Just when Zongzheng Temple and Yaowu Army were confronting each other, the city guard camp was already completely in a bitter battle.

As the old Jin king's side continued to throw out the fire oil in the sky, the soldiers of the city guard camp continued to fall in wailing.

And as people continued to be burned to death, the soldiers of the city guard camp who were surrounded finally couldn't help but start pouring towards the only gap in the encirclement.

In fact, these city guard battalion guards knew very well that there must be something wrong in the river in front of them.

But when threatened with death, they had no choice but to venture into the river.

And when the first batch of city guard camp soldiers stepped into the river, the other city guard camp soldiers were extremely worried.

But with a scream and the river that slowly began to turn red, the already desperate soldiers of the city guard fell into an even more desperate mood.

What's even more terrifying is that due to the fact that some of the city guard battalion soldiers began to pour into the river, the formation that had been tightly compressed was once again squeezed in.

This caused the unbearable city guard battalion soldiers to start desperately rushing into the river regardless of the life and death in front of them.

This is the reason why the old Jin King deliberately left the river without anyone to surround it.

What he wanted was for these city guards to flee into the river without regard for life and death when they were oppressed to the limit.

In this way, it can not only distribute the resistance pressure from other directions of the encirclement, but also annihilate more city guard battalions at the lowest cost.

This is the so-called battle method of encircling three and missing one on the battlefield.

However, although the soldiers of the city guard battalion had begun to show signs of collapse at this time, the part of the encirclement that the Cao Gang was responsible for did not continue to put pressure on the city guard camp as expected.

At this time, although the old Jin King knew that someone was sabotaging his plan, he could not command the Cao Gang to counterattack.

So now, the old Jin King can only secretly pray in his heart that the speed of the collapse of the city guard camp will be faster, or that the more than 1,000 people in the Yaowu army can speed up and kill all those troublemakers.

But sometimes things go in the direction that people least want to see.

This is the case, for example, right now.

Originally, according to the speed of Tang Minghu and those city guard battalion soldiers, if they wanted to completely kill through the encirclement of the Cao Gang, it would take at least half a stick of incense.

And during this time, it will be a big question how many of the guards and soldiers in the encirclement will be left in the end.

But due to the addition of Li Yi and others, the situation on the scene changed suddenly.

Although only Li Yi and the four of them joined, the speed at which they penetrated the encirclement was much faster than Tang Minghu's.

And there are many reasons for this.

Among them, in addition to the fact that Li Yi and the four of them were already strong in martial arts, more reason was that the four of them were riding war horses.

With the superb martial arts of Li Yi and others, coupled with the impact of war horses, the Cao Gang has only two ways to go.

One is to be killed by Li Yi and others, and the other is to dodge immediately.

And when faced with a life-and-death decision, all normal people will choose to save their lives.

Because the need to survive is the most fundamental need of living beings.

When Li Yi smashed the last few Cao Gang members who were blocking him to the ground, he found that a passage more than a meter wide had appeared behind him.

And this passage is covered with blood and corpses lying on the ground.

"There is a gap in the encirclement, everyone rush!"

Just as Li Yi looked back at the passage he had killed, the city guard battalion soldiers in front of him, who were already completely stunned, finally reacted.

With their shouts, the other city guard guards immediately recovered from their shock.

"Everyone follow my horses and rush out, beware of the enemies on both sides."

Li Yi saw that the soldiers of the city guard camp had drawn their weapons one after another, and he immediately shouted a word, then turned his horse's head and continued to kill along the passage.

Although the soldiers of the city guard camp did not know who the young man in front of them was.

But now they can't do that much.

In their minds, since this young man was able to make a way for himself, he must be a soldier of the city guard.

Just when Li Yi led a group of soldiers from the city guard battalion to kill outside, Qi Chao, An Su and Yu Zhenlei also killed through the encirclement respectively.

All of a sudden, four gaps appeared in the originally closed encirclement in an instant.

And the soldiers of the city guard camp in the encirclement poured out like a tide along the four gaps.

And with their impact, the four originally narrow passages are slowly expanding, and even showing signs of merging with each other.

"Stop them!"

Seeing this, the old Jin king on the other side couldn't help but hurriedly command loudly.

However, the current city guard camp has completely destroyed the encirclement, and now it is impossible to block it again.

"Your Majesty, you can't stop it!"

Lao Ma looked at the Cao Gang who began to completely disperse, and he could only sigh and say.

"Not necessarily, now the reinforcements of the Yaowu Army have arrived, as long as they hold on for a while, these guys in the city guard camp will still have to die."

The old Jin King roared unwillingly.

"But the current city guard battalion soldiers have been forced to come bloodily, I'm afraid even if the Yaowu Army wants to stop it, it will be impossible."

Lao Ma had already seen the situation at the scene through at this time, and he knew that it was now a certainty that the city guard battalion had successfully broken through the encirclement.

Even if there are twice as many soldiers as Yaowu now, it may not be able to stop them.

"Even if I can't stop them from escaping, I'll make them pay enough!"

The old Jin King is also a person who is used to seeing strong winds and waves, although his heart is full of unwillingness at this time, he still quickly calms down.

"Immediately arrange for Houma to retreat."

The old Jin King immediately ordered in a cold voice.

"But once the king's horsemen retreat, the encirclement on our side will inevitably collapse, and it is likely to endanger your safety at that time."

The old horse was taken aback by this order of the old Jin king.

He even wondered if the old Jin King was confused by the situation in front of him.

"Now that the encirclement on the Cao Gang's side has completely collapsed, even if we withdraw the Houma Iron Cavalry, they will not be able to break through from our side."

The old king of Jin said categorically.

"But even if we withdraw the Houma Iron Horse, it doesn't make any sense! They haven't suffered much damage so far. ”

Lao Ma didn't understand why the old Jin King wanted to withdraw the Houma Iron Horse at this time.

According to his idea, if they wanted to annihilate as many people in the city guard camp as possible, then they should let the Houma Iron Cavalry immediately kill the city guard camp's position.

"You idiot, you fists can only have more strength if they are tightened, and cavalry can only have great power when they charge, and if the cavalry loses speed, it is no different from ordinary infantry, and even the attack power is not as good as that of infantry."

The old Jin King snorted coldly and said.

Ma Zheng was still a little worried when he heard this.

After all, all this was the old Jin King's own inference, and no one could guarantee that the guys in the city guard camp after they withdrew the Houma Iron Cavalry would be desperate to attack in their direction.

Once the old Jin King's speculation is wrong, then the impact of thousands of city guards and soldiers is not something that they, the Jin King's personal guards, can withstand.

"But your majesty, it's too risky to do so."

Ma Zheng, as the old servant of the old Jin king, must think about the safety of the old Jin king.

"What are you afraid of, if you don't seize such an opportunity, we won't have such a good opportunity until these guys in the city guard camp really escape."

The old Jin King angrily kicked Ma Zheng's leg and then scolded angrily.

Then he turned around and shouted a command to the guards beside him.

"Give me the order to retreat at once, and then prepare to charge."

Immediately, the Jin king's guards immediately trotted all the way to convey the order to the Houma Iron Horse.

At this time, Lu He and Zhang Fengmu in the encirclement were happy that the encirclement had been broken out of several gaps.

"I didn't expect that Tang Minghu guy to really lead someone to kill a bloody path for us!"

Seeing that the soldiers of the city guard battalion began to rush towards the outside of the encirclement quickly, Lu He, as the commander, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Originally, he had prepared for the worst, but now he finally didn't have to worry about the city guard camp being wiped out.

"Yes, if it weren't for Tang Minghu and them this time, I'm afraid we would all have to explain here."

Zhang Fengmu had a feeling of escaping death at this time.

At that moment, a soldier from the city guard battalion suddenly squeezed through the crowd.

"Lu Shuai, the Houma Iron Cavalry on the side of the old Jin King has suddenly retreated, do we want to take advantage of the situation and kill it?"

Lu He and Zhang Fengmu were immediately stunned when they heard this.

They didn't expect that the old Jin King would withdraw the Houma Iron Cavalry at this time.

"Could it be that Lu Shuai is the old Jin King, knowing that their people can no longer besiege us, so he is planning to give up this operation completely?"

Zhang Fengmu frowned and wondered.

"According to the character of the old Jin King, he is not such an easy person to give up."

Although Lu He didn't have much contact with the old Jin king, he still had some understanding of the old Jin king.

Judging from the old Jin King's previous style, this person is an extremely tenacious person.

At the beginning, when Lu He was an ordinary soldier in the northern border fortress, he had seen the young old Jin king command the Jin army against the grassland army.

At that time, the old Jin king acted in an extremely resolute and tenacious manner, and even though the Jin army suffered heavy losses, he still chose to take the initiative to attack the grassland army instead of defending.

And it was precisely because of the old Jin King's tough and iron-blooded style that he won the title of Iron Army for the Jin army.

This had a great impact on Lu He, who was still an ordinary soldier at that time.

"Could it be that the old Jin King deliberately confuses us by letting Hou Ma Tieqi retreat, and he actually wants to use this to slow down the speed of our attack on the other side so that the Yaowu army can surround us again?"

Zhang Fengmu put forward his own conjecture.

"It's possible!"

Lu He groaned slightly, and also felt that the guess put forward by Zhang Fengmu was very likely.

"So we can't fall for the old Jin king!"

Zhang Fengmu's face showed a look of Zhizhu in his hand at this time.

"Lu Shuai, this matter is inappropriate!"

At this moment, Liu Si, who had just been carried down because of an arrow wound, immediately reminded him.

"Oh? Liu Si, what do you think? ”

Zhang Fengmu was originally complacent because he had insight into the plan of the old Jin King.

didn't expect Liu Si to jump out and dismantle his platform at this time.

So he asked in an unkind tone.

"Lu Shuai, I think this time the old Jin king ordered Hou Ma to retreat with iron horses, not to drag us down at all."

Liu Si anxiously looked at the Houma Iron Cavalry, who had distanced himself from the city guard camp, and said.

"They didn't want to hold us back, why did they deliberately let the Houma Iron Riders give us a chance to fight back?"

Before Lu He could speak, Zhang Fengmu took the lead in questioning.

"It seems to me that these Houma Iron Horsemen are distancing themselves from us in order to charge us next!"

Liu Si's words shook Lu He and Zhang Fengmu like a hammer.

"It can't be, right?"

Lu He was already speaking with a trace of trilling at this time.

You must know that if the Hou Ma Iron Cavalry of the old Jin King launched a charge against the city guard camp at the beginning, he would not be worried at all.

Because at that time, all the soldiers of the city guard camp were already surrounded.

If there was no way out in this situation, the Houma Iron Cavalry would charge them, then there would be only one outcome, and that would be that all the Houma Iron Cavalry would be cut into pulp by the soldiers of the city guard battalion.

But now the situation is different.

If the Houma Iron Cavalry charged the guards of the city guard camp again at this time, then the soldiers of the city guard camp would definitely flee towards the gap in the encirclement in a hurry, after all, there was hope for life there.

And in this case, the guards will also lose their determination to resist.

When the time comes, the Houma Iron Rider will be like a hungry wolf rushing into the flock of sheep, and will go on a killing spree.

"Fart, that's just your guess."

Zhang Fengmu saw that Lu He seemed to really believe Liu Si's statement, and he couldn't help but refute it loudly.

"General Zhang, although this is my guess, but once my guess is correct, then our city guard battalion will face huge losses."

Liu Si is also anxious now.

He knew that the most correct way to deal with it now was to immediately order the soldiers of the city guard battalion to move in the direction of the retreat of the Houma Iron Cavalry, and strive to maintain a distance from the Houma Iron Cavalry.

And you can also take this opportunity to send some people to sneak attack the old Jin King.

If the old King Jin can be killed directly, then the next Jin King's personal guards and Houma Iron Cavalry will be a plate of scattered sand.

"Lu Shuai, don't listen to Liu Si's nonsense, what we have to do now is to concentrate all our forces to completely tear apart the encirclement that has been broken through, and then escape with everyone."

Zhang Fengmu immediately said to Lu He seriously.

As a result, Lu He immediately became hesitant.

That's the difficulty of being a manager, because he has to make the final decision.

And once he makes the wrong decision, then many of the city guard brothers will die because of it.

But just when Lu He hesitated, the Houma Iron Cavalry had already distanced himself from the soldiers of the city guard camp enough.

By this time they were ready to go.

With the order of the old Jin king, these Houma iron horsemen wearing heavy armor immediately knocked their horses' bellies, and the war horses under their crotches began to move towards the direction of the city guard camp with crisp steps.

And as the two sides got closer and closer, the speed of Houma's iron horse became faster and faster, until it finally turned into a torrent of steel.

"It's over, it's too late to say more!"

Liu Si, as an archer, his eyesight is much better than that of ordinary people.

Therefore, he immediately spotted the Houma Iron Rider who was galloping towards them.