Chapter Forty-Eight: Deserted and Fleeing
The air here is getting more and more suffocating, and Zhiming must escape from this burning city as soon as possible. As he was fleeing, he suddenly heard someone calling out to him in the depths of his consciousness - a woman's voice lingered in the depths of his mind, as if crying for help.
"Snow Cicada!" Zhiming stopped, "Why is she here?"
The call of the snow cicada was endless, and he hurried back to find someone.
Zhiming walked through a pile of ruins, and when he saw the fire and smoke in front of him, he couldn't move on, so he jumped onto a tree and looked around.
Suddenly, he saw a large water tank outside a burning tiled house nearby, and next to it lay a woman, her clothes in tatters, and a thick wet log pressed against her lower body.
Zhiming saw clearly that it was a snow cicada, so he quickly jumped to her from the tree, leaned down to remove the wood that was pressing on her, and helped her upper body. It seems that she is dying.
"Lei Daxia, I'm sorry......" The dying snow cicada recognized Zhiming, and said with great difficulty, blood still oozing from the corners of his mouth.
"Snow Cicada Girl, why are you here?" Zhiming was surprised.
"It's all my fault... Too anxious to leave... Cottage ......" Xue Cicada used the rest of her strength to explain her original thoughts to him. At the beginning, she came to Xinye with the White Tigers, and when the Moon Bow Tiger went to inform Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan to evacuate, she secretly escaped on the pretext of relieving herself, but this place turned into a sea of fire;
"We set fire to the city to deal with Cao's army. Zhiming's tone was apologetic, "I didn't know you were here, if I did, I would protect you in advance." I'm sorry, Snowcicada Girl. β
"No... What, it's my own fault, I shouldn't... Come here... I just called you, because... I had a hunch early in the morning... I'll see you in Shinno... I know you're in... Surely... Audible, I just want to... To tell you, I... You don't have to worry about it......"
"Why are you so stupid? I said I was going to save you!" Zhiming was sad, feeling ashamed of her.
"Thank you... It's justβ" Xue Cicada's voice was choppy, "I just want to leave the White Tigers as soon as possible......"
"But you've paid with your life!" Zhiming suddenly hated war.
"It's okay... I... Finally able to meet... My sister and brother-in-law ...... "The cicada is angry.
The tiled house behind him has already sounded a warning sound before it collapses. The faces of the two were red from the fire, and the bodies of the cicadas could even smell burning.
"You hold on, I'll get you out!" Zhiming picked her up and ran out of the city.
When we reached the city wall, the scent of the cicadas disappeared. He saw the fighting outside the city from afar, so he stopped, laid her body in a place where the fire could not burn for the time being, and covered it with a dry cloth.
He looked up to the sky and sighed, bowed deeply to the body, and said, "Snow Cicada girl, I'm sorry, I couldn't save you. Although I have not been able to fulfill your wish, for your sake and for the sake of calming this troubled world, I swear that I will kill the White Tigers!"
He rushed out of the city as fast as he could. This place has been slaughtered, the two sides are fighting to the death, there are countless broken hands and feet, and corpses are everywhere. At this time, his physical strength was already overdrawn, so he had to find a secluded place to rest for a while, and use his internal qi to replenish his strength.
After a short break, Zhiming got up and continued to search for the White Tigers. Suddenly, he saw a man in front of him fighting with his own army. Dozens of people besieged him, but they were all defeated.
Zhiming was afraid that his own people would be injured, so he hurriedly rushed over and shouted, "Get out of the way, I'll deal with him!"
Liu Jun saw that it was Zhiming, and hurriedly made a way. Zhiming said: "You go and deal with the others, I will deal with him!"
"Then I'll leave it to you, General Lei!" the soldiers went to find a new enemy.
The enemy general frowned angrily and asked, "Who are you who dare to disturb Uncle Ben's Yaxing?"
"Dare to ask the general's name?"
"Pioneer Army General Xu Chu is also!Who are you?"
"Xu Chu!" Zhiming didn't expect to meet a master again, but with his current strength, coupled with the Demon Slaying Divine Sword, he was no longer afraid, so he said, "Under Lei Zhiming, Liu Bei's pawn in the army." General Xu, please advise!"
Zhiming slashed it with a sword. Xu Chu blocked it with the sledgehammer in his hand, and the sledgehammer broke.
"What?!" Xu Chu was startled, "What kind of weapon is this?"
Zhiming said: "This is the divine sword given to me by the gods, it is extremely sharp. You're doomed!"
"!" Xu Chu picked up a knife on the ground and slashed it.
Zhiming blocked hard, and the knife broke again. Xu Chu couldn't help but take a step back.
Zhiming pointed his sword at him and said, "You can surrender." If you force it, I will kill you!"
Before the words fell, he felt that someone behind him was sneaking attack, and a Cao soldier raised his knife and slashed. Zhi Ming didn't look back, and swung his sword back, and Cao Bing's body was split in two.
Xu Chu was startled and began to be lucky. His face was flushed, and he kept exhaling from his mouth.
"This guy also understands qi pulses!" Zhiming was surprised and slashed with another sword.
Xu Chu used his left forearm to block on the top of his head. The sword struck at his hand, but he could not cut down!
"Hard Qigong!" Zhiming exclaimed.
Xu Chu pushed him hard, bounced him away, and said: "That's right, this is hard qigong! Invulnerable, see how you fight me!"
Zhi Ming looked at the Divine Sword and thought, "It turns out that the Demon Slaying Divine Sword can only exert its divine power when it encounters gods and humans; β
He said to Xu Chu: "General Xu, it seems that you still don't know my strength. β
Xu Chu was extremely excited at the moment, and finally met an opponent who could let him deal with it seriously, so he said: "Come, let's fight with hand-to-hand!"
"Accept your wish, let you see my hand-to-hand combat power now!" Zhiming decided to fight quickly. He stuck his Excalibur into the ground and swung it away.
Xu Chu blocked it with his hand and struck it with a palm. Zhiming took a leap into the air, leaped over his head, and landed behind him.
Xu Chu turned around and kicked sideways, Zhiming hugged his leg with both hands, and at the same time shoveled his left foot, knocking him down.
Xu Chu didn't expect the other party to be so flexible, so he got up and said, "Boy, there are two!"
"It's over!" Zhiming unleashed his Shadowless Fist, attacking his head, chest, and abdomen.
Xu Chu was punched several times and retreated. Zhiming continued to attack, and his Shadowless Fist had been perfected to the point of perfection, even against a battle-hardened general, he could play a role.
Xu Chu couldn't resist it, he knew that if he continued like this, he would definitely lose, so he covered his head with both hands and slammed forward, knocking Zhiming out of the distance.
Zhiming propped up his hand on the ground and did not fall to the ground. Xu Chu patted his chest and continued to bump over. Zhiming dodged behind him with a sharp dodge, and with the help of his strength, he kicked him in the back.
Xu Chu fell forward, his mouth full of mud. He stood up and said angrily, "I'm going to get serious!"
Zhiming moved his arm and said, "Didn't you start early?"
Xu Chu was furious, and attacked Zhiming with a fist, the punch was as heavy as a mountain, and the moves were fierce, but Zhiming had long been used to it and easily blocked all the punches.
Suddenly, Xu Chu picked up a corpse on the ground and threw it forward. Zhiming didn't react and was crushed to the ground by the corpse.
Xu Chu pressed his whole body down with all his might. Zhiming suddenly rolled over from under the corpse and flashed, and the corpse was flattened.
Before Zhiming could stand firmly, Xu Chu had already gotten up, and a headbutt hit him. Zhiming blocked it with both palms, and then a skyrocketing knee was on the bridge of his nose.
It doesn't matter if this one is top, Xu Chu was suddenly dizzy and fell slowly.
Zhiming just wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but Xu Chu got up again, and his nose kept bleeding. He twisted the bridge of his nose hard and twisted it back into place.
"I didn't expect his endurance to be quite strong, if it was an ordinary person, he would have fallen long ago. Zhiming thought.
Xu Chu took off his armor and said, "Boy, don't be too arrogant! I'm going to make a trick!"
Zhiming said calmly: "Please!"
Xu Chu roared angrily and flew over. Zhiming punched him, and Xu Chu flashed behind him with the speed of the wind, hugged his waist tightly, and carried him off the ground entirely.
Zhiming was shocked, this person was very strong, and he seemed to have a fight with Meng Leopard.
Xu Chu hugged him tighter and tighter, and said fiercely: "Prepare to enjoy my 'waist and fall'!"
Just as Zhiming was thinking hard about countermeasures, a sharp arrow flew and hit Xu Chu's left arm, causing him to let go and fall to the ground.
Zhiming saw that it was Zhao Yun who came. Xu Chu recognized Zhao Yun, understood his strength, and knew that one lion was difficult to defeat two tigers, so he had to withdraw first.
"Brother Zilong, you're here!" Zhiming said happily.
"Zhiming, are you okay? Was that Xu Chu just now? He is one of the best generals in Cao's army!" Zhao Yun reined in his horse and said.
"Yes. It's okay, don't worry. Zhiming believed that even if Zhao Yun didn't come, he could defeat Xu Chu on his own, after all, he had defeated all the more powerful opponents.
"You did a good job tonight, a fire burned Cao Jun to the ground!" Zhao Yun didn't know how many battles he had experienced in the city, thinking that he would escape easily.
"Nothing, the duty. It's just that the other team members have died, and the ancestral sword you gave me has also been broken, and this sword was found by me. Zhiming picked up the divine sword and said sadly.
"What?, are you the only one who escaped?" Zhao Yun couldn't believe it, "Could it be that Cao Jun found you?"
Zhiming shook his head and said, "It's not Cao Jun, it's the White Tigers." We miscalculated, thinking that they would evacuate as soon as possible, but we didn't expect the Cao army to withdraw, and the White Tigers actually stayed. Later, we met them......"
Zhao Yun listened, nodded silently and said, "No way, this is for the people of Xinye, their sacrifice is valuable." Don't worry about the sword. Now we have to think about how to destroy the enemy army in front of us!"
"Let's kill them all together!" Zhiming wanted to deal with the enemy in one go, and the fighting spirit in his body swelled again.
"Be careful!" Zhao Yun suddenly stabbed at him, stabbing the sneak attacker behind Zhiming.
Zhiming was taken aback and said, "Thank you, Brother Zilong." ... By the way, is Master Kong Ming okay?"
"It's okay, the military division is very safe, and it is our key object of protection. You have to be careful, I'm leaving. Zhao Yun drove his horse to fight elsewhere.
It turned out that the Cao army in the city was burned at that time, and hurriedly fled to the east, south, west, and north gates, but among the four gates, only the east gate was not on fire - it was designed by Kong Ming in advance, in order to let the enemy all squeeze this side. Zhao Yun was ordered to lay down his men and horses here, and as soon as the enemy army came out, he would immediately encircle and suppress it. After the catastrophe of the Cao army, most of them had no intention of fighting, so Liu Jun fought smoothly and suffered very little losses. Due to the rapid development of the fire, in order to preserve its strength, the angry black tiger ordered the seven centaurs of the White Tiger team to withdraw from the battlefield in advance, and the remaining thirty percent were led by the ghost shadow tiger and the moon bow tiger, and continued to stay in the city to clear the enemy, but unexpectedly, they were all planted at once.
Liu Jun fought until the fourth watch, when Cao Jun was killed scattered in the rain and his body was incomplete, and they fled in the direction of the lower reaches of the Baihe River.
Zhao Yun's army was ordered by Kong Ming not to pursue anyone who fled in this direction.
Cao Jun stumbled all the way to the river, and when he saw that the water was not deep, he unloaded his armor and went down to the river one after another, drinking water and bathing. The soldiers, who had been burned by the fire of the new wilderness, suddenly felt the pleasure of a long drought and a rain when they touched the cold water of the river, and the horses also ran to the river to drink water, and shouted loudly, as if to vent the freedom of life.
"Hey, everyone go ashore quickly, in case the enemy pursues us, how can we reach it?" Xiahoudun insisted on not going into the water, and shouted at the people in the river, but no matter how he shouted, the people in the river just didn't come up, so he was so anxious that he turned around.
Xiahou Yuan wondered: "Why hasn't the enemy caught up yet?" β
Hearing him say this, Xiahoudun also began to feel that something was wrong.
Suddenly, a huge flood came from far and near from the upstream, menacing.
Xiahoudun suddenly came to his senses and shouted at the people in the river: "Come up quickly! They want to release water to drown us!"
When the soldiers heard the sound of the flood, they ran ashore, and the horses, frightened, jumped wildly in the water. In an instant, the river was in chaos.
Unfortunately, it was too late, and a huge flood roared down from the upstream, rushing at what seemed to be twice as fast as usual, and in an instant it swept away all the men and horses who did not have time to get ashore. A very small number of people who moved quickly landed in time and survived, and even Xu Chu almost died here.
The cries for help and the neighing of horses were gradually drowned out by the sound of the flood, and even the men and horses drifted towards the land of death with the surging torrent. Xiahou watched his people being swept away by the huge flood, helpless.