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Behind Yuezhou is Dongting, which has already been occupied by Bian's army, with 20,000 Bian's troops stationed there. After Dongting is Tanzhou. If Bian Chunliang wants to retreat to Tanzhou, he must pass through Dongting.

From Yuezhou to Dongting, there was only one road to march on.

Li Xian has deployed 40,000 troops in advance on the side of this must-pass road.

Naturally, such a movement could not be hidden from the eyes and ears of Dongting Bian Jun, but today is different from the past. More than half of the 100,000 troops in Yuezhou City were infected with the epidemic. With all the advantages lost, the situation was critical. The 20,000 Dongting Bian Jun did not dare to make a rash move first. We can only report the news to Bian Chunliang and wait for Bian Chunliang's instructions.

There are also about 20,000 Bian troops stationed in Tanzhou after Dongting. However, in order to support Yuezhou with food and wages, Tanzhou is also facing a shortage of military rations. Many soldiers have been ordered to urgently "requisition" food and grass from all over the place. At present, there are less than one troop available to support. Ten thousand.

As for Hengzhou and Yongzhou further behind, each state also had about 20,000 Bian troops guarding the city. However, it would take at least seven days for them to gather their troops and rush to Dongting after receiving Bian Chunliang's order.

Bian Chunliang obviously couldn't wait that long. The longer he delayed, the more of his people would die. He didn't want to, was unwilling, and thought he shouldn't be trapped alive in Yuezhou City like this.

General Li Xian had a clear understanding of Bian Chunliang's current predicament and the forces that could be mobilized. Therefore, he has full confidence in his plan to intercept and kill Bian Chunliang.

In Li Xian's plan, the best result should have been that Bian Chunliang died of the epidemic, but God was not kind to him - but it didn't matter. In this way, he would have the opportunity to kill Bian Chunliang with his own hands.

Bian Chunliang's available troops were less than 50,000, and most of them were weak generals who had not had enough to eat for many days. However, he had an army of 120,000, and each of them was strong and powerful... Even though there were 20,000 Bian troops in Dongting behind to support Bian Chunliang, their morale was also low. Turmoil is nothing to fear.

He would never let Bian Chunliang have the chance to enter the Dongting alive!

Once Bian Chunliang dies, Bian's army in the rear will naturally be defeated without a fight. He can easily take back half of the city of Jiangnan West Road that was occupied by Bian's army!

When the time comes, he will have such great achievements, so what will the minor mistakes concerning the tens of thousands of people in Yuezhou count?

Victory is based on piles of corpses. Using the humble common people as the price can weaken Bian Jun to this point and turn Bian Jun into a sick dog waiting to be slaughtered. Bian Jun's rebellion can be put down as quickly as possible at the smallest cost - the importance of this. Gains and losses, all wise people know how to choose.

And his aunt has always been very wise. Without this wisdom, her aunt would not be where she is today.

Regarding such matters, Li Xian believed that he knew better than anyone else that what his aunt cared about most was the outcome - especially in such a precarious situation nowadays. The word "result" was destined to override everything else in his aunt's heart. .

After this incident, what if Li Xian gets a bad reputation? He has made such great achievements, what can the so-called notoriety do to him? But it will only increase the world's fear of him.

Notoriety is also a reputation, and only the strong can be feared.

He has endured it for so long and listened to countless words that added insult to injury, and today is the day when he completely crushes all these foolish words!

Li Xian led the army away from the camp, the rolling horseshoes urging him to win.

Li Xian imagined countless ways and situations of victory, and repeatedly explored Bian Jun's situation, but he only missed one thing - or in other words, he underestimated the hatred of the mortals and their possible The changes brought about.

Bian Chunliang was never one to sit back and wait for death, and he never looked at any war in a negative and pessimistic manner.

Moreover, he is very clear about his own advantages. As he said before, he can get to where he is today because of the human heart.

This plague took away the knife in his hand and turned this place into purgatory. But Bian Chunliang saw the blazing fire in this purgatory, and determined that this purgatory fire could help him forge another sharp sword—

This time he will use this sharp sword to open a way out.

Bian Chunliang ordered the less than 50,000 soldiers, and before setting off, he put on his armor and boarded the Yuezhou City Tower.

He couldn't break out with the infected soldiers, but he didn't intend to call it abandonment -

At this moment, the generals and soldiers infected with the epidemic were standing under the city tower, and the atmosphere of despair and uneasiness filled the air.

But then, Bian Chunliang's words changed the desperate atmosphere.

Bian Chunliang denounced the despicable behavior of the imperial army and the arrogant and cold-blooded attitude of the imperial court in the capital.

Hatred began to appear in the eyes of the people below the tower.

Bian Chunliang's voice was sonorous and powerful: "...If God does not destroy tyranny, how can we destroy Bian's army!"

"You are praying for the lives of all people, just to seek justice. What is wrong with you!"

"If the imperial court had not been unkind, how would the current situation have happened!"

"If the court is unruly, it will not be tolerated by heaven and earth!"

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Under the city tower, countless responding voices began to sound. Those voices were angry and fierce, filled with unwillingness and resentment.

Most of these people were ordinary people, and they were already very dissatisfied with the imperial court. This man-made plague has undoubtedly made their hatred rise again.

But Bian Chunliang's words were like a fire, completely igniting the hatred in their hearts. The fire burned crazily, and countless desperate souls twisted and deformed in the boundless sea of ​​​​fire.

"Sitting and waiting to be killed is what cowards do! Even though we have a low status, we should not be like animals and let them kill us again and again!"

"Those who still have the strength, pick up your sword and go get the justice you want with your own hands!"

"Tooth for tooth, life for life, this is the greatest justice in the world!"

Bian Chunliang's loud and heavy voice was filled with great determination: "My son Bian Cheng will go with you!"

Among the crowd below the tower, the young man standing at the front, half-supported by a soldier, froze when he heard the words, looking up at the tall and burly father above in disbelief.

His chapped and scabbed lips murmured: "Father..."

Did his father even want to abandon him?

He wanted to ask, but didn't dare.

He noticed that the crowd behind him exploded with greater strength because of his father's "selfless" words.

When Bian Cheng was in a panic, he saw his father striding down the tower and walking towards him with his guards and several of his younger brothers.

Bian Cheng suddenly knelt down and kowtowed with a trembling voice: "...Father!"

For a moment, a pair of strong hands held his trembling shoulders.

Bian Cheng froze and subconsciously wanted to retreat for fear of passing the epidemic to his father.

But the voice said: "Da Lang, raise your head."

Bian Cheng raised his head tremblingly.

"My father has never left this sword..." Bian Chunliang, who was half-crouching, took off his sword and handed it to his eldest son: "Today, my father will give it to you."

Bian Cheng took it with both hands. He had wanted his father's sword for a long time. It seemed that with this sword, he could be as brave as his father and gain the respect and following of everyone.

But he never thought that he would take over the sword in such a situation.

His father's hand was still holding his shoulder heavily, and his voice was as strong as his palm: "Today, my son can take this sharpest sword and lead the most loyal soldiers behind you to do their most heroic mission." General, fight a battle that belongs to Bian Cheng!”

Bian Cheng's eyes trembled: "Father, son..."

He wanted to say that he was scared, but the next moment, his father was holding him in his arms, just like he did when he was a child. Bian Cheng suddenly burst into tears.

With tears in his eyes, he saw his brothers standing behind his father.

He has always known that although he is the eldest son, he is not his father's most outstanding son. The second brother is calm, and the third brother is smart... He, the eldest brother, does not have the magnificence that an eldest brother should have.

Therefore, he had a grudge and never got along well with his brothers.

But at this time, he saw his second brother's eyes were slightly red, and his third brother was hesitant to speak but looked at him.

Bian Cheng suddenly smiled.

He's going to die anyway.

You're going to die no matter what...Why do you have to be a coward that others look down upon!

"Father..." Bian Cheng took a deep, trembling breath, withdrew from his father's embrace, held up the sword with both hands, and said loudly: "My son is willing to go!"

The corners of Bian Chunliang's eyes were slightly red, and he looked at the eldest son in front of him happily: "Okay...!"

"After the death of the child, the father does not have to collect the body for the child!" Bian Cheng's voice was extremely hoarse. He pulled off the jade pendant from his waist, placed it in front of and behind him, and knocked his head heavily on the ground: "I only ask that after my father achieves hegemony, he can place this jade in the Bian family." In the ancestral hall, let your son be the son of the Bian family again in the next life!"

Bian Chunliang picked up the jade pendant, held it tightly in his hand, and said in a loud voice, "When my father takes over the capital, I will make my son Bian Cheng the crown prince of the new dynasty!"

Bian Cheng kowtowed again to say goodbye: "My son, I hope that my father's great wish will be fulfilled for generations to come!"

The generals behind Bian Cheng also knelt down and bid farewell to Bian Chunliang.

Then, Bian Cheng stood up with his sword and faced behind him. His red eyes burst out with determination and determination. He raised his sword and shouted: "Follow me, follow me first, kill the unkind government, and avenge this sworn enemy!" "

Countless echoes rose from the sky.

After that, with the determination to die, they stepped out of Yuezhou City first to clear the way for Bian Chunliang.

Li Xian never expected that the epidemic-stricken Bian army, who should have been abandoned by Bian Chunliang and left to die in Yuezhou City, would actually attack first with such an offensive.

Li Xian sneered: "Is it too slow to die?"

He didn't care, he raised his hand and ordered to kill the enemy.

Those people also had war horses, bows and crossbows, and more of them were infantrymen holding swords and guns. They didn't have a strict formation to speak of, but they were coming with menacing force. A rough estimate was that there were about 40,000 people.

Among these 40,000 people, not all were Bian soldiers, but also Yuezhou people wearing commoners. They didn't even have decent weapons in their hands, but they had an amazing fighting spirit. They rushed towards the rigorously formed imperial army with the smell of self-immolation.

Even if there are 40,000 people who don't have much fighting ability, it will take a long killing process to kill them all.

Therefore, in a battle, it is never the best policy to kill the enemy. The first thing is to break the opponent's military morale. For an ordinary team, the bottom line for morale collapse is usually 30% of the casualties - if three of the ten comrades die, the remaining seven will be destroyed. People's morale was greatly reduced.

But this common sense on the battlefield cannot be applied to the epidemic-stricken army in front of us.

They didn't care at all how many people died, their hatred overshadowed their pain, and their despair of death made them no longer afraid of death. They shouted to kill, but only killing and revenge were left in their minds.

They will not retreat, they will only rush forward, without any structure or order, and their fighting style is like the savage bite of animals.

The war horses turned on their backs and neighed, dust and smoke filled the sky, and blood flew from the stumps. The raging hatred and murderous intent spurted out, burning and melting all order.

Being among them, many of the imperial troops gradually felt unrealistic. This was not the most powerful enemy they had ever encountered, but it was the most terrifying.

Those people held knives in their hands, and the hatred in their eyes was another knife. There is still a sound, but it seems that it has become an unconscious soul. Before falling into hell, it just wants to drag the enemy into the abyss at all costs.

In a daze, many soldiers in the imperial court couldn't tell whether the other party was an evil ghost, or whether they themselves, holding the butcher knife, were the evil ghost, or both of them.

This killing, like a long nightmare, is destined to be firmly engraved in their hearts.

They began to feel fear, fear of the resentment in those people's eyes, and fear of the disease on those people. The Korean government said that as long as they drank the military decoction every day, they would not contract the disease, but some people still accidentally contracted it. , Mr. South Korea also said that even if he is infected, it is mild and will not kill people.

They wanted to believe it, but they didn't dare to believe it. The South Korean Lord treated Bian Jun and even the people of Yuezhou in such a way... Can they believe his words?

A coach who is too unscrupulous is destined to lose his convincing ability to a certain extent.

Under the double fear, for a while, facing the enemy troops that were constantly attacking, the imperial army began to show signs of retreating.

Li Xian was furious and ordered the enemy to be killed.

In the end, it was Xiao Min who stepped forward to stabilize the war situation and the morale of the troops, preventing the situation from getting out of control and falling into a disadvantage.

At this time, Bian Chunliang led nearly 50,000 troops rolling in, hoping to escape while the imperial army was being held back.

Li Xian immediately ordered 80,000 troops, forced his way out, and went to pursue Bian Chunliang, leaving Xiao Min to stay behind to deal with these difficult Bian troops suffering from the epidemic.

There have been too many killings. Xiao Min wants to stop the war and even promises to find ways to treat them. However, those Bian Jun who are suffering from the epidemic have lost any sense and only want to take revenge on the court.

Either you die, I die, or both are destroyed, there is no other choice.

Xiao Min had no other choice.

The battle here was forced to last for a day and a night. When the tens of thousands of Bian's troops were almost killed, all the soldiers led by Xiao Min were exhausted, both physically and mentally.

Xiao Min was covered in blood, standing in the distance, looking at countless corpses and body parts stacked up, his ears were ringing, and there was only one voice left in his head - it can't go on like this.

But...how to stop?

Xiao Min raised his blood-stained face and looked up at the thin blue sky that was about to light up. Remembering the emperor's decree to "put the overall situation of the war first", his eyes were filled with confusion and self-doubt.

At this time, the battle situation of Li Xian's pursuit of Bian Chunliang was reported from the front.

The two sides fought, and the weak Bian army lost 20,000 soldiers, and Li Xian also lost more than 10,000 soldiers. However, with the support of the Dongting and Tanzhou garrison, Bian Chunliang finally escaped.

Li Xian was unwilling to give up and ordered Xiao Min from behind to provide supplies and reinforcements, while he continued to pursue Bian Chunliang.

When Bian Chunliang entered Tanzhou, he immediately ordered the city gates to be closed.

Li Xian's army trekked all the way to pursue, but was unable to continue to attack the city and had to temporarily camp to rest.

Li Xian was furious because he missed the opportunity to kill Bian Chunliang, but he still sent word of victory to the capital as soon as possible. Although he failed to kill Bian Chunliang for the time being, at least he severely injured Bian Jun's vitality and took back Yuezhou. And Dongting!

Along with Li Xian's good news reaching the capital, there were also countless voices questioning the accountability of the imperial court.

Good night everyone~