Nangong Junzhe was taken to the city by the garrison commander of Langcheng, came to the general soldier's mansion, and sat down as the guest and host, Zhao Haiquan was the first to ask: "How about the matter we asked you to investigate? Is there any news of Lord Liu?"

The general soldier of Langcheng replied: "After receiving the order of the commander Shi, I immediately sent people out to investigate, one of them mixed into Xiaoyaozhuang, but unfortunately wandered around in the village for a long time, and did not find any trace of Lord Liu. But what is certain is that Lord Liu is in Xiaoyao Village, but he didn't find it!"

"How so?"

The general soldier of Langcheng continued: "The brother who mixed in said that when they prepared the meal, they would prepare two tables, one table was for Liao Wenshan, Gu Lingfeng, and Zen Master Mingdeng to eat, while the other table was sent to another place, and due to the heavy guards, this brother could not continue to investigate. ”

"Where is that brother now? Call over and ask us clearly, what is the terrain of Xiaoyaozhuang, how is the division of troops, since we know that Lord Liu is safe and sound in Xiaoyaozhuang, it will be easy to do, as long as we attack it, we will definitely find a place to hide Lord Liu." Zhao Haiquan continued to ask.

The general soldier of Langcheng shook his head helplessly, sighed and replied: "This brother has returned to the world, before Xiaoyaozhuang sent people to disturb the general army's mansion, and was killed by random arrows in the melee, our 1,500 people in the Langcheng garrison, now there are only 1,000 people left, and 500 people died in the disturbance battle, which can be described as a heavy loss." Otherwise, there is only so much information available now. Oh, that's right!" Langcheng General Soldier suddenly thought: "Xiaoyaozhuang has arranged heavy guards five miles in front of the village, and this morning the assembly has been completed, look at the posture, there should be some big moves." The person in charge of the investigation at the front reported that there were as many as 3,000 troops at the checkpoint, and although the momentum was huge, there was no sign of attack, but they were only camped, as if they were waiting for us to take the initiative to attack them. ”

"No, they are just waiting for us, who is the commander there, have you ever found out?" Zhao Haiquan carefully analyzed the only bit of information.

Gu Lingfeng and Zen Master Mingde commanded there, and Liao Wenshan never showed up in Xiaoyao Village. The chief soldier of Langcheng thought for a while and continued: "I think we can do this, and the commander Lord Shi will use the school military field of my general military mansion as a temporary military camp, and you can transfer troops there." When our two detachments are combined, there are almost more than 2,300 people, although the number is a little less than them, but the foot soldiers who can survive until now can be regarded as experienced in a hundred battles without fear of life and death. It's much higher than the combat power they just recruited, so I don't think we need to be afraid and just raise the flag and attack. It is estimated that the team of Lord Yin will arrive in a day or two, and that will be the day to break through Xiaoyaozhuang. ”

"The heads of the two sects are personally in charge, and the troops are higher than some of us, don't look at the people who have just been recruited, if there are such two people in charge, our troops will be depleted very quickly, and when the time comes, the disparity in strength will be completely opened, I am afraid that before Yin Xuesong and them arrive in Langcheng, we will be wiped out. Nangong Junzhe said.

Zhao Haiquan replied: "Big brother, you probably have lost confidence because of the repeated defeats, what are you afraid of, let's regroup and definitely play a tiger." Besides, our battle the day before yesterday was a big victory, although we lost some soldiers and horses, but from a formal point of view, their limit is about to arrive, as long as Yin Xuesong and Xiao Lie reach here, we will be able to take Xiaoyaozhuang in one fell swoop, rescue Lord Liu and quickly return to Hecheng, solve the crisis as soon as possible, and we will also live in peace as soon as possible. It's better to do this, let's have a good rest today, bring it to tomorrow's lunch, have lunch, and then send troops to find out the truth. ”

"That's it!" Nangong Junzhe patted his thigh and said, "Have a good rest today, according to what Lao Zhao said, we will march to Xiaoyaozhuang at noon tomorrow." It's just waiting for Yin Cedar to be them, as long as we have a good grasp of the time, we won't have too much work. Lao Zhao, you send all the five thunder talismans prepared before departure to the sergeant, at the beginning, we must take the situation into our own hands, and how many troops can be lost to them, and we will be improvising when the time comes. He made some basic arrangements and went to rest.

The next morning, everyone gathered at the school military field, and Nangong Junzhe said to the sergeants below with an arrow in his hand: "Brothers, we have been looking forward to today's battle for a long time, in addition to rescuing Lord Liu, we also want to avenge the dead brothers." Seeing that you had a good rest last night, and that you were in good spirits, I have much greater confidence in you. Raise the arrow and point at Chai Tiangong and Zuo Tianming: "Chai Tiangong and Zuo Tianming listen to the order in front of the tent." Order the two of you to be the vanguard of the headquarters, and lead 800 infantry to the Xiaoyaozhuang military camp. After arriving, there is no need to rest and recuperate, and the attack is immediately launched, but not in battle, and the troops can be withdrawn when they are found to be empty. Chai Tiangong caught the arrow: "The last general commands!" and Zuo Tianming ordered eight hundred infantry and marched towards the barracks.

Nangong Junzhe took out another arrow and called Zhao Haiquan: "Zhao Haiquan listened to the order in front of the tent, and ordered you to be the main general, with 800 garrisons in Linglang City, and help Chai Tiangong and others in the rear. Zhao Haiquan caught the arrow: "The last general will take the order!" followed by Chai Tiangong.

Nangong Junzhe said to the general soldiers of Langcheng: "You and I will lead the rest of the soldiers and horses, and we will also go to Xiaoyaozhuang later, sit in the rear army, and be ready to meet the troops in front at any time." ”

The army was divided into three teams to move forward, Chai Tiangong and Zuo Tianming two, suffered the loss of the previous time, this time the two of them were extremely careful, and they couldn't wait to let the foot soldiers in front of them lie on the ground and carefully look at the state of each grass. The small troop of the Voyage came to the gate of the Xiaoyaozhuang Barracks. Zuo Tianming rode out, raised the Zen staff in his hand and pointed at the soldiers guarding the door: "Go and call your boss out, just say that his grandfather came to take his life, hurry up and wash his neck, and come out to die." ”

Seeing that someone was coming to challenge, the gatekeeper Ding hurriedly hugged him inside, and after a while, Gu Lingfeng led people out. Holding the Heavenly Master Sword in his hand, he pointed at Zuo Tianming and said: "I thought it was Nangong Junzhe who came, but I didn't expect it to be a hairy boy, I don't have time to talk nonsense with you, go and call Nangong Junzhe, I want to pick his head with my own hands." ”

Zuo Tianming laughed wildly: "What a bull's nose that doesn't know the height of the sky, I want to see the Jinyi Guard commander of Kanto Province, you don't have that qualification, kill chickens with a knife, don't say it's me, even the foot archers under my command can easily raze here, I said Niubi, why don't you throw away your weapon now, kneel on the ground, and call me grandpa, I will let the eldest brother Xiao Lie spare your life, the tiger poison does not eat children, let alone the grandson." Zuo Tianming's words caused the rear army to laugh loudly, and Gu Lingfeng, who was laughing, was angry. Gu Lingfeng said viciously: "What a fanatic, it seems that if I don't give you some power today, you won't know how powerful I am at Drunken Dragon View." As he spoke, he was about to attack Zuo Tianming, when a person jumped out from behind Gu Lingfeng and shouted: "Master, don't worry, look at the apprentice's hand to slash this thief." As he spoke, he ran out of the military formation like a gust of wind and went straight to Zuo Tianming.

Zuo Tianming saw that the person was very fast, turned over and dismounted, and raised the water mill Zen staff to facilitate the person to fight in one place. At first, Zuo Tianming still had some scruples, and when he fought for five rounds, Zuo Tianming laughed: "What kind of master am I here, it turns out to be a little minion, and the kung fu of this three-legged cat dares to compete in front of the master, and you have also lived to the end." Without waiting for this person to answer, Zuo Tianming flipped continuously, danced the Zen staff, and slashed at his head with a dragon slay. The person who came hurriedly dodged, avoiding the Zen staff and stabbing back with the sword, Zuo Tianming pushed the Zen staff horizontally and slapped it on his chest, this person hurriedly jumped up and couldn't help but the Zen staff came too fast, and he couldn't dodge being slapped by the Zen staff on the lower abdomen. The blow knocked him four or five feet away, rolled on the ground twice and then stopped. The people from the Drunken Dragon Temple stepped forward to check and shouted to Gu Lingfeng, "Master, he's dead." ”

Zuo Tianming laughed: "This is what happens to you who look down on people, if you want to see our Nangong command history, you have to step on my corpse, otherwise you don't even think about it." ”

This time Gu Lingfeng was defeated, but he didn't expect the little hairy head in front of him to have such a fierce method, and shouted to the disciples behind him: "Line up and set up a formation." He pointed at Zuo Tianming with his hand: "Today I will definitely make you come and go." After speaking, he flew to the back of the team, and let out a team of five hundred people, and killed Zuo Tianming. Zuo Tianming raised a Zen staff in his hand and shouted: "Brothers, the time has come to avenge the dead brothers, kill me!" and then the two teams were killed together.

was fighting hotly, Zhao Haiquan led the people to arrive in time, and without saying a word, they all went into battle. This Gu Lingfeng stood behind, took out a dozen paper figures from his arms, raised his hand and threw them into the air, and recited a spell in his mouth, and with a loud bang, these paper figures suddenly turned into living strong soldiers. These strong soldiers transformed from paper figures are all black helmets and black armor, and their faces have no facial features, and they are black. And they are invulnerable, but the sharp blades in their hands can chop melons and vegetables to slash and kill the guards.

When Chai Tiangong and Zuo Tianming saw this situation, they immediately signaled to Zhao Haiquan to let everyone retreat and join Nangong Junzhe's troops. After seeing Nangong Junzhe, he explained the situation, and several people discussed it and decided to return to the General Military Mansion to make plans.

After several days of fighting, they were repelled by such an attack, and the other party did not lose a few people, and on Nangong Junzhe's side, more than 2,000 people who had just been merged, in just a few days, there were only more than 500 people left. Two of these raids suffered the most casualties.

At dawn the next day, when Nangong Junzhe and the general soldiers of Langcheng were anxiously thinking about countermeasures, a soldier who reported the news came to report: "Shi Yin Xuesong, the commander of Zhenliao Duwei, and Shi Xiaolie, the deputy commander, have entered the boundary of Langcheng with 5,000 elite soldiers, and they will arrive at the general army mansion in another hour and a half." ”

Hearing this news, Nangong Junzhe was broken, he knew that as long as Yin Xuesong and Xiao Lie arrived here, it would be easy to do, and this time he would definitely be able to completely annihilate Gu Lingfeng's troops.