dumbfounded.

"Fan Xiu" raised his face, looked at Vice General Zhao and the 500 pro-soldiers, and said: "If Xiuyuan City is occupied intact by the Tiezhi Army, you can imagine what will happen to the completely defenseless alliance reinforcements. Even if the alliance wins in the end, my Xiuyuan City will forever hang on the pillar of shame in the history of the alliance. ”

After speaking, listening to the shouting and killing that was still lingering in the middle camp, he slowly closed his eyes.

"Behind you is home." "Fan Xiu", the hoarse and majestic voice with heavy emotions sounded faintly again when he opened his eyes.

"Fan Xiu" looked at Vice General Zhao and the 500 personal soldiers, and said in a frank tone: "Originally, there was no need to explain to you, whether as the city lord of Xiuyuan City or your direct commander. But this time, for the sake of the life and death of the 150,000 citizens of Xiuyuan City and our own life and death, as well as the posthumous name of Xiuyuan City that others and the reincarnated 'we' ourselves have heard, I think it is necessary for you to have a clear understanding of the situation. ”

Then Zhengse said: "Next, I need you to follow me to do one thing, one thing that will not be alive." ”

After digesting the shocking inference of "Fan Xiu", Vice General Zhao saluted "Fan Xiu" with a resolute expression, and said sonorously: "Please give an order." ”

500 pro-soldiers knelt on one knee at the same time and said loudly: "Please give the general an order." ”

"Behind you is home." "Fan Xiu" sighed again, "Once the Tiezhi Army occupies our city, in order to prevent the news from leaking, the 'slaughter of the city' mentioned in the 'Di Ting' intelligence will definitely happen. In the slaughter mode, whether you are a mortal or a cultivator, all the means of resurrection will be ineffective, and there is only one way to go in front of everyone: death and reincarnation. The individual strength of the cultivator is indeed very strong, but under the suppression of the army's military spirit, it can only be regarded as a slightly stronger ant. We have no way back. ”

"Our families are behind us, and our Hmong are preparing to evacuate. In order to buy enough time for the 150,000 citizens to evacuate. We have to turn back and move forward. ”

"Since the enemy wants to wait for us to be defeated and take the city, then we can only find a way to break through in other directions. And the most suitable direction is undoubtedly the rear where our troops were driven out. We need to break through to the enemy's front. ”

"As long as we can bring up a strong enough threat to boost the morale of all our soldiers, then we will have a chance to turn the tide of the war."

"Fan Xiu" looked at everyone and said calmly: "This is a dead end, and compared with the military strength of the enemy and us, it can be said that there is no way to die." ”

Seeing that everyone was unmoved, he nodded and continued in a calm tone: "This is also a path of hope to break the shackles of fate, and it is also the only way for all of us to survive. ”

"So..." "Fan Xiu" looked at everyone with a cold expression: "Are you ready to accompany me to die?" ”

"Fight!"

"Fight!"

"Fight!"

Listening to the three words of "battle" hoarsely voiced by Vice General Zhao and the 500 personal guards, a happy smile appeared on the majestic and cold face of "Fan Xiu", grabbed the big knife in his hand and walked to the front of the team from the queue where the personal guards automatically turned and separated, and laughed heroically: "Then, let us die together." Let's see how strong the elite soldiers of Iron City are? ”

"Triangle Charge, Warriors Rush with Me!" "Fan Xiu" raised his big sword high, and rushed towards the front of the Tiezhi Army with a loud shout.

With the formation of the triangular charging formation headed by "Fan Xiu", the originally somewhat scattered military qi instantly coiled into a tight thick mass that surrounded a few feet above the entire triangular charging formation.

If you look down from the sky above the battlefield, you can see an oval-shaped Xuanhuang gas mass rushing up in a pile of yellow mist that is slowly retreating and almost disformed, rushing towards a huge iron-gray air mass that is not too close in the fan-shaped shape in front of you.

When the Xuanhuang air mass goes upstream, some of the Huangmeng mist spreads out to both sides, and some of it automatically gathers around the Xuanhuang air mass to form wisps of "ribbons".

These ribbons that automatically gathered around the Xuanhuang Qi Regiment were the military spirit of the few remaining veterans in the remnants of the "Xiuyuan Army".

The scattered mist that spread out to both sides was the weak military spirit of the recruits who had been driven by the "Iron Child's Army".

From here, you can intuitively see the difference between veterans and recruits.

When the "streamer" of the yellow air mass collided with the fan-shaped distribution of iron-gray air mass, the contact surface of the iron-gray air mass and the yellow-colored air mass was obviously slightly indented, but after a while, the depression was refilled by the iron-gray air mass collected from both sides.

Only had time to release an attribute vitality that could only be mastered by a ground-level cultivator at the moment when the military qi of the two armies had not yet come into contact, and after killing the two dozen or so enemy troops facing him, the "front" led by Fan Xiu, who was possessed by Ning Yuan, staggered with the fan-shaped attack surface of the "Iron Childish Army".

As a newcomer to the ground level cultivator who had just broken through the school level, the skill that "Fan Xiu" mastered was only one "Earth Splitting Slash". To put it bluntly, it is the impact sword qi of the earth attribute.

The power of the sword qi of the attribute vitality is indeed amazing, even if it is suppressed by the military qi and negates the blow with one blow, it also kills more than 20 enemy troops, making the enemy army facing "Fan Xiu" unconsciously. And it was precisely the incomprehensible blow in the overall situation that gave the "front" brought up by "Fan Xiu" a slight possibility to break through the front of the enemy army.

It's a pity that this kind of attack, even if there is no suppression of military energy, Fan Xiu can only release it seven or eight times, and under the military spirit, this move "splitting the ground" and "Fan Xiu" can only be released once before the military spirit of the two sides is completely entangled, and it can only be released once.

One, two, three. After killing a few enemy soldiers, Ning Yuan gradually became familiar with Fan Xiu's tactics, and the subsequent killing became simpler. Although Fan Xiu has a lot of tactics, there are only three knives that are most commonly used in war: one to cut off the neck and behead, one to cut the heart obliquely, and one to cut off the waist and body. It was simple and brutal, but with the physical talent of the second realm of Shang Fan Xiu and the powerful talent that had been deepened to the power of the Nine Bulls, it became the most effective killing method.

"Fan Xiu" did not take his own troops to fight aimlessly and at will. Before making contact with the enemy, the two abilities of "Sunset" and "Yayan" were completely activated, and through the detailed reproduction of "Sunset" and the calculation ability of "Yayan", they purposefully advanced towards the weak points of the frontal enemy and the weak points of the formation.

Under the leadership of "Fan Xiu" decisive and brutal killing, and in the high morale of the rising will to die, "Fan Xiu" and Vice General Zhao led 500 personal soldiers not to be quickly defeated under the encirclement of several times the enemy army, but rose up with a more and more courageous momentum. And after seeing that the city lords would fight as the front, the veterans who were originally only attached to them because of experience and combat instinct quickly and completely integrated into the triangular charge formation led by "Fan Xiu".