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Lan Shixun's army has been fighting fiercely with Ouyang Chun's 3,000 guards in the Four Horse Pass for more than two months, Lan Shixun ordered the army to take turns to tackle the key problems day and night, even though he has 300,000 troops, but in this Four Horse Pass, he can not give full play to the advantage of the troops, and the sergeants who can enter the Four Horse Pass will not exceed a few thousand at most, and it is not a large-scale wanton rush to kill at all, the so-called one man is not open, and there are fierce generals like Ouyang Chun in the Four Horse Pass, and the loss of Lan Shixun has been nearly 30,000 for more than two months, but Ouyang Chun's 3,000 defenders still have at least 300 people, such a record of one against ten made the battle-hardened Lan Shixun can't help but complain again and again.

Today's Sima Pass has long been without the past mountains and rivers, instead of a mess, the green pine and green grass on the cliffs on both sides have now become inch by inch scorched earth, the traces of knives and axes are everywhere, and from the entrance of Sima Mountain to the pass this less than a kilometer of narrow 'line of sky', the land is soaked into a kind of crimson of the mad, this is the reason for the long-term blood soaking, although the people and horses on both sides will send someone to clean up the corpses of the soldiers every time after a fierce battle, but the stumps and broken arms, internal organs and bones in the first line of the sky, Swords and armor are still everywhere.

In the past two months, the blood in front of the Four Horses Pass has flowed like a river, and human lives have become worthless here, especially for Lan Shixun's soldiers and horses, whenever a new group of soldiers is about to charge into battle, they will cry bitterly and write a suicide note for their families in the tent first, because they all know very well that once they are sent to tackle key problems, it means that there is no return. However, as a soldier who does not obey military orders, how dare he disobey them? Because the result of not obeying military orders is still a dead end, and after death, he will not even have a settlement fee, but his family will be implicated. So generally at this time, it is the best choice to treat death as home.

The grain and grass were repeatedly urgent, and everything that could be grabbed around was basically snatched up, and the contradiction between the beast clan soldiers and the holy domain soldiers in the camp was getting deeper and deeper. Time is running out, Lan Shixun can't dream of breaking Ouyang Chun's body into thousands of pieces, so the longer the time drags on, the more fierce the offensive Lan Shixun will become. And the most important reason why Lan Shixun wanted to conquer the Four Horse Pass as soon as possible was that a few days ago, the secret agent came to report, saying that a mysterious army of 50,000 people suddenly appeared in the eastern part of the Holy Domain, and that army without any banner was galloping towards the direction of Jinling City day and night, although the spies did not find out the origin of that army, but the first reaction of the cunning Lan Shixun was that the comer was not good. If the 50,000 troops killed the Four Horse Pass to help Ouyang Chun defend the pass together, then Lan Shixun's trouble would really be too great, and now there are only 3,000 defenders who can't attack it for a long time, let alone the 50,000 army?

Compared with Lan Shixun's urgency, Ouyang Chun and his remaining defenders of less than three hundred have really come to the end of the road, the strong crossbow bows and arrows have been exhausted, and now even most of the knives in the hands of the defenders have been curled, and the soldiers are all wounded, not only can they not get any rest, but they have to fight continuously day and night, whether it is physical strength or energy, it is a kind of torture that is almost devastating. Lan Shixun's 300,000 troops can take turns to fight, but they can't be replaced in any way, so they can only rely on perseverance and Ouyang Chun's military orders to carry them stubbornly.

On the first day of March, Lan Shixun issued a death order to Chu Lingtian, and he must break through the Four Horse Pass at all costs within ten days, and today is the last day of the military order, the tenth day of the first month of March.

From dawn, Chu Lingtian personally beat the drum and ordered the attack, and wave after wave of sergeants roared and swung their swords towards the Four Horse Pass, and launched a final desperate fight with Ouyang Chun's three hundred defenders.

The 'one-eyed' horse Rufeng always rushed to be the first, leading thousands of soldiers to kill from ten days of dawn to three poles of the sun, and when one attack was repulsed, another attack was rushed up without stopping, not giving Ouyang Chun a chance to breathe. And as the battle became more and more intense, the numerical advantage of Ma Rufeng's side was gradually reflected, and the sergeants beside Ouyang Chun increased from three hundred to two hundred, and then from two hundred to one hundred and fifteen, so that by the time the scorching sun was at its peak, there were less than 100 sergeants around Ouyang Chun. And they are all the end of the strong crossbows, and the combat power is very small.

Under the bright sun, there was a sound of fighting and wailing inside and outside the Four Horse Pass. Swords collide, rolling stones fall, meteor arrow rain, fireballs are all over the sky, this bloody scene has been the tragic perfect interpretation, at the beginning Ma Rufeng led people to tackle the key problems and set up a ladder on the pass, and then the corpses were piled up like a mountain, the ladder was completely useless, Ma Rufeng simply led people to step on the piles of higher and higher corpses and climbed up the four horse passes, and Chu Lingtian saw that Ma Rufeng had taken more than a dozen people to kill the pass, and then he couldn't care about Fan Jiang's obstruction, so he personally took hundreds of soldiers to laugh and rush up.

"Ouyang Chun, today I am going to use your head to sacrifice the flag!"

Chu Lingtian's speed was extremely fast, almost in the blink of an eye, he left behind the hundreds of sergeants who followed him, only to see him single-handedly swept up the pass like a ghost, his short figure did not seem to bring him a sense of weakness, but made his movements extremely flexible, I saw his body swaying left and right in the chaos of the army a few times, palm shadows flying all over the sky, and in an instant, seven or eight defenders fell to the ground bleeding from the seven orifices, and their heads suddenly collapsed at this moment, as soft and scary as no skull. In fact, the skulls of these sergeants had just been directly shaken into powder by Chu Lingtian's palm wind, leaving only stinky skin sacs like human skin masks, blooming with terrifying expressions similar to grimaces.

For more than two months, Chu Lingtian has never made a personal move, and has always sat in the camp to command Ma Rufeng to lead people to charge, and now it is finally at the last moment, he can no longer care about his identity as the main general, and he actually personally entered the battle.

The so-called defeat was like a mountain, Chu Lingtian led people to attack the Four Horse Pass, and slaughtered the only dozens of defenders like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves. And Ouyang Chun, who was already exhausted, finally lost in the hundredth round after a life-and-death fight with Ma Rufeng. But before he could die to thank the world, Chu Lingtian suddenly stopped him from committing suicide, Chu Lingtian first brutally shattered Ouyang Chun's dantian and abolished his cultivation, and then broke Ouyang Chun's limbs with his own hands, breaking the meridians of his whole body inch by inch, and finally Ouyang Chun, who was in pain, lay on the ground like a puddle of mud, and the appearance that life was worse than death made the corners of Chu Lingtian's mouth can't help but raise a bloodthirsty smile.

"A small four-horse guard general dared to stop my army for more than two months, how could this general let you die so happily?" Chu Lingtian sneered and looked down at Ouyang Chun who was lying on the ground, his disdainful eyes were like looking at a lost dog.

"Uh-huh......"

Ouyang Chun's entire chin had been forcibly taken off by Chu Lingtian, in order to prevent him from suddenly biting his tongue and committing suicide, only to see Ouyang Chun weakly opening his mouth overflowing with blood and saliva, staring at his eyes viciously, and roaring at Chu Lingtian vigorously, as if he was cursing something.

"What are you doing, you want to bite someone?" Ma Rufeng kicked Ouyang Chun's head with a big foot, causing Ouyang Chun to gnaw on the mud again, and even several teeth were knocked out. Ma Rufeng stared at Ouyang Chun with a cruel smile, the big knife still dripping with blood in his hand was gently slashing on Ouyang Chun's back, "Stubborn resistance, you should have thought that there would be this day!"

"Hmm......" Ouyang Chun kept howling, and his body writhed strangely like a big meat worm.

"General Chu, what are you going to do with him?" Ma Rufeng asked with a sneer.

"Leave it to Lord Lan to be disposed of!" Chu Lingtian replied lightly, and then he planted the big flag embroidered with the word 'blue' directly on a corpse on the ground, and commanded faintly, "Now open the pass first, and let Lord Lan lead the army through the Four Horse Pass!"

"Yes!"

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After capturing the Four Horse Pass, Lan Shixun ordered the army to rest in the Four Horse Mountains for the night, and led the army straight to Jinling early tomorrow morning. As for Ouyang Chun, Lan Shixun handed him over to Wei Li, the commander of the Black Armor Army, without looking at him, it is said that Wei Li especially likes to eat people's internal organs raw, so Ouyang Chun may be a good dish for Wei Li.

The beast clan is the beast clan, and even if it reaches the king beast level, it will never be able to get rid of its innate wildness.

Tonight, Lan Shixun was in a very good mood, conquered the four horse passes that could not be attacked for a long time, and then went further is a horse Pingchuan, although this battle lost 30,000 soldiers and horses, but it can also be regarded as the last barrier in front of the Jinling Imperial City, Lan Shixun's great cause is just around the corner.

But no matter how good the mood is, it can't withstand the sudden bad news, especially when there is more than one bad news.

"Bang!"

There was a sudden loud noise in the big tent of the Chinese army, and then before the four guards standing outside the tent could react, they saw that the curtain of the tent was suddenly knocked open from the inside, and then they saw two spies who had just gone in to report the news but flew out upside down with blood on their faces, and the two of them smashed hard outside the big tent one after the other, all of them looked in pain, holding their stomachs and curling up on the ground and wailing and rolling.

"What is this?"

Hai Lao, Chu Lingtian and Wei Li, who rushed over after hearing the sound, all looked puzzled, and they came forward one after another, looking at the two sergeants lying on the ground rolling in surprise, they had just rested in their respective tents, and heard a noise in the big tent of the Chinese army, so they came out to take a look, but before they could enter the account to find out, they saw that these two sergeants were directly sent out by Lan Shixun.

"Pull me down!" Lan Shixun's voice suddenly came from the tent again, "Don't cry and scream in front of my account, if I hear it again, I will not be spared!"

Hearing Lan Shixun's words, the defenders outside the tent were so frightened that they hurriedly picked up the two people lying on the ground and retreated into the distance, while the three Hai Lao looked at each other in surprise, and then raised their feet and walked into the tent.

At this moment, the Chinese army's big tent was in a mess, the handsome case had already been kicked to the ground by Lan Shixun, the wine pot and teacups were flying everywhere, and the two brothers Lan Jin and Lan Chen were standing next to each other on the left and right, both of them looked helpless. Lan Shixun, who was wearing a cloak, was standing in the account with a sword and humming, slashing at the desk that had fallen to the ground to vent the anger in his heart, and it was not difficult to see that he must have drunk a lot of wine just now, and at this moment, the green tendons in his right hand holding the sword were violent, and the whole person seemed to be trembling slightly with anger.

"Lord Lan, this is ...... What's the matter?" Hai Lao asked softly with a surprised expression, "Wasn't it okay when we drank together just now?" As soon as Hai Lao said this, Chu Lingtian and Wei Li nodded in unison.

Lan Shixun didn't seem to have the intention of ignoring Hai Lao, he still stood there with a grunt, his eyes were about to bleed, and he just kept drinking and scolding to himself, and his voice was muffled and indistinguishable because of the strength of the wine.

"Just now, the spies came to report that the 50,000 mysterious army that I found before has now entered Jinling City, and it was the old man Qiu Ming who personally opened the city to welcome it!" Lan Jin explained faintly, "In other words, this 50,000 army is coming for us!"

"How can there be such a thing?" Hai Lao said to himself with a blank face, "Didn't you say before that there were no more soldiers and horses under the command of the Emperor to mobilize?

"Yan Chong, this old fox, I should have expected that he would never be so easy to deal with!" Lan Shixun said through gritted teeth.

"Even if it's Yan Chong's last life-saving straw, so what?" Chu Lingtian frowned and said with relief, "But it's just an army of 50,000, when our army of 270,000 is killed, it will be able to wipe out its entire army in less than three days, so you don't have to ...... it."

"Hmph!" Before Chu Lingtian could finish speaking, Lan Shixun snorted coldly, and then saw him raise his head suddenly, glaring at the three of Hai Lao with a grim gaze, and asked word by word, "Do you know who is the commander of this army of 50,000?"

"Who is it?" asked the three at the same time.

"Han Xiao!"

"What?"

As soon as Lan Shixun's words came out, the three of Hai Lao let out a burst of disbelief, especially Wei Li's face turned pale almost instantly, he still had lingering fears about Han Xiao, when he was fighting in the northern Xinjiang, Han Xiao also only used 50,000 troops, but he couldn't find the 100,000 army of the beast clan.

"Impossible, hasn't Han Xiao already been killed by Yan Chong?" Chu Lingtian shook his head again and again with a solemn face, "How could he suddenly appear in Jinling City again?"

"Yan Chong, this old fox has long been wary of me, and the Han family was punished by the Nine Clans just to blind my ears and eyes!" Lan Shixun didn't fight as soon as he thought of these angers, this feeling of being played by others really annoyed him, "I didn't calculate that Han Xiao would cheat to death!"

"This ......" Hearing Lan Shixun say this, the three of them were suddenly speechless, and they looked at each other and didn't know how to speak.

"Now that Han Xiao's handsome banner has been hung on the Jinling city wall, the people of Jinling, who were already panicked, are now united, and what this protector Han Xiao has brought us is far more than just 50,000 enemy troops!" Lan Jin said coldly, "The title of the first military general of the Holy Domain is not called in vain, his 50,000 army is definitely worth our 100,000 army!"

"So what?" Chu Lingtian said viciously, "No matter how powerful Han Xiao is, it is only 50,000 people, I don't believe that our 270,000 army can't kill these 50,000 people? It's really not good, we can choose to besiege the city, and let the army surround Jinling City to the death, I think the people in the city can hold out for a few days!"

"That's it, although this matter is a bit unexpected, but it is not enough to make Lord Lan so alarmed, Han Xiao's 50,000 horses are just a mantis arm for us!" Hai Lao nodded and agreed, "Lord Lan's great cause will inevitably go through hardships, how can it be smooth sailing?

"It's not just Han Xiao that bothers Dad!" Just when Hai Lao eased the atmosphere with a smile on his face, Lan Chen, who had never spoken, suddenly spoke, and as soon as he spoke, a cold gaze was directly directed at Hai Lao, who was smiling all over his face, "Hai Lao, there is one more thing that you may have to give us a reasonable explanation!"

"What the second son said is...... What's the matter?" Hai Lao seemed to realize that something was not quite right with the Lan father and son's gaze at him, so his answer became more and more cautious.

"Lu Yifan and his Soul Sect!" Lan Chen said bluntly, "Shouldn't Xuanzong have already eradicated them to prevent future troubles? Why is Lu Yifan not dead now, but he is still using all the strength of the Soul Sect to help the Emperor deal with us together?"

"This ......" was asked by Lan Chen, and it was not only Hai Lao who panicked, but Wei Li and Chu Lingtian also showed shocked expressions.

"Young Master Lan Chen, what do you mean by the Soul Sect helping the Emperor to deal with us?" I don't really understand what you mean!" Wei Li asked in a solemn tone.

"It means that it is not only Han Xiao and his 50,000 army waiting to fight to the death with us in Jinling City now, but also Lu Yifan and his tens of thousands of soul sect disciples!" Lan Shixun said in a cold voice, "And as far as I know, Lu Yifan also specially offered Yan Chong enough gold and silver to buy a Jinling City. Yan Chong continued to recruit troops and horses to expand his strength with heavy money on the way back from Xihuang Mountain, and when he returned to Jinling City, it would not be just 10,000 people from the Soul Sect, but most likely tens of thousands! With Han Xiao's ability, as long as we gathered 100,000 troops for him, when the time came, if we wanted to capture Jinling City, it would be far less easy than we had expected! I know Han Xiao too well, if he doesn't kill all the last person in the confrontation between the two armies, he will never give up easily, the so-called mourning soldiers will win, with the current situation, if we want to win in the end, even if we don't die, we will give up half our lives! I already had the victory in my hands, but I didn't expect it...... Alas!"

In the darkness of the night, Lan Shixun's anger finally subsided, replaced by an endless bitterness and a sigh that contained too much helplessness.

"It's really better to be a human being than a god!"

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