Shen Lie bowed slightly: "You don't need a warrior who is not afraid of death, but a villain who is more crazy than a poisonous soldier." Only if you are more ferocious than the devil can you conquer the devil completely! ”

Murong Xue looked at Shen Lie with a little surprise, and hesitated: "In order to eliminate the poisonous soldiers, but cultivate another demon, this ...... Is it worth it? ”

"Who brought us into such a world?" Shen Lie said lightly: "In order to prevent Saint Tang from falling into hell, then we have to fall into hell ourselves." ”

He stared into Murong Xue's eyes: "If I were to be in command, I would not leave the battlefield in Luoyi, but use the bait to lure out all the poisonous soldiers in the city, go to a desperate situation, and use the sky-high fire to gather and annihilate them!" ”

Murong Xue was stunned: "This is a good way, but what do you mean by bait?" ”

Shen Lie sneered: "What else can it be?" Living people, of course! Don't those evil spirits like to eat people the most? ”

Murong Xue felt a chill in her back when she heard this. He felt that standing in front of him was a demon who was a hundred times more crazy and ferocious than a poisonous soldier.

Shen Lie had already guessed that he would react like this, and continued: "Of course, the living can't be the people of our Saint Tang. Didn't the Metropolitan Protectorate also capture a lot of Turks? Use them! ”

Murong Xue was silent for a moment and asked, "Is there any other way?" ”

"Yes." Shen Lie nodded: "If you are reluctant to use bait, then treat the entire Luoyi City as a desperate situation, seal it on all sides, and burn it with fire!" ”

Murong Xue showed an expression of disbelief again, and it took a long time before she said, "Fortunately, His Highness let me go, not let you go." Shen Changshi, these methods of yours are too decisive. The living are baited, and the city is burned by flames...... I shudder to think about it. ”

Shen Lie smiled coldly: "Murong Xue, a woman's kindness can't deal with poisonous soldiers!" If you don't believe me, just try it on your own terms. ”

With that, he said goodbye, turned around and flew away, leaving Murong Xue standing alone under the tree in a daze.

Early the next morning, Murong Xue packed up, left Xiangzhou with the guards, and went straight to the front line.

The soldiers of the Liaodong Protectorate and the Hebei Prefecture received the order, and when they learned that he had personally come to command, several main generals rushed to Xingyang to wait for his instructions.

As soon as Murong Xue arrived at the place, he didn't talk nonsense, and directly proposed his plan to Chang Tao, Li Mizhi and others: select experienced veterans from various armies to form a death squad with a scale of 10,000 people, led by him personally, and enter Luoyi to eliminate monsters. Chang Tao and the others were prepared, especially craftsmen and materials, to advance to the eastern capital at any time and rush to repair the fortifications.

Chang Tao knew that Murong Xue was the prince's most trusted minister, so he proposed that he should command the death squad, and Murong Xue could stay in the rear to suppress the formation. But Murong Xue refused his kindness on the spot and still insisted on going into battle in person.

To be honest, this plan to lead the veteran death squad is a decent and relatively gentle method compared to the two plans that Shen Lie said, and Murong Xue is not particularly confident in his heart.

That's why he's reluctant to let others take the risk.

Since they had been confronting the main Turkic forces before, all the troops on the front line were in a state of high combat readiness, and it was naturally very convenient to select manpower. In just two days, 10,000 elite veterans were assembled outside Xingyang City.

Murong Xue was dressed in silver-white armor, with an iron-tired bow on her back, sitting on a war horse, and gave a morale-boosting speech to the warriors in front of her.

In fact, everyone already knew their mission at this time, and they had heard about the tragedy that had happened in Luoyi, Zhongmu and other places before, so they didn't need Murong Xue to mobilize at all, and they were all indignant and impassioned.

Seeing that the veterans of the death squad raised their arms and shouted, shouting loudly in the sky, and their morale had reached its peak, Murong Xue couldn't help but be deeply infected and greatly inspired. He swung his whip forward, and immediately led the army to the west.

From Xingyang to Luoyi, the middle distance is only about 200 miles, and the death squad, mainly infantry, can be reached in about two days by a normal march.

However, Murong Xue and the others had been walking for three days, but they hadn't even seen the shadow of Luoyi City.

The reason is very simple, in the vast area east of Luoyi, there are already poisonous soldiers and demons at this time.

Although the number of these monsters was small, sometimes seven or eight scattered, and sometimes even a single one, because the poison soldiers appeared very frequently, the sudden encounters continued one after another, and the troops had to often stop and kill the demons who were eating the corpses of the people.

After dozens of battles in a row, Murong Xue found a serious problem: although the regular army was strong and the poisonous soldiers encountered them, none of them could escape the fate of being in a different place, but the terrifying appearance of these devils, the crazy and terrifying actions and those heinous cannibalistic deeds still caused great mental stimulation to the soldiers.

Another point is the amazing battle loss ratio.

For every poison soldier demon killed, the death squad usually had to pay the price of five or six casualties, and even with the protection of armor and shields, it was difficult to avoid being scratched and bitten by monsters.

This is just a small number of poisonous soldiers who slipped out of Luoyi, which is already so terrifying, so what kind of scene is the tens of thousands of demons and monsters in the eastern capital, it is terrifying to think about.

The whole team walked and fought all the way, and finally arrived at the outskirts of Luoyi on the evening of the third day.

Four or five miles further on, there is the East City Gate.

For the sake of insurance, Murong Xue decided to let the army set up camp here first, rest for the night, and wait until dawn tomorrow to enter the city to fight.

As the destination approached, tensions in the army intensified. Those poisonous soldiers are terrible. Not only is it scary to look at, but it is also bloodthirsty and killing, not afraid of the pain of swords, and when you go crazy, you can directly disembowel people, stuff your heart, liver, spleen and lungs into your mouth and chew and swallow, which is completely the kind of demons and monsters that often appear in folk ghost stories.

It is no exaggeration to say that even against the Blood Guards of the Great Turkic Khan, the soldiers were not as panicked as they are now, and the pride and ambition when they set off were not much left at this time.

Murong Xue knew in his heart that the big war was imminent, and it would be very dangerous to be in this state up and down, so after he personally arranged the patrol posts at night, he began to patrol one team by one, chatting with the soldiers to cheer them up.

He had only walked through seven or eight tents, and the camp on the far west side suddenly became chaotic.

Murong Xue was startled, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to see what was going on, and after a while, his subordinates ran back and reported: A large number of monsters came from the direction of Luoyi and attacked the military camp!

As the words spoke, the exclamations and screams from the west became louder and louder, and then the entire camp exploded. Many of the fallen soldiers woke up from their dreams, grabbed their weapons and got out of their tents, huddled around the camp.

In the darkness, I couldn't tell how many poisonous soldiers had broken in, let alone where they had gone, but I felt that there were people screaming in all directions, and the sound of fierce fighting was endless.

An officer jumped on a cart pulling grain and grass, brandished a war knife and kept shouting: "Don't mess around! Find your own captain and form a formation! Formation! ”

However, before he could finish his words, a black shadow suddenly appeared in the corner next to him, instantly knocking him to the ground, and gnawing off a large piece of flesh on his face with a click. The officer's head and face were bloody, frightened and painful, and he howled as he desperately resisted the monster's attack. Immediately afterwards, seven or eight ghostly poisonous soldiers also rushed out from the same direction, scratching and biting the surrounding soldiers, frightening everyone to flee in all directions.

At this time, such a situation had spread throughout the camp, and there were many people who resisted on the spot, but many more people escaped for their lives.

In the dim night, the frightened soldiers were not much better than the people in Luoyi City before.

Murong Xue rushed outside with a sword in hand, seeing that his subordinates were in a mess, he hurriedly said to the adjutant next to him: "Go and beat the drum!" Drum rush! ”

The so-called rushing drum is a kind of combat signal of the Shengtang army. On the battlefield, whenever the huge war drums emitted a dense rain-like rush drum, the Shengtang soldiers would hear the order and launch a fierce charge towards the enemy.

Even if there is an abyss ahead, it will move forward.

For those well-trained soldiers, the beating of drums to attack and the sound of gold to retreat have long been a conditioned reflex deeply rooted in their bones, which is better than any order.

Sure enough, more than a dozen drummers climbed onto the wooden platform in the dark, and played to beat the drums of the rushing drums, and the passionate drums instantly spread for miles away, shocking people's hearts, and the originally chaotic military tent camp soon erupted into a shouting of killing.

Although the soldiers were still terrified in their hearts, their battle spirits were awakened in an instant.

At the same time, many soldiers lit torches, and the demons were no longer sneak attackers hiding in the shadows, but were targets exposed to the light. The death squad was in groups of three and five, temporarily organized battle groups one after another, and launched an attack on the hideous-looking poisonous soldiers.

The battle in the camp did not last long. The Saint Tang army stabilized its position and began to counterattack, but the poisonous soldiers quickly retreated, leaving behind a large pile of corpses of their companions and fleeing in panic.

Turning to Tianming, Murong Xue ordered his subordinates to strengthen their defenses while cleaning up the battlefield and counting losses. It doesn't matter if it's not counted, he was shocked when he counted it! In the battle of just half an hour last night, the death squad actually killed more than 630 people and injured more than 2,000 people, of which at least 30% were seriously wounded!

As for the poisoners, only 217 corpses were cleaned up in the entire camp.

Murong Xue couldn't help but feel heavy in his heart: this has not yet entered Luoyi City, and last night it was only a small group of poisonous soldiers, and the whole army lost a quarter of its combat strength, and he didn't dare to imagine how difficult the battle would be in the future.