At night, the sky is full of stars.

The fog of the summer night slowly descended and turned into dew, and the camp was damp, and the dew on the branches and leaves kept splashing down and crackling on the tents, as if it were raining.

Gong Shangming stood alone under the lamp, looking up at the stars in the sky, silent.

"Whoa!"

The tent door opened, and it was Custer, the commander of the Liuji Corps in military uniform.

"Why hasn't the advisor slept yet?" he asked with a smile.

Gong Shangming smiled: "How can you sleep, but why doesn't the commander sleep?"

"I can't sleep either. Custer touched his nose and said, "Has the military advisor heard the news, the Eternal Night Sect, the Bloody Cloth Sect and other sects have surrendered to that four-winged angel Ziye, and the entire Shenyi Army is now completely uncontrolled by us, as if it has become the private army of the Radiant Angel, which is not good." ”

"Then what can be done?" Gong Shangming was a little depressed: "As soon as the marshal dies, the dragons have no leader, and the prestige of you and me is not enough to command the three armies, and even the dragoon general Lin Tongtian was killed in battle, and Nadora is attached to Midnight, at this moment they are the real masters, we can only take one step at a time." ”

"The rear grain road has been repeatedly intercepted, the light cavalry of the gentian battalion has sometimes gathered, sometimes scattered, and has burned down more than 20 of our granaries one by one, and even, we can no longer let the soldiers eat even a full meal, the war horses are almost eaten up in three days, and it will take at least ten days to hike to Winter Frost City here, what can these nearly 150,000 troops eat to support ten days?"

Gong Shangming was silent.

"You're a military advisor, you have to say something, right?" said Custer lightly.

"Good. Gong Shangming looked up at Custer and asked, "Commander, do you say we are human or brutes?"

"Nonsense, we are naturally human. ”

"Then there's nothing I can do. ”

"Then ......," Custer frowned, "what if we're brutes?"

"Then there's a way to feed the army. ”

"What's the solution?"

"Eating human flesh. Gong Shangming's voice was very soft, but he was very determined: "Those who achieve great things are not informal, although the land is barren and the towns are scarce from here to Winter Frost City, there are still some villages, send our people into the villages to capture those civilians of the Great Qin Empire, kill them and take meat and eat them, so that the army may be able to support it back to Winter Frost City." ”

"......" Karst instantly sweated, if he followed Gong Shangming's method, I am afraid that the Tianji Empire will not be able to gain a foothold in the Shattered Ding Realm in the future, after all, who will support the cannibalistic army? His eyelids twitched violently, and he said: "The military advisor's move is simply a loss of conscience, if we really do this, the Tianji Empire will never want to rule the Shattered Ding Realm again." ”

"Hehe, does the commander still think that the Tianji Empire can win against the Qin army?"

"What do you mean by this? Our empire's native recruits plus Lord Zhang Sheng's men and horses still have at least 800,000, why can't we win this war?"

Gong Shangming took a deep breath and said, "Because Qin Yin, the empress of Great Qin, is back...... All the people have returned to their hearts, plus Lin Muyu, Feng Jixing, Xu Jiantao, Wei Qiu and other famous generals in the world, what can we do to fight the Qin State? Take 10,000 steps back, all we rely on is the dragon knight, but now they already have a giant cannon that can shoot the dragon knight, and they are completely ahead of us in terms of weapons, if they continue to stay in the Shattered Ding Realm, they can only drag down the homeland and make the Tianji Empire tired, and at that time, once Chen Yu, the new emperor of the Tianjie Empire, uses force, I am afraid that even our homeland may become someone else's bag!"

Custer shuddered when he heard this: "The military advisor said this...... Really?"

"What else is there to hide from you?" Gong Shangming turned around and patted Custer's shoulder lightly, and said with a smile: " We may have disagreed on strategic opinions before, causing some misunderstandings, but at this moment, there is no gap at all, Lord Commander, don't think that we are the victors, the expeditionary force has been defeated, and if we continue to be obsessed, we will only push the Tianji Empire to the edge of the cliff, after all, the Tianji Empire is different from the Blackstone Empire, our territory is vast, and the people's livelihood is rich, enough to compete with the Tianjie Empire, we don't need to put all the bets on the Broken Ding Realm, after all, in terms of force and strategy, we have all lost to the Qin State. ”

Custer frowned: "The military advisor thinks ...... In terms of strategy, you have already lost to Lin Muyu and Feng Jixing?"

"Yes. ”

Gong Shangming bluntly admitted: "We killed the enemy army with an absolute superiority of troops, but we ended up in a complete defeat, and the responsibility for the strategic command of the troops should be borne at least half." ”

"Now, what do we do?"

"Hasn't it already decided to retreat? The commander can send 10,000 troops divided into ten forces into the rear villages and towns to capture people and make food, and then leave 50,000 elites to persuade the Shenyi army to help in the battle, camp once every twenty miles, and retreat steadily step by step, in case the Qin army takes advantage of the situation to chase and kill, in this case...... Maybe we can make it back to Winterfrost alive. ”

"Well, I see, thank you for your advice!"

A hideous smile rose at the corner of Custer's mouth: "In the battle a few days ago, we captured more than 2,000 soldiers of Great Qin, just right, let's make them into food first!"

Gong Shangming was silent.

From a military point of view, cannibalism is right, but from a moral point of view, the Tianji army is gradually becoming a beast, and the military spirit will change sooner or later, but a reckless man like Custer doesn't understand such a change.

......

In the early morning of the next day, the soldiers of the Liuji Corps got up one after another, preparing to retreat, but a meal before the retreat made many people vomit, because they found human fingers, legs and other limbs in the soup pot.

Custer held the soup bowl, looked at everyone with cold eyes, drank the soup all, and shouted in a low voice: "If you don't eat, you won't have the strength to march, if you still want to leave alive, then eat, give Lao Tzu a big mouthful! Otherwise, stay here as the rations of the Qin army! Tell you, the meat in the soup pot is the meat of the enemy, we are not afraid of the living Qin army, let alone the dead, give me food, eat the meat to return to my hometown alive!"

Many soldiers cried, munching on them as they cried.

Gong Shangming was dressed in a robe, standing quietly in a group of strategists, his face was pale, he didn't eat anything, but he was so hungry that his eyes were almost dazzled.

"Pull out the camp, retreat!"

The horn sounded, and the 150,000 troops of the Tianji Empire finally retreated in full.

......

To the west of the Daojiang River, behind a ruined steel parapet, the scouts of the empire entered the Chinese army's tent for the first time and said respectfully: "They have retreated!"

"Great!" Feng Jixing slapped the table and said, "Prepare to pursue immediately!"

The scout's face was not very good, and he said, "There is one more thing ......"

"Oh, what, say. Lin Muyu said.

The scout gritted his teeth and said, "Our people found out that they killed all the captives for food late last night, and more than 2,000 people were captured in the empire...... All martyred!"

"Beast...... It's a bunch of beasts!" Xiang Yu roared.

Qin Yin's delicate body trembled slightly, clenching her palms, and the golden flames between her eyelashes became more and more chilling.

Lin Muyu shook her hand lightly and said softly: "War is like this...... Have we seen this kind of thing less in so many years?"

"I know, but ...... Those Imperial soldiers don't deserve to die like this......"

"They will rest in peace, for we will avenge them. ”

Lin Muyu said sonorously, "Since they have no food, they must try their best to get food, take the map, and see what towns are on the way from here to Winter Frost City, we must quickly reinforce these towns, and we can't let the people of the empire continue to serve as rations for the enemy!"

"Yes!"

Yong Yifan suddenly said in a low voice: "Your Highness Yu, if we pursue, what about the princes' army, they have gathered nearly 400,000 horses, and food is also very scarce......"

Lin Muyu frowned: "I don't know, does Fan Gong have any ideas about this matter?"

"The princes' armies are all in good shape, and they all have evil intentions, and they must be appeased well, otherwise it is easy to cause turmoil. ”

"In this case, Fan Gong is the imperial military god, and his prestige is enough to deter these princes, so it is better for Fan Gong to stay behind to appease them, so that I and Feng Jixing can concentrate on pursuing the enemy army. ”

Yong Yifan nodded: "Please rest assured that His Royal Highness Yin and His Royal Highness Yu will do their best." ”

"Hmm. ”

Qin Yin stood up and said, "I will go with Commander Yu to hunt down and kill the enemy, Aunt Yu, you can also stay, and assist Fan Gong to appease the princes, this matter must be cautious." ”

Su Yu clenched her fists: "Yes, Your Highness!"

"So...... Decided?" asked Feng Jixing.

Qin Yin nodded: "Hmm!"

"Okay, send an order to the three armies, prepare to cross the river and pursue!"

......

In the afternoon, countless bamboo rafts and rafts were placed in the Daojiang River, connected together, forming a man-made pontoon bridge, the war horses neighed over, the Daojiang River was turbulent, but it could not stop the pursuit of the imperial army, nearly 100,000 people had all crossed the Daojiang River in less than two hours, but they could not carry heavy weapons, and the pontoon bridge could not bear the weight of the heavy magic crystal cannon at all.

Before the evening, the iron cavalry led by Qin Yin, Lin Muyu, and Feng Jixing had already bitten the tail of the Tianji Empire's army, and after a fight, they beheaded more than 10,000 people, it seemed that the Tianji Empire had lost its will to fight and was unwilling to continue fighting, just leaving an army to come to the palace, but their luck was not good, and they were targeted by the main force of the Great Qin Empire army.

At midnight, the Warhawk Scout reported that an army of the Shenyi Army had left for Longhai County.

There are nearly 50,000 inhabitants in Longhai County, and once the hungry Shenyi army arrives, almost all the civilians there will be food.

Lin Muyu decided to divide his troops to fight, Feng Jixing, Tang Xiaoxi, Xiang Yu and others led the main force to continue the pursuit, while he and Qin Yin led 20,000 gentian battalion iron cavalry to attack Longhai County.