Book XII, Chapter XVI

Zhou Ming's state of mind has completely calmed down, in the face of such a strong enemy, Zhou Ming completely let go of his hands and feet, ready to fight with all his strength, he knows that this time he has encountered the most powerful opponent in his eternal life, if he is not careful, he will not be able to please him. With special attention to the old man in front of him, Zhou Ming's state of mind is already ethereal. Tranquility is the mainstay, and he is quite sensitive to changes in the surrounding environment, so Zhou Ming's feelings for the old man fluctuated, of course Zhou Ming could also feel it, the heroic aura on the old man's body was gradually replaced by a murderous aura, and the murderous aura overflowing from his body, Zhou Ming could also sense it, however, Zhou Ming was ready to break the boat, at least he had to fight with the old man in front of him, Zhou Ming knew that this old man was the most powerful person, if he could be put down, at least it would also remove a big obstacle for Yingxue.

Not wanting to delay time, Zhou Ming hurriedly ran out of the Five Spirits Footwork, and suddenly conjured up several figures, directly taking the old man. The old man saw that Zhou Ming suddenly conjured up so many phantoms, and attacked him at an extremely fast speed, knowing that the young man in front of him also saw that he was the leader of this group of people, and he was also determined to win it.

Although he was confused by the phantom for a while, however, the old man's experience in facing the enemy was indeed very rich, and he knew that he was invincible, so he quickly retreated, and quickly dodged Zhou Ming's attack, and at the same time urged the golden light shield, the color was the same as Zhou Ming's, and it was also the kind of golden light shield that was shining.

Zhou Ming saw that the blow was ineffective, and immediately tried his best to conjure up more illusions, attacking the soldiers behind the old man, and Zhou Ming was taken aback. The encirclement was suddenly in chaos, and the generals under Zhou Ming immediately took advantage of this chaos. Led his soldiers to rush out, because of the cooperation in place. The old man had already guessed Zhou Ming's intentions, but he didn't expect Zhou Ming to break through in this way, and after the old man entangled Zhou Ming, Zhou Ming's generals had almost all rushed out of the encirclement, and the old man was so angry that he thought he could catch Zhou Ming and others, but he didn't expect to be partially run.

"Hahaha!" Zhou Ming couldn't help laughing when he saw that his subordinates had broken through. And he has been entangled by the old man, knowing that there is no hope of breaking through, he puts his heart sideways, and is ready to fight with the old man.

With the determination to die, Zhou Ming laughed loudly, but the old man couldn't help but be intimidated by Zhou Ming's momentum, it turned out that Zhou Ming was now ethereal in his heart, and the Heavenly Marrow Heart Method was exerted to the extreme, and this Heavenly Marrow Heart Method was the same as the Benlong True Qi used by the old man. It's just that Zhou Ming won't use this mental method to overwhelm the enemy in momentum, but now Zhou Ming has the determination to die, and his whole body exudes a huge momentum, almost surpassing the old man's running dragon true qi. This situation surprised the old man, but he was invisibly intimidated by Zhou Ming's momentum, but. Because of this, the old man strengthened his determination to get rid of Zhou Ming. In his mind, Zhou Ming must be the most powerful general by Wang Zhuo's side, as long as he can get rid of Zhou Ming. Wang Zhuo is like having his left and right arms cut off, and when the time comes, it will not be twice the result with half the effort to conquer Wang Zhuo.

The old man wanted to get rid of Zhou Ming, and Zhou Ming had already made up his mind to end up together, so in the moves, he attacked more and defended less, in the face of Zhou Ming's crazy attack, the old man knew that Zhou Ming's intention was to die with himself, but he didn't want to die with Zhou Ming, so he had to fight with Zhou Ming, trying to exhaust Zhou Ming's energy and then get rid of it.

However, although the old man's idea is good, but Zhou Ming's body is too flexible, the old man can't figure out Zhou Ming's attack direction at all, if it weren't for the equal strength of the two, and relying on the golden light shield, the old man may have been put down by Zhou Ming, and the old man found a not very good thing in the battle, although he wanted to drag down Zhou Ming, but he ignored a very important thing, that is: he is already old, and his body can no longer be compared with that year, and Zhou Ming is young, if you want to drag Zhou Ming down, maybe you will be tired first, in the face of Zhou Ming's crazy offensive, the old man can't help but cry bitterly。

In the eyes of outsiders, the old man is in danger, because all he takes is a defensive position, and he has no power to fight back, but Zhou Ming is blindly attacking, although the old man is experienced, but Zhou Ming is also a battle-hardened person, and now he is desperate, coupled with the peculiar pace and many phantoms, the old man has been surrounded, and now even if he wants to help, he can't help, the master duel, this ordinary person can't be mixed in at all, and the generals under the old man have to stare at the side.

The old man retreated and defended, and found that the other battles had ended, and all the soldiers under Zhou Ming had been captured, and a good idea suddenly appeared in the old man's heart, and he shouted while flashing: "Young man, your soldiers have all been captured, if you don't want them to die, you surrender obediently, I promise not to embarrass him, otherwise, as long as I give an order, they will be splashed with blood on the spot, and then it will be too late for you to regret it." ”

After listening to the old man's words, Zhou Ming Huoran stopped, only to find that most of his soldiers had been captured except for those who were killed, and he couldn't imagine that his 30,000 soldiers, except for the thousands who escaped, were all captured, it was really a heavy casualty, he glared at the old man and said, "What you just said is true!"

"Of course it's true, how can my Zhennan General say anything. The old man swore solemnly.

It turned out that he was the general of Zhennan in the border country, but in Yingxue's intelligence, there didn't seem to be such a person, before leaving, didn't Yingxue say that as long as he was careful to deal with it, there should be no more major obstacles along the way? Okay, since you are the general of Zhennan, your words should count, I believe in you, I am willing to surrender, I just hope you don't embarrass these brothers of mine. ”

"Commander Zhou, you don't care about us, you just rush out, just remember to avenge us!!" Seeing that Zhou Ming was so righteous and awe-inspiring, the captured soldiers on the side hurriedly shouted loudly, wanting to stop Zhou Ming.

"Brothers. This battle was all caused by my Zhou Ming's underestimation of the enemy, and I hope everyone will remember this lesson. If I let you suffer because of Zhou Ming, how can I bear it!" Zhou Ming said to everyone sadly. Then he put down the blade in his hand and surrendered to the man called General Zhennan.

"It turns out that you are just a military commander, can't there be a more powerful role above you? The old man wanted to ask Zhou Ming's words.

"Of course there is, what is my Zhou Ming, you just wait to lose the battle, you don't want to trap me, since it has fallen into your hands, what to do with it is up to you. Hahaha!" "Where will Zhou Ming eat his set."

"Okay, backbone. It's a man, you are a brave general, but also a benevolent general, but unfortunately because of carelessness to underestimate the enemy, fall into my hands, if you fight head-on, who wins and who loses or undecided, although I respect you, but this is on the battlefield. I don't want to humiliate you, I don't want to kill you, I want to keep you useful, you can go by yourself. The old man admired Zhou Ming's behavior. No wonder Wang Zhuo's army will hit Kyoto, he has such subordinates, and it seems that sooner or later the kingdom will be unified by him Wang Zhuo. And the king of the frontier country still does not know the severity of the matter, and only cares about pleasure all day long. Regardless of the life or death of the people, think about it. The old man was really sad.

As a prisoner, Zhou Ming had no choice but to follow the old man into Yingong City, and was locked up together with other brothers, however, Zhou Ming's treatment was special, he was locked aside alone, of course, he was tied up strongly, and he was heavily guarded, and he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of the general of Zhennan!

Zhou Ming's generals hurried back and reported the situation to Ying Xue, Ying Xue was shocked when she heard it, such a thing could happen, the whole army was almost wiped out, and the life and death of the boss were uncertain, this was a heavy setback that Ying Xue had never encountered since he came out of the division, and he couldn't imagine that he would kill a strange old man out of thin air, in the situation collected by Ying Xue, there seemed to be no such person, Ying Xue couldn't help but be surprised, what is the origin of this strange old man, and the means of using soldiers are so clever, not only eating Zhou Ming's nearly 30,000 people, but also beating Zhou Ming without the power to fight back, Zhou Ming's ability Ying Xue still knows very clearly, at least he won't lose so badly, and what worries Yingxue the most is that now Zhou Ming's life and death are uncertain, which makes him worried.

Yingxue decided to go to Yinggong City in person to find out the truth, Yingxue immediately sent someone to find Zheng Ti, and called Zeng Zhaoli back, and told the two of them in detail about the information they had just received, and the two of them were taken aback after hearing it, especially Zeng Zhaoli, who was so anxious that they jumped up, "What Brother Ming is all wiped out, and I am still uncertain about my life and death, no, I will go to Yingong City immediately and save him If Brother Ming has any mistakes, I must set foot in Yingong City!"

"Commander Zeng, don't be impulsive, calm down, I feel the same way as you, I want to save Commander Zhou immediately, but I think General Yingxue already has a good plan, we might as well listen to him first!" Zheng Ti said calmly.

"Yes, I'm going to find out for myself who this strange old man really is, and where he came from, you two must defend the critical pass, if the enemy is coming, remember, under no circumstances do you have to go out of the city to meet the battle, you must hold the critical pass until I return. Especially you, Zeng Zhaoli, if you dare to act without authorization, let Zheng replace the marching method, and never be spared, do you hear?" Ying Xue said with a stern face, although he wanted to go to Zhou Ming immediately, but this critical pass must be guarded by someone, Zeng Zhaoli was too impulsive, if he came to defend the city, he would definitely not be reliable, Ying Xue had to ask Zheng Ti for everything, let him be sure to watch Zeng Zhaoli.

"Yes, General, we will definitely hold the threshold, and we will not let you down. Zheng Ti knew that he had a heavy responsibility, a strong enemy had appeared, and when the situation of the enemy and us was unknown, he absolutely could not take risks to fight.

"I don't want to defend the city, I also want to go with you to save Brother Ming. Zeng Zhaoli didn't want to stay at this critical pass, he was anxious and wanted to send troops to rescue Zhou Ming immediately.

"I've already told you, I'm going alone, when is this happening, you still make trouble for me, you give me a good guard of the critical pass, there must be no mistake. Yingxue was already annoyed enough by Zhou Ming's affairs, and her tone towards Zeng Zhaoli couldn't help but become a little heavy.

Zheng Tie saw that Yingxue's heart was impatient, and hurriedly grabbed Zeng Zhaoli to prevent him from talking, Yingxue turned around and said to Zheng Ti: "Please leave it to you at the critical pass, remember to be careful!"

Zheng Ti said solemnly: "Yes, General." I will definitely guard the critical pass, please rest assured!"

Ying Xue looked at Zeng Zhaoli and Zheng Ti. He walked out, and Yingxue galloped all the way. After coming to Zhakou City, he found that it had been recaptured by the enemy, but in fact, this was not recaptured, because Zhou Ming's troops had all withdrawn to the critical pass, and of course Zhakou City was reoccupied by the enemy.

It's still afternoon, and you can't enter the city at all, and now because the war has started, all the inside and outside of the city have been under martial law, and Eagle Snow can't blend into the city at all. Wouldn't it be more noticeable to fly around in the sky in broad daylight, and after observing from a distance for a while, Eagle Snow hid in the woods next to it, waiting for the night to fall.

After a little breathing, the sky had already darkened, and Takayuki was ready to take this opportunity to attack the city from the air. This made Eagle Snow easy to enter the city, and Eagle Snow found that the city was in good order, and there was no trace of a battle. Yingxue really wondered, how could she recover so quickly, this person is really strange. was able to settle the people's hearts so quickly, Yingxue couldn't help but admire the old man. If he knew that Zhou Ming had never fought in Zhakou City at all, then Ying Xue didn't know how to feel.

Yingxue didn't know whether Zhou Ming was dead or alive. Whether the person was locked up in Yinggong City or Zhakou City, or other cities, had to search around in Zhakou City, and found nothing, so he had to take advantage of the night and go straight to Yinggong City, Zhou Ming was indeed locked up in Yinggong City, however, Yingxue didn't know at all, and the guards were too tight, Yingxue couldn't enter, Yingxue lingered near the barracks for a long time, so he had to give up going deeper, however, after he observed, there were not many defenders in the city, no wonder this strange old man didn't dare to take the initiative to attack, but to adopt a defensive strategy, Yingxue in order not to startle the snake, saw that it was not too early, if you don't go back, you may be exposed whereabouts, so you rushed back to the critical pass。

After returning to the critical pass, Ying Xue found that Zheng Ti and Zeng Zhaoli did not sleep at all, but waited all night, Zheng Ti and the two saw Ying Xue come back, and hurriedly asked him about Zhou Ming's situation, and Ying Xue did not find out anything this night, so she had to report the situation she had gotten to the two of them, Zheng Ti and Zeng Zhaoli couldn't help but be disappointed.

"You don't have to worry, you go and rest first, early tomorrow morning, General Zheng will be in charge of the defense of the critical pass, and Zeng Zhaoli and I will attack Zhakou City. Yingxue Zhengse said to the two.

"Why wait until tomorrow morning, I think it's better for us to take Zha Kou City at night tonight?" Zeng Zhaoli asked suspiciously.

"Have you forgotten how Zhou Ming was defeated, this mysterious old man, he really has some skills, after I arrived at Zhakou City, I found that there was not even a trace of battle there, I think they must have been ready for a long time, just waiting for us to attack Zhakou City at night and defeat us in one fell swoop." If we wait until tomorrow morning, it will be different, our troops will be many times stronger than them, and we will fight in the open, and the ambush will be useless to us, when the time comes, we will forcibly take Zhakou City and avenge Zhou Ming, wouldn't it be nine times more secure!"

"Well, that's the reason, then let's go tomorrow morning, but where can we sleep now!" Zeng Zhaoli said sullenly, his good brother's life and death were uncertain, how could he sleep peacefully!

"Then let's breathe here, General Zheng, your task tomorrow is quite heavy, you better go and take a rest, there are me and Zhaoli here, you can rest assured." Seeing this, Yingxue had no choice but to let Zheng Dai go to rest first.

"Yes, General!" Zheng Ti knew that he had a heavy responsibility and that he had to keep his spirits up in order to deal with it, so he stopped insisting and went back to the camp to rest.

Ying Xue and Zeng Zhaoli sat in the camp to breathe, and when they woke up, the sky was already bright, so they walked out of the tent, took 40,000 people, and also took the dragon and Xiao Tian and the special guards, and drove to Zhakou City with murderous spirits, ready to avenge Zhou Ming.

Yingxue was afraid of being ambushed on the road, so she sent someone to investigate all the way, and after getting accurate information, she went straight to Zhakou City, Yingxue and others came angrily, the defenders of Zhakou City were pitiful, and Yingxue occupied Zhakou City without encountering any resistance at all, which made Yingxue a little puzzled, could it be that this was the old man who deliberately laid out a good situation to lure himself into being fooled.

In fact, Yingxue didn't know that this so-called general of Zhennan was also bitter and couldn't say it. He had repeatedly asked the imperial court for reinforcements, but the king of the border country was slow to send troops. Because there are not many troops left in the border countries, Kyoto still needs to be guarded. If these troops were handed over to General Zhennan, Kyoto would not be in vain, not to mention, although there was a forbidden army to defend it, but the forbidden army did not buy the king's orders so much, so this general Zhennan repeatedly asked for troops, but he did not see troops to reinforce him, and the number of troops on hand was less than 30,000 at best. And these soldiers are still the original defenders of the four small cities of Zhakou, Yingong, Yaojiao and Ballast Maple, if it weren't for the old man's fame back then, coupled with the proper control and proper management of the army, I'm afraid these people would have run away a long time ago, because the saucer pass and the critical pass guarded by Zhao Yuekuo and Jiang Dingshan have been lost, wouldn't they have died in vain in these small cities, and the most important thing is that this general Zhennan is not the king of the current border country, but the previous king, and this time he suddenly appeared out of nowhere. The king did not know what his intentions were, where he would send troops, and who knew what he would do. In fact, this general of Zhennan was entrusted by others, and he couldn't bear to see the living creatures. It was only with his momentum and prestige that the defending generals of the four small cities of Zhakou, Yingong, Yaojiao and Ballast were impressed by him. Moreover, Wang Zhuo's army was defeated again this time, and these people were willing to stay here with him. Otherwise, wouldn't these people have run away for their lives? And the king of the frontier country was of course very happy when he got the report. Immediately, the edict of reward was handed down, and military salaries and condolences were sent, but the soldiers asked by the general of Zhennan did not make any sound, and the general of Zhennan was so angry that he scolded more than once.

After Yingxue took Zhakou City, he did not stop, nor did he garrison in Zhakou City, but directly towards Yinggong City, Yingxue's arrival was not out of the expectations of General Zhennan, but he did not set up an ambush this time, because he knew that the plan was useless, otherwise he would not become a fool, Yingxue went straight to the city, set up a formation, surrounded Yingong City, and looked at the formation He was ready to forcibly attack the city.

However, Yingxue didn't seem to be so impulsive, he just surrounded and didn't fight, because before Zhou Ming's life and death were determined, how could he act rashly, after the general Zhennan got the report, he went to the city to inspect it, and found that the troops under the city were only thirty or forty thousand people, not more than his troops, and if he simply defended the city, I was afraid that he would be too passive, so he made an unexpected move, he personally went out of the city to meet the enemy, rather than being beaten passively, it was better to take the initiative to go out, and if this small city is mainly defensive, I am afraid it is difficult to defend。 Therefore, he wants to overwhelm the enemy in momentum and frustrate his spirit, and he wants to defeat the enemy's generals with his own personal ability, so that he can outperform the enemy psychologically. He thought that there were not many masters like Zhou Ming under Wang Zhuo, and he didn't punish Zhou Ming, he knew that he couldn't ask anything from the mouth of a person like Zhou Ming, so he took the truth of Yingxue from the army, so he already knew that Wang Zhuo's subordinates did have a few masters, but a few people had already returned to the Northern Capital because of injuries, and there were not many powerful characters in the army now. After hearing this, the general of Zhennan naturally didn't believe it, he thought that Xie Hao, Yang Yuhai and Liu Linfeng were actually injured in the battle, and they were definitely not a powerful person, this general of Zhennan, although he was old, but he was more energetic than young people who did not admit defeat, he didn't believe what the soldiers said, he decided to go out of the city in person to meet them for a while, and see if they were really as powerful as the soldiers said.

Ying Xue saw that the enemy dared to go out of the city to compete with him in person, and couldn't help but respect this Zhennan general, because the small city in front of him was not suitable for defense, if it was replaced by Ying Xue, he would also take the initiative to attack, this Zhennan general is really not easy to match, it seems that he is well versed in the way of marching.

However, the real surprise to Yingxue is still to come, after the general Zhennan and Yingxue have met each other, Yingxue was surprised, this Zhennan general he actually knew.

It turned out that this Zhennan General turned out to be the old man that Ying Xue met in the forest of Lanling Town when Ying Xue first came to the Sky Spirit Realm-Jill didn't expect him to be the Zhennan General of the Border Country, which was much more than Ying Xue expected, Ying Xue thought he was just an ordinary old man, which was really unexpected by Ying Xue, but now Jill can't recognize Ying Xue at all, because Ying Xue has changed his appearance with a different appearance technique, and Jill can't recognize him as Ying Xue at all.

Ying Xue pressed the ecstasy in her heart, glanced back at Zeng Zhaoli, but saw that Zeng Zhaoli also had a puzzled look on his face, it seemed that he had already recognized it, and hurriedly pulled Zeng Zhaoli and whispered to him, Zeng Zhaoli listened to Ying Xue's words, and then quietly retreated behind Ying Xue and hid.

Ying Xue called the dragon forward and asked him to take the lead, telling him that he must not hurt the old man, but if he could capture the old man alive, it would be the best, if he could not be captured alive, don't force it, it would be okay to let him leave freely, the dragon listened to Ying Xue's words, then nodded and stepped forward.

When Jill saw the enemy's ranks, a middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance came out (since the encounter in the West Star Country, after returning to the cottage, Jill transformed himself into an ordinary-looking middle-aged man, so as not to cause trouble again.) In Jill's eyes, this middle-aged man didn't seem to be a master, but since the enemy had sent someone to challenge, Jill also sent a master of the battle system to fight.

The so-called master who is fighting against the dragon is at best a general-level person, who can urge the primary golden light shield, with his skills, and the dragon to compete, isn't it self-defeating, for such an opponent the dragon is not in his eyes at all, of course, there is no fighting, the dragon saw the opponent rushing towards him, he did not dodge, as soon as the fist hit, he had already put down the opponent with a shield, if it wasn't for Ying Xue to tell the dragon not to kill, I'm afraid that the brother has already reported to him, however, after the dragon knocked him down, grabbed him and threw him around, handed it to Ying Xue, and Ying Xue ordered someone to tie him up。

The two sides fought so fast that Jill couldn't see clearly, maybe the two sides hadn't fought at all, but their own side had already fallen and had been captured alive by the enemy. There can be such a strange thing, Jill rubbed his eyes in disbelief, it seems that his opponent is really amazingly strong, but now he is ready to fly, he knows that he must not show weakness, otherwise, it will shake the heart of the army, and the number of enemy troops is more than himself, if he retreats, they will definitely take advantage of the situation to attack the city, and the shape will turn immediately, and Yingon City may be lost, Jill now regrets that he is so Meng Lang, if he defends with all his might, the victory or defeat may still be uncertain, however, he is too light on the enemy, too confident, he thought that Wang Zhuo was just a group of rabble, but he did not expect that there was such a master in the enemy army, no wonder Wang Zhuo can unify the north in such a short period of time, it is indeed not simple. (To be continued......)