This run ran six or seven hundred miles away, and it was not until he came to the outside of a towering city that Long Tieshan stopped his escape, and ordered people to call the city open, and at the same time asked the generals in the city to send people out to meet their own soldiers and horses, while collecting the remnants of the soldiers who fled with him, and preparing to enter the city when blocking Xia Fan's attack.

Although they experienced a fiasco and were chased all the way to this point, these elites brought out by Long Tieshan were worthy of being elites, and when they heard the order, even if they were terrified in their hearts, they still quickly lined up in a neat military formation, which also made their originally panicked hearts gradually calm down a little.

It was only at this time that Long Tieshan realized that the soldiers and generals around him together were barely more than 20,000 people. In other words, after retreating all the way from the previous battlefield, after six or seven hundred miles of brutal pursuit, his soldiers and horses lost 10,000.

This discovery made Long Tieshan angry and distressed, his blood was churning, and he almost vomited blood on the spot.

From his teenage years in the army to his gradual promotion to general, in the past thirty or forty years, he has experienced dozens of large and small wars, and he has always been undefeated, but he did not expect to be defeated by Xia Fan today, and he was defeated so badly.

When he led his troops out that day, although he claimed to be the commander of 300,000 troops, but in fact there were only 150,000 when he was full, Long Tieshan was ordered to go out on the expedition, thinking that most of his army were the elite who had participated in two wars of annihilation before, and it was when the morale was extremely high, against the more than 100,000 troops in Baishi City, they would not lose no matter what, and there were 3,000 wind cavalry accompanying them, and they would win without losing.

It's just that Long Tieshan never expected that the final result would be so unexpected. Not only did he lose, but he lost more than 130,000 soldiers and horses at once. Although such a loss was not enough for the current Holy Dragon Kingdom, it was a major stain in his life that was difficult to erase.

At this time, Long Tieshan looked at the ghosts in the distance, his spirit couldn't help but be a little trance, thinking back to the previous battle, he couldn't figure out where he lost, why did he lose in a daze? It's incredible!

Xia Fan stood five or six miles away at this time, looking at Long Tieshan from afar, and let the 20,000 remnants of the soldiers who were chased and killed by him form a military formation, but he did not send his soul body to attack.

It's not that Xia Fan is soft-hearted and wants to let Long Tieshan go, but that this battle has reached this point now, and he has completely achieved his predetermined goal, so there is no need to add more snakes.

Xia Fan could see that after experiencing a fiasco and being chased by his own tail, although the 20,000 remnants were extremely tired, they did not collapse in morale, on the contrary, everyone seemed to be holding their breath in their hearts now, especially when standing in front of the city wall, instead of becoming restless because they were behind them, they were as calm as if they were a group of statues, but their eyes burst out with a crazy gaze like a trapped beast.

There is a cloud in the art of war: the proud soldiers will be defeated, and the mourning soldiers will win. Although this statement is not absolute, it is true that an army in a desperate situation can burst out with extraordinary combat effectiveness.

And now the 20,000 remnants of the soldiers that Long Tieshan is carrying are out-and-out mourning soldiers. Originally, they were the elite of the Holy Dragon Kingdom, they had experienced many wars and won, and they had great pride in their hearts, but in this war they thought they could win, they were defeated by the army of White Rock City, which made them angry, depressed, and sad...... All kinds of emotions make each of them feel like they are holding a fire in their hearts, which makes them want to destroy others or simply destroy themselves.

If Xia Fan chooses to attack now, then it will be equivalent to helping them find an outlet to vent their emotions, and they will definitely pounce on them like trapped beasts, fighting with all their strength, and never stopping. In this way, if they win, it will be like pig iron has been quenched and reborn into steel, and if they lose, it will be ruined.

As their enemy, Xia Fan naturally wanted to destroy them. But he didn't want to take the risk. It's not that you don't dare, but it's completely unnecessary.

This war has been fought so far, Xia Fan has already exceeded the set goal, and there is no need to pay attention to the 20,000 remnants of the army.

If they were in the wilderness now, there was a chance that Xia Fan would directly attack them with his soul body, but now that there was a city behind them, it meant that there must be a large number of troops among them, so Xia Fan really didn't need to do this.

Because if you really fight, if you lose, you will help these 20,000 remnants of soldiers to be reborn, and it will not benefit you at all. But even if he wins, it will only be more than 20,000 more kills, and the price he will have to pay will probably be quite high. After all, there is a good chance that more reinforcements will pop up in that city, and it will be very troublesome for you to fight or leave at that time.

And if they don't fight, it will be the beginning of the torment for the 20,000 remnants, because the resentment and anger in their hearts have no one to vent, which will make them crazy and aggressive, either to destroy others or to destroy themselves.

As the commander-in-chief, what Xia Fan needs to do is not endless battles, but to calmly make trade-offs from the overall situation at all times. It's as if at this time, it's better not to fight than to fight, then resolutely not fight.

After making up his mind, Xia Fan took a deep look at the city in the distance, and with a movement of his mind, he had already put away the rest of his soul body, and then flew back along the original path with his sword.

"He's gone?!"

"This guy chased and killed us all the way, and now he is running away like this, it's just too hateful!"

"Come back! You kind of come back and fight us to the death. ”

......

Seeing Xia Fan fly away, the 20,000 remnants who were already ready to fight to the death were all dumbfounded, and then all kinds of shouts and scoldings rang out. Because it's like they are holding back enough energy to fight to the death, but the enemy makes a false move and runs away, which makes them suddenly feel like they are being played, and at the same time, their hearts are empty, and there is no place to spill the anger in their stomachs.

They were angry, they cursed, but they were helpless, because they couldn't catch up with Xia Fan. Although they scolded fiercely, the vast majority of people secretly breathed a sigh of relief. After all, who wants to die if they can live. This is human nature, even if they are fierce elites, they are not really afraid of death.

It's just that it's hard to mention it again after breathing a sigh of relief, and many remnants of soldiers who were originally as high-spirited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood suddenly became depressed.

Long Tieshan noticed the change in the expressions of these soldiers under his command, and his heart suddenly felt as bitter as swallowing Coptis chinensis, because he knew that even if these soldiers were not completely abolished, it would be impossible to restore their previous morale in a short period of time.

This made Long Tieshan wonder if Xia Fan's departure without hesitation would have such a result. Thinking of this, Long Tieshan's face couldn't help but change slightly, and said secretly: If all this is in Xia Fan's calculations, then he is really terrifying.

"Let's go, let's go into town. Long Tieshan watched Xia Fan disappear into the sky, waved his hand and entered the city with 20,000 remnants, and at the same time he began to think about how to report his fiasco to the lord of the country.

............

As early as when Long Tieshan was defeated and fled, someone had already quickly passed the news to Long Xiaoshu's hands.

No lord of a country will rest assured that his army will be completely handed over to others, so just like a general like Long Tieshan going on an expedition, Long Xiaoshu will still routinely place some secret agents loyal to him in the army, in order to know any movements of the army in time, so as not to deceive the general. It was precisely with the existence of these secret agents that before Long Tieshan could apologize for his defeat, Long Xiaoshu already knew the whole process.

At that time, Long Xiaoshu was having breakfast, and when he received the information, he thought it was the news of Long Tieshan's complete victory, but after he glanced at the content of the information, his face changed suddenly, and he said sharply: "How could Long Tieshan lose to that Xia Fan?!

Under the rage, Long Xiaoshu's aura instantly surged, the aura of heaven and earth suddenly condensed, and the table full of all kinds of delicacies in front of him was crushed into pieces on the spot with a loud rumbling sound, and even the bricks and stones on the ground were crushed alive.

First seize the Yunhuanhu River Basin, defeat Xia Fan, and include Baishi City in the bag, and then defeat Lan Haolin and Lu Chuan, annex most of the territory of the Blue Jade Kingdom, and then attack the Shenmu Country, so as to lay a solid foundation for his own conquest of the Quartet to achieve the hegemony of the ages is Long Xiaoshu's established strategy, but he never expected that this huge strategic plan would make such a big mistake at the beginning.

Last time, Long Xiaoshu sent Hao Rong to Baishi City, wanting to blackmail Xia Fan, but he didn't succeed, which already made him realize that Xia Fan was not easy to match, and when he said that Xia Fan was a little interesting, he didn't completely regard him as an opponent who could be equal to him in his heart. Because at that time, in his opinion, even if Xia Fan won White Rock City, it was nothing at all, Lan Haolin couldn't beat Xia Fan, it could only show that Lan Haolin was stupid, and if he was his own, he could easily crush Xia Fan to death.

Until he heard that Xia Fan had defeated Lan Haolin and captured the Yunhuan Lake Basin in one fell swoop, Long Xiaoshu still felt that Xia Fan had just picked up a bargain, because Lan Haolin, who was his opponent, was too weak.

However, in order to be able to complete his huge strategy as soon as possible, Long Xiaoshu still sent Long Tieshan to lead an army of 150,000 to attack Xia Fan, in his opinion, this is already quite worthy of Xia Fan, with Long Tieshan's ability to command the army and 150,000 elites accompanying him, it is definitely easy to defeat a Xia Fan, he just needs to sit and wait for good news.

But Long Xiaoshu never dreamed that what he was waiting for was such bad news, Long Tieshan was defeated.

(End of chapter)