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Fifty miles south of Kunyang, in a small forest, the soldiers from Dingling were resting.

Liu Xiu gnawed the hard bread, leaning against the tree trunk, and his expression was full of fatigue.

They had not had a good sleep for two days and two nights. Now this short rest lasted only one or two hours, and then they had to go back on their way again.

Even in this short period of one or two, this is an opportunity that has finally won.

Almost all the supplies were abandoned yesterday, leaving only three-day dry food that each person carried with him. But what should I do after I finished eating the dry food

Even Li Tong, who was smiling all day long, had a hint of worry on his face at this time.

Ten days ago, Liu Xiu noticed something was wrong. The defenders who were originally surrounded by Kunyang suddenly began to move on a large scale. The camps they had set up were put away, and the surrounding encirclement nets were cancelled one by one, and they began to be converted into a state of marching.

Then, the army, which was originally entrenched outside Kunyang City like a huge monster, could only passively react, seemed to have all its bodies turned into tentacles and quickly stretched out.

The new army did not rush to fight with Liu Xiu, but tried to disperse the troops in the direction of the movement of Liu Xiu's troops, and then gradually tightened them.

The new army's troops were scattered and searched for Liu Xiu's traces in a large area south of Kunyang, but they would never be like this again. Once they were discovered, they tried to contact and fight, but hung from a distance, and called on friendly forces to come and respond.

If Liu Xiu let it go, the troops behind him will become bigger and bigger like snowballs, and the new troops in the other directions will gradually move closer to their position.

But if Liu Xiu took the initiative to turn around and wanted to defeat him in one fell swoop before he found that his troops had reached a certain level, the other party would never take the initiative to fight with him, but would immediately turn around and retreat.

Now, the range of maneuverability of Liu Xiu has become smaller and smaller. No matter which direction he is moving, he will soon encounter a small group of new troops cruising, and then repeat the snowball process above again. Even if the occasional forcing troops can temporarily distance himself from the enemy and disappear from the opponent's sight, he will soon be discovered by the overwhelming new troops.

The fatigue of the soldiers under his command has reached its limit. If this continues, perhaps even if the place can completely gather the encirclement net, the troops will be disintegrated first.

Liu Xiu swallowed a sip of dry food hard and breathed a sigh of relief: "Li Tong, what do you think of the situation now?"

"If it were three days ago, we might have the chance to forcibly defeat one or two new troops, and then head south towards Wancheng. But now..." Li Tong shook his head with a wry smile: "So far, there are the most enemy troops southward. It seems that Wang Yi and Wang Xun were also most worried that we would break into Wancheng. This road is probably not feasible."

When Li Tong said this, he looked up at the sunshine falling from the shade of the tree and the soldiers around him who were panting and twisting under the tree: "I finally got rid of the pursuers behind him for two consecutive days. The soldiers' physical strength has reached their limit. Even if there is no blockage in front, it is probably very difficult to just outperform the pursuers behind him."

Liu Xiu frowned tightly and looked towards Wancheng to the south.

There, the siege continues... When will the main force come to rescue?

If there were no reinforcements, not only Kunyang, but even his own life would probably be about to end.

"Brother, do you know that I can't hold on to Kunyang anymore. If it falls, you..."

Liu Xiu murmured to himself, but his whole body suddenly shook and his eyes lit up: "Wait, Li Tong, I thought of it! We still have a way out!"

"What's the way to live?" Li Tong and Ren Guang expressed their joy at the same time and asked in unison.

"Since the new army is afraid that we will escape in the direction of Wancheng, and the south is the direction with the strictest defense, then relatively speaking, the north is the most empty." Liu Xiu thought for a while: "If we go north to Kunyang, we may be able to break through the encirclement outside the city and rush into Kunyang City!"

"This... this is the so-called road of life." Ren Guang's eyes widened: "Even if it is called emptiness, it is only relative to the direction south! There are at least a new army of more than 100,000 people between us and Kunyang City! What's the difference between this and dying? What's more, even if we can really break through the siege and rush to Kunyang City, how many people can we finally enter the city?"

"What's the difference... is the difference between 100% and 90% of the time." Liu Xiu smiled: "Since it's hard to fly, why not choose a direction that still has a glimmer of hope, even if there are more than 100,000 enemies in this direction, they wouldn't have thought that we would fight northward, and secondly, these 100,000 people could not be all in front of us. Since the camp has been advanced, there must be a gap between each of these new troops. As long as they can pass through the gap before they react and close, then..."

"It seems that this is indeed the only way. While the soldiers' physical strength and morale have not been consumed yet..." Li Tong patted the crumbs on his hand, nodded and stood up: "Then, go north and break into Kunyang!"

"General, the enemy has bitten it, and there are still ten miles." A side general trotted to Liu Xiu and reported in a low voice: "Are we fighting or... continue to retreat?"
Chapter completed!