Not to mention that Yuan Shao designed to kill Xiao Ran, but Xiao Ran felt suspicious when he saw Yan Liang not coming to attack the city for a long time, and quickly called a shadow leader to say to him: "Send someone out of the city to inquire immediately to see if Yuan Shao's army has arrived. If it is, I'm afraid that Yuan Shao and others will be in trouble." After hearing this, the shadow leader immediately left, then returned to the shadow stronghold, and then sent a few shadows out of the city to inquire about the news.

After several shadows took the order, they soon came to Yan Liang's camp to conduct a search. However, after searching for a while, no abnormality was found. Suddenly, several shadows were about to go back and report. Just as they took a step, one of the shadows suddenly found a trace of clues and shouted, "Don't go first, I'll find the clue." Hearing this, the other shadows approached the talking shadow and checked together, and saw deep footprints and ruts next to a tree.

After seeing everyone coming back, the Shadow who spoke tested the depth of footprints and ruts with his hands. After the Shadow continued, "I am afraid that Yuan Shao's army should have arrived at this depth, and there are traces of concealment here. I am afraid that Yuan Shao would want to ambush General Xiao while General Xiao is unprepared." Hearing this, another Shadow said, "Since we have discovered it, let's go back and report to General Xiao quickly so that General Xiao can be prepared." After hearing this, the Shadows agreed, and then left Yan Liang's camp and returned to Qingyuan County.

After the Shadows returned to Qingyuan County, they immediately reported the information to the Shadow Leader. After hearing this, the Shadow Leader did not dare to neglect, so he quickly came to the mansion where Xiao Ran was. When Xiao Ran saw the Shadow Leader, he immediately said, "Is there any movement outside the city?" After the Shadow Leader, he immediately told the news that the Shadow Leader had found. After hearing this, Xiao Ran let the Shadow Leader go down first, and then said to himself: "Yuan Shao must be planning something. I can't act rashly, otherwise wouldn't it be a disappointment to my third brother's trust in me." After that, Xiao Ran put this matter temporarily in his heart and prepared to wait and see what happened.

As the night fell, the sun rose, and the next day, Gao Lan led 10,000 soldiers from Yanliang Camp and soon arrived at the foot of Qingyuan County. Then, Gao Lan shouted to the city tower: "Listen to me, Xiao Ran in the city, Gao Lan, I am the general Gao Lan, who came to challenge him under the order of General Yan, and came out to fight me for 300 rounds when he was aware of it." After Xiao Ran heard Gao Lan's call, he browned and thought to himself: 'Why is Gao Lan so familiar?' After thinking for a while, Xiao Ran suddenly realized and said to himself: "I remember, isn't this Gao Lan one of the four pillars of Hebei under Yuan Shao's command?"

After thinking about it, Xiao Ran continued to say to himself: "Since Gao Lan appears, Yuan Shao's army must be nearby. I must be careful to avoid being trapped." After saying that, Xiao Ran came out of the house, came to the city tower, and shouted to Gao Lan off the field: "That thief general, your generals are not my opponents, how dare you show off in front of me?" After seeing Xiao Ran come out, Gao Lan immediately said: "General Xiao, in terms of martial arts, I am not your opponents, so I am here to fight the formation. Do you dare to break the formation?"

After hearing this, Xiao Ran laughed and replied, "Just, are I afraid of your breaking formations? No matter how powerful your formation is, it will not be better than my elder brother." After hearing this, Gao Lan continued, "Then do you dare or not?" After hearing this, Xiao Ran thought to himself, 'Why is Gao Lan trying to let me out of the city? Is there an ambush around? But where is the ambush hidden in this horse?' As he was thinking, Gao Lan urged Xiao Ran again. After hearing this, Xiao Ran came to a corner and said to the shadow leader; "Take your brothers and see if there are any ambushes nearby. If not, I will go out to the city to meet the enemy."

The Shadow leader immediately took Shadow out of the city and searched, and Xiao Ran returned to the city tower and said to Gao Lan; "Gao Lan, you are just an unknown man, how can you let me out of the city to break the formation?" Gao Lan wanted to tell the truth after hearing this, but after remembering the mission, he held it back and said, "Xiao Ran, don't talk nonsense. If you dare not break the formation, it means you are just like that." After hearing this, Xiao Ran continued to argue with Gao Lan while waiting for the news of Shadow to come.

After a while, Shadow sent back the news and confirmed that there were no ambushers near Gao Lan. Then, Xiao Ran opened the city gate and rode out of the city alone. Besides, Gao Lan was very happy to see Xiao Ran finally leaving the city, and he was still riding alone, but he pretended to be calm and said, "Xiao Ran, I told you to come out just now, you didn't come out, why are you coming out again now?" After hearing this, Xiao Ran smiled and replied, "I'm afraid you have ambushers." After hearing this, Gao Lan shook his heart for a moment, thinking that Xiao Ran had seen through their plan.

But Gao Lan thought about it and found that Xiao Ran had no reason to know their plan. Then he calmly replied: "General Xiao is joking." After hearing this, Xiao Ran replied: "Soldiers are never tired of cheating." After saying this, Xiao Ran continued: "What formation do you want to set up? Let me see." After hearing this, Gao Lan immediately directed the soldiers to set up the formation. When Xiao Ran saw Gao Lan set up the formation, he laughed and said: "Gao Lan, you can use such a simple formation. Who are you fooling? I can break this formation by riding alone." Gao Lan thought to himself: "I want to set up a complex formation, so do you still dare to come out?"

After thinking about it, Gao Lan continued, "General Xiao, don't look at the simplicity of this formation, it actually has hidden mystery." After hearing this, Xiao Ran thought to himself: 'I saw that my elder brother had arranged this formation, and it does have hidden mystery, but I already knew the method of breaking the formation. In this case, I took off Gao Lan's head, took the plan, let Yuan Shao's army take action, and then attacked for a strong attack.' After thinking about it, Xiao Ran said to Gao Lan: "Gaolan, have you arranged it? I will ride alone to pass the barrier." After hearing this, Gao Lan felt a little surprised at Xiao Ran's confidence and thought to himself: 'Since Xiao Ran has a strong martial arts skills, can he still march and set up a formation? This is impossible, it is unrealistic no matter how you think about it.'

Then, Gao Lan continued, "Xiao Ran, I have set up a formation, come on!" After saying that, Gao Lan commanded ten thousand armored soldiers to act. Seeing this, Xiao Ran immediately rushed into the formation. After Xiao Ran entered the formation, Gao Lan thought to himself: "Since Xiao Ran breaks the formation alone, there is no need to lure the enemy, so let me trap Xiao Ran to death in the formation." After thinking about it, Gao Lan commanded the armored soldiers to attack Xiao Ran continuously, but Xiao Ran had a lot of experience in this formation and resolved the attack of the formation one by one. Gao Lan was very shocked when he saw this because he had already achieved the ultimate, but he was not harmed by Xiao Ran.

Just when Gao Lan was frightened, Xiao Ran had already rushed to Gao Lan's vicinity. Then, Xiao Ran shouted loudly, "Gao Lan, take your life!" As he said that, Xiao Ran shot Gao Lan from the back of the horse. Gao Lan suddenly woke up when he heard Xiao Ran's shouting and found that Xiao Ran had rushed to him and stabbed him. He was shocked and took out his spear with his backhand and blocked it. As a result, he was shocked to retreat step by step. Seeing this, Xiao Ran knew that the opportunity was impossible to miss, he immediately chased after him, threw out his double-snippet guns and stabbed Gao Lan to death with one shot.

Immediately, Xiao Ran took off Gao Lan's head and shouted to the soldiers of Jizhou: "Your lord is dead." After seeing this, the soldiers of Jizhou were afraid of Xiao Ran from the bottom of their hearts, because Xiao Ran felt as if he had entered a no-man in the formation of ten thousand people, and also took off the head of the general Gao Lan. In an instant, ten thousand soldiers were scared by Xiao Ran alone and fled in a hurry. After seeing this, Xiao Ran laughed and rode back to Qingyuan County on a horse.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!