According to the available information, the general direction that Ning Yuan deduced with the "Yanyan" and Qimen induction was nothing more than two kinds.

The remnants of the "Xiuyuan City" were surrounded and annihilated here, and Fan Xiu and others were captured.

The remnants of the "Xiuyuan City" were defeated again, and the city in the rear was reversed, resulting in the city being directly occupied and Fan Xiu and others being captured.

Ning Yuan deduced that the latter was more likely.

With the military strength of the "Iron Childish City", even if it is not so much effort, it can easily capture the "Xiuyuan City". It's just that in the case of "Xiuyuan City" refusing to defend the city, it will cause damage to the city wall. There were mountain-destroying wrestlers and siege beasts, and Ning Yuan estimated that this damage should be irreversible.

So why did the "Xiuyuan City", which could be captured no matter what it did, as a medium-sized city-state with an overwhelming advantage in resources, military strength, or others, so why did it not hesitate to lure the "Xiuyuan Army" out of the city with 5,000 elite soldiers as bait?

After all, what is the reason for this city-state war?

In Fan Xiu's memory, Ning Yuan didn't find an answer. "Tiezhi City" only issued a war notice to "Xiuyuan City", and then directly sent troops to "Xiuyuan City". Fan Xiu even wanted to find a third party to mediate the war during the buffer period, but he didn't know how to mediate. It seems that the "Iron Childish City" wants to destroy the "Xiuyuan City" for no reason. In the information that Fan Xiu collected later, there was even a description that "Tiezhi City" wanted to slaughter "Xiuyuan City".

"Why?" These are the three words that have been in the minds of Fan Xiu and the staff of "Xiuyuan City" since the declaration of war in "Tiezhi City". It is also a question that everyone is puzzled by.

It wasn't until he received the information about the four special forces that Fan Xiu's mind seemed to flash a flash of inspiration, and he had a vague guess. But for many reasons, I didn't think carefully about that vague thought.

However, Ning Yuan, who digested Fan Xiu's memory, faintly speculated about the hidden veil in this somewhat confused war because of the influence of his talent.

Based on what I learned from memory. "Iron Childish City", which can only be regarded as an ordinary mid-level city-state among medium-sized city-states, should not be able to have four relatively special troops at the same time. Especially the Wood Spirit Force, a pure warlock cultivator or a pure wood spirit clan cultivator, and a large spear refining force, which is extremely money-burning.

A mature medium-sized city-state, that is, the kind of city-state with a population of one million and an extremely high proportion of 30% cultivators (of course, even a medium-sized city-state with a population of one million cannot reach the level of a perfect 300,000 cultivators), among all 300,000 practitioners, it may be possible to find a warlock professional with a qu, or even more, but it is not easy to find a professional with all the qu being wood-type warlocks.

To put it bluntly, among the 300,000 cultivators, there are only about two of the 100,000 medium-sized city-states with a population of one million, and at most three.

No matter how you calculate it, it is impossible for the "Iron Childish City" to be among them.

Even if they are not warlock cultivators, but the Wood Spirit Clan, which is extremely easy to form a Wood Spirit Army, it is the same.

Because the Wood Spirit Clan is a rather exclusive race among all the Spirit Races in the Neno Continent, and they basically only live in the major "Forest Alliance", such as the "Dragon Sen Alliance", an alliance dominated by the Spirit Race in the Dragon Blood Great Forest. The Wood Spirit Clan rarely appears in Terran-dominated territory.

Of course, if a certain city-state has established a "friendship" with a certain Wood Spirit race, that would be a different matter.

But as far as the "Iron Childcare City" in the memory information is concerned, Ning Yuan doesn't think that the other party will hook up with a certain Wood Spirit Clan.

From this, Ning Yuan speculated that the Wood Spirit troops should not be the troops that originally belonged to the "Iron Childcare City".

Let's look at the "large gun-refining" troops. Refining guns, especially large-scale refining guns, was a new thing that had only appeared for a few hundred years in Fan Xiu's era.

That's right, unlike other gas refining technology products, which usually change from large to small, refining guns are an "outlier" from small to large.

The refining spears of the Nino Continent were originally toys for cultivators, but they were just things that mortals used to deal with beasts and intimidate those timid fierce demon beasts.

Until someone had the whim to refine the spear by refining the treasure weapon.

Although the refining gun was originally powered by source stones, it basically activated ammunition in a mechanical way. It is fast and powerful for mortals, but it is only for mortals.

For cultivators, even if they are just preparatory cultivators who have condensed the "Qi Seed", as long as the refining spear of mechanical kinetic energy does not hit the vital point of death, it will only make them injured. And mid-level cultivators who step into the "Sea of Qi" will be able to rely on their improved reflexes to dodge this mechanical kinetic energy of refining spear ammunition.

However, this changed after the appearance of the refining spear, which uses the power of runes as the active energy.

The cultivators found that this kind of refining spear, which uses the source stone as the energy source and is activated by runes, can threaten the cultivators of the military level in the hands of mortals. And if it is in the hands of a cultivator, such as a cultivator in the middle of the military rank, it can even pose a threat to a cultivator who has just entered the husband level.

This discovery intrigued those practitioners and began to study it, and the subsequent discovery completely changed the fate of the "toy" of refining guns. It also led to the birth of a new subclass among late-stage cultivators.

The name of the new subclass is "Gunner".

That major discovery is the popular "caliber is justice".

It has been found that under the same material, the larger the caliber of the refining gun, the more and more advanced runes of the same kind are engraved, and the power under the same ammunition will produce geometric differences.

Whether it is the superposition of the same rune or the change of caliber, the large-scale refining of the gun has become an inevitable choice.

However, although the gun refining thing is good, it has a disadvantage, that is, it burns money extremely much. This is especially true for large-scale gun-refining units of the standard. In Fan Xiu's time, the refining gun had not yet realized the production line operation, and it could only be refined individually by the skilled workers of the refining workshop.

Of course, with the memory information digested by Ning Yuan, it is not that the "Iron Childcare City" cannot afford to raise a battalion of large-scale gun refining troops, but that it is not necessary for the "Iron Childcare City" to raise such a force.

Based on the available intelligence, it is unlikely that this large spear-refining force is also the original unit of the "Iron Childish City".

In fact, there is a more direct evidence that these two troops are not the troops of the "Iron Childcare City", that is, from the "Iron Childcare City" battle reports that have been circulated in the past, there have been no "Wood Spirit Troops" and "Large Gun Refining Troops". Even the siege beast troops did not appear.

Only the Destroying Mountain Lux is an elite unit cultivated by the "Iron Childcare City" itself. Moreover, in the information that has been circulated for so many years, the "Iron Childcare City" has only trained a little more than two brigades of mountain-destroying wrestlers, and so far it has not even been satisfied with a mountain-destroying wrestler song.

Since the Wood Spirits, Refining Spears, and Behemoth Troops are not the troops of the Iron Childish City, where did they come from? And why did he temporarily join the "Iron Childish City" to participate in this already disparity war?

Then let's go back to the original question again. With such a luxurious lineup and military strength, why did the "Iron Childish City" go to such great lengths to lure the army of Xiuyuan City out of the city?

Faintly, Ning Yuan already had a guess.

One of the purposes of the "Iron Childish City" or the force behind the "Iron Childish City" is undoubtedly "Xiuyuan City", but it is very likely that what the other party wants is not a dilapidated "Xiuyuan City", but an "intact" "Xiuyuan City".

This is the immediate purpose of this war.

So what is the deeper purpose?

Ning Yuan remembered the letter for help sent by Fan Xiu in the memory information, his heart was cold, and his scalp was faintly numb.

An "intact" "Xiuyuan City".

A request for help has been sent.

The purpose of the "Qin" alliance.

A "line" scurried up.

Ning Yuan's heart was heavy.

I remembered what the herald had just said, and the pursuers had surrounded them on three sides.

Since it is an encirclement, why not completely encircle?

Even if it is "three missing one", why do you leave the side to retreat to the city?

"It's really undisguised." Ning Yuan sneered mockingly in his heart.

However, because of the other party's undisguised attitude, although Ning Yuan was in a heavy mood, he also had some vague thoughts.

Although he said a lot, only a few breaths had passed, and the herald was still half-kneeling on the ground, looking at "Fan Xiu" with his fists clenched.

While deducing the feasibility of those vague ideas with "Yan Yan" in his consciousness, "Fan Xiu" said to the herald:

"You go and inform Vice General Zhao to gather all the remnants of our army's scouts, and I have an order to issue it."

After speaking, he turned to look at the map on the low table, and said calmly: "Go, I'll come out later." ”

"Yes." When the herald heard the calm and calm voice of "Fan Xiu", the despair in his heart eased slightly, and he got up and saluted and ran out of the tent.

At this time, the shouts of killing in the front camp of the camp had faintly approached the middle camp.

"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.