After a period of silence, she looked at Xu Chen, her sparse and long eyelashes blinked slightly, and said: "If you Chaoyang Kingdom want to escort a few important people to the royal court, there should be a team of apologetic cavalry, according to the itinerary, it should not be far from us, and they should have seen the fireworks last night." ”

Xu Chen stared at her eyes that looked a little dumb and asked, "What if...... They didn't see the fireworks, can they know we're here?"

Duanmu Rong nodded slightly, and his straight black hair fell down his shoulders like a waterfall.

Xu Chen's mood was slightly calm, he took out a water bladder and drank a sip of water, and said after a moment of silence: "If there are no reinforcements, I will withdraw first when I can't hold on, do you want to come with me." ”

You in this sentence naturally refer to the disciples of the Yuxuanmen Xuanyuan in the Western Jin Dynasty, and do not include those military cavalry and those people from the Western Jin Dynasty.

Yaxiu came over to deliver food, and happened to listen to Xu Chen's words, her pretty face was slightly red, and she said, "Senior brother...... Senior brother, you ...... How can this be?"

Xu Chen didn't explain anything, rubbed the little girl's head dotingly, looked at Duanmu Rong, who was slightly bowing his head, and continued: "You should know that I am a very cold-blooded guy, the first consideration is to live yourself, if there are no reinforcements, after the horse thief attacks, the food team will not be able to withstand it at all, and at that time you still want everyone to live, which is equivalent to sending your junior sisters and brothers into a desperate situation, so I hope that you can be more resolute when you make a decision." ”

Because the six hundred horse thieves were watching, the grain convoy was extremely vigilant and careful every time it stopped, and in addition to being released to patrol the sentry, the grain wagons would also be densely arranged in a circular convoy to prevent the other side from rushing to the camp, although this would bring a lot of trouble, but no one would find it too troublesome compared to death.

There was a sudden noise under a poplar tree that was about to die of old age, Xu Chen stood up and looked over there, shook his head, put on a mask and walked over, Yaxiu followed him curiously.

The military general had a gloomy face, stared at Zhao Ling'er in front of him, and said hatefully: "If it weren't for you southerners, how could I have been sent to such a deadly errand? In this case, you still want me to hold on and wait for help? I only have two hundred people, and there are at least seven or eight hundred horse thieves, how can I defend it? How can this battle be fought? My attitude is very clear, I will take my people to break through immediately, as for what is left for those horse thieves? As long as people are alive is better than anything else, if you want to accompany these grain and grass to death, it is your business. ”

Zhao Ling'er held back the anger in her heart, pointed to the panicked people around her and said, "Then what about these people? They are the people of the Western Jin Dynasty, can you, as a general, not care about their lives or deaths?"

"Who cares if I live or die?"

The military general waved his hand angrily, signaling his cronies beside him to gather the cavalry, preparing to take advantage of the fact that the group of horse thieves was still far away, and strive to break through quickly.

Around the Yanglin in winter, some people of the Western Jin Dynasty heard this conversation and knew that their general was about to abandon him, and they suddenly fell into a greater panic, talking and crying, and even some people looked at those cavalrymen and began to burn a fuel called hatred.

Zhao Ling'er and two girls from the Western Jin Dynasty held the ebony handle of the Xiu sword in their hands and stopped in front of the military general.

Zhao Ling'er lowered her voice and kept persuading, but she didn't get any response. The military general looked at the horse thieves on the periphery with a faint sense of noise, and his mood was even more anxious, he pulled out his saber with a choked sound, glared at the girls of the Western Jin Dynasty in front of him, and scolded in a cold voice: "If you want to stop me, you must first ask if my knife is agreed!"

Xu Chen stood behind Zhao Ling'er and looked at this scene, his brows furrowed. To this day, he doesn't know the name of the military general, and he doesn't care about the other party's name, he believes that if this general dares to make a move, he will definitely die under Zhao Ling'er's sword in an instant, but at this time, the situation is tense, if it causes internal strife or even internal strife, then there is no need for the horse thieves on the periphery to attack, and the hundreds of people in the grain team will die cleanly.

How can we leave behind this army cavalry of about 200 men without causing infighting? Then let the infighting end as soon as it begins, and the sparks will be extinguished at a moment's notice, and the chaos will naturally not be able to burn the prairies.

Xu Chen flashed out from behind Zhao Ling'er and stood in front of the military general.

The military general looked at this young man wearing a hat and a black mask covering his face, and was slightly stunned, along the way, he only thought that Xu Chen was an ordinary male disciple of the Jade Xuanmen Xuanyuan, and he didn't know why this person stood up at this time.

Xu Chen glanced at the saber in the hands of the military general, did not ask if the knife would agree, directly pulled out the standard saber from behind him, and slashed it against the cold wind in the winter poplar forest.

The knife rose and fell, and the military general fell down with blood spraying blood, because the incident happened suddenly, and Xu Chen's knife was too fierce and fast, he didn't even have a chance to raise his knife to block.

There was a big uproar in the field, and the cronies of the military generals were red-eyed, and they were about to draw their knives to counterattack, but they were restrained by Xu Chen concisely and neatly.

Zhao Ling'er and Yaxiu and other girls from the Western Jin Dynasty looked at this scene in amazement, looking at the corpses of military generals who were still gushing blood on the ground, and they couldn't speak at all, and they didn't understand why Xu Chen did this.

Xu Chen motioned for them to tie up the high-ranking military officers with ropes.

He stood in the middle of the crowd, looking at the frightened people, at the military cavalry with complicated eyes, anger and fear, and after a moment of silence, he pointed to the horse thieves in the outer wasteland and said, "Those are horse thieves, their ferocity, you should know very well. ”

He glanced at the military officer who was tied down not far from his feet, then looked up at everyone and said: "In this critical situation, those who want to abandon everyone, who are greedy for life and fear of death and want to live alone, must die." ”

"Whoever does not obey orders and commands will also die. ”

"Even if I don't kill you, the horse thieves out there won't let you live. ”

"So I don't want to solve too much. If you want to live, then try your best. ”

In the winter Yang Forest, there was silence, whether it was the military cavalry or the people of the Western Jin Dynasty, looking at this ordinary male disciple of the Jade Xuanmen Xuanyuan, looking at the calm eyes outside his black mask, they all felt the deepest chill quickly occupy their bodies, because they were cold, they were calm, because they were calm, because they were calm, they understood that what he said was right.

Looking at the back of Xu Chen walking towards the carriage in the forest, Yaxiu opened his big and bright eyes in confusion, scratched his head, and found that he couldn't understand this senior brother of the Dushan Sect at all, he was still persuading the mountain lord to evacuate in advance, why did he react so strongly when the military generals were about to evacuate?

The curtain of the car lifted a corner, Duanmu Rong looked at him and said, "I know that capricious people are villains. ”

"I'm not from the Western Jin Dynasty, these Western Jin Dynasty horsemen and Western Jin Dynasty people have nothing to do with me, and their life and death have nothing to do with me, but as a Western Jin Dynasty general, he is not qualified to abandon the people and leave. The reason why I killed him had nothing to do with these reasons, but simply because he died, which was more conducive to the survival of the rest of the people. ”

"As for capriciousness...... Xu Chen began to check his bow and arrows, bowed his head and said, "If you really can't stand it, I still suggest that you evacuate with me, so my attitude is not repeated." I am the same as the Western Jin Dynasty general, I am a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, the difference is only that I have the ability to let him die, and he has no ability to let me die. ”

The winter wasteland is blowing all the time, and those winds may not be very strong, but they are like fine combs that penetrate into the depths of cotton clothes, combing away wisps of human warmth. Duanmu Rong was still wearing the thin white dress, and the blue belt around her waist was like a deep lake, which formed a strong contrast with her straight and diffuse eyes.

Her inky eyebrows slowly raised, looked at Xu Chen and asked, "You killed their general, aren't you worried that these Western Jin Dynasty horsemen will hate you, don't contribute in the battle, and even surrender directly to the horse thieves?"

"The cultivation of cronies in the army will inevitably damage the interests of the lower-level soldiers, so the relationship between the dead general and these cavalrymen will not be very good, especially since they are the cavalry of the Western Jin Dynasty. I'm from Chaoyang, and I know all of this very well. ”

Xu Chen carefully checked his belongings with his fingers, lowered his head and replied: "Just now I killed that Western Jin general and restrained those officers, the two hundred Western Jin Dynasty cavalry are indeed angry, but not sad and angry, that is to say, they are not sad, this anger comes more from fear and uneasiness." ”

Duanmu Rong looked at the hat that covered most of his face and said, "They're afraid of you...... Fear can make people want to stay away, and perhaps for this reason, they may surrender to horse thieves. ”

"As a soldier, even if it is a weak soldier of the Western Jin Dynasty, it is a very difficult decision to surrender to the horse thief, but all this kind of decision requires thinking, and thinking needs a relaxed psychological environment. ”

Xu Chen raised his head, looked at the horse thieves who were still patrolling the wilderness but had not launched an attack for a long time, and said, "The situation is too tense now, and arrows may fall on their heads at any time. Those Western Jin cavalry didn't have the time and environment to think, they are now like a group of wild horses that have lost their head horses and are at a loss, as long as a horse gallops out, they will subconsciously blindly follow, and what I want is their blind obedience. ”

Duanmu Rong looked at his side face and said, "You have been in the army?"

Xu Chen shook his head, "No, but I understand." ”

As he spoke, his gaze suddenly froze, as if he remembered something from the past.

Duanmu Rong stroked the hair on the side of his cheeks, and after a moment of silence, he said, "With you, I can indeed learn a lot." ”

Xu Chen looked at her and smiled, and said, "You're welcome, and what you can learn from me is actually not a good thing, if it is possible, I hope I will never have the opportunity to learn these in my life." ”

Losing the generals who are usually powerful and high-ranking and those officers who only know how to pat their asses and grab the first rank of military merits, the two hundred Western Jin cavalry are indeed not very sad, but only a little angry, and it is precisely because of the loss of these leaders that their anger, as Xu Chen expected, quickly turned into confusion, and finally quiet obedience.

Any army that can fight well must have its own unique temperament, but it is a pity that the military obviously has no temperament, if it is replaced by any Han army, it will never be so well-behaved and honest to obey the other party's command after the general is killed.

Xu Chen is very satisfied with the unique temperament of the military.

He did not appear in front of the curtain to command in person, but through the carriage where Duanmu Rong was, he passed on the orders one after another, Zhao Ling'er and other four disciples of the Jade Xuanmen Xuanyuan temporarily replaced the positions of those military officers, rectified the order of the camp, took back the sentry horses, strengthened the defense, and all the orders were carried out as quickly as possible, and everyone including the Western Jin Dynasty rode had no complaints, and the order and atmosphere were even better than those of previous days.

The grain team re-embarked on its journey north, and more than 600 horse thieves followed. According to the order from the carriage, the speed of the entire grain delivery team was precisely controlled within a certain range, and it kept changing, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, although this speed change was undoubtedly a torture for the people who rode and drove the grain cart in the Western Jin Dynasty, but they still persevered in the end, and caused some trouble to those horse thieves to a greater or lesser extent.

The most dangerous twilight was spent in the silence of the chase, and the grain caravan dragged into a long line, wearily into a rare low-lying area among the moors, when the sky was dark and the light was blurred.

The so-called low-lying area is because the meadows on the left and right sides are raised and stretched, and there is no end in sight in the dim sight, as if it is a mountain valley in the south, but the terrain is slightly gentler and not so steep.