This time he ran six or seven hundred miles away. It was not until he arrived outside a towering city that Long Tieshan stopped running away. While ordering people to call the city to open the city, he asked the generals in the city to send people to pick up his troops. While gathering the remaining soldiers who followed him and making preparations to enter the city when he blocked Xia Fan's attack.

Despite experiencing a crushing defeat and being chased all the way, the elites brought out by Long Tieshan are worthy of being elites. After hearing the order, even though they were in a panic, they were still quickly arranged into a neat military formation, which gradually calmed down their originally panic.

It was not until this time that Long Tieshan realized that the soldiers and generals around him were barely capable of 20,000 people. In other words, after retreating from the previous battlefield and experiencing a cruel pursuit of six or seven hundred miles, his troops lost 10,000.

This discovery made Long Tieshan both angry and heartbroken, and his qi and blood were churning, and he almost vomited blood on the spot.

From the time he joined the army as a teenager to later gradually becoming a general, he had experienced dozens of wars in all sizes and sizes in the past thirty or forty years, and he had never been defeated. Unexpectedly, he was defeated miserably by Xia Fan today, and he was defeated so miserably.

When he led his troops out that day, although he claimed to be commanding 300,000 troops, in fact, he only had 150,000 troops. When Long Tieshan was ordered to go to war, he thought that most of his troops were elite troops who had participated in two wars of destruction of the country before. When the morale was so high, he would not lose in any case against the more than 100,000 troops in Baishi City. Moreover, there were 3,000 wind cavalry accompanying him, so he could win and not lose.

However, Long Tieshan never expected that the final result would be so unexpected. Not only did he lose, he also lost more than 130,000 troops in an instant. Although such losses are not enough to hurt the current Holy Dragon Kingdom, for him, it is a major stain that is difficult to erase in his life.

At this time, Long Tieshan looked at the ghostly souls in the distance, and couldn't help but feel a little dazed. When he recalled the previous battle, he couldn't even figure out where he lost. Why did he lose in a confused way? It was so incredible!

Xia Fan was standing five or six miles away at this time, looking at Longtie Mountain from afar, allowing the 20,000 remaining soldiers who were chased by him to form an army formation, but did not send soul bodies to attack.

This is not because Xia Fan was soft-hearted and wanted to let Long Tieshan go, but because the battle has reached this point and has completely achieved his pre-determined goal, so there is no need to add anything else.

Xia Fan could see that after experiencing a crushing defeat and being chased by his own tail, the 20,000 remaining soldiers were extremely tired, but they did not collapse in morale. Instead, everyone seemed to be holding their anger in their hearts, especially when they stood in front of the city wall, not only did they not become restless because there was a way of life behind them, but they were quiet as if they were a group of statues, but their eyes burst into crazy eyes like trapped beasts.

The military strategy says: arrogant soldiers will be defeated, and sad soldiers will be defeated. Although this statement is not absolute, an army in desperate situation can indeed burst out with extraordinary combat power.

Now the 20,000 remaining soldiers brought by Long Tieshan are the perfect mourning soldiers. They were originally the elite of the Holy Dragon Kingdom, who had experienced many wars and won victory, and had extremely proud in their hearts, but in this war they thought they could win, they were defeated by the army of Baishi City, which made them angry, depressed, and sad... All kinds of emotions made each of them feel like they were holding a ball of fire in their hearts, which made them want to destroy others or simply destroy themselves.

If Xia Fan chooses to attack now, it is equivalent to helping them find an outlet to vent their emotions. They will definitely pounce on them like trapped beasts, fighting with all their strength, and never stopping. In this way, if they win, they will be like pig iron after tempering and transforming into steel. On the contrary, if they lose, they will be in a slump.

As their enemy, Xia Fan naturally wanted to destroy them. But he didn't want to take this risk. It was not that he didn't dare, but that it was completely unnecessary.

After this war, Xia Fan has exceeded the set goal and there is no need to pay attention to these 20,000 remaining soldiers.

If they were in the wild now, Xia Fan would probably attack them directly with their soul bodies, but now there is a city behind them, which means there must be a large number of troops in it, so there is no need for Xia Fan to do this.

Because if he really fights, if he loses, he will help these 20,000 remaining soldiers to be reborn, which will be of no benefit to him. But even if he wins, he will only kill 20,000 more people, and the price he has to pay may be quite high. After all, there will most likely be more reinforcements in that city, and it will be very troublesome whether he fights or leaves.

If they don't fight, it will be the beginning of suffering for the 20,000 remaining soldiers, because the resentment and anger in their hearts will be gone, which will make them crazy and aggressive, either destroying others or destroying themselves.

As the commander-in-chief, what Xia Fan needs to do is not endless battles, but to make choices from the overall situation at all times. It is as if it is better not to fight at this time than to fight, so you will definitely not fight.

After making up his mind, Xia Fan looked at the city in the distance deeply. With a divine thought, he had already put away the remaining soul body, and then set up a flying sword to return along the original Luffy.

"He actually left?!"

"This guy chased us all the way, but now he just ran away like this. It's so hateful!"

"Come back! You're so fucking you, come back and fight us to the death."

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Seeing Xia Fan fly away, the 20,000 remaining soldiers who were already ready to fight to the death were all dumbfounded, and then all kinds of shouts and scolding sounded. Because it was like they were trying to fight to the death, but the enemy ran away with a fake move. This made them feel like they were being played with, and at the same time, they were also empty, and they had no place to vent their anger.

They were angry and cursed, but they had no choice but to do anything because they could not chase after Xia Fan and fight for life. Although they cursed fiercely, most people secretly breathed a sigh of relief. After all, who would be willing to die if they could live? This is human nature. Even if they are strong elites, they would not really not be afraid of death.

But it was difficult to lift it up after being relieved. Many soldiers who were already in high spirits of fighting as if they were injected with chicken blood suddenly became decadent.

Long Tieshan noticed the changes in his expressions of the soldiers under his command, and his heart suddenly felt as bitter as if he had swallowed Coptis chinensis, because he knew that even if these soldiers were not completely destroyed, they would not be able to recover their previous morale in a short period of time.

This made Long Tieshan wonder whether Xia Fan left without hesitation would have calculated that such a result would be possible. Thinking of this, Long Tieshan couldn't help but change his face slightly and said to himself: If all this is in Xia Fan's calculation, then he would be terrible.

"Let's go, go into the city." Long Tieshan watched Xia Fan disappear in the horizon, waved his hand and brought 20,000 remaining soldiers into the city. At the same time, he also began to think about how to report to the king of the country's defeat.

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As early as when Long Tieshan was defeated and fled, someone had already passed the news to Long Xiaoshu.

No king of state would be assured to hand over his army completely to others. Therefore, when a general like Long Tieshan went on an expedition, Long Xiaoshu would still routinely insert some secret spies who were loyal to him into the army, in order to understand any movements of the army in a timely manner, so as to avoid the generals from bullying the superiors and concealing the subordinates. It is precisely because of these secret spies that before the Long Tieshan could apologize for his defeat, Long Xiaoshu had already known the whole process.

At that time, Long Xiaoshu was having breakfast. When he received the information, he thought it was news that Long Tieshan won a great victory, but after he took a look at the content of the information, his face suddenly changed and he said sternly: "How could Long Tieshan be defeated by that Xia Fan? How dare he lose!"

In a rage, Long Xiaoshu's aura suddenly increased, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth suddenly condensed. The dining table in front of him, filled with various delicacies, was crushed into pieces, and even the bricks and stones on the ground were crushed.

First, he captured the Yunhuanhu Basin, defeated Xia Fan, and also included Baishi City. Then he defeated Lan Haolin and Lu Chuan, annexed most of the territory of the Lan Yu Kingdom, and then attacked the Shenmu Kingdom, thus laying the solid foundation for his conquest of all directions to achieve eternal hegemony. It was Long Xiaoshu's established strategy, but he never expected that such a big mistake had just begun with this huge strategic plan.

Last time, Long Xiaoshu sent Hao Rong to Baishicheng to envoy Xia Fan, but failed to succeed, which made him realize that Xia Fan was not Yi. When he said that Xia Fan was a little interesting, he did not completely regard him as an opponent who could be on par with him. Because at that time, even if Xia Fan got Baishicheng, it was nothing at all. Lan Haolin could not beat Xia Fan, which only means that Lan Haolin was stupid. If he had been himself, he could completely crush Xia Fan until his death.

Until he heard that Xia Fan defeated Lan Haolin and captured the Yunhuan Lake Basin in one fell swoop, Long Xiaoshu still felt that Xia Fan had just picked up a bargain because Lan Haolin, who was his opponent, was too weak.

However, in order to complete his huge strategy as soon as possible, Long Xiaoshu still sent Long Tieshan to lead an army of 150,000 to attack Xia Fan. In his opinion, this is quite worthy of Xia Fan. With Long Tieshan's ability to command troops and have 150,000 elite troops accompanying him, it is absolutely easy to defeat Xia Fan. He just needs to wait for the good news.
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