Jin Shichang's face turned cold in an instant, and he stared at Ning Shiguang: "Old Ning, you have changed, you can tolerate a hairy boy to be our marshal, have you forgotten the scenery when we were under the tent of Marquis Lu together?" ”

Ning Shiguang stood up straight when he heard this: "No, I haven't changed, it's you, Jin Shichang, why can't he be our marshal with a hairy boy?" When we were just transferred to Lu Houye's account, was Lu Houye's age as old as Wang Xiaolai? At that time, why didn't you see that you were not convinced? ”

In a word, Jin Shichang was asked.

Ning Shiguang said: "Speaking of which, you just see that Wang Xiaolai's official position is lower than yours, and his qualifications are not as old as yours." However, he parachuted in and snatched the position that was originally yours, in a word, aren't you just not convinced? What are you not convinced? Outside Hongnong City, we have been deceived for seven or eight days like a blind man, if it weren't for Wang Xiao's breakthrough, would you be able to win the first victory against Zhao Sui? ”

"Don't tell me about that!" Jin Shichang roared.

Ning Shiguang snorted: "I don't bother to tell you more, I have to hurry up now to take the second county of Nanyang in Wancheng, Lao Jin, you better pray that I can successfully take these two places, otherwise, he will rise to the top, you should think about what you should do." ”

"He Wang Xiaolai still dares to kill me!" Kim Shichang roared.

Ning Shiguang hehe: "Idiot, you can't rely on knowing Wang Xiaolai, just repeatedly provoke his authority as a marshal, and the more you use it, the less you use it, okay, don't say much, just say the words to reach the meaning, you can do it yourself." ”

After speaking, Ning Shiguang shouted Lei Chong, and led the troops out of Zhumaguan with him, and divided the troops into two places, one to take Wancheng and the other to Nanyang.

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Outside the Long Snake Valley, Wang Xiaolai has been besieging Zhao Sui all night, with the initial repeater and the one-point five version of the strengthened repeater, Zhao Sui's charge was really stopped.

However, that's limited to that, after all, the so-called one-point-and-five version of the repeating crossbow, in depth, is more inclined to Suiyang's local car crossbow, the kind of bed crossbow, which can only be fired single, not continuous, although the range is long, but the firepower suppression is much weaker.

After all, this is a defective product that was hastily pulled into battle from Echo Valley, no.

"Is there any news from Jin Shichang and Ning Shiguang?"

Sitting outside the Long Snake Valley, Wang Xiaolai looked up and asked Xian Jingyu.

Xian Jingyu's expression was not very optimistic, and Wang Xiaolai, who was watching it, frowned: "What, what's wrong?" ”

"My lord, it's like this, Jin Shichang's sneak attack on Zhumaguan failed, so that the defenders were prepared, and it took two more hours to capture Zhumaguan."

Hearing this, Wang Xiaolai stood up directly and scolded: "Damn, Lao Tzu still thought that Jin Shichang was a person with real skills, and he couldn't even do this bit of bullshit, and he wasted so much time by sneaking up on an unsuspecting Zhumaguan, now it's good, so that the rebels have defense, and Ning Shiguang's sneak attack will not work." ”

Xian Jingyu panicked: "My lord, in case the rebels don't react in time, we still have a chance." ”

Wang Xiaolai glanced at Xian Jingyu, and then sighed: "Forget it, don't comfort me, Ning Shiguang's side is difficult, go, let the second stunned inform Ning Xi to come back." ”

Xian Jingyu was stunned: "Come back?" The little commander of Kening is dealing with the thief generals Dong Kuang and Xue Tong. ”

"Jingyu, don't you understand, let's hide and hide with Zhao Sui's main force here, isn't it just to cover the sneak attack of Jin Shichang and Ning Shiguang, now, something happened over there, no matter how much we attract Zhao Sui's main force, it's in vain, let Ning Xi withdraw."

"Withdraw? Where to? ”

"Where can you go, Hongnong, don't lose Wancheng and Nanyang by then, and lose Hongnong, then the gains outweigh the losses."

"But Hongnong still has 20,000 defenders."

Wang Xiaolai looked up at Xian Jingyu: "But we only have more than 10,000 people now, if we let Zhao Sui's main force and Dong Kuang meet, our 10,000 people are dishes, and the dishes given to Zhao Sui for nothing, if we lose, Jin Shichang and Ning Shiguang can't support Hongnong in the first time, so Hongnong won't become Zhao Sui's bag?" ”

Xian Jingyu didn't speak, but Zhao Guang in Wang Xiaolai's consciousness space spoke.

"Actually, Wang Xiaolai, as long as you stay here and continue to involve Zhao Sui's main force and buy time for Ning Shiguang, your victory rate is still far higher than Zhao Sui's."

Wang Xiaolai just shook his head and refused: "Forget it, I can't afford to take a bigger risk, Your Majesty risked my life to let me gamble with Zhao Sui, I can't take that risk." ”

"Can there be a war without taking risks?"

"Yes, but that's definitely not me, the one who is still at a disadvantage is not called having a personality, that's called a fool."

Xian Jingyu asked Wang Xiaolai with a confused face: "My lord, who are you talking to, me?" ”

Wang Xiaolai raised his head: "No, no, let's go, inform Ning Xi, and prepare to retreat." ”

Xian Jingyu nodded, so he had no choice but to go.

Looking at Zhao Sui, who was trapped in the Long Snake Valley, Wang Xiaolai's eyes were gloomy, and he took a deep breath: "Alas, sure enough, once the opportunity is missed, even if you come again, you will miss it." ”

After speaking, Wang Xiaolai turned around and left.

When he left, he also asked his soldiers to tie up the prepared straw man at the mouth of the valley to scare Zhao Sui, but I don't know how much time I can scare Zhao Sui.

Carrying away the giant unfinished repeater, the Imperial army retreated like a tide.

It took them two hours after they left, and in the valley, Zhao Sui dared to send out spies to check.

When he saw a figure outside the valley, he was so frightened that the spy immediately returned, reporting that there were countless ambushes outside the valley.

It was easy to wait until the fog cleared near noon, and then I heard a shout outside the valley that shook the sky, and then, a troop rushed in, and after a closer look, it turned out to be Dong Kuangxue's copper department that responded.

Zhao Sui greeted him and asked directly: "Is there an ambush outside the valley?" ”

The two looked at each other and replied honestly: "Back to the prince, there are only more than 1,000 scarecrows in the valley, and there is no one else." ”

Zhao Sui didn't believe it.

The two of them said: "The two of us sent people to search all over the Ten Miles radius of the Long Snake Valley, and there is indeed no trace of any enemy. ”

Zhao Sui, who heard this, simply crooked his nose in anger, and his heart was nameless, and he was stunned.

After all, he was burned to death by Wang Xiaolai's previous fire, not to mention nearly ten thousand dollars, and he was a turtle for more than ten hours, how do you let Zhao Sui swallow this breath.

But then again, if you let Zhao Sui go to Wang Xiaolai for trouble like this, he really wouldn't dare.

When he was hesitating whether to retreat, Li Tianxing accosted him.

"Lord Wang, at this time, Wang Xiaolai is definitely not far away, let's hurry up and chase after him."

Zhao Sui was puzzled, so he looked back at Li Tianxing.

Li Tianxing said: "After pondering all night, why did Wang Xiaolai just trap us and not go into the valley to encircle and suppress?" ”

Zhao Sui said: "Aren't you afraid that we will fight back desperately?" ”

Li Tianxing shook his head: "No, you must know that Wang Xiaolai came as the second marshal, and he must have brought a lot of reinforcements, with our military strength in the valley at that time, as long as Wang Xiaolai is willing, he can take advantage of the fire to destroy us, the reason why he didn't do it is because he has other purposes." ”

"For some other purpose? What do you mean? ”

Li Tianxing said: "I deduce that Wang Xiaolai's troops are not many, but they only involve us here, and his main force has already bypassed us to fight the garrison pass, and the current garrison of the king of Qi Zhao Ren is also likely to be lost." ”

"Could it be that in Wang Xiaolai's eyes, a mere Zhumaguan is more important than this king?" Zhao Sui was speechless.

Li Tianxing shook his head: "No, Zhumaguan is not important, the important thing is that Zhumaguan is the gateway to Yuzhou, and Wang Xiaolai's target is very likely to be Wancheng and Nanyang." These two places are the big iron-producing counties of Suiyang, and winning these two places is Wang Xiaolai's ultimate goal! ”

Zhao Sui was annoyed at the time: "This bastard is really yin!" The second tiger, quickly send an order to the whole army, and quickly return to support. ”

Erhu nodded: "Yes, but Lord Wang, where do we retreat from?" If Zhumaguan is lost, the closest intersection to Yuzhou will be sealed. ”

Zhao Sui lowered his head and thought for a while before he gritted his teeth and spoke: "Qingni Pass." ”

Erhu just promised to go, but was stopped by Li Tianxing.

With curious eyes, Zhao Sui and Erhu both looked at Li Tianxing.

Just listen to the words of the heavens: "The Qingni Pass is rugged and difficult to walk, retreat from this place, we can't stop the situation in Yuzhou, it's better for us to have a broken boat." ”