Cao Xiong led about 40,000 local troops to break through to the west, and as soon as they left the city, they collided with Bai Phosphorus and Wu Tao in the west of the city.

When the enemy and I met, they were very red-eyed, and there was no superfluous nonsense on both sides.

The families of the local army officers and soldiers are basically in Ningyang, and this departure is estimated to be goodbye forever, and people vent their grief and anger on the two thousand golden troops of Bai Phosphorus and Wu Tao, but they also show combat effectiveness that cannot be underestimated.

The battle between the two sides soon turned into a chaotic melee, Cao Xiong was anxious to break through, unwilling to fight, in the chaos of the army, through the Jin army's interception, immediately ordered the soldiers around him to sing Jin, let all their soldiers retreat, do not be greedy for war.

With the sound of gold, the morale of the wooden army was immediately discharged, and the officers and men of the whole army gave up the battle and fled west with Cao Xiong.

As the head of the county, Cao Xiong was very familiar with the terrain of Wangfeng County, he knew that there was a dangerous place ahead, as long as he occupied the top of the mountain, he could block the enemy army passing under the mountain, he specially sent a cavalry, first went to the dangerous place, occupied the mountain, prepared stones, so as to intercept the Jin army chasing and killing him.

He calculated well, but he never expected that the five thousand gold army had already occupied it one step ahead of him.

As soon as the cavalry of the Wood Country arrived at the bottom of the mountain, before they could climb the mountain, the five thousand gold troops led by Gu Liangyun shouted in unison, and the arrows and rolling stones fell together, and the faces of more than a thousand wooden soldiers changed greatly and retreated in a hurry.

When Cao Xiong learned that the dangerous place ahead had been occupied by the Jin army, his heart was also trembling, seeing the Jin army's brigade chasing out of Ningyang City, he didn't have time to think carefully about how to deal with it, so he could only grit his teeth and give an order to force through.

The wooden army's passage through the mountain was really miserable, and the arrows and falling rocks on the mountain seemed to be endless, and they kept flying down. The Ning army who was hit by the arrow, and the wooden army who were killed and injured by the rolling stones were countless, and on the official road at the bottom of the mountain, the dead and wounded lay on the ground, screams and moans were endless.

If there was another way, Cao Xiong didn't want to force his way through this place, but now he had no choice. Even if it is a human shop, you have to rush over, otherwise when the pursuers behind arrive, I am afraid that none of them will be able to escape.

Only passing through the foot of a small mountain, the wooden army paid nearly thousands of casualties, and after all the passages passed, the number of people was counted, and less than 30,000 of the 40,000 soldiers who fled from Ningyang were left.

Cao Xiong sighed bitterly and cheered up. Command the whole army and retreat to Crouching Tiger Pass.

Crouching Tiger Pass is the most precipitous checkpoint fortress in Wangfeng County, located between two mountains, like a gate to separate Wangfeng County into two, Cao Xiong knows in his heart that Crouching Tiger Pass is his last line of defense, a place lost, Wangfeng County will no longer be in danger to defend. The consequences will directly lead to the precarious situation of the capital city of Xiangyang.

Before entering the Crouching Tiger Pass, Cao Xiong had already made up his mind. To live and die with Crouching Tiger Pass, we will never take half a step back.

Cao Xiong led the local army to retreat simply, and then, the Jin army fully occupied Ningyang with almost no effort.

Originally, many people in Ningyang City also wanted to follow the local army to the west, but they failed to pass the interception of Bai Phosphorus and Wu Tao, and these people of Mu Country. The two were not polite at all, and without waiting for the other party to get closer, they gave the order to release the arrows first.

Under the chaotic arrows of the Jin army, the people of Mu Kingdom fled back to the city crying for their fathers and mothers, and Bai Phosphorus and Wu Tao took advantage of the situation to advance into the west city gate. Occupy the West Side.

Ningyang is indeed too big, after the more than 200,000 Jin troops enter Ningyang, it is difficult to control every point in Ningyang, Dou Bo suggested to Lin Haotian that the four city walls should be blocked first, and the wooden people in the city should be strictly prohibited from escaping, and then the remnants of the wooden army will be eliminated little by little.

Lin Haotian accepted Dou Bo's proposal and ordered Zhang Bufan to have Jin Cheng to guard the southern city, Bai Phosphorus and Wu Tao to guard the western city, Song Yu and Yang Xiu to defend the northern city, Dou Bo to lead the Third Army to defend the eastern city, and Lin Haotian himself to lead his guards to the county capital.

The county capital is the symbol of the county town, and only the capture of the county capital means that the entire county town has been captured.

Lin Haotian, under the protection of Ling Wuya, Gu Liangyun, Shao Lin and others, swaggered into the city.

But before he had taken a few steps into the city, several people suddenly stood on the roofs on both sides, all with bows and crossbows in their hands, and shot several arrows at Lin Haotian on the horse.

Without Lin Haotian dodging, Ling Wuya and the others beside him had already taken the lead, blocking Lin Haotian's sides together, drawing their swords and knocking out the crossbow arrows that came from both sides

At the same time, the guards around Lin Haotian also went out in unison, jumped vertically, flashed to the rooftops on both sides of the road, and fought with the assassin enemy.

As the guards climbed to the roof, it didn't take long for seven or eight corpses in civilian clothes to fall from the roof, and all the guards who had shot had already retreated into the crowd. If you look closely, the guards don't even have a trace of blood on their bodies, and their sabers hang on their waists, as if they had never moved their hands.

Without Lin Haotian to speak, the guards had already consciously rushed forward, dragged the body to the alley on the side of the road, and left a special person to guard it.

Lin Haotian sat on the horse, smiling, ignoring everything that was happening around him, and continued to urge the horse to move forward slowly.

"Kill—"

Not far away, more than a dozen knights rushed out from the corners and shadows on the side of the road, each holding a weapon, and rushed towards Lin Haotian.

Ling Wuya and Shao Lin had already taken the lead in dragging their guns to meet them, and fought with more than ten knights.

However, the martial arts of these chivalrous warriors are not even third-rate, where can they be the opponents of Ling Wuya and Shao Lin? After a few moves, more than ten people were either stabbed to death or knocked to the ground, and after Ling Wuya and the others retreated, the guards rushed up, killed those knights who were injured and did not die, and scattered their guns together, stabbing them into a hornet's nest, and then gathered the corpses together and stacked them in the corners of the roadside.

When Lin Haotian came here, he encountered too many assassins to count, and when he was about to approach the county capital, a large number of Mu Country stragglers and knights in civilian clothes were killed in front of him.

Seeing the other party shouting and rushing towards him, Lin Haotian was full of relaxation, and asked Cheng Jindao beside him with a smile: "How many waves is this?"

Ling Wuya arched his hand and replied, "My lord, this is the sixteenth wave of assassins!"

Lin Haotian nodded, waved his arm forward casually, and shouted, "Release the arrow!"

The guards behind writhed their bows and arrows, firing a volley at the Assassins who rushed ahead.

Lin Haotian's guards were all elites selected from the First Legion, whether it was melee combat, archery, or horsemanship, they were all outstanding, and the bows they used were all hard bows that required great arm strength to pull out.

Thousands of guards fired arrows in unison, and they fired at close range, and after only one round of arrows, there was no enemy left to stand.

On the ground, it was all covered with densely pressed eagles, and the corpses that fell to the ground were no different from hedgehogs.

After the arrows, the guards rushed forward, pulled out the arrows from the ground, cleared the road, and confirmed that the enemy was still alive.

Lin Haotian urged the horse to pass through, but he didn't look at the corpse on the ground, and when he raised his eyes, it was the capital of Ningyang County in front of him.

At this time, the door of the house was closed, and it was quiet inside, and there was no sound at all.

Lin Haotian stared for a moment, tilted his head slightly, and looked at Ling Wuya.

Ling Wuya understood, waved at the guards behind him, and shouted, "Break the door!"

The guards responded one after another, and more than a dozen people rushed to the front of the house with a hammer and began to bang on the door.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

With the continuous dull crashing sound, the gate of the county capital was finally slammed down, and the Jin army guards rushed in with shouts and killings, and Ling Wuya also rushed in.

It didn't take long for the county capital to fall into chaos, there were shouts and screams everywhere, which lasted less than half an hour, Ling Wuya and Shao Lin took the lead in retreating covered in blood, and Lin Haotian intervened in both directions, and said: "My lord, all the families in the mansion have been killed, and Cao Xiong's family is in the main hall!"

"Oh?" I didn't expect Cao Xiong to run away without even bringing his family, this person is ruthless.

Lin Haotian turned over and dismounted, and was about to walk towards the county capital, when a hurried shout came from behind: "My lord, my lord—" (to be continued......