As the sky faded, the fighting and fierce battle under Daluo City in Jiaozhou was once again drawn with a talisman. Only the disability and corpses of the camp were left, gradually submerged in the dim sky.

"I lost, I really lost now, and it's irreversible."

Zeng Gun, who was resting in a cart in a clothes, looked at Daluo City, whose door was confined and the city lights were sparsely lit in the dark, and looked at the dense campfires that were lit one after another at the other end of the camp, and couldn't help but think in his heart with an extremely bitter thought.

Although before the darkness of the battle with the thief army, his command had collected more than 3,000 people, accounting for about half of the battle; and there were camps and some equipment and materials left by the thief as a guard; there was a double advantage in the face of those enemies. However, the huge psychological blow and morale collapsed by the city was even worse than the threat of the thief army vanguards who were in the confrontation, and the threat of returning to most of the thief army at some time.

What's more, after they were mercilessly cut off outside the city, they had to face new difficulties and difficulties. At the beginning, they just had a full meal of breakfast and planned to win the battle in one go without bringing food, which caused the threat of being hungry now;

Although some available parts could be extracted from the thieves who had no time to burn clean supplies, for the tired and hungry soldiers around him, they could not help but drop in the bucket. They could only set up all the containers they could find, and used temporary crushed fences and wooden utensils as firewood to cook pots of extremely thin porridge, large and small.

Although the vast Zhu Luan River is just a short distance away, no one is willing to take risks or take a detour to get water bypassing most of the camp; but rather to scoop up the yellow water from the ditches around you to drink; because this battle of winning first and losing almost exhausted the last bit of energy that most people could burst out and squeeze out.

In fact, once the entire army's offensive stopped, even the desire to continue to act like a siege and block the remaining soldiers on the two earthen platforms was completely gone; but the foreign aid thief army spontaneously contracted and retreated under a slight assault, allowing them to easily merge and work together; and then watched them helplessly repair the broken earthen trench.

Zeng Gun was not even in a state of pursuing and scolding them; then he fell into a long confrontation and stalemate after the night fell; but the night was not safe for a long time. While the thieves were clamoring for a long time, they actually came over to carry out the night attack in the dark in the second half of the night.

This time, they actually bypassed the opposite camp and launched a sneak attack from the city wall that was a little careless on their backs. As a result, Zeng Gun promised to kill the chicken and warn the monkey. He used his best skills to stabilize the morale of the army, and was suddenly shocked by the high tension and fatigue.

In the darkness and chasing, the second half of the night was clamoring and fighting, even though Zeng Gun shouted, his voice was hoarse, and he couldn't kill many bandits and his own people. It was not until the sky turned white and the soldiers in the chaos were exhausted, and they slowly calmed down naturally.

By dawn again, less than a thousand people were left in his temporary stronghold; among them, there were only more than 30 Shu soldiers who first followed him to cross the mountains and ridges; there were only more than 100 loyal soldiers from the Yaxian selected locally.

Because most of the others fell in the attack process of leading the way, or were killed and injured in the chaos and killing of the night. This result also made Zeng Gun feel a little disappointed and suddenly began to doubt the result of his life and all his efforts.

"Are I really doing something wrong? I still have any face to meet the envoy and Shuweng."

He was chasing himself like this, and suddenly he pulled out the sword given by the envoy Cui, and pushed it over his neck and pushed it hard.

In an instant, blood vessels splattered, Zeng Yi, one of his own soldiers and one of his hometown generals, held the sword blade tightly with his hand and failed to cut his neck. Then he screamed in surprise:

"Envoy..."

“Protector…”

“No…”

"What are you stopping me?"

Zeng Gun, who attempted suicide, shouted in grief and shame.

"After this matter, can I still make me humiliate the thief army?"

"Just take my head and change your future and get rid of it..."

"Please..."

Seeing that his hands were cut and bloody, Zeng Yi shouted loudly.

"Why do you need to lose your ambition so much? Isn't it common for military strategists to win or lose?"

"In the early years, a certain general followed the general in the army. Although he suffered repeated defeats and fought repeatedly, he did not know how many times he had... so he had the current situation and achievements."

"Why did you become gentle and afraid of things after you arrived in this Annan land? Even a mere defeat is amazing?"

"After you commit suicide in front of the battlefield, where are you planning to put us in the same place?... Could it be that you will go with you?"

"Well said it well, scolded it well"

After hearing these frank and heartfelt words, Zeng Gun's face turned red with excitement and shame.

"It was me who pretended to be a child and almost let down your wishes and instructions."

After all, he was the "Zengrengui" who had been through the battle formation for a long time and relied on his own courage to fight from a small school to a general. After suffering severe setbacks, he was able to quickly regain his fighting spirit or rekindle his fighting spirit.

At least although the old leader Zeng Yi's words were unpleasant, the basic truth was not wrong. He still had more than a thousand people who were willing to follow him at this last moment. Compared with those in the city who were half-hearted or both ends of the head and rat, or who had been highly expected, Li and others; this is a force that can be fully proved and trusted.

Even if something happened in Daluo City and he kept himself out, there was still a lot of potential for the vast land of the Thirteen Annan Prefectures. I had been limiting my vision to Daluo City in Jiaozhou before, which was obviously too narrow;

Now, he can completely use the only remaining troops under his command as a foundation and shield, and quickly escape from this dangerous place where people's hearts and situations are seriously unfavorable to himself before most of the thieves are returned.

Then he went south to a relatively rich prefecture and county far away from Jiaozhou in order to occupy a foothold. At that time, he could not only join the army with more than a dozen servants to fight to the position of the leader of the army; but also could easily seize the power of Jiaozhou with hundreds of strong soldiers recruited from Shu; could there be no soldiers at present who could still deal with the local forces in a faraway state?

Then slowly accumulate wealth from the local area to train troops and gather strength to seek opportunities and prospects for starting over again; you can even consider borrowing troops from Linyi State in the name of the court or citing them as a helping; at least can these foreign thieves stay forever or stay forever?

If they left, he would have to deal with the local rich soldiers with enough confidence and not be at a disadvantage; since he could plan and defeat them once or twice, he would naturally have to do it for the third time.

If these thieves want to stay for a long time, they will inevitably have new rifts and frictions with the local Tu tribes; this is also his opportunity to rise again and seek a way out for the upper class.

After thinking about this, he suddenly felt enlightened in his heart. Even the gains and losses and pains after the defeat became much easier. He even took the initiative to come to the remaining soldiers and comfort him, and ate the extremely simple and water-like miscellaneous porridge with them.

"Eat as much as possible to do the next step..."

"Don't worry, I will stay and let them surrender to the city if they are injured."

While snoring, Zeng Gun arranged for his remaining subordinates.

......

On the other end of the camp, Qu Chengyu, Xu Yi, Zhao Yingong and other leaders also squatted on the edge of the earthen platform, swallowing the broken compressed dry food and pickles, drinking strong tea soup to digest food; while accepting reports from subordinates.

"The other end occupied by the officers and soldiers seemed to have abnormal movements, and the noises were all calmed down a lot?"

Xu Yi will make a judgment suddenly.

"It seems like I'm going to run away..."

"What should I do if I change it again..."

Qu Chengyu couldn't help but worry

"If the Zeng thief left, there will be endless disasters."

“It’s okay…”

Zhao Yingong said, whose cheek injury caused a little change in voice.

"With their spare time, they can't escape much... On this plain land, do they want to pass four legs quickly?"

However, the situation developed a little beyond their expectations after a moment.

"What a thief, it's a strategy to attack the world..."

Zhao Yingong, who led the team to catch up, looked at the old, weak, sick and disabled people who were tired and lying on the ground in front of him.

"The officers and soldiers' team is still in the camp, please follow me to turn around and deal with it..."

After a while, he had to take down the horse's hooves on the river bank and watch the figures sitting on the floating tools. Because the officers and soldiers who were still there had already tied up wooden rafts and rafts in advance, and then took the attention of the rebel cavalry and barely rushed to the river to cross the water.
Chapter completed!