A full hour after the Apocalypse had left, the southern gate of Bandung City suddenly opened a small crack, releasing a lone scout, and then quickly closed the gate, as if it was about to be destroyed after a few moments of darkness.

The scouts who came out of the city gate were like worms leaving their nests, timid, helpless, and weak, and did not dare to delay in the slightest, but immediately spread their horses' hooves and ran towards the nearby city.

About seven or eight miles away from Bandung City, he cautiously walked through a small forest in the northwest, stepped on an endless official road, and finally broke out of the ambush circle, and couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief.

However, at this moment, a terrifying sound of breaking wind suddenly sounded in his ears, and then a thumb-thick crossbow arrow hit the left eye of the war horse without warning, and then pierced out of the right eye, and the war horse under the crotch didn't even have time to scream, so he fell to the ground.

After a small crack, a group of cavalrymen in camouflage armor jumped out of the dense forest behind him, roaring straight towards him.

The scout managed to get out from under the horse's carcass, and when he saw this, a deep despair suddenly arose in his heart.

"The adults of the Southern Dynasty, let go of the small ones, the small ones are old, and the small ones are small, but they are just mixed food, please raise your noble hands......"

Instead of fleeing, the scout knelt in place, kowtowing like pounding garlic, and begging for mercy.

However, the horsemen did not seem to have any intention of listening to him, and saw one of them gallop forward, lean to the ground, grasp him by the belt, lift him up, and throw him on horseback, without slowing down from beginning to end.

This kind of horse skills, this kind of arm strength is really amazing.

The scout was shocked, and his body twisted subconsciously, and a cold scimitar immediately pressed against the back of his neck.

"If you dare to move, you will be hit by your head!"

The tone of the speaker was cold, not like a joke.

The scout trembled with horror, but he didn't dare to move.

I don't know how long later, the scout who had a blank mind was lifted down and thrown to the ground, and when he looked up, he saw that there were people all around, and in the middle there was a young man in the middle of the crowd who was looking at him coldly.

Could this young man be the chief official of the Southern Dynasty army?

The scout was shocked, and cold sweat immediately fell from his forehead, and he quickly lowered his head and did not dare to look again, begging for mercy in his mouth.

"The grandfathers of the Southern Dynasty raised their noble hands, the little one is just a messenger, let the grandfathers let me go!"

Xu Rui looked at this spineless scout in a daze, and secretly said Is this my northern boy?

A sense of disgust arose in his heart, he took out a seal letter from his arms and handed it to Lin Shaodong, and nodded to Cao Siyuan beside the scout.

Cao Siyuan kicked the scout to the ground, just now he was so angry that Zhou Zhifu choked, and this time he used seven points of strength, and the scout suddenly blushed in pain, and lay on the ground crying.

Lin Shaodong walked up to him, glanced at him with disdain, grabbed him by the hair and lifted him up, and then brought the seal letter that Xu Rui handed over to him in front of the scout.

"Open your dog's eyes and take a good look, and call Grandpa Nanchao again, Master, I will kill your dog!"

The scout opened his eyes and saw that the seal letter was written with the words "Qin Ci Great Wei Tianqi Commander Seal", and he was immediately shocked: "You are the Heavenly Apocalypse Guard, are you Qin Cha?!" ”

Lin Shaodong snorted coldly, threw him on the ground and said: "It's good to know who we are, now that my family wants to ask you, dare to say half a lie, master, I will immediately treat you as a traitor who surrendered to the Southern Dynasty and behead the sacrifice flag!" ”

"The little ones don't dare, the adults want to know something, the little ones must know everything, and they must say everything!"

The scout quickly knelt down and said tremblingly.

"You are the messenger of Bandung City?"

Xu Rui asked lightly.

"Yes, the small one is the messenger of Bandung City, today's Southern Dynasty...... Well, the Apocalypse Guard is coming to Bandung, and the prefect Zhou is worried that you have surrendered to the Southern Dynasty, so he sent a small one to Qushan City, sixty miles away, to deliver a message, asking them to be prepared. ”

Without waiting for Xu Rui to ask, the scout said it like pouring beans from a bamboo tube.

Cao Siyuan bit hatefully and said: "It doesn't matter if the dog official doesn't open the city gate himself, he even has to collude with other cities!" ”

"The law doesn't blame the public, he naturally wants to pull others in his own weak heart."

Lin Shaodong shrugged his shoulders, he had been in the Guozijian for several years, and he had a deeper understanding of the psychology of these bureaucrats than Cao Siyuan.

"So you should be a confidant of Governor Zhou, and you must know the recent military situation very well?"

Xu Rui ignored the whispers of Cao Siyuan and Lin Shaodong and continued to ask.

The scout suddenly shook his head like a rattle: "The little one is just an errand runner, how can he be a henchman of the Zhou Governor's Mansion?" But...... However, the imperial court's palace newspaper has just read it, so I don't know what Lord Qincha wants to know? ”

"Don't talk nonsense, just report the recent battle situation, has the imperial court's army been dispatched?"

Xu Rui automatically skipped the first half of the scout's sentence and said in a deep voice.

The scout was busy: "Yes, yes, the imperial army has been dispatched, and the former commander of the southern border army, Lord Xiao Jinwu, noticed that the Southern Dynasty would raid our dynasty from Xichuan, and led 90,000 border troops to come to the rescue."

At the same time, the twelve guards of the Beijing Division set out and drove to Xichuan in the starry night.

In addition, the Holy Lord appointed Liu Yi and Liu Dashuai, the right governor of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, to succeed him as the commander of the border army on the southern front, leading the left and right Longxiangwei and tens of thousands of border troops to sit on the southeast front and continue to monitor the main force of the Southern Dynasty army remaining in the territory of Northern Qi. ”

"Holy Lord, this is going to be desperate!"

After listening to the scout's words, Xu Rui was shocked, leaned forward subconsciously, and asked sharply: "Has my Korean army ever engaged with the Southern Korean army?" ”

The scout hurriedly nodded and said: "Yes, yes, the imperial court's palace report has just arrived, a few days ago, General Xiao Jinwu's 90,000 border army and the main force of the Southern Dynasty met unexpectedly, the two sides fought fiercely for a day, General Xiao Jinwu lost 60,000 horses and retreated more than 30 miles.

Four days ago, the Northern Chang Xingwei was ambushed by the Southern Dynasty near Guangyuan Mansion, and almost the entire army was annihilated, and after the defeat of General Liang Tongfang, he led the remnants to make peace with the Southern Wuwei of General Li Guangzu, but was immediately caught up by the Southern Dynasty army and defeated again.

Then the army of the Southern Dynasty set up a large camp in Guangyuan Mansion, and attacked 18 cities such as Dongchuan, Peirao, Tianshui, and Sifang, and severely defeated the Huben Zuowei and Zuojin Wuwei, and moved the battle line north for 100 miles between the two days, completely cutting off the connection between the southwestern provinces and the Jingshi.

Therefore, this newspaper is also the last newspaper that Huanzhou can see. ”

No one thought that the army of the Southern Dynasties that had left Xichuan would turn into a tiger out of the cage, and in just a few days, tens of thousands of troops would be defeated, ravaging the two provinces, as if they were in a no-man's land.

Xu Rui waved his hand expressionlessly, signaling his soldiers to take this scout down, but there were turbulent waves in his heart.

Before leaving the capital, he originally set a strategy for Emperor Hongwei to shrink the defense, preserve the main force, and avoid a decisive battle with the Southern Dynasty army, so as to prolong the war and force the Southern Dynasty to withdraw its troops.

However, the main force of the Southern Dynasty was in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and there were only a few tens of thousands of people who attacked the Northern Dynasty from Xichuan, which gave Emperor Hongwei the delusion of going down in a war.

But how could they know that these hundreds of thousands of people were all Wuling's pro-army, which was only stronger than the hundreds of thousands of Southern Dynasty elites in Northern Qi, and if they continued to fight like this, Great Wei would be really dangerous!

"Xiao Jinwu, what the hell are you doing?!"

Xu Rui let out an unwilling roar in his heart, and his face gradually turned red.

"Okay, now the bad news is coming, but the grain and grass don't seem to have landed yet."

Han Qi reminded Xu Rui at the right time.

Since Xu Rui warned him, he seemed to have let go of all his burdens and became an outsider, happily watching the excitement of the Apocalypse.

"Grain and grass will be available soon!"

Xu Rui looked gloomy and said lightly.

The Apocalypse immediately set off, or rather, went and returned, and once again returned to the city of Bandung.

This time, the Apocalypse Guard was not as loose as before, but put on a battle formation.

Dozens of Apocalypse chariots were formed in three rows to form the first formation, and behind them were groups of cavalry armed with repeating crossbows, and a mile away, the artillery company had also set up positions on high ground, ready to fire at any time.

"Hey, isn't it, are you playing really? That's our own city, as long as you fire a cannon, countless people in the court will join you to death, even if you win the battle in the end, you will definitely end up miserable! ”

Looking at the apocalypse guard's formation, Han Qi looked at Xu Rui incredulously.

As soon as he finished speaking, a loud bang suddenly sounded on the artillery position, a cannon spewed out tongues of fire, and the city wall in front of him suddenly exploded with a "boom", accompanied by countless screams, and the city wall collapsed by a small half.

"You!"

Seeing that Xu Rui actually opened fire, Han Qi was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth.

Xu Rui turned his head, looked at Han Qi coldly and said: "The battle here is a fight, and the battle in the court is also a fight, as long as it is a war, I, Xu, have never been afraid of anyone, and the ones who should really be afraid are those who stand on the opposite side of me!" ”

Han Qi felt Xu Rui's soaring murderous aura, and a trace of timidity suddenly appeared in his heart, and he muttered to himself: "Crazy, you are really crazy!" ”

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