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"Not good, there are ambushers, and the Huns' cavalry are coming!"

The broken voice of the military officer who turned around and fled sounded the alarm in the Jushi Valley, and the shrill shouts broke the joyful atmosphere of the Dong army soldiers who were making a fortune after the big victory.

"Swish swish swish swish--"

The sharp sound of whistling through the air sounded densely in the Bird and Rat Valley. What followed was the sound of horse hooves like thunder. However, these sounds of horse hooves were not made from the soldiers chasing Dong's soldiers behind, but from the fleeing bandits in front.

"There are ambushes!"

"It's the Huns!"

"The Huns are here!"

"Run!"

Many Dong's soldiers had already dismounted and searched for the abandoned goods everywhere on the mountain road. Some even abandoned all other equipment on their horses, and specially set aside to carry the gold, silver and wealth they had snatched. Now the Huns who were returning suddenly arrived. The Dong's soldiers, who were caught off guard, were shocked and grabbed the goods they had snatched desperately, and then instantly had the idea of ​​taking these goods with them to retreat.

Niu Fu's face, who was still proud just now, suddenly turned into a pig's liver. He was startled by the inexplicable shouts. When he came to his senses, the shouts around him were already rising one after another, and even soldiers holding war horses carrying wealth and goods, crossing his flag in a hurry and fleeing behind.

"Don't retreat, turn around quickly and kill the Huns!"

Niu Fu was furious and rode on his horse, drew his sword out of the sheath, and directed his personal guards to drive away other soldiers to resist the counterattack of the Huns.

"General, General!"

At this time, Hu Chier and others who were carrying Niu Fu's other flag were seized from all directions, and hurried back from the front. Seeing Niu Fu still wanted to drive the soldiers forward, Hu Chier was so scared that she immediately drove the horse to him, grabbed Niu Fu's mount's bridle, and in danger, she didn't care about the distinction between superiors and inferiors, and shouted loudly at Niu Fu in horror:

"General, go quickly, the Huns are really here!"

"What can the Huns do when they come? Those are my defeated generals. I am a great general of the Central Army and I have countless elite cavalry in Liangzhou. Are you still afraid that those stray dogs will not succeed?"

Seeing Niu Fu's temper rising, he wanted to turn the tide with his own strength, turn the situation around, and drive many turn-around soldiers to return to fight with the fierce Hun cavalry, Hu Chier was immediately anxious.

Niu Fu is not very brave in daily life, but he believes in ghosts, gods, witches and divinations. Because of the words of the witches, he always believes that he will win this battle. Now that the situation of the battle has changed, how can he swallow this breath when he failed? His blood rushes, and he loses his timidity. He wants to drive the soldiers to fight bloody battles. How can this be done?

If Niu Fu made up his mind to fight to the death, Hu Chier and his personal guards would have to fight to protect their masters and never retreat. If the situation in peacetime is favorable, they would have surrounded Niu Fu, the main general, rushed into the enemy formation and made meritorious service. But now each of them has a lot of gold, silver and wealth on their horses. How could they be willing to abandon these wealth that they had taken great effort to fight for the bloody battle?

For a moment, Niu Fu's personal guards advised him to avoid the sharp sword for the time being, take a step back one after another, and regroup after evacuating from the dangerous place. In addition to him, there were also Li Jue, Guo Si, Zhang Ji San Captains and Sima who had other troops on the battlefield. I expected that these people would maintain it, and the situation of the war should not collapse.

Just leave this kind of bloody battle to the lower-level soldiers. How could the noble body of a general like him be able to easily show off his courage with the Huns who eat raw meat and drink blood?

Faced with the bitter advice of the guards led by Hu Chier, Niu Fu's thought of fighting bloody battle was quickly thrown out of the sky. He was not a resolute and decisive person at first, and his determination to order a death battle was just a whim when facing the enemy's attack. Now that he calmed down, he felt more and more that he was in a dangerous place and extremely dangerous place.

"Hurry, it's not advisable to stay here for a long time. We - retreat first!"

When Niu Fu, who was hesitant, spit out the words "retreat first" in his mouth, Hu Chier and other personal guards suddenly felt like they were amnesty, surrounded Niu Fu, surrounding him in the center to prevent him from being shot by the scattered arrows on the battlefield, and then led the horse and turned around, taking the opportunity to stuff a few more pieces of gold cakes, and a strand of personal guards with bright armor quickly turned around and retreated.

Soon, such a weird scene appeared in the Bird Rat Valley.

The Dong army soldiers who were rushing to fight for the first time just now were like rats meeting a cat, suddenly turned around and ran back. Niu Fu's flag turned from the front to retreat quickly, which gave everyone a signal of a bad situation. Li Jue, Guo Si, Zhang Ji and others soon fled back with their own troops.

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At the mouth of the bird's valley

"Yanming, the situation seems to be not good. Even General Niu Zhonglang, Li Xiaowei and others in front of us have retreated. Let's retreat quickly!"

Xu Kun and Yan Xing's men had just entered the Bird Rat Valley. Speaking of which, I have to thank Niu Fu, Li Jue and others for this.

This time, Niu Fu personally led his troops to pursue the retreating Baibo bandits. He was unstoppable all the way and bit the tails of the Baibo bandits in the neighboring place of Queshi Valley. No one wants such easy military achievements.

Niu Fu personally led the troops, Li Jue, Guo Si, Zhang Ji, Xu Kun and others also actively asked for the fight. As a result, the position of the front army, which had benefited greatly, was naturally occupied by Niu Fu himself. Xu Kun, Yan Xing and others had already attacked Baibo Gu before and made their first contribution. Niu Fu did not want this young general to make too prominent contributions, so he was famous and was not only a heavy responsibility to protect everyone's retreat, but also left the rear position of Xu Kun's troops to Xu Kun.

Because Li Jue-Third Captain Li made great contributions before and was arranged by Niu Fu to be in the back of the central army. Niu Fu, who was supposed to be in charge of the central army and coordinated with all parties, was too arrogant after defeating Bai Bo's army. Instead, he led his own personal guards to chase and run to the front.

Therefore, although Xu Kun and Yan Xing's men did not gain much benefit because they were behind, they also gave them some time to rectify their troops.

Xu Kun immediately ordered all his troops and wanted to retreat first with the flow and avoid the enemy's edge, but Yan Xing calmly stopped him.

"Sima, wait, look at the smoke in the valley, most of it is also a fraud!"

“How to say it?”

Xu Kun was about to turn around when he heard Yan Xing's words, and was stunned. He noticed what he meant, stopped his movements, but he still held the reins tightly in his hand and looked at Yan Xing and asked.

Yan Xing was in the rear army, far away from the battlefield in the valley, with the bystanders clear. In addition, he was more focused on the changes in the battle situation than anyone else, so at this time he understood the situation the most clearly.

"Sun Tzu's Art of War says, 'Those who are high and sharp dust are coming; those who are low and broad are coming only; those who are scattered and well-known are woodcutters; those who are small and come and go are campers. Please see the dust in this valley, Sima, does it look like a little dust is high and sharp?"

When the army confronts and fights, the two armies do not know the reality of each other. If they take the lead and see through the fog of war on the battlefield, they can often lead the way and defeat the enemy with one move. In addition to using subjective factors such as scouts, spies, and spies, the dust and smoke of the enemy when they march, the remaining stove camps, and the camping smoke and campfires. These objective factors are also very important. They can be observed and collected and used to make a rough guess for the generals to make a general's general's situation.

In his chapter "March Chapter" in the art of war, Sun Tzu happened to describe this aspect of speculative knowledge and concepts.

If the carriage on the opposite side arrives, and when it is running quickly, the wheels and horseshoes are crushed, the smoke and dust raised up are raised high, like a pillar of smoke. Due to the speed of the infantry, the smoke and dust raised up by the marching is obviously lower than the dust of the marches. Moreover, the formation of the infantry is generally unfolded along this battlefield, so the corresponding large amount of smoke and dust will appear wide.

As for the smoke and dust in the valley in front of him, Xu Kun calmed down and looked at it, and soon confirmed that it was not these two.

Although there was constant dust in the valley and loud drums, the dust was evacuated and flying. It was obvious that the enemy's cavalry were riding their horses and pulling firewood. The enemy had not yet benefited enough to catch up with Niu Fu's soldiers and defeated them here, so they specially set up an ambush.

Even if there are, the number of ambushers is definitely only one or two hundred.

After Yan Xing reminded him, Xu Kun quickly realized that the so-called ambush in the valley was bluffing, but he did not have the idea of ​​turning the tide.

Since Niu Fu can exclude himself from the rear army because of his competition for merit, even if he has seen through the enemy's deception, why should he help him recover the game?

Therefore, Xu Kun looked at the soldiers and horses in the valley, running wildly, and smiled coldly. Without opening his mouth, he would continue to turn the horse's head as soon as he tied the reins.

"Ziyu, wait!"

Yan Xing still spoke out again to dissuade him.

"Yanming, I know you want to save the soldiers in this valley, but Niu Funas's face in grabbing the credit this time is really ugly. Now he underestimates the enemy and breaks the good situation. I don't want to step in again!"

Xu Kun's young character, Niu Fu, who relies on his own identity, power to seize credit and suppress the younger generation, is exactly what he hates. Although he knows the reality of the valley, he does not want to save Niu Fu. In his opinion, if Niu Fu dies in this Jushi Valley, it would be a great thing. He will suffer less frustrated in the future, and the soldiers below will also suffer less casualties.

Yan Xing knew that Xu Kun wanted to take the opportunity to make Niu Fu defeat the enemy, so he shook his head. If Niu Fu died in the valley, it would be beneficial to strengthening his own strength, then he was afraid that he would be the first person to look forward to Niu Fu's death. But since they were arranged in the rear army, then defending the retreat of the army at the entrance of the valley is their most important responsibility at the moment.

Once Niu Fu dies, even if there are not many soldiers and horses this time, Dong's army loses its chief general, it will be a big defeat. Many military officers who have lost their battles are afraid that they will not have any good results, which is completely unfavorable to Yan Xing's development in Dong's camp.

If Niu Fu is not dead, facing this defeat caused by his fault, I am afraid that Niu Fu will immediately want to find someone to be a scapegoat, and Li Jue, Guo Si and others are not easy to attack. Instead, Xu Kun, a group of men who are guarding the back of the army are most likely to be falsely accused.

After such an exam, Yan Xing firmly opposed Xu Kun's practice of allowing Niu Fu to be defeated.
Chapter completed!