Chapter 31: Falling Grass

"Bang!"

With a loud bang, Xue Chong's firewood knife flew out of his hand, smashing the iron whip in Xiao Yuzhang's hand to the ground.

Xiao Yuzhang shot this whip with all his might, making sure to reduce the pain when he died, he didn't expect that someone would save his life, and the iron whip actually got out of his hand.

Xiao Yuzhang's officers and soldiers hugged him together: "Little general, don't!" "We respect your will, but we want you to stay and lead us!" "Yes, the little general can't die!" "......"

When he saw that the person who prevented him from committing suicide turned out to be Xue Chong, Xiao Yuzhang's face was extremely ugly: "Gang Master Guo, what do you mean by this?"

"It's very simple! Seeing that you are a man who knows right from wrong, I want to spare your life!"

"If you want me to surrender to the bandits, it's impossible!" Xiao Yuzhang said categorically.

Your ancestor Xiao Qiang, when he followed the Great Hungarian Empire Taizu to fight the world, didn't he also be a robber?"

These words were mentioned by the old dragon when he was chatting with him before.

"No, it's different, my ancestor is the Auxiliary True Dragon Heavenly Son, you, but you are a blatant rebellion!"

"Ha Lu Ha", Xue Chong smiled, "When your ancestors assisted Taizu, I'm afraid they didn't get the world, since they didn't win the world at that time, it's not called rebellion, being a hero in the green forest, your ancestors have all done it, take refuge in me, what's the shame?"

Xiao Yuzhang was speechless for a moment, stunned for a moment, but replied hatefully: "In short, the heroic descendants of my Xiao family, don't be a green robber who kills people and sells goods, and he just dies today." ”

After saying that, he was going to pick up the iron whip underground, Xue Chong hurriedly said: "Wait!"

This time, it annoyed Gu Yuelou, he almost died under Xiao Yuzhang today, and the eight hundred cavalry led by him were all killed and wounded, and the Snow Mountain faction can be said to be a great injury, and he has long hated Xiao Yuzhang, and when he heard this, he hugged his fists and said: "City Lord Guo, everyone has their own ambitions, why should we be reluctant?"

Xue Chong hurriedly got off the horse, flew to Xiao Yuzhang, and patted him on the shoulder: "Leader Gu, what you said is not wrong, everyone has their own ambitions, but this ambition, General Xiao may not understand, enlighten him!"

Xiao Yuzhang's face turned pale: "I have been loyal and patriotic all my life, right and wrong are clear, I am defeated today, and I die like a hero, why use you to enlighten me?"

"Definitely!" Xue Chong smiled, "Death is heavier than Mount Tai, death is lighter than a feather, a husband in the world, he should be able to endure humiliation." Judging from the general's words and deeds today, you are just a narrow-minded man, and after you die, these loyal brothers under your command cannot guarantee that they will not commit suicide, so that you will not die tightly, but you innocently killed hundreds of lives. General, your recklessness and stubbornness have killed so many brothers, do you want to kill people when you die?"

Xiao Yuzhang had a suspicious look in his eyes, and looked at the nearly two hundred brothers who were still beside him: "Really?"

"Of course Gang Leader Guo's words are true, if the general commits suicide, I am willing to commit suicide!" An officer and soldier roared loudly, and then, nearly 200 people roared together: "If the general commits suicide, I am willing to commit suicide with him!"

Hundreds of people shouted together, and the sound was spectacular.

"How?" Xue Chong smiled.

Xiao Yuzhang was silent for a long time, then suddenly knelt down, facing the north, and cried: "Father, the child is ashamed of your teachings. ”

Xue Chong waited for him to stand up, took his hand, and smiled: "The general understands the righteousness, and he is behind the gate, and he is deeply understandable, I, Xue Chong, am willing to give in to the position of the lord of Baiyun City, and I hope that the general will not push it back!"

But Xiao Yuzhang was willing to accept it, and said: "The general of the defeated army, if he does not kill, it is already a kindness, so how can he talk about anything else!"

Xue Chong persuaded him again and again, but when he insisted on not allowing it, he just gave up.

Xiao Yuzhang surrendered, and his two hundred relatives surrendered together.

At the moment, cleaning up the battlefield and rectifying the gang is not a problem.

In this battle, Xiao Yuzhang's vanguard battalion lost 2,700 people, and Gu Guo's gang lost 3,000 people. Among the 3,000 people lost, most of them were the elites of the two major gangs, which can be described as a disastrous victory.

But fortunately, Xu Ming's sharpest pioneer battalion was almost killed, and the combat effectiveness of the follow-up troops was greatly inferior to that of the vanguard battalion, but the thieves were huge, and Gu Yuelou and Xue Chong had no bottom in their hearts.

In Gu Yuelou's heart, it was really much better than Xue Chong, because he only lost more than five hundred people, but Xue Chong lost nearly half of his troops, and although Baiyun City was strong, it was probably still difficult to resist the siege of the army.

Xue Chong and Gu Yuelou immediately agreed on the battlefield on the methods and strategies of Xu Ming's rescue when he attacked, and then, Gu Yuelou led his men back to the Great Snow Mountain and ordered people to bury the brothers who died in battle on the spot!

Xue Chong also ordered people to bury the bodies of the dead gang on the spot, set up sacrifices and prayed, wept and shed tears to say goodbye, and led the army back to Baiyun City.

Along the way, Xiao Yuzhang looked depressed.

Xue Chong had the intention of extricating him, and asked, "General Xiao, what are you thinking?"

Xiao Yuzhang's face turned red: "Helper, don't call me that, in the future, you can just call me by my name, I'm thinking that I will lose in your hands." ”

Xue Chong hurriedly said: "Okay! From now on, you and I will be commensurate with each other, but we should be closer." I also guessed that Brother Xiao was thinking about this, how, is there some eyebrows?"

"There are some, but it's not comprehensive, I hope the helper will help me summarize it. ”

"Tell me what you came up with. ”

"Being alone, overestimating yourself, and miscommanding, these are the three that come to mind. ”

"Why don't you say it carefully. ”

"It's the helper. Needless to say, I don't wait to join the army and get the news of your gathering, which is the main reason for the failure. Secondly, I overestimated myself, and when you sent out a flag flower rocket to call for reinforcements, I was deluded and wanted to destroy you with a thunderous force, but I was finally surrounded. ”

"Yes, you have to withdraw before I send out the flagflower rockets, and we are powerless to stop you, and then you will not be able to save two-thirds of your main force in the end. ”

"Help, I overestimated myself, and I didn't just make a mistake, I made a big mistake, you should think. ”

Xue Chong smiled, Xiao Yuzhang was testing me, and he groaned slightly: "By the way, when you break through at the back, choose the direction of the assault." ”

Xiao Yuzhang slapped his thigh fiercely: "Gang leader is wise, I am indeed in the choice of the direction of the breakthrough, a big mistake, if I choose the side of the spearless senior brother or the gunless senior brother, maybe I will have already rushed out of the gang." ”

"Good whip method!" Xue Chong blurted out, "I can resist your elusive whip method, and now I think about it like a dream." Indeed, with your martial arts, it was just a breakthrough, it was originally a trivial matter, I think what you originally meant, I'm afraid that you felt that you suffered our loss this time, so you are eager to save face, if you can kill me as a gang leader before retreating, you can go back and have an explanation in front of General Xu Ming?"

"The helper is observant and thoughtful, and he is not bad at all. ”

When the spearless and gunless next to him heard this, their hearts were sudden, and they were secretly glad. They obviously knew very well that if Xiao Yuzhang chose the direction where they were when they broke through, the two of them would have died under Xiao Yuzhang's hands, and they would have given him a successful breakthrough.

"My third mistake was miscommand, I should not have ordered my vanguard to rush to the road, resulting in a lack of men and horses, which is actually a great deal to do with the second underestimating the enemy. In this way, you are a new force, and we are the end of the strong crossbow, at the beginning, the two sides fought fiercely, the casualties were equal, I was wondering, this is the real elite soldiers, for what is not as good as the cottage team, including later, when I broke through, it was also because the horses were tired, and the people were tired, which led to the siege. ”

Xue Chong nodded: "Yes, your troops have been in battle for a long time, and they are familiar with the art of group warfare, if it weren't for the long journey, the journey consumed physical strength, and under normal circumstances, not to mention that we only had 1,600 people at that time, even if there were 3,000 people, they would not be your opponents." ”

"Yes, the most taboo thing for elite soldiers is to fight tiredly! I have these three major mistakes, how can I not be defeated? My father often said that there are people in people, and there is heaven outside the sky, I often don't believe it, and I can't imagine that I have met a gang leader and Gu Yuelou's leader with amazing martial arts, which can be regarded as a lesson!"

Of course, Xue Chong would not tell him what the old dragon pointed out, and when he heard the words, he secretly called it a fluke in his heart, if it weren't for the old dragon's guidance, I might have already done the ghost under your whip, and smiled when he heard this: "My martial arts are mostly fought alone on the rivers and lakes, and they are used on the battlefield, which is very uncomfortable, and I have to ask Brother Xiao for advice in the future." You said that you underestimated the enemy, I didn't make the mistake of underestimating the enemy today, and I almost couldn't resist the whip method when you broke through the siege at the very least!"

"I'm my father's 'Thirteen Styles of Deception', if the helper wants to learn, I can show you. ”

"Okay, I won't get your mastery in vain, I'll exchange a few ways of my chai knife with you. ”

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Yuzhang's eyes lit up, what surprised him the most today was that he saw Xue Chong's ghost-like sword technique, if he could learn it, it would indeed greatly boost his martial arts.

"Stupid! His martial arts are just superficial skills for charging into battle, I can teach you all of them, and you can teach them better than this kid. Why do you bother to exchange your unparalleled sword technique, even my detailed sword technique?" the old dragon roared.

Xue Chong was stunned, he didn't think of this, but the words had already come out, so he had to say sneeringly: "Then I will only teach him the first form of the firewood knife method, which is considered not to break the promise." ”

"That's pretty much it. ”

In fact, his current martial arts, under Xiao Yuzhang, and then the firewood knife knife and the plate out, if Xiao Yuzhang suddenly defects, he can be said to die without a place to be buried, the most important thing, Xue Chong's young heart, when he meets this Xiao Yuzhang, whose martial arts are much higher than his own, it is inevitable that he wants to compare with him.

"Brother Xiao, I have always had one thing I don't understand, with your martial arts, single-handedly, to fight out of the encirclement, it was easy, at that time was besieged, the situation was urgent, why didn't you choose to rush out of the encirclement?"

"I, Xiao Yuzhang, get along with these brothers day and night, live and die together, since they are in trouble, how can I abandon them and escape alone, I would rather die than do this unrighteous thing. ”

"Brother Xian is really righteous, and I am very fortunate to have a brother like you. I was still wondering before, when Pang Xiu surrendered, there were nearly 200 people who were willing to fight you to the death. Now I kind of get it. ”