After saving the remnants of the Bishui Pass, Zishou decided to give full play to the human touch.

The first to bear the brunt is Lu Xiong.

Zishou was very angry about Lu Xiong's act of resisting the decree, how could he attack it? How many people would die in the attack?

Refuse all strong attacks, you outwit it! Fire attack water to attack the city, use it for a long time! Can't do it? Okay, forget it if you can't get it back, retreat to the Cloud Pass and the Jiepai Pass!

There are five dangerous passes in the west, and only then did I lose a water pass, where did I go?

So, Zishou not only condemned it again and again, but also issued ten gold medals in a row, although it was a few less than the one given to Uncle Wen at the beginning, but it was a little more tolerant, and gave Lu Xiong two choices, either retreat, or wait for the other two soldiers and horses to come to the three-way siege, in short, it is not advisable to attack.

After Lu Xiong got the order, he was about to explode on the spot.

Your Majesty, who has not made a splash for seven years, why did he frequently make faint moves during this western expedition? Was it because he was in a hurry for quick success and quick profit, or was he too busy to take care of internal and external affairs?

When the army is outside, it is natural for the leading commander to control the overall situation, whether to attack or defend, when to attack and defend, how to attack and how to defend, and it must only be decided by the commander.

It's not that the emperor is really disadvantaged by the foreign monarch's life, but the emperor is hundreds of miles away, occupying the ever-changing situation, how can he know how to fight?

It is a big mistake for the king to overstep his authority to command the western expeditionary army on the front line many times and point fingers.

Lu Xiong knew very well that judging from the current situation, Nangong Shi could not hold on to Bishui Pass for long at all, and although the continuous onslaught had damaged many soldiers and horses, they were all outside the reasonable range of sacrifice.

And I can't see that Nangong Shi has any turnarounds, even Lei Zhenzi, who has an immortal background, was also sent out, for Lu Xiong, everything is under his control, all according to the expected development, there are no mistakes, and there will be no accidents, why retreat?

Just because of the forcible attack, the onslaught will lose too many soldiers?

Ridiculous, how can there be immortals in war?

Haven't all the wars of the past and the present been piled up with human lives?

Lu Xiong seems to have seen the innocent side of the king again, just like before, the king always thinks everything is too good, but take a closer look, that's right, it's all like this, what the king has done since he succeeded to the throne is very good, but the fact is that the princes are all opposed, the world is turbulent, and he was also shown ten crimes, and he fell into the name of a faint king.

The idea is very good, and the work is very good, but this world is not so good, Lu Xiong really wants to tell the king of Xu, Your Majesty, not all wars can be outwitted like Your Majesty when you capture Echeng, bloodshed and sacrifice are inevitable.

However, Lu Xiong quietly put away the gold medal, when Wen Taishi returned to the division with the gold medal, he also hung it on the house to show off for a while, the more gold medals, the higher the status.

As for what's next?

Of course, it is to continue to resist the order, continue to attack, and after recapturing Bishui Pass, everything is easy to say, and at that time, take the lead, grasp the overall situation, and the great merchants will play a momentum, and the other princes will also stop a lot, and the situation will be more stable.

Thinking about it, the wisdom of the king will also understand the problem, and it is okay to exchange small sacrifices for the interests of the overall situation, just like the sacrifices of the soldiers of Bishui Pass in order to delay Nangong Shi's march.

Lu Xiong looked at the night sky and muttered: "Your Majesty, the old minister is just saving my great business fortune, if someone attacks the old minister in the future, it will be a big deal, but he will live up to His Majesty's favor..."

He shook his head and laughed, at the time of Tongguan, the king hinted that his methods of preventing gossip and suspicion were useless under repeated protests, and His Majesty's efforts were in vain.

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Under Bishui Pass, Lu Xiong led his troops to attack key problems more and more frequently, and the offensive became more and more fierce, and naturally, more and more soldiers died.

The gold, bronze, and silver medals that accompanied the holy decree have also been sent all over again, and the Olympics can be held even if they are scraped together.

In the final decree, the exact number of casualties was carefully limited, and the daily casualties of the army were not more than ten, and the tone was fierce and the attitude was unprecedented.

But it didn't work.

Lu Xiong still did not obey his order, and there were no more than ten casualties, so many soldiers, they could get up in the middle of the night and defecate without paying attention to fall into the river and die one or two. Dancing God eBook

After several days of continuous onslaught, Lu Xiong saw that it was almost over, and personally climbed the ladder with his old body, climbed the wall and fought until night, and finally broke through the gate.

The overjoyed soldiers of the merchant army poured into the pass, holding torches to light everywhere, chasing and killing the remnants of the Zhou soldiers, looking for Nangong Shi who abandoned the pass when he saw that the situation was not good, and suddenly there was a chaos in the pass, and countless Zhou soldiers who fled in the desert were kneeling and begging for mercy and could not survive, and they were all driven out without accident, and made contributions to the military exploits of the merchant soldiers.

Except for Nangong Shi's whereabouts are unknown, it seems that everything is going well, after taking Bishui Pass, he only needs to wait for the arrival of the main force of the Zhou army, and then he can unite the soldiers and horses of the south and north to surround and kill, and after defeating it, he can go straight to Xiqi in one go.

However, things did not go as smoothly as Lu Xiong expected.

After breaking through Bishui Pass, after about half an hour of pursuit, within the reach of the eye, there were no living Zhou soldiers, but when Lu Xiong ordered to count the number of enemies killed and prepare to report the merits, the soldiers who cleaned the battlefield found that their military exploits were not as much as they imagined - it seemed that they had killed countless enemies by recapturing Bishui Pass, but in fact, the corpses left by the Zhou army were only more than 8,000 people.

Even if some of them run away, it can't be so few.

Although he didn't know how many Zhou soldiers Dou Rong had killed in a fire, it was certain that even if some of the soldiers taken away by Lei Zhenzi were removed, there would be at least forty or fifty thousand Zhou soldiers in the pass, otherwise it would be impossible to hold the onslaught of the past few days.

But there are obviously tens of thousands of enemies, and the corpses left behind are only 8,000, what does this mean?

Everyone else is alive, but if the soldiers are alive, why don't they hold on? Where are they?

Lu Xiong's face turned red, his muscles jumped violently, and he looked at the silent Bishui Pass, and immediately understood what he had neglected.

Folk houses!

Since all the people of Bishui Pass have moved away, the dwellings are all empty, even if there is no door panel, it is also an excellent place to hide, even if the merchant soldiers invaded the pass, it is impossible to search the dwellings in the first time, not to mention, there are many "defeated soldiers" of the Zhou army scurrying around on the bright side to attract attention.

Lu Xiong roared and ordered the whole army to withdraw from Bishui Pass.

He has done a very good job, and in order to prevent this situation, he sent a small number of soldiers and horses to guard the gate before entering the customs.

But the current situation was something he did not expect.

In the direction of their entry into the direction of the kill out of a birdman, it is the defeated Lei Zhenzi, the shouts of killing came from all directions, about a thousand people with Lei Zhenzi killed, these people can not pose much threat to the merchant army, but they are enough to seize control of the gate, but in a moment, the soldiers of the merchant army who stayed in the gate were killed, and the gate was closed.

Next, it is the tragic purgatory, just as Lu Xiong thought, Nangong Shi let the soldiers scatter and hide in the houses, just waiting for Lei Zhenzi to lead the army to block the retreat of the merchant army, it is extremely easy to close the door and beat the dog.

Under the slackness after the victory and the despair that there was no way out, even if Lu Xiong tried his best, he could not recover the decline, and the screams were intertwined with the firelight, and he couldn't bear to look at it directly.

Lu Xiong looked at the soldiers in a hurry, his face was already pale, he expected that there might be an ambush in Guanzhong, and he also made a precaution to hold the retreat, but he didn't expect that there was a team of soldiers and horses behind them.

In other words, he thought about it, but he didn't think about it deeply, in his opinion, Lei Zhenzi had already led the army to pursue the remnants, Ji Shuqian was seriously injured in the fire, and there was no general in Nangong Shi's army who could lead the army alone, even if there was an ambush behind him, it was impossible for anything to go wrong.

The veteran of the Three Dynasties, the secretary of the military department, Lu Xiong, whose life is almost complete, has never encountered such a fiasco, and the veteran general who has experienced a hundred battles is still ambushed by the enemy, which perfectly interprets the general who has no hundred battles and a hundred victories in the world.

However, this is not to blame Lu Xiong, he fell into the blind spot of mortals, after Lei Zhenzi led the army to pursue, he divided his troops in the deep mountains around Bishui Pass in advance, and reserved a thousand people to hide in the deep mountains, which happened to be the number of people who were not easy to be detected by the merchant army scouts.

The Zhou army, which was chasing the remnants of Bishui Pass, could attract Lu Xiong to divide his troops to rescue, and it was naturally best to hold on to Ji Fa and Jiang Ziya's troops without any losses.

It doesn't matter if you don't divide the troops, if the time is about the same, Lei Zhenzi can leave the pursuing soldiers, fly back to Bishui Pass to lead the thousands of people in the deep mountains and old forests, and cut off the back road of the merchant army who fell into the pass.

As for the Zhou army that was left behind, it was not a problem, there was no cohesion among the soldiers led by the main general, and they could not attack and defend, but there was still no problem with marching.

This is the most special place of Lei Zhenzi, he can fly, has strong mobility, yesterday he was still chasing the remnants of the army in the hinterland of Dashang, and today he can go to the outside of Bishui Pass to cut off the back road, although the king of Xuan personally led the army to save people, resulting in the destruction of more than 10,000 people is a bit unexpected, but the problem is not big.

Lu Xiong really had never dealt with such an enemy, he just regretted it at the time, regretted not obeying the holy order, and it would be good to retreat to the Cloud Pass or the Jiepai Pass safely, even if he waited for the three-way encirclement, he would not be defeated so badly.

Fortunately, the guards around him are powerful enough, desperately protecting him thoroughly, although Lu Xiong was depressed for a while, he still has no worries about his life, and his ability to command troops is also called the best in the world, and finally organized a breakthrough, broke through the Bishui Pass and exited the pass.

However, this big defeat is irretrievable.