The officers and soldiers quickly laid siege to the city.

And Li Shu handled it well, and Xiong Bonan's appearance should be regarded as timely making up for the most dangerous shortcoming... The mask master on the opposite side did appear at the top of the city, but he encountered a long-standing reputation. In Hebei, the east border is good.

The famous Purple Faced Heavenly King and two Chengdan masters fought in the air for a whole morning, and since they were both decent men with martial arts, they naturally attracted the attention of the whole city.

Li Shu also allowed his followers to watch.

Because after experiencing this great defeat, no one would make the mistake of underestimating the enemy again. In contrast, most of the defeated troops were depressed. It made them realize that it was a good thing that the Deposed Dragon Gang also had top experts.

It is worth mentioning that Shan Tonghai was not among those who were depressed. He struggled up to the top of the city. After looking at it for a while, he lost interest. The other party was in the Chengdan realm and he had already begun to think that it was simply because of his inferior skills.

He's just a human being, and once he improves his cultivation level, he may not be able to lose, and he may even be able to take revenge.

In contrast, the big leader was more worried that his military power would be completely wiped out.

But the leader Shan also understood that in such a situation, we must unite and work together to deal with the outside world. Unity of command is simply a must, so his actions were limited to moving around with lameness and internal injuries to comfort the wounded and retreat.

Seek information.

But after a turn of events, Shan Tonghai, who had not been too depressed in the morning, became completely powerless in the evening, because only three or four thousand of his 20,000 soldiers came back, and more than half of them were Jiyin Central Army.

In other words, the soldiers from Lu County and the military bandits from Juyeze were almost completely gone. They had attacked in the past few months and had nothing in exchange. Even the headquarters suffered heavy losses.

Returning to his residence, he had a dull meal. At night, Shan Dalang tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. However, he found Cheng Dalang, who was in the same hospital again... Anyway, the two of them could now be considered to have sympathy for each other, and they were brothers.

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At this time, Cheng Dalang could tolerate it even if he was mean-mouthed, but even if others were polite, it would make people feel unhappy.

After knocking on the door, Shan Tonghai heard a reply from inside and dragged his legs in. He saw Cheng Dalang talking to the young man named Jia. When the latter two saw him coming in, they immediately shut up, and the young man named Jia also immediately shut up.

Give up your seat and stand aside.

When Shan Dalang saw this, he didn't notice anything and sat directly over.

"Master Shan, take good care of your health." Cheng Dalang responded coldly. "My legs are lame and I'm still running around. I'm not afraid of people laughing at me."

"You only have to walk around because your leg is lame, otherwise others will just think you are dead." Shan Tonghai did not hesitate at all. "It is better than Cheng Dalang's side. Even if you want to walk around, there is nowhere to go...

"

Cheng Dalang smiled, as if he was laughing, but also seemed to be laughing at himself.

Shan Dalang glanced at the young man surnamed Jia standing on one side and sighed with emotion: "You have to thank Xiao Jia. If it weren't for him, there would be no trace of the hundreds of Qingqi you have left."

Cheng Dalang just didn't say anything.

When Shan Tonghai saw this, he was not anxious at all. He just sighed and suddenly became serious: "Brother Cheng, you are older. I want to ask you a question seriously..."

Cheng Zhili then looked at the other party seriously: "What's the point?"

"Then what is it in this world that determines this country? Or what is the most powerful and fundamental thing?" Shan Tonghai answered seriously. "Is it the power of many people, or the power of money, grain, silk and silk? Or is it the power of many people?

Cultivation changes the world? Or does it mean armored horses?"

"I think it's humans." Cheng Zhili answered sincerely. "Because humans grow food, weave silk and fabrics, forge soldiers and armor, and even dig out copper coins, gold and silver! There is no human being."

, it’s not even interesting to have a kingdom!”

"Where is your cultivation?" Jia Runshi couldn't help but interrupt and asked.

"Cultivation is also cultivated by humans." Cheng Dalang glanced at Jia Runshi and continued to talk to Shan Tonghai, who listened attentively. "When I was young, I also felt that as my cultivation improved, anything would be possible. After all, the Supreme Being is here.

There is a great master there, so how come it’s not the one with the higher cultivation who has the final say? But then I thought about it, and I felt something was wrong... Because the higher the cultivation level goes, the more we have to say a truth, the right channel is

When it comes to dead kung fu, the Qi Jing talks about a state of mind. When it comes to becoming an elixir, if you are visualizing something wrong and unreasonable, you will not be able to move forward... But what is this principle? Not yet.

God’s will? And what is God’s will? Isn’t it about caring about people’s thoughts? Look at the two people from the Wu Clan, Sin Long and Hei Chi..."

Shan Tonghai was startled and shook his head: "This statement is not new, but it does make some sense, but there is still something wrong."

"you say……"

"I also think it's human." Shan Tonghai held his arms and answered seriously. "But it doesn't necessarily mean there are many people... Are ten of you good guys the same as a hundred bad guys? The most obvious thing is that

In the past, when the three families of Guanlong, Hebei, and Jiangdong were competing for hegemony, the battle was not about who had more common people, nor who had more upright veins, but who had more magical scriptures, more condensed elixirs, and more masters... If it hadn't been like this,

Can Guan Long gradually come back and finally win?"

Cheng Dalang nodded: "That makes sense..."

"People are different." Shan Tonghai tried to summarize. "Gold, silver, iron horses, cultivation, and manpower are all correct and effective, but you must know how to choose the big and give up the small, and choose the best... choose the big gold and silver.

Yes, the iron horse should be chosen well, the one with high cultivation level, the manpower should be chosen to be honest and strong...Every time you take a step, you will gain wisdom. This is what I thought in the previous battle."

Cheng Dalang thought for a moment and immediately realized something was wrong:

First of all, we are in rebellion, so it’s good to have them. Where is your turn to pick and choose? It’s like there are only half an acre of seedlings in a field. You can remove weeds at most, but do you have to remove ordinary bad seedlings? Do you want to choose?

That's right, but you have to make some choices.

Secondly, you are a big boss who has just suffered a big fall, and you are not a leader. You are choosing from the bottom like this. Aren't you afraid that others will choose you like this?

As soon as he thought about this, Cheng Zhili wanted to speak to ridicule the other party, but after looking at the other party's appearance and thinking that he only returned seven or eight cavalry, his confidant armor cavalry, he had no idea.

Instead, he nodded hard: "Shan Dalang has some truth."

It does make some sense, who can say it doesn’t make sense?

Shan Tonghai was relieved and nodded, and then asked: "What did you two just say?"

"Li Dalongtou's military order came down, asking Xiao Jia to go do something. He came to me to ask for details." Cheng Dalang finally cheered up.

"Sure enough... Li Gong even has to move these hundreds of your horses." Shan Tonghai sighed. "But it is really saving lives. You have nothing to say. This is called skills being inferior to others. You deserve to be like this. I have already accepted it...

…There are only 4,000 new soldiers and 4,000 broken soldiers in the city. If we are trapped in this city by the opponent, we are really going to be doomed."

Cheng Zhili was speechless, but Jia Runshi couldn't help but interjected and explained a little: "The leader Shan is thinking too much... Li Gong wants to use Qingqi's scouting power and our local advantages to let me take advantage of it."

Taking advantage of the enemy's siege and unable to fully lock down the city, we secretly took these hundreds of Qingqi back to Qi County to spread rumors..."

"Spreading what?"

"That is to say, Governor Zhang went abroad to suppress... He spent countless money and food to fight abroad. He prepared to recruit corvees and transport food in Qi County, and also prepared to send more money and food for military supplies." Jia Runshi explained seriously. "Let me ask Boss Cheng what to do.

Where to say it, how to say it."

Shan Tonghai was stunned and confused for a moment: "What's the use of this? Even if it's useful, water from afar can't quench the thirst of the nearer, right?"

"I asked about it. Although Xiao Jia was on the road, he was just a back-up. Before that, some local people had already brought gold and silver with them and went out before the siege. They also wanted to spread rumors, but they were

It is to be spread in Lu County... It is said that the people from Qi County came to fight and destroy the rebels, but they asked the people from Lu County to pay for food and pay corvees and so on..." Cheng Dalang explained briefly. "I guess it is to cooperate with the spring plowing.

As long as the fields are plowed and plowed immediately, Zhang Xuguo does not leave, and the defeated troops in the area cannot be gathered and stabilized, it will have a miraculous effect."

Dantonghai is still a bit weird.

But it's hard for him... They are also powerful, Cheng Dalang is a powerful man who prefers manor farming; Xu Dalang is a powerful man who prefers trade routes; Shan Tonghai is a powerful man who prefers the underworld; Wang Wulang is a powerful man who touches a little bit of everything.

Everyone's perception is different.

This is something that the other three people can understand to a certain extent, but is completely in the blind spot of Shantonghai.

But on the other hand, Shan Tonghai's ability to play chess and expand his army unscrupulously before, including his attitude of daring to fight and dare to fight, are incomparable to the other three, especially Cheng Dalang, who is obsessed with his own three-acre hometown.

The two continued to talk for a while, inevitably talking about the affairs of the gang and the war at hand, and then imagined the queen and the palace treasures from afar... But unexpectedly, they did not talk about Zhang Xing and Li Shu again, nor what happened before and after.

Because the two of them who had been beaten the most were already vaguely aware of it. Just like the previous massive expansion, starting from this Qijun old man’s blow to the head, the following days were probably not going to be easy. Talking about some things too deeply,

On the contrary, it is useless.

The next few days were the most difficult. The defeated army was left in the city, and people's hearts were unstable. The officers and soldiers had defeated the strong with the weak one after another. They had already taken on a new look, and their spirits were different. They were setting up camps, patrolling and fighting, and they were becoming more organized.

This contrast between internal and external spiritual energy reached its peak when Zhang Xuguo boldly divided his troops to capture Xuchang and Sucheng (both belonging to Dongping County) behind Pinglu, forming a situation where only 6,000 people surrounded 8,000 people.

An extreme.

Everyone knows that this is a strategy to lure the enemy, but there seems to be some conspiracy involved and they really don't dare to attack.

But because of this, the middle and high-level people in the city began to panic.

In this case, someone suggested that Wang Wulang immediately return his troops to help, because the latter also occupied most of the county in Jibei, with tens of thousands of people, so he could take advantage of the enemy's division of troops to fight hard.

However, this suggestion was strongly rejected by Li Shu. Not only that, he also continued to take advantage of the enemy's division of troops to send out messengers, asking Wang Wulang to ignore this place and only go east to attack Qi County.

Shan, Cheng's defeated general, Li Shu and Xiong Bonan were here, so naturally no one could waver in the policy, so the strategy continued and persisted.

And this persistence soon worked wonders as spring plowing began.

Zhang Xuguo was sitting in the main camp, surrounded by generals on both sides, all with cold faces, and all their eyes were fixed on a man in official uniform.

After a while, Zhang Xuguo made up his mind: "Drag him out to enforce military law."

"I don't accept it!" After hearing this, he saw the soldiers coming to drag him away. He knew that he was unlucky, so he shouted and asked. "Why did the general guard of Qi County kill the grain officer of Lu County? No one was willing to give him any money."

You are transporting food, why should you blame me?"

No one moved at all.

When the man was dragged out of the tent, his tone changed again, and he cried and begged directly: "Prefect Zhang, it's really not that I didn't work hard on this, but the people just can't trust us, and they would rather be thieves than submit to conscription. I

What can I do without soldiers? What can I do? Spare my life..."

After crying for a moment, the sound suddenly stopped and everything became quiet again.
To be continued...