In the early morning, in the wilderness in the southern part of the originally peaceful Xuanling Continent, there was a sudden sound of rapid bangs, and after a while, you could see a mountain in the distance, and a camp with a blue lion flag on the edge of the outermost mountain pass stumbled out of a team of more than 10,000 soldiers, the armor of these soldiers was more or less severely damaged, and a large number of soldiers left blood marks on their bodies or arms. It is clear that this army of more than 10,000 people seems to have fled the camp after a bloody battle.

The general who led this army was now wearing a bloodstained white armor, and now this white armor had also turned into red and white. From a closer look, it was also very obvious that his face was also covered with blood splattered everywhere. Obviously, this seems to have become what it looks like after a vicious battle and bloody fighting. At this moment, the guards following him were asking him in a low voice, "General, what should we do now?"

"I'm not going to swallow this breath anyway, it's something that Merlin can't accept just like that. Go and tell the brothers that if you don't want to follow me out of Qi and join the Feng Kingdom, I will not stop you. The general snorted angrily, his eyes and clenched fists that seemed to burst into flames, signaling the anger he had now concealed and could not contain. A deep murderous intent slowly rippled out of his heart. The guard in front of him had also seen the general's terrifying murderous intentions, although his words were an understatement, but he had already understood what his general meant, I am afraid, if anyone really dares to do this, I am afraid that they will fall into a situation where there is no place to die.

So, the guard hurriedly bowed down and said: "We will definitely follow the general, we will follow the general wherever the general goes, life and death, and we will never abandon the general and run away!"

This sentence made Merlin's face in front of him a little flattened, and he hid the terrifying murderous intent on his face, and turned into a slightly indifferent and calm expression. Merlin smiled slightly, and said slowly: "Then we will speed up and order the brothers behind to follow, and we will immediately defect to the feudal camp." ”

"Yes!"

There is a big red flag at the entrance of the camp, which is the flag that has been used since the founding of the country, and this flag is also a very glorious representative. What this temperament represents is definitely more effective than the orders of a simple general or even a governor. Even if it was the Holy Emperor, he didn't dare to change this banner easily, after all, he was only nominally replacing the feudal monarch now, and he didn't change the name of the country to usurp power. He knew very well the consequences of doing so, and he would lose a lot of people who supported him, and instead of doing things so decisively, it was better to be in an ambiguous situation, so that neither side could be offended. Whether it was the feudal war association that originally supported him or the feudal royal forces that turned to support him after the successful seizure of power, they were able to recognize such a situation. If he really breaks all this, I'm afraid he will really lose countless support. Therefore, it was precisely because of this that the Holy Emperor only changed the title of a monarch, and everything else was no different from the previous feudal state.

There were clear rules on military ranks and flags to be used in the feudal state, and only generals above the rank of governor could use such a red banner. This banner represents not only the conditions for commanding the army, but also a great honor in the transformation of the country. It represents the ability and qualifications of the general, or the governor and the commander.

And Gongsun Yu, the governor of Lingcheng, because of his own identity, as the governor of Lingcheng, this extremely critical position, is naturally allowed to use such a banner as a symbol of military power and glory. Of course, ordinary people are not able to use such a flag. This includes the current General Xu Zhan sent here by the Holy Emperor, who is not qualified to use the banner in this way. He is just the deputy hall master of the second hall of Fu under the Feng War Society, but because this time the task is more special, he has a golden decree in his hand that the Holy Emperor personally gave him, and this golden decree represents the majesty of the Holy Emperor's presence. Therefore, even though Xu Zhan's actual status is far lower than that of Gongsun Yu, Gongsun Yu still has no choice but to obey Xu Zhan's dispatch.

Of course, Gongsun Yu's army under his own command will not obey Xu Zhan's dispatch, they are an army cultivated by Gongsun Yu, in addition to obeying the orders of Gongsun Yu and the Holy Emperor, they even have the two princesses who are now here, Princess Qingxuan Buluan and Princess Liuli Bu Yuehan, the two of them are called strange women in the feudal country, the princess that every soldier admires in their hearts, the two of them now know that they can't control this army, and they simply stay out of the matter and quietly watch the infighting between Gongsun Yu and Xu Zhan。 Anyway, now, as long as this mutual power dumping does not affect the current battle between them and the Qi State, the two of them are not willing to interfere. After all, there were still their most trusted and close friends in the Qi Kingdom, and they were not willing to be enemies of them until they had to.

At this time, in order to prevent the fifteen thousand cavalry sent by the Holy Emperor to assist him from falling into the hands of Xu Zhan, Gongsun Yu simply came up with such a method of sandwiching two breads. He left more than 50,000 of his henchmen and troops to stay in the camp and in Xu Zhan's hands, and these more than 50,000 troops Gongsun Yu has been operating for several years, and it is definitely not a force that Xu Zhan can control in his hands overnight. It was precisely because of this consideration that Gongsun Yu immediately secretly ordered several of his cronies and lieutenants to temporarily swear allegiance to Xu Zhan. In this way, he could lead 15,000 cavalry away, and take the opportunity to install his cronies to control the army.

At this moment, the more than 50,000 troops remaining in the camp are under the control of Xu Zhan, who has now succeeded Gongsun Yu, but he is now suffering from no one to support him, although these more than 50,000 troops seem to be in his hands now, but in fact this is not the case, they basically do not obey their own command. This made Xu Zhan a little helpless, and he thought about it for a long time, and then decided to find an external force to support him to regain power.

However, what he originally wanted to look for was naturally the help of the imperial Chen family, and now that the imperial Chen family has reached an alliance agreement with them, the imperial Chen family should send troops to help him, this person who represents the emperor of the feudal country, the Holy Emperor. But the people he secretly sent were politely rejected by Chen Xuan, the head of the Chen family of the royal family, who wrote in the letter that now they are in the stage of recuperation, and the army has basically been temporarily sent home to recuperate, and now I am afraid that they cannot send troops to help them. Of course, although these words are nice, they actually mean that one of the most important things is that their royal family, the Chen family, will not send troops to help him now, even if he represents the Holy Emperor.

This news made Xu Zhan furious, but he really didn't have any way to solve the dilemma in front of him. So, in the past few days, Xu Zhan's heart has been very anxious, and he can't think of a good way to solve the dilemma in front of him. In the past few days, although Xu Zhan's expressions and movements on the surface have been in order, he is very anxious in his heart, seeing that he is about to achieve the situation of encircling and annihilating the Qi State, and the huge credit will fall on Gongsun Yu. This made Xu Zhan really unbearable, he was a person personally sent by the Holy Emperor, how could he not be worthy of Gongsun Yu?

Xu Xian was sitting in the big tent of Gongsun Yu, and the most trustworthy person around him was the five hundred guards who came here in person under his leadership. At this time, Xu Zhan was looking at a book in his hand, in fact, he was thinking about how to solve the dilemma in front of him, and he had been working hard for half an hour, and the book in his hand had not turned a page at all.

At this time, a guard flashed into the camp, knelt down on one knee and whispered: "General, there is an army from outside the camp, according to what their leader said, they are the army in the Qi country, because the big war is approaching, they advocated withdrawing their troops, but they were driven out by Li Fu, they want to be loyal to the general now, I don't know the general"

Before the guard could finish his words, he suddenly realized that Xu Zhan, who was sitting there quietly looking at a book in his hand, suddenly disappeared. The guard hurriedly looked back and saw that Xu Zhan had already left quickly, and his target was also very obvious, it was the outside of this feudal camp. The guard sighed secretly and hurriedly rushed out.

Outside the camp, Xu Zhan was now waiting anxiously here, and now what he longed for most was an external force that could help him temporarily get out of the predicament in front of him. If it was really a force that came to take refuge in them, then he would definitely not let it go. This is an external force, it is impossible to directly choose to support Gongsun Yu, for such an existence, how could he let them go?

So, Xu Zhan even did not hesitate to greet him personally, and the more than 10,000 Qi troops who came in from outside had already appeared on the plain not far from their camp. Xu Zhan looked at it from a distance, and he could vaguely see that this army seemed to have saved their lives after a bloody battle. Now that this army has lost its armor and its morale is low, it has made Xu Zhan believe that they are now here to surrender their country.

Xu Zhan hurriedly rode a war horse beside him, and quickly greeted him with a few personal soldiers behind him. For him, the arrival of this force is tantamount to a send-off in the snow, how can he not accept it gladly?