Early in the morning, Xu Zhixin, dressed in military uniform, stepped out of the post station. After confirming the direction, we hurried towards the north gate. He was to join up with the two hundred Bollinger Pass infantry stationed outside the North Gate. Today, no matter what, I have to see Su Dongyao himself, even if it is a hard break. I lowered my head and thought about my thoughts, but there was no slowing down under my feet, and in the blink of an eye, the north city gate was already in sight.

But today's north gate is obviously different from the past, early in the morning there will be a lot of noise like a market, a group of soldiers dressed in soldiers are arguing with the defenders of the city, and the two sides are at a standout at the city gate.

As a soldier, Xu Zhixin subconsciously hurried a few steps, wanting to understand what was happening in front of him.

Just when Xu Zhixin arrived under the city gate, I don't know which sharp-eyed soldier found his figure. Hurriedly shouted: "Commander Xu!"

Both sides of the original dispute turned their attention to where Xu Zhixin was standing.

"Commander!"

A soldier in the costume of a kingdom captain, who had just been arguing with the soldiers defending the city, knelt down first. Immediately afterwards, nearly five or six hundred people who had been crowded outside the city dismounted and knelt in a large area, which immediately blocked the traffic of the entire north city gate. Those who wanted to rush into the city to sell vegetables hid far away and peeked here, and none of them dared to come up.

It was only at this moment that Xu Zhixin recognized that these people in front of him were the cavalrymen who had broken up with him three nights ago and went to Wright Town to ask for help.

"Why did you come here?" Xu Zhi began to have a premonition in his confidence that something was wrong.

When the cavalrymen kneeling there heard Xu Zhixin's question, they were silent, and some lowered their heads and secretly wiped their tears, and the scene was bleak.

Xu Zhixin took a few steps forward, grabbed the captain's shoulders with both hands, and said angrily: "What's the matter?

The captain's shoulders twitched, and he looked up. Xu Zhixin clearly saw tears flashing in his eyes.

"Commander, the three towns of Bryn have all rebelled. The man who ambushed us in the jungle that night was the army of the three towns of Bryn. As he spoke, he finally couldn't hold back the tears in his eyes, hugged his head and cried.

"How so, how so!"

Xu Zhixin repeated this sentence several times as if his soul had been drained all of a sudden. Then he also sat on the ground, unable to hide his consternation.

When the kneeling captain saw it, he hurriedly got up and helped Xu Zhixin, who was sitting on the ground, and the soldiers guarding the city didn't know where to get a chair and helped him to sit on it.

Xu Zhixin, who had just sat down, seemed to remember something, and grabbed the cavalry captain who was about to get up and retreat, but his eyes were still looking into the distance blankly.

"Sue me, where did you get the news?"

The cavalry captain waved his hand, and the two cavalrymen pulled the "captive captain" who had been guarding the town of Wright. After sorting out his out-of-control situation, Xu Zhixin began to interrogate the "captive" kneeling in front of him. After learning all the situation, Xu Zhixin lay back, leaned back in his chair, and sighed.

"Bryn is done!"

For a while, the five hundred kneeling soldiers couldn't control their feelings and cried.

Just when everyone was immersed in a pessimistic atmosphere, the sound of horses' hooves in the distance was abrupt. All of them immediately changed color, and five hundred horsemen quickly stepped onto their horses, drew their swords at their waists, and clearly wanted to fight the enemy desperately. Xu Zhixin also stood up from his chair, drew his sword blade, and prepared to live and die with his own warriors. And the soldiers who defended the city were all as dead as ashes, trembling all over, and some of them didn't even know that they had wet their pants.

It seems that the soldiers of the kingdom in general are indeed different from the soldiers of Bryn Pass in terms of suzhì and fighting spirit. Xu Zhixin glanced contemptuously at the dozen or so soldiers guarding the city who were trembling behind him, and sighed helplessly in his heart. If Bollinger Pass really fell, how could it resist the invasion of the northern Atterbury army with such plain soldiers. It is unbelievable that the Carol army, which was once famous in the southern part of the continent, could have degenerated to such a distance.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief to the fact that it was not Atterbury's cavalry that emerged from the bend in the road in the distance, but a scout squad of more than a dozen people.

I saw that they urged their horses to rush forward, and did not pay any attention to the five hundred cavalry at the city gate. Unaffected by his speed, he rushed straight towards the cavalry formation. The Brin cavalry, who were originally preparing to fight to the death, saw that it was their own people, and hurriedly retreated to the side, and for a time there was chaos at the city gate.

The dozen or so scouts rode their horses to the city gate more than ten paces away and held the reins, but the horses still rushed forward a few steps, and at the same time, several people stood up and neighed with their heads up. Then the dozen or so scouts rolled off their horses, looking quite anxious. A man in the captain's costume at the head carried a letterbox and looked extremely panicked. As soon as he got off the horse, he asked loudly about the specific location of the castle guard's mansion, and it seemed that there must be some urgent military situation on the front line.

Xu Zhixin came out of the crowd, stood in front of him, and asked about the war on the front line.

At first, the scout captain didn't care about the guy who suddenly appeared in his twenties, but when he realized that his rank would be many levels higher than his own, he hurriedly got down on one knee.

"Bollinger Pass fell yesterday! The total strength of the enemy army is about 50,000!"

"What!" exclaimed all at the same time.

Although people had guessed this result before, it was only speculation after all, and everyone still had a glimmer of hope in their hearts, expecting a miracle to happen. But now that the scout captain learned the news, the impact was still so great.

"What about Old General Xu?" Xu Zhixin was anxious to know the news of this elder.

"General Xu, martyrdom!" After speaking, the scout captain also shed tears.

There was a look of despair on everyone's faces.

Yes, in the past few decades, Bollinger Pass has resisted Atbury's attacks again and again, and General Xu Shouyi has become the undefeated god of war in the hearts of the entire Carol people. He always felt that he was in absolute safety, far from the war, and did not fear the attack of Atterbury. And in just one day, not only was the physical form of Bollinger Pass captured by the enemy, but even Xu Shouyi was martyred! The psychological defense line of all the Carol people collapsed in an instant!

The edifice is about to fall, but there is no strong pillar that can sustain the current crisis. Xu Zhixin seems to have seen the tragic scene of the building toppling and countless people overturning.

All the qiē seemed to lose their meaning at once. As a commander, Xu Zhixin knew very well that there was no force in the north of the kingdom that could withstand the attack of the 50,000 Atterbury army. The defeat of the northern part of the kingdom is assured, and it is likely that even the entire Carol kingdom will be destroyed in this war, and all the people of Carol will face the ravages of the enemy.

Looking at those comrades-in-arms who sat on their horses and once shared life and death with themselves. Xu Zhixin's mind began to sober up bit by bit. Now his task is no longer to continue fighting for the honor of some soldier or the safety of the kingdom, but how to lead these young people who have picked up a life from the battlefield to find a way to live.

After handing over the scouts to the soldiers defending the city, Xu Zhixin stepped on a war horse, grabbed the reins with one hand, and raised the sword in his hand with the other hand to point to the camp outside the city, and took the lead in riding forward. The five hundred cavalry and more than a hundred "captives" of Leyte followed. The whole team moved forward silently, and the atmosphere was extremely solemn.

Sugal, camp outside the city.

Eight hundred regular soldiers dressed in Carroll's uniforms stood solemnly, and in front of them was a young general who was only twenty-three years old, and the atmosphere of the whole camp was sad.

"Warriors, you all know by now. Bollinger Pass fell yesterday, and General Xu was martyred!"

At this point, everyone bowed their heads, even the hundred "captives" of Leyte. For those who defected, the generals might be able to get what they wanted from Atterbury, but for ordinary soldiers, they were charged with "treason" while facing brutal killings on the battlefield, and their situation was even more miserable.

"Now we have 50,000 Atterberry soldiers in front of us, and if we try to fight against them, we will only end up being martyred! War is meaningless to us, go home, warriors! The army of Atbury will soon advance here, all of you go home, and flee for your lives with your wives and children!"

At this moment, after hearing these words, all the soldiers had already burst into tears, and even Xu Zhixin was choked up.

Many people took off their armor, threw down their weapons, and dispersed, and the shadow of war loomed over everyone present. But to Xu Zhixin's surprise, half an hour later, nearly two hundred soldiers were still standing upright, unconcerned.

"You guys, what's the matter, why don't you go home, what are you doing here?"

One of the horsemen standing at the front stepped forward and gave a standard military salute.

"My lord, we are all slaves who have been drafted into the army since we were teenagers, and we have no home at all, and no one will take us in. ”

Looking at the faces that had experienced the bloody rain and wind of the battlefield, and a pair of eyes full of enthusiasm and pain, Xu Zhixin finally couldn't stop the tears from sliding down his cheeks, and hugged the soldier in front of him violently.

"No, who said that you are slaves, you have squandered your blood on the battlefield like me, your blood is also bright red and boiling, you are my brothers, good brothers until death!"

"Lord Commander!"

All those who had not yet left knelt on the ground, each with a sharp rise and fall in their chests, and the blood unique to a battlefield man surged in their chests.

"We swear to follow the Commander-in-Chief!"

The voice is loud and tragic.

In this way, Xu Zhixin led nearly 200 cavalry to the northwest, and there was Xu Shouyi's fief in the Xibulin Mountains, and his family was also looking forward to his return home as soon as possible.

And these nearly 200 cavalry were the predecessors of the "Scarlet Cavalry Regiment" known as the "Scarlet Cavalry Regiment" by later generations, many of whom later became the new nobles of the Yuxuan Heavenly Empire, and a few even became generals with great achievements. And Xu Zhixin, who was the first commander of the "Scarlet Cavalry Regiment", was thinking of rushing back to Xu Shouyi's fiefdom as quickly as possible.