In fact, as Yu Yuanyuan expected, the number of Chen soldiers stationed in Xiajia Village was very small.

The Eastern Expeditionary Army easily took Xiajia Village with little effort.

Immediately afterwards, they took Xiajia Village as a base and began to march towards the surrounding villages and towns.

One battle after another, more than a month passed in the blink of an eye.

The villages and towns near Xiajia Village were recovered one after another, and the morale of the Eastern Expeditionary Army was greatly boosted.

Although Hengcheng is a small place, it is close to the mountains and rivers, and occupies the geographical advantage, which is an important place with abundant products and easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The number of soldiers stationed here by the army of the Kingdom of Chen is very large.

This also means that the next battle of the Crusade Army will inevitably be very difficult.

And that's exactly what happened.

Tang Guixi led his troops to cross the river to attack from the front, and Xiao Ti led another team of men and horses to cross the mountains and attack from behind.

They coordinated with each other in the front and back, and they still failed to attack the city for half a month.

The battle is at a stalemate.

If this continues to consume the grain and grass of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, it will be impossible to support it, but if it is given up, it will be tantamount to abandoning all the previous achievements.

Tang Guixi was so anxious that he couldn't sleep for several nights.

However, the world is unpredictable, and the turning point occurred in the early hours of the morning.

When the sky was bright, the gates of Hengcheng suddenly opened by themselves!

A Chenguo scout walked out with a scholar.

The Chenguo scout put his knife on the scholar's neck, and the scholar shivered, and shouted at the Eastern Expeditionary Army in front of him.

"The two armies are fighting each other! We're here to negotiate! ”

Xia Haisheng looked at Tang Guixi, and after getting her permission, he ran forward with his shield in hand.

The two sides negotiated from a distance of one foot away.

Xia Haisheng: "We have nothing to talk about with you!" ”

The scholar had obviously been instructed a long time ago, and he said as if he were memorizing a text.

"The general of the Kingdom of Chen said that their people have found your lair and are now attacking, and they will soon be able to take your lair. You only have two ways now, either rush back to save the people immediately, or stay here and spend time with them. ”

Hearing this, Xia Haisheng's face suddenly changed dramatically.

This expedition exhausted almost all the strength of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, and now all the women and children left in the camp in the mountains are old, weak, women and children.

The most important thing is that the princess of the county is still there!

If the camp in the mountains had been attacked, those people would not have survived.

Xia Haisheng forced his composure: "Why should we believe your words? ”

Scholar: "They said that your lair is hidden in the depths of Mangshan. ”

Xia Haisheng was really panicked at this moment.

Their camp is indeed hidden in the depths of the Mang Mountain!

What Chen Jun said is true, they are not deceiving people!

Xia Haisheng hurriedly ran back and informed Tang Guixi of the matter.

Tang Guixi was also anxious.

But she knows that the more times like this, she can't mess with herself.

She forced herself to calm down and quickly analyzed the situation.

"Now that they know where our camp is, they don't have to tell us about it.

But now they have put this matter on the surface, and they have forced us to withdraw immediately.

This can only say one thing -

The situation in Hengcheng is even worse than we expected, and the Chen army should be almost unable to hold on.

They were forced to negotiate with us.

This is a great opportunity for us, and we can't afford to let it go. ”

Xia Haisheng: "But what about the princess of the county?" ”

Tang Guixi quickly made a decision: "You go and inform the king of Langjun about this, let him bring people back to save people, I will stay here and continue to attack, I have to take this Hengcheng!" ”

After fighting for so long, they have almost run out of ammunition and food, and if they retreat, it will be tantamount to losing all their previous achievements, which is not only a major blow to morale, but also will make the Eastern Expeditionary Army fall into the crisis of running out of food again.

The only way to do this now is to capture Hengcheng in order to solve all the crises faced by the Eastern Expeditionary Army.

Xia Haisheng led the vanguard team to rush overnight, bypassed Hengcheng, and found Xiao Ti and others hidden in the mountains and forests.

Xiao Ti learned that he might be in danger, and immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops.

They hurried back non-stop.

When they hurried back to the camp, they saw wooden huts burned to ruins, with messy footprints and blood on the ground, and many corpses lying on the side of the road.

Seeing such a tragic scene, Xiao Ti only felt that the blood in his body was almost about to coagulate.

His brain was buzzing, he couldn't hear what was being said, and walked hand and foot toward him and his dwelling.

Walking and walking becomes running.

Originally, he was still lucky, but when he saw that the wooden house where he and Yuan lived had also been burned to the ground, the last bit of luck in his heart was extinguished.

"Wind, Wind!"

Xiao Ti's eyes were red, and he strode into the wooden house that had become ruins, desperately rummaging inside, trying to find a trace.

Luo Pingsha, Meng Xizhou, Yan Nanguan and others also scattered and searched carefully in the camp to see if they could find a living mouth.

The corpses were also gathered in one place.

It turned out that these corpses were all from the Chen Kingdom.

Luo Pingsha informed Xiao Ti of this.

Xiao Ti's heart immediately swelled with great hope.

If the dead are all Chen people, it means that the Chen army not only did not succeed when they attacked the camp, but they were also killed by Yu Yuan.

Then Yu Xuanxuan should still be alive!

They are not in the camp now, most likely in hiding.

Xiao Ti immediately took out the quiver he was carrying, lit the fuse, and a small arrow burst out and exploded in the air, making a loud bang.

This sound was particularly abrupt in the silence of the mountain forest.

The nearby birds fluttered their wings and flew away.

In a cave not far away, hundreds of people were densely crowded, and they were all old and weak women and children.

They had been living in the camp as usual, but they had never thought that the Chen's army would suddenly attack them two days ago.

Fortunately, Yu Yuanxuan reacted quickly, and she gathered everyone at the first time.

She led everyone to fight and retreat, and the girls who had studied archery with her before played a huge role at this time.

They put all the bows and arrows they could on their backs, and they didn't care if they could shoot or not, but they would shoot first.

Eventually, they escaped from the camp and hid in the cave.

For the past two days, they have been hiding here, eating wild fruits when they are hungry and drinking mountain spring water when they are thirsty.

Everyone else was fine, but it was very uncomfortable.

She didn't know what was going on, she had a bigger appetite recently, and she ate a lot more than usual, but in the past two days, she could only rely on wild fruits to satisfy her hunger, and her stomach was really uncomfortable.

But she couldn't say it, so she could only grit her teeth and endure it.

Shen Xu found that her face was ugly, and said with concern: "Where are you uncomfortable?" ”

Yu Yuan waved his hand to indicate that he was fine.

Just then, they suddenly heard a loud thud.

Everyone was taken aback.

They thought it was Chenjun again!

Only Yu Yuanyuan jumped up and shouted in surprise.

"It's Tired back!"